ACT-5 is an essential Caenorhabditis elegans actin required for intestinal microvilli formation.

abstract：:The daily phagocytosis of shed photoreceptor outer segments by pigment epithelial cells is critical for the maintenance of the retina. In a subtractive polymerase chain reaction analysis, we found that functional differentiation of human ARPE19 retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells is accompanied by up-regulation of ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Law AL,Ling Q,Hajjar KA,Futter CE,Greenwood J,Adamson P,Wavre-Shapton ST,Moss SE,Hayes MJ

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the physiological response to limitation by diverse nutrients in batch and steady-state (chemostat) cultures of S. cerevisiae. We found that the global pattern of transcription in steady-state cultures in limiting phosphate or sulfate is essentially identical to that of batch cultures growing in the same me...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Saldanha AJ,Brauer MJ,Botstein D

更新日期：2004-09-01 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：: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：:Bile ducts are hepatic tubular structures that are lined by cholangiocytes, a type of liver epithelial cell. Cholangiocytes first form a single layer of cells, termed the ductal plate, surrounding the portal vein, which eventually remodels into the branching tubular network of bile ducts. The process of bile duct morp...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Tanimizu N,Miyajima A,Mostov KE

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TAM receptor protein tyrosine kinases Tyro3, Axl, and Mer play important roles in macrophage function. We investigated the roles of the TAM receptors in mediating the induction of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) during the interaction of macrophages with apoptotic cells. Mer-specific neutralizing antibody, small in...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Park HJ,Baen JY,Lee YJ,Choi YH,Kang JL

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor beta (TGF beta) inhibits cell proliferation by inducing a G1 cell-cycle arrest. Cyclin/CDK complexes have been implicated in this arrest, because TGF beta treatment leads to inhibition of cyclin/CDK activity. We have investigated the role of the retinoblastoma protein (pRb) in TGF beta-induc...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Herrera RE,Mäkelä TP,Weinberg RA

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The orderly progression through the cell division cycle is of paramount importance to all organisms, as improper progression through the cycle could result in defects with grave consequences. Previously, our lab has shown that model eukaryotes such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Caenorhabditis elegans, and Danio rerio a...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Chan K,Goldmark JP,Roth MB

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desmin interacts with nebulin establishing a direct link between the intermediate filament network and sarcomeres at the Z-discs. Here, we examined a desmin mutation, E245D, that is located within the coil IB (nebulin-binding) region of desmin and that has been reported to cause human cardiomyopathy and skeletal muscl...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Conover GM,Henderson SN,Gregorio CC

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane trafficking during cytokinesis is essential for the delivery of membrane lipids and cargoes to the division site. However, the molecular mechanisms are still incompletely understood. In this study, we demonstrate the importance of uncharacterized fission yeast proteins Mso1 and Sec1 in membrane trafficking du...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Gerien KS,Zhang S,Russell AC,Zhu YH,Purde V,Wu JQ

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The demand for phenomics, a high-dimensional and high-throughput phenotyping method, has been increasing in many fields of biology. The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a unicellular model organism, provides an invaluable system for dissecting complex cellular processes using high-resolution phenotyping. Moreov...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ohya Y,Kimori Y,Okada H,Ohnuki S

更新日期：2015-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The Schizosaccharomyces pombe sts1+ gene, identified by supersensitive mutations to a protein kinase inhibitor, staurosporine, was isolated by complementation by the use of a fission yeast genomic library. Nucleotide sequencing shows that the sts1+ gene encodes a 453 amino acid putative membrane-associated protein tha...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Shimanuki M,Goebl M,Yanagida M,Toda T

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In pancreatic β-cells, insulin granule membranes are enriched in cholesterol and are both recycled and newly generated. Cholesterol's role in supporting granule membrane formation and function is poorly understood. ATP binding cassette transporters ABCG1 and ABCA1 regulate intracellular cholesterol and are important f...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Hussain SS,Harris MT,Kreutzberger AJB,Inouye CM,Doyle CA,Castle AM,Arvan P,Castle JD

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Keratins are cytoplasmic intermediate filament proteins preferentially expressed by epithelial tissues in a site-specific and differentiation-dependent manner. The complex network of keratin filaments in stratified epithelia is tightly regulated during squamous cell differentiation. Keratin 14 (K14) is expressed in mi...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Alam H,Sehgal L,Kundu ST,Dalal SN,Vaidya MM

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycerophosphoinositol 4-phosphate (GroPIns-4P) is a biologically active, water-soluble phospholipase A metabolite derived from phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate, whose cellular concentrations have been reported to increase in Ras-transformed cells. It is therefore important to understand its biological activities. Her...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Mancini R,Piccolo E,Mariggio' S,Filippi BM,Iurisci C,Pertile P,Berrie CP,Corda D

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GM3 synthase (SAT-I) is the primary glycosyltransferase responsible for the biosynthesis of ganglio-series gangliosides. In this study, we identify three isoforms of mouse SAT-I proteins, named M1-SAT-I, M2-SAT-I, and M3-SAT-I, which possess distinct lengths in their NH(2)-terminal cytoplasmic tails. These isoforms ar...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Uemura S,Yoshida S,Shishido F,Inokuchi J

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro Ca++ activates gelsolin to sever F-actin and form a gelsolin-actin (GA) complex at the+end of F-actin that is not dissociated by ethylene glycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid (EGTA) but is separated by EGTA+PIP/PIP2. The gelsolin blocks the+end on the actin filament, but the-end of the...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Deaton JD,Guerrero T,Howard TH

更新日期：1992-12-01 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：:The trafficking of endocytosed receptors through phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate [PtdIns(3)P]-containing endosomes is thought to attenuate their signaling. Here, we show that the PtdIns(3)P 5-kinase Fab1/PIKfyve controls trafficking but not silencing of endocytosed receptors. Drosophila fab1 mutants contain undetecta...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Rusten TE,Rodahl LM,Pattni K,Englund C,Samakovlis C,Dove S,Brech A,Stenmark H

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysteine string protein (Csp) is essential for neurotransmitter release in Drosophila. It has been suggested that Csp functions by regulating the activity of presynaptic Ca2+ channels, thus controlling exocytosis. We have examined the effect of overexpressing Csp1 in PC12 cells, a neuroendocrine cell line. PC12 cell c...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Chamberlain LH,Burgoyne RD

更新日期：1998-08-01 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：:Protein kinase D2 (PKD2) belongs to the PKD family of serine/threonine kinases that is activated by phorbol esters and G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Its C-terminal regulatory domain comprises two cysteine-rich domains (C1a/C1b) followed by a pleckstrin homology (PH) domain. Here, we examined the role of the reg...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Auer A,von Blume J,Sturany S,von Wichert G,Van Lint J,Vandenheede J,Adler G,Seufferlein T

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oscillations in intracellular Ca2+ can be induced by a variety of cellular signalling processes (Woods et al., 1986; Berridge 1988; Jacob et al., 1988) and appear to play a role in secretion (Stojilković et al., 1994), fertilization (Miyazaki et al., 1993), and smooth muscle contraction (Iino and Tsukioka, 1994). Rece...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Keizer J,Li YX,Stojilković S,Rinzel J

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I am extremely honored to be the recipient of the 2015 Women in Cell Biology Junior Award. When I reflect on my journey in science, many great people and memorable experiences come to mind. Some of these encounters were truly career-defining moments. Others provided priceless lessons. In this essay, I recount some of ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Serpe M

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent recognition of the clinical association between type 2 diabetes (T2D) and several types of human cancer has been further highlighted by reports of antidiabetic drugs treating or promoting cancer. At the cellular level, a plethora of molecules operating within distinct signaling pathways suggests cross-talk ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Tudzarova S,Osman MA

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sorting nexin 1 (SNX1) and SNX2, homologues of the yeast vacuolar protein-sorting (Vps)5p, contain a phospholipid-binding motif termed the phox homology (PX) domain and a carboxyl terminal coiled-coil region. A role for SNX1 in trafficking of cell surface receptors from endosomes to lysosomes has been proposed; howeve...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Gullapalli A,Garrett TA,Paing MM,Griffin CT,Yang Y,Trejo J

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metazoan cells rapidly exchange signals at tight cell-cell interfaces, including synapses and gap junctions. Advances in imaging recently exposed a third mode of intercellular cross-talk mediated by thin, actin-containing membrane extensions broadly known as "membrane" or "tunneling" nanotubes. An explosion of researc...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Sherer NM

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoplasmic reticulum-localized DnaJ 4 (ERdj4) is an immunoglobulin-binding protein (BiP) cochaperone and component of the endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation (ERAD) pathway that functions to remove unfolded/misfolded substrates from the ER lumen under conditions of ER stress. To elucidate the function of ERd...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Fritz JM,Dong M,Apsley KS,Martin EP,Na CL,Sitaraman S,Weaver TE

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a search for genes controlling conidial dormancy in Aspergillus fumigatus, two dehydrin-like genes, DprA and DprB, were identified. The deduced proteins had repeated stretches of 23 amino acids that contained a conserved dehydrin-like protein (DPR) motif. Disrupted DprAΔ mutants were hypersensitive to oxidative...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Wong Sak Hoi J,Lamarre C,Beau R,Meneau I,Berepiki A,Barre A,Mellado E,Read ND,Latgé JP

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In all orders of life, cell cycle progression in proliferating cells is dependent on cell growth, and the extent of growth required for cell cycle progression is proportional to growth rate. Thus, cells growing rapidly in rich nutrients are substantially larger than slow-growing cells. In budding yeast, a conserved si...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Alcaide-Gavilán M,Lucena R,Banuelos S,Kellogg DR

更新日期：2020-08-15 00:00:00