MapPIng PI inside cells brings new light to polyphosphoinositide biology

Abstract

It is unclear how phosphatidylinositol (PI), the precursor of polyphosphoinositides, is distributed within cell membranes. Pemberton et al. (2020. J. Cell. Biol. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201906130) and Zewe et al. (2020. J. Cell. Biol. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201906127) describe new approaches to map the subcellular PI abundance and clarify how polyphosphoinositide metabolism relates to PI distribution.