Kinesin-8 effects on mitotic microtubule dynamics contribute to spindle function in fission yeast.

abstract：:In this study, we examined the subcellular distribution and functions of LIMK1 in developing neurons. Confocal microscopy, subcellular fractionation, and expression of several epitope-tagged LIMK1 constructs revealed that LIMK1 is enriched in the Golgi apparatus and growth cones, with the LIM domain required for Golgi...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Rosso S,Bollati F,Bisbal M,Peretti D,Sumi T,Nakamura T,Quiroga S,Ferreira A,Cáceres A

更新日期：2004-07-01 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：:Clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) is the major mechanism for internalization in mammalian cells. CME initiates by recruitment of adaptors and clathrin to form clathrin-coated pits (CCPs). Nearly half of nascent CCPs abort, whereas others are stabilized by unknown mechanisms and undergo further maturation before pinc...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Antonescu CN,Aguet F,Danuser G,Schmid SL

更新日期：2011-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta 2 integrin lymphocyte function-associated antigen 1 (LFA-1) mediates activation-dependent adhesion of lymphocytes. To investigate whether lymphocyte-specific elements are essential for LFA-1 function, we expressed LFA-1 in the erythroleukemic cell line K562, which expresses only the integrin very late antigen...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lub M,van Vliet SJ,Oomen SP,Pieters RA,Robinson M,Figdor CG,van Kooyk Y

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In pancreatic β-cells, insulin granule membranes are enriched in cholesterol and are both recycled and newly generated. Cholesterol's role in supporting granule membrane formation and function is poorly understood. ATP binding cassette transporters ABCG1 and ABCA1 regulate intracellular cholesterol and are important f...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Hussain SS,Harris MT,Kreutzberger AJB,Inouye CM,Doyle CA,Castle AM,Arvan P,Castle JD

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In mouse embryoid bodies, mutation of the tight junction protein cingulin results in changes in gene expression. Here, we studied the function of cingulin using a gene silencing approach in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells. Cingulin-depleted cells show higher protein and mRNA levels of claudin-2 and ZO-3, increa...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Guillemot L,Citi S

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Arp2/3 complex is the only known nucleator of branched F-actin filaments. Work in cultured cells has established a wide array of functions for this complex in controlling cell migration, shape, and adhesion. However, loss of Arp2/3 complex function in tissues has yielded cell type-specific phenotypes. Here we repo...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Zhou K,Sumigray KD,Lechler T

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anchorage dependence of cell growth, which is mediated by multiple integrin-regulated signaling pathways, is a key defense against cancer metastasis. Detachment of cells from the extracellular matrix triggers caveolin-1-dependent internalization of lipid raft components, which mediates suppression of Rho GTPases, Erk,...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Norambuena A,Schwartz MA

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several membrane-associating signals, including covalently linked fatty acids, are found in various combinations at the N termini of signaling proteins. The function of these combinations was investigated by appending fatty acylated N-terminal sequences to green fluorescent protein (GFP). Myristoylated plus mono/dipal...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： McCabe JB,Berthiaume LG

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human fungal pathogen Candida albicans can switch between yeast, pseudohyphal, and hyphal morphologies. To investigate whether the distinctive characteristics of hyphae are due to increased activity of the Cdc42 GTPase, strains lacking negative regulators of Cdc42 were constructed. Unexpectedly, the deletion of th...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Court H,Sudbery P

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell emergence onto damaged or organized fibrous extracellular matrix (ECM) is a crucial precursor to collective cell migration in wound closure and cancer metastasis, respectively. However, there is a fundamental gap in our quantitative understanding of the role of local ECM size and arrangement in cell emergence-bas...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Sharma P,Ng C,Jana A,Padhi A,Szymanski P,Lee JSH,Behkam B,Nain AS

更新日期：2017-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lamellipodia of crawling cells represent both the motor for cell advance and the primary building site for the actin cytoskeleton. The organization of actin in the lamellipodium reflects actin dynamics and is of critical importance for the mechanism of cell motility. In previous structural studies, the lamellipodial a...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Verkhovsky AB,Chaga OY,Schaub S,Svitkina TM,Meister JJ,Borisy GG

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arg8-vasopressin (AVP) promotes the differentiation of myogenic cell lines and mouse primary satellite cells by mechanisms involving the transcriptional activation of myogenic bHLH regulatory factors and myocyte enhancer factor 2 (MEF2). We here report that AVP treatment of L6 cells results in the activation of calcin...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Scicchitano BM,Spath L,Musarò A,Molinaro M,Rosenthal N,Nervi C,Adamo S

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycerol and other polyols are used as osmoprotectants by many organisms. Several yeasts and other fungi can take up glycerol by proton symport. To identify genes involved in active glycerol uptake in Saccharomyces cerevisiae we screened a deletion mutant collection comprising 321 genes encoding proteins with 6 or mor...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ferreira C,van Voorst F,Martins A,Neves L,Oliveira R,Kielland-Brandt MC,Lucas C,Brandt A

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptosomal associated protein of 23 kDa (SNAP-23), a plasma membrane-localized soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptor (SNARE), has been implicated in phagocytosis by macrophages. For elucidation of its precise role in this process, a macrophage line overexpressing monomeric Venus-tagge...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Sakurai C,Hashimoto H,Nakanishi H,Arai S,Wada Y,Sun-Wada GH,Wada I,Hatsuzawa K

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis causes characteristic morphological changes in cells, including membrane blebbing, cell detachment from the extracellular matrix, and loss of cell-cell contacts. We investigated the changes in focal adhesion proteins during etoposide-induced apoptosis in Rat-1 cells and found that during apoptosis, p130cas (...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kook S,Shim SR,Choi SJ,Ahnn J,Kim JI,Eom SH,Jung YK,Paik SG,Song WK

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The orderly progression through the cell division cycle is of paramount importance to all organisms, as improper progression through the cycle could result in defects with grave consequences. Previously, our lab has shown that model eukaryotes such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Caenorhabditis elegans, and Danio rerio a...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Chan K,Goldmark JP,Roth MB

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NuMA is an abundant long coiled-coil protein that plays a prominent role in spindle organization during mitosis. In interphase, NuMA is localized to the nucleus and hypothesized to control gene expression and chromatin organization. However, because of the prominent mitotic phenotype upon NuMA loss, its precise functi...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Rajeevan A,Keshri R,Kapoor S,Kotak S

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon fixation in cyanobacteria makes a major contribution to the global carbon cycle. The cyanobacterial carboxysome is a proteinaceous microcompartment that protects and concentrates the carbon-fixing enzyme ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO) in a paracrystalline lattice, making it possible f...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Niederhuber MJ,Lambert TJ,Yapp C,Silver PA,Polka JK

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokinesis in many eukaryotes is dependent on a contractile actomyosin ring (AMR), composed of F-actin, myosin II, and other actin and myosin II regulators. Through fluorescence recovery after photobleaching experiments, many components of the AMR have been shown to be mobile and to undergo constant exchange with the...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kamnev A,Palani S,Zambon P,Cheffings T,Burroughs N,Balasubramanian MK

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel selection scheme has been developed to isolate bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma brucei, which are defective in their ability to differentiate to the procyclic stage. Detailed characterization of one selected cell line (defective in differentiation clone 1 [DiD-1]) has demonstrated that these cells are indistin...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Tasker M,Wilson J,Sarkar M,Hendriks E,Matthews K

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic cell survival requires maintenance of plasma membrane (PM) homeostasis in response to environmental insults and changes in lipid metabolism. In yeast, a key regulator of PM homeostasis is target of rapamycin (TOR) complex 2 (TORC2), a multiprotein complex containing the evolutionarily conserved TOR protein ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Martinez Marshall MN,Emmerstorfer-Augustin A,Leskoske KL,Zhang LH,Li B,Thorner J

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine how the human cdc25 gene product acts to regulate p34cdc2 at the G2 to M transition, we have overproduced the full-length protein (cdc25Hs) as well as several deletion mutants in bacteria as glutathione-S-transferase fusion proteins. The wild-type cdc25Hs gene product was synthesized as an 80-kDa fusion p...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lee MS,Ogg S,Xu M,Parker LL,Donoghue DJ,Maller JL,Piwnica-Worms H

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:In vertebrates, zyxin is a LIM-domain protein belonging to a family composed of seven members. We show that the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has a unique zyxin-like protein, ZYX-1, which is the orthologue of the vertebrate zyxin subfamily composed of zyxin, migfilin, TRIP6, and LPP. The ZYX-1 protein is expressed i...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lecroisey C,Brouilly N,Qadota H,Mariol MC,Rochette NC,Martin E,Benian GM,Ségalat L,Mounier N,Gieseler K

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：:In mammals, repression of translation during stress is associated with the assembly of stress granules in the cytoplasm, which contain a fraction of arrested mRNA and have been proposed to play a role in their storage. Because physical contacts are seen with GW bodies, which contain the mRNA degradation machinery, str...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Mollet S,Cougot N,Wilczynska A,Dautry F,Kress M,Bertrand E,Weil D

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast [PSI+] prion is an epigenetic modifier of translation termination fidelity that causes nonsense suppression. The prion [PSI+] forms when the translation termination factor Sup35p adopts a self-propagating conformation. The presence of the [PSI+] prion modulates survivability in a variety of growth conditions...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Strawn LA,Lin CA,Tank EM,Osman MM,Simpson SA,True HL

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fission yeast rad22(+), a homologue of budding yeast RAD52, encodes a double-strand break repair component, which is dispensable for proliferation. We, however, have recently obtained a cell division cycle mutant with a temperature-sensitive allele of rad22(+), designated rad22-H6, which resulted from a point mutation...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Suto K,Nagata A,Murakami H,Okayama H

更新日期：1999-10-01 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