LIN-41 inactivation leads to delayed centrosome elimination and abnormal chromosome behavior during female meiosis in Caenorhabditis elegans.

abstract：:Multisite phosphorylation of proteins is a powerful signal processing mechanism that plays crucial roles in cell division and differentiation as well as in disease. We recently demonstrated a novel phenomenon in cell cycle regulation by showing that cyclin-dependent kinase-dependent multisite phosphorylation of a cruc...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Valk E,Venta R,Ord M,Faustova I,Kõivomägi M,Loog M

更新日期：2014-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In budding yeast, spindle polarity relies on a precise temporal program of cytoplasmic microtubule-cortex interactions throughout spindle assembly. Loss of Clb5-dependent kinase activity under conditions of attenuated Cdc28 function disrupts this program, resulting in diploid-specific lethality. Here we show that pola...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Segal M,Bloom K,Reed SI

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coordinated regulation of cell proliferation is vital for epithelial tissue homeostasis, and uncontrolled proliferation is a hallmark of carcinogenesis. A growing body of evidence indicates that epithelial tight junctions (TJs) play a role in these processes, although the mechanisms involved are poorly understood. In ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Capaldo CT,Koch S,Kwon M,Laur O,Parkos CA,Nusrat A

更新日期：2011-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Both sporadic and familial Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients exhibit increased chromosome aneuploidy, particularly trisomy 21, in neurons and other cells. Significantly, trisomy 21/Down syndrome patients develop early onset AD pathology. We investigated the mechanism underlying mosaic chromosome aneuploidy in AD and r...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Granic A,Padmanabhan J,Norden M,Potter H

更新日期：2010-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Endosomal trafficking of signaling proteins plays an essential role in cellular homeostasis. The seven-pass transmembrane protein Frizzled (Fz) is a critical component of Wnt signaling. Although Wnt signaling is proposed to be regulated by endosomal trafficking of Fz, the molecular events that enable this regulation a...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Pradhan-Sundd T,Verheyen EM

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Starvation induces Dictyostelium amoebae to secrete cAMP, toward which other amoebae stream, forming multicellular mounds that differentiate and develop into fruiting bodies containing spores. We find that the double deletion of cortexillin (ctx) I and II alters the actin cytoskeleton and substantially inhibits all mo...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Shu S,Liu X,Kriebel PW,Daniels MP,Korn ED

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to their well-known role in microtubule organization, centrosomes function as signaling platforms and regulate cell cycle events. An important example of such a function is the spindle position checkpoint (SPOC) of budding yeast. SPOC is a surveillance mechanism that ensures alignment of the mitotic spindl...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Caydasi AK,Micoogullari Y,Kurtulmus B,Palani S,Pereira G

更新日期：2014-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of YME1 in yeast causes several distinct phenotypes: an increased rate of DNA escape from mitochondria, temperature-sensitive growth on nonfermentable carbon sources, extremely slow growth when mitochondrial DNA is completely absent from the cell, and altered morphology of the mitochondrial compartment. T...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Weber ER,Hanekamp T,Thorsness PE

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that a physiological role of the extensively studied cisternal Golgi rab protein, rab6, is modulation of Golgi apparatus response to stress. Taking exposure of cells to hypotonic media as the best-known example of mammalian Golgi stress response, we found that hypotonic-induced tubule extension from the Golgi ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Jiang S,Storrie B

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The key regulator of entry into mitosis is the serine/threonine kinase p34cdc2. This kinase is regulated both by association with cyclins and by phosphorylation at several sites. Phosphorylation at Tyr 15 and Thr 14 are believed to inhibit the kinase activity of cdc2. In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the wee1 (and possib...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kornbluth S,Sebastian B,Hunter T,Newport J

更新日期：1994-03-01 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：:Stimulation of the T-cell receptor (TCR) results in the activation of several transcription factors, including NF-kappaB, that are crucial for T-cell proliferation and gain of effector functions. On TCR engagement, several proteins within the TCR-directed NF-kappaB signaling pathway undergo dynamic spatial redistribut...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Rossman JS,Stoicheva NG,Langel FD,Patterson GH,Lippincott-Schwartz J,Schaefer BC

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caenorhabditis elegans is a powerful model to study the molecular basis of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). ADPKD is caused by mutations in the polycystic kidney disease (PKD)1 or PKD2 gene, encoding polycystin (PC)-1 or PC-2, respectively. The C. elegans polycystins LOV-1 and PKD-2 are required f...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Hu J,Barr MM

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombospondin (TSP) was demonstrated to inhibit the growth of bovine aortic endothelial cells, an activity that was not neutralized by antibodies to TSP or by other agents that block TSP-cell interactions but that partially was reversed by a neutralizing antibody to transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta). Similar...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Murphy-Ullrich JE,Schultz-Cherry S,Höök M

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulation of the MAPK pathway results in mitogen- and stress-activated protein kinase 1/2 (MSK1/2)-catalyzed phosphorylation of histone H3 at serine 10 or 28 and expression of immediate-early (IE) genes. In 10T1/2 mouse fibroblasts, phosphorylation of H3S10 and H3S28 occurs on different H3 molecules and in different...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Khan DH,Healy S,He S,Lichtensztejn D,Klewes L,Sharma KL,Lau V,Mai S,Delcuve GP,Davie JR

更新日期：2017-03-15 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

abstract：:Cdc42-associated tyrosine kinase 1 (ACK1) is a specific down-stream effector of Cdc42, a Rho family small G-protein. Previous studies have shown that ACK1 interacts with clathrin heavy chain and is involved in clathrin-coated vesicle endocytosis. Here we report that ACK1 interacted with epidermal growth factor recepto...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Shen F,Lin Q,Gu Y,Childress C,Yang W

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：:Although evasion of apoptosis is thought to be required for the development of cancer, it is unclear which cell death pathways are evaded. We previously identified a novel epithelial cell death pathway that works in normal cells but is inactivated in tumor cells, implying that it may be targeted during tumor developme...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Thorburn J,Moore F,Rao A,Barclay WW,Thomas LR,Grant KW,Cramer SD,Thorburn A

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin and microtubule dynamics must be precisely coordinated during cell migration, mitosis, and morphogenesis--much of this coordination is mediated by proteins that physically bridge the two cytoskeletal networks. We have investigated the regulation of the Drosophila actin-microtubule cross-linker Short stop (Shot),...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Applewhite DA,Grode KD,Duncan MC,Rogers SL

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:Microtubules (MTs) are cytoskeletal polymers composed of repeating subunits of tubulin that are ubiquitously expressed in eukaryotic cells. They undergo a stochastic process of polymerization and depolymerization from their plus ends termed dynamic instability. MT dynamics is an ongoing process in all cell types and h...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Dent EW

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rab8 is a GTPase involved in membrane trafficking. In photoreceptor cells, rab8 is proposed to participate in the late stages of delivery of rhodopsin-containing post-Golgi membranes to the plasma membrane near the base of the connecting cilium. To test the function of rab8 in vivo, we generated transgenic Xenopus lae...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Moritz OL,Tam BM,Hurd LL,Peränen J,Deretic D,Papermaster DS

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysregulated hepatic cholesterol homeostasis with free cholesterol accumulation in the liver is relevant to the pathogenesis of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, contributing to the chronicity of liver toxicity. Here we examined the effect of free cholesterol accumulation on the morphology and biochemical properties of li...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Makino A,Hullin-Matsuda F,Murate M,Abe M,Tomishige N,Fukuda M,Yamashita S,Fujimoto T,Vidal H,Lagarde M,Delton I,Kobayashi T

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast SIR2 gene and many of its homologs have been identified as NAD(+)-dependent histone deacetylases. To get a broader view of the relationship between the histone deacetylase activity of Sir2p and its in vivo functions we have mutated eight highly conserved residues in the core domain of SIR2. These mutations h...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Armstrong CM,Kaeberlein M,Imai SI,Guarente L

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiotic recombination differs from mitotic recombination in that DSBs are repaired using homologous chromosomes, rather than sister chromatids. This change in partner choice is due in part to a barrier to sister chromatid repair (BSCR) created by the meiosis-specific kinase, Mek1, in a complex with two other meiosis-s...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Niu H,Wan L,Baumgartner B,Schaefer D,Loidl J,Hollingsworth NM

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disassembly of the epithelial apical junctional complex (AJC), composed of the tight junction (TJ) and adherens junction (AJ), is important for normal tissue remodeling and pathogen-induced disruption of epithelial barriers. Using a calcium depletion model in T84 epithelial cells, we previously found that disassembly ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ivanov AI,McCall IC,Parkos CA,Nusrat A

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During differentiation, keratinocytes undergo a dramatic shape change from small and round to large and flat, in addition to production of proteins necessary for the formation of epidermis. It has been shown that protein kinase C (PKC) η is crucial for keratinocyte differentiation. However, its role in this process ha...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Shirai Y,Morioka S,Sakuma M,Yoshino K,Otsuji C,Sakai N,Kashiwagi K,Chida K,Shirakawa R,Horiuchi H,Nishigori C,Ueyama T,Saito N

更新日期：2011-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The secretory and autophagy pathways can be thought of as the biosynthetic (i.e., anabolic) and degradative (i.e., catabolic) branches of the endomembrane system. In analogy to anabolic and catabolic pathways in metabolism, there is mounting evidence that the secretory and autophagy pathways are intimately linked and ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Farhan H,Kundu M,Ferro-Novick S

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila bristle cells are shaped during growth by longitudinal bundles of cross-linked actin filaments attached to the plasma membrane. We used confocal and electron microscopy to examine actin bundle structure and found that during bristle elongation, snarls of uncross-linked actin filaments and small internal bun...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Tilney LG,Connelly PS,Ruggiero L,Vranich KA,Guild GM

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00