Visualization of the process of a nanocarrier-mediated gene delivery: stabilization, endocytosis and endosomal escape of genes for intracellular spreading

Z Ma, Y Zheng, Z Chao, H Chen, Y Zhang… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Nanoparticles have been widely applied as gene carrier for improving RNA interference
(RNAi) efficiency in medical and agricultural fields. However, the mechanism and delivery …

ARF1 prevents aberrant type I interferon induction by regulating STING activation and recycling

M Hirschenberger, A Lepelley, U Rupp, S Klute… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Type I interferon (IFN) signalling is tightly controlled. Upon recognition of DNA by cyclic GMP-
AMP synthase (cGAS), stimulator of interferon genes (STING) translocates along the …

The emerging complexity of Chlamydia trachomatis interactions with host cells as revealed by molecular genetic approaches

RJ Bastidas, RH Valdivia - Current opinion in microbiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) is an intracellular bacterial pathogen that relies on the activity of
secreted proteins known as effectors to promote replication and avoidance of immune …

STED imaging of endogenously tagged ARF GTPases reveals their distinct nanoscale localizations

L Wong-Dilworth, C Rodilla-Ramirez, E Fox… - Journal of Cell …, 2023 - rupress.org
ADP-ribosylation factor (ARF) GTPases are major regulators of cellular membrane
homeostasis. High sequence similarity and multiple, possibly redundant functions of the five …

Membrane trafficking alterations in breast cancer progression

A Ferreira, P Castanheira, C Escrevente… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Breast cancer (BC) is the most common type of cancer in women, and remains one of the
major causes of death in women worldwide. It is now well established that alterations in …

Targeting Ras-, Rho-, and Rab-family GTPases via a conserved cryptic pocket

J Morstein, V Bowcut, M Fernando, Y Yang, L Zhu… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
The family of Ras-like GTPases consists of over 150 different members, regulated by an
even larger number of guanine exchange factors (GEFs) and GTPase-activating proteins …

Sec7 regulatory domains scaffold autoinhibited and active conformations

BA Brownfield, BC Richardson… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The late stages of Golgi maturation involve a series of sequential trafficking events in which
cargo-laden vesicles are produced and targeted to multiple distinct subcellular destinations …

Clathrin-associated carriers enable recycling through a kiss-and-run mechanism

J Xu, Y Liang, N Li, S Dang, A Jiang, Y Liu, Y Guo… - Nature Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Endocytosis and recycling control the uptake and retrieval of various materials, including
membrane proteins and lipids, in all eukaryotic cells. These processes are crucial for cell …

Genetics of mirror movements identifies a multifunctional complex required for Netrin-1 guidance and lateralization of motor control

S Schlienger, PT Yam, N Balekoglu, H Ducuing… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Mirror movements (MM) disorder is characterized by involuntary movements on one side of
the body that mirror intentional movements on the opposite side. We performed genetic …

Structural basis for activation of Arf1 at the Golgi complex

AJ Muccini, MA Gustafson, JC Fromme - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
The Golgi complex is the central sorting station of the eukaryotic secretory pathway. Traffic
through the Golgi requires activation of Arf guanosine triphosphatases that orchestrate cargo …