Dual prenylation is required for Rab protein localization and function.

abstract：:The retinoblastoma (RB) transcriptional corepressor and related family of pocket proteins play central roles in cell cycle control and development, and the regulatory networks governed by these factors are frequently inactivated during tumorigenesis. During normal growth, these proteins are subject to tight control th...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Acharya P,Raj N,Buckley MS,Zhang L,Duperon S,Williams G,Henry RW,Arnosti DN

更新日期：2010-11-15 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：:Polarized cell growth requires the coupling of a defined spatial site on the cell cortex to the apparatus that directs the establishment of cell polarity. In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the Ras-family GTPase Rsr1p/Bud1p and its regulators select the proper site for bud emergence on the cell cortex. The...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kozminski KG,Beven L,Angerman E,Tong AH,Boone C,Park HO

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported the identification of a novel nuclear compartment detectable in heat-shocked HeLa cells that we termed stress-induced Src-activated during mitosis nuclear body (SNB). This structure is the recruitment center for heat shock factor 1 and for a number of RNA processing factors, among a subset of Se...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Denegri M,Moralli D,Rocchi M,Biggiogera M,Raimondi E,Cobianchi F,De Carli L,Riva S,Biamonti G

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinesin-8 motor proteins destabilize microtubules. Their absence during cell division is associated with disorganized mitotic chromosome movements and chromosome loss. Despite recent work studying effects of kinesin-8s on microtubule dynamics, it remains unclear whether the kinesin-8 mitotic phenotypes are consequence...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Gergely ZR,Crapo A,Hough LE,McIntosh JR,Betterton MD

更新日期：2016-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Hsc70 with its cochaperone, either auxilin or GAK, not only uncoats clathrin-coated vesicles but also acts as a chaperone during clathrin-mediated endocytosis. However, because synaptojanin is also involved in uncoating, it is not clear whether GAK is an essential gene. To answer this question, GAK conditional knockou...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lee DW,Zhao X,Yim YI,Eisenberg E,Greene LE

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleosome positioning is important for the structural integrity of chromosomes. During metaphase the mitotic spindle exerts physical force on pericentromeric chromatin. The cell must adjust the pericentromeric chromatin to accommodate the changing tension resulting from microtubule dynamics to maintain a stable metap...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Verdaasdonk JS,Gardner R,Stephens AD,Yeh E,Bloom K

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammalian cells, the inheritance of the Golgi apparatus into the daughter cells during each cycle of cell division is mediated by a disassembly and reassembly process, and this process is precisely controlled by phosphorylation and ubiquitination. VCIP135 (valosin-containing protein p97/p47 complex-interacting prot...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Zhang X,Wang Y

更新日期：2015-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Saccharomyces cerevisiae a-factor receptor (Ste3p) requires its C-terminal cytoplasmic tail for endocytosis. Wild-type receptor is delivered to the cell surface via the secretory pathway but remains there only briefly before being internalized and delivered to the vacuole for degradation. Receptors lacking all or ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Givan SA,Sprague GF Jr

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoprotein gp130, found on the plasma membrane of Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae, was postulated previously to play a role in phagocytosis. The gene for gp130 was cloned and when translated, yielded a 768 amino acid preproprotein of 85.3 kDa. It had nearly 40% similarity to the 138 kDa family of glycoproteins impl...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Chia CP,Gomathinayagam S,Schmaltz RJ,Smoyer LK

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) triggers multiple signaling pathways and rapid endocytosis of the epidermal growth factor (EGF)-receptor complexes. To directly visualize the compartmentalization of molecules involved in the major signaling cascade, activation of Ras GTPase, we constructed fus...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Jiang X,Sorkin A

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, cytokinesis requires the assembly and constriction of an actomyosin-based contractile ring (CR). A single essential formin, Cdc12, localizes to the cell middle upon mitotic onset and nucleates the F-actin of the CR. Cdc12 medial recruitment is mediated in part by its direct binding to the...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Willet AH,Bohnert KA,Gould KL

更新日期：2018-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The mannose 6-phosphate (Man-6-P) lysosomal targeting signal on acid hydrolases is synthesized by the sequential action of uridine 5'-diphosphate-N-acetylglucosamine: lysosomal enzyme N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphotransferase (GlcNAc-1-phosphotransferase) and GlcNAc-1-phosphodiester alpha-N-acetylglucosaminidase ("unco...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Boonen M,Vogel P,Platt KA,Dahms N,Kornfeld S

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：:Prostaglandins (PGs)--lipid signals produced downstream of cyclooxygenase (COX) enzymes--regulate actin dynamics in cell culture and platelets, but their roles during development are largely unknown. Here we define a new role for Pxt, the Drosophila COX-like enzyme, in regulating the actin cytoskeleton--temporal restr...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Spracklen AJ,Kelpsch DJ,Chen X,Spracklen CN,Tootle TL

更新日期：2014-02-01 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：:Cellular differentiation and lineage commitment are considered to be robust and irreversible processes during development. Recent work has shown that mouse and human fibroblasts can be reprogrammed to a pluripotent state with a combination of four transcription factors. We hypothesized that combinatorial expression of...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ishii R,Kami D,Toyoda M,Makino H,Gojo S,Ishii T,Umezawa A

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outer dynein arms (ODAs) are multiprotein complexes that drive flagellar beating. Based on genetic and biochemical analyses, ODAs preassemble in the cell body and then move into the flagellum by intraflagellar transport (IFT). To study ODA transport in vivo, we expressed the essential intermediate chain 2 tagged with ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Dai J,Barbieri F,Mitchell DR,Lechtreck KF

更新日期：2018-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Both sporadic and familial Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients exhibit increased chromosome aneuploidy, particularly trisomy 21, in neurons and other cells. Significantly, trisomy 21/Down syndrome patients develop early onset AD pathology. We investigated the mechanism underlying mosaic chromosome aneuploidy in AD and r...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Granic A,Padmanabhan J,Norden M,Potter H

更新日期：2010-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously characterized major components of mitotic chromosomes assembled in Xenopus laevis egg extracts and collectively referred to them as Xenopus chromosome-associated polypeptides (XCAPs). They included five subunits of the condensin complex essential for chromosome condensation. In an effort to identify nove...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： MacCallum DE,Losada A,Kobayashi R,Hirano T

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endomitosis is a special type of mitosis in which only cytokinesis-the final step of the cell division cycle-is defective, resulting in polyploid cells. Although endomitosis is biologically important, its regulatory aspects remain elusive. Psychosine, a lysogalactosylceramide, prevents proper cytokinesis when suppleme...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Watanabe H,Okahara K,Naito-Matsui Y,Abe M,Go S,Inokuchi J,Okazaki T,Kobayashi T,Kozutsumi Y,Oka S,Takematsu H

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LLCPK-1 cells were transfected with a green fluorescent protein (GFP)-alpha tubulin construct and a cell line permanently expressing GFP-alpha tubulin was established (LLCPK-1alpha). The mitotic index and doubling time for LLCPK-1alpha were not significantly different from parental cells. Quantitative immunoblotting s...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Rusan NM,Fagerstrom CJ,Yvon AM,Wadsworth P

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Griscelli syndrome type 2 (GS2) is a genetic disorder in which patients exhibit life-threatening defects of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) whose lytic granules fail to dock on the plasma membrane and therefore do not release their contents. The disease is caused by the absence of functional rab27a, but how rab27a cont...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Neeft M,Wieffer M,de Jong AS,Negroiu G,Metz CH,van Loon A,Griffith J,Krijgsveld J,Wulffraat N,Koch H,Heck AJ,Brose N,Kleijmeer M,van der Sluijs P

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During spindle pole body (SPB) duplication, the new SPB is assembled at a distinct site adjacent to the old SPB. Using quantitative fluorescence methods, we studied the assembly and dynamics of the core structural SPB component Spc110p. The SPB core exhibits both exchange and growth in a cell cycle-dependent manner. D...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Yoder TJ,Pearson CG,Bloom K,Davis TN

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NSF and p97 are related AAA proteins implicated in membrane trafficking and organelle biogenesis. p97 is also involved in pathways that lead to ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis, including ER-associated degradation (ERAD). In this study, we have used dominant interfering ATP-hydrolysis deficient mutants (NSF(E329Q) and ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Dalal S,Rosser MF,Cyr DM,Hanson PI

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：:Cilia serve as sensory devices in a diversity of organisms and their defects contribute to many human diseases. In primary cilia of kidney cells, the transient receptor potential polycystin (TRPP) channels polycystin-1 (PC-1) and polycystin-2 (PC-2) act as a mechanosensitive channel, with defects resulting in autosoma...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Hu J,Bae YK,Knobel KM,Barr MM

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate chromosome alignment at metaphase facilitates the equal segregation of sister chromatids to each of the nascent daughter cells. Lack of proper metaphase alignment is an indicator of defective chromosome congression and aberrant kinetochore-microtubule attachments which in turn promotes chromosome missegregati...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Braga LG,Prifti DK,Garand C,Saini PK,Elowe S

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely acknowledged that cultured myoblasts can not differentiate at very low density. Here we analyzed the mechanism through which cell density influences myogenic differentiation in vitro. By comparing the behavior of C2C12 myoblasts at opposite cell densities, we found that, when cells are sparse, failure to ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Messina G,Blasi C,La Rocca SA,Pompili M,Calconi A,Grossi M

更新日期：2005-03-01 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