No-nonsense functions for long noncoding RNAs.

abstract：:Pathogenic and other cytoplasmic DNAs activate the cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS)-stimulator of interferon genes (STING) pathway to induce inflammation via transcriptional activation by IRF3 and nuclear factor κB (NF-κB), but the functional consequences of exposing cGAS to chromosomes upon mitotic nuclear envelope bre...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Zierhut C,Yamaguchi N,Paredes M,Luo JD,Carroll T,Funabiki H

更新日期：2019-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In C. elegans, removing the germ cells extends life span by triggering the nuclear localization and activation of the DAF-16/FOXO transcription factor in the intestine. In this study, we identify and analyze genes required for germline removal to extend life span. We find that the reproductive system communicates with...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Berman JR,Kenyon C

更新日期：2006-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin modifying activities inherent to polycomb repressive complexes PRC1 and PRC2 play an essential role in gene regulation, cellular differentiation, and development. However, the mechanisms by which these complexes recognize their target sites and function together to form repressive chromatin domains remain po...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Blackledge NP,Farcas AM,Kondo T,King HW,McGouran JF,Hanssen LLP,Ito S,Cooper S,Kondo K,Koseki Y,Ishikura T,Long HK,Sheahan TW,Brockdorff N,Kessler BM,Koseki H,Klose RJ

更新日期：2014-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Hsp33, a member of a newly discovered heat shock protein family, was found to be a very potent molecular chaperone. Hsp33 is distinguished from all other known molecular chaperones by its mode of functional regulation. Its activity is redox regulated. Hsp33 is a cytoplasmically localized protein with highly reactive c...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Jakob U,Muse W,Eser M,Bardwell JC

更新日期：1999-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Most secreted growth factors and cytokines are functionally pleiotropic because their receptors are expressed on diverse cell types. While important for normal mammalian physiology, pleiotropy limits the efficacy of cytokines and growth factors as therapeutics. Stem cell factor (SCF) is a growth factor that acts throu...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Ho CCM,Chhabra A,Starkl P,Schnorr PJ,Wilmes S,Moraga I,Kwon HS,Gaudenzio N,Sibilano R,Wehrman TS,Gakovic M,Sockolosky JT,Tiffany MR,Ring AM,Piehler J,Weissman IL,Galli SJ,Shizuru JA,Garcia KC

更新日期：2017-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquisition of the intestinal microbiota begins at birth, and a stable microbial community develops from a succession of key organisms. Disruption of the microbiota during maturation by low-dose antibiotic exposure can alter host metabolism and adiposity. We now show that low-dose penicillin (LDP), delivered from birt...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Cox LM,Yamanishi S,Sohn J,Alekseyenko AV,Leung JM,Cho I,Kim SG,Li H,Gao Z,Mahana D,Zárate Rodriguez JG,Rogers AB,Robine N,Loke P,Blaser MJ

更新日期：2014-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The FoxO transcription factors have been implicated in many processes including tumor suppression and cell death. In this issue, two groups now report on mice that conditionally lack the three predominant FoxO transcription factors. Demonstrate that FoxOs are critical for the long-term maintenance of hematopoietic ste...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Arden KC

更新日期：2007-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:During C. elegans embryogenesis an 8-cell stage blastomere, called MS, undergoes a reproducible cleavage pattern, producing pharyngeal cells, body wall muscles, and cell deaths. We show here that maternal-effect mutations in the pie-1 and mex-1 genes cause additional 8-cell stage blastomeres to adopt a fate very simil...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Mello CC,Draper BW,Krause M,Weintraub H,Priess JR

更新日期：1992-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle cell cultures from Drosophila melanogaster were obtained by plating dissociated gastrula stage embryo cells on protamine-treated culture dishes. They myogenic cells in these cultures fuse to form multinucleated pulsating cells by 15 hr after plating. An analysis of protein synthesis during myogenesis in these c...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Storti RV,Horovitch SJ,Scott MP,Rich A,Pardue ML

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Balancing the capacity for protein maturation with changes in protein flux through the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is crucial for maintaining ER homeostasis. In this issue, Merksamer et al. (2008) exploit a redox-sensitive fluorescent protein to monitor the environment inside the ER of living yeast, illuminating how th...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Kang SW,Hegde RS

更新日期：2008-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetics and pharmacology can elicit surprisingly different phenotypes despite targeting the same protein. This Essay explores these unexpected differences and their implications for biology and medicine. ...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Knight ZA,Shokat KM

更新日期：2007-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin recognition complex (ORC) is required to initiate eukaryotic DNA replication and also engages in transcriptional silencing in S. cerevisiae. We observed a striking preferential but not exclusive association of Drosophila ORC2 with heterochromatin on interphase and mitotic chromosomes. HP1, a heterochromatin...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Pak DT,Pflumm M,Chesnokov I,Huang DW,Kellum R,Marr J,Romanowski P,Botchan MR

更新日期：1997-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The mec-3 gene is essential for proper differentiation of the set of six touch receptor neurons in C. elegans. In mutants lacking mec-3 activity, the touch receptors express none of their unique differentiated features and appear to be transformed into other types of neurons. We cloned the mec-3 gene by transposon tag...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Way JC,Chalfie M

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interplay of genetics and the environment in the etiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is not well understood. Now, Lazarov and coworkers show that a simple paradigm of environmental enrichment alleviates amyloid burden and alters disease-associated gene expression changes in a double transgenic mouse model of AD. ...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Karsten SL,Geschwind DH

更新日期：2005-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrointestinal enterochromaffin cells regulate bone and gut homeostasis via serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine [5-HT]) production. A recent report suggested that gut microbes regulate 5-HT levels; however, the precise underlying molecular mechanisms are unexplored. Here, we reveal that the cation channel Piezo1 in the g...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Sugisawa E,Takayama Y,Takemura N,Kondo T,Hatakeyama S,Kumagai Y,Sunagawa M,Tominaga M,Maruyama K

更新日期：2020-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The bHLH-ZIP protein Mad heterodimerizes with Max as a sequence-specific transcriptional repressor. Mad is rapidly induced upon differentiation, and the associated switch from Myc-Max to Mad-Max heterocomplexes seem to repress genes normally activated by Myc-Max. We have identified two related mammalian cDNAs that enc...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Ayer DE,Lawrence QA,Eisenman RN

更新日期：1995-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:An approach to identify backbone conformational changes underlying nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) gating was developed. Specific backbone peptide bonds were replaced with an ester, which disrupts backbone hydrogen bonds at the site of mutation. At a conserved proline residue (alphaPro221) in the first transm...

journal_title：Cell

authors： England PM,Zhang Y,Dougherty DA,Lester HA

更新日期：1999-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the most common causes of death worldwide. We report in an emphysema model of mice chronically exposed to tobacco smoke that pulmonary vascular dysfunction, vascular remodeling, and pulmonary hypertension (PH) precede development of alveolar destruction. We provid...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Seimetz M,Parajuli N,Pichl A,Veit F,Kwapiszewska G,Weisel FC,Milger K,Egemnazarov B,Turowska A,Fuchs B,Nikam S,Roth M,Sydykov A,Medebach T,Klepetko W,Jaksch P,Dumitrascu R,Garn H,Voswinckel R,Kostin S,Seeger W,S

更新日期：2011-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Release of CHO-K1 cells from plateau or stationary phase and reentry into the cell cycle is specifically and reversibly blocked at two distinct sites by the anticalmodulin drug W13. The first block occurs early during release while the cells are still at G0/G1, whereas the second occurs later in reentry during early S...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Chafouleas JG,Lagacé L,Bolton WE,Boyd AE 3rd,Means AR

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase activity was demonstrated in cell-free extracts from S. cerevisiae through the use of a PCR-based assay. As expected, this activity was eliminated by RNase or phenol treatment of the extract and was dependent on dGTP and dTTP. Telomerase was not detected in extracts prepared from cells grown for approximate...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Lin JJ,Zakian VA

更新日期：1995-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the first isolation of the terminal DNA of an intact Drosophila telomere. It differs from those isolated from other eukaryotes by the lack of short tandem repeats at the terminus. The terminal 14.5 kb is composed of four tandem elements derived from two families of non-long terminal repeat retrotransposons ...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Levis RW,Ganesan R,Houtchens K,Tolar LA,Sheen FM

更新日期：1993-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue, Baumann et al. (2007) identify a helicase PICH that localizes to "threads" that remain connected between sister kinetochores after they have separated in anaphase. These threads are thought to be catenated centromeric DNA. PICH contributes to the mitotic checkpoint by recruiting Mad2 to kinetochores and...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Yen TJ

更新日期：2007-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A fusion of the strong cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter to the Activator (Ac) transposase (TPASE) gene does not trigger excision of Dissociation (Ds) continuously during tobacco cotyledon development, although once activated, the 35S promoter remains active throughout embryogeny. Epistasis studies where 35S:TPASE...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Scofield SR,English JJ,Jones JD

更新日期：1993-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified a gene, SRV2, mutations of which alleviate stress sensitivity in strains carrying an activated RAS gene. Epistasis analysis suggests that the gene affects accumulation of cAMP in the cell. Direct assays of cAMP accumulation indicate that mutations of the gene diminish the rate of in vivo production ...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Fedor-Chaiken M,Deschenes RJ,Broach JR

更新日期：1990-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:During Tetrahymena conjugation, programmed DNA degradation occurs in two separate nuclei. Thousands of germline-specific deletion elements are removed from the genome of the developing somatic macronucleus, and the old parental macronucleus is degraded by an apoptotic mechanism. An abundant polypeptide, Pdd1p (formerl...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Madireddi MT,Coyne RS,Smothers JF,Mickey KM,Yao MC,Allis CD

更新日期：1996-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:When transcription regulatory networks are compared among distantly related eukaryotes, a number of striking similarities are observed: a larger-than-expected number of genes, extensive overlapping connections, and an apparently high degree of functional redundancy. It is often assumed that the complexity of these net...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Sorrells TR,Johnson AD

更新日期：2015-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial respiratory-chain complexes assemble from subunits of dual genetic origin assisted by specialized assembly factors. Whereas core subunits are translated on mitochondrial ribosomes, others are imported after cytosolic translation. How imported subunits are ushered to assembly intermediates containing mito...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Mick DU,Dennerlein S,Wiese H,Reinhold R,Pacheu-Grau D,Lorenzi I,Sasarman F,Weraarpachai W,Shoubridge EA,Warscheid B,Rehling P

更新日期：2012-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated the genes encoding the largest subunit of all three classes of RNA polymerase from Trypanosoma brucei. While the pol II largest subunit is encoded by a single gene in all organisms examined to date, trypanosomes contain two copies of the gene. Both genes are expressed in the procyclic and bloodstream ...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Smith JL,Levin JR,Ingles CJ,Agabian N

更新日期：1989-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-translational modifications of histone proteins and exchanges of histone variants of chromatin are central to the regulation of nearly all DNA-templated biological processes. However, the degree and variability of chromatin modifications in specific human immune cells remain largely unknown. Here, we employ a hig...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Cheung P,Vallania F,Warsinske HC,Donato M,Schaffert S,Chang SE,Dvorak M,Dekker CL,Davis MM,Utz PJ,Khatri P,Kuo AJ

更新日期：2018-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Using integrative genomic analysis of 360 metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) samples, we identified a novel subtype of prostate cancer typified by biallelic loss of CDK12 that is mutually exclusive with tumors driven by DNA repair deficiency, ETS fusions, and SPOP mutations. CDK12 loss is enriched...

journal_title：Cell

authors： Wu YM,Cieślik M,Lonigro RJ,Vats P,Reimers MA,Cao X,Ning Y,Wang L,Kunju LP,de Sarkar N,Heath EI,Chou J,Feng FY,Nelson PS,de Bono JS,Zou W,Montgomery B,Alva A,PCF\/SU2C International Prostate Cancer Dream Team.,Robins

更新日期：2018-06-14 00:00:00