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Get on the exosome bus with ALIX

Nature Cell Biology volume 14, pages 654–655 (2012)Cite this article

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Exosomes have a growing inventory of functions, but the mechanism of protein sorting into exosomes has been unclear. Now, a signal sequence first described in viral budding provides just such a cargo sorting mechanism, revealing closer-than-expected parallelism between exosome biogenesis and the ESCRT-dependent endolysosomal pathway.

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Figure 1: Roles of multivesicular bodies in exosome biogenesis and lysosomal protein sorting.

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  1. James H. Hurley is at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA,

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  2. Greg Odorizzi is at the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA,

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