Isolation of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae centromere DNA-binding protein, its human homolog, and its possible role as a transcription factor.

abstract：:We have examined the ability of the simian virus 40 72-base pair enhancer segment to simultaneously activate multiple transcription units with plasmids that contain one, two, or three simian virus 40-based transcription units in various arrangements. After transfection into CV1 cells, the expression of a marker gene, ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kadesch T,Berg P

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported that Rho kinase is required for sustained ERK signaling and the consequent mid-G(1) phase induction of cyclin D1 in fibroblasts. The results presented here indicate that these Rho kinase effects are mediated by the formation of stress fibers and the consequent clustering of alpha5beta1 integrin. M...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Roovers K,Assoian RK

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While wild-type p53 is normally a rapidly degraded protein, mutant forms of p53 are stabilized and accumulate to high levels in tumor cells. In this study, we show that mutant and wild-type p53 proteins are ubiquitinated and degraded through overlapping but distinct pathways. While Mdm2 can drive the degradation of bo...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Lukashchuk N,Vousden KH

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, sporulation occurs in response to nutritional and genetic signals. The process is initiated when nutrient availability limits mitotic growth, but only in MATa/MAT alpha diploid cells. Under these conditions, the cells express an activator of meiosis (IME1), which is required for ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shah JC,Clancy MJ

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the roles of Rel/NF-kappaB transcription factors in mouse skin development with loss-of-function mutants has been limited by redundancy among these proteins and by embryonic lethality associated with the absence of RelA. Using mice lacking RelA and c-rel, which survive throughout embryogenesis on a tumor n...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Gugasyan R,Voss A,Varigos G,Thomas T,Grumont RJ,Kaur P,Grigoriadis G,Gerondakis S

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SLP-76 is an adapter protein required for T-cell receptor (TCR) signaling. In particular, TCR-induced tyrosine phosphorylation and activation of phospholipase C-gamma1 (PLC-gamma1), and the resultant TCR-inducible gene expression, depend on SLP-76. Nonetheless, the mechanisms by which SLP-76 mediates PLC-gamma1 activa...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Yablonski D,Kadlecek T,Weiss A

更新日期：2001-07-01 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：: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：:Cloned segments of the mouse glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH) gene, Gdc-1, were used to screen a human library. Human clones obtained spanned 25 kilobases of genomic DNA containing the human GPDH gene, GPD1. The 4 kb of sequence obtained from the 5'-flanking region and first exon of GPD1 was compared with the...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Gwynn B,Lyford KA,Birkenmeier EH

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized features of the site recognized by a double-stranded DNA endonuclease, I-SceII, encoded by intron 4 alpha of the yeast mitochondrial COX1 gene. We determined the effects of 36 point mutations on the cleavage efficiency of natural and synthetic substrates containing the Saccharomyces capensis I-Sc...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wernette C,Saldanha R,Smith D,Ming D,Perlman PS,Butow RA

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA end-labeling procedures were used to analyze both the frequency and distribution of DNA strand breaks in mammalian cells exposed or not to different types of DNA-damaging agents. The 3' ends were labeled by T4 DNA polymerase-catalyzed nucleotide exchange carried out in the absence or presence of Escherichia coli e...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Legault J,Tremblay A,Ramotar D,Mirault ME

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of a T-cell antigen receptor (TCR) alpha promoter from a variable gene segment (V) revealed a critical GT box element which is also found in upstream regions of several V alpha genes, TCR enhancer, and regulatory elements of other genes. This element is necessary for TCR gene expression and binds several prot...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kingsley C,Winoto A

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cse4p is a variant of histone H3 that has an essential role in chromosome segregation and centromere chromatin structure in budding yeast. Cse4p has a unique 135-amino-acid N terminus and a C-terminal histone-fold domain that is more than 60% identical to histone H3 and the mammalian centromere protein CENP-A. Cse4p a...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Keith KC,Baker RE,Chen Y,Harris K,Stoler S,Fitzgerald-Hayes M

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The canonical Notch signaling pathway mediated by Delta- and Jagged-like Notch ligands determines a variety of cell fates in metazoa. In Caenorhabditis elegans and sea urchins, canonical Notch signaling is essential for different cell fate specifications during early embryogenesis or the formation of endoderm, mesoder...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shi S,Stahl M,Lu L,Stanley P

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although RNA and RNA-binding proteins have been linked to double-strand breaks (DSBs), little is known regarding their roles in the cellular response to DSBs and, if any, in the repair process. Here, we provide direct evidence for the presence of RNA-DNA hybrids at DSBs and suggest that binding of RNA to DNA at DSBs m...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Li L,Germain DR,Poon HY,Hildebrandt MR,Monckton EA,McDonald D,Hendzel MJ,Godbout R

更新日期：2016-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse myosin light-chain 1A (MLC1A) gene, expressed in the atria of the adult heart, is one of the first muscle genes to be activated when skeletal as well as cardiac muscles form in the embryo. It is also transcribed in skeletal muscle cell lines at the onset of differentiation. Transient transfection assays of m...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Catala F,Wanner R,Barton P,Cohen A,Wright W,Buckingham M

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II (AII), a potent vasoactive hormone, acts on numerous organs via G-protein-coupled receptors and elicits cell-specific responses. At the level of the heart, AII stimulation alters gene transcription and leads to cardiomyocyte hypertrophy. Numerous intracellular signaling pathways are activated in this pr...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wang J,Paradis P,Aries A,Komati H,Lefebvre C,Wang H,Nemer M

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substantial evidence supports a critical role for the activation of the Raf-1/MEK/mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway in oncogenic Ras-mediated transformation. For example, dominant negative mutants of Raf-1, MEK, and mitogen-activated protein kinase all inhibit Ras transformation. Furthermore, the observation th...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Khosravi-Far R,White MA,Westwick JK,Solski PA,Chrzanowska-Wodnicka M,Van Aelst L,Wigler MH,Der CJ

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied RNA polymerase I transcription in cells transfected with a plasmid, prHuTK, containing the herpes simplex virus tk gene fused to a human rRNA promoter. Primer extension analysis of tk RNA isolated from COS cells transfected with prHuTK reveals that transcription from the RNA polymerase I promoter is highly ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Smale ST,Tjian R

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA single-strand break repair (SSBR) protein XRCC1 is required for genetic stability and for embryonic viability. XRCC1 possesses two BRCA1 carboxyl-terminal (BRCT) protein interaction domains, denoted BRCT I and II. BRCT II is required for SSBR during G(1) but is dispensable for this process during S/G(2) and co...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Taylor RM,Thistlethwaite A,Caldecott KW

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that exposure of cells to high levels of replicational stress leads to permanent proliferation arrest that does not require p53. We have examined cellular responses to therapeutically relevant low levels of replicational stress that allow limited proliferation. Chronic exposure to low conce...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Marusyk A,Wheeler LJ,Mathews CK,DeGregori J

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic instability, including the ability to undergo gene amplification, is a hallmark of neoplastic cells. Similar to normal cells, "nonpermissive" REF52 cells do not develop resistance to N-(phosphonacetyl)-L-aspartate (PALA), an inhibitor of the synthesis of pyrimidine nucleotides, through amplification of cad, th...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Chernova OB,Chernov MV,Ishizaka Y,Agarwal ML,Stark GR

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lck proto-oncogene encodes a lymphocyte-specific member of the src family of protein tyrosine kinases. Here we demonstrate that pp56lck is phosphorylated in vivo at a carboxy-terminal tyrosine residue (Tyr-505) analogous to Tyr-527 of pp60c-src. Substitution of phenylalanine for tyrosine at this position resulted ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Marth JD,Cooper JA,King CS,Ziegler SF,Tinker DA,Overell RW,Krebs EG,Perlmutter RM

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc finger genes encode proteins that act as transcription factors. The myeloid zinc finger 1 (MZF1) gene encodes a zinc finger protein with two DNA-binding domains that recognize two distinct consensus sequences, is preferentially expressed in hematopoietic cells, and may be involved in the transcriptional regulatio...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Perrotti D,Melotti P,Skorski T,Casella I,Peschle C,Calabretta B

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Saccharomyces cerevisiae pheromone a-factor is produced by a cells and interacts with alpha cells to cause cell cycle arrest and other physiological responses associated with mating. Two a-factor structural genes, MFA1 and MFA2, have been previously cloned with synthetic probes based on the a-factor amino acid seq...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Michaelis S,Herskowitz I

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pool of Candida albicans RsaI fragments cloned onto a vector containing pBR322 sequences and the Candida ADE2 gene was used to transform a Candida ade2 mutant to adenine protrophy. A potential autonomously replicating sequence (ARS) in Candida DNA was identified by two criteria: instability of the selectable marker ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kurtz MB,Cortelyou MW,Miller SM,Lai M,Kirsch DR

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic DNA in higher eucaryotic cells is organized into a series of loops, each of which may be affixed at its base to the nuclear matrix via a specific matrix attachment region (MAR). In this report, we describe the distribution of MARs within the amplified dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) domain (amplicon) in the met...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Dijkwel PA,Hamlin JL

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many types of apoptosis, the proapoptotic protein Bax undergoes a change in conformation at the level of the mitochondria. This event always precedes the release of mitochondrial cytochrome c, which, in the cytosol, activates caspases through binding to Apaf-1. The mechanisms by which Bax triggers cytochrome c rele...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Eskes R,Desagher S,Antonsson B,Martinou JC

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GATA1 is a master regulator of erythropoiesis, expression of which is regulated by multiple discrete cis-acting elements. In this study, we examine the activity of a promoter-proximal double GATA (dbGATA) motif, using a Gata1 bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC)-transgenic green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter (G1...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Moriguchi T,Suzuki M,Yu L,Takai J,Ohneda K,Yamamoto M

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular growth control requires the coordination and integration of multiple signaling pathways which are likely to be activated concomitantly. Mitogenic signaling initiated by thyrotropin (TSH) in thyroid cells seems to require two distinct signaling pathways, a cyclic AMP (cAMP)-dependent signaling pathway and a Ra...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： al-Alawi N,Rose DW,Buckmaster C,Ahn N,Rapp U,Meinkoth J,Feramisco JR

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00