ArticleNature cell biology2024
Drosophila TMEM63 and mouse TMEM63A are lysosomal mechanosensory ion channels.
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- Mechanically Regulated Secretion: How Physical Forces Instruct the Secretory Pathway and Remodel the Secretome.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Myelin Dynamics at the Axon-Oligodendrocyte Interface: Adaptive Conduction Homeostasis in Demyelination, Remyelination and White Matter Repair.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- TMEM63B regulates nucleocytoplasmic transport and placental development.Nature communications · 2026Article
- CLN3 mediates chloride efflux from lysosomes.Neuron · 2026Article
- TMEM63 proteins act as mechanically activated cholesterol modulated lipid scramblases contributing to membrane mechano-resilience.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Mechanosensitive TMEM63 Ion Channels: Structure, Gating Mechanism, and Emerging Physiological and Pathological Roles.Results and problems in cell differentiation · 2026Review
- From plasma membrane to lysosomes: expanding roles of TMEM63/OSCA channels in mechanosensation and intracellular signaling.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Review
- Network-Associated Mechanotransduction in Health and Disease.Results and problems in cell differentiation · 2026Review
- Spatial proteomics for the analysis of host-pathogen interactions in mice lungs infected withmicroLife · 2026Article
- Targeting Tmem63b and Piezo2 in C-fiber low-threshold mechanoreceptors: Limitation of Vglut3-IRES-Cre.Biophysical journal · 2025Article
- Glial Ion Channels in Myelin Pathophysiology: Insights from Leukodystrophies.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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- Targeting and anchoring the mechanosensitive ion channel Piezo to facilitate its inhibition of axon regeneration.PLoS genetics · 2025Article
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- Transmembrane protein TMEM98 as a multifunctional regulator in cancer: from signaling pathways to translational implications.Journal of translational medicine · 2025Review
- Lysosomal ion channels and pain.Pain reports · 2025Review
- TMEM63A, associated with hypomyelinating leukodystrophies, is an evolutionarily conserved regulator of myelination.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Cation Channel TMEM63A Autonomously Facilitates Oligodendrocyte Differentiation at an Early Stage.Neuroscience bulletin · 2025Article
- The roles and functions of TMEM protein family members in cancers, cardiovascular and kidney diseases (Review).Biomedical reports · 2025Review
- Lysosomal Ion Channels and Transporters: Recent Findings, Therapeutic Potential, and Technical Approaches.Bioelectricity · 2025Review
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Abstract
Cells sense physical forces and convert them into electrical or chemical signals, a process known as mechanotransduction. Whereas extensive studies focus on mechanotransduction at the plasma membrane, little is known about whether and how intracellular organelles sense mechanical force and the physiological functions of organellar mechanosensing. Here we identify the Drosophila TMEM63 (DmTMEM63) ion channel as an intrinsic mechanosensor of the lysosome, a major degradative organelle. Endogenous DmTMEM63 proteins localize to lysosomes, mediate lysosomal mechanosensitivity and modulate lysosomal morphology and function. Tmem63 mutant flies exhibit impaired lysosomal degradation, synaptic loss, progressive motor deficits and early death, with some of these mutant phenotypes recapitulating symptoms of TMEM63-associated human diseases. Importantly, mouse TMEM63A mediates lysosomal mechanosensitivity in Neuro-2a cells, indicative of functional conservation in mammals. Our findings reveal DmTMEM63 channel function in lysosomes and its physiological roles in vivo and provide a molecular basis to explore the mechanosensitive process in subcellular organelles.
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