Epigenetic regulation of transcription and virulence in Trypanosoma cruzi by O-linked thymine glucosylation of DNA.

abstract：:We investigated the role of RNA polymerase II (pol II) carboxy-terminal domain (CTD) phosphorylation in pre-mRNA processing coupled and uncoupled from transcription in Xenopus oocytes. Inhibition of CTD phosphorylation by the kinase inhibitors 5,6-dichloro-1beta-D-ribofuranosyl-benzimidazole and H8 blocked transcripti...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Bird G,Zorio DA,Bentley DL

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusions between the TRM1 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and COXIV or DHFR were made to examine the mitochondrial targeting signals of N2,N2-dimethylguanosine-specific tRNA methyltransferase [tRNA (m2(2)G)dimethyltransferase]. This enzyme is responsible for the modification of both mitochondrial and cytoplasmic tRNAs...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ellis SR,Hopper AK,Martin NC

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Independent of its antiapoptotic function, Bcl-2 can, through an undetermined mechanism, retard entry into the cell cycle. Cell cycle progression requires the phosphorylation by cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdks) of retinoblastoma protein (pRB) family members to free E2F transcription factors. We have explored whether re...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Vairo G,Soos TJ,Upton TM,Zalvide J,DeCaprio JA,Ewen ME,Koff A,Adams JM

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The death-associated protein (DAP) kinase family includes three protein kinases, DAP kinase, DAP kinase-related protein 1, and ZIP kinase, which display 80% amino acid identity within their catalytic domains and are functionally linked to common subcellular changes occurring during cell death, such as the process of m...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shani G,Marash L,Gozuacik D,Bialik S,Teitelbaum L,Shohat G,Kimchi A

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:c-sis/platelet-derived growth factor 2 (PDGF-2) is a prototype growth factor with transforming potential. The c-sis/PDGF-2 transcript contains a long 5' untranslated sequence (UTS) that is highly G.C rich. To examine the influence of this sequence on sis/PDGF-2 expression, we localized the c-sis/PDGF-2 promoter and us...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Rao CD,Pech M,Robbins KC,Aaronson SA

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Woodchucks infected with woodchuck hepatitis virus (WHV) and ground squirrels infected with ground squirrel hepatitis virus (GSHV) both develop hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but WHV-associated tumors arise more frequently and much earlier in life. These differences are preserved when the oncogenic potentials of the ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hansen LJ,Tennant BC,Seeger C,Ganem D

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eucaryotic initiation factor 4A (eIF-4A) is a member of a family of proteins believed to be involved in the ATP-dependent melting of RNA secondary structure. These proteins contain a derivative of the consensus ATP-binding site AXXGXGKT. To assess the importance of the consensus amino acid sequence in eIF-4A for ATP b...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Rozen F,Pelletier J,Trachsel H,Sonenberg N

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of p21ras is required for the proliferative response to colony-stimulating factor 1 (CSF-1), and signals transduced by both the CSF-1 receptor (CSF-1R) and p21ras stimulate transcription from promoter elements containing overlapping binding sites for Fos/Jun- and Ets-related proteins. A sequence encoding ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Langer SJ,Bortner DM,Roussel MF,Sherr CJ,Ostrowski MC

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies demonstrated that growth in DBA/2 mice of MDW4, a wheat germ agglutinin-resistant (WGAr) mutant of the highly metastatic MDAY-D2 DBA/2 mouse tumor, led to the emergence of WGA-sensitive (WGAs) revertants having higher ploidy levels at the site of inoculation as well as at distant visceral metastases. ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kerbel RS,Lagarde AE,Dennis JW,Donaghue TP

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The LINE-1, or L1, family of interspersed repeated DNA constitutes roughly 10% of the mammalian genome. Its abundance is due to duplicative transposition via an RNA intermediate, L1-encoded proteins, and reverse transcription. Although, in principle, transposition may occur in any cell type, expression and transpositi...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Branciforte D,Martin SL

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cloned segments of the mouse glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH) gene, Gdc-1, were used to screen a human library. Human clones obtained spanned 25 kilobases of genomic DNA containing the human GPDH gene, GPD1. The 4 kb of sequence obtained from the 5'-flanking region and first exon of GPD1 was compared with the...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Gwynn B,Lyford KA,Birkenmeier EH

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prdm1/Blimp-1 is a master regulator of gene expression in diverse tissues of the developing embryo and adult organism. Its C-terminal zinc finger domain mediates nuclear import, DNA binding, and recruitment of the corepressors G9a and HDAC1/2. Alternatively spliced transcripts lacking exon 7 sequences encode a structu...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Morgan MA,Mould AW,Li L,Robertson EJ,Bikoff EK

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gap junctional intercellular communication is inhibited in response to tumor promoters and oncogene transformation, suggesting that loss of this function is an important step in tumor formation. To elucidate the molecular mechanisms responsible for this inhibition, we examined the expression of gap junction proteins a...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Brissette JL,Kumar NM,Gilula NB,Dotto GP

更新日期：1991-10-01 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：:Entry into mitosis requires the activity of the Cdc2 kinase. Cdc2 associates with the B-type cyclins, and the Cdc2-cyclin B heterodimer is in turn regulated by phosphorylation. Phosphorylation of threonine 161 is required for the Cdc2-cyclin B complex to be catalytically active, whereas phosphorylation of threonine 14...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Liu F,Stanton JJ,Wu Z,Piwnica-Worms H

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone H1 is an abundant and essential component of chromatin whose precise role in regulating gene expression is poorly understood. Here, we report that a major target of H1-mediated regulation in embryonic stem (ES) cells is the X-linked Rhox homeobox gene cluster. To address the underlying mechanism, we examined t...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Maclean JA,Bettegowda A,Kim BJ,Lou CH,Yang SM,Bhardwaj A,Shanker S,Hu Z,Fan Y,Eckardt S,McLaughlin KJ,Skoultchi AI,Wilkinson MF

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse myosin light-chain 1A (MLC1A) gene, expressed in the atria of the adult heart, is one of the first muscle genes to be activated when skeletal as well as cardiac muscles form in the embryo. It is also transcribed in skeletal muscle cell lines at the onset of differentiation. Transient transfection assays of m...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Catala F,Wanner R,Barton P,Cohen A,Wright W,Buckingham M

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two signals activate meiosis in yeast: starvation and expression of the a1 and alpha 2 products of the mating-type locus. Prior studies suggest that these signals stimulate expression of an activator of meiosis, the IME1 (inducer of meiosis) product. We have cloned a gene, IME2, with properties similar to those of IME...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Smith HE,Mitchell AP

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the nature of mutations occurring at the autosomal APRT locus in mismatch-repair-proficient and -deficient colorectal carcinoma cell lines. The analysis of mutations that result in APRT deficiency in a mismatch-repair-deficient strain of DLD-1 heterozygous for this locus enabled us to measure the rate of...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Phear G,Bhattacharyya NP,Meuth M

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translation initiation in eukaryotic cells is known to be a complex multistep process which involves numerous protein factors. Here we demonstrate that leaderless mRNAs with initiator Met-tRNA can bind directly to 80S mammalian ribosomes in the absence of initiation factors and that the complexes thus formed are fully...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Andreev DE,Terenin IM,Dunaevsky YE,Dmitriev SE,Shatsky IN

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a subunit of a ubiquitin ligase, Skp2 is implicated in facilitating cell cycle progression via degradation of various protein targets. We report here that Skp2 is rapidly degraded following cellular stimulation by the cytokine transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) and that this degradation stabilizes the cell ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Liu W,Wu G,Li W,Lobur D,Wan Y

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotic cells, cohesion between sister chromatids allows chromosomes to biorient on the metaphase plate and holds them together until they separate into daughter cells during mitosis. Cohesion is mediated by the cohesin protein complex. Although the association of this complex with particular regions of the geno...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Bausch C,Noone S,Henry JM,Gaudenz K,Sanderson B,Seidel C,Gerton JL

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minichromosome maintenance protein 1 (Mcm1) is required for efficient replication of autonomously replicating sequence (ARS)-containing plasmids in yeast cells. Reduced DNA binding activity in the Mcm1-1 mutant protein (P97L) results in selective initiation of a subset of replication origins and causes instability of ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Chang VK,Donato JJ,Chan CS,Tye BK

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been hypothesized that protein factors may protect CpG islands from methyltransferase during development and that demethylation may involve protein-DNA interactions at demethylated sites. However, direct evidence has been lacking. In this study, demethylation at the EBNA-1 binding sites of the Epstein-Barr viru...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hsieh CL

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The androgen receptor (AR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor that interacts with coregulatory proteins during androgen-dependent gene regulation. Melanoma antigen gene protein 11 (MAGE-11) is an AR coregulator that specifically binds the AR NH(2)-terminal FXXLF motif and modulates the AR NH(2)- and carboxyl-t...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Bai S,Wilson EM

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recruitment of modifiers and remodelers to specific DNA sites within chromatin plays a critical role in controlling gene expression. The study of globin gene regulation provides a convergence point within which to address these issues in the context of tissue-specific and developmentally regulated expression. In this ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Zhang W,Kadam S,Emerson BM,Bieker JJ

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated various parameters associated with the initial selection of mouse 3T6 cells for resistance to single concentrations of methotrexate and characterized resistant colonies for the presence of additional (amplified) copies of the dihydrofolate reductase gene. Our results indicate that the frequency of occu...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Brown PC,Tlsty TD,Schimke RT

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro mutagenesis was used to create putative opal suppressor alleles of a tRNA(Trp) gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The construct with the requisite anticodon change did not result in an active suppressor, whereas when a second change was introduced into the portion of the gene encoding the intron, an active and...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Atkin AL,Roy KL,Bell JB

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin is regulated by cross talk among different histone modifications, which can occur between residues within the same tail or different tails in the nucleosome. The latter is referred to as trans-tail regulation, and the best-characterized example of this is the dependence of H3 methylation on H2B ubiquitylatio...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Zheng S,Wyrick JJ,Reese JC

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous investigations have defined three upstream activation elements--CCAC, A/T, and TATA sequences--necessary for muscle-specific transcription of the myoglobin gene. In the present study, we demonstrate that these three sequences elements, prepared as synthetic oligonucleotide cassettes, function synergistically ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Grayson J,Williams RS,Yu YT,Bassel-Duby R

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00