abstract：:The spatiotemporal dynamics of triglyceride (TG) storage in unilocular adipocytes are not well understood. Here we applied ex vivo technology to study trafficking and metabolism of fluorescent fatty acids in adipose tissue explants. Live imaging revealed multiple cytoplasmic nodules surrounding the large central lipid...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Chu M,Sampath H,Cahana DY,Kahl CA,Somwar R,Cornea A,Roberts CT Jr,Varlamov O

更新日期：2014-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the cytolinker protein plectin lead to grossly distorted morphology of neuromuscular junctions (NMJs) in patients suffering from epidermolysis bullosa simplex (EBS)-muscular dystrophy (MS) with myasthenic syndrome (MyS). Here we investigated whether plectin contributes to the structural integrity of NMJs ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Mihailovska E,Raith M,Valencia RG,Fischer I,Al Banchaabouchi M,Herbst R,Wiche G

更新日期：2014-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rho GTPases RhoA and Rac1 function as master regulators of cytokinesis by controlling the actomyosin cytoskeleton. RhoA and Rac1 have to be respectively activated and inactivated at the division plane for cytokinesis to occur properly. The inactivation of Rac1 at the cleavage furrow is controlled by MgcRacGAP. How...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Cannet A,Schmidt S,Delaval B,Debant A

更新日期：2014-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane-anchored atlastin GTPase couples nucleotide hydrolysis to the catalysis of homotypic membrane fusion to form a branched endoplasmic reticulum network. Trans dimerization between atlastins anchored in opposing membranes, accompanied by a cross-over conformational change, is thought to draw the membranes to...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Saini SG,Liu C,Zhang P,Lee TH

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multisite phosphorylation of proteins is a powerful signal processing mechanism that plays crucial roles in cell division and differentiation as well as in disease. We recently demonstrated a novel phenomenon in cell cycle regulation by showing that cyclin-dependent kinase-dependent multisite phosphorylation of a cruc...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Valk E,Venta R,Ord M,Faustova I,Kõivomägi M,Loog M

更新日期：2014-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Time-lapse fluorescence microscopy is an important tool for measuring in vivo gene dynamics in single cells. However, fluorescent proteins are limited by slow chromophore maturation times and the cellular autofluorescence or phototoxicity that arises from light excitation. An alternative is luciferase, an enzyme that ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Mazo-Vargas A,Park H,Aydin M,Buchler NE

更新日期：2014-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's β-amyloid precursor protein (APP) associates with kinesin-1 via JNK-interacting protein 1 (JIP1); however, the role of JIP1 in APP transport by kinesin-1 in neurons remains unclear. We performed a quantitative analysis to understand the role of JIP1 in APP axonal transport. In JIP1-deficient neurons, we fi...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Chiba K,Araseki M,Nozawa K,Furukori K,Araki Y,Matsushima T,Nakaya T,Hata S,Saito Y,Uchida S,Okada Y,Nairn AC,Davis RJ,Yamamoto T,Kinjo M,Taru H,Suzuki T

更新日期：2014-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:This essay records a voyage of discovery from the "cradle of cell biology" to the present, focused on the biology of the oldest known cell organelle, the cilium. In the "romper room" of cilia and microtubule (MT) biology, the sliding MT hypothesis of ciliary motility was born. From the "summer of love," students and c...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Satir P

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the inflammatory response is accompanied by a metabolic shift to aerobic glycolysis. Here we identify histone deacetylase 4 (HDAC4) as a new component of the immunometabolic program. We show that HDAC4 is required for efficient inflammatory cytokine production activated by lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Surpr...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Wang B,Liu TY,Lai CH,Rao YH,Choi MC,Chi JT,Dai JW,Rathmell JC,Yao TP

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin-based protrusions are important for signaling and migration during development and homeostasis. Defining how different tissues in vivo craft diverse protrusive behaviors using the same genomic toolkit of actin regulators is a current challenge. The actin elongation factors Diaphanous and Enabled both promote bar...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Nowotarski SH,McKeon N,Moser RJ,Peifer M

更新日期：2014-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid β2-integrin activation is indispensable for leukocyte adhesion and recruitment to sites of infection and is mediated by chemokine- or P-selectin glycoprotein ligand-1-induced inside-out signaling. Here we uncovered a novel pathway for rapid activation of integrin-dependent leukocyte adhesion, triggered by toll-l...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Chung KJ,Mitroulis I,Wiessner JR,Zheng YY,Siegert G,Sperandio M,Chavakis T

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manganese (Mn) protects cells against lethal doses of purified Shiga toxin by causing the degradation of the cycling transmembrane protein GPP130, which the toxin uses as a trafficking receptor. Mn-induced GPP130 down-regulation, in addition to being a potential therapeutic approach against Shiga toxicosis, is a model...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Tewari R,Jarvela T,Linstedt AD

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During meiosis, homologues are linked by crossover, which is required for bipolar chromosome orientation before chromosome segregation at anaphase I. The repetitive ribosomal DNA (rDNA) array, however, undergoes little or no meiotic recombination. Hyperrecombination can cause chromosome missegregation and rDNA copy nu...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Li P,Jin H,Yu HG

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) calcium homeostasis is disrupted in diverse pathologies, including neurodegeneration, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes. Temporally defining calcium dysregulation during disease progression, however, has been challenging. Here we describe secreted ER calcium-monitoring proteins (SERCaMPs...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Henderson MJ,Wires ES,Trychta KA,Richie CT,Harvey BK

更新日期：2014-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In Tetrahymena thermophila, peptides secreted via dense-core granules, called mucocysts, are generated by proprotein processing. We used expression profiling to identify candidate processing enzymes, which localized as cyan fluorescent protein fusions to mucocysts. Of note, the aspartyl cathepsin Cth3p plays a key rol...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kumar S,Briguglio JS,Turkewitz AP

更新日期：2014-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The type III transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) receptor (TβRIII), also known as betaglycan, is the most abundantly expressed TGF-β receptor. TβRIII suppresses breast cancer progression by inhibiting migration, invasion, metastasis, and angiogenesis. TβRIII binds TGF-β ligands, with membrane-bound TβRIII presenting ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Elderbroom JL,Huang JJ,Gatza CE,Chen J,How T,Starr M,Nixon AB,Blobe GC

更新日期：2014-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular chaperones play key roles during growth, development, and stress survival. The ability to induce chaperone expression enables cells to cope with the accumulation of nonnative proteins under stress and complete developmental processes with an increased requirement for chaperone assistance. Here we generate an...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Rogon C,Ulbricht A,Hesse M,Alberti S,Vijayaraj P,Best D,Adams IR,Magin TM,Fleischmann BK,Höhfeld J

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to their well-known role in microtubule organization, centrosomes function as signaling platforms and regulate cell cycle events. An important example of such a function is the spindle position checkpoint (SPOC) of budding yeast. SPOC is a surveillance mechanism that ensures alignment of the mitotic spindl...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Caydasi AK,Micoogullari Y,Kurtulmus B,Palani S,Pereira G

更新日期：2014-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular integrity and the maintenance of blood vessel continuity are fundamental features of the circulatory system maintained through endothelial cell-cell junctions. Defects in the endothelial barrier become an initiating factor in several pathologies, including ischemia/reperfusion, tumor angiogenesis, pulmonary e...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Birukova AA,Singleton PA,Gawlak G,Tian X,Mirzapoiazova T,Mambetsariev B,Dubrovskyi O,Oskolkova OV,Bochkov VN,Birukov KG

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin II motors embedded within the actin cortex generate contractile forces to modulate cell shape in essential behaviors, including polarization, migration, and division. In sarcomeres, myosin II-mediated sliding of antiparallel F-actin is tightly coupled to myofibril contraction. By contrast, cortical F-actin is h...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Murrell M,Gardel ML

更新日期：2014-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Maturation of organelles in the endolysosomal pathway requires exchange of the early endosomal GTPase Rab5/Vps21 for the late endosomal Rab7/Ypt7. The Rab exchange depends on the guanine nucleotide exchange factor activity of the Mon1-Ccz1 heterodimer for Ypt7. Here we investigate vacuole binding and recycling of Mon1...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lawrence G,Brown CC,Flood BA,Karunakaran S,Cabrera M,Nordmann M,Ungermann C,Fratti RA

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Barrier to autointegration factor (BAF) is an essential component of the nuclear lamina that binds lamins, LEM-domain proteins, histones, and DNA. Under normal conditions, BAF protein is highly mobile when assayed by fluorescence recovery after photobleaching and fluorescence loss in photobleaching. We report that Cae...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bar DZ,Davidovich M,Lamm AT,Zer H,Wilson KL,Gruenbaum Y

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kidney, together with bone and intestine, plays a crucial role in maintaining whole-body calcium (Ca(2+)) homoeostasis, which is primarily mediated by altering the reabsorption of Ca(2+) filtered by the glomerulus. The transient receptor potential-vanilloid-5 (TRPV5) channel protein forms a six- transmembrane Ca(2...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Cai X,Srivastava S,Surindran S,Li Z,Skolnik EY

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane fusion is generally controlled by Rabs, soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptors (SNAREs), and tethering complexes. Syntaxin 17 (STX17) was recently identified as the autophagosomal SNARE required for autophagosome-lysosome fusion in mammals and Drosophila. In this study, to bett...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Jiang P,Nishimura T,Sakamaki Y,Itakura E,Hatta T,Natsume T,Mizushima N

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast cytochrome oxidase (COX) was previously inferred to assemble from three modules, each containing one of the three mitochondrially encoded subunits and a different subset of the eight nuclear gene products that make up this respiratory complex. Pull-down assays of pulse-labeled mitochondria enabled us to characte...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Su CH,McStay GP,Tzagoloff A

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear import receptors importin β and transportin play a different role in mitosis: both act phenotypically as spatial regulators to ensure that mitotic spindle, nuclear membrane, and nuclear pore assembly occur exclusively around chromatin. Importin β is known to act by repressing assembly factors in regions di...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bernis C,Swift-Taylor B,Nord M,Carmona S,Chook YM,Forbes DJ

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia-inducible factors (HIF-1 and HIF-2) are essential mediators for the adaptive transcriptional response of cells and tissues to low-oxygen conditions. Under hypoxia or when cells are treated with various nonhypoxic stimuli, the active HIF-α subunits are mainly regulated through increased protein stabilization. F...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lafleur VN,Richard S,Richard DE

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many biological systems respond to environmental changes by activating intracellular signaling cascades, resulting in an appropriate response. One such system is represented by the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. When food sources become scarce, these unicellular cells can initiate a cAMP-driven multicellular ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Vinet AF,Fiedler T,Studer V,Froquet R,Dardel A,Cosson P,Pieters J

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motile cells such as bacteria, amoebae, and fibroblasts display a continual level of energy-consuming reactions involving the cytoskeleton and signal pathways, regardless of whether or not they are actually migrating. I draw parallels between these "silent signals" and the intrinsic activity of the human brain, especi...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bray D

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging findings suggest that two lineages of mitochondrial Ca(2+) uptake participate during active and resting states: 1) the major eukaryotic membrane potential-dependent mitochondrial Ca(2+) uniporter and 2) the evolutionarily conserved exchangers and solute carriers, which are also involved in ion transport. Alth...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Hoffman NE,Chandramoorthy HC,Shanmughapriya S,Zhang XQ,Vallem S,Doonan PJ,Malliankaraman K,Guo S,Rajan S,Elrod JW,Koch WJ,Cheung JY,Madesh M

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myc interacting zinc finger protein-1 (Miz1) is a transcription factor known to regulate cell cycle- and cell adhesion-related genes in cancer. Here we show that Miz1 also plays a critical role in neural crest development. In the chick, Miz1 is expressed throughout the neural plate and closing neural tube. Its morphol...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kerosuo L,Bronner ME

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostaglandins (PGs)--lipid signals produced downstream of cyclooxygenase (COX) enzymes--regulate actin dynamics in cell culture and platelets, but their roles during development are largely unknown. Here we define a new role for Pxt, the Drosophila COX-like enzyme, in regulating the actin cytoskeleton--temporal restr...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Spracklen AJ,Kelpsch DJ,Chen X,Spracklen CN,Tootle TL

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoplasmic reticulum-localized DnaJ 4 (ERdj4) is an immunoglobulin-binding protein (BiP) cochaperone and component of the endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation (ERAD) pathway that functions to remove unfolded/misfolded substrates from the ER lumen under conditions of ER stress. To elucidate the function of ERd...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Fritz JM,Dong M,Apsley KS,Martin EP,Na CL,Sitaraman S,Weaver TE

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During autophagy, double-membrane autophagosomes deliver sequestered cytoplasmic content to late endosomes and lysosomes for degradation. The molecular mechanism of autophagosome maturation is still poorly characterized. The small GTPase Rab11 regulates endosomal traffic and is thought to function at the level of recy...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Szatmári Z,Kis V,Lippai M,Hegedus K,Faragó T,Lorincz P,Tanaka T,Juhász G,Sass M

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast that naturally exhaust the glucose from their environment differentiate into three distinct cell types distinguishable by flow cytometry. Among these is a quiescent (Q) population, which is so named because of its uniform but readily reversed G1 arrest, its fortified cell walls, heat tolerance, and longevity. Da...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Li L,Miles S,Melville Z,Prasad A,Bradley G,Breeden LL

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development and progression of cardiac hypertrophy often leads to heart failure and death, and important modulators of hypertrophy include the histone deacetylase proteins (HDACs). Estrogen inhibits cardiac hypertrophy and progression in animal models and humans. We therefore investigated the influence of 17-β-est...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Pedram A,Razandi M,Narayanan R,Dalton JT,McKinsey TA,Levin ER

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conformational diseases are associated with the conversion of normal proteins into aggregation-prone toxic conformers with structures similar to that of β-amyloid. Spatial distribution of amyloid-like proteins into intracellular quality control centers can be beneficial, but cellular mechanisms for protective aggregat...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Wolfe KJ,Ren HY,Trepte P,Cyr DM

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distinct levels of Rac activity differentially regulate the pattern of intrinsic cell migration. However, it remains unknown how Rac activity is modulated and how the level of Rac activity controls cell migratory behavior. Here we show that Slit-Robo GAP 1 (srGAP1) is a modulator of Rac activity in locomotive cell...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Yamazaki D,Itoh T,Miki H,Takenawa T

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What started as a game of discovery for a child with a chemistry set has resulted in a lifetime of fulfillment and dedication to science. It is deeply rewarding to continuously let my curiosity ask questions for which there are no known answers. Equally rewarding has been the opportunity to mentor young students and p...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Garcia JV

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brd2 is a member of the bromodomain extra terminal (BET) protein family, which consists of four chromatin-interacting proteins that regulate gene expression. Each BET protein contains two N-terminal bromodomains, which recognize acetylated histones, and the C-terminal protein-protein interaction domain. Using a genome...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Hnilicová J,Hozeifi S,Stejskalová E,Dušková E,Poser I,Humpolíčková J,Hof M,Staněk D

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00