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unusual facts about Cytoplasm


Protein turnover

Cytoplasmic complexes, called proteasomes, digest older or abnormal proteins that have been tagged with ubiquitin for destruction.


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Bennettinia

Schizonts contain scant cytoplasm, are often round, do not exceed the size of the host nucleus and stick to it.

Cdc14

The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans makes one Cdc14 (CdCdc14), which localizes to the spindle and centrosomes in mitosis, and to the cytoplasm at interphase.

Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy

Filementous, atrophin-1 positive, inclusions are also observed exclusively in the cytoplasm of the dentate nucleus, which are extremely similar to the inclusions observed in the motor neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Endomembrane system

These pores are about 120 nm in diameter and regulate the passage of molecules between the nucleus and cytoplasm, permitting some to pass through the membrane, but not others.

Ernest Everett Just

Just authored two books, Basic Methods for Experiments on Eggs of Marine Mammals (1922) and The Biology of the Cell Surface (1939), and he also published several scientific papers relating to cell cytoplasm.

Giovannolaia

Schizonts contain plentiful cytoplasm, are larger than the host cell nucleus and frequently displace it.

GLI2

The protein encoded by this gene localizes to the cytoplasm and activates patched Drosophila homolog (PTCH) gene expression.

GLI3

The protein encoded by this gene localizes in the cytoplasm and activates patched Drosophila homolog (PTCH1) gene expression.

GYF domain

It was identified in the human intracellular protein termed CD2 binding protein 2 (CD2BP2), which binds to a site containing two tandem PPPGHR segments within the cytoplasmic region of CD2.

Hes3 signaling axis

In canonical Notch signaling, ligand proteins bind to the extracellular domain of the Notch receptor and induce the cleavage and release of the intracellular domain into the cytoplasm.

Ronald J. Falk

ANCAs are formed against antigens in the cytoplasm of neutrophil granulocytes (the most common type of white blood cell) and monocytes.

Sabin–Feldman dye test

The test is based on the presence of certain antibodies that prevent methylene blue dye from entering the cytoplasm of Toxoplasma organisms.

Type I pneumocyte

The cytoplasm in the thin portion contains pinocytotic vesicles, which may play a role in the turnover of surfactant and the removal of small particulate contaminants from the outer surface.

X-linked lymphoproliferative disease

Normally, the SAP protein is expressed in the cytoplasm of T- and NK-cells, where it binds to the cytoplasmic domain of the surface receptor called signaling lymphocyte activation molecule (SLAM).


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