abstract：:Septins are conserved GTP-binding cytoskeletal proteins that polymerize into filaments by end-to-end joining of hetero-oligomeric complexes. In human cells, both hexamers and octamers exist, and crystallography studies predicted the order of the hexamers to be SEPT7-SEPT6-SEPT2-SEPT2-SEPT6-SEPT7, while octamers are th...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Soroor F,Kim MS,Palander O,Balachandran Y,Collins RF,Benlekbir S,Rubinstein JL,Trimble WS

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokinesis in many eukaryotes is dependent on a contractile actomyosin ring (AMR), composed of F-actin, myosin II, and other actin and myosin II regulators. Through fluorescence recovery after photobleaching experiments, many components of the AMR have been shown to be mobile and to undergo constant exchange with the...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kamnev A,Palani S,Zambon P,Cheffings T,Burroughs N,Balasubramanian MK

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terminal regions of Drosophila embryos are patterned by signaling through ERK, which is genetically deregulated in multiple human diseases. Quantitative studies of terminal patterning have been recently used to investigate gain-of-function variants of human MEK1, encoding the MEK kinase that directly activates ERK by ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Marmion RA,Yang L,Goyal Y,Jindal GA,Wetzel JL,Singh M,Schüpbach T,Shvartsman SY

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubules (MTs) often form a polarized array with minus-ends anchored at the centrosome and plus-ends extended towards the cell margins. Plus-ends display behavior known as dynamic instability, - transitions between rapid shortening and slow growth. It is known that dynamic instability is regulated locally to ensur...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Burakov A,Vorobjev I,Semenova I,Cowan A,Carson J,Wu Y,Rodionov V

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell cycle, a 19th century discovery of cytologists, only achieved a satisfactory biochemical explanation in the last 20 years of the 20th century. This personal retrospective focuses on how biochemical studies of the frog egg helped identify the cyclin-based mitotic oscillator and how this approach quickly merged...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kirschner M

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential to migrate is one of the most fundamental functions for various epithelial, mesenchymal, and immune cells. Image analysis of motile cell populations, both primary and cultured, typically reveals an intercellular variability in migration speeds. However, cell migration chromatography, the sorting of large...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Arora A,Niño JLG,Myaing MZ,Chia S,Arasi B,Ravasio A,Huang RY,Dasgupta R,Biro M,Viasnoff V

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Androgen receptor (AR) signaling in Sertoli cells is known to be important for germ-cell progression through meiosis, but the extent to which androgens indirectly regulate specific meiotic stages is not known. Here, we combine synchronization of spermatogenesis, cytological analyses and single-cell RNAseq (scRNAseq) i...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Larose H,Kent T,Ma Q,Shami AN,Harerimana N,Li JZ,Hammoud SS,Handel MA

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SLC45A2 encodes a putative transporter expressed primarily in pigment cells. SLC45A2 mutations cause oculocutaneous albinism type 4 (OCA4) and polymorphisms are associated with pigmentation variation, but the localization, function, and regulation of SLC45A2 and its variants remain unknown. We show that SLC45A2 locali...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Le L,Escobar IE,Ho T,Lefkovith AJ,Latteri E,Haltaufderhyde KD,Dennis MK,Plowright L,Sviderskaya EV,Bennett DC,Oancea E,Marks MS

更新日期：2020-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Most mitochondrial proteins are synthesized as precursors that carry N-terminal presequences. After they are imported into mitochondria, these targeting signals are cleaved off by the mitochondrial processing peptidase (MPP). Using the mitochondrial tandem protein Arg5,6 as a model substrate, we demonstrate that MPP h...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Friedl J,Knopp MR,Groh C,Paz E,Gould SB,Herrmann JM,Boos F

更新日期：2020-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Scientific societies aiming to foster inclusion of scientists from underrepresented (UR) backgrounds among their membership often delegate primary responsibility for this goal to a diversity-focused committee. The National Science Foundation has funded the creation of the Alliance to Catalyze Change for Equity in STEM...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Segarra VA,Primus C,Unguez GA,Edwards A,Etson C,Flores SC,Fry C,Guillory AN,Ingram SL,Lawson M,McGee R,Paxson S,Phelan L,Suggs K,Vega LR,Vuong E,Havran JC,Leon A,Burton MD,Lujan JL,Ramirez-Alvarado M

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proper chromosome segregation is essential for faithful cell division and if not maintained results in defective cell function caused by the abnormal distribution of genetic information. Polo-like kinase 1-interacting checkpoint helicase (PICH) is a DNA translocase essential for chromosome bridge resolution during mit...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Hassebroek VA,Park H,Pandey N,Lerbakken BT,Aksenova V,Arnaoutov A,Dasso M,Azuma Y

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate chromosome alignment at metaphase facilitates the equal segregation of sister chromatids to each of the nascent daughter cells. Lack of proper metaphase alignment is an indicator of defective chromosome congression and aberrant kinetochore-microtubule attachments which in turn promotes chromosome missegregati...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Braga LG,Prifti DK,Garand C,Saini PK,Elowe S

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:NuMA is an abundant long coiled-coil protein that plays a prominent role in spindle organization during mitosis. In interphase, NuMA is localized to the nucleus and hypothesized to control gene expression and chromatin organization. However, because of the prominent mitotic phenotype upon NuMA loss, its precise functi...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Rajeevan A,Keshri R,Kapoor S,Kotak S

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) exist in a metabolic state of low oxygen tension termed "physiologic hypoxia." An important factor in maintaining intestinal homeostasis is the transcription factor hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF), which is stabilized under hypoxic conditions and mediates IEC homeostatic responses to ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Dowdell AS,Cartwright IM,Goldberg MS,Kostelecky R,Ross T,Welch N,Glover LE,Colgan SP

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In all orders of life, cell cycle progression in proliferating cells is dependent on cell growth, and the extent of growth required for cell cycle progression is proportional to growth rate. Thus, cells growing rapidly in rich nutrients are substantially larger than slow-growing cells. In budding yeast, a conserved si...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Alcaide-Gavilán M,Lucena R,Banuelos S,Kellogg DR

更新日期：2020-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell shape is regulated by cell adhesion and cytoskeletal and membrane dynamics. Cell shape, adhesion, and motility have a complex relationship and understanding them is important in understanding developmental patterning and embryogenesis. Here we show that the lipid kinase phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase III beta (PI4...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Bilodeau P,Jacobsen D,Law-Vinh D,Lee JM

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Satellite cells (SCs), the resident adult stem cells of skeletal muscle, are required for tissue repair throughout life. While many signaling pathways are known to control SC self-renewal, less is known about the mechanisms underlying the spatiotemporal control of self-renewal during skeletal muscle repair. Here, we m...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Moyle LA,Cheng RY,Liu H,Davoudi S,Ferreira SA,Nissar AA,Sun Y,Gentleman E,Simmons CA,Gilbert PM

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane trafficking during cytokinesis is essential for the delivery of membrane lipids and cargoes to the division site. However, the molecular mechanisms are still incompletely understood. In this study, we demonstrate the importance of uncharacterized fission yeast proteins Mso1 and Sec1 in membrane trafficking du...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Gerien KS,Zhang S,Russell AC,Zhu YH,Purde V,Wu JQ

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During organogenesis, different cell types need to work together to generate functional multicellular structures. To study this process, we made use of the genetically tractable fly retina, with a focus on the mechanisms that coordinate morphogenesis between the different epithelial cell types that make up the optical...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Blackie L,Walther RF,Staddon MF,Banerjee S,Pichaud F

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast cells, when exposed to stress, can enter a protective state in which cell division, growth, and metabolism are down-regulated. They remain viable in this state until nutrients become available again. How cells enter this protective survival state and what happens at a cellular and subcellular level are largely u...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Marini G,Nüske E,Leng W,Alberti S,Pigino G

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forces generated by heart muscle contraction must be balanced by adhesion to the extracellular matrix (ECM) and to other cells for proper heart function. Decades of data have suggested that cell-ECM adhesions are important for sarcomere assembly. However, the relationship between cell-ECM adhesions and sarcomeres asse...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Taneja N,Neininger AC,Burnette DT

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wnt signaling plays key roles in embryonic development and adult stem cell homeostasis and is altered in human cancer. Signaling is turned on and off by regulating stability of the effector β-catenin (β-cat). The multiprotein destruction complex binds and phosphorylates β-cat and transfers it to the SCF-TrCP E3-ubiqui...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Schaefer KN,Pronobis MI,Williams CE,Zhang S,Bauer L,Goldfarb D,Yan F,Major MB,Peifer M

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Directed cell growth or migration are critical for the development and function of many eukaryotic cells. These cells develop a dynamic "front" (also called "polarity site") that can change direction. Polarity establishment involves autocatalytic accumulation of polarity regulators, including the conserved Rho-family ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Ghose D,Lew D

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficient maintenance of genome integrity in the face of cellular stress is vital to protect against human diseases such as cancer. DNA replication, chromatin dynamics, cellular signaling, nuclear architecture, cell cycle checkpoints, and other cellular activities contribute to the delicate spatiotemporal control ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Jensen RB,Rothenberg E

更新日期：2020-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of critical concentration (CC) is central to understanding the behavior of microtubules (MTs) and other cytoskeletal polymers. Traditionally, these polymers are understood to have one CC, measured in multiple ways and assumed to be the subunit concentration necessary for polymer assembly. However, this fra...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Jonasson EM,Mauro AJ,Li C,Labuz EC,Mahserejian SM,Scripture JP,Gregoretti IV,Alber M,Goodson HV

更新日期：2020-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation and disruption of synaptic connections during development are a fundamental step in neural circuit formation. Subneuronal structures such as neurites are known to be sensitive to the level of spontaneous neuronal activity, but the specifics of how neurotransmitter-induced calcium activity regulates neuri...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Pearce KM,Bell M,Linthicum WH,Wen Q,Srinivasan J,Rangamani P,Scarlata S

更新日期：2020-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial function depends crucially on the maintenance of multiple mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) copies. Surprisingly, the cellular mechanisms regulating mtDNA copy number remain poorly understood. Through a systematic high-throughput approach in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we determined mtDNA-to-nuclear DNA ratios in ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Göke A,Schrott S,Mizrak A,Belyy V,Osman C,Walter P

更新日期：2020-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:SPOP, speckle-type POZ protein is a substrate adaptor protein of the Cullin-3/RING ubiquitin E3 complex. The spop gene is the most commonly point mutated in human primary prostate cancers, but the pathological contribution of the SPOP mutations remains unclear. In this study, we investigated several known factors that...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Watanabe R,Maekawa M,Hieda M,Taguchi T,Miura N,Kikugawa T,Saika T,Higashiyama S

更新日期：2020-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A major goal of synthetic biology is to define the minimal cellular machinery required to assemble a biological structure in its simplest form. Here, we focused on Saccharomyces cerevisiae actin cables, which provide polarized tracks for intracellular transport and maintain defined lengths while continuously undergoin...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Pollard LW,Garabedian MV,Alioto SL,Shekhar S,Goode BL

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical cues regulate the function of a broad range of stem cells in culture and in tissue. For example, soft substrates promote the neuronal differentiation of neural stem cells (NSCs) by suppressing cytoskeletal contractility. However, the mechanisms that link cytoskeletal signaling to the transcriptional regulat...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Kang PH,Schaffer DV,Kumar S

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling pathways control many developmental and homeostatic processes, including cell size and extracellular matrix remodeling. An understanding of how this pathway itself is controlled remains incomplete. To identify novel regulators of BMP signaling, we performed a forward genetic ...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Lakdawala MF,Madhu B,Faure L,Vora M,Padgett RW,Gumienny TL

更新日期：2019-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss-of-function mutations in the nonconventional myosin Vb (Myo5b) result in microvillus inclusion disease (MVID) and massive secretory diarrhea that often begins at birth. Myo5b mutations disrupt the apical recycling endosome (ARE) and membrane traffic, resulting in reduced surface expression of apical membrane prot...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Forteza R,Ahsan MK,Cartón-García F,Arango D,Ameen NA,Salas PJ

更新日期：2019-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein composition of the plasma membrane is rapidly remodeled in response to changes in nutrient availability or cellular stress. This occurs, in part, through the selective ubiquitylation and endocytosis of plasma membrane proteins, which in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is mediated by the HECT E3 ubiquiti...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Baile MG,Guiney EL,Sanford EJ,MacGurn JA,Smolka MB,Emr SD

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) are a functionally highly diverse class of proteins that help to adjust the shape and function of the microtubule cytoskeleton in space and time. For this purpose, MAPs structurally support microtubules, modulate their dynamic instability, or regulate the activity of associated m...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Drechsler H,Xu Y,Geyer VF,Zhang Y,Diez S

更新日期：2019-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Most membrane proteins are synthesized on and inserted into the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), in eukaryote. The widely conserved ER membrane protein complex (EMC) facilitates the biogenesis of a wide range of membrane proteins. In this study, we investigated the EMC function using Drosophila photorecepto...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Hiramatsu N,Tago T,Satoh T,Satoh AK

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Budding yeast treated with hydroxyurea (HU) activate the S phase checkpoint kinase Rad53, which prevents DNA replication forks from undergoing aberrant structural transitions and nuclease processing. Rad53 is also required to prevent premature extension of the mitotic spindle that assembles during a HU-extended S phas...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Julius J,Peng J,McCulley A,Caridi C,Arnak R,See C,Nugent CI,Feng W,Bachant J

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cdc42 guanosine triphosphatase (GTPase) plays a central role in polarity development in species ranging from yeast to humans. In budding yeast, a specific growth site is selected in the G1 phase. Rsr1, a Ras GTPase, interacts with Cdc42 and its associated proteins to promote polarized growth at the proper bud site...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Miller KE,Lo WC,Chou CS,Park HO

更新日期：2019-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) tubules and sheets conventionally correspond to smooth and rough ER, respectively. The ratio of ER tubules-to-sheets varies in different cell types and changes in response to cellular conditions, potentially impacting the functional output of the ER. To directly test whether ER morphology im...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Mukherjee RN,Levy DL

更新日期：2019-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophage fusion resulting in the formation of multinucleated giant cells occurs in a variety of chronic inflammatory diseases, yet the mechanism responsible for initiating this process is unknown. Here, we used live cell imaging to show that actin-based protrusions at the leading edge initiate macrophage fusion. Pha...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Faust JJ,Balabiyev A,Heddleston JM,Podolnikova NP,Baluch DP,Chew TL,Ugarova TP

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotic cells, organelle-specific protein quality control (PQC) is critical for maintaining cellular homeostasis. Despite the Golgi apparatus being the major protein processing and sorting site within the secretory pathway, how it contributes to PQC has remained largely unknown. Using different chemical biology-...

journal_title：Molecular biology of the cell

authors： Hellerschmied D,Serebrenik YV,Shao L,Burslem GM,Crews CM

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00