Objective
Transportation of proteins and lipids between membrane-enclosed organelles by vesicle formation is a fundamental task in eukaryote cells. The least understood protein complex involved in membrane remodelling for vesiculation, but with a wide range of medical implications, is the retromer complex.
The objective of this proposal is:
First, to identify the mechanistic principles of membrane bending and scission by retromer, and second to characterize temporal and morphological aspects of retromer and cargo molecules (Shiga toxin (STx) and Alzheimer’s amyloid-beta-cleaving enzyme (BACE)).
I will exploit two approaches:
First, in vitro reconstitution of the retromer complex using giant unilamellar vesicles to deploy biophysical methods.
Second, I will provide a molecular choreography and anatomy of retrograde transport of STx, BACE and retromer by implementing a new imaging technique, structured-illumination microscopy combined with single particle tracking.
The proposed interdisciplinary research will break new ground for membrane mechanics and trafficking of disease related cargo molecules.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- medical and health sciences basic medicine neurology dementia alzheimer
- medical and health sciences basic medicine anatomy and morphology
- natural sciences physical sciences optics microscopy
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules lipids
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins enzymes
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FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG
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75231 Paris
France
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