Importin alpha/beta and Ran-GTP regulate XCTK2 microtubule binding through a bipartite nuclear localization signal.

abstract：:A major goal of synthetic biology is to define the minimal cellular machinery required to assemble a biological structure in its simplest form. Here, we focused on Saccharomyces cerevisiae actin cables, which provide polarized tracks for intracellular transport and maintain defined lengths while continuously undergoin...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Pollard LW,Garabedian MV,Alioto SL,Shekhar S,Goode BL

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocytic adaptor proteins facilitate cargo recruitment and clathrin-coated pit nucleation. The prototypical clathrin adaptor AP2 mediates cargo recruitment, maturation, and scission of the pit by binding cargo, clathrin, and accessory proteins, including the Eps-homology (EH) domain proteins Eps15 and intersectin. Ho...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Teckchandani A,Mulkearns EE,Randolph TW,Toida N,Cooper JA

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：:Wnt signaling plays key roles in embryonic development and adult stem cell homeostasis and is altered in human cancer. Signaling is turned on and off by regulating stability of the effector β-catenin (β-cat). The multiprotein destruction complex binds and phosphorylates β-cat and transfers it to the SCF-TrCP E3-ubiqui...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Schaefer KN,Pronobis MI,Williams CE,Zhang S,Bauer L,Goldfarb D,Yan F,Major MB,Peifer M

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The skin's epidermis is a multilayered epithelial tissue and the first line of defense against mechanical stress. Its barrier function depends on an integrated assembly and reorganization of cell-matrix and cell-cell junctions in the basal layer and on different intercellular junctions in suprabasal layers. However, h...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Noethel B,Ramms L,Dreissen G,Hoffmann M,Springer R,Rübsam M,Ziegler WH,Niessen CM,Merkel R,Hoffmann B

更新日期：2018-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In vertebrates, zyxin is a LIM-domain protein belonging to a family composed of seven members. We show that the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has a unique zyxin-like protein, ZYX-1, which is the orthologue of the vertebrate zyxin subfamily composed of zyxin, migfilin, TRIP6, and LPP. The ZYX-1 protein is expressed i...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lecroisey C,Brouilly N,Qadota H,Mariol MC,Rochette NC,Martin E,Benian GM,Ségalat L,Mounier N,Gieseler K

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine how the human cdc25 gene product acts to regulate p34cdc2 at the G2 to M transition, we have overproduced the full-length protein (cdc25Hs) as well as several deletion mutants in bacteria as glutathione-S-transferase fusion proteins. The wild-type cdc25Hs gene product was synthesized as an 80-kDa fusion p...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lee MS,Ogg S,Xu M,Parker LL,Donoghue DJ,Maller JL,Piwnica-Worms H

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that ouabain activates Src, resulting in subsequent tyrosine phosphorylation of multiple effectors. Here, we tested if the Na+/K+-ATPase and Src can form a functional signaling complex. In LLC-PK1 cells the Na+/K+-ATPase and Src colocalized in the plasma membrane. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer a...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Tian J,Cai T,Yuan Z,Wang H,Liu L,Haas M,Maksimova E,Huang XY,Xie ZJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polalpha is the principal DNA polymerase for initiation of DNA replication and also functions in postinitiation DNA synthesis. In this study, we investigated the cell cycle responses induced by mutations in polalpha+. Germinating spores carrying either a deletion of polalpha+ (polalphaDelta) or a structurally intact b...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bhaumik D,Wang TS

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression in eukaryotes is an essential process that includes transcription, RNA processing, and export. One important player in this interface is the poly(A)(+)-RNA-binding protein Nab2, which regulates the mRNA poly(A)(+)-tail length and export. Here we show that Nab2 has additional roles during mRNA transcrip...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： González-Aguilera C,Tous C,Babiano R,de la Cruz J,Luna R,Aguilera A

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quite a few regulatory proteins, including transcription factors, are normally maintained in a dormant state to be activated after internal or environmental cues. Recently, a novel strategy, requiring proteolytic cleavage, was described for the mobilization of dormant transcription factors. These transcription factors...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Becker-Herman S,Arie G,Medvedovsky H,Kerem A,Shachar I

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer cells are lymphocytes specialized to participate in host defense through their innate ability to mediate cytotoxicity by secreting the contents of preformed secretory lysosomes (lytic granules) directly onto a target cell. This form of directed secretion requires the formation of an immunological synaps...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Mentlik AN,Sanborn KB,Holzbaur EL,Orange JS

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigation of Caenorhabditis elegans act-5 gene function revealed that intestinal microvillus formation requires a specific actin isoform. ACT-5 is the most diverged of the five C. elegans actins, sharing only 93% identity with the other four. Green fluorescent protein reporter and immunofluorescence analysis indic...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： MacQueen AJ,Baggett JJ,Perumov N,Bauer RA,Januszewski T,Schriefer L,Waddle JA

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The preemptive quality control (pQC) pathway protects cells from acute endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress by attenuating translocation of nascent proteins despite their targeting to translocons at the ER membrane. Here, we investigate the hypothesis that the DnaJ protein p58(IPK) plays an essential role in this process...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Rutkowski DT,Kang SW,Goodman AG,Garrison JL,Taunton J,Katze MG,Kaufman RJ,Hegde RS

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of macropinocytosis is an essential aspect of normal cell function, contributing to both growth and motile processes of cells. p21-activated kinases (PAKs) are targets for activated Rac and Cdc42 guanosine 5'-triphosphatases and have been shown to regulate the actin-myosin cytoskeleton. In fibroblasts PAK1...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Dharmawardhane S,Schürmann A,Sells MA,Chernoff J,Schmid SL,Bokoch GM

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis causes characteristic morphological changes in cells, including membrane blebbing, cell detachment from the extracellular matrix, and loss of cell-cell contacts. We investigated the changes in focal adhesion proteins during etoposide-induced apoptosis in Rat-1 cells and found that during apoptosis, p130cas (...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kook S,Shim SR,Choi SJ,Ahnn J,Kim JI,Eom SH,Jung YK,Paik SG,Song WK

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The NUDF protein of the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans functions in the cytoplasmic dynein pathway. It binds several proteins, including the NUDE protein. Green fluorescent protein-tagged NUDF and NUDA (dynein heavy chain) localize to linearly moving dashes ("comets") that coincide with microtubule ends. Here...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Efimov VP

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A central question in the area of signal transduction is why pathways utilize common components. In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the HOG and filamentous growth (FG) MAPK pathways require overlapping components but are thought to be induced by different stimuli and specify distinct outputs. To better und...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Pitoniak A,Birkaya B,Dionne HM,Vadaie N,Cullen PJ

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disassembly of the epithelial apical junctional complex (AJC), composed of the tight junction (TJ) and adherens junction (AJ), is important for normal tissue remodeling and pathogen-induced disruption of epithelial barriers. Using a calcium depletion model in T84 epithelial cells, we previously found that disassembly ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ivanov AI,McCall IC,Parkos CA,Nusrat A

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RhoA is a small guanosine-5'-triphosphatase (GTPase) suggested to be essential for cytokinesis, stress fiber formation, and epithelial cell-cell contacts. In skin, loss of RhoA was suggested to underlie pemphigus skin blistering. To analyze RhoA function in vivo, we generated mice with a keratinocyte-restricted deleti...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Jackson B,Peyrollier K,Pedersen E,Basse A,Karlsson R,Wang Z,Lefever T,Ochsenbein AM,Schmidt G,Aktories K,Stanley A,Quondamatteo F,Ladwein M,Rottner K,van Hengel J,Brakebusch C

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All eukaryotic cells sense extracellular stimuli and activate intracellular signaling cascades via G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) and associated heterotrimeric G proteins. The Saccharomyces cerevisiae GPCR Gpr1 and associated Galpha subunit Gpa2 sense extracellular carbon sources (including glucose) to govern fila...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Harashima T,Heitman J

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial cells are important in a variety of physiological and pathophysiological processes. The growth and functions of vascular endothelial cells are regulated both by soluble mitogenic and differentiation factors and by interactions with the extracellular matrix; however, relatively little is known abou...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Short SM,Talbott GA,Juliano RL

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hansenula polymorpha ass3 mutants are characterized by the accumulation of inactive alcohol oxidase (AO) monomers in the cytosol, whereas other peroxisomal matrix proteins are normally activated and sorted to peroxisomes. These mutants also have a glutamate or aspartate requirement on minimal media. Cloning of the cor...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ozimek P,van Dijk R,Latchev K,Gancedo C,Wang DY,van der Klei IJ,Veenhuis M

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we have identified a new metalloprotease encoded by the nuclear ATP23 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae that is essential for expression of mitochondrial ATPase (F(1)-F(O) complex). Mutations in ATP23 cause the accumulation of the precursor form of subunit 6 and prevent assembly of F(O). Atp23p is ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Zeng X,Neupert W,Tzagoloff A

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor (IP3R) is an intracellular calcium channel involved in coupling cell membrane receptors to calcium signal transduction pathways within cells including endocrine cells. Several isoforms (I, II, and III) of IP3Rs have been identified, which are encoded by separate genes, and are...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Nucifora FC Jr,Sharp AH,Milgram SL,Ross CA

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoinositides (PIs) regulate a myriad of cellular functions including membrane fusion, as exemplified by the yeast vacuole, which uses various PIs at different stages of fusion. In light of this, the effect of phosphatidylinositol 3,5-bisphosphate (PI(3,5)P2) on vacuole fusion remains unknown. PI(3,5)P2 is made by...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Miner GE,Sullivan KD,Guo A,Jones BC,Hurst LR,Ellis EC,Starr ML,Fratti RA

更新日期：2019-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:ELMO2 belongs to a family of scaffold proteins involved in phagocytosis and cell motility. ELMO2 can simultaneously bind integrin-linked kinase (ILK) and RhoG, forming tripartite ERI complexes. These complexes are involved in promoting β1 integrin-dependent directional migration in undifferentiated epidermal keratinoc...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Jackson BC,Ivanova IA,Dagnino L

更新日期：2015-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted endocytosis of plasma membrane (PM) proteins allows cells to adjust their complement of membrane proteins to changing extracellular conditions. For a wide variety of PM proteins, initiation of endocytosis is triggered by ubiquitination. In yeast, arrestin-related trafficking adaptors (ARTs) enable a single ub...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Guiney EL,Klecker T,Emr SD

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Important aspects of cell cycle regulation are the checkpoints, which respond to a variety of cellular stresses to inhibit cell cycle progression and act as protective mechanisms to ensure genomic integrity. An increasing number of tumor suppressors are being demonstrated to have roles in checkpoint mechanisms, implyi...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Qiu L,Burgess A,Fairlie DP,Leonard H,Parsons PG,Gabrielli BG

更新日期：2000-06-01 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