RAG-1 mutations that affect the target specificity of V(D)j recombination: a possible direct role of RAG-1 in site recognition.

abstract：:Bone metastases are the most common skeletal complication of malignancy. Tumor cells disrupt normal bone remodeling to promote bone destruction and its associated morbidity. In the August 15, 2009, issue of Genes & Development, Lu and colleagues (pp. 1882-1894) propose a novel molecular mechanism by which tumor-produc...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Guise TA

更新日期：2009-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacterial small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) pair with mRNA targets, stimulating or inhibiting mRNA stability and/or translation. Regulation of these sRNAs is usually due to tight transcriptional regulation of synthesis.In this issue of Genes & Development and a related paper in Molecular Microbiology, Figueroa-Bossi ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Mandin P,Gottesman S

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Swi/Snf chromatin remodeling complex functions to alter nucleosome positions by either sliding nucleosomes on DNA or the eviction of histones. The presence of histone acetylation and activator-dependent recruitment and retention of Swi/Snf is important for its efficient function. It is not understood, however, why...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Dutta A,Gogol M,Kim JH,Smolle M,Venkatesh S,Gilmore J,Florens L,Washburn MP,Workman JL

更新日期：2014-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Commitment to mitosis is regulated by a protein kinase complex called MPF. MPF is inhibited by Wee1-related kinases and activated by Cdc25 phosphatase. MPF activation further boosts Cdc25 and represses Wee1. This feedback control probably involves polo kinase. A dominant cut12.s11 mutation in the Schizosaccharomyces p...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： MacIver FH,Tanaka K,Robertson AM,Hagan IM

更新日期：2003-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin structure is believed to be important for a number of cellular processes, including transcription. However, the role of nucleosomes in transcription is not well understood. We have identified the yeast histone locus HTB1-HTB1, encoding histones H2A and H2B, as a suppressor of solo delta insertion mutations t...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Clark-Adams CD,Norris D,Osley MA,Fassler JS,Winston F

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:YAP (Yes-associated protein) and TAZ (transcriptional coactivator with PDZ-binding motif) are major downstream effectors of the Hippo pathway that influences tissue homeostasis, organ size, and cancer development. Aberrant hyperactivation of YAP/TAZ causes tissue overgrowth and tumorigenesis, whereas their inactivatio...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Moroishi T,Park HW,Qin B,Chen Q,Meng Z,Plouffe SW,Taniguchi K,Yu FX,Karin M,Pan D,Guan KL

更新日期：2015-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We characterized a gene, extradenticle, which seems to interact with a specific subset of Drosophila homeo domain proteins, possibly affecting their target specificity. This interpretation is based on an examination of the zygotic and maternal effect phenotypes of extradenticle mutations. In embryos with reduced level...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Peifer M,Wieschaus E

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-mRNA splicing is essential for generating mature mRNA and is also important for subsequent mRNA export and quality control. The splicing history is imprinted on spliced mRNA through the deposition of a splicing-dependent multiprotein complex, the exon junction complex (EJC), at approximately 20 nucleotides upstrea...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Shi H,Xu RM

更新日期：2003-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic genomes encode large families of deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs). Genetic data suggest that Fat facets (Faf), a Drosophila DUB essential for patterning the compound eye, might have a novel regulatory function; Faf might reverse the ubiquitination of a specific substrate, thereby preventing proteasomal degra...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Chen X,Zhang B,Fischer JA

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative pre-mRNA splicing determines many changes in gene expression during development. Two regulators known to control splicing patterns during neuron and muscle differentiation are the polypyrimidine tract-binding protein (PTB) and its neuronal homolog nPTB. These proteins repress certain exons in early myoblas...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Boutz PL,Chawla G,Stoilov P,Black DL

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rpoH gene of Escherichia coli encodes sigma 32, the 32-kD sigma-factor responsible for the heat-inducible transcription of the heat shock genes. rpoH is transcribed from at least three promoters. Two of these promoters are recognized by RNA polymerase containing sigma 70, the predominant sigma-factor. We purified ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Erickson JW,Gross CA

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NF-E1, a DNA-binding protein that recognizes the general consensus motif WGATAR, is the first tissue-specific factor to be identified in erythroid cells. Using a probe from the murine GF-1 (NF-E1) cDNA clone, we isolated three homologous chicken cDNAs: One of these corresponds to an mRNA (NF-E1a) that is abundantly an...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Yamamoto M,Ko LJ,Leonard MW,Beug H,Orkin SH,Engel JD

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current model for endocrine cell specification in the pancreas invokes high-level production of the transcription factor Neurogenin 3 (Neurog3) in Sox9(+) bipotent epithelial cells as the trigger for endocrine commitment, cell cycle exit, and rapid delamination toward proto-islet clusters. This model posits a tran...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Bechard ME,Bankaitis ED,Hipkens SB,Ustione A,Piston DW,Yang YP,Magnuson MA,Wright CV

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Faithful inheritance of genetic information requires that DNA be copied only once each cell cycle. Initiation of DNA replication involves the establishment of a prereplication complex (pre-RC) and subsequent activation by CDK/cyclins, converting the pre-RC to a post-RC. The origin recognition complex (ORC), Cdc6p, and...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Liang C,Stillman B

更新日期：1997-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Chk2/hcds1, the human homolog of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae RAD53/SPK1 and Schizosaccharomyces pombe cds1 DNA damage checkpoint genes, encodes a protein kinase that is post-translationally modified after DNA damage. Like its yeast homologs, the Chk2/hCds1 protein phosphorylates Cdc25C in vitro, suggesting that it ar...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Chehab NH,Malikzay A,Appel M,Halazonetis TD

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entry into sporulation by the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis is governed by two transcription factors, Spo0A and sigma H, and involves a switch in the site of division from a medial to a polar location. We report that at the onset of sporulation, assembly of the cell division protein FtsZ shifts from midcel...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Levin PA,Losick R

更新日期：1996-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the transporter-like protein Patched (Ptc) is genetically implicated in reception of the extracellular Hedgehog (Hh) protein signal, a clear definition of the Hh receptor is complicated by the existence of additional Hh-binding proteins and, in Drosophila, by the lack of physical evidence for direct binding o...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Zheng X,Mann RK,Sever N,Beachy PA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigenic stimulation of the B-cell receptor (BCR) is a central event in the immune response. In contrast, antigen bound to IgG negatively regulates signals from the BCR by cross-linking it to the inhibitory receptor FcgammaRIIB. Here we show that upon cross-linking of BCR or BCR with FcgammaRIIB, the rasGAP-associate...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Yamanashi Y,Tamura T,Kanamori T,Yamane H,Nariuchi H,Yamamoto T,Baltimore D

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify regions of the largest subunit of RNA polymerase that are potentially involved in transcript elongation and termination, we have characterized amino acid substitutions in the beta' subunit of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase that alter expression of reporter genes preceded by terminators in vivo. Terminatio...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Weilbaecher R,Hebron C,Feng G,Landick R

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitotic duration is determined by activation of the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) bound to its coactivator, Cdc20. Kinetochores, the microtubule-interacting machines on chromosomes, restrain mitotic exit when not attached to spindle microtubules by generating a Cdc20-containing complex that inhibits the...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Kim T,Lara-Gonzalez P,Prevo B,Meitinger F,Cheerambathur DK,Oegema K,Desai A

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate completion of replication relies on the ability of cells to activate error-free recombination-mediated DNA damage bypass at sites of perturbed replication. However, as anti-recombinase activities are also recruited to replication forks, how recombination-mediated damage bypass is enabled at replication stress...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Urulangodi M,Sebesta M,Menolfi D,Szakal B,Sollier J,Sisakova A,Krejci L,Branzei D

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome segregation requires stable bipolar attachments of spindle microtubules to kinetochores. The dynein/dynactin motor complex localizes transiently to kinetochores and is implicated in chromosome segregation, but its role remains poorly understood. Here, we use the Caenorhabditis elegans embryo to investigate ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Gassmann R,Essex A,Hu JS,Maddox PS,Motegi F,Sugimoto A,O'Rourke SM,Bowerman B,McLeod I,Yates JR 3rd,Oegema K,Cheeseman IM,Desai A

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory organ formation in Drosophila is activated by proneural genes that encode basic-helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factors. These genes are antagonized by hairy and other proline-bHLH proteins. hairy has not been shown to bind to DNA and has been proposed to form inactive heterodimers with proneural activat...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Ohsako S,Hyer J,Panganiban G,Oliver I,Caudy M

更新日期：1994-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Coliphage N4 is a double-stranded DNA virus that requires the sequential activity of three different RNA polymerases during infection. The N4 virion RNA polymerase, which is carried in the virion and is injected with the DNA at the start of infection, is responsible for the synthesis of N4 early RNAs. In vitro, the vi...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Markiewicz P,Malone C,Chase JW,Rothman-Denes LB

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanisms driving brain development at risk in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) remain mostly unknown. Previous studies have implicated the transcription factor FOXP1 in both brain development and ASD pathophysiology. However, the specific molecular pathways both upstream of and downstream from FOXP1 ar...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Usui N,Araujo DJ,Kulkarni A,Co M,Ellegood J,Harper M,Toriumi K,Lerch JP,Konopka G

更新日期：2017-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial infarction and ischemic heart disease are the leading cause of death in the industrial world. Therapies employed for treating these diseases are aimed at promoting increased blood flow to cardiac tissue. Pharmacological induction of new coronary growth has recently been explored, however, clinical trials wi...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Lavine KJ,White AC,Park C,Smith CS,Choi K,Long F,Hui CC,Ornitz DM

更新日期：2006-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pcf11 is one of numerous proteins involved in pre-mRNA 3'-end processing and transcription termination. Using elongation complexes (ECs) formed from purified yeast RNA polymerase II (Pol II), we show that a 140-amino acid polypeptide from yeast Pcf11 is capable of dismantling the EC in vitro. This action depends on th...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Zhang Z,Fu J,Gilmour DS

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a four-cell-stage Caenorhabditis elegans embryo, Wnt signaling polarizes an endoderm precursor called EMS. The polarization of this cell orients its mitotic spindle in addition to inducing endodermal fate in one daughter cell. Reducing the function of Wnt pathway genes, including a newly identified GSK-3beta homolo...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Schlesinger A,Shelton CA,Maloof JN,Meneghini M,Bowerman B

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assembly of activated RNA polymerase II (pol II) transcription complexes has been investigated by assaying whether pre-assembly of intermediate complexes reduces the extended time required for start-site melting. The results show that a closed complex requiring factors IIA, IID, and the acidic activator GAL4-AH fo...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Wang W,Gralla JD,Carey M

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The release of Agrin by motoneurons activates the muscle-specific receptor tyrosine kinase (MuSK) as the main organizer of subsynaptic specializations at the neuromuscular junction. MuSK downstream signaling is largely undefined. Here we show that protein kinase CK2 interacts and colocalizes with MuSK at post-synaptic...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Cheusova T,Khan MA,Schubert SW,Gavin AC,Buchou T,Jacob G,Sticht H,Allende J,Boldyreff B,Brenner HR,Hashemolhosseini S

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00