Role of glutamate-269 in the lactose permease of Escherichia coli.

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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Nanoparticles present a new collection of contrast agents for the field of in vivo molecular imaging. This review focuses on promising molecular imaging probes for optical and magnetic resonance imaging based on four representative nanomaterial(s) platforms: quantum dots, upconversion phosphors, superparamagnetic iron...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Rosenblum LT,Kosaka N,Mitsunaga M,Choyke PL,Kobayashi H

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of Signal Peptidase I (SPasel) molecules per E. coli cell was determined using western blot techniques. Different strains were found to contain approximately 1000 SPasel molecules per cell during exponential growth. Based on the activity of SPasel in vitro it could be estimated that this amount is sufficien...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： van Klompenburg W,Whitley P,Diemel R,von Heijne G,de Kruijff B

更新日期：1995-10-01 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：:Eleven sequenced anion exchanger (AE; band 3) proteins, including five AE1, four AE2 and two AE3 proteins, comprise the anion exchanger family (AEF) of homologous proteins. Eliminating the rat and rabbit proteins that are nearly identical to the corresponding mouse proteins, seven dissimilar members of this family wer...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Espanol MJ,Saier MH Jr

更新日期：1995-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Time and distance scales in membranes are discussed in relation to the inference of domain structure from spectroscopic measurements. Each type of spectroscopy has a natural time scale set by the magnitude of the interactions that determine the spectral width. For fluid membranes, the lateral diffusion of the lipid mo...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Bloom M,Thewalt JL

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：: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：:Significant progress has been made in membrane protein engineering over the last 5 years, based largely on the re-design of existing scaffolds. Engineering techniques that have been employed include direct genetic engineering, both covalent and non-covalent modification, unnatural amino acid mutagenesis and total synt...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Bayley H,Jayasinghe L

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances have revealed much about the signaling events and molecular components associated with autophagy. Although it is clear that there are multiple points of intersection and connection between autophagy and known vesicular membrane transport processes between membrane compartments, autophagy is modulated b...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Chan SN,Tang BL

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CitS of Klebsiella pneumoniae and GltS of Escherichia coli are Na+-dependent secondary transporters from different families that are believed to share the same fold and quaternary structure. A 10 kDa protein tag (Biotin Acceptor Domain [BAD]) was fused to the N-terminus of both proteins (CitS-BAD1 and GltS-BAD1, respe...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Krupnik T,Dobrowolski A,Lolkema JS

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotransmitter transporters are regulated through a variety of signal transduction mechanisms which appear to operate in order to maintain appropriate levels of transmitter in the synaptic cleft. One such mechanism is the trafficking of the transporter in association with synaptic vesicle release machinery. This rep...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Horton N,Quick MW

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:Numerous cell surface receptors propagate activation signals to the interior of the cell via tyrosine phosphorylation of transmembrane proteins. This leads to the phosphotyrosine (PiY)-mediated recruitment of cytoplasmic signalling protein complexes which catalyze crucial biochemical signalling reactions. Here we desc...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Sangani D,Venien-Bryan C,Harder T

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of structures of integral membrane proteins from higher eukaryotes is steadily increasing due to a number of innovative protein engineering and crystallization strategies devised over the last few years. However, it is sobering to reflect that these structures represent only a tiny proportion of the total n...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Andréll J,Tate CG

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00