Bending DNA can repress a eukaryotic basal promoter and inhibit TFIID binding.

abstract：:In eukaryotic cells, calcium entry across the cell surface activates nuclear gene expression, a process critically important for cell growth and differentiation, learning, and memory and immune cell functions. In immune cells, calcium entry occurs through store-operated Ca(2+) release-activated Ca(2+) (CRAC) channels,...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Yeh YC,Parekh AB

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work showed that tunicamycin suppresses glycosylation of laminin. In the present work, the role of glycosylation in the secretion of laminin and in the disulfide bonding of laminin subunits was studied, using tunicamycin to inhibit glycosylation. Tunicamycin inhibited extensively the secretion of laminin into...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Howe CC

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:AIRE is a transcriptional activator that directs the ectopic expression of many tissue-specific genes in medullary thymic epithelial cells, which plays an important role in the negative selection of autoreactive T cells. However, its mechanism of action remains poorly understood. In this study, we found that AIRE regu...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Oven I,Brdicková N,Kohoutek J,Vaupotic T,Narat M,Peterlin BM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acids 106 to 143 and 354 to 433 of the human c-myc protein (439 amino acids) were shown to be required for the protein to suppress c-myc gene transcription and were found to exactly overlap with those necessary for c-myc to cooperate with ras oncogenes in the transformation of rat embryo fibroblasts. The essenti...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Penn LJ,Brooks MW,Laufer EM,Littlewood TD,Morgenstern JP,Evan GI,Lee WM,Land H

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The active 17S U2 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle (snRNP), which binds to the intron branch site during the formation of the prespliceosome, is assembled in vitro by sequential interactions of the essential splicing factors SF3b and SF3a with the 12S U2 snRNP. We have analyzed the function of individual subun...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Nesic D,Krämer A

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant has been isolated from the J558 (immunoglobulin A, lambda, anti-alpha 1 leads to 3 dextran) cell line which synthesizes a heavy-chain immunoglobulin twice the size of normal heavy chain. Secondary variants that synthesized heavy chains either 1.5 times as large as wild type or the same size as wild type were ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Matsuuchi L,Morrison SL

更新日期：1982-09-01 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 chromatin structure of TDH3, one of three genes encoding glyceraldehyde phosphate dehydrogenases in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, was analyzed by nuclease digestion. A large hypersensitive region was found at the TDH3 promoter extending from the RNA initiation site at position -40 to position -560. This hypersensitive...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Pavlović B,Hörz W

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fgr proto-oncogene encodes a nonreceptor protein-tyrosine kinase, designated p55c-fgr. In this study, we have isolated human fgr cDNA molecules from normal monocyte mRNA templates. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the longest fgr cDNA revealed a 5' untranslated region of 927 bp which included two Alu-like repeats a...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Gutkind JS,Link DC,Katamine S,Lacal P,Miki T,Ley TJ,Robbins KC

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pax transactivation domain-interacting protein (PTIP, or PAXIP1) is required for mouse development and has been implicated in DNA damage responses and histone modification. However, the physiological roles of PTIP during embryogenesis remain unclear due to early embryonic lethality of null mutants. We describe two N-e...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Mu W,Wang W,Schimenti JC

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed a recombinant pBR322 plasmid composed of a subgenomic transforming fragment of bovine papillomavirus DNA and the hepatitis B surface antigen gene from cloned hepatitis B virus DNA and used it for transfection of NIH 3T3 mouse fibroblasts. The transformed cells retain the plasmids in extrachromosoma...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wang Y,Stratowa C,Schaefer-Ridder M,Doehmer J,Hofschneider PH

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Keap1 regulates Nrf2 activity in response to xenobiotic and oxidative stresses. Nrf2 is an essential regulator of cytoprotective genes. Keap1-null mice are lethal by weaning age due to malnutrition caused by severe hyperkeratosis of the upper digestive tract. Analysis of Keap1::Nrf2 double mutant mice revealed that cu...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Taguchi K,Maher JM,Suzuki T,Kawatani Y,Motohashi H,Yamamoto M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoic acid is known to have profound effects on developmental processes. It has been implicated as a putative morphogen in the developing chick limb bud and regenerating amphibian limb blastema and has been demonstrated to have powerful teratogenic effects in mammals, including humans. Recently, three specific reti...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Giguère V,Shago M,Zirngibl R,Tate P,Rossant J,Varmuza S

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Methyl adenine (3meA), a minor-groove DNA lesion, presents a strong block to synthesis by replicative DNA polymerases (Pols). To elucidate the means by which replication through this DNA lesion is mediated in eukaryotic cells, here we carry out genetic studies in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae treated with the a...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Johnson RE,Yu SL,Prakash S,Prakash L

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:p27(Kip1) is a member of the Cip-Kip family of cyclin-dependent kinase (Cdk) inhibitors that binds to cyclin-Cdk complexes and inhibits their catalytic activity in response to antiproliferative stimuli. p27(Kip1) is regulated by several posttranscriptional mechanisms, including subcellular localization. We have identi...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Smitherman M,Lee K,Swanger J,Kapur R,Clurman BE

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cis-regulatory regions are required for efficient mRNA 3'-end processing of the maize 27-kDa zein mRNA: a region containing a duplicated AAUGAA poly(A) signal and a region that is present upstream from it. Strict spatial positioning of these two regions is required for efficient mRNA 3'-end processing. Insertion o...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wu L,Ueda T,Messing J

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of the retinoblastoma susceptibility gene product (Rb)-related p107 protein with the E2F transcription factor in S-phase cells facilitates the formation of a multicomponent complex also containing cyclin A and the p33cdk2 kinase. We have created a series of p107 mutants to assess the ability of p107 to...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Smith EJ,Nevins JR

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear receptors (NRs) regulate diverse physiological processes, including the central nervous system control of energy balance. However, the molecular mechanisms for the central actions of NRs in energy balance remain relatively poorly defined. Here we report a hypothalamic gene network involving two NRs, neuron-der...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kim SG,Lee B,Kim DH,Kim J,Lee S,Lee SK,Lee JW

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultured animal cells rearrange foreign DNA very efficiently by homologous recombination. The individual steps that constitute the mechanism(s) of homologous recombination in transfected DNA are as yet undefined. In this study, we examined the topological requirements by using the genome of simian virus 40 (SV40) as a...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wake CT,Vernaleone F,Wilson JH

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cDNAs derived from Xenopus laevis calmodulin mRNA have been cloned. Both cDNAs contain the complete protein-coding region and various lengths of untranslated segments. The two cDNAs encode an identical protein but differ from each other by 5% nucleotide substitutions. The 5' and 3' untranslated regions, to the ext...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Chien YH,Dawid IB

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mTOR signaling complex integrates signals from growth factors and nutrient availability to control cell growth and proliferation, in part through effects on the protein-synthetic machinery. Protein synthesis rates fluctuate throughout the cell cycle but diminish significantly during the G(2)/M transition. The fate...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ramírez-Valle F,Badura ML,Braunstein S,Narasimhan M,Schneider RJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the proteins identified as being involved in ribosome biogenesis by high-throughput studies, a putative P-loop-type kinase termed Fap7 (YDL166c), was shown to be required for the conversion of 20S pre-rRNA to 18S rRNA. However, the mechanism underlying this function has remained unclear. Here we demonstrate tha...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Granneman S,Nandineni MR,Baserga SJ

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD133, a widely known marker of cancer stem cells, was recently found in extracellular vesicles. However, the mechanisms underlying CD133 translocation to the extracellular space remain largely unknown. Here we report that CD133 is monoubiquitinated. Ubiquitination occurs primarily on complex glycosylated CD133. The l...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Yang F,Xing Y,Li Y,Chen X,Jiang J,Ai Z,Wei Y

更新日期：2018-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse Surfeit locus, which contains a cluster of at least four genes (Surf-1 to Surf-4), is unusual in that adjacent genes are separated by no more than 73 base pairs (bp). The heterogeneous 5' ends of Surf-1 and Surf-2 are separated by only 15 to 73 bp, the 3' ends of Surf-1 and Surf-3 are only 70 bp apart, and t...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Giallongo A,Yon J,Fried M

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:MOT1 is an essential Saccharomyces cerevisiae protein and a member of the SNF2/SWI2 family of ATPases. MOT1 functions by removing TATA-binding protein (TBP) from DNA, and as a consequence, MOT1 can regulate transcription both in vitro and in vivo. Here we describe the in vivo and in vitro activities of MOT1 deletion a...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Auble DT,Wang D,Post KW,Hahn S

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formin homology (FH) proteins are implicated in cell polarization and cytokinesis through actin organization. There are two FH proteins in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Bni1p and Bnr1p. Bni1p physically interacts with Rho family small G proteins (Rho1p and Cdc42p), actin, two actin-binding proteins (profilin and...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ozaki-Kuroda K,Yamamoto Y,Nohara H,Kinoshita M,Fujiwara T,Irie K,Takai Y

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have designed and constructed integration-defective retroviral vectors to explore their potential for gene targeting in mammalian cells. Two nonoverlapping deletion mutants of the bacterial neomycin resistance (neo) gene were used to detect homologous recombination events between viral and chromosomal sequences. St...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ellis J,Bernstein A

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of genes is rapidly inducible when quiescent fibroblasts are stimulated by growth factors or by the activation of temperature-sensitive retroviral protein-tyrosine kinases. Most of these so-called immediate-early genes were cloned by differential cDNA hybridization. DNA sequence analysis identified many of them ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Jähner D,Hunter T

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00