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Microbial membrane transport proteins and their biotechnological applications
Because of the hydrophobic nature of the membrane lipid bilayer, the majority of the hydrophilic solutes require special transportation mechanisms...
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Cerastecins inhibit membrane lipooligosaccharide transport in drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections have limited treatment options. Synthesis, transport and placement of lipopolysaccharide or...
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Thylakoid membrane stacking controls electron transport mode during the dark-to-light transition by adjusting the distances between PSI and PSII
The balance between linear electron transport (LET) and cyclic electron transport (CET) plays an essential role in plant adaptation and protection...
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Regulating membrane curvature
Membranes of living cells are subject to a variety of shape changes. Membrane deformation is essential for cell division, locomotion, organelle...
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In Vitro Flagellar Type III Protein Transport Assay Using Inverted Membrane Vesicles
The flagellar axial proteins are transported across the cytoplasmic membrane into the central channel of the growing flagellum via the flagellar...
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Tethering proteins in membrane traffic
In eukaryotic cells, protein secretion and the transport of materials between membrane-bounded organelles require efficient and accurate delivery of...
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Essential phospholipids decrease apoptosis and increase membrane transport in human hepatocyte cell lines
BackgroundEssential phospholipids (EPL) have hepatoprotective effects across many liver diseases/conditions. The impact of EPL on hepatocyte function...
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Role of Vacuolar Membrane Transport Systems in Plant Salinity Tolerance
About 20% of all irrigated land is adversely affected by salinity hazards and therefore understanding plant defense mechanisms against salinity will...
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Membrane Trafficking Methods and Protocols
This detailed volume presents a series of methods exploring membrane trafficking research, ranging from genetics and high-resolution imaging to in...
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Introduction: Regulatory processes, an emerging feature in intracellular membrane traffic
The subject of this volume is the molecular mechanism of the intracellular membrane trafficking, a central eukaryotic cell biological process. In the...
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Biological Membranes and Membrane Proteins
We focus specifically on biological membranes and membrane proteins here because the physical interactions involved in maintaining their structure...
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Molecular mechanisms in clathrin-mediated membrane budding
Clathrin-coated vesicles (CCVs) form at the plasma membrane where they select cargo for endocytic entry into cells. CCVs also form at the trans-Golgi...
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Real-time imaging of axonal membrane protein life cycles
The construction of neuronal membranes is a dynamic process involving the biogenesis, vesicular packaging, transport, insertion and recycling of...
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Physical model of the nuclear membrane permeability mechanism
Nuclear cytoplasmic transport is mediated by many receptors that recognize specific nuclear localization signals on proteins and RNA and transport...
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Auxin Transport and Recycling of PIN Proteins in Plants
Polar transport of the phytohormone auxin is mediated by plasma-membrane and endosome localized carrier proteins. PIN proteins are the best...
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Mechanisms of Water and Solute Transport
Movement of water and solutes from soil up to the seed tissue is one of the first processes occurring during seed germination. Mature seeds contain...
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Functioning of the P-glycoprotein Membrane Transport Protein under Conditions of the Inhibition of Glutathione Synthesis
AbstractThe functioning and mechanism of P-glycoprotein (Pgp) regulation under conditions of inhibition of glutathione synthesis in human colon...
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Mfsd7b facilitates choline transport and missense mutations affect choline transport function
MFSD7b belongs to the Major Facilitator Superfamily of transporters that transport small molecules. Two isoforms of MFSD7b have been identified and...
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D6PK plasma membrane polarity requires a repeated CXX(X)P motif and PDK1-dependent phosphorylation
D6 PROTEIN KINASE (D6PK) is a polarly localized plasma-membrane-associated kinase from Arabidopsis thaliana that activates polarly distributed...
