The nonspecific DNA-binding and -bending proteins HMG1 and HMG2 promote the assembly of complex nucleoprotein structures.

abstract：:In cytoplasm, the survival of motor neuron (SMN) complex delivers pre-small nuclear RNAs (pre-snRNAs) to the heptameric Sm ring for the assembly of the ring complex on pre-snRNAs at the conserved Sm site [A(U)4-6G]. Gemin5, a WD40 protein component of the SMN complex, is responsible for recognizing pre-snRNAs. In addi...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Xu C,Ishikawa H,Izumikawa K,Li L,He H,Nobe Y,Yamauchi Y,Shahjee HM,Wu XH,Yu YT,Isobe T,Takahashi N,Min J

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here a new murine homeo box gene, denoted Hlx, which is expressed within specific hematopoietic lineages. The cDNA sequence indicates that Hlx differs markedly from known vertebrate homeo box genes, and linkage analysis of an interspecific murine backcross showed that it resides at a novel homeo box locus ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Allen JD,Lints T,Jenkins NA,Copeland NG,Strasser A,Harvey RP,Adams JM

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used Sarkosyl to analyze steps along the pathway of transcription initiation by RNA polymerase III. Sarkosyl (0.015%) inhibited transcription when present prior to incubation of RNA polymerase III, TFIIIB, and TFIIIC with the VAI gene, whereas it had no detectable effect on initiation or reinitiation of transcripti...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Kovelman R,Roeder RG

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SpoIIIE is an FtsK-related protein that transports the forespore chromosome across the Bacillus subtilis sporulation septum. We use membrane photobleaching and protoplast assays to demonstrate that SpoIIIE is required for septal membrane fission in the presence of trapped DNA, and that DNA is transported across separa...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Fleming TC,Shin JY,Lee SH,Becker E,Huang KC,Bustamante C,Pogliano K

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different RNA species are exported from the nucleus by distinct mechanisms. Among the different RNAs, mRNAs and major spliceosomal U snRNAs share several structural similarities, yet they are exported by distinct factors. We previously showed that U1 snRNAs behaved like an mRNA in nuclear export if various approximate...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Masuyama K,Taniguchi I,Kataoka N,Ohno M

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The repression of the maternally inherited Igf2 allele has been proposed to depend on a methylation-sensitive chromatin insulator organized by the 11 zinc finger protein CTCF at the H19 imprinting control region (ICR). Here we document that point mutations of the nucleotides in physical contact with CTCF within the en...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Pant V,Mariano P,Kanduri C,Mattsson A,Lobanenkov V,Heuchel R,Ohlsson R

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In murine plasmacytoma and human Burkitt's lymphoma cells, one allele of c-myc is translocated into one of the immunoglobulin loci, resulting in a characteristic pattern of deregulated c-myc transcription. Translocation events between c-myc and the IgH locus segregate c-myc and the IgH intron enhancer to different rec...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Madisen L,Groudine M

更新日期：1994-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate and regulated transcription by RNA polymerase II requires the assembly of an initiation complex involving multiple protein-DNA and protein-protein interactions. A key event is binding of TFIID, a complex consisting of TBP and associated factors (TAFs) to the template DNA. The TAF subunits of TFIID carry out d...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Ruppert S,Tjian R

更新日期：1995-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages play critical roles in events ranging from host defense to obesity and cancer, where they infiltrate affected tissues and orchestrate immune responses in tandem with the remodeling of the extracellular matrix (ECM). Despite the dual roles played by macrophages in inflammation, the functions of macrophage-d...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Shimizu-Hirota R,Xiong W,Baxter BT,Kunkel SL,Maillard I,Chen XW,Sabeh F,Liu R,Li XY,Weiss SJ

更新日期：2012-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:RUNX1/AML1 is required for the development of definitive hematopoiesis, and its activity is altered by mutations, deletions, and chromosome translocations in human acute leukemia. RUNX1 function can be regulated by post-translational modifications and protein-protein interactions. We show that RUNX1 is arginine-methyl...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Zhao X,Jankovic V,Gural A,Huang G,Pardanani A,Menendez S,Zhang J,Dunne R,Xiao A,Erdjument-Bromage H,Allis CD,Tempst P,Nimer SD

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cells do not all respond the same way, but the mechanisms underlying this heterogeneity are not well understood. Here, we found that expression of Hes1 and its downstream genes oscillate in mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells. Those expressing low and high levels of Hes1 tended to differentiate into neural and mesode...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Kobayashi T,Mizuno H,Imayoshi I,Furusawa C,Shirahige K,Kageyama R

更新日期：2009-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The incretin hormone GLP1 promotes islet-cell survival via the second messenger cAMP. Here we show that mice deficient in the activity of CREB, caused by expression of a dominant-negative A-CREB transgene in pancreatic beta-cells, develop diabetes secondary to beta-cell apoptosis. Remarkably, A-CREB severely disrupted...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Jhala US,Canettieri G,Screaton RA,Kulkarni RN,Krajewski S,Reed J,Walker J,Lin X,White M,Montminy M

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional activation of the human U1 snRNA genes is dependent on a noncanonical octamer element contained within an upstream enhancer. The U1 octamer only weakly recruits the Oct-1 POU domain, although recruitment is stimulated by a peptide containing the Oct-1-binding domain of SNAP190. Structural analysis of t...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Hovde S,Hinkley CS,Strong K,Brooks A,Gu L,Henry RW,Geiger J

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocyte nuclear factor 1 (HNF-1) is a transcriptional regulatory protein possibly involved in the activation of many liver-specifically expressed genes. HNF-1 mRNA is restricted to a small number of tissues, suggesting that the HNF-1 gene itself is regulated at the transcriptional level. We have isolated and charac...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Tian JM,Schibler U

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mediator was resolved from yeast as a multiprotein complex on the basis of its requirement for transcriptional activation in a fully defined system. Three groups of mediator polypeptides could be distinguished: the products of five SRB genes, identified as suppressors of carboxy-terminal domain (CTD)-truncation mutant...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Myers LC,Gustafsson CM,Bushnell DA,Lui M,Erdjument-Bromage H,Tempst P,Kornberg RD

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of the SCF(skp2) E3 ligase is required for the proteolytic turnover of several proteins involved in cell cycle control and transcriptional regulation. Loss of skp2 in the mouse leads to a complex phenotype including changes in cell size and DNA content as well as severe proliferation defects. Here we show...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Kossatz U,Dietrich N,Zender L,Buer J,Manns MP,Malek NP

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The td, nrdB, and sunY introns of bacteriophage T4 each contain a long open reading frame (ORF). These ORFs are preceded by functional T4 late promoters and, in the case of the nrdB intron ORF, a functional middle promoter. Expression of phage-encoded intron ORF-lacZ fusions indicates that these T4 genes are highly re...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Gott JM,Zeeh A,Bell-Pedersen D,Ehrenman K,Belfort M,Shub DA

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of metazoan cells with some viruses alters the balance of cellular mRNA export to favor viral RNA export and to retain cellular transcripts in the nucleus. Here, evidence is presented to show that the herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) essential regulatory protein ICP27, which inhibits host cell-splicing, result...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Sandri-Goldin RM

更新日期：1998-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudoplasmodia of developing Dictyostelium are organized with anteroposterior polarity. We have isolated CAR4, the gene for a new cell-surface, G protein-linked cAMP receptor. CAR4 mRNA is initially expressed during tip elongation and continues to accumulate into culmination. CAR4 is maximally expressed in pseudoplas...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Louis JM,Ginsburg GT,Kimmel AR

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell for cell, probably no human cancer is as aggressive as melanoma. It is among a handful of cancers whose dimensions are reported in millimeters. Tumor thickness approaching 4 mm presents a high risk of metastasis, and a diagnosis of metastatic melanoma carries with it an abysmal median survival of 6-9 mo. What fea...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Chin L,Garraway LA,Fisher DE

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon leading to parentally biased gene expression. Throughout the years, extensive efforts have been made to characterize the epigenetic marks underlying imprinting in animals and plants. As a result, DNA methylation asymmetries between parental genomes emerged as the primary ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Batista RA,Köhler C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HOP2 and MND1 genes are indispensable for meiotic recombination. The products of these genes associate to form a stable heterodimeric complex that binds DNA and stimulates the recombinase activity of Rad51 and Dmc1. Here we conduct molecular studies to delineate the action mechanism of the Hop2-Mnd1 complex. We pr...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Chi P,San Filippo J,Sehorn MG,Petukhova GV,Sung P

更新日期：2007-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA repair associated with DNA replication is important for the conservation of genomic sequence information, whereas reconstitution of chromatin after replication sustains epigenetic information. We have isolated and characterized mutations in the BRU1 gene of Arabidopsis that suggest a novel link between these under...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Takeda S,Tadele Z,Hofmann I,Probst AV,Angelis KJ,Kaya H,Araki T,Mengiste T,Mittelsten Scheid O,Shibahara K,Scheel D,Paszkowski J

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the human U2 and U6 snRNA genes are transcribed by different RNA polymerases (i.e., RNA polymerases II and III, respectively), their promoters are very similar in structure. Both contain a proximal sequence element (PSE) and an octamer motif-containing enhancer, and these elements are interchangeable between ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Lobo SM,Lister J,Sullivan ML,Hernandez N

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a simple, effective genetic screen for mutant alleles of eukaryotic DNA topoisomerase I that manifest severely depressed or complete loss of enzymatic function. The screen is based on the extreme toxicity of vaccinia topoisomerase expression in the Escherichia coli lysogen strain BL21(DE3) and is not...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Morham SG,Shuman S

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The integration of viral DNA into the host genome is an essential step in the retrovirus life cycle. To understand this process better, we have examined the native state of viral DNA in cells acutely infected by murine leukemia virus (MLV), using both a physical assay for viral DNA and a functional assay for integrati...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Bowerman B,Brown PO,Bishop JM,Varmus HE

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Centromeres are maintained epigenetically by the presence of CENP-A, an evolutionarily conserved histone H3 variant, which directs kinetochore assembly and hence centromere function. To identify factors that promote assembly of CENP-A chromatin, we affinity-selected solubilized fission yeast CENP-ACnp1 chromatin. All ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Singh PP,Shukla M,White SA,Lafos M,Tong P,Auchynnikava T,Spanos C,Rappsilber J,Pidoux AL,Allshire RC

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an in vitro system in which a 5' splice site (5'SS) RNA oligo (AAG decreases GUAAGUAdT) is capable of inducing formation of U2/U4/U5/U6 snRNP complex we show that this oligo specifically binds to U4/U5/U6 snRNP and cross-links to U6 snRNA in the absence of U2 snRNP. Moreover, 5'SS RNA oligo bound to U4/U5/U6 snR...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Konforti BB,Konarska MM

更新日期：1994-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent DNA double-strand breaks and telomeres represent genomic hazards, as they can instigate inappropriate repair reactions. Two recent papers by Oza and colleagues (pp. 912-917) and Schober and colleagues (pp. 928-938) show that both types of DNA ends are sequestered from bulk DNA by Mps3, a SUN domain protein ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Gartenberg MR

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNAi has revolutionized reverse genetics; however, RNAi is not necessarily ubiquitous or constitutive. Lund and colleagues (pp. 1121-1131) show that microRNA (miRNA) effector Argonautes (Agos) are limiting and easily saturated during early Xenopus embryogenesis. Moreover, this stage is devoid of slicing capacity. Supp...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Flynt AS,Lai EC

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00