bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.31.018150; this version posted March 31, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. Retromer forms low order oligomers on supported lipid bilayers Catherine L. Deatherage1, Joerg Nikolaus2, Erdem Karatekin2-5§, Christopher G. Burd1§ 1 Department of Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA 2 Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT USA 3 Nanobiology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, CT, USA 4 Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA 5 Université de Paris, SPPIN - Saints-Pères Paris Institute for the Neurosciences, CNRS, F-75006 Paris, France. § Address correspondence to either author. Christopher Burd email:
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[email protected] Phone: 203-737-3286 Running Title: Retromer forms low order oligomers Keywords Cell biology, trafficking, single particle analysis, membrane bilayer, oligomerization, Retromer, WASHC2C, biochemical reconstitution 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.31.018150; this version posted March 31, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. Abstract Retromer is a protein sorting device that orchestrates the selection and export of integral membrane proteins from the endosome via retrograde and plasma membrane recycling pathways. Long standing hypotheses regarding the Retromer sorting mechanism posit that oligomeric interactions between Retromer and associated accessory factors on the endosome membrane drives clustering of Retromer-bound integral membrane cargo prior to its packaging into a nascent transport carrier.