cAMP stimulates the C/EBP-related transcription factor rNFIL-6 to trans-locate to the nucleus and induce c-fos transcription.

abstract：:Medulloblastoma (MB) is the most common pediatric CNS malignancy. We identify EAG2 as an overexpressed potassium channel in MBs across different molecular and histological subgroups. EAG2 knockdown not only impairs MB cell growth in vitro, but also reduces tumor burden in vivo and enhances survival in xenograft studie...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Huang X,Dubuc AM,Hashizume R,Berg J,He Y,Wang J,Chiang C,Cooper MK,Northcott PA,Taylor MD,Barnes MJ,Tihan T,Chen J,Hackett CS,Weiss WA,James CD,Rowitch DH,Shuman MA,Jan YN,Jan LY

更新日期：2012-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Plectin, a major linker and scaffolding protein of the cytoskeleton, has been shown to be essential for the mechanical integrity of skin, skeletal muscle, and heart. Studying fibroblast and astroglial cell cultures derived from plectin (-/-) mice, we found that their actin cytoskeleton, including focal adhesion contac...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Andrä K,Nikolic B,Stöcher M,Drenckhahn D,Wiche G

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone post-translational modifications regulate chromatin structure and function largely through interactions with effector proteins that often contain multiple histone-binding domains. While significant progress has been made characterizing individual effector domains, the role of paired domains and how they functi...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Rothbart SB,Dickson BM,Ong MS,Krajewski K,Houliston S,Kireev DB,Arrowsmith CH,Strahl BD

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent DNA double-strand breaks and telomeres represent genomic hazards, as they can instigate inappropriate repair reactions. Two recent papers by Oza and colleagues (pp. 912-917) and Schober and colleagues (pp. 928-938) show that both types of DNA ends are sequestered from bulk DNA by Mps3, a SUN domain protein ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Gartenberg MR

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNAi has revolutionized reverse genetics; however, RNAi is not necessarily ubiquitous or constitutive. Lund and colleagues (pp. 1121-1131) show that microRNA (miRNA) effector Argonautes (Agos) are limiting and easily saturated during early Xenopus embryogenesis. Moreover, this stage is devoid of slicing capacity. Supp...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Flynt AS,Lai EC

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Piwi-piRNA (Piwi-interacting RNA) ribonucleoproteins (piRNPs) enforce retrotransposon silencing, a function critical for preserving the genome integrity of germ cells. The molecular functions of most of the factors that have been genetically implicated in primary piRNA biogenesis are still elusive. Here we show that M...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Vourekas A,Zheng K,Fu Q,Maragkakis M,Alexiou P,Ma J,Pillai RS,Mourelatos Z,Wang PJ

更新日期：2015-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the genes encoding the HO endonuclease, G1-specific cyclins CLN1 and CLN2, as well as most proteins involved in DNA synthesis, are periodically transcribed with maximal levels reached in late G1. For HO and the DNA replication genes, cell cycle stage-specific expression has been shown to b...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Marini NJ,Reed SI

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate functional differences between RNA polymerases IIA and IIO (Pol IIA and Pol IIO), with hypo- and hyperphosphorylated carboxy-terminal repeat domains (CTDs), respectively, we have visualized the in vivo distributions of the differentially phosphorylated forms of Pol II on Drosophila polytene chromosomes....

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Weeks JR,Hardin SE,Shen J,Lee JM,Greenleaf AL

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ssn6-Tup1 regulates multiple genes in yeast, providing a paradigm for corepressor functions. Tup1 interacts directly with histones H3 and H4, and mutation of these histones synergistically compromises Ssn6-Tup1-mediated repression. In vitro, Tup1 interacts preferentially with underacetylated isoforms of H3 and H4, sug...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Watson AD,Edmondson DG,Bone JR,Mukai Y,Yu Y,Du W,Stillman DJ,Roth SY

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear export factor 1 (NXF1) exports mRNA to the cytoplasm after recruitment to mRNA by specific adaptor proteins. How and why cells use numerous different export adaptors is poorly understood. Here we critically evaluate members of the SR protein family (SRSF1-7) for their potential to act as NXF1 adaptors that cou...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Müller-McNicoll M,Botti V,de Jesus Domingues AM,Brandl H,Schwich OD,Steiner MC,Curk T,Poser I,Zarnack K,Neugebauer KM

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The repression of the maternally inherited Igf2 allele has been proposed to depend on a methylation-sensitive chromatin insulator organized by the 11 zinc finger protein CTCF at the H19 imprinting control region (ICR). Here we document that point mutations of the nucleotides in physical contact with CTCF within the en...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Pant V,Mariano P,Kanduri C,Mattsson A,Lobanenkov V,Heuchel R,Ohlsson R

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C-factor, the product of the csgA gene, is a cell-surface associated short-range intercellular signaling protein in Myxococcus xanthus. C-factor is required for at least four responses during starvation-induced fruiting body morphogenesis: rippling, aggregation, sporulation, and full expression of the csgA gene, all o...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Søgaard-Andersen L,Slack FJ,Kimsey H,Kaiser D

更新日期：1996-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Diverse developmental processes, such as neuronal growth cone migration and cell shape changes, are mediated by the interactions of cells with the extracellular matrix. We describe here a secreted molecule encoded by the Drosophila masquerade (mas) gene. Total loss of mas function causes defective muscle attachment. T...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Murugasu-Oei B,Rodrigues V,Yang X,Chia W

更新日期：1995-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years several new mouse models for lung cancer have been described. These include models for both non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and small-cell lung cancer (SCLC). Tumorigenesis in these conditional mouse tumor models can be initiated in adult mice through Cre-recombinase-induced activation of oncogenic ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Meuwissen R,Berns A

更新日期：2005-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of HNF-4, a transcription factor in the steroid hormone receptor superfamily, is detected only in the visceral endoderm of mouse embryos during gastrulation and is expressed in certain embryonic tissues from 8.5 days of gestation. To examine the role of HNF-4 during embryonic development, we disrupted the g...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Chen WS,Manova K,Weinstein DC,Duncan SA,Plump AS,Prezioso VR,Bachvarova RF,Darnell JE Jr

更新日期：1994-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Unrepaired DNA lesions in the template strand block the replication fork. In yeast, Mec1 protein kinase-mediated replication checkpoint prevents the breakdown of replication forks and maintains viability in DNA-damaged cells going through the S phase. By ensuring that the replisome does not dissociate from the fork st...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Pagès V,Santa Maria SR,Prakash L,Prakash S

更新日期：2009-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:E2F is a cellular, sequence-specific DNA-binding factor that binds to pairs of sites that occur upstream of the E1A and E2 early mRNA cap sites. During adenovirus infection, there is induction of a form of E2F that binds cooperatively to the pair of sites in the E2 control region. Production of the infection-specific ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Hardy S,Engel DA,Shenk T

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inspired by a zebrafish mutation, two recent studies by Creanga and colleagues (pp. 1312-1325) and Tukachinsky and colleagues have shed new light on the way in which lipidated Hedgehog proteins are secreted and released from expressing cells, suggesting a model for the sequential action of the Disp and Scube2 proteins...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Ingham PW

更新日期：2012-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, sequence-specific DNA binding by the origin recognition complex (ORC) is responsible for selecting origins of DNA replication. In metazoans, origin selection is poorly understood and it is unknown whether specific DNA binding by metazoan ORC controls replication. To address this ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Austin RJ,Orr-Weaver TL,Bell SP

更新日期：1999-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:H4K20 methylation is a broad chromatin modification that has been linked with diverse epigenetic functions. Several enzymes target H4K20 methylation, consistent with distinct mono-, di-, and trimethylation states controlling different biological outputs. To analyze the roles of H4K20 methylation states, we generated c...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Schotta G,Sengupta R,Kubicek S,Malin S,Kauer M,Callén E,Celeste A,Pagani M,Opravil S,De La Rosa-Velazquez IA,Espejo A,Bedford MT,Nussenzweig A,Busslinger M,Jenuwein T

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major class of bacterial small RNAs (sRNAs), along with RNA-binding protein Hfq and endoribonuclease RNase E, acts on target mRNAs through base-pairing, leading to translational repression and rapid degradation of the mRNAs. In this issue of Genes & Development, Prévost and colleagues (pp. 385-396) demonstrate by us...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Morita T,Aiba H

更新日期：2011-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Netrins are secreted molecules with roles in axonal growth and angiogenesis. The Netrin receptor UNC5B is required during embryonic development for vascular patterning, suggesting that it may also contribute to postnatal and pathological angiogenesis. Here we show that unc5b is down-regulated in quiescent adult vascul...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Larrivée B,Freitas C,Trombe M,Lv X,Delafarge B,Yuan L,Bouvrée K,Bréant C,Del Toro R,Bréchot N,Germain S,Bono F,Dol F,Claes F,Fischer C,Autiero M,Thomas JL,Carmeliet P,Tessier-Lavigne M,Eichmann A

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 134-bp enhancer region of the pancreatic elastase I gene is sufficient to direct pancreatic acinar cell-specific transcription in transgenic mice and in transfected cells in culture. Ten-base-pair scanner mutations in three separate enhancer domains that inactivate enhancer function in transfected pancreatic cells...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Swift GH,Kruse F,MacDonald RJ,Hammer RE

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How dividing mammalian cells overcome blocks to DNA replication by DNA damage, depleted nucleotide pools, or template-bound proteins is unclear. Here, we show that the response to blocked replication requires BRCA2, a suppressor of human breast cancer. By using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, we demonstrate that ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Lomonosov M,Anand S,Sangrithi M,Davies R,Venkitaraman AR

更新日期：2003-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of Set2-mediated methylation of H3K36 (K36me) correlates with transcription frequency throughout the yeast genome. K36me targets the Rpd3S complex to deacetylate transcribed regions and suppress cryptic transcription initiation at certain genes. Here, using a genome-wide approach, we report that the Set2-...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Li B,Gogol M,Carey M,Pattenden SG,Seidel C,Workman JL

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-range migrating progenitor cells generate hypaxial muscle, for instance the muscle of the limbs, hypoglossal cord, and diaphragm. We show here that migrating muscle progenitors express the chemokine receptor CXCR4. The corresponding ligand, SDF1, is expressed in limb and branchial arch mesenchyme; i.e., along the...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Vasyutina E,Stebler J,Brand-Saberi B,Schulz S,Raz E,Birchmeier C

更新日期：2005-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurogenic loci of Drosophila are required for proper partitioning of ectodermal cells into epidermal versus neural lineages. The loci appear to encode components of a developmental pathway involving cellular communication. In an effort to understand the role of the neurogenic locus mastermind in these processes, ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Smoller D,Friedel C,Schmid A,Bettler D,Lam L,Yedvobnick B

更新日期：1990-10-01 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：: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：:An insulin receptor-like signaling pathway regulates Caenorhabditis elegans metabolism, development, and longevity. Inactivation of the insulin receptor homolog DAF-2, the AGE-1 PI3K, or the AKT-1 and AKT-2 kinases causes a developmental arrest at the dauer stage. A null mutation in the daf-16 Fork head transcription ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Paradis S,Ailion M,Toker A,Thomas JH,Ruvkun G

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00