Identification of a region within the Na,K-ATPase alpha subunit that contributes to differential ouabain sensitivity.

abstract：:Multidrug resistance (MDR) to different cytotoxic compounds in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae can arise from overexpression of the Pdr5 (Sts1, Ydr1, or Lem1) ATP-binding cassette (ABC) multidrug transporter. We have raised polyclonal antibodies recognizing the yeast Pdr5 ABC transporter to study its biogenesis and...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Egner R,Mahé Y,Pandjaitan R,Kuchler K

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:First characterized in Trypanosoma brucei, the spliced leader-associated (SLA) RNA gene locus has now been isolated from the kinetoplastids Leishmania tarentolae and Trypanosoma cruzi. In addition to the T. brucei SLA RNA, both L. tarentolae and T. cruzi SLA RNA repeat units also yield RNAs of 75 or 76 nucleotides (nt...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Roberts TG,Sturm NR,Yee BK,Yu MC,Hartshorne T,Agabian N,Campbell DA

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural maintenance of chromosomes (Smc) family members Smc5 and Smc6 are both essential in budding and fission yeasts. Yeast smc5/6 mutants are hypersensitive to DNA damage, and Smc5/6 is recruited to HO-induced double-strand breaks (DSBs), facilitating intersister chromatid recombinational repair. To determin...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Stephan AK,Kliszczak M,Dodson H,Cooley C,Morrison CG

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CPC1 is the transcriptional activator of amino acid biosynthetic genes of Neurospora crassa. CPC1 function in vivo was abolished upon deletion of segments of cpc-1 corresponding to the presumed transcription activation domain, the DNA-binding and dimerization domains, or a 52-residue connector segment of CPC1. A trunc...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Paluh JL,Yanofsky C

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SEC62 is required for the import of secretory protein precursors into the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The DNA sequence of SEC62 predicts a 32-kDa polypeptide with two potential membrane-spanning segments. Two antisera directed against different portions of the SEC62 coding region specifical...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Deshaies RJ,Schekman R

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selenoenzyme phospholipid hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidase (PHGPx) is regarded as the major molecular target of selenodeficiency in rodents, accounting for most of the histopathological and structural abnormalities of testicular tissue and male germ cells. PHGPx exists as a cytosolic form, mitochondrial form, ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Conrad M,Moreno SG,Sinowatz F,Ursini F,Kölle S,Roveri A,Brielmeier M,Wurst W,Maiorino M,Bornkamm GW

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We characterized a temperature-sensitive mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in which a mini-chromosome was unstable at a high temperature and cloned a new gene which encodes a basic and hydrophilic protein (110 kDa). The disruption of this gene caused the same temperature-sensitive growth as the original mutation. By ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Yashiroda H,Oguchi T,Yasuda Y,Toh-E A,Kikuchi Y

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of transcription on homologous intrachromosomal recombination between direct and inverted repeats has been examined by using Chinese hamster ovary cells. Recombination was monitored between two integrated neomycin (neo) genes, including one silent allele and a second allele regulated by the inducible mou...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Nickoloff JA

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons are major components of the higher eukaryotic genome. Most of them have two open reading frames (ORFs): ORF2 encodes mainly the endonuclease and reverse transcriptase domains, but the functional features of ORF1 remain largely unknown. We used telomere-specific non-LTR r...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Matsumoto T,Hamada M,Osanai M,Fujiwara H

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A characteristic feature of gene expression in eukaryotes is the addition of a 5'-terminal 7-methylguanine cap (m7GpppN) to nascent pre-mRNAs in the nucleus catalyzed by capping enzyme and cap methyltransferase. Small interfering RNA (siRNA) knockdown of cap methyltransferase in HeLa cells resulted in apoptosis as mea...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shafer B,Chu C,Shatkin AJ

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenovirus E1A pre-mRNA was used as a model to examine alternative 5' splice site selection during in vitro splicing reactions. Strong preference for the downstream 13S 5' splice site over the upstream 12S or 9S 5' splice sites was observed. However, the 12S 5' splice site was used efficiently when a mutant pre-mRNA l...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Harper JE,Manley JL

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a high-frequency cotransformation system which is useful in introducing nonreplicating circular DNA plasmids into the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. This system depends on two factors: the ability of the ural-complementing helper plasmids pFYM2 and pFYM225 to propagate autonomously in S. po...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Sakai K,Sakaguchi J,Yamamoto M

更新日期：1984-04-01 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：:Cell adhesion and spreading depend on activation of mitogen-activated kinase, which in turn is regulated both by growth factor and integrin signaling. Growth factors, such as epidermal growth factor, are capable of activating Ras and Raf, but integrin signaling is required to couple Raf to MEK and MEK to extracellular...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Eblen ST,Slack-Davis JK,Tarcsafalvi A,Parsons JT,Weber MJ,Catling AD

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin stimulates glucose transport into fat and muscle cells by increasing the exocytic trafficking rate of the GLUT4 facilitative glucose transporter from intracellular stores to the plasma membrane. Delivery of GLUT4 to the plasma membrane is mediated by formation of functional SNARE complexes containing syntaxin4...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kioumourtzoglou D,Gould GW,Bryant NJ

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic imprinting results in parent-of-origin-dependent monoallelic expression of selected genes. Although their importance in development and physiology is recognized, few imprinted genes have been investigated for their effects on brain function. Gnas is a complex imprinted locus whose gene products are involved in...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Plagge A,Isles AR,Gordon E,Humby T,Dean W,Gritsch S,Fischer-Colbrie R,Wilkinson LS,Kelsey G

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied RNA polymerase I transcription in cells transfected with a plasmid, prHuTK, containing the herpes simplex virus tk gene fused to a human rRNA promoter. Primer extension analysis of tk RNA isolated from COS cells transfected with prHuTK reveals that transcription from the RNA polymerase I promoter is highly ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Smale ST,Tjian R

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of mitosis by antimitotic drugs is thought to occur by destruction of microtubules, causing cells to arrest through the action of one or more mitotic checkpoints. We have patterned experiments in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae after recent studies in mammalian cells that demonstrate the effectiveness of...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wang Y,Burke DJ

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviruses have evolved complex transcriptional enhancers and promoters that allow their replication in a wide range of tissue and cell types. Embryonic stem (ES) cells, however, characteristically suppress transcription of proviruses formed after infection by exogenous retroviruses and also of most members of the v...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Schlesinger S,Goff SP

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Study of the mechanism(s) of genomic instability induced by the c-myc proto-oncogene has the potential to shed new light on its well-known oncogenic activity. However, an underlying mechanism(s) for this phenotype is largely unknown. In the present study, we investigated the effects of c-Myc overexpression on the DNA ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Sheen JH,Dickson RB

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SF-21 insect cell line undergoes rapid and widespread apoptosis when treated with actinomycin D or when infected with a mutant of the baculovirus Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus lacking a p35 gene or a functionally active iap (inhibitor of apoptosis) gene. Here we provide evidence that the basis ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Clem RJ,Miller LK

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An electrophoretic mobility shift assay was used to characterize interactions of nuclear proteins with a DNA segment in the enhancer element of the leukemogenic murine retrovirus SL3-3. Mutation of a DNA sequence of the 5'-TGTGG-3' type decreased transcription in vivo specifically in T-lymphocyte cell lines. Extracts ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Thornell A,Hallberg B,Grundström T

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HOG (high-osmolarity glycerol) mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway regulates the osmotic stress response in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Three type 2C Ser/Thr phosphatases (PTCs), Ptc1, Ptc2, and Ptc3, have been isolated as negative regulators of this pathway. Previously, multicopy expression of...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Warmka J,Hanneman J,Lee J,Amin D,Ota I

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomere stabilization is critical for tumorigenesis. A number of tumors and cell lines use a recombination-based mechanism, alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT), to maintain telomere repeat arrays. Current data suggest that the mutation of p53 facilitates the activation of this pathway. In addition to its funct...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Razak ZR,Varkonyi RJ,Kulp-McEliece M,Caslini C,Testa JR,Murphy ME,Broccoli D

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LEU3 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae encodes an 886-amino-acid polypeptide that regulates transcription of a group of genes involved in leucine biosynthesis and has been shown to bind specifically to a 114-base-pair DNA fragment of the LEU2 upstream region (P. Friden and P. Schimmel, Mol. Cell. Biol. 7:2707-2717, 1987). W...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Friden P,Schimmel P

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional importance of the two clusters of positively charged amino acids which flank the hydrophobic membrane-anchoring sequence of polyomavirus middle T (mT) protein has been investigated by using site-directed mutagenesis. A clear asymmetry was apparent. No effect on transformation was seen following multiple...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Dahl J,Thathamangalam U,Freund R,Benjamin TL

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide range of xenobiotic compounds are metabolized by cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes, and the genes that encode these enzymes are often induced in the presence of such compounds. Here, we show that the nuclear receptor CAR can recognize response elements present in the promoters of xenobiotic-responsive CYP genes, as...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Tzameli I,Pissios P,Schuetz EG,Moore DD

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aromatic aminotransferase II, product of the ARO9 gene, catalyzes the first step of tryptophan, phenylalanine, and tyrosine catabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. ARO9 expression is under the dual control of specific induction and nitrogen source regulation. We have here identified UASaro, a 36-bp upstream element ne...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Iraqui I,Vissers S,André B,Urrestarazu A

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a hybridoma cell line which secretes hapten-specific immunoglobulin M (IgM), we have isolated a variety of mutants which produce abnormal immunoglobulin. Immunoglobulin was tested for the size and composition of the component heavy and light chains and for variable and constant region related functional and sero...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shulman MJ,Heusser C,Filkin C,Köhler G

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In self-fertile strains of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, nitrogen starvation initiates a program of sexual development in which cells express mating pheromones and receptors, arrest cell cycle progression in G1, and conjugate. This process is dependent on Rum1, an inhibitor of the Cdc2-Cdc13 and Cdc2-Ci...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wu L,Russell P

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00