Glucose transporters in adipose tissue, liver, and skeletal muscle in metabolic health and disease

A Chadt, H Al-Hasani - Pflügers Archiv-European Journal of Physiology, 2020 - Springer
A family of facilitative glucose transporters (GLUTs) is involved in regulating tissue-specific
glucose uptake and metabolism in the liver, skeletal muscle, and adipose tissue to ensure …

C9ORF72: what it is, what it does, and why it matters

J Smeyers, EG Banchi, M Latouche - Frontiers in cellular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
When the non-coding repeat expansion in the C9ORF72 gene was discovered to be the
most frequent cause of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis …

Genetic landscape of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identifies heterogeneous cell-type and phenotype associations

P Sakornsakolpat, D Prokopenko, M Lamontagne… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the leading cause of respiratory mortality
worldwide. Genetic risk loci provide new insights into disease pathogenesis. We performed …

Upregulation of exosome secretion from tumor-associated macrophages plays a key role in the suppression of anti-tumor immunity

W Zhong, Y Lu, X Han, J Yang, Z Qin, W Zhang, Z Yu… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Macrophages play a pivotal role in tumor immunity. We report that reprogramming of
macrophages to tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) promotes the secretion of …

Rab proteins and the compartmentalization of the endosomal system

A Wandinger-Ness, M Zerial - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2014 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Of the approximately 70 human Rab GTPases, nearly three-quarters are involved in
endocytic trafficking. Significant plasticity in endosomal membrane transport pathways is …

Rab GTPases and membrane trafficking in neurodegeneration

FR Kiral, FE Kohrs, EJ **, PR Hiesinger - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
Defects in membrane trafficking are hallmarks of neurodegeneration. Rab GTPases are key
regulators of membrane trafficking. Alterations of Rab GTPases, or the membrane …

Structure of the endosomal Commander complex linked to Ritscher-Schinzel syndrome

MD Healy, KE McNally, R Butkovič, M Chilton, K Kato… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The Commander complex is required for endosomal recycling of diverse transmembrane
cargos and is mutated in Ritscher-Schinzel syndrome. It comprises two sub-assemblies …

A C9ORF72/SMCR8-containing complex regulates ULK1 and plays a dual role in autophagy

M Yang, C Liang, K Swaminathan, S Herrlinger… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
The intronic GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat expansion in chromosome 9 open reading
frame 72 (C9ORF72) is a prevalent genetic abnormality identified in both frontotemporal …

Recruitment of folliculin to lysosomes supports the amino acid–dependent activation of Rag GTPases

CS Petit, A Roczniak-Ferguson, SM Ferguson - Journal of Cell Biology, 2013 - rupress.org
Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome, a human disease characterized by fibrofolliculomas (hair follicle
tumors) as well as a strong predisposition toward the development of pneumothorax …

Orchestration of cell surface proteins by Rab11

T Welz, J Wellbourne-Wood, E Kerkhoff - Trends in cell biology, 2014 - cell.com
The organization of cells into interconnected structures such as animal tissues requires a
sophisticated system directing receptors and adhesion proteins to the cell surface. The …