The kinase haspin is required for mitotic histone H3 Thr 3 phosphorylation and normal metaphase chromosome alignment.

abstract：:In this issue of Genes & Development, Wierzbicki and colleagues (pp. 1825-1836) examine the current model of RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) by determining genome-wide distributions of RNA polymerase V (Pol V) occupancy, siRNAs, and DNA methylation. Their data support the key role of base-pairing between Pol V tra...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Zhang H,Zhu JK

更新日期：2012-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct reprogramming of fibroblasts to cardiomyocytes represents a potential means of restoring cardiac function following myocardial injury. AKT1 in the presence of four cardiogenic transcription factors, GATA4, HAND2, MEF2C, and TBX5 (AGHMT), efficiently induces the cardiac gene program in mouse embryonic fibroblast...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Zhou H,Morales MG,Hashimoto H,Dickson ME,Song K,Ye W,Kim MS,Niederstrasser H,Wang Z,Chen B,Posner BA,Bassel-Duby R,Olson EN

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The LIM motif defines a double zinc finger structure found in proteins involved in cell fate determination and growth control. LIM proteins, which include LIM homeo domain, LIM kinase, focal adhesion, and LIM-only proteins, usually contain two or more LIM motifs clustered at their amino- or carboxy-terminal end. At pr...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Arber S,Caroni P

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studying the early stages of cancer can provide important insight into the molecular basis of the disease. We identified a preneoplastic stage in the patched (ptc) mutant mouse, a model for the brain tumor medulloblastoma. Preneoplastic cells (PNCs) are found in most ptc mutants during early adulthood, but only 15% of...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Kessler JD,Hasegawa H,Brun SN,Emmenegger BA,Yang ZJ,Dutton JW,Wang F,Wechsler-Reya RJ

更新日期：2009-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Activated Ras initiates a cascade of sequential phosphorylation events, including the protein kinases Raf, MEK, and MAP kinase. The Let-60 Ras-mediated signal transduction pathway controls vulval induction in Caenorhabditis elegans. Both Lin-45 Raf and Sur-1 MAP kinase have been determined to be essential factors duri...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Wu Y,Han M,Guan KL

更新日期：1995-03-15 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：:In enteric bacteria, the transcription factor σ(E) maintains membrane homeostasis by inducing synthesis of proteins involved in membrane repair and two small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) that down-regulate synthesis of abundant membrane porins. Here, we describe the discovery of a third σ(E)-dependent sRNA, MicL (mRNA-inte...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Guo MS,Updegrove TB,Gogol EB,Shabalina SA,Gross CA,Storz G

更新日期：2014-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a genetically heterogeneous developmental disorder whose molecular basis is largely unknown. Here, we show that mutations in the Caenorhabditis elegans bbs-7 and bbs-8 genes cause structural and functional defects in cilia. C. elegans BBS proteins localize predominantly at the base of ci...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Blacque OE,Reardon MJ,Li C,McCarthy J,Mahjoub MR,Ansley SJ,Badano JL,Mah AK,Beales PL,Davidson WS,Johnsen RC,Audeh M,Plasterk RH,Baillie DL,Katsanis N,Quarmby LM,Wicks SR,Leroux MR

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This year is the centenary of Edward G. Conklin's signal findings in embryology: the elucidation of complete cell lineages and the discovery of localized maternal determinants. Conklin used ascidian embryos to elucidate universal principles in embryology. A century later, ascidians, or sea squirts, have not only enter...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Satoh N,Levine M

更新日期：2005-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA polymerase II nascent transcripts are capped during pausing before elongation. Here we report that hSPT5, the human homolog of yeast elongation factor SPT5, interacts directly with the capping enzyme. hSPT5 stimulated capping enzyme guanylylation and mRNA capping by severalfold. Although RNA 5'-triphosphatase acti...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Wen Y,Shatkin AJ

更新日期：1999-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sox2 is expressed in basal epithelial cells of the tongue, with high levels in taste bud placodes, fungiform papillae, and mature taste cells, and low levels in filiform papillae. High Sox2 expression appears to lie downstream from canonical Wnt signaling. In hypomorphic Sox2(EGFP/LP) embryos, placodes form but no mat...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Okubo T,Pevny LH,Hogan BL

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Janus kinase 2 (JAK2) is a central kinase in hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSPCs), and its uncontrolled activation is a prominent oncogenic driver of hematopoietic neoplasms. However, molecular mechanisms underlying the regulation of JAK2 have remained elusive. Here we report that the Casitas B-cell lymphoma (C...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Lv K,Jiang J,Donaghy R,Riling CR,Cheng Y,Chandra V,Rozenova K,An W,Mohapatra BC,Goetz BT,Pillai V,Han X,Todd EA,Jeschke GR,Langdon WY,Kumar S,Hexner EO,Band H,Tong W

更新日期：2017-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytochrome P450 (CYP) gene products such as CYP3A and CYP2B are essential for the metabolism of steroid hormones and xenochemicals including prescription drugs. Nuclear receptor SXR/PXR (steroid and xenobiotic receptor/pregnenolone X receptor) has been shown both biochemically and genetically to activate CYP3A gen...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Xie W,Barwick JL,Simon CM,Pierce AM,Safe S,Blumberg B,Guzelian PS,Evans RM

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A core promoter element called an initiator (Inr) overlaps the transcription start site of numerous mammalian protein-coding genes. In promoters that lack a TATA box, the Inr is functionally analogous to TATA, in that it is capable of directing basal transcription by RNA polymerase II and of determining the precise si...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Kaufmann J,Smale ST

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The integration of viral DNA into the host genome is an essential step in the retrovirus life cycle. To understand this process better, we have examined the native state of viral DNA in cells acutely infected by murine leukemia virus (MLV), using both a physical assay for viral DNA and a functional assay for integrati...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Bowerman B,Brown PO,Bishop JM,Varmus HE

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila brain tumor (brat) gene encodes a member of the conserved NHL family of proteins, which appear to regulate differentiation and growth in a variety of organisms. One of the founding family members, Caenorhabditis elegans LIN-41, is thought to control posttranscriptional gene expression. However, the mech...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Sonoda J,Wharton RP

更新日期：2001-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The cooperation of oncogenes in the transformation of primary rat Schwann cells is a strikingly synergistic process. We have explored the molecular mechanisms involved. Activation of an inducible Raf kinase results in morphologically transformed cells that are arrested in G1 via the induction of p21(CiP1) and subseque...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Lloyd AC,Obermüller F,Staddon S,Barth CF,McMahon M,Land H

更新日期：1997-03-01 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：:Using an immunochemical approach, we have identified a unique antigen, PEP (protein on ecdysone puffs), which is associated in third-instar larvae with the active ecdysone-regulated loci on polytene chromosomes; PEP is not associated with most intermolt puffs and is found on some, but not all, heat shock-induced puffs...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Amero SA,Elgin SC,Beyer AL

更新日期：1991-02-01 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：:Transcriptional activation of the prolactin and growth hormone genes, occurring in a cell-specific fashion, requires short-range synergistic interactions between the pituitary-specific POU domain factor Pit-1 and other transcription factors, particularly nuclear receptors. Unexpectedly, we find that these events invol...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Holloway JM,Szeto DP,Scully KM,Glass CK,Rosenfeld MG

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a prevalent genetic disorder that affects growth properties of neural-crest-derived cell populations. In addition, approximately one-half of NF1 patients exhibit learning disabilities. To characterize NF1 function both in vitro and in vivo, we circumvent the embryonic lethality of NF1...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Zhu Y,Romero MI,Ghosh P,Ye Z,Charnay P,Rushing EJ,Marth JD,Parada LF

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translation of encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) mRNA occurs by ribosomal internal entry into the 5'-nontranslated region (5' NTR) rather than by ribosomal scanning. The internal ribosomal entry site (IRES) in the EMCV 5' NTR was determined by in vitro translation with RNAs that were generated by in vitro transcriptio...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Jang SK,Wimmer E

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) is an important second messenger involved in numerous biological processes, but how it regulates gene expression is not well understood. In this issue of Genes & Development, Cáceres and colleagues (pp. 1476-1485) report a critical requirement of NO as a direct regulator of gene expression through it...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Yamanaka N,O'Connor MB

更新日期：2011-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of early Xenopus embryos with retinoic acid (RA) produces a concentration-dependent series of defects in anterior axial structures that range from small deletions to embryos lacking heads. The graded series of axial defects obtained after RA administration to early embryos appears to result, in part, from ac...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Ruiz i Altaba A,Jessell T

更新日期：1991-02-01 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：:Previous studies have shown that differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes leads to the transcriptional activation of a group of adipose-specific genes. As an approach to defining the mechanism responsible for activating the expression of these genes, we investigated the binding of nuclear factors to the promoters of tw...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Christy RJ,Yang VW,Ntambi JM,Geiman DE,Landschulz WH,Friedman AD,Nakabeppu Y,Kelly TJ,Lane MD

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Agrobacterium Ti plasmid (T-DNA) 6b proteins interact with many different host proteins implicated in plant cell proliferation. Here, we show that Arabidopsis plants overexpressing 6b display microRNA (miRNA) deficiency by directly targeting SERRATE and AGO1 via a specific loop fragment (residues 40-55). In additi...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Wang M,Soyano T,Machida S,Yang JY,Jung C,Chua NH,Yuan YA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dosage compensation in Drosophila occurs by a twofold increase in transcription per copy of X-linked genes in males (XY) compared with females (XX). msl-1 is one of four genes that are essential for dosage compensation in males, and MSL-1 protein is associated specifically with the male X chromosome. To explore the ba...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Palmer MJ,Richman R,Richter L,Kuroda MI

更新日期：1994-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rbfox proteins (Rbfox1, Rbfox2, and Rbfox3) regulate the alternative splicing of many important neuronal transcripts and have been implicated in a variety of neurological disorders. However, their roles in brain development and function are not well understood, in part due to redundancy in their activities. Here w...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Gehman LT,Meera P,Stoilov P,Shiue L,O'Brien JE,Meisler MH,Ares M Jr,Otis TS,Black DL

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00