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abstract：:Activation of Rap1 small GTPases stabilizes cell--cell junctions, and this activity requires Krev Interaction Trapped gene 1 (KRIT1). Loss of KRIT1 disrupts cardiovascular development and causes autosomal dominant familial cerebral cavernous malformations. Here we report that native KRIT1 protein binds the effector lo...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Liu JJ,Stockton RA,Gingras AR,Ablooglu AJ,Han J,Bobkov AA,Ginsberg MH

更新日期：2011-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cdc42 guanosine triphosphatase (GTPase) plays a central role in polarity development in species ranging from yeast to humans. In budding yeast, a specific growth site is selected in the G1 phase. Rsr1, a Ras GTPase, interacts with Cdc42 and its associated proteins to promote polarized growth at the proper bud site...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Miller KE,Lo WC,Chou CS,Park HO

更新日期：2019-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Saccharomyces cerevisiae genes TOR1 and TOR2 were originally identified by mutations that confer resistance to the immunosuppressant rapamycin. TOR2 was previously shown to encode an essential 282-kDa phosphatidylinositol kinase (PI kinase) homologue. The TOR1 gene product is also a large (281 kDa) PI kinase homol...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Helliwell SB,Wagner P,Kunz J,Deuter-Reinhard M,Henriquez R,Hall MN

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cation-dependent mannose 6-phosphate receptor (CD-MPR) mediates the transport of lysosomal enzymes from the trans-Golgi network to endosomes. Evasion of lysosomal degradation of the CD-MPR requires reversible palmitoylation of a cysteine residue in its cytoplasmic tail. Because palmitoylation is reversible and ess...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Stöckli J,Rohrer J

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A symposium was held at the University of California, San Diego, to honor the contributions of Nobel Laureate, George Palade, to cell biology. The speakers included Günter Blobel, on the structure and function of nuclear pore complexes; Peter Walter, on the unfolded protein response in health and disease; Randy Schekm...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Schmid SL,Farquhar MG

更新日期：2010-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:All vertebrates contain two nonmuscle myosin II heavy chains, A and B, which differ in tissue expression and subcellular distributions. To understand how these distinct distributions are controlled and what role they play in cell migration, myosin IIA and IIB were examined during wound healing by bovine aortic endothe...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kolega J

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ste5 scaffold activates an associated mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade by binding through its RING-H2 domain to a Gbetagamma dimer (Ste4/Ste18) at the plasma membrane in a recruitment event that requires prior nuclear shuttling of Ste5. Genetic evidence suggests that Ste5 must oligomerize to function, but ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Wang Y,Elion EA

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

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：:Phosphatidylinositol transfer proteins (PITPs) regulate the interface between lipid metabolism and specific steps in membrane trafficking through the secretory pathway in eukaryotes. Herein, we describe the cis-acting information that controls PITPbeta localization in mammalian cells. We demonstrate PITPbeta localizes...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Phillips SE,Ile KE,Boukhelifa M,Huijbregts RP,Bankaitis VA

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer cells are lymphocytes specialized to participate in host defense through their innate ability to mediate cytotoxicity by secreting the contents of preformed secretory lysosomes (lytic granules) directly onto a target cell. This form of directed secretion requires the formation of an immunological synaps...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Mentlik AN,Sanborn KB,Holzbaur EL,Orange JS

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear import receptors importin β and transportin play a different role in mitosis: both act phenotypically as spatial regulators to ensure that mitotic spindle, nuclear membrane, and nuclear pore assembly occur exclusively around chromatin. Importin β is known to act by repressing assembly factors in regions di...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bernis C,Swift-Taylor B,Nord M,Carmona S,Chook YM,Forbes DJ

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotic cells, organelle-specific protein quality control (PQC) is critical for maintaining cellular homeostasis. Despite the Golgi apparatus being the major protein processing and sorting site within the secretory pathway, how it contributes to PQC has remained largely unknown. Using different chemical biology-...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Hellerschmied D,Serebrenik YV,Shao L,Burslem GM,Crews CM

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RhoA is a small guanosine-5'-triphosphatase (GTPase) suggested to be essential for cytokinesis, stress fiber formation, and epithelial cell-cell contacts. In skin, loss of RhoA was suggested to underlie pemphigus skin blistering. To analyze RhoA function in vivo, we generated mice with a keratinocyte-restricted deleti...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Jackson B,Peyrollier K,Pedersen E,Basse A,Karlsson R,Wang Z,Lefever T,Ochsenbein AM,Schmidt G,Aktories K,Stanley A,Quondamatteo F,Ladwein M,Rottner K,van Hengel J,Brakebusch C

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-grade gliomas are especially difficult tumors to treat due to their invasive behavior. This has led to extensive research focusing on arresting glioma cell migration. Cell migration involves the sensing of a migratory cue, followed by polarization in the direction of the cue, and reorganization of the actin cytos...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Mair DB,Ames HM,Li R

更新日期：2018-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Early endosomes in PC12 cells are an important site for the formation of synaptic-like microvesicles and constitutive recycling vesicles. By immunogold electron microscopy, the small GTPase rab4 was localized to early endosomes and numerous small vesicles in the cell periphery and Golgi area of PC12 cells. Overexpress...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： de Wit H,Lichtenstein Y,Kelly RB,Geuze HJ,Klumperman J,van der Sluijs P

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of extracellular matrix proteins to integrins triggers rearrangements in the actin cytoskeleton by regulating the Rho family of small GTPases. The signaling events that mediate changes in the activity of Rho proteins in response to the extracellular matrix remain largely unknown. We have demonstrated in pr...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Arthur WT,Burridge K

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-range chromatin interactions between gene loci in the cell nucleus are important for many biological processes, including transcriptional regulation. Previously, we demonstrated that several genes specifically cluster with the astrocyte-specific gene for glial fibrillary acidic protein (Gfap) during astrocyte dif...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ito K,Noguchi A,Uosaki Y,Taga T,Arakawa H,Takizawa T

更新日期：2018-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleus houses, organizes, and protects chromatin to ensure genome integrity and proper gene expression, but how the nucleus adapts mechanically to changes in the extracellular environment is poorly understood. Recent studies have revealed that extracellular physical stresses induce chromatin compaction via mechan...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Stephens AD,Liu PZ,Kandula V,Chen H,Almassalha LM,Herman C,Backman V,O'Halloran T,Adam SA,Goldman RD,Banigan EJ,Marko JF

更新日期：2019-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubule (MT) organization is essential for many cellular events, including mitosis, migration, and cell polarity. Fidgetin (Fign), an ATP-dependent, MT-severing protein, contributes to the regulation of MT configuration by cutting and trimming MT polymers. Functions of Fign have been indicated in neurite outgrowth...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Hu Z,Feng J,Bo W,Wu R,Dong Z,Liu Y,Qiang L,Liu M

更新日期：2017-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane-anchored atlastin GTPase couples nucleotide hydrolysis to the catalysis of homotypic membrane fusion to form a branched endoplasmic reticulum network. Trans dimerization between atlastins anchored in opposing membranes, accompanied by a cross-over conformational change, is thought to draw the membranes to...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Saini SG,Liu C,Zhang P,Lee TH

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anaphase-promoting complex in partnership with its activator, Cdh1, is an E3 ubiquitin ligase responsible for targeting cell cycle proteins during G1 phase. In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Cdh1 associates with the deubiquitinating enzyme Ubp15, but the significance of this interaction is unclear. To...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ostapenko D,Burton JL,Solomon MJ

更新日期：2015-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The centromere is located at the primary constriction of condensed chromosomes where it acts as a platform regulating chromosome segregation. The histone H3 variant CENP-A is the foundation for kinetochore formation. CENP-A directs the formation of a highly dynamic molecular neighborhood whose temporal characterizatio...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Remnant L,Booth DG,Vargiu G,Spanos C,Kerr ARW,Earnshaw WC

更新日期：2019-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1988 McCusker and Haber generated a series of mutants which are resistant to the minimum inhibitory concentration of the protein synthesis inhibitor cycloheximide. These cycloheximide-resistant, temperature-sensitive (crl) mutants, in addition, exhibited other pleiotropic phenotypes, e.g., incorrect response to sta...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Gerlinger UM,Gückel R,Hoffmann M,Wolf DH,Hilt W

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIF-1alpha is the regulated subunit of the HIF-1 transcription factor, which induces transcription of a number of genes involved in the cellular response to hypoxia. The HIF-1alpha protein is rapidly degraded in cells supplied with adequate oxygen but is stabilized in hypoxic cells. Using polysome profile analysis, we...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lang KJ,Kappel A,Goodall GJ

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substrates critical for transformation by pp60v-src remain unknown, as does the precise role of the src homology 2 (SH2) domain in this process. To continue exploring the role of the SH2 domain in pp60v-src-mediated transformation, site-directed mutagenesis was used to create mutant v-src alleles predicted to encode p...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Verderame MF

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular responses to environmental changes occur on different levels. We investigated the translational response of yeast cells after mild hyperosmotic shock by isolating mRNA associated with multiple ribosomes (polysomes) followed by array analysis. Globally, recruitment of preexisting mRNAs to ribosomes (translatio...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Warringer J,Hult M,Regot S,Posas F,Sunnerhagen P

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：:Biogenesis of respiratory chain complexes depends on the expression of mitochondrial-encoded subunits. Their synthesis occurs on membrane-associated ribosomes and is probably coupled to their membrane insertion. Defects in expression of mitochondrial translation products are among the major causes of mitochondrial dis...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bauerschmitt H,Mick DU,Deckers M,Vollmer C,Funes S,Kehrein K,Ott M,Rehling P,Herrmann JM

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocytic adaptor proteins facilitate cargo recruitment and clathrin-coated pit nucleation. The prototypical clathrin adaptor AP2 mediates cargo recruitment, maturation, and scission of the pit by binding cargo, clathrin, and accessory proteins, including the Eps-homology (EH) domain proteins Eps15 and intersectin. Ho...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Teckchandani A,Mulkearns EE,Randolph TW,Toida N,Cooper JA

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mmd1 mutation causes temperature-sensitive growth and defects in mitochondrial morphology and distribution in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. In mutant cells, mitochondria aggregate at the two cell ends, with increased aggregation at elevated temperatures. Microtubules, which mediate mitochondrial pos...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Weir BA,Yaffe MP

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00