The a-factor pheromone of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is essential for mating.

abstract：:Topoisomerase I cleavage complexes can be induced by a variety of DNA damages and by the anticancer drug camptothecin. We have developed a ligation-mediated PCR (LM-PCR) assay to analyze replication-mediated DNA double-strand breaks induced by topoisomerase I cleavage complexes in human colon carcinoma HT29 cells at t...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Strumberg D,Pilon AA,Smith M,Hickey R,Malkas L,Pommier Y

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our recent studies implicated key and distinct roles for the highly related RalA and RalB small GTPases (82% sequence identity) in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) tumorigenesis and invasive and metastatic growth, respectively. How RalB may promote PDAC invasion and metastasis has not been determined. In light ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Neel NF,Rossman KL,Martin TD,Hayes TK,Yeh JJ,Der CJ

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous investigations have defined three upstream activation elements--CCAC, A/T, and TATA sequences--necessary for muscle-specific transcription of the myoglobin gene. In the present study, we demonstrate that these three sequences elements, prepared as synthetic oligonucleotide cassettes, function synergistically ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Grayson J,Williams RS,Yu YT,Bassel-Duby R

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:clk-1 encodes a demethoxyubiquinone (DMQ) hydroxylase that is necessary for ubiquinone biosynthesis. When Caenorhabditis elegans clk-1 mutants are grown on bacteria that synthesize ubiquinone (UQ), they are viable but have a pleiotropic phenotype that includes slowed development, behaviors, and aging. However, when gr...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Branicky R,Nguyen PA,Hekimi S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-myc proto-oncogene encodes a transcription factor that participates in the regulation of cellular proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis. Ectopic overexpression of c-Myc has been shown to sensitize cells to apoptosis. We report here that cells lacking c-Myc activity due to disruption of the c-myc gene by ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Adachi S,Obaya AJ,Han Z,Ramos-Desimone N,Wyche JH,Sedivy JM

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The promyelocytic leukemia zinc finger (PLZF) protein is a transcription factor disrupted in patients with t(11;17)(q23;q21)-associated acute promyelocytic leukemia. PLZF contains an N-terminal BTB/POZ domain which is required for dimerization, transcriptional repression, formation of high-molecular-weight DNA-protein...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Melnick A,Ahmad KF,Arai S,Polinger A,Ball H,Borden KL,Carlile GW,Prive GG,Licht JD

更新日期：2000-09-01 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：:Retinoid X receptors (RXR) have been identified as common subunits in the regulation of multiple hormonal signaling pathways. Using circular permutation and phasing analysis of specific response elements, we present evidence that RXR-retinoic acid receptor and RXR-thyroid hormone receptor heterodimer or RXR-RXR homodi...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Lu XP,Eberhardt NL,Pfahl M

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dominant mutations in the early growth response 2 (Egr2/Krox20) transactivator, a critical regulator of peripheral myelin development, have been associated with peripheral myelinopathies. These dominant mutants interfere with the expression of genes required for myelination by Schwann cells, including that for the mos...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： LeBlanc SE,Ward RM,Svaren J

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:mRNA deadenylation is a key process in the regulation of translation and mRNA turnover. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, deadenylation is primarily carried out by the Ccr4p and Caf1p/Pop2p subunits of the Ccr4-Not complex, which is conserved in eukaryotes including humans. Here we have identified an unconventional human C...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wagner E,Clement SL,Lykke-Andersen J

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A critical event in signaling in immune cells is the interaction of Syk or ZAP-70 protein tyrosine kinases with multisubunit receptors that contain an approximately 18-amino-acid domain called the immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif (ITAM). Tyrosine-phosphorylated Syk from activated cells was in a conformat...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kimura T,Sakamoto H,Appella E,Siraganian RP

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfection of a functional cloned p53 gene into an L12 p53 nonproducer cell line efficiently reconstituted p53 expression. The p53 protein synthesized in these clones was indistinguishable from that occurring naturally in tumor cells. When a p53 cDNA clone was used instead, we observed that the L12-derived clones ex...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Arai N,Nomura D,Yokota K,Wolf D,Brill E,Shohat O,Rotter V

更新日期：1986-09-01 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：:TEL1 is important in Saccharomyces cerevisiae telomere maintenance, and its kinase activity is required. Tel1p associates with telomeres in vivo, is enriched at short telomeres, and enhances the binding of telomerase components to short telomeres. However, it is unclear how the kinase activity and telomere association...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ma Y,Greider CW

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giardia lamblia trophozoites demonstrate variable expression of a repertoire of cysteine-rich surface antigens in vitro and in vivo. The size of the repertoire has been estimated at 20 to 184, and specific variants can be detected after approximately 12 generations of in vitro growth for the WB isolate. In earlier stu...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Adam RD,Yang YM,Nash TE

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have demonstrated that a highly conserved segment of DNA between positions -288 and -317 (upstream sequence element IV [USE IV]) is largely responsible for the transcriptional activation of the sea urchin H1-beta histone gene during the blastula stage of embryogenesis. This sequence is capable of acting as an embry...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： DeAngelo DJ,DeFalco J,Childs G

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The niaD and niiA genes of Aspergillus nidulans, which code, respectively, for nitrate and nitrite reductases, are divergently transcribed, and their ATGs are separated by 1,200 bp. The genes are under the control of the positively acting NirA transcription factor, which mediates nitrate induction. The DNA binding dom...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Punt PJ,Strauss J,Smit R,Kinghorn JR,van den Hondel CA,Scazzocchio C

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two adjacent fragments of genomic DNA spanning the gene for CAD, which encodes the first three enzymes of UMP biosynthesis, were cloned from a mutant Syrian hamster cell line containing multiple copies of this gene. The mutant was selected for resistance to N-(phosphonacetyl)-L-aspartate, a potent and specific inhibit...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Padgett RA,Wahl GM,Stark GR

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional coactivator with PDZ-binding motif (TAZ) physically interacts with a variety of transcription factors and modulates their activities involved in cell proliferation and mesenchymal stem cell differentiation. TAZ is highly expressed in the kidney, and a deficiency of this protein results in multiple rena...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Jang EJ,Jeong H,Han KH,Kwon HM,Hong JH,Hwang ES

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current study, we were interested in exploring the molecular mechanism of circular RNA DLEU2 (circRNA-DLEU2) (hsa_circ_0000488) and microRNA 496 (miR-496), as well as PRKACB, in human acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cell activities. The RNA expression levels of circRNA-DLEU2, hsa-miR-496, and PRKACB were assessed ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wu DM,Wen X,Han XR,Wang S,Wang YJ,Shen M,Fan SH,Zhang ZF,Shan Q,Li MQ,Hu B,Chen GQ,Lu J,Zheng YL

更新日期：2018-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:IMP dehydrogenase (IMPDH) is the rate-limiting enzyme in the de novo synthesis of guanine nucleotides. It is a target of therapeutically useful drugs and is implicated in the regulation of cell growth rate. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, mutations in components of the RNA polymerase II (Pol II) transcription e...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shaw RJ,Reines D

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MyoD family of basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors function as heterodimers with members of the E-protein family to induce myogenic gene activation. The E-protein HEB is alternatively spliced to generate alpha and beta isoforms. While the function of these molecules has been studied in other cell types, q...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Parker MH,Perry RL,Fauteux MC,Berkes CA,Rudnicki MA

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rad23 and Rpn10 play synergistic roles in the recognition of ubiquitinated proteins by the proteasome, and loss of both proteins causes growth and proteolytic defects. However, the physiological targets of Rad23 and Rpn10 have not been well defined. We report that rad23Delta rpn10Delta is unable to grow in the presenc...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Chuang SM,Chen L,Lambertson D,Anand M,Kinzy TG,Madura K

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:The CD28 costimulatory signal enhances antigen-mediated induction of interleukin-2 (IL-2) gene transcription through activation of an enhancer termed the CD28-responsive element (CD28RE). Although various nuclear proteins have been shown to bind to CD28RE, their in vivo functions in the regulation of this enhancer rem...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Maggirwar SB,Harhaj EW,Sun SC

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The p20K gene is induced in conditions of reversible growth arrest in chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF). This expression is dependent on transcriptional activation and on a region of the promoter designated the quiescence-responsive unit (QRU). In this report, we describe the regulatory elements of the QRU responsible ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kim S,Mao PL,Gagliardi M,Bédard PA

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonhistone chromosomal proteins HMG-14 and HMG-17 are closely related nucleosomal binding proteins that unfold the higher-order chromatin structure, thereby enhancing the transcription and replication potential of chromatin. Here we report that PCAF, a transcription coactivator with intrinsic histone acetyltransferase...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Herrera JE,Sakaguchi K,Bergel M,Trieschmann L,Nakatani Y,Bustin M

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the Cyp 2d-9 (steroid 16 alpha-hydroxylase) gene in mouse liver is male specific in such Mus musculus domesticus strains as FVB/N, whereas the corresponding P450 genes in the wild mouse species Mus spretus are not sex specific in their expression. These parental differences in the gene expressions were i...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Sueyoshi T,Kobayashi R,Nishio K,Aida K,Moore R,Wada T,Handa H,Negishi M

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The STE4 gene encodes the beta subunit of a heterotrimeric G protein that is an essential component of the pheromone signal transduction pathway. To identify downstream component(s) of Ste4, we sought pseudo-revertants that restored mating competence to ste4 mutants. The suppressor mot2 was isolated as a recessive mut...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Irie K,Yamaguchi K,Kawase K,Matsumoto K

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first study reporting the inactivation of a member of the mouse gene family of toxin-related ecto-ADP-ribosyltransferases (ARTs). Transfer of the ADP-ribose moiety from NAD onto extracellular arginine residues on T-cell membrane proteins is mediated by glycosylphosphatidylinositol-linked cell surface ARTs....

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ohlrogge W,Haag F,Löhler J,Seman M,Littman DR,Killeen N,Koch-Nolte F

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00