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    Autophagy can selectively target cargo for degradation. Here the authors map the proximal interactome of ATG8-paralogs LC3B and LC3C uncovering an LC3C-Endocytic-Associated-Pathway that selectively recruits internalized plasma membrane cargo, Met and transferrin receptors, to nascent autophagosomes.

    • Paula P. Coelho
    • , Geoffrey G. Hesketh
    •  & Morag Park

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    T cells communicate with antigen-presenting cells (APC) via the signaling crosstalk at the immunological synapse (IS). Here the authors use bead-supported lipid bilayers as synthetic APCs to find that trans-synaptic vesicles produced by T cells in the IS carry specialized cargos distinct from constitutive extracellular vesicles to serve as intercellular messengers.

    • Pablo F. Céspedes
    • , Ashwin Jainarayanan
    •  & Michael L. Dustin

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    Cystinuria is caused by mutations in heterodimeric amino acid transporter known as system b0,+. Here, authors discover that Ca2+ stabilizes the interface between two system b0,+ regulatory subunits rBAT, leading to super-dimerization of the b0,+AT–rBAT heterodimer, facilitating system b0,+ maturation.

    • Yongchan Lee
    • , Pattama Wiriyasermkul
    •  & Shushi Nagamori

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    SERINC5 is a host-restriction factor preventing HIV progeny entry, which is counteracted by interactions with HIV Nef. Here, Li et al. show that E3 ubiquitin ligase Cullin 3 polyubiquitinates SERINC5 at Lys 130 via K48- and K33-linked ubiquitin chains and provide evidence that this modification is not only required for its membrane localization and anti-viral activity but also relevant for Nef counteractive activity.

    • Sunan Li
    • , Rongrong Li
    •  & Yong-Hui Zheng

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    Snf7 is the major component of the ESCRTIII membrane deformation system. Here, the authors used high-speed AFM to study Snf7 on nano-patterned and soft supports and show that loaded Snf7 spiral springs are curvature sensitive and deform membranes.

    • Nebojsa Jukic
    • , Alma P. Perrino
    •  & Simon Scheuring

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    Dectin-1 is a critical component of the innate sensing repertoire which is involved in pattern based recognition of fungal pathogens. Here the authors show that intramembrane proteolysis is involved in the regulation of the antifungal host response by termination of the phagosomal signalling of Dectin-1.

    • Torben Mentrup
    • , Anna Yamina Stumpff-Niggemann
    •  & Bernd Schröder

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    Although ubiquitin ligases are known to control clock protein degradation, their other roles in clock neurons are unclear. Here the authors report that UBR4 promotes export of neuropeptides from the Golgi for axonal trafficking, which is important for circadian clock synchrony in mice and flies.

    • Sara Hegazi
    • , Arthur H. Cheng
    •  & Hai-Ying Mary Cheng

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    Organellar transport is carefully regulated, and endolysosome localized ARL8 is important for kinesin recruitment and anterograde movement. Here, the authors show that RUFY3 and RUFY4 promote retrograde transport of endolysosomes by mediating interaction of ARL8 with dynein-dynactin.

    • Tal Keren-Kaplan
    • , Amra Sarić
    •  & Juan S. Bonifacino

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    Lysosomes move along microtubule tracks, and Arl8b is known to stimulate their anterograde transport. Here, the authors identified RUFY3 as an Arl8b effector that interacts with dynein-dynactin to drive retrograde transport and perinuclear lysosome positioning.

    • Gaurav Kumar
    • , Prateek Chawla
    •  & Amit Tuli

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    Davies et al. identify a putative mechanism underlying the childhood neurological disorder AP-4 deficiency syndrome. In the absence of AP-4, an enzyme that makes 2-AG is not transported to the axon, leading to axonal growth defects, which can be rescued by inhibition of 2-AG breakdown.

    • Alexandra K. Davies
    • , Julian E. Alecu
    •  & Georg H. H. Borner

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    The integration and organization of growth factor signaling, adhesion, and endocytosis is poorly understood. Here the authors use light and electron microscopy to shed light on the role of flat clathrin lattices and cell adhesion in growth factor signaling.

    • Marco A. Alfonzo-Méndez
    • , Kem A. Sochacki
    •  & Justin W. Taraska

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    The mechanism of CGRP-evoked peripheral pain is unclear. Here, the authors show that the CGRP-mediated neuronal/Schwann cell pathway mediates allodynia associated with neurogenic inflammation, contributing to the algesic action of CGRP in mice.

    • Francesco De Logu
    • , Romina Nassini
    •  & Pierangelo Geppetti

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    How pluripotency transcription factors regulate the cellular architecture and energetics has remained largely unknown. Here the authors identify Lima1 as a key effector that mediates the pluripotency control of membrane dynamics and cellular metabolism.

    • Binyamin Duethorn
    • , Fabian Groll
    •  & Ivan Bedzhov

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    Mutations in the human WDR81 gene result in severe microcephaly. Carpentieri et al. show that mutation of WDR81, a gene coding for an endosomal regulator, alters intracellular processing of the EGF receptor, leading to reduced proliferation rates of neuronal progenitors and to microcephaly.

    • Jacopo A. Carpentieri
    • , Amandine Di Cicco
    •  & Alexandre D. Baffet

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    Synapses are surrounded by an extracellular matrix (ECM) of extremely long-lived proteins that is thought to only be remodeled by proteolysis and de novo synthesis. Here, the authors show an alternative molecular recycling mechanism that occurs for the key ECM protein Tenascin-R.

    • Tal M. Dankovich
    • , Rahul Kaushik
    •  & Silvio O. Rizzoli

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    The role of cargo receptors in proinsulin export from the ER is unclear. Here, the authors identify the WFS1 protein, which is mutated in Wolfram syndrome and associated with diabetes, as an ER to Golgi cargo receptor required for normal insulin processing and secretion.

    • Linlin Wang
    • , Hongyang Liu
    •  & Zonghong Li

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    ATG9A is transmembrane autophagic machinery protein that delivers phospholipids to expanding autophagosomes. Mailler et al. show that ATG9A is required to mobilize lipids from lipid droplets for autophagosome expansion as well as mitochondrial fatty acid import and β-oxidation.

    • Elodie Mailler
    • , Carlos M. Guardia
    •  & Juan S. Bonifacino

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    Autophagy relies on coordinated fusion of organelle membranes, although the interplay between the regulatory machinery is not well studied. Here, the authors show that SNARE complex formation is inhibited by mTORC1 phosphorylation of VAMP8, which prevents autophagosome-lysosome fusion.

    • Hong Huang
    • , Qinqin Ouyang
    •  & Rong Liu

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    The tuberculosis necrotizing toxin (TNT) is the major cytotoxicity factor of M. tuberculosis (Mtb). Mtb possesses five type VII secretion systems (ESX). Pajuelo et al. show that the ESX-4 system is required for TNT secretion and that ESX-2 and ESX-4 systems work in concert with ESX-1 to permeabilize the phagosomal membrane and enable trafficking of TNT into the cytoplasm of macrophages infected with Mtb.

    • David Pajuelo
    • , Uday Tak
    •  & Michael Niederweis

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    Fusion of cellular membranes begins with the formation of a stalk. Here, the authors develop a computationally efficient method for coarse-grained simulations of stalk formation and apply this approach to comprehensively analyse how stalk formation is influenced by the membrane lipid composition.

    • Chetan S. Poojari
    • , Katharina C. Scherer
    •  & Jochen S. Hub

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    Lysine acetylation regulates the function of soluble proteins in vivo, yet it remains largely unexplored whether lysine acetylation regulates the function of membrane proteins. Here, the authors map lysine acetylation predominantly in membrane-interaction regions in peripheral membrane proteins and show with three candidate proteins how lysine acetylation is a regulator of membrane protein function.

    • Alan K. Okada
    • , Kazuki Teranishi
    •  & Ralf Langen

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    The fungal pathogen Candida albicans can release extracellular vesicles that promote biofilm formation and antifungal resistance. Here, Zarnowski et al. define functions for numerous vesicle cargo proteins in biofilm matrix assembly and drug resistance, as well as in fungal cell adhesion and dissemination.

    • Robert Zarnowski
    • , Andrea Noll
    •  & David R. Andes

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    Mutations in genes critical for proper intra-Golgi transport can cause human syndromes due to defects in glycosylation of proteins. Here, the authors identify a human variant of Syntaxin-5 that causes fatal multisystem disease and mislocalization of glycosyltransferases due to altered Golgi transport.

    • Peter T. A. Linders
    • , Eveline C. F. Gerretsen
    •  & Geert van den Bogaart

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    Molecular tethers physically bridge transport vesicles to their target membranes as a prerequisite step for fusion. Here the authors control vesicle tethering using optogenetic approaches to study the interplay between vesicle tethering and fusion.

    • Seong J. An
    • , Felix Rivera-Molina
    •  & Derek Toomre

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    Transport protein particle (TRAPP) is a multimeric protein complex regulating membrane trafficking pathways. Here the authors show that TRAPPC4, a core subunit of TRAPP complex, is required for RAB11-mediated recycling of PD-L1, affecting T-cell-mediated anti-tumor immune responses.

    • Yimeng Ren
    • , Yun Qian
    •  & Jing-Yuan Fang

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    Dynamin mediates the fission of vesicles during endocytosis. Here, the authors report the cryoEM structure of a super-constricted two-start dynamin 1 filament- one of the two known helical forms of dynamin, with insights into the molecular mechanisms of dynamin-mediated membrane scission.

    • Jiwei Liu
    • , Frances Joan D. Alvarez
    •  & Peijun Zhang

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    The Spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 has a C-terminal cytoplasmic tail. Here the authors show that this tail binds trafficking machinery via sequences that appear optimised to ensure that Spike accumulates at the site of viral budding in the Golgi but that some can also traffic to the cell surface to induce syncytia formation.

    • Jérôme Cattin-Ortolá
    • , Lawrence G. Welch
    •  & Sean Munro

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    Cells locally expand and retract their surface in response to environmental factors such as changes in membrane tension. Here the authors show the membrane adapter, dynamin2, locally constricts surface membrane to form an isolated but contiguous membrane reservoir that can open upon phospholipid scrambling via TMEM16F.

    • Christine Deisl
    • , Donald W. Hilgemann
    •  & Michael Fine

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    Salmonella secretes the effector protein SopD into the host cell cytoplasm, leading to scission of the plasma membrane through unclear mechanisms. Here, Boddy et al. show that SopD binds to and inhibits the small GTPase Rab10, thus promoting removal of Rab10 and recruitment of dynamin-2 to drive plasma membrane scission.

    • Kirsten C. Boddy
    • , Hongxian Zhu
    •  & John H. Brumell

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    Epithelial cells that organise into structures that contain a lumen are polarised. Here, the authors show that the short intracellular domain of transmembrane protein CD13 is required to capture endosomes at the apical site and is required for the polarisation of cells.

    • Li-Ting Wang
    • , Abira Rajah
    •  & Luke McCaffrey

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    Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-interorganelle membrane contact sites have emerged as key regulators of organelle dynamics. Here, the authors report that the ER-resident protein SNX19 mediates ER-endolysosome membrane contacts to maintain the perinuclear distribution of endolysosomes and restrict their motility.

    • Amra Saric
    • , Spencer A. Freeman
    •  & Juan S. Bonifacino

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    Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease is characterized by the formation of cysts in the kidney. Here the authors show that cystic extracellular vesicles/exosomes play a critical role in regulating the biology and function of adjacent cells, including renal epithelial cells, fibroblasts and macrophages, and contribute to renal cyst growth.

    • Hao Ding
    • , Linda Xiaoyan Li
    •  & Xiaogang Li

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    Cells in many tissues fuse into syncytia acquiring new functions. By investigating whether physical remodelling promotes differentiation, here, the authors show that plasma membrane diminution post-fusion causes transient nutrient stress that inhibits YAP1 activity and may reduce proliferation-promoting transcription.

    • Daniel Feliciano
    • , Carolyn M. Ott
    •  & Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

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