Factors (TAFs) required for activated transcription interact with TATA box-binding protein conserved core domain.

abstract：:The acetylation state of histones plays a central role in determining gene expression in chromatin. The reestablishment of the acetylation state of nucleosomes after DNA replication and chromatin assembly requires both deacetylation and acetylation of specific lysine residues on newly incorporated histones. In this st...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Meijsing SH,Ehrenhofer-Murray AE

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：:Growth of numerous cancer types is believed to be driven by a subpopulation of poorly differentiated cells, often referred to as cancer stem cells (CSCs), that have the capacity for self-renewal, tumor initiation, and generation of nontumorigenic progeny. Despite their potentially key role in tumor establishment and m...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Janiszewska M,Suvà ML,Riggi N,Houtkooper RH,Auwerx J,Clément-Schatlo V,Radovanovic I,Rheinbay E,Provero P,Stamenkovic I

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis is an important mechanism to eliminate potentially tumorigenic cells. The tumor suppressor p53 plays a pivotal role in this process. Many tumors harbor mutant p53, but others evade its tumor-suppressive effects by altering the expression of proteins that regulate the p53 pathway. ASPP1 (apoptosis-stimulating...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Aylon Y,Ofir-Rosenfeld Y,Yabuta N,Lapi E,Nojima H,Lu X,Oren M

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gut homeostasis is controlled by both immune and developmental mechanisms, and its disruption can lead to inflammatory disorders or cancerous lesions of the intestine. While the impact of bacteria on the mucosal immune system is beginning to be precisely understood, little is known about the effects of bacteria on gut...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Buchon N,Broderick NA,Chakrabarti S,Lemaitre B

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proximal-distal outgrowth of the vertebrate limb bud is regulated by the apical ectodermal ridge (AER), which forms at an invariant position along the dorsal-ventral (D/V) axis of the embryo. We have studied the genetic and cellular events that regulate AER formation in the mouse. In contrast to implications from prev...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Kimmel RA,Turnbull DH,Blanquet V,Wurst W,Loomis CA,Joyner AL

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene dosage alterations caused by aneuploidy are a common feature of most cancers yet pose severe proteotoxic challenges. Therefore, cells have evolved various dosage compensation mechanisms to limit the damage caused by the ensuing protein level imbalances. For instance, for heteromeric protein complexes, excess nons...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Samant RS,Masto VB,Frydman J

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell growth and differentiation are usually antagonistic. Proteins of the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) family bind DNA and play important roles in the differentiation of specific cell types. Id proteins heterodimerize with bHLH transcription factors, blocking their activation of lineage-specific gene expression and t...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Iavarone A,Garg P,Lasorella A,Hsu J,Israel MA

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human TFIIA activity is composed of three subunits (alpha, beta, gamma). Here we report the isolation of a human cDNA clone encoding the gamma-subunit and the reconstitution of TFIIA activity from recombinant polypeptides (holo-TFIIA). Protein-protein interaction analysis established that the beta and gamma subunits o...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Sun X,Ma D,Sheldon M,Yeung K,Reinberg D

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) and homologous recombination (HR) represent the two major pathways of DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair in eukaryotic cells. NHEJ repairs DSBs by ligation of cognate broken ends irrespective of homologous flanking sequences, whereas HR repairs DSBs using an undamaged homologous temp...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Mills KD,Ferguson DO,Essers J,Eckersdorff M,Kanaar R,Alt FW

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclin B3 has been conserved during higher eukaryote evolution as evidenced by its identification in chicken, nematodes, and insects. We demonstrate that Cyclin B3 is present in addition to Cyclins A and B in mitotically proliferating cells and not detectable in endoreduplicating tissues of Drosophila embryos. Cyclin ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Jacobs HW,Knoblich JA,Lehner CF

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although progesterone has been recognized as essential for the establishment and maintenance of pregnancy, this steroid hormone has been recently implicated to have a functional role in a number of other reproductive events. The physiological effects of progesterone are mediated by the progesterone receptor (PR), a me...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Lydon JP,DeMayo FJ,Funk CR,Mani SK,Hughes AR,Montgomery CA Jr,Shyamala G,Conneely OM,O'Malley BW

更新日期：1995-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cycle checkpoints are critical for genomic stability. Rad17, a component of the checkpoint clamp loader complex (Rad17/Rfc2-5), is required for the response to DNA damage and replication stress. To explore the role of Rad17 in the maintenance of genomic integrity, we established somatic conditional alleles of RAD...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Wang X,Zou L,Zheng H,Wei Q,Elledge SJ,Li L

更新日期：2003-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The removal of the 5' cap structure by the decapping enzyme DCP2 inhibits translation and generally commits the mRNA to irreversible 5'-to-3' exonucleolytic degradation by XRN1. DCP2 catalytic activity is stimulated by DCP1, and these proteins form the conserved core of the decapping complex. Additional decapping fact...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Jonas S,Izaurralde E

更新日期：2013-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Regions on the surface of human TATA-box binding protein (TBP) required for activated transcription in vivo were defined by construction of a library of 89 surface residue mutants with radical substitutions that were assayed for their ability to support activated transcription in vivo, basal transcription in vitro, an...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Bryant GO,Martel LS,Burley SK,Berk AJ

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to maintain and expand the pool of adipocytes in adults is integral to the regulation of energy balance, tissue/stem cell homeostasis, and disease pathogenesis. For decades, our knowledge of adipocyte precursors has relied on cellular models. The identity of native adipocyte precursors has remained unclear...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Hepler C,Vishvanath L,Gupta RK

更新日期：2017-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The transformer-2 (tra-2) gene of Drosophila melanogaster plays essential roles in both sexual differentiation in the female soma and spermatogenesis in the male germ line. In the female soma, tra-2 is known to act with other genes in the sex determination regulatory cascade to control the sex-specific alternative spl...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Mattox W,Palmer MJ,Baker BS

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symbiotic nitrogen fixation involves the development of specialized organs called nodules within which plant photosynthates are exchanged for combined nitrogen of bacterial origin. To determine the importance of bacterial nitrogen metabolism in symbiosis, we have characterized a key regulator of this metabolism in Rhi...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Arcondéguy T,Huez I,Tillard P,Gangneux C,de Billy F,Gojon A,Truchet G,Kahn D

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PWI motif is a highly conserved domain of unknown function in the SRm160 splicing and 3'-end cleavage-stimulatory factor, as well as in several other known or putative pre-mRNA processing components. We show here that the PWI motif is a new type of RNA/DNA-binding domain that has an equal preference for single- an...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Szymczyna BR,Bowman J,McCracken S,Pineda-Lucena A,Lu Y,Cox B,Lambermon M,Graveley BR,Arrowsmith CH,Blencowe BJ

更新日期：2003-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional profiling is a powerful approach for understanding development and disease. Current cell type-specific RNA purification methods have limitations, including cell dissociation trauma or inability to identify all RNA species. Here, we describe "mouse thiouracil (TU) tagging," a genetic and chemical inters...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Gay L,Miller MR,Ventura PB,Devasthali V,Vue Z,Thompson HL,Temple S,Zong H,Cleary MD,Stankunas K,Doe CQ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) can trigger repressive chromatin, but how they recruit silencing factors remains unclear. In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, heterochromatin assembly on transcribed noncoding pericentromeric repeats requires both RNAi and RNAi-independent mechanisms. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which lacks a ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Marina DB,Shankar S,Natarajan P,Finn KJ,Madhani HD

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical embryology has provided a clear view of the timing and hormonal cues that govern sexual differentiation. Molecular biology has added important details to this picture. The cloning of SRY, MIS, and INSL3 provide insight into the molecular signals that provide important cues at the cellular level. Continued un...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Nef S,Parada LF

更新日期：2000-12-15 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

abstract：:Hundreds of microRNAs (miRNAs) have been discovered in metazoans and plants, and understanding of their biogenesis has advanced dramatically; however, relatively little is known about the cofactors necessary for miRNA regulation of target gene expression. In Caenorhabditis elegans, the conserved miRNA let-7 and its pa...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Hayes GD,Riedel CG,Ruvkun G

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the orphan nuclear receptors TR2 and TR4, the DNA-binding subunits of the DRED repressor complex, are forcibly expressed in erythroid cells of transgenic mice, embryos exhibit a transient mid-gestational anemia as a consequence of a reduction in the number of primitive erythroid cells. GATA-1 mRNA is specifically...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Tanabe O,Shen Y,Liu Q,Campbell AD,Kuroha T,Yamamoto M,Engel JD

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently it was believed that Xenopus oocytes respond to heat shock by synthesizing the 70-kD heat shock protein hsp70 and that, uniquely amongst animal cell types, this response is mediated entirely at the translational level. This view has now been challenged and we present data that reevaluate the involvement...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Horrell A,Shuttleworth J,Colman A

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishment of the steroid-producing Leydig cell lineage is an event downstream of Sry that is critical for masculinization of mammalian embryos. Neither the origin of fetal Leydig cell precursors nor the signaling pathway that specifies the Leydig cell lineage is known. Based on the sex-specific expression patterns...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Yao HH,Whoriskey W,Capel B

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rb mutants exhibit aneuploidy and aberrant chromosome structure during mitosis. In this issue of Genes & Development, a new paper from Longworth and colleagues (1011-1024) describes both physical and functional interactions between Drosophila Rbf1 and the dCAP-D3 subunit of condensin II. This work directly implicates ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Lavoie BD

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The superoxide radical (O(2)(-)) has long been considered a major cause of aging. O(2)(-) in cytosolic, extracellular, and mitochondrial pools is detoxified by dedicated superoxide dismutase (SOD) isoforms. We tested the impact of each SOD isoform in Caenorhabditis elegans by manipulating its five sod genes and saw no...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Doonan R,McElwee JJ,Matthijssens F,Walker GA,Houthoofd K,Back P,Matscheski A,Vanfleteren JR,Gems D

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder caused by impaired function of the neurofibromin RAS regulator. Using a combination of Nf1 genetically engineered mice and pharmacological/genetic inhibition approaches, we report that neurofibromin differentially controls neural stem cell (NSC) pr...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Chen YH,Gianino SM,Gutmann DH

更新日期：2015-08-15 00:00:00