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Intracellular lumen extension requires ERM-1-dependent apical membrane expansion and AQP-8-mediated flux.
Nature cell biology - 1 Feb 2013
Khan Liakot A, Zhang Hongjie, Abraham Nessy, Sun Lei, Fleming John T, Buechner Matthew, Hall David H, Gobel Verena
Abstract excerpt
Many unicellular tubes such as capillaries form lumens intracellularly, a process that is not well understood. Here we show that the cortical membrane organizer ERM-1 is required to expand the intracellular apical/lumenal membrane and its actin undercoat during single-cell Caenorhabditis elegans excretory canal morphogenesis. We characterize AQP-8, identified in an ERM-1-overexpression (ERM-1[++]) suppressor...
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