endosomes, cell & molecular biology

Phosphorylation of a surface protein on endosomes is key to the organelles’ uneven distribution in daughter cells.

Phosphorylation of a protein called Sara found on the surface of endosomes appears to be a key regulator of asymmetric splitting in fruit flies.

Despite years of research, the longstanding mystery of where the autophagosome gets its double lipid bilayers is not much clearer.

These small membrane vesicles do much more than clean up a cell’s trash—they also carry signals to distant parts of the body, where they can impact multiple dimensions of cellular life.

Exosomes are small membrane vesicles secreted by most cell types. Internal vesicles form by the inward budding of cellular compartments known as multivesicular endosomes (MVE).