Infrequent translation of a nonsense codon is sufficient to decrease mRNA level.

abstract：:The control of muscle-specific expression is one of the principal mechanisms by which diversity is generated among muscle types. In an attempt to elucidate the regulatory mechanisms that control fiber diversity in any given muscle, we have focused our attention on the transcriptional regulation of the Drosophila Tropo...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Mas JA,García-Zaragoza E,Cervera M

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin II motors embedded within the actin cortex generate contractile forces to modulate cell shape in essential behaviors, including polarization, migration, and division. In sarcomeres, myosin II-mediated sliding of antiparallel F-actin is tightly coupled to myofibril contraction. By contrast, cortical F-actin is h...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Murrell M,Gardel ML

更新日期：2014-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Golgi apparatus consists of a series of flattened cisternal membranes that are aligned in parallel to form stacks. Cytosolic-oriented Golgi-associated proteins have been identified that may coordinate or maintain the Golgi architecture. Here, we describe a novel GPI-anchored protein, Golgi-resident GPI-anchored pr...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Li X,Kaloyanova D,van Eijk M,Eerland R,van der Goot G,Oorschot V,Klumperman J,Lottspeich F,Starkuviene V,Wieland FT,Helms JB

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of cholesterol for endocytosis has been investigated in HEp-2 and other cell lines by using methyl-beta-cyclodextrin (MbetaCD) to selectively extract cholesterol from the plasma membrane. MbetaCD treatment strongly inhibited endocytosis of transferrin and EGF, whereas endocytosis of ricin was less affec...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Rodal SK,Skretting G,Garred O,Vilhardt F,van Deurs B,Sandvig K

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The BNIP-2 and Cdc42GAP homology (BCH) domain is a novel regulator for Rho GTPases, but its impact on p50-Rho GTPase-activating protein (p50RhoGAP or Cdc42GAP) in cells remains elusive. Here we show that deletion of the BCH domain from p50RhoGAP enhanced its GAP activity and caused drastic cell rounding. Introducing c...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Zhou YT,Chew LL,Lin SC,Low BC

更新日期：2010-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During differentiation, keratinocytes undergo a dramatic shape change from small and round to large and flat, in addition to production of proteins necessary for the formation of epidermis. It has been shown that protein kinase C (PKC) η is crucial for keratinocyte differentiation. However, its role in this process ha...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Shirai Y,Morioka S,Sakuma M,Yoshino K,Otsuji C,Sakai N,Kashiwagi K,Chida K,Shirakawa R,Horiuchi H,Nishigori C,Ueyama T,Saito N

更新日期：2011-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Trends in increased tuberculosis infection and a fatality rate of approximately 23% have necessitated the search for alternative biomarkers using newly developed postgenomic approaches. Here we provide a systematic analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) by directly profiling its gene products. This analysis comb...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Mawuenyega KG,Forst CV,Dobos KM,Belisle JT,Chen J,Bradbury EM,Bradbury AR,Chen X

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) receptors (FGFRs) signal to modulate diverse cellular functions, including epithelial cell morphogenesis. In epithelial cells, E-cadherin plays a key role in cell-cell adhesion, and its function can be regulated through endocytic trafficking. In this study, we investigated the location, ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bryant DM,Wylie FG,Stow JL

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rho family of GTP-binding proteins plays a critical role in a variety of cellular processes, including cytoskeletal reorganization and activation of kinases such as p38 and C-jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) MAPKs. We report here that dominant negative forms of Rac1 and Cdc42Hs inhibit the expression of the muscle-spec...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Meriane M,Roux P,Primig M,Fort P,Gauthier-Rouvière C

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formins have conserved roles in cell polarity and cytokinesis and directly nucleate actin filament assembly through their FH2 domain. Here, we define the active region of the yeast formin Bni1 FH2 domain and show that it dimerizes. Mutations that disrupt dimerization abolish actin assembly activity, suggesting that di...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Moseley JB,Sagot I,Manning AL,Xu Y,Eck MJ,Pellman D,Goode BL

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used E1A probes to study the roles of the p34cdc2 kinase and the retinoblastoma tumor susceptibility gene product (pRB) in transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF beta 1)-mediated growth suppression in mink lung epithelial (Mv1Lu) cells. In agreement with previous reports, we see a decline in p34cdc2 kinase act...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Abraham SE,Carter MC,Moran E

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to extensive elaboration of the photoreceptor cilium to form the outer segment, axonemal transport (IFT) in photoreceptors is extraordinarily busy, and retinal degeneration is a component of many ciliopathies. Functional loss of heterotrimeric kinesin-2, a major anterograde IFT motor, causes mislocalized opsin, fo...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lopes VS,Jimeno D,Khanobdee K,Song X,Chen B,Nusinowitz S,Williams DS

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) protein encoded by the fission yeast rad18 gene is involved in several DNA repair processes and has an essential function in DNA replication and mitotic control. It has a heterodimeric partner SMC protein, Spr18, with which it forms the core of a multiprotein complex. We...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Taylor EM,Moghraby JS,Lees JH,Smit B,Moens PB,Lehmann AR

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:WDR92 is a highly conserved WD-repeat protein that has been proposed to be involved in apoptosis and also to be part of a prefoldin-like cochaperone complex. We found that WDR92 has a phylogenetic signature that is generally compatible with it playing a role in the assembly or function of specifically motile cilia. To...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Patel-King RS,King SM

更新日期：2016-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor (IP3R) is an intracellular calcium channel involved in coupling cell membrane receptors to calcium signal transduction pathways within cells including endocrine cells. Several isoforms (I, II, and III) of IP3Rs have been identified, which are encoded by separate genes, and are...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Nucifora FC Jr,Sharp AH,Milgram SL,Ross CA

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tail of the yeast myosin V encoded by Myo2p is known to bind several receptors for cargo delivery along polarized actin cables. However, it is not known how Myo2p activity is regulated or how it selects between cargoes. Here we show that Myo2p is reversibly phosphorylated in vivo. A short peptide at the N-terminal...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Legesse-Miller A,Zhang S,Santiago-Tirado FH,Van Pelt CK,Bretscher A

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repellents evoke growth cone turning by eliciting asymmetric, localized loss of actin cytoskeleton together with changes in substratum attachment. We have demonstrated that semaphorin-3A (Sema3A)-induced growth cone detachment and collapse require eicosanoid-mediated activation of protein kinase C epsilon (PKC epsilon...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Gatlin JC,Estrada-Bernal A,Sanford SD,Pfenninger KH

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging findings suggest that two lineages of mitochondrial Ca(2+) uptake participate during active and resting states: 1) the major eukaryotic membrane potential-dependent mitochondrial Ca(2+) uniporter and 2) the evolutionarily conserved exchangers and solute carriers, which are also involved in ion transport. Alth...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Hoffman NE,Chandramoorthy HC,Shanmughapriya S,Zhang XQ,Vallem S,Doonan PJ,Malliankaraman K,Guo S,Rajan S,Elrod JW,Koch WJ,Cheung JY,Madesh M

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoglobulin (Ig) molecule is composed of two identical heavy chains and two identical light chains (H2L2). Transport of this heteromeric complex is dependent on the correct assembly of the component parts, which is controlled, in part, by the association of incompletely assembled Ig heavy chains with the endopl...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lee YK,Brewer JW,Hellman R,Hendershot LM

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell migration is a highly conserved process involving cytoskeletal reorganization and restructuring of the surrounding extracellular matrix. Although there are many studies describing mechanisms underlying cell motility, little has been reported about the contribution of alternative isoform use toward cell migration....

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lee HN,Mitra M,Bosompra O,Corney DC,Johnson EL,Rashed N,Ho LD,Coller HA

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Saccharomyces cerevisiae genes TOR1 and TOR2 were originally identified by mutations that confer resistance to the immunosuppressant rapamycin. TOR2 was previously shown to encode an essential 282-kDa phosphatidylinositol kinase (PI kinase) homologue. The TOR1 gene product is also a large (281 kDa) PI kinase homol...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Helliwell SB,Wagner P,Kunz J,Deuter-Reinhard M,Henriquez R,Hall MN

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In yeast, homologues of the synaptobrevin/VAMP family of v-SNAREs (Snc1 and Snc2) confer the docking and fusion of secretory vesicles at the cell surface. As no v-SNARE has been shown to confer endocytosis, we examined whether yeast lacking the SNC genes, or possessing a temperature-sensitive allele of SNC1 (SNC1(ala4...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Gurunathan S,Chapman-Shimshoni D,Trajkovic S,Gerst JE

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) are important players during neurogenesis and neurite outgrowth as well as axonal fasciculation and pathfinding. Some of these developmental processes entail the activation of cellular signaling cascades. Pharmacological and genetic evidence indicates that the neurite outgrowth-pr...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Islam R,Kristiansen LV,Romani S,Garcia-Alonso L,Hortsch M

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase C (PKC) zeta has been implicated in insulin-induced glucose uptake in skeletal muscle cell, although the underlying mechanism remains unknown. In this study, we investigated the effect of PKCzeta on actin remodeling and glucose transport in differentiated rat L6 muscle cells expressing myc-tagged glucos...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Liu LZ,Zhao HL,Zuo J,Ho SK,Chan JC,Meng Y,Fang FD,Tong PC

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell invasion targets specific tissues in physiological placental implantation and pathological metastasis, which raises questions about how this process is controlled. We compare dermis and endometrium capacities to support trophoblast invasion, using matching sets of human primary fibroblasts in a coculture assay wi...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lopez-Mejia IC,De Toledo M,Della Seta F,Fafet P,Rebouissou C,Deleuze V,Blanchard JM,Jorgensen C,Tazi J,Vignais ML

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The target of rapamycin kinase complex 1 (TORC1) regulates cell growth and metabolism in eukaryotes. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, TORC1 activity is known to be controlled by the conserved GTPases, Gtr1/2, and movement into and out of an inactive agglomerate/body. However, it is unclear whether/how these regulatory ste...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Sullivan A,Wallace RL,Wellington R,Luo X,Capaldi AP

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cation-dependent mannose 6-phosphate receptor (CD-MPR) mediates the transport of lysosomal enzymes from the trans-Golgi network to endosomes. Evasion of lysosomal degradation of the CD-MPR requires reversible palmitoylation of a cysteine residue in its cytoplasmic tail. Because palmitoylation is reversible and ess...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Stöckli J,Rohrer J

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unfolded protein response (UPR) monitors and maintains protein homeostasis in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). In budding yeast, the UPR is a transcriptional regulatory pathway that is quiescent under normal conditions. Under conditions of acute ER stress, activation of UPR targets is essential for cell viability. ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Hsu CL,Prasad R,Blackman C,Ng DT

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genome-wide screen of 4168 homozygous diploid yeast deletion strains has been performed to identify nonessential genes that participate in the bipolar budding pattern. By examining bud scar patterns representing the sites of previous cell divisions, 127 mutants representing three different phenotypes were found: uni...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ni L,Snyder M

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For several decades, the trans-Golgi network (TGN) was considered the most distal stop and hence the ultimate protein-sorting station for distinct apical and basolateral transport carriers that reach their respective surface domains in the direct trafficking pathway. However, recent reports of apical and basolateral c...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Treyer A,Pujato M,Pechuan X,Müsch A

更新日期：2016-07-15 00:00:00