Strong natural pausing by RNA polymerase II within 10 bases of transcription start may result in repeated slippage and reextension of the nascent RNA.

abstract：:Aberrant glycogen synthase kinase 3beta (GSK-3beta) activity is associated with the progression of several pathological conditions such as diabetes, Alzheimer's, and cancer. GSK-3beta regulates cellular processes by directly phosphorylating metabolic enzymes and transcription factors. Here, we discovered a new target ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Galliher-Beckley AJ,Williams JG,Collins JB,Cidlowski JA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle wasting (cachexia) is a consequence of chronic diseases, such as cancer, and is associated with degradation of muscle proteins such as MyoD. The cytokines tumor necrosis factor alpha and gamma interferon induce muscle degeneration by activating the transcription factor NF-kappaB and its target genes. Here, we s...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Di Marco S,Mazroui R,Dallaire P,Chittur S,Tenenbaum SA,Radzioch D,Marette A,Gallouzi IE

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic AMP-responsive element-binding protein 3-like 3, hepatocyte specific (CREBH), is a hepatic transcription factor that functions as a key regulator of energy homeostasis. Here, we defined a regulatory CREBH posttranslational modification process, namely, lysine-specific acetylation, and its functional involvement...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kim H,Mendez R,Chen X,Fang D,Zhang K

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a sensitive transfection-tumorigenicity assay, we have isolated a novel transforming gene from the DNA of two patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia. Sequence analysis indicates that the product of this gene, axl, is a receptor tyrosine kinase. Overexpression of axl cDNA in NIH 3T3 cells induces neoplastic t...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： O'Bryan JP,Frye RA,Cogswell PC,Neubauer A,Kitch B,Prokop C,Espinosa R 3rd,Le Beau MM,Earp HS,Liu ET

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HOG (high-osmolarity glycerol) mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway regulates the osmotic stress response in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Three type 2C Ser/Thr phosphatases (PTCs), Ptc1, Ptc2, and Ptc3, have been isolated as negative regulators of this pathway. Previously, multicopy expression of...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Warmka J,Hanneman J,Lee J,Amin D,Ota I

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TDP-43, or TAR DNA-binding protein 43, is a pathological marker of a spectrum of neurodegenerative disorders, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive inclusions. TDP-43 is an RNA/DNA-binding protein implicated in transcriptional and posttranscriptional regu...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Dewey CM,Cenik B,Sephton CF,Dries DR,Mayer P 3rd,Good SK,Johnson BA,Herz J,Yu G

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distal intraexon (iE) regulatory elements in 4.1R pre-mRNA govern 3' splice site choice at exon 2 (E2) via nested splicing events, ultimately modulating expression of N-terminal isoforms of cytoskeletal 4.1R protein. Here we explored intrasplicing in other normal and disease gene contexts and found conservation of int...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Parra MK,Gallagher TL,Amacher SL,Mohandas N,Conboy JG

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutation (K38R) which specifically eliminates kinase activity was created in the Drosophila melanogaster ckI gene (doubletime [dbt]). In vitro, DBT protein carrying the K38R mutation (DBT(K/R)) interacted with Period protein (PER) but lacked kinase activity. In cell culture and in flies, DBT(K/R) antagonized the pho...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Muskus MJ,Preuss F,Fan JY,Bjes ES,Price JL

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are five members of the RFX family of transcription factors in mammals. While RFX5 plays a well-defined role in the immune system, the functions of RFX1 to RFX4 remain largely unknown. We have generated mice with a deletion of the Rfx3 gene. RFX3-deficient mice exhibit frequent left-right (LR) asymmetry defects ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Bonnafe E,Touka M,AitLounis A,Baas D,Barras E,Ucla C,Moreau A,Flamant F,Dubruille R,Couble P,Collignon J,Durand B,Reith W

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligand-induced dimerization and transphosphorylation are thought to be important events by which receptor tyrosine kinases generate cellular signals. We have investigated the ability of signalling-defective, truncated fibroblast growth factor (FGF) receptors (FGFR-1 and FGFR-2) to block the FGF response in cells that ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Li Y,Basilico C,Mansukhani A

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cdc25A is a cell cycle-activating phosphatase, and its overexpression in breast cancers has been shown to correlate with poor prognosis. Most recent studies related to Cdc25A and tumor progression have focused on its role in regulating cell cycle progression. However, less is known about how Cdc25A modulates the metas...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Feng X,Wu Z,Wu Y,Hankey W,Prior TW,Li L,Ganju RK,Shen R,Zou X

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ESC-E(Z) complex of Drosophila melanogaster Polycomb group (PcG) repressors is a histone H3 methyltransferase (HMTase). This complex silences fly Hox genes, and related HMTases control germ line development in worms, flowering in plants, and X inactivation in mammals. The fly complex contains a catalytic SET domai...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ketel CS,Andersen EF,Vargas ML,Suh J,Strome S,Simon JA

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA), a potent tumor promoter, was shown to have opposite effects on the cellular morphology and steady-state levels of beta-actin mRNA in embryonic chicken muscle fibroblasts and sternal chondrocytes. When fibroblasts were treated with PMA, they formed foci of densely packed cells, ce...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Gerstenfeld LC,Finer MH,Boedtker H

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The product of the c-myc proto-oncogene is an important positive regulator of cell growth and proliferation. Recently, c-Myc has also been demonstrated to be a potent inducer of apoptosis when expressed in the absence of serum or growth factors. To further examine Myc-induced apoptosis, we coexpressed the proto-oncoge...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wagner AJ,Small MB,Hay N

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adipocytes constitute a major part of the bone marrow stroma in vivo and may play an active role in lymphohematopoiesis. Earlier studies had shown that the bone marrow stromal cell clone BMS2 was capable of adipocyte differentiation in vitro, in addition to its well-defined ability to support B lymphopoiesis. We now d...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Gimble JM,Dorheim MA,Cheng Q,Pekala P,Enerback S,Ellingsworth L,Kincade PW,Wang CS

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic and biochemical experiments have enabled us to more clearly distinguish three genetic loci, emtA, emtB, and emtC, all of which can be altered to give rise to resistance to the protein synthesis inhibitor, emetine, in cultured Chinese hamster cells. Genetic experiments have demonstrated that, unlike the emtB lo...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Chang S,Wasmuth JJ

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor β1 (TGF-β1) is a master cytokine in many biological processes, including tissue homeostasis, epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition, and wound repair. Here, we report that four and a half LIM-only protein 2 (FHL2) is a critical regulator of TGF-β1 expression. Devoid of a DNA-binding domain, FH...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Dahan J,Levillayer F,Xia T,Nouët Y,Werts C,Fanton d'Andon M,Adib-Conquy M,Cassard-Doulcier AM,Khanna V,Chen J,Tordjmann T,Buendia MA,Jouvion G,Wei Y

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Human myeloid leukemia cells respond to 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) and other activators of protein kinase C (PKC) with induction of monocytic differentiation. The present studies demonstrated that treatment of U-937 and HL-60 myeloid leukemia cells with TPA, phorbol-12,13-dibutyrate, or bryostatin 1 wa...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kaneki M,Kharbanda S,Pandey P,Yoshida K,Takekawa M,Liou JR,Stone R,Kufe D

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand how DEXD/H-box proteins recognize and interact with their cellular substrates, we have been studying Prp28p, a DEXD/H-box splicing factor required for switching the U1 snRNP with the U6 snRNP at the precursor mRNA (pre-mRNA) 5' splice site. We previously demonstrated that the requirement for Prp28p can b...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hage R,Tung L,Du H,Stands L,Rosbash M,Chang TH

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stat (signal transducers and activators of transcription) and Jak (Janus kinases) proteins are central components in the signal transduction events in hematopoietic and epithelial cells. They are rapidly activated by various cytokines, hormones, and growth factors. Upon ligand binding and cytokine receptor dimerizatio...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Moriggl R,Berchtold S,Friedrich K,Standke GJ,Kammer W,Heim M,Wissler M,Stöcklin E,Gouilleux F,Groner B

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of the sizes and sequence content of nuclear RNA transcripts of the heavy-chain locus in two B-cell lymphomas, 70Z/3 and 38C-13, and in selected hybridoma derivatives of 38C has led to the identification of two distinct precursors of the mRNAs encoding the membrane and secretory forms of mu chain. These pr...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Nelson KJ,Haimovich J,Perry RP

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional activation of eukaryotic genes depends on the precise and ordered recruitment of activators, chromatin modifiers/remodelers, coactivators, and general transcription factors to the promoters of target genes. Using the human matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9) gene as a model system, we investigated the s...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ma Z,Shah RC,Chang MJ,Benveniste EN

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pref-1/Dlk1 is made as an epidermal growth factor (EGF) repeat-containing transmembrane protein but is cleaved by tumor necrosis factor alpha converting enzyme (TACE) to generate a biologically active soluble form. Soluble Pref-1 inhibits adipocyte differentiation through the activation of extracellular signal-regulat...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wang Y,Zhao L,Smas C,Sul HS

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of the thyroid hormone receptor (TR) to thyroid hormone-responsive elements (TREs) is crucial for regulation of gene expression by thyroid hormone. The TR binds to each half-site of a palindromic TRE separately, as a monomer, or simultaneously, as a homodimer. In addition, the TR monomer interacts with a 42-kD...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Lazar MA,Berrodin TJ,Harding HP

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which the maize autonomous Ac transposable element gives rise to nonautonomous Ds elements is largely unknown. Sequence analysis of native maize Ds elements indicates a complex chimeric structure formed through deletions of Ac sequences with or without insertions of Ac-unrelated sequence blocks. These...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Rubin E,Levy AA

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IkappaB kinases (IKKalpha and IKKbeta) are key components of the IKK complex that mediates activation of the transcription factor NF-kappaB in response to extracellular stimuli such as inflammatory cytokines, viral and bacterial infection, and UV irradiation. Although NF-kappaB-inducing kinase (NIK) interacts with and...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Nemoto S,DiDonato JA,Lin A

更新日期：1998-12-01 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：:A C/EBP-like transcription factor, AGP/EBP, that binds to three distinct motifs in the 5'-flanking region of alpha 1-acid glycoprotein gene (AGP) has been identified. Here we report the cloning and properties of cDNA corresponding to mouse AGP/EBP. AGP/EBP and C/EBP share 87% amino acid sequence homology in the "leuci...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Chang CJ,Chen TT,Lei HY,Chen DS,Lee SC

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Caenorhabditis elegans, the central cell-killing process is essentially controlled by the interplay of four apoptotic factors: EGL-1/BH3-only protein, CED-9/Bcl2, CED-4/Apaf1, and CED-3/caspase. In cells destined to die, EGL-1 binds to CED-9 and results in the release of CED-4 from the mitochondrion-tethered CED-9-...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shen Q,Qin F,Gao Z,Cui J,Xiao H,Xu Z,Yang C

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is a ligand-dependent transcription factor that can be activated by structurally diverse chemicals. To examine the mechanisms responsible for the promiscuity in AhR ligand binding, we determined the effects of mutations within the AhR ligand-binding domain (LBD) on the activity of d...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Soshilov AA,Denison MS

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00