Yeun Ju Kim, Joshua G Pemberton, Andrea Eisenreichova, Amrita Mandal, Alena Koukalova, Pooja Rohilla, Mira Sohn, Andrei W Konradi, Tracy T Tang, Evzen Boura, Tamas Balla
Phosphatidylinositol (PI) is the precursor lipid for the minor phosphoinositides (PPIns), which are critical for multiple functions in all eukaryotic cells. It is poorly understood how phosphatidylinositol, which is synthesized in the ER, reaches those membranes where PPIns are formed. Here, we used VT01454, a recently identified inhibitor of class I PI transfer proteins (PITPs), to unravel their roles in lipid metabolism, and solved the structure of inhibitor-bound PITPNA to gain insight into the mode of inhibition...
April 16, 2024: EMBO Journal