An HBV-encoded miRNA activates innate immunity to restrict HBV replication.

abstract：:The ectoderm has the capability to generate epidermis and neuroectoderm and plays imperative roles during the early embryonic development. Our recent study uncovered a region with ectodermal progenitor potential in mouse embryo at embryonic day 7.0 and revealed that Nodal inhibition is essential for its formation. Her...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Li L,Song L,Liu C,Chen J,Peng G,Wang R,Liu P,Tang K,Rossant J,Jing N

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our earlier studies have demonstrated that the cigarette smoke in the form of cigarette smoke condensate (CSC) causes growth arrest of a mouse spermatocyte cell line [GC-2spd(ts)] through activation of the AHR-NRF2 pathway. The present study demonstrates the CSC-activated p38 and ERK MAPK signaling in GC-2spd(ts) via ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Esakky P,Hansen DA,Drury AM,Moley KH

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian fertilization involves membrane events-adhesion, fusion, sperm engulfment, membrane block to polyspermy-whose causes remain largely unknown. Recently, specific oscillations of the sperm in contact with the egg were shown to be necessary for fusion. Using a microfluidic chip to impose the venue for the encoun...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Ravaux B,Favier S,Perez E,Gourier C

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For patients with COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2, the damages to multiple organs have been clinically observed. Since most of current investigations for virus-host interaction are based on cell level, there is an urgent demand to probe tissue-specific features associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection. Based on collected pr...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Feng L,Yin YY,Liu CH,Xu KR,Li QR,Wu JR,Zeng R

更新日期：2020-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis linking directly genomics, neuroimaging phenotypes and clinical measurements is crucial for understanding psychiatric disorders, but remains rare. Here, we describe a multi-scale analysis using genome-wide SNPs, gene expression, grey matter volume (GMV), and the positive and negative syndrome scale scores (PA...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Ma L,Rolls ET,Liu X,Liu Y,Jiao Z,Wang Y,Gong W,Ma Z,Gong F,Wan L

更新日期：2019-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Adipocyte is the most predominant cell type in the tumor microenvironment of breast cancer and plays a pivotal role in cancer progression, yet the underlying mechanisms and functional mediators remain elusive. We isolated primary preadipocytes from mammary fat pads of human breast cancer patients and generated mature ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Liu L,Wu Y,Zhang C,Zhou C,Li Y,Zeng Y,Zhang C,Li R,Luo D,Wang L,Zhang L,Tu S,Deng H,Luo S,Chen YG,Xiong X,Yan X

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local signaling events at synapses or axon terminals are communicated to the nucleus to elicit transcriptional responses, and thereby translate information about the external environment into internal neuronal representations. This retrograde signaling is critical to dendritic growth, synapse development, and neuronal...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Wu Y,Lv X,Wang H,Qian K,Ding J,Wang J,Hua S,Sun T,Zhou Y,Yu L,Qiu S

更新日期：2020-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Mdm2 is the key negative regulator of the tumour suppressor p53, making it an attractive target for anti-cancer drug design. We recently identified a new role of Mdm2 in gene repression through its direct interaction with several proteins of the polycomb group (PcG) family. PcG proteins form polycomb repressive comple...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Wienken M,Moll UM,Dobbelstein M

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in functional genomics have led to discovery of a large group of previous uncharacterized long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs). Emerging evidence indicates that lncRNAs may serve as master gene regulators through various mechanisms. Dysregulation of lncRNAs is often associated with a variety of human diseases inclu...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Zhang A,Xu M,Mo YY

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) replenish all types of blood cells. It is debating whether HSCs in adults solely originate from the aorta-gonad-mesonephros (AGM) region, more specifically, the dorsal aorta, during embryogenesis. Here, we report that somite hematopoiesis, a previously unwitnessed hematopoiesis, can gen...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Qiu J,Fan X,Wang Y,Jin H,Song Y,Han Y,Huang S,Meng Y,Tang F,Meng A

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of the p53 gene is a key driver of tumorigenesis in various cancer cohorts and types. The quest for a successful p53-based therapy that holds the promise of treating more than half of the cancer population has culminated in extensive knowledge about the role and function of p53 and led to new proposed inn...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Aning OA,Cheok CF

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have successfully identified thousands of genomic loci associated with hundreds of complex traits in the past decade, the debate about such problems as missing heritability and weak interpretability has been appealing for effective computational methods to facilitate the...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Wu M,Lin Z,Ma S,Chen T,Jiang R,Wong WH

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of epigenetic regulators are pervasive in human tumors. ASXL1 is frequently mutated in myeloid malignancies. We previously found that ASXL1 forms together with BAP1 a complex that can deubiquitinylate mono-ubiquitinylated lysine 119 on histone H2A (H2AK119ub1), a Polycomb repressive mark. However, a complete...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Cao L,Xia X,Kong Y,Jia F,Yuan B,Li R,Li Q,Wang Y,Cui M,Dai Z,Zheng H,Christensen J,Zhou Y,Wu X

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motile cilia and flagella are microtubule-based organelles important for cell locomotion and extracellular liquid flow through beating. Although axonenal dyneins that drive ciliary beat have been extensively studied in unicellular Chlamydomonas, to what extent such knowledge can be applied to vertebrate is poorly know...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Zhang Y,Chen Y,Zheng J,Wang J,Duan S,Zhang W,Yan X,Zhu X

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishment of the primordial follicle (PF) pool is pivotal for the female reproductive lifespan; however, the mechanism of primordial folliculogenesis is poorly understood. Here, the transcription factor SP1 was shown to be essential for PF formation in mice. Our results showed that SP1 is present in both oocytes a...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Cai H,Liu B,Wang H,Sun G,Feng L,Chen Z,Zhou J,Zhang J,Zhang T,He M,Yang T,Guo Q,Teng Z,Xin Q,Zhou B,Zhang H,Xia G,Wang C

更新日期：2020-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The cranial neural crest (CNC) cells play a vital role in craniofacial development and regeneration. They are multi-potent progenitors, being able to differentiate into various types of tissues. Both pre-migratory and post-migratory CNC cells are plastic, taking on diverse fates by responding to different inductive si...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Shao M,Liu C,Song Y,Ye W,He W,Yuan G,Gu S,Lin C,Ma L,Zhang Y,Tian W,Hu T,Chen Y

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis is one of the most notorious killers worldwide. These pathogens have evolved to infect human beings in a so-called dormant form that is extremely difficult to treat. New work, however, suggests that mycobacterial proteasomes, multicomponent structures that protect the microbe from damaging e...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Cheng Y,Pieters J

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hippo signalling pathway has a crucial role in growth control during development, and its dysregulation contributes to tumorigenesis. Recent studies uncover multiple upstream regulatory inputs into Hippo signalling, which affects phosphorylation of the transcriptional coactivator Yki/YAP/TAZ by Wts/Lats. Here we i...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Huang D,Li X,Sun L,Huang P,Ying H,Wang H,Wu J,Song H

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of microRNAs (miRNAs) in the development of the neural crest (NC) cells and other neuronal differentiation is still poorly understood. Here, we investigated the global function of miRNAs in embryonic development by examining the Wnt1-cre-mediated Dicer knockout mice. Dicer ablation resulted in malforma...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Huang T,Liu Y,Huang M,Zhao X,Cheng L

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X chromosome inactivation and genomic imprinting are two classic epigenetic regulatory processes that cause mono-allelic gene expression. In female mammals, mono-allelic expression of the long non-coding RNA gene X-inactive specific transcript (XIST) is essential for initiation of X chromosome inactivation upon differ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Zhang Y,Wang C,Liu X,Yang Q,Ji H,Yang M,Xu M,Zhou Y,Xie W,Luo Z,Lin C

更新日期：2019-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The SMYD (SET and MYND domain) family of lysine methyltransferases (KMTs) plays pivotal roles in various cellular processes, including gene expression regulation and DNA damage response. Initially identified as genuine histone methyltransferases, specific members of this family have recently been shown to methylate no...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Abu-Farha M,Lanouette S,Elisma F,Tremblay V,Butson J,Figeys D,Couture JF

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) exhibit unique chromatin features, including a permissive transcriptional program and an open, decondensed chromatin state. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which are very similar to ESCs, hold great promise for therapy and basic research. However, the mechanisms by which reprogrammi...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Mattout A,Biran A,Meshorer E

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:E-selectin is a cell-adhesion molecule of the vascular endothelium that promotes essential leukocyte rolling in the early inflammatory response by binding to glycoproteins containing the tetrasaccharide sialyl Lewis(x) (sLe(x)). Efficient leukocyte recruitment under vascular flow conditions depends on an increased lif...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Preston RC,Jakob RP,Binder FP,Sager CP,Ernst B,Maier T

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of dopaminergic neurons are thought to be increased by stimuli that predict reward and decreased by stimuli that predict aversive outcomes. Recent work by Matsumoto and Hikosaka challenges this model by asserting that stimuli associated with either rewarding or aversive outcomes increase the activity of d...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Frank MJ,Surmeier DJ

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is a protein kinase that plays key roles in cellular regulation. It forms complexes with additional proteins. The best-understood one is mTOR complex 1 (mTORC1). The regulation and cellular functions of mTORC1 have been the subjects of intense study; despite this, many question...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Wang X,Proud CG

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetic reprogramming of the parental genome occurs in fertilized oocytes and involves oxidation of 5-methylcytosines (5-mC) to 5-hydroxymethylcytosines (5-hmC) in the paternal pronucleus. Recent work has shown that the maternal genome is protected from this remodeling step by an interaction between a modified hist...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Szabó PE,Pfeifer GP

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dying cells actively attract professional phagocytes by sending out soluble 'find-me' signals. The characterization and identification of the corresponding molecular entities have revealed that 'find-me' signals come in different flavors, including peptides, proteins, lipids and complex structures, such as apoptotic m...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Peter C,Wesselborg S,Lauber K

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone deacetylase 1 (HDAC1) is an essential epigenetic regulator belonging to a highly conserved family of deacetylases. Increased HDAC1 activity and expression often correlates with neoplastic transformation. Here we show how specific modification of HDAC1 by SUMO1, but not by SUMO2, facilitates HDAC1 degradation. ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Citro S,Jaffray E,Hay RT,Seiser C,Chiocca S

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-Tat-interacting protein of 60 kDa (TIP60) is a lysine acetyltransferase and known to be downregulated in multiple cancers. Among various signalling pathways, TIP60 is implicated in regulating epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Here, we show that TIP60 expression abrogates cell migration and metastatic potent...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Zhang Y,Subbaiah VK,Rajagopalan D,Tham CY,Abdullah LN,Toh TB,Gong M,Tan TZ,Jadhav SP,Pandey AK,Karnani N,Chow EK,Thiery JP,Jha S

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing brown and beige fat thermogenesis have an anti-obesity effect and thus great metabolic benefits. However, the molecular mechanisms regulating brown and beige fat thermogenesis remain to be further elucidated. We recently found that fat-specific knockout of Rheb promoted beige fat thermogenesis. In the curre...

journal_title：Journal of molecular cell biology

authors： Meng W,Liang X,Xiao T,Wang J,Wen J,Luo H,Teng J,Fei Y,Zhang Q,Liu B,Hu F,Bai J,Liu M,Zhou Z,Liu F

更新日期：2019-09-19 00:00:00