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ArticleFrontiers in cell and developmental biology2020

Improved Split-GFP Systems for Visualizing Organelle Contact Sites in Yeast and Human Cells.

Shinya Tashiro, Yuriko Kakimoto, Manatsu Shinmyo, Shintaro Fujimoto, Yasushi Tamura

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Article in Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shinya TashiroFaculty of Science, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan.
Yuriko KakimotoDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan.
Manatsu ShinmyoFaculty of Science, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan.
Shintaro FujimotoFaculty of Science, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan.
Yasushi TamuraFaculty of Science, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan.
Yamagata University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inter-organelle contact sites have attracted a lot of attention as functionally specialized regions that mediate the exchange of metabolites, including lipids and ions, between distinct organelles. However, studies on inter-organelle contact sites are at an early stage and it remains enigmatic what directly mediates the organelle-organelle interactions and how the number and degree of the contacts are regulated. As a first step to answer these questions, we previously developed split-GFP probes that could visualize and quantify multiple inter-organelle contact sites in the yeast and human cultured cells. However, the split-GFP probes possessed a disadvantage of inducing artificial connections between two different organelle membranes, especially when overexpressed. In the present study, we developed a way to express the split-GFP probes whose expressions remained at low levels, with minimal variations between different yeast cells. Besides, we constructed a HeLa cell line in which the expression of the split-GFP probes could be induced by the addition of doxycycline to minimize the artificial effects. The improved split-GFP systems may be faithful tools to quantify organelle contact sites and screen new factors involved in organelle-organelle tethering in yeast and mammalian cells.

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endoplasmic reticulumlipid dropletmitochondriaorganelle contact siteperoxisomesplit GFPvacuoleyeast

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