Serum response factor is required for immediate-early gene activation yet is dispensable for proliferation of embryonic stem cells.

abstract：:The enhancer of yellow 1 gene, e(y)1, of Drosophila melanogaster has been cloned and demonstrated to encode the TAFII40 protein. The e(y)1 gene is expressed in females much more strongly than in males due to the accumulation of e(y)1 mRNA in the ovaries. Two different e(y)1 mutations have been obtained. The e(y)1(ul) ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Soldatov A,Nabirochkina E,Georgieva S,Belenkaja T,Georgiev P

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interleukin-2 (IL-2) receptor (IL-2R) consists of three distinct subunits (alpha, beta, and gamma c) and regulates proliferation of T lymphocytes. Intracellular signalling results from ligand-mediated heterodimerization of the cytoplasmic domains of the beta and gamma c chains. To identify the residues of gamma c ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Nelson BH,Lord JD,Greenberg PD

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enhancer elements modulate promoter activity over vast chromosomal distances, and mechanisms that ensure restrictive interactions between promoters and enhancers are critical for proper control of gene expression. The human beta-globin locus control region (LCR) activates expression of five genes in erythroid cells, i...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shimotsuma M,Matsuzaki H,Tanabe O,Campbell AD,Engel JD,Fukamizu A,Tanimoto K

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The punc gene, encoding a member of the neural cell adhesion molecule family expressed in the developing central nervous system, limbs, and inner ear, was identified. To extend studies of the normal expression pattern of punc and to determine its function, a mouse strain bearing a lacZ/neo insertion in a 5' coding exo...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Yang W,Li C,Mansour SL

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cockayne syndrome B protein (CSB) is required for coupling DNA excision repair to transcription in a process known as transcription-coupled repair (TCR). Cockayne syndrome patients show UV sensitivity and severe neurodevelopmental abnormalities. CSB is a DNA-dependent ATPase of the SWI2/SNF2 family. SWI2/SNF2-like...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Citterio E,Van Den Boom V,Schnitzler G,Kanaar R,Bonte E,Kingston RE,Hoeijmakers JH,Vermeulen W

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CCAAT/enhancer binding protein beta (C/EBPbeta) is a widely expressed transcription factor whose activity is regulated by oncogenic Ha-RasV12 signaling. C/EBPbeta is essential for the development of mouse skin tumors containing Ras mutations and can cooperate with RasV12 to transform NIH 3T3 cells. Here we have invest...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shuman JD,Sebastian T,Kaldis P,Copeland TD,Zhu S,Smart RC,Johnson PF

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the method of chromosomal walking, we have isolated a contiguous region of the Drosophila melanogaster X chromosome which corresponds to salivary gland chromosome bands 3C12 to 3D4. This five-band region contains approximately 100 kilobases of DNA, including those sequences comprising dunce, a gene which functio...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Davis RL,Davidson N

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue-specific gene expression requires modulation of nucleosomes, allowing transcription factors to occupy cis elements that are accessible only in selected tissues. Master transcription factors control cell-specific genes and define cellular identities, but it is unclear if they possess special abilities to regulat...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Verzi MP,Shin H,San Roman AK,Liu XS,Shivdasani RA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylation-controlled J protein (MCJ) is a newly identified member of the DnaJ family of cochaperones. Hypermethylation-mediated transcriptional silencing of the MCJ gene has been associated with increased chemotherapeutic resistance in ovarian cancer. However, the biology and function of MCJ remain unknown. Here we ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hatle KM,Neveu W,Dienz O,Rymarchyk S,Barrantes R,Hale S,Farley N,Lounsbury KM,Bond JP,Taatjes D,Rincón M

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Rev protein contains a nuclear export signal (NES) that is required for Rev-mediated RNA export in mammals as well as in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The Rev NES has been shown to specifically interact with a human (hRIP/RAB1) and a yeast (yRip1p) protein in the two-hybri...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Stutz F,Izaurralde E,Mattaj IW,Rosbash M

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombination and synapsis of homologous chromosomes are hallmarks of meiosis in many organisms. Meiotic recombination is initiated by Spo11-induced DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), whereas chromosome synapsis is mediated by a tripartite structure named the synaptonemal complex (SC). Previously, we proposed that buddi...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Cheng YH,Chuang CN,Shen HJ,Lin FM,Wang TF

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frk/rak belongs to a novel family of Src kinases with epithelial tissue-specific expression. Although developmental expression patterns and functional overexpression in vitro have associated these kinases with growth suppression and differentiation, their physiological functions remain largely unknown. We therefore ge...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Chandrasekharan S,Qiu TH,Alkharouf N,Brantley K,Mitchell JB,Liu ET

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a genetic transformation system which should prove useful for investigating tropomyosin assembly and function. Muscle abnormalities associated with a defective tropomyosin allele were corrected by integrating the wild-type gene into germ line chromosomes. The transformation protocol permits application of ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Fyrberg EA,Karlik CC

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the mechanisms by which transcription factors invade nucleosomal DNA and replace histones at control elements, we have examined the response of the histone octamer to transcription factor binding in the presence of histone-binding proteins (i.e., nucleosome assembly factors). We found that yeast nucleos...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Walter PP,Owen-Hughes TA,Côté J,Workman JL

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mSin3A-histone deacetylase corepressor is a multiprotein complex that is recruited by DNA binding transcriptional repressors. Sin3 has four paired amphipathic alpha helices (PAH1 to -4) that are protein-protein interaction motifs and is the scaffold upon which the complex assembles. We identified a novel mSin3A-in...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Yochum GS,Ayer DE

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of PERK following the accumulation of unfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) promotes translation inhibition and cell cycle arrest. PERK function is essential for cell survival following exposure of cells to ER stress, but the mechanisms whereby PERK signaling promotes cell survival are not tho...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Cullinan SB,Zhang D,Hannink M,Arvisais E,Kaufman RJ,Diehl JA

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Very little is known about the mechanisms mediating longevities of mRNAs. As a means of identifying potential cis- and trans-acting elements which stabilize an individual mRNA, naturally occurring mutations that decreased stability of the normally long-lived globin mRNA were analyzed. Our previous studies demonstrated...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Weiss IM,Liebhaber SA

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different point mutations in the nucleolar protein fibrillarin (Nop1p in Saccharomyces cerevisiae) can inhibit different steps in ribosome synthesis. A screen for mutations that are synthetically lethal (sl) with the nop1-5 allele, which inhibits pre-rRNA processing, identified NOP56. An independent sl mutation screen...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Gautier T,Bergès T,Tollervey D,Hurt E

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen-dependent proteolysis is the primary means of regulating the hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) family of transcription factors. The alpha-subunit of HIF factor 1 (HIF-1) contains two highly conserved oxygen-dependent degradation domains (402 ODD and 564 ODD), each of which includes a proline that is hydroxylated i...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Chan DA,Sutphin PD,Yen SE,Giaccia AJ

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosome biogenesis in eukaryotes is a major cellular activity mobilizing the products of over 200 transcriptionally coregulated genes referred to as the rRNA and ribosome biosynthesis regulon. We investigated the function of an essential, uncharacterized gene of this regulon, renamed RRP36. We show that the Rrp36p pr...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Gérus M,Bonnart C,Caizergues-Ferrer M,Henry Y,Henras AK

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription initiation factor TFIID is a multimeric protein complex that plays a central role in mediating promoter responses to various activators and repressors. To further understand the role of the 85-kDa TFIID subunit (p85), we have cloned the corresponding cDNA with a probe based on an amino acid sequence of t...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kokubo T,Gong DW,Yamashita S,Takada R,Roeder RG,Horikoshi M,Nakatani Y

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In both tissue sections and cell culture, the endothelial nature of a cell is most commonly determined by demonstration of its expression of von Willebrand factor (vWf) protein and/or mRNA. Thus, the mechanism of cell-type-specific transcriptional regulation of the vWf gene is central to studying the basis of endothel...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Jahroudi N,Lynch DC

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycomb group proteins mediate heritable transcriptional silencing and function through multiprotein complexes that methylate and ubiquitinate histones. The 600-kDa E(Z)/ESC complex, also known as Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2), specifically methylates histone H3 lysine 27 (H3 K27) through the intrinsic histone...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Tie F,Stratton CA,Kurzhals RL,Harte PJ

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current study, we were interested in exploring the molecular mechanism of circular RNA DLEU2 (circRNA-DLEU2) (hsa_circ_0000488) and microRNA 496 (miR-496), as well as PRKACB, in human acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cell activities. The RNA expression levels of circRNA-DLEU2, hsa-miR-496, and PRKACB were assessed ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wu DM,Wen X,Han XR,Wang S,Wang YJ,Shen M,Fan SH,Zhang ZF,Shan Q,Li MQ,Hu B,Chen GQ,Lu J,Zheng YL

更新日期：2018-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the mechanisms that regulate differential transactivation by p53. We developed a system in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae that addresses p53 transactivation capacity from 26 different p53 response elements (REs) under conditions where all other factors, such as chromatin, are kept constant. T...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Inga A,Storici F,Darden TA,Resnick MA

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression programs required for differentiation depend on both DNA-bound transcription factors and surrounding histone modifications. Expression of the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) protein NeuroD1 is restricted to endocrine cells in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, where it is important for endocrine differenti...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ray SK,Li HJ,Metzger E,Schüle R,Leiter AB

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies indirectly implicate Rac GTPases in cancer. To investigate if Rac3 contributes to normal or malignant cell function, we generated rac3 null mutants through gene targeting. These mice were viable, fertile, and lacked an obvious external phenotype. This shows Rac3 function is dispensable for embryonic d...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Cho YJ,Zhang B,Kaartinen V,Haataja L,de Curtis I,Groffen J,Heisterkamp N

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the essential involvement of the progesterone receptor (PR) in female reproductive tissues is firmly established, the coregulators preferentially enlisted by PR to mediate its physiological effects have yet to be fully delineated. To further dissect the roles of members of the steroid receptor coactivator (SR...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Mukherjee A,Soyal SM,Fernandez-Valdivia R,Gehin M,Chambon P,Demayo FJ,Lydon JP,O'Malley BW

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the abilities of different transactivation domains to stimulate the initiation and elongation (postinitiation) steps of RNA polymerase II transcription in vivo. Nuclear run-on and RNase protection analyses revealed three classes of activation domains: Sp1 and CTF stimulated initiation (type I); human i...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Blau J,Xiao H,McCracken S,O'Hare P,Greenblatt J,Bentley D

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous studies, we detected a major, unidentified Egr response element (ERE) binding complex in brain extracts. We now report that this complex contains a truncated isoform of Egr3 generated by use of an alternate translation start site at methionine 106. Furthermore, the ERE binding complex previously thought to...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： O'Donovan KJ,Baraban JM

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00