Repair of BHK cell surface ganglioside GM3 after its degradation by extracellular sialidase.

abstract：:The Amt/Mep/Rh family of integral membrane proteins comprises ammonium transporters of bacteria, archaea and eukarya, as well as the Rhesus proteins found in animals. They play a central role in the uptake of reduced nitrogen for biosynthetic purposes, in energy metabolism, or in renal excretion. Recent structural inf...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Andrade SL,Einsle O

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence was recently reported that the cysteine proteinase inhibitor, cystatin C, is highly expressed by cultured human retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells. As a step towards understanding possible functions of this protein associated with the RPE, the localization, targetting and trafficking of cystatin C were in...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Paraoan L,White MR,Spiller DG,Grierson I,Maden BE

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation is aimed at defining the structural requirements for aliphatic polyamines to interact with mitochondrial binding sites, which are relevant for the regulation of the permeability transition and for mitochondrial polyamine uptake. The triamines N-aminoethyl-1,2-diaminoethane (dien) and N-aminopropyl-1...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Dalla Via L,Salvi M,Di Noto V,Stefanelli C,Toninello A

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavonoids are ubiquitous polyphenolic compounds, found in vascular plants, which are endowed with a large variety of biological effects. Some of these effects have been assumed to result from interactions with the cell plasma membrane. In order to investigate the nature of these interactions a fluorescence study was ...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Lenne-Gouverneur AF,Lobstein A,Haan-Archipoff G,Duportail G,Anton R,Kuhry JG

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidating the detailed mechanism of activation of membrane protein receptors and their ligand binding is essential for structure-based drug design. Membrane protein crystal structure analysis successfully aids in understanding these fundamental molecular interactions. However, protein crystal structure analysis of t...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Hirozane Y,Motoyaji T,Maru T,Okada K,Tarui N

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane microdomains enriched in cholesterol, sphingolipids (rafts), and specific proteins are involved in important physiological functions. However their structure, size and stability are still controversial. Given that detergent-resistant membranes (DRMs) are in the liquid-ordered state and are rich in raft-like c...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Casadei BR,De Oliveira Carvalho P,Riske KA,Barbosa Rde M,De Paula E,Domingues CC

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solid-state NMR combined with sample deuteration was used to probe the proximity of the low-affinity substrate D-glucose to its binding site within the Escherichia coli sugar transport protein GalP. Samples of E. coli inner membranes with amplified expression of GalP were incubated in D(2)O with D-[(13)C(6)]glucose an...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Patching SG,Henderson PJ,Sharples DJ,Middleton DA

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'No cellular organelle has been the subject of as many, as long-lasting or as diverse polemics as the Golgi apparatus'. This statement was made by Whaley almost 30 years ago in the book The Golgi Apparatus and still holds true today, perhaps more then ever. Why is this? How come something as mundane as a series of int...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Elsner M,Hashimoto H,Nilsson T

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is a cAMP-regulated C1(-) channel. Malfunction of CFTR causes cystic fibrosis (CF). CFTR belongs to an ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter superfamily which includes P-glycoprotein (Pgp), the molecule that is responsible for multidrug resistance in cancer c...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Chen M,Zhang JT

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calpain, an intracellular calcium-dependent protease, is activated at cell membranes and cleaves cytoskeletal and submembranous proteins. Calpain is inferred to be a calcium-dependent regulator for cytoskeletal reorganization. Calpastatin, an endogenous calpain inhibitor, inhibits not only the proteolytic activity of ...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Kawasaki H,Kawashima S

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NupG from Escherichia coli is the archetype of a family of nucleoside transporters found in several eubacterial groups and has distant homologues in eukaryotes, including man. To facilitate investigation of its molecular mechanism, we developed methods for expressing an oligohistidine-tagged form of NupG both at high ...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Xie H,Patching SG,Gallagher MP,Litherland GJ,Brough AR,Venter H,Yao SY,Ng AM,Young JD,Herbert RB,Henderson PJ,Baldwin SA

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:4-Hydroxy-2-nonenal (4-HNE) is a reactive aldehyde and a lipid peroxidation product formed in biological tissues under physiological and pathological conditions. Its concentration increases with oxidative stress and induces deleterious modifications of proteins and membranes. Mitochondrial and cytosolic isoforms of cr...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Maniti O,François-Moutal L,Lecompte MF,Vial C,Lagarde M,Guichardant M,Marcillat O,Granjon T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transverse distribution of phosphatidylglycerol (PG) across the inner membrane of Escherichia coli was studied. The oxidation of PG by periodate was used to discriminate between the PG present in the cytoplasmic and in the periplasmic leaflet of the inner membrane. Applied to large unilamellar vesicles derived of ...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Huijbregts RP,de Kroon AI,de Kruijff B

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Signal Recognition Particle (SRP) plays a critical role in the sorting of nascent secretory and membrane proteins. Remarkably, this function has been conserved from bacteria, where SRP delivers proteins to the inner membrane, through to eukaryotes, where SRP is required for targeting of proteins to the endoplasmic...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Pool MR

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work from our laboratory has established bovine hippocampal membranes as a convenient natural source for studying neuronal receptors such as the G-protein coupled serotonin1A receptor. In this paper, we have explored the organization and dynamics of bovine hippocampal membranes using environment-sensitive and...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Mukherjee S,Kalipatnapu S,Pucadyil TJ,Chattopadhyay A

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homotypic fusion between early endosomes can be reconstituted in vitro. By using wortmannin and LY294002, inhibitors of phosphatidylinositol (Pl) 3-kinase, a requirement for this activity has been established in order for fusion to proceed efficiently. It has been shown that Pl 3-kinase activity is required downstream...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Mills IG,Jones AT,Clague MJ

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular events and the protein components that are involved in signalling by the T cell receptor (TCR) for antigen have been extensively studied. Activation of signalling cascades following TCR stimulation depends on the phosphorylation of the receptor by the tyrosine kinase Lck, which localizes to the cytoplasm...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Kabouridis PS

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypsin activation of Cry4B, a 130-kDa Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) protein, produces a 65-kDa toxin active against mosquito larvae. The active toxin is made of two protease resistant-products of ca. 45 kDa and ca. 20 kDa. The cloned 21-kDa fragment consisting of the N-terminal region of the toxin was previously shown ...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Puntheeranurak T,Uawithya P,Potvin L,Angsuthanasombat C,Schwartz JL

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms that survive in natural environments form organized multicellular communities, biofilms and colonies with specific properties. During stress and nutrient limitation, slow growing and senescent cells in such communities retain vital processes by maintaining plasma membrane integrity and retaining the abi...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Palková Z,Váchová L,Gásková D,Kucerová H

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glu-269, which is located on the hydrophilic face of putative helix VIII in the lactose permease of Escherichia coli, has been replaced with Asp, Gln or Cys by oligonucleotide-directed, site specific mutagenesis. Cells expressing Asp-269 permease exhibit no lactose accumulation or lactose-induced H+ translocation, but...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Ujwal ML,Sahin-Tóth M,Persson B,Kaback HR

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organellar and cytosolic pH homeostasis is central to most cellular processes, including vesicular trafficking, post-translational modification/processing of proteins, and receptor-ligand interactions. SLC9A7 (NHE7) was identified as a unique (Na+, K+)/H+ exchanger that dynamically cycles between the trans-Golgi netwo...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Kagami T,Chen S,Memar P,Choi M,Foster LJ,Numata M

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored proteins are enriched in cholesterol- and sphingolipid-rich lipid rafts within the membrane. Rafts are known to have roles in cellular organization and function, but little is understood about the factors controlling the distribution of proteins in rafts. We have used atomi...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Garner AE,Smith DA,Hooper NM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-directed mutagenesis and site-directed fluorescence spectroscopy demonstrate that Cys148 interacts hydrophobically with the galactosyl moiety of substrates of the lactose permease of Escherichia coli. By taking advantage of the finding that labelling of single-Cys148 permease with the thiol-specific fluorophore 2...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： He MM,Kaback HR

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucosyltransferases (Gtrs) and O-acetyltransferase (Oac) are integral membrane proteins embedded within the cytoplasmic membrane of Shigella flexneri. Gtrs and Oac are responsible for unidirectional host serotype conversion by altering the epitopic properties of the bacterial surface lipopolysaccharide (LPS) O-antige...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Ramiscal RR,Tang SS,Korres H,Verma NK

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane proteins are ubiquitous in biology and are key targets for therapeutic development. Despite this, our structural understanding has lagged behind that of their soluble counterparts. This review provides an overview of this important field, focusing in particular on the recent resurgence of electron microscopy ...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Rawson S,Davies S,Lippiat JD,Muench SP

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TGN38 is a heavily glycosylated, type I integral membrane protein which is predominantly localized to the trans Golgi network (TGN), but which constitutively traffics between the TGN and the cell surface. The trafficking of TGN38 has been extensively studied in non-polarized cells, and a short, tyrosine-based, peptide...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Reaves BJ,Roquemore EP,Luzio JP,Banting G

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial ADP/ATP carrier imports ADP from the cytosol into the mitochondrial matrix for its conversion to ATP by ATP synthase and exports ATP out of the mitochondrion to replenish the eukaryotic cell with chemical energy. Here the substrate specificity of the human mitochondrial ADP/ATP carrier AAC1 was deter...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Mifsud J,Ravaud S,Krammer EM,Chipot C,Kunji ER,Pebay-Peyroula E,Dehez F

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:That some membranes restrict certain lipid species to one side of the bilayer and others to the opposite side has been known for two decades. However, how this asymmetric transbilayer distribution is generated and controlled, how many and what type of membranes are so structured, and even the reason for its existence ...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Williamson P,Schlegel RA

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The entry of substrates into, and the export of glururonides from, the lumen of hepatic endoplasmic reticulum (ER) in vitro (sealed microsomes) has been measured using radioactivity-labelled materials and a rapid filtration assay. Analysis of liver microsomes from a jaundiced patient showed the accumulation of bilirub...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Waddell ID,Robertson K,Burchell A,Hume R,Burchell B

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of epithelial cell polarity, which can arise following disruption of tight junctions (TJs), is a precursor to the care-fully orchestrated removal of moribund cells from epithelia in apoptosis. Ordinarily, this cycle of events has minimally disruptive effects on the function of the epithelial barrier, but some age...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Baker SF,Yin Y,Runswick SK,Stewart GA,Thompson PJ,Garrod DR,Robinson C

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00