Table of Contents
IN THIS ISSUE
FIRST PERSON
CELL SCIENCE AT A GLANCE
- Targeting and translocation of proteins to the endoplasmic reticulum at a glance
Summary: Targeting and translocation into the ER are mediated by multiple pathways, which together enable the correct localization of about 30% of any eukaryotic proteome.
REVIEW
- The EGFR odyssey – from activation to destruction in space and time
Summary: We review the molecular events that occur during EGFR activation, its trafficking through the endosomal system and its subsequent downregulation.
RESEARCH ARTICLES
- Dynamic changes in the interchromosomal interaction of early histone gene loci during development of sea urchin
Highlighted Article: During the morula stage in sea urchin embryos, early histone gene loci undergo interchromosomal interactions that are dependent on the active transcriptional status.
- Functional analyses of the CIF1–CIF2 complex in trypanosomes identify the structural motifs required for cytokinesis
Summary: The trypanosome CIF1 zinc-finger motifs are essential for CIF1–CIF2 complex assembly, and along with the coiled-coil motifs in CIF1 are required for initiation of cytokinesis.
- Effects of mutating α-tubulin lysine 40 on sensory dendrite development
Highlighted Article: Neurons are enriched in post-translationally modified microtubules. Targeted mutagenesis of endogenous α-tubulin in flies reveals that dendrite branch refinement is altered by acetylation-blocking mutations.
- Giantin-knockout models reveal a feedback loop between Golgi function and glycosyltransferase expression
Summary: Knockout of giantin in a genome-engineered cell line and zebrafish models reveals the capacity of the Golgi to control its own biochemistry through changes in gene expression.
- Phosphorylation of the RNA-binding protein Zfs1 modulates sexual differentiation in fission yeast
Summary: The RNA-binding protein Zfs1 regulates accumulation of the G1 cyclin Puc1, a process that is modulated by phosphorylation. This regulatory mechanism has an important impact on cell differentiation.
- CREB3L1-mediated functional and structural adaptation of the secretory pathway in hormone-stimulated thyroid cells
Summary: CREB3L1 has a role during the adaptation of the secretory pathway in response to high secretory demand in thyroid cells, a process with direct impact on thyroid physiology.
- RhoC regulates the actin remodeling required for phagosome formation during FcγR-mediated phagocytosis
Summary: RhoC accumulates at phagocytic cups and modulates an mDia1-dependent remodeling of cortical F-actin that is required for FcγR-mediated phagocytosis in macrophages.
- Quantitative analysis of multilayer organization of proteins and RNA in nuclear speckles at super resolution
Summary: Multi-color structured illumination microscopy imaging studies reveal a multilayer organization of nuclear speckles due to the interplay between favorable sequence-encoded intermolecular interactions of speckle-resident proteins and RNAs.
TOOLS AND RESOURCES
- In situ imaging of mitochondrial translation shows weak correlation with nucleoid DNA intensity and no suppression during mitosis
Highlighted Article: Imaging de novo mitochondrial protein synthesis with a novel fluorescence method shows the translational output throughout the cell and reveals a low correlation with mitochondrion genome copy number.
- ImaEdge – a platform for quantitative analysis of the spatiotemporal dynamics of cortical proteins during cell polarization
Summary: An open-source software package, ImaEdge, automates the segmentation of the cell cortex from time-lapse movies, and enables quantitative extraction of cortical protein dynamics in cells undergoing polarization.
- Real-time observation of light-controlled transcription in living cells
Summary: Blue light-induced chromatin recruitment (BLInCR) enables rapid and reversible targeting of effector proteins to nuclear loci with high temporal resolution for analyzing transcription activation.