Characterization of Sleeping Beauty transposition and its application to genetic screening in mice.

abstract：:In order to determine whether partial methylation of the herpes simplex virus (HSV) tk gene prevents tk gene expression, the HSV tk gene was cloned as single-stranded DNA. By in vitro second-strand DNA synthesis, specific HSV tk gene segments were methylated, and the hemimethylated DNA molecules were microinjected int...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Graessmann A,Sandberg G,Guhl E,Graessmann M

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new member of a family of site-specific retrotransposons is described in the New World trypanosome Trypanosoma cruzi. This element, CZAR (cruzi-associated retrotransposon), resembles two previously described retrotransposons found in the African trypanosome T. brucei gambiense and the mosquito trypanosomatid Crithid...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Villanueva MS,Williams SP,Beard CB,Richards FF,Aksoy S

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glucose-activated transcription factor carbohydrate response element binding protein (ChREBP) induces the expression of hepatic glycolytic and lipogenic genes. The farnesoid X receptor (FXR) is a nuclear bile acid receptor controlling bile acid, lipid, and glucose homeostasis. FXR negatively regulates hepatic glyc...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Caron S,Huaman Samanez C,Dehondt H,Ploton M,Briand O,Lien F,Dorchies E,Dumont J,Postic C,Cariou B,Lefebvre P,Staels B

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of the Drosophila segmentation gene fushi tarazu (ftz) is controlled at the level of transcription. The proximal enhancer, located approximately 3.4 kb upstream of the transcription start site, directs lacZ fusion gene expression in a ftz-like seven-stripe pattern in transgenic fly embryos. We have take...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Han W,Yu Y,Altan N,Pick L

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic imprinting results in parent-specific monoallelic expression of a small number of genes in mammals. The identity of imprints is unknown, but much evidence points to a role for DNA methylation. The maternal alleles of the imprinted H19 gene are active and hypomethylated; the paternal alleles are inactive and hy...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Szabó PE,Pfeifer GP,Mann JR

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a two-step strategy to alter any mouse locus repeatedly and efficiently by direct positive selection. Using conventional targeting for the first step, a functional neo gene and a nonfunctional HPRT minigene (the "socket") are introduced into the genome of HPRT- embryonic stem (ES) cells close to the chosen...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Detloff PJ,Lewis J,John SW,Shehee WR,Langenbach R,Maeda N,Smithies O

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DHCR24/seladin-1, a crucial enzyme in sterol synthesis, is of lower abundance in brain areas affected by Alzheimer's disease. While high levels of DHCR24/seladin-1 exert antiapoptotic function by conferring resistance against oxidative stress, the molecular mechanism for this protective effect is not fully understood....

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kuehnle K,Crameri A,Kälin RE,Luciani P,Benvenuti S,Peri A,Ratti F,Rodolfo M,Kulic L,Heppner FL,Nitsch RM,Mohajeri MH

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear enzyme DNA topoisomerase II catalyzes the breakage and resealing of duplex DNA and plays an important role in several genetic processes. It also mediates the DNA cleavage activity and cytotoxicity of clinically important anticancer agents such as etoposide. We have examined the activity of topoisomerase II...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Chow KC,Ross WE

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the SRA1 or SRA3 gene eliminate the requirement for either RAS gene (RAS1 or RAS2) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We cloned SRA1 and SRA3 and determined their DNA sequences. SRA1 encodes the regulatory subunit of the cyclic AMP (cAMP)-dependent protein kinase and therefore is identical to REG1 and BCY1. Thi...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Cannon JF,Tatchell K

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum response factor (p67SRF) binds to a palindromic sequence in the c-fos serum response element (SRE). A second protein, p62TCF binds in conjunction with p67SRF to form a ternary complex, and it is through this complex that growth factor-induced transcriptional activation of c-fos is thought to take place. A 90...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Sharrocks AD,Gille H,Shaw PE

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) promoter-driven transcription is induced by glucocorticoid hormone via binding of the glucocorticoid receptor (GR). The MMTV promoter also harbors a binding site for nuclear factor 1 (NF1). NF1 and GR were expressed in Xenopus oocytes; this revealed GR-NF1 cooperativity both in terms o...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Belikov S,Astrand C,Holmqvist PH,Wrange O

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:V(D)J recombination requires binding and synapsis of a complementary (12/23) pair of recombination signal sequences (RSSs) by the RAG1 and RAG2 proteins, aided by a high-mobility group protein, HMG1 or HMG2. Double-strand DNA cleavage within this synaptic, or paired, complex is thought to involve DNA distortion or mel...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ciubotaru M,Schatz DG

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro experiments with cell extracts prepared from a mouse mammary epithelial cell line demonstrated that a cis-acting glucocorticoid response element (GRE) of the mouse mammary tumor virus represses transcription from its homologous promoter. Competition transcription experiments, in which a molar excess of a rest...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Langer SJ,Ostrowski MC

更新日期：1988-09-01 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 catalytic function of Src-related tyrosine protein kinases is repressed by phosphorylation of a conserved carboxy-terminal tyrosine residue. Recent studies suggest that this inhibitory event is not the result of autophosphorylation but that it is mediated by another cytoplasmic tyrosine protein kinase, termed p50c...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Gervais FG,Chow LM,Lee JM,Branton PE,Veillette A

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to study the binding constraints placed on the nine-zinc-finger protein transcription factor IIIA (TFIIIA) by a histone octamer. To this end, five overlapping fragments of the Xenopus laevis oocyte and somatic 5S rRNA genes were reconstituted into nucleosomes, and it was subsequently shown that nucleosome tr...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Howe L,Ausió J

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the splicing of transcripts from most eukaryotic genes occurs in a constitutive fashion, some genes can undergo a process of alternative splicing. This is a genetically economical process which allows a single gene to give rise to several protein isoforms by the inclusion or exclusion of sequences into or fro...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Bell MV,Cowper AE,Lefranc MP,Bell JI,Screaton GR

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the MET25 gene encodes O-acetylhomoserine sulfhydrylase. Synthesis of this enzyme is repressed by the presence of S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet) in the growth medium. We identified cis elements required for MET25 expression by analyzing small deletions in the MET25 promoter region. The resu...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Thomas D,Cherest H,Surdin-Kerjan Y

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stress-responsive DDR2 gene (previously called DDRA2) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is transcribed at elevated levels following stress caused by heat shock or DNA damage. Previously, we identified a 51-bp promoter fragment, oligo31/32, which conferred heat shock inducibility on the heterologous CYC1-lacZ reporter ge...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kobayashi N,McEntee K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated two phenotypically distinct types of diphtheria toxin-resistant mutants of Chinese hamster cells and compared their resistance with that of naturally resistant mouse cells. All are resistant due to a defect in the process of internalization and delivery of toxin to its target in the cytosol, elongation...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Didsbury JR,Moehring JM,Moehring TJ

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TIP60 histone acetyltransferase plays diverse roles in DNA damage responses, DNA double-strand break repair, and transcriptional regulation. TIP60 resides within a multisubunit complex that has been shown to be targeted by transcription factors and to be involved in histone acetylation and transcriptional activati...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Park JH,Sun XJ,Roeder RG

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have been interested in how Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) influences transformed cell morphology and compared the molecular properties of chicken embryo cells (CEC) infected with mutants of RSV that induce the fusiform transformed cell morphology with those of CEC infected by wild-type RSV, which induces the more normal...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Rohrschneider L,Reynolds S

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, we explored the mechanisms underlying keratinocyte-specific and differentiation-specific gene expression in the skin. We have identified five keratinocyte-specific, open chromatin regions that exist within the 6 kb of 5' upstream regulatory sequence known to faithfully recapitulate the strong endogenou...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kaufman CK,Sinha S,Bolotin D,Fan J,Fuchs E

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trabecular myocardium accounts for the majority of the ventricles during early cardiogenesis, but compact myocardium is the primary component at later developmental stages. Elucidation of the genes regulating compact myocardium development is essential to increase our understanding of left ventricular noncompaction (L...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kosaka Y,Cieslik KA,Li L,Lezin G,Maguire CT,Saijoh Y,Toyo-oka K,Gambello MJ,Vatta M,Wynshaw-Boris A,Baldini A,Yost HJ,Brunelli L

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:mTOR coordinates growth signals with metabolic pathways and protein synthesis and is hyperactivated in many human cancers. mTOR exists in two complexes: mTORC1, which stimulates protein, lipid, and ribosome biosynthesis, and mTORC2, which regulates cytoskeleton functions. While mTOR is known to be involved in the DNA ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Silvera D,Ernlund A,Arju R,Connolly E,Volta V,Wang J,Schneider RJ

更新日期：2017-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of deletion mutants spanning the promoter of the adenovirus early-region IV (EIV) gene were tested for transcriptional activity, using both in vitro and in vivo assays. Four distinct domains had additive effects on efficient transcription from the EIV promoter in HeLa whole-cell extracts. The first resided 20...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hanaka S,Nishigaki T,Sharp PA,Handa H

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The erythropoietin (Epo) gene is under tissue-specific inducible regulation. Because the kidney is the primary EPO-producing tissue in adults, impaired EPO production in chronic kidney disorders results in serious renal anemia. The Epo gene contains a liver-specific enhancer in the 3' region, but the kidney-specific e...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hirano I,Suzuki N,Yamazaki S,Sekine H,Minegishi N,Shimizu R,Yamamoto M

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostaglandins, pleiotropic immune modulators that induce protein kinase A (PKA), inhibit gamma interferon induction of class II major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes. We show that phosphorylation of CIITA by PKA accounts for this inhibition. Treatment with prostaglandin E or 8-bromo-cyclic AMP or transfection ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Li G,Harton JA,Zhu X,Ting JP

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila dopa decarboxylase gene, Ddc, is expressed in the hypoderm and in a small number of cells in the central nervous system (CNS). The unique Ddc primary transcript is alternatively spliced in these two tissues. We investigated whether Ddc splicing in the CNS is a general property of the CNS or a unique pro...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shen J,Beall CJ,Hirsh J

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) increases in cancer cells during hypoxia. Herein, we report that the MDM2 oncoprotein plays a role in hypoxia-mediated VEGF upregulation. In studying the characteristics of MDM2 and VEGF expression in neuroblastoma cells, we found that hypoxia induced significant...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Zhou S,Gu L,He J,Zhang H,Zhou M

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00