Knockout of Arfrp1 leads to disruption of ARF-like1 (ARL1) targeting to the trans-Golgi in mouse embryos and HeLa cells.

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：: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：:Lipid rafts are specialized plasma membrane microdomains in which glycosphingolipids and cholesterol are major structural components. Their relative insolubility to nonionic detergents is the most widely used method to purify these structures. Several signalling proteins are associated with these microdomains in T lym...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Salgado FJ,Piñeiro A,Canda-Sánchez A,Lojo J,Nogueira M

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caveolae are approximately 50-100 nm membrane micro-invaginations associated with the plasma membrane of a wide variety of cells. Although they were first identified in transmission electron micrographs approximately 40 years ago, their exact function(s) has remained controversial. Two well-established functions inclu...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Lisanti MP,Tang Z,Scherer PE,Kübler E,Koleske AJ,Sargiacomo M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lactate permease was biochemically identified in Candida albicans RM1000 presenting the following kinetic parameters at pH 5.0: Km 0.33+/-0.09 mM and Vmax 0.85+/-0.06 nmol s(-1) mg dry wt(-1). Lactate uptake was competitively inhibited by pyruvic and propionic acids; acetic acid behaved as a non-competitive substrat...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Soares-Silva I,Paiva S,Kötter P,Entian KD,Casal M

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transporter SbtA is a high affinity Na+-dependent HCO3- uptake system present in a majority of cyanobacterial clades. It functions in conjunction with CO2 uptake systems and other HCO3- uptake systems to allow cyanobacteria to accumulate high levels of HCO3- used to support efficient photosynthetic CO2 fixation vi...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Price GD,Shelden MC,Howitt SM

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：:Amiodarone (AMI) is a low water-solubility drug, which is very useful in the treatment of severe cardiac disease. Its adverse effects are associated with toxicity in different tissues. Several antioxidants have been shown to reduce, and prevent AMI toxicity. The aim of this work was to develop and characterize Dimyris...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Benedini L,Antollini S,Fanani ML,Palma S,Messina P,Schulz P

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：:Vascular-targeted drug delivery systems could provide more efficient and effective pharmaceutical interventions for treating a variety of diseases including cardiovascular, pulmonary, inflammatory, and malignant disorders. However, several factors must be taken into account when designing these systems. The diverse bl...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Huang RB,Mocherla S,Heslinga MJ,Charoenphol P,Eniola-Adefeso O

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：:In hair cells of the inner ear, phosphatidylserine (PS), detected with fluorescent annexin V labeling, was rapidly exposed on the external leaflet of apical plasma membranes upon dissection of the organ of Corti. PS externalization was unchanged by caspase inhibition, suggesting that externalization did not portend ap...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Shi X,Gillespie PG,Nuttall AL

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ionotropic glutamate receptors belong to the superfamily of P-loop channels as well as K(+), Na(+), and Ca(2+) channels. However, the structural similarity between ion channels of the glutamate receptors and K(+) channels is a matter of discussion. The aim of this study was to analyze differences between the structure...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Tikhonov DB

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation-based therapies aided by nanoparticles have been developed for decades, and can be primarily categorized into two main platforms. First, delivery of payload of photo-reactive drugs (photosensitizers) using the conventional nanoparticles, and second, design and development of photo-triggerable nanoparticles (...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Yavlovich A,Smith B,Gupta K,Blumenthal R,Puri A

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

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：:'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：:Spontaneous membrane adsorption, folding and insertion of the synthetic WALP16 and KALP16 peptides was studied by computer simulations starting from completely extended conformations. The peptides were simulated using an unmodified all-atom force field in combination with an efficient Monte Carlo sampling algorithm. T...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Ulmschneider MB,Ulmschneider JP

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A structural characterization of a synthetic peptide corresponding to the fourth transmembrane domain (M4-TMD) of the gamma-subunit of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor from Torpedo californica has been undertaken. Solid-state NMR and CD spectroscopy studies indicate that upon reconstitution into lipid vesicles or ...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Williamson PT,Zandomeneghi G,Barrantes FJ,Watts A,Meier BH

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of cholesterol and lanosterol on the formation of structures in the gel/subgel phase of 1,2-dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine was investigated using freeze-fracture electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction. Mixtures with up to 25 mol% sterol were analysed after annealing for between several days and some mont...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Meyer HW,Semmler K,Quinn PJ

更新日期：1997-10-01 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：:Constitutive secretion is used to deliver newly synthesized proteins to the cell surface and to the extracellular milieu. The trans-Golgi network is a key station along this route that mediates sorting of proteins into distinct transport pathways, aided in part by clathrin and adaptor proteins. Subsequent movement of ...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Ponnambalam S,Baldwin SA

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PagP is a bacterial outer membrane protein consisting of an 8 stranded transmembrane beta-barrel and an N-terminal alpha-helix. It is an enzyme which catalyses transfer of a palmitoyl chain from a phospholipid to lipid A. Molecular dynamics simulations have been used to compare the dynamic behaviour in simulations sta...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Cox K,Sansom MS

更新日期：2009-05-01 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

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：:Nedd4 family ubiquitin ligases regulate trafficking and degradation of numerous target substrates in different cellular compartments, including at the plasma membrane, in endosomes, in the secretory pathway and in the nucleus. WWP1 is a Nedd4 family protein closely related to mouse Itch and Drosophila Su(dx), both of ...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Flasza M,Nguyen Huu NS,Mazaleyrat S,Clémence S,Villemant C,Clarke R,Baron M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotransmitter receptor trafficking in and out synapses has emerged as a key process to regulate synaptic transmission during synaptic development and plasticity both at excitatory and inhibitory synapses. Lateral diffusion of surface neurotransmitter receptors has recently emerged as a key pathway to regulate recep...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Groc L,Choquet D

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：:Treatment of BHK fibroblasts with V. cholerae sialidase for 20 min caused the breakdown of about 70% of total cellular ganglioside GM3 and the production of an approximately equivalent amount of lactosylceramide. On removal of the enzyme, a slow resynthesis of GM3 from lactosylceramide was observed, equivalent to abou...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Sillence DJ,Allan D

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Notch receptor signalling plays a central role in development and its misfunction has been linked to a number of diseases. In the cannonical Notch signalling pathway, ligand binding to Notch activates a series of proteolytic cleavages that release the Notch intracellular domain for trafficking to the nucleus, where it...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Wilkin MB,Baron M

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modification of proteins with the lipid palmitate, a process called palmitoylation, is important for the normal function of neuronal cells. However, most attention has focused on how palmitoylation regulates the targeting and trafficking of neurotransmitter receptors and non-enzymatic scaffold proteins. In this review...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Montersino A,Thomas GM

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00