CPEB4 is a cell survival protein retained in the nucleus upon ischemia or endoplasmic reticulum calcium depletion.

abstract：:The recruitment of transcriptional coactivators, including histone modifying enzymes, is an important step in transcription regulation. A typical activator is thought to interact with several cofactors, presumably in a sequential manner. The common use of several cofactors raises the question of how activators achieve...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Gamper AM,Roeder RG

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblast growth factor 1 (FGF-1) is a powerful angiogenic factor whose gene structure contains four promoters, giving rise to a process of alternative splicing resulting in four mRNAs with alternative 5' untranslated regions (5' UTRs). Here we have identified, by using double luciferase bicistronic vectors, the pres...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Martineau Y,Le Bec C,Monbrun L,Allo V,Chiu IM,Danos O,Moine H,Prats H,Prats AC

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A characteristic feature of gene expression in eukaryotes is the addition of a 5'-terminal 7-methylguanine cap (m7GpppN) to nascent pre-mRNAs in the nucleus catalyzed by capping enzyme and cap methyltransferase. Small interfering RNA (siRNA) knockdown of cap methyltransferase in HeLa cells resulted in apoptosis as mea...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shafer B,Chu C,Shatkin AJ

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the method of chromosomal walking, we have isolated a contiguous region of the Drosophila melanogaster X chromosome which corresponds to salivary gland chromosome bands 3C12 to 3D4. This five-band region contains approximately 100 kilobases of DNA, including those sequences comprising dunce, a gene which functio...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Davis RL,Davidson N

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae mating type switching is a gene conversion event that exhibits donor preference. MATa cells choose HMLalpha for recombination, and MATalpha cells choose HMRa. Donor preference is controlled by the recombination enhancer (RE), located between HMLalpha and MATa on the left arm of chromosome III....

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ercan S,Reese JC,Workman JL,Simpson RT

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：:The rad18 gene of Schizosaccharomyces pombe is an essential gene that is involved in several different DNA repair processes. Rad18 (Smc6) is a member of the structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) family and, together with its SMC partner Spr18 (Smc5), forms the core of a high-molecular-weight complex. We show her...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Sergeant J,Taylor E,Palecek J,Fousteri M,Andrews EA,Sweeney S,Shinagawa H,Watts FZ,Lehmann AR

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA sequence which contains the entire coding region for human purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) was recombined for selection and expression in mammalian cells. Plasmids containing either the simian virus 40 early promoter or the mouse metallothionein promoter positioned just upstream of the PNP coding sequence...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： McIvor RS,Goddard JM,Simonsen CC,Martin DW Jr

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe experiments which demonstrated that the simian virus 40 (SV40) enhancer affects certain transcriptional units differently. We also found that a specific enhancer-transcriptional unit interaction can be regulated by trans-acting factors. Using transient assays, we examined the effects of the SV40 enhancer o...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Robbins PD,Rio DC,Botchan MR

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) have been shown to stimulate extracellular regulated kinases (ERKs) through a number of linear pathways that are initiated by G(q/11) or G(i) proteins. We studied signaling to the ERK cascade by receptors that simultaneously activate both G protein subfamilies. In HEK293T cells, bra...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Blaukat A,Barac A,Cross MJ,Offermanns S,Dikic I

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rap1 (repressor activator protein 1) is a conserved multifunctional protein initially identified as a transcriptional regulator of ribosomal protein genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae but subsequently shown to play diverse functions at multiple chromosomal loci, including telomeres. The function of Rap1 appears to be e...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Yu EY,Yen WF,Steinberg-Neifach O,Lue NF

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinoblastoma susceptibility gene product pRb restricts cellular proliferation by affecting gene expression by all three classes of nuclear RNA polymerases. To elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying pRb-mediated repression of ribosomal DNA (rDNA) transcription by RNA polymerase I, we have analyzed the effe...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Voit R,Schäfer K,Grummt I

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed the interleukin-4 (IL-4)-triggered mechanisms implicated in cell survival and show here that IL-4 deprivation induces apoptotic cell death but does not modulate Bcl-2 or Bcl-x expression. Since Bcl-x expression is insufficient to ensure cell survival in the absence of IL-4, we speculate that additiona...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Rebollo A,Dumoutier L,Renauld JC,Zaballos A,Ayllón V,Martínez-A C

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human La protein has been shown to serve as a transcription factor for RNA polymerase III (pol III) by facilitating transcription termination and recycling of transcription complexes. In addition, La binds to the 3' oligo(U) ends common to all nascent pol III transcripts, and in the case of B1-Alu RNA, protects it fro...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Goodier JL,Fan H,Maraia RJ

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are highly conserved among all organisms from prokaryotes to eukaryotes. In mice, the HSP genes Hsp70.1 and Hsp70.3 are induced by both endogenous and exogenous stressors, such as heat and toxicants. In order to determine whether such proteins specifically influence genomic instability, mice...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hunt CR,Dix DJ,Sharma GG,Pandita RK,Gupta A,Funk M,Pandita TK

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, many amino acid biosynthetic pathways are coregulated by a complex general control system: starvation for a single amino acid results in the derepression of amino acid biosynthetic genes in multiple pathways. Derepression of these genes is mediated by positive (GCN) and negative (GCD) regu...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Myers PL,Skvirsky RC,Greenberg ML,Greer H

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the identification of PBC proteins as cofactors that provide DNA affinity and binding specificity for the HOX homeodomain proteins, HOX proteins do not demonstrate robust activity in transient-transcription assays and few authentic downstream targets have been identified for these putative transcription factor...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shen WF,Krishnan K,Lawrence HJ,Largman C

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different models have been proposed explaining how eukaryotic gene transcription is terminated. Recently, Nsi1, a factor involved in silencing of ribosomal DNA (rDNA), was shown to be required for efficient termination of rDNA transcription by RNA polymerase I (Pol I) in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nsi1 contai...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Merkl P,Perez-Fernandez J,Pilsl M,Reiter A,Williams L,Gerber J,Böhm M,Deutzmann R,Griesenbeck J,Milkereit P,Tschochner H

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila homeodomain protein Even-skipped (Eve) is a transcriptional repressor, and previous studies have suggested that it functions by interfering with the basal transcription machinery. Here we describe experiments indicating that the mechanism of Eve repression involves a direct interaction with the TATA bin...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Li C,Manley JL

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied intrachromosomal gene conversion in mouse Ltk- cells with a substrate designed to provide genetic evidence for heteroduplex DNA. Our recombination substrate consists of two defective chicken thymidine kinase genes arranged so as to favor the selection of gene conversion products. The gene intended to s...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Bollag RJ,Elwood DR,Tobin ED,Godwin AR,Liskay RM

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the effects of a number of mutations in the small-t antigen mRNA intron on the alternative splicing pattern of the simian virus 40 early transcript. Expansion of the distance separating the small-t pre-mRNA lariat branch point and the shared large T-small t 3' splice site from 18 to 29 nucleotides (...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Fu XY,Colgan JD,Manley JL

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human glycoprotein IIB (GPIIB) gene is expressed only in megakaryocytes, and its promoter displays cell type specificity. We show that this specificity involved two cis-acting sequences. The first one, located at -55, contains a GATA binding site. Point mutations that abolish protein binding on this site decrease ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Lemarchandel V,Ghysdael J,Mignotte V,Rahuel C,Roméo PH

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized a pathway for nuclear export of the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) in mammalian cells. This pathway involves the Ca2+ -binding protein calreticulin (CRT), which directly contacts the DNA binding domain (DBD) of GR and facilitates its delivery from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. In the present study,...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Holaska JM,Black BE,Rastinejad F,Paschal BM

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CHIP is a cochaperone of Hsp70 that inhibits Hsp70-dependent refolding in vitro. However, the effect of altered expression of CHIP on the fate of unfolded proteins in mammalian cells has not been determined. Surprisingly, we found that overexpression of CHIP in fibroblasts increased the refolding of proteins after the...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kampinga HH,Kanon B,Salomons FA,Kabakov AE,Patterson C

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:U6 is the most conserved of the five small nuclear RNAs known to participate in pre-mRNA splicing. In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the single-copy gene encoding this RNA is itself interrupted by an intron (T. Tani and Y. Ohshima, Nature (London) 337:87-90, 1989). Here we report analysis of the U6 genes...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Reich C,Wise JA

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase is a cytoplasmic signaling molecule recruited to the membrane by activated growth factor receptors. The p85 subunit of PI 3-kinase links the catalytic p110 subunit to activated growth factor receptors and is required for enzymatic activity of p110. In this report, we describe the eff...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Klippel A,Reinhard C,Kavanaugh WM,Apell G,Escobedo MA,Williams LT

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stability of mRNA influences the abundance of cellular transcripts and proteins. Deadenylases play critical roles in mRNA turnover and thus are important for the regulation of various biological events. Here, we report the identification and characterization of CCR4b/CNOT6L, which is homologous to yeast CCR4 mRNA ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Morita M,Suzuki T,Nakamura T,Yokoyama K,Miyasaka T,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory regions of the mouse muscle creatine kinase (MCK) gene, previously discovered by analysis in cultured muscle cells, were analyzed in transgenic mice. The 206-bp MCK enhancer at nt-1256 was required for high-level expression of MCK-chloramphenicol acetyltransferase fusion genes in skeletal and cardiac muscle...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Donoviel DB,Shield MA,Buskin JN,Haugen HS,Clegg CH,Hauschka SD

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) inhibitor Emi1 is required for the accumulation of APC/C substrates crucial for DNA synthesis and mitotic entry. We show that in vivo Emi1 expression correlates with the proliferative status of the cellular compartment and that cells lacking Emi1 undergo c...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Verschuren EW,Ban KH,Masek MA,Lehman NL,Jackson PK

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neutral/neutral two-dimensional (2-D) gel replicon mapping technique has been used to great advantage to localize and characterize origins of replication. Interestingly, many yeast origins display a composite pattern consisting of both a bubble arc and a single-fork arc. Moreover, in every instance in which neutra...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kalejta RF,Hamlin JL

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00