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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Lipid flow between cellular organelles occurs via membrane contact sites that form dynamic conduits. Extended-synaptotagmins, known as tricalbins in yeast, mediate lipid transfer between the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and plasma membrane (PM). How these proteins regulate the membrane architecture to transport lipids across the aqueous space between bilayers remains unknown. Using correlative microscopy, electron cryo-tomography and high-throughput genetics we address this interplay of architecture and function in budding yeast. We find that ER-PM contacts are diverse in protein composition and membrane morphology, not in intermembrane distance. <jats:italic>In situ</jats:italic> cryo-EM of tricalbins reveals their molecular organisation that suggests an unexpected structural framework for lipid transfer. Genetic analysis identifies functional redundancies, both for tricalbin domains and cellular lipid routes, and points to tricalbin function in maintenance of PM asymmetry. These results uncover a modularity of molecular and structural functions of tricalbins, and of their roles within the network of cellular lipid fluxes.</jats:p>

Original publication

DOI

10.1101/579128

Type

Journal article

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Publication Date

16/03/2019