Overcoming randomness does not rule out the importance of inherent randomness for functionality

Y Ilan - Journal of Biosciences, 2019 - Springer
Randomness is intrinsic to many natural processes. It is also clear that, under certain
conditions, disorders are not associated with functionality. Several examples in which …

Separating actin-dependent chemokine receptor nanoclustering from dimerization indicates a role for clustering in CXCR4 signaling and function

L Martínez-Muñoz, JM Rodríguez-Frade, R Barroso… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
A current challenge in cell motility studies is to understand the molecular and physical
mechanisms that govern chemokine receptor nanoscale organization at the cell membrane …

Single-particle tracking: connecting the dots

MJ Saxton - Nature methods, 2008 - nature.com
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for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain …

Single particle tracking in dissecting lipid droplet biology

PP Hu, BB Zhu, D Li, WP Zhang, XQ Fan, C Yu… - TrAC Trends in Analytical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Intracellular lipid metabolism mainly occurs in lipid droplets (LDs). LDs are cytosolic lipid
storage organelles found in nearly all cell types, which dynamically change in response to …

A quantitative comparison of single-dye tracking analysis tools using Monte Carlo simulations

L Weimann, KA Ganzinger, J McColl, KL Irvine… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Single-particle tracking (SPT) is widely used to study processes from membrane receptor
organization to the dynamics of RNAs in living cells. While single-dye labeling strategies …

Lipid raft-mediated regulation of G-protein coupled receptor signaling by ligands which influence receptor dimerization: a computational study

M Fallahi-Sichani, JJ Linderman - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the largest family of cell surface receptors; they
activate heterotrimeric G-proteins in response to ligand stimulation. Although many GPCRs …

Single-molecule diffusion and conformational dynamics by spatial integration of temporal fluctuations

MF Serag, M Abadi, S Habuchi - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
Single-molecule localization and tracking has been used to translate spatiotemporal
information of individual molecules to map their diffusion behaviours. However, accurate …

Role of actin cytoskeleton in dynamics and function of the serotonin1A receptor

S Shrivastava, P Sarkar, P Preira, L Salomé… - Biophysical journal, 2020 - cell.com
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are important membrane proteins in higher
eukaryotes that carry out a vast array of cellular signaling and act as major drug targets. The …

Single molecule imaging deciphers the relation between mobility and signaling of a prototypical G protein-coupled receptor in living cells

L Veya, J Piguet, H Vogel - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2015 - ASBMB
Lateral diffusion enables efficient interactions between membrane proteins, leading to signal
transmission across the plasma membrane. An open question is how the spatiotemporal …

Agonist-selective dynamic compartmentalization of human Mu opioid receptor as revealed by resolutive FRAP analysis

AN Sauliere-Nzeh, C Millot, M Corbani… - Journal of Biological …, 2010 - ASBMB
Techniques for analyzing the membrane diffusion of molecules are the most promising
methods for investigating the compartmentalization of G-protein-coupled receptors …