Phosphatidylinositol transfer proteins: the long and winding road to physiological function.
Phosphatidylinositol transfer proteins (PITPs) have historically been thought to help execute lipid-sorting events by transporting phospholipid monomers between membrane bilayers. Recent data, however, indicate unanticipated roles for PITPs in the coordination and/or coupling of phospholipid metabolism with vesicle trafficking and the downregulation of signal-transduction reactions. We are only now beginning to appreciate both the identities of PITP-dependent cellular reactions and the intriguing mechanisms by which PITPs execute their functions in eukaryotic cells.
Kearns
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Dept of Cell Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham 35294-0005, USA.
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Bankaitis
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D001692:Biological Transport / Q000502:physiology; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D010716:Phosphatidylinositols / Q000378:metabolism*; D049294:Phospholipid Transfer Proteins; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
D002352:Carrier Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D010716:Phosphatidylinositols; D049294:Phospholipid Transfer Proteins; C118289:SEC24 protein, S cerevisiae; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins