Happy to present our new PNAS paper, showing the architecture of plant exocyst complex and the mechanism of its membrane recruitment. In plants, a single subunit EXO70A1 is doing the job via interactions with multiple lipids.
Lukáš Synek#, Roman Pleskot#, Juraj Sekereš#, Natalia Serrano, Nemanja Vukašinović, Jitka Ortmannová, Martina Klejchová, Přemysl Pejchar, Klára Batystová, Malgorzata Gutkowska, Edita Janková-Drdová, Vedrana Marković, Tamara Pečenková, Jiří Šantrůček, Viktor Žárský* and Martin Potocký* (2021) Plasma membrane phospholipid signature recruits the plant exocyst complex via the EXO70A1 subunit. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 118(36):e2105287118. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2105287118