Genome-wide replication-independent histone H3 exchange occurs predominantly at promoters and implicates H3 K56 acetylation and Asf1.

abstract：:In this issue of Molecular Cell, Taneja et al. (2017) uncover a dual role for the conserved chromatin remodeler Fft3 in the maintenance of silent heterochromatin and the suppression of replication barriers at euchromatic loci through controlled histone turnover. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Fortuny A,Polo SE

更新日期：2017-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial (VE)-cadherin homophilic adhesion controls endothelial barrier permeability through assembly of adherens junctions (AJs). We observed that loss of VE-cadherin-mediated adhesion induced the activation of Src and phospholipase C (PLC)γ2, which mediated Ca(2+) release from endoplasmic reticulum (ER) ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Komarova YA,Huang F,Geyer M,Daneshjou N,Garcia A,Idalino L,Kreutz B,Mehta D,Malik AB

更新日期：2012-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:During meiosis, the homologous chromosomes pair and recombine. An evolutionarily conserved protein structure, the synaptonemal complex (SC), is located along the paired meiotic chromosomes. We have studied the function of a structural component in the axial/lateral element of the SC, the synaptonemal complex protein 3...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Yuan L,Liu JG,Zhao J,Brundell E,Daneholt B,Höög C

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tet(O) belongs to a class of ribosomal protection proteins that mediate tetracycline resistance. It is a G protein that shows significant sequence similarity to elongation factor EF-G. Here we present a cryo-electron microscopic reconstruction, at 16 A resolution, of its complex with the E. coli 70S ribosome. Tet(O) w...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Spahn CM,Blaha G,Agrawal RK,Penczek P,Grassucci RA,Trieber CA,Connell SR,Taylor DE,Nierhaus KH,Frank J

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:c-Jun, a major transcription factor in the activating protein 1 (AP-1) family of regulatory proteins, is activated by many physiologic and pathologic stimuli. However, whether c-jun is regulated by epigenetic modification of chromatin structure is not clear. We showed here that c-jun was transcriptionally repressed in...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Xia Y,Wang J,Liu TJ,Yung WK,Hunter T,Lu Z

更新日期：2007-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubule plus end binding proteins (+TIPs) localize to the dynamic plus ends of microtubules, where they stimulate microtubule growth and recruit signaling molecules. Three main +TIP classes have been identified (XMAP215, EB1, and CLIP-170), but whether they act upon microtubule plus ends through a similar mechanis...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Slep KC,Vale RD

更新日期：2007-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue, Isom et al. (2013) report their exciting discovery that G proteins can sense pH changes to fine-tune signaling in response to metabolic changes. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Sprang SR

更新日期：2013-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Prokaryotes use a mechanism called priming to update their CRISPR immunological memory to rapidly counter revisiting, mutated viruses, and plasmids. Here we have determined how new spacers are produced and selected for integration into the CRISPR array during priming. We show that Cas3 couples CRISPR interference to a...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Künne T,Kieper SN,Bannenberg JW,Vogel AI,Miellet WR,Klein M,Depken M,Suarez-Diez M,Brouns SJ

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During hematopoiesis, cells originating from the same stem cell reservoir differentiate into distinct cell types. The mechanisms enabling common progenitors to differentiate into alternative cell fates are not fully understood. Here, we identify cell-fate-determining transcription factors (TFs) governing dendritic cel...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Bornstein C,Winter D,Barnett-Itzhaki Z,David E,Kadri S,Garber M,Amit I

更新日期：2014-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The PB1-domain-containing proteins p62, aPKC, MEKK2/MEKK3, MEK5, and Par-6 play roles in critical cell processes like osteoclastogenesis, angiogenesis, and early cardiovascular development or cell polarity. PB1 domains are scaffold modules that adopt the topology of ubiquitin-like beta-grasp folds that interact with e...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Moscat J,Diaz-Meco MT,Albert A,Campuzano S

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that the major in vivo targets of brefeldin A (BFA) in the secretory pathway of budding yeast are the three members of the Sec7 domain family of ARF exchange factors: Gea1p and Gea2p (functionally interchangeable) and Sec7p. Specific residues within the Sec7 domain are important for BFA inhibition of AR...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Peyroche A,Antonny B,Robineau S,Acker J,Cherfils J,Jackson CL

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brr2 is a unique DExD/H box protein required for catalytic activation and disassembly of the spliceosome. It contains two tandem helicase cassettes that both comprise dual RecA-like domains and a noncanonical Sec63 unit. The latter may bestow the enzyme with unique properties. We have determined crystal structures of ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Pena V,Jovin SM,Fabrizio P,Orlowski J,Bujnicki JM,Lührmann R,Wahl MC

更新日期：2009-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent publication in Science, Kujirai et al. (2018) use single-particle cryo-EM to resolve several Pol II-nucleosome interactions, shedding new light on transcription elongation in a native chromatin environment. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Noe Gonzalez M,Conaway RC,Conaway JW

更新日期：2018-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:XPG is a structure-specific endonuclease required for nucleotide excision repair, and incision-defective XPG mutations cause the skin cancer-prone syndrome xeroderma pigmentosum. Truncating mutations instead cause the neurodevelopmental progeroid disorder Cockayne syndrome, but little is known about how XPG loss resul...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Trego KS,Groesser T,Davalos AR,Parplys AC,Zhao W,Nelson MR,Hlaing A,Shih B,Rydberg B,Pluth JM,Tsai MS,Hoeijmakers JHJ,Sung P,Wiese C,Campisi J,Cooper PK

更新日期：2016-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of unfolded protein in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) attenuates protein synthesis initiation through phosphorylation of the alpha subunit of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2 (eIF2alpha) at Ser51. Subsequently, transcription of genes encoding adaptive functions including the glucose-regulate...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Scheuner D,Song B,McEwen E,Liu C,Laybutt R,Gillespie P,Saunders T,Bonner-Weir S,Kaufman RJ

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:p300/CBP and PCAF coactivators have acetyltransferase activities and regulate transcription, cell cycle progression, and differentiation. They are both required for MyoD activity and muscle differentiation. Nevertheless, their roles must be different since the acetyltransferase activity of PCAF but not of p300 is invo...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Sartorelli V,Puri PL,Hamamori Y,Ogryzko V,Chung G,Nakatani Y,Wang JY,Kedes L

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sterol accumulation in membranes blocks the exit of SCAP from the ER, preventing SREBP cleavage and reducing cholesterol synthesis. Sterols act through SCAP's sterol-sensing domain by an obscure mechanism. Here, we show that addition of cholesterol to ER membranes in vitro causes a conformational change in SCAP, detec...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Brown AJ,Sun L,Feramisco JD,Brown MS,Goldstein JL

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are abundant and evolutionarily conserved RNAs of largely unknown function. Here, we show that a subset of circRNAs is translated in vivo. By performing ribosome footprinting from fly heads, we demonstrate that a group of circRNAs is associated with translating ribosomes. Many of these ribo-ci...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Pamudurti NR,Bartok O,Jens M,Ashwal-Fluss R,Stottmeister C,Ruhe L,Hanan M,Wyler E,Perez-Hernandez D,Ramberger E,Shenzis S,Samson M,Dittmar G,Landthaler M,Chekulaeva M,Rajewsky N,Kadener S

更新日期：2017-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical and genetic studies verify that the DNA binding domain of protein gpNu1 (which initiates packaging of phage lambda DNA) is a winged helix-turn-helix (w HTH) and that gpNu1 dimers bind sites that are brought close through DNA bending. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Campbell A

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA:DNA hybrids in the genome are constantly being generated as a by-product of transcription; in this issue, two papers, from Helmrich et al. (2011) and Wahba et al. (2011), provide insight into how RNA:DNA hybrids lead to genetic instability. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Potenski CJ,Klein HL

更新日期：2011-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:All nuclear transcription is interrupted during mitosis. We examined the role of human TTF2, an RNA polymerase (Pol) I and II termination factor, in mitotic repression of transcription elongation. We find that TTF2 levels rise in the cytoplasm in S and G2 and at the onset of mitosis TTF2 translocates into the nucleus....

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Jiang Y,Liu M,Spencer CA,Price DH

更新日期：2004-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase B/Akt plays crucial roles in promoting cell survival and mediating insulin responses. The enzyme is stimulated by phosphorylation at two regulatory sites: Thr 309 of the activation segment and Ser 474 of the hydrophobic motif, a conserved feature of many AGC kinases. Analysis of the crystal structures o...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Yang J,Cron P,Thompson V,Good VM,Hess D,Hemmings BA,Barford D

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc is an essential trace element, and impaired zinc homeostasis is implicated in the pathogenesis of various human diseases. However, the mechanisms cells use to respond to zinc deficiency are poorly understood. We previously reported that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)-linked pathogenic mutants of SOD1 cause c...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Homma K,Fujisawa T,Tsuburaya N,Yamaguchi N,Kadowaki H,Takeda K,Nishitoh H,Matsuzawa A,Naguro I,Ichijo H

更新日期：2013-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardozo Gizzi et al. (2019) develop a new sequential imaging methodology (Hi-M) for observing chromosome structure in the Drosophila blastoderm and find that topological domains in single nuclei change in response to transcriptional activation. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Larson DR

更新日期：2019-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycomb proteins are well-known epigenetic repressors with unexplained roles in chromatin folding. In this issue of Molecular Cell, Kundu et al. (2017) investigate the structures of PRC1-mediated domains in stem cells and probe their changes upon differentiation and in PRC knockouts. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Torlai Triglia E,Rito T,Pombo A

更新日期：2017-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the protein kinase Akt in cell migration is incompletely understood. Here we show that sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P)-induced endothelial cell migration requires the Akt-mediated phosphorylation of the G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) EDG-1. Activated Akt binds to EDG-1 and phosphorylates the third intrace...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Lee MJ,Thangada S,Paik JH,Sapkota GP,Ancellin N,Chae SS,Wu M,Morales-Ruiz M,Sessa WC,Alessi DR,Hla T

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tethering of synaptic vesicles (SVs) to the active zone determines synaptic strength, although the molecular basis governing SV tethering is elusive. Here, we discover that small unilamellar vesicles (SUVs) and SVs from rat brains coat on the surface of condensed liquid droplets formed by active zone proteins RIM, RIM...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Wu X,Ganzella M,Zhou J,Zhu S,Jahn R,Zhang M

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Dong et al. (2017) establish how the mitochondrial Ca2+ uniporter (MCU) integrates Ca2+ and oxidative stress signals by identifying a cysteine residue that controls MCU channel activity, a mechanism causing mitochondrial Ca2+ overload and cell death during oxidative stress. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Demaurex N,Rosselin M

更新日期：2017-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used EM visualization of active genes on plasmid vectors in Xenopus oocyte nuclei to investigate the relationship between poly(A) signals and RNA polymerase II transcription termination. Although a functional poly(A) signal is required for efficient termination, cotranscriptional RNA cleavage at the poly(A) si...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Osheim YN,Proudfoot NJ,Beyer AL

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metformin has been reported to possess antitumor activity and maintain high cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) immune surveillance. However, the functions and detailed mechanisms of metformin's role in cancer immunity are not fully understood. Here, we show that metformin increases CTL activity by reducing the stability and...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Cha JH,Yang WH,Xia W,Wei Y,Chan LC,Lim SO,Li CW,Kim T,Chang SS,Lee HH,Hsu JL,Wang HL,Kuo CW,Chang WC,Hadad S,Purdie CA,McCoy AM,Cai S,Tu Y,Litton JK,Mittendorf EA,Moulder SL,Symmans WF,Thompson AM,Piwnica-

更新日期：2018-08-16 00:00:00