The Gam protein of bacteriophage Mu is an orthologue of eukaryotic Ku.

abstract：:Reading the academic literature is an essential part of a scientist's job. David Smith argues that reading fiction can be even more important for creativity and productivity than papers and reviews. ...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Smith DR

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ark/Prk serine/threonine kinases initiate phosphorylation cycles that control the endocytic machinery in mammalian cells and in yeast, and the actin cytoskeleton in yeast. The members of this protein family are unified by homologies in their kinase domain, but are generally diverse in their other domains. The evol...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Smythe E,Ayscough KR

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Nedd4 family E3 ligases are key regulators of cell growth and proliferation and are often misregulated in human cancers and other diseases. The ligase activities of Nedd4 E3s are tightly controlled via auto-inhibition. However, the molecular mechanism underlying Nedd4 E3 auto-inhibition and activation is poorly un...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Zhu K,Shan Z,Chen X,Cai Y,Cui L,Yao W,Wang Z,Shi P,Tian C,Lou J,Xie Y,Wen W

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of RNA includes its post-transcriptional modifications, and the crucial functions of these modifications have supported their conservation within all three kingdoms. For example, the modifications located within or adjacent to the anticodon of the transfer RNA (tRNA) enhance the accuracy of codon bind...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Agris PF

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Carma1-Bcl10-Malt1 (CBM) complex connects T-cell receptor (TCR) signalling to the canonical IkappaB kinase (IKK)/NF (nuclear factor)-kappaB pathway. Earlier studies have indicated that the COP9 signalosome (CSN), a pleiotropic regulator of the ubiquitin/26S proteasome system, controls antigen responses in T cells....

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Welteke V,Eitelhuber A,Düwel M,Schweitzer K,Naumann M,Krappmann D

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The second edition of the EMBO Spatial meeting took place in May 2011 in Engelberg, Switzerland. Although the work presented at the meeting covered a challengingly broad range of topics, it accomplished the rare goal of promoting interactions between cell biologists, neuroscientists, systems biologists and mathematici...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Tzlil S,Kuruvilla R

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-translational protein arginylation is essential for cardiovascular development and angiogenesis in mice and is mediated by arginyl-transfer RNA-protein transferases Ate1-a functionally conserved but poorly understood class of enzymes. Here, we used sequence analysis to detect the evolutionary relationship between...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Rai R,Mushegian A,Makarova K,Kashina A

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IQGAP scaffold proteins are evolutionarily conserved in eukaryotes and facilitate the formation of complexes that regulate cytoskeletal dynamics, intracellular signaling, and intercellular interactions. Fungal and mammalian IQGAPs are implicated in cytokinesis. IQGAP1, IQGAP2, and IQGAP3 have diverse roles in vertebra...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Hedman AC,Smith JM,Sacks DB

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mini-chromosome maintenance (MCM) proteins form a conserved family found in all eukaryotes and are essential for DNA replication. They exist as heteromultimeric complexes containing as many as six different proteins. These complexes are believed to be the replicative helicases, functioning as hexameric rings at replic...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Yu X,VanLoock MS,Poplawski A,Kelman Z,Xiang T,Tye BK,Egelman EH

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitin is a post-translational modifier with proteolytic and non-proteolytic roles in many biological processes. At mitochondria, it performs regulatory homeostatic functions and contributes to mitochondrial quality control. Ubiquitin is essential for mitochondrial fusion, regulates mitochondria-ER contacts, and pa...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Escobar-Henriques M,Langer T

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Processive motor proteins are stochastic steppers that perform actual mechanical steps for only a minor fraction of the time they are bound to the filament track. Motors usually work in teams and therefore the question arises whether the stochasticity of stepping can cause mutual interference when motors are mechanica...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Bieling P,Telley IA,Piehler J,Surrey T

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subcellular organization is yielding to large-scale analysis. Researchers are now applying robust mass-spectrometry-based proteomics methods to obtain an inventory of biochemically isolated organelles that contain hundreds of proteins. High-resolution methods allow accurate protein identification, and novel algorithms...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Andersen JS,Mann M

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone demethylases-both lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1) and Jumonji-C (JmjC) domain-containing proteins-are broadly implicated in the regulation of chromatin-dependent processes. In Arabidopsis thaliana, histone marks directly affect DNA methylation, and mutations in LSD1 homologues show reduced DNA methylation...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Deleris A,Greenberg MV,Ausin I,Law RW,Moissiard G,Schubert D,Jacobsen SE

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stat1 (signal transducer and activator of transcription 1) regulates transcription in response to the type I interferons IFN-alpha and IFN-beta, either in its dimerized form or as a subunit of the interferon-stimulated gene factor 3 (Isgf3) complex (consisting of Stat1, Stat2 and interferon-regulating factor 9). Full-...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Pilz A,Ramsauer K,Heidari H,Leitges M,Kovarik P,Decker T

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen receptors (ERs) orchestrate both transcriptional and non-genomic functions in response to estrogens, xenoestrogens and signals emanating from growth factor signalling pathways. The pleiotropic and tissue-specific effects of estrogens are likely to be mediated by the differential expression of distinct estroge...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Moggs JG,Orphanides G

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Foxp3(+) regulatory T cells (Tregs) exhibit plasticity, which dictates their function. Secretion of the inflammatory cytokine IFNγ, together with the acquisition of a T helper 1 (Th1)-like effector phenotype as observed in cancer, infection, and autoimmune diseases, is associated with loss of Treg suppressor function ...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Kitz A,de Marcken M,Gautron AS,Mitrovic M,Hafler DA,Dominguez-Villar M

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Around 100 researchers gathered at the eighteenth EMBO Conference on 'The Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila', which took place in Crete in June 2012. Whether deconstructing or integrating at the genetic, cellular or organ level, the talks highlighted the synergy of combining methods, approaches and dis...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Miguel-Aliaga I,Oliver B,Teleman AA

更新日期：2012-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Microglia are specialized parenchymal-resident phagocytes of the central nervous system (CNS) that actively support, defend and modulate the neural environment. Dysfunctional microglial responses are thought to worsen CNS diseases; nevertheless, their impact during neuroinflammatory processes remains largely obscure. ...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Sousa C,Golebiewska A,Poovathingal SK,Kaoma T,Pires-Afonso Y,Martina S,Coowar D,Azuaje F,Skupin A,Balling R,Biber K,Niclou SP,Michelucci A

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) expresses several accessory proteins that manipulate various host-cell processes to achieve optimum replicative efficiency. One of them, viral protein U (Vpu), has been shown to interfere with the cellular degradation machinery through interaction with SCF(beta-TrCP) complexes. T...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Leulier F,Marchal C,Miletich I,Limbourg-Bouchon B,Benarous R,Lemaitre B

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gastrointestinal tract undergoes homeostatic self-renewal to replace aged and damaged epithelial cells. This process, sustained by intestinal stem cells (ISCs), can operate accurately for many years but gradually declines with age. Although stem cell aging has been intensively explored, the mechanisms remain poorl...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Zhang P,Edgar BA

更新日期：2020-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells suffer necrotic death when exposed to extreme environmental conditions, adverse and excessive stimuli, or when deleterious mutations are encoded in their genetic material. Unlike apoptosis, which involves a highly regulated and elaborate network of biochemical events and cascades, necrosis has been considered ge...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Syntichaki P,Tavernarakis N

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a great interest in determining the impact of p53 on ageing and, for this, it is important to discriminate among the known causes of ageing. Telomere loss is a well-established source of age-associated damage, which by itself can recapitulate ageing in mouse models. Here, we have used a genetic approach to in...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： García-Cao I,García-Cao M,Tomás-Loba A,Martín-Caballero J,Flores JM,Klatt P,Blasco MA,Serrano M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TOR is a conserved serine/threonine kinase that responds to nutrients, growth factors, the bioenergetic status of the cell and cellular stress to control growth, metabolism and ageing. A diverse group of small GTPases including Rheb, Rag, Rac1, RalA and Ryh1 play a variety of roles in the regulation of TOR. For exampl...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Durán RV,Hall MN

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The components and pathways that regulate and execute developmental cell death programmes in plants remain largely unknown. We have found that the PROMOTION OF CELL SURVIVAL 1 (PCS1) gene in Arabidopsis, which encodes an aspartic protease, has an important role in determining the fate of cells in embryonic development...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Ge X,Dietrich C,Matsuno M,Li G,Berg H,Xia Y

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of the retinoblastoma protein, pRB, leads to apoptosis, and several results have suggested that this is dependent on the E2F transcription factors. However, so far, the ability of the different E2F family members to contribute to apoptosis is controversial. Here, we show that ectopic expression of E2F3 results in...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Lazzerini Denchi E,Helin K

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the genome sequence and gene content are available for an increasing number of organisms, eukaryotic selenoproteins remain poorly characterized. The dual role of the UGA codon confounds the identification of novel selenoprotein genes. Here, we describe a comparative genomics approach that relies on the genome-wi...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Castellano S,Novoselov SV,Kryukov GV,Lescure A,Blanco E,Krol A,Gladyshev VN,Guigó R

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The COVID-19 crisis has further highlighted the challenges for open science and data sharing in biomedical research and the need for more traceability and transparency. ...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Minari J,Yoshizawa G,Shinomiya N

更新日期：2020-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative RNA processing of LMNA pre-mRNA produces three main protein isoforms, that is, lamin A, progerin, and lamin C. De novo mutations that favor the expression of progerin over lamin A lead to Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS), providing support for the involvement of LMNA processing in pathological a...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Lopez-Mejia IC,de Toledo M,Chavey C,Lapasset L,Cavelier P,Lopez-Herrera C,Chebli K,Fort P,Beranger G,Fajas L,Amri EZ,Casas F,Tazi J

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila immune system is able to discriminate between classes of bacteria. Detection of Gram-positive bacteria involves a complex of two pattern recognition receptors: peptidoglycan recognition protein SA (PGRP-SA) and Gram-negative binding protein 1 (GNBP1). These activate the Toll signalling pathway. To defin...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Filipe SR,Tomasz A,Ligoxygakis P

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biasing the sex ratio of populations of different organisms, including plants, insects, crustacean, and fish, has been demonstrated by genetic and non-genetic approaches. However, biasing the sex ratio of mammalian populations has not been demonstrated genetically. Here, we provide a first proof of concept for such a ...

journal_title：EMBO reports

authors： Yosef I,Edry-Botzer L,Globus R,Shlomovitz I,Munitz A,Gerlic M,Qimron U

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00