MicroRNA pathways modulate polyglutamine-induced neurodegeneration.

abstract：:GATA-1 and GATA-2 control proliferation and differentiation of hematopoietic progenitor cells via transcriptional regulation. In this issue of Molecular Cell, Jing et al. (2008) demonstrate that GATA factor exchange on the Kit locus directs a transcriptional switch by reconfiguring chromatin loops. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Apostolou E,Thanos D

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Centromeres are specialized chromatin domains specified by the centromere-specific CENP-A nucleosome. The stable inheritance of vertebrate centromeres is an epigenetic process requiring deposition of new CENP-A nucleosomes by HJURP. We show HJURP is recruited to centromeres through a direct interaction between the HJU...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Nardi IK,Zasadzińska E,Stellfox ME,Knippler CM,Foltz DR

更新日期：2016-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic gene expression regulation involves thousands of distal regulatory elements. Understanding the quantitative contribution of individual enhancers to gene expression is critical for assessing the role of disease-associated genetic risk variants. Yet, we lack the ability to accurately link genes with their dis...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Vangala P,Murphy R,Quinodoz SA,Gellatly K,McDonel P,Guttman M,Garber M

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A major unresolved question in messenger RNA translation is how ribosomal release factors terminate protein synthesis. Class 1 release factors decode stop codons and trigger hydrolysis of the bond between the nascent polypeptide and tRNA some 75 A away from the decoding site. While the gross features of the release fa...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Trobro S,Aqvist J

更新日期：2007-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The translocon is the gateway to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). In yeast this is the Sec61p complex. However, new evidence suggests that a second translocon containing the Sec61p homolog Ssh1p provides important flexibility to the ER translocation machinery. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Robb A,Brown JD

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bcl-2 proteins are critical regulators of apoptosis following DNA damage. Recent studies have shown that genotoxic stress induces the deamidation of Bcl-X(L), inhibiting its antiapoptotic activities. Remarkably, Rb and p53 are important regulators of this novel modification of Bcl-X(L). ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Johnstone RW

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs have recently emerged as key posttranscriptional regulators of eukaryotic gene expression, yet our understanding of how microRNA expression is itself controlled has remained rudimentary. This review describes recent insights into the mechanisms governing microRNA transcription and processing in vertebrates a...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Cullen BR

更新日期：2004-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA polymerase from phage phi29 is a B family polymerase that initiates replication using a protein as a primer, attaching the first nucleotide of the phage genome to the hydroxyl of a specific serine of the priming protein. The crystal structure of phi29 DNA polymerase determined at 2.2 A resolution provides expl...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Kamtekar S,Berman AJ,Wang J,Lázaro JM,de Vega M,Blanco L,Salas M,Steitz TA

更新日期：2004-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The convergence of two DNA replication forks creates unique problems during DNA replication termination. In E. coli and SV40, the release of torsional strain by type II topoisomerases is critical for converging replisomes to complete DNA synthesis, but the pathways that mediate fork convergence in eukaryotes are unkno...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Deegan TD,Baxter J,Ortiz Bazán MÁ,Yeeles JTP,Labib KPM

更新日期：2019-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydroxyl radical footprinting and directed probing from Fe(II)-derivatized IF3 have been used to map the interaction of IF3 relative to 16S rRNA and tRNA(Met)(f) in the 30S ribosomal subunit. Our results place the two domains of IF3 on opposite sides of the initiator tRNA, with the C domain at the platform interface a...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Dallas A,Noller HF

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an interaction between poxA, encoding a paralog of lysyl tRNA-synthetase, and the closely linked yjeK gene, encoding a putative 2,3-beta-lysine aminomutase, that is critical for virulence and stress resistance in Salmonella enterica. Salmonella poxA and yjeK mutants share extensive phenotypic pleiotropy, inc...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Navarre WW,Zou SB,Roy H,Xie JL,Savchenko A,Singer A,Edvokimova E,Prost LR,Kumar R,Ibba M,Fang FC

更新日期：2010-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA replication introduces a dosage imbalance between early and late replicating genes. In budding yeast, buffering gene expression against this imbalance depends on marking replicated DNA by H3K56 acetylation (H3K56ac). Whether additional processes are required for suppressing transcription from H3K56ac-labeled DNA r...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Voichek Y,Mittelman K,Gordon Y,Bar-Ziv R,Lifshitz Smit D,Shenhav R,Barkai N

更新日期：2018-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The RhoA GTPase controls many cellular functions, including gene transcription and actin polymerization. Several lines of evidence suggest that Rho GTPases are required for B cell receptor (BCR) signaling, but whether RhoA is necessary has not been investigated. Here, we show that RhoA is activated, downstream of PI3K...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Saci A,Carpenter CL

更新日期：2005-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:TET proteins, by converting 5-methylcytosine (5mC) to 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC), are hypothesized, but not directly shown, to protect promoter CpG islands (CGIs) against abnormal DNA methylation (DNAm) in cancer. We define such a protective role linked to DNA damage from oxidative stress (OS) known to induce this...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Zhang YW,Wang Z,Xie W,Cai Y,Xia L,Easwaran H,Luo J,Yen RC,Li Y,Baylin SB

更新日期：2017-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:High plasticity to utilize different nutrients to adapt metabolic stress is one of the hallmarks for cancer cells. However, the underlying mechanisms by which cancer cells reprogram metabolic machinery in response to metabolic stress remain largely unclear. In this issue of Molecular Cell, Wang et al. (2019) report th...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Di Conza G,Tsai CH,Ho PC

更新日期：2019-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin VI is the only myosin that moves toward the minus end of actin filaments, suggesting a unique biological function. Here, we show that myosin VI is present in the nucleus of mammalian cells where it colocalizes with newly transcribed mRNA and with RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) and is detected in the RNAPII complex....

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Vreugde S,Ferrai C,Miluzio A,Hauben E,Marchisio PC,Crippa MP,Bussi M,Biffo S

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of BRCA1 is commonly decreased in sporadic breast tumors, and this correlates with poor prognosis of breast cancer patients. Here we show that BRCA1 transcripts are selectively enriched in the Argonaute/miR-182 complex and miR-182 downregulates BRCA1 expression. Antagonizing miR-182 enhances BRCA1 protein l...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Moskwa P,Buffa FM,Pan Y,Panchakshari R,Gottipati P,Muschel RJ,Beech J,Kulshrestha R,Abdelmohsen K,Weinstock DM,Gorospe M,Harris AL,Helleday T,Chowdhury D

更新日期：2011-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The essential functions of the conserved Smc5/6 complex remain elusive. To uncover its roles in genome maintenance, we established Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell-cycle-regulated alleles that enable restriction of Smc5/6 components to S or G2/M. Unexpectedly, the essential functions of Smc5/6 segregated fully and select...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Menolfi D,Delamarre A,Lengronne A,Pasero P,Branzei D

更新日期：2015-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The selective degradation of intracellular components by autophagy involves sequential interactions of the cargo with a receptor, which also binds the autophagosomal protein Atg8 and a scaffold protein. Here, we demonstrated that mutations in C. elegans epg-11, which encodes an arginine methyltransferase homologous to...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Li S,Yang P,Tian E,Zhang H

更新日期：2013-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked mental retardation (XLMR) is an inherited disorder that mostly affects males and is caused by mutations in genes located on the X chromosome. Here, we show that the XLMR protein PHF8 and a C. elegans homolog F29B9.2 catalyze demethylation of di- and monomethylated lysine 9 of histone H3 (H3K9me2/me1). The PHD...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Kleine-Kohlbrecher D,Christensen J,Vandamme J,Abarrategui I,Bak M,Tommerup N,Shi X,Gozani O,Rappsilber J,Salcini AE,Helin K

更新日期：2010-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent issue of Molecular Cell, Büttner et al. (2007) described dual roles for the conserved mitochondrial protein endonuclease G in budding yeast apoptosis and proliferation that illuminate some of the contradictory and confusing findings regarding this protein in mammalian cells. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Burhans WC,Weinberger M

更新日期：2007-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms controlling growth and patterning along the proximal-distal axis of the vertebrate limb are yet to be understood. We show that restriction of expression of the homeobox gene Meis2 to proximal regions of the limb bud is essential for limb development, since ectopic Meis2 severely disrupts limb outgrowth....

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Capdevila J,Tsukui T,Rodríquez Esteban C,Zappavigna V,Izpisúa Belmonte JC

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Molecular Cell, Rinaldi et al. (2021) reveal how nutrient availability in the metastatic niche of breast cancer cells shapes their growth signaling, highlighting potential avenues for therapeutic interventions. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Audet-Delage Y,St-Pierre J

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Concomitant with DNA replication, the chromosomal cohesin complex establishes cohesion between newly replicated sister chromatids. Several replication-fork-associated "cohesion establishment factors," including the multifunctional Ctf18-RFC complex, aid this process in as yet unknown ways. Here, we show that Ctf18-RFC...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Liu HW,Bouchoux C,Panarotto M,Kakui Y,Patel H,Uhlmann F

更新日期：2020-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Related coactivators p300 and CBP affect the transcriptional activities of many transcription factors (TF), producing multiple downstream effects. Here we show that immediate early response TF, Egr1, acts upstream of p300/CBP to induce or to repress transcription, depending on the stimulus. Cells induced with serum to...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Yu J,de Belle I,Liang H,Adamson ED

更新日期：2004-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Small heat shock proteins (sHsps) are ubiquitous molecular chaperones that prevent the aggregation of unfolding proteins during proteotoxic stress. In Caenorhabditis elegans, Sip1 is the only sHsp exclusively expressed in oocytes and embryos. Here, we demonstrate that Sip1 is essential for heat shock survival of repro...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Fleckenstein T,Kastenmüller A,Stein ML,Peters C,Daake M,Krause M,Weinfurtner D,Haslbeck M,Weinkauf S,Groll M,Buchner J

更新日期：2015-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Covalently closed circular RNAs (circRNAs) are produced by precursor mRNA back-splicing of exons of thousands of genes in eukaryotes. circRNAs are generally expressed at low levels and often exhibit cell-type-specific and tissue-specific patterns. Recent studies have shown that their biogenesis requires spliceosomal m...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Li X,Yang L,Chen LL

更新日期：2018-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:β-hydroxybutyrate (β-HB) elevation during fasting or caloric restriction is believed to induce anti-aging effects and alleviate aging-related neurodegeneration. However, whether β-HB alters the senescence pathway in vascular cells remains unknown. Here we report that β-HB promotes vascular cell quiescence, which signi...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Han YM,Bedarida T,Ding Y,Somba BK,Lu Q,Wang Q,Song P,Zou MH

更新日期：2018-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, telomere replication occurs in late S phase and is accompanied by dynamic remodeling of its protein components. Here, we show that MRX (Mre11-Rad50-Xrs2), an evolutionarily conserved protein complex involved in DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair, is recruited to the telomeres in late S p...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Takata H,Tanaka Y,Matsuura A

更新日期：2005-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS)-induced activation of Apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 (ASK1) plays crucial roles in oxidative stress-mediated cell death through the activation of the JNK and p38 MAPK pathways. However, the regulatory mechanism of ASK1 in the oxidative stress response remains to be elucidated. Here,...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Sekine Y,Hatanaka R,Watanabe T,Sono N,Iemura S,Natsume T,Kuranaga E,Miura M,Takeda K,Ichijo H

更新日期：2012-12-14 00:00:00