SCIENCE HUB · MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY
A Cell Stays Alive by Moving the Right Material to the Right Compartment, at the Right Time, Without Losing Control of the Whole.
This corridor follows membranes, organelles, molecular traffic, folding and degradation, cell architecture, division and the decisions that separate repair from removal.
Membranes, Vesicles and Intracellular Traffic
- Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis
- COPII Vesicle Budding and ER Export
- COPI Retrograde Trafficking
- Retromer and Endosomal Cargo Recycling
- ESCRT Membrane Scission
- V-ATPase and Organelle Acidification
- Phosphoinositides and Membrane Identity
- Caveolae and Mechanoprotection
- Lipid Droplets and Neutral-Lipid Storage
- GPI-Anchor Biosynthesis and Remodelling
- Protein S-Palmitoylation and Depalmitoylation
- Protein N-Myristoylation
- Protein Prenylation and CaaX Processing
- Protein Tyrosine Sulfation
ER, Lysosome and Protein Quality Control
- ER N-Linked Glycosylation
- Calnexin–Calreticulin Folding Cycle
- The Unfolded Protein Response
- ER-Phagy
- Ribosome-Associated Quality Control
- Human Proteasome Assembly and Regulation
- SUMOylation
- O-GlcNAc Cycling
- Lysosomal Cholesterol Export through NPC2–NPC1
- Lysosomal Membrane Repair and Lysophagy
- Ferroptosis and Lipid-Peroxidation-Driven Cell Death
Mitochondria, Peroxisomes and Organelle Cooperation
- Mitochondrial TOM–TIM Protein Import
- Mitochondrial Disulfide Relay
- MICOS and Mitochondrial Cristae Architecture
- Mitochondrial Calcium Uniporter
- Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier
- PINK1–Parkin Mitophagy
- Cardiolipin Biosynthesis and Remodelling
- Coenzyme Q Biosynthesis and the COQ Synthome
- Peroxisomal Protein Import
- Peroxisomal Lipid Metabolism
- Peroxisomes and Glyoxysomes
- Glycosomes and Compartmentalised Glycolysis
- Hydrogenosomes, Mitosomes and Mitochondrion-Related Organelles
Cell Architecture, Mechanics and Division
Spider / Web / Hidden / Deep Connections
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- Spider — candidates: Plant Science and Materials Science become candidates when organelle organisation, membrane mechanics, phase behaviour or cell-material interfaces become central.
- Web — admitted: Genome/RNA · Biochemistry · Physiology · Microbiology.
- Hidden Connect: membranes, condensates and cytoskeletal structures are physical materials inside living systems. That creates a bounded Materials bridge when mechanics or phase state matters, while living function remains the biological owner.
- Deep Connect: Molecular Cell → Biochemistry → Chemistry → Materials; or Molecular Cell → Genome → Physiology → Instrumentation.
