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ArticleNature structural & molecular biology2025

The cyanobacterial protein VIPP1 forms ESCRT-III-like structures on lipid bilayers.

Sichen Pan, Karin Gries, Benjamin D Engel, Michael Schroda, Christoph A Haselwandter, Simon Scheuring

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Article in Nature structural & molecular biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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  4. ESCRT-III function in membrane fission and repair.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2026
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  5. Membrane interaction of cyanobacterial and chloroplast ESCRT-III proteins.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2026
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6 authors.

Sichen PanWeill Cornell Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, New York, NY, USA.
Karin GriesMolecular Biotechnology and Systems Biology, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Benjamin D EngelBiozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0941-4387
Michael SchrodaMolecular Biotechnology and Systems Biology, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Kaiserslautern, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6872-0483
Christoph A HaselwandterDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5012-5640
Simon ScheuringWeill Cornell Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, New York, NY, USA. sis2019@med.cornell.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3534-069X

Funding

Enabling physical stimuli in the study of structural dynamics: The sensory ion channelsDP1AT010874 · NCCIH · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI SCHEURING, SIMON · 2019 to 2023
$5.9M
High-speed atomic force microscopy with microsecond time resolution for the study of channels and transportersR01NS110790 · NINDS · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI Simon Scheuring · 2019 to 2026
$2.4M
NCCIH NIH HHS DP1 AT010874NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS110790
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The biogenesis and maintenance of thylakoid membranes require vesicle-inducing protein in plastids 1 (VIPP1). VIPP1 is a member of the endosomal sorting complex required for transport-III (ESCRT-III) superfamily, whose members form diverse filament-based supramolecular structures that facilitate membrane deformation and fission. VIPP1 cryo-electron microscopy (EM) structures in solution revealed helical rods and baskets of stacked rings, with amphipathic membrane-binding domains in the lumen. However, how VIPP1 interacts with membranes remains largely unknown. Here, using high-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM), we show that VIPP1 assembles into right-handed chiral spirals and regular polygons on supported lipid bilayers via ESCRT-III-like filament assembly and dynamics. VIPP1 filaments grow clockwise into spirals through polymerization at a ring-shaped central polymerization hub, and into polygons through clockwise polymerization at the sector peripheries. Interestingly, VIPP1 initially forms Archimedean spirals, which upon maturation transform into logarithmic spirals through lateral annealing of strands to the outermore low-curvature spiral turns.

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Bacterial ProteinsEndosomal Sorting Complexes Required for TransportLipid BilayersSynechocystisCryoelectron MicroscopyMembrane ProteinsMicroscopy, Atomic ForceModels, MolecularThylakoidsBacterial ProteinsEndosomal Sorting Complexes Required for TransportLipid BilayersMembrane ProteinsVIPP1 protein, Synechocystis

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