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Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 16, 100 - 102 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nsmb0209-100

Tip20p reaches out to Dsl1p to tether membranes

Mary Munson1

  1. Mary Munson is in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA. e-mail: mary.munson@umassmed.edu


Large, multisubunit complexes have been implicated in tethering transport vesicles to organelle membranes before membrane fusion. New structures add to the growing list of tethering complexes that contain conserved helical bundle structures and provide a first glimpse of how these complexes are assembled.

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