Molecular mechanisms of Spemann's organizer formation: conserved growth factor synergy between Xenopus and mouse.

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：:Bistability in developmental pathways refers to the generation of binary outputs from graded or noisy inputs. Signaling thresholds are critical for bistability. Specification of the left/right (LR) axis in vertebrate embryos involves bistable expression of transforming growth factor beta (TGFbeta) member NODAL in the ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Furtado MB,Solloway MJ,Jones VJ,Costa MW,Biben C,Wolstein O,Preis JI,Sparrow DB,Saga Y,Dunwoodie SL,Robertson EJ,Tam PP,Harvey RP

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：:Distinctive from that of the animal system, the basic plan of the plant body is the continuous formation of a structural unit, composed of a stem with a meristem at the top and lateral organs continuously forming at the meristem. Therefore, mechanisms controlling the formation, maintenance, and development of a merist...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Sawa S,Watanabe K,Goto K,Liu YG,Shibata D,Kanaya E,Morita EH,Okada K

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To define the functional pathways regulating epithelial cell migration, we performed a genome-wide RNAi screen using 55,000 pooled lentiviral shRNAs targeting ∼11,000 genes, selecting for transduced cells with increased motility. A stringent validation protocol generated a set of 31 genes representing diverse pathways...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Smolen GA,Zhang J,Zubrowski MJ,Edelman EJ,Luo B,Yu M,Ng LW,Scherber CM,Schott BJ,Ramaswamy S,Irimia D,Root DE,Haber DA

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X. laevis stage VI oocytes respond differently from unfertilized eggs when injected with the genes for X. laevis embryonic U1 RNAs, xU1b1, and xU1b2. Upon maturation of oocytes into eggs, the efficiency of transcription decreases greatly and the ratio of xU1b1 to xU1b2 RNA transcription changes. Moreover, DNA replicat...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Lund E,Bostock CJ,Dahlberg JE

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:S-phase cyclin-dependent kinase Cdc28-Clb5 (CDK-S) and Dbf4-dependent kinase Cdc7-Dbf4 (DDK) are highly conserved kinases well known for their roles in the initiation of DNA replication. CDK-S is also essential for initiation of meiotic recombination because it phosphorylates Ser30 of Mer2, a meiosis-specific double-s...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Wan L,Niu H,Futcher B,Zhang C,Shokat KM,Boulton SJ,Hollingsworth NM

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：: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：: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：:How muscle diversity is generated in the vertebrate body is poorly understood. In the limb, dorsal and ventral muscle masses constitute the first myogenic diversification, as each gives rise to distinct muscles. Myogenesis initiates after muscle precursor cells (MPCs) have migrated from the somites to the limb bud and...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Anderson C,Williams VC,Moyon B,Daubas P,Tajbakhsh S,Buckingham ME,Shiroishi T,Hughes SM,Borycki AG

更新日期：2012-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) participate in numerous cell responses, including proliferation, DNA damage, and cell death. Based on these disparate activities, both promotion and inhibition of ROS have been proposed for cancer therapy. However, how the ROS response is determined is not clear. We examined the activitie...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Cheung EC,Lee P,Ceteci F,Nixon C,Blyth K,Sansom OJ,Vousden KH

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B-cell-specific transcription of immunoglobulin genes is mediated by the interaction of a POU domain containing transcription factor Oct-1 or Oct-2, with the B-cell-specific coactivator OCA-B (Bob-1, OBF-1) and a prototype octamer element. We find that OCA-B binds DNA directly in the major groove between the two subdo...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Cepek KL,Chasman DI,Sharp PA

更新日期：1996-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetic modifications of chromatin play an important role in the regulation of gene expression. KMT4/Dot1 is a conserved histone methyltransferase capable of methylating chromatin on Lys79 of histone H3 (H3K79). Here we report the identification of a multisubunit Dot1 complex (DotCom), which includes several of the...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Mohan M,Herz HM,Takahashi YH,Lin C,Lai KC,Zhang Y,Washburn MP,Florens L,Shilatifard A

更新日期：2010-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinase suppressor of Ras (KSR) is a recently identified component of Ras-dependent signaling pathways. In this report, we show that murine KSR1 (mKSR1) cooperates with activated Ras to promote Xenopus oocyte maturation and cellular transformation and provide evidence that this cooperation occurs by accelerating mitoge...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Therrien M,Michaud NR,Rubin GM,Morrison DK

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) derived from bone marrow contribute to the regeneration of multiple types of mesenchymal tissues. Here we describe the functional role of a novel form of cross-talk between the transforming growth factor beta1 (TGF-beta1) and Wnt signaling pathways in regulating the activities of hu...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Jian H,Shen X,Liu I,Semenov M,He X,Wang XF

更新日期：2006-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The myogenic regulatory factor MyoD dimerizes with other positive and negative regulatory factors through a conserved region called the helix-loop-helix (HLH) domain. Using a non-DNA-binding MyoD mutant with a normal HLH domain as a dimerization competitor in gel mobility shift assays in conjunction with various MyoD ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Shirakata M,Friedman FK,Wei Q,Paterson BM

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical mutagenesis in the mouse is a powerful approach for phenotype-driven genetics, but questions remain about the efficiency with which new mutations ascertained by their phenotype can be localized and identified, and that knowledge applied to a specific biological problem. During a global screen for dominant phe...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Fitch KR,McGowan KA,van Raamsdonk CD,Fuchs H,Lee D,Puech A,Hérault Y,Threadgill DW,Hrabé de Angelis M,Barsh GS

更新日期：2003-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sox2 is expressed in basal epithelial cells of the tongue, with high levels in taste bud placodes, fungiform papillae, and mature taste cells, and low levels in filiform papillae. High Sox2 expression appears to lie downstream from canonical Wnt signaling. In hypomorphic Sox2(EGFP/LP) embryos, placodes form but no mat...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Okubo T,Pevny LH,Hogan BL

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the July 15, 2010, issue of Genes & Development, Yoon and colleagues (pp. 1507-1518) report that, in a siRNA knockdown survey of 6363 genes in mouse C2C12 cells, they discovered 150 genes that regulated mitochondrial biogenesis and bioenergetics. Many of these genes have been studied previously for their importance...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Wallace DC

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A conditional block to transcriptional elongation is an important mechanism for regulating c-myc gene expression. This elongation block within the first c-myc exon was defined originally in mammalian cells by nuclear run-on transcription analyses. Subsequent oocyte injection and in vitro transcription analyses suggest...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Krumm A,Meulia T,Brunvand M,Groudine M

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the 100-kD HeLa cell octamer-binding protein OBP100 as a model to study flexible DNA sequence recognition by promoter-binding proteins. OBP100 binds to the conserved octamer motif ATGCAAAT found in numerous promoters and additionally to two degenerate octamer motifs (sites I and II) within the SV40 enhanc...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Baumruker T,Sturm R,Herr W

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Historically, biomedical research has been based on two paradigms. First, measurements of biological behaviors have been based on bulk assays that average over large populations. Second, these behaviors have then been crudely perturbed by systemic administration of therapeutic treatments. Nanotechnology has the potent...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Wong IY,Bhatia SN,Toner M

更新日期：2013-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations that influence lin-12 activity in Caenorhabditis elegans may identify conserved factors that regulate the activity of lin-12/Notch proteins. We describe genetic evidence indicating that sel-10 is a negative regulator of lin-12/Notch-mediated signaling in C. elegans. Sequence analysis shows that SEL-10 is a m...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Hubbard EJ,Wu G,Kitajewski J,Greenwald I

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C-factor, the product of the csgA gene, is a cell-surface associated short-range intercellular signaling protein in Myxococcus xanthus. C-factor is required for at least four responses during starvation-induced fruiting body morphogenesis: rippling, aggregation, sporulation, and full expression of the csgA gene, all o...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Søgaard-Andersen L,Slack FJ,Kimsey H,Kaiser D

更新日期：1996-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the metazoan nuclear receptor superfamily regulate gene expression programs in response to binding of cognate lipophilic ligands. Evolutionary studies using bioinformatics tools have concluded that lower eukaryotes, such as fungi, lack nuclear receptor homologs. Here we review recent discoveries suggesting ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Näär AM,Thakur JK

更新日期：2009-02-15 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：:MCM1 is an essential yeast DNA-binding protein that affects both minichromosome maintenance, in a manner suggesting that it has DNA replication initiation function, and gene expression. It activates alpha-specific genes together with MAT alpha 1, and represses a-specific genes together with MAT alpha 2. Alone, MCM1 ca...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Christ C,Tye BK

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionarily conserved checkpoint protein kinase, TOR (target of rapamycin), has emerged as a major effector of cell growth and proliferation via the regulation of protein synthesis. Work in the last decade clearly demonstrates that TOR controls protein synthesis through a stunning number of downstream targets. ...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Hay N,Sonenberg N

更新日期：2004-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The assembly of a nervous system requires the extension of axons and dendrites to specific regions where they are matched with appropriate synaptic targets. Although the cues that guide long-range outgrowth have been characterized extensively, additional mechanisms are required to explain short-range guidance in neura...

journal_title：Genes & development

authors： Dow E,Siletti K,Hudspeth AJ

更新日期：2015-05-15 00:00:00