ABSTRACT Mislocalization of the TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43; encoded by TARDBP) from nucleus to cytoplasm is a common feature neurodegenerative conditions such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). The downstream in vivo cellular effects this mislocalization are not well understood. To investigate impact mislocalized TDP-43 on neuronal cell ...

Tumor cell metabolic heterogeneity is thought to contribute to tumor recurrence, distant metastasis and chemo-resistance in cancer patients, driving poor clinical outcome. To better understand tumor metabolic heterogeneity, here we used the MCF7 breast cancer line as a model system to metabolically fractionate a cancer cell population. First, MCF7 cells were stably transfected with an hTERT-pro...

Turnip crinkle virus (TCV) is a single-stranded positive-sense RNA virus of the Carmovirus genus. Two of its five open reading frames (ORFs), encoding proteins of 8 and 9 kDa, are required for cell-to-cell movement of the virus. These movement proteins (MPs) were fused to green fluorescent protein (GFP) to determine their cellular localization. In protoplasts, p9-GFP, like GFP itself, is found ...

Abstract Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) is known to encode 6 canonical viral proteins. Our recent study revealed that TYLCV also encodes some additional small proteins with potential virulence functions. The fifth ORF of in the complementary sense, which we name C5, evolutionarily conserved, but little about its expression and function during infection. Here, confirmed C5 by analyzing pr...

Green fluorescent protein (GFP) and its derivatives have transformed the use and analysis of proteins for diverse applications. Like proteins, RNA has complex roles in cellular function and is increasingly used for various applications, but a comparable approach for fluorescently tagging RNA is lacking. Here, we describe the generation of RNA aptamers that bind fluorophores resembling the fluor...

Legionella pneumophila, the causative agent of Legionnaires' disease, evades phago-lysosome fusion in mammalian and protozoan hosts to create a suitable niche for intracellular replication. To modulate vesicle trafficking pathways, L. pneumophila translocates effector proteins into eukaryotic cells through a Type IVB macro-molecular transport system called the Icm-Dot system. In this study, we ...

Proteins of the GFP (green fluorescent protein) family demonstrate a great spectral and phylogenetic diversity. However, there is still an intense demand for red-shifted GFP-like proteins in both basic and applied science. To obtain GFP-like chromoproteins with red-shifted absorption, we performed a broad search in blue-coloured Anthozoa species. We revealed specimens of Actinia equina (beadlet...

Misfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) are degraded by ER-associated degradation (ERAD). In mammalian cells, HRD1–SEL1L membrane ubiquitin ligase complex plays a central role this process. However, SEL1L is inherently unstable, and excess also ERAD. Accordingly, when proteasome activity inhibited, multiple intermediates of appear cytosol. study, we searched for factors that inhibi...