A molecular mechanism for membrane chaperoning by a late embryogenesis abundant protein
X.-H. Li, C. W. H. Yu, N. Gomez-Navarro, V. Stancheva, H. Zhu, C. Guibao, B. Xie, A. Murthy, M. Wozny, B. Leslie, M. Kaminski, K. Malhotra, C. M. Johnson, M. Blackledge, B. Santhanam, , M. M. Babu
This paper identifies HeLEA1, a tardigrade LEA protein that acts as a mitochondrial membrane chaperone, improving stress tolerance in yeast by stabilizing lipid packing and reducing surface tension.
bioRxiv · Jul 29, 2022Biophysics