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. 2023 Jan 15:133:42-52.
doi: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2022.02.024. Epub 2022 Mar 4.

Snapshots from within the cell: Novel trafficking and non trafficking functions of Snap29 during tissue morphogenesis

Paulien H Smeele  1 , Thomas Vaccari  2
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Snapshots from within the cell: Novel trafficking and non trafficking functions of Snap29 during tissue morphogenesis

Paulien H Smeele et al. Semin Cell Dev Biol. .
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Abstract

Membrane trafficking is a core cellular process that supports diversification of cell shapes and behaviors relevant to morphogenesis during development and in adult organisms. However, how precisely trafficking components regulate specific differentiation programs is incompletely understood. Snap29 is a multifaceted Soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor Attachment protein Receptor, involved in a wide range of trafficking and non-trafficking processes in most cells. A body of knowledge, accrued over more than two decades since its discovery, reveals that Snap29 is essential for establishing and maintaining the operation of a number of cellular events that support cell polarity and signaling. In this review, we first summarize established functions of Snap29 and then we focus on novel ones in the context of autophagy, Golgi trafficking and vesicle fusion at the plasma membrane, as well as on non-trafficking activities of Snap29. We further describe emerging evidence regarding the compartmentalisation and regulation of Snap29. Finally, we explore how the loss of distinct functions of human Snap29 may lead to the clinical manifestations of congenital disorders such as CEDNIK syndrome and how altered SNAP29 activity may contribute to the pathogenesis of cancer, viral infection and neurodegenerative diseases.

Keywords: CEDNIK; Cancer; Membrane trafficking; Morphogenesis; SNAP29; SNARE.

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