Induction of apoptosis by sphingoid long-chain bases in Aspergillus nidulans.

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：:We report in vivo analysis of histone and RNA polymerase II (pol II) occupancy at the 601 element, which functions as a strong in vitro nucleosome-positioning element and transcriptional pause site. Surprisingly, nucleosomes were not strongly positioned over the 601 element inserted either within a yeast chromosomal o...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Perales R,Zhang L,Bentley D

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha 2u-Globulin is a rat protein of as yet unknown function whose synthesis can be induced by glucocorticoids and several other hormones. Induction by glucocorticoids is a secondary response to the hormone: protein synthesis is required before the hormone can exert its stimulatory effect on alpha 2u-globulin transcr...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Addison WR,Kurtz DT

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we demonstrate that elevation of intracellular cyclic AMP (cAMP) in vascular endothelial cells (ECs) by either a direct activator of adenylyl cyclase or endogenous cAMP-mobilizing G protein-coupled receptors inhibited the tyrosine phosphorylation of STAT proteins by an interleukin 6 (IL-6) receptor trans-signali...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Sands WA,Woolson HD,Milne GR,Rutherford C,Palmer TM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two peroxins of the AAA family, PpPex1p and PpPex6p, are required for peroxisome biogenesis in the yeast Pichia pastoris. Cells from the corresponding deletion strains (Pp delta pex1 and Pp delta pex6) contain only small vesicular remnants of peroxisomes, the bulk of peroxisomal matrix proteins is mislocalized to the ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Faber KN,Heyman JA,Subramani S

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elastin, an extracellular component of arteries, lung, and skin, is produced during fetal and neonatal growth. We reported previously that the cessation of elastin production is controlled by a posttranscriptional mechanism. Although tropoelastin pre-mRNA is transcribed at the same rate in neonates and adults, marked ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Zhang M,Pierce RA,Wachi H,Mecham RP,Parks WC

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During mammalian dosage compensation, one of two X-chromosomes in female cells is inactivated. The choice of which X is silenced can be imprinted or stochastic. Although genetic loci influencing the choice decision have been identified, the primary marks for imprinting and random selection remain undefined. Here, we e...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Boumil RM,Ogawa Y,Sun BK,Huynh KD,Lee JT

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposons have contributed protein coding sequences to a unexpectedly large number of human genes. Except for the V(D)J recombinase and telomerase, all remain of unknown function. Here we investigate the activity of the human SETMAR protein, a highly expressed fusion between a histone H3 methylase and a mariner fami...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Liu D,Bischerour J,Siddique A,Buisine N,Bigot Y,Chalmers R

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized a cDNA encoding a cysteine-rich, acidic integral membrane protein (CRAM) of the parasitic protozoa Trypanosoma brucei and Trypanosoma equiperdum. Unlike other membrane proteins of T. brucei, which are distributed throughout the cell surface, CRAM is concentrated in the flagellar pocket, an invagi...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Lee MG,Bihain BE,Russell DG,Deckelbaum RJ,Van der Ploeg LH

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SMRT corepressor complex participates in transcriptional repression by a diverse array of vertebrate transcription factors. The ability to recruit SMRT appears to play a crucial role in leukemogenesis by the PML-retinoic acid receptor alpha (RARalpha) oncoprotein, an aberrant nuclear hormone receptor implicated in...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hong SH,Yang Z,Privalsky ML

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the sequence of a Drosophila tRNA gene cluster containing a tRNAHis gene and a tRNAHis pseudogene in close proximity on the same DNA strand. The pseudogene contains eight consecutive base pairs different from the region of the bona fide gene which codes for the 3' portion of the anticodon stem of tRNAHis...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Cooley L,Schaack J,Burke DJ,Thomas B,Söll D

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression and distribution of DNA polymerase alpha was measured by cytometry and confocal laser scanning microscopy. Expression was proportional to DNA content in proliferating cells, while only S-phase cells retained DNA polymerase alpha after detergent extraction. Nuclear DNA polymerase alpha binding may be one...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Stokke T,Erikstein B,Holte H,Funderud S,Steen HB

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis (XIAP) is an inhibitor of apoptotic cell death that protects cells by caspase-dependent and independent mechanisms. In a screen for molecules that participate with XIAP in regulating cellular activities, we identified apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF) as an XIAP binding protein. Baculovir...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wilkinson JC,Wilkinson AS,Galbán S,Csomos RA,Duckett CS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Krüppel-like factors 3 and 8 (KLF3 and KLF8) are highly related transcriptional regulators that bind to similar sequences of DNA. We have previously shown that in erythroid cells there is a regulatory hierarchy within the KLF family, whereby KLF1 drives the expression of both the Klf3 and Klf8 genes and KLF3 in turn r...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Funnell AP,Mak KS,Twine NA,Pelka GJ,Norton LJ,Radziewic T,Power M,Wilkins MR,Bell-Anderson KS,Fraser ST,Perkins AC,Tam PP,Pearson RC,Crossley M

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:F8dl is a simian virus 40 early-region deletion mutant that lacks the sequences between 0.169 and 0.423 map units. We show that cloned F8dl DNA immortalized early-passage Fisher rat embryo cells with an efficiency that was about 20% of that of cloned wild-type simian virus 40 DNA. In contrast, we detected no immortali...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Sompayrac L,Danna KJ

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid hormone (T3) is critical for growth, differentiation, and maintenance of metabolic homeostasis. Mice with a knock-in mutation in the thyroid hormone receptor alpha gene (TRalpha1PV) were created previously to explore the roles of mutated TRalpha1 in vivo. TRalpha1PV is a dominant negative mutant with a framesh...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ying H,Araki O,Furuya F,Kato Y,Cheng SY

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a key angiogenic factor expressed under restricted nutrient and oxygen conditions in most solid tumors. The expression of VEGF under hypoxic conditions requires transcription through activated hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1), increased mRNA stability, and facilitated tra...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Vumbaca F,Phoenix KN,Rodriguez-Pinto D,Han DK,Claffey KP

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The int-1 proto-oncogene is a target for insertional activation of transcription by mouse mammary tumor virus in many murine mammary tumors. Whereas no expression of int-1 is seen in normal mammary tissue, int-1 RNA can be detected in normal mice in the neural tubes of midgestation embryos and in postmeiotic spermatoc...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Papkoff J

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain insight into the role of Myc family oncoproteins and their associated protein Max in vertebrate growth and development, we sought to identify homologs in the zebra fish (Brachydanio rerio). A combination of a polymerase chain reaction-based cloning strategy and low-stringency hybridization screening allowed fo...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Schreiber-Agus N,Horner J,Torres R,Chiu FC,DePinho RA

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IMP dehydrogenase (IMPDH) is the rate-limiting enzyme in the de novo synthesis of guanine nucleotides. It is a target of therapeutically useful drugs and is implicated in the regulation of cell growth rate. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, mutations in components of the RNA polymerase II (Pol II) transcription e...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shaw RJ,Reines D

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pluripotent factor Oct4 is a key transcription factor that maintains embryonic stem (ES) cell self-renewal and is down-regulated upon the differentiation of ES cells and silenced in somatic cells. A combination of cis elements, transcription factors, and epigenetic modifications, such as DNA methylation, are invol...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Gu P,Le Menuet D,Chung AC,Cooney AJ

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction of simian virus 40 T antigen into rodent fibroblasts gives rise to cells that can proliferate indefinitely but are dependent upon it for maintenance of their growth once the normal mitotic life span has elapsed. Inactivation of T antigen in these immortalized cells causes rapid and irreversible cessation ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Gonos ES,Burns JS,Mazars GR,Kobrna A,Riley TE,Barnett SC,Zafarana G,Ludwig RL,Ikram Z,Powell AJ,Jat PS

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The E2F transcription factors are key downstream targets of the retinoblastoma protein (pRB) tumor suppressor. We have previously shown that E2F3 plays a critical role in mediating the mitogen-induced activation of E2F-responsive genes and contributes to both the inappropriate proliferation and the p53-dependent apopt...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ziebold U,Lee EY,Bronson RT,Lees JA

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletion analysis was used to identify sequences upstream of the ADH2 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae that are required for its regulation. 5' and 3' internal deletions of the ADH2 control region were created in vitro, and the fragments were ligated adjacent to the ADH1 promoter and structural gene. Hybrid genes with...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Beier DR,Sledziewski A,Young ET

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 30% of human tumors examined for mutations in polymerase beta (pol beta) appear to express pol beta variant proteins (D. Starcevic, S. Dalal, and J. B. Sweasy, Cell Cycle 3:998-1001, 2004). Many of these variants result from a single amino acid substitution. We have previously shown that the K289M and I2...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Lang T,Dalal S,Chikova A,DiMaio D,Sweasy JB

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

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：:A variant polyadenylation signal, which is conserved and employed by mammalian hepadnaviruses, has a sequence resembling that of the TATA box. We report here that this composite box manifests all the promoter characteristics. It binds effectively TATA-binding protein with TFIIB and TFIIA in a synergistic manner. This ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Paran N,Ori A,Haviv I,Shaul Y

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Furin is a subtilisin-related endoprotease which processes a wide range of bioactive proteins. Furin is concentrated in the trans-Golgi network (TGN), where proteolytic activation of many precursor proteins takes place. A significant fraction of furin, however, cycles among the TGN, the plasma membrane, and endosomes,...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Simmen T,Nobile M,Bonifacino JS,Hunziker W

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preadipocyte factor 1 (Pref-1/Dlk1) inhibits in vitro adipocyte differentiation and has been recently reported to be a paternally expressed imprinted gene at human chromosome 14q32. Studies on human chromosome 14 deletions and maternal uniparental disomy (mUPD) 14 suggest that misexpression of a yet-to-be-identified i...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Moon YS,Smas CM,Lee K,Villena JA,Kim KH,Yun EJ,Sul HS

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinoblastoma binding protein 1 (RBP1) appears to be an important factor in the repression of E2F-dependent transcription by the retinoblastoma protein (pRB) family. The recent identification of the breast carcinoma associated antigen (BCAA) as an RBP1-like protein led us to investigate its biological properties ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Binda O,Roy JS,Branton PE

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00