The effect of sterols on structures formed in the gel/subgel phase state of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine bilayers.

abstract：:The Amt/Mep/Rh family of integral membrane proteins comprises ammonium transporters of bacteria, archaea and eukarya, as well as the Rhesus proteins found in animals. They play a central role in the uptake of reduced nitrogen for biosynthetic purposes, in energy metabolism, or in renal excretion. Recent structural inf...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Andrade SL,Einsle O

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Palmitoylation is required for the activities of several cancer-associated proteins, making the palmitoyl acyltransferase (PAT) enzymes that catalyze these reactions potential targets for anticancer therapeutics. In this study, we sought to identify and characterize a human PAT with activity toward N-terminally myrist...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Draper JM,Smith CD

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid rafts are specialized plasma membrane microdomains in which glycosphingolipids and cholesterol are major structural components. Their relative insolubility to nonionic detergents is the most widely used method to purify these structures. Several signalling proteins are associated with these microdomains in T lym...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Salgado FJ,Piñeiro A,Canda-Sánchez A,Lojo J,Nogueira M

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular-targeted drug delivery systems could provide more efficient and effective pharmaceutical interventions for treating a variety of diseases including cardiovascular, pulmonary, inflammatory, and malignant disorders. However, several factors must be taken into account when designing these systems. The diverse bl...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Huang RB,Mocherla S,Heslinga MJ,Charoenphol P,Eniola-Adefeso O

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of prenyltransferases produce linear lipids by catalyzing consecutive condensation reactions of farnesyl diphosphate (FPP) with specific numbers of isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP), a common building block of isoprenoid compounds. Depending on the stereochemistry of the double bonds formed during IPP condensation...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Teng KH,Liang PH

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that a mixture of cerebrosides obtained from dried tubers of herb Typhonium giganteum Engl. plays a neuroprotective role in the ischemic brain through its effect on activation of BK(Ca) channels. It is very curious to know whether a single pure cerebroside compound could activate the BK(Ca) ch...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Xu H,Qi J,Wang G,Deng H,Qi Z

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature-composition phase diagrams of binary lipid mixtures under conditions of constant pressure and excess water show that component immiscibility is the rule rather than the exception in these systems. Phase immiscibility is particularly noted in the solid phase but several cases are known where immiscibility i...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Vaz WL

更新日期：1995-01-01 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

abstract：:Trypsin activation of Cry4B, a 130-kDa Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) protein, produces a 65-kDa toxin active against mosquito larvae. The active toxin is made of two protease resistant-products of ca. 45 kDa and ca. 20 kDa. The cloned 21-kDa fragment consisting of the N-terminal region of the toxin was previously shown ...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Puntheeranurak T,Uawithya P,Potvin L,Angsuthanasombat C,Schwartz JL

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:Intracellular pH was measured with the pH-sensitive fluorescent probe BCECF in spinal cord neurones cultured from rat embryos. At an external pH of 7.3, the average steady-state pHi was 7.18 +/- 0.03 (SEM, n = 97) and 7.02 +/- 0.01 (n = 221) in HEPES-buffered and in bicarbonate-buffered medium, respectively. In both e...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Brechenmacher C,Rodeau JL

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane proteins are intrinsically involved in both human and pathogen physiology, and are the target of 60% of all marketed drugs. During the past decade, advances in the studies of membrane proteins using X-ray crystallography, electron microscopy and NMR-based techniques led to the elucidation of over 250 unique m...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Simmons KJ,Gotfryd K,Billesbølle CB,Loland CJ,Gether U,Fishwick CW,Johnson AP

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyanelles of the glaucocystophyte alga Cyanophora paradoxa resemble endosymbiotic cyanobacteria in morphology, pigmentation and, especially, in the presence of a peptidoglycan wall situated between the inner and outer envelope membranes. However, it is now clear that cyanelles in fact are primitive plastids. Phylo...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Steiner JM,Löffelhardt W

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Constitutive secretion is used to deliver newly synthesized proteins to the cell surface and to the extracellular milieu. The trans-Golgi network is a key station along this route that mediates sorting of proteins into distinct transport pathways, aided in part by clathrin and adaptor proteins. Subsequent movement of ...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Ponnambalam S,Baldwin SA

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：: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：: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：:NupG from Escherichia coli is the archetype of a family of nucleoside transporters found in several eubacterial groups and has distant homologues in eukaryotes, including man. To facilitate investigation of its molecular mechanism, we developed methods for expressing an oligohistidine-tagged form of NupG both at high ...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Xie H,Patching SG,Gallagher MP,Litherland GJ,Brough AR,Venter H,Yao SY,Ng AM,Young JD,Herbert RB,Henderson PJ,Baldwin SA

更新日期：2004-09-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Caveolae are approximately 50-100 nm membrane micro-invaginations associated with the plasma membrane of a wide variety of cells. Although they were first identified in transmission electron micrographs approximately 40 years ago, their exact function(s) has remained controversial. Two well-established functions inclu...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Lisanti MP,Tang Z,Scherer PE,Kübler E,Koleske AJ,Sargiacomo M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is a cAMP-regulated C1(-) channel. Malfunction of CFTR causes cystic fibrosis (CF). CFTR belongs to an ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter superfamily which includes P-glycoprotein (Pgp), the molecule that is responsible for multidrug resistance in cancer c...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Chen M,Zhang JT

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Notch is a vitally important signalling receptor controlling cell fate determination and pattern formation in numerous ways during development of both invertebrate and vertebrate species. An intriguing pathway for the Notch signal has emerged where, after ligand-dependent proteolysis, an intracellular fragment of the ...

journal_title：Molecular membrane biology

authors： Baron M,Aslam H,Flasza M,Fostier M,Higgs JE,Mazaleyrat SL,Wilkin MB

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00