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Publications From the Munro Lab

Selected papers from the last 10 years

  • A Rab1 interactome illuminates a dual role in autophagy and membrane trafficking. van Vliet AR, Gillingham AK, Morgan TE, Ohashi Y, Smith TS, Abid Ali F, Munro S. (2026) J Cell Biol. 225:e202507084. doi: 10.1083/jcb.202507084.
  • The mechanistic basis of cargo selection during Golgi maturation. Taylor RJ, Zubkov N, Ciazynska KA, Kaufman JGG, Tagiltsev G, Owen DJ, Briggs JAG, Munro S. (2025) Sci Adv. 11:eaea0016. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aea0016.
  • Cargo selective vesicle tethering: The structural basis for binding of specific cargo proteins by the Golgi tether component TBC1D23. Cattin-Ortolá J, Kaufman, JGG , Gillingham, AK,  Wagstaff JL, Sew-Yeu Peak-Chew SY, Stevens TJ, Boulanger J, Owen DJ, Munro S. (2024) Sci Adv. 10:eadl0608. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adl0608.
  • Functional unknomics: Systematic screening of conserved genes of unknown function. Rocha JJ, Jayaram SA, Stevens TJ, Muschalik N, Shah RD, Emran S, Robles C, Freeman M, Munro S. (2023) PLoS Biol. 21:e3002222. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002222.
  • In vivo characterization of Drosophila golgins reveals redundancy and plasticity of vesicle capture at the Golgi apparatus. Park SY, Muschalik N, Chadwick J, Munro S. (2022) Curr Biol. 32:4549-4564.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.08.054.
  • GOLPH3 and GOLPH3L are broad-spectrum COPI adaptors for sorting into intra-Golgi transport vesicles. Welch LG, Peak-Chew SY, Begum F, Stevens TJ, Munro S. (2021) J Cell Biol. 220:e202106115. doi: 10.1083/jcb.202106115.
  • Cryo-EM structure of metazoan TRAPPIII, the multi-subunit complex that activates the GTPase Rab1. Galindo A, Planelles-Herrero VJ, Degliesposti G, Munro S. (2021). EMBO J. 40:e107608. doi: 10.15252/embj.2020107608.
  • Sequences in the cytoplasmic tail of SARS-CoV-2 Spike facilitate expression at the cell surface and syncytia formation. Cattin-Ortolá J, Welch LG, Maslen SL, Papa G, James LC, Munro S. (2021) Nat Commun. 12:5333. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-25589-1.
  • Spatial proteomics defines the content of trafficking vesicles captured by golgin tethers. Shin JJH, Crook OM, Borgeaud AC, Cattin-Ortolá J, Peak-Chew SY, Breckels LM, Gillingham AK, Chadwick J, Lilley KS, Munro S. (2020) Nat Commun. 11:5987. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-19840-4.
  • In vivo identification of GTPase interactors by mitochondrial relocalization and proximity biotinylation. Gillingham AK, Bertram J, Begum F, Munro S. (2019) Elife 8:e45916. doi: 10.7554/eLife.45916.
  • The two TRAPP complexes of metazoans have distinct roles and act on different Rab GTPases. Riedel F, Galindo A, Muschalik N, Munro S. (2018). J Cell Biol. 217:601-617. doi: 10.1083/jcb.201705068.
  • The small G protein Arl8 contributes to lysosomal function and long-range axonal transport in Drosophila. Rosa-Ferreira C, Sweeney ST, Munro S. (2018) Biol Open. 7:bio035964. doi: 10.1242/bio.035964.
  • TBC1D23 is a bridging factor for endosomal vesicle capture by golgins at the trans-Golgi. Shin JJH, Gillingham AK, Begum F, Chadwick J, Munro S. (2017) Nat Cell Biol. 19:1424-1432. doi: 10.1038/ncb3627.
  • The golgin coiled-coil proteins capture different types of transport carriers via distinct N-terminal motifs. Wong M, Gillingham AK, Munro S. (2017) BMC Biol. 15:3. doi: 10.1186/s12915-016-0345-3.
  • Structural Insights into Arl1-Mediated Targeting of the Arf-GEF BIG1 to the trans-Golgi. Galindo A, Soler N, McLaughlin SH, Yu M, Williams RL, Munro S. Cell Rep. 2016 Jul 19;16(3):839-50. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.06.022.
  • An antibody toolkit for the study of membrane traffic in Drosophila melanogaster. Riedel F, Gillingham AK, Rosa-Ferreira C, Galindo A, Munro S. Biol Open. 2016 Jul 15;5(7):987-92. doi: 10.1242/bio.018937.
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