Overlapping functions of the pRb family in the regulation of rRNA synthesis.

abstract：:Ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis controls diverse physiological processes in eukaryotes. However, few in vivo targets of the mammalian Cdc34 and Rad6 ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes are known. A yeast-based genetic assay to identify proteins that interact with human Cdc34 resulted in three cDNAs encoding bZIP DNA binding ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Pati D,Meistrich ML,Plon SE

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 7 of 37 patients with cutaneous melanoma, mutations in the N-ras gene were found. The primary tumors of these seven patients were exclusively localized on body sites continuously exposed to sunlight. Moreover, the ras mutations were all at or near dipyrimidine sites known to be targets of UV damage. Two primary tum...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： van 't Veer LJ,Burgering BM,Versteeg R,Boot AJ,Ruiter DJ,Osanto S,Schrier PI,Bos JL

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated new histone H3 mutants in Saccharomyces cerevisiae that confer phenotypes indicative of transcriptional defects. Here we describe the characterization of one such mutant, encoded by the hht2-11 allele, which contains the single amino acid change L61W in the globular domain of H3. Whole-genome expressi...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Duina AA,Winston F

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using several actin isotype-specific cDNA probes, we found actin mRNA of two size classes, 2.1 and 1.5 kilobases (kb), in extracts of polyadenylated and nonpolyadenylated RNA from sexually mature CD-1 mouse testes. Although the 2.1-kb sequence was present in both meiotic and postmeiotic testicular cell types, it decre...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Waters SH,Distel RJ,Hecht NB

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Degenerate oligonucleotide probes corresponding to a highly conserved region common to epidermal growth factor, transforming growth factor alpha, and vaccinia growth factor were used to identify a novel growth factor gene in the Shope fibroma virus genome. Sequence analysis indicates that the Shope fibroma growth fact...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Chang W,Upton C,Hu SL,Purchio AF,McFadden G

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ZO-1, ZO-2, and ZO-3 are closely related MAGUK family proteins that localize at the cytoplasmic surface of tight junctions (TJs). ZO-1 and ZO-2 are expressed in both epithelia and endothelia, whereas ZO-3 is exclusively expressed in epithelia. In spite of intensive studies of these TJ MAGUKs, our knowledge of their fu...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Adachi M,Inoko A,Hata M,Furuse K,Umeda K,Itoh M,Tsukita S

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) gene is transcribed at high levels in the visceral endoderm of the yolk sac and fetal liver and at much lower rates in the endoderm of the fetal gut. Expression of the gene in vivo requires the presence of at least one of three enhancers which lie in its 5' flanking region. In this re...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Millonig JH,Emerson JA,Levorse JM,Tilghman SM

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-abl protooncogene is unusual in two respects; it has multiple, widely space N-terminal coding exons transcribed by different promoters, and it is the target of the translocations that form the Philadelphia chromosome found in cells of chronic myelogenous leukemia patients. To understand the organization of the g...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Bernards A,Rubin CM,Westbrook CA,Paskind M,Baltimore D

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of mammary gland-specific expression of the polyomavirus middle T antigen was examined by establishing lines of transgenic mice that carry the middle T oncogene under the transcriptional control of the mouse mammary tumor virus promoter/enhancer. By contrast to most transgenic strains carrying activated onc...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Guy CT,Cardiff RD,Muller WJ

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes that encode the variable regions of immunoglobulin (Ig) heavy chains are encoded by three DNA segments: VH, D, and JH. During B-cell development these segments are brought together by a pair of site-specific DNA rearrangements. The first of these joins a D segment to a JH segment; the second brings a VH segm...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Alessandrini A,Desiderio SV

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the effects of a number of mutations in the small-t antigen mRNA intron on the alternative splicing pattern of the simian virus 40 early transcript. Expansion of the distance separating the small-t pre-mRNA lariat branch point and the shared large T-small t 3' splice site from 18 to 29 nucleotides (...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Fu XY,Colgan JD,Manley JL

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clearance of apoptotic cells by phagocytic neighbors is crucial for normal development of multicellular organisms. However, how phagocytes discriminate between healthy and dying cells remains poorly understood. We focus on glial phagocytosis of apoptotic neurons during development of the Drosophila central nervous sys...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shklyar B,Levy-Adam F,Mishnaevski K,Kurant E

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces mating-type switching occurs through a double-strand break-initiated gene conversion event at MAT, using one of two donors located distantly on the same chromosome, HMLalpha and HMRa. MATa cells preferentially choose HMLalpha, a decision that depends on the recombination enhancer (RE) that controls recom...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Coïc E,Sun K,Wu C,Haber JE

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the gal-his3 hybrid promoter his3-GG1, the yeast upstream activator protein GCN4 stimulates transcription when bound at the position normally occupied by the TATA element. This TATA-independent activation by GCN4 requires two additional elements in the gal enhancer region that are distinct from those involved in no...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Brandl CJ,Struhl K

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of chromatin through histone acetylation is an important step in gene expression. The Gcn5 histone acetyltransferase is part of protein complexes, e.g., the SAGA complex, that interact with transcriptional activators, targeting the enzyme to specific promoters and assisting in recruitment of the basal RNA p...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Qi D,Larsson J,Mannervik M

更新日期：2004-09-01 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：:Box C/D snoRNPs, factors essential for ribosome biogenesis, are proposed to be assembled in the nucleoplasm before localizing to the nucleolus. However, recent work demonstrated the involvement of nuclear export factors in this process, suggesting that export may take place. Here we show that there are distinct distri...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Watkins NJ,Lemm I,Lührmann R

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sp1-like proteins are defined by three highly homologous C(2)H(2) zinc finger motifs that bind GC-rich sequences found in the promoters of a large number of genes essential for mammalian cell homeostasis. Here we report that TIEG2, a transforming growth factor beta-inducible Sp1-like protein with antiproliferative fun...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Zhang JS,Moncrieffe MC,Kaczynski J,Ellenrieder V,Prendergast FG,Urrutia R

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, sporulation occurs in response to nutritional and genetic signals. The process is initiated when nutrient availability limits mitotic growth, but only in MATa/MAT alpha diploid cells. Under these conditions, the cells express an activator of meiosis (IME1), which is required for ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shah JC,Clancy MJ

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The v-vis gene encodes p28sis, the transforming protein of simian sarcoma virus. This gene resulted from a fusion of the env gene of simian sarcoma-associated virus and the woolly monkey gene for the B chain of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF). Previous work has shown that the v-sis gene product undergoes signal ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Lee BA,Maher DW,Hannink M,Donoghue DJ

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotic cells, calcium entry across the cell surface activates nuclear gene expression, a process critically important for cell growth and differentiation, learning, and memory and immune cell functions. In immune cells, calcium entry occurs through store-operated Ca(2+) release-activated Ca(2+) (CRAC) channels,...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Yeh YC,Parekh AB

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During viral infection or cellular stress, cap-dependent translation is shut down. Proteins that are synthesized under these conditions use alternative mechanisms to initiate translation. This study demonstrates that at least two alternative translation initiation routes, internal ribosome entry site (IRES) initiation...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hertz MI,Landry DM,Willis AE,Luo G,Thompson SR

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATR kinase activation requires the recruitment of the ATR-ATRIP and RAD9-HUS1-RAD1 (9-1-1) checkpoint complexes to sites of DNA damage or replication stress. Replication protein A (RPA) bound to single-stranded DNA is at least part of the molecular recognition element that recruits these checkpoint complexes. We have ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Xu X,Vaithiyalingam S,Glick GG,Mordes DA,Chazin WJ,Cortez D

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mTOR signaling complex integrates signals from growth factors and nutrient availability to control cell growth and proliferation, in part through effects on the protein-synthetic machinery. Protein synthesis rates fluctuate throughout the cell cycle but diminish significantly during the G(2)/M transition. The fate...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ramírez-Valle F,Badura ML,Braunstein S,Narasimhan M,Schneider RJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-specific recombination provides a powerful tool for studying gene function at predetermined chromosomal sites. Here we describe the use of a blasticidin resistance system to select for recombination in mammalian cells using the yeast enzyme FLP. The vector is designed so that site-specific recombination reconstru...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Aladjem MI,Brody LL,O'Gorman S,Wahl GM

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The action of insulin to recruit the intracellular GLUT4 glucose transporter to the plasma membrane of 3T3-L1 adipocytes is mimicked by endothelin 1, which signals through trimeric G(alpha)q or G(alpha)11 proteins. Here we report that murine G(alpha)11 is most abundant in fat and that expression of the constitutively ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Bose A,Cherniack AD,Langille SE,Nicoloro SM,Buxton JM,Park JG,Chawla A,Czech MP

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic imprinting results in parent-of-origin-dependent monoallelic expression of selected genes. Although their importance in development and physiology is recognized, few imprinted genes have been investigated for their effects on brain function. Gnas is a complex imprinted locus whose gene products are involved in...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Plagge A,Isles AR,Gordon E,Humby T,Dean W,Gritsch S,Fischer-Colbrie R,Wilkinson LS,Kelsey G

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal protein L5 binds specifically to 5S rRNA to form a complex that is a precursor to 60S subunit assembly in vivo. Analyses in yeast cells, mammalian cells, and Xenopus embryos have shown that the accumulation of L5 is not coordinated with the expression of other ribosomal proteins. In this study, the primary s...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wormington WM

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian double-stranded RNA-activated protein kinase PKR is a component of the cellular antiviral defense mechanism and phosphorylates Ser-51 on the alpha subunit of the translation factor eIF2 to inhibit protein synthesis. To identify the molecular determinants that specify substrate recognition by PKR, we perf...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kawagishi-Kobayashi M,Silverman JB,Ung TL,Dever TE

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strong evidence indicates that endosome-localized epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) plays an important role in cell signaling. However, elimination of endosomal signaling does not attenuate EGF-induced physiological outcomes, arguing against physiological relevance. Recently we established a system to specifical...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Pennock S,Wang Z

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00