Heritable activity: a prion that propagates by covalent autoactivation.

abstract：:The ability to maintain and expand the pool of adipocytes in adults is integral to the regulation of energy balance, tissue/stem cell homeostasis, and disease pathogenesis. For decades, our knowledge of adipocyte precursors has relied on cellular models. The identity of native adipocyte precursors has remained unclear...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Hepler C,Vishvanath L,Gupta RK

更新日期：2017-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of translation and mRNA degradation is an important part of the regulation of gene expression. It is now clear that small RNA molecules are common and effective modulators of gene expression in many eukaryotic cells. These small RNAs that control gene expression can be either endogenous or exogenous micro ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Valencia-Sanchez MA,Liu J,Hannon GJ,Parker R

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of a single EGF receptor in Drosophila is contrasted by multiple ligands activating it. This work explores the role of two ligands, Spitz and Vein, in the embryonic ventral ectoderm. Spitz is a potent ligand, whereas Vein is an intrinsically weak activating ligand. We show that secreted Spitz emanating fr...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Golembo M,Yarnitzky T,Volk T,Shilo BZ

更新日期：1999-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a simple, effective genetic screen for mutant alleles of eukaryotic DNA topoisomerase I that manifest severely depressed or complete loss of enzymatic function. The screen is based on the extreme toxicity of vaccinia topoisomerase expression in the Escherichia coli lysogen strain BL21(DE3) and is not...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Morham SG,Shuman S

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence-specific DNA-binding activators, key regulators of gene expression, stimulate transcription in part by targeting the core promoter recognition TFIID complex and aiding in its recruitment to promoter DNA. Although it has been established that activators can interact with multiple components of TFIID, it is unk...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Liu WL,Coleman RA,Ma E,Grob P,Yang JL,Zhang Y,Dailey G,Nogales E,Tjian R

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several previously known transcription cofactors have been demonstrated in vitro recently to be histone acetyltransferases and deacetyltransferases, suggesting that remodeling of chromatin through histone acetylation plays a fundamental role in gene regulation. Clear evidence has not yet been obtained, however, to dem...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Wang L,Liu L,Berger SL

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The histone regulatory (HIR) and histone promoter control (HPC) repressor proteins regulate three of the four histone gene loci during the Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell cycle. Here, we demonstrate that Hir1, Hir2, Hir3, and Hpc2 proteins form a stable HIR repressor complex. The HIR complex promotes histone deposition ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Prochasson P,Florens L,Swanson SK,Washburn MP,Workman JL

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) is a flexible gene silencing mechanism that responds to double-stranded RNA by suppressing homologous genes. Here, we report the characterization of RNAi effector complexes (RISCs) that contain small interfering RNAs and microRNAs (miRNAs). We identify two putative RNA-binding proteins, the Dro...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Caudy AA,Myers M,Hannon GJ,Hammond SM

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation and repression of transcription in eukaryotes involve changes in the chromatin fiber that can be accomplished by covalent modification of the histone tails or the replacement of the canonical histones with other variants. Here we show that the histone H2A variant of Drosophila melanogaster, H2Av, localizes ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Swaminathan J,Baxter EM,Corces VG

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular senescence limits proliferation of potentially detrimental cells, preventing tumorigenesis and restricting tissue damage. However, the function of senescence in nonpathological conditions is unknown. We found that the human placental syncytiotrophoblast exhibited the phenotype and expressed molecular markers ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Chuprin A,Gal H,Biron-Shental T,Biran A,Amiel A,Rozenblatt S,Krizhanovsky V

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association of transcription corepressors SMRT and N-CoR with retinoid and thyroid receptors results in suppression of basal transcriptional activity. A key event in nuclear receptor signaling is the hormone-dependent release of corepressor and the recruitment of coactivator. Biochemical and structural studies hav...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Nagy L,Kao HY,Love JD,Li C,Banayo E,Gooch JT,Krishna V,Chatterjee K,Evans RM,Schwabe JW

更新日期：1999-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the first steps in neurogenesis is the diversification of cells along the dorsoventral axis. In Drosophila the central nervous system develops from three longitudinal columns of cells: ventral cells that express the vnd/nk2 homeobox gene, intermediate cells, and dorsal cells that express the msh homeobox gene. ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Weiss JB,Von Ohlen T,Mellerick DM,Dressler G,Doe CQ,Scott MP

更新日期：1998-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the DNA-binding, oligomerization, and trans-activation functions of isolated segments of murine p53. We find that p53 has two autonomous DNA-binding regions. One domain, from amino acid 280 to 390, forms stable tetramers and binds DNA nonspecifically. The biological significance, if any, of this D...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Wang Y,Reed M,Wang P,Stenger JE,Mayr G,Anderson ME,Schwedes JF,Tegtmeyer P

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TDP-43 is a critical RNA-binding factor associated with pre-mRNA splicing in mammals. Its expression is tightly autoregulated, with loss of this regulation implicated in human neuropathology. We demonstrate that TDP-43 overexpression in humans and mice activates a 3' untranslated region (UTR) intron, resulting in exci...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Avendaño-Vázquez SE,Dhir A,Bembich S,Buratti E,Proudfoot N,Baralle FE

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AU-rich elements (AREs, usually containing repeated copies of AUUUA), when present in the 3'-untranslated regions (UTRs) of many mammalian mRNAs, confer instability on their host RNA molecules. The viral small nuclear RNA (snRNA) Herpesvirus saimiri U RNA 1 (HSUR 1) also contains an AUUUA-rich sequence. Here, we repor...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Fan XC,Myer VE,Steitz JA

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate here that the previously described bacterial promoter upstream element (UP element) consists of two distinct subsites, each of which, by itself, can bind the RNA polymerase holoenzyme alpha subunit carboxy-terminal domain (RNAP alphaCTD) and stimulate transcription. Using binding-site-selection experime...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Estrem ST,Ross W,Gaal T,Chen ZW,Niu W,Ebright RH,Gourse RL

更新日期：1999-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Programmed cell death occurs in a highly reproducible manner during Caenorhabditis elegans development. We demonstrate that, during embryogenesis, miR-35 and miR-58 bantam family microRNAs (miRNAs) cooperate to prevent the precocious death of mothers of cells programmed to die by repressing the gene egl-1, which encod...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Sherrard R,Luehr S,Holzkamp H,McJunkin K,Memar N,Conradt B

更新日期：2017-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecsit is a cytosolic adaptor protein essential for inflammatory response and embryonic development via the Toll-like and BMP (bone morphogenetic protein) signal transduction pathways, respectively. Here, we demonstrate a mitochondrial function for Ecsit (an evolutionary conserved signaling intermediate in Toll pathway...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Vogel RO,Janssen RJ,van den Brand MA,Dieteren CE,Verkaart S,Koopman WJ,Willems PH,Pluk W,van den Heuvel LP,Smeitink JA,Nijtmans LG

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The embryonic ectoderm in Drosophila displays a highly organized arrangement of specific structures along the dorsal-ventral axis. To establish this characteristic design, cells must receive instructive cues regarding their position. We present evidence that during stages 8-9 of embryonic development, the Drosophila E...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Raz E,Shilo BZ

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The liver regenerates upon partial hepatectomy (PH) as terminally differentiated hepatocytes undergo a tremendous proliferative process. CREM gene expression is powerfully induced during liver regeneration. We show that cell proliferation is significantly reduced upon PH in CREM-/- mice. There is a reduction in DNA sy...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Servillo G,Della Fazia MA,Sassone-Corsi P

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An RNA-based gene silencing pathway that protects bacteria and archaea from viruses and other genome invaders is hypothesized to arise from guide RNAs encoded by CRISPR loci and proteins encoded by the cas genes. CRISPR loci contain multiple short invader-derived sequences separated by short repeats. The presence of v...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Carte J,Wang R,Li H,Terns RM,Terns MP

更新日期：2008-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two independent two-dimensional (2D) gel methods were used to map an origin of replication that is developmentally regulated by the steroid hormone ecdysone, namely an origin for DNA puff amplification in the fungus fly Sciara coprophila. Initiation of replication was found to occur within a small region of no larger ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Liang C,Spitzer JD,Smith HS,Gerbi SA

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used Sarkosyl to analyze steps along the pathway of transcription initiation by RNA polymerase III. Sarkosyl (0.015%) inhibited transcription when present prior to incubation of RNA polymerase III, TFIIIB, and TFIIIC with the VAI gene, whereas it had no detectable effect on initiation or reinitiation of transcripti...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Kovelman R,Roeder RG

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibro-adipogenic progenitors (FAPs) reside in the muscle, where they facilitate myofiber regeneration. Under normal conditions, FAPs lack myogenic potential and thus do not directly contribute to regenerated myofibers. Surprisingly, Saccone and colleagues (pp. 841-857) demonstrated that the dystrophic muscle environme...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Faralli H,Dilworth FJ

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:TP53 is the most frequently mutated gene in human cancer. Many mutant p53 proteins exert oncogenic gain-of-function (GOF) properties that contribute to metastasis, but the mechanisms mediating these functions remain poorly defined in vivo. To elucidate how mutant p53 GOF drives metastasis, we developed a traceable som...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Pourebrahim R,Zhang Y,Liu B,Gao R,Xiong S,Lin PP,McArthur MJ,Ostrowski MC,Lozano G

更新日期：2017-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue morphogenesis during development is dependent on activities of the cadherin family of cell-cell adhesion proteins that includes classical cadherins, protocadherins, and atypical cadherins (Fat, Dachsous, and Flamingo). The extracellular domain of cadherins contains characteristic repeats that regulate homophili...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Halbleib JM,Nelson WJ

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) in vertebrates are encoded within introns of protein genes. We have reported previously that two isoforms of human U17 snoRNA are encoded in introns of the cell-cycle regulatory gene, RCC1. We have now investigated the mechanism of processing of U17 RNAs and of another intron-encode...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Kiss T,Filipowicz W

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinases ATM and ATR (Tel1 and Mec1 in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae) control the response to DNA damage. We report that S. cerevisiae Tel2 acts at an early step of the TEL1/ATM pathway of DNA damage signaling. We show that Tel1 and Tel2 interact, and that even when Tel1 protein levels are high, this interacti...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Anderson CM,Korkin D,Smith DL,Makovets S,Seidel JJ,Sali A,Blackburn EH

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two recent reports, including one by Reinders and colleagues (pp. 939-950) in the April 15, 2009, issue of Genes & Development, describe the construction of Arabidopsis recombinant inbred populations that maximize epigenetic rather than genetic variation. The distribution and behavior of phenotypic variation in these ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Richards EJ

更新日期：2009-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The human RNA polymerase II (RNAPII)-associated factor complex (hPAFc) and its individual subunits have been implicated in human diseases, including cancer. However, its involvement in breast cancer awaits investigation. Using data mining and human breast cancer tissue microarrays, we found that Ctr9, the key scaffold...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Zeng H,Xu W

更新日期：2015-10-15 00:00:00