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Heather Czapla

Researcher at Yale University

Publications -  5
Citations -  725

Heather Czapla is an academic researcher from Yale University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Endocytic cycle & Endocytosis. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 5 publications receiving 592 citations. Previous affiliations of Heather Czapla include Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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PI4P/phosphatidylserine countertransport at ORP5- and ORP8-mediated ER–plasma membrane contacts

TL;DR: Two similar ER integral membrane proteins, oxysterol-binding protein (OSBP)–related protein 5 (ORP5) and ORP8, tethered the ER to the plasma membrane (PM) via the interaction of their pleckstrin homology domains with phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate (PI4P) in this membrane.
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Epsin deficiency impairs endocytosis by stalling the actin-dependent invagination of endocytic clathrin-coated pits

TL;DR: It is shown that a key evolutionary conserved function of epsin, in addition to other roles that include, as it is shown here, a low affinity interaction with SNAREs, is to help generate the force that leads to invagination and then fission of clathrin-coated pits.
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A role of OCRL in clathrin-coated pit dynamics and uncoating revealed by studies of Lowe syndrome cells

TL;DR: It is shown that OCRL loss in Lowe syndrome patient fibroblasts impacts clathrin-mediated endocytosis and results in an endocytic defect, and that defects in clathin- mediated endocyTosis likely contribute to pathology in patients with OCRL mutations.
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Sac2/INPP5F is an inositol 4-phosphatase that functions in the endocytic pathway

TL;DR: It is suggested that Sac2/INPP5F and OCRL may cooperate in the sequential dephosphorylation of PI(4,5)P2 in a partnership that mimics that of the two phosphatase modules of synaptojanin.