Endocytosis and exocytosis are the processes by which cells move materials into or out of the cell that are too large to directly pass through the lipid bilayer of the cell membrane. Large molecules, ...

The prevalence of type 2 diabetes has increased dramatically in recent years. White adipose tissue (WAT) is a major site of energy storage that is important for energy homeostasis 1. Recently, WAT has ...

Endocytosis has long been thought of as simply a way for cells to internalize nutrients and membrane-associated molecules. But an explosive growth in knowledge has given a new dimension to our ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 112, No. 14 (April 7, 2015), pp. 4423-4428 (6 pages) Prolonged T-cell receptor (TCR) signaling is required for the ...

(Nanowerk News) A team at Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, has managed to trigger clathrin-mediated endocytosis in the lab. They did it by using a chemical rapamycin which diffuses in to ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract By screening for mutants exhibiting interactions with a dominant-negative dynamin, we have identified the Drosophila homologue of ...