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Keefe DL 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2007,64(2):115-116
Telomeres are important segments of chromosomes that protect chromosome ends from nucleolytic degradation and fusion. At meiosis
telomeres display an unprecedented behavior which involves their attachment and motility along the nuclear envelope. The movements
become restricted to a limited nuclear sector during the so-called bouquet stage, which is widely conserved among species.
Recent observations suggest that telomere clustering involves actin and/or microtubules, and is altered in the presence of
impaired recombinogenic and chromosome related functions. This review aims to provide an overview of what is currently known
about meiotic telomere attachment, dynamics and regulation in synaptic meiosis. 相似文献
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Scherthan H 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2007,64(2):117-124
Telomeres are important segments of chromosomes that protect chromosome ends from nucleolytic degradation and fusion. At meiosis telomeres display an unprecedented behavior which involves their attachment and motility along the nuclear envelope. The movements become restricted to a limited nuclear sector during the so-called bouquet stage, which is widely conserved among species. Recent observations suggest that telomere clustering involves actin and/or microtubules, and is altered in the presence of impaired recombinogenic and chromosome related functions. This review aims to provide an overview of what is currently known about meiotic telomere attachment, dynamics and regulation in synaptic meiosis. 相似文献
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The adenovirus proteinase (AVP) is synthesized in an inactive form that requires cofactors for activation. The interaction of AVP with two viral cofactors and with a cellular cofactor, actin, is characterized by quantitative analyses. The results are consistent with a specific model for the regulation of AVP. Late in adenovirus infection, inside nascent virions, AVP becomes partially activated by binding to the viral DNA, allowing it to cleave out an 11-amino-acid viral peptide, pVIc, that binds to AVP and fully activates it. Then, about 70 AVP-pVIc complexes move along the viral DNA, via one-dimensional diffusion, cleaving virion precursor proteins 3200 times to render a virus particle infectious. Late in adenovirus infection, in the cytoplasm, the cytoskeleton is destroyed. The amino acid sequence of the C terminus of actin is homologous to that of pVIc, and actin, like pVIc, can act as a cofactor for AVP in the cleavage of cytokeratin 18 and of actin itself. Thus, AVP may also play a role in cell lysis.Received 14 November 2002; received after revision 28 April 2003; accepted 30 April 2003 相似文献
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Actin polymerization machinery: the finish line of signaling networks, the starting point of cellular movement 总被引:9,自引:0,他引:9
Disanza A Steffen A Hertzog M Frittoli E Rottner K Scita G 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2005,62(9):955-970
Dynamic assembly of actin filaments generates the forces supporting cell motility. Several recent biochemical and genetic studies have revealed a plethora of different actin binding proteins whose coordinated activity regulates the turnover of actin filaments, thus controlling a variety of actin-based processes, including cell migration. Additionally, emerging evidence is highlighting a scenario whereby the same basic set of actin regulatory proteins is also the convergent node of different signaling pathways emanating from extracellular stimuli, like those from receptor tyrosine kinases. Here, we will focus on the molecular mechanisms of how the machinery of actin polymerization functions and is regulated, in a signaling-dependent mode, to generate site-directed actin assembly leading to cell motility.These authors contributed equally to this work.Received 26 October 2004; received after revision 27 December 2004; accepted 6 January 2005 Available online 09 March 2005 相似文献
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Gurunadh R. Chichili William Rodgers 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2009,66(14):2319-2328
Cell membranes are structurally heterogeneous, composed of discrete domains with unique physical and biological properties.
Membrane domains can form through a number of mechanisms involving lipid–lipid and protein–lipid interactions. One type of
membrane domain is the cholesterol-dependent membrane raft. How rafts form remains a current topic in membrane biology. We
review here evidence of structuring of rafts by the cortical actin cytoskeleton. This includes evidence that the actin cytoskeleton
associates with rafts, and that many of the structural and functional properties of rafts require an intact actin cytoskeleton.
We discuss the mechanisms of the actin-dependent raft organization, and the properties of the actin cytoskeleton in regulating
raft-associated signaling events. We end with a discussion of membrane rafts and the actin cytoskeleton in T cell activation,
which function synergistically to initiate the adaptive immune response. 相似文献
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为了解肌动蛋白actin在轮藻植物生长发育中的潜在功能,本研究利用生物信息学方法对布氏轮藻肌动蛋白基因家族进行了鉴定及表达分析.在布氏轮藻中共鉴定出16个肌动蛋白基因,将其重命名为CbACT1~CbACT16,其氨基酸长度为361~1182 AA,相对分子质量为39 886.71~117 256.72 Da,等电点介于4.68~8.93;亚细胞定位预测显示15个肌动蛋白基因位于细胞质中,1个位于叶绿体中;二级结构结果表明肌动蛋白基因主要以无规则卷曲和α螺旋为主;共线性分析中仅发现一对源自片段重复的旁系同源基因;系统发育结果表明轮藻肌动蛋白基因可以分为两个亚家族,结合基因结构及保守基序分析,同一亚家族倾向于具有相似的外显子分布,较多的共有基序;基于启动子顺势作用元件分析表明,16个肌动蛋白基因参与了许多与生物和非生物胁迫、激素调节和光反应有关的生命活动.组织表达分析显示,16个基因在四种不同组织中存在差异性表达,表明它们在不同组织的生长发育过程中具有不同的功能.因此,轮藻肌动蛋白基因家族可能参与了轮藻植物不同组织的发育过程及响应生物和非生物胁迫等的过程. 相似文献
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Evidence for actin-dependent organelle movement was first obtained from studies of cytoplasmic streaming in plants. These studies, together with cell-free organelle motility studies and biophysical analyses of muscle myosin, support a model whereby organelle-associated motor molecules utilize the energy of adenosine triphosphate binding and hydrolysis to drive movement along F-actin tracks Recent studies indicate that this mechanism for organelle movement may be responsible for organelle and vesicle movement during secretion, endocytosis and mitochondrial inheritance in a variety of eukaryotes. 相似文献
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Kank proteins: structure, functions and diseases 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
N. Kakinuma Y. Zhu Y. Wang B. C. Roy R. Kiyama 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2009,66(16):2651-2659
The Kank family of proteins, Kank1–Kank4, are characterized by their unique structure, coiled-coil motifs in the N-terminal
region, and ankyrin-repeats in the C-terminal region, with an additional motif, the KN motif, at the N-terminus. Kank1 was obtained by positional cloning of a tumor suppressor gene in renal cell carcinoma, while the other members were found
by homology search. The family is involved in the regulation of actin polymerization and cell motility through signaling pathways
containing PI3K/Akt and/or unidentified modulators/effectors. Their relationship to diseases such as cancer, and to neuronal
and developmental disorders, will be an important subject of future study. 相似文献
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Vincent E Saxton J Baker-Glenn C Moal I Hirst JD Pattenden G Shaw PE 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2007,64(4):487-497
Several marine macrolide toxins act as potent and specific actin-severing molecules. Recent elucidation of their stereochemistries
and modes of interaction with actin has allowed the syntheses of bioactive analogues. Here we used synthetic analogues in
a structure-function analysis of ulapualide A, a trisoxazole-based macrolide. Ulapualide A harboured potent actin-depolymerising
activity both in cells and in vitro. Its synthetic diastereoisomer was three orders of magnitude less active than the natural toxin and synthetic macrolide fragments
lacked actin-capping/ severing activity altogether. Modulation of serum response factor (SRF)-dependent gene expression, as
described for other actin-binding toxins, was also examined. Specific changes in response to ulapualide A were not observed,
primarily due to its profound effects on cytoskeletal integrity and cell adhesion. Several synthetic fragments of ulapualide
A also had no effect on SRF-dependent gene expression. However, inhibition was observed with a molecule corresponding to the
extended aliphatic side chain of halichondramide, a structurally related macrolide. These findings indicate that side-chain
derivatives of trisoxazole-based macrolides may serve to uncouple gene-regulatory events from actin dynamics.
E. Vincent and J. Saxton: These two authors contributed equally
Received 27 September 2006; received after revision 30 November 2006; accepted 8 January 2007 相似文献