Plasma membrane organization and function: moving past lipid rafts.

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：:Doing scientific research can be a challenging, but creative and rewarding career. However, the challenge of doing research is orders of magnitude more difficult for scientists lacking access to the necessary resources. Resource-scarce environments are quite common worldwide and are highly contingent on the financial ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Karasmanis EP

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clustered protocadherins (Pcdhs) are arranged in gene clusters (α, β, and γ) with variable and constant exons. Variable exons encode cadherin and transmembrane domains and ~90 cytoplasmic residues. The 14 Pcdh-αs and 22 Pcdh-γs are spliced to constant exons, which, for Pcdh-γs, encode ~120 residues of an identical cyt...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： O'Leary R,Reilly JE,Hanson HH,Kang S,Lou N,Phillips GR

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:XMAP215/Dis1 proteins are conserved tubulin-binding TOG-domain proteins that regulate microtubule (MT) plus-end dynamics. Here we show that Alp14, a XMAP215 orthologue in fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, has properties of a MT polymerase. In vivo, Alp14 localizes to growing MT plus ends in a manner independen...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Al-Bassam J,Kim H,Flor-Parra I,Lal N,Velji H,Chang F

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：:Many mitochondrial outer membrane (MOM) proteins have a transmembrane domain near the C terminus and an N-terminal cytosolic moiety. It is not clear how these tail-anchored (TA) proteins posttranslationally select their target, but C-terminal charged residues play an important role. To investigate how discrimination b...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Borgese N,Gazzoni I,Barberi M,Colombo S,Pedrazzini E

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major regulatory function has been evidenced here for HSF1, the key transcription factor of the heat-shock response, in a large-scale remodeling of the cell epigenome. Indeed, upon heat shock, HSF1, in addition to its well-known transactivating activities, mediates a genome-wide and massive histone deacetylation. In...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Fritah S,Col E,Boyault C,Govin J,Sadoul K,Chiocca S,Christians E,Khochbin S,Jolly C,Vourc'h C

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast sulfur metabolism is transcriptionally regulated by the activator Met4. Met4 lacks DNA-binding ability and relies on interactions with Met31 and Met32, paralogous proteins that bind the same cis-regulatory element, to activate its targets. Although Met31 and Met32 are redundant for growth in the absence of methi...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Carrillo E,Ben-Ari G,Wildenhain J,Tyers M,Grammentz D,Lee TA

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：:Nuclear migration is required for normal development in both higher and lower eukaryotes. In fungi this process is mediated by cytoplasmic dynein. It is believed that this motor protein is anchored to the cell membrane and moves nuclei by capturing and pulling on spindle pole body microtubules. To date, four genes hav...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Chiu YH,Xiang X,Dawe AL,Morris NR

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basal bodies organize cilia that are responsible for both mechanical beating and sensation. Nascent basal body assembly follows a series of well characterized morphological events; however, the proteins and their assembly dynamics for new basal body formation and function are not well understood. High-resolution light...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Pearson CG,Giddings TH Jr,Winey M

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：:Nuclear FGFR1 acts as a developmental gene regulator in cooperation with FGF-2, RSK1, and CREB-binding protein (CBP). FRAP analysis revealed three nuclear FGFR1 populations: i) a fast mobile, ii) a slower mobile population reflecting chromatin-bound FGFR1, and iii) an immobile FGFR1 population associated with the nucl...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Dunham-Ems SM,Lee YW,Stachowiak EK,Pudavar H,Claus P,Prasad PN,Stachowiak MK

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic adaptation, and in particular the modulation of carbon assimilatory pathways during disease progression, is thought to contribute to the pathogenicity of Candida albicans. Therefore, we have examined the global impact of glucose upon the C. albicans transcriptome, testing the sensitivity of this pathogen to ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Rodaki A,Bohovych IM,Enjalbert B,Young T,Odds FC,Gow NA,Brown AJ

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) is a potent neuropeptide that possesses both neurotrophic and neurodevelopmental effects. Recently, the Rit GTPase was found to be activated by a novel Galpha/cAMP/exchange protein activated by cyclic AMP (Epac)-dependent signaling pathway and required for PAC...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Shi GX,Jin L,Andres DA

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:WDR92 is a highly conserved WD-repeat protein that has been proposed to be involved in apoptosis and also to be part of a prefoldin-like cochaperone complex. We found that WDR92 has a phylogenetic signature that is generally compatible with it playing a role in the assembly or function of specifically motile cilia. To...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Patel-King RS,King SM

更新日期：2016-04-15 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：:The second step of dolichol-linked oligosaccharide synthesis in the N-linked glycosylation pathway at the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane is catalyzed by an unusual hetero-oligomeric UDP-N-acetylglucosamine transferase that in most eukaryotes is comprised of at least two subunits, Alg13p and Alg14p. Alg13p is the ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Averbeck N,Gao XD,Nishimura S,Dean N

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Timely degradation of regulatory proteins by the ubiquitin proteolytic pathway (UPP) is an established paradigm of cell cycle regulation during the G2/M and G1/S transitions. Less is known about roles for the UPP during S phase. Here we present evidence that dynamic cell cycle-dependent changes in levels of UbcH7 regu...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Whitcomb EA,Dudek EJ,Liu Q,Taylor A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular trafficking of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is regulated by a cross-talk between calmodulin (CaM) and protein kinase Cdelta (PKCdelta). On inhibition of CaM, PKCdelta promotes the formation of enlarged early endosomes and blocks EGFR recycling and degradation. Here, we show that PKCdel...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lladó A,Timpson P,Vilà de Muga S,Moretó J,Pol A,Grewal T,Daly RJ,Enrich C,Tebar F

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Meiosis involves two successive rounds of chromosome segregation without an intervening S phase. Exit from meiosis I is distinct from mitotic exit, in that replication origins are not licensed by Mcm2-7 chromatin binding, but spindle disassembly occurs during a transient interphase-like state before meiosis II. The ab...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Hua H,Namdar M,Ganier O,Gregan J,Méchali M,Kearsey SE

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified a novel Ras-interacting protein from Dictyostelium, RIP3, whose function is required for both chemotaxis and the synthesis and relay of the cyclic AMP (cAMP) chemoattractant signal. rip3 null cells are unable to aggregate and lack receptor activation of adenylyl cyclase but are able, in response to ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lee S,Parent CA,Insall R,Firtel RA

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on physiological modulation of intercellular communication mediated by protein kinases are often complicated by the fact that cells express multiple gap junction proteins (connexins; Cx). Changes in cell coupling can be masked by simultaneous opposite regulation of the gap junction channel types expressed. We ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kwak BR,Hermans MM,De Jonge HR,Lohmann SM,Jongsma HJ,Chanson M

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoglobulin (Ig) molecule is composed of two identical heavy chains and two identical light chains (H2L2). Transport of this heteromeric complex is dependent on the correct assembly of the component parts, which is controlled, in part, by the association of incompletely assembled Ig heavy chains with the endopl...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lee YK,Brewer JW,Hellman R,Hendershot LM

更新日期：1999-07-01 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：:Fibroblasts, when plated on the extracellular matrix protein fibronectin (FN), rapidly spread and form an organized actin cytoskeleton. This process is known to involve both the central alpha5beta1 integrin-binding and the C-terminal heparin-binding regions of FN. We found that within the heparin-binding region, the i...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bloom L,Ingham KC,Hynes RO

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli remain a food-borne health threat. Shiga toxin is endocytosed by intestinal epithelial cells and transported retrogradely through the secretory pathway. It is ultimately translocated to the cytosol where it inhibits protein translation. We found that Shiga toxin transport through...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Hehnly H,Longhini KM,Chen JL,Stamnes M

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A morphogenesis checkpoint in budding yeast delays nuclear division (and subsequent cell cycle progression) in cells that have failed to make a bud. We show that the ability of this checkpoint to delay nuclear division requires the SWE1 gene, encoding a protein kinase that inhibits the master cell cycle regulatory kin...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Sia RA,Herald HA,Lew DJ

更新日期：1996-11-01 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