Genetically essential and nonessential alpha-tubulin genes specify functionally interchangeable proteins.

abstract：:The expression of c-myc proto-oncogene, a key regulator of cell proliferation and apoptosis, is controlled at different transcriptional and posttranscriptional levels. In particular, the c-myc mRNA contains an internal ribosome entry site (IRES) able to promote translation initiation independently from the classical c...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Créancier L,Mercier P,Prats AC,Morello D

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we demonstrated that the heat shock transcription factor Hsf1 is indispensable for transformation of mammary epithelial cells by the Her2 oncogene. Since Hsf1 affects oncogene-induced senescence (OIS), these findings suggest that Hsf1 affects tumor initiation when OIS plays a role. Indeed, here we report th...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Gabai VL,Meng L,Kim G,Mills TA,Benjamin IJ,Sherman MY

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Aminopurine (2-AP) inhibits specific kinases that phosphorylate the alpha subunit of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2. One of these, PKR, is also involved in signal transduction. We show here that 2-AP selectively inhibits expression of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) mRNA in primary human lymphoid...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Jarrous N,Osman F,Kaempfer R

更新日期：1996-06-01 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 initiation of adenovirus DNA takes place at the termini of the viral genome and requires the presence of specific nucleotide sequence elements. To define the sequence organization of the viral origin, we tested a large number of deletion, insertion, and base substitution mutants for their ability to support initia...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wides RJ,Challberg MD,Rawlins DR,Kelly TJ

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation-induced deaminase (AID) is essential for class switch recombination and somatic hypermutation, and it has the ability to deaminate single-stranded DNA at cytidines. Mammalian class switch regions form R-loops upon transcription in the physiological orientation. The displaced DNA strand of an R-loop is force...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Yu K,Roy D,Bayramyan M,Haworth IS,Lieber MR

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A point mutation, Gly380Arg, in the transmembrane domain of fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3) leads to achondroplasia, the most common form of genetic dwarfism in humans. This substitution was suggested to enhance mutant receptor dimerization, leading to constitutive, ligand-independent activation. We found ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Monsonego-Ornan E,Adar R,Feferman T,Segev O,Yayon A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mauriceville and Varkud mitochondrial plasmids of Neurospora spp. are closely related, small circular DNAs that propagate via an RNA intermediate and reverse transcription. Although the plasmids ordinarily replicate autonomously, they can also integrate into mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), yielding defective mtDNAs tha...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Chiang CC,Kennell JC,Wanner LA,Lambowitz AM

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is one of the major mediators of inflammation, and its expression is inducible by the other inflammatory lymphokines, interleukin-1 (IL-1) and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha). We demonstrate that a common IL-6 promoter element, termed inflammatory lymphokine-responsive element (ILRE), is i...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shimizu H,Mitomo K,Watanabe T,Okamoto S,Yamamoto K

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Misfolding of proteins containing abnormal expansions of polyglutamine (polyQ) repeats is associated with cytotoxicity in several neurodegenerative disorders, including Huntington's disease. Recently, the eukaryotic chaperonin TRiC hetero-oligomeric complex has been shown to play an important role in protecting cells ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kim S,Park DY,Lee D,Kim W,Jeong YH,Lee J,Chung SK,Ha H,Choi BH,Kim KT

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of the zeste moiety of beta-galactosidase-zeste fusion proteins synthesized in Escherichia coli to bind specific DNA sequences was examined. Such fusion proteins recognize a region of the white locus upstream of the start of transcription; this region has previously been shown to be required for genetic in...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Mansukhani A,Crickmore A,Sherwood PW,Goldberg ML

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mRNA for transforming growth factor beta 3 (TGF-beta 3) includes a long (1.1-kb) 5' noncoding region which exerts a potent inhibitory effect on translational efficiency. We now report that many human breast cancer cell lines (T47-D, SK-BR-3, ZR-75-1, and BT-474) express two mRNA species for TGF-beta 3: the 3.5-kb ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Arrick BA,Grendell RL,Griffin LA

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Cdc37 is required for the productive formation of Cdc28-cyclin complexes. The cdc37-1 mutant arrests at Start with low levels of Cdc28 protein, which is predominantly unphosphorylated at Thr169, fails to bind cyclin, and has little protein kinase activity. We show here th...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Farrell A,Morgan DO

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cks1 is an activator of the SCF(Skp2) ubiquitin ligase complex that targets the cell cycle inhibitor p27(Kip1) for degradation. The loss of Cks1 results in p27(Kip1) accumulation and decreased proliferation and inhibits tumorigenesis. We identify here a function of Cks1 in mammalian cell cycle regulation that is indep...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hoellein A,Graf S,Bassermann F,Schoeffmann S,Platz U,Hölzlwimmer G,Kröger M,Peschel C,Oostendorp R,Quintanilla-Fend L,Keller U

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional activation of eukaryotic genes depends on the precise and ordered recruitment of activators, chromatin modifiers/remodelers, coactivators, and general transcription factors to the promoters of target genes. Using the human matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9) gene as a model system, we investigated the s...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ma Z,Shah RC,Chang MJ,Benveniste EN

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compromised immunoregulation contributes to obesity and complications in metabolic pathogenesis. Here, we demonstrate that the nuclear factor of activated T cell (NFAT) group of transcription factors contributes to glucose and insulin homeostasis. Expression of two members of the NFAT family (NFATc2 and NFATc4) is ind...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Yang TT,Suk HY,Yang X,Olabisi O,Yu RY,Durand J,Jelicks LA,Kim JY,Scherer PE,Wang Y,Feng Y,Rossetti L,Graef IA,Crabtree GR,Chow CW

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The G protein-coupled alpha-factor receptor promotes polarized growth toward a mating partner. alpha-Factor induces the expression of AFR1, which acts together with the receptor C terminus to promote normal morphogenesis. The function of AFR1 was investigated by engineering cells to constitutively express AFR1 without...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Konopka JB,DeMattei C,Davis C

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported that the papillomavirus E2 protein binds the nuclear factor AMF1 (also called G-protein pathway suppressor 2 or GPS2) and that their interaction is necessary for transcriptional activation by E2. It has also been shown that AMF1 can influence the activity of cellular transcription factors. These obser...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Peng YC,Kuo F,Breiding DE,Wang YF,Mansur CP,Androphy EJ

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed the interleukin-4 (IL-4)-triggered mechanisms implicated in cell survival and show here that IL-4 deprivation induces apoptotic cell death but does not modulate Bcl-2 or Bcl-x expression. Since Bcl-x expression is insufficient to ensure cell survival in the absence of IL-4, we speculate that additiona...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Rebollo A,Dumoutier L,Renauld JC,Zaballos A,Ayllón V,Martínez-A C

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B-cell stimulatory factor 2 (BSF-2) is a lymphokine which induces the final maturation of B cells. BSF-2 acts on a variety of cells other than B cells, and moreover, expression of BSF-2 mRNA is detected in interleukin-1 beta-stimulated glioblastoma and astrocytoma cell lines. Here, we studied the function of BSF-2 on ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Satoh T,Nakamura S,Taga T,Matsuda T,Hirano T,Kishimoto T,Kaziro Y

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingomyelin is a major lipid in the bilayer of subcellular membranes of eukaryotic cells. Different sphingomyelinases catalyze the initial step in the catabolism of sphingomyelin, the hydrolysis to phosphocholine and ceramide. Sphingomyelinases have been postulated to generate ceramide as a lipophilic second messeng...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Zumbansen M,Stoffel W

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repetitive DNA sequences have been implicated in the mediation of DNA rearrangement in mammalian cells. We have tested this hypothesis by using a dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) expression vector into which candidate sequences were inserted. DHFR- Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells were transfected with this vector, the...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Heartlein MW,Knoll JH,Latt SA

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocyte nuclear factor 4 (HNF-4), a highly conserved member of the steroid hormone receptor superfamily critical for development and liver-specific gene expression, is very similar to another superfamily member, retinoid X receptor alpha (RXR alpha), in overall amino acid sequence and DNA binding specificity. Since...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Jiang G,Nepomuceno L,Hopkins K,Sladek FM

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, molecular mechanisms and factors involved in the tight regulation of telomerase expression and activity are still largely undefined. In this study, we provide evidence for a role of estrogens and their receptors in the transcriptional regulation of hTERT, the catalytic subunit of human telomerase and, cons...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Misiti S,Nanni S,Fontemaggi G,Cong YS,Wen J,Hirte HW,Piaggio G,Sacchi A,Pontecorvi A,Bacchetti S,Farsetti A

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human ERCC3 gene, which corrects specifically the nucleotide excision repair defect in human xeroderma pigmentosum group B and cross-complements the repair deficiency in rodent UV-sensitive mutants of group 3, encodes a presumed DNA helicase that is identical to the p89 subunit of the general transcription factor ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ma L,Westbroek A,Jochemsen AG,Weeda G,Bosch A,Bootsma D,Hoeijmakers JH,van der Eb AJ

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LFB1 (HNF1) is a tissue-specific transcription factor found in the livers, stomachs, intestines, and kidneys of vertebrates. By analyzing the promoter of the Xenopus LFB1 gene, we identified potential autoregulation by LFB1 and regulation by HNF4, a transcription factor with a tissue distribution similar to that of LF...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Zapp D,Bartkowski S,Holewa B,Zoidl C,Klein-Hitpass L,Ryffel GU

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two Saccharomyces cerevisiae genes isolated in a differential hybridization screening for DNA damage regulation (DDR genes) were also transcriptionally regulated by heat shock treatment. A 0.45-kilobase transcript homologous to the DDRA2 gene and a 1.25-kilobase transcript homologous to the DDR48 gene accumulated afte...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： McClanahan T,McEntee K

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Akt is activated on the plasma membrane and its substrates are distributed throughout various cellular compartments. To phosphorylate its substrates, Akt needs to be recruited to specific intracellular compartments. Thus, regulation of Akt cellular compartmentalization constitutes an important mechanism to specify Akt...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ding J,Du K

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The LAR family protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs), including LAR, PTP delta, and PTP sigma, are transmembrane proteins composed of a cell adhesion molecule-like ectodomain and two cytoplasmic catalytic domains: active D1 and inactive D2. We performed a yeast two-hybrid screen with the first catalytic domain of PTP s...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wallace MJ,Fladd C,Batt J,Rotin D

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA polymerase III (pol III) transcripts of the highly repeated mouse B2 gene family are increased in many oncogenically transformed murine cell lines. In cells transformed by simian virus 40, the small, cytoplasmic B2 RNAs are present at 20-fold-higher levels than in normal cells (M. R. D. Scott, K. Westphal, and P. ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Carey MF,Singh K,Botchan M,Cozzarelli NR

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00