Induction of hTERT expression and telomerase activity by estrogens in human ovary epithelium cells.

abstract：:We report the development of a novel in vivo transcription assay for trans-acting factors regulating the human gamma- and beta-globin genes. A cDNA coding for the human tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) was inserted into the globin genes. Simian virus 40 small T-antigen splice and polyadenylation signals were i...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wrighton N,Grosveld F

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquitin proteolytic system plays a major role in a variety of basic cellular processes. In the majority of these processes, the target proteins are completely degraded. In one exceptional case, generation of the p50 subunit of the transcriptional regulator NF-kappaB, the precursor protein p105 is processed in a ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Orian A,Schwartz AL,Israël A,Whiteside S,Kahana C,Ciechanover A

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated a Drosophila fickleP (ficP) mutant with a shortened copulatory duration and reduced adult-stage life span. The reduced copulatory duration is ascribable to incomplete fusion of the left and right halves of the apodeme that holds the penis during copulation. ficP is an intronic mutation occurring in the Btk...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Baba K,Takeshita A,Majima K,Ueda R,Kondo S,Juni N,Yamamoto D

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starting with hybrid cell lines between a Chinese hamster cell EmtA mutant and a Chinese hamster cell EmtB mutant, we have constructed cell lines that are homozygous for mutant alleles at both the emtA locus and the emtB locus, by using a two-step segregation protocol. The EmtA EmtB double mutants are approximately 10...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Chang S,Wasmuth JJ

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein tyrosine kinase Pyk2 is activated by a variety of G-protein-coupled receptors and by extracellular signals that elevate intracellular Ca2+ concentration. We have identified a new Pyk2 binding protein designated Pap. Pap is a multidomain protein composed of an N-terminal alpha-helical region with a coiled-coil ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Andreev J,Simon JP,Sabatini DD,Kam J,Plowman G,Randazzo PA,Schlessinger J

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lactogenic hormones, i.e., prolactin and glucocorticoids, act in concert to stimulate transcription factors responsible for hormone-dependent milk protein gene expression. In the mammary gland, prolactin activates Stat5a and Stat5b and glucocorticoids activate the glucocorticoid receptor (GR). Immunoprecipitation ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Cella N,Groner B,Hynes NE

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, many amino acid biosynthetic pathways are coregulated by a complex general control system: starvation for a single amino acid results in the derepression of amino acid biosynthetic genes in multiple pathways. Derepression of these genes is mediated by positive (GCN) and negative (GCD) regu...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Myers PL,Skvirsky RC,Greenberg ML,Greer H

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARalpha) leads to hepatocellular proliferation and liver carcinomas. The early events mediating these effects are unknown. A novel mechanism by which PPARalpha regulates gene expression and hepatocellular proliferation was uncovered. MicroRNA (miRNA) ex...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shah YM,Morimura K,Yang Q,Tanabe T,Takagi M,Gonzalez FJ

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription and DNA repair factor TFIIH is composed of 10 subunits. Mutations in the XPB, XPD, and p8 subunits are genetically linked to human diseases, including cancer. However, no reports of mutations in other TFIIH subunits have been reported in higher eukaryotes. Here, we analyze at genetic, molecular, and ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Fregoso M,Lainé JP,Aguilar-Fuentes J,Mocquet V,Reynaud E,Coin F,Egly JM,Zurita M

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain insight into the role of Myc family oncoproteins and their associated protein Max in vertebrate growth and development, we sought to identify homologs in the zebra fish (Brachydanio rerio). A combination of a polymerase chain reaction-based cloning strategy and low-stringency hybridization screening allowed fo...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Schreiber-Agus N,Horner J,Torres R,Chiu FC,DePinho RA

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inducible transcriptional complex AP-1, composed of c-Fos and c-Jun proteins, is crucial for cell adaptation to many environmental changes. While its mechanisms of activation have been extensively studied, how its activity is restrained is poorly understood. We report here that lysine 265 of c-Fos is conjugated by...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Bossis G,Malnou CE,Farras R,Andermarcher E,Hipskind R,Rodriguez M,Schmidt D,Muller S,Jariel-Encontre I,Piechaczyk M

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the TPI gene product, triosephosphate isomerase, makes up about 2% of the soluble cellular protein. Using in vitro and in vivo footprinting techniques, we have identified four binding sites for three factors in the 5' noncoding region of TPI: a REB1-binding site located at positions -401 t...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Scott EW,Baker HV

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between chromatin remodeling and histone acetylation at the yeast CUP1 gene was addressed. CUP1 encodes a metallothionein required for cell growth at high copper concentrations. Induction of CUP1 with copper resulted in targeted acetylation of both H3 and H4 at the CUP1 promoter. Nucleosomes containin...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shen CH,Leblanc BP,Neal C,Akhavan R,Clark DJ

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) in animals, cosuppression in plants, and quelling in fungi are homology-dependent gene silencing mechanisms in which the introduction of either double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) or transgenes induces sequence-specific mRNA degradation. These phenomena share a common genetic and mechanistic basis. The...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Catalanotto C,Pallotta M,ReFalo P,Sachs MS,Vayssie L,Macino G,Cogoni C

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of canonical Wnt signaling inhibits brown adipogenesis of cultured cells by impeding induction of PPARgamma and C/EBPalpha. Although enforced expression of these adipogenic transcription factors restores lipid accumulation and expression of FABP4 in Wnt-expressing cells, additional expression of PGC-1alpha ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kang S,Bajnok L,Longo KA,Petersen RK,Hansen JB,Kristiansen K,MacDougald OA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gfi-1 proto-oncogene encodes a zinc finger protein with six C2H2-type, C-terminal zinc finger motifs and is activated by provirus integration in T-cell lymphoma lines selected for interleukin-2 independence in culture and in primary retrovirus-induced thymomas. Gfi-1 expression in adult animals is restricted to th...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Zweidler-Mckay PA,Grimes HL,Flubacher MM,Tsichlis PN

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of assembled holoenzymes composed of regulatory D-type cyclins and their catalytic partner, cyclin-dependent kinase 4 (cdk4), is rate limiting for progression through the G1 phase of the cell cycle in mammalian fibroblasts. Both the synthesis and assembly of D-type cyclins and cdk4 depend upon serum s...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kato JY,Matsuoka M,Strom DK,Sherr CJ

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translation initiation plays an important role in cell growth, proliferation, and survival. The translation initiation factor eIF4B (eukaryotic initiation factor 4B) stimulates the RNA helicase activity of eIF4A in unwinding secondary structures in the 5' untranslated region (5'UTR) of the mRNA in vitro. Here, we stud...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shahbazian D,Parsyan A,Petroulakis E,Topisirovic I,Martineau Y,Gibbs BF,Svitkin Y,Sonenberg N

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclin B interacts with Cdc2 kinase to induce cell cycle events, particularly those of mitosis. The existence of cyclin B subtypes in several species has been known for some time, leading to speculation that key events of mitosis may be carried out by distinct functional classes of Cdc2/cyclin B. We report the discove...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Bueno A,Russell P

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new and rapid purification procedure has been developed for the mammalian 70,000-dalton (70-kDa) heat-shock (or stress) proteins. Both the constitutive 73-kDa protein and the stress-induced 72-kDa protein have been purified by a two-step procedure employing DE52 ion-exchange chromatography followed by affinity chrom...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Welch WJ,Feramisco JR

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase (POR) is the obligate electron donor for all microsomal cytochrome P450 enzymes, which catalyze the metabolism of a wide spectrum of xenobiotic and endobiotic compounds. Point mutations in POR have been found recently in patients with Antley-Bixler-like syndrome, which includes limb skel...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Schmidt K,Hughes C,Chudek JA,Goodyear SR,Aspden RM,Talbot R,Gundersen TE,Blomhoff R,Henderson C,Wolf CR,Tickle C

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adenovirus EIa gene products activate transcription from the viral EIII and EIIaE promoters. We studied the mechanism of this stimulation by constructing a series of chimeric promoter recombinants containing the upstream regions of the EIII and EIIaE promoters linked to the TATA box-start-site regions of the viral...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Leff T,Chambon P

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:mRNA deadenylation is a key process in the regulation of translation and mRNA turnover. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, deadenylation is primarily carried out by the Ccr4p and Caf1p/Pop2p subunits of the Ccr4-Not complex, which is conserved in eukaryotes including humans. Here we have identified an unconventional human C...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wagner E,Clement SL,Lykke-Andersen J

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An elastase-human growth hormone (hGH) fusion gene containing 205 base pairs of elastase 5' flanking region is expressed exclusively in pancreatic acinar cells of transgenic mice. This paper shows that the promoter region (-72 to +8) and the enhancer (-205 to -73) function independently of each other. The elastase enh...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ornitz DM,Hammer RE,Davison BL,Brinster RL,Palmiter RD

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RAG1 and RAG2 catalyze the first DNA cleavage steps in V(D)J recombination. We demonstrate that the isolated central domain of RAG1 has inherent single-stranded (ss) DNA cleavage activity, which does not require, but is enhanced by, RAG2. The central domain, therefore, contains the active-site residues necessary to pe...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： De P,Peak MM,Rodgers KK

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized two P-element-induced, lethal mutations in Drosophila melanogaster which affect the larval hemocytes, mediators of the insect immune response. Each mutant displays larval melanotic tumors characteristic of mutations affecting the insect cellular immune system, and the moribund animals develop gro...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Stewart MJ,Denell R

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our current knowledge of recombination hot spot activity in mammalian systems implicates a role for both the primary DNA sequence and the nature of the chromatin domain around it. In mice, the only recombination hot spots mapped to date have been confined to a cluster within the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Nishant KT,Ravishankar H,Rao MR

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied leucine transport in several Chinese hamster-human hybrid cell lines obtained by fusion of a temperature-sensitive line of Chinese hamster ovary cells, ts025C1, and normal human leukocytes. A hybrid cell line exhibiting a twofold increase in L-leucine uptake over that in the parental cell line was foun...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Lobaton CD,Moreno A,Oxender DL

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfection of a hamster cell mutant with human DNA corrected both the low-density lipoprotein receptor-deficient phenotype and the multiple glycosylation defects of the cells. Independently transfected colonies contained a small set of common human DNA fragments. These fragments may correspond to the human analog of...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kingsley DM,Sege RD,Kozarsky KF,Krieger M

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins of the Ras superfamily, Ras, Rac, Rho, and Cdc42, control the remodelling of the cortical actin cytoskeleton following growth factor stimulation. A major regulator of Ras, Ras-GAP, contains several structural motifs, including an SH3 domain and two SH2 domains, and there is evidence that they harbor a signall...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Leblanc V,Tocque B,Delumeau I

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00