Lorél Y Medina,Rita E Serda
Lorél Y Medina
Tunneling nanotubes (TNTs) are open-ended, membrane-encased extensions that connect neighboring cells. They have diameters up to 1 μm but are able to expand to convey large cargos. Lengths vary depending on the distance of the cells but ha...
Dae Seok Eom
Dae Seok Eom
Intercellular communication is indispensable across multicellular organisms, and any aberration in this process can give rise to significant anomalies in developmental and homeostatic processes. Thus, a comprehensive understanding of its me...
Intercellular Transfer of Immune Regulatory Molecules Via Trogocytosis [0.03%]
通过吞噬胞作用转移免疫调节分子的细胞间运输
Soyeon Park,Jeonghyun Kim,Jae Hun Shin
Soyeon Park
Trogocytosis, an active cellular process involving the transfer of plasma membrane and attached cytosol during cell-to-cell contact, has been observed prominently in CD4 T cells interacting with antigen-presenting cells carrying antigen-loa...
Deborah Agbakwuru,Scott A Wetzel
Deborah Agbakwuru
Trogocytosis is the intercellular transfer of membrane and membrane-associated proteins between cells. Trogocytosis is an underappreciated phenomenon that has historically routinely been dismissed as an artefact. With a greater understandin...
Communicating Across Cell Walls: Structure, Evolution, and Regulation of Plasmodesmatal Transport in Plants [0.03%]
植物细胞间通讯：胞间连丝转运的结构、进化和调控
Jacob O Brunkard
Jacob O Brunkard
Plasmodesmata are conduits in plant cell walls that allow neighboring cells to communicate and exchange resources. Despite their central importance to plant development and physiology, our understanding of plasmodesmata is relatively limite...
Maya-Renee Hall,Thomas Kadanthottu Kunjumon,Puja Puspa Ghosh et al.
Maya-Renee Hall et al.
The sequestration of enzymes and associated processes into sub-cellular domains, called organelles, is considered a defining feature of eukaryotic cells. However, what leads to specific outcomes and allows a eukaryotic cell to function sing...
Oocyte Health and Quality: Implication of Mitochondria-related Organelle Interactions [0.03%]
卵子健康与质量：线粒体相关细胞器相互作用的影响
Osamu Udagawa
Osamu Udagawa
Among factors like hormonal imbalance and uterine condition, oocyte quality is regarded as one of the key factors involved in age-related decline in the reproductive capacity. Here, are discussions about the functions played by organelles w...
Sourabh Sengupta,Daniel L Levy
Sourabh Sengupta
Compartmentalization of cellular components is critical to the spatiotemporal and environmental regulation of biochemical activities inside a cell, ensures the proper division of cellular labor and resources, and increases the efficiency of...
Molecular Basis of Cell Reprogramming into iPSCs with Exogenous Transcription Factors [0.03%]
外源转录因子诱导细胞重编程为iPSCs的分子机制研究
Hisato Kondoh
Hisato Kondoh
A striking discovery in recent decades concerning the transcription factor (TF)-dependent process was the production of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSCs) from fibroblasts by the exogenous expression of the TF cocktail containing Oct3/4 ...
Hisato Kondoh
Hisato Kondoh
Enhancers are classified into two classes based on various criteria. Class I enhancers participate primarily in finely tuned cell-specific regulation, as exemplified by the neural enhancers discussed in Chap. 9 . They are activated by simul...