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Stem cells for cancer treatment

Therapeutic stem cells expressing variants of EGFR-specific nanobodies have antitumor effects. Van de Water JA, Bagci-Onder T, Agarwal AS, Wakimoto H, Roovers RC, Zhu Y, Kasmieh R, Bhere D, Van Bergen En Henegouwen PMP, Shah K. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Sep 25. Epub ahead of print, PMID: 23012408 The deregulation of … Read more

SLAIN2 controls microtubule growth

SLAIN2 links microtubule plus-end tracking proteins and controls microtubule dynamics in a cell-cycle dependent manner. Babet van der Vaart, Cristina Manatschal, Ilya Grigoriev, Vincent Olieric, Susana Montenegro Gouveia, Saša Bjelić, Jeroen Demmers, Ivan Vorobjev, Casper C. Hoogenraad, Michel O. Steinmetz and Anna Akhmanova. The Journal of Cell Biology 2011 Jun 13;193(6):1083-99. Epub 2011 Jun 6. … Read more

Cytoskeletal motor proteins discriminate between axons and dendrites

Mixed microtubules steer dynein-driven cargo transport into dendrites. Kapitein LC, Schlager MA, Kuijpers M, Wulf PS, van Spronsen M, MacKintosh FC, Hoogenraad CC. Curr Biol. 2010 Feb 23;20(4):290-9. PMID: 20137950 To establish and maintain their polarized morphology, neurons employ active transport driven by molecular motors to sort cargo between axons and dendrites. However, the basic … Read more