A new D6PK paper from Inês, a result of a fruitful collaboration with the Ingo Heilmann lab, was published online in Development. Congratulations to Inês and her coauthors.

A new D6PK paper from Inês, a result of a fruitful collaboration with the Ingo Heilmann lab, was published online in Development.

Phospholipid composition and a polybasic motif determine D6 PROTEIN KINASE polar association with the plasma membrane and tropic responses.

Inês C. R. Barbosa, Hiromasa Shikata, Melina Zourelidou, Mareike Heilmann, Ingo Heilmann, Claus Schwechheimer; Development 2016 : doi: 10.1242/dev.137117

Here, we demonstrate the interaction of D6PK with phospholipids and define the corresponding interaction domain in the middle domain of D6PK. The mechanism uncovered here for D6PK can also serve to explain the membrane association of other related D6PKs. Congratulations to Inês and her coauthors.

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