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Lylia Gomez

University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignORCID 0009-0004-5080-4119Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:cell signaling & trafficking· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Organism:yeast· 1

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Yeast PI(3,4,5)P3 controls vacuole fusion through Vam7 and membrane microdomain assembly

Chi Zhang, Jorge D. Calderin, Vito Failla, Aliasgar Topiwalla, Robert P. Sparks, Daniel Grudzien, Soroush Asadi, Lylia Gomez, Yupeng Li, Ved Shah, Krish T Patel, Jahnavi M. Karat, Charlie T. Knapp, Razeen Ahmed, Emad Tajkhorshid, Rutilio A. Fratti

This study identifies PI(3,4,5)P3 as a regulator of yeast vacuole fusion, showing it controls vertex microdomain assembly and retains the SNARE Vam7 on membranes.

The Journal of Cell Biology · Oct 30, 2026Peer-reviewedBiochemistry