abstract：:The field of molecular physiology of ClC chloride channels has witnessed a tremendous surge in knowledge over the past few years; however, fundamental issues such as the stoichiometry of ClC channels and the identification of pore-lining sequences have only recently begun to be addressed. New studies have also provide...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Valverde MA

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SR (Ser-Arg) proteins are a family of nuclear factors that play multiple important roles in splicing of mRNA precursors in metazoan organisms, functioning in both constitutive and regulated splicing. Certain of these functions are redundant, such that any single SR proteins will suffice, but other functions are un...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Tacke R,Manley JL

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The compartmentalization of proteins within the nucleus or cytoplasm of a eukaryotic cell offers opportunity for regulation of cell cycle progression and signalling pathways. Nuclear localization of proteins is determined by their ability to interact with specific nuclear import and export factors. In the past year, s...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Hood JK,Silver PA

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotes, G2/M progression is mediated by activation of mitosis promoting factor (MPF). To ensure faithful chromosome segregation, the activity of key mitotic inducers and inhibitors are coupled with chromosome replication, spindle pole duplication, morphogenesis, and DNA damage. Evidence gathered in the past two...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Ohi R,Gould KL

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several new members of the gelsolin family have been discovered in the past year. Determination of the structure of gelsolin and identification of lysophosphatidic acid as a negative regulator provide novel functional insights. Gelsolin is an obligate downstream effector of Rac for motility in dermal fibroblasts, regu...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Kwiatkowski DJ

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fusion of mouse and human genetics has now proven that intermediate filaments form a flexible scaffold essential for structuring cytoplasm in a variety of cell contexts. In some cases, the formation of this scaffold is achieved through a newly identified family of intermediate-filament-associated proteins that form ...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Houseweart MK,Cleveland DW

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research over the past two decades has defined a window of time in the early/mid G1 phase of the cell cycle during which mammalian cells are responsive to extracellular signals. Recent evidence indicates that this period ends with the phosphorylation of the retinoblastoma protein, enabling the cells to pass through th...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Planas-Silva MD,Weinberg RA

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular asymmetries have been proposed to play a role in plant embryogenesis. Genetic studies of Arabidopsis and other experimental approaches in several plant species have addressed the origins of cellular asymmetry in specific cases. Although zygote polarity, which precedes the formation of the apical-basal axis of...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Jürgens G,Grebe M,Steinmann T

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research into the molecular mechanisms of target cell recognition by natural killer (NK) cells has recently progressed rapidly. NK cells express several MHC I recognizing receptors that inactivate the NK cells' functions. In pathological alterations of MHC I expression, the NK cell inhibitory receptors do not engage a...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Timonen T,Helander TS

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major current issue in vesicle trafficking is whether NSF (N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor) and alpha-SNAP (alpha-soluble NSF attachment protein) are required prior to SNARE (SNAP receptor) complex formation to allow vesicle docking, or after docking at a step close to membrane fusion. Recent studies of yeast vacu...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Hay JC,Scheller RH

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is accumulating evidence that lateral assemblies (rafts) of sphingolipids and cholesterol form platforms that serve to support numerous cellular events in membrane traffic and signal transduction. Raft membrane microdomains are thought to function by preferentially associating with specific proteins while exclud...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Harder T,Simons K

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins have been implicated in an expanding variety of functions during pre-mRNA splicing. Molecular cloning has identified genes encoding spliceosomal proteins that potentially act as novel RNA helicases, GTPases, or protein isomerases. Novel protein-protein and protein-RNA interactions that are required for functi...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Will CL,Lührmann R

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of the serine/threonine kinase Raf-1 is proving to be an intricate multistep process. Recent advances in elucidating how Raf-1 becomes activated in response to signaling events have emphasized the role of phosphorylation and protein interactions in Raf-1 regulation. The picture clearly emerging is that ...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Morrison DK,Cutler RE

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rho, Rac and Cdc42 are three Ras-related GTP-binding proteins that control the assembly and disassembly of the actin cytoskeleton in response to extracellular signals. During the past year, numerous candidate downstream targets for these GTPases have been identified using affinity chromatography and yeast two-hybrid t...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Tapon N,Hall A

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flowers and shoots are derived from specialized groups of stem cells termed meristems. Recent studies in Arabidopsis have identified factors that contribute to meristem structure and identity, such as CLAVATA1, CLAVATA3, and SHOOTMERISTEMLESS, which act in both shoot and flower meristems, as well as LEAFY and APETALA1...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Liljegren SJ,Yanofsky MF

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of skeletal muscle determination and differentiation in vertebrates centers on a core regulatory network which is composed of two families of transcription factors, the MyoD group basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) muscle regulatory factors (MRFs) and the myocyte enhancer factor 2 (MEF2) group of MADS-box regula...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Yun K,Wold B

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence on the distribution of desmosomal glycoprotein isoforms that shows their combined expression in individual desmosomes has strengthened the belief that the latter are involved in epithelial differentiation and morphogenesis. It has been shown that cellular interactions and protein kinase C can modulate ...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Garrod D,Chidgey M,North A

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dystroglycan provides a crucial linkage between the cytoskeleton and the basement membrane for skeletal muscle cells. Disruption of this linkage leads to various forms of muscular dystrophy. Significant recent advances in understanding the structure and function of dystroglycan include detailed in vitro and in vivo an...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Henry MD,Campbell KP

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptors for the two peroxisomal targeting signals PTS1 and PTS2 have recently been identified in yeasts. The disparate subcellular locations of PTS receptor homologs have led to proposals of receptor shuttling between the cytosol and the peroxisomal membrane, and to the suggestion that some of these molecules may ev...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Subramani S

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) 7 was originally implicated in cell cycle control by virtue of its ability to phosphorylate and activate other CDKs. Subsequently, both CDK7 and its partner, cyclin H, were found to be associated with the general transcription factor TFIIH, suggesting additional roles for CDK7 in transcri...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Nigg EA

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of eukaryotic telomeres at the molecular level began with the discovery of short, tandem repeats at Tetrahymena chromosome ends. In the following two decades, major insights about telomere structure and function have come from investigations of telomerase, the DNA polymerase that synthesizes these repeats. I...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Collins K

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinases belonging to the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) family are used throughout evolution to control the cellular responses to external signals such as growth factors, nutrient status, stress or inductive signals. Many important substrates for MAPKs are transcription factors, and both the genetic and the b...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Treisman R

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New structural analyses of the spectrin family of actin cross-linking proteins are providing molecular explanations for both the interchain binding between the alpha and beta chains of spectrin and the intermolecular associations between spectrin and other proteins. Additionally, the analyses bring into focus a confor...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Viel A,Branton D

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The septins are a novel family of proteins that were first recognized in yeast as proteins associated with the neck filaments. Recent work has shown that septins are also present in other fungi, insects, and vertebrates. Despite the apparent differences in modes of cytokinesis amongst species, septins appear to be ess...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Longtine MS,DeMarini DJ,Valencik ML,Al-Awar OS,Fares H,De Virgilio C,Pringle JR

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionarily conserved from yeast to man, mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways respond to a variety of disparate signals which induce differentiation, proliferation, or changes in intracellular enzyme regulation. Recent advances have identified two new mammalian MAPK relatives, JNK1 and p38, and the path...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Waskiewicz AJ,Cooper JA

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adipose tissue of mammals represents a dynamic organ disseminated throughout the body. It fluctuates in abundance according to the availability of metabolic energy supplies. Mature adipose tissue communicates with the central nervous system via a hormonal circuit that controls satiety. Adipogenesis can be recapitu...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Yeh WC,McKnight SL

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of fertilization is fundamental to the maintenance of life. The ability of unfertilized eggs and free-swimming sperm to recognize, adhere to, and fuse with each other are vital aspects of the fertilization process. Significant progress has been made recently in identifying and characterizing (glyco)protein...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Wassarman PM

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dynamic and reciprocal flow of information between cells and the extracellular matrix contributes significantly to the regulation of form and function in developing systems. Signals generated by the extracellular matrix do not act in isolation. Instead, they are processed within the context of global signalling hier...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Roskelley CD,Srebrow A,Bissell MJ

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several proteins involved in exocytosis have been identified recently, but it is still completely unclear which molecules perform the fusion event itself. Although in viral fusion the fusion proteins are known, even there the molecular mechanism remains controversial. Investigation of single fusion events by electroph...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Lindau M,Almers W

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosins are a large family of structurally diverse mechanoenzymes which, upon interaction with actin filaments, convert energy from ATP hydrolysis into mechanical force. Consistent with the ubiquitous association of actin with membranes, many of these novel myosins are membrane-associated. In the past two years, evide...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Hasson T,Mooseker MS

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence corroborates the idea that the structure of the nucleolus need not be strictly maintained for proper function, suggesting that the organelle is composed of supramolecular assemblies formed during rRNA synthesis. More controversial is whether the nucleolus exists in the absence of rRNA synthesis and whe...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Mélèse T,Xue Z

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has become clear that many vital metabolic circuits and early developmental programs are regulated translationally. Until recently, the mechanisms underlying most of these observations were poorly understood. The past year has witnessed several important advances in the understanding of how the translational appara...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Hentze MW

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatiotemporal Ca2+ signalling in the cytoplasm is currently understood as an excitation phenomenon by analogy with electrical excitation in the plasma membrane. In many cell types, Ca2+ waves and Ca2+ oscillations are mediated by inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) receptor/Ca2+ channels in the endoplasmic reticulum m...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Miyazaki S

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organelles of the central membrane system of higher eukaryotes have been shown to utilize microtubules both for maintenance of their characteristic spatial distributions and for efficient transport of their protein and lipid to diverse sites within the cell. Recent work addressing the mechanisms that underlie this org...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Cole NB,Lippincott-Schwartz J

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a key part of the mechanism which controls growth and division, cells are able to respond to a variety of intracellular and extracellular stimuli. Significant progress has been made in the understanding of the biochemical mechanisms underlying mating-factor signal transduction in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Some of t...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Oehlen B,Cross FR

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal adhesion kinase (pp125FAK), a protein tyrosine kinase, has recently been suggested to regulate aspects of signalling induced by integrins and by certain growth factor and hormone receptors. New studies indicate that the domains of pp125FAK regulate its interactions with integrin subunits, other protein tyrosine ...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Schaller MD,Parsons JT

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transport of newly synthesized material from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) towards the Golgi complex, through the Golgi cisternae, and out of the trans-Golgi network (TGN) is thought to be mediated by vesicular carriers. Different types of vesicle are involved in this biosynthetic membrane traffic. All are coated wit...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Kreis TE,Pepperkok R

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The principal subunits of a large superfamily of plasma-membrane cation channels are functionally autonomous in ion conductance and in gating by membrane potential and intracellular ligands. Recent work has located the structural elements responsible for the ion conductance and gating of these channels. These studies ...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Catterall WA

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One parental copy of an imprinted gene is invariably expressed during development. The characteristic of the heritable epigenetic germline imprint remains elusive, but recent evidence stresses the necessity for additional post-zygotic epigenetic modifications to account for this temporal and tissue-specific mono-allel...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Surani MA

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many receptors that sense the environment effect intracellular regulation through stimulation of heterotrimeric G proteins and the consequences thereof. While prominence was originally given to the alpha-subunits of G proteins as the pathway for downstream regulation, very active roles for the beta gamma-subunits have...

journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology

authors： Sternweis PC

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00