Who's in control? Principles of Rab GTPase activation in endolysosomal membrane trafficking and beyond

AC Borchers, L Langemeyer, C Ungermann - Journal of Cell Biology, 2021 - rupress.org
The eukaryotic endomembrane system consists of multiple interconnected organelles. Rab
GTPases are organelle-specific markers that give identity to these membranes by recruiting …

Pharmacological actions of statins: a critical appraisal in the management of cancer

P Gazzerro, MC Proto, G Gangemi, AM Malfitano… - Pharmacological …, 2012 - ASPET
Statins, among the most commonly prescribed drugs worldwide, are cholesterol-lowering
agents used to manage and prevent cardiovascular and coronary heart diseases. Recently …

Rab GTPases and their interacting protein partners: Structural insights into Rab functional diversity

O Pylypenko, H Hammich, IM Yu, A Houdusse - Small GTPases, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Rab molecular switches are key players in defining membrane identity and regulating
intracellular trafficking events in eukaryotic cells. In spite of their global structural similarity …

EMT activates exocytotic rabs to coordinate invasion and immunosuppression in lung cancer

GY Xiao, X Tan, BL Rodriguez… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) underlies immunosuppression, drug resistance,
and metastasis in epithelial malignancies. However, the way in which EMT orchestrates …

Bicaudal D family of motor adaptors: linking dynein motility to cargo binding

CC Hoogenraad, A Akhmanova - Trends in cell biology, 2016 - cell.com
Transport of different intracellular cargoes along cytoskeleton filaments is essential for the
morphogenesis and function of a broad variety of eukaryotic cells. Intracellular transport is …

PDZ protein regulation of G protein–coupled receptor trafficking and signaling pathways

HA Dunn, SSG Ferguson - Molecular pharmacology, 2015 - ASPET
G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs) contribute to the regulation of every aspect of human
physiology and are therapeutic targets for the treatment of numerous diseases. As a …

Isoprenoids, small GTPases and Alzheimer's disease

GP Hooff, WG Wood, WE Müller, GP Eckert - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2010 - Elsevier
The mevalonate pathway is a crucial metabolic pathway for most eukaryotic cells.
Cholesterol is a highly recognized product of this pathway but growing interest is being …

Phenotypic and molecular insights into spinal muscular atrophy due to mutations in BICD2

AM Rossor, EC Oates, HK Salter, Y Liu, SM Murphy… - Brain, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Spinal muscular atrophy is a disorder of lower motor neurons, most commonly caused by
recessive mutations in SMN1 on chromosome 5q. Cases without SMN1 mutations are …

Bicaudal-D uses a parallel, homodimeric coiled coil with heterotypic registry to coordinate recruitment of cargos to dynein

Y Liu, HK Salter, AN Holding, CM Johnson… - Genes & …, 2013 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Cytoplasmic dynein is the major minus end-directed microtubule motor in eukaryotes.
However, there is little structural insight into how different cargos are recognized and linked …

[PDF][PDF] Oriented immobilization of farnesylated proteins by the thiol-ene reaction

D Weinrich, PC Lin, P Jonkheijm, UTT Nguyen… - Angew. Chem., Int …, 2010 - ris.utwente.nl
Protein biochips are of high interest for various fields of biotechnology, such as bioanalytics,
proteomics, biocatalysis, and biomaterials.[1–8] For protein-biochip preparation, the oriented …