Cooperative action of multiple cis-acting elements is required for N-myc expression in branchial arches: specific contribution of GATA3.

abstract：:The putative promoter of the variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) gene of Trypanosoma brucei was cloned into a plasmid containing the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) gene. After electroporation into trypanosomes, this construct directed the expression of the CAT reporter gene. The essential region for promoter a...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Jefferies D,Tebabi P,Pays E

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of 5'-noncoding and N-terminal coding regions of two coordinately regulated, repressible acid phosphatase genes from Saccharomyces cerevisiae were determined. These unlinked genes encode different, but structurally related polypeptides of molecular weights 60,000 and 56,000. The DNA sequences o...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Thill GP,Kramer RA,Turner KJ,Bostian KA

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 30% of human tumors examined for mutations in polymerase beta (pol beta) appear to express pol beta variant proteins (D. Starcevic, S. Dalal, and J. B. Sweasy, Cell Cycle 3:998-1001, 2004). Many of these variants result from a single amino acid substitution. We have previously shown that the K289M and I2...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Lang T,Dalal S,Chikova A,DiMaio D,Sweasy JB

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfection of C3H/10T1/2 cells with a c-myc gene resulted in the acquisition of responsiveness to transforming growth factor type beta. Cells transfected with an activated H-ras gene or an H-ras and c-myc gene, however, exhibited a transformed morphology and spontaneous soft-agar growth, a phenotype induced reversib...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Leof EB,Proper JA,Moses HL

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone acetylation plays an important role in regulating chromatin structure and thus gene expression. Here we describe the functional characterization of HDAC4, a human histone deacetylase whose C-terminal part displays significant sequence similarity to the deacetylase domain of yeast HDA1. HDAC4 is expressed in va...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wang AH,Bertos NR,Vezmar M,Pelletier N,Crosato M,Heng HH,Th'ng J,Han J,Yang XJ

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factor LSF, identified as a HeLa protein that binds the simian virus 40 late promoter, recognizes direct repeats with a center-to-center spacing of 10 bp. The characterization of two human cDNAs, representing alternatively spliced mRNAs, provides insight into the unusual DNA-binding and oligomerizati...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shirra MK,Zhu Q,Huang HC,Pallas D,Hansen U

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) has been thought to regulate the immune system through S nitrosylation of the transcriptional factor NF-kappaB. However, regulatory effects of NO on innate immune responses are unclear. Here, we report that NO has a capability to control Toll-like receptor-mediated signaling through S nitrosylation. ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Into T,Inomata M,Nakashima M,Shibata K,Häcker H,Matsushita K

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synemin, a 230-kilodalton polypeptide component of avian muscle and erythrocyte intermediate filaments, is also found in association with the vimentin filaments of lens tissue. In chicken lens cells, synemin is bound to the core vimentin polymer with the same 180-nm periodicity that it exhibits in erythrocytes. Its so...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Granger BL,Lazarides E

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yju2 is an essential splicing factor required for the first catalytic step after the action of Prp2. We dissected the structure of Yju2 and found that the amino (Yju2-N) and carboxyl (Yju2-C) halves of the protein can be separated and reconstituted for Yju2 function both in vivo and in vitro. Yju2-N has a weak affinit...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Chiang TW,Cheng SC

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The G protein-coupled alpha-factor receptor promotes polarized growth toward a mating partner. alpha-Factor induces the expression of AFR1, which acts together with the receptor C terminus to promote normal morphogenesis. The function of AFR1 was investigated by engineering cells to constitutively express AFR1 without...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Konopka JB,DeMattei C,Davis C

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight strains of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells having an assembly-defective beta-tubulin were found among revertants of strain Cmd 4, a mutant with a conditional lethal mutation in a beta-tubulin gene (F. Cabral, M. E. Sobel, and M. M. Gottesman, Cell 20:29-36, 1980). The altered beta-tubulins in these strains hav...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Boggs B,Cabral F

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factor NF-kappaB is overexpressed or constitutively activated in many cancer cells, where it induces expression of antiapoptotic genes correlating with resistance to anticancer therapies. Small molecules that inhibit the NF-kappaB signaling pathway could therefore be used to induce apoptosis in NF-ka...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Bayon Y,Ortiz MA,Lopez-Hernandez FJ,Gao F,Karin M,Pfahl M,Piedrafita FJ

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cell antigen receptor (TCR) activation triggers profound changes in the actin cytoskeleton. In addition to controlling cellular shape and polarity, this process regulates vital T cell responses, such as T cell adhesion, motility, and proliferation. These depend on the recruitment of the signaling proteins Nck and Wi...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Pauker MH,Reicher B,Fried S,Perl O,Barda-Saad M

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The minichromosome maintenance protein 10 (Mcm10) is an evolutionarily conserved factor that is essential for replication initiation and elongation. Mcm10 is part of the eukaryotic replication fork and interacts with a variety of proteins, including the Mcm2-7 helicase and DNA polymerase alpha/primase complexes. A mot...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Das-Bradoo S,Ricke RM,Bielinsky AK

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the cloning and characterization of tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNF-R)-associated ubiquitous scaffolding and signaling protein (TRUSS), a novel TNF-R1-interacting protein of 90.7 kDa. TRUSS mRNA was ubiquitously expressed in mouse tissues but was enriched in heart, liver, and testis. Co-immunoprecipita...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Soond SM,Terry JL,Colbert JD,Riches DW

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gradients of Wnt/beta-catenin signaling coordinate development and physiological homeostasis in metazoan animals. Proper embryonic development of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster requires the Naked cuticle (Nkd) protein to attenuate a gradient of Wnt/beta-catenin signaling across each segmental anlage. Nkd inhibi...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Zhang S,Cagatay T,Amanai M,Zhang M,Kline J,Castrillon DH,Ashfaq R,Oz OK,Wharton KA Jr

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to identify catalytically important amino acid changes within the second-largest subunit of yeast RNA polymerase III, we mutagenized selected regions of its gene (RET1) and devised in vivo assays for both increased and decreased transcription termination by this enzyme. Using as the reporter gene a mutant SUP...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shaaban SA,Krupp BM,Hall BD

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The APN1 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae encodes the major apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease and 3'-repair DNA diesterase in yeast cell extracts. The Apn1 protein is a homolog of Escherichia coli endonuclease IV, which functions in the repair of some oxidative and alkylation damages in that organism. We show here th...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ramotar D,Popoff SC,Gralla EB,Demple B

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of Prep1 and Pbx homeodomain transcription factors regulates their activity, nuclear localization, and likely, function in development. To understand the in vivo role of Prep1, we have analyzed an embryonic lethal hypomorphic mutant mouse (Prep1(i/i)). Prep1(i/i) embryos die at embryonic day 17.5 (E17....

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ferretti E,Villaescusa JC,Di Rosa P,Fernandez-Diaz LC,Longobardi E,Mazzieri R,Miccio A,Micali N,Selleri L,Ferrari G,Blasi F

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle (snRNP) was the first mRNA-splicing cofactor to be identified, the manner in which it functions in splicing is not precisely understood. Among the information required to understand how U1 snRNP participates in splicing, it will be necessary to know its structur...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Patton JR,Patterson RJ,Pederson T

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X chromosome inactivation silences one of two X chromosomes in the mammalian female cell and is controlled by a binary switch that involves interactions between Xist and Tsix, a sense-antisense pair of noncoding genes. On the future active X chromosome, Tsix expression suppresses Xist upregulation, while on the future...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Stavropoulos N,Rowntree RK,Lee JT

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) is a secreted polypeptide factor that is thought to play a major role in the regulation of proliferation of many cell types and various differentiation processes. Several related isoforms have been structurally characterized, three of which, TGF-beta 1, -beta 2, and -beta 3, ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Lopez AR,Cook J,Deininger PL,Derynck R

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

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：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae dbf4 and cdc7 cell cycle mutants block initiation of DNA synthesis (i.e., are iDS mutants) at 37 degrees C and arrest the cell cycle with a 1C DNA content. Surprisingly, certain dbf4 and cdc7 strains divide their chromatin at 37 degrees C. We found that the activation of the Cdc28 mitotic prot...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Toyn JH,Johnson AL,Johnston LH

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imprinting of the linked and oppositely expressed mouse H19 and Igf2 genes requires a 2-kb differentially methylated domain (DMD) that is located 2 kb upstream of H19. This element is postulated to function as a methylation-sensitive insulator. Here we test whether an additional sequence 5' of H19 is required for H19 ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Thorvaldsen JL,Mann MR,Nwoko O,Duran KL,Bartolomei MS

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polycomb protein Bmi-1 represses the INK4a locus, which encodes the tumor suppressors p16 and p14(ARF). Here we report that Bmi-1 is downregulated when WI-38 human fibroblasts undergo replicative senescence, but not quiescence, and extends replicative life span when overexpressed. Life span extension by Bmi-1 requ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Itahana K,Zou Y,Itahana Y,Martinez JL,Beausejour C,Jacobs JJ,Van Lohuizen M,Band V,Campisi J,Dimri GP

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The forkhead transcription factor FoxM1 has been reported to regulate, variously, proliferation and/or spindle formation during the G2/M transition of the cell cycle. Here we define specific functions of FoxM1 during brain development by the investigation of FoxM1 loss-of-function mutations in the context of Sonic hed...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Schüller U,Zhao Q,Godinho SA,Heine VM,Medema RH,Pellman D,Rowitch DH

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown previously that transcription of the Drosophila homeotic gene Antennapedia results in four major RNA species which differ in long 5'- and 3'-untranslated sequences. The protein-coding portion of these transcripts, however, is located in exons common to all. Using RNase protection assays and further cDNA ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Stroeher VL,Gaiser JC,Garber RL

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the absence of telomerase, telomeres erode, provoking accumulation of DNA damage and death by senescence. Rare survivors arise, however, due to Rad52-based amplification of telomeric sequences by homologous recombination. The present study reveals that in budding yeast cells, postsenescence survival relying on ampl...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Grandin N,Charbonneau M

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ascomycete Saccharomyces cerevisiae exhibits alternative vegetative growth states referred to as the yeast form and the filamentous form, and it switches between the two morphologies depending on specific environmental signals. To identify molecules involved in control of morphologic differentiation, this study ch...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Edgington NP,Blacketer MJ,Bierwagen TA,Myers AM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00