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01 September 2026
Lipid Delivery
Complex bodies have organs each with a discrete function, a specialist tissue composed of cells. And within each cell there's a variety of vital 'organs' too – called organelles. One, the endoplasmic reticulum makes the lipids that will go on to become a major part of the membranes surrounding other organelles. Here, using cryo-electron microscopy (which has near-atomic resolution) coupled with computer simulation, researchers reveal how bridge-like lipid-transfer proteins (like VPS13A ) interact with membrane scramblase proteins to transport lipids between membranes to get them where they're needed
Read the published research article here
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- Clip from a video from work by Bodan Hu & Daniel Álvarez, and colleagues
- Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
- Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Cell, August 2026
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