Plasma membrane organization is essential for balancing competing pseudopod- and uropod-promoting signals during neutrophil polarization and migration.

abstract：:Biogenesis of respiratory chain complexes depends on the expression of mitochondrial-encoded subunits. Their synthesis occurs on membrane-associated ribosomes and is probably coupled to their membrane insertion. Defects in expression of mitochondrial translation products are among the major causes of mitochondrial dis...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bauerschmitt H,Mick DU,Deckers M,Vollmer C,Funes S,Kehrein K,Ott M,Rehling P,Herrmann JM

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:As yeast cultures enter stationary phase in rich, glucose-based medium, differentiation of two major subpopulations of cells, termed quiescent and nonquiescent, is observed. Differences in mRNA abundance between exponentially growing and stationary-phase cultures and quiescent and nonquiescent cells are known, but lit...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Davidson GS,Joe RM,Roy S,Meirelles O,Allen CP,Wilson MR,Tapia PH,Manzanilla EE,Dodson AE,Chakraborty S,Carter M,Young S,Edwards B,Sklar L,Werner-Washburne M

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a genetic screen for mutations in myospheroid, the gene encoding the Drosophila betaPS integrin subunit, and identified point mutants in all of the structural domains of the protein. Surprisingly, we find that mutations in very strongly conserved residues will often allow sufficient integrin function to s...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Jannuzi AL,Bunch TA,West RF,Brower DL

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of mitochondrial phosphatidylethanolamine (PtdEtn), a phospholipid essential for aerobic growth of yeast cells, is synthesized by phosphatidylserine decarboxylase 1 (Psd1p) in the inner mitochondrial membrane (IMM). To identify components that become essential when the level of mitochondrial PtdEtn is dec...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Birner R,Nebauer R,Schneiter R,Daum G

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small heat shock proteins (sHsps) bind destabilized proteins during cell stress and disease, but their physiological functions are less clear. We evaluated the impact of Hsp27, an sHsp expressed in airway epithelial cells, on the common protein misfolding mutant that is responsible for most cystic fibrosis. F508del cy...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ahner A,Gong X,Schmidt BZ,Peters KW,Rabeh WM,Thibodeau PH,Lukacs GL,Frizzell RA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abundant evidence has shown that the GTPase dynamin is required for receptor-mediated endocytosis, but its exact role in endocytic clathrin-coated vesicle formation remains to be established. Whereas dynamin GTPase domain mutants that are defective in GTP binding and hydrolysis are potent dominant-negative inhibitors ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Damke H,Binns DD,Ueda H,Schmid SL,Baba T

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial decline is a hallmark of aging, and cells are equipped with many systems to regulate mitochondrial structure and function in response to stress and metabolic alterations. Here, using budding yeast, we identify a proteolytic pathway that contributes to alterations in mitochondrial structure in aged cells ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Goodrum JM,Lever AR,Coody TK,Gottschling DE,Hughes AL

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Directed cell migration is mediated by cycles of protrusion, adhesion, traction generation on the extracellular matrix and retraction. However, how the events after protrusion are timed, and what dictates their temporal order is completely unknown. We used acute epidermal growth factor (EGF) stimulation of epidermal k...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Schneider IC,Hays CK,Waterman CM

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs), the tiny regulatory RNAs, form complexes with Argonaute (Ago) proteins and inhibit gene expression in metazoan cells. While studying parasite-invaded macrophages, we identify a unique mode of gene regulation in which the parasite Leishmania donovani (Ld) causes mitochondrial depolarization, reduces...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Chakrabarty Y,Bhattacharyya SN

更新日期：2017-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is a cytoplasmic tyrosine kinase protein localized to regions called focal adhesions, which are contact points between cells and the extracellular matrix. FAK protein acts as a scaffold to transfer adhesion-dependent and growth factor signals into the cell. Increased FAK expression is linke...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Fonar Y,Gutkovich YE,Root H,Malyarova A,Aamar E,Golubovskaya VM,Elias S,Elkouby YM,Frank D

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：:Cadherin-based cell-cell contacts are prominent sites for phosphotyrosine signaling, being enriched in tyrosine-phosphorylated proteins and tyrosine kinases and phosphatases. The functional interplay between cadherin adhesion and tyrosine kinase signaling, however, is complex and incompletely understood. In this repor...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： McLachlan RW,Kraemer A,Helwani FM,Kovacs EM,Yap AS

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caenorhabditis elegans is a powerful model to study the molecular basis of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). ADPKD is caused by mutations in the polycystic kidney disease (PKD)1 or PKD2 gene, encoding polycystin (PC)-1 or PC-2, respectively. The C. elegans polycystins LOV-1 and PKD-2 are required f...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Hu J,Barr MM

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyaluronan (HA) in the endothelial glycocalyx serves as a mechanotransducer for high-shear-stress-stimulated endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) phosphorylation and nitric oxide (NO) production. Low shear stress (LSS) has been shown to contribute to endothelial inflammation and atherosclerosis by impairing the ba...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kong X,Chen L,Ye P,Wang Z,Zhang J,Ye F,Chen S

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cycle-dependent morphogenesis of unicellular organisms depends on the spatiotemporal control of cell polarity. Rho GTPases are the major players that guide cells through structural reorganizations such as cytokinesis (Rho1 dependent) and polarity establishment (Cdc42 dependent). In budding yeast, the protein Gps1...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Meitinger F,Pereira G

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress fibers were isolated from cultured human foreskin fibroblasts and bovine endothelial cells, and their contraction was demonstrated in vitro. Cells in culture dishes were first treated with a low-ionic-strength extraction solution and then further extracted using detergents. With gentle washes by pipetting, the ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Katoh K,Kano Y,Masuda M,Onishi H,Fujiwara K

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of hepatic stellate cells during liver fibrosis is a major event facilitating an increase in extracellular matrix deposition. The up-regulation of smooth muscle alpha-actin and collagen type I is indicative of the activation process. The involvement of cysteine cathepsins, a class of lysosomal cysteine prot...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Maubach G,Lim MC,Zhuo L

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：:Motility of cilia (also known as flagella in some eukaryotes) is based on axonemal doublet microtubule sliding that is driven by the dynein molecular motors. Dyneins are organized into intricately patterned inner and outer rows of arms, whose collective activity is to produce inter-microtubule movement. However, to ge...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： King SM,Sale WS

更新日期：2018-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer cell migration requires the regulation of actin networks at protrusions associated with invadopodia and other leading edges. Carcinomas become invasive after undergoing an epithelial-mesenchymal transition characterized by the appearance of vimentin filaments. While vimentin expression correlates with cell migr...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lanier MH,Kim T,Cooper JA

更新日期：2015-12-15 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：: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：:Dynamic regulation of cytoskeletal contractility through phosphorylation of the nonmuscle Myosin-II regulatory light chain (MRLC) provides an essential source of tension for shaping epithelial tissues. Rho GTPase and its effector kinase ROCK have been implicated in regulating MRLC phosphorylation in vivo, but evidence...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Neubueser D,Hipfner DR

更新日期：2010-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 130 different mutations in the gap junction integral plasma membrane protein connexin32 (Cx32) have been linked to the human peripheral neuropathy X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMTX). How these various mutants are processed by the cell and the mechanism(s) by which they cause CMTX are unknown. To add...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： VanSlyke JK,Deschenes SM,Musil LS

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compositional analyses of nucleic acids and proteins have shed light on possible origins of living cells. In this work, rigorous compositional analyses of ∼5000 plasma membrane lipid constituents of 273 species in the three life domains (archaea, eubacteria, and eukaryotes) revealed a remarkable statistical paradox, i...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bansal S,Mittal A

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptins are subunits of adaptor protein (AP) complexes involved in the formation of intracellular transport vesicles and in the selection of cargo for incorporation into the vesicles. In this article, we report the results of a survey for adaptins from sequenced genomes including those of man, mouse, the fruit fly Dr...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Boehm M,Bonifacino JS

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capture of newly synthesized proteins into endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-derived coat protomer type II (COPII) vesicles represents a critical juncture in the quality control of protein biogenesis within the secretory pathway. The yeast ATP-binding cassette transporter Yor1p is a pleiotropic drug pump that shows homology ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Pagant S,Kung L,Dorrington M,Lee MC,Miller EA

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the NADPH oxidase of phagocytic cells requires the action of Rac2 or Rac1, members of the Ras superfamily of GTP-binding proteins. Rac proteins are active when in the GTP-bound form and can be regulated by a variety of proteins that modulate the exchange of GDP for GTP and/or GTP hydrolysis. The p190 Rac...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Heyworth PG,Knaus UG,Settleman J,Curnutte JT,Bokoch GM

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mathematical modeling has been instrumental in identifying common principles of cell polarity across diverse systems. These principles include positive feedback loops that are required to destabilize a spatially uniform state of the cell. The conserved small G-protein Cdc42 is a master regulator of eukaryotic cellular...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Goryachev AB,Leda M

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) receptor-associated factor 2 (TRAF2) regulates activation of the c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK)/c-Jun and the inhibitor of κB kinase (IKK)/nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) signaling cascades in response to TNF-α stimulation. Gene knockout studies have revealed that TRAF2 inhibits TNF-α-induced ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Zhang L,Blackwell K,Altaeva A,Shi Z,Habelhah H

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00