Phosphorylation of Par-4 by protein kinase A is critical for apoptosis.

abstract：:Intron-encoded U17a and U17b RNAs are members of the H/ACA-box class of small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) participating in rRNA processing and modification. We have investigated the organization and expression of the U17 locus in human cells and found that intronic U17a and U17b sequences are transcribed as part of the t...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Pelczar P,Filipowicz W

更新日期：1998-08-01 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：:Smad6 and Smad7 are inhibitory Smads induced by transforming growth factor beta-Smad signal transduction pathways in a negative-feedback mechanism. Previously it has been thought that inhibitory Smads bind to the type I receptor and block the phosphorylation of receptor-activated Smads, thereby inhibiting the initiati...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Lin X,Liang YY,Sun B,Liang M,Shi Y,Brunicardi FC,Shi Y,Feng XH

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized the mechanism by which coactivator p300 facilitates transcriptional activation mediated by the heterodimer of thyroid hormone (T3) receptor and 9-cis retinoid acid receptor (TR-RXR) in the context of chromatin. We demonstrate that, while p300 can enhance the transcriptional activation mediated by...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Li J,O'Malley BW,Wong J

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PHR1 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae encodes a photolyase which repairs specifically and exclusively pyrimidine dimers, the most frequent lesions induced in DNA by far-UV radiation. We have asked whether expression of PHR1 is modulated in response to UV-induced DNA damage and to DNA-damaging agents that induce le...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Sebastian J,Kraus B,Sancar GB

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of mutant mice plays a pivotal role in determining the function of genes, and the recently reported germ line transposition of the Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon would provide a novel system to facilitate this approach. In this study, we characterized SB transposition in the mouse germ line and assessed its p...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Horie K,Yusa K,Yae K,Odajima J,Fischer SE,Keng VW,Hayakawa T,Mizuno S,Kondoh G,Ijiri T,Matsuda Y,Plasterk RH,Takeda J

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between master regulatory pathways provide higher-order controls for cellular regulation. Recently, we reported a C-->T single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 1 (VEGFR-1/Flt1) promoter that merges human VEGF and p53 pathways. This finding suggested a new la...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Menendez D,Inga A,Snipe J,Krysiak O,Schönfelder G,Resnick MA

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Study of the mechanism(s) of genomic instability induced by the c-myc proto-oncogene has the potential to shed new light on its well-known oncogenic activity. However, an underlying mechanism(s) for this phenotype is largely unknown. In the present study, we investigated the effects of c-Myc overexpression on the DNA ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Sheen JH,Dickson RB

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：:Genetics and in vitro studies have shown that the direct interaction between Gal3p and Gal80p plays a central role in galactose-dependent Gal4p-mediated GAL gene expression in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Precisely how Gal3p-Gal80p interaction effects induction is not clear. It has been assumed that Gal3p inter...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Peng G,Hopper JE

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sp1-like proteins are defined by three highly homologous C(2)H(2) zinc finger motifs that bind GC-rich sequences found in the promoters of a large number of genes essential for mammalian cell homeostasis. Here we report that TIEG2, a transforming growth factor beta-inducible Sp1-like protein with antiproliferative fun...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Zhang JS,Moncrieffe MC,Kaczynski J,Ellenrieder V,Prendergast FG,Urrutia R

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the extent to which muscle-specific genes display identical patterns of mRNA accumulation during human myogenesis. Cloned satellite cells isolated from adult human skeletal muscle were expanded in culture, and RNA was isolated from low- and high-confluence cells and from fusing cultures over a 15-day time...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Gunning P,Hardeman E,Wade R,Ponte P,Bains W,Blau HM,Kedes L

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two beta-tubulin genes of the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii are expressed coordinately after deflagellation and produce two transcripts of 2.1 and 2.0 kilobases. Full-length cDNA clones corresponding to the transcript of each gene were isolated. DNA sequences were obtained from the cDNA clones a...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Youngblom J,Schloss JA,Silflow CD

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular mechanisms involved in chronic inflammatory processes are poorly understood. This is especially true for the role of macrophages, which figure prominently in the inflammatory response. Two proteins, MRP8 and MRP14, which are expressed in infiltrate macrophages during inflammatory reactions but not in norm...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Lagasse E,Clerc RG

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevation of cellular cyclic AMP (cAMP) levels inhibits cell cycle reentry in a variety of cell types. While cAMP can prevent the activation of Raf-1 and extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2 (ERK1/2) by growth factors, we now show that activation of ERK1/2 by DeltaRaf-1:ER is insensitive to cAMP. Despite thi...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Balmanno K,Millar T,McMahon M,Cook SJ

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tax1, a potent activator of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) transcription, has been shown to modulate expression of many cellular genes. Tax1 does not bind DNA directly but regulates transcription through protein-protein interactions with sequence-specific transcription factors. Using the yeast two-hyb...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Pise-Masison CA,Dittmer J,Clemens KE,Brady JN

更新日期：1997-03-01 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：:Fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) induce a variety of biological effects on different cell types. They activate a number of genes, including immediate-early genes, such as the transcription factors Fos and Jun, which are also common targets for other tyrosine kinase receptor-activating growth factors. Here we describe ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Jaakkola P,Vihinen T,Määttä A,Jalkanen M

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular distinctions between mortality stages 1 (M1; senescence) and 2 (M2; crisis) of human replicative aging are ill defined. We demonstrate a qualitative difference between telomeric end associations at M1 and the end fusions that produce dicentric chromosomes and breakage-fusion cycles. Knockdown of ligase I...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Zou Y,Misri S,Shay JW,Pandita TK,Wright WE

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase activities were measured in Rous sarcoma virus-infected baby hamster kidney (BHK) cells that express v-src (BHK [v-src]) and compared with those of revertant and control BHK cells. We observed about a fivefold-higher tyrosine phosphorylating activity in BHK (v-src) cell extracts, which was due to src bu...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Clinton GM,Roskoski R Jr

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II (AII), a potent vasoactive hormone, acts on numerous organs via G-protein-coupled receptors and elicits cell-specific responses. At the level of the heart, AII stimulation alters gene transcription and leads to cardiomyocyte hypertrophy. Numerous intracellular signaling pathways are activated in this pr...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wang J,Paradis P,Aries A,Komati H,Lefebvre C,Wang H,Nemer M

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of replication origins in metazoans is only nominally similar to that in model organisms, such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae. By contrast to the compact origins of budding yeast, in metazoans multiple elements act as replication start sites or control replication efficiency. We first reported that replicat...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Liu G,Malott M,Leffak M

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfection of a hamster cell mutant with human DNA corrected both the low-density lipoprotein receptor-deficient phenotype and the multiple glycosylation defects of the cells. Independently transfected colonies contained a small set of common human DNA fragments. These fragments may correspond to the human analog of...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kingsley DM,Sege RD,Kozarsky KF,Krieger M

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional insulators are cis regulatory elements that organize chromatin into independently regulated domains. At the imprinted murine Igf2/H19 locus, the H19-ICR insulator prevents the activation of the Igf2 promoter on the maternal allele by enhancers that activate H19 on the same chromosome. Given the well-de...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Singh V,Srivastava M

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has previously been demonstrated that the simian virus 40 large T antigen and adenovirus E1A proteins can form complexes with the retinoblastoma susceptibility gene product (RB). We studied the ability of these proteins to bind to mutant RB proteins in vitro. A region of RB spanning residues 379 to 792 was found to...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kaelin WG Jr,Ewen ME,Livingston DM

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the internal organization of the promoter of the Xenopus laevis rRNA gene, we constructed a series of linker-scanning mutants that traverse the rDNA initiation region. The mutant genes, which have 3 to 11 clustered base substitutions set within an otherwise unaltered rDNA promoter sequence, were injected in...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Windle JJ,Sollner-Webb B

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonhistone chromosomal proteins HMG-14 and HMG-17 are closely related nucleosomal binding proteins that unfold the higher-order chromatin structure, thereby enhancing the transcription and replication potential of chromatin. Here we report that PCAF, a transcription coactivator with intrinsic histone acetyltransferase...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Herrera JE,Sakaguchi K,Bergel M,Trieschmann L,Nakatani Y,Bustin M

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:M double-stranded RNA (MdsRNA) plasmid mutants were obtained by mutagenesis and screening of a diploid killer culture partially heat cured of the plasmid, so that a high proportion of the cells could be expected to have only on M plasmid. Mutants with neutral (nonkiller [K-], immune [R+]) or suicide (killer [K+], sens...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Bussey H,Sacks W,Galley D,Saville D

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) is a receptor tyrosine kinase, initially discovered as part of the NPM-ALK fusion protein, resulting from the t(2;5) translocation that is frequently associated with anaplastic large-cell lymphomas. The native ALK protein is normally expressed in the developing and, at a weaker level, ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Mourali J,Bénard A,Lourenço FC,Monnet C,Greenland C,Moog-Lutz C,Racaud-Sultan C,Gonzalez-Dunia D,Vigny M,Mehlen P,Delsol G,Allouche M

更新日期：2006-08-01 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