abstract：:Investigation of Caenorhabditis elegans act-5 gene function revealed that intestinal microvillus formation requires a specific actin isoform. ACT-5 is the most diverged of the five C. elegans actins, sharing only 93% identity with the other four. Green fluorescent protein reporter and immunofluorescence analysis indic...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： MacQueen AJ,Baggett JJ,Perumov N,Bauer RA,Januszewski T,Schriefer L,Waddle JA

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metaphase spindles assemble to a steady state in length by mechanisms that involve microtubule dynamics and motor proteins, but they are incompletely understood. We found that Xenopus extract spindles recapitulate the length of egg meiosis II spindles, by using mechanisms intrinsic to the spindle. To probe these mecha...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Mitchison TJ,Maddox P,Gaetz J,Groen A,Shirasu M,Desai A,Salmon ED,Kapoor TM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoprotein gp130, found on the plasma membrane of Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae, was postulated previously to play a role in phagocytosis. The gene for gp130 was cloned and when translated, yielded a 768 amino acid preproprotein of 85.3 kDa. It had nearly 40% similarity to the 138 kDa family of glycoproteins impl...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Chia CP,Gomathinayagam S,Schmaltz RJ,Smoyer LK

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fission yeast Mcs6-Mcs2-Pmh1 complex, homologous to metazoan Cdk7-cyclin H-Mat1, has dual functions in cell division and transcription: as a partially redundant cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK)-activating kinase (CAK) that phosphorylates the major cell cycle CDK, Cdc2, on Thr-167; and as the RNA polymerase (Pol) II c...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lee KM,Miklos I,Du H,Watt S,Szilagyi Z,Saiz JE,Madabhushi R,Penkett CJ,Sipiczki M,Bähler J,Fisher RP

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans, the major human fungal pathogen, undergoes a reversible morphological transition from blastospores (round budding cells) to filaments (elongated cells attached end-to-end). This transition, which is induced upon exposure of C. albicans cells to a number of host conditions, including serum and body te...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kadosh D,Johnson AD

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation and polarization of epithelial cells depends on the formation of the apical junctional complex (AJC), which is composed of the tight junction (TJ) and the adherens junction (AJ). In this study, we investigated mechanisms of actin reorganization that drive the establishment of AJC. Using a calcium switc...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ivanov AI,Hunt D,Utech M,Nusrat A,Parkos CA

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, centromeres remain clustered at the spindle-pole body (SPB) during mitotic interphase. In contrast, during meiotic prophase centromeres dissociate from the SPB. Here we examined the behavior of centromere proteins in living meiotic cells of S. pombe. We show that the Nuf...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Asakawa H,Hayashi A,Haraguchi T,Hiraoka Y

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B cell antigen receptor (BCR) association with lipid rafts, the actin cytoskeleton, and clathrin-coated pits influences B cell signaling and antigen presentation. Although all three cellular structures have been separately implicated in BCR internalization, the relationship between them has not been clearly defined. I...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Stoddart A,Jackson AP,Brodsky FM

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The histone variant H2AX is rapidly phosphorylated at the sites of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). This phosphorylated H2AX (gamma-H2AX) is involved in the retention of repair and signaling factor complexes at sites of DNA damage. The dependency of this phosphorylation on the various PI3K-related protein kinases (in ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Friesner JD,Liu B,Culligan K,Britt AB

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokinesis requires the coordination of many cellular complexes, particularly those involved in the constriction and reconstruction of the plasma membrane in the cleavage furrow. We have investigated the regulation and function of vesicle transport and fusion during cytokinesis in budding yeast. By using time-lapse c...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： VerPlank L,Li R

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that a physiological role of the extensively studied cisternal Golgi rab protein, rab6, is modulation of Golgi apparatus response to stress. Taking exposure of cells to hypotonic media as the best-known example of mammalian Golgi stress response, we found that hypotonic-induced tubule extension from the Golgi ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Jiang S,Storrie B

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotic cells, nutrient starvation induces the bulk degradation of cellular materials; this process is called autophagy. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, most of the ATG (autophagy) genes are involved in not only the process of degradative autophagy, but also a biosynthetic process, the cytoplasm to vacuol...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kabeya Y,Kamada Y,Baba M,Takikawa H,Sasaki M,Ohsumi Y

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetochores are the proteinaceous complexes that assemble on centromeric DNA and direct eukaryotic chromosome segregation. The mechanisms by which higher eukaryotic cells define centromeres are poorly understood. Possible molecular contributors to centromere specification include the underlying DNA sequences and epig...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Edwards NS,Murray AW

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor suppressor protein p53 mediates stress-induced growth arrest or apoptosis and plays a major role in safeguarding genome integrity. In response to DNA damage, p53 can be modified at multiple sites by phosphorylation and acetylation. We report on the characterization of p53 C-terminal phosphorylation by CHK1 a...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ou YH,Chung PH,Sun TP,Shieh SY

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycerol and other polyols are used as osmoprotectants by many organisms. Several yeasts and other fungi can take up glycerol by proton symport. To identify genes involved in active glycerol uptake in Saccharomyces cerevisiae we screened a deletion mutant collection comprising 321 genes encoding proteins with 6 or mor...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ferreira C,van Voorst F,Martins A,Neves L,Oliveira R,Kielland-Brandt MC,Lucas C,Brandt A

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:E-cadherin plays an essential role in cell polarity and cell-cell adhesion; however, the pathway for delivery of E-cadherin to the basolateral membrane of epithelial cells has not been fully characterized. We first traced the post-Golgi, exocytic transport of GFP-tagged E-cadherin (Ecad-GFP) in unpolarized cells. In l...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lock JG,Stow JL

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely acknowledged that cultured myoblasts can not differentiate at very low density. Here we analyzed the mechanism through which cell density influences myogenic differentiation in vitro. By comparing the behavior of C2C12 myoblasts at opposite cell densities, we found that, when cells are sparse, failure to ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Messina G,Blasi C,La Rocca SA,Pompili M,Calconi A,Grossi M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trafficking through the Golgi apparatus requires members of the Arf family of GTPases, whose activation is regulated by guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs). Once activated, Arf-GTP recruits effectors such as coat complexes and lipid-modifying enzymes to specific membrane sites, creating a domain competent for c...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Niu TK,Pfeifer AC,Lippincott-Schwartz J,Jackson CL

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although evasion of apoptosis is thought to be required for the development of cancer, it is unclear which cell death pathways are evaded. We previously identified a novel epithelial cell death pathway that works in normal cells but is inactivated in tumor cells, implying that it may be targeted during tumor developme...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Thorburn J,Moore F,Rao A,Barclay WW,Thomas LR,Grant KW,Cramer SD,Thorburn A

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyadenylation-induced translation is an important regulatory mechanism during metazoan development. During Xenopus oocyte meiotic progression, polyadenylation-induced translation is regulated by CPEB, which is activated by phosphorylation. XGef, a guanine exchange factor, is a CPEB-interacting protein involved in th...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Martínez SE,Yuan L,Lacza C,Ransom H,Mahon GM,Whitehead IP,Hake LE

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EB1 is a conserved microtubule plus end tracking protein considered to play crucial roles in microtubule organization and the interaction of microtubules with the cell cortex. Despite intense studies carried out in yeast and cultured cells, the role of EB1 in multicellular systems remains to be elucidated. Here, we de...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Elliott SL,Cullen CF,Wrobel N,Kernan MJ,Ohkura H

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:cAR1, a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) for cAMP, is required for the multicellular development of Dictyostelium. The activation of multiple pathways by cAR1 is transient because of poorly defined adaptation mechanisms. To investigate this, we used a genetic screen for impaired development to isolate four dominant-n...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Zhang M,Goswami M,Hereld D

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caenorhabditis elegans is a powerful model to study the molecular basis of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). ADPKD is caused by mutations in the polycystic kidney disease (PKD)1 or PKD2 gene, encoding polycystin (PC)-1 or PC-2, respectively. The C. elegans polycystins LOV-1 and PKD-2 are required f...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Hu J,Barr MM

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Griscelli syndrome type 2 (GS2) is a genetic disorder in which patients exhibit life-threatening defects of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) whose lytic granules fail to dock on the plasma membrane and therefore do not release their contents. The disease is caused by the absence of functional rab27a, but how rab27a cont...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Neeft M,Wieffer M,de Jong AS,Negroiu G,Metz CH,van Loon A,Griffith J,Krijgsveld J,Wulffraat N,Koch H,Heck AJ,Brose N,Kleijmeer M,van der Sluijs P

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tubulogenesis by epithelial cells regulates kidney, lung, and mammary development, whereas that by endothelial cells regulates vascular development. Although functionally dissimilar, the processes necessary for tubulation by epithelial and endothelial cells are very similar. We performed microarray analysis to further...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Albig AR,Schiemann WP

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Notch and neurotrophins control neuronal shape, but it is not known whether their signaling pathways intersect. Here we report results from hippocampal neuronal cultures that are in support of this possibility. We found that low cell density or blockade of Notch signaling by a soluble Delta-Fc ligand decreased the mRN...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Salama-Cohen P,Arévalo MA,Meier J,Grantyn R,Rodríguez-Tébar A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prohibitins comprise a remarkably conserved protein family in eukaryotic cells with proposed functions in cell cycle progression, senescence, apoptosis, and the regulation of mitochondrial activities. Two prohibitin homologues, Phb1 and Phb2, assemble into a high molecular weight complex of approximately 1.2 MDa in th...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Tatsuta T,Model K,Langer T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trends in increased tuberculosis infection and a fatality rate of approximately 23% have necessitated the search for alternative biomarkers using newly developed postgenomic approaches. Here we provide a systematic analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) by directly profiling its gene products. This analysis comb...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Mawuenyega KG,Forst CV,Dobos KM,Belisle JT,Chen J,Bradbury EM,Bradbury AR,Chen X

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) receptors (FGFRs) signal to modulate diverse cellular functions, including epithelial cell morphogenesis. In epithelial cells, E-cadherin plays a key role in cell-cell adhesion, and its function can be regulated through endocytic trafficking. In this study, we investigated the location, ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bryant DM,Wylie FG,Stow JL

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin and hypertonicity each increase the content of GLUT4 glucose transporters at the surface of muscle cells. Insulin enhances GLUT4 exocytosis without diminishing its endocytosis. The insulin but not the hypertonicity response is reduced by tetanus neurotoxin, which cleaves vesicle-associated membrane protein (VA...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Randhawa VK,Thong FS,Lim DY,Li D,Garg RR,Rudge R,Galli T,Rudich A,Klip A

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the "traction fiber" model for metaphase positioning of bivalents during meiosis, kinetochore fibers of maloriented bivalents, induced during recovery from cold arrest, were analyzed with a liquid crystal polarizing microscope. The measured birefringence retardation of kinetochore fibers is proportional to the...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： LaFountain JR Jr,Oldenbourg R

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ARVCF, an armadillo-repeat protein of the p120(ctn) family, associates with classical cadherins and is present in adherens junctions, but its function is poorly understood. Here, we show that ARVCF interacts via a C-terminal PDZ-binding motif with zonula occludens (ZO)-1 and ZO-2. ARVCF and ZO-1 partially colocalize i...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kausalya PJ,Phua DC,Hunziker W

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila bristles display a precise orientation and curvature. An asymmetric extension of the socket cell overlies the newly emerging bristle rudiment to provide direction for bristle elongation, a process thought to be orchestrated by the nerve dendrite lying between these cells. Scanning electron microscopic analy...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Tilney LG,Connelly PS,Ruggiero L,Vranich KA,Guild GM,Derosier D

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of echovirus 1 (EV1, a nonenveloped RNA virus) to the alpha2beta1 integrin on the cell surface is followed by endocytic internalization of the virus together with the receptor. Here, video-enhanced live microscopy revealed the rapid uptake of fluorescently labeled EV1 into mobile, intracellular structures, pos...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Pietiäinen V,Marjomäki V,Upla P,Pelkmans L,Helenius A,Hyypiä T

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attack by the host powdery mildew Erysiphe cichoracearum usually results in successful penetration and rapid proliferation of the fungus on Arabidopsis. By contrast, the nonhost barley powdery mildew Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei (Bgh) typically fails to penetrate Arabidopsis epidermal cells. In both instances the p...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Assaad FF,Qiu JL,Youngs H,Ehrhardt D,Zimmerli L,Kalde M,Wanner G,Peck SC,Edwards H,Ramonell K,Somerville CR,Thordal-Christensen H

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, selection of the bud site determines the axis of polarized cell growth and eventual oriented cell division. Bud sites are selected in specific patterns depending on cell type. These patterns appear to depend on distinct types of marker proteins in the cell cortex; in part...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kang PJ,Angerman E,Nakashima K,Pringle JR,Park HO

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 97% of mice in which the C-terminal region of connexin43 (Cx43) was removed (designated as Cx43K258stop) die shortly after birth due to a defect of the epidermal barrier. The abnormal expression of Cx43K258stop protein in the uppermost layers of the epidermis seems to perturb terminal differentiation of kera...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Maass K,Ghanem A,Kim JS,Saathoff M,Urschel S,Kirfel G,Grümmer R,Kretz M,Lewalter T,Tiemann K,Winterhager E,Herzog V,Willecke K

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the LC7/Roadblock family of light chains (LCs) have been found in both cytoplasmic and axonemal dyneins. LC7a was originally identified within Chlamydomonas outer arm dynein and associates with this motor's cargo-binding region. We describe here a novel member of this protein family, termed LC7b that is als...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： DiBella LM,Sakato M,Patel-King RS,Pazour GJ,King SM

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spindle checkpoint prevents anaphase onset until all the chromosomes have successfully attached to the spindle microtubules. The mechanisms by which unattached kinetochores trigger and transmit a primary signal are poorly understood, although it seems to be dependent at least in part, on the kinetochore localizati...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Vigneron S,Prieto S,Bernis C,Labbé JC,Castro A,Lorca T

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin maintains whole body blood glucose homeostasis, in part, by regulating the amount of the GLUT4 glucose transporter on the cell surface of fat and muscle cells. Insulin induces the redistribution of GLUT4 from intracellular compartments to the plasma membrane, by stimulating a large increase in exocytosis and a...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Zeigerer A,McBrayer MK,McGraw TE

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00