Functional studies and homology modeling of Msh2-Msh3 predict that mispair recognition involves DNA bending and strand separation.

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains several prion elements, which are epigenetically transmitted as self-perpetuating protein conformations. One such prion is [SWI + ], whose protein determinant is Swi1, a subunit of the SWI/SNF chromatin-remodeling complex. We previously rep...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Valtierra S,Du Z,Li L

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:sra5 mutations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae were previously shown to suppress the inefficient growth of ras2 strains on nonfermentable carbon sources and to result in deficient low-Km cyclic AMP (cAMP) phosphodiesterase activity. We have cloned SRA5 by complementation. It maps to the right arm of chromosome XV, tightly...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wilson RB,Tatchell K

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interleukin-2 (IL-2) receptor (IL-2R) consists of three distinct subunits (alpha, beta, and gamma c) and regulates proliferation of T lymphocytes. Intracellular signalling results from ligand-mediated heterodimerization of the cytoplasmic domains of the beta and gamma c chains. To identify the residues of gamma c ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Nelson BH,Lord JD,Greenberg PD

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several eukaryotic transcription factors such as Sp1 or Oct1 contain glutamine-rich domains that mediate transcriptional activation. In human cells, promoter-proximally bound glutamine-rich activation domains activate transcription poorly in the absence of acidic type activators bound at distal enhancers, but synergis...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Escher D,Bodmer-Glavas M,Barberis A,Schaffner W

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the interaction of transcription factors TFIIIC and TFIIID with a silkworm alanine tRNA gene. Previous functional analysis showed that the promoter for this gene is unusually large compared with the classical tRNA promoter elements (the A and B boxes) and includes sequences downstream from the transcr...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Young LS,Rivier DH,Sprague KU

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enhancer of yellow 1 gene, e(y)1, of Drosophila melanogaster has been cloned and demonstrated to encode the TAFII40 protein. The e(y)1 gene is expressed in females much more strongly than in males due to the accumulation of e(y)1 mRNA in the ovaries. Two different e(y)1 mutations have been obtained. The e(y)1(ul) ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Soldatov A,Nabirochkina E,Georgieva S,Belenkaja T,Georgiev P

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have combined in vitro DNA replication reactions and immunological techniques to analyze biochemical interactions between simian virus (SV40) large T antigen and components of the cellular replication apparatus. First, in vitro SV40 DNA replication was characterized with specific origin mutants. Next, monoclonal an...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Smale ST,Tjian R

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference with one of the eight Caenorhabditis elegans linker histone genes triggers desilencing of a repetitive transgene and developmental defects in the hermaphrodite germ line. These characteristics are similar to the phenotype of the C. elegans Polycomb group genes mes-2, mes-3, mes-4, and mes-6 (M. A. Jed...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Jedrusik MA,Schulze E

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Eph receptors are the largest known family of receptor tyrosine kinases and are notable for distinctive expression patterns in the nervous system and in early vertebrate development. However, all were identified as orphan receptors, and only recently have there been descriptions of a corresponding family of ligand...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Bergemann AD,Cheng HJ,Brambilla R,Klein R,Flanagan JG

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We document a biphasic effect of Rac2 on the activation and inhibition of PLD2. Cells overexpressing Rac2 and PLD2 simultaneously show a robust initial (<10 min) response toward a chemoattractant that is later (>30 min) greatly diminished over PLD2-only controls. The first phase is due to the presence of a Rac2-PLD2 p...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Peng HJ,Henkels KM,Mahankali M,Marchal C,Bubulya P,Dinauer MC,Gomez-Cambronero J

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tax1, a potent activator of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) transcription, has been shown to modulate expression of many cellular genes. Tax1 does not bind DNA directly but regulates transcription through protein-protein interactions with sequence-specific transcription factors. Using the yeast two-hyb...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Pise-Masison CA,Dittmer J,Clemens KE,Brady JN

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The packaging of the eukaryotic genome into chromatin is likely to be important for the maintenance of genomic integrity. Chromatin structures are assembled onto newly synthesized DNA by the action of chromatin assembly factors, including anti-silencing function 1 (ASF1). To investigate the role of chromatin structure...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ramey CJ,Howar S,Adkins M,Linger J,Spicer J,Tyler JK

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several ETS transcription factors, including ELF4/MEF, can function as oncogenes in murine cancer models and are overexpressed in human cancer. We found that Elf4/Mef activates Mdm2 expression; thus, lack of or knockdown of Elf4/Mef reduces Mdm2 levels in mouse embryonic fibroblasts (mef's), leading to enhanced p53 pr...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Sashida G,Liu Y,Elf S,Miyata Y,Ohyashiki K,Izumi M,Menendez S,Nimer SD

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enhancer elements modulate promoter activity over vast chromosomal distances, and mechanisms that ensure restrictive interactions between promoters and enhancers are critical for proper control of gene expression. The human beta-globin locus control region (LCR) activates expression of five genes in erythroid cells, i...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shimotsuma M,Matsuzaki H,Tanabe O,Campbell AD,Engel JD,Fukamizu A,Tanimoto K

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vimentin is a tissue-specific, developmentally regulated member of the intermediate filament protein family normally expressed in cells of mesenchymal origin. Transcription factors which recognize specific cis-acting elements of the chicken gene include Sp-1 and the 95-kDa silencer protein which binds to a 40-bp silen...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Stover DM,Zehner ZE

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin is required for the binding of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) to high-affinity receptors on cells deficient in cell surface heparan sulfate proteoglycan. So that this heparin requirement could be evaluated in the absence of other cell surface molecules, we designed a simple assay based on a genetically ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ornitz DM,Yayon A,Flanagan JG,Svahn CM,Levi E,Leder P

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NF-kappaB2 (p100/p52), a member of the NF-kappaB/Rel family of transcription factors, is involved in the regulation of a variety of genes important for immune function. Previously, we have shown that the NF-kappaB2 gene is regulated in a positive and a negative manner. Two kappaB elements within the NF-kappaB2 promote...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Oswald F,Liptay S,Adler G,Schmid RM

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:p21Sdi1/WAF1/Cip1 inhibits cyclin-dependent protein kinases and cell proliferation. p21 is presumed to inhibit growth by preventing the phosphorylation of growth-regulatory proteins, including the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor protein (pRb). The ultimate effector(s) of p21 growth inhibition, however, is largely a ma...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Dimri GP,Nakanishi M,Desprez PY,Smith JR,Campisi J

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosome biogenesis is a highly regulated process ensuring that cell growth (increase in biomass) is coordinated with cell proliferation. The formation of eukaryotic ribosomes is a multistep process initiated by the transcription and processing of rRNA in the nucleolus. Concomitant with this, several preribosomal part...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Castle CD,Cassimere EK,Lee J,Denicourt C

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae defective in transcription factor UAF give rise to variants able to grow by transcribing endogenous ribosomal DNA (rDNA) by RNA polymerase II (Pol II). We have demonstrated that the switch to growth using the Pol II system consists of two steps: a mutational alteration in ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Oakes M,Siddiqi I,Vu L,Aris J,Nomura M

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although largely involved in innate and adaptive immunity, NF-kappa B plays an important role in vertebrate development. In chicks, the inactivation of the NF-kappa B pathway induces functional alterations of the apical ectodermal ridge, which mediates limb outgrowth. In mice, the complete absence of NF-kappa B activi...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Correa RG,Tergaonkar V,Ng JK,Dubova I,Izpisua-Belmonte JC,Verma IM

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the primary function of U1 snRNA is to define the 5' donor site of an intron, it can also block the accumulation of a specific RNA transcript when it binds to a donor sequence within its terminal exon. This work was initiated to investigate if this property of U1 snRNA could be exploited as an effective metho...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Beckley SA,Liu P,Stover ML,Gunderson SI,Lichtler AC,Rowe DW

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reaper (RPR), HID, and GRIM activate apoptosis in cells programmed to die during Drosophila development. We have previously shown that transient overexpression of RPR in the lepidopteran SF-21 cell line induces apoptosis and that members of the inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) family of antiapoptotic proteins can inhibit ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Vucic D,Kaiser WJ,Miller LK

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequencing cDNA and genomic DNA from the ovarian tumor gene revealed a gene with seven introns spanning 4.5 kilobases. The proline-rich, hydrophilic otu protein is novel. An antibody prepared to a beta-gal-otu fusion protein recognized a 110-kilodalton ovarian protein which was altered in the ovaries of otu gene mutan...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Steinhauer WR,Walsh RC,Kalfayan LJ

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein ubiquitination provides an efficient and reversible mechanism to regulate cell cycle progression and checkpoint control. Numerous regulatory proteins direct the addition of ubiquitin to lysine residues on target proteins, and these are countered by an army of deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs). BRCA1-associated p...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Misaghi S,Ottosen S,Izrael-Tomasevic A,Arnott D,Lamkanfi M,Lee J,Liu J,O'Rourke K,Dixit VM,Wilson AC

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The RHO1 gene encodes a homolog of the mammalian RhoA small GTP-binding protein in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Rho1p is localized at the growth site and is required for bud formation. The RHO1(G22S, D125N) mutation is a temperature-sensitive and dominant negative mutation of RHO1, and a multicopy suppressor of...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hirano H,Tanaka K,Ozaki K,Imamura H,Kohno H,Hihara T,Kameyama T,Hotta K,Arisawa M,Watanabe T,Qadota H,Ohya Y,Takai Y

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a hybridoma cell line which secretes hapten-specific immunoglobulin M (IgM), we have isolated a variety of mutants which produce abnormal immunoglobulin. Immunoglobulin was tested for the size and composition of the component heavy and light chains and for variable and constant region related functional and sero...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shulman MJ,Heusser C,Filkin C,Köhler G

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA encoding a novel Krüppel-type zinc finger protein, FKLF, was cloned from fetal globin-expressing human fetal erythroid cells. The deduced polypeptide sequence composed of 512 amino acids revealed that, like Sp1 and EKLF, FKLF has three contiguous zinc fingers at the near carboxyl-terminal end. A long amino-term...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Asano H,Li XS,Stamatoyannopoulos G

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon induces the synthesis of an enzyme which synthesizes 2',5'-oligoadenylate [2',5'-oligo(A)] when activated by double-stranded RNA. The 2',5'-oligo(A) in turn activates an endonuclease (RNase L). Concentrations of 2',5'-oligo(A) sufficient to activate RNase L are formed in interferon-treated HeLa cells infect...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Nilsen TW,Maroney PA,Baglioni C

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, we explored the mechanisms underlying keratinocyte-specific and differentiation-specific gene expression in the skin. We have identified five keratinocyte-specific, open chromatin regions that exist within the 6 kb of 5' upstream regulatory sequence known to faithfully recapitulate the strong endogenou...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kaufman CK,Sinha S,Bolotin D,Fan J,Fuchs E

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00