Guidance of primordial germ cell migration.

abstract：:Positive-strand RNA (+RNA) viruses (e.g. poliovirus, hepatitis C virus, dengue virus, SARS-coronavirus) remodel cellular membranes to form so-called viral replication compartments (VRCs), which are the sites where viral RNA genome replication takes place. To induce VRC formation, these viruses extensively rewire lipid...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Strating JR,van Kuppeveld FJ

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The principal subunits of a large superfamily of plasma-membrane cation channels are functionally autonomous in ion conductance and in gating by membrane potential and intracellular ligands. Recent work has located the structural elements responsible for the ion conductance and gating of these channels. These studies ...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Catterall WA

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrins have the ability to organise macromolecular structures both inside and outside the cell. Analysis of integrin function in the developing embryos of worms and flies suggests that, although the extracellular matrix directs integrins to organise intracellular proteins, the cytoskeleton may have the first word. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Brown NH

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research over the past two decades has defined a window of time in the early/mid G1 phase of the cell cycle during which mammalian cells are responsive to extracellular signals. Recent evidence indicates that this period ends with the phosphorylation of the retinoblastoma protein, enabling the cells to pass through th...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Planas-Silva MD,Weinberg RA

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleoskeleton is composed of many interacting structural proteins that provide the framework for DNA replication, transcription and a variety of other nuclear functions. For example, the type-V intermediate filament proteins, the lamins, and their associated proteins (e.g. Lap2alpha) play important roles in DNA r...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Shumaker DK,Kuczmarski ER,Goldman RD

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a 'double-edged sword', neutrophil (polymorphonuclear leukocyte) migration across epithelial-lined organs is an important component of host defense, but it also results in epithelial pathophysiology and disease symptoms. There have been significant advances in better understanding the mechanisms of how leukocytes c...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Zen K,Parkos CA

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptors for the two peroxisomal targeting signals PTS1 and PTS2 have recently been identified in yeasts. The disparate subcellular locations of PTS receptor homologs have led to proposals of receptor shuttling between the cytosol and the peroxisomal membrane, and to the suggestion that some of these molecules may ev...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Subramani S

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular signals are received and generated by the alpha(IIb)beta(3) integrin on platelets. Recent advances have been made in the areas of agonist receptors that initiate platelet activation, downstream signaling molecules (e.g. small G-proteins and kinases) and changes in ligand-occupied alpha(IIb)beta(3) that c...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Parise LV

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macropinocytosis is increasingly recognized for its versatile adaptations and functions as a highly conserved, ubiquitous pathway for the bulk uptake of fluid, particulate cargo, and membranes. Innate immune cells and transformed cancer cells share the capacity for both constitutive and induced macropinocytosis, which...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Stow JL,Hung Y,Wall AA

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of energy metabolism is emerging as a key aspect associated with cell fate transition. The establishment of a correct metabolic program is particularly relevant for neural cells given their high bioenergetic requirements. Accordingly, diseases of the nervous system commonly involve mitochondrial impairment....

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Lorenz C,Prigione A

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite some recent setbacks, it remains clear that adult stem cells under appropriate experimental conditions can at some frequency exhibit a wider range of differentiation potentials than previously appreciated. This is underscored by the recent demonstration of the extensive differentiation potential of mesenchymal...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Joshi CV,Enver T

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concomitant with packaging the genome, the cell nucleus must also spatially organize the nucleoplasm. This complex mixture of proteins and nucleic acids partitions into a variety of phase-separated, membraneless organelles called nuclear bodies. Significant progress has been made in understanding the relationship betw...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Weber SC

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One parental copy of an imprinted gene is invariably expressed during development. The characteristic of the heritable epigenetic germline imprint remains elusive, but recent evidence stresses the necessity for additional post-zygotic epigenetic modifications to account for this temporal and tissue-specific mono-allel...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Surani MA

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin polymerization generates the force that deforms the cell membrane, pulls the cell forward and propels endosomes and bacteria within the cell. The mechanism of force generation has been probed using experimental biomimetic systems where force generation and movement occur by the same actin-polymerization processe...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Plastino J,Sykes C

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caveolae are essential endocytic organelles that use glycosyl-phosphatidyl-inositol (GPI)-anchored membrane proteins to concentrate low molecular weight substances before delivery to the cell. Caveolae and GPI-anchored proteins are uniquely adapted for this task. Recent advances suggest that this endocytic pathway als...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Anderson RG

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely recognized that after endocytosis, internalized cargo is delivered to endosomes that act as sorting stations. The limiting membrane of endosomes contain specialized subregions, or microdomains, that represent distinct functions of the endosome, including regions competing for cargo capture leading to degr...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Norris A,Grant BD

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While canonical 3'end modifications of mRNAs or tRNAs are well established, recent technological advances in RNA analysis have given us a glimpse of how widespread other types of distinctive 3'end modifications appear to be. Next to alternative nuclear or cytoplasmic polyadenylation mechanisms, evidence accumulated fo...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Minasaki R,Eckmann CR

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epithelia are the avascular layers of cells that cover the environment-exposed surfaces of the body. It appears that T cells localize to selected sites in or adjacent to epithelia via the selective expression of adhesion molecules and chemokine receptors on T cells. These bind to counter-receptors and to chemokine...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Agace WW,Higgins JM,Sadasivan B,Brenner MB,Parker CM

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of proteins that are necessary for membrane transport have been identified using cell-free assays and yeast genetics. Although our knowledge of transport mechanisms remains limited, common themes are clearly emerging. In particular, specific GTP-binding proteins appear to be involved, not only at all steps of...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Gruenberg J,Clague MJ

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria provide an essential role in the maintenance of cellular homeostasis with regard to energy generation, redox signaling, and programmed cell death. Consequently, fast adaptation to metabolic changes associated with developmental demands or stress induction requires a balanced coordination of mitochondrial ...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Franz A,Kevei É,Hoppe T

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome segregation during mitosis is mediated by the mitotic spindle, a structure composed of microtubules associated with a variety of proteins. Additionally, a distinct biochemical milieu, the 'spindle matrix', has long been proposed to assist this process and recent work provided compelling evidence for its exi...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Schweizer N,Weiss M,Maiato H

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Force arising from actin polymerization and myosin activity drives a number of different actin-based cell movements. Several new reports support previous data suggesting that actin polymerization drives lamellipodial protrusion and bacterial propulsion, and one report describes a more indirect role for actin assembly ...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Cramer LP,Mitchison TJ,Theriot JA

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular asymmetries have been proposed to play a role in plant embryogenesis. Genetic studies of Arabidopsis and other experimental approaches in several plant species have addressed the origins of cellular asymmetry in specific cases. Although zygote polarity, which precedes the formation of the apical-basal axis of...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Jürgens G,Grebe M,Steinmann T

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein splicing is a series of enzymatic events involving intramolecular protein breakage, rejoining and intron homing, in which introns are able to promote the recombinative transposition of their own coding sequences. Eukaryotic and prokaryotic spliced proteins have conserved similar gene structure, but little amin...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Neff NF

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic AMP regulates a myriad of cellular processes through the cAMP-dependent protein kinase A. In many cases, activation of protein kinase A leads to altered patterns of gene transcription. Identification of the cAMP-response-element-binding-protein as a major nuclear substrate for protein kinase A accounts for many...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Lee KA

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosins are a large family of structurally diverse mechanoenzymes which, upon interaction with actin filaments, convert energy from ATP hydrolysis into mechanical force. Consistent with the ubiquitous association of actin with membranes, many of these novel myosins are membrane-associated. In the past two years, evide...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Hasson T,Mooseker MS

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of eukaryotic telomeres at the molecular level began with the discovery of short, tandem repeats at Tetrahymena chromosome ends. In the following two decades, major insights about telomere structure and function have come from investigations of telomerase, the DNA polymerase that synthesizes these repeats. I...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Collins K

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secretion of proteins across the bacterial outer membrane takes place via a variety of mechanisms from simple one-component systems to complex multicomponent pathways. Secretion pathways can be organized into evolutionarily and functionally related groups, which highlight their relationship with organelle biogenesis. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Thanassi DG,Hultgren SJ

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several homeotic genes controlling flower development have been characterized in Antirrhinum and Arabidopsis. Comparisons of their mutant phenotypes, expression patterns and genetic interactions have revealed that many of the basic mechanisms controlling flower development have been conserved in evolution, although im...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Coen ES

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the adult, angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels from pre-existing vasculature contributes to the pathogenesis of many disorders including cancer. The role of adhesion molecules, especially integrins, in pathological angiogenesis has long been the subject of investigation, mostly because of their potenti...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Hodivala-Dilke K

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00