The DNA helicase activity of BLM is necessary for the correction of the genomic instability of bloom syndrome cells.

abstract：:Microtubules (MTs) are cytoskeletal polymers composed of repeating subunits of tubulin that are ubiquitously expressed in eukaryotic cells. They undergo a stochastic process of polymerization and depolymerization from their plus ends termed dynamic instability. MT dynamics is an ongoing process in all cell types and h...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Dent EW

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of Rho GTPase signaling is critical for cell shape determination and polarity. Here, we investigated the role of LRG1, a novel member of the GTPase-activating proteins (GAPs) of Neurospora crassa. LRG1 is essential for apical tip extension and to restrict excessive branch formation in subapical regions of t...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Vogt N,Seiler S

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zonula occludens (ZO)-1/2/3 are the members of the TJ-MAGUK family of membrane-associated guanylate kinases associated with tight junctions. To investigate the role of ZO-1 (encoded by Tjp1) in vivo, ZO-1 knockout (Tjp1(-/-)) mice were generated by gene targeting. Although heterozygous mice showed normal development a...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Katsuno T,Umeda K,Matsui T,Hata M,Tamura A,Itoh M,Takeuchi K,Fujimori T,Nabeshima Y,Noda T,Tsukita S,Tsukita S

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assembly of metazoan Sm-class small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) is an elaborate, step-wise process that takes place in multiple subcellular compartments. The initial steps, including formation of the core RNP, are mediated by the survival motor neuron (SMN) protein complex. Loss-of-function mutations in hu...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Shpargel KB,Praveen K,Rajendra TK,Matera AG

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast Smf1p Nramp manganese transporter is posttranslationally regulated by environmental manganese. Smf1p is stabilized at the cell surface with manganese starvation, but is largely degraded in the vacuole with physiological manganese through a mechanism involving the Rsp5p adaptor complex Bsd2p/Tre1p/Tre2p. We n...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Jensen LT,Carroll MC,Hall MD,Harvey CJ,Beese SE,Culotta VC

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How recycling receptors are segregated from down-regulated receptors in the endosome is unknown. In previous studies, we demonstrated that substitutions in the transferrin receptor (TR) transmembrane domain (TM) convert the protein from an efficiently recycling receptor to one that is rapidly down regulated. In this s...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Zaliauskiene L,Kang S,Brouillette CG,Lebowitz J,Arani RB,Collawn JF

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 260-kDa heterodimeric Gal/GalNAc-specific Lectin (Gal-lectin) of Entamoeba histolytica dissociates under reducing conditions into a heavy (hgl, 170 kDa) and a light subunit (lgl, 35 kDa). We have previously shown that inhibition of expression of the 35-kDa subunit by antisense RNA causes a decrease in virulence. T...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Katz U,Ankri S,Stolarsky T,Nuchamowitz Y,Mirelman D

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein degradation during the cell cycle is controlled by the opposing activities of ubiquitin ligases and deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs). Although the functions of ubiquitin ligases in the cell cycle have been studied extensively, the roles of DUBs in this process are less well understood. Here, we used an overexpr...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Mapa CE,Arsenault HE,Conti MM,Poti KE,Benanti JA

更新日期：2018-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The architecture of the cytoskeleton and its remodeling are tightly regulated by dynamic reorganization of keratin-rich intermediate filaments. Plakin family proteins associate with the network of intermediate filaments (IFs) and affect its reorganization during migration, differentiation, and response to stress. The ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Gujrati M,Mittal R,Ekal L,Mishra RK

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila tumor suppressor protein lethal (2) giant larvae [l(2)gl] is involved in the establishment of epithelial cell polarity during development. Recently, a yeast homolog of the protein has been shown to interact with components of the post-Golgi exocytic machinery and to regulate a late step in protein secre...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Müsch A,Cohen D,Yeaman C,Nelson WJ,Rodriguez-Boulan E,Brennwald PJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starvation induces Dictyostelium amoebae to secrete cAMP, toward which other amoebae stream, forming multicellular mounds that differentiate and develop into fruiting bodies containing spores. We find that the double deletion of cortexillin (ctx) I and II alters the actin cytoskeleton and substantially inhibits all mo...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Shu S,Liu X,Kriebel PW,Daniels MP,Korn ED

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We provide guidelines for using statistical methods to analyze the types of experiments reported in cellular and molecular biology journals such as Molecular Biology of the Cell. Our aim is to help experimentalists use these methods skillfully, avoid mistakes, and extract the maximum amount of information from their l...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Pollard DA,Pollard TD,Pollard KS

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I am extremely honored to be the recipient of the 2015 Women in Cell Biology Junior Award. When I reflect on my journey in science, many great people and memorable experiences come to mind. Some of these encounters were truly career-defining moments. Others provided priceless lessons. In this essay, I recount some of ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Serpe M

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that a physiological role of the extensively studied cisternal Golgi rab protein, rab6, is modulation of Golgi apparatus response to stress. Taking exposure of cells to hypotonic media as the best-known example of mammalian Golgi stress response, we found that hypotonic-induced tubule extension from the Golgi ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Jiang S,Storrie B

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-grade gliomas are especially difficult tumors to treat due to their invasive behavior. This has led to extensive research focusing on arresting glioma cell migration. Cell migration involves the sensing of a migratory cue, followed by polarization in the direction of the cue, and reorganization of the actin cytos...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Mair DB,Ames HM,Li R

更新日期：2018-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic cells eliminate misfolded proteins from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) via a conserved process termed ER-associated degradation (ERAD). Central regulators of the ERAD system are membrane-bound ubiquitin ligases, which are thought to channel misfolded proteins through the ER membrane during retrotranslocatio...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Zhang T,Xu Y,Liu Y,Ye Y

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast epithelial cells cultured in three-dimensional (3D) collagen gels undergo ductal morphogenesis when the gel is compliant and they can achieve tensional homeostasis. We previously showed that this process requires down-regulation of Rho in compliant collagen gels, but the mechanism remains undefined. In this stu...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ponik SM,Trier SM,Wozniak MA,Eliceiri KW,Keely PJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation and polarization of epithelial cells depends on the formation of the apical junctional complex (AJC), which is composed of the tight junction (TJ) and the adherens junction (AJ). In this study, we investigated mechanisms of actin reorganization that drive the establishment of AJC. Using a calcium switc...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ivanov AI,Hunt D,Utech M,Nusrat A,Parkos CA

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian mitochondrial ribosomes contain two prokaryotic-like rRNAs, 12S and 16S, both encoded by mitochondrial DNA. As opposed to cytosolic ribosomes, however, these ribosomes are not thought to contain 5S rRNA. For this reason, it has been unclear whether 5S rRNA, which can be detected in mitochondrial preparations...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Magalhães PJ,Andreu AL,Schon EA

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The demand for phenomics, a high-dimensional and high-throughput phenotyping method, has been increasing in many fields of biology. The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a unicellular model organism, provides an invaluable system for dissecting complex cellular processes using high-resolution phenotyping. Moreov...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ohya Y,Kimori Y,Okada H,Ohnuki S

更新日期：2015-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocytosis modulates EGFR function by compartmentalizing and attenuating or enhancing its ligand-induced signaling. Here we show that it can also control the cell surface versus intracellular distribution of empty/inactive EGFR. Our previous observation that PKA inhibitors induce EGFR internalization prompted us to t...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Norambuena A,Metz C,Jung JE,Silva A,Otero C,Cancino J,Retamal C,Valenzuela JC,Soza A,González A

更新日期：2010-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two widely used hepatoma cell lines, mouse BW1J and human HepG2, express gene products characteristic of fetal hepatocytes, including serum albumin, whereas reporter genes driven by the albumin promoter are expressed at very low levels compared with highly differentiated hepatoma cells. We have investigated the low al...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Rollier A,DiPersio CM,Cereghini S,Stevens K,Tronche F,Zaret K,Weiss MC

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation-inducing factor-1 (DIF-1) is a polyketide that induces Dictyostelium amoebae to differentiate as prestalk cells. We performed a global quantitative screen for phosphorylation changes that occur within the first minutes after addition of DIF-1, using a triple-label SILAC approach. This revealed a new wo...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Sugden C,Urbaniak MD,Araki T,Williams JG

更新日期：2015-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis plays a key role in many pathways inside the cell and is particularly important in regulating cell cycle transitions. SCF (Skp1/Cul1/F-box protein) complexes are modular ubiquitin ligases whose specificity is determined by a substrate-binding F-box protein. Dia2 is a Saccharomyces cerevi...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Koepp DM,Kile AC,Swaminathan S,Rodriguez-Rivera V

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this essay I describe my personal journey from reductionist to systems cell biology and describe how this in turn led to a 3-year sea voyage to explore complex ocean communities. In describing this journey, I hope to convey some important principles that I gleaned along the way. I realized that cellular functions e...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Karsenti E

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the high-osmolarity glycerol (HOG) pathway for osmoregulation in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae involves interaction of the adaptor Ste50p with the cytoplasmic tail of single-transmembrane protein Opy2p. We have determined the solution structure of the Ste50p-RA (Ras association) domain, and it shows...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ekiel I,Sulea T,Jansen G,Kowalik M,Minailiuc O,Cheng J,Harcus D,Cygler M,Whiteway M,Wu C

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis results from mutations in the cystic fibrosis conductance regulator protein (CFTR), a cAMP/protein kinase A (PKA) and ATP-regulated Cl(-) channel. CFTR is increasingly recognized as a component of multiprotein complexes and although several inhibitory proteins to CFTR have been identified, protein comp...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Borthwick LA,McGaw J,Conner G,Taylor CJ,Gerke V,Mehta A,Robson L,Muimo R

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast TGN resident proteins that frequently cycle between the TGN and endosomes are much more slowly transported to the prevacuolar/late endosomal compartment (PVC) than other proteins. However, TGN protein transport to the PVC is accelerated in mutants lacking function of Inp53p. Inp53p contains a SacI polyphosphoino...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ha SA,Torabinejad J,DeWald DB,Wenk MR,Lucast L,De Camilli P,Newitt RA,Aebersold R,Nothwehr SF

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) receptor oligomerization has important roles in signaling. Complex formation among type I and type II (TβRI and TβRII) TGF-β receptors is well characterized and is essential for signal transduction. However, studies on their interactions with the type III TGF-β coreceptor (TβRIII) ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Tazat K,Hector-Greene M,Blobe GC,Henis YI

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 2008, the autophagy community has periodically published a set of guidelines, currently titled "Guidelines for the Use and Interpretation of Assays for Monitoring Autophagy." The newest version of the guidelines was published in 2016. There are many reasons for establishing a set of guidelines in a given researc...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Klionsky DJ

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00