The CUL4 enigma: culling DNA repair factors.

abstract：:Transcriptional pausing by RNA polymerase (RNAP) plays an essential role in gene regulation. Pausing is modified by various elongation factors, including prokaryotic NusA, but the mechanisms underlying pausing and NusA function remain unclear. Alternative models for pausing invoke blockade events that precede transloc...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Zhou J,Ha KS,La Porta A,Landick R,Block SM

更新日期：2011-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASP) family control actin dynamics in eukaryotic cells by stimulating the actin nucleating activity of the Arp2/3 complex. The prevailing paradigm for WASP regulation invokes allosteric relief of autoinhibition by diverse upstream activators. Here we demonstrate an add...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Padrick SB,Cheng HC,Ismail AM,Panchal SC,Doolittle LK,Kim S,Skehan BM,Umetani J,Brautigam CA,Leong JM,Rosen MK

更新日期：2008-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Molecular Cell, Yang et al. (2011) demonstrate that Aurora B phosphorylates ATM, leading to its mitotic activation and ability to phosphorylate Bub1 and regulate the spindle checkpoint, thus maintaining genomic integrity. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Bihani T,Hinds PW

更新日期：2011-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins that recognize specific DNA sequences play a central role in the regulation of transcription. The tremendous increase in structural information on protein-DNA complexes has uncovered a remarkable structural diversity in DNA binding folds, while at the same time revealing common themes in binding to target sit...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Garvie CW,Wolberger C

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane-spanning C-terminal regions in tail-anchored proteins must be recognized and delivered posttranslationally to the endoplasmic reticulum or mitochondrial membrane. A paper in this issue of Molecular Cell (Wang et al., 2010) and another recent report (Mariappan et al., 2010) delineate early steps in this pa...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Brodsky JL

更新日期：2010-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Atg7 is a noncanonical, homodimeric E1 enzyme that interacts with the noncanonical E2 enzyme, Atg3, to mediate conjugation of the ubiquitin-like protein (UBL) Atg8 during autophagy. Here we report that the unique N-terminal domain of Atg7 (Atg7(NTD)) recruits a unique "flexible region" from Atg3 (Atg3(FR)). The struct...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Taherbhoy AM,Tait SW,Kaiser SE,Williams AH,Deng A,Nourse A,Hammel M,Kurinov I,Rock CO,Green DR,Schulman BA

更新日期：2011-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The Raf/MEK/ERK and PI3K/Akt pathways are prominent effectors of oncogenic Ras. These pathways negatively regulate each other, but the mechanism involved is incompletely understood. We now identify MEK1 as an essential regulator of lipid/protein phosphatase PTEN, through which it controls phosphatidylinositol-3-phosph...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Zmajkovicova K,Jesenberger V,Catalanotti F,Baumgartner C,Reyes G,Baccarini M

更新日期：2013-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic cells license far more origins than are actually used for DNA replication, thereby generating a large number of dormant origins. Accumulating evidence suggests that such origins play a role in chromosome stability and tumor suppression, though the underlying mechanism is largely unknown. Here, we show that ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Kawabata T,Luebben SW,Yamaguchi S,Ilves I,Matise I,Buske T,Botchan MR,Shima N

更新日期：2011-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Metazoan spliceosomes exhibit an elaborate protein composition required for canonical and alternative splicing. Thus, the minimal set of proteins essential for activation and catalysis remains elusive. We therefore purified in vitro assembled, precatalytic spliceosomal complex B, activated B(act), and step 1 complex C...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Fabrizio P,Dannenberg J,Dube P,Kastner B,Stark H,Urlaub H,Lührmann R

更新日期：2009-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:miRNAs are largely known to base pair with the 3'UTR of target mRNAs, downregulating their stability and translation. mRNA of betaTrCP1 ubiquitin ligase is very unstable, but unlike the majority of mRNAs where 3'UTR determines the rate of mRNA turnover, betaTrCP1 mRNA contains cis-acting destabilizing elements within ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Elcheva I,Goswami S,Noubissi FK,Spiegelman VS

更新日期：2009-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play a pivotal role in the regulation of genes involved in diverse processes such as development, differentiation, and cellular growth control. Recently, many viral-encoded miRNAs have been discovered, for the most part in viruses transcribed from double-stranded DNA genomes. As with their cellular ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Sullivan CS,Ganem D

更新日期：2005-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The methylcytosine oxidase TET proteins play important roles in DNA demethylation and development. However, it remains elusive how exactly they target substrates and execute oxidation. Interestingly, we found that, in mice, the full-length TET1 isoform (TET1e) is restricted to early embryos, embryonic stem cells (ESCs...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Zhang W,Xia W,Wang Q,Towers AJ,Chen J,Gao R,Zhang Y,Yen CA,Lee AY,Li Y,Zhou C,Liu K,Zhang J,Gu TP,Chen X,Chang Z,Leung D,Gao S,Jiang YH,Xie W

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Siz1 is a founding member of the Siz/PIAS RING family of SUMO E3 ligases. The X-ray structure of an active Siz1 ligase revealed an elongated tripartite architecture comprised of an N-terminal PINIT domain, a central zinc-containing RING-like SP-RING domain, and a C-terminal domain we term the SP-CTD. Structure-based m...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Yunus AA,Lima CD

更新日期：2009-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In Drosophila, specification of embryonic terminal cells is controlled by the Torso receptor tyrosine kinase. Here, we analyze the molecular basis of positive (Y630) and negative (Y918) phosphotyrosine (pY) signaling sites on Torso. We find that the Drosophila homolog of RasGAP associates with pY918 and is a negative ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Cleghon V,Feldmann P,Ghiglione C,Copeland TD,Perrimon N,Hughes DA,Morrison DK

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trans-sialidases (TS) are GPI-anchored surface enzymes expressed in specific developmental stages of trypanosome parasites like Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiologic agent of Chagas disease, and T. brucei, the causative agent of sleeping sickness. TS catalyzes the transfer of sialic acid residues from host to parasite glyc...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Buschiazzo A,Amaya MF,Cremona ML,Frasch AC,Alzari PM

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Canonical Wnt signaling is thought to regulate cell behavior mainly by inducing β-catenin-dependent transcription of target genes. In proliferating cells Wnt signaling peaks in the G2/M phase of the cell cycle, but the significance of this "mitotic Wnt signaling" is unclear. Here we introduce Wnt-dependent stabilizati...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Acebron SP,Karaulanov E,Berger BS,Huang YL,Niehrs C

更新日期：2014-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:TMEM39A, encoding an ER-localized transmembrane protein, is a susceptibility locus for multiple autoimmune diseases. The molecular function of TMEM39A remains completely unknown. Here we demonstrated that TMEM39A, also called SUSR2, modulates autophagy activity by regulating the spatial distribution and levels of PtdI...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Miao G,Zhang Y,Chen D,Zhang H

更新日期：2020-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Calreticulin and calnexin are homologous lectins that serve as molecular chaperones for glycoproteins in the endoplasmic reticulum of eukaryotic cells. Here we show that calreticulin depletion specifically accelerates the maturation of cellular and viral glycoproteins with a modest decrease in folding efficiency. Caln...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Molinari M,Eriksson KK,Calanca V,Galli C,Cresswell P,Michalak M,Helenius A

更新日期：2004-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The essential histone H3 lysine 79 methyltransferase Dot1L regulates transcription and genomic stability and is deregulated in leukemia. The activity of Dot1L is stimulated by mono-ubiquitination of histone H2B on lysine 120 (H2BK120Ub); however, the detailed mechanism is not understood. We report cryo-EM structures o...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Valencia-Sánchez MI,De Ioannes P,Wang M,Vasilyev N,Chen R,Nudler E,Armache JP,Armache KJ

更新日期：2019-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Macroautophagy (autophagy) is a lysosome-dependent degradation process that has been implicated in age-associated diseases. Autophagy is involved in both cell survival and cell death, but little is known about the mechanisms that distinguish its use during these distinct cell fates. Here, we identify the microRNA miR-...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Nelson C,Ambros V,Baehrecke EH

更新日期：2014-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:CRISPR-Cas immunity requires integration of short, foreign DNA fragments into the host genome at the CRISPR locus, a site consisting of alternating repeat sequences and foreign-derived spacers. In most CRISPR systems, the proteins Cas1 and Cas2 form the integration complex and are both essential for DNA acquisition. M...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Wright AV,Wang JY,Burstein D,Harrington LB,Paez-Espino D,Kyrpides NC,Iavarone AT,Banfield JF,Doudna JA

更新日期：2019-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Many genomic studies have revealed associations between the gut microbiota composition and host metabolism. These observations led to the idea that a causal relationship could exist between the microbiota and metabolic diseases, a concept supported by studies showing compositional changes in the microbial community in...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Koh A,Bäckhed F

更新日期：2020-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of mRNPs controls the interaction of the translation and degradation machinery with individual mRNAs. The yeast Scd6 protein and its orthologs regulate translation and mRNA degradation in yeast, C. elegans, D. melanogaster, and humans by an unknown mechanism. We demonstrate that Scd6 represses translatio...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Rajyaguru P,She M,Parker R

更新日期：2012-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Recycling of RNA polymerase II (Pol II) after transcription requires dephosphorylation of the polymerase C-terminal domain (CTD) by the phosphatase Fcp1. We report the X-ray structure of the small CTD phosphatase Scp1, which is homologous to the Fcp1 catalytic domain. The structure shows a core fold and an active cent...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Kamenski T,Heilmeier S,Meinhart A,Cramer P

更新日期：2004-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA replication is initiated by assembly of the kinase cell division cycle 7 (CDC7) with its regulatory activation subunit, activator of S-phase kinase (ASK), to activate DNA helicase. However, the mechanism underlying regulation of CDC7-ASK complex is unclear. Here, we show that ADP generated from CDC7-mediated MCM p...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Li X,Qian X,Jiang H,Xia Y,Zheng Y,Li J,Huang BJ,Fang J,Qian CN,Jiang T,Zeng YX,Lu Z

更新日期：2018-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are essential components of gene regulation, but identification of miRNA targets remains a major challenge. Most target prediction and discovery relies on perfect complementarity of the miRNA seed to the 3' untranslated region (UTR). However, it is unclear to what extent miRNAs target sites without ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Loeb GB,Khan AA,Canner D,Hiatt JB,Shendure J,Darnell RB,Leslie CS,Rudensky AY

更新日期：2012-12-14 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：:Pilin assembly into type IV pili is required for virulence by bacterial pathogens that cause diseases such as cholera, pneumonia, gonorrhea, and meningitis. Crystal structures of soluble, N-terminally truncated pilin from Vibrio cholera toxin-coregulated pilus (TCP) and full-length PAK pilin from Pseudomonas aeruginos...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Craig L,Taylor RK,Pique ME,Adair BD,Arvai AS,Singh M,Lloyd SJ,Shin DS,Getzoff ED,Yeager M,Forest KT,Tainer JA

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bcr-Abl is a dysregulated tyrosine kinase whose mechanism of activation is unclear. Here, we demonstrate that, like c-Abl, Bcr-Abl is negatively regulated through its SH3 domain. Kinase activity, transformation, and leukemogenesis by Bcr-Abl are greatly impaired by mutations of the Bcr coiled-coil domain that disrupt ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Smith KM,Yacobi R,Van Etten RA

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus virulence is regulated when secreted autoinducing peptides (AIPs) are recognized by a membrane-bound receptor histidine kinase (RHK), AgrC. Some AIPs are agonists of virulence gene expression, while others are antagonists. It is unclear how AIP binding regulates AgrC activity. Here, we reconstitu...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Wang B,Zhao A,Novick RP,Muir TW

更新日期：2014-03-20 00:00:00