abstract：:Based on its shedding and binding activities, the disintegrin and metalloprotease 12 (ADAM12) has been implicated in cell signaling. Here we investigate the intracellular protein interaction network of the transmembrane ADAM12L variant using an integrative approach. We identify the integrin-linked kinase (ILK) as a ne...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Leyme A,Bourd-Boittin K,Bonnier D,Falconer A,Arlot-Bonnemains Y,Théret N

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular differentiation and lineage commitment are considered to be robust and irreversible processes during development. Recent work has shown that mouse and human fibroblasts can be reprogrammed to a pluripotent state with a combination of four transcription factors. We hypothesized that combinatorial expression of...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ishii R,Kami D,Toyoda M,Makino H,Gojo S,Ishii T,Umezawa A

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubules (MTs) are essential for cell division, shape, intracellular transport, and polarity. MT stability is regulated by many factors, including MT-associated proteins and proteins controlling the amount of free tubulin heterodimers available for polymerization. Tubulin-binding cofactors are potential key regula...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Baffet AD,Benoit B,Januschke J,Audo J,Gourhand V,Roth S,Guichet A

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:XMAP215/Dis1 proteins are conserved tubulin-binding TOG-domain proteins that regulate microtubule (MT) plus-end dynamics. Here we show that Alp14, a XMAP215 orthologue in fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, has properties of a MT polymerase. In vivo, Alp14 localizes to growing MT plus ends in a manner independen...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Al-Bassam J,Kim H,Flor-Parra I,Lal N,Velji H,Chang F

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitotic exit network (MEN) is an essential GTPase signaling pathway that triggers exit from mitosis in budding yeast. We show here that during meiosis, the MEN is dispensable for exit from meiosis I but contributes to the timely exit from meiosis II. Consistent with a role for the MEN during meiosis II, we find th...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Attner MA,Amon A

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TAM receptor protein tyrosine kinases Tyro3, Axl, and Mer play important roles in macrophage function. We investigated the roles of the TAM receptors in mediating the induction of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) during the interaction of macrophages with apoptotic cells. Mer-specific neutralizing antibody, small in...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Park HJ,Baen JY,Lee YJ,Choi YH,Kang JL

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocytic adaptor proteins facilitate cargo recruitment and clathrin-coated pit nucleation. The prototypical clathrin adaptor AP2 mediates cargo recruitment, maturation, and scission of the pit by binding cargo, clathrin, and accessory proteins, including the Eps-homology (EH) domain proteins Eps15 and intersectin. Ho...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Teckchandani A,Mulkearns EE,Randolph TW,Toida N,Cooper JA

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell morphogenesis is a complex process that relies on a diverse array of proteins and pathways. We have identified a transglutaminase-like protein (Cyk3p) that functions in fission yeast morphogenesis. The phenotype of a cyk3 knockout strain indicates a primary role for Cyk3p in cytokinesis. Correspondingly, Cyk3p lo...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Pollard LW,Onishi M,Pringle JR,Lord M

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this essay I describe my personal journey from reductionist to systems cell biology and describe how this in turn led to a 3-year sea voyage to explore complex ocean communities. In describing this journey, I hope to convey some important principles that I gleaned along the way. I realized that cellular functions e...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Karsenti E

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleosome positioning is important for the structural integrity of chromosomes. During metaphase the mitotic spindle exerts physical force on pericentromeric chromatin. The cell must adjust the pericentromeric chromatin to accommodate the changing tension resulting from microtubule dynamics to maintain a stable metap...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Verdaasdonk JS,Gardner R,Stephens AD,Yeh E,Bloom K

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteolytic processing of the amyloid-β precursor protein (APP) and generation of amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) are key events in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis. Cell biological and genetic evidence has implicated the low-density lipoprotein and sorting receptor LR11/SorLA in AD through mechanisms related to APP and A...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Herskowitz JH,Offe K,Deshpande A,Kahn RA,Levey AI,Lah JJ

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rab11 effector Rab11-family interacting protein 2 (Rab11-FIP2) regulates transcytosis through its interactions with Rab11a and myosin Vb. Previous studies implicated Rab11-FIP2 in the establishment of polarity in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells through phosphorylation of Ser-227 by MARK2. Here we examine th...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lapierre LA,Avant KM,Caldwell CM,Oztan A,Apodaca G,Knowles BC,Roland JT,Ducharme NA,Goldenring JR

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shroom (Shrm) proteins are essential regulators of cell shape and tissue morpho-logy during animal development that function by interacting directly with the coiled-coil region of Rho kinase (Rock). The Shrm-Rock interaction is sufficient to direct Rock subcellular localization and the subsequent assembly of contracti...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Mohan S,Rizaldy R,Das D,Bauer RJ,Heroux A,Trakselis MA,Hildebrand JD,VanDemark AP

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Programmed DNA rearrangements are important processes present in many organisms. In the ciliated protozoan Tetrahymena thermophila, DNA rearrangements occur during the sexual conjugation process and lead to the deletion of thousands of specific DNA segments and fragmentation of the chromosomes. In this study, we found...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lin IT,Chao JL,Yao MC

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) accessory protein Nef directs virus escape from immune surveillance by subverting host cell intracellular signaling and membrane traffic to down-regulate cell-surface major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC-I). The interaction of Nef with the sorting proteins PACS-...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Dikeakos JD,Thomas L,Kwon G,Elferich J,Shinde U,Thomas G

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The E3 ubiquitin ligase Rad18 chaperones DNA polymerase η (Polη) to sites of UV-induced DNA damage and monoubiquitinates proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), facilitating engagement of Polη with stalled replication forks and promoting translesion synthesis (TLS). It is unclear how Rad18 activities are coordinate...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Barkley LR,Palle K,Durando M,Day TA,Gurkar A,Kakusho N,Li J,Masai H,Vaziri C

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A disintegrin-like and metalloprotease with thrombospondin type I motif (ADAMTS9) is a member of the secreted metalloprotease family that is believed to digest extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins outside of cells. Its Caenorhabditis elegans orthologue, GON-1, is involved in ECM degradation and is required for gonad mo...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Yoshina S,Sakaki K,Yonezumi-Hayashi A,Gengyo-Ando K,Inoue H,Iino Y,Mitani S

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clathrin-mediated endocytosis and phagocytosis are both selective surface internalization processes but have little known mechanistic similarity or interdependence. Here we show that the phosphotyrosine-binding (PTB) domain protein Ced-6, a well-established phagocytosis component that operates as a transducer of so-ca...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Jha A,Watkins SC,Traub LM

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast sulfur metabolism is transcriptionally regulated by the activator Met4. Met4 lacks DNA-binding ability and relies on interactions with Met31 and Met32, paralogous proteins that bind the same cis-regulatory element, to activate its targets. Although Met31 and Met32 are redundant for growth in the absence of methi...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Carrillo E,Ben-Ari G,Wildenhain J,Tyers M,Grammentz D,Lee TA

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gaucher disease is a lysosomal storage disorder caused by a defect in the degradation of glucosylceramide catalyzed by the lysosomal enzyme β-glucocerebrosidase (GBA). GBA reaches lysosomes via association with its receptor, lysosomal integral membrane protein type 2 (LIMP-2). We found that distinct phosphatidylinosit...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Jović M,Kean MJ,Szentpetery Z,Polevoy G,Gingras AC,Brill JA,Balla T

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clathrin-mediated endocytosis regulates the internalization of many nutrient and signaling receptors. Clathrin and endocytic accessory proteins are recruited to receptors by specific adaptors. The adaptor Disabled-2 (Dab2) recruits its cargoes, including the low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR), and mediates endocy...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Mulkearns EE,Cooper JA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survivin, a subunit of the chromosome passenger complex (CPC), binds the N-terminal tail of histone H3, which is phosphorylated on T3 by Haspin kinase, and localizes the complex to the inner centromeres. We used x-ray crystallography to determine the residues of Survivin that are important in binding phosphomodified h...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Niedzialkowska E,Wang F,Porebski PJ,Minor W,Higgins JM,Stukenberg PT

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitination is a reversible modification that influences a broad range of physiological processes. There are approximately 90 deubiquitinases (DUBs) encoded in the human genome, of which 79 are predicted to have catalytic activity. We tagged 66 DUBs with green fluorescent protein and systematically surveyed their s...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Urbé S,Liu H,Hayes SD,Heride C,Rigden DJ,Clague MJ

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear pore complexes consist of several subcomplexes. The NUP107 complex is important for nucleocytoplasmic transport, nuclear envelope assembly, and kinetochore function. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms and the roles of individual complex members remain elusive. We report the first description of a gen...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ródenas E,González-Aguilera C,Ayuso C,Askjaer P

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are extracellular proteases highly expressed at wound sites. However, the precise function of MMPs during reepithelialization in vivo has been elusive in mammalian models because of the high level of redundancy among the 24 mammalian MMPs. For this reason we used Drosophila melanogaste...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Stevens LJ,Page-McCaw A

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unfolded protein response (UPR) monitors and maintains protein homeostasis in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). In budding yeast, the UPR is a transcriptional regulatory pathway that is quiescent under normal conditions. Under conditions of acute ER stress, activation of UPR targets is essential for cell viability. ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Hsu CL,Prasad R,Blackman C,Ng DT

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaplastic gliomas, the most common and malignant of primary brain tumors, frequently contain activating mutations and amplifications in promigratory signal transduction pathways. However, targeting these pathways with individual signal transduction inhibitors does not appreciably reduce tumor invasion, because these ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ivkovic S,Beadle C,Noticewala S,Massey SC,Swanson KR,Toro LN,Bresnick AR,Canoll P,Rosenfeld SS

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sustained directional migration of epithelial cells is essential for regeneration of injured epithelia. Front-rear polarity of migrating cells is determined by local activation of a signaling network involving Cdc42 and other factors in response to spatial cues from the environment, the nature of which are obscure. We...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Greciano PG,Moyano JV,Buschmann MM,Tang J,Lu Y,Rudnicki J,Manninen A,Matlin KS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RIO proteins form a conserved family of atypical protein kinases. Humans possess three distinct RIO kinases-hRio1, hRio2, and hRio3, of which only hRio2 has been characterized with respect to its role in ribosomal biogenesis. Here we show that both hRio1 and hRio3, like hRio2, are associated with precursors of 40S rib...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Widmann B,Wandrey F,Badertscher L,Wyler E,Pfannstiel J,Zemp I,Kutay U

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starvation induces Dictyostelium amoebae to secrete cAMP, toward which other amoebae stream, forming multicellular mounds that differentiate and develop into fruiting bodies containing spores. We find that the double deletion of cortexillin (ctx) I and II alters the actin cytoskeleton and substantially inhibits all mo...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Shu S,Liu X,Kriebel PW,Daniels MP,Korn ED

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proper functioning of the protein-folding quality control network depends on the network's ability to discern diverse structural perturbations to the native states of its protein substrates. Despite the centrality of the detection of misfolded states to cell home-ostasis, very little is known about the exact sequence ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Furth N,Gertman O,Shiber A,Alfassy OS,Cohen I,Rosenberg MM,Doron NK,Friedler A,Ravid T

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the three structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) complexes, Smc5/6 remains the most poorly understood. Genetic studies have shown that Smc5/6 mutants are defective in homologous recombination (HR), and consistent with this, Smc5/6 is enriched at lesions. However, Smc5/6 is essential for viability, but HR is no...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Tapia-Alveal C,O'Connell MJ

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the development and characterization of a system that allows the rapid and specific induction of individual genes in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae without changes in nutrients or temperature. The system is based on the chimeric transcriptional activator Gal4dbd.ER.VP16 (GEV). Upon addition of the horm...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： McIsaac RS,Silverman SJ,McClean MN,Gibney PA,Macinskas J,Hickman MJ,Petti AA,Botstein D

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) is a master regulator of the cellular response to hypoxia. Its levels and activity are controlled by dioxygenases called prolyl-hydroxylases and factor inhibiting HIF (FIH). To activate genes, HIF has to access sequences in DNA that are integrated in chromatin. It is known that the c...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Melvin A,Mudie S,Rocha S

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Keratins are cytoplasmic intermediate filament proteins preferentially expressed by epithelial tissues in a site-specific and differentiation-dependent manner. The complex network of keratin filaments in stratified epithelia is tightly regulated during squamous cell differentiation. Keratin 14 (K14) is expressed in mi...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Alam H,Sehgal L,Kundu ST,Dalal SN,Vaidya MM

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clustered protocadherins (Pcdhs) are arranged in gene clusters (α, β, and γ) with variable and constant exons. Variable exons encode cadherin and transmembrane domains and ~90 cytoplasmic residues. The 14 Pcdh-αs and 22 Pcdh-γs are spliced to constant exons, which, for Pcdh-γs, encode ~120 residues of an identical cyt...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： O'Leary R,Reilly JE,Hanson HH,Kang S,Lou N,Phillips GR

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cadherin-catenin interactions play an important role in cadherin-mediated adhesion. Here we present strong evidence that in the cadherin-catenin complex α-catenin contributes to the binding strength of another catenin, p120, to the same complex. Specifically, we found that a β-catenin-uncoupled cadherin mutant interac...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Troyanovsky RB,Klingelhöfer J,Troyanovsky SM

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol regulates plasma membrane (PM) association and functioning of syntaxin-4 and soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive fusion protein 23 (SNAP23) in the secretory pathway. However, the molecular mechanism and cellular cholesterol pools that determine the localization and assembly of these target membrane SNAP rec...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Reverter M,Rentero C,de Muga SV,Alvarez-Guaita A,Mulay V,Cairns R,Wood P,Monastyrskaya K,Pol A,Tebar F,Blasi J,Grewal T,Enrich C

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular genetic investigation of the early Caenorhabditis elegans embryo has contributed substantially to the discovery and general understanding of the genes, pathways, and mechanisms that regulate and execute developmental and cell biological processes. Initially, worm geneticists relied exclusively on a classical...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bowerman B

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1/redox factor-1 (APE1) protects cells from oxidative stress via the base excision repair pathway and as a redox transcriptional coactivator. It is required for tumor progression/metastasis, and its up-regulation is associated with cancer resistance. Loss of APE1 expression causes ce...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Vascotto C,Bisetto E,Li M,Zeef LA,D'Ambrosio C,Domenis R,Comelli M,Delneri D,Scaloni A,Altieri F,Mavelli I,Quadrifoglio F,Kelley MR,Tell G

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00