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Ceramide in plasma membrane repairAnnette Draeger
Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, Baltzerstr 2, 3012, Bern, Switzerland
Handb Exp Pharmacol 216:341-53. 2013..In this process, ceramide is supported by members of the annexin protein family which act as Ca(2+) sensors and as membrane fusion agents...
Membrane segregation and downregulation of raft markers during sarcolemmal differentiation in skeletal muscle cellsA Draeger
Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, Switzerland
Dev Biol 262:324-34. 2003....
Statin therapy and the expression of genes that regulate calcium homeostasis and membrane repair in skeletal muscleAnnette Draeger
Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, Baltzerstr 2, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Am J Pathol 177:291-9. 2010..Hence, even in clinically asymptomatic (non-myopathic) patients, statin therapy leads to an upregulation in the expression of genes that are concerned with skeletal muscle regulation and membrane repair...
Plasma membrane repair and cellular damage control: the annexin survival kitAnnette Draeger
Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern Baltzerstr, 2 3012, Bern, Switzerland
Biochem Pharmacol 81:703-12. 2011....
Statin therapy induces ultrastructural damage in skeletal muscle in patients without myalgiaA Draeger
Institute of Anatomy, Department of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 2, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
J Pathol 210:94-102. 2006....
Plasma membrane-associated annexin A6 reduces Ca2+ entry by stabilizing the cortical actin cytoskeletonKatia Monastyrskaya
Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, 3000 Bern 9, Switzerland
J Biol Chem 284:17227-42. 2009..Taken together, our results implicate annexin A6 in the actin-dependent regulation of Ca(2+) entry, with consequences for the rates of cell proliferation...
Association between statin-associated myopathy and skeletal muscle damageMarkus G Mohaupt
Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
CMAJ 181:E11-8. 2009..Many patients taking statins often complain of muscle pain and weakness. The extent to which muscle pain reflects muscle injury is unknown...
Fluorescent annexin A1 reveals dynamics of ceramide platforms in living cellsEduard B Babiychuk
Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Traffic 9:1757-75. 2008....
The annexins: spatial and temporal coordination of signaling events during cellular stressKatia Monastyrskaya
Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, 3000 Bern 9, Switzerland
Cell Mol Life Sci 66:2623-42. 2009....
Phenotypic conversion leads to structural and functional changes of smooth muscle sarcolemmaKatharina Matschke
Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 2, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Exp Cell Res 312:3495-503. 2006..The plasma membrane has undergone profound functional changes which are incompatible with cyclic foreshortening, but might be important in the development of vascular disease...
Annexins as intracellular calcium sensorsKatia Monastyrskaya
Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, 3000 Bern 9, Switzerland
Cell Calcium 41:207-19. 2007..Given the fact that several annexins are present within any one cell, it is likely that they form a sophisticated [Ca(2+)] sensing system, with a regulatory influence on other signaling pathways...
Smooth muscle membrane organization in the normal and dysfunctional human urinary bladder: a structural analysisFiona C Burkhard
Department of Urology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Neurourol Urodyn 24:128-35. 2005....
MicroRNAs may mediate the down-regulation of neurokinin-1 receptor in chronic bladder pain syndromeVeronica Sanchez Freire
Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, 3000 Bern 9, Switzerland
Am J Pathol 176:288-303. 2010..Our findings further the knowledge of the molecular mechanisms of BPS, and have relevance for other clinical conditions involving the NK1 receptor...
Tailored protection against plasmalemmal injury by annexins with different Ca2+ sensitivitiesSarah Potez
Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
J Biol Chem 286:17982-91. 2011....
Domain architecture of the smooth-muscle plasma membrane: regulation by annexinsAnnette Draeger
Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, Bern 9, CH 3000, Switzerland
Biochem J 387:309-14. 2005....
The targeting of plasmalemmal ceramide to mitochondria during apoptosisEduard B Babiychuk
Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
PLoS ONE 6:e23706. 2011..It is conceivable that this "kiss-of-death" increases the permeability of the mitochondrial outer membrane thereby triggering apoptosis...
Biochemical characterization of detergent-resistant membranes: a systematic approachEduard B Babiychuk
Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, Bern 9, CH 3000, Switzerland
Biochem J 397:407-16. 2006..Our findings demonstrate a need for critical re-evaluation of the accumulated detergent-extraction data...
Annexins sense changes in intracellular pH during hypoxiaKatia Monastyrskaya
Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, 3000 Bern 9, Switzerland
Biochem J 409:65-75. 2008..The pH-induced membrane binding of annexins A6 and A2-S100A10 might have consequences for their functions as membrane organizers and channel modulators...
miR-199a-5p regulates urothelial permeability and may play a role in bladder pain syndromeKatia Monastyrskaya
Urology Research Laboratory, Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Am J Pathol 182:431-48. 2013..Up-regulation of miR-199a-5p and concomitant down-regulation of its multiple targets might be detrimental to the establishment of a tight urothelial barrier, leading to chronic pain...
Modulating signaling events in smooth muscle: cleavage of annexin 2 abolishes its binding to lipid raftsEduard B Babiychuk
Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, Switzerland
FASEB J 16:1177-84. 2002..Proteolysis abolishes annexin binding to the plasma membrane and might result in rearrangement of membrane constituents followed by the interruption of segregation-dependent signaling events...
Intracellular Ca(2+) operates a switch between repair and lysis of streptolysin O-perforated cellsE B Babiychuk
Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Cell Death Differ 16:1126-34. 2009..These findings show that the extent of [Ca(2+)](i) elevation determines the fate of targeted cells and establishes how different Ca(2+)-dependent mechanisms facilitate either cell survival or death...
Blebbing confers resistance against cell lysisE B Babiychuk
Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, Bern 3012, Switzerland
Cell Death Differ 18:80-9. 2011..By targeting annexin A1/blebbing, new therapeutic approaches could be developed to avert the necrotic loss of cells in a variety of human pathologies...
Membrane cholesterol regulates smooth muscle phasic contractionE B Babiychuk
Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, Bern 9, CH, 3000, Switzerland
J Membr Biol 198:95-101. 2004..These findings are important in understanding the complex signalling pathways in smooth muscle and conditions such as premature labor and hypertension...
The NK1 receptor localizes to the plasma membrane microdomains, and its activation is dependent on lipid raft integrityKatia Monastyrskaya
Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, Switzerland
J Biol Chem 280:7135-46. 2005..Our results demonstrate that reorganization of the plasma membrane has an effect on the activation of the raft-associated NK1R and the down-stream events such as recruitment of protein kinases...
Stress fibres-a Ca2+ -independent store for annexins?E B Babiychuk
Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, Buhlstrasse 26, 3012, Bern, Switzerland
Biochim Biophys Acta 1600:154-61. 2002..This type of Ca(2+)-dependent annexin mobility is observed only in cells of mesenchymal phenotype, which have a well-developed stress-fibre system; not in epithelial cells...
The expression levels of three raft-associated molecules in cultivated vascular cells are dependent on culture conditionsK Monastyrskaya
Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, , 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Cell Mol Life Sci 60:2702-9. 2003..Our data point to a shift of raft components in monolayer cultures and demonstrate potential advantages of the spheroid coculture system for investigation of raft-mediated signalling events in endothelial cells...
Regulation of ecto-5'-nucleotidase activity via Ca2+-dependent, annexin 2-mediated membrane rearrangement?E B Babiychuk
Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, Switzerland
Biochem Soc Trans 34:374-6. 2006..Our results point to a regulation of ecto-5'-nucleotidase activity by Ca(2+)-dependent, annexin-mediated stabilization of membrane rafts...
MMP-19: cellular localization of a novel metalloproteinase within normal breast tissue and mammary gland tumoursV Djonov
Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, Switzerland
J Pathol 195:147-55. 2001....
Increased cholesterol decreases uterine activity: functional effects of cholesterol alteration in pregnant rat myometriumR D Smith
Dept of Physiology, The University of Liverpool, Crown St, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 288:C982-8. 2005..It may be one of the mechanisms operating to maintain uterine quiescence throughout gestation and may also contribute to difficulties in labor suffered by obese women...
[Calcium-dependent association of membrane rafts]E B Babiĭchuk
Petro Bogach Institute of Physiology, Taras Schevchenko Kyiv National University, Kyiv, Ukraine
Ukr Biokhim Zh 74:37-41. 2002..Occurring in the presence of physiologically relevant calcium concentrations these interactions may play a role in regulation of smooth muscle contraction...
Diacylglycerol kinase theta is translocated and phosphoinositide 3-kinase-dependently activated by noradrenaline but not angiotensin II in intact small arteriesA J Walker
Department of Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9WL, UK
Biochem J 353:129-137. 2001..The rapid and agonist-specific activation of DGKtheta suggests that this pathway may have a physiological role in vascular smooth-muscle responses...
