Nucleotide sequences required for the regulation of a rat alpha 2u-globulin gene by glucocorticoids.

abstract：:Fred Sherman was a prominent yeast geneticist and my mentor in graduate school. Fred passed away in September 2013 at the age of 81. In this minireview, I describe what it was like to know Fred and be in his lab from 1977 to 1982, the extraordinarily exciting time when the recombinant DNA revolution hit yeast genetics...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Zaret KS

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA polymerase III (pol III) transcripts of the highly repeated mouse B2 gene family are increased in many oncogenically transformed murine cell lines. In cells transformed by simian virus 40, the small, cytoplasmic B2 RNAs are present at 20-fold-higher levels than in normal cells (M. R. D. Scott, K. Westphal, and P. ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Carey MF,Singh K,Botchan M,Cozzarelli NR

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Site beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP)-cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE1) is the beta-secretase in vivo for processing APP to generate amyloid beta protein (Abeta). Abeta deposition in the brain is the hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology. Inhibition of BACE1 activity has major pharmaceutical potential f...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Zhou W,Song W

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Signal transducers and activators of transcription (STATs) are transcription factors that mediate normal biologic responses to cytokines and growth factors. However, abnormal activation of certain STAT family members, including Stat3, is increasingly associated with oncogenesis. In fibroblasts expressing the Src oncop...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Turkson J,Bowman T,Adnane J,Zhang Y,Djeu JY,Sekharam M,Frank DA,Holzman LB,Wu J,Sebti S,Jove R

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 5' ends of dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR)-specific transcripts have been mapped in the 5'-flanking region of the amplified DHFR gene of the human methotrexate-resistant cell line 6A3 by primer extension and S1 protection experiments. The main 5' end, at position -71 relative to the first nucleotide of the DHFR rea...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Masters JN,Attardi G

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of the Drosophila segmentation gene fushi tarazu (ftz) is controlled at the level of transcription. The proximal enhancer, located approximately 3.4 kb upstream of the transcription start site, directs lacZ fusion gene expression in a ftz-like seven-stripe pattern in transgenic fly embryos. We have take...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Han W,Yu Y,Altan N,Pick L

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each of two severely defective mouse kappa-chain genes has acquired a different intracisternal A particle (IAP) element within one of its introns. One IAP element generated 6-base-pair direct repeats upon insertion. In contrast, the other IAP element was not flanked by direct repeats and was missing a single nucleotid...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hawley RG,Shulman MJ,Hozumi N

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual glucocorticoid-responsive element (called GRE A) was found to mediate the induction of the cytosolic aspartate aminotransferase gene by glucocorticoids and was bound by the glucocorticoid receptor in a DNase I footprinting assay. GRE A consists of two overlapping GREs, each comprising a conserved half-site ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Garlatti M,Daheshia M,Slater E,Bouguet J,Hanoune J,Beato M,Barouki R

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smad proteins play a key role in the intracellular signaling of the transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) superfamily of extracellular polypeptides that initiate signaling from the cell surface through serine/threonine kinase receptors. A subclass of Smad proteins, including Smad6 and Smad7, has been shown to fun...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Datta PK,Moses HL

更新日期：2000-05-01 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：:Ubiquitin is a multifunctional 76-amino-acid protein which plays critical roles in many aspects of cellular metabolism. In Caenorhabditis elegans, the major source of ubiquitin RNA is the polyubiquitin locus, UbiA. UbiA is transcribed as a polycistronic mRNA which contains 11 tandem repeats of ubiquitin sequence and p...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Graham RW,Jones D,Candido EP

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:clk-1 encodes a demethoxyubiquinone (DMQ) hydroxylase that is necessary for ubiquinone biosynthesis. When Caenorhabditis elegans clk-1 mutants are grown on bacteria that synthesize ubiquinone (UQ), they are viable but have a pleiotropic phenotype that includes slowed development, behaviors, and aging. However, when gr...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Branicky R,Nguyen PA,Hekimi S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective transcription of the insulin gene in pancreatic beta cells is regulated by its enhancer, located within the 5'-flanking region of the insulin gene. Transcription from the enhancer is controlled by both positive- and negative-acting cellular transcription factors. It was previously shown that both the 243- an...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Stein RW,Whelan J

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we demonstrated that the heat shock transcription factor Hsf1 is indispensable for transformation of mammary epithelial cells by the Her2 oncogene. Since Hsf1 affects oncogene-induced senescence (OIS), these findings suggest that Hsf1 affects tumor initiation when OIS plays a role. Indeed, here we report th...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Gabai VL,Meng L,Kim G,Mills TA,Benjamin IJ,Sherman MY

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila melanogaster GAGA factor (encoded by the Trithorax-like [Trl] gene) is required for correct chromatin architecture at diverse chromosomal sites. The Trl gene encodes two alternatively spliced isoforms of the GAGA factor (GAGA-519 and GAGA-581) that are identical except for the length and sequence of the...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Greenberg AJ,Schedl P

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：:We have previously reported that immobilized p21ras forms a GMPPNP-dependent complex with a MEK activity. Furthermore, the association of the MEK activity was found to be independent of the presence of Raf-1. We have extended those observations to show that MEK1 is the MEK activity previously described to associate wi...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Moodie SA,Paris MJ,Kolch W,Wolfman A

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum response factor (SRF) and myocyte enhancer factor 2A (MEF2A) represent two human members of the MADS-box transcription factor family. Each protein has a distinct biological function which is reflected by the distinct specificities of the proteins for coregulatory protein partners and DNA-binding sites. In th...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： West AG,Shore P,Sharrocks AD

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strong block to the elongation of nascent RNA transcripts by RNA polymerase II occurs in the 5' part of the mammalian c-fos proto-oncogene. In addition to the control of initiation, this mechanism contributes to transcriptional regulation of the gene. In vitro transcription experiments using nuclear extracts and pur...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Mechti N,Piechaczyk M,Blanchard JM,Jeanteur P,Lebleu B

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mauriceville and Varkud mitochondrial plasmids of Neurospora spp. are closely related, small circular DNAs that propagate via an RNA intermediate and reverse transcription. Although the plasmids ordinarily replicate autonomously, they can also integrate into mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), yielding defective mtDNAs tha...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Chiang CC,Kennell JC,Wanner LA,Lambowitz AM

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Methyl adenine (3meA), a minor-groove DNA lesion, presents a strong block to synthesis by replicative DNA polymerases (Pols). To elucidate the means by which replication through this DNA lesion is mediated in eukaryotic cells, here we carry out genetic studies in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae treated with the a...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Johnson RE,Yu SL,Prakash S,Prakash L

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mdm2 and MdmX are structurally related p53-binding proteins that function as critical negative regulators of p53 activity in embryonic and adult tissue. The overexpression of Mdm2 or MdmX inhibits p53 tumor suppressor functions in vitro, and the amplification of Mdm2 or MdmX is observed in human cancers retaining wild...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Matijasevic Z,Steinman HA,Hoover K,Jones SN

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sialic acid-binding immunoglobulin-like lectins (siglecs) are predominately expressed on immune cells. They are best known as regulators of cell signaling mediated by cytoplasmic tyrosine motifs and are increasingly recognized as receptors for pathogens that bear sialic acid-containing glycans. Most siglec proteins un...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Tateno H,Li H,Schur MJ,Bovin N,Crocker PR,Wakarchuk WW,Paulson JC

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：:To define the role of Irx4, a member of the Iroquois family of homeobox transcription factors in mammalian heart development and function, we disrupted the murine Irx4 gene. Cardiac morphology in Irx4-deficient mice (designated Irx4(Delta ex2/Delta ex2)) was normal during embryogenesis and in early postnatal life. Adu...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Bruneau BG,Bao ZZ,Fatkin D,Xavier-Neto J,Georgakopoulos D,Maguire CT,Berul CI,Kass DA,Kuroski-de Bold ML,de Bold AJ,Conner DA,Rosenthal N,Cepko CL,Seidman CE,Seidman JG

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth factors and cyclic AMP (cAMP) are known to activate distinct intracellular signaling pathways. Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) activates ras-dependent kinase cascades, resulting in the activation of MAP kinases, whereas cAMP activates protein kinase A. In this study, we report that growth factors and cAMP act sy...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Tan Y,Low KG,Boccia C,Grossman J,Comb MJ

更新日期：1994-11-01 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：:We have identified a gene that encodes the polypeptide cytochrome b in the avian malarial parasite Plasmodium gallinaceum. The gene containing the open reading frame was found to be located on a 6.2-kilobase multimeric extrachromosomal element. The amino acid translation from this gene demonstrated significant similar...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Aldritt SM,Joseph JT,Wirth DF

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A culture system was developed which permitted the differentiation of chicken lens epithelial cells to lentoid bodies which contained several cell layers, accumulated high levels of delta-crystallin, and produced extensive gap junctions. This differentiation process was prevented when the cells were infected with a te...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Menko AS,Boettiger D

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CYC1-239-O mutation in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae produces a -His-Leu- replacement of the normal -Ala-Gly- sequence at amino acid positions 5 and 6, which lie within a dispensable region of iso-1-cytochrome c; this mutation can accommodate the formation of a hairpin structure at the corresponding site in t...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Baim SB,Pietras DF,Eustice DC,Sherman F

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00