| | Other Issues: previous | next | latest | archiveResearch Articles The role of Drosophila Merlin in spermatogenesis Natalia V Dorogova, Elena M Akhmametyeva, Sergei A Kopyl, Natalia V Gubanova, Olga S Yudina, Leonid V Omelyanchuk, and Long-Sheng Chang BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 1. Published online 2008 January 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-1.PMCID: PMC2253521 Mutational analysis of βCOP (Sec26p) identifies an appendage domain critical for function Carol J DeRegis, Peter B Rahl, Gregory R Hoffman, Richard A Cerione, and Ruth N Collins BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 3. Published online 2008 January 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-3.PMCID: PMC2262067 The androgen receptor can signal through Wnt/β-Catenin in prostate cancer cells as an adaptation mechanism to castration levels of androgens Liang Schweizer, Cheryl A Rizzo, Thomas E Spires, J Suso Platero, Qiuyan Wu, Tai-An Lin, Marco M Gottardis, and Ricardo M Attar BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 4. Published online 2008 January 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-4.PMCID: PMC2246119 Regulation of DNA synthesis and the cell cycle in human prostate cancer cells and lymphocytes by ovine uterine serpin Maria B Padua and Peter J Hansen BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 5. Published online 2008 January 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-5.PMCID: PMC2254604 Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase signaling in proliferating cells maintains an anti-apoptotic transcriptional program mediated by inhibition of FOXO and non-canonical activation of NFκB transcription factors Jolyon Terragni, Julie R Graham, Kenneth W Adams, Michael E Schaffer, John W Tullai, and Geoffrey M Cooper BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 6. Published online 2008 January 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-6.PMCID: PMC2268685 Cheiradone: a vascular endothelial cell growth factor receptor antagonist Sajjad Hussain, Mark Slevin, Mohammad A Mesaik, Mohammad I Choudhary, Abdul H Elosta, Sabine Matou, Nessar Ahmed, David West, and John Gaffney BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 7. Published online 2008 January 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-7.PMCID: PMC2248182 Identification of a subunit of NADH-dehydrogenase as a p49/STRAP-binding protein Xiaomin Zhang, Gohar Azhar, Scott Helms, Ying Zhong, and Jeanne Y Wei BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 8. Published online 2008 January 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-8.PMCID: PMC2268686 Identification of a novel Leucine-rich repeat protein and candidate PP1 regulatory subunit expressed in developing spermatids Rong Wang and Ann O Sperry BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 9. Published online 2008 January 31. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-9.PMCID: PMC2270827 Actin binding domains direct actin-binding proteins to different cytoskeletal locations Raymond W Washington and David A Knecht BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 10. Published online 2008 February 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-10.PMCID: PMC2275727 Effects of GSK3 inhibitors on in vitro expansion and differentiation of human adipose-derived stem cells into adipocytes Laure-Emmanuelle Zaragosi, Brigitte Wdziekonski, Coralie Fontaine, Phi Villageois, Pascal Peraldi, and Christian Dani BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 11. Published online 2008 February 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-11.PMCID: PMC2257931 The differentiation/retrodifferentiation program of human U937 leukemia cells is accompanied by changes of VCP/p97 Catharina Bertram, Nils von Neuhoff, Britta Skawran, Doris Steinemann, Brigitte Schlegelberger, and Ralf Hass BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 12. Published online 2008 February 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-12.PMCID: PMC2277395 Xenopus importin beta validates human importin beta as a cell cycle negative regulator Valerie A Delmar, Rene C Chan, and Douglass J Forbes BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 14. Published online 2008 March 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-14.PMCID: PMC2324082 A novel semi-automatic image processing approach to determine Plasmodium falciparum parasitemia in Giemsa-stained thin blood smears Minh-Tam Le, Timo R Bretschneider, Claudia Kuss, and Peter R Preiser BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 15. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-15.PMCID: PMC2330144 Epidermal growth factor receptor levels are reduced in mice with targeted disruption of the protein kinase A catalytic subunit Morten P Oksvold, Ane Funderud, Anne-Katrine Kvissel, Ellen Skarpen, Heidi Henanger, Henrik S Huitfeldt, Bjørn S Skålhegg, and Sigurd Ørstavik BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 16. Published online 2008 April 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-16.PMCID: PMC2324083 Spatial separation and bidirectional trafficking of proteins using a multi-functional reporter Soshana Svendsen, Chad Zimprich, Mark G McDougall, Dieter H Klaubert, and Georgyi V Los BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 17. Published online 2008 April 2. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-17.PMCID: PMC2359743 A yeast three-hybrid system that reconstitutes mammalian hypoxia inducible factor regulatory machinery Maria L Alcaide-German, Alicia Vara-Vega, Luis F Garcia-Fernandez, Manuel O Landazuri, and Luis del Peso BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 18. Published online 2008 April 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-18.PMCID: PMC2346465 The influence of nicotine on granulocytic differentiation – Inhibition of the oxidative burst and bacterial killing and increased matrix metalloproteinase-9 release Minqi Xu, James E Scott, Kan-Zhi Liu, Hannah R Bishop, Diane E Renaud, Richard M Palmer, Abdel Soussi-Gounni, and David A Scott BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 19. Published online 2008 April 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-19.PMCID: PMC2375863 Postnatal stem/progenitor cells derived from the dental pulp of adult chimpanzee Pei-Hsun Cheng, Brooke Snyder, Dimitri Fillos, Chris C Ibegbu, Anderson Hsien-Cheng Huang, and Anthony WS Chan BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 20. Published online 2008 April 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-20.PMCID: PMC2383882 Disruption of Four Kinesin Genes in Dictyostelium Dilip K Nag, Irina Tikhonenko, Ikko Soga, and Michael P Koonce BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 21. Published online 2008 April 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-21.PMCID: PMC2396615 Application of bioinformatics-coupled experimental analysis reveals a new transport-competent nuclear localization signal in the nucleoprotein of Influenza A virus strain Krishna Mohan V Ketha and Chintamani D Atreya BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 22. Published online 2008 April 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-22.PMCID: PMC2386121 Comparative study of mesenchymal stem cells from C57BL/10 and mdx mice Yong Li, Cheng Zhang, Fu Xiong, Mei-juan Yu, Fu-lin Peng, Yan-chang Shang, Cui-ping Zhao, Yong-feng Xu, Zheng-shan Liu, Chang Zhou, and Jin-lang Wu BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 24. Published online 2008 May 19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-24.PMCID: PMC2415111 An intracellular motif of GLUT4 regulates fusion of GLUT4-containing vesicles Catherine A Heyward, Trevor R Pettitt, Sophie E Leney, Gavin I Welsh, Jeremy M Tavaré, and Michael JO Wakelam BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 25. Published online 2008 May 20. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-25.PMCID: PMC2405794 Straw blood cell count, growth, inhibition and comparison to apoptotic bodies Yonnie Wu, David C Henry, Kyle Heim, Jeffrey P Tomkins, and Cheng-Yi Kuan BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 26. Published online 2008 May 20. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-26.PMCID: PMC2397387 The molecular phylogeny of eph receptors and ephrin ligands Dan O Mellott and Robert D Burke BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 27. Published online 2008 May 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-27.PMCID: PMC2405795 Organelle-specific isoenzymes of plant V-ATPase as revealed by in vivo-FRET analysis Thorsten Seidel, Daniel Schnitzer, Dortje Golldack, Markus Sauer, and Karl-Josef Dietz BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 28. Published online 2008 May 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-28.PMCID: PMC2424043 The NIMA-family kinase, Nek1 affects the stability of centrosomes and ciliogenesis Mark C White and Lynne M Quarmby BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 29. Published online 2008 June 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-29.PMCID: PMC2442590 Mechanism of nuclear factor of activated T-cells mediated FasL expression in corticosterone -treated mouse Leydig tumor cells Wei-Ran Chai, Yong Chen, Qian Wang, and Hui-Bao Gao BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 31. Published online 2008 June 12. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-31.PMCID: PMC2442062 The HIV Tat protein affects processing of ribosomal RNA precursor Donatella Ponti, Maria Troiano, Gian Carlo Bellenchi, Piero A Battaglia, and Franca Gigliani BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 32. Published online 2008 June 17. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-32.PMCID: PMC2440370 The influence of N-acetyl-L-cysteine on oxidative stress and nitric oxide synthesis in stimulated macrophages treated with a mustard gas analogue Victor Paromov, Min Qui, Hongsong Yang, Milton Smith, and William L Stone BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 33. Published online 2008 June 20. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-33.PMCID: PMC2446388 Proteomic analysis of lamellar bodies isolated from rat lungs Pengcheng Wang, Narendranath Reddy Chintagari, Jeyaparthasarathy Narayanaperumal, Sahlu Ayalew, Steven Hartson, and Lin Liu BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 34. Published online 2008 June 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-34.PMCID: PMC2459160 Kindlin-2 is required for myocyte elongation and is essential for myogenesis James J Dowling, Andrew P Vreede, Susie Kim, Jeffrey Golden, and Eva L Feldman BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 36. Published online 2008 July 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-36.PMCID: PMC2478659 The multifunctional FUS, EWS and TAF15 proto-oncoproteins show cell type-specific expression patterns and involvement in cell spreading and stress response Mattias K Andersson, Anders Ståhlberg, Yvonne Arvidsson, Anita Olofsson, Henrik Semb, Göran Stenman, Ola Nilsson, and Pierre Åman BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 37. Published online 2008 July 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-37.PMCID: PMC2478660 The lateral mobility of cell adhesion molecules is highly restricted at septate junctions in Drosophila Monique Laval, Christophe Bel, and Catherine Faivre-Sarrailh BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 38. Published online 2008 July 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-38.PMCID: PMC2500017 Importin alpha binding and nuclear localization of PARP-2 is dependent on lysine 36, which is located within a predicted classical NLS Sandra S Haenni, Matthias Altmeyer, Paul O Hassa, Taras Valovka, Monika Fey, and Michael O Hottiger BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 39. Published online 2008 July 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-39.PMCID: PMC2496901 Viscoelastic behaviour of human mesenchymal stem cells Samuel CW Tan, Wen X Pan, Gang Ma, Ning Cai, Kam W Leong, and Kin Liao BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 40. Published online 2008 July 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-40.PMCID: PMC2500016 New steroidal aromatase inhibitors: Suppression of estrogen-dependent breast cancer cell proliferation and induction of cell death Margarida Cepa, Georgina Correia-da-Silva, Elisiário J Tavares da Silva, Fernanda MF Roleira, Margarida Borges, and Natércia A Teixeira BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 41. Published online 2008 July 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-41.PMCID: PMC2515307 Inhibition of cytokinesis by wiskostatin does not rely on N-WASP/Arp2/3 complex pathway Guillaume Bompard, Gabriel Rabeharivelo, and Nathalie Morin BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 42. Published online 2008 July 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-42.PMCID: PMC2527559 Myosin-Vb functions as a dynamic tether for peripheral endocytic compartments during transferrin trafficking D William Provance, Jr, Erin J Addison, Patrick R Wood, David Z Chen, Colleen M Silan, and John A Mercer BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 44. Published online 2008 August 7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-44.PMCID: PMC2533098 Uptake of long chain fatty acids is regulated by dynamic interaction of FAT/CD36 with cholesterol/sphingolipid enriched microdomains (lipid rafts) Robert Ehehalt, Richard Sparla, Hasan Kulaksiz, Thomas Herrmann, Joachim Füllekrug, and Wolfgang Stremmel BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 45. Published online 2008 August 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-45.PMCID: PMC2533316 Interlobular and intralobular mammary stroma: Genotype may not reflect phenotype JM Fleming, EL Long, E Ginsburg, D Gerscovich, PS Meltzer, and BK Vonderhaar BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 46. Published online 2008 August 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-46.PMCID: PMC2529294 C-reactive protein exerts angiogenic effects on vascular endothelial cells and modulates associated signalling pathways and gene expression Marta M Turu, Mark Slevin, Sabine Matou, David West, Cristina Rodríguez, Ana Luque, Marta Grau-Olivares, Lina Badimon, Jose Martinez-Gonzalez, and Jerzy Krupinski BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 47. Published online 2008 September 2. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-47.PMCID: PMC2551596 Focal Adhesion Kinase contributes to insulin-induced actin reorganization into a mesh harboring Glucose transporter-4 in insulin resistant skeletal muscle cells Bharti Bisht and Chinmoy S Dey BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 48. Published online 2008 September 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-48.PMCID: PMC2551595 Establishment and characterization of immortalized Gli-null mouse embryonic fibroblast cell lines Robert J Lipinski, Maarten F Bijlsma, Jerry J Gipp, David J Podhaizer, and Wade Bushman BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 49. Published online 2008 September 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-49.PMCID: PMC2542994 Phosphorylation of p130Cas initiates Rac activation and membrane ruffling Alok Sharma and Bruce J Mayer BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 50. Published online 2008 September 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-50.PMCID: PMC2553404 The Drosophila IKK-related kinase (Ik2) and Spindle-F proteins are part of a complex that regulates cytoskeleton organization during oogenesis Dikla Dubin-Bar, Amir Bitan, Anna Bakhrat, Rotem Kaiden-Hasson, Sharon Etzion, Boaz Shaanan, and Uri Abdu BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 51. Published online 2008 September 17. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-51.PMCID: PMC2567969 Prolonged exposure to bacterial toxins downregulated expression of toll-like receptors in mesenchymal stromal cell-derived osteoprogenitors Irene Fung Ying Mo, Kevin Hak Kong Yip, Wing Keung Chan, Helen Ka Wai Law, Yu Lung Lau, and Godfrey Chi Fung Chan BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 52. Published online 2008 September 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-52.PMCID: PMC2567970 Polarized secretion of Leukemia Inhibitory Factor Eric J Hill and Ann B Vernallis BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 53. Published online 2008 September 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-53.PMCID: PMC2556326 Localization of the Carnation Italian ringspot virus replication protein p36 to the mitochondrial outer membrane is mediated by an internal targeting signal and the TOM complex Yeen Ting Hwang, Andrew W McCartney, Satinder K Gidda, and Robert T Mullen BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 54. Published online 2008 September 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-54.PMCID: PMC2573885 Septins localize to microtubules during nutritional limitation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae M Evangelina Pablo-Hernando, Yolanda Arnaiz-Pita, Hiroyuki Tachikawa, Francisco del Rey, Aaron M Neiman, and Carlos R Vázquez de Aldana BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 55. Published online 2008 October 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-55.PMCID: PMC2584027 Delayed internalization and lack of recycling in a beta2-adrenergic receptor fused to the G protein alpha-subunit Maria Grazia Di Certo, Enrico M Batassa, Ida Casella, Annalucia Serafino, Aristide Floridi, Claudio Passananti, Paola Molinari, and Elisabetta Mattei BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 56. Published online 2008 October 7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-56.PMCID: PMC2569931 N-Glycosylation of the alpha subunit does not influence trafficking or functional activity of the human organic solute transporter alpha/beta Carol J Soroka, Shuhua Xu, Albert Mennone, Ping Lam, and James L Boyer BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 57. Published online 2008 October 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-57.PMCID: PMC2575201 A role for SNX5 in the regulation of macropinocytosis Jet Phey Lim, Jack TH Wang, Markus C Kerr, Rohan D Teasdale, and Paul A Gleeson BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 58. Published online 2008 October 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-58.PMCID: PMC2576169 Aggresomes do not represent a general cellular response to protein misfolding in mammalian cells Simon Beaudoin, Kevin Goggin, Cyntia Bissonnette, Catherine Grenier, and Xavier Roucou BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 59. Published online 2008 October 20. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-59.PMCID: PMC2576168 Donor age and cell passage affects differentiation potential of murine bone marrow-derived stem cells James D Kretlow, Yu-Qing Jin, Wei Liu, Wen Jie Zhang, Tan-Hui Hong, Guangdong Zhou, L Scott Baggett, Antonios G Mikos, and Yilin Cao BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 60. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-60.PMCID: PMC2584028 Silencing of directional migration in roundabout4 knockdown endothelial cells Sukhbir Kaur, Ganesh V Samant, Kallal Pramanik, Philip W Loscombe, Michael L Pendrak, David D Roberts, and Ramani Ramchandran BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 61. Published online 2008 November 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-61.PMCID: PMC2613885 Cell adhesion to agrin presented as a nanopatterned substrate is consistent with an interaction with the extracellular matrix and not transmembrane adhesion molecules Tobias Wolfram, Joachim P Spatz, and Robert W Burgess BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 64. Published online 2008 December 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-64.PMCID: PMC2612657 cAMP-dependent and cholinergic regulation of the electrogenic intestinal/pancreatic Na+/HCO3- cotransporter pNBC1 in human embryonic kidney (HEK293) cells Oliver Bachmann, Kristin Franke, Haoyang Yu, Brigitte Riederer, Hong C Li, Manoocher Soleimani, Michael P Manns, and Ursula Seidler BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 70. Published online 2008 December 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-70.PMCID: PMC2625339 Methodology Articles The CMV early enhancer/chicken β actin (CAG) promoter can be used to drive transgene expression during the differentiation of murine embryonic stem cells into vascular progenitors Annika N Alexopoulou, John R Couchman, and James R Whiteford BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 2. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-2.PMCID: PMC2254385 Multiple immunofluorescence labelling of formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue David Robertson, Kay Savage, Jorge S Reis-Filho, and Clare M Isacke BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 13. Published online 2008 March 19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-13.PMCID: PMC2288605 Rapid regulation of protein activity in fission yeast Cathrine A Bøe, Ignacio Garcia, Chen-Chun Pai, Jeffrey R Sharom, Henriette C Skjølberg, Erik Boye, Stephen Kearsey, Stuart A MacNeill, Michael D Tyers, and Beáta Grallert BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 23. Published online 2008 May 5. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-23.PMCID: PMC2408571 Rapid preparation of nuclei-depleted detergent-resistant membrane fractions suitable for proteomics analysis Rosalyn M Adam, Wei Yang, Dolores Di Vizio, Nishit K Mukhopadhyay, and Hanno Steen BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 30. Published online 2008 June 5. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-30.PMCID: PMC2440737 Isolation of bacteria-containing phagosomes by magnetic selection Per Lönnbro, Pontus Nordenfelt, and Hans Tapper BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 35. Published online 2008 June 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-35.PMCID: PMC2453110 Single cell cytometry of protein function in RNAi treated cells and in native populations Peter LaPan, Jing Zhang, Jing Pan, Andrew Hill, and Steven A Haney BMC Cell Biol. 2008; 9: 43. Published online 2008 August 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-43.PMCID: PMC2529295 |