Back and forth: the regulation and function of transbilayer phospholipid movement in eukaryotic cells.

abstract：:Absorption of dietary fat in the small intestine involves epithelial exposure to potentially harmful molecules such as bile salts and free fatty acids. We used organ culture of porcine jejunal explants incubated with a pre-digested mixture of fat (plant oil), bile and pancreatin to mimick the physiological process of ...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Danielsen EM,Hansen GH,Rasmussen K,Niels-Christiansen LL

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：: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：:The present review introduces the concept of 'non-permanent membrane proteins', to encompass the wide variety of proteins that are not found in a stable membrane-bound form under physiological conditions, yet they interact with the membrane at some stage of their specific course of action. Non-permanent membrane prote...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Goñi FM

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At least four different types of interaction between protein transmembrane helices have been described to date. These include the use of charge-pair interactions that can play a positive or negative role in the assembly of multi-subunit complexes such as the T cell receptor, or recruit signal transducing accessory mol...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Harrison PT

更新日期：1996-04-01 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

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：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae Jen1p is a lactate/proton symporter belonging to the lactate/pyruvate:H(+) symporter subfamily (TC#2.A.1.12.2) of the Major Facilitator Superfamily. We investigated structure-function relationships of Jen1p using a rational mutational analysis based on the identification of conserved amino ...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Soares-Silva I,Paiva S,Diallinas G,Casal M

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serotonin1A (5-HT1A) receptors are members of a superfamily of seven transmembrane domain receptors that couple to G-proteins. They appear to be involved in various behavioural and cognitive functions. This paper reports an efficient strategy to solubilize 5-HT1A receptors from bovine hippocampal membranes using t...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Chattopadhyay A,Harikumar KG,Kalipatnapu S

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eukaryotic endomembrane system (ES) is served by hundreds of dedicated proteins. Experimental characterization of the ES-associated molecular machinery in several model eukaryotes complemented by a recent progress in phylogenomics and comparative genomics have revealed a conserved complex core of the machinery tha...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Elias M

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：:Small GTPase Rab36 is homologous to Rab34 with 56% amino acid sequence identity. Rab34 was characterized as a Golgi-associated Rab protein and regulates lysosomal positioning through interaction with RILP; however, the properties and functions of Rab36 have not been investigated. To investigate Rab36, we constructed E...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Chen L,Hu J,Yun Y,Wang T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary spherocytosis (HS), a common human inherited haemolytic anaemia, is associated with partial deficiency of different erythrocyte membrane proteins. In a subset of dominant HS, a partial membrane expression deficiency of band 3, the erythrocyte anion exchanger (AE1), have previously been characterized, and se...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Dhermy D,Burnier O,Bourgeois M,Grandchamp B

更新日期：1999-10-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:The assessment of the transverse distribution and mobility of NBD-labelled phospholipid analogues in biological membranes by selective chemical destruction of fluorescent label in the outer monolayer with dithionite has been investigated using resealed erythrocyte ghosts as a model system. The distribution of those an...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Pomorski T,Herrmann A,Zachowski A,Devaux PF,Müller P

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2B is a 99 amino acid membrane protein encoded by enteroviruses such as polio and coxsackie viruses with two transmembrane domains. The protein is found to make membranes of infected cells permeable. Using a computational approach which positions the models and assesses stability by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Patargias G,Barke T,Watts A,Fischer WB

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：:The peptide specificity of both presequence-monolayer interactions and the ability of presequences to induce interbilayer contacts between large unilamellar vesicles was investigated. A range of different synthetic peptides that are documented for their mitochondrial protein import abilities were used for this purpose...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Leenhouts JM,Török Z,Demel RA,de Gier J,de Kruijff B

更新日期：1994-07-01 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：:Insolubility of membrane components in non-ionic detergents such as Triton X-100 at low temperature is a widely used biochemical criterion to identify, isolate and characterize membrane domains. In this work, we monitored the detergent insolubility of the serotonin(1A) receptor in CHO cell membranes and its modulation...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Sahu SK,Saxena R,Chattopadhyay A

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：: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：:ADP-ribosylation factor related protein 1 (ARFRP1) is a member of the ARF-family of GTPases which operate as molecular switches in the regulation of intracellular protein traffic. Deletion of the mouse Arfrp1 gene leads to embryonic lethality during early gastrulation, suggesting that ARFRP1 is required for cell adhes...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Zahn C,Hommel A,Lu L,Hong W,Walther DJ,Florian S,Joost HG,Schürmann A

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Equilibrative Nucleoside Transporters (SLC29) are a family of proteins that transport nucleosides, nucleobases and nucleoside analogue drugs across cellular membranes. ENT1 is expressed ubiquitously in mammalian tissues and responsible for a significant portion of nucleoside analog drug uptake in humans. Despite the i...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Reyes G,Nivillac NM,Karim MZ,Desouza L,Siu KW,Coe IR

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：: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：: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