Dictyostelium LvsB mutants model the lysosomal defects associated with Chediak-Higashi syndrome.

abstract：:The intermembrane space of mitochondria accommodates the essential mitochondrial intermembrane space assembly (MIA) machinery that catalyzes oxidative folding of proteins. The disulfide bond formation pathway is based on a relay of reactions involving disulfide transfer from the sulfhydryl oxidase Erv1 to Mia40 and fr...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Böttinger L,Gornicka A,Czerwik T,Bragoszewski P,Loniewska-Lwowska A,Schulze-Specking A,Truscott KN,Guiard B,Milenkovic D,Chacinska A

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoplasmic reticulum-localized DnaJ 4 (ERdj4) is an immunoglobulin-binding protein (BiP) cochaperone and component of the endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation (ERAD) pathway that functions to remove unfolded/misfolded substrates from the ER lumen under conditions of ER stress. To elucidate the function of ERd...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Fritz JM,Dong M,Apsley KS,Martin EP,Na CL,Sitaraman S,Weaver TE

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficient activation of p90(rsk) by MAP kinase requires their interaction through a docking site located at the C-terminal end of p90(rsk). The MAP kinase p42(mpk1) can associate with p90(rsk) in G(2)-arrested but not in mature Xenopus oocytes. In contrast, an N-terminally truncated p90(rsk) mutant named D2 consti...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Gavin AC,Ni Ainle A,Chierici E,Jones M,Nebreda AR

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polysomal ribonuclease 1 (PMR1) mRNA endonuclease forms a selective complex with its translating substrate mRNAs where it is activated to initiate mRNA decay. Previous work showed tyrosine phosphorylation is required for PMR1 targeting to this polysome-bound complex, and it identified c-Src as the responsible kina...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Peng Y,Liu X,Schoenberg DR

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In view of the common regulatory mechanism that induces transcription of the mitotic phosphatase cdc25C and cyclin A at the beginning of S-phase, we investigated whether cdc25C was required for S-phase transit. Here, we show that in both nontransformed human fibroblasts and HeLa cells, cdc25C protein levels significan...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Turowski P,Franckhauser C,Morris MC,Vaglio P,Fernandez A,Lamb NJ

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the fact that the chromosomal passenger complex is well known to regulate kinetochore behavior in mitosis, no functional link has yet been established between the complex and kinetochore structure. In addition, remarkably little is known about how the complex targets to centromeres. Here, in a study of caspase...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Faragher AJ,Sun XM,Butterworth M,Harper N,Mulheran M,Ruchaud S,Earnshaw WC,Cohen GM

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is a cytoplasmic tyrosine kinase protein localized to regions called focal adhesions, which are contact points between cells and the extracellular matrix. FAK protein acts as a scaffold to transfer adhesion-dependent and growth factor signals into the cell. Increased FAK expression is linke...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Fonar Y,Gutkovich YE,Root H,Malyarova A,Aamar E,Golubovskaya VM,Elias S,Elkouby YM,Frank D

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Jak tyrosine kinases have a unique domain structure containing a kinase domain (JH1) adjacent to a catalytically inactive pseudokinase domain (JH2). JH2 is crucial for inhibition of basal Jak activity, but the mechanism of this regulation has remained elusive. We show that JH2 negatively regulated Jak2 in bacterial ce...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Saharinen P,Vihinen M,Silvennoinen O

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trafficking through the Golgi apparatus requires members of the Arf family of GTPases, whose activation is regulated by guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs). Once activated, Arf-GTP recruits effectors such as coat complexes and lipid-modifying enzymes to specific membrane sites, creating a domain competent for c...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Niu TK,Pfeifer AC,Lippincott-Schwartz J,Jackson CL

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cdc25, the dual-specificity phosphatase that dephosphorylates the Cdc2-cyclin B complex at mitosis, is highly regulated during the cell cycle. In Xenopus egg extracts, Cdc25 is associated with two isoforms of the 14-3-3 protein. Cdc25 is complexed primarily with 14-3-3epsilon and to a lesser extent with 14-3-3zeta. Th...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kumagai A,Yakowec PS,Dunphy WG

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase D (PLD) has been suggested to mediate epidermal growth factor (EGF) signaling. However, the molecular mechanism of EGF-induced PLD activation has not yet been elucidated. We investigated the importance of the phosphorylation and compartmentalization of PLD1 in EGF signaling. EGF treatment of COS-7 cells ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Han JM,Kim Y,Lee JS,Lee CS,Lee BD,Ohba M,Kuroki T,Suh PG,Ryu SH

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that protein kinase A phosphorylation of t-SNAREs inhibits SNARE assembly and suppresses endo- and exocytosis in yeast. Herein, we show that protein kinase A phosphorylation of the Sso exocytic t-SNAREs promotes the binding of Vsm1, a potential SNARE regulator identified previously in our laboratory. Pho...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Marash M,Gerst JE

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In endothelial cells specifically, cPLA2alpha translocates from the cytoplasm to the Golgi complex in response to cell confluence. Considering the link between confluence and cell-cell junction formation, and the emerging role of cPLA2alpha in intracellular trafficking, we tested whether Golgi-associated cPLA2alpha is...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Regan-Klapisz E,Krouwer V,Langelaar-Makkinje M,Nallan L,Gelb M,Gerritsen H,Verkleij AJ,Post JA

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclins A and E and their partner cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdks) are key regulators of DNA synthesis and of mitosis. Immunofluorescence studies have shown that both cyclins are nuclear and that a proportion of cyclin A is localized to sites of DNA replication. However, recently, both cyclin A and cyclin E have been i...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Jackman M,Kubota Y,den Elzen N,Hagting A,Pines J

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional proteins of complex eukaryotes within the same species are rather invariant. A single catalytic component of telomerase TERT is essential for an active telomerase complex that maintains telomeres. Surprisingly, we have identified two paralogous SpTERT-L and SpTERT-S genes with novel domains in Strongylocent...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Wells TB,Zhang G,Harley Z,Vaziri H

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell shape is regulated by cell adhesion and cytoskeletal and membrane dynamics. Cell shape, adhesion, and motility have a complex relationship and understanding them is important in understanding developmental patterning and embryogenesis. Here we show that the lipid kinase phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase III beta (PI4...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bilodeau P,Jacobsen D,Law-Vinh D,Lee JM

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The secretory pathway along which newly synthesized secretory and membrane proteins traffic through the cell was revealed in two articles published 50 years ago. This discovery was the culmination of decades of effort to unite the power of biochemical and morphological methodologies in order to elucidate the dynamic n...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Matlin KS,Caplan MJ

更新日期：2017-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The early Caenorhabditis elegans embryo contains abundant transcripts for two alpha- and two beta-tubulins, raising the question of whether each isoform performs specialized functions or simply contributes to total tubulin levels. Our identification of two recessive, complementing alleles of a beta-tubulin that disrup...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Wright AJ,Hunter CP

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemoattractants induce neutrophil polarization through localized polymerization of F-actin at the leading edge. The suppression of rear and lateral protrusions is required for efficient chemotaxis and involves the temporal and spatial segregation of signaling molecules. We have previously shown that the intracellular...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Nuzzi PA,Senetar MA,Huttenlocher A

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TPX2 is a Ran-regulated spindle assembly factor that is required for kinetochore fiber formation and activation of the mitotic kinase Aurora A. TPX2 is enriched near spindle poles and is required near kinetochores, suggesting that it undergoes dynamic relocalization throughout mitosis. Using photoactivation, we measur...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ma N,Tulu US,Ferenz NP,Fagerstrom C,Wilde A,Wadsworth P

更新日期：2010-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 97% of mice in which the C-terminal region of connexin43 (Cx43) was removed (designated as Cx43K258stop) die shortly after birth due to a defect of the epidermal barrier. The abnormal expression of Cx43K258stop protein in the uppermost layers of the epidermis seems to perturb terminal differentiation of kera...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Maass K,Ghanem A,Kim JS,Saathoff M,Urschel S,Kirfel G,Grümmer R,Kretz M,Lewalter T,Tiemann K,Winterhager E,Herzog V,Willecke K

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotic cells, nutrient starvation induces the bulk degradation of cellular materials; this process is called autophagy. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, most of the ATG (autophagy) genes are involved in not only the process of degradative autophagy, but also a biosynthetic process, the cytoplasm to vacuol...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kabeya Y,Kamada Y,Baba M,Takikawa H,Sasaki M,Ohsumi Y

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cdc2 kinase activity is required for triggering entry into mitosis in all known eukaryotes. Elaborate mechanisms have evolved for regulating Cdc2 activity so that mitosis occurs in a timely manner, when preparations for its execution are complete. In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Wee1 and a related Mik1 kinase are Cdc2-i...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Campbell SD,Sprenger F,Edgar BA,O'Farrell PH

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During development, coordinated cell shape changes alter tissue shape. In the Drosophila ventral furrow and other epithelia, apical constriction of hundreds of epithelial cells folds the tissue. Genes in the Gα12/13 pathway coordinate collective apical constriction, but the mechanism of coordination is poorly understo...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Xie S,Mason FM,Martin AC

更新日期：2016-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Polypeptides targeted to the yeast endoplasmic reticulum (ER) posttranslationally are thought to be kept in the cytoplasm in an unfolded state by Hsp70 chaperones before translocation. We show here that Escherichia coli beta-lactamase associated with Hsp70, but adopted a native-like conformation before translocation i...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Paunola E,Suntio T,Jämsä E,Makarow M

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This essay records a voyage of discovery from the "cradle of cell biology" to the present, focused on the biology of the oldest known cell organelle, the cilium. In the "romper room" of cilia and microtubule (MT) biology, the sliding MT hypothesis of ciliary motility was born. From the "summer of love," students and c...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Satir P

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamics of endocytic clathrin-coated structures can be remarkably divergent across different cell types, cells within the same culture, or even distinct surfaces of the same cell. The origin of this astounding heterogeneity remains to be elucidated. Here we show that cellular processes associated with changes in effe...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Willy NM,Ferguson JP,Huber SD,Heidotting SP,Aygün E,Wurm SA,Johnston-Halperin E,Poirier MG,Kural C

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A morphogenesis checkpoint in budding yeast delays nuclear division (and subsequent cell cycle progression) in cells that have failed to make a bud. We show that the ability of this checkpoint to delay nuclear division requires the SWE1 gene, encoding a protein kinase that inhibits the master cell cycle regulatory kin...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Sia RA,Herald HA,Lew DJ

更新日期：1996-11-01 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：: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