Analysis of prelamin A biogenesis reveals the nucleus to be a CaaX processing compartment.

abstract：:Glucose is a master regulator of cell behavior in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. It acts as both a metabolic substrate and a potent regulator of intracellular signaling cascades. Glucose starvation induces the transient delocalization and then partial relocalization of clathrin adaptors at the trans-Golgi network...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Aoh QL,Hung CW,Duncan MC

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to engagement of surface molecules, cells generate active forces that regulate many cellular processes. Developing tools that permit gathering mechanical and morphological information on these forces is of the utmost importance. Here we describe a new technique, the micropipette force probe, that uses a mi...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Sawicka A,Babataheri A,Dogniaux S,Barakat AI,Gonzalez-Rodriguez D,Hivroz C,Husson J

更新日期：2017-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of macropinocytosis is an essential aspect of normal cell function, contributing to both growth and motile processes of cells. p21-activated kinases (PAKs) are targets for activated Rac and Cdc42 guanosine 5'-triphosphatases and have been shown to regulate the actin-myosin cytoskeleton. In fibroblasts PAK1...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Dharmawardhane S,Schürmann A,Sells MA,Chernoff J,Schmid SL,Bokoch GM

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rho family of GTP-binding proteins plays a critical role in a variety of cellular processes, including cytoskeletal reorganization and activation of kinases such as p38 and C-jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) MAPKs. We report here that dominant negative forms of Rac1 and Cdc42Hs inhibit the expression of the muscle-spec...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Meriane M,Roux P,Primig M,Fort P,Gauthier-Rouvière C

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial function depends crucially on the maintenance of multiple mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) copies. Surprisingly, the cellular mechanisms regulating mtDNA copy number remain poorly understood. Through a systematic high-throughput approach in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we determined mtDNA-to-nuclear DNA ratios in ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Göke A,Schrott S,Mizrak A,Belyy V,Osman C,Walter P

更新日期：2020-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The small GTPase Rac cycles between the membrane and the cytosol as it is activated by nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) and inactivated by GTPase-activating proteins (GAPs). Solubility in the cytosol is conferred by binding of Rac to guanine-nucleotide dissociation inhibitors (GDIs). To analyze the in vivo dynamics ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Moissoglu K,Slepchenko BM,Meller N,Horwitz AF,Schwartz MA

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the Sty1 mitogen-activated protein kinase and the Atf1 transcription factor control transcriptional induction in response to elevated salt concentrations. Herein, we demonstrate that two repressors, Tup11 and Tup12, and the Prr1 transcription factor also function in the response to salt s...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Greenall A,Hadcroft AP,Malakasi P,Jones N,Morgan BA,Hoffman CS,Whitehall SK

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many of the actions of the neuropeptide substance P (SP) that are mediated by the neurokinin 1 receptor (NK1-R) desensitize and resensitize, which may be associated with NK1-R endocytosis and recycling. We delineated this endocytic pathway in transfected cells by confocal microscopy using cyanine 3-SP and NK1-R antibo...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Grady EF,Garland AM,Gamp PD,Lovett M,Payan DG,Bunnett NW

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 2008, the autophagy community has periodically published a set of guidelines, currently titled "Guidelines for the Use and Interpretation of Assays for Monitoring Autophagy." The newest version of the guidelines was published in 2016. There are many reasons for establishing a set of guidelines in a given researc...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Klionsky DJ

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：:Dopamine (DA) increases Na(+),K(+)-ATPase activity in lung alveolar epithelial cells. This effect is associated with an increase in Na(+),K(+)-ATPase molecules within the plasma membrane (). Analysis of Na(+),K(+)-ATPase motion was performed in real-time in alveolar cells stably expressing Na(+),K(+)-ATPase molecules ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bertorello AM,Komarova Y,Smith K,Leibiger IB,Efendiev R,Pedemonte CH,Borisy G,Sznajder JI

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical interest in farnesyltransferase inhibitors (FTIs) makes it important to understand how these compounds affect cellular processes involving farnesylated proteins. Mitotic abnormalities observed after treatment with FTIs have so far been attributed to defects in the farnesylation of the outer kinetochore pr...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Holland AJ,Reis RM,Niessen S,Pereira C,Andres DA,Spielmann HP,Cleveland DW,Desai A,Gassmann R

更新日期：2015-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin Va is associated with discrete vesicle populations in a number of cell types, but little is known of the function of myosin Vb. Yeast two-hybrid screening of a rabbit parietal cell cDNA library with dominant active Rab11a (Rab11aS20V) identified myosin Vb as an interacting protein for Rab11a, a marker for plasm...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lapierre LA,Kumar R,Hales CM,Navarre J,Bhartur SG,Burnette JO,Provance DW Jr,Mercer JA,Bähler M,Goldenring JR

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokinesis in metazoan cells requires a set of antiparallel microtubules that become bundled upon anaphase onset to form a structure known as the central spindle. Bundling of these microtubules requires a protein complex, centralspindlin, that consists of the CYK-4/MgcRacGAP Rho-family GTPase-activating protein and t...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Pavicic-Kaltenbrunner V,Mishima M,Glotzer M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine (DA) inhibition of Na+,K+-ATPase in proximal tubule cells is associated with increased endocytosis of its alpha and beta subunits into early and late endosomes via a clathrin vesicle-dependent pathway. In this report we evaluated intracellular signals that could trigger this mechanism, specifically the role o...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Chibalin AV,Zierath JR,Katz AI,Berggren PO,Bertorello AM

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1 (PECAM-1) in endothelial cell-cell interactions and its contribution to cadherin-mediated cell adhesion are poorly understood. Such studies have been difficult because all known endothelial cells express PECAM-1. We have used Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) ce...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Sheibani N,Sorenson CM,Frazier WA

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A provisional matrix consisting of fibrin and fibronectin (FN) is deposited at sites of tissue damage and repair. This matrix serves as a scaffold for fibroblast migration into the wound where these cells deposit new matrix to replace lost or damaged tissue and eventually contract the matrix to bring the margins of th...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Midwood KS,Schwarzbauer JE

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pro-alpha-factor (pro-alphaf) is posttranslationally modified in the yeast Golgi complex by the addition of alpha1,6-, alpha1,2-, and alpha1,3-linked mannose to N-linked oligosaccharides and by a Kex2p-initiated proteolytic processing event. Previous work has indicated that the alpha1,6- and alpha1,3-mannosylation and...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Brigance WT,Barlowe C,Graham TR

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cdc6 performs an essential role in the initiation of eukaryotic DNA replication by recruiting the minichromosome maintenance (MCM) complex onto DNA. Using immunodepletion/add-back experiments in Xenopus egg extracts, we have determined that both Walker A (ATP binding) and Walker B (ATP hydrolysis) motifs of Xenopus Cd...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Frolova NS,Schek N,Tikhmyanova N,Coleman TR

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a new nuclear gene, designated ATP25 (reading frame YMR098C on chromosome XIII), required for expression of Atp9p (subunit 9) of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitochondrial proton translocating ATPase. Mutations in ATP25 elicit a deficit of ATP9 mRNA and of its translation product, thereby preventing assembly...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Zeng X,Barros MH,Shulman T,Tzagoloff A

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) pathway is generally mitogenic, but, upon strong activation, it causes cell cycle arrest by a not-yet fully understood mechanism. In response to genotoxic stress, Chk1 hyperphosphorylates Cdc25A, a positive cell cycle regulator, and targets it for Skp1/Cullin1/F-box prot...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Isoda M,Kanemori Y,Nakajo N,Uchida S,Yamashita K,Ueno H,Sagata N

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：:The Lec35 gene product (Lec35p) is required for utilization of the mannose donor mannose-P-dolichol (MPD) in synthesis of both lipid-linked oligosaccharides (LLOs) and glycosylphosphatidylinositols, which are important for functions such as protein folding and membrane anchoring, respectively. The hamster Lec35 gene i...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Anand M,Rush JS,Ray S,Doucey MA,Weik J,Ware FE,Hofsteenge J,Waechter CJ,Lehrman MA

更新日期：2001-02-01 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 actin cytoskeleton is constantly assembling and disassembling. Cells harness the energy of these turnover dynamics to drive cell motility and organize cytoplasm. Although much is known about how cells control actin polymerization, we do not understand how actin filaments depolymerize inside cells. I briefly descri...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Brieher W

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) are a functionally highly diverse class of proteins that help to adjust the shape and function of the microtubule cytoskeleton in space and time. For this purpose, MAPs structurally support microtubules, modulate their dynamic instability, or regulate the activity of associated m...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Drechsler H,Xu Y,Geyer VF,Zhang Y,Diez S

更新日期：2019-11-15 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：: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：: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：:Microtubules (MTs) often form a polarized array with minus-ends anchored at the centrosome and plus-ends extended towards the cell margins. Plus-ends display behavior known as dynamic instability, - transitions between rapid shortening and slow growth. It is known that dynamic instability is regulated locally to ensur...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Burakov A,Vorobjev I,Semenova I,Cowan A,Carson J,Wu Y,Rodionov V

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00