Joe Shen’s and Zaza Gelashvili’s work on the role of the ER in nuclear membrane mechanotransduction finally came out in a journal!

ERC success rates are tanking and the move is... even bigger grants for fewer people? smh

Nice paper from Kota @saitolab.bsky.social! Balanced phosphorylation of TANGO1 and Sec16A keep ER exit sites stable and functional. Do cells maintain this dynamically to keep secretory machinery primed and responsive to changing cargo loads or environmental signals? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Delayed weekly selection of articles on #proteostasis thanks to @biomednews.bsky.social -- biomed.news/bims-proteo/... Highlight - Pooled overexpression screening identifies PIPPI as a novel microprotein involved in the ER stress response academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

or just q.e.d. it www.qedscience.com

Peiyao Fan, Yang Chen et al. @pku1898.bsky.social show that tubular ER extends into retraction fibers and #migrasomes through #microtubule-dependent ER extension and ER-plasma membrane contact sites in migrating cells. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #ER_literature #Migration #Organelles

What do ER exit sites really look like? Using large-scale volume FIB-SEM and a custom 3D-Unet pipeline (ASEM), Nahir et al @kirchhausenlab.bsky.social reveal that ERES are vesicular, abundant & diverse, resolving long-standing morphological discrepancies rupress.org/jcb/article/... #ER_literature

Leukocyte-intrinsic ER stress responses contribute to chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy | Science Translational Medicine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development. go.nature.com/4hj9NNV

Bei #Grundlagenforschung kürzen? Keine gute Idee! so die Philosophin @asmeincke.bsky.social in ihrem Gastkommentar in @diepressecom.bsky.social. Denn Österreich brauche eine starke und vielfältige Wissenschaft. @fwf-at.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social Bessere Ideen 👉 www.diepresse.com/20152064/bei...

Check out this new Roadmap, a fantastic team effort by a consortium of ER researchers. Glad we could provide the space for this synthesis, which came out of discussions at a fruitful meeting, see below:

It was a great pleasure to work on this paper. What started as a small meeting in January this year resulted in this beautiful piece of work.

The microbial metabolite preQ1 modifies tRNA, reduces cell proliferation, and decreases protein translation. This is mediated by IRE1-dependent cleavage of preQ1-modified tRNAs. rdcu.be/eHw46

Beautiful work which supports a role for the ER in mechanobiology.

Nature research paper: Quantitative imaging of lipid transport in mammalian cells go.nature.com/4mmSygd

New paper by the Reggiori and Ungermann Labs showing using a yeast model that contact sites between the phagophore and ERES are important for phagophore elongation. rdcu.be/ezUeZ

Great preprint showing that COPII vesicles do exist in vicinity of ERES. Very interesting.

Selective autophagy of organelles: the “disorder” is key. Intrinsically disordered regions of organellophagy receptors are interchangeable, required, and sufficient for organelle fragmentation and lysosomal delivery … and all about ORGATACs 😉 rdcu.be/ey8iL

Very happy to see our contribution to a better understanding of Hsp70/90 #chaperones online! Congrats and a big thank you to all co-authors, collaborators and reviewers! #proteostasis @poepsel-lab.bsky.social @crc1430.bsky.social @unidue-zmb.bsky.social

Our review on the role of ER proteostasis in bone disease is out today in Trends in Molecular Medicine www.cell.com/trends/molec...

Our new paper is out in Leukemia on Targeting proteostasis in multiple myeloma through inhibition of LTK. Thanks to Ludvig and Thea for this great collaborative work rdcu.be/evyfX

External strain on the plasma membrane is relayed to the endoplasmic reticulum by membrane contact sites and alters cellular energetics | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨 Where does #lipid peroxidation kick off in #ferroptosis? 🔥Excited to reveal #ER- #mitochondria #contactsites as the ignition point of the lipid peroxidation cascade! Huge kudos to our Maria Livia Sassano @mariamls.bsky.social & our amazing collaborators who made this breakthrough possible!

Tubular ER structures shaped by ER-phagy receptors engage in stress-induced Golgi bypass: Developmental Cell www.cell.com/developmenta...

ER needs ATP for processes like protein quality control, but can't make its own. Here, how ATP is imported into the ER lumen and exchanged for ADP.

Quiescent cell re-entry is limited by macroautophagy-induced lysosomal damage: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Genetically encoded reporters of actin filament organization in living cells and tissues: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Excited to present our unpublished data tomorrow on how Mechanosesing at the Endoplasmic Reticulum regulates Proteostasis. #Organelles #Mechanobiology

Kunyou Park, Victor Hsu, Seung-Yeol Park and colleagues find that a critical lipid is delivered through membrane contact to support the fission of COPI vesicles. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Golgi #ER_literature #Trafficking

How are specific cargos targeted to apical & basolateral domains within #EpithelialCells? This study uses a novel #vesicle tracking software "MSP-tracker" to show that the secretory pathway in #Drosophila follicle cells is unexpectedly spatially organized @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3EfJsBp

A great tribute to David Stevens, a terrific cell biologist and missed by so many of his friends and colleagues. As they say 'one of the good guys'. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Spotlight: Yan Zhao previews work from Qiming Sun and colleagues (rupress.org/jcb/article/...), which shows how Rab #GTPases serve as cues for cargo receptor recruitment, mediating #mitophagy, #lipophagy, and #xenophagy. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #autophagy

Important to celebrate trainee victories: excited to have Holly Merta's @hollymerta.bsky.social paper out! We use TurboID sub-organelle proteomics to map the ER network. We find calmin/CLMN, an ER-to-actin tether regulating focal adhesions & cell motility. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great to see this published. Congratulations to the authors- it is a super cool piece of work

Amazing microscopy from Bewersdorf/Rothman groups shows golgins in a striking four-layered structure at the Golgi rim. Biochemical reconstitution shows long filaments. Does a Golgi stack form due to golgin filament properties rather than dedicated stacking proteins? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Unbelievable. Richard Youle, winner of the Breakthrough Prize for Life Sciences, just got fired from the NIH. If you want to know what madness looks like, here it is, my friend.

In what world you can justify firing Richard Youle?!? #autophagy #mitophagy www.wired.com/story/doctor...

Really interesting plant work in @Dev_Cell examining ER sub-domains where peroxisomes and lipid droplets bud. www.cell.com/developmenta...

New paper by my colleagues Taras Valovka and Lukas Huber. Congrats on the nice work and the beautiful cover image JCI Insight - Altered chaperone–nonmuscle myosin II interactions drive pathogenicity of the UNC45A c.710T>C variant in osteo-oto-hepato-enteric syndrome insight.jci.org/articles/vie...

The Golgi Rim is a Precise Tetraplex of Golgin Proteins that Can Self-Assemble into Filamentous Bands www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In Memoriam: Wolfenson, Giannone, and Schwartz recall the life and many contributions of Michael Sheetz, who passed away on January 30, 2025. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Tour de force by Barna Lab

Proximity proteomics reveals a mechanism of fatty acid transfer at lipid droplet-mitochondria- endoplasmic reticulum contact sites www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We've been studying mechanisms of resilience that protect lysosomes from damage and wrote a review on the topic. We consider lysosomal stress and damage on a spectrum. Please help me share as this is my first post 😀 and I don't have many followers! 🙏 Open Access: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Our paper is out just in time for #EM_Monday! It is about a specialized neuron-specific ER, called the spine apparatus, which is found close to synapses and has a very peculiar shape. If you think neurons are special, the spine apparatus is their🦄 horn! But how does it form?! doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Very interesting preprint by the Burd group www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The first sermon!

The first supper before our ERES meeting

ATG16L1 WD domain regulates lipid trafficking to maintain plasma membrane integrity to limit influenza virus infection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.09.627529v1

How true: Misinformation exploits outrage to spread online www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...