Vaccinia-related kinase 2 mediates accumulation of polyglutamine aggregates via negative regulation of the chaperonin TRiC.

abstract：:Eukaryotic elongation factor 1 alpha 2 (eEF1A2) is a transforming gene product that is highly expressed in human tumors of the ovary, lung, and breast. eEF1A2 also stimulates actin remodeling, and the expression of this factor is sufficient to induce the formation of filopodia, long cellular processes composed of bund...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Jeganathan S,Morrow A,Amiri A,Lee JM

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of the sizes and sequence content of nuclear RNA transcripts of the heavy-chain locus in two B-cell lymphomas, 70Z/3 and 38C-13, and in selected hybridoma derivatives of 38C has led to the identification of two distinct precursors of the mRNAs encoding the membrane and secretory forms of mu chain. These pr...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Nelson KJ,Haimovich J,Perry RP

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SRC family kinases play essential roles in a variety of cellular functions, including proliferation, survival, differentiation, and apoptosis. The activities of these kinases are regulated by intramolecular interactions and by heterologous binding partners that modulate the transition between active and inactive struc...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Burnham MR,Bruce-Staskal PJ,Harte MT,Weidow CL,Ma A,Weed SA,Bouton AH

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human T-cell leukemia virus-encoded oncoprotein Tax is a potent activator of viral transcription. Tax function is strictly dependent upon the cellular transcription factor CREB, and together they bind cAMP response elements within the viral promoter and mediate high-level viral transcription. Signal-dependent CREB...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Geiger TR,Sharma N,Kim YM,Nyborg JK

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the "canonical" view of transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) signaling, Smad7 plays an inhibitory role. While Smad7 represses Smad3 activation by TGF-beta, it does not reverse the inhibitory effect of TGF-beta on myogenesis, suggesting a different function in myogenic cells. We previously reported a promyogen...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Miyake T,Alli NS,McDermott JC

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite distinct dissimilarities, diverse cancers express several common protumorigenic traits. We present here evidence that the proapoptotic protein Par-4 utilizes one such common tumorigenic trait to become selectively activated and induce apoptosis in cancer cells. Elevated protein kinase A (PKA) activity noted in...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Gurumurthy S,Goswami A,Vasudevan KM,Rangnekar VM

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the replication of two unlinked actin genes, ardB and ardC , which are abundantly transcribed in the naturally synchronous plasmodium of the slime mold Physarum polycephalum. Detection and size measurements of single-stranded nascent replication intermediates (RIs) demonstrate that these two genes are conc...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Bénard M,Lagnel C,Pallotta D,Pierron G

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the mechanism of Axl signaling, we have initiated studies to delineate downstream components in interleukin-3-dependent 32D cells by using a chimeric receptor containing the recombinant epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor extracellular and transmembrane domains and the Axl kinase domain (EAK [for EGF ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Fridell YW,Jin Y,Quilliam LA,Burchert A,McCloskey P,Spizz G,Varnum B,Der C,Liu ET

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuron-specific N1 exon of the mouse c-src transcript is normally skipped in nonneuronal cells. In this study, we examined the sequence requirements for the exclusion of this exon in nonneuronal HeLa cell nuclear extracts. We found that the repression of the N1 exon is mediated by specific intron sequences that fl...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Chan RC,Black DL

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using a retrovirus-derived vector system, we generated derivatives of the human colon cancer cell line HT29 that stably overexpress a full-length cDNA encoding the beta 1 isoform of rat protein kinase C (PKC). Two of these cell lines, PKC6 and PKC7, displayed an 11- to 15-fold increase in PKC activity when compared...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Choi PM,Tchou-Wong KM,Weinstein IB

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), a key proinflammatory cytokine essential for the function of the immune system, is regulated at both the transcriptional and posttranscriptional levels. In this report, we focus on the interaction of TNF-alpha mRNA with macrophage proteins, likely mediators of...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hel Z,Skamene E,Radzioch D

更新日期：1996-10-01 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：:Various stresses activate the c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK), which is involved in the regulation of many aspects of cellular physiology, including apoptosis. Here we demonstrate that in contrast to UV irradiation, heat shock causes little or no stimulation of the JNK-activating kinase SEK1, while knocking out the SEK1...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Meriin AB,Yaglom JA,Gabai VL,Zon L,Ganiatsas S,Mosser DD,Zon L,Sherman MY

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SR protein SRp38 is a general splicing repressor that is activated by dephosphorylation during mitosis and in response to heat shock. Here we describe experiments that provide insights into the mechanism by which SRp38 functions in splicing repression. We first show that SRp38 redistributes and colocalizes with sn...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shin C,Kleiman FE,Manley JL

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both cyclin D1 and the transcription factor C/EBPβ are required for mammary epithelial cell differentiation; however, the pathway in which they operate is uncertain. Previous analyses of the patterns of gene expression in human tumors suggested a connection between cyclin D1 overexpression and C/EBPβ, but whether this...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Liu Q,Boudot A,Ni J,Hennessey T,Beauparlant SL,Rajabi HN,Zahnow C,Ewen ME

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA), a potent tumor promoter, was shown to have opposite effects on the cellular morphology and steady-state levels of beta-actin mRNA in embryonic chicken muscle fibroblasts and sternal chondrocytes. When fibroblasts were treated with PMA, they formed foci of densely packed cells, ce...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Gerstenfeld LC,Finer MH,Boedtker H

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Akt is activated on the plasma membrane and its substrates are distributed throughout various cellular compartments. To phosphorylate its substrates, Akt needs to be recruited to specific intracellular compartments. Thus, regulation of Akt cellular compartmentalization constitutes an important mechanism to specify Akt...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ding J,Du K

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The silent mating-type loci of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, HML and HMR, are flanked by transcriptional silencers that have ARS activity (i.e., they function as replication origins when in plasmids). To test whether these ARS elements are chromosomal origins, we mapped origins near HML (close to the left telomere of chro...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Dubey DD,Davis LR,Greenfeder SA,Ong LY,Zhu JG,Broach JR,Newlon CS,Huberman JA

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide excision repair and the long-patch mismatch repair systems correct abnormal DNA structures arising from DNA damage and replication errors, respectively. DNA synthesis past a damaged base (translesion replication) often causes misincorporation at the lesion site. In addition, mismatches are hot spots for DNA...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Mu D,Tursun M,Duckett DR,Drummond JT,Modrich P,Sancar A

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase C theta (PKC theta) is unique among PKC isozymes in its translocation to the center of the immune synapse in T cells and its unique downstream signaling. Here we show that the hematopoietic protein tyrosine phosphatase (HePTP) also accumulates in the immune synapse in a PKC theta-dependent manner upon a...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Nika K,Charvet C,Williams S,Tautz L,Bruckner S,Rahmouni S,Bottini N,Schoenberger SP,Baier G,Altman A,Mustelin T

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) gene in T cells is activated by the combination of phorbol ester (phorbol myristate acetate) and calcium ionophore (A23187), which mimic antigen stimulation through the T-cell receptor. We have previously shown that a fragment containing bp -9...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Masuda ES,Tokumitsu H,Tsuboi A,Shlomai J,Hung P,Arai K,Arai N

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA library enriched with Myc-responsive cDNAs but depleted of myc cDNAs was used in a functional screen for growth enhancement in c-myc-null cells. A cDNA clone for mitochondrial serine hydroxymethyltransferase (mSHMT) that was capable of partial complementation of the growth defects of c-myc-null cells was identi...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Nikiforov MA,Chandriani S,O'Connell B,Petrenko O,Kotenko I,Beavis A,Sedivy JM,Cole MD

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian ras genes substitute for the yeast RAS gene, and their products activate adenylate cyclase in yeast cells, although the direct target protein of mammalian ras p21s remains to be identified. ras p21s undergo posttranslational processing, including prenylation, proteolysis, methylation, and palmitoylation, at ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Horiuchi H,Kaibuchi K,Kawamura M,Matsuura Y,Suzuki N,Kuroda Y,Kataoka T,Takai Y

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple biological functions have been ascribed to the Ras-related G protein R-Ras. These include the ability to transform NIH 3T3 fibroblasts, the promotion of cell adhesion, and the regulation of apoptotic responses in hematopoietic cells. To investigate the signaling mechanisms responsible for these biological phe...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Osada M,Tolkacheva T,Li W,Chan TO,Tsichlis PN,Saez R,Kimmelman AC,Chan AM

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both systemic insulin resistance and tissue-specific insulin resistance have been described in Drosophila and are accompanied by many indicators of metabolic disease. The downstream mediators of insulin-resistant pathophysiology remain unclear. We analyzed insulin signaling in the fat body studying loss and gain of fu...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Musselman LP,Fink JL,Grant AR,Gatto JA,Tuthill BF 2nd,Baranski TJ

更新日期：2017-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:IkappaB kinases (IKKalpha and IKKbeta) are key components of the IKK complex that mediates activation of the transcription factor NF-kappaB in response to extracellular stimuli such as inflammatory cytokines, viral and bacterial infection, and UV irradiation. Although NF-kappaB-inducing kinase (NIK) interacts with and...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Nemoto S,DiDonato JA,Lin A

更新日期：1998-12-01 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：:The FLP protein of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae plasmid 2 microns circle catalyzes site-specific recombination between two repeated segments present on the plasmid. In this paper we present results of experiments we performed to define more precisely the features of the FLP recognition target site, which we propose to...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： McLeod M,Craft S,Broach JR

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed the gene-targeting frequencies and recombination products generated by a series of vectors which target the hprt locus in embryonic stem cells and found the existence of alternative pathways that depend on the location of the double-strand break within the vector. A double-strand break in the targetin...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hasty P,Rivera-Pérez J,Bradley A

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secretory proteins in eukaryotic cells are transported to the cell surface via the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and the Golgi apparatus by membrane-bounded vesicles. We screened a collection of temperature-sensitive mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for defects in ER-to-Golgi transport. Two of the genes identified in ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Chen EJ,Frand AR,Chitouras E,Kaiser CA

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00