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Endomembrane system

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Three branches to rule them all? UPR signalling in response to chemically versus misfolded proteins-induced ER stress

Study of the unfolded protein responses (UPR) is mainly addressed by challenging eukaryotic cells with chemical compounds that impair calcium, redox or glycan homeostasis. These dramatically alter the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) environment and function, bu ...

2018

Regulation of Endoplasmic Reticulum Architecture by Protein S-Palmitoylation

Patrick Alain Sandoz

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is the largest organelle in mammalian cells. More than 50 years ago, its morphology was already described as consisting of two major compartments: the rough ER and the smooth ER, which both fulfil precise and distinct functio ...

EPFL2017

Controlling and Monitoring Intracellular Delivery of Anticancer Polymer Nanomedicines

Harm-Anton Klok, Claudia Battistella

Polymer nanomedicines are very attractive to improve the delivery of chemotherapeutics. Polymer conjugates and other polymer-based nanocarriers allow to increase plasma half-life and drug bioavailability and can also be guided toward tumors using passive a ...

2017

Versatility of Pyridoxal Phosphate as a Coating of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles

Heinrich Hofmann, Josefina Adriana Maria Bastiaansen, Ulrich Aschauer, Marijana Mionic Ebersold, Débora Bonvin

Pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) is the most important cofactor of vitamin B-6-dependent enzymes, which catalyses a wide range of essential body functions (e.g., metabolism) that could be exploited to specifically target highly metabolic cells, such as tumour ...

Mdpi Ag2017

Membrane vesicle secretion and prophage induction in multidrug-resistant Stenotrophomonas maltophilia in response to ciprofloxacin stress

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg

Several bacterial species produce membrane vesicles (MVs) in response to antibiotic stress. However, the biogenesis and role of MVs in bacterial antibiotic resistance mechanisms have remained unclear. Here, we studied the effect of the fluoroquinolone cipr ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Cell-free reconstitution reveals centriole cartwheel assembly mechanisms

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg, Pierre Gönczy, Paul Guichard, Mircea Ioan Iacovache, Virginie Hamel, Niccolo Banterle, Isabelle Fluckiger, Veronika Nemcíková Villímová

How cellular organelles assemble is a fundamental question in biology. The centriole organelle organizes around a nine-foldsymmetrical cartwheel structure typically 100 nm high comprising a stack of rings that each accommodates nine homodimers of SAS-6 pro ...

Springer Nature2017

Investigating the Biological Mechanisms underlying the Initiation of Autoimmunity against Beta Cell Antigens in Type 1 Diabetes

Chiara Cianciaruso

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease characterized by circulating autoantibodies, lymphocytic infiltration of pancreatic islets of Langerhans, and cell-specific destruction of beta cells, leading to insulin deficiency and symptomatic hyperglycemi ...

EPFL2017

Essentiality of mmpL3 and impact of its silencing on Mycobacterium tuberculosis gene expression

Stewart Cole, Andrej Benjak

MmpL3 is an inner membrane transporter of Mycobacterium tuberculosis responsible for the export of trehalose momomycolate, a precursor of the mycobacterial outer membrane component trehalose dimycolate (TDM), as well as mycolic acids bound to arabinogalact ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Ammonia toxicity: from head to toe?

Peter Ott, Veronika Rackayová

Ammonia is diffused and transported across all plasma membranes. This entails that hyperammonemia leads to an increase in ammonia in all organs and tissues. It is known that the toxic ramifications of ammonia primarily touch the brain and cause neurologica ...

Springer Verlag2017

Sphingolipid metabolic flow controls phosphoinositide turnover at the trans ‐Golgi network

Giovanni D'Angelo, Howard Riezman, Riccardo Rizzo

Sphingolipids are membrane lipids globally required for eukaryotic life. The sphingolipid content varies among endomembranes with pre- and post-Golgi compartments being poor and rich in sphingolipids, respectively. Due to this different sphingolipid conten ...

2017

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