Université de Fribourg

Integrating complex functions: coordination of nuclear pore complex assembly and membrane expansion of the nuclear envelope requires a family of integral membrane proteins

Schneiter, Roger ; Cole, Charles N.

In: Nucleus, 2010, vol. 1, no. 5, p. 387-392

The nuclear envelope harbors numerous large proteinaceous channels, the nuclear pore complexes (NPCs), through which macromolecular exchange between the cytosol and the nucleoplasm occurs. This double-membrane nuclear envelope is continuous with the endoplasmic reticulum and thus functionally connected to such diverse processes as vesicular transport, protein maturation and lipid synthesis....

Université de Fribourg

Identification and biophysical characterization of a very-long-chain-fatty-acid-substituted phosphatidylinositol in yeast subcellular membranes

Schneiter, Roger ; Brügger, Britta ; Amann, Clare M. ; Prestwich, Glenn D. ; Epand, Raquel F. ; Zellnig, Günther ; Wieland, Felix T. ; Epand, Richard M.

In: Biochemical Journal, 2004, vol. 381, p. 941-949

Morphological analysis of a conditional yeast mutant in acetyl-CoA carboxylase acc1ts/mtr7, the rate-limiting enzyme of fatty acid synthesis, suggested that the synthesis of C₂₆ VLCFAs (very-long-chain fatty acids) is important for maintaining the structure and function of the nuclear membrane. To characterize this C₂₆-dependent pathway in more detail, we have now examined cells that are...