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BMC Cell Biology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of cell biology including cellular compartments, traffic, signalling, motility, adhesion and division.
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BMC Cell Biology 2008, 9 :57
While the alpha subunit of the human organic solute transporter is a glycoprotein, glycosylation is not essential for its interaction with the beta subunit, localization of the complex to the plasma membrane or functioning of the transporter there.
BMC Cell Biology 2008, 9 :54
The Carnation Italian ringspot virus exploits its host plant's translocase complex, but not the sorting and assembly machinery, to insert the p36 protein of its RNA replication complex into the host cell's mitochondrial outer membrane.
BMC Cell Biology 2008, 9 :43
Single cell cytometry can be successfully used to study the effects of RNAi in a mixed population of adherent cells, and to discern variations in function between individual cells within those cell cultures.
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Cell adhesion to agrin presented as a nanopatterned substrate is consistent with an interaction with the extracellular matrix and not transmembrane adhesion molecules. Tobias Wolfram, Joachim P. Spatz, Robert W. Burgess BMC Cell Biology 2008, 9 :64 (4 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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N-Glycosylation of the alpha subunit does not influence trafficking or functional activity of the human organic solute transporter alpha/beta Carol J Soroka, Shuhua Xu, Albert Mennone, Ping Lam, James L Boyer BMC Cell Biology 2008, 9 :57 (10 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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