Protein targeting of an unusual, evolutionarily conserved adenylate kinase to a eukaryotic flagellum.

abstract：:In this essay I describe my personal journey from reductionist to systems cell biology and describe how this in turn led to a 3-year sea voyage to explore complex ocean communities. In describing this journey, I hope to convey some important principles that I gleaned along the way. I realized that cellular functions e...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Karsenti E

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used immunofluorescence to study the distribution and targeting of RNA polymerase (pol) III subunits and pol III transcription factors in the Xenopus laevis oocyte nucleus. Antibodies against several of these proteins stained Cajal bodies and approximately 90 specific sites on the lampbrush chromosomes. Some of the...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Murphy C,Wang Z,Roeder RG,Gall JG

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubules (MTs) are essential for cell division, shape, intracellular transport, and polarity. MT stability is regulated by many factors, including MT-associated proteins and proteins controlling the amount of free tubulin heterodimers available for polymerization. Tubulin-binding cofactors are potential key regula...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Baffet AD,Benoit B,Januschke J,Audo J,Gourhand V,Roth S,Guichet A

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rho GTPases RhoA and Rac1 function as master regulators of cytokinesis by controlling the actomyosin cytoskeleton. RhoA and Rac1 have to be respectively activated and inactivated at the division plane for cytokinesis to occur properly. The inactivation of Rac1 at the cleavage furrow is controlled by MgcRacGAP. How...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Cannet A,Schmidt S,Delaval B,Debant A

更新日期：2014-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Episialin (MUC1, PEM, EMA, CA15-3 antigen) is a sialylated, membrane-associated glycoprotein with an extended mucin-like ectodomain. This domain mainly consists of 30-90 homologous 20-amino acid repeats that are rich in O-glycosylation sites (serines and threonines). It is likely that this part forms a polyproline bet...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Wesseling J,van der Valk SW,Hilkens J

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional (2D) substrate rigidity promotes myosin II activity to increase traction force in a process negatively regulated by tropomyosin (Tpm) 2.1. We recently discovered that actomyosin contractility can increase intracellular pressure and switch tumor cells from low-pressure lamellipodia to high-pressure lobo...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Sao K,Jones TM,Doyle AD,Maity D,Schevzov G,Chen Y,Gunning PW,Petrie RJ

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The [URE3] and [PSI(+)] prions are infectious amyloid forms of Ure2p and Sup35p. Several chaperones influence prion propagation: Hsp104p overproduction destabilizes [PSI(+)], whereas [URE3] is sensitive to excess of Ssa1p or Ydj1p. Here, we show that overproduction of the chaperone, Sse1p, can efficiently cure [URE3]....

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kryndushkin D,Wickner RB

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In animal cells, positioning of the mitotic spindle is crucial for defining the plane of cytokinesis and the size ratio of daughter cells. We have characterized this phenomenon in a rat epithelial cell line using microscopy, micromanipulation, and microinjection. Unmanipulated cells position the mitotic spindle near t...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： O'Connell CB,Wang YL

更新日期：2000-05-01 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：:Members of the transforming acidic coiled coil (TACC) protein family are emerging as important mitotic spindle assembly proteins in a variety of organisms. The molecular details of how TACC proteins function are unknown, but TACC proteins have been proposed to recruit microtubule-stabilizing proteins of the tumor over...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Albee AJ,Wiese C

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：:Cell migration is a highly conserved process involving cytoskeletal reorganization and restructuring of the surrounding extracellular matrix. Although there are many studies describing mechanisms underlying cell motility, little has been reported about the contribution of alternative isoform use toward cell migration....

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lee HN,Mitra M,Bosompra O,Corney DC,Johnson EL,Rashed N,Ho LD,Coller HA

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ARVCF, an armadillo-repeat protein of the p120(ctn) family, associates with classical cadherins and is present in adherens junctions, but its function is poorly understood. Here, we show that ARVCF interacts via a C-terminal PDZ-binding motif with zonula occludens (ZO)-1 and ZO-2. ARVCF and ZO-1 partially colocalize i...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kausalya PJ,Phua DC,Hunziker W

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) is the major mechanism for internalization in mammalian cells. CME initiates by recruitment of adaptors and clathrin to form clathrin-coated pits (CCPs). Nearly half of nascent CCPs abort, whereas others are stabilized by unknown mechanisms and undergo further maturation before pinc...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Antonescu CN,Aguet F,Danuser G,Schmid SL

更新日期：2011-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Coordinated regulation of cell proliferation is vital for epithelial tissue homeostasis, and uncontrolled proliferation is a hallmark of carcinogenesis. A growing body of evidence indicates that epithelial tight junctions (TJs) play a role in these processes, although the mechanisms involved are poorly understood. In ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Capaldo CT,Koch S,Kwon M,Laur O,Parkos CA,Nusrat A

更新日期：2011-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:DYF-1 is a highly conserved protein essential for ciliogenesis in several model organisms. In Caenorhabditis elegans, DYF-1 serves as an essential activator for an anterograde motor OSM-3 of intraflagellar transport (IFT), the ciliogenesis-required motility that mediates the transport of flagellar precursors and remov...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Fan ZC,Behal RH,Geimer S,Wang Z,Williamson SM,Zhang H,Cole DG,Qin H

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used transgenic analysis in Drosophila to compare the ability of two structurally similar alpha-tubulin isoforms to support microtubule assembly in vivo. Our data revealed that even closely related alpha-tubulin isoforms have different functional capacities. Thus, in multicellular organisms, even small changes in t...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Hutchens JA,Hoyle HD,Turner FR,Raff EC

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinesin superfamily of microtubule motor proteins is important in many cellular processes, including mitosis and meiosis, vesicle transport, and the establishment and maintenance of cell polarity. We have characterized two related kinesins in fission yeast, klp5+ and klp6+,, that are amino-terminal motors of the K...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： West RR,Malmstrom T,Troxell CL,McIntosh JR

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The perinucleolar compartment (PNC) is a nuclear substructure present in transformed cells. The PNC is defined by high concentrations of certain RNA binding proteins and a subset of small RNAs transcribed by RNA polymerase III (pol III), including the signal recognition particle RNA and an Alu RNA as reported here. To...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Wang C,Politz JC,Pederson T,Huang S

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate [PI(4,5)P(2)] and phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate [PI(3,4,5)P(3)] are phosphoinositides (PIs) present in small amounts in the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane (PM) lipid bilayer of host target cells. They are thought to modulate the activity of proteins involved in en...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Sason H,Milgrom M,Weiss AM,Melamed-Book N,Balla T,Grinstein S,Backert S,Rosenshine I,Aroeti B

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rab2 immunolocalizes to pre-Golgi intermediates (vesicular-tubular clusters [VTCs]) that are the first site of segregation of anterograde- and retrograde-transported proteins and a major peripheral site for COPI recruitment. Our previous work showed that Rab2 Q65L (equivalent to Ras Q61L) inhibited endoplasmic reticul...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Tisdale EJ

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid alteration of gene expression in response to environmental changes is essential for normal development and behavior. The transcription factor hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1 is well known to respond to alterations in oxygen availability. In nature, low oxygen environments are often found to contain high levels ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Budde MW,Roth MB

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soluble N-ethyl maleimide-sensitive fusion protein attachment protein receptors (SNAREs) are core machinery for membrane fusion during intracellular vesicular transport. Synaptosome-associated protein of 23 kDa (SNAP23) is a target SNARE previously identified at the plasma membrane, where it is involved in exocytotic ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Faigle W,Colucci-Guyon E,Louvard D,Amigorena S,Galli T

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forces generated by heart muscle contraction must be balanced by adhesion to the extracellular matrix (ECM) and to other cells for proper heart function. Decades of data have suggested that cell-ECM adhesions are important for sarcomere assembly. However, the relationship between cell-ECM adhesions and sarcomeres asse...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Taneja N,Neininger AC,Burnette DT

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclin D1 expression is jointly regulated by growth factors and cell adhesion to the extracellular matrix in many cell types. Growth factors are thought to regulate cyclin D1 expression because they stimulate sustained extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) activity. However, we show here that growth factors indu...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Roovers K,Davey G,Zhu X,Bottazzi ME,Assoian RK

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Up-regulation of the cytoskeleton linker protein ezrin frequently occurs in aggressive cancer types and is closely linked with metastatic progression. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms detailing how ezrin is involved in the invasive and metastatic phenotype remain unclear. Here we report a novel function of...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Hoskin V,Szeto A,Ghaffari A,Greer PA,Côté GP,Elliott BE

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of cholesterol for endocytosis has been investigated in HEp-2 and other cell lines by using methyl-beta-cyclodextrin (MbetaCD) to selectively extract cholesterol from the plasma membrane. MbetaCD treatment strongly inhibited endocytosis of transferrin and EGF, whereas endocytosis of ricin was less affec...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Rodal SK,Skretting G,Garred O,Vilhardt F,van Deurs B,Sandvig K

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cotranslational protein targeting to membranes is regulated by two GTPases in the signal recognition particle (SRP) and the SRP receptor; association between the two GTPases is slow and is accelerated 400-fold by the SRP RNA. Intriguingly, the otherwise universally conserved SRP RNA is missing in a novel chloroplast S...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Jaru-Ampornpan P,Chandrasekar S,Shan SO

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human fungal pathogen Candida albicans can switch between yeast, pseudohyphal, and hyphal morphologies. To investigate whether the distinctive characteristics of hyphae are due to increased activity of the Cdc42 GTPase, strains lacking negative regulators of Cdc42 were constructed. Unexpectedly, the deletion of th...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Court H,Sudbery P

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tail of the yeast myosin V encoded by Myo2p is known to bind several receptors for cargo delivery along polarized actin cables. However, it is not known how Myo2p activity is regulated or how it selects between cargoes. Here we show that Myo2p is reversibly phosphorylated in vivo. A short peptide at the N-terminal...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Legesse-Miller A,Zhang S,Santiago-Tirado FH,Van Pelt CK,Bretscher A

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00