Mutational analysis of the DNA binding, dimerization, and transcriptional activation domains of MEF2C.

abstract：:Our analysis of rotund (rn) null mutations in Drosophila melanogaster revealed that deletion of the rn locus affects both spermatid and retinal differentiation. In the male reproductive system, the absence of RnRacGAP induced small testes, empty seminal vesicles, short testicular cysts, reduced amounts of interspermat...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Bergeret E,Pignot-Paintrand I,Guichard A,Raymond K,Fauvarque MO,Cazemajor M,Griffin-Shea R

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cdc42p GTPase interacts with multiple regulators and downstream effectors through an approximately 25-amino-acid effector domain. Four effector domain mutations, Y32K, F37A, D38E, and Y40C, were introduced into Cdc42p and characterized for their effects on these interactions. Each mutant p...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Richman TJ,Johnson DI

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone morphogenetic protein 7 (BMP7) stimulates renal branching morphogenesis via p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (p38(MAPK)) and activating transcription factor 2 (ATF-2) (M. C. Hu, D. Wasserman, S. Hartwig, and N. D. Rosenblum, J. Biol. Chem. 279:12051-12059, 2004). Here, we demonstrate a novel role for integrin...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Leung-Hagesteijn C,Hu MC,Mahendra AS,Hartwig S,Klamut HJ,Rosenblum ND,Hannigan GE

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein enzyme that adds telomeric sequence repeats to the ends of linear chromosomes. In vitro, telomerase has been observed to add repeats to a DNA oligonucleotide primer in a processive manner, leading to the postulation of a DNA anchor site separate from the catalytic site of the enzyme. ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hammond PW,Lively TN,Cech TR

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) produces cellular NADPH, which is required for the biosynthesis of fatty acids and cholesterol. Although G6PD is required for lipogenesis, it is poorly understood whether G6PD in adipocytes is involved in energy homeostasis, such as lipid and glucose metabolism. We report here ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Park J,Rho HK,Kim KH,Choe SS,Lee YS,Kim JB

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The steady-state mRNA levels of the proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) gene are growth regulated. In a previous paper (L. Ottavio, C.-D. Chang, M. G. Rizzo, S. Travali, C. Casadevall, and R. Baserga, Mol. Cell. Biol. 10:303-309, 1990), we reported that introns (especially intron 4) participate in growth regulat...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Chang CD,Ottavio L,Travali S,Lipson KE,Baserga R

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The let-23 gene encodes a Caenorhabditis elegans homolog of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) necessary for vulval development. We have characterized a mutation of let-23 that activates the receptor and downstream signal transduction, leading to excess vulval differentiation. This mutation alters a conserved...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Katz WS,Lesa GM,Yannoukakos D,Clandinin TR,Schlessinger J,Sternberg PW

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sequence-specific DNA-binding protein from skeletal-muscle extracts that binds to probes of three muscle gene DNA elements is identified. This protein, referred to as muscle factor 3, forms the predominant nucleoprotein complex with the MCAT gene sequence motif in an electrophoretic mobility shift assay. This protei...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Santoro IM,Yi TM,Walsh K

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two alternative exons, BEK and K-SAM, code for part of the ligand binding site of fibroblast growth factor receptor 2. Splicing of these exons is mutually exclusive, and the choice between them is made in a tissue-specific manner. We identify here pre-mRNA sequences involved in controlling splicing of the K-SAM exon. ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Del Gatto F,Breathnach R

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the mechanisms that drive the differentiation of dopaminergic (DA) neurons is crucial for successful development of novel therapies for Parkinson's disease, in which DA neurons progressively degenerate. However, the mechanisms underlying the differentiation-promoting effects of Wnt5a on DA precursors are...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Čajánek L,Ganji RS,Henriques-Oliveira C,Theofilopoulos S,Koník P,Bryja V,Arenas E

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The RHO1 gene encodes a homolog of the mammalian RhoA small GTP-binding protein in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Rho1p is localized at the growth site and is required for bud formation. The RHO1(G22S, D125N) mutation is a temperature-sensitive and dominant negative mutation of RHO1, and a multicopy suppressor of...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Hirano H,Tanaka K,Ozaki K,Imamura H,Kohno H,Hihara T,Kameyama T,Hotta K,Arisawa M,Watanabe T,Qadota H,Ohya Y,Takai Y

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinoblastoma tumor suppressor protein (RB) is a negative regulator of the cell cycle that inhibits both G(1) and S-phase progression. While RB-mediated G(1) inhibition has been extensively studied, the mechanism utilized for S-phase inhibition is unknown. To delineate the mechanism through which RB inhibits DNA ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Sever-Chroneos Z,Angus SP,Fribourg AF,Wan H,Todorov I,Knudsen KE,Knudsen ES

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated two phenotypically distinct types of diphtheria toxin-resistant mutants of Chinese hamster cells and compared their resistance with that of naturally resistant mouse cells. All are resistant due to a defect in the process of internalization and delivery of toxin to its target in the cytosol, elongation...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Didsbury JR,Moehring JM,Moehring TJ

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The J domain of simian virus 40 (SV40) large T antigen is required for efficient DNA replication and transformation. Despite previous reports demonstrating the promiscuity of J domains in heterologous systems, results presented here show the requirement for specific J-domain sequences in SV40 large-T-antigen-mediated ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Sullivan CS,Tremblay JD,Fewell SW,Lewis JA,Brodsky JL,Pipas JM

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutation (K38R) which specifically eliminates kinase activity was created in the Drosophila melanogaster ckI gene (doubletime [dbt]). In vitro, DBT protein carrying the K38R mutation (DBT(K/R)) interacted with Period protein (PER) but lacked kinase activity. In cell culture and in flies, DBT(K/R) antagonized the pho...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Muskus MJ,Preuss F,Fan JY,Bjes ES,Price JL

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enhancer of yellow 1 gene, e(y)1, of Drosophila melanogaster has been cloned and demonstrated to encode the TAFII40 protein. The e(y)1 gene is expressed in females much more strongly than in males due to the accumulation of e(y)1 mRNA in the ovaries. Two different e(y)1 mutations have been obtained. The e(y)1(ul) ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Soldatov A,Nabirochkina E,Georgieva S,Belenkaja T,Georgiev P

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubules in yeast are essential components of the mitotic and meiotic spindles and are essential for nuclear movement during cell division and mating. The relative importance in these processes of the two divergent alpha-tubulin genes of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, TUB1 and TUB3, was examined throu...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Schatz PJ,Solomon F,Botstein D

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An empirical equation has been developed that can be used to calculate genetic map distances from tetrad data with good accuracy for distances of up to at least 120 centimorgans. ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ma C,Mortimer RK

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoblastoma (RB) tumors develop when both alleles of a gene (RB1) are mutated and unable to function normally. Recently, Friend et al. [S. H. Friend, R. Bernards, S. Rogelj, R. A. Weinberg, J. M. Rapaport, D. M. Albert, and T. P. Dryja, Nature (London) 32:643-646, 1986] reported the cloning of a gene, 4.7R, with so...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Goddard AD,Balakier H,Canton M,Dunn J,Squire J,Reyes E,Becker A,Phillips RA,Gallie BL

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mauriceville retroplasmid of Neurospora mitochondria encodes a novel reverse transcriptase that initiates cDNA synthesis de novo (i.e., without a primer) at the 3' CCA of the plasmid transcript's 3' tRNA-like structure (H. Wang and A. M. Lambowitz, Cell 75:1071-1081, 1993). Here, we show that the plasmid reverse t...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Chiang CC,Lambowitz AM

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The steroid hormone progesterone acts via high-affinity nuclear receptors that interact with specific DNA sequences located near the promoter of the hormone-responsive gene. Recent studies suggested that the hormone-occupied progesterone receptor (PR) mediates gene activation by recruiting a cellular coregulatory fact...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Xu Y,Klein-Hitpass L,Bagchi MK

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma interferon (IFN-γ) regulates immune defenses against viruses, intracellular pathogens, and tumors by modulating cell proliferation, migration, invasion, and vesicle trafficking processes. The large GTPase guanylate binding protein 1 (GBP-1) is among the cellular proteins that is the most abundantly induced by IF...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ostler N,Britzen-Laurent N,Liebl A,Naschberger E,Lochnit G,Ostler M,Forster F,Kunzelmann P,Ince S,Supper V,Praefcke GJ,Schubert DW,Stockinger H,Herrmann C,Stürzl M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adiponectin is a secretory protein abundantly secreted from adipocytes. It assembles into a number of different higher-order complexes. Adipocytes maintain tight control over circulating plasma levels, suggesting the existence of a complex, highly regulated biosynthetic pathway. However, the critical mediators of adip...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wang ZV,Schraw TD,Kim JY,Khan T,Rajala MW,Follenzi A,Scherer PE

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The estrogen-dependent binding of a protein to the upstream region of the chicken vitellogenin gene was detected by using in vivo dimethyl sulfate, genomic DNase I, and in vitro exonuclease III footprinting. The site is located between base pairs -848 and -824, and its sequence resembles that of the nuclear factor I b...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Bakker O,Philipsen JN,Hennis BC,Ab G

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism for transcriptional silencing of pericentric heterochromatin is conserved from fission yeast to mammals. Silenced genome regions are marked by epigenetic methylation of histone H3, which serves as a binding site for structural heterochromatin proteins. In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Cheutin T,Gorski SA,May KM,Singh PB,Misteli T

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutagenesis studies have demonstrated the requirement for the CD28-responsive element (CD28RE) within the interleukin-2 (IL-2) promoter for transcriptional upregulation by CD28. Here, we demonstrate that CD28 responsiveness is conferred by a composite element containing both the CD28RE and the NF-IL-2B AP-1 sites (RE/...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Shapiro VS,Truitt KE,Imboden JB,Weiss A

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The observation that transcriptionally active genes generally replicate early in S phase and observations of the interaction between transcription factors and replication proteins support the thesis that promoter elements may have a role in DNA replication. To test the relationship between transcription and replicatio...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ghosh M,Liu G,Randall G,Bevington J,Leffak M

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The full-length versions of the Ras-specific exchange factors Ras-GRF1 (GRF1) and Ras-GRF2 (GRF2), which are expressed in brain and a restricted number of other organs, possess an ionomycin-dependent activation of Erk mitogen-activated protein kinase activity in 293T cells (C. L. Farnsworth et al., Nature 376:524-527,...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Anborgh PH,Qian X,Papageorge AG,Vass WC,DeClue JE,Lowy DR

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strong evidence indicates that endosome-localized epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) plays an important role in cell signaling. However, elimination of endosomal signaling does not attenuate EGF-induced physiological outcomes, arguing against physiological relevance. Recently we established a system to specifical...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Pennock S,Wang Z

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the reaper gene (rpr) correlates with the initiation of apoptosis in Drosophila melanogaster. Transient expression of rpr in the lepidopteran SF-21 cell line induced apoptosis displaying nuclear condensation and fragmentation, oligonucleosomal ladder formation, cell surface blebbing, and apoptotic body f...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Vucic D,Seshagiri S,Miller LK

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00