PMID- 15866030 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20050822 LR - 20101118 IS - 0962-8924 (Print) IS - 0962-8924 (Linking) VI - 15 IP - 5 DP - 2005 May TI - Probing phosphoinositide functions in signaling and membrane trafficking. PG - 259-68 AB - The inositol phospholipids (PIs) comprise a family of eight species with different combinations of phosphate groups arranged around the inositol ring. PIs are among the most versatile signaling molecules known, with key roles in receptor-mediated signal transduction, actin remodeling and membrane trafficking. Recent studies have identified effector proteins and specific lipid-binding domains through which PIs signal. These lipid-binding domains can be used as probes to further our understanding of the spatial and temporal control of individual PI species. New layers of complexity revealed by the use of such probes include the occurrence of PIs at intracellular locations, the identification of phosphatidylinositol signaling hotspots and the presence of non-membrane pools of PIs in cell nuclei. FAU - Downes, C Peter AU - Downes CP AD - Division of Cell Signalling, School of Life Sciences, MSI/WTB Complex, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, Scotland, UK. c.p.downes@dundee.ac.uk FAU - Gray, Alex AU - Gray A FAU - Lucocq, John M AU - Lucocq JM LA - eng GR - Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review PL - England TA - Trends Cell Biol JT - Trends in cell biology JID - 9200566 RN - 0 (Membrane Lipids) RN - 0 (Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-Diphosphate) RN - 0 (Phosphatidylinositols) RN - EC 2.7.1.- (Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases) SB - IM MH - Cell Membrane/metabolism MH - Intracellular Membranes/metabolism MH - Membrane Lipids/metabolism MH - Models, Biological MH - Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases/metabolism MH - Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-Diphosphate/metabolism MH - Phosphatidylinositols/*metabolism MH - Protein Binding MH - Signal Transduction RF - 78 EDAT- 2005/05/04 09:00 MHDA- 2005/08/23 09:00 CRDT- 2005/05/04 09:00 PHST- 2005/05/04 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2005/08/23 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2005/05/04 09:00 [entrez] AID - S0962-8924(05)00084-X [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.tcb.2005.03.008 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Trends Cell Biol. 2005 May;15(5):259-68. doi: 10.1016/j.tcb.2005.03.008.