Sexual dimorphism in diverse metazoans is regulated by a novel class of intertwined zinc fingers.

abstract：:Although progesterone has been recognized as essential for the establishment and maintenance of pregnancy, this steroid hormone has been recently implicated to have a functional role in a number of other reproductive events. The physiological effects of progesterone are mediated by the progesterone receptor (PR), a me...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Lydon JP,DeMayo FJ,Funk CR,Mani SK,Hughes AR,Montgomery CA Jr,Shyamala G,Conneely OM,O'Malley BW

更新日期：1995-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Arabidopsis APETALA3 (AP3) and PISTILLATA (PI) proteins are thought to act as transcription factors and are required for specifying floral organ identities. To define the nuclear localization signals within these proteins, we generated translational fusions of the coding regions of AP3 and PI to the bacterial uidA...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： McGonigle B,Bouhidel K,Irish VF

更新日期：1996-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Activated transcription by RNA polymerase II (Pol II) requires coactivators, one of which is the SRB/mediator. Whereas Srb4, an essential subunit of the SRB/mediator, is broadly required for Pol II transcription in yeast, we have shown that it is dispensable for the transcriptional activation of some genes. Here, we s...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Lee DK,Kim S,Lis JT

更新日期：1999-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factor TFIIB plays a central role in preinitiation complex assembly, providing a bridge between promoter-bound TFIID and RNA Polymerase II. TFIIB possesses sequence-specific DNA-binding ability and interacts with the TFIIB-recognition element (BRE), present in many promoters. Here we show that the BR...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Evans R,Fairley JA,Roberts SG

更新日期：2001-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The liver is a unique organ with a remarkably high potential to regenerate upon injuries. In severely damaged livers where hepatocyte proliferation is impaired, facultative liver progenitor cells (LPCs) proliferate and are assumed to contribute to regeneration. An expansion of LPCs is often observed in patients with v...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Takase HM,Itoh T,Ino S,Wang T,Koji T,Akira S,Takikawa Y,Miyajima A

更新日期：2013-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Thousands of eukaryotic protein-coding genes are noncanonically spliced to produce circular RNAs. Bioinformatics has indicated that long introns generally flank exons that circularize in Drosophila, but the underlying mechanisms by which these circular RNAs are generated are largely unknown. Here, using extensive muta...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Kramer MC,Liang D,Tatomer DC,Gold B,March ZM,Cherry S,Wilusz JE

更新日期：2015-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence-specific DNA-binding activators, key regulators of gene expression, stimulate transcription in part by targeting the core promoter recognition TFIID complex and aiding in its recruitment to promoter DNA. Although it has been established that activators can interact with multiple components of TFIID, it is unk...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Liu WL,Coleman RA,Ma E,Grob P,Yang JL,Zhang Y,Dailey G,Nogales E,Tjian R

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitotic kinase Aurora A (Aur-A) is required for formation of a bipolar mitotic spindle and accurate chromosome segregation. In somatic cells, Aur-A protein and kinase activity levels peak during mitosis, and Aur-A is degraded during mitotic exit. Here, we investigated how Aur-A protein and kinase activity levels a...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Littlepage LE,Ruderman JV

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the Arabidopsis CGS1 gene that codes for cystathionine gamma-synthase is feedback regulated at the step of mRNA stability in response to S-adenosyl-L-methionine (AdoMet). A short stretch of amino acid sequence, called the MTO1 region, encoded by the first exon of CGS1 itself is involved in this regulatio...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Onouchi H,Nagami Y,Haraguchi Y,Nakamoto M,Nishimura Y,Sakurai R,Nagao N,Kawasaki D,Kadokura Y,Naito S

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proximal-distal outgrowth of the vertebrate limb bud is regulated by the apical ectodermal ridge (AER), which forms at an invariant position along the dorsal-ventral (D/V) axis of the embryo. We have studied the genetic and cellular events that regulate AER formation in the mouse. In contrast to implications from prev...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Kimmel RA,Turnbull DH,Blanquet V,Wurst W,Loomis CA,Joyner AL

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic translation initiation begins with ribosomal recruitment of aminoacylated initiator tRNA (Met-tRNA(Met)(i)) by eukaryotic initiation factor eIF2. In cooperation with eIF3, eIF1, and eIF1A, Met-tRNA(Met)(i)/eIF2/GTP binds to 40S subunits yielding 43S preinitiation complexes that attach to the 5'-terminal reg...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Skabkin MA,Skabkina OV,Dhote V,Komar AA,Hellen CU,Pestova TV

更新日期：2010-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The third-chromosome mutation Killer of prune (K-pn) causes no phenotype by itself, but causes lethality in individuals homozygous for the nonlethal X-chromosome mutation prune (pn). We have recovered 12 gamma-ray-induced revertants of Killer of prune. All of the revertants fail to complement a recessive cell lethal m...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Biggs J,Tripoulas N,Hersperger E,Dearolf C,Shearn A

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Known prions (infectious proteins) are self-propagating amyloids or conformationally altered proteins, but in theory an enzyme necessary for its own activation could also be a prion (or a gene composed of protein). We show that yeast protease B is such a prion, called [beta].[beta] is infectious, reversibly curable, a...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Roberts BT,Wickner RB

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Agrobacterium Ti plasmid (T-DNA) 6b proteins interact with many different host proteins implicated in plant cell proliferation. Here, we show that Arabidopsis plants overexpressing 6b display microRNA (miRNA) deficiency by directly targeting SERRATE and AGO1 via a specific loop fragment (residues 40-55). In additi...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Wang M,Soyano T,Machida S,Yang JY,Jung C,Chua NH,Yuan YA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleosomes are positioned in the presence of the yeast repressor alpha 2 in minichromosomes containing the alpha 2 operator and on the promoters of a-cell-specific genes regulated by alpha 2. To investigate the possibility that alpha 2 directs nucleosome position through an interaction with a component of the core pa...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Roth SY,Shimizu M,Johnson L,Grunstein M,Simpson RT

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gamma delta T-cell receptor (TCR) is the first TCR to be expressed in ontogeny in all vertebrates in which it has been examined thoroughly. Murine gamma delta cell-surface protein is detected by the fourteenth day of gestation. In this work, the activation of gamma delta RNA has been studied. Data indicate that th...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Carding SR,Kyes S,Jenkinson EJ,Kingston R,Bottomly K,Owen JJ,Hayday AC

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) is a flexible gene silencing mechanism that responds to double-stranded RNA by suppressing homologous genes. Here, we report the characterization of RNAi effector complexes (RISCs) that contain small interfering RNAs and microRNAs (miRNAs). We identify two putative RNA-binding proteins, the Dro...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Caudy AA,Myers M,Hannon GJ,Hammond SM

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The target gene(s) required for Myc-mediated tumorigenesis are still elusive. Here we show that while endogenous c-Myc is surprisingly dispensable for skin homeostasis and TPA-induced hyperplasia, c-Myc-deficient epidermis is resistant to Ras-mediated DMBA/TPAinduced tumorigenesis. This is mechanistically linked to p2...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Oskarsson T,Essers MA,Dubois N,Offner S,Dubey C,Roger C,Metzger D,Chambon P,Hummler E,Beard P,Trumpp A

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The p53 tumor suppressor is often disrupted in human cancers by the acquisition of missense mutations. We generated mice with a missense mutation at codon 172 that mimics the p53R175H hot spot mutation in human cancer. p53 homozygous mutant mice have unstable mutant p53 in normal cells and stabilize mutant p53 in some...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Terzian T,Suh YA,Iwakuma T,Post SM,Neumann M,Lang GA,Van Pelt CS,Lozano G

更新日期：2008-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypocretin (orexin; Hcrt)-containing neurons of the hypothalamus are essential for the normal regulation of sleep and wake behaviors and have been implicated in feeding, anxiety, depression, and reward. The absence of these neurons causes narcolepsy in humans and model organisms. However, little is known about the mol...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Dalal J,Roh JH,Maloney SE,Akuffo A,Shah S,Yuan H,Wamsley B,Jones WB,de Guzman Strong C,Gray PA,Holtzman DM,Heintz N,Dougherty JD

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The secreted Drosophila Hedgehog (Hh) protein induces transcription of specific genes by an unknown mechanism that requires the serpentine transmembrane protein Smoothened (Smo) and the transcription factor Cubitus interruptus (Ci). Protein kinase A (PKA) has been implicated in the mechanism of Hh signal transduction ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Ohlmeyer JT,Kalderon D

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of cyclin B-Cdc2 kinase at the exit from M phase depends on the specific proteolysis of the cyclin B subunit, whereas the Cdc2 subunit remains present at nearly constant levels throughout the cell cycle. It is unknown how Cdc2 escapes degradation when cyclin B is destroyed. In Xenopus egg extracts that re...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Nishiyama A,Tachibana K,Igarashi Y,Yasuda H,Tanahashi N,Tanaka K,Ohsumi K,Kishimoto T

更新日期：2000-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian cells mostly rely on extracellular molecules to transfer signals to other cells. However, in stress conditions, more robust mechanisms might be necessary to facilitate cell-cell communications. Cellular senescence, a stress response associated with permanent exit from the cell cycle and the development of an...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Biran A,Perelmutter M,Gal H,Burton DG,Ovadya Y,Vadai E,Geiger T,Krizhanovsky V

更新日期：2015-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The organizer region, or dorsal blastopore lip, plays a central role in the initiation of gastrulation and the formation of the body axis during Xenopus development. A similar process can also be induced in ectodermal explants by activin or by injection of activin mRNA into embryos. We have searched early embryo-speci...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Dirksen ML,Jamrich M

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesoderm induction assays in Xenopus have implicated growth factors such as activin, Vg1, Xwnt-8, and noggin as important in directing the formation of dorsal mesoderm (Spemann's organizer). Because these growth factors are structurally very different, they presumably act through distinct cell surface receptors that i...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Watabe T,Kim S,Candia A,Rothbächer U,Hashimoto C,Inoue K,Cho KW

更新日期：1995-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The recombinational enhancer of the Hin inversion system in Salmonella stimulates recombination in vitro 150-fold in the presence of the Escherichia coli host factor Fis. To gain an understanding of the roles of the enhancer and Fis in stimulating the Hin-mediated inversion reaction, we have used nuclease and chemical...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Bruist MF,Glasgow AC,Johnson RC,Simon MI

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several previously known transcription cofactors have been demonstrated in vitro recently to be histone acetyltransferases and deacetyltransferases, suggesting that remodeling of chromatin through histone acetylation plays a fundamental role in gene regulation. Clear evidence has not yet been obtained, however, to dem...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Wang L,Liu L,Berger SL

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hair follicle undergoes a lifelong developmental cycle that depends on the integration between activating and inhibitory signals acting to regulate and guide the proliferation and differentiation of pluripotent epithelial stem cells. The effectors and mechanisms responsible for re-entry of quiescent telogen hair f...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Coulombe PA,Caterina MJ

更新日期：2013-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell growth and differentiation are usually antagonistic. Proteins of the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) family bind DNA and play important roles in the differentiation of specific cell types. Id proteins heterodimerize with bHLH transcription factors, blocking their activation of lineage-specific gene expression and t...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Iavarone A,Garg P,Lasorella A,Hsu J,Israel MA

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory organ formation in Drosophila is activated by proneural genes that encode basic-helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factors. These genes are antagonized by hairy and other proline-bHLH proteins. hairy has not been shown to bind to DNA and has been proposed to form inactive heterodimers with proneural activat...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Ohsako S,Hyer J,Panganiban G,Oliver I,Caudy M

更新日期：1994-11-15 00:00:00