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ArticleJournal of cell science2015

Eisosomes provide membrane reservoirs for rapid expansion of the yeast plasma membrane.

Ruth Kabeche, Louisa Howard, James B Moseley

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Article in Journal of cell science, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ruth KabecheDepartment of Biochemistry, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH 03755, USA.
Louisa HowardElectron Microscope Facility, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA.
James B MoseleyDepartment of Biochemistry, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH 03755, USA james.b.moseley@dartmouth.edu.
Dartmouth College · US

Funding

Translational Engineering in Cancer (TEC)P30CA023108 · NCI · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI Steven D Leach · 1985 to 2026
$91.3M
Mechanisms that coordinate cell size with mitotic entryR01GM099774 · NIGMS · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI MOSELEY, JAMES B · 2012 to 2023
$3.9M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA023108NIGMS NIH HHS GM099774NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM099774
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cell surface area rapidly increases during mechanical and hypoosmotic stresses. Such expansion of the plasma membrane requires 'membrane reservoirs' that provide surface area and buffer membrane tension, but the sources of this membrane remain poorly understood. In principle, the flattening of invaginations and buds within the plasma membrane could provide this additional surface area, as recently shown for caveolae in animal cells. Here, we used microfluidics to study the rapid expansion of the yeast plasma membrane in protoplasts, which lack the rigid cell wall. To survive hypoosmotic stress, yeast cell protoplasts required eisosomes, protein-based structures that generate long invaginations at the plasma membrane. Both budding yeast and fission yeast protoplasts lacking eisosomes were unable to expand like wild-type protoplasts during hypoosmotic stress, and subsequently lysed. By performing quantitative fluorescence microscopy on single protoplasts, we also found that eisosomes disassembled as surface area increased. During this process, invaginations generated by eisosomes at the plasma membrane became flattened, as visualized by scanning electron microscopy. We propose that eisosomes serve as tension-dependent membrane reservoirs for expansion of yeast cells in an analogous manner to caveolae in animal cells.

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AnimalsCell MembraneModels, BiologicalProtoplastsYeastsEisosomeMicrofluidicsPlasma membraneProtoplastS. pombeYeast

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PMID26403204
PMCPMC4712788
OpenAlexW2219091051

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