ArticleNature communications2023
Phospholipids are imported into mitochondria by VDAC, a dimeric beta barrel scramblase.
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- A pore is a pore is a pore (or a hub?): VDAC oligomerization in mitochondrial connectivity and modulation.Biochemical Society transactions · 2026Review
- A single-vesicle fluorescence microscopy platform to quantify phospholipid scrambling.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2026Article
- CTPS1 modulates mitophagy to propel diffuse large B-cell lymphoma via reshaping CEPT1-mediated phospholipid metabolism.Redox biology · 2026Article
- Rewiring Mitochondrial Phosphatidylethanolamine Metabolism Identifies New and Unaccounted Trafficking Steps.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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- A single vesicle fluorescence microscopy platform to quantify phospholipid scrambling.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Opsins are Phospholipid Scramblases in All Domains of Life.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Martini 3 Limitations in Phospholipid Flip-Flop.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2025Article
- Structural characterization of intra- and intermolecular disulfide bonds in voltage-dependent anion channel 3 (VDAC3) protein from Rattus norvegicus by high-resolution mass spectrometry.Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry · 2025Article
- Oligomer-based functions of mitochondrial porin.Nature communications · 2025Article
- A Membrane-Disruptive Action of VBIT-4 Challenges Its Role as a Widely Used VDAC Oligomerization Inhibitor.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Groove architecture controls lipid scrambling in simulations of protein and model systems.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- An integrative modelling approach to the mitochondrial cristae.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Is the Voltage-Dependent Anion Channel a Major Player in Neurodegenerative Diseases?International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
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Abstract
Mitochondria are double-membrane-bounded organelles that depend critically on phospholipids supplied by the endoplasmic reticulum. These lipids must cross the outer membrane to support mitochondrial function, but how they do this is unclear. We identify the Voltage Dependent Anion Channel (VDAC), an abundant outer membrane protein, as a scramblase-type lipid transporter that catalyzes lipid entry. On reconstitution into membrane vesicles, dimers of human VDAC1 and VDAC2 catalyze rapid transbilayer translocation of phospholipids by a mechanism that is unrelated to their channel activity. Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of VDAC1 reveal that lipid scrambling occurs at a specific dimer interface where polar residues induce large water defects and bilayer thinning. The rate of phospholipid import into yeast mitochondria is an order of magnitude lower in the absence of VDAC homologs, indicating that VDACs provide the main pathway for lipid entry. Thus, VDAC isoforms, members of a superfamily of beta barrel proteins, moonlight as a class of phospholipid scramblases - distinct from alpha-helical scramblase proteins - that act to import lipids into mitochondria.
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