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Organelle remodeling in somatic cell reprogramming
Yang Liu1,2 , Zifeng Ruan1,2 , Zichao Liu1,2 , Xingguo Liu1,2,*
1Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health Guangdong Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Regenerative Biology, Joint School of Life Sciences, Hefei Institute of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510530, China
2Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Institute for Stem Cell and Regeneration, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510530, China
*Correspondence to:Xingguo Liu , Email:liu_xingguo@gibh.ac.cn
J Mol Cell Biol, Volume 12, Issue 10, October 2020, 747-751,  https://doi.org/10.1093/jmcb/mjaa032

Works based on the generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) mediated by expressing Yamanaka cocktail factors (Takahashi and Yamanaka, 2006) have been extensively reported. During somatic cell reprogramming, many organelles get remodeled on multilayer such as organelle morphology, metabolic patterns, and meanwhile epigenetic landscapes and gene expression changes. In the process of organelle plasticity control, lipids, ions, and metabolites are ferried to particular targets. Such reorientations need the aid of membrane trafficking. However, most related mechanisms and physiological/pathological functions remain largely unknown.