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Membrane-bound organelles versus membrane-less compartments and their control of anabolic pathways in Drosophila

  • Angelica Aguilera-Gomez
  • , Catherine Rabouille*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Classically, we think of cell compartmentalization as being achieved by membrane-bound organelles. It has nevertheless emerged that membrane-less assemblies also largely contribute to this compartmentalization. Here, we compare the characteristics of both types of compartmentalization in term of maintenance of functional identities. Furthermore, membrane less-compartments are critical for sustaining developmental and cell biological events as they control major metabolic pathways. We describe two examples related to this issue in Drosophila, the role of P-bodies in the translational control of gurken in the Drosophila oocyte, and the formation of Sec bodies upon amino-acid starvation in Drosophila cells.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)310-317
Number of pages8
JournalDevelopmental Biology
Volume428
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Aug 2017

Keywords

  • COPII
  • Cell compartmentalization
  • Drosophila
  • ER exit sites
  • FMR1
  • Liquid droplets
  • Liquid-liquid phase separation
  • Low complexity sequence
  • Membrane-bound organelles
  • Membrane-less compartments
  • Oocyte
  • Orb
  • PARP16
  • S2 cells
  • Sec16
  • Secretory pathway
  • Stress granule
  • gurken translation
  • mRNA

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