NGF controls dendrite development in hippocampal neurons by binding to p75NTR and modulating the cellular targets of Notch.

abstract：:Molecular chaperones play key roles during growth, development, and stress survival. The ability to induce chaperone expression enables cells to cope with the accumulation of nonnative proteins under stress and complete developmental processes with an increased requirement for chaperone assistance. Here we generate an...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Rogon C,Ulbricht A,Hesse M,Alberti S,Vijayaraj P,Best D,Adams IR,Magin TM,Fleischmann BK,Höhfeld J

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myc interacting zinc finger protein-1 (Miz1) is a transcription factor known to regulate cell cycle- and cell adhesion-related genes in cancer. Here we show that Miz1 also plays a critical role in neural crest development. In the chick, Miz1 is expressed throughout the neural plate and closing neural tube. Its morphol...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kerosuo L,Bronner ME

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here that Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiologic agent of Chagas disease, possesses two unique paralogues of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter complex TcMCU subunit that we named TcMCUc and TcMCUd. The predicted structure of the proteins indicates that, as predicted for the TcMCU and TcMCUb paralogues, they are ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Chiurillo MA,Lander N,Bertolini MS,Vercesi AE,Docampo R

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) is a key regulator of mitotic progression and cell division in eukaryotes. It is highly expressed in tumor cells and considered a potential target for cancer therapy. Here, we report the discovery and application of a novel potent small-molecule inhibitor of mammalian Plk1, ZK-Thiazolidinone ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Santamaria A,Neef R,Eberspächer U,Eis K,Husemann M,Mumberg D,Prechtl S,Schulze V,Siemeister G,Wortmann L,Barr FA,Nigg EA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP8A2 is a P4-ATPase that flips phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylethanolamine across cell membranes. This generates membrane phospholipid asymmetry, a property important in many cellular processes, including vesicle trafficking. ATP8A2 deficiency causes severe neurodegenerative diseases. We investigated the role of...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Chalat M,Moleschi K,Molday RS

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are extracellular proteases highly expressed at wound sites. However, the precise function of MMPs during reepithelialization in vivo has been elusive in mammalian models because of the high level of redundancy among the 24 mammalian MMPs. For this reason we used Drosophila melanogaste...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Stevens LJ,Page-McCaw A

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, repression of translation during stress is associated with the assembly of stress granules in the cytoplasm, which contain a fraction of arrested mRNA and have been proposed to play a role in their storage. Because physical contacts are seen with GW bodies, which contain the mRNA degradation machinery, str...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Mollet S,Cougot N,Wilczynska A,Dautry F,Kress M,Bertrand E,Weil D

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Met4 is the transcriptional activator of the sulfur metabolic network in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Lacking DNA-binding ability, Met4 must interact with proteins called Met4 cofactors to target promoters for transcription. Two types of DNA-binding cofactors (Cbf1 and Met31/Met32) recruit Met4 to promoters and one cofac...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lee TA,Jorgensen P,Bognar AL,Peyraud C,Thomas D,Tyers M

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defining how organisms respond to environmental change has always been an important step toward understanding their adaptive capacity and physiology. Variation in transcription during stress has been widely described in model species, especially in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which helped to shape general rule...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Brion C,Pflieger D,Souali-Crespo S,Friedrich A,Schacherer J

更新日期：2016-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Secretory proteins are exported from the endoplasmic reticulum in COPII vesicles. SNARE proteins-core machinery for membrane fusion-are incorporated into COPII vesicles by direct interaction with Sec24. Here we report a novel mechanism for sorting of the ER-Golgi Q-SNAREs into COPII vesicles. Different mammalian Sec24...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Adolf F,Rhiel M,Reckmann I,Wieland FT

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myo1c is a member of the myosin superfamily that binds phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate (PIP(2)), links the actin cytoskeleton to cellular membranes and plays roles in mechano-signal transduction and membrane trafficking. We located and characterized two distinct membrane binding sites within the regulatory and t...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Hokanson DE,Laakso JM,Lin T,Sept D,Ostap EM

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) accessory protein Nef directs virus escape from immune surveillance by subverting host cell intracellular signaling and membrane traffic to down-regulate cell-surface major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC-I). The interaction of Nef with the sorting proteins PACS-...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Dikeakos JD,Thomas L,Kwon G,Elferich J,Shinde U,Thomas G

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Programmed DNA rearrangements are important processes present in many organisms. In the ciliated protozoan Tetrahymena thermophila, DNA rearrangements occur during the sexual conjugation process and lead to the deletion of thousands of specific DNA segments and fragmentation of the chromosomes. In this study, we found...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lin IT,Chao JL,Yao MC

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treacher Collins syndrome (TCS) is an autosomal dominant disorder of craniofacial development caused by mutations in the gene TCOF1. Its gene product, treacle, consists mainly of a central repeat domain, which shows it to be structurally related to the nucleolar phosphoprotein Nopp140. Treacle remains mostly uncharact...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Isaac C,Marsh KL,Paznekas WA,Dixon J,Dixon MJ,Jabs EW,Meier UT

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome c release from mitochondria promotes apoptosome formation and caspase activation. The question as to whether mitochondrial permeabilization kills cells via a caspase-independent pathway when caspase activation is prevented is still open. Here we report that proneural cells of embryonic origin, when induced ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ferraro E,Pulicati A,Cencioni MT,Cozzolino M,Navoni F,di Martino S,Nardacci R,Carrì MT,Cecconi F

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel gene, prom-1, was isolated in a screen for Caenorhabditis elegans mutants with increased apoptosis in the germline. prom-1 encodes an F-box protein with limited homology to the putative human tumor suppressor FBXO47. Mutations in the prom-1 locus cause a strong reduction in bivalent formation, which results in...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Jantsch V,Tang L,Pasierbek P,Penkner A,Nayak S,Baudrimont A,Schedl T,Gartner A,Loidl J

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NuMA is an abundant long coiled-coil protein that plays a prominent role in spindle organization during mitosis. In interphase, NuMA is localized to the nucleus and hypothesized to control gene expression and chromatin organization. However, because of the prominent mitotic phenotype upon NuMA loss, its precise functi...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Rajeevan A,Keshri R,Kapoor S,Kotak S

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A heterozygous Caveolin-1 c.474delA mutation has been identified in a family with heritable pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). This frameshift mutation leads to caveolin-1 protein that contains all known functional domains but has a change only in the final 20 amino acids of the C terminus. Here we studied how thi...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Marsboom G,Chen Z,Yuan Y,Zhang Y,Tiruppathi C,Loyd JE,Austin ED,Machado RF,Minshall RD,Rehman J,Malik AB

更新日期：2017-03-15 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：:In response to stress conditions (such as nutrient limitation or accumulation of damaged organelles) and certain pathological situations, eukaryotic cells use autophagy as a survival mechanism. During nutrient stress the main purpose of autophagy is to degrade cytoplasmic materials within the lysosome/vacuole lumen an...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Yang Z,Huang J,Geng J,Nair U,Klionsky DJ

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Export of mRNA from the nucleus is linked to proper processing and packaging into ribonucleoprotein complexes. Although several observations indicate a coupling between mRNA 3' end formation and export, it is not known how these two processes are mechanistically connected. Here, we show that a subunit of the mammalian...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ruepp MD,Aringhieri C,Vivarelli S,Cardinale S,Paro S,Schümperli D,Barabino SM

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex cytopathology of mitochondrial diseases is usually attributed to insufficient ATP. AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a highly sensitive cellular energy sensor that is stimulated by ATP-depleting stresses. By antisense-inhibiting chaperonin 60 expression, we produced mitochondrially diseased strains wi...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bokko PB,Francione L,Bandala-Sanchez E,Ahmed AU,Annesley SJ,Huang X,Khurana T,Kimmel AR,Fisher PR

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear import receptors importin β and transportin play a different role in mitosis: both act phenotypically as spatial regulators to ensure that mitotic spindle, nuclear membrane, and nuclear pore assembly occur exclusively around chromatin. Importin β is known to act by repressing assembly factors in regions di...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bernis C,Swift-Taylor B,Nord M,Carmona S,Chook YM,Forbes DJ

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rab11 effector Rab11-family interacting protein 2 (Rab11-FIP2) regulates transcytosis through its interactions with Rab11a and myosin Vb. Previous studies implicated Rab11-FIP2 in the establishment of polarity in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells through phosphorylation of Ser-227 by MARK2. Here we examine th...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lapierre LA,Avant KM,Caldwell CM,Oztan A,Apodaca G,Knowles BC,Roland JT,Ducharme NA,Goldenring JR

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, three genes that function in the RNA interference (RNAi) pathway, ago1+, dcr1+, and rdp1+, have recently been shown to be important for timely formation of heterochromatin and accurate chromosome segregation. In the present study, we present evidence that null mutants fo...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Carmichael JB,Provost P,Ekwall K,Hobman TC

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yarrowia lipolytica Pex23p and Saccharomyces cerevisiae Pex30p, Pex31p, and Pex32p comprise a family of dysferlin domain-containing peroxins. We show that the deletion of their Pichia pastoris homologues, PEX30 and PEX31, does not affect the function or division of methanol-induced peroxisomes but results in fewer and...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Yan M,Rachubinski DA,Joshi S,Rachubinski RA,Subramani S

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prohibitins comprise a remarkably conserved protein family in eukaryotic cells with proposed functions in cell cycle progression, senescence, apoptosis, and the regulation of mitochondrial activities. Two prohibitin homologues, Phb1 and Phb2, assemble into a high molecular weight complex of approximately 1.2 MDa in th...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Tatsuta T,Model K,Langer T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Syntaxin 3 (Stx3), a SNARE protein located and functioning at the apical plasma membrane of epithelial cells, is required for epithelial polarity. A fraction of Stx3 is localized to late endosomes/lysosomes, although how it traffics there and its function in these organelles is unknown. Here we report that Stx3 underg...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Giovannone AJ,Reales E,Bhattaram P,Fraile-Ramos A,Weimbs T

更新日期：2017-10-15 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：:The sorting of most integral membrane proteins into the lumenal vesicles of multivesicular bodies (MVBs) is dependent on the attachment of ubiquitin (Ub) to their cytosolic domains. However, Ub is not required for sorting of Sna3, an MVB vesicle cargo protein in yeast. We show that Sna3 circumvents Ub-mediated recogni...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： McNatt MW,McKittrick I,West M,Odorizzi G

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00