Non-coding RNAs take centre stage in epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition.

abstract：:Regulation of cell shape is a poorly understood yet central issue in cell biology. Recent experiments indicate that FH proteins link cellular signalling pathways to changes in cell shape. Members of the FH protein family play essential roles in cytokinesis and in driving alterations in cell polarity. This review discu...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Wasserman S

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor (TGF)-β family proteins control cell physiology, proliferation, and growth, and direct cell differentiation, thus playing key roles in normal development and disease. The mechanisms of how TGF-β family ligands interact with heteromeric complexes of cell surface receptors to then activate Sma...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Budi EH,Duan D,Derynck R

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Living organisms undergo biochemical, physiological and behavioral cycles with periods ranging from seconds to years. Cycles with intermediate periods are governed by endogenous clocks that depend on oscillating gene expression. Here we illustrate the modalities and specific functions of post-transcriptional control o...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Cibois M,Gautier-Courteille C,Legagneux V,Paillard L

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virtually all cancers show metabolic changes that result in upregulation of glycolysis and glucose consumption. Although discovered in the 1920s, how this glycolytic switch happens, and whether it is a cause or a consequence of the malignant process, has remained a matter of debate. The p53 tumor suppressor gene, disc...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Bensaad K,Vousden KH

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ErbB family of four receptor tyrosine kinases occupies a central role in a wide variety of biological processes from neuronal development to breast cancer. New information continues to expand their biologic significance and to unravel the molecular mechanisms that underlie the signaling capacity of these receptors...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Linggi B,Carpenter G

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenophagy, the process of eliminating intracellular pathogens through the autophagy machinery, is an important defense mechanism against infectious disease, yet the underlying molecular mechanisms remain incompletely understood. Recent work (Xu et al., Cell, 2019) used the discovery of an inhibitor of xenophagy, SopF,...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Pao KC,Rape M

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The components of the bacterial division machinery assemble to form a dynamic ring at mid-cell that drives cytokinesis. The nature of most division proteins and their assembly pathway is known. Our knowledge about the biochemical activities and protein interactions of some key division elements, including those respon...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Martos A,Jiménez M,Rivas G,Schwille P

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic cells contain numerous cytosolic and nuclear iron-sulfur (Fe/S) proteins that perform key functions in metabolic catalysis, iron regulation, protein translation, DNA synthesis, and DNA repair. Synthesis of Fe/S clusters and their insertion into apoproteins are essential for viability and are conserved in eu...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Netz DJ,Mascarenhas J,Stehling O,Pierik AJ,Lill R

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron is an essential element for metabolic processes intrinsic to life, and yet the properties that make iron a necessity also make it potentially deleterious. To avoid harm, iron homeostasis is achieved through iron transport, storage and regulatory proteins. The functions of some of these molecules are well describe...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Dunn LL,Suryo Rahmanto Y,Richardson DR

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Id helix-loop-helix proteins function at a general level as positive regulators of cell growth and as negative regulators of cell differentiation. They act as dominant-negative antagonists of other helix-loop-helix transcription factors, which drive cell lineage commitment and differentiation in diverse cell types of ...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Norton JD,Deed RW,Craggs G,Sablitzky F

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our present understanding of intracellular protein degradation developed from an attempt to understand the metabolic stability of proteins in cells. With the unravelling of its complex biochemical machinery has come a realization that protein degradation plays an important role in the most crucial events in the cell c...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Kirschner M

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular myosin II is the principal motor responsible for cytokinesis. In higher eukaryotes, phosphorylation of the regulatory light chain (MLC) of myosin II is a primary means of activating myosin II and is known to be crucial for the execution of cell division. Because signals transmitted by the mitotic spindle coor...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Matsumura F

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteins reggie-1 and reggie-2 were originally discovered in neurons during axon regeneration. Subsequently, they were independently identified as markers of lipid rafts in flotation assays and were hence named flotillins. Since then, reggie/flotillin proteins have been found to be evolutionarily conserved and are...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Stuermer CA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hallmark of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma cancer (PDAC) cells is metabolic reprogramming that facilitates tumor progression. In a recent paper published in Molecular Cell, Nagarajan et al. discover that paraoxonase (PON)2 stimulates glucose transporter (GLUT)1-mediated glucose uptake, prevents AMP-activated prote...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Tsegaye MA,Schafer ZT

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on the Golgi apparatus has resulted in major advances in understanding its structure and functions, but many important questions remain unanswered. The history of the Golgi apparatus has been marked by arguments and controversies, some of which have been resolved, whereas others are still ongoing. This articl...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Farquhar MG,Palade GE

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When starved, the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe responds by producing mating factors or pheromones that signal to cells of the opposite sex to initiate mating. Like its distant relative Saccharomyces cerevisiae, cells of the two mating types of S. pombe each produce a distinct pheromone that binds to recepto...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Nielsen O

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Axons elongate and retract in response to environmental signals during the development of the nervous system. There is broad agreement that these signals must affect the cytoskeleton to elicit bouts of elongation or retraction. Most contemporary studies have speculated that bouts of elongation involve polymerization o...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Baas PW,Ahmad FJ

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germ cells in many vertebrate and invertebrate species initiate gametogenesis by forming groups of interconnected cells known as germline cysts. Recent studies using Xenopus, mouse and Drosophila are beginning to uncover the cellular and molecular mechanisms that control germline cyst formation and, in conjunction wit...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Pepling ME,de Cuevas M,Spradling AC

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that the target of rapamycin (TOR) protein kinase has pivotal roles in controlling cell functions (including protein synthesis, cell growth and cell proliferation) and is implicated in numerous human diseases. Mammalian TOR complex 1 (mTORC1) signalling is activated by hormones and growth factor...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Wang X,Proud CG

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two related transmembrane proteins in mammalian cells bind the mannose 6-phosphate recognition marker present on all soluble lysosomal hydrolases. Recent studies of cells that express only one or neither of these proteins have shed light not only on their function in directing lysosomal enzymes into the endocytic path...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Ludwig T,Le Borgne R,Hoflack B

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocytosis is essential for the entry of many viruses into cells. The primate lentiviruses [human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) 1 and 2, and the simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs)], however, use endocytosis in other aspects of their life cycles. Here, the authors describe the ways in which the endocytic pathway is...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Marsh M,Pelchen-Matthews A,Hoxie JA

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms responsible for cytokinesis and its coordination with other events of the cell cycle are poorly understood. Genetic studies of cytokinesis in fission yeast are one useful approach to this problem. A number of conditional mutants of fission yeast that show defects in the formation of the septum of cytoki...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Fankhauser C,Simanis V

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear proteins are transported from the cytoplasm into the nucleus via nuclear envelope pore complexes (NPCs). At the molecular level, the mechanisms responsible for this transport remain obscure. However, it is known that, for many proteins, the process requires ATP and proceeds against formidable nucleocytoplasmic...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Paine PL

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell polarization requires the segregation of the plasma membrane into domains of distinct protein composition. The Lethal giant larvae (Lgl) protein of Drosophila, initially identified as a tumor suppressor, establishes such domains by localizing specific proteins to specific regions of the plasma membrane. However, ...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Wirtz-Peitz F,Knoblich JA

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear receptors comprise a large family of proteins that shares a common structure and mechanism of action. Members of this family, first cloned 20 years ago, are regulated by small lipophilic signaling molecules such as steroid hormones, retinoids and thyroid hormone. More recently, the characterization of proteins...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Benoit G,Malewicz M,Perlmann T

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asymmetric cell divisions are central to the generation of cell-fate diversity because factors that are present in a mother cell and distributed unequally at cell division can generate distinct daughters. The process o f asymmetric cell division can be described as consisting of three steps: setting up an asymmetric c...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Gönczy P,Hyman AA

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new adaptor protein complex, termed AP-3, has recently been identified in mammalian cells, and genetic studies in yeast have revealed a functional role for the AP-3 complex in cargo-selective transport via a new alternative trafficking pathway from the Golgi to the vacuole/lysosome. Here, the authors review what is ...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Odorizzi G,Cowles CR,Emr SD

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endosomal protein sorting governs the fate of many physiologically important proteins involved in a panoply of cellular functions. Recent discoveries have revealed a vital role for endosomally localised branched actin patches in facilitating protein sorting. The formation of the actin patches has been shown to require...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Seaman MN,Gautreau A,Billadeau DD

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The manner by which the organization and behaviors of cells arise from the activities of their constituent molecules remains poorly understood. Approaches from the physical sciences for studying collective properties may help with this difficult problem, but they must be adapted to account for the specific attributes ...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Needleman D

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic junctions are highly specialized structures designed to promote the rapid and efficient transmission of signals from the presynaptic terminal to the postsynaptic membrane within the central nervous system. Proteins containing PDZ domains play a fundamental organizational role at both the pre- and postsynaptic...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Garner CC,Nash J,Huganir RL

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00