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Lipid code for membrane recycling

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The sequential action of enzymes has been shown to modify members of a class of membrane lipid called phosphoinositides to direct integral membrane proteins for recycling. See Letter p.408

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Figure 1: Phospholipids direct membrane sorting.

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  1. Tamas Balla is in the Program for Developmental Neuroscience, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.,

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Balla, T. Lipid code for membrane recycling. Nature 529, 292–293 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16868

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