Eisosomes: endocytic portals

Analysis of endocytosis at eisosomes

How eisosomes help the plasma membrane get organized

K arotki et al. (1) reveal how two proteins found in structures called eisosomes enable a yeast cell to parcel its plasma membrane into specialized domains. These proteins wind into helices and stick to the membrane, bending a portion of it into shape. Researchers agree that the proteins and lipids in the plasma membrane can sort into domains that perform particular functions such as signaling....

Mobile Portals

The diffusion of mobile services is one of important technological phenomena of the twenty-first century (Dholakia & Dholakia, 2003). According to the International Telecommunication Union,1 the number of mobile service users had exceeded 1.5 billion individual subscribers by early 2005. This represents around one-quarter of the world’s population. The introduction of .mobi, a new toplevel doma...

From websites to portals: success factors for business community portals

Many Governments are using funding initiatives to encourage businesses, particularly small businesses to adopt e-commerce technology. One currently popular approach in Australia, has been to fund internet portal developments with a specific community or business focus. The success of such portals however, as with many Web developments has been mixed. This paper reports on the establishment of a...

Query Portals: Dynamically Generating Portals for Web Search Queries

Many informational web search queries seek information about named entities residing in structured databases. The information about entities that a user is seeking could be available from the structured database, or from other web pages. For example, consider an informational query such as [lowlight digital cameras]. A large structured database consisting of products may contain several product...