Naoki Sato,Kimihiro Terasawa,Kazunori Miyajima et al.
Naoki Sato et al.
The plastid is a semiautonomous organelle essential in photosynthesis and other metabolic activities of plants and algae. Plastid DNA is organized into the nucleoid with various proteins and RNA, and the nucleoid is subject to dynamic chang...
Helmut Plattner,Roland Kissmehl
Helmut Plattner
Results achieved in the molecular biology of Paramecium have shed new light on its elaborate membrane trafficking system. Paramecium disposes not only of the standard routes (endoplasmic reticulum --> Golgi --> lysosomes or secretory vesicl...
Patricia Olds-Clarke
Patricia Olds-Clarke
This review considers the role of the sperm in fertilization, addressing areas of misunderstanding and unfounded assumptions and taking particular advantage of the large body of data resulting from work with rodent species in vitro. Conside...
Mechanisms of insulator function in gene regulation and genomic imprinting [0.03%]
绝缘子在基因调控和基因组印记中的作用机制分析
Nora Engel,Marisa S Bartolomei
Nora Engel
Correct temporal and spatial patterns of gene expression are required to establish unique cell types. Several levels of genome organization are involved in achieving this intricate regulatory feat. Insulators are elements that modulate inte...
Sven C D van Ijzendoorn,Keith E Mostov,Dick Hoekstra
Sven C D van Ijzendoorn
Small GTPase rab proteins play an important role in various aspects of membrane traffic, including cargo selection, vesicle budding, vesicle motility, tethering, docking, and fusion. Recent data suggest also that rabs, and their divalent ef...
Naomi E Bishop
Naomi E Bishop
The endocytic pathway receives cargo from the cell surface via endocytosis, biosynthetic cargo from the late Golgi complex, and various molecules from the cytoplasm via autophagy. This review focuses on the dynamics of the endocytic pathway...
Up-regulation of glial fibrillary acidic protein in response to retinal injury: its potential role in glial remodeling and a comparison to vimentin expression [0.03%]
胶质纤维酸性蛋白在视网膜损伤后的上调表达及其在胶质重塑中的潜在作用与波形蛋白的表达对比研究
Geoffrey P Lewis,Steven K Fisher
Geoffrey P Lewis
Intermediate filament proteins are a heterogeneous group of proteins that form 10-nm-diameter filaments, a highly stable cytoskeletal component occurring in various cell types. The up-regulation of one of these intermediate filament protein...
Tom Meeusen,Inge Mertens,Arnold De Loof et al.
Tom Meeusen et al.
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) constitute one of the largest and most ancient superfamilies of membrane-spanning proteins. We focus on neuropeptide GPCRs, in particular on those of invertebrates. In general, such receptors mediate the ...
Valentina Patrizia Gallo,Annalena Civinini
Valentina Patrizia Gallo
The adrenal homolog of teleosts is not a compact organ as the adrenal glands of most vertebrates but is composed by aminergic chromaffin and interrenal steroidogenic cells located mostly inside the head kidney that, in this taxon, generally...
Transendothelial transport and migration in vessels of the apparatus lymphaticus periphericus absorbens (ALPA) [0.03%]
外周淋巴吸收入装置血管的透内皮转运和迁移
Giacomo Azzali
Giacomo Azzali
The vessel of the apparatus lymphaticus periphericus absorbens (ALPA) represents the sector with high absorption capacity of the canalization of the lymphatic vascular system. It plays a basic role in preserving tissue homeostasis and in di...