Fascinating work by Guillén Samander et al. uncovering VAP-interacting LTPs in malaria parasites and a novel BLTP-interacting partner on the IMC. Could this new partnership be unique to apicomplexans, or might it hold across other phyla?

Huge thanks to the helpful staff at Yale’s Center for Engineering Innovation & Design (CEID), an incredible resource on campus, for letting me use their 3D printers! Anyone on campus want to 3D-print their protein? Let me know, I’d love to help!

In natural systems, form often determines function. Check out how this model of BLTP3A exhibits the tube-like form that allows it to bridge membranes, and how its partner protein, LC3, docked here near the C-terminus, can serve to orient BLTP3A towards its intended site of action/lipid delivery.

Huge thanks to the helpful staff at Yale’s Center for Engineering Innovation & Design (CEID), an incredible resource on campus, for letting me use their 3D printers! Anyone on campus want to 3D-print their protein? Let me know, I’d love to help!

Excited to share our paper has been published in @embojournal.org! Check out what we've uncovered about the shortest BLTP family member and lysosome damage. Proud and grateful to be a part of this work! @pdc-lab.bsky.social