Defunctionalizing intracellular organelles such as mitochondria and peroxisomes with engineered phospholipase A/acyltransferases

Approaches for manipulating individual organelles are important for learning more about their functions. Here the authors report a tool utilising phospholipase A/acyltransferases (PLAATs) for rapid defunctionalisation of organelles through remodelling of the membrane phospholipids.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Satoshi Watanabe, Yuta Nihongaki, Kie Itoh, Toru Uyama, Satoshi Toda, Shigeki Watanabe, Takanari Inoue
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31946-5