Cloning of GT box-binding proteins: a novel Sp1 multigene family regulating T-cell receptor gene expression.

abstract：:Considering the link between plasma high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels and a protective effect against coronary artery disease as well as the suggested beneficial effects of retinoids on the production of the major HDL apolipoprotein (apo), apo A-I, the goal of this study was to analyze the influence of...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Vu-Dac N,Schoonjans K,Kosykh V,Dallongeville J,Heyman RA,Staels B,Auwerx J

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Splicing of tRNA precursors in Saccharomyces cerevisiae extracts proceeds in two steps; excision of the intervening sequence and ligation of the tRNA halves. The ability to resolve these two steps and the distinct physical properties of the endonuclease and ligase suggested that the splicing steps may not be concerted...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Greer CL

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assayed phosphatidylinositol (PI) kinase (EC 2.7.1.67) activity in detergent extracts of nontransformed or virus-transformed cells. Nontransformed chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF) contain PI kinase activity with an apparent specific activity of 20 pmol/min per mg of protein. This activity sedimented as a single pea...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Sugano S,Hanafusa H

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The abundance of crystallins (> 80% of the soluble protein) in the ocular lens provides advantageous markers for selective gene expression during cellular differentiation. Here we show by functional and protein-DNA binding experiments that the chicken alpha A-crystallin gene is regulated by at least five control eleme...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Cvekl A,Sax CM,Bresnick EH,Piatigorsky J

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide excision repair and the long-patch mismatch repair systems correct abnormal DNA structures arising from DNA damage and replication errors, respectively. DNA synthesis past a damaged base (translesion replication) often causes misincorporation at the lesion site. In addition, mismatches are hot spots for DNA...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Mu D,Tursun M,Duckett DR,Drummond JT,Modrich P,Sancar A

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:rRNA transcription in Xenopus laevis terminates near a 7-base-pair (bp) conserved sequence (T3 box) located 200 bp upstream of the site of transcription initiation for the adjacent gene promoter. We present evidence here that a 12-bp element containing the T3 box is an essential part of the terminator. Using an oocyte...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Labhart P,Reeder RH

更新日期：1987-05-01 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：:Sequence data are presented for the Saccharomyces cerevisiae TAP1 gene and for a mutant allele, tap1-1, that activates transcription of the promoter-defective yeast SUP4 tRNA(Tyr) allele SUP4A53T61. The degree of in vivo activation of this allele by tap1-1 is strongly affected by the nature of the flanking DNA sequenc...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Aldrich TL,Di Segni G,McConaughy BL,Keen NJ,Whelen S,Hall BD

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquitin-proteasome pathway (UPP) is involved in regulation of multiple cellular processes. Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 alpha (HIF-1 alpha) is a prototypic target of the UPP and, as such, is stabilized under conditions of proteasomal inhibition. Using carbonic anhydrase IX (CAIX) and vascular endothelial growth fa...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kaluz S,Kaluzová M,Stanbridge EJ

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rpd3(L) and Rpd3(S) are distinct multisubunit complexes containing the Rpd3 histone deacetylase. Disruption of the GCN5 histone acetyltransferase gene shows a strong synthetic phenotype when combined with either an sds3 mutation affecting only the Rpd3(L) complex or an rco1 mutation affecting only Rpd3(S). However, th...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Biswas D,Takahata S,Stillman DJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：:We analyzed the transcriptional properties of a repetitive sequence element, BmX, that belongs to a large gene family (approximately 2 x 10(4) copies) in the genome of the Bombyx mori silkworm. We discovered BmX elements because of their ability to direct transcription by polymerase III in vitro and used them to test ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wilson ET,Condliffe DP,Sprague KU

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Okadaic acid-sensitive serine/threonine phosphatases have been shown to regulate interleukin-2 transcription and T-cell activation. Okadaic acid inhibits protein phosphatase 4 (PP4), a novel PP2A-related serine/threonine phosphatase, at a 50% inhibitory concentration (IC(50)) comparable to that for PP2A. This raises t...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shui JW,Hu MC,Tan TH

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence blocks within the core region were swapped among RNA polymerase II promoters to explore effects on transcription in vitro. The pair of blocks flanking TATA strongly influenced general transcription, with an additional effect on promoter activation. These flanking elements induced a change in the ratio of acti...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wolner BS,Gralla JD

更新日期：2000-05-01 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：: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：:In the accompanying report (C. F. Webb, C. Das, S. Eaton, K. Calame, and P. Tucker, Mol. Cell. Biol. 11:5197-5205, 1991), we characterize B-cell-specific protein-DNA interactions at -500 and -200 bp upstream of the mu immunoglobulin heavy chain promoter whose abundances were increased by interleukin-5 plus antigen. Be...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Webb CF,Das C,Eneff KL,Tucker PW

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian cell growth is governed by regulatory activities that include the products of genes such as c-myc and ras that act early in G1, as well as the E2F family of transcription factors that accumulate later in G1 to regulate the expression of genes involved in DNA replication. Previous work has shown that the expr...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Sears R,Ohtani K,Nevins JR

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In heat-shocked tomato cell cultures, cytoplasmic heat shock granules (HSGs) are tightly associated with a specific subset of mRNAs coding mainly for the untranslated control proteins. This messenger ribonucleoprotein complex was banded in a CsCl gradient after fixation with formaldehyde (approximately 1.30 g/cm3). It...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Nover L,Scharf KD,Neumann D

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding human hemojuvelin (HJV) is one of the genes that, when mutated, can cause juvenile hemochromatosis, an early-onset inherited disorder associated with iron overload. The 5' untranslated region of the human HJV mRNA has two upstream open reading frames (uORFs), with 28 and 19 codons formed by two upstr...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Onofre C,Tomé F,Barbosa C,Silva AL,Romão L

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tRNA methytransferase NSun2 promotes cell proliferation, but the molecular mechanism has not been elucidated. Here, we report that NSun2 regulates cyclin-dependent kinase 1 (CDK1) expression in a cell cycle-dependent manner. Knockdown of NSun2 decreased the CDK1 protein level, while overexpression of NSun2 elevate...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Xing J,Yi J,Cai X,Tang H,Liu Z,Zhang X,Martindale JL,Yang X,Jiang B,Gorospe M,Wang W

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The imprinted expression of the H19 and Igf2 genes in the mouse is controlled by an imprinting control center (ICR) whose activity is regulated by parent-of-origin differences in methylation. The only protein that has been implicated in ICR function is the zinc-finger protein CTCF, which binds at multiple sites within...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Katz DJ,Beer MA,Levorse JM,Tilghman SM

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that expansion-prone repeats form structures that inhibit human flap endonuclease (FEN-1). We report here that faulty processing by FEN-1 initiates repeat instability in mammalian cells. Disease-length CAG tracts in Huntington's disease mice heterozygous for FEN-1 display a tendency toward ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Spiro C,McMurray CT

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytotoxic serine protease B (CSP-B) gene is activated during cytotoxic T-lymphocyte maturation. In this report, we demonstrate that the PEER T-cell line (bearing gamma/delta T-cell receptors) accumulates CSP-B mRNA following exposure to 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) and N6-2'-O-dibutyryladenosine 3',5...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hanson RD,Ley TJ

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basis for nucleolar dominance in mouse-human cell hybrids which contained all of the mouse chromosomes but an incomplete set of human chromosomes (M greater than H) was examined at the molecular level. S1 mapping data showed that these cells had the expected levels of steady-state rRNA transcribed from mouse ribos...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Miesfeld R,Sollner-Webb B,Croce C,Arnheim N

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular smooth muscle cells (vSMCs) are key in the regulation of blood pressure and the engagement of vascular pathologies, such as hypertension, arterial remodeling, and neointima formation. The role of the Rac1 GTPase in these cells remains poorly characterized. To clarify this issue, we have utilized genetically e...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Fabbiano S,Menacho-Márquez M,Sevilla MA,Albarrán-Juárez J,Zheng Y,Offermanns S,Montero MJ,Bustelo XR

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence supports an important biological role for Myc in the downregulation of specific gene transcription. Recent studies suggest that c-Myc may suppress promoter activity through proteins of the basal transcription machinery. We have previously reported that Myc protein, in combination with additional ce...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Facchini LM,Chen S,Marhin WW,Lear JN,Penn LZ

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eukaryotic Spt4-Spt5 heterodimer forms a higher-order complex with RNA polymerase II (and I) to regulate transcription elongation. Extensive genetic and functional data have revealed diverse roles of Spt4-Spt5 in coupling elongation with chromatin modification and RNA-processing pathways. A mechanistic understandi...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Meyer PA,Li S,Zhang M,Yamada K,Takagi Y,Hartzog GA,Fu J

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the isolation and molecular characterization of the mouse grb2 gene. The product of this gene, the Grb2 protein, is highly related to the Caenorhabditis elegans sem-5 gene product and the human GRB2 protein and displays the same SH3-SH2-SH3 structural motifs. In situ hybridization studies revealed that the m...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Suen KL,Bustelo XR,Pawson T,Barbacid M

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of intramolecular plasmid recombination, following transfection of a plasmid substrate for homologous recombination into normal and immortally transformed cells, have been examined by two independent assays. In the first assay, recovered plasmid was tested for DNA rearrangements which regenerate a functiona...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Finn GK,Kurz BW,Cheng RZ,Shmookler Reis RJ

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00