Abstract
Cell biology has long recognized that organelles can communicate with each other. Initially, such communication was thought to occur primarily via vesicular trafficking between biochemically distinct organelles. However, studies starting in the 1970s on lipid metabolism have unearthed another way how organelles can communicate and have spawned the field of membrane contact sites (MCS). While, initially, MCS had been recognized as fluid entities that mediate lipid and ion transport in an ad hoc manner, more recently MCS have been found to depend on protein–protein interactions that control themselves a variety of MCS functions. As a result, the cell biological definition of an intracellular organelle as an isolated membrane compartment is now being revised. Accordingly, the organelle definition now describes organelles as dynamic membrane compartments that function in a milieu of coordinated contacts with other organelles. Through these mercurial functions, MCS dictate the function of organelles to a large extent but also play important roles in a number of diseases, including type 2 diabetes, neurodegenerative diseases, infections, and cancer. This book assembles reviews that describe our quickly evolving knowledge about organellar communication on MCS and the significance of MCS for disease.
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Simmen, T., Tagaya, M. (2017). Organelle Communication at Membrane Contact Sites (MCS): From Curiosity to Center Stage in Cell Biology and Biomedical Research. In: Tagaya, M., Simmen, T. (eds) Organelle Contact Sites. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 997. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4567-7_1
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