Abstract：
:We have generated novel lentiviral vectors to integrate various connexin cDNAs into primary, non-dividing cells. We have used these vectors to test whether proper control of insulin secretion depends on a specific connexin isoform and/or on its level of expression. We have observed that transduced connexin32, connexin36 and connexin43 were expressed by primary adult beta-cells at membrane interfaces, were packed into typical gap junction plaques and formed functional channels that allowed a variable coupling, depending on the type and level of connexin expressed. The infected cells spontaneously reaggregated into three-dimensional pseudo-islet organs that could be maintained in culture. We have found that pseudo-islets made by cells transduced with either GFP- or connexin43-expressing lentivirus released insulin in response to various secretagogues similarly to controls. By contrast, pseudo-islets made by cells expressing connexin32, a connexin exogenous to pancreatic islets, or over-expressing connexin36, the endogenous islet connexin, featured a marked decrease in the secretory response to glucose. The data show: (1) that lentiviral vectors allow stable modulation of various connexin in primary, non-proliferating cells; (2) that specific connexin isoforms affect insulin secretion differently; and (3) that adequate levels of coupling via connexin36 channels are required for proper beta-cell function.
journal_name
J Cell Scijournal_title
Journal of cell scienceauthors
Caton D,Calabrese A,Mas C,Serre-Beinier V,Charollais A,Caille D,Zufferey R,Trono D,Meda Pdoi
10.1242/jcs.00442keywords:
subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2003-06-01 00:00:00pages
2285-94issue
Pt 11eissn
0021-9533issn
1477-9137pii
jcs.00442journal_volume
116pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:Development of the nematocyst-taeniocyst complex in the four-zooid stage of a dinoflagellate, Polykrikos kofoidi, was studied by electron microscopy. We observed the following stages: formation of large spherical bodies in islets of cytoplasm containing extensive rough endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi complexes; differ...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Protein-protein interaction is often investigated using quantitative molecular microscopy with Förster resonant energy transfer (FRET). Here, we combined 'linear unmixing FRET' (lux-FRET) with the simultaneous application of a FRET-based biosensor for cAMP to investigate the oligomerization between the 5-HT7 receptor ...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1242/jcs.230334
更新日期：2019-08-23 00:00:00
abstract：:The specific phosphatase inhibitor okadaic acid (OA) induced fragmentation of the Golgi apparatus in interphase HeLa cells. Immunoelectron microscopy for galactosyltransferase identified a major Golgi fragment composed of a cluster of vesicles and tubules that was morphologically indistinguishable from the 'Golgi clus...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) ligands undergo a complex series of processing events during their maturation to active signaling proteins. Like its mammalian homologs, the predominant Drosophila EGFR ligand Spitz is produced as a transmembrane pro-protein. In the secretory pathway, Spitz is cleaved within its...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1242/jcs.131169
更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The Arabidopsis thaliana ASY1 gene is essential for homologous chromosome synapsis. Antibodies specific to Asy1 protein and its homologue BoAsy1 from the related crop species Brassica oleracea have been used to investigate the temporal expression and localization of the protein in both species. Asy1 is initially detec...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1242/jcs.00048
更新日期：2002-09-15 00:00:00
abstract：:Freeze-fracture of fixed and unfixed tissue, lanthanum tracer and conventional thin-section studies have revealed 2 new types of septate junction in the class Anthozoa, phylum Coelenterata. These new junctions have the 15-18-nm intercellular spacing of all other described septate junctions and are found around the api...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Two variants (74AD and 74FL) established from rat ascites hepatoma AH7974 were examined for the production of glycosaminoglycans in culture. There was no difference between the adhesive (74AD) and the floating (74FL) variants in quantity of glycosaminoglycans produced by their cultivation in minimum essential medium s...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Microinjection of a bacterially expressed, TRITC labelled fragment of the centrosome-associated protein CP190 of Drosophila melanogaster, into syncytial Drosophila embryos, shows it to associate with the centrosomes during mitosis, and to relocate to chromatin during interphase. Indirect immunofluorescence staining of...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We have isolated a fourth myosin gene (MYO4) in yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). MYO4 encodes a approximately 170 kDa (1471 amino acid) class V myosin, using the classification devised by Cheney et al. (1993a; Cell Motil. Cytoskel. 24, 215-223); the motor domain is followed by a neck region containing six putative ca...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The interaction of the non-receptor tyrosine kinase, Src, with the cytoskeleton of adhesion sites was studied in nerve growth cones isolated from fetal rat brain. Of particular interest was the role of protein tyrosine phosphatases in the regulation of Src-cytoskeleton binding. Growth cones were found to contain a hig...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Interaction of the Eph family of receptor protein tyrosine kinases and their ligands, ephrin family members, induces bi-directional signaling via cell-cell contacts. High expression of B-type ephrin is associated with high invasion potential of tumors, however, the mechanism by which ephrin-B promotes cancer cell inva...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1242/jcs.008607
更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Syntaxin 1C (STX1C), produced by alternative splicing of the stx1A gene, is a soluble syntaxin lacking a SNARE domain and a transmembrane domain. It is unclear how soluble syntaxin can control intracellular membrane trafficking. We found that STX1C affected microtubule (MT) dynamics through its tubulin-binding domain ...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1242/jcs.081943
更新日期：2012-02-15 00:00:00
abstract：:Mitosis involves considerable membrane remodelling and vesicular trafficking to generate two independent cells. Consequently, endocytosis and endocytic proteins are required for efficient mitotic progression and completion. Several endocytic proteins also participate in mitosis in an endocytosis-independent manner. He...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1242/jcs.105981
更新日期：2012-09-15 00:00:00
abstract：:Putative protein synthesizing domains, called plaques, are characterized in the squid giant synapse and axon and in terminals of squid photoreceptor neurons. Plaques are oval-shaped formations of about 1 microm in size, which (1) generate signals that have spectroscopic electron energy loss characteristics of ribosome...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The function of microtubules depends on their arrangement into highly ordered arrays. Spatio-temporal control over the formation of new microtubules and regulation of their properties are central to the organization of these arrays. The nucleation of new microtubules requires γ-tubulin, an essential protein that assem...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1242/jcs.106971
更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We have used cell-surface-specific labelling techniques and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis to identify proteins on embryonic chick neural retina cells and to determine the effects of Ca2+ on their accessibility to labelling and tryptic removal. A number of proteins on these cells are, in the presence of Ca2+, rel...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The lepidopteran-specific P1 delta-endotoxin of Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki HD-1 was activated in vitro using insect gut proteases and found to be highly specific for the lepidopteran cell line Choristoneura fumiferana CF1 among a wide range of lepidopteran and dipteran cell lines tested. The toxicity of P1 a...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Experimentally introduced tension on kinetochores and their centromeres has been shown to stabilize kinetochore attachment to microtubules, modify kinetochore directional instability, and regulate cell-cycle progression into anaphase. In mitosis, kinetochore tension and the stretch of centromere chromatin are produced...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Mammalian homologs of the Drosophila TRP protein have been shown to form cation-permeable channels in the plasma membrane but very little is known about the mechanisms that control their cell surface localization. Recently it has been demonstrated that the last three C-terminal amino acids (TRL) of TRPC4 comprise a PD...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Actin filaments assemble into diverse protrusive and contractile structures to provide force for a number of vital cellular processes. Stress fibers are contractile actomyosin bundles found in many cultured non-muscle cells, where they have a central role in cell adhesion and morphogenesis. Focal-adhesion-anchored str...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1242/jcs.098087
更新日期：2012-04-15 00:00:00
abstract：:The human adenocarcinoma cell line Caco-2 was used for studies on the biosynthesis and transport of lysosomal acid alpha-glucosidase in polarized epithelial cells. Metabolic labelling revealed that in Caco-2 cells alpha-glucosidase is synthesized as a precursor form of 110 x 10(3) Mr. This form is converted into a pre...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:It is now becoming clear that additional transmembrane components can modify integrin-mediated adhesion. Syndecan-4 is a transmembrane heparan sulfate proteoglycan whose external glycosaminoglycan chains can bind extracellular matrix ligands and whose core protein cytoplasmic domain can signal during adhesion. Two pap...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 评论,杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Epitectin, the mucin-like glycoprotein defined by the monoclonal antibodies CA1, CA2 and CA3, has been examined by electron microscopy to determine its shape and size. It appears to be a single extended strand with a mean length of about 270 nm. The antibodies CA1 and CA2 appear to bind preferentially to a terminal si...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Protrusion formation is the first step that precedes cell movement of motile cells. Spatial control of actin polymerization is necessary to achieve directional protrusion during cell migration. Here we show that the spatial coordinators p190RhoGEF and p190RhoGAP regulate actin polymerization during leading edge protru...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1242/jcs.123547
更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Alix is a cytosolic protein in mammalian cells that was originally identified on the basis of its association with pro-apoptotic signaling. More recent evidence has established that Alix has a hand in regulating other cellular mechanisms, including endocytic membrane trafficking and cell adhesion. Although Alix appear...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1242/jcs.03072
更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The role of inhibition of prelamin A processing in the inhibition of DNA synthesis by lovastatin was examined by expressing prelamin A in F9 teratocarcinoma cells. These cells, normally lacking expression of the A/C lamins, were transfected with constructs expressing either prelamin A or mature lamin A and the effect ...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The myosin regulatory light chain (RLC) of Dictyostelium discoideum is phosphorylated at a single serine site in response to chemoattractant. To investigate the role of the phosphorylation of RLC in both motility and chemotaxis, mutants were generated in which the single phosphorylatable serine was replaced with a non...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2002-04-15 00:00:00
abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced by the NADPH oxidase (NOX) complex play important physiological and pathological roles in neurotransmission and neurodegeneration, respectively. However, the contribution of ROS to the molecular mechanisms involved in neuronal polarity and axon elongation is not well understood. ...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1242/jcs.168567
更新日期：2015-08-15 00:00:00
abstract：:Mechanical stimulation affects many biological aspects in living cells through mechanotransduction. In myogenic precursor cells (MPCs), mechanical stimulation activates p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), a key regulator of myogenesis, via activating TNFα-converting enzyme (TACE, also known as ADAM17), to rel...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1242/jcs.125328
更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:An intriguing question in cell biology is what targets proteins to, and regulates their translocation between, specific cellular locations. Here we report that the polybasic nuclear localization sequence (NLS) required for nuclear entry of the adapter protein and candidate human obesity gene product SH2B1β, also local...
journal_title：Journal of cell science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1242/jcs.078949
更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00
