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ArticleNature structural & molecular biology2025

Structural basis for Vipp1 membrane binding: from loose coats and carpets to ring and rod assemblies.

Benedikt Junglas, David Kartte, Mirka Kutzner, Nadja Hellmann, Ilona Ritter, Dirk Schneider, Carsten Sachse

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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 17 papers.

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17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Phosphatidylinositol diphosphate binding by ESCRT-III filaments.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  4. Membrane interaction of cyanobacterial and chloroplast ESCRT-III proteins.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2026
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  5. ESCRT-III function in membrane fission and repair.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2026
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  8. Molecular structure of the ESCRT-III-based archaeal CdvAB cell division machinery.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  13. The bacterial ESCRT-III PspA rods thin lipid tubules and increase membrane curvature through helix α0 interactions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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7 authors.

Benedikt JunglasErnst-Ruska Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons, ER-C-3/Structural Biology, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9348-3379
David KartteErnst-Ruska Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons, ER-C-3/Structural Biology, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany.
Mirka KutznerDepartment of Chemistry, Biochemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Nadja HellmannDepartment of Chemistry, Biochemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6591-8926
Ilona RitterErnst-Ruska Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons, ER-C-3/Structural Biology, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany.
Dirk SchneiderDepartment of Chemistry, Biochemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4517-6387
Carsten SachseErnst-Ruska Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons, ER-C-3/Structural Biology, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany. c.sachse@fz-juelich.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1168-5143

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vesicle-inducing protein in plastids 1 (Vipp1) is critical for thylakoid membrane biogenesis and maintenance. Although Vipp1 has recently been identified as a member of the endosomal sorting complexes required for transport III superfamily, it is still unknown how Vipp1 remodels membranes. Here, we present cryo-electron microscopy structures of Synechocystis Vipp1 interacting with membranes: seven structures of helical and stacked-ring assemblies at 5-7-Å resolution engulfing membranes and three carpet structures covering lipid vesicles at ~20-Å resolution using subtomogram averaging. By analyzing ten structures of N-terminally truncated Vipp1, we show that helix α0 is essential for membrane tubulation and forms the membrane-anchoring domain of Vipp1. Lastly, using a conformation-restrained Vipp1 mutant, we reduced the structural plasticity of Vipp1 and determined two structures of Vipp1 at 3.0-Å resolution, resolving the molecular details of membrane-anchoring and intersubunit contacts of helix α0. Our data reveal membrane curvature-dependent structural transitions from carpets to rings and rods, some of which are capable of inducing and/or stabilizing high local membrane curvature triggering membrane fusion.

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Bacterial ProteinsMembrane ProteinsSynechocystisCryoelectron MicroscopyModels, MolecularProtein BindingThylakoidsBacterial ProteinsMembrane ProteinsVIPP1 protein, Synechocystis

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PMID39379528
PMCPMC11919686

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