Ras family GTPases control growth of astrocyte processes.

abstract：:RAM (regulation of Ace2p transcription factor and polarized morphogenesis) is a conserved signaling network that regulates polarized morphogenesis in yeast, worms, flies, and humans. To investigate the role of the RAM network in cell polarity and hyphal morphogenesis of Candida albicans, each of the C. albicans RAM ge...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Song Y,Cheon SA,Lee KE,Lee SY,Lee BK,Oh DB,Kang HA,Kim JY

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multisite phosphorylation of proteins is a powerful signal processing mechanism that plays crucial roles in cell division and differentiation as well as in disease. We recently demonstrated a novel phenomenon in cell cycle regulation by showing that cyclin-dependent kinase-dependent multisite phosphorylation of a cruc...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Valk E,Venta R,Ord M,Faustova I,Kõivomägi M,Loog M

更新日期：2014-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the uncloned ODA genes required for outer dynein arm assembly in Chlamydomonas, ODA5 and ODA10 are of particular interest because they do not encode known subunits of the outer arm or the outer dynein arm-docking complex (ODA-DC), and because genetic studies suggest their products interact. Beginning with a tagged ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Wirschell M,Pazour G,Yoda A,Hirono M,Kamiya R,Witman GB

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many biological systems respond to environmental changes by activating intracellular signaling cascades, resulting in an appropriate response. One such system is represented by the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. When food sources become scarce, these unicellular cells can initiate a cAMP-driven multicellular ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Vinet AF,Fiedler T,Studer V,Froquet R,Dardel A,Cosson P,Pieters J

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein enzyme that counteracts replicative telomere erosion by adding telomeric sequence repeats onto chromosome ends. Despite its well-established role in telomere synthesis, telomerase has not yet been detected at telomeres. The RNA component of human telomerase (hTR) resides in the nucleo...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Jády BE,Richard P,Bertrand E,Kiss T

更新日期：2006-02-01 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：:Human HT2-19 cells with a conditional cdk1 mutation stop dividing upon cdk1 inactivation and undergo multiple rounds of endoreplication. We show herein that major cell cycle events remain synchronized in these endoreplicating cells. DNA replication alternates with gap phases and cell cycle-specific cyclin E expression...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Laronne A,Rotkopf S,Hellman A,Gruenbaum Y,Porter AC,Brandeis M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell cycle, a 19th century discovery of cytologists, only achieved a satisfactory biochemical explanation in the last 20 years of the 20th century. This personal retrospective focuses on how biochemical studies of the frog egg helped identify the cyclin-based mitotic oscillator and how this approach quickly merged...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kirschner M

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cdc42-associated tyrosine kinase 1 (ACK1) is a specific down-stream effector of Cdc42, a Rho family small G-protein. Previous studies have shown that ACK1 interacts with clathrin heavy chain and is involved in clathrin-coated vesicle endocytosis. Here we report that ACK1 interacted with epidermal growth factor recepto...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Shen F,Lin Q,Gu Y,Childress C,Yang W

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylinositol transfer proteins (PITPs) regulate the interface between lipid metabolism and specific steps in membrane trafficking through the secretory pathway in eukaryotes. Herein, we describe the cis-acting information that controls PITPbeta localization in mammalian cells. We demonstrate PITPbeta localizes...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Phillips SE,Ile KE,Boukhelifa M,Huijbregts RP,Bankaitis VA

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromosomal passenger complex (CPC) regulates various events in cell division. This complex is composed of a catalytic subunit, Aurora B kinase, and three nonenzymatic subunits, INCENP, Survivin, and Borealin. Together, these four subunits interdependently regulate CPC function, and they are highly conserved among...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bohnert KA,Chen JS,Clifford DM,Vander Kooi CW,Gould KL

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling pathways control many developmental and homeostatic processes, including cell size and extracellular matrix remodeling. An understanding of how this pathway itself is controlled remains incomplete. To identify novel regulators of BMP signaling, we performed a forward genetic ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lakdawala MF,Madhu B,Faure L,Vora M,Padgett RW,Gumienny TL

更新日期：2019-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase assembles in the inner membrane from subunits of dual genetic origin. The assembly process of the enzyme is initiated by membrane insertion of the mitochondria-encoded Cox1 subunit. During complex maturation, transient assembly intermediates, consisting of structural subunits and...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bareth B,Nikolov M,Lorenzi I,Hildenbeutel M,Mick DU,Helbig C,Urlaub H,Ott M,Rehling P,Dennerlein S

更新日期：2016-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta) can be tumor suppressive, but it can also enhance tumor progression by stimulating the complex process of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transdifferentiaion (EMT). The signaling pathway(s) that regulate EMT in response to TGF-beta are not well understood. We demonstrate the acqui...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bhowmick NA,Ghiassi M,Bakin A,Aakre M,Lundquist CA,Engel ME,Arteaga CL,Moses HL

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although evasion of apoptosis is thought to be required for the development of cancer, it is unclear which cell death pathways are evaded. We previously identified a novel epithelial cell death pathway that works in normal cells but is inactivated in tumor cells, implying that it may be targeted during tumor developme...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Thorburn J,Moore F,Rao A,Barclay WW,Thomas LR,Grant KW,Cramer SD,Thorburn A

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mathematical modeling has been instrumental in identifying common principles of cell polarity across diverse systems. These principles include positive feedback loops that are required to destabilize a spatially uniform state of the cell. The conserved small G-protein Cdc42 is a master regulator of eukaryotic cellular...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Goryachev AB,Leda M

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttranslationally modified forms of tubulin accumulate in the subset of stabilized microtubules (MTs) in cells but are not themselves involved in generating MT stability. We showed previously that stabilized, detyrosinated (Glu) MTs function to localize vimentin intermediate filaments (IFs) in fibroblasts. To determ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kreitzer G,Liao G,Gundersen GG

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast DASH complex is a heterodecameric component of the kinetochore necessary for accurate chromosome segregation. DASH forms closed rings around microtubules with a large gap between the DASH ring and the microtubule cylinder. We characterized the microtubule-binding properties of limited proteolysis products an...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Miranda JJ,King DS,Harrison SC

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified and characterized sorb-1, the only sorbin and SH3 domain-containing protein family member in Caenorhabditis elegans SORB-1 is strongly localized to integrin adhesion complexes in larvae and adults, including adhesion plaques and dense bodies (Z-disks) of striated muscles and attachment plaques of sm...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Loveless T,Qadota H,Benian GM,Hardin J

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermolysis bullosa simplex associated with late-onset muscular dystrophy (EBS-MD) is an autosomal recessive disorder resulting from mutations in the plectin gene. The majority of these mutations occur within the large exon 31 encoding the central rod domain and leave the production of a low-level rodless plectin sp...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ketema M,Secades P,Kreft M,Nahidiazar L,Janssen H,Jalink K,de Pereda JM,Sonnenberg A

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported that SMAP1, a GTPase-activating protein (GAP) for Arf6, directly interacts with clathrin and regulates the clathrin-dependent endocytosis of transferrin receptors from the plasma membrane. Here, we identified a SMAP1 homologue that we named SMAP2. Like SMAP1, SMAP2 exhibits GAP activity and intera...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Natsume W,Tanabe K,Kon S,Yoshida N,Watanabe T,Torii T,Satake M

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here that Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiologic agent of Chagas disease, possesses two unique paralogues of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter complex TcMCU subunit that we named TcMCUc and TcMCUd. The predicted structure of the proteins indicates that, as predicted for the TcMCU and TcMCUb paralogues, they are ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Chiurillo MA,Lander N,Bertolini MS,Vercesi AE,Docampo R

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although some of the principles of N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptor (SNARE) function are well understood, remarkably little detail is known about sec1/munc18 (SM) protein function and its relationship to SNAREs. Popular models of SM protein function hold that these proteins promote or main...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Williams AL,Ehm S,Jacobson NC,Xu D,Hay JC

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel selection scheme has been developed to isolate bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma brucei, which are defective in their ability to differentiate to the procyclic stage. Detailed characterization of one selected cell line (defective in differentiation clone 1 [DiD-1]) has demonstrated that these cells are indistin...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Tasker M,Wilson J,Sarkar M,Hendriks E,Matthews K

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroids and growth factors control neuronal development through their receptors under physiological and pathological conditions. We show that PC12 cells harbor endogenous androgen receptor (AR), whose inhibition or silencing strongly interferes with neuritogenesis stimulated by the nonaromatizable synthetic androgen ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Di Donato M,Bilancio A,D'Amato L,Claudiani P,Oliviero MA,Barone MV,Auricchio A,Appella E,Migliaccio A,Auricchio F,Castoria G

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The septins are a family of homologous proteins that were originally identified in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, where they are associated with the "neck filaments" and are involved in cytokinesis and other aspects of the organization of the cell surface. We report here the identification of Sep1, a Drosophila melanogaste...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Fares H,Peifer M,Pringle JR

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast that naturally exhaust the glucose from their environment differentiate into three distinct cell types distinguishable by flow cytometry. Among these is a quiescent (Q) population, which is so named because of its uniform but readily reversed G1 arrest, its fortified cell walls, heat tolerance, and longevity. Da...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Li L,Miles S,Melville Z,Prasad A,Bradley G,Breeden LL

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) is facilitated by a precisely regulated burst of actin assembly. PtdIns(4,5)P2 is an important signaling lipid with conserved roles in CME and actin assembly regulation. Rhomboid family multipass transmembrane proteins regulate diverse cellular processes; however, rhomboid-mediated ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Cortesio CL,Lewellyn EB,Drubin DG

更新日期：2015-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptor-tyrosine kinase (RTK)/Ras/Raf pathway is an essential cascade for mediating growth factor signaling. It is abnormally overactive in almost all human cancers. The downstream targets of the pathway are members of the extracellular regulated kinases (Erk1/2) family, suggesting that this family is a mediator ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Smorodinsky-Atias K,Goshen-Lago T,Goldberg-Carp A,Melamed D,Shir A,Mooshayef N,Beenstock J,Karamansha Y,Darlyuk-Saadon I,Livnah O,Ahn NG,Admon A,Engelberg D

更新日期：2016-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A well-established function of centrosomes is their role in accomplishing a successful mitosis that gives rise to a pair of identical daughter cells. We recently showed that DNA replication defects and DNA damage in Drosophila embryos trigger centrosomal changes, but it remained unclear whether comparable centrosomal ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Hut HM,Lemstra W,Blaauw EH,Van Cappellen GW,Kampinga HH,Sibon OC

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00