Neutral sphingomyelinase 1 deficiency in the mouse causes no lipid storage disease.

abstract：:The eukaryotic SNM1 gene family has been implicated in a number of cellular pathways, including repair of DNA interstrand cross-links, involvement in VDJ recombination, repair of DNA double-strand breaks, and participation in cell cycle checkpoint pathways. In particular, mammalian SNM1 has been shown to be required i...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ahkter S,Richie CT,Zhang N,Behringer RR,Zhu C,Legerski RJ

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The family of p21-activated protein kinases (PAKs) appear to be present in all organisms that have Cdc42-like GTPases. In mammalian cells, PAKs have been implicated in the activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase cascades, but there are no reported effects of these kinases on the cytoskeleton. Recently we have s...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Manser E,Huang HY,Loo TH,Chen XQ,Dong JM,Leung T,Lim L

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ING1 is a type II tumor suppressor that affects cell growth, stress signaling, apoptosis, and DNA repair by altering chromatin structure and regulating transcription. Decreased ING1 expression is seen in several human cancers, and mislocalization has been noted in diverse types of cancer cells. Aberrant targeting may,...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Gong W,Russell M,Suzuki K,Riabowol K

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the gene encoding methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MeCP2) lead to disrupted neuronal function and can cause the neurodevelopmental disorder Rett syndrome. MeCP2 is a transcriptional regulator that binds to methylated DNA and is most abundant in neuronal nuclei. The mechanisms by which MeCP2 regulates gene ex...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Gonzales ML,Adams S,Dunaway KW,LaSalle JM

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：:A recent analysis of gene expression in renal cell carcinoma cells led to the identification of mRNAs whose translation was dependent on the presence of the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) tumor suppressor gene product, pVHL. Here, we investigate the finding that pVHL-expressing RCC cells (VHL(+)) exhibited elevated levels of...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Galbán S,Martindale JL,Mazan-Mamczarz K,López de Silanes I,Fan J,Wang W,Decker J,Gorospe M

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 249-nucleotide coding region instability determinant (CRD) destabilizes c-myc mRNA. Previous experiments identified a CRD-binding protein (CRD-BP) that appears to protect the CRD from endonuclease cleavage. However, it was unclear why a CRD-BP is required to protect a well-translated mRNA whose coding region is cove...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Lemm I,Ross J

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cells lacking functional p53 exhibit a partial deficiency in nucleotide excision repair (NER), the pathway for repair of UV-induced DNA damage. The global genomic repair (GGR) subpathway of NER, but not transcription-coupled repair (TCR), is mainly affected by p53 loss or inactivation. We have utilized mouse emb...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Smith ML,Ford JM,Hollander MC,Bortnick RA,Amundson SA,Seo YR,Deng CX,Hanawalt PC,Fornace AJ Jr

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oncogene product of the avian sarcoma virus CT10, P47gag-crk, contains the SH2, SH2', and SH3 domains and binds proteins in a phosphotyrosine (ptyr)-dependent manner. In this study, we have determined the region of P47gag-crk essential for binding to ptyr-containing proteins. Mutant P47gag-crk proteins expressed i...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Matsuda M,Mayer BJ,Hanafusa H

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amplified CAD genes in N-(phosphonacetyl)-L-aspartate (PALA)-resistant Syrian hamster cells are located in an expanded chromosomal region emanating from the site of the wild-type gene at the tip of the short arm of chromosome B-9. The terminus of B-9 in PALA-sensitive cells contains a cluster of rRNA genes (i.e., ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wahl GM,Vitto L,Rubnitz J

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The autonomously replicating rRNA genes (rDNA) in the somatic nucleus of Tetrahymena thermophila are maintained at a copy number of approximately 10(4) per nucleus. A mutant in which the replication properties of this molecule were altered was isolated and characterized. This mutation of inbred strain C3, named rmm4, ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Yaeger PC,Orias E,Shaiu WL,Larson DD,Blackburn EH

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human vitamin D-binding protein (hDBP) gene exists in a cluster of four liver-expressed genes. A minimal hDBP transgene, containing a defined set of liver-specific DNase I hypersensitive sites (HSs), is robustly expressed in mouse liver in a copy-number-dependent manner. Here we evaluate these HSs for function. De...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hiroki T,Liebhaber SA,Cooke NE

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coactivator complexes TRAP/SMCC and PC2 represent two forms of Mediator. To further understand the implications of the heterogeneity of the cellular Mediator populations for regulation of RNA polymerase II (Pol II) transcription, we used a combination of affinity and conventional chromatographic methods. Our analy...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Malik S,Baek HJ,Wu W,Roeder RG

更新日期：2005-03-01 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：:Tissue culture transfection and in vitro biochemical studies have suggested that heterodimers of thyroid hormone receptors (TRs) and 9-cis retinoic acid receptors (RXRs) are the likely in vivo complexes that mediate the biological effects of thyroid hormone, 3,5,3'-triiodothyronine (T3). However, direct in vivo eviden...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Puzianowska-Kuznicka M,Damjanovski S,Shi YB

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:mRNA in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is primarily degraded through a pathway that is stimulated by removal of the mRNA cap structure. Here we report that a mutation in the SPB8 (YJL124c) gene, initially identified as a suppressor mutation of a poly(A)-binding protein (PAB1) gene deletion, stabilizes the mRNA cap...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Boeck R,Lapeyre B,Brown CE,Sachs AB

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone modifications occur in precise patterns and are proposed to signal the recruitment of effector molecules that profoundly impact chromatin structure, gene regulation, and cell cycle events. The linked modifications serine 10 phosphorylation and lysine 14 acetylation on histone H3 (H3S10phK14ac), modifications c...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Walter W,Clynes D,Tang Y,Marmorstein R,Mellor J,Berger SL

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EGL-15 is a fibroblast growth factor receptor in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Components that mediate EGL-15 signaling have been identified via mutations that confer a Clear (Clr) phenotype, indicative of hyperactivity of this pathway, or a suppressor-of-Clr (Soc) phenotype, indicative of reduced pathway activ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Schutzman JL,Borland CZ,Newman JC,Robinson MK,Kokel M,Stern MJ

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hox gene functions are intimately linked to correct developmental expression of the genes. The identification of cis-acting regulatory sequences and their associated trans-acting factors constitutes a key step in deciphering the mechanisms underlying the correct positioning of the functional domain of Hox genes along ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Tabariès S,Lapointe J,Besch T,Carter M,Woollard J,Tuggle CK,Jeannotte L

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified poly(A)-binding protein 1 (PABP1) as a ligand for paxillin and shown that the paxillin-PABP1 complex undergoes nucleocytoplasmic shuttling. By targeting the paxillin-binding subdomain sequences in PABP1, we have generated mutants of PABP1 that do not bind to cellular paxillin. Here we rep...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Woods AJ,Kantidakis T,Sabe H,Critchley DR,Norman JC

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-Jun NH(2)-terminal kinase (JNK) group of mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) is activated in response to the treatment of cells with inflammatory cytokines and by exposure to environmental stress. JNK activation is mediated by a protein kinase cascade composed of a MAPK kinase and a MAPK kinase kinase. Her...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kelkar N,Gupta S,Dickens M,Davis RJ

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to create an extended map of chromatin features within a mammalian multigene locus, we have determined the extent of nuclease sensitivity and the pattern of histone modifications associated with the mouse beta-globin genes in adult erythroid tissue. We show that the nuclease-sensitive domain encompasses the b...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Bulger M,Schübeler D,Bender MA,Hamilton J,Farrell CM,Hardison RC,Groudine M

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There exist in the Xenopus laevis genome clusters of tandemly repeated DNA sequences, consisting of two types of 393-base-pair repeating unit. Each such cluster contains several units of one of these paired tandem repeats (PTR-1), followed by several units of the other repeat (PTR-2). The number of repeats of each typ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Carroll D,Garrett JE,Lam BS

更新日期：1984-02-01 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：:The majority of the mutations induced by ICR-170 in both the CYC1 gene (J. F. Ernst et al. Genetics 111:233-241, 1985) and the HIS4 gene (L. Mathison and M. R. Culbertson, Mol. Cell. Biol. 5:2247-2256, 1985) of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae were recently shown to be single G . C base-pair insertions at monotonous...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hampsey DM,Koski RA,Sherman F

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-fes locus encodes a 93-kDa non-receptor protein tyrosine kinase (Fes) that regulates the growth and differentiation of hematopoietic and vascular endothelial cells. Unique to Fes is a long N-terminal sequence with two regions of strong homology to coiled-coil oligomerization domains. We introduced leucine-to-pro...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Cheng HY,Schiavone AP,Smithgall TE

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basic leucine zipper transcription factor, CCAAT/enhancer binding protein alpha (C/EBPalpha), is abundantly expressed in keratinocytes of the skin; however, its function in skin is poorly characterized. UVB radiation is responsible for the majority of human skin cancers. In response to UVB-induced DNA damage, kera...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Yoon K,Smart RC

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a gene trap screen for genes expressed in the primitive streak and tail bud during mouse embryogenesis, we isolated a mutation in Jade1, a gene encoding a PHD zinc finger protein previously shown to interact with the tumor suppressor pVHL. Expressed sequence tag analysis indicates that Jade1 is subject to posttrans...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Tzouanacou E,Tweedie S,Wilson V

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of the tumor suppressor p53 by degradation is a mechanism utilized by cells to adapt to endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. However, the mechanisms of p53 destabilization by ER stress are not known. We demonstrate here that the E3 ubiquitin-ligase Hdm2 is essential for the nucleocytoplasmic transport and p...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Pluquet O,Qu LK,Baltzis D,Koromilas AE

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A culture system was developed which permitted the differentiation of chicken lens epithelial cells to lentoid bodies which contained several cell layers, accumulated high levels of delta-crystallin, and produced extensive gap junctions. This differentiation process was prevented when the cells were infected with a te...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Menko AS,Boettiger D

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00