ATP binding by monarch-1/NLRP12 is critical for its inhibitory function.

abstract：:Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an inherited motor neuron disease caused by homozygous loss of the Survival Motor Neuron 1 (SMN1) gene. In the absence of SMN1, inefficient inclusion of exon 7 in transcripts from the nearly identical SMN2 gene results in ubiquitous SMN decrease but selective motor neuron degeneration....

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ruggiu M,McGovern VL,Lotti F,Saieva L,Li DK,Kariya S,Monani UR,Burghes AH,Pellizzoni L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of a thyroid hormone-responsive gene in rats, designated spot 14, was explored. The expression of this gene in liver is rapidly (less than 10 min) and markedly (greater than 10-fold) altered by the administration of 3,5,3'-triiodo-L-thyronine (T3) to hypothyroid rats (P. Narayan, C. W. Liaw, and H. C. T...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Narayan P,Towle HC

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Saccharomyces cerevisiae PGK (phosphoglycerate kinase) gene encodes one of the most abundant mRNA and protein species in the cell. To identify the promoter sequences required for the efficient expression of PGK, we undertook a detailed internal deletion analysis of the 5' noncoding region of the gene. Our analysis...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ogden JE,Stanway C,Kim S,Mellor J,Kingsman AJ,Kingsman SM

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The active beta-globin genes in chicken erythrocytes, like all active genes, reside in large chromatin domains which are preferentially sensitive to digestion by DNase I. We have recently proposed that the special structure of chromatin in active domains is maintained by torsional stress in the DNA (Villeponteau et al...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Villeponteau B,Martinson HG

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hexanucleotide AAUAAA has been demonstrated to be part of the signal for cleavage and polyadenylation at appropriate sites on eucaryotic mRNA precursors. Since this sequence is not unique to polyadenylation sites, it cannot be the entire signal for the cleavage event. We have extended the definition of the polyade...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Sadofsky M,Alwine JC

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-fes locus encodes a 93-kDa non-receptor protein tyrosine kinase (Fes) that regulates the growth and differentiation of hematopoietic and vascular endothelial cells. Unique to Fes is a long N-terminal sequence with two regions of strong homology to coiled-coil oligomerization domains. We introduced leucine-to-pro...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Cheng HY,Schiavone AP,Smithgall TE

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization to synthetic oligonucleotides representing conserved regions in the promoter and first intron of several vertebrate beta-actin genes was used to discriminate between what appears to be a single functional beta-actin gene and numerous pseudogenes in the mouse genome. Sequences derived from the 5' end of t...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Elder PK,French CL,Subramaniam M,Schmidt LJ,Getz MJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately half of the introns in Drosophila melanogaster are too small to function in a vertebrate and often lack the pyrimidine tract associated with vertebrate 3' splice sites. Here, we report the splicing and spliceosome assembly properties of two such introns: one with a pyrimidine-poor 3' splice site and one ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Talerico M,Berget SM

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chinese hamster-human interspecific hybrid cells, which contain human chromosome 5 and express four genes linked on that chromosome, were subjected to selective conditions requiring them to retain one of the four linked genes, leuS (encoding leucyl-tRNA synthetase), but lose another, either emtB (encoding ribosomal pr...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Dana S,Wasmuth JJ

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our objective was to establish an experimental model of a self-sustained and bistable extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2) signaling process. A single stimulation of cells with cytokines causes rapid ERK1/2 activation, which returns to baseline in 4 h. Repeated stimulation leads to sustained activation o...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Liu W,Tundwal K,Liang Q,Goplen N,Rozario S,Quayum N,Gorska M,Wenzel S,Balzar S,Alam R

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spliceosomal small nuclear RNAs U1, U2, U4, and U5 are transcribed by RNA polymerase II as precursors with extensions at their 3' ends. The 3' processing of these pre-snRNAs is not understood in detail. Two pathways of pre-U2 RNA 3' processing in vitro were revealed in the present investigation by using a series o...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Huang Q,Jacobson MR,Pederson T

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Swi5 zinc finger and the Pho2 homeodomain DNA-binding proteins bind cooperatively to the HO promoter. Pho2 (also known as Bas2 or Grf10) activates transcription of diverse genes, acting with multiple distinct DNA-binding proteins. We have performed a genetic screen to identify amino acid residues in Swi5 that are ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Bhoite LT,Stillman DJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sporulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae normally occurs only in MATa/MAT alpha diploids. We show that mutations in RME1 bypassed the requirements for both a and alpha mating type information in sporulation and therefore allowed MATa/MATa and MAT alpha/MAT alpha diploids to sporulate. RME1 was located on chromosome VII...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Rine J,Sprague GF Jr,Herskowitz I

更新日期：1981-10-01 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：:The transcriptional activator ADR1 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a postulated DNA-binding protein that controls the expression of the glucose-repressible alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH2). Carboxy-terminal deletions of the ADR1 protein (1,323 amino acids in length) were used to localize its functional regions. The trans...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Bemis LT,Denis CL

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B52, an essential SR protein of Drosophila melanogaster, stimulates pre-mRNA splicing in splicing-deficient mammalian S100 extracts. Surprisingly, mutant larvae depleted of B52 were found to be capable of splicing at least several pre-mRNAs tested (H. Z. Ring and J. T. Lis, Mol. Cell. Biol. 14:7499-7506, 1994). In a h...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hoffman BE,Lis JT

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adiponectin is a secretory protein abundantly secreted from adipocytes. It assembles into a number of different higher-order complexes. Adipocytes maintain tight control over circulating plasma levels, suggesting the existence of a complex, highly regulated biosynthetic pathway. However, the critical mediators of adip...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wang ZV,Schraw TD,Kim JY,Khan T,Rajala MW,Follenzi A,Scherer PE

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular transcription factor E2F appears to be a target for the regulatory action of the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor gene product. The recent isolation of the E2F1 cDNA clone, which encodes a polypeptide with properties characteristic of E2F, has now allowed a more detailed analysis of the regulation of E2F f...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Cress WD,Johnson DG,Nevins JR

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the mechanisms that regulate differential transactivation by p53. We developed a system in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae that addresses p53 transactivation capacity from 26 different p53 response elements (REs) under conditions where all other factors, such as chromatin, are kept constant. T...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Inga A,Storici F,Darden TA,Resnick MA

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal (r) proteins encoded by polyadenylated RNA were specifically precipitated in vitro from polysomes by using antibodies raised against characterized Drosophila melanogaster r proteins. The immuno-purified mRNA in the polysome complex was used to prepare cDNA with which to probe a D. melanogaster genomic librar...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Burns DK,Stark BC,Macklin MD,Chooi WY

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription factor CREB regulates cyclic AMP (cAMP)-dependent gene expression by binding to and activating transcription from cAMP response elements (CREs) in the promoters of target genes. The transcriptional transactivation functions of CREB are activated by its phosphorylation by cAMP-dependent protein kinase A (...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Vallejo M,Gosse ME,Beckman W,Habener JF

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ADAR2 is a double-stranded-RNA-specific adenosine deaminase involved in the editing of mammalian RNAs by the site-selective conversion of adenosine to inosine. Previous studies from our laboratory have demonstrated that ADAR2 can modify its own pre-mRNA to create a proximal 3' splice site containing a noncanonical ade...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Feng Y,Sansam CL,Singh M,Emeson RB

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Srs2 protein is involved in DNA repair and recombination. In order to gain better insight into the roles of Srs2, we performed a screen to identify mutations that are synthetically lethal with an srs2 deletion. One of them is a mutated allele of the ULP1 gene that encodes a protease specif...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Soustelle C,Vernis L,Fréon K,Reynaud-Angelin A,Chanet R,Fabre F,Heude M

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HRX gene (also called MLL, ALL-1, and Htrx) at chromosome band 11q23 is associated with specific subsets of acute leukemias through translocations that result in its fusion with a variety of heterologous partners. Two of these partners, ENL and AF9, code for proteins that are highly similar to each other and as fu...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Slany RK,Lavau C,Cleary ML

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase (POR) is the obligate electron donor for all microsomal cytochrome P450 enzymes, which catalyze the metabolism of a wide spectrum of xenobiotic and endobiotic compounds. Point mutations in POR have been found recently in patients with Antley-Bixler-like syndrome, which includes limb skel...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Schmidt K,Hughes C,Chudek JA,Goodyear SR,Aspden RM,Talbot R,Gundersen TE,Blomhoff R,Henderson C,Wolf CR,Tickle C

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first processing event that mouse pre-rRNA undergoes occurs within the external transcribed spacer and is efficiently reproduced in vitro. Analysis with nondenaturing polyacrylamide gels revealed the formation of heparin-resistant complexes of retarded electrophoretic mobility on the substrate rRNA. The specificit...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kass S,Sollner-Webb B

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell numbers are regulated by a balance among proliferation, growth arrest, and programmed cell death. A profound example of cell homeostasis, controlled throughout life, is the complex process of blood cell development, yet little is understood about the intracellular mechanisms that regulate blood cell growth arrest...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Selvakumaran M,Lin HK,Sjin RT,Reed JC,Liebermann DA,Hoffman B

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We deduced the structure of the mouse profilin II gene. It contains five exons that can generate four different transcripts by alternative splicing. Two transcripts encode different profilin II isoforms (designated IIa and IIb) that have similar affinities for actin but different affinities for polyphosphoinositides a...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Lambrechts A,Braun A,Jonckheere V,Aszodi A,Lanier LM,Robbens J,Van Colen I,Vandekerckhove J,Fässler R,Ampe C

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-myc proto-oncogene encodes a transcription factor that participates in the regulation of cellular proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis. Ectopic overexpression of c-Myc has been shown to sensitize cells to apoptosis. We report here that cells lacking c-Myc activity due to disruption of the c-myc gene by ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Adachi S,Obaya AJ,Han Z,Ramos-Desimone N,Wyche JH,Sedivy JM

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00