Sentences with phrase «for vesicle trafficking»
Others including Randy Schekman had discovered NSF to be important for vesicle trafficking and secretion in yeast, leading Rothman to argue that these proteins are involved in vesicle fusion in every cell of the animal kingdom — a universal mechanism for secretion.
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25 October 2013: The 2013 Nobel Laureates who published in Science include, for Medicine, James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells.
A protein that transports the simple chemical choline plays a major role in vesicle trafficking, ion homeostasis, and growth and development in plants, according to two new studies publishing 28 December in the open - access journal PLOS Biology, by Dai - Yin Chao of the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, China, and Sheng Luan of the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and co-workers.
Enrich points out that «in the cell, cholesterol controls the trafficking of vesicles, which are responsible for transporting integrins to cell surface.
During a brief post-doctoral fellowship with Harvey Lodish at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rothman learnt to work with viruses and cell - free systems — thus acquiring skills that would later prove invaluable for identifying molecules involved in vesicle trafficking.
Endocytosis has traditionally been viewed as a mechanism for achieving signal attenuation: activated cell surface receptors are internalised and trafficked through endocytic vesicles to lysosomes, where they are degraded.