Clearing the dead: apoptotic cell sensing, recognition, engulfment, and digestion

A Hochreiter-Hufford… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2013 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Clearance of apoptotic cells is the final stage of programmed cell death. Uncleared corpses
can become secondarily necrotic, promoting inflammation and autoimmunity. Remarkably …

Phosphoinositides in control of membrane dynamics

KO Schink, KW Tan, H Stenmark - Annual review of cell and …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Most functions of eukaryotic cells are controlled by cellular membranes, which are not static
entities but undergo frequent budding, fission, fusion, and sculpting reactions collectively …

Nonpolarized signaling reveals two distinct modes of 3D cell migration

RJ Petrie, N Gavara, RS Chadwick… - Journal of Cell Biology, 2012 - rupress.org
We search in this paper for context-specific modes of three-dimensional (3D) cell migration
using imaging for phosphatidylinositol (3, 4, 5)-trisphosphate (PIP3) and active Rac1 and …

RAS and RHO families of GTPases directly regulate distinct phosphoinositide 3-kinase isoforms

R Fritsch, I de Krijger, K Fritsch, R George, B Reason… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
RAS proteins are important direct activators of p110α, p110γ, and p110δ type I
phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3Ks), interacting via an amino-terminal RAS-binding domain …

Dynamic shaping of cellular membranes by phospholipids and membrane-deforming proteins

S Suetsugu, S Kurisu, T Takenawa - Physiological reviews, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
All cellular compartments are separated from the external environment by a membrane,
which consists of a lipid bilayer. Subcellular structures, including clathrin-coated pits …

Signalling through Class I PI3Ks in mammalian cells

PT Hawkins, KE Anderson, K Davidson… - Biochemical Society …, 2006 - portlandpress.com
It is now accepted that activation of Class I PI3Ks (phosphoinositide 3-kinases) is one of the
most important signal transduction pathways used by cell-surface receptors to control …

Dock-family exchange factors in cell migration and disease

G Gadea, A Blangy - European journal of cell biology, 2014 - Elsevier
Dock family proteins are evolutionary conserved exchange factors for the Rho GTPases Rac
and Cdc42. There are 11 Dock proteins in mammals, named Dock1 (or Dock180) to Dock11 …

GEF what? Dock180 and related proteins help Rac to polarize cells in new ways

JF Côté, K Vuori - Trends in cell biology, 2007 - cell.com
Rho GTPase activation, which is mediated by guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs),
is tightly regulated in time and space. Although Rho GTPases have a significant role in many …

The crossroads between RAS and RHO signaling pathways in cellular transformation, motility and contraction

O Soriano, M Alcón-Pérez, M Vicente-Manzanares… - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Ras and Rho proteins are GTP-regulated molecular switches that control multiple signaling
pathways in eukaryotic cells. Ras was among the first identified oncogenes, and it appears …

Phosphatidylserine recognition by phagocytes: a view to a kill

Y Wu, N Tibrewal, RB Birge - Trends in cell biology, 2006 - cell.com
The redistribution of phosphatidylserine (PS) to the external surface of the plasma
membrane is a key element of apoptotic cell recognition and is a molecular cue that dying …