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Cancer cells’ glycolytic phenotype drives alternative splicing of the proapoptotic protein Bnip3, producing a splice variant that protects against death.

Altan-Bonnet explores where membrane traffic meets health.

Sam37 promotes biogenesis of mitochondrial proteins by linking outer membrane translocases into a supercomplex

The disease-associated phospholipid flippase ATP8B1 decreases Cdc42 mobility at the apical membrane to ensure the formation of a single apical domain and to maintain healthy lumen architecture.

Our results demonstrate that E-cadherin/αE-catenin chimeras homodimerize and do not mimic αE-catenin in the native CCC, and imply that both CCC-bound monomer and cytosolic homodimer αE-catenin are required for strong cell adhesion.

When the formation of Müller glia is inhibited in the zebrafish retina, a major consequence is that the retina begins to rip apart due to a loss of the mechanical resilience that these glial cells provide to the neural tissue.

PAR-4/LKB-1, PIG-1/MELK, and the anillin ANI-1 inhibit the accumulation of myosin at the anterior cortex of asymmetrically dividing one-cell C. elegans embryos, thereby preventing myosin from uncoupling cytokinetic furrow and mitotic spindle positions.

In hypoxia, the survival property of cancer cells mediated by the glycolytic enzyme PDK2 is obligatorily linked to alternative splicing and generation of a novel isoform of death gene Bnip3, which suppresses mitochondrial injury and promotes survival.

K63-linked ubiquitination of GPCRs mediated by the NEDD4-2 E3 ubiquitin ligase regulates recruitment of a TAB1–TAB2 complex on endosomes and stimulates p38 MAPK through a noncanonical pathway, which is critical for endothelial barrier disruption.

Interleukin-4 boosts the capacity of dendritic cells to present endogenous antigens on MHC II and to resist bacterial infection through a mechanism shown to be partially dependent on RUFY4 expression.

Neutrophil chemotaxis is regulated by opposing autocrine purinergic signaling mechanisms, which are stimulated by mitochondrial ATP formation that is up-regulated via mTOR and P2Y2 receptors at the front and down-regulated via A2a receptors and cAMP/PKA signaling at the back of cells.

GIV/Girdin, a nonreceptor GEF, directly links integrins to activation of trimeric G proteins to promote the acquisition of proinvasive traits in cancer cells.

Targeted deletion of PC7 and the related proprotein convertases Furin and Pace4, combined with live imaging of their activities, unmasks their overlapping and complementary functions in morula compaction and ICM formation in mouse blastocysts and in E-cadherin precursor processing.

Syndecans regulate members of the transient receptor potential family to control cytosolic calcium levels with impact on cell adhesion, junction formation, and neuronal guidance.

CRISP1 is expressed by cumulus cells and plays a role in fertilization by modulating sperm orientation, hyperactivation, and key Ca²⁺ channels in sperm.

Estrogen gates metabotropic glutamate receptor–dependent long-term depression at mossy fiber–CA3 synapses through a mechanism involving GPER1-mediated BDNF release, mTOR-dependent protein synthesis, and proteasome activity.

During peripheral arterial disease, MSX1 acts downstream of BMP–SMAD signaling to transduce the arterial shear stimulus into an arteriogenic remodeling response. MSX1 activates collateral endothelium into a proinflammatory state through ICAM1/VCAM1 up-regulation, resulting in increased leukocyte infiltration and collateral remodeling.

Inhibiting Src activity through genetic suppression or the small molecule inhibitor PP1 enhances the differentiation capacity of human pluripotent stem cells across all germ layers, and these improvements are preceded by activation of the retinoblastoma protein in the pluripotent cell cycle.