Rabs, Rips, FIPs, and Endocytic Membrane Traffic by Rytis Prekeris

“…Rab11 GTPase, a member of the Rab protein family, plays a role in regulating various cellular functions, including plasma membrane recycling, phagocytosis, and cytokinesis. …”
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Association of Influenza Virus Proteins with Membrane Rafts by Michael Veit, Bastian Thaa

“…Assembly and budding of influenza virus proceeds in the viral budozone, a domain in the plasma membrane with characteristics of cholesterol/sphingolipid-rich membrane rafts. …”
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Hepatocellular Bile Salt Transport: Lessons from Cholestasis by Michael Trauner, Peter Fickert, Rudolf E Stauber

“…Hepatic uptake and excretion of bile salts and several nonbile salt organic anions (eg, bilirubin) are mediated by a distinct set of polarized transport systems at the basolateral and apical plasma membrane domains of hepatocytes and bile duct epithelial cells (cholangiocytes). …”
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Targeting the hERG1/β1 integrin complex in lipid rafts potentiates statins anti-cancer activity in pancreatic cancer by Claudia Duranti, Jessica Iorio, Valeria Manganelli, Giacomo Bagni, Rossella Colasurdo, Tiziano Lottini, Michele Martinelli, Chiara Capitani, Giulia Boso, Franco Nicolas D’Alessandro, Maurizio Sorice, Andrea Becchetti, Roberta Misasi, Tina Garofalo, Annarosa Arcangeli

“…Abstract Plasma membrane macromolecular complexes function as signaling hubs that regulate cell behavior, which is particularly relevant in cancer. …”
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The Regulatory Effect of Se-Cd Interaction on Tea Plants (<i>Camellia sinensis</i> (L.) O. Kuntze) Under Cadmium Stress by Yanyun Sun, Yueling Zhao, Hongyu Zhou, Faxing Li, Yuanyuan Wang, Xiao Du

“…In root cells, Cd and Se were predominantly located in the cell wall, plasma membrane, and vacuole membrane; in stem cells, they were primarily found in the cell wall and cytoplasm adjacent to the cell wall; in leaf cells, they were mainly distributed in the plasma membrane, cytoplasm, and vacuole. …”
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Whole-transcriptome analysis reveals the profiles and roles of coding and non-coding RNAs during hair follicle cycling in Rex rabbits by Jie Wu, Jiamin Zhai, Haofan Jia, Ifeanyi Solomon Ahamba, Xianggui Dong, Zhanjun Ren

“…DEGs were primarily enriched in GO items including plasma membrane, integral component of plasma membrane and extracellular space. …”
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Myoepithelioma of the Parotid Gland: A Case Report with Review of the Literature and Classic Histopathology by Mark Weitzel, Jason E. Cohn, Harvey Spector

“…Myoepithelioma is usually a benign tumor arising from neoplastic myoepithelial or basket cells which are found between the basement membrane and the basal plasma membrane of acinar cells. They also contain multiple cellular elements. …”
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Day and Night GSH and MDA Levels in Healthy Adults and Effects of Different Doses of Melatonin on These Parameters by Shilpa Chakravarty, Syed Ibrahim Rizvi

“…We explain our observations on the basis of melatonin's antioxidative function and its effect on the fluidity of plasma membrane of red blood cells. Rhythmic modulation of MDA and GSH contents emphasized the role of melatonin as an antioxidant and its function against oxidative stress.…”
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Architecture of microtubule cytoskeleton in the hindgut cells of Porcellio scaber by Urban Bogataj, Polona Mrak, Jasna Štrus, Nada Žnidaršič

“…In the papillate region the microtubule bundles protrude between the infoldings of apical plasma membrane and the mitochondria are closely aligned along the microtubules, thus the microtubule bundles in the papillate region are likely involved in the stabilization of the apical labyrinth and positioning of mitochondria. …”
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The biological functions of sphingolipids in plant pathogenic fungi. by Xue-Ming Zhu, Lin Li, Jian-Dong Bao, Jiao-Yu Wang, Asen Daskalov, Xiao-Hong Liu, Maurizio Del Poeta, Fu-Cheng Lin

“…In mammalian cells, they serve as vital components of the plasma membrane (PM) in maintaining its structure, tension, and fluidity. …”
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PINOID‐centered genetic interactions mediate auxin action in cotyledon formation by Wei Zeng, Xiutao Wang, Mengyuan Li

“…PID, which encodes a serine/threonine kinase localized to the plasma membrane, has been found to phosphorylate the PIN1 protein and regulate its polar distribution in the cell. …”
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Neuroprotection Caused by Hyperoxia Preconditioning in Animal Stroke Models by Mohammad Reza Bigdeli

“…I clearly establish that the cerebrovascular, extracellular matrix, plasma membrane, endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondrial, and lysosomal reactions are critical in neuroprotection induced by HO in focal ischemia. …”
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Illuminating understudied kinases: a generalizable biosensor development method applied to protein kinase N by Julius Bogomolovas, Ju Chen

“…Importantly, our biosensor revealed sustained basal PKN2 activity at the plasma membrane, identifying it as a PKN2 activity hotspot. …”
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Climate change and the single cell by Derek T. A. Lamport

“…The juxtaposition of AGPs with three additional components embedded in the plasma membrane provides evidence of a Ca2+ cycle that generates cytosolic Ca2+. …”
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Biological Processes that Prepare Mammalian Spermatozoa to Interact with an Egg and Fertilize It by Daulat R. P. Tulsiani, Aïda Abou-Haila

“…The net result is the fusion of the sperm plasma membrane and the underlying outer acrosomal membrane at multiple sites that causes the release of acrosomal contents at the site of sperm-egg adhesion. …”
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Ion Channel Activities in Neural Stem Cells of the Neuroepithelium by Masayuki Yamashita

“…The membrane potential across the plasma membrane is stabilized through gap junction coupling by lowering the input resistance. …”
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Measuring Response to Therapy by Near-Infrared Imaging of Tumors Using a Phosphatidylserine-Targeting Antibody Fragment by Jian Gong, Richard Archer, Michael Brown, Seth Fisher, Connie Chang, Matthew Peacock, Christopher Hughes, Bruce Freimark

“…Phosphatidylserine (PS) is confined to the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane in normal cells but is externalized on tumor vascular endothelial cells (ECs) and tumor cells, and PS exposure is further enhanced in response to radiation and chemotherapy. …”
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Changes in the Physiological Parameters of SbPIP1-Transformed Wheat Plants under Salt Stress by G. H. Yu, X. Zhang, H. X. Ma

“…The SbPIP1 gene is a new member of the plasma membrane major intrinsic gene family cloned from the euhalophyte Salicornia bigelovii Torr. …”
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Caffeine-Induced Suppression of GABAergic Inhibition and Calcium-Independent Metaplasticity by Masako Isokawa

“…Although ionic basis of this inward current is undetermined, the present result demonstrates that caffeine has a robust Ca2+-independent inhibitory action on GABAergic inhibition and causes metaplasticity by opening plasma membrane channels.…”
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Spontaneous Apoptosis, Oxidative Status and Immunophenotype Markers in Blood Lymphocytes of AIDS Patients by Gabriele A. Losa, Riccardo Graber

“…Additional cell parameters and the occurrence of spontaneous apoptosis (programmed cell death) were investigated on freshly isolated PBMC by flow cytometric measurement of either annexin‐V bound to plasma membrane phosphatidylserine or propidium iodide uptake. …”
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