Casein kinase 1 controls the activation threshold of an α-arrestin by multisite phosphorylation of the interdomain hinge.

abstract：:Cellular levels of the versatile second messenger cyclic (c)AMP are regulated by the antagonistic actions of the canonical G protein → adenylyl cyclase pathway that is initiated by G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and attenuated by phosphodiesterases (PDEs). Dysregulated cAMP signaling drives many diseases; for exa...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Getz M,Swanson L,Sahoo D,Ghosh P,Rangamani P

更新日期：2019-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-to-extracellular matrix adhesion is regulated by a multitude of pathways initiated distally to the core cell-matrix adhesion machinery, such as via growth factor signaling. In contrast to these extrinsically sourced pathways, we now identify a regulatory pathway that is intrinsic to the core adhesion machinery, p...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Li Z,Lock JG,Olofsson H,Kowalewski JM,Teller S,Liu Y,Zhang H,Strömblad S

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol is an essential constituent of membranes in mammalian cells. The plasma membrane and the endocytic recycling compartment (ERC) are both highly enriched in cholesterol. The abundance and distribution of cholesterol among organelles are tightly controlled by a combination of mechanisms involving vesicular an...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Iaea DB,Mao S,Lund FW,Maxfield FR

更新日期：2017-04-15 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：:Colony-stimulating factor-1 (CSF-1) induces expression of immediate early gene, such as c-myc and c-fos and delayed early genes such as D-type cyclins (D1 and D2), whose products play essential roles in the G1 to S phase transition of the cell cycle. Little is known, however, about the cytoplasmic signal transduction ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Dey A,She H,Kim L,Boruch A,Guris DL,Carlberg K,Sebti SM,Woodley DT,Imamoto A,Li W

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubules are long, slender polymers of αβ-tubulin found in all eukaryotic cells. Tubulins associate longitudinally to form protofilaments, and adjacent protofilaments associate laterally to form the microtubule. In the textbook view, microtubules are 1) composed of 13 protofilaments, 2) arranged in a radial array ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Chaaban S,Brouhard GJ

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted endocytosis of plasma membrane (PM) proteins allows cells to adjust their complement of membrane proteins to changing extracellular conditions. For a wide variety of PM proteins, initiation of endocytosis is triggered by ubiquitination. In yeast, arrestin-related trafficking adaptors (ARTs) enable a single ub...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Guiney EL,Klecker T,Emr SD

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Survivin, a subunit of the chromosome passenger complex (CPC), binds the N-terminal tail of histone H3, which is phosphorylated on T3 by Haspin kinase, and localizes the complex to the inner centromeres. We used x-ray crystallography to determine the residues of Survivin that are important in binding phosphomodified h...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Niedzialkowska E,Wang F,Porebski PJ,Minor W,Higgins JM,Stukenberg PT

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional (2D) substrate rigidity promotes myosin II activity to increase traction force in a process negatively regulated by tropomyosin (Tpm) 2.1. We recently discovered that actomyosin contractility can increase intracellular pressure and switch tumor cells from low-pressure lamellipodia to high-pressure lobo...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Sao K,Jones TM,Doyle AD,Maity D,Schevzov G,Chen Y,Gunning PW,Petrie RJ

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The split-ubiquitin technique was used to detect transient protein interactions in living cells. Nub, the N-terminal half of ubiquitin (Ub), was fused to Sec62p, a component of the protein translocation machinery in the endoplasmic reticulum of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Cub, the C-terminal half of Ub, was fused to the...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Dünnwald M,Varshavsky A,Johnsson N

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yarrowia lipolytica Pex23p and Saccharomyces cerevisiae Pex30p, Pex31p, and Pex32p comprise a family of dysferlin domain-containing peroxins. We show that the deletion of their Pichia pastoris homologues, PEX30 and PEX31, does not affect the function or division of methanol-induced peroxisomes but results in fewer and...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Yan M,Rachubinski DA,Joshi S,Rachubinski RA,Subramani S

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:The insulin-stimulated trafficking of GLUT4 to the plasma membrane in muscle and fat tissue constitutes a central process in blood glucose homeostasis. The tethering, docking, and fusion of GLUT4 vesicles with the plasma membrane (PM) represent the most distal steps in this pathway and have been recently shown to be k...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lopez JA,Burchfield JG,Blair DH,Mele K,Ng Y,Vallotton P,James DE,Hughes WE

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the class C vacuole protein sorting (Vps) proteins, together with Vam2p/Vps41p and Vam6p/Vps39p, form a complex that interacts with soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptor and Rab proteins to "tether" vacuolar membranes before fusion. To determine a role for t...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Richardson SC,Winistorfer SC,Poupon V,Luzio JP,Piper RC

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Aurora kinase complex, also called the chromosomal passenger complex (CPC), is essential for faithful chromosome segregation and completion of cell division. In Fungi and Animalia, this complex consists of the kinase Aurora B/AIR-2/Ipl1p, INCENP/ICP-1/Sli15p, and Survivin/BIR-1/Bir1p. A fourth subunit, Borealin/Da...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Nakajima Y,Tyers RG,Wong CC,Yates JR 3rd,Drubin DG,Barnes G

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cdc25 tyrosine phosphatase is known to activate cdc2 kinase in the G2/M transition by dephosphorylation of tyrosine 15. To determine how entry into M-phase in eukaryotic cells is controlled, we have investigated the regulation of the cdc25 protein in Xenopus eggs and oocytes. Two closely related Xenopus cdc25 gene...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Izumi T,Walker DH,Maller JL

更新日期：1992-08-01 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

abstract：:TPX2 is a Ran-regulated spindle assembly factor that is required for kinetochore fiber formation and activation of the mitotic kinase Aurora A. TPX2 is enriched near spindle poles and is required near kinetochores, suggesting that it undergoes dynamic relocalization throughout mitosis. Using photoactivation, we measur...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ma N,Tulu US,Ferenz NP,Fagerstrom C,Wilde A,Wadsworth P

更新日期：2010-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The type III transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) receptor (TβRIII), also known as betaglycan, is the most abundantly expressed TGF-β receptor. TβRIII suppresses breast cancer progression by inhibiting migration, invasion, metastasis, and angiogenesis. TβRIII binds TGF-β ligands, with membrane-bound TβRIII presenting ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Elderbroom JL,Huang JJ,Gatza CE,Chen J,How T,Starr M,Nixon AB,Blobe GC

更新日期：2014-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The gamma-tubulin small complex (gamma-TuSC) is an evolutionarily conserved heterotetramer essential for microtubule nucleation. We have determined the structure of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae gamma-TuSC at 25-A resolution by electron microscopy. gamma-TuSC is Y-shaped, with an elongated body connected to two arms. G...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kollman JM,Zelter A,Muller EG,Fox B,Rice LM,Davis TN,Agard DA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cDNAs encoding casein kinase-1 have been isolated from a yeast cDNA library and termed CKI1 and CKI2. Each clone encodes a protein of approximately 62,000 Da containing a highly conserved protein kinase domain surrounded by variable amino- and carboxy-terminal domains. The proteins also contain two conserved carbo...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Wang PC,Vancura A,Mitcheson TG,Kuret J

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caveolae are vesicular invaginations of the plasma membrane. Caveolin-3 is the principal structural component of caveolae in skeletal muscle cells in vivo. We have recently generated caveolin-3 transgenic mice and demonstrated that overexpression of wild-type caveolin-3 in skeletal muscle fibers is sufficient to induc...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Volonte D,Peoples AJ,Galbiati F

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What started as a game of discovery for a child with a chemistry set has resulted in a lifetime of fulfillment and dedication to science. It is deeply rewarding to continuously let my curiosity ask questions for which there are no known answers. Equally rewarding has been the opportunity to mentor young students and p...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Garcia JV

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:Rab 11 GTPase is an important regulator of endocytic membrane traffic. Recently, we and others have identified a novel family of Rab11 binding proteins, known as Rab11-family interacting proteins (FIPs). One of the family members, Rab coupling protein (RCP), was identified as a protein binding to both Rab4 and Rab11 G...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Peden AA,Schonteich E,Chun J,Junutula JR,Scheller RH,Prekeris R

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transporting epithelial cells optimize their morphology for solute uptake by building an apical specialization: a dense array of microvilli that serves to increase membrane surface area. In the intestinal tract, individual cells build thousands of microvilli, which pack tightly to form the brush border. Recent studies...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Pinette JA,Mao S,Millis BA,Krystofiak ES,Faust JJ,Tyska MJ

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myo4p, a single-headed and nonprocessive class V myosin in budding yeast, transports >20 different mRNAs asymmetrically to the bud. Here, we determine the features of the Myo4p motor that are necessary for correct localization of ASH1 mRNA to the daughter cell, a process that also requires the adapter protein She3p an...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bookwalter CS,Lord M,Trybus KM

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：:We applied a combination of laser microsurgery and quantitative polarization microscopy to study kinetochore-independent forces that act on chromosome arms during meiosis in crane fly spermatocytes. When chromosome arms located within one of the half-spindles during prometa- or metaphase were cut with the laser, the a...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： LaFountain JR Jr,Oldenbourg R,Cole RW,Rieder CL

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) is a master regulator of the cellular response to hypoxia. Its levels and activity are controlled by dioxygenases called prolyl-hydroxylases and factor inhibiting HIF (FIH). To activate genes, HIF has to access sequences in DNA that are integrated in chromatin. It is known that the c...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Melvin A,Mudie S,Rocha S

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00