Ligand promiscuity of aryl hydrocarbon receptor agonists and antagonists revealed by site-directed mutagenesis.

abstract：:Drosophila virilis genomic DNA corresponding to the D. melanogaster embryonic lethal abnormal visual system (elav) locus was cloned. DNA sequence analysis of a 3.8-kb genomic piece allowed identification of (i) an open reading frame (ORF) with striking homology to the previously identified D. melanogaster ORF and (ii)...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Yao KM,White K

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone acetylation provides a switch between transcriptionally repressive and permissive chromatin. By regulating the chromatin structure at specific promoters, histone acetyltransferases (HATs) carry out important functions during differentiation and development of higher eukaryotes. HAT complexes are present in org...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Guelman S,Suganuma T,Florens L,Weake V,Swanson SK,Washburn MP,Abmayr SM,Workman JL

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TEL-JAK2 fusion proteins, which are a result of t(9;12)(p24;p13) translocations associated with human leukemia, activate Stat5 in vitro and in vivo and cause a myelo- and lymphoproliferative disease in a murine bone marrow transplant model. We report that Socs-1, a member of the SOCS family of endogenous inhibitors of...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Frantsve J,Schwaller J,Sternberg DW,Kutok J,Gilliland DG

更新日期：2001-05-01 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：:DNA sequencing and blot hybridization analyses have been used to study the structure of a mouse VL30 gene and the molecular nature of VL30-related RNA which is induced upon the stimulation of cultured AKR mouse embryo cells with defined peptide growth factors. An integrated mouse VL30 gene was found to contain identic...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hodgson CP,Elder PK,Ono T,Foster DN,Getz MJ

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA mismatch repair maintains genomic stability by detecting and correcting mispaired DNA sequences and by signaling cell death when DNA repair fails. The mechanism by which mismatch repair coordinates DNA damage and repair with cell survival or death is not understood, but it suggests the need for regulation. Since t...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wu X,Platt JL,Cascalho M

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis controls diverse physiological processes in eukaryotes. However, few in vivo targets of the mammalian Cdc34 and Rad6 ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes are known. A yeast-based genetic assay to identify proteins that interact with human Cdc34 resulted in three cDNAs encoding bZIP DNA binding ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Pati D,Meistrich ML,Plon SE

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously identified an RNA binding protein, CUGBP1, which binds to GCN repeats located within the 5' region of C/EBPbeta mRNAs and regulates translation of C/EBPbeta isoforms. To further investigate the role of RNA binding proteins in the posttranscriptional control of C/EBP proteins, we purified additional RNA b...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Timchenko LT,Iakova P,Welm AL,Cai ZJ,Timchenko NA

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Negative-feedback loops between transcription factors and repressors in responses to xenobiotics, oxidants, heat, hypoxia, DNA damage, and infection have been described. Although common, the function of feedback is largely unstudied. Here, we define a negative-feedback loop between the Caenorhabditis elegans detoxific...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Leung CK,Wang Y,Deonarine A,Tang L,Prasse S,Choe KP

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) accumulates in virus-infected mammalian cells and signals the activation of host defense pathways of the interferon system. We describe here a novel form of dsRNA-triggered signaling that leads to the stimulation of the p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (p38 MAPK) and the c-Jun NH(2)-ter...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Iordanov MS,Paranjape JM,Zhou A,Wong J,Williams BR,Meurs EF,Silverman RH,Magun BE

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the expression of chimeric plasmids containing coding sequences for the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (tk) gene or the Tn5 gene for neomycin resistance (neo) linked to the late promoter of polyoma DNA. Although polyoma late genes are generally not expressed in transformed cells containing only...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kern FG,Basilico C

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein acetylation has emerged as a means of controlling levels of mRNA synthesis in eukaryotic cells. Here we report that acetyl coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA) stimulates RNA polymerase II transcription in vitro in the absence of histones. The effect of acetyl-CoA on basal and activated transcription was studied in a human...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Galasinski SK,Lively TN,Grebe De Barron A,Goodrich JA

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitoferrin 1 (Mfrn1; Slc25a37) and mitoferrin 2 (Mfrn2; Slc25a28) function as essential mitochondrial iron importers for heme and Fe/S cluster biogenesis. A genetic deficiency of Mfrn1 results in a profound hypochromic anemia in vertebrate species. To map the cis-regulatory modules (CRMs) that control expression of th...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Amigo JD,Yu M,Troadec MB,Gwynn B,Cooney JD,Lambert AJ,Chi NC,Weiss MJ,Peters LL,Kaplan J,Cantor AB,Paw BH

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature-sensitive mutants of TFIIB that are defective for essential interactions were isolated. One mutation (G204D) results in disruption of a protein-protein contact between TFIIB and TATA binding protein (TBP), while the other (K272I) disrupts an interaction between TFIIB and DNA. The TBP gene was mutagenized, ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Buratowski RM,Downs J,Buratowski S

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cells lacking functional p53 exhibit a partial deficiency in nucleotide excision repair (NER), the pathway for repair of UV-induced DNA damage. The global genomic repair (GGR) subpathway of NER, but not transcription-coupled repair (TCR), is mainly affected by p53 loss or inactivation. We have utilized mouse emb...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Smith ML,Ford JM,Hollander MC,Bortnick RA,Amundson SA,Seo YR,Deng CX,Hanawalt PC,Fornace AJ Jr

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although DNA breakage and reunion in nonhomologous recombination are poorly understood, previous work suggests that short sequence homologies may play a role in the end-joining step in mammalian cells. To study the mechanism of end joining in more detail, we inserted a polylinker into the simian virus 40 T-antigen int...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Roth DB,Wilson JH

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulation factor VIII is an essential cofactor required for normal hemostatic function. A deficiency in factor VIII results in the bleeding disorder hemophilia A. Despite the fact that the factor VIII gene was cloned a decade ago, the mechanisms which control its transcription remain unresolved. In our studies, we h...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： McGlynn LK,Mueller CR,Begbie M,Notley CR,Lillicrap D

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha 2 protein of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae normally represses a set of cell-type-specific genes (the a-specific genes) that are transcribed by RNA polymerase II. In this study, we determined whether alpha 2 can affect transcription by other RNA polymerases. We find that alpha 2 can repress transcription...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Herschbach BM,Johnson AD

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytokines tumor necrosis factor (TNF), beta interferon (IFN-beta), and IFN-gamma increase major histocompatibility complex class I molecule expression. A greater than additive (i.e., synergistic) induction of class I heavy-chain mRNA is observed in HeLa cells treated with TNF in combination with either type of IFN...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Johnson DR,Pober JS

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Notch receptor controls development by activating transcription of specific target genes in response to extracellular signals. The factors that control assembly of the Notch activator complex on target genes and its ability to activate transcription are not fully known. Here we show, through genetic and molecular ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Gause M,Eissenberg JC,Macrae AF,Dorsett M,Misulovin Z,Dorsett D

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A potential p120 GTPase-activating protein (RasGAP) effector, G3BP (RasGAP Src homology 3 [SH3] binding protein), was previously identified based on its ability to bind the SH3 domain of RasGAP. Here we show that G3BP colocalizes and physically interacts with RasGAP at the plasma membrane of serum-stimulated but not q...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Gallouzi IE,Parker F,Chebli K,Maurier F,Labourier E,Barlat I,Capony JP,Tocque B,Tazi J

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major cytoskeletal actin gene of Drosophila melanogaster, the actin 5C gene, has two promoters, the distal one of which controls synthesis of actin in a tissue- and developmental stage-specific manner. This very strong promoter has widely been used for expression of heterologous genes in cultured cells. To locate ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Chung YT,Keller EB

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2 micron plasmid of Saccharomyces cerevisiae codes for a site-specific recombinase, the FLP protein, that catalyzes efficient recombination across two 599-base-pair (bp) inverted repeats of the plasmid DNA both in vivo and in vitro. We analyzed the interaction of the purified FLP protein with the target sequences ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Andrews BJ,McLeod M,Broach J,Sadowski PD

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies indicated that repression by eve involves cooperative DNA binding and leads to the formation of a DNA loop which encompasses the DNA sequences normally bound by the RNA polymerase II general transcription factors. To test the general principle of whether bending of a basal promoter sequence can contri...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： TenHarmsel A,Biggin MD

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here a new cell line, EL2, which spontaneously arose from primary rat embryo fibroblasts and has the distinctive property of being highly susceptible to a number of different transforming genes. The high susceptibility is expressed not only in high transformation frequencies but, most importantly, in an un...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Liboi E,Caruso M,Basilico C

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CDC37 encodes a 50-kDa protein that targets intrinsically unstable oncoprotein kinases including Cdk4, Raf-1, and v-src to the molecular chaperone Hsp90, an interaction that is thought to be important for the establishment of signaling pathways. CDC37 is required for proliferation in budding yeast and is coexpressed w...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Stepanova L,Finegold M,DeMayo F,Schmidt EV,Harper JW

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preadipocyte factor 1 (Pref-1/Dlk1) inhibits in vitro adipocyte differentiation and has been recently reported to be a paternally expressed imprinted gene at human chromosome 14q32. Studies on human chromosome 14 deletions and maternal uniparental disomy (mUPD) 14 suggest that misexpression of a yet-to-be-identified i...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Moon YS,Smas CM,Lee K,Villena JA,Kim KH,Yun EJ,Sul HS

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of molecular chaperones and folding enzymes in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) are controlled by a transcriptional induction process termed the unfolded protein response (UPR). The mammalian UPR is mediated by the cis-acting ER stress response element (ERSE), the consensus sequence of which is CCAAT-N(9)-CCA...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Yoshida H,Okada T,Haze K,Yanagi H,Yura T,Negishi M,Mori K

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the roles of Rel/NF-kappaB transcription factors in mouse skin development with loss-of-function mutants has been limited by redundancy among these proteins and by embryonic lethality associated with the absence of RelA. Using mice lacking RelA and c-rel, which survive throughout embryogenesis on a tumor n...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Gugasyan R,Voss A,Varigos G,Thomas T,Grumont RJ,Kaur P,Grigoriadis G,Gerondakis S

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-6 (IL-6) and leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), two multifunctional cytokines, recently have been identified as physiological inducers of hematopoietic cell differentiation which also induce terminal differentiation and growth arrest of the myeloblastic leukemic M1 cell line. In this work, it is shown that ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hoffman-Liebermann B,Liebermann DA

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00