Deregulated E2f-2 underlies cell cycle and maturation defects in retinoblastoma null erythroblasts.

abstract：:The eukaryotic Spt4-Spt5 heterodimer forms a higher-order complex with RNA polymerase II (and I) to regulate transcription elongation. Extensive genetic and functional data have revealed diverse roles of Spt4-Spt5 in coupling elongation with chromatin modification and RNA-processing pathways. A mechanistic understandi...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Meyer PA,Li S,Zhang M,Yamada K,Takagi Y,Hartzog GA,Fu J

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During aging, cellular plasticity and senescence play important roles in tissue regeneration and the pathogenesis of different diseases, including cancer. We have recently shown that senescent breast luminal cells can activate their adjacent stromal fibroblasts. In the present report, we present clear evidence that th...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Al-Khalaf HH,Ghebeh H,Wakil SM,Al-Mohanna F,Aboussekhra A

更新日期：2020-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the diversity in the mechanisms of basal transcription by RNA polymerase II, we have employed a novel biochemical approach that involves perturbation of the transcription reaction with exogenously added TFIIB or TATA box-binding protein (TBP). Under these conditions, we observe promoter-selective inhibition...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： George CP,Lira-DeVito LM,Wampler SL,Kadonaga JT

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomere stabilization is critical for tumorigenesis. A number of tumors and cell lines use a recombination-based mechanism, alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT), to maintain telomere repeat arrays. Current data suggest that the mutation of p53 facilitates the activation of this pathway. In addition to its funct...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Razak ZR,Varkonyi RJ,Kulp-McEliece M,Caslini C,Testa JR,Murphy ME,Broccoli D

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiotic recombination is initiated by the formation of programmed DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) catalyzed by the Spo11 protein. DSBs are not randomly distributed along chromosomes. To better understand factors that control the distribution of DSBs in budding yeast, we have examined the genome-wide binding and cleava...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Robine N,Uematsu N,Amiot F,Gidrol X,Barillot E,Nicolas A,Borde V

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The erbB-2 gene product, gp185erbB-2, unlike the structurally related epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor (EGFR), exhibits constitutive kinase and transforming activity. We used a chimeric EGFR/erbB-2 expression vector to compare the mitogenic signaling pathway of the erbB-2 kinase with that of the EGFR, at similar...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Fazioli F,Kim UH,Rhee SG,Molloy CJ,Segatto O,Di Fiore PP

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PGC-1α is a key transcription coactivator regulating energy metabolism in a tissue-specific manner. PGC-1α expression is tightly regulated, it is a highly labile protein, and it interacts with various proteins--the known attributes of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs). In this study, we characterize PGC-1α as a...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Adamovich Y,Shlomai A,Tsvetkov P,Umansky KB,Reuven N,Estall JL,Spiegelman BM,Shaul Y

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NF-κB activation is a critical component in the transcriptional response to hypoxia. However, the underlying mechanisms that control its activity under these conditions are unknown. Here we report that under hypoxic conditions, IκB kinase (IKK) activity is induced through a calcium/calmodulin-dependent kinase 2 (CaMK2...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Culver C,Sundqvist A,Mudie S,Melvin A,Xirodimas D,Rocha S

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Illegitimate recombination events in mammalian cells often contain extraneous nucleotides or filler DNA at the recombinant joins. The polyomavirus-transformed cell line 7axB has previously been found to contain 37 base pairs (bp) of filler DNA at one virus-host join of the single insert of integrated viral DNA (A. Hay...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Williams TJ,Fried M

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene encoding a novel CACCC box-binding protein that binds to the promoter region of the human T-cell receptor (TCR) V beta 8.1 gene and the mouse TCR alpha gene silencer has been cloned. This gene, termed ht beta, contains four zinc fingers of the class Cys2-X12-His2 that may be responsible for DNA binding and a hi...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wang Y,Kobori JA,Hood L

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional activation of eukaryotic genes depends on the precise and ordered recruitment of activators, chromatin modifiers/remodelers, coactivators, and general transcription factors to the promoters of target genes. Using the human matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9) gene as a model system, we investigated the s...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ma Z,Shah RC,Chang MJ,Benveniste EN

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Integrator Complex is a group of proteins responsible for the endonucleolytic cleavage of primary small nuclear RNA (snRNA) transcripts within the nucleus. Integrator subunits 9 and 11 (IntS9/11) are thought to contain the catalytic activity based on their high sequence similarity to CPSF100 and CPSF73, which have...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Albrecht TR,Wagner EJ

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-6 (IL-6) and leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), two multifunctional cytokines, recently have been identified as physiological inducers of hematopoietic cell differentiation which also induce terminal differentiation and growth arrest of the myeloblastic leukemic M1 cell line. In this work, it is shown that ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hoffman-Liebermann B,Liebermann DA

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The histone H1(0)-encoding gene is expressed in vertebrates in differentiating cells during the arrest of proliferation. In the H1(0) promoter, a specific regulatory element, which we named the H4 box, exhibits features which implicate a role in mediating H1(0) gene expression in response to both differentiation and c...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Lemercier C,Duncliffe K,Boibessot I,Zhang H,Verdel A,Angelov D,Khochbin S

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, 3-amino-1,2,4-triazole (aminotriazole) competitively inhibits the activity of imidazoleglycerolphosphate dehydratase, the product of the HIS3 gene. Wild-type strains are able to grow in the presence of 10 mM aminotriazole because they induce the level of imidazoleglycerolphosphate dehydrat...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kanazawa S,Driscoll M,Struhl K

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vitamin D receptor (VDR) normally functions as a ligand-dependent transcriptional activator. Here we show that, in the presence of Ets-1, VDR stimulates the prolactin promoter in a ligand-independent manner, behaving as a constitutive activator. Mutations in the AF2 domain abolish vitamin D-dependent transactivati...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Tolón RM,Castillo AI,Jiménez-Lara AM,Aranda A

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian Ras GTPase-activating protein (GAP), p120 Ras-GAP, has been implicated as both a downregulator and effector of Ras proteins, but its precise role in Ras-mediated signal transduction pathways is unclear. To begin a genetic analysis of the role of p120 Ras-GAP we identified a homolog from the fruit fly Drosoph...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Feldmann P,Eicher EN,Leevers SJ,Hafen E,Hughes DA

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The on/off state of the binary switch gene Sex-lethal (Sxl), which controls somatic sexual development in Drosophila melanogaster, is regulated at the level of alternative splicing. In males, in which the gene is off, the default splicing machinery produces nonfunctional mRNAs; in females, in which the gene is on, the...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Horabin JI,Schedl P

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous analyses defined a proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) E1A-responsive element (PERE) in the PCNA promoter that is essential for transactivation by the 243-residue product of the adenovirus type 2 E1A 12S mRNA (E1A 243R). In this report, we show that the PERE activates a heterologous basal promoter and c...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Morris GF,Labrie C,Mathews MB

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a phosphorelay signal transduction pathway composed of Sln1p, Ypd1p, and Ssk1p, which are homologous to bacterial two-component signal transducers, is involved in the osmosensing mechanism. In response to high osmolarity, the phosphorelay system is inactivated and Ssk1p remains unphosphory...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Sato N,Kawahara H,Toh-e A,Maeda T

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Welander distal myopathy (WDM) is a muscle dystrophy characterized by adult-onset distal muscle weakness, prevalently impacting the distal long extensors of the hands and feet. WDM is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by a missense mutation (c.1362G>A; p.E384K) in the TIA1 (T-cell intracellular antigen 1) gene, wh...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Carrascoso I,Sánchez-Jiménez C,Silion E,Alcalde J,Izquierdo JM

更新日期：2018-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Heteroduplexes formed between DNA strands derived from different homologous chromosomes are an intermediate in meiotic crossing over in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and other eucaryotes. A heteroduplex formed between wild-type and mutant genes will contain a base pair mismatch; failure to repair this mismatch wi...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Detloff P,Sieber J,Petes TD

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Notch signaling commences with two ligand-mediated proteolysis events that release the Notch intracellular domain, NICD, from the plasma membrane. NICD then translocates into the nucleus and interacts with the DNA binding protein CSL to activate transcription. We found that NICD expression also potentiates activity of...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ross DA,Kadesch T

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA mismatch repair maintains genomic stability by detecting and correcting mispaired DNA sequences and by signaling cell death when DNA repair fails. The mechanism by which mismatch repair coordinates DNA damage and repair with cell survival or death is not understood, but it suggests the need for regulation. Since t...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wu X,Platt JL,Cascalho M

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulation factor VIII is an essential cofactor required for normal hemostatic function. A deficiency in factor VIII results in the bleeding disorder hemophilia A. Despite the fact that the factor VIII gene was cloned a decade ago, the mechanisms which control its transcription remain unresolved. In our studies, we h...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： McGlynn LK,Mueller CR,Begbie M,Notley CR,Lillicrap D

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SMRT corepressor complex participates in transcriptional repression by a diverse array of vertebrate transcription factors. The ability to recruit SMRT appears to play a crucial role in leukemogenesis by the PML-retinoic acid receptor alpha (RARalpha) oncoprotein, an aberrant nuclear hormone receptor implicated in...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hong SH,Yang Z,Privalsky ML

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Negative-feedback loops between transcription factors and repressors in responses to xenobiotics, oxidants, heat, hypoxia, DNA damage, and infection have been described. Although common, the function of feedback is largely unstudied. Here, we define a negative-feedback loop between the Caenorhabditis elegans detoxific...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Leung CK,Wang Y,Deonarine A,Tang L,Prasse S,Choe KP

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously identified a set of transcription regulators, referred to as TIPs (tension-induced/inhibited proteins), with a role in myogenic versus adipogenic differentiation. Here we report that the TIP family comprises eight isoforms, all bearing a SANT (switching-defective protein 3, adaptor 2, nuclear receptor co...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Badri KR,Zhou Y,Dhru U,Aramgam S,Schuger L

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Chlamydomonas reinhardi the chloroplast DNA (ch;DNA) of mating type plus cells undergoes cyclical methylation and demethylation during the life cycle. Methylation occurs during gametogenesis, and fully differentiated gametes can be dedifferentiated back to vegetative cells which contain nonmethylated chlDNA by the ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Sano H,Grabowy C,Sager R

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper is an essential cofactor of two mitochondrial enzymes: cytochrome c oxidase (COX) and Cu-Zn superoxide dismutase (Sod1p). Copper incorporation into these enzymes is facilitated by metallochaperone proteins which probably use copper from a mitochondrial matrix-localized pool. Here we describe a novel conserved m...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Horn D,Al-Ali H,Barrientos A

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00