ArticleNature structural & molecular biology2025
Structural basis for lipid transport at membrane contact sites by the IST2-OSH6 complex.
Article in Nature structural & molecular biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
4 citing papers in PubMed.
- Lipid traffic: an enigmatic alliance between ORPs and a TMEM16-like protein at membrane contact sites.Biochemical Society transactions · 2026Review
- Ist2 promotes lipid transfer by Osh6 via its membrane tethering and lipid scramblase activities.Science advances · 2025Article
- P4-ATPases control phosphoinositide membrane asymmetry and neomycin resistance.Nature cell biology · 2025Article
- P4-ATPase control over phosphoinositide membrane asymmetry and neomycin resistance.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Membrane contact sites are hubs for interorganellar lipid transport within eukaryotic cells. As a principal tether bridging the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and the plasma membrane in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the protein IST2 has a major role during lipid transport between both compartments. Here, we show a comprehensive investigation elucidating the structural and mechanistic properties of IST2 and its interaction with the soluble lipid transfer protein OSH6. The ER-embedded transmembrane domain of IST2 is homologous to the TMEM16 family and acts as a constitutively active lipid scramblase. The extended C terminus binds to the plasma membrane and the phosphatidylserine-phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate exchanger OSH6. Through cellular growth assays and biochemical and structural studies, we characterized the interaction between both proteins and show that OSH6 remains associated with IST2 during lipid shuttling between membranes. These results highlight the role of the IST2-OSH6 complex in lipid trafficking and offer initial insights into the relevance of scramblases for carrier-like lipid transport mechanisms.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.