Biochemical Society Focused Meeting
Proceedings of invited speakers will be published in Biochemical Society Transactions
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Intracellular traffic of material and information is of fundamental importance to cell function. While much attention has focused on transport mediated by vesicles, another highly conserved mechanism exists: non-vesicular traffic. This fulfils essential cellular functions by mediating the transport of small molecules in two major categories: lipids and calcium ions. Despite the distinct natures of lipids and calcium ions, their traffic shares one major feature: it occurs at sites where organelles come into close contact with one another. For example, lipid traffic occurs at stable, purifiable zones of contact between endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria, and it is also proposed that calcium flux occurs in close relation to such contact sites. This two-day meeting will be the first ever to concentrate on the activities of these contact zones. Talks will address traffic at zones of contact formed between different organelles, as well as proteins that are so far known to be involved in this process, in particular lipid transfer proteins.
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