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MEMBRANE TRAFFICKING

ESCRTs cut some slack

Nature Cell Biology volume 22, pages 915–916 (2020)Cite this article

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In this issue of Nature Cell Biology, Mercier et al. show that acute changes in membrane tension may be a physiological trigger for ESCRT assembly, which drives membrane scission, luminal vesicle budding, and a wide array of other membrane remodelling events throughout the cell.

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Fig. 1: ESCRT-III drives many membrane-modelling events throughout the cell, including the completion and scission of intralumenal vesicles that bud from the limiting membrane of early endosomes, pictured here.

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