AUTHOR=Toh Wei Hong , Gleeson Paul A. TITLE=Emerging Insights into the Roles of Membrane Tethers from Analysis of Whole Organisms: The Tip of an Iceberg? JOURNAL=Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology VOLUME=4 YEAR=2016 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cell-and-developmental-biology/articles/10.3389/fcell.2016.00012 DOI=10.3389/fcell.2016.00012 ISSN=2296-634X ABSTRACT=
Membrane tethers have been identified throughout different compartments of the endomembrane system. It is now well established that a number of membrane tethers mediate docking of membrane carriers in anterograde and retrograde transport and in regulating the organization of membrane compartments. Much of our information on membrane tethers have been obtained from the analysis of individual membrane tethers in cultured cells. In the future it will be important to better appreciate the network of interactions mediated by tethers and the potential co-ordination of their collective functions