Drosophila tubulin-binding cofactor B is required for microtubule network formation and for cell polarity.

abstract：:Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling pathways control many developmental and homeostatic processes, including cell size and extracellular matrix remodeling. An understanding of how this pathway itself is controlled remains incomplete. To identify novel regulators of BMP signaling, we performed a forward genetic ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lakdawala MF,Madhu B,Faure L,Vora M,Padgett RW,Gumienny TL

更新日期：2019-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:MAL, a compact hydrophobic, four-transmembrane-domain apical protein that copurifies with detergent-resistant membranes is obligatory for the machinery that sorts glycophosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored proteins and others to the apical membrane in epithelia. The mechanism of MAL function in lipid-raft-mediated apica...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Magal LG,Yaffe Y,Shepshelovich J,Aranda JF,de Marco Mdel C,Gaus K,Alonso MA,Hirschberg K

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hsc70 with its cochaperone, either auxilin or GAK, not only uncoats clathrin-coated vesicles but also acts as a chaperone during clathrin-mediated endocytosis. However, because synaptojanin is also involved in uncoating, it is not clear whether GAK is an essential gene. To answer this question, GAK conditional knockou...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lee DW,Zhao X,Yim YI,Eisenberg E,Greene LE

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Androgen receptor (AR) belongs to the nuclear receptor superfamily and mediates the biological actions of male sex steroids. In this work, we have characterized a novel 130-kDa Ser/Thr protein kinase ANPK that interacts with the zinc finger region of AR in vivo and in vitro. The catalytic kinase domain of ANPK shares ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Moilanen AM,Karvonen U,Poukka H,Jänne OA,Palvimo JJ

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：:During spindle pole body (SPB) duplication, the new SPB is assembled at a distinct site adjacent to the old SPB. Using quantitative fluorescence methods, we studied the assembly and dynamics of the core structural SPB component Spc110p. The SPB core exhibits both exchange and growth in a cell cycle-dependent manner. D...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Yoder TJ,Pearson CG,Bloom K,Davis TN

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophage polarization contributes to a number of human pathologies. This is exemplified for tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs), which display a polarized M2 phenotype, closely associated with promotion of angiogenesis and suppression of innate immune responses. We present evidence that induction of apoptosis in tum...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Weigert A,Tzieply N,von Knethen A,Johann AM,Schmidt H,Geisslinger G,Brüne B

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:cAR1, a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) for cAMP, is required for the multicellular development of Dictyostelium. The activation of multiple pathways by cAR1 is transient because of poorly defined adaptation mechanisms. To investigate this, we used a genetic screen for impaired development to isolate four dominant-n...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Zhang M,Goswami M,Hereld D

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The key molecular regulatory mechanisms that govern and coordinate the molecular alterations that underpin the process of human labor remain incompletely understood although enhanced intrauterine prostaglandin production is known to be requisite. Studies from cancer tissues have indicated that at least one key enzyme ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Mitchell MD

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:More than 97% of mice in which the C-terminal region of connexin43 (Cx43) was removed (designated as Cx43K258stop) die shortly after birth due to a defect of the epidermal barrier. The abnormal expression of Cx43K258stop protein in the uppermost layers of the epidermis seems to perturb terminal differentiation of kera...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Maass K,Ghanem A,Kim JS,Saathoff M,Urschel S,Kirfel G,Grümmer R,Kretz M,Lewalter T,Tiemann K,Winterhager E,Herzog V,Willecke K

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Griscelli syndrome type 2 (GS2) is a genetic disorder in which patients exhibit life-threatening defects of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) whose lytic granules fail to dock on the plasma membrane and therefore do not release their contents. The disease is caused by the absence of functional rab27a, but how rab27a cont...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Neeft M,Wieffer M,de Jong AS,Negroiu G,Metz CH,van Loon A,Griffith J,Krijgsveld J,Wulffraat N,Koch H,Heck AJ,Brose N,Kleijmeer M,van der Sluijs P

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation and polarization of epithelial cells depends on the formation of the apical junctional complex (AJC), which is composed of the tight junction (TJ) and the adherens junction (AJ). In this study, we investigated mechanisms of actin reorganization that drive the establishment of AJC. Using a calcium switc...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ivanov AI,Hunt D,Utech M,Nusrat A,Parkos CA

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：:To date, two major apoptotic pathways, the death receptor and the mitochondrial pathway, have been well documented in mammalian cells. However, the involvement of these two apoptotic pathways, particularly the death receptor pathway, in transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-beta 1)-induced apoptosis is not well under...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kim SG,Jong HS,Kim TY,Lee JW,Kim NK,Hong SH,Bang YJ

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the role of myosin in cytokinesis in Dictyostelium cells by examining cells under both adhesive and nonadhesive conditions. On an adhesive surface, both wild-type and myosin-null cells undergo the normal processes of mitotic rounding, cell elongation, polar ruffling, furrow ingression, and separat...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Zang JH,Cavet G,Sabry JH,Wagner P,Moores SL,Spudich JA

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blebs are involved in various biological processes such as cell migration, cytokinesis, and apoptosis. While the expansion of blebs is largely an intracellular pressure-driven process, the retraction of blebs is believed to be driven by RhoA activation that leads to the reassembly of the actomyosin cortex at the bleb ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Jiao M,Wu D,Wei Q

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Select lipid-anchored proteins such as glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored proteins and nonreceptor tyrosine kinases may preferentially partition into sphingomyelin-rich and cholesterol-rich plasmalemmal microdomains, thereby acquiring resistance to detergent extraction. Two such domains, caveolae and lipid ra...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Oh P,Schnitzer JE

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has established that activation of Mos, Mek, and p42 mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase can trigger release from G2-phase arrest in Xenopus oocytes and oocyte extracts and can cause Xenopus embryos and extracts to arrest in mitosis. Herein we have found that activation of the MAP kinase cascade can a...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Walter SA,Guadagno TM,Ferrell JE Jr

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During Aspergillus nidulans mitosis peripheral nuclear pore complex (NPC) proteins (Nups) disperse from the core NPC structure. Unexpectedly, one predicted peripheral Nup, Gle1, remains at the mitotic NE via an unknown mechanism. Gle1 affinity purification identified MtgA ( M: itotic T: ether for G: le1), which tether...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Chemudupati M,Osmani AH,Osmani SA

更新日期：2016-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Trimming of N-linked oligosaccharides by endoplasmic reticulum (ER) glucosidase II is implicated in quality control of protein folding. An alternate glucosidase II-independent deglucosylation pathway exists, in which endo-alpha-mannosidase cleaves internally the glucose-substituted mannose residue of oligosaccharides....

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Zuber C,Spiro MJ,Guhl B,Spiro RG,Roth J

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scientific communication, career advancement, and funding decisions are all dependent on research publications. The way manuscripts are handled by high-visibility, professionally edited magazines differs from the way academic journals evaluate manuscripts, using active scientists as monitoring editors. In this essay, ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bretscher A

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) protein encoded by the fission yeast rad18 gene is involved in several DNA repair processes and has an essential function in DNA replication and mitotic control. It has a heterodimeric partner SMC protein, Spr18, with which it forms the core of a multiprotein complex. We...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Taylor EM,Moghraby JS,Lees JH,Smit B,Moens PB,Lehmann AR

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell morphogenesis depends on polarized exocytosis. One widely held model posits that long-range transport and exocyst-dependent tethering of exocytic vesicles at the plasma membrane sequentially drive this process. Here, we describe that disruption of either actin-based long-range transport and microtubules or the ex...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bendezú FO,Martin SG

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Up-regulation of the cAMP pathway by forskolin or alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone induces melanocyte and melanoma cell differentiation characterized by stimulation of melanin synthesis and dendrite development. Here we show that forskolin-induced dendricity is associated to a disassembly of actin stress fibers. S...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Buscà R,Bertolotto C,Abbe P,Englaro W,Ishizaki T,Narumiya S,Boquet P,Ortonne JP,Ballotti R

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The BNIP-2 and Cdc42GAP homology (BCH) domain is a novel regulator for Rho GTPases, but its impact on p50-Rho GTPase-activating protein (p50RhoGAP or Cdc42GAP) in cells remains elusive. Here we show that deletion of the BCH domain from p50RhoGAP enhanced its GAP activity and caused drastic cell rounding. Introducing c...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Zhou YT,Chew LL,Lin SC,Low BC

更新日期：2010-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cotranslational protein targeting to membranes is regulated by two GTPases in the signal recognition particle (SRP) and the SRP receptor; association between the two GTPases is slow and is accelerated 400-fold by the SRP RNA. Intriguingly, the otherwise universally conserved SRP RNA is missing in a novel chloroplast S...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Jaru-Ampornpan P,Chandrasekar S,Shan SO

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular free calcium ([Ca2+]i) has been proposed to play an important part in the regulation of the cell cycle. Although a number of studies have shown that stimulation of quiescent cells with growth factors causes an immediate rise in [Ca2+]i (Rabinovitch et al., 1986; Vincentini and Villereal, 1986; Hesketh et...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Wahl M,Gruenstein E

更新日期：1993-03-01 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：:Yeast cytochrome oxidase (COX) was previously inferred to assemble from three modules, each containing one of the three mitochondrially encoded subunits and a different subset of the eight nuclear gene products that make up this respiratory complex. Pull-down assays of pulse-labeled mitochondria enabled us to characte...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Su CH,McStay GP,Tzagoloff A

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00