SNAREs and NSF in targeted membrane fusion.

abstract：:Over the last five decades more than 100 types of RNA modifications have been identified in organism of all kingdoms of life, yet their function and biological relevance remain largely elusive. The recent development of transcriptome-wide techniques to detect RNA modifications such as N(6)-methyladenosine (m(6)A) and ...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Blanco S,Frye M

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Through selective disruption of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) activity and the use of green fluorescent protein tagged derivatives of domains capable of specifically binding the lipid products of PI3Ks in vivo, it has been shown that this family of signalling enzymes have vital and distinct roles in chemotaxis, pha...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Stephens L,Ellson C,Hawkins P

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Centromeres and telomeres are both composed of specific DNA sequences and unique chromosomal proteins. Isolation and characterization of some of these sequences and proteins has greatly increased our knowledge of centromere and telomere structure. This information is allowing us to determine how centromeres and telome...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Price CM

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The COPII coat produces ER-derived transport vesicles. Recent findings suggest that the COPII coat is a highly dynamic polymer and that efficient capture of cargo molecules into COPII vesicles depends on several parameters, including export signals, membrane environment, metabolic control and the presence of a reperto...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Antonny B,Schekman R

更新日期：2001-08-01 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：:Cellular microtubules are mosaic polymers assembled from multiple αβ-tubulin isoforms bearing chemically diverse posttranslational modifications. This tubulin diversity constitutes a combinatorial code that regulates microtubule interactions with cellular effectors and alters their intrinsic dynamic and mechanical pro...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Roll-Mecak A

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria are classically known as the essential energy producers in cells. As such, the activation of mitochondrial metabolism upon cellular differentiation was deemed a necessity to fuel the high metabolic needs of differentiated cells. However, recent studies have revealed a direct role for mitochondrial activit...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Khacho M,Slack RS

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is accumulating evidence that lateral assemblies (rafts) of sphingolipids and cholesterol form platforms that serve to support numerous cellular events in membrane traffic and signal transduction. Raft membrane microdomains are thought to function by preferentially associating with specific proteins while exclud...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Harder T,Simons K

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How are cell morphogenesis and cell cycle coordinated? The fission yeast is a rod-shaped unicellular organism widely used to study how a cell self-organizes in space and time. Here, we discuss recent advances in understanding how the cell acquires and maintains its regular rod shape and uses it to control cell divisio...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Hachet O,Bendezú FO,Martin SG

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Particle engulfment during phagocytosis has long been appreciated to be an active, actin-driven process. By contrast, the preceding stage--securing the target to the surface of the phagocyte--was thought to result from the passive diffusion of receptors along the membrane towards their ligands on the particle surface....

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Jaumouillé V,Grinstein S

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubule self-assembly dynamics serve to facilitate many vital cellular functions, such as chromosome segregation during mitosis and synaptic plasticity. However, the detailed atomistic basis of assembly dynamics has remained an unresolved puzzle. A key challenge is connecting together the vast range of relevant le...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Hemmat M,Castle BT,Odde DJ

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely recognized that after endocytosis, internalized cargo is delivered to endosomes that act as sorting stations. The limiting membrane of endosomes contain specialized subregions, or microdomains, that represent distinct functions of the endosome, including regions competing for cargo capture leading to degr...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Norris A,Grant BD

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a fundamental process governing morphogenesis in multicellular organisms. This process is also reactivated in a variety of diseases including fibrosis and in the progression of carcinoma. The molecular mechanisms of EMT were primarily studied in epithelial cell lines, lea...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Thiery JP

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initiation of chromosomal DNA replication involves initiator proteins that recruit and load hexameric DNA helicases at replication origins. This helicase loading step is tightly regulated in bacteria and eukaryotes. In contrast to the situation in bacteria, the eukaryotic helicase is loaded in an inactive form. Th...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Remus D,Diffley JF

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：: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：:Research into the molecular mechanisms of target cell recognition by natural killer (NK) cells has recently progressed rapidly. NK cells express several MHC I recognizing receptors that inactivate the NK cells' functions. In pathological alterations of MHC I expression, the NK cell inhibitory receptors do not engage a...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Timonen T,Helander TS

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How linear DNA molecules are packaged into compact cylindrical chromosomes in preparation for cell division has remained one of the central outstanding questions in cell biology. Condensin is a highly conserved protein complex that universally determines large-scale DNA geometry during mitotic chromosome assembly. A w...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Takahashi M,Hirota T

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of a complex multicellular organism requires a coordination of growth and cell division under the control of patterning mechanisms. Studies in yeast have pioneered our understanding of the relationship between growth and cell division. In recent years, many of the pathways that regulate growth in multi...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Tapon N,Moberg KH,Hariharan IK

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three recent reports indicate that p120-catenin can modulate the activities of RhoA, Rac and Cdc42, suggesting an elegant and previously unexpected mechanism for regulating the balance between adhesive and motile cellular phenotypes. The observations in these reports provide important new clues toward p120's mechanism...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Anastasiadis PZ,Reynolds AB

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dynamic and reciprocal flow of information between cells and the extracellular matrix contributes significantly to the regulation of form and function in developing systems. Signals generated by the extracellular matrix do not act in isolation. Instead, they are processed within the context of global signalling hier...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Roskelley CD,Srebrow A,Bissell MJ

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A key difference between yeast and metazoans is the need of the latter to regulate cell proliferation and growth to create organs (and organisms) of reproducible size and shape. Great progress has been made in understanding how growth, cell size and the cell cycle are controlled in metazoans. Recent work has shown tha...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Leevers SJ,McNeill H

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The establishment of left-right asymmetry during development of vertebrate embryos depends on leftward flow in the nodal cavity. The flow is produced by the rotational movement of the posteriorly tilted nodal cilia. However, it remains poorly understood how the nodal cilia are tilted posteriorly, and how the direction...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Hirokawa N,Tanaka Y,Okada Y

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：: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：:Throughout their lifetimes, all cells experience force. These forces are sensed by cell surface adhesion receptors, such as the cadherins and integrins. Much attention has focused on identifying how these adhesion receptors transmit force. In contrast, less is known regarding how these force-activated pathways are int...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Salvi AM,DeMali KA

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Important advances in the study of Polycomb Group (PcG) complexes in the past two years have focused on the role of this repressive system in programing the genome. Genome-wide analyses have shown that PcG mechanisms control a large number of genes regulating many cellular functions and all developmental pathways. Cur...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Schwartz YB,Pirrotta V

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in our understanding of transcription factors that regulate RNA polymerase II transcribed genes are described. This review considers the role of alternate protein-protein interactions to yield positive or negative regulation, the consequences of deregulated factor activity on cell function and approach...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Morimoto RI

更新日期：1992-06-01 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

abstract：:The cell biologist's insight into endosomal diversity, in terms of both form and function, has increased dramatically in the past few years. This understanding has been promoted by the availability of powerful new techniques that allow imaging of both cargo and machinery in the endocytic process in real time, and by o...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Perret E,Lakkaraju A,Deborde S,Schreiner R,Rodriguez-Boulan E

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00