Conversion of neurons and glia to external-cell fates in the external sensory organs of Drosophila hamlet mutants by a cousin-cousin cell-type respecification.

abstract：:Protection of the stalled replication fork is crucial for responding to replication stress and minimizing its impact on chromosome instability, thus preventing diseases, including cancer. We found a new component, Abro1, in the protection of stalled replication fork integrity. Abro1 deficiency results in increased chr...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Xu S,Wu X,Wu L,Castillo A,Liu J,Atkinson E,Paul A,Su D,Schlacher K,Komatsu Y,You MJ,Wang B

更新日期：2017-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptionally silent genes must be activated throughout development. This requires nucleosomes be removed from promoters and enhancers to allow transcription factor (TF) binding and recruitment of coactivators and RNA polymerase II (Pol II). Specialized pioneer TFs bind nucleosome-wrapped DNA to perform this chrom...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Judd J,Duarte FM,Lis JT

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sonic hedgehog (Shh) signals via Gli transcription factors to direct digit number and identity in the vertebrate limb. We characterized the Gli-dependent cis-regulatory network through a combination of whole-genome chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)-on-chip and transcriptional profiling of the developing mouse limb....

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Vokes SA,Ji H,Wong WH,McMahon AP

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wingless (Wg) is an important signaling molecule in the development of Drosophila, but little is known about its signal transduction pathway. Genetic evidence indicates that another segment polarity gene, dishevelled (dsh) is required for Wg signaling. We have recently developed a cell culture system for Wg protein ac...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Yanagawa S,van Leeuwen F,Wodarz A,Klingensmith J,Nusse R

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene duplication and divergence is a major driver in the emergence of evolutionary novelties. How variations in amino acid sequences lead to loss of ancestral activity and functional diversification of proteins is poorly understood. We used cross-species functional analysis of Drosophila Labial and its mouse HOX1 orth...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Singh NP,De Kumar B,Paulson A,Parrish ME,Zhang Y,Florens L,Conaway JW,Si K,Krumlauf R

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here a new murine homeo box gene, denoted Hlx, which is expressed within specific hematopoietic lineages. The cDNA sequence indicates that Hlx differs markedly from known vertebrate homeo box genes, and linkage analysis of an interspecific murine backcross showed that it resides at a novel homeo box locus ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Allen JD,Lints T,Jenkins NA,Copeland NG,Strasser A,Harvey RP,Adams JM

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytosolic RNA/DNA sensing elicits primary defense against viral pathogens. Interferon regulatory factor 3 (IRF3), a key signal mediator/transcriptional factor of the antiviral-sensing pathway, is indispensible for interferon production and antiviral defense. However, how the status of IRF3 activation is controlled rem...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Meng F,Zhou R,Wu S,Zhang Q,Jin Q,Zhou Y,Plouffe SW,Liu S,Song H,Xia Z,Zhao B,Ye S,Feng XH,Guan KL,Zou J,Xu P

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented that the activation of the RNA polymerase sigma factor sigma(W) in Bacillus subtilis by regulated intramembrane proteolysis is governed by a novel, membrane-embedded protease. The sigma(W) factor is activated by proteolytic destruction of the membrane-bound anti-sigma(W) factor RsiW in response t...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Ellermeier CD,Losick R

更新日期：2006-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the human U2 and U6 snRNA genes are transcribed by different RNA polymerases (i.e., RNA polymerases II and III, respectively), their promoters are very similar in structure. Both contain a proximal sequence element (PSE) and an octamer motif-containing enhancer, and these elements are interchangeable between ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Lobo SM,Lister J,Sullivan ML,Hernandez N

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin is a bioamine regulating bone mass accrual differently depending on its site of synthesis. It decreases accrual when synthesized in the gut, and increases it when synthesized in the brain. The signal transduction events elicited by gut-derived serotonin once it binds to the Htr1b receptor present on osteobla...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Oury F,Yadav VK,Wang Y,Zhou B,Liu XS,Guo XE,Tecott LH,Schutz G,Means AR,Karsenty G

更新日期：2010-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The incorporation of histone H1 into chromatin during embryogenesis directs the specific repression of the Xenopus oocyte 5S rRNA genes. An increase in histone H1 content specifically restricts TFIIIA-activated transcription, and a decrease in histone H1 within chromatin facilitates the activation of the oocyte 5S rRN...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Bouvet P,Dimitrov S,Wolffe AP

更新日期：1994-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin is associated with all three nuclear RNA polymerases and acts in concert with nuclear myosin I (NM1) to drive transcription. Practically nothing is known regarding the state of actin and the functional interplay of actin and NM1 in transcription. Here we show that actin and NM1 act in concert to promote RNA poly...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Ye J,Zhao J,Hoffmann-Rohrer U,Grummt I

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a new technique, called 'toeprinting,' which has allowed a study of the tRNA-binding properties of Escherichia coli translation initiation complexes. In response to natural mRNAs, the initiator tRNA and a variety of elongator tRNAs bind to the same tRNA-binding site on the 30S ribosomal subunit as lo...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Hartz D,McPheeters DS,Gold L

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the metazoan germline, piwi proteins and associated piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) provide a defense system against the expression of transposable elements. In the cytoplasm, piRNA sequences guide piwi complexes to destroy complementary transposon transcripts by endonucleolytic cleavage. However, some piwi family m...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Le Thomas A,Rogers AK,Webster A,Marinov GK,Liao SE,Perkins EM,Hur JK,Aravin AA,Tóth KF

更新日期：2013-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishment of the steroid-producing Leydig cell lineage is an event downstream of Sry that is critical for masculinization of mammalian embryos. Neither the origin of fetal Leydig cell precursors nor the signaling pathway that specifies the Leydig cell lineage is known. Based on the sex-specific expression patterns...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Yao HH,Whoriskey W,Capel B

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assembly and disassembly of protein complexes at replication origins play a crucial role in the regulation of chromosomal DNA replication. The sequential binding of the origin recognition complex (ORC), Cdc6, and the minichromosome maintenance (MCM/P1) proteins produces a licensed replication origin. Before the in...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Jares P,Blow JJ

更新日期：2000-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Metazoans start embryogenesis with a relatively naïve genome. The transcriptionally inert, late-replicating heterochromatic regions, including the constitutive heterochromatin on repetitive sequences near centromeres and telomeres, need to be re-established during development. To explore the events initiating heteroch...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Yuan K,O'Farrell PH

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of transcription factors (TFs) controlling pathways in health and disease is of paramount interest. We designed a widely applicable method, dubbed barcorded synthetic tandem repeat promoter screening (BC-STAR-PROM), to identify signal-activated TFs without any a priori knowledge about their properties. T...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Gosselin P,Rando G,Fleury-Olela F,Schibler U

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of p53-mediated transcription is a critical cellular response to DNA damage. p53 stability and site-specific DNA-binding activity and, therefore, transcriptional activity, are modulated by post-translational modifications including phosphorylation and acetylation. Here we show that p53 is acetylated in vitr...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Sakaguchi K,Herrera JE,Saito S,Miki T,Bustin M,Vassilev A,Anderson CW,Appella E

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The contact site A glycoprotein is a developmentally regulated cell-surface component expressed during the aggregation stage of Dictyostelium discoideum. This protein has been implicated in the EDTA-stable (Ca2(+)-independent) type of cell adhesion of aggregating cells. The gene coding for the contact site A protein w...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Harloff C,Gerisch G,Noegel AA

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is thought to be an important, possibly essential, component of the process of tumor dissemination and metastasis. About 20%-30% of Hras mutant mouse skin carcinomas induced by chemical initiation/promotion protocols have undergone EMT. Reduced exposure to TPA-induced chronic in...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Wong CE,Yu JS,Quigley DA,To MD,Jen KY,Huang PY,Del Rosario R,Balmain A

更新日期：2013-03-15 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：:Eukaryotic genomes encode large families of deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs). Genetic data suggest that Fat facets (Faf), a Drosophila DUB essential for patterning the compound eye, might have a novel regulatory function; Faf might reverse the ubiquitination of a specific substrate, thereby preventing proteasomal degra...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Chen X,Zhang B,Fischer JA

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the orphan nuclear receptors TR2 and TR4, the DNA-binding subunits of the DRED repressor complex, are forcibly expressed in erythroid cells of transgenic mice, embryos exhibit a transient mid-gestational anemia as a consequence of a reduction in the number of primitive erythroid cells. GATA-1 mRNA is specifically...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Tanabe O,Shen Y,Liu Q,Campbell AD,Kuroha T,Yamamoto M,Engel JD

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Far1p is a bifunctional protein that is required to arrest the cell cycle and to establish cell polarity during yeast mating. Far1p is localized predominantly in the nucleus but accumulates in the cytoplasm in cells exposed to pheromones. Here we show that Far1p functions in both subcellular compartments: nuclear Far1...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Blondel M,Alepuz PM,Huang LS,Shaham S,Ammerer G,Peter M

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States with a median survival of <6 mo and a dismal 5-yr survival rate of 3%-5%. The cancer's lethal nature stems from its propensity to rapidly disseminate to the lymphatic system and distant organs. This aggressive biol...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Hezel AF,Kimmelman AC,Stanger BZ,Bardeesy N,Depinho RA

更新日期：2006-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The structurally related POU homeo domain proteins Pit-1 and Oct-2 activate pituitary- and lymphoid-specific transcription, respectively, by binding to similar AT-rich motifs in their target genes. In this study we identify bases critical for recognition and activation by Pit-1 and examine how small differences in Pit...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Elsholtz HP,Albert VR,Treacy MN,Rosenfeld MG

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male sexual development in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans requires the genes fem-1, fem-2, and fem-3. The current model of sex determination portrays the FEM proteins as components of a novel signal transduction pathway, but the mechanisms involved in signaling through the pathway are not understood. We report th...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Chin-Sang ID,Spence AM

更新日期：1996-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli, the major nucleoid protein H-NS limits transcription by acting as a repressor or transcriptional silencer, presumably by its ability to close the looped chromosome domains in the nucleoid through DNA-protein-DNA bridging. Here, we demonstrate the direct involvement of H-NS as a positive factor sti...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Park HS,Ostberg Y,Johansson J,Wagner EG,Uhlin BE

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic screening and selection procedures employing a secA-lacZ fusion strain repeatedly have yielded mutations in four genes affecting the protein export pathway of Escherichia coli. These genes are secA, secD, prlA/secY, and secE. We discuss the significance of the failure to find new sec genes after extensive use ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Schatz PJ,Riggs PD,Jacq A,Fath MJ,Beckwith J

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00