Short-range repression permits multiple enhancers to function autonomously within a complex promoter.

abstract：:Transcription factor p53 forms a network with associated factors to regulate the cell cycle and apoptosis in response to environmental stresses. However, there is currently no direct genetic evidence to show if or how the p53 pathway functions during organogenesis. Here we present evidence to show that the zebrafish d...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Chen J,Ruan H,Ng SM,Gao C,Soo HM,Wu W,Zhang Z,Wen Z,Lane DP,Peng J

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome integrity is constantly monitored by sophisticated cellular networks, collectively termed the DNA damage response (DDR). A common feature of DDR proteins is their mobilization in response to genotoxic stress. Here, we outline how the development of various complementary methodologies has provided valuable insig...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Polo SE,Jackson SP

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cJun N-terminal kinase 1 (JNK1) is implicated in diet-induced obesity. Indeed, germline ablation of the murine Jnk1 gene prevents diet-induced obesity. Here we demonstrate that selective deficiency of JNK1 in the murine nervous system is sufficient to suppress diet-induced obesity. The failure to increase body mas...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Sabio G,Cavanagh-Kyros J,Barrett T,Jung DY,Ko HJ,Ong H,Morel C,Mora A,Reilly J,Kim JK,Davis RJ

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of the cell-cycle-regulated human histone genes increases approximately fivefold during S phase. One step toward the elucidation of the biochemical mechanisms that govern cell-cycle-regulated expression of these genes is to purify and characterize the transcription factors that regulate these promoters. ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Dailey L,Roberts SB,Heintz N

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an immunochemical approach, we have identified a unique antigen, PEP (protein on ecdysone puffs), which is associated in third-instar larvae with the active ecdysone-regulated loci on polytene chromosomes; PEP is not associated with most intermolt puffs and is found on some, but not all, heat shock-induced puffs...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Amero SA,Elgin SC,Beyer AL

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two recent reports, including one by Reinders and colleagues (pp. 939-950) in the April 15, 2009, issue of Genes & Development, describe the construction of Arabidopsis recombinant inbred populations that maximize epigenetic rather than genetic variation. The distribution and behavior of phenotypic variation in these ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Richards EJ

更新日期：2009-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During Drosophila embryogenesis, ectodermal cells of the lateral epithelium stretch in a coordinated fashion to internalize the amnioserosa cells and close the embryo dorsally. This process, dorsal closure, requires two signaling pathways: the Drosophila Jun-amino-terminal kinase (DJNK) pathway and the Dpp pathway. We...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Riesgo-Escovar JR,Hafen E

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferation of pancreatic islet beta cells is an important mechanism for self-renewal and for adaptive islet expansion. Increased expression of the Ink4a/Arf locus, which encodes the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p16(INK4a) and tumor suppressor p19(Arf), limits beta-cell regeneration in aging mice, but the basis...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Chen H,Gu X,Su IH,Bottino R,Contreras JL,Tarakhovsky A,Kim SK

更新日期：2009-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factor Ebf1 is an important determinant of early B lymphopoiesis. To gain insight into the functions of Ebf1 at distinct stages of differentiation, we conditionally inactivated Ebf1. We found that Ebf1 is required for the proliferation, survival, and signaling of pro-B cells and peripheral B-cell sub...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Györy I,Boller S,Nechanitzky R,Mandel E,Pott S,Liu E,Grosschedl R

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Irradiation in the G1 phase of the cell cycle delays the onset of DNA synthesis and transiently inhibits the activation of replication origins in mammalian cells. It has been suggested that this inhibition is the result of the loss of torsional tension in the DNA after it has been damaged. Because irradiation causes D...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Raghuraman MK,Brewer BJ,Fangman WL

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecsit is a cytosolic adaptor protein essential for inflammatory response and embryonic development via the Toll-like and BMP (bone morphogenetic protein) signal transduction pathways, respectively. Here, we demonstrate a mitochondrial function for Ecsit (an evolutionary conserved signaling intermediate in Toll pathway...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Vogel RO,Janssen RJ,van den Brand MA,Dieteren CE,Verkaart S,Koopman WJ,Willems PH,Pluk W,van den Heuvel LP,Smeitink JA,Nijtmans LG

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TDP-43 is a critical RNA-binding factor associated with pre-mRNA splicing in mammals. Its expression is tightly autoregulated, with loss of this regulation implicated in human neuropathology. We demonstrate that TDP-43 overexpression in humans and mice activates a 3' untranslated region (UTR) intron, resulting in exci...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Avendaño-Vázquez SE,Dhir A,Bembich S,Buratti E,Proudfoot N,Baralle FE

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphogenesis of the insect kidney, the Malpighian tubules, is controlled in Drosophila by a single large cell, the tip cell. It has been postulated that this cell sends out a mitogenic signal that induces the division of neighboring cells. The signal and the molecules that receive it have remained elusive. We show th...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Kerber B,Fellert S,Hoch M

更新日期：1998-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The female mammary gland is a very dynamic organ that undergoes continuous tissue remodeling during adulthood. Although it is well established that the number of menstrual cycles and pregnancy (in this case transiently) increase the risk of breast cancer, the reasons are unclear. Growing clinical and experimental evid...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Rodriguez-Barrueco R,Nekritz EA,Bertucci F,Yu J,Sanchez-Garcia F,Zeleke TZ,Gorbatenko A,Birnbaum D,Ezhkova E,Cordon-Cardo C,Finetti P,Llobet-Navas D,Silva JM

更新日期：2017-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Checkpoint genes maintain genomic stability by arresting cells after DNA damage. Many of these genes also control cell cycle events in unperturbed cells. By conducting a screen for checkpoint genes in zebrafish, we found that dtl/cdt2 is an essential component of the early, radiation-induced G2/M checkpoint. We subseq...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Sansam CL,Shepard JL,Lai K,Ianari A,Danielian PS,Amsterdam A,Hopkins N,Lees JA

更新日期：2006-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of erythroid-expressed genes and normal erythroid development in vivo are dependent on a regulatory protein (GATA-1) that recognizes a consensus GATA motif. GATA-1 expression is itself restricted to erythroid progenitors and to two related hematopoietic lineages, megakaryocytes and mast cells. During cel...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Tsai SF,Strauss E,Orkin SH

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medulloblastomas are brain tumors that arise in the cerebellum of children and contain stem cells in a perivascular niche thought to give rise to recurrence following radiation. We used several mouse models of medulloblastomas in parallel to better understand how the critical cell types in these tumors respond to ther...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Hambardzumyan D,Becher OJ,Rosenblum MK,Pandolfi PP,Manova-Todorova K,Holland EC

更新日期：2008-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA loops that juxtapose the promoter and terminator regions of RNA polymerase II-transcribed genes have been identified in yeast and mammalian cells. Loop formation is transcription-dependent and requires components of the pre-mRNA 3'-end processing machinery. Here we report that looping at the yeast GAL10 gene persi...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Lainé JP,Singh BN,Krishnamurthy S,Hampsey M

更新日期：2009-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-translational modifications of histones are significant regulators of replication, transcription, and DNA repair. Particularly, newly synthesized histone H4 in H3/H4 heterodimers becomes acetylated on N-terminal lysine residues prior to its incorporation into chromatin. Previous studies have established that the ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Li Y,Zhang L,Liu T,Chai C,Fang Q,Wu H,Agudelo Garcia PA,Han Z,Zong S,Yu Y,Zhang X,Parthun MR,Chai J,Xu RM,Yang M

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendrite arborization patterns are critical determinants of neuronal function. To explore the basis of transcriptional regulation in dendrite pattern formation, we used RNA interference (RNAi) to screen 730 transcriptional regulators and identified 78 genes involved in patterning the stereotyped dendritic arbors of cl...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Parrish JZ,Kim MD,Jan LY,Jan YN

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomeres protect the ends of linear chromosomes from degradation and abnormal recombination events, and in vertebrates may be important in cellular senescence and cancer. However, very little is known about the structure of human telomeres. In this report we purify telomeres and analyze their termini. We show that fo...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Wright WE,Tesmer VM,Huffman KE,Levene SD,Shay JW

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Saccharomyces cerevisiae protein kinase Rim15p was identified previously as a stimulator of meiotic gene expression. Here, we show that loss of Rim15p causes an additional pleiotropic phenotype in cells grown to stationary phase on rich medium; this phenotype includes defects in trehalose and glycogen accumulation...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Reinders A,Bürckert N,Boller T,Wiemken A,De Virgilio C

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the gene encoding atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) during mouse cardiac embryogenesis was studied using in situ hybridization to histologic sections. ANF mRNA was first detected in a subpopulation of myocardial cells at day 8 of embryogenesis. During day 9, abundant hybridization of the ANF probe to the a...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Zeller R,Bloch KD,Williams BS,Arceci RJ,Seidman CE

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are postulated to be a small subset of tumor cells with tumor-initiating ability that shares features with normal tissue-specific stem cells. The origin of CSCs and the mechanisms underlying their genesis are poorly understood, and it is uncertain whether it is possible to obliterate CSCs with...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Song Y,Lu B

更新日期：2011-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a systematic mutational analysis of the helix-turn-helix motif (HTH) of the fushi tarazu (ftz) homeo domain (HD) of Drosophila. We started out by testing the function of chimeric ftz proteins containing either a part of the Sex combs reduced (Scr) or the muscle segment homeobox (msh) HDs. By complementation ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Furukubo-Tokunaga K,Müller M,Affolter M,Pick L,Kloter U,Gehring WJ

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal translocations are a hallmark of hematopoietic malignancies. The initial molecular events or pathways that lead to translocations in hematopoietic cells are largely unknown, particularly in the stem cell-enriched population postulated to be the initial target for these events. We used in vitro differentiat...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Francis R,Richardson C

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diverse developmental processes, such as neuronal growth cone migration and cell shape changes, are mediated by the interactions of cells with the extracellular matrix. We describe here a secreted molecule encoded by the Drosophila masquerade (mas) gene. Total loss of mas function causes defective muscle attachment. T...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Murugasu-Oei B,Rodrigues V,Yang X,Chia W

更新日期：1995-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented that the activation of the RNA polymerase sigma factor sigma(W) in Bacillus subtilis by regulated intramembrane proteolysis is governed by a novel, membrane-embedded protease. The sigma(W) factor is activated by proteolytic destruction of the membrane-bound anti-sigma(W) factor RsiW in response t...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Ellermeier CD,Losick R

更新日期：2006-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic chromosomes reach their stable rod-shaped appearance in mitosis in a reaction dependent on the evolutionarily conserved condensin complex. Little is known about how and where condensin associates with chromosomes. Here, we analyze condensin binding to budding yeast chromosomes using high-resolution oligonuc...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： D'Ambrosio C,Schmidt CK,Katou Y,Kelly G,Itoh T,Shirahige K,Uhlmann F

更新日期：2008-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An RNA-binding protein gene (rbp1) from Drosophila melanogaster, encoding an RNA recognition motif and an Arg-Ser rich (RS) domain, has been characterized. The predicted amino acid sequence of rbp1 is similar to those of the human splicing factor ASF/SF2, the Drosophila nuclear phosphoprotein SRp55, and the Drosophila...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Kim YJ,Zuo P,Manley JL,Baker BS

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00