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  1. The mitotic exit network (MEN) is required for events at the end of mitosis such as degradation of mitotic cyclins and cytokinesis. Bub2 and its binding partner Bfa1 act as a GTPase activating protein (GAP) to...

    Authors: Su Young Park, Addie E Cable, Jessica Blair, Katherine E Stockstill and Katie B Shannon
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:43
  2. Complex carbohydrate structures, glycans, are essential components of glycoproteins, glycolipids, and proteoglycans. While individual glycan structures including the SSEA and Tra antigens are already used to d...

    Authors: Tero Satomaa, Annamari Heiskanen, Milla Mikkola, Cia Olsson, Maria Blomqvist, Minna Tiittanen, Taina Jaatinen, Olli Aitio, Anne Olonen, Jari Helin, Jukka Hiltunen, Jari Natunen, Timo Tuuri, Timo Otonkoski, Juhani Saarinen and Jarmo Laine
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:42
  3. Histone lysine methylation plays a fundamental role in chromatin organization and marks distinct chromatin regions. In particular, trimethylation at lysine 9 of histone H3 (H3K9) and at lysine 20 of histone H4...

    Authors: Patricia P Souza, Pamela Völkel, Dave Trinel, Julien Vandamme, Claire Rosnoblet, Laurent Héliot and Pierre-Olivier Angrand
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:41
  4. Deletion or mutation(s) of the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene causes spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). The SMN protein is known to play a role in RNA metabolism, neurite outgrowth, and cell survival. Yet, it re...

    Authors: Chia-Yen Wu, Ilsa Gómez-Curet, Vicky L Funanage, Mena Scavina and Wenlan Wang
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:40
  5. The urokinase plasminogen activator receptor associated protein (uPARAP)/Endo180 is a novel endocytic receptor that mediates collagen uptake and is implicated to play a role in physiological and pathological t...

    Authors: Seyed A Mousavi, Marita S Fønhus and Trond Berg
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:39
  6. β-catenin and transforming growth factor β signaling are activated in fibroblasts during wound healing. Both signaling pathways positively regulate fibroblast proliferation during this reparative process, and ...

    Authors: Raymond Poon, Saeid Amini Nik, Jessica Ahn, Laura Slade and Benjamin A Alman
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:38
  7. Recently, mast cells have been recognized to express several Toll-like receptors (TLRs) on their membrane surfaces, and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) was reported to be able to alte...

    Authors: Haiwei Yang, Jifu Wei, Huiyun Zhang, Liyan Lin, Wei Zhang and Shaoheng He
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:37
  8. Disruption of epithelial cell-cell adhesions represents an early and important stage in tumor metastasis. This process can be modeled in vitro by exposing cells to chemical tumor promoters, phorbol esters and oct...

    Authors: Andrei I Ivanov, Stanislav N Samarin, Moshe Bachar, Charles A Parkos and Asma Nusrat
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:36
  9. Multiple profilin isoforms exist in mammals; at least four are expressed in the mammalian testis. The testis-specific isoforms profilin-3 (PFN3) and profilin-4 (PFN4) may have specialized roles in spermatogeni...

    Authors: Martina Behnen, Kai Murk, Petri Kursula, Heike Cappallo-Obermann, Martin Rothkegel, Abraham L Kierszenbaum and Christiane Kirchhoff
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:34
  10. The Retinal Pigmented Epithelium (RPE) is juxtaposed with the photoreceptor outer segments of the eye. The proximity of the photoreceptor cells is a prerequisite for their survival, as they depend on the RPE t...

    Authors: Thomas E Liggett, T Daniel Griffiths and Elizabeth R Gaillard
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:33
  11. Promyelocytic Leukemia (PML) protein can interact with a multitude of cellular factors and has been implicated in the regulation of various processes, including protein sequestration, cell cycle regulation and...

    Authors: Diarmuid M Moran, Hong Shen and Carl G Maki
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:32
  12. The COP9/signalosome (CSN) is a highly conserved eight subunit complex that, by deneddylating cullins in cullin-based E3 ubiquitin ligases, regulates protein degradation. Although studied in model human cell l...

    Authors: Claire Pearce, Rachel E Hayden, Christopher M Bunce and Farhat L Khanim
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:31
  13. Angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels from the pre-existing vasculature is associated with pathological processes, in particular tumour development, and is a target for the development of new therapies...

    Authors: Sajjad Hussain, Mark Slevin, Nessar Ahmed, David West, Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary, Humera Naz and John Gaffney
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:30
  14. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been recently investigated for their potential use in regenerative medicine. MSCs, in particular, have great potential, as in various reports they have shown pluripotency for...

    Authors: Stefania Violini, Paola Ramelli, Laura F Pisani, Chiara Gorni and Paola Mariani
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:29
  15. Muscle fibres are formed by elongation and fusion of myoblasts into myotubes. During this differentiation process, the cytoskeleton is reorganized, and proteins of the centrosome re-localize to the surface of ...

    Authors: Vlastimil Srsen, Xavier Fant, Rebecca Heald, Catherine Rabouille and Andreas Merdes
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:28
  16. Abberant aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) expression and AhR pathway activation are involved in gastric carcinogenesis. However, the relationship between AhR pathway activation and gastric cancer progression is...

    Authors: Tie-Li Peng, Jie Chen, Wei Mao, Xin Song and Min-Hu Chen
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:27
  17. Ubiquitination serves multiple cellular functions, including proteasomal degradation and the control of stability, function, and intracellular localization of a wide variety of proteins. NEDD4L is a member of ...

    Authors: Nicholas F Garrone, Bonnie L Blazer-Yost, Robert B Weiss, Jean-Marc Lalouel and Andreas Rohrwasser
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:26
  18. Apoptosis is important for regulating spermatogenesis. The protein mRHBDD1 (mouse homolog of human RHBDD1)/rRHBDD1 (rat homolog of human RHBDD1) is highly expressed in the testis and is involved in apoptosis o...

    Authors: Yong Wang, Wei Song, Shuchun Li, Xin Guan, Shiying Miao, Shudong Zong, SS Koide and Linfang Wang
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:25
  19. Mechanicosensory mechanisms regulate cell differentiation during lung organogenesis. We have previously demonstrated that cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) was integral to stretch-indu...

    Authors: Ashraf Gad, Delon L Callender, Erin Killeen, Joseph Hudak, Malgosia A Dlugosz, Janet E Larson, J Craig Cohen and Avinash Chander
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:24
  20. The product of a novel cytokine-responsive gene discovered by differential display analysis in our earlier studies on HepG2 cells was identified as mimitin – a small mitochondrial protein. Since proinflammator...

    Authors: Paulina Wegrzyn, Stephen J Yarwood, Nathalie Fiegler, Monika Bzowska, Aleksander Koj, Danuta Mizgalska, Stanisław Malicki, Magdalena Pajak, Aneta Kasza, Neli Kachamakova-Trojanowska, Joanna Bereta, Jacek Jura and Jolanta Jura
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:23
  21. The PDZ-LIM proteins are a family of signalling adaptors that interact with the actin cross-linking protein, α-actinin, via their PDZ domains or via internal regions between the PDZ and LIM domains. Three of t...

    Authors: Tuula Klaavuniemi, Nanna Alho, Pirta Hotulainen, Annina Kelloniemi, Heli Havukainen, Perttu Permi, Sampo Mattila and Jari Ylänne
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:22
  22. Photo-activation of the hydrophobic membrane probe 1, 5 iodonaphthylazide (INA) by irradiation with UV light (310–380 nm) results in the covalent modification of transmembrane anchors of membrane proteins. Thi...

    Authors: Mathias Viard, Himanshu Garg, Robert Blumenthal and Yossef Raviv
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:21
  23. Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are pleiotropic members of the TGF-beta superfamily which regulate many biological processes during development and adult tissue homeostasis and are implicated in the pathoge...

    Authors: Blanca Herrera and Gareth J Inman
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:20
  24. Skeletal muscle is able to react in a rapid, dynamic way to metabolic and mechanical stimuli. In particular, exposure to either prolonged starvation or disuse results in muscle atrophy. At variance, in hiberna...

    Authors: Manuela Malatesta, Federica Perdoni, Serafina Battistelli, Sylviane Muller and Carlo Zancanaro
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:19
  25. Human artificial chromosomes (HAC) are small functional extrachromosomal elements, which segregate correctly during each cell division. In human cells, they are mitotically stable, however when the HAC are tra...

    Authors: Daniela Moralli, David YL Chan, Andrew Jefferson, Emanuela V Volpi and Zoia L Monaco
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:18
  26. The centrosome is the cell's microtubule organising centre, an organelle with important roles in cell division, migration and polarity. However, cells can divide and flies can, for a large part of development,...

    Authors: Christopher J Wilkinson, Matthias Carl and William A Harris
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:17
  27. A critical challenge in cell biology is quantifying the interactions of cells with their extracellular matrix (ECM) environment and the active remodeling by cells of their ECM. Fluorescence microscopy is a com...

    Authors: Alexander W Peterson, Michael Halter, Alessandro Tona, Kiran Bhadriraju and Anne L Plant
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:16
  28. Retinoid-inducible gene 1 (RIG1), also known as tazarotene-induced gene 3 or retinoic-acid receptor responder 3, is a growth regulator, which induces apoptosis and differentiation. RIG1 is classified into the ...

    Authors: Fu-Ming Tsai, Rong-Yaun Shyu, Su-Ching Lin, Chang-Chieh Wu and Shun-Yuan Jiang
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:15
  29. Independent luciferase reporter assays and fluorescent translocation assays have been successfully used in drug discovery for several molecular targets. We developed U2transLUC, an assay system in which lucife...

    Authors: Fabian Zanella, Aranzazú Rosado, Beatriz Garcia, Amancio Carnero and Wolfgang Link
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:14
  30. Each of the three individual components of the CMG complex (Cdc45, MCM and GINS) is essential for chromosomal DNA replication in eukaryotic cells, both for the initiation of replication at origins and also for...

    Authors: Gökhan Akman and Stuart A MacNeill
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:12
  31. Protein translocation across the membrane of the Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) is the first step in the biogenesis of secretory and membrane proteins. Proteins enter the ER by the Sec61 translocon, a proteinaceou...

    Authors: Anshuman Kelkar and Bernhard Dobberstein
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:11
  32. D-ribose in cells and human serum participates in glycation of proteins resulting in advanced glycation end products (AGEs) that affect cell metabolism and induce cell death. However, the mechanism by which D-...

    Authors: Yan Wei, Lan Chen, Ji Chen, Lin Ge and Rong Qiao He
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:10
  33. Nrf1 [p45 nuclear factor-erythroid 2 (p45 NF-E2)-related factor 1], a member of the CNC-bZIP (CNC basic region leucine zipper) family, is known to be a transcriptional activator by dimerization with distinct p...

    Authors: Jia-Long Wu, Young-Sun Lin, Chi-Chiang Yang, Yu-Jen Lin, Shan-Fu Wu, Ying-Ting Lin and Chien-Fu Huang
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:9
  34. Tagged fusion proteins are priceless tools for monitoring the activities of biomolecules in living cells. However, over-expression of fusion proteins sometimes leads to the unwanted lethality or developmental ...

    Authors: Omar S Akbari, Daniel Oliver, Katie Eyer and Chi-Yun Pai
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:8
  35. The MAL2 gene, encoding a four-transmembrane protein of the MAL family, is amplified and overexpressed in breast and other cancers, yet the significance of this is unknown. MAL-like proteins have trafficking func...

    Authors: Susan Fanayan, Mona Shehata, Annelies P Agterof, Michael A McGuckin, Miguel A Alonso and Jennifer A Byrne
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:7
  36. SIRT1 is a mammalian homologue of NAD+-dependent deacetylase sirtuin family. It regulates longevity in several model organisms and is involved with cell survival, differentiation, metabolism among other proces...

    Authors: Yuki Fujita, Atsushi Yamaguchi, Katsuhiko Hata, Mitsuharu Endo, Naoto Yamaguchi and Toshihide Yamashita
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:6
  37. Nuclear localization of proteolytically formed intracellular fragment of ErbB4 receptor tyrosine kinase has been shown to promote cell survival, and nuclear localization of ErbB4 receptor has been described in...

    Authors: Jorma A Määttä, Kaisa Olli, Tiina Henttinen, Minna T Tuittila, Klaus Elenius and Markku Salmivirta
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:5
  38. Control of intercellular penetration of microbial products is critical for the barrier function of oral epithelia. We demonstrated that CD24 is selectively and strongly expressed in the cells of the epithelial...

    Authors: Ping Ye, Mangala A Nadkarni, Mary Simonian and Neil Hunter
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:2
  39. Regenerative wound repair is a goal of modern medicine. This is important not only for the local repair but also for its beneficial effect to systemic physiological processes. When wounds become chronic, indiv...

    Authors: Yan Liu, Melissa Petreaca, Min Yao and Manuela Martins-Green
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2009 10:1
  40. The renal (kNBC1) and intestinal (pNBC1) electrogenic Na+/HCO3- cotransporter variants differ in their primary structure, transport direction, and response to secretagogues. Previous studies have suggested that r...

    Authors: Oliver Bachmann, Kristin Franke, Haoyang Yu, Brigitte Riederer, Hong C Li, Manoocher Soleimani, Michael P Manns and Ursula Seidler
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2008 9:70
  41. The ErbB3 binding protein-1 (Ebp1) belongs to a family of DNA/RNA binding proteins implicated in cell growth, apoptosis and differentiation. However, the physiological role of Ebp1 in the whole organism is not...

    Authors: Yuexing Zhang, Yan Lu, Hua Zhou, Myounghee Lee, Zhenqiu Liu, Bret A Hassel and Anne W Hamburger
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2008 9:69
  42. As an obligatory intracellular parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas' disease, must invade and multiply within mammalian cells. Cytokeratin 18 (CK18) is among the host molecules that have b...

    Authors: Carla Claser, Marli Curcio, Samanta M de Mello, Eduardo V Silveira, Hugo P Monteiro and Mauricio M Rodrigues
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2008 9:68
  43. The fibre type attributes and the relationships among their properties play an important role in the differences in muscle capabilities and features. Comprehensive characterisation of the skeletal muscles shou...

    Authors: Natalia Moreno-Sánchez, Clara Díaz, María J Carabaño, Julia Rueda and José-Luis L Rivero
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2008 9:67
  44. Valproic acid (VPA), a commonly used mood stabilizer that promotes neuronal differentiation, regulates multiple signaling pathways involving extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) and glycogen synthase ki...

    Authors: Gyung-Ah Jung, Ju-Yong Yoon, Byoung-San Moon, Dong-Hwa Yang, Hyun-Yi Kim, Sang-Hun Lee, Vitezslav Bryja, Ernest Arenas and Kang-Yell Choi
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2008 9:66
  45. Cells use filopodia to explore their environment and to form new adhesion contacts for motility and spreading. The Arp2/3 complex has been implicated in lamellipodial actin assembly as a major nucleator of new...

    Authors: Simon A Johnston, Jonathan P Bramble, Chun L Yeung, Paula M Mendes and Laura M Machesky
    Citation: BMC Cell Biology 2008 9:65

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