@article{d480533408da40e5adbada77021ed692,
title = "Coming together to define membrane contact sites",
abstract = "Close proximities between organelles have been described for decades. However, only recently a specific field dealing with organelle communication at membrane contact sites has gained wide acceptance, attracting scientists from multiple areas of cell biology. The diversity of approaches warrants a unified vocabulary for the field. Such definitions would facilitate laying the foundations of this field, streamlining communication and resolving semantic controversies. This opinion, written by a panel of experts in the field, aims to provide this burgeoning area with guidelines for the experimental definition and analysis of contact sites. It also includes suggestions on how to operationally and tractably measure and analyze them with the hope of ultimately facilitating knowledge production and dissemination within and outside the field of contact-site research.",
author = "Luca Scorrano and {De Matteis}, {Maria Antonietta} and Scott Emr and Francesca Giordano and Gyorgy Hajnoczky and Benoit Kornmann and Lackner, {Laura L.} and Levine, {Tim P.} and Luca Pellegrini and Karin Reinisch and Rosario Rizzuto and Thomas Simmen and Harald Stenmark and Christian Ungermann and Maya Schuldiner",
note = "M.S. is an Incumbent of the Dr. Gilbert Omenn and Martha Darling Professorial Chair in Molecular Genetics. The work on contact sites in the Schuldiner lab is supported by ERC CoG 646604, an S.F.B. 1190 by the DFG, a Weizmann-EPFL collaborative grant and a Volkswagen Foundation grant. Work in LS lab on contact sites was supported by ERC 282280. T.S. is funded by CIHR grant MOP 133541 and NSERC RGPIN-2015-04105. C.U. is supported by grants of the DFG (SFB 944, P11, and UN111/10-1). F.G. is funded by ANR (ANR0015TD), FSER and INSERM ATIP-Avenir Program. G.H.{\textquoteright}s studies of contacts are supported by NIH (RO1-DK51526 and R33-ES025672). L.L.L. is funded by the NIH NIGMS grant R01GM120303. MADM acknowledges the support of Telethon (grant TGM11CB1), the Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC, grant IG2013_14761), European Research Council Advanced Investigator grant no. 670881 (SYSMET). We thank Noam Schuldiner for the graphics in this paper.",
year = "2019",
month = mar,
day = "20",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09253-3",
language = "الإنجليزيّة",
volume = "10",
journal = "Nature Communications",
issn = "2041-1723",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "1",
}