Role of STARD4 in sterol transport between the endocytic recycling compartment and the plasma membrane.

abstract：:The expression of FREQUENCY, a central component of the circadian clock in Neurospora crassa, shows daily cycles that are exquisitely sensitive to the environment. Two forms of FRQ that differ in length by 99 amino acids, LFRQ and SFRQ, are synthesized from alternative initiation codons and the change in their ratio a...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Colot HV,Loros JJ,Dunlap JC

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of critical concentration (CC) is central to understanding the behavior of microtubules (MTs) and other cytoskeletal polymers. Traditionally, these polymers are understood to have one CC, measured in multiple ways and assumed to be the subunit concentration necessary for polymer assembly. However, this fra...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Jonasson EM,Mauro AJ,Li C,Labuz EC,Mahserejian SM,Scripture JP,Gregoretti IV,Alber M,Goodson HV

更新日期：2020-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Lens fiber formation and morphogenesis requires a precise orchestration of cell- extracellular matrix (ECM) and cell-cell adhesive changes in order for a lens epithelial cell to adopt a lens fiber fate, morphology, and migratory ability. The cell-ECM interactions that mediate these processes are largely unknown, and h...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Hayes JM,Hartsock A,Clark BS,Napier HR,Link BA,Gross JM

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinol-binding protein (RBP) is secreted out of the cell in its ligand-bound holo-form. The apo-form of RBP is selectively retained within the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) by a mechanism that remains unknown. Using isolated microsomal system, we have recapitulated the biogenesis of RBP involving its oxidative folding a...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Selvaraj SR,Bhatia V,Tatu U

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitogen-activated protein kinase phosphatase 2 (MKP2) is a member of the dual-specificity MKPs that regulate MAP kinase signaling. However, MKP2 functions are still largely unknown. In this study, we showed that MKP2 could regulate histone H3 phosphorylation under oxidative stress conditions. We found that MKP2 inhibi...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Jeong MW,Kang TH,Kim W,Choi YH,Kim KT

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF) is required for terminal osteoclast differentiation and is a target for signaling pathways engaged by colony stimulating factor (CSF)-1 and receptor-activator of nuclear factor-kappaB ligand (RANKL). Work presented here demonstrates that MITF can shuttle from c...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bronisz A,Sharma SM,Hu R,Godlewski J,Tzivion G,Mansky KC,Ostrowski MC

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：:Yeast TGN resident proteins that frequently cycle between the TGN and endosomes are much more slowly transported to the prevacuolar/late endosomal compartment (PVC) than other proteins. However, TGN protein transport to the PVC is accelerated in mutants lacking function of Inp53p. Inp53p contains a SacI polyphosphoino...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ha SA,Torabinejad J,DeWald DB,Wenk MR,Lucast L,De Camilli P,Newitt RA,Aebersold R,Nothwehr SF

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetochore is a crucial structure for faithful chromosome segregation during mitosis and is formed in the centromeric region of each chromosome. The 16-subunit protein complex known as the constitutive centromere-associated network (CCAN) forms the foundation for kinetochore assembly on the centromeric chromatin....

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Nagpal H,Hori T,Furukawa A,Sugase K,Osakabe A,Kurumizaka H,Fukagawa T

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of binding assays is to measure interactions between two molecules, such as a protein binding another protein, a small molecule, or a nucleic acid. Hard work is required to prepare reagents, but flaws in the design of many binding experiments limit the information obtained. In particular many experiments fail ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Pollard TD

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：: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：:B cell antigen receptor (BCR) association with lipid rafts, the actin cytoskeleton, and clathrin-coated pits influences B cell signaling and antigen presentation. Although all three cellular structures have been separately implicated in BCR internalization, the relationship between them has not been clearly defined. I...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Stoddart A,Jackson AP,Brodsky FM

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubules (MTs) in newt mitotic spindles grow faster than MTs in the interphase cytoplasmic microtubule complex (CMTC), yet spindle MTs do not have the long lengths or lifetimes of the CMTC microtubules. Because MTs undergo dynamic instability, it is likely that changes in the durations of growth or shortening are ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Gliksman NR,Skibbens RV,Salmon ED

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinoblastoma (RB) transcriptional corepressor and related family of pocket proteins play central roles in cell cycle control and development, and the regulatory networks governed by these factors are frequently inactivated during tumorigenesis. During normal growth, these proteins are subject to tight control th...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Acharya P,Raj N,Buckley MS,Zhang L,Duperon S,Williams G,Henry RW,Arnosti DN

更新日期：2010-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:DSL1 was identified through its genetic interaction with SLY1, which encodes a t-SNARE-interacting protein that functions in endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-to-Golgi traffic. Conditional dsl1 mutants exhibit a block in ER-to-Golgi traffic at the restrictive temperature. Here, we show that dsl1 mutants are defective for ret...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Reilly BA,Kraynack BA,VanRheenen SM,Waters MG

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pif1 family helicases, which are found in nearly all eukaryotes, have important roles in both nuclear and mitochondrial genome maintenance. Recently, the increasing availability of genome sequences has revealed that Pif1 helicases are also widely found in diverse prokaryotes, but it is currently unknown what physiolog...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bochman ML,Judge CP,Zakian VA

更新日期：2011-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor (IP3R) is an intracellular calcium channel involved in coupling cell membrane receptors to calcium signal transduction pathways within cells including endocrine cells. Several isoforms (I, II, and III) of IP3Rs have been identified, which are encoded by separate genes, and are...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Nucifora FC Jr,Sharp AH,Milgram SL,Ross CA

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoprotein gp130, found on the plasma membrane of Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae, was postulated previously to play a role in phagocytosis. The gene for gp130 was cloned and when translated, yielded a 768 amino acid preproprotein of 85.3 kDa. It had nearly 40% similarity to the 138 kDa family of glycoproteins impl...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Chia CP,Gomathinayagam S,Schmaltz RJ,Smoyer LK

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the phagocytic cell, NADPH oxidase (Nox2) system, cytoplasmic regulators (p47(phox), p67(phox), p40(phox), and Rac) translocate and associate with the membrane-spanning flavocytochrome b(558), leading to activation of superoxide production. We examined membrane targeting of phox proteins and explored conformational...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ueyama T,Tatsuno T,Kawasaki T,Tsujibe S,Shirai Y,Sumimoto H,Leto TL,Saito N

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five or more orthophosphates bound together by high-energy phosphoanhydride bonds are highly ubiquitous inorganic molecules called polyphosphate. Polyphosphate acts as a signaling molecule eliciting a number of responses in eukaryotic cells, but the mechanisms mediating these effects are poorly understood. Proliferati...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Suess PM,Tang Y,Gomer RH

更新日期：2019-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Syntaxin 3 (Stx3), a SNARE protein located and functioning at the apical plasma membrane of epithelial cells, is required for epithelial polarity. A fraction of Stx3 is localized to late endosomes/lysosomes, although how it traffics there and its function in these organelles is unknown. Here we report that Stx3 underg...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Giovannone AJ,Reales E,Bhattaram P,Fraile-Ramos A,Weimbs T

更新日期：2017-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to stress conditions (such as nutrient limitation or accumulation of damaged organelles) and certain pathological situations, eukaryotic cells use autophagy as a survival mechanism. During nutrient stress the main purpose of autophagy is to degrade cytoplasmic materials within the lysosome/vacuole lumen an...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Yang Z,Huang J,Geng J,Nair U,Klionsky DJ

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：:The vast complexity of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)-induced downstream signaling pathways is well known, but the precise roles of critical players still elude us due to our lack of specific and temporal control over their activities. Accordingly, although Src family members are some of the better characterize...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Shah K,Vincent F

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the ADP-ribosylation factor (Arf) family of small GTPases are implicated in vesicle traffic in the secretory pathway, although their precise function remains unclear. We generated a series of 23 clustered charge-to-alanine mutations in the Arf1 protein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to determine the portions o...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Click ES,Stearns T,Botstein D

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discoidin I expression was used as a marker to screen for mutants affected in the growth-differentiation transition (GDT) of Dictyostelium. By REMI mutagenesis we have isolated mutant 2-9, an overexpressor of discoidin I. It displays normal morphogenesis but shows premature entry into the developmental cycle. The disr...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Zeng C,Anjard C,Riemann K,Konzok A,Nellen W

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GM3 synthase (SAT-I) is the primary glycosyltransferase responsible for the biosynthesis of ganglio-series gangliosides. In this study, we identify three isoforms of mouse SAT-I proteins, named M1-SAT-I, M2-SAT-I, and M3-SAT-I, which possess distinct lengths in their NH(2)-terminal cytoplasmic tails. These isoforms ar...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Uemura S,Yoshida S,Shishido F,Inokuchi J

更新日期：2009-07-01 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 intermembrane space of mitochondria accommodates the essential mitochondrial intermembrane space assembly (MIA) machinery that catalyzes oxidative folding of proteins. The disulfide bond formation pathway is based on a relay of reactions involving disulfide transfer from the sulfhydryl oxidase Erv1 to Mia40 and fr...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Böttinger L,Gornicka A,Czerwik T,Bragoszewski P,Loniewska-Lwowska A,Schulze-Specking A,Truscott KN,Guiard B,Milenkovic D,Chacinska A

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00