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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Identifying Regulators of Lysosome Reformation: Inhibitor Screen in Mammalian Cell Culture

Liu, Ian January 2016 (has links)
Lysosomes are membrane-bound organelles that have diverse functions in eukaryotic cells. Malfunctions in lysosomes result in a range of diseases known as Lysosomal Storage Disorders. After fusing with late endosomes to form hybrid organelles, lysosomes bud off and are reformed in a poorly characterized process known as lysosome formation or reformation. Only one mammalian regulator of lysosome formation has been identified, the non-selective cation channel TRPML1. In the highly similar process of Autophagic Lysosome Reformation (ALR), three known regulators have also been identified, the vesicle-coating protein clathrin and two phosphatidylinositol kinases that catalyze the formation of the membrane phospholipid PI(4,5)P₂. Here, we use an inhibitor screen coupled with a live imaging assay to identify the actin microfilament as a novel regulator of lysosome formation.

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