abstract：:The transition between the closed and open conformations of the Sec61 complex permits nascent protein insertion into the translocation channel. A critical event in this structural transition is the opening of the lateral translocon gate that is formed by four transmembrane (TM) spans (TM2, TM3, TM7, and TM8 in Sec61p)...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Trueman SF,Mandon EC,Gilmore R

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid-derived polyamines are organic cations that are essential for growth in all mammalian cells, but their exact roles at the molecular level remain largely unknown. Here we provide evidence that polyamines promote the translation of cyclin-dependent kinase 4 (CDK4) by the action of CUG-binding protein 1 (C...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Xiao L,Cui YH,Rao JN,Zou T,Liu L,Smith A,Turner DJ,Gorospe M,Wang JY

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic cells activate the unfolded-protein response (UPR) upon endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, where the stress is assumed to be the accumulation of unfolded proteins in the ER. Consistent with previous in vitro studies of the ER-luminal domain of the mutant UPR initiator Ire1, our study show its association wi...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Promlek T,Ishiwata-Kimata Y,Shido M,Sakuramoto M,Kohno K,Kimata Y

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitophagy, which selectively degrades mitochondria via autophagy, has a significant role in mitochondrial quality control. When mitophagy is induced in yeast, mitochondrial residential protein Atg32 binds Atg11, an adaptor protein for selective types of autophagy, and it is recruited into the vacuole along with mitoch...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Aoki Y,Kanki T,Hirota Y,Kurihara Y,Saigusa T,Uchiumi T,Kang D

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear envelope of metazoans disassembles during mitosis and reforms in late anaphase after sister chromatids have well separated. The coordination of these mitotic events is important for genome stability, yet the temporal control of nuclear envelope reassembly is unknown. Although the steps of nuclear formation...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Tseng LC,Chen RH

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anchorage dependence of cell growth, which is mediated by multiple integrin-regulated signaling pathways, is a key defense against cancer metastasis. Detachment of cells from the extracellular matrix triggers caveolin-1-dependent internalization of lipid raft components, which mediates suppression of Rho GTPases, Erk,...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Norambuena A,Schwartz MA

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression in eukaryotes is an essential process that includes transcription, RNA processing, and export. One important player in this interface is the poly(A)(+)-RNA-binding protein Nab2, which regulates the mRNA poly(A)(+)-tail length and export. Here we show that Nab2 has additional roles during mRNA transcrip...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： González-Aguilera C,Tous C,Babiano R,de la Cruz J,Luna R,Aguilera A

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of Rap1 small GTPases stabilizes cell--cell junctions, and this activity requires Krev Interaction Trapped gene 1 (KRIT1). Loss of KRIT1 disrupts cardiovascular development and causes autosomal dominant familial cerebral cavernous malformations. Here we report that native KRIT1 protein binds the effector lo...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Liu JJ,Stockton RA,Gingras AR,Ablooglu AJ,Han J,Bobkov AA,Ginsberg MH

更新日期：2011-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear Dbf2-related (NDR) protein kinases are essential components of regulatory pathways involved in cell morphogenesis, cell cycle control, and viability in eukaryotic cells. For their activity and function, these kinases require interaction with Mob proteins. However, little is known about how the Mob proteins are...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Gutiérrez-Escribano P,González-Novo A,Suárez MB,Li CR,Wang Y,de Aldana CR,Correa-Bordes J

更新日期：2011-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During vertebrate neuromuscular junction (NMJ) assembly, motor axons and their muscle targets exchange short-range signals that regulate the subsequent steps of presynaptic and postsynaptic specialization. We report here that this interaction is in part mediated by axonal filopodia extended preferentially by cultured ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Li PP,Chen C,Lee CW,Madhavan R,Peng HB

更新日期：2011-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) is the major mechanism for internalization in mammalian cells. CME initiates by recruitment of adaptors and clathrin to form clathrin-coated pits (CCPs). Nearly half of nascent CCPs abort, whereas others are stabilized by unknown mechanisms and undergo further maturation before pinc...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Antonescu CN,Aguet F,Danuser G,Schmid SL

更新日期：2011-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Timely down-regulation of the evolutionarily conserved protein kinase Swe1 plays an important role in cell cycle control, as Swe1 can block nuclear division through inhibitory phosphorylation of the catalytic subunit of cyclin-dependent kinase. In particular, Swe1 degradation is important for budding yeast cell surviv...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Raspelli E,Cassani C,Lucchini G,Fraschini R

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is a cytoplasmic tyrosine kinase protein localized to regions called focal adhesions, which are contact points between cells and the extracellular matrix. FAK protein acts as a scaffold to transfer adhesion-dependent and growth factor signals into the cell. Increased FAK expression is linke...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Fonar Y,Gutkovich YE,Root H,Malyarova A,Aamar E,Golubovskaya VM,Elias S,Elkouby YM,Frank D

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas lysosome-related organelles (LRO) of specialized cells display both exocytic and endocytic features, lysosomes in nonspecialized cells can also acquire the property to fuse with the plasma membrane upon an acute rise in cytosolic calcium. Here, we characterize this unconventional secretory pathway in fibroblas...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Laulagnier K,Schieber NL,Maritzen T,Haucke V,Parton RG,Gruenberg J

更新日期：2011-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pif1 family helicases, which are found in nearly all eukaryotes, have important roles in both nuclear and mitochondrial genome maintenance. Recently, the increasing availability of genome sequences has revealed that Pif1 helicases are also widely found in diverse prokaryotes, but it is currently unknown what physiolog...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bochman ML,Judge CP,Zakian VA

更新日期：2011-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During a search for genes controlling conidial dormancy in Aspergillus fumigatus, two dehydrin-like genes, DprA and DprB, were identified. The deduced proteins had repeated stretches of 23 amino acids that contained a conserved dehydrin-like protein (DPR) motif. Disrupted DprAΔ mutants were hypersensitive to oxidative...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Wong Sak Hoi J,Lamarre C,Beau R,Meneau I,Berepiki A,Barre A,Mellado E,Read ND,Latgé JP

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In neurons certain mRNA transcripts are transported to synapses through mechanisms that are not fully understood. Here we report that the heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein CBF-A (CArG Box binding Factor A) facilitates dendritic transport and localization of activity-regulated cytoskeleton-associated protein (Arc...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Raju CS,Fukuda N,López-Iglesias C,Göritz C,Visa N,Percipalle P

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coordinated regulation of cell proliferation is vital for epithelial tissue homeostasis, and uncontrolled proliferation is a hallmark of carcinogenesis. A growing body of evidence indicates that epithelial tight junctions (TJs) play a role in these processes, although the mechanisms involved are poorly understood. In ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Capaldo CT,Koch S,Kwon M,Laur O,Parkos CA,Nusrat A

更新日期：2011-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In kinetochores, the Ndc80 complex couples the energy in a depolymerizing microtubule to perform the work of moving chromosomes. The complex directly binds microtubules using an unstructured, positively charged N-terminal tail located on Hec1/Ndc80. Hec1/Ndc80 also contains a calponin homology domain (CHD) that increa...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Tooley JG,Miller SA,Stukenberg PT

更新日期：2011-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During differentiation, keratinocytes undergo a dramatic shape change from small and round to large and flat, in addition to production of proteins necessary for the formation of epidermis. It has been shown that protein kinase C (PKC) η is crucial for keratinocyte differentiation. However, its role in this process ha...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Shirai Y,Morioka S,Sakuma M,Yoshino K,Otsuji C,Sakai N,Kashiwagi K,Chida K,Shirakawa R,Horiuchi H,Nishigori C,Ueyama T,Saito N

更新日期：2011-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins that directly regulate tumor necrosis factor (TNF) signaling have critical roles in determining cell death and survival. Previously we characterized ubiquitously expressed transcript (UXT)-V2 as a novel transcriptional cofactor to regulate nuclear factor-κB in the nucleus. Here we report that another splicing...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Huang Y,Chen L,Zhou Y,Liu H,Yang J,Liu Z,Wang C

更新日期：2011-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:As yeast cultures enter stationary phase in rich, glucose-based medium, differentiation of two major subpopulations of cells, termed quiescent and nonquiescent, is observed. Differences in mRNA abundance between exponentially growing and stationary-phase cultures and quiescent and nonquiescent cells are known, but lit...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Davidson GS,Joe RM,Roy S,Meirelles O,Allen CP,Wilson MR,Tapia PH,Manzanilla EE,Dodson AE,Chakraborty S,Carter M,Young S,Edwards B,Sklar L,Werner-Washburne M

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular trafficking of tRNA was long thought to be a one-way trip from the site of biogenesis in the nucleus to the translation machinery in the cytoplasm. This view has recently been challenged, however, by the discovery that tRNA can move retrograde from the cytoplasm back to the nucleus in Saccharomyces cerev...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Chafe SC,Pierce JB,Eswara MB,McGuire AT,Mangroo D

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RhoA is a small guanosine-5'-triphosphatase (GTPase) suggested to be essential for cytokinesis, stress fiber formation, and epithelial cell-cell contacts. In skin, loss of RhoA was suggested to underlie pemphigus skin blistering. To analyze RhoA function in vivo, we generated mice with a keratinocyte-restricted deleti...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Jackson B,Peyrollier K,Pedersen E,Basse A,Karlsson R,Wang Z,Lefever T,Ochsenbein AM,Schmidt G,Aktories K,Stanley A,Quondamatteo F,Ladwein M,Rottner K,van Hengel J,Brakebusch C

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clathrin-mediated endocytosis is a fundamental cellular process conserved from yeast to mammals and is an important endocytic route for the internalization of many specific cargos, including activated growth factor receptors. Here we examined changes in tyrosine phosphorylation, a representative output of growth facto...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Shen H,Ferguson SM,Dephoure N,Park R,Yang Y,Volpicelli-Daley L,Gygi S,Schlessinger J,De Camilli P

更新日期：2011-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The formin mDia2 mediates the formation of lamellipodia and filopodia during cell locomotion. The subcellular localization of activated mDia2 depends on interactions with actin filaments and the plasma membrane. We investigated the poorly understood mechanism of plasma membrane targeting of mDia2 and found that the en...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Gorelik R,Yang C,Kameswaran V,Dominguez R,Svitkina T

更新日期：2011-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During constitutive secretion, proteins synthesized at the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) are transported to the Golgi complex for processing and then to the plasma membrane for incorporation or extracellular release. This study uses a unique live-cell constitutive secretion assay to establish roles for the molecular moto...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bond LM,Peden AA,Kendrick-Jones J,Sellers JR,Buss F

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell morphogenesis depends on polarized exocytosis. One widely held model posits that long-range transport and exocyst-dependent tethering of exocytic vesicles at the plasma membrane sequentially drive this process. Here, we describe that disruption of either actin-based long-range transport and microtubules or the ex...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bendezú FO,Martin SG

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) receptor-associated factor 2 (TRAF2) regulates activation of the c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK)/c-Jun and the inhibitor of κB kinase (IKK)/nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) signaling cascades in response to TNF-α stimulation. Gene knockout studies have revealed that TRAF2 inhibits TNF-α-induced ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Zhang L,Blackwell K,Altaeva A,Shi Z,Habelhah H

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endocytic and autophagic pathways are involved in the membrane trafficking of exogenous and endogenous materials to lysosomes. However, the mechanisms that regulate these pathways are largely unknown. We previously reported that Rubicon, a Beclin 1-binding protein, negatively regulates both the autophagic and endo...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Tabata K,Matsunaga K,Sakane A,Sasaki T,Noda T,Yoshimori T

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycystin (PC)1 and PC2 are membrane proteins implicated in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. A physiologically relevant cleavage at PC1's G protein-coupled receptor proteolytic site (GPS) occurs early in the secretory pathway. Our results suggest that PC2 increases both PC1 GPS cleavage and PC1's appeara...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Chapin HC,Rajendran V,Caplan MJ

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to extensive elaboration of the photoreceptor cilium to form the outer segment, axonemal transport (IFT) in photoreceptors is extraordinarily busy, and retinal degeneration is a component of many ciliopathies. Functional loss of heterotrimeric kinesin-2, a major anterograde IFT motor, causes mislocalized opsin, fo...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lopes VS,Jimeno D,Khanobdee K,Song X,Chen B,Nusinowitz S,Williams DS

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of binding assays is to measure interactions between two molecules, such as a protein binding another protein, a small molecule, or a nucleic acid. Hard work is required to prepare reagents, but flaws in the design of many binding experiments limit the information obtained. In particular many experiments fail ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Pollard TD

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinoblastoma (RB) transcriptional corepressor and related family of pocket proteins play central roles in cell cycle control and development, and the regulatory networks governed by these factors are frequently inactivated during tumorigenesis. During normal growth, these proteins are subject to tight control th...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Acharya P,Raj N,Buckley MS,Zhang L,Duperon S,Williams G,Henry RW,Arnosti DN

更新日期：2010-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-cell fusion is an intriguing differentiation process, essential for placental development and maturation. A proteomic approach identified a cytoplasmic protein, calponin 3 (CNN3), related to the fusion of BeWo choriocarcinoma cells. CNN3 was expressed in cytotrophoblasts in human placenta. CNN3 gene knockdown pro...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Shibukawa Y,Yamazaki N,Kumasawa K,Daimon E,Tajiri M,Okada Y,Ikawa M,Wada Y

更新日期：2010-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Laminin (LM)-332 is an extracellular matrix protein that plays a structural role in normal tissues and is also important in facilitating recovery of epithelia from injury. We have shown that expression of LM-332 is up-regulated during renal epithelial regeneration after ischemic injury, but the molecular signals that ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Moyano JV,Greciano PG,Buschmann MM,Koch M,Matlin KS

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA synthesis-coupled proteolysis of the prereplicative complex component Cdt1 by the CRL4(Cdt2) E3 ubiquitin ligase is thought to help prevent rereplication of the genome during S phase. To directly test whether CRL4(Cdt2)-triggered destruction of Cdt1 is required for normal cell cycle progression in vivo, we express...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lee HO,Zacharek SJ,Xiong Y,Duronio RJ

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Golgi-associated retrograde protein (GARP) complex mediates tethering and fusion of endosome-derived transport carriers to the trans-Golgi network (TGN). In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, GARP comprises four subunits named Vps51p, Vps52p, Vps53p, and Vps54p. Orthologues of the GARP subunits, except for Vps51p...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Pérez-Victoria FJ,Schindler C,Magadán JG,Mardones GA,Delevoye C,Romao M,Raposo G,Bonifacino JS

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-to-extracellular matrix adhesion is regulated by a multitude of pathways initiated distally to the core cell-matrix adhesion machinery, such as via growth factor signaling. In contrast to these extrinsically sourced pathways, we now identify a regulatory pathway that is intrinsic to the core adhesion machinery, p...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Li Z,Lock JG,Olofsson H,Kowalewski JM,Teller S,Liu Y,Zhang H,Strömblad S

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The preprotein translocase of the outer mitochondrial membrane (TOM) consists of a central β-barrel channel, Tom40, and six proteins with α-helical transmembrane segments. The precursor of Tom40 is imported from the cytosol by a pre-existing TOM complex and inserted into the outer membrane by the sorting and assembly ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Becker T,Guiard B,Thornton N,Zufall N,Stroud DA,Wiedemann N,Pfanner N

更新日期：2010-09-15 00:00:00