Extracellular adenosine sensing-a metabolic cell death priming mechanism downstream of p53.

abstract：:Melanoma and other cancers harbor oncogenic mutations in the protein kinase B-Raf, which leads to constitutive activation and dysregulation of MAP kinase signaling. In order to elucidate molecular determinants responsible for B-Raf control of cancer phenotypes, we present a method for phosphoprotein profiling, using n...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Old WM,Shabb JB,Houel S,Wang H,Couts KL,Yen CY,Litman ES,Croy CH,Meyer-Arendt K,Miranda JG,Brown RA,Witze ES,Schweppe RE,Resing KA,Ahn NG

更新日期：2009-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:JunD is the most broadly expressed member of the Jun family and the AP-1 transcription factor complex. Primary fibroblasts lacking JunD displayed p53-dependent growth arrest, upregulated p19(Arf) expression, and premature senescence. In contrast, immortalized cell lines lacking JunD showed increased proliferation and ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Weitzman JB,Fiette L,Matsuo K,Yaniv M

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bursts of nascent mRNA have been shown to lead to substantial cell-cell variation in unicellular organisms, facilitating diverse responses to environmental challenges. It is unknown whether similar bursts and gene-expression noise occur in mammalian tissues. To address this, we combine single molecule transcript count...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Bahar Halpern K,Tanami S,Landen S,Chapal M,Szlak L,Hutzler A,Nizhberg A,Itzkovitz S

更新日期：2015-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) places H3K27me3 at developmental genes and is causally implicated in keeping bivalent genes silent. It is unclear if that silence requires minimum H3K27me3 levels and how the mark transmits faithfully across mammalian somatic cell generations. Mouse intestinal cells lacking EZH2 me...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Jadhav U,Manieri E,Nalapareddy K,Madha S,Chakrabarti S,Wucherpfennig K,Barefoot M,Shivdasani RA

更新日期：2020-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Cotranscriptional loading of proteins onto nascent transcripts contributes to the formation of messenger ribonucleoprotein particles (mRNPs) competent for nuclear export. The transcription machinery is believed to play a pivotal role in mRNP assembly, which is at least partially linked to the function of the THO/TREX ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Jensen TH,Boulay J,Olesen JR,Colin J,Weyler M,Libri D

更新日期：2004-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy, a catabolic pathway that delivers cellular components to lysosomes for degradation, can be activated by stressful conditions such as nutrient starvation and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. We report that thapsigargin, an ER stressor widely used to induce autophagy, in fact blocks autophagy. Thapsigargin ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Ganley IG,Wong PM,Gammoh N,Jiang X

更新日期：2011-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Analyses of isolated pre-ribosomes yielded biochemical "snapshots" of the dynamic, nascent 60S and 40S subunits during their path from the nucleolus to the cytoplasm. Here, we present the structure of a pre-60S ribosomal intermediate located in the nucleoplasm. A huge dynein-related AAA-type ATPase (Rea1) and the Rix1...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Nissan TA,Galani K,Maco B,Tollervey D,Aebi U,Hurt E

更新日期：2004-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection requires binding of the viral envelope glycoprotein D (gD) to cell surface receptors. We report the X-ray structures of a soluble, truncated ectodomain of gD both alone and in complex with the ectodomain of its cellular receptor HveA. Two bound anions suggest possible binding sites...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Carfí A,Willis SH,Whitbeck JC,Krummenacher C,Cohen GH,Eisenberg RJ,Wiley DC

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) is the methyl-donor substrate for DNA and histone methyltransferases that regulate epigenetic states and subsequent gene expression. This metabolism-epigenome link sensitizes chromatin methylation to altered SAM abundance, yet the mechanisms that allow organisms to adapt and protect epigenet...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Haws SA,Yu D,Ye C,Wille CK,Nguyen LC,Krautkramer KA,Tomasiewicz JL,Yang SE,Miller BR,Liu WH,Igarashi K,Sridharan R,Tu BP,Cryns VL,Lamming DW,Denu JM

更新日期：2020-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial actin MreB is one of the key components of the bacterial cytoskeleton. It assembles into short filaments that lie just underneath the membrane and organize the cell wall synthesis machinery. Here we show that MreB from both T. maritima and E. coli binds directly to cell membranes. This function is essential ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Salje J,van den Ent F,de Boer P,Löwe J

更新日期：2011-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Molecular Cell, detail molecular events that trigger apoptosis following growth factor withdrawal, linking irreversible mitochondrial permeabilization to activation of GSK-3 and subsequent phosphorylation, ubiquitinylation, and degradation of the antiapoptotic BCL-2 family member MCL-1. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Letai A

更新日期：2006-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Signal-induced alternative splicing of the CD45 gene in human T cells is essential for proper immune function. Skipping of the CD45 variable exons is controlled, in large part, by the recruitment of PSF to the pre-mRNA substrate upon T cell activation; however, the signaling cascade leading to exon exclusion has remai...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Heyd F,Lynch KW

更新日期：2010-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3Ks) and Ras and Rho family small GTPases are key regulators of cell polarization, motility, and chemotaxis. They influence each other's activities by direct and indirect feedback processes that are only partially understood. Here, we show that 21 small GTPase homologs activate PI3K. Usin...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Yang HW,Shin MG,Lee S,Kim JR,Park WS,Cho KH,Meyer T,Heo WD

更新日期：2012-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:BRCA1 functions at two distinct steps during homologous recombination (HR). Initially, it promotes DNA end resection, and subsequently it recruits the PALB2 and BRCA2 mediator complex, which stabilizes RAD51-DNA nucleoprotein filaments. Loss of 53BP1 rescues the HR defect in BRCA1-deficient cells by increasing resecti...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Zong D,Adam S,Wang Y,Sasanuma H,Callén E,Murga M,Day A,Kruhlak MJ,Wong N,Munro M,Ray Chaudhuri A,Karim B,Xia B,Takeda S,Johnson N,Durocher D,Nussenzweig A

更新日期：2019-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide DNA methylation reprogramming occurs in mouse primordial germ cells (PGCs) and preimplantation embryos, but the precise dynamics and biological outcomes are largely unknown. We have carried out whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (BS-Seq) and RNA-Seq across key stages from E6.5 epiblast to E16.5 PGCs. Global...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Seisenberger S,Andrews S,Krueger F,Arand J,Walter J,Santos F,Popp C,Thienpont B,Dean W,Reik W

更新日期：2012-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:To exert regulatory function, miRNAs guide Argonaute (AGO) proteins to partially complementary sites on target RNAs. Crosslinking and immunoprecipitation (CLIP) assays are state-of-the-art to map AGO binding sites, but assigning the targeting miRNA to these sites relies on bioinformatics predictions and is therefore i...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Grosswendt S,Filipchyk A,Manzano M,Klironomos F,Schilling M,Herzog M,Gottwein E,Rajewsky N

更新日期：2014-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) and the three related peptides urocortins 1-3 (UCN1-UCN3) are endocrine hormones that control the stress responses by activating CRF1R and CRF2R, two members of class B G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Here, we present two cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) structures of UCN1-bo...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Ma S,Shen Q,Zhao LH,Mao C,Zhou XE,Shen DD,de Waal PW,Bi P,Li C,Jiang Y,Wang MW,Sexton PM,Wootten D,Melcher K,Zhang Y,Xu HE

更新日期：2020-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:ClpXP is a protein machine composed of the ClpX ATPase, a member of the Clp/Hsp100 family of remodeling enzymes, and the ClpP peptidase. Here, ClpX and ClpXP are shown to catalyze denaturation of GFP modified with an ssrA degradation tag. ClpX translocates this denatured protein into the proteolytic chamber of ClpP an...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Kim YI,Burton RE,Burton BM,Sauer RT,Baker TA

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ComS is an antiadaptor protein that binds to MecA, displacing the competence transcription factor ComK. This protects ComK from degradation by the ClpCP protease and turns on the switch leading to bistable gene expression. Here we identify the motifs on ComK and ComS that mediate binding to MecA, and we show that they...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Prepiak P,Dubnau D

更新日期：2007-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent issue of Molecular Cell, Kretov et al. (2020) demonstrate that microRNA-144 targets Dicer in a negative feedback loop, affecting global canonical microRNA expression in erythrocytes. MicroRNA-451 is refractory to the loss of Dicer because of its Ago2-dependent processing. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Jiang S

更新日期：2020-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new studies provide in vivo ( [this issue of Molecular Cell]) and in vitro ( [this issue of Molecular Cell]) evidence that poleta functions to extend 3' strands exchanged during homologous recombination and raise the issue of how TLS polymerases are selected onto different substrates. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Rattray AJ,Strathern JN

更新日期：2005-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-subunit SMC ATPases control chromosome superstructure and DNA topology, presumably by DNA translocation and loop extrusion. Chromosomal DNA is entrapped within the tripartite SMCkleisin ring. Juxtaposed SMC heads ("J heads") or engaged SMC heads ("E heads") split the SMCkleisin ring into "S" and "K" sub-compartm...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Vazquez Nunez R,Ruiz Avila LB,Gruber S

更新日期：2019-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We generated knockout mice for MCM8 and MCM9 and show that deficiency for these genes impairs homologous recombination (HR)-mediated DNA repair during gametogenesis and somatic cells cycles. MCM8(-/-) mice are sterile because spermatocytes are blocked in meiotic prophase I, and females have only arrested primary folli...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Lutzmann M,Grey C,Traver S,Ganier O,Maya-Mendoza A,Ranisavljevic N,Bernex F,Nishiyama A,Montel N,Gavois E,Forichon L,de Massy B,Méchali M

更新日期：2012-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear accumulation of β-catenin, a widely recognized marker of poor cancer prognosis, drives cancer cell proliferation and senescence bypass and regulates incretins, critical regulators of fat and glucose metabolism. Diabetes, characterized by elevated blood glucose levels, is associated with increased cancer risk, ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Chocarro-Calvo A,García-Martínez JM,Ardila-González S,De la Vieja A,García-Jiménez C

更新日期：2013-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:By using single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (smFRET), we observe the real-time dynamic coupling between the ribosome, labeled at the L1 stalk, and transfer RNA (tRNA). We find that an interaction between the ribosomal L1 stalk and the newly deacylated tRNA is established spontaneously upon peptide ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Fei J,Kosuri P,MacDougall DD,Gonzalez RL Jr

更新日期：2008-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The hairpin ribozyme is a self-cleaving motif found in the negatives strand of the satellite RNA of some plant viruses. In its natural context, the ribozyme comprises four helices, two of which contain conserved formally unpaired loops, that are adjacent arms of a four-way RNA junction. We show that the arms that woul...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Murchie AI,Thomson JB,Walter F,Lilley DM

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue, Song et al. (2014) describe how microtubules and the RAN GTPase/importin-β system collaborate to control timing of HURP action and its turnover via the anaphase promoting complex (APC)-proteasome system, thereby ensuring temporal control of late mitotic events. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Vaites LL,Harper JW

更新日期：2014-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:RING ubiquitin ligases (E3) recruit ubiquitin-conjugate enzymes (E2) charged with ubiquitin (Ub) to catalyze ubiquitination. Non-covalent Ub binding to the backside of certain E2s promotes processive polyUb formation, but the mechanism remains elusive. Here, we show that backside bound Ub (Ub(B)) enhances both RING-in...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Buetow L,Gabrielsen M,Anthony NG,Dou H,Patel A,Aitkenhead H,Sibbet GJ,Smith BO,Huang DT

更新日期：2015-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Key to the pathogenicity of several viruses is activation of the canonical nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) transcriptional pathway. Subversion of this tightly regulated mechanism is achieved through the production of host mimetic viral proteins that deregulate the transcription process. One such protein is ks-vFLIP ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Bagnéris C,Ageichik AV,Cronin N,Wallace B,Collins M,Boshoff C,Waksman G,Barrett T

更新日期：2008-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor progression shares many characteristics with the process of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Cells that have undergone an EMT are known to have an increased resistance to apoptosis. CD95/Fas is an apoptosis-inducing receptor expressed on many tissues and tumor cells. During tumor progression CD95 is f...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Schickel R,Park SM,Murmann AE,Peter ME

更新日期：2010-06-25 00:00:00