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Uz,Gulsen; Sarikaya,Aysegul Topal. |
Abstract Magnesium (Mg2+), an essential ion for cells and biological systems, is involved in a variety of cellular processes, including the formation and breakdown of microtubules. The results of a previous investigation suggested that as cells grow the intracellular Mg2+ concentration falls, thereby stimulating formation of the mitotic spindle. In the present work, we used a Mg2+-deficient Schizosaccharomyces pombe strain GA2, in which two essential membrane Mg2+ transporter genes (homologs of ALR1 and ALR2 in Saccharomyces cerevisae) were deleted, and its parental strain Sp292, to examine the extent to which low Mg2+ concentrations can affect mitotic spindle formation. The two S. pombe strains were transformed with a plasmid carrying a GFP-α2-tubulin... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Magnesium; Microtubule; Mitosis; Mitotic spindle; Schizosaccharomyces pombe. |
Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572016000300459 |
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Zou,Yi; Zhong,Wenping. |
PH domains (pleckstrin homology) are well known to bind membrane phosphoinositides with different specificities and direct PH domain-containing proteins to discrete subcellular apartments with assistances of alternative binding partners. PH domain-containing proteins are found to be involved in a wide range of cellular events, including signalling, cytoskeleton rearrangement and vesicular trafficking. Here we showed that a novel PH domain-containing protein, PEPP2, displayed moderate phosphoinositide binding specificity. Full length PEPP2 associated with both plasma membrane and microtubules. The membrane-associated PEPP2 nucleated at cell-cell contacts and the leading edge of migrating cells. Overexpression of PEPP2 increased membrane microviscosity,... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Microtubule; Membrane; Phosphoinositide; Microviscosity; Wortmannin. |
Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0327-95452012000300005 |
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