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Rab GTPases in Plant Endocytosis
The Rab family is part of the Ras superfamily of small GTPases. In eukaryotes Rab GTPases are present as members of gene families, and the...
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Methods and Molecular Tools for Studying Endocytosis in Plants---an Overview
Proteins of the endocytosis machinery in plants, such as clathrin and adaptor proteins, were isolated and characterized using combinations of...
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Tip Growth and Endocytosis in Fungi
Recent advances in molecular cell biology have provided new insights into different cellular processes that all turn out to contribute to...
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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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MDR/PGP Auxin Transport Proteins and Endocytic Cycling
Auxin is an essential regulator of plant growth and development. Polarized transport of auxin is responsible for apical dominance, tropic growth,...
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Recent Progress in the Total Synthesis of Dolabellane and Dolastane Diterpenes
The isolation, structure and total synthesis of members of four classes of diterpenes has been summarized. Dolabellanes, neodolabellanes, dolastanes...
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Recent Advances in Vinylogous Aldol Reactions and Their Applications in the Syntheses of Natural Products
The synthesis of complex natural products still remains as the bottleneck for the biological evaluation of such compounds. In contrast to the...
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Enantioselective Synthesis of C(8)-Hydroxylated Lignans—Early Approaches and Recent Advances
α-Hydroxylated lignans, dimers of phenylpropene with important biological properties, have been enantioselectively prepared following different...
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Marine Natural Products from Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae: Structures, Biosynthesis, Pharmacology, and Total Synthesis
In the late 1990s, the Caribbean octocoral Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae became the target of extensive chemical investigations leading to the...
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Total Syntheses of Kelsoene and Preussin
Total syntheses of the natural products kelsoene and preussin are comprehensively reviewed. Kelsoene is a sesquiterpene with a unique...
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Strategies for Total and Diversity-Oriented Synthesis of Natural Product(-Like) Macrocycles
Numerous biologically active macrocycles, including antibiotic, antifungal, and antitumor compounds, have been isolated from natural sources. In...
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Occurrence, Biological Activity, and Convergent Organometallic Synthesis of Carbazole Alkaloids
A brief overview of the occurrence and biological activity of carbazole alkaloids is provided. Recent progress in the development of novel...
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Paraconic Acids—The Natural Products from Lichen Symbiont
Paraconic acids, belonging to the class of γ-butyrolactone natural products, display a broad range of biological activities such as antibiotic and...
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Recent Advances in Charge-Accelerated Aza-Claisen Rearrangements
Aza-Claisen rearrangements (3-aza-Cope rearrangements) have gained an increasing interest in synthetic organic chemistry. Originally, the...
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Synthetic Studies on the Pamamycin Macrodiolides
The pamamycins are structurally intriguing 16-membered macrodiolides displaying a wide range of interesting biological activities. A comprehensive...
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SNAREs in Plant Endocytosis and the Post-Golgi Traffic
In eukaryotic cells, the transport vesicles carry various cargo proteins from a donor compartment to a target compartment, and discharge the cargo...
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Sterol Endocytosis and Trafficking in Plant Cells
Structural sterols are integral components of biological membranes. They regulate membrane permeability and fluidity, and they influence the...
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Plant Vacuoles: from Biogenesis to Function
The plant vacuolar system is far more complex than originally expected and multiple sorting pathways leading to various types of vacuoles can be...
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Endocytosis in Guard Cells
Stomatal movement requires large and repetitive changes to cell volume and consequently surface area. These alterations in surface area are...
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Endocytosis and Actomyosin Cytoskeleton
Mutual interactions between actin and endocytic assembly machineries are essential for successful clathrin-mediated endocytosis in yeast and...