Actin-dependent motile forces and cell motility.

abstract：:Regulation of skeletal muscle determination and differentiation in vertebrates centers on a core regulatory network which is composed of two families of transcription factors, the MyoD group basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) muscle regulatory factors (MRFs) and the myocyte enhancer factor 2 (MEF2) group of MADS-box regula...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Yun K,Wold B

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of various membrane trafficking steps over the past year indicate that membranes are tethered together prior to the interaction of v-SNAREs and t-SNAREs across the membrane junction. The tethering proteins identified to date are quite large, being either fibrous proteins or multimeric protein complexes. The te...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Waters MG,Pfeffer SR

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinases belonging to the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) family are used throughout evolution to control the cellular responses to external signals such as growth factors, nutrient status, stress or inductive signals. Many important substrates for MAPKs are transcription factors, and both the genetic and the b...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Treisman R

更新日期：1996-04-01 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：:Cilia are evolutionarily conserved, membrane-bound, microtubular projections emanating from the cell surface. They are assembled on virtually all cell types in the human body, with very few exceptions, and several recent reviews have covered the topic in great detail. The cilium is assembled from mature (mother) centr...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Kim S,Dynlacht BD

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently there have been advances in studies of the molecular biology of the receptor for CNTF. In contrast with the receptors for other known neurotrophic factors, which belong to the family of receptor tyrosine kinases, the CNTF receptor belongs to the family of cytokine receptors. This review will describe the stru...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Davis S,Yancopoulos GD

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiosis is a key processes of sexual reproduction in eukaryotes. By combining two cell division cycles with a single round of DNA replication meiosis provides a mechanism to generate haploid gametes. Coincidentally, processes involved in ensuring appropriate segregation of homologous chromosomes also result in genetic...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Burke B

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural induction is the process by which embryonic cells in the ectoderm make a decision to acquire a neural fate (to form the neural plate) rather than give rise to other structures such as epidermis or mesoderm. An influential model proposed a decade ago, the 'default model', postulated that ectodermal cells will be...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Stern CD

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) family is among the most druggable families in the human proteome. GPCRs are involved in most physiological processes, and our ability to modulate their activity is a hallmark of modern pharmacology. The means by which the activity of GPCRs can be modulated have been expanded by e...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Giguere PM,Kroeze WK,Roth BL

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has become clear that many vital metabolic circuits and early developmental programs are regulated translationally. Until recently, the mechanisms underlying most of these observations were poorly understood. The past year has witnessed several important advances in the understanding of how the translational appara...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Hentze MW

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen processing leads to binding of antigenic peptides to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules, and these peptide-MHC complexes are recognized by T cells. The class I and class II MHC antigen processing pathways employ different mechanisms and patterns of intracellular transport that allow the two class...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Harding CV,Geuze HJ

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organelles of the central membrane system of higher eukaryotes have been shown to utilize microtubules both for maintenance of their characteristic spatial distributions and for efficient transport of their protein and lipid to diverse sites within the cell. Recent work addressing the mechanisms that underlie this org...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Cole NB,Lippincott-Schwartz J

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein degradation plays key roles in diverse pathways in cell division, growth and differentiation. Aberrant stabilization of crucial proteins participating in oncogenic pathways is often observed in cancer. The importance of proper protein turnover is exemplified by the SCF(Fbxw7) ubiquitin ligase, which is frequen...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Kourtis N,Strikoudis A,Aifantis I

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germline stem cells (GSCs) sustain gametogenesis during the life of organisms. Recent progress has substantially extended our understanding of GSC behavior, including the mechanisms of stem cell self-renewal, asymmetric stem cell division, stem cell niches, dedifferentiation, and tissue aging. GSCs typically are highl...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Yuan H,Yamashita YM

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：:Commitment to division requires that cells sense, interpret, and respond appropriately to multiple signals. In most eukaryotes, cells commit to division in G1 before DNA replication. Beyond a point, known as Start in yeast and the restriction point in mammals, cells will proceed through the cell cycle despite changes ...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Johnson A,Skotheim JM

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is a crucial component of the cellular stress adaptation response that maintains mammalian homeostasis. Autophagy protects against neurodegenerative and inflammatory conditions, aging, and cancer. This is accomplished by the degradation and intracellular recycling of cellular components to maintain energy me...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： White E,Karp C,Strohecker AM,Guo Y,Mathew R

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The shaping of the vertebrate embryonic body plan depends heavily on the narrowing and lengthening (convergence and extension) of embryonic tissues by cell intercalation, a process by which cells actively crawl between one another along the axis of convergence to produce a narrower, longer array. We discuss recent evi...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Skoglund P,Keller R

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic analysis in model organisms has recently achieved a detailed molecular description of many key cellular processes controlling embryonic morphogenesis. To understand higher order tissue morphogenesis, we now need to define how these processes become integrated across different cell groups and cell layers. Here,...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Zhang H,Gally C,Labouesse M

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in several key areas of fibronectin biology are discussed. These include its expression, from transcription to secretion of dimers, the structural requirements for several of the binding activities, potential roles for alternatively spliced segments in cell adhesion, and the assembly of a fibronectin m...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Schwarzbauer JE

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As in yeast and mammalian cells, novel unconventional protein secretion (UPS) or unconventional membrane trafficking pathways are now known to operate in plants. UPS in plants is generally associated with stress conditions such as pathogen attack, but little is known about its underlying mechanism and function. Here, ...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Ding Y,Robinson DG,Jiang L

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hetero-hexameric origin recognition complex (ORC) is well known for its separable roles in DNA replication and heterochromatin assembly. However, ORC and its individual subunits have been implicated in diverse cellular activities in both the nucleus and the cytoplasm. Some of ORC's implied functions, such as cell ...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Sasaki T,Gilbert DM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria are highly dynamic organelles that constantly fuse and divide. Dynamin-related GTPases are the core components of the machineries that mediate mitochondrial fusion and fission. The role and regulation of these machineries are currently under intense investigation. Recently, members of the BCL2 family of p...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Rolland SG,Conradt B

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Directional guidance of migrating cells is relatively well explored in the reductionist setting of cell culture experiments. Here spatial gradients of chemical cues as well as gradients of mechanical substrate characteristics prove sufficient to attract single cells as well as their collectives. How such gradients pre...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Majumdar R,Sixt M,Parent CA

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SR (Ser-Arg) proteins are a family of nuclear factors that play multiple important roles in splicing of mRNA precursors in metazoan organisms, functioning in both constitutive and regulated splicing. Certain of these functions are redundant, such that any single SR proteins will suffice, but other functions are un...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Tacke R,Manley JL

更新日期：1999-06-01 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：:Chromatin in eukaryotic cells is a negatively charged polymer composed of DNA, histones, and various associated proteins. Over the past ten years, our view of chromatin has shifted from a static regular structure to a dynamic and highly variable configuration. While the details are not fully understood yet, chromatin ...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Maeshima K,Ide S,Babokhov M

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past year has witnessed refinements in models of spliceosome assembly pathways and in the understanding of how splicing factors of the serine/arginine-rich (SR) protein family function. The role of splicing in human genetic diseases has also received a lot of attention recently as exonic splicing enhancers become ...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Hastings ML,Krainer AR

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitogen-activated protein kinase appears to be regulated by another growth factor regulated kinase, the mitogen-activated protein kinase activator. In the past year, much progress has been made in purifying and characterizing the mitogen-activated protein kinase activator, in determining its primary structure, and...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Ahn NG,Seger R,Krebs EG

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal adhesion kinase (pp125FAK), a protein tyrosine kinase, has recently been suggested to regulate aspects of signalling induced by integrins and by certain growth factor and hormone receptors. New studies indicate that the domains of pp125FAK regulate its interactions with integrin subunits, other protein tyrosine ...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Schaller MD,Parsons JT

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00