Myosin II governs intracellular pressure and traction by distinct tropomyosin-dependent mechanisms.

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：:Satellite cells (SCs), the resident adult stem cells of skeletal muscle, are required for tissue repair throughout life. While many signaling pathways are known to control SC self-renewal, less is known about the mechanisms underlying the spatiotemporal control of self-renewal during skeletal muscle repair. Here, we m...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Moyle LA,Cheng RY,Liu H,Davoudi S,Ferreira SA,Nissar AA,Sun Y,Gentleman E,Simmons CA,Gilbert PM

更新日期：2020-07-21 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：:Collective cell migration is emerging as a major contributor to normal development and disease. Collective movement of border cells in the Drosophila ovary requires cooperation between two distinct cell types: four to six migratory cells surrounding two immotile cells called polar cells. Polar cells secrete a cytokine...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Xiang W,Zhang D,Montell DJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) exist in a metabolic state of low oxygen tension termed "physiologic hypoxia." An important factor in maintaining intestinal homeostasis is the transcription factor hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF), which is stabilized under hypoxic conditions and mediates IEC homeostatic responses to ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Dowdell AS,Cartwright IM,Goldberg MS,Kostelecky R,Ross T,Welch N,Glover LE,Colgan SP

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell adhesion to extracellular matrix molecules such as fibronectin involves complex transmembrane signaling processes. Attachment and spreading of primary fibroblasts can be promoted by interactions of cell surface integrins with RGD-containing fragments of fibronectin, but the further process of focal adhesion and s...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Woods A,McCarthy JB,Furcht LT,Couchman JR

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Topogenic determinants that direct protein topology at the endoplasmic reticulum membrane usually function with high fidelity to establish a uniform topological orientation for any given polypeptide. Here we show, however, that through the coupling of sequential translocation events, native topogenic determinants are ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Moss K,Helm A,Lu Y,Bragin A,Skach WR

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial dysfunction and altered transmembrane potential initiate a mitochondrial respiratory stress response, also known as mitochondrial retrograde response, in a wide spectrum of cells. The mitochondrial stress response activates calcineurin, which regulates transcription factors, including a new nuclear facto...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Guha M,Pan H,Fang JK,Avadhani NG

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basal bodies organize cilia that are responsible for both mechanical beating and sensation. Nascent basal body assembly follows a series of well characterized morphological events; however, the proteins and their assembly dynamics for new basal body formation and function are not well understood. High-resolution light...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Pearson CG,Giddings TH Jr,Winey M

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A well-established function of centrosomes is their role in accomplishing a successful mitosis that gives rise to a pair of identical daughter cells. We recently showed that DNA replication defects and DNA damage in Drosophila embryos trigger centrosomal changes, but it remained unclear whether comparable centrosomal ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Hut HM,Lemstra W,Blaauw EH,Van Cappellen GW,Kampinga HH,Sibon OC

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sec1p/Munc18 (SM) proteins are essential for membrane fusion events in eukaryotic cells. Here we describe a systematic, structure-based mutational analysis of the yeast SM protein Sly1p, which was previously shown to function in anterograde endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-to-Golgi and intra-Golgi protein transport. Five ne...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Li Y,Gallwitz D,Peng R

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During lactation, mammary epithelial cells secrete huge amounts of milk from their apical side. The current view is that caseins are secreted by exocytosis, whereas milk fat globules are released by budding, enwrapped by the plasma membrane. Owing to the number and large size of milk fat globules, the membrane surface...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Honvo-Houéto E,Henry C,Chat S,Layani S,Truchet S

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：: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 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

abstract：:Most mitochondrial proteins are synthesized as precursors that carry N-terminal presequences. After they are imported into mitochondria, these targeting signals are cleaved off by the mitochondrial processing peptidase (MPP). Using the mitochondrial tandem protein Arg5,6 as a model substrate, we demonstrate that MPP h...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Friedl J,Knopp MR,Groh C,Paz E,Gould SB,Herrmann JM,Boos F

更新日期：2020-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Munc18-1 binds to syntaxin-1A via two distinct sites referred to as the "closed" conformation and N terminus binding. The latter has been shown to stimulate soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptor-mediated exocytosis, whereas the former is believed to be inhibitory or dispensable. To prec...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Han L,Jiang T,Han GA,Malintan NT,Xie L,Wang L,Tse FW,Gaisano HY,Collins BM,Meunier FA,Sugita S

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A key question in eukaryotic differentiation is whether there are common regulators or biochemical events that are required for diverse types of differentiation or whether there is a core mechanism for differentiation. The unicellular model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae undergoes filamentous differentiation in res...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Jiang YW,Kang CM

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desmogleins (Dsgs) are cadherin family adhesion molecules essential for epidermal integrity. Previous studies have shown that desmogleins associate with lipid rafts, but the significance of this association was not clear. Here, we report that the desmoglein transmembrane domain (TMD) is the primary determinant of raft...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lewis JD,Caldara AL,Zimmer SE,Stahley SN,Seybold A,Strong NL,Frangakis AS,Levental I,Wahl JK 3rd,Mattheyses AL,Sasaki T,Nakabayashi K,Hata K,Matsubara Y,Ishida-Yamamoto A,Amagai M,Kubo A,Kowalczyk AP

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although some of the principles of N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptor (SNARE) function are well understood, remarkably little detail is known about sec1/munc18 (SM) protein function and its relationship to SNAREs. Popular models of SM protein function hold that these proteins promote or main...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Williams AL,Ehm S,Jacobson NC,Xu D,Hay JC

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cvt pathway is a biosynthetic transport route for a distinct subset of resident yeast vacuolar hydrolases, whereas macroautophagy is a nonspecific degradative mechanism that allows cell survival during starvation. Yet, these two vacuolar trafficking pathways share a number of identical molecular components and are...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Reggiori F,Wang CW,Nair U,Shintani T,Abeliovich H,Klionsky DJ

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of Rab proteins are posttranslationally modified with two geranylgeranyl lipid moieties that enable their stable association with membranes. In this study, we present evidence to demonstrate that there is a specific lipid requirement for Rab protein localization and function. Substitution of different pre...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Calero M,Chen CZ,Zhu W,Winand N,Havas KA,Gilbert PM,Burd CG,Collins RN

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the closest living relatives of animals, choanoflagellates offer unique insights into animal origins and core mechanisms underlying animal cell biology. However, unlike traditional model organisms, such as yeast, flies, and worms, choanoflagellates have been refractory to DNA delivery methods for expressing foreign...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Booth DS,Szmidt-Middleton H,King N

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The budding yeast formins Bni1 and Bnr1 control the assembly of actin cables. These formins exhibit distinct patterns of localization and polymerize two different populations of cables: Bni1 in the bud and Bnr1 in the mother cell. We generated a functional Bni1-3GFP that improved the visualization of Bni1 in vivo at e...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Buttery SM,Yoshida S,Pellman D

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gp78 is an ERAD-associated E3 ubiquitin ligase that induces degradation of the mitofusin mitochondrial fusion proteins and mitochondrial fission. Gp78 is localized throughout the ER; however, the anti-Gp78 3F3A monoclonal antibody (mAb) recognizes Gp78 selectively in mitochondria-associated ER domains. Epitope mapping...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Li L,Gao G,Shankar J,Joshi B,Foster LJ,Nabi IR

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：:Janus kinase 2 (Jak2) protein tyrosine kinase plays an important role in interleukin-3- or granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor-mediated signal transduction pathways leading to cell proliferation, activation of early response genes, and inhibition of apoptosis. However, it is unclear whether Jak2 can activ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Mohi MG,Arai Ki,Watanabe S

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 30-nm fiber is commonly formed by oligonucleosome arrays in vitro but rarely found inside cells. To determine how chromatin higher-order structure is controlled, we used electron cryotomography (cryo-ET) to study the undigested natural chromatin released from two single-celled organisms in which 30-nm fibers have ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Cai S,Song Y,Chen C,Shi J,Gan L

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously characterized major components of mitotic chromosomes assembled in Xenopus laevis egg extracts and collectively referred to them as Xenopus chromosome-associated polypeptides (XCAPs). They included five subunits of the condensin complex essential for chromosome condensation. In an effort to identify nove...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： MacCallum DE,Losada A,Kobayashi R,Hirano T

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation and maintenance of the bipolar mitotic spindle apparatus require a complex and balanced interplay of several mechanisms, including the stabilization and separation of polar microtubules and the action of various microtubule motors. Nonmicrotubule elements are also present throughout the spindle apparatus...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Yang CH,Snyder M

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00