Vezatin is a peroxisome transmembrane receptor that is involved in membrane-membrane and cell-cell adhesions. In the movement of peroxisomes it binds to class V [2] and class VIIa [3] myosins to guide the organelle through the microtubules [2] and allow pathogens to internalise themselves into host cells [1]. Vezatin is crucial for spermatozoan production [3]. In mouse cells it interacts with the cadherin-catenin complex bridging it to the C-terminal FERM domain of myosin VIIA [4].

1: Unconventional myosin VIIa and vezatin, two proteins crucial for Listeria entry into epithelial cells. Sousa S, Cabanes D, El-Amraoui A, Petit C, Lecuit M, Cossart P; J Cell Sci. 2004;117:2121-2130. PMID:15090598

2: The peroxisomal membrane protein Inp2p is the peroxisome-specific receptor for the myosin V motor Myo2p of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Fagarasanu A, Fagarasanu M, Eitzen GA, Aitchison JD, Rachubinski RA; Dev Cell. 2006;10:587-600. PMID:16678774

3: Vezatin, a ubiquitous protein of adherens cell-cell junctions, is exclusively expressed in germ cells in mouse testis. Hyenne V, Harf JC, Latz M, Maro B, Wolfrum U, Simmler MC; Reproduction. 2007;133:563-574. PMID:17379651

4: Vezatin, a novel transmembrane protein, bridges myosin VIIA to the cadherin-catenins complex. Kussel-Andermann P, El-Amraoui A, Safieddine S, Nouaille S, Perfettini I, Lecuit M, Cossart P, Wolfrum U, Petit C; EMBO J. 2000;19:6020-6029. PMID:11080149