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Sealing and healing: A two-step model for plasma membrane repair.
Developmental cell - 8 Jul 2026
Kournoutis Athanasios, Stenmark Harald
Abstract excerpt
Plasma membrane damage can cause cell death and is associated with neurodegeneration. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Heffner et al. show that annexin A11 (ANXA11) first plugs membrane lesions, before ESCRT-III is recruited to extrude the damaged patch-a two-step repair mechanism compromised by ALS- and FTD-linked mutations.
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