Activated Cdc42-associated kinase 1 is a component of EGF receptor signaling complex and regulates EGF receptor degradation.

abstract：:The cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP)/cGMP-dependent protein kinase type I (cGKI) pathway regulates many cellular functions. The current study shows that 8-Br-cGMP stimulates the number of attached primary but not that of subcultured murine vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs). These effects of 8-Br-cGMP require t...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Weinmeister P,Lukowski R,Linder S,Traidl-Hoffmann C,Hengst L,Hofmann F,Feil R

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizosaccharomyces pombe Rho GTPases regulate actin cytoskeleton organization and cell integrity. We studied the fission yeast gene SPBC4F6.12 based on its ability to suppress the thermosensitivity of cdc42-1625 mutant strain. This gene, named pxl1(+), encodes a protein with three LIM domains that is similar to paxil...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Pinar M,Coll PM,Rincón SA,Pérez P

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two widely used hepatoma cell lines, mouse BW1J and human HepG2, express gene products characteristic of fetal hepatocytes, including serum albumin, whereas reporter genes driven by the albumin promoter are expressed at very low levels compared with highly differentiated hepatoma cells. We have investigated the low al...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Rollier A,DiPersio CM,Cereghini S,Stevens K,Tronche F,Zaret K,Weiss MC

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine connexin 40 (Cx40) and connexin 43 (Cx43) do not form functional heterotypic gap junction channels. This property may contribute to the preferential propagation of action potentials in murine conductive myocardium (expressing Cx40) which is surrounded by working myocardium, expressing Cx43. When mouse Cx40 and ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Haubrich S,Schwarz HJ,Bukauskas F,Lichtenberg-Fraté H,Traub O,Weingart R,Willecke K

更新日期：1996-12-01 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：:In cycling between the mammalian host and the tsetse fly vector, trypanosomes undergo major changes in energy metabolism and surface coat composition. Early procyclic (insect) forms in the tsetse fly midgut are coated by glycoproteins known as EP and GPEET procyclins. EP expression continues in late procyclic forms, w...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Vassella E,Probst M,Schneider A,Studer E,Renggli CK,Roditi I

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Collective cell migration is emerging as a major contributor to normal development and disease. Collective movement of border cells in the Drosophila ovary requires cooperation between two distinct cell types: four to six migratory cells surrounding two immotile cells called polar cells. Polar cells secrete a cytokine...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Xiang W,Zhang D,Montell DJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cdc2 kinase activity is required for triggering entry into mitosis in all known eukaryotes. Elaborate mechanisms have evolved for regulating Cdc2 activity so that mitosis occurs in a timely manner, when preparations for its execution are complete. In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Wee1 and a related Mik1 kinase are Cdc2-i...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Campbell SD,Sprenger F,Edgar BA,O'Farrell PH

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Satellite cells (SCs), the resident adult stem cells of skeletal muscle, are required for tissue repair throughout life. While many signaling pathways are known to control SC self-renewal, less is known about the mechanisms underlying the spatiotemporal control of self-renewal during skeletal muscle repair. Here, we m...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Moyle LA,Cheng RY,Liu H,Davoudi S,Ferreira SA,Nissar AA,Sun Y,Gentleman E,Simmons CA,Gilbert PM

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinoblastoma (RB) transcriptional corepressor and related family of pocket proteins play central roles in cell cycle control and development, and the regulatory networks governed by these factors are frequently inactivated during tumorigenesis. During normal growth, these proteins are subject to tight control th...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Acharya P,Raj N,Buckley MS,Zhang L,Duperon S,Williams G,Henry RW,Arnosti DN

更新日期：2010-11-15 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：: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

abstract：:Extracellular signal-regulated kinase (Erk) is widely recognized for its central role in cell proliferation and motility. Although previous work has shown that Erk is localized at endosomal compartments, no role for Erk in regulating endosomal trafficking has been demonstrated. Here, we report that Erk signaling regul...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Robertson SE,Setty SR,Sitaram A,Marks MS,Lewis RE,Chou MM

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In all eucaryotic cell types analyzed, proliferations of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) can be induced by increasing the levels of certain integral ER proteins. One of the best characterized of these proteins is HMG-CoA reductase, which catalyzes the rate-limiting step in sterol biosynthesis. We have investigated the ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Koning AJ,Roberts CJ,Wright RL

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophage fusion resulting in the formation of multinucleated giant cells occurs in a variety of chronic inflammatory diseases, yet the mechanism responsible for initiating this process is unknown. Here, we used live cell imaging to show that actin-based protrusions at the leading edge initiate macrophage fusion. Pha...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Faust JJ,Balabiyev A,Heddleston JM,Podolnikova NP,Baluch DP,Chew TL,Ugarova TP

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells have evolved an autoregulatory mechanism to dampen variations in the concentration of tubulin monomer that is available to polymerize into microtubules (MTs), a process that is known as tubulin autoregulation. However, thermodynamic analysis of MT polymerization predicts that the concentration of free tubulin mo...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Mooney DJ,Hansen LK,Langer R,Vacanti JP,Ingber DE

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The location of the phospholipase C beta 1-isoform (PLC-beta 1) in the mouse oocyte and its role in the resumption of meiosis were examined. We used specific monoclonal antibodies to monitor the in vitro dynamics of the subcellular distribution of the enzyme from the release of the oocyte from the follicle until break...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Avazeri N,Courtot AM,Pesty A,Duquenne C,Lefèvre B

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proper execution of premeiotic S phase is essential to both the maintenance of genomic integrity and accurate chromosome segregation during the meiotic divisions. However, the regulation of premeiotic S phase remains poorly defined in metazoa. Here, we identify the p21(Cip1)/p27(Kip1)/p57(Kip2)-like cyclin-depende...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Narbonne-Reveau K,Lilly M

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial (VE)-cadherin, the major adherens junction adhesion molecule in endothelial cells, interacts with p120-catenin and β-catenin through its cytoplasmic tail. However, the specific functional contributions of the catenins to the establishment of strong adhesion are not fully understood. Here we use bi...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Oas RG,Nanes BA,Esimai CC,Vincent PA,García AJ,Kowalczyk AP

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Centrioles and basal bodies are cylinders composed of nine triplet microtubule blades that play essential roles in the centrosome and in flagellar assembly. Chlamydomonas cells with the bld2-1 mutation fail to assemble doublet and triplet microtubules and have defects in cleavage furrow placement and meiosis. Using po...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Dutcher SK,Morrissette NS,Preble AM,Rackley C,Stanga J

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) deletions are associated with various mitochondrial disorders. The deletions identified in humans are flanked by short, directly repeated mitochondrial DNA sequences; however, the mechanism of such DNA rearrangements has yet to be elucidated. In contrast to nuclear DNA (nDNA), mtDNA is more e...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Tadi SK,Sebastian R,Dahal S,Babu RK,Choudhary B,Raghavan SC

更新日期：2016-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis plays a key role in many pathways inside the cell and is particularly important in regulating cell cycle transitions. SCF (Skp1/Cul1/F-box protein) complexes are modular ubiquitin ligases whose specificity is determined by a substrate-binding F-box protein. Dia2 is a Saccharomyces cerevi...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Koepp DM,Kile AC,Swaminathan S,Rodriguez-Rivera V

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polypeptides targeted to the yeast endoplasmic reticulum (ER) posttranslationally are thought to be kept in the cytoplasm in an unfolded state by Hsp70 chaperones before translocation. We show here that Escherichia coli beta-lactamase associated with Hsp70, but adopted a native-like conformation before translocation i...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Paunola E,Suntio T,Jämsä E,Makarow M

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell fraction that would today be termed "the nuclear matrix" was first described and patented in 1948 by Russian investigators. In 1974 this fraction was rediscovered and promoted as a fundamental organizing principle of eukaryotic gene expression. Yet, convincing evidence for this functional role of the nuclear ma...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Pederson T

更新日期：2000-03-01 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 engagement of integrin alpha7 in E63 skeletal muscle cells by laminin or anti-alpha7 antibodies triggered transient elevations in the intracellular free Ca(2+) concentration that resulted from both inositol triphosphate-evoked Ca(2+) release from intracellular stores and extracellular Ca(2+) influx through voltage...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kwon MS,Park CS,Choi K,Ahnn J,Kim JI,Eom SH,Kaufman SJ,Song WK

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intermembrane space of mitochondria accommodates the essential mitochondrial intermembrane space assembly (MIA) machinery that catalyzes oxidative folding of proteins. The disulfide bond formation pathway is based on a relay of reactions involving disulfide transfer from the sulfhydryl oxidase Erv1 to Mia40 and fr...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Böttinger L,Gornicka A,Czerwik T,Bragoszewski P,Loniewska-Lwowska A,Schulze-Specking A,Truscott KN,Guiard B,Milenkovic D,Chacinska A

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of surface-tethered antigens (Ags) by B-cells leads to the formation of an immune synapse that promotes Ag uptake for presentation onto MHC-II molecules. Extraction of immobilized Ags at the immune synapse of B-cells relies on the local secretion of lysosomes, which are recruited to the Ag contact site by ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Obino D,Diaz J,Sáez JJ,Ibañez-Vega J,Sáez PJ,Alamo M,Lankar D,Yuseff MI

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetochores are the proteinaceous complexes that assemble on centromeric DNA and direct eukaryotic chromosome segregation. The mechanisms by which higher eukaryotic cells define centromeres are poorly understood. Possible molecular contributors to centromere specification include the underlying DNA sequences and epig...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Edwards NS,Murray AW

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific changes in membrane lipid composition are implicated in actin cytoskeletal organization, vesicle formation, and control of cell polarity. Cdc50p, a membrane protein in the endosomal/trans-Golgi network compartments, is a noncatalytic subunit of Drs2p, which is implicated in translocation of phospholipids acro...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kishimoto T,Yamamoto T,Tanaka K

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00