Conditional immortalization of human thyroid epithelial cells: a tool for analysis of oncogene action.

abstract：:The SNAIL transcription factor contains C-terminal tandem zinc finger motifs and an N-terminal SNAG repression domain. The members of the SNAIL family have recently emerged as major contributors to the processes of development and metastasis via the regulation of epithelial-mesenchymal transition events during embryon...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hou Z,Peng H,Ayyanathan K,Yan KP,Langer EM,Longmore GD,Rauscher FJ 3rd

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We cloned a 12.3-kilobase (kb) endogenous plasmid, Ddp1, found in several wild-type and laboratory strains of Dictyostelium discoideum into pBR322. The cloned plasmids have been used to cotransform D. discoideum cells with B10S, a transformation vector carrying a gene fusion conferring resistance to G418. Whereas B10S...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Firtel RA,Silan C,Ward TE,Howard P,Metz BA,Nellen W,Jacobson A

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amplified CAD genes in N-(phosphonacetyl)-L-aspartate (PALA)-resistant Syrian hamster cells are located in an expanded chromosomal region emanating from the site of the wild-type gene at the tip of the short arm of chromosome B-9. The terminus of B-9 in PALA-sensitive cells contains a cluster of rRNA genes (i.e., ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wahl GM,Vitto L,Rubnitz J

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NIH3T3 cells transformed by mouse Int-2/Fgf-3 cDNA express a series of Int-2-related products representing discrete stages of processing and glycosylation. We confirm that in at least two highly transformed clonal lines, Int-2 products acquire further modifications and are efficiently secreted into the culture medium....

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kiefer P,Peters G,Dickson C

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The E1B 19-kilodalton protein (19K protein) is a potent apoptosis inhibitor and the adenovirus homolog of Bcl-2 (E. White, Genes Dev. 10:1-15, 1996). To obtain a better understanding of the biochemical mechanism by which the E1B 19K protein regulates apoptosis, proteins that interact with 19K have been identified; one...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Han J,Sabbatini P,White E

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cooperation between STAT3 and c-Jun in driving transcription during transfection of reporter constructs is well established, and both proteins are present on some interleukin-6 (IL-6) STAT3-dependent promoters on chromosomal loci. We report that small interfering RNA knockdown of c-Jun or c-Fos diminishes IL-6 inducti...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ginsberg M,Czeko E,Müller P,Ren Z,Chen X,Darnell JE Jr

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Misfolding of proteins containing abnormal expansions of polyglutamine (polyQ) repeats is associated with cytotoxicity in several neurodegenerative disorders, including Huntington's disease. Recently, the eukaryotic chaperonin TRiC hetero-oligomeric complex has been shown to play an important role in protecting cells ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kim S,Park DY,Lee D,Kim W,Jeong YH,Lee J,Chung SK,Ha H,Choi BH,Kim KT

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell cycle-regulatory transcription factor E2F-1 is regulated by interactions with proteins such as the retinoblastoma gene product and by cell cycle-dependent alterations in E2F-1 mRNA abundance. To better understand this latter phenomenon, we have isolated the human E2F-1 promoter. The human E2F-1 promoter, fuse...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Neuman E,Flemington EK,Sellers WR,Kaelin WG Jr

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three ras homologs have been identified in Drosophila melanogaster. Here we describe the tissue distribution of their transcripts as analyzed by in situ hybridization. The RNAs of the three genes show a similar distribution at every developmental stage examined. In embryos, the transcripts are uniformly distributed. I...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Segal D,Shilo BZ

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient cleavage of both forms of eukaryotic initiation factor 4G (eIF4G-1 and eIF4G-2) has been achieved in HeLa cells by incubation with hybrid proteins containing poliovirus 2Apro. Entry of these proteins into cells is promoted by adenovirus particles. Substantial levels of ongoing translation on preexisting cell...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Novoa I,Carrasco L

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first study reporting the inactivation of a member of the mouse gene family of toxin-related ecto-ADP-ribosyltransferases (ARTs). Transfer of the ADP-ribose moiety from NAD onto extracellular arginine residues on T-cell membrane proteins is mediated by glycosylphosphatidylinositol-linked cell surface ARTs....

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ohlrogge W,Haag F,Löhler J,Seman M,Littman DR,Killeen N,Koch-Nolte F

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GCN4 encodes a transcriptional activator of amino acid biosynthetic genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The GCN3 product is a positive regulator required for increased synthesis of GCN4 protein in amino acid-starved cells. GCN3 appears to act indirectly by antagonizing GCD-encoded negative regulators of GCN4 expression...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hannig EM,Hinnebusch AG

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned a human gene encoding the 70,000-dalton heat shock protein (HSP70) from a human genomic library, using the Drosophila HSP70 gene as a heterologous hybridization probe. The human recombinant clone hybridized to a 2.6-kilobase polyadenylated mRNA from HeLa cells exposed to 43 degrees C for 2 h. The 2.6-ki...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wu B,Hunt C,Morimoto R

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the expression of chimeric plasmids containing coding sequences for the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (tk) gene or the Tn5 gene for neomycin resistance (neo) linked to the late promoter of polyoma DNA. Although polyoma late genes are generally not expressed in transformed cells containing only...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kern FG,Basilico C

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is scant knowledge regarding how cell surface lipid-anchored T-cadherin (T-cad) transmits signals through the plasma membrane to its intracellular targets. This study aimed to identify membrane proteins colocalizing with atypical glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored T-cad on the surface of endothelial cel...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Philippova M,Ivanov D,Joshi MB,Kyriakakis E,Rupp K,Afonyushkin T,Bochkov V,Erne P,Resink TJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a genetic transformation system which should prove useful for investigating tropomyosin assembly and function. Muscle abnormalities associated with a defective tropomyosin allele were corrected by integrating the wild-type gene into germ line chromosomes. The transformation protocol permits application of ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Fyrberg EA,Karlik CC

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C3G, which was identified as a Crk SH3 domain-binding guanine nucleotide-releasing factor, shows sequence similarity to CDC25 and Sos family proteins (S. Tanaka, T. Morishita, Y. Hashimoto, S. Hattori, S. Nakamura, M. Shibuya, K. Matuoka, T. Takenawa, T. Kurata, K. Nagashima, and M. Matsuda, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Gotoh T,Hattori S,Nakamura S,Kitayama H,Noda M,Takai Y,Kaibuchi K,Matsui H,Hatase O,Takahashi H

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each of two severely defective mouse kappa-chain genes has acquired a different intracisternal A particle (IAP) element within one of its introns. One IAP element generated 6-base-pair direct repeats upon insertion. In contrast, the other IAP element was not flanked by direct repeats and was missing a single nucleotid...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hawley RG,Shulman MJ,Hozumi N

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using competition mobility shift, methylation interference, and proteolytic clipping DNA binding assays, we demonstrate that the protein binding the major histocompatibility complex A beta CCAAT box is indistinguishable from the protein previously named NF-Y, which binds the major histocompatibility complex E alpha CC...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kern MJ,Woodward JG

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of p70s6k is associated with multiple phosphorylations at two sets of sites. The first set, S411, S418, T421, and S424, reside within the autoinhibitory domain, and each contains a hydrophobic residue at -2 and a proline at +1. The second set of sites, T229 (in the catalytic domain) and T389 and S404 (i...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Moser BA,Dennis PB,Pullen N,Pearson RB,Williamson NA,Wettenhall RE,Kozma SC,Thomas G

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the interaction of transcription factors TFIIIC and TFIIID with a silkworm alanine tRNA gene. Previous functional analysis showed that the promoter for this gene is unusually large compared with the classical tRNA promoter elements (the A and B boxes) and includes sequences downstream from the transcr...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Young LS,Rivier DH,Sprague KU

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:p63 is a member of the p53 tumor suppressor gene family, which regulates downstream target gene expression by binding to sequence-specific response elements similar to those of p53. By using oligonucleotide expression microarray analysis and analyzing the promoters of p63-induced genes, we have identified novel p63-sp...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Osada M,Park HL,Nagakawa Y,Yamashita K,Fomenkov A,Kim MS,Wu G,Nomoto S,Trink B,Sidransky D

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polycomb protein Bmi-1 represses the INK4a locus, which encodes the tumor suppressors p16 and p14(ARF). Here we report that Bmi-1 is downregulated when WI-38 human fibroblasts undergo replicative senescence, but not quiescence, and extends replicative life span when overexpressed. Life span extension by Bmi-1 requ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Itahana K,Zou Y,Itahana Y,Martinez JL,Beausejour C,Jacobs JJ,Van Lohuizen M,Band V,Campisi J,Dimri GP

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：:The E2A-HLF fusion gene, formed by the t(17;19)(q22;p13) translocation in childhood acute pro-B-cell leukemia, encodes a hybrid protein that contains the paired trans-activation domains of E2A (E12/E47) linked to the basic region/leucine zipper DNA-binding and dimerization domain of hepatic leukemia factor (HLF). To a...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Yoshihara T,Inaba T,Shapiro LH,Kato JY,Look AT

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of assembled holoenzymes composed of regulatory D-type cyclins and their catalytic partner, cyclin-dependent kinase 4 (cdk4), is rate limiting for progression through the G1 phase of the cell cycle in mammalian fibroblasts. Both the synthesis and assembly of D-type cyclins and cdk4 depend upon serum s...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kato JY,Matsuoka M,Strom DK,Sherr CJ

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factor IID (TFIID) complex is highly conserved between the Drosophila and mammalian systems. A mammalian homolog has been described for all the Drosophila TATA box-binding protein-associated factors (TAFs), with the exception of dTAF(II)150. We previously reported the identification of CIF, an essent...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kaufmann J,Ahrens K,Koop R,Smale ST,Müller R

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate in vivo roles of a murine hypothalamic homeobox gene, Bsx, we generated and analyzed two mutant alleles, Bsx(DeltaHD) and Bsx(lacZ). Bsx(DeltaHD) lacks the homeodomain, and Bsx(lacZ) is an insertion of a lacZ reporter gene. Bsx-lacZ expression was detected in the hypothalamus and pineal gland and reiter...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： McArthur T,Ohtoshi A

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Irradiated mice reconstituted with bone marrow cells infected with a retrovirus carrying the bcr-abl oncogene of human chronic myeloid leukemia are subject to a range of neoplastic hematopoietic diseases, both myeloid and lymphoid. Comparison of DBA/2 and C57BL/6 mice has revealed a marked strain difference in suscept...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Elefanty AG,Cory S

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism for transcriptional silencing of pericentric heterochromatin is conserved from fission yeast to mammals. Silenced genome regions are marked by epigenetic methylation of histone H3, which serves as a binding site for structural heterochromatin proteins. In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Cheutin T,Gorski SA,May KM,Singh PB,Misteli T

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00