A single Hox locus in Drosophila produces functional microRNAs from opposite DNA strands.

abstract：:Eukaryotic RNAs with premature termination codons (PTCs) are eliminated by nonsense-mediated decay (NMD). While human nonsense RNA degradation can be initiated either by an endonucleolytic cleavage event near the PTC or through decapping, the individual contribution of these activities on endogenous substrates has rem...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Lykke-Andersen S,Chen Y,Ardal BR,Lilje B,Waage J,Sandelin A,Jensen TH

更新日期：2014-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional profiling is a powerful approach for understanding development and disease. Current cell type-specific RNA purification methods have limitations, including cell dissociation trauma or inability to identify all RNA species. Here, we describe "mouse thiouracil (TU) tagging," a genetic and chemical inters...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Gay L,Miller MR,Ventura PB,Devasthali V,Vue Z,Thompson HL,Temple S,Zong H,Cleary MD,Stankunas K,Doe CQ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rad51 and Lim15 proteins of lily, which are homologs of the bacterial RecA protein, were found on chromosomes in various stages of meiotic prophase 1. The presence of both Rad51 and Lim15 proteins as discrete foci on leptotene and zygotene chromosomes and their colocalization suggest that meiotic recombination beg...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Terasawa M,Shinohara A,Hotta Y,Ogawa H,Ogawa T

更新日期：1995-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) derived from bone marrow contribute to the regeneration of multiple types of mesenchymal tissues. Here we describe the functional role of a novel form of cross-talk between the transforming growth factor beta1 (TGF-beta1) and Wnt signaling pathways in regulating the activities of hu...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Jian H,Shen X,Liu I,Semenov M,He X,Wang XF

更新日期：2006-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-mRNA splicing is essential for generating mature mRNA and is also important for subsequent mRNA export and quality control. The splicing history is imprinted on spliced mRNA through the deposition of a splicing-dependent multiprotein complex, the exon junction complex (EJC), at approximately 20 nucleotides upstrea...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Shi H,Xu RM

更新日期：2003-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical embryology has provided a clear view of the timing and hormonal cues that govern sexual differentiation. Molecular biology has added important details to this picture. The cloning of SRY, MIS, and INSL3 provide insight into the molecular signals that provide important cues at the cellular level. Continued un...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Nef S,Parada LF

更新日期：2000-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Dosage compensation in Drosophila occurs by a twofold increase in transcription per copy of X-linked genes in males (XY) compared with females (XX). msl-1 is one of four genes that are essential for dosage compensation in males, and MSL-1 protein is associated specifically with the male X chromosome. To explore the ba...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Palmer MJ,Richman R,Richter L,Kuroda MI

更新日期：1994-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila scratch (scrt) gene is expressed in most or all neuronal precursor cells and encodes a predicted zinc finger transcription factor closely related to the product of the mesoderm determination gene snail (sna). Adult flies homozygous for scrt null alleles have a reduced number of photoreceptors in the eye...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Roark M,Sturtevant MA,Emery J,Vaessin H,Grell E,Bier E

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dosage compensation is a process required to balance the expression of X-linked genes between males and females. In Drosophila this is achieved by targeting the dosage compensation complex or the male-specific lethal (MSL) complex to the male X chromosome. In order to study the mechanism of targeting, we have studied ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Kind J,Akhtar A

更新日期：2007-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe evidence that a regulatory B subunit of protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) positively regulates an RTK-Ras-MAP kinase signaling cascade during Caenorhabditis elegans vulval induction. Although reduction of sur-6 PP2A-B function causes few vulval induction defects in an otherwise wild-type background, sur-6 PP2A...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Sieburth DS,Sundaram M,Howard RM,Han M

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Class switch recombination (CSR) diversifies antibodies for productive immune responses while maintaining stability of the B-cell genome. Transcription at the immunoglobulin heavy chain (Igh) locus targets CSR-associated DNA damage and is promoted by the BRCT domain-containing PTIP (Pax transactivation domain-interact...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Starnes LM,Su D,Pikkupeura LM,Weinert BT,Santos MA,Mund A,Soria R,Cho YW,Pozdnyakova I,Kubec Højfeldt M,Vala A,Yang W,López-Méndez B,Lee JE,Peng W,Yuan J,Ge K,Montoya G,Nussenzweig A,Choudhary C,Daniel JA

更新日期：2016-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of bacteriophage N4 middle genes is carried out by a phage-coded, heterodimeric RNA polymerase (N4 RNAPII), which belongs to the family of T7-like RNA polymerases. In contrast to phage T7-RNAP, N4 RNAPII displays no activity on double-stranded templates and low activity on single-stranded templates. In v...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Carter RH,Demidenko AA,Hattingh-Willis S,Rothman-Denes LB

更新日期：2003-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:MCM1 is an essential yeast DNA-binding protein that affects both minichromosome maintenance, in a manner suggesting that it has DNA replication initiation function, and gene expression. It activates alpha-specific genes together with MAT alpha 1, and represses a-specific genes together with MAT alpha 2. Alone, MCM1 ca...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Christ C,Tye BK

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The RNA polymerase II core promoter is a structurally and functionally diverse transcriptional module. RNAi depletion and overexpression experiments revealed a genetic circuit that controls the balance of transcription from two core promoter motifs, the TATA box and the downstream core promoter element (DPE). In this ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Hsu JY,Juven-Gershon T,Marr MT 2nd,Wright KJ,Tjian R,Kadonaga JT

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The LIM motif defines a double zinc finger structure found in proteins involved in cell fate determination and growth control. LIM proteins, which include LIM homeo domain, LIM kinase, focal adhesion, and LIM-only proteins, usually contain two or more LIM motifs clustered at their amino- or carboxy-terminal end. At pr...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Arber S,Caroni P

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) gene Hes7, a putative Notch effector, encodes a transcriptional repressor. Here, we found that Hes7 expression oscillates in 2-h cycles in the presomitic mesoderm (PSM). In Hes7-null mice, somites are not properly segmented and their anterior-posterior polarity is disrupted. As a resu...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Bessho Y,Sakata R,Komatsu S,Shiota K,Yamada S,Kageyama R

更新日期：2001-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic RNA subunit (M1 RNA) of RNase P from Escherichia coli has been converted to an endoribonuclease that specifically cleaves the mRNA that encodes thymidine kinase (TK) of herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1). Covalent attachment to the 3' end of M1 RNA of a sequence complementary to TK mRNA results in very effic...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Liu F,Altman S

更新日期：1995-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberous sclerosis (TSC) is an autosomal dominant disease characterized by hamartoma formation in various organs and is caused by mutations targeting either the TSC1 or TSC2 genes. TSC1 and TSC2 proteins form a functionally interdependent dimeric complex. Phosphorylation of either TSC subunit by different kinases regu...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Hu J,Zacharek S,He YJ,Lee H,Shumway S,Duronio RJ,Xiong Y

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PIWI clade Argonaute proteins silence transposon expression in animal gonads. Their target specificity is defined by bound ∼23- to 30-nucleotide (nt) PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) that are processed from single-stranded precursor transcripts via two distinct pathways. Primary piRNAs are defined by the endonuclease Zu...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Senti KA,Jurczak D,Sachidanandam R,Brennecke J

更新日期：2015-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:E2F is a cellular, sequence-specific DNA-binding factor that binds to pairs of sites that occur upstream of the E1A and E2 early mRNA cap sites. During adenovirus infection, there is induction of a form of E2F that binds cooperatively to the pair of sites in the E2 control region. Production of the infection-specific ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Hardy S,Engel DA,Shenk T

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During embryonic development, the two Caenorhabditis elegans HSN motor neurons migrate from their birthplace in the tail to positions near the middle of the embryo. Here, we demonstrate that of all cells that undergo long-range migrations, only the HSNs are affected in animals that lack function of the egl-43 gene. We...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Garriga G,Guenther C,Horvitz HR

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-myc gene encodes a putative transcription factor that is thought to function in the regulation of gene expression during cell differentiation and/or growth. To examine the role of N-myc during development, we have used targeted mutagenesis in embryonic stem cells to produce a mouse line that carries an N-myc nul...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Charron J,Malynn BA,Fisher P,Stewart V,Jeannotte L,Goff SP,Robertson EJ,Alt FW

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SNF2 chromatin-remodeling ATPases play an important role in ensuring proper development in higher eukaryotes by controlling accessibility of cis-regulatory DNA regions to transcription factors and to the transcriptional machinery. However, the biological targets controlled by these ATPases are largely unknown. Using g...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Kwon CS,Chen C,Wagner D

更新日期：2005-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell for cell, probably no human cancer is as aggressive as melanoma. It is among a handful of cancers whose dimensions are reported in millimeters. Tumor thickness approaching 4 mm presents a high risk of metastasis, and a diagnosis of metastatic melanoma carries with it an abysmal median survival of 6-9 mo. What fea...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Chin L,Garraway LA,Fisher DE

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now well appreciated that the apoptosome, which governs caspase-dependent cell death, also drives nonapoptotic caspase activation to remodel cells. However, the determinants that specify whether the apoptosome acts to kill or remodel have yet to be identified. Here we report that Tango7 collaborates with the Dro...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： D'Brot A,Chen P,Vaishnav M,Yuan S,Akey CW,Abrams JM

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pcf11 is one of numerous proteins involved in pre-mRNA 3'-end processing and transcription termination. Using elongation complexes (ECs) formed from purified yeast RNA polymerase II (Pol II), we show that a 140-amino acid polypeptide from yeast Pcf11 is capable of dismantling the EC in vitro. This action depends on th...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Zhang Z,Fu J,Gilmour DS

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The p53 tumor suppressor is often disrupted in human cancers by the acquisition of missense mutations. We generated mice with a missense mutation at codon 172 that mimics the p53R175H hot spot mutation in human cancer. p53 homozygous mutant mice have unstable mutant p53 in normal cells and stabilize mutant p53 in some...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Terzian T,Suh YA,Iwakuma T,Post SM,Neumann M,Lang GA,Van Pelt CS,Lozano G

更新日期：2008-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factor NF-kappaB is a critical regulator of inflammatory and cell survival signals. Proteasomal degradation of NF-kappaB subunits plays an important role in the termination of NF-kappaB activity, and at least one of the identified ubiquitin ligases is a multimeric complex containing Copper Metabolism...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Mao X,Gluck N,Li D,Maine GN,Li H,Zaidi IW,Repaka A,Mayo MW,Burstein E

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Purkinje cell protein 2 (Pcp-2) is expressed in cerebellar Purkinje cells and retinal bipolar neurons. To illuminate how Pcp-2 expression is restricted to only two neuronal types and to derive tools to express heterologous genes in these neuronal subpopulations, genomic sequences of the mouse Pcp-2 gene have been ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Vandaele S,Nordquist DT,Feddersen RM,Tretjakoff I,Peterson AC,Orr HT

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrulation in mice is associated with the start of extreme proliferation and differentiation. The potential cost to the embryo of a very rapid proliferation rate is a high production of damaged cells. We demonstrate a novel surveillance mechanism for the elimination of cells damaged by ionizing radiation during mous...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Heyer BS,MacAuley A,Behrendtsen O,Werb Z

更新日期：2000-08-15 00:00:00