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... Wnt signalling pathways play pivotal roles in development, homeostasis and human diseases, and are tightly regulated. We previously identified Tiki as a novel family of Wnt inhibitory proteases. Tiki proteins were predicted as type I transmembrane proteins and can act in both Wnt‐producing and Wnt‐responsive cells. Here, we characterize Tiki proteins as glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)‐anchored ...
plasmamembrane, etc ; metabolism; metabolites; tonoplast; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Plants are organic chemists par excellence and produce an amazing array of diverse chemical structures. Whereas primary metabolites are essential for all living organisms and highly conserved, the specialized metabolites constitute the taxonomy-specific chemical languages that are key for fitness and survival. Allocation of plants' wide array of specialized metabolites in patterns that are fine-tu ...
... Plasma membrane tension is known to regulate many cell functions, such as motility and membrane trafficking. Membrane tether pulling is an effective method for measuring the apparent membrane tension of cells and exploring membrane-cytoskeleton interactions. In this article, the mechanical properties of HP1α-depleted MCF7 breast cancer cells are explored in comparison to controls, by pulling membr ...
plasmamembrane, etc ; auxins; plant development; plant hormones; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Polar localization of PIN‐FORMED proteins (PINs) at the plasma membrane is essential for plant development as they direct the transport of phytohormone auxin between cells. PIN polar localization to certain sides of a given cell is dynamic, strictly regulated and provides directionality to auxin flow. Signals that act upstream to control subcellular PIN localization modulate auxin distribution, th ...
plasmamembrane, etc ; phospholipids; polyproteins; virion; virus assembly; Show all 5 Subjects
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... HIV-1 viral particle assembly occurs specifically at the plasma membrane and is driven primarily by the viral polyprotein Gag. Selective association of Gag with the plasma membrane is a key step in the viral assembly pathway, which is traditionally attributed to the MA domain. MA regulates specific plasma membrane binding through two primary mechanisms including: (1) specific interaction of the MA ...
plasmamembrane, etc ; amyloid; apoptosis; cytotoxicity; insulin; phosphatidylserines; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Phosphatidylserine (PS) in the plasma membrane plays an important role in cell signaling and apoptosis. Cell degeneration is also linked to numerous amyloid diseases, pathologies that are associated with aggregation of misfolded proteins. In this work, we examine the effect of both saturated PS (DMPS) and unsaturated PS (DOPS and POPS) on the aggregation properties of insulin, as well as the struc ...
plasmamembrane, etc ; calcium; cell proliferation; death; organelles; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Store-operated Ca²⁺ entry (SOCE) is a major pathway for calcium signaling, which regulates almost every biological process, involving cell proliferation, differentiation, movement and death. Stromal interaction molecule (STIM) and ORAI calcium release-activated calcium modulator (ORAI) are the two major proteins involved in SOCE. With the deepening of studies, more and more proteins are found to b ...
plasmamembrane, etc ; biogenesis; cytoskeleton; plant tissues; transcription (genetics); Show all 5 Subjects
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... The membranes of plant cells serve diverse physiological roles, which are defined largely by the localized and dynamic recruitment of proteins. Signaling lipids, such as phosphoinositides, can aid protein recruitment to the plasma membrane via specific recognition of their head groups and influence vesicular trafficking, cytoskeletal dynamics and other processes, with ramifications for plant tissu ...
Jose Sanchez-Collado; Jose J. Lopez; Isaac Jardin; Alejandro Berna-Erro; Pedro J. Camello; Carlos Cantonero; Tarik Smani; Gines M. Salido; Juan A. Rosado
plasmamembrane, etc ; agonists; calcium; fluorescence; mammals; precipitin tests; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The identification of two variants of the canonical pore-forming subunit of the Ca²⁺ release-activated Ca²⁺ (CRAC) channel Orai1, Orai1α and Orai1β, in mammalian cells arises the question whether they exhibit different functional characteristics. Orai1α and Orai1β differ in the N-terminal 63 amino acids, exclusive of Orai1α, and show different sensitivities to Ca²⁺-dependent inactivation, as well ...
plasmamembrane, etc ; ferroptosis; iron; lipid peroxidation; mitochondria; necrosis; toxicity; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Ferroptosis is a kind of iron-dependent regulatory necrosis characterized by the fatal accumulation of iron-dependent lipid peroxides in the plasma membrane and the final oxidative damage of the cell membrane. Morphologically, ferroptosis features high membrane density, decreased or disappeared cristae, rupture of the mitochondrial outer membrane, plasma membrane integrity loss, cytoplasmic swelli ...
plasmamembrane, etc ; Phytophthora infestans; biogenesis; genes; leaves; microRNA; potatoes; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Phytophthora spp. cause serious damage to plants by exploiting a large number of effector proteins and small RNAs (sRNAs). Several reports have described modulation of host RNA biogenesis and defence gene expression. Here, we analysed Phytophthora infestans Argonaute (Ago) 1 associated small RNAs during potato leaf infection. Small RNAs were co‐immunoprecipitated, deep sequenced and analysed again ...
plasmamembrane, etc ; actin; exocytosis; membrane fusion; organelles; secretion; topology; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Weibel–Palade bodies (WPB) are elongated, rod-like secretory organelles unique to endothelial cells that store the pro-coagulant von-Willebrand factor (VWF) and undergo regulated exocytosis upon stimulation with Ca²⁺- or cAMP-raising agonists. We show here that WPB preferentially initiate fusion with the plasma membrane at their tips and identify synaptotagmin-like protein 2-a (Slp2-a) as a positi ...
plasmamembrane, etc ; calcium; cell physiology; cytosol; esterases; ionization; surfactants; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Monitoring and manipulation of ionized intracellular calcium concentrations within intact, living cells using optical probes with organic chromophores is a core method for cell physiology. Since all these probes have multiple negative charges, they must be smuggled through the plasma membrane in a transiently neutral form, with intracellular esterases used to deprotect the masked anions. Here we e ...
plasmamembrane, etc ; apoplast; calcium; cations; cytoplasm; immune system; pathogens; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Calcium serves as a second messenger in a variety of developmental and physiological processes and has long been identified as important for plant immune responses. We discuss recent discoveries regarding plant immune‐related calcium‐permeable channels and how the two intertwined branches of the plant immune system are intricately linked to one another through calcium signalling. Cell surface immu ...
plasmamembrane, etc ; ligands; lipids; necrosis; neoplasms; tumor necrosis factors; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Activities of the tumour necrosis factor (TNF) family members are associated with their targeting to lipid rafts, specialised regions of the plasma membrane. Herein, we investigated the physical association of TNF and its family members cluster of differentiation 40 ligand (CD40L) and tumour necrosis factor‐related apoptosis‐inducing ligand with caveolin‐1, a lipid raft resident protein. We discov ...
plasmamembrane, etc ; calcium; electron microscopy; films (materials); irradiation; neurites; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Electron microscopy studies have demonstrated that the diameter of a focused electron beam is small enough to probe or manipulate subcellular domains of a single biological cell. Here, we report the development of a direct point electron beam irradiation system to investigate the biological functions of subcellular domains in a living cell. Subcellular structures of a single living cell cultured o ...
plasmamembrane, etc ; Mordellistena; Mylabris; acrosome; arthropods; flagellum; mitochondria; ultrastructure; Show all 8 Subjects
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... The sperm ultrastructure of some beetles of Tenebrionoidea was studied with particular attention to those of the Ripiphoridae, Mordellidae, and Meloidae. These three groups are often thought to form a clade, which is the sister group of the remaining Tenebrionoidea. The testes of the two former families have thinner but longer spermatic cysts containing fewer and longer sperm. Within each cyst all ...
plasmamembrane, etc ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; calcium; calmodulin; endoplasmic reticulum; imports; yeasts; Show all 7 Subjects
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... After a single extracellular 100 mM calcium pulse (final concentration), wild type S. cerevisiae exhibits a sharp peak in cytosolic calcium. The concentration drops rapidly in these cells as the calcium is sequestered away in the endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi, and vacuoles leaving resting cytosolic levels higher than their original state, followed by changes in gene expression. In cells lacking cal ...
plasmamembrane, etc ; Golgi apparatus; animals; endoplasmic reticulum; exocytosis; phospholipids; yeasts; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Phosphatidylinositol 4‐phosphate (PI4P) is an anionic phospholipid which has been described as a master regulator of the Golgi apparatus in eukaryotic cells. However, recent evidence suggests that PI4P mainly accumulates at the plasma membrane in all plant cells analyzed so far. In addition, many functions that are typically attributed to phosphatidylinositol 4,5‐bisphosphate (PI(4,5)P₂) in animal ...
Elke De Schutter; Jana Ramon; Benjamin Pfeuty; Caroline De Tender; Stephan Stremersch; Koen Raemdonck; Ken Op de Beeck; Wim Declercq; Franck B. Riquet; Kevin Braeckmans; Peter Vandenabeele
plasmamembrane, etc ; apoptosis; caspase-3; dextran; molecular weight; necrosis; phosphatidylserines; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Secondary necrosis has long been perceived as an uncontrolled process resulting in total lysis of the apoptotic cell. Recently, it was shown that progression of apoptosis to secondary necrosis is regulated by Gasdermin E (GSDME), which requires activation by caspase-3. Although the contribution of GSDME in this context has been attributed to its pore-forming capacity, little is known about the kin ...