Patterning of the cell cortex by Rho GTPases

WM Bement, AB Goryachev, AL Miller… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Rho GTPases—RHOA, RAC1 and CDC42—are small GTP binding proteins
that regulate basic biological processes such as cell locomotion, cell division and …

Regulation of Cell Wall Biogenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: The Cell Wall Integrity Signaling Pathway

DE Levin - Genetics, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The yeast cell wall is a strong, but elastic, structure that is essential not only for the
maintenance of cell shape and integrity, but also for progression through the cell cycle …

The small GTP-binding protein rho regulates the assembly of focal adhesions and actin stress fibers in response to growth factors

AJ Ridley, A Hall - Cell, 1992 - cell.com
Actin stress fibers are one of the major cytoskeletal structures in fibroblasts and are linked to
the plasma membrane at focal adhesions. rho, a ras-related GTP-binding protein, rapidly …

The small GTP-binding protein rac regulates growth factor-induced membrane ruffling

AJ Ridley, HF Paterson, CL Johnston, D Diekmann… - Cell, 1992 - cell.com
The function of rat, a ras-related GTP-binding protein, was investigated in fibroblasts by
microinjection. In confluent serum-starved Swiss 3T3 cells, racl rapidly stimulated actin …

Small GTP-binding proteins

Y Takai, T Sasaki, T Matozaki - Physiological reviews, 2001 - journals.physiology.org
Small GTP-binding proteins (G proteins) exist in eukaryotes from yeast to human and
constitute a superfamily consisting of more than 100 members. This superfamily is …

A brain serine/threonine protein kinase activated by Cdc42 and Rac1

E Manser, T Leung, H Salihuddin, Z Zhao, L Lim - Nature, 1994 - nature.com
A new brain serine/threonine protein kinase may be a target for the p21 ras-related proteins
Cdc42 and Rac1. The kinase sequence is related to that of the yeast protein STE20 …

Cell Wall Integrity Signaling in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

DE Levin - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
The yeast cell wall is a highly dynamic structure that is responsible for protecting the cell
from rapid changes in external osmotic potential. The wall is also critical for cell expansion …

Rho‐associated kinase, a novel serine/threonine kinase, as a putative target for small GTP binding protein Rho.

T Matsui, M Amano, T Yamamoto, K Chihara… - The EMBO …, 1996 - embopress.org
The small GTP binding protein Rho is implicated in cytoskeletal responses to extracellular
signals such as lysophosphatidic acid to form stress fibers and focal contacts. Here we have …

Integrin-mediated activation of Cdc42 controls cell polarity in migrating astrocytes through PKCζ

S Etienne-Manneville, A Hall - Cell, 2001 - cell.com
We describe here a signal transduction pathway controlling the establishment of mammalian
cell polarity. Scratching a confluent monolayer of primary rat astrocytes leads to polarization …

TOR controls translation initiation and early G1 progression in yeast.

NC Barbet, U Schneider, SB Helliwell… - Molecular biology of …, 1996 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells treated with the immunosuppressant rapamycin or depleted
for the targets of rapamycin TOR1 and TOR2 arrest growth in the early G1 phase of the cell …