Liquid-like behavior of chromatin.

abstract：:Microarray technologies enable genome-scale expression measurements. Already proved to be of value for the functional analysis of individual genes and biological processes, the application of expression profiling to disease gene discovery is now growing in importance and practicality. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Meltzer PS

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ras proteins activate a signaling cascade through direct binding of the serine/threonine kinase Raf. They also activate additional signaling pathways that are essential for full biological activity. Candidate effectors for these pathways include RalGDS and phosphatidyl inositol 3' kinase, as well as several other Ras ...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Katz ME,McCormick F

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferating cells must increase their mass coordinately with cell division. Recent evidence suggests that coupling of cell growth with cell division might be achieved by making synthesis of activators of cell division particularly sensitive to the capacity of the cell's protein synthesis machinery. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Polymenis M,Schmidt EV

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imprinting occurs in the endosperm of flowering plants. Endosperm, produced by fertilization of the central cell in the female gametophyte, is essential for embryo and seed development. Several imprinted genes play an important role in endosperm development. The mechanism of gene imprinting involves DNA methylation an...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Huh JH,Bauer MJ,Hsieh TF,Fischer R

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 diabetes is the most common autoimmune disorder in childhood, characterized by the development of autoimmunity through unknown environmental insults in genetically susceptible individuals. There are now over 50 regions of the genome that harbor type 1 diabetes susceptibility genes, with much of the genetic risk...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Robertson CC,Rich SS

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conversion of one cell type to another is defined as metaplasia (or sometimes it is referred to as transdifferentiation or cellular reprogramming). Metaplasia is important clinically and may predispose to the development of cancer. Barrett's metaplasia is one such example and is the focus of the present review. Ba...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Burke ZD,Tosh D

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PML and SP100-containing nuclear bodies (NBs) represent the best-studied example of a defined nuclear substructure the integrity of which is compromised in certain human diseases, including leukemia, neurodegenerative disorders and viral infection. Although recent progress has underscored the unexpectedly broad in...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Seeler JS,Dejean A

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Folding is an important way by which epithelia are sculpted into three-dimensional shapes during development. Recent studies have integrated quantitative image analysis and physical modeling to uncover contributing mechanisms. It is becoming clear that folding processes often employ multiple mechanisms of force genera...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Denk-Lobnig M,Martin AC

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic study of rats and mice using natural variants, natural mutations, chemical or radiation induced mutations, engineered mutations and conditional engineered mutations has provided the tools for investigating the genetics of disease. The completion of the mouse genomic sequence and progress towards sequencing...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Cox RD,Brown SD

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of transcription elongation within the context of chromatin is a topic of great interest. Even though chromatin presents a barrier to transcription by the PolII machinery in vitro, this process is rather efficient in vivo. Importantly, the chromatin structure of the actively transcribed genes is altered...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Belotserkovskaya R,Reinberg D

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expansions of microsatellite DNA repeats contribute to the inheritance of nearly 30 developmental and neurological disorders. Significant progress has been made in elucidating the molecular mechanisms of repeat expansions using various model organisms and mammalian cell culture, and models implicating nearly all DNA t...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Kim JC,Mirkin SM

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The largest subunit of eukaryotic RNA polymerase II has an unusual tandemly repeated heptapeptide sequence at its carboxyl terminus. The function of this evolutionarily conserved carboxy-terminal domain is unknown; however, new evidence links it to the formation of a large multi-component RNA polymerase II complex pos...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Emili A,Ingles CJ

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TGFβ acts as a potent tumor suppressor and tumor promoter in a context dependent manner. Tumor suppressive functions include inhibition of cell proliferation, induction of apoptosis and regulation of autophagy. As tumors develop they switch their response to TGFβ and utilise this factor as a potent promoter of cell mo...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Inman GJ

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past few years have been significant advances in our understanding of eukaryotic genomes. In the field of parasitology, this is best exemplified by the application of genome mapping techniques to the study of genome structure and function in the protozoan parasite, Leishmania. Although much is known about the orga...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Ivens AC,Blackwell JM

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pluripotency-associated transcription factors possess a pivotal role to maintain pluripotency in pluripotent stem cells as well as to induce pluripotency in somatic cells. They direct specific pattern of gene expression from the genome by co-operating with the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms. Recent findings reveale...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Niwa H

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell proliferation is dependent upon the activation of receptor tyrosine kinases and integrins by soluble growth factors and extracellular matrix proteins, respectively. It is now apparent that concerted, rather than individual, signaling by these receptors is the critical feature responsible for cell-cycle progressio...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Assoian RK,Schwartz MA

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of methods for mapping the location of specific proteins across genomes is substantially enlightening our understanding of gene regulation. One recent discovery is that Pol II is concentrated at the 5' end of thousands of genes in mammalian and Drosophila cells. Before this, much research had focused on und...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Li J,Gilmour DS

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of primate lentivirus phylogeny over the past decade have established a minimum of five related, but genetically distinct, groups of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), each originating from a different African primate species. The hypothesis that HIV-2 (and SIVmac) arose by cross-species transmission from so...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Hirsch VM,Dapolito G,Goeken R,Campbell BJ

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initial human and chimpanzee genome sequences have been published, and additional primate genomes, including those of gorilla and orang-utan, are in progress. With these new resources, we can now address what makes our species unique, by focusing on the underlying genetic differences associated with phenotypes. Co...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Stone AC,Verrelli BC

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene regulatory networks that control sex determination vary between species. Despite these differences, comparative studies in insects have found that alternative splicing is reiteratively used in evolution to control expression of the key sex-determining genes. Sex determination is best understood in Drosophila ...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Salz HK

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) has solidified the concept of transcription factors as major players in controlling cell identity and provided a tractable tool to study how somatic cell identity can be dismantled and pluripotency established. A number of landmark studies have established hallma...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Apostolou E,Stadtfeld M

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase regulation and telomere shortening act as a strong tumor suppressor mechanism in human somatic cells. Point mutations in the promoter of telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) are the most frequent non-coding mutation in cancer. These TERT promoter mutations (TPMs) create de novo ETS factor binding sites u...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Lorbeer FK,Hockemeyer D

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subtelomeres are the regions at chromosome ends, immediately adjacent to the terminal telomeric repeats. The majority of human subtelomeres are CpG-rich in their distal two kilobases, and are methylated during early embryonic development by the de novo DNA methyltransferase DNMT3B. The biological relevance of subtelom...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Toubiana S,Selig S

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The introduction of the genome database to the human gene mapping community in September 1990 heralded the advent of a new generation of databases to serve the needs of the human genome initiative over the coming years. The databases will act as a fulcrum around which the activities of the human genome initiative can ...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Pearson PL

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotes, the genetic material is stored in the nucleus, which is enclosed in a double lipid bilayer, the nuclear envelope (NE). It protects the genome from physical stress and separates it from the rest of the cell. On top of this physical function, growing evidence shows that the nuclear periphery contributes t...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Meister P,Taddei A

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A casual association has been established between mutations in the fibrillin 1 gene and Marfan syndrome and related phenotypes. Analysis of mutations in these disease types has provided new insights into microfibril assembly and function. These include evidence for a mutation in a fibrillin 1 domain associated with se...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Ramirez F

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid progress in identifying the genes underlying autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has provided the substrate for a first wave of analyses into the underlying neurobiology. This review describes the consensus across these diverse analyses, highlighting two distinct sets of genes: 1) Genes that regulate chromatin and tr...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Sanders SJ

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vertebrate inner ear is a sensory organ of exquisite design and sensitivity. It responds to sound, gravity and movement, serving both auditory (hearing) and vestibular (balance) functions. Almost all cell types of the inner ear, including sensory hair cells, sensory neurons, secretory cells and supporting cells, d...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Whitfield TT

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant advances in the field of hepatocyte-specific gene expression have been made during the past year. Several new transcription factors have been cloned and partially characterized. Analyses of the promoter regions of several factors have also been initiated and Drosophila homologs for two of these factors hav...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Sladek FM,Darnell JE

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Models in developmental biology continue to yield valuable insights, yet do not play a strong role as guides to experiment. This may be because of the largely unexplored complexity of most developing organisms, and the fact that the most powerful models work at a very abstract level. In Dictyostelium discoideum, howev...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Cox EC

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00