abstract：:Upon glucose restriction, eukaryotic cells upregulate oxidative metabolism to maintain homeostasis. Using genetic screens, we find that the mitochondrial serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT2) is required for robust mitochondrial oxygen consumption and low glucose proliferation. SHMT2 catalyzes the first step in mito...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Minton DR,Nam M,McLaughlin DJ,Shin J,Bayraktar EC,Alvarez SW,Sviderskiy VO,Papagiannakopoulos T,Sabatini DM,Birsoy K,Possemato R

更新日期：2018-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) perceive microbial and endogenous molecular patterns to activate immune signaling. The cytoplasmic kinase BIK1 acts downstream of multiple PRRs as a rate-limiting component, whose phosphorylation and accumulation are central to immune signal propagation. Previous work identif...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Wang J,Grubb LE,Wang J,Liang X,Li L,Gao C,Ma M,Feng F,Li M,Li L,Zhang X,Yu F,Xie Q,Chen S,Zipfel C,Monaghan J,Zhou JM

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA binding proteins (RBPs) regulate all aspects in the life cycle of RNA molecules. To elucidate the elements that guide RNA specificity, regulatory mechanisms, and functions of RBPs, methods that identify direct endogenous protein-RNA interactions are particularly valuable. UV crosslinking and immunoprecipitation (C...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Lee FCY,Ule J

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defective ER-resident membrane proteins need to be ejected into the cytoplasm in order to be degraded by the proteasome, but the exact mechanism remains unclear. In this issue of Molecular Cell, Neal et al. (2018) reveal that the rhomboid pseudoprotease Dfm1 defines the central ERAD component for membrane protein disl...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Avci D,Lemberg MK

更新日期：2018-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a highly parallel strategy, systematic gene-to-phenotype arrays (SGPAs), to comprehensively map the genetic landscape driving molecular phenotypes of interest. By this approach, a complete yeast genetic mutant array is crossed with fluorescent reporters and imaged on membranes at high density and con...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Jaeger PA,Ornelas L,McElfresh C,Wong LR,Hampton RY,Ideker T

更新日期：2018-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:N6-methyladenosine (m6A) and adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) editing are two of the most abundant RNA modifications, both at adenosines. Yet, the interaction of these two types of adenosine modifications is largely unknown. Here we show a global A-to-I difference between m6A-positive and m6A-negative RNA populations. Bo...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Xiang JF,Yang Q,Liu CX,Wu M,Chen LL,Yang L

更新日期：2018-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:As sessile organisms, plants must adapt to variations in the environment. Environmental stress triggers various responses, including growth inhibition, mediated by the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA). The mechanisms that integrate stress responses with growth are poorly understood. Here, we discovered that the Targe...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Wang P,Zhao Y,Li Z,Hsu CC,Liu X,Fu L,Hou YJ,Du Y,Xie S,Zhang C,Gao J,Cao M,Huang X,Zhu Y,Tang K,Wang X,Tao WA,Xiong Y,Zhu JK

更新日期：2018-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent paper by Stadlmann et al. (2017) provides a novel algorithm for glycoproteomics in which complex glycopeptides can be identified in complex mixtures to aid in characterizing both the site of glycosylation and the glycan structure. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Cummings RD

更新日期：2017-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:R-loop, a three-stranded RNA/DNA structure, has been linked to induced genome instability and regulated gene expression. To enable precision analysis of R-loops in vivo, we develop an RNase-H-based approach; this reveals predominant R-loop formation near gene promoters with strong G/C skew and propensity to form G-qua...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Chen L,Chen JY,Zhang X,Gu Y,Xiao R,Shao C,Tang P,Qian H,Luo D,Li H,Zhou Y,Zhang DE,Fu XD

更新日期：2017-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA lesions caused by UV damage are thought to be repaired solely by the nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway in human cells. Patients carrying mutations within genes functioning in this pathway display a range of pathologies, including an increased susceptibility to cancer, premature aging, and neurological defec...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Mazouzi A,Battistini F,Moser SC,Ferreira da Silva J,Wiedner M,Owusu M,Lardeau CH,Ringler A,Weil B,Neesen J,Orozco M,Kubicek S,Loizou JI

更新日期：2017-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress granules are mRNA-protein assemblies formed from nontranslating mRNAs. Stress granules are important in the stress response and may contribute to some degenerative diseases. Here, we describe the stress granule transcriptome of yeast and mammalian cells through RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis of purified stre...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Khong A,Matheny T,Jain S,Mitchell SF,Wheeler JR,Parker R

更新日期：2017-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsatellite expansion diseases are caused by unstable tandem repeats of 3-10 nucleotides that become pathogenic beyond a threshold number of copies. Two groups present different approaches to reduce pathogenesis by targeting deactivated Cas9 to either the DNA (Pinto et al., 2017) or the RNA (Batra et al., 2017) rep...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Rao AN,Cooper TA

更新日期：2017-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:RING and U-box E3 ubiquitin ligases regulate diverse eukaryotic processes and have been implicated in numerous diseases, but targeting these enzymes remains a major challenge. We report the development of three ubiquitin variants (UbVs), each binding selectively to the RING or U-box domain of a distinct E3 ligase: mon...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Gabrielsen M,Buetow L,Nakasone MA,Ahmed SF,Sibbet GJ,Smith BO,Zhang W,Sidhu SS,Huang DT

更新日期：2017-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is required for benign hepatic tumors to progress into malignant hepatocellular carcinoma. However, the mechanism is unclear. Here, we report that mitophagy, the selective removal of mitochondria by autophagy, positively regulates hepatic cancer stem cells (CSCs) by suppressing the tumor suppressor p53. When...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Liu K,Lee J,Kim JY,Wang L,Tian Y,Chan ST,Cho C,Machida K,Chen D,Ou JJ

更新日期：2017-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Double-strand breaks (DSBs) of DNA in eukaryotic cells are predominantly repaired by non-homologous end joining (NHEJ). The histone chaperone anti-silencing factor 1a (ASF1a) interacts with MDC1 and is recruited to sites of DSBs to facilitate the interaction of phospho-ATM with MDC1 and phosphorylation of MDC1, which ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Lee KY,Im JS,Shibata E,Dutta A

更新日期：2017-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Using improved techniques, Baptista et al. (2017) and Warfield et al. (2017) revisit fundamental questions about SAGA and TFIID function in yeast. They conclude that each complex independently contributes to the expression of all genes transcribed by RNA polymerase II. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Taatjes DJ

更新日期：2017-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-Cas nuclease system is a powerful tool for genome editing, and its simple programmability has enabled high-throughput genetic and epigenetic studies. These high-throughput approaches offer investigators a toolkit for functional interrogation of not...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Montalbano A,Canver MC,Sanjana NE

更新日期：2017-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies suggested that expression of most yeast mRNAs is dominated by either transcription factor TFIID or SAGA. We re-examined the role of TFIID by rapid depletion of S. cerevisiae TFIID subunits and measurement of changes in nascent transcription. We find that transcription of nearly all mRNAs is strongly d...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Warfield L,Ramachandran S,Baptista T,Devys D,Tora L,Hahn S

更新日期：2017-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly-ubiquitin chains direct protein substrates to the 26S proteasome, where they are removed by the deubiquitinase Rpn11 during ATP-dependent substrate degradation. Rapid deubiquitination is required for efficient degradation but must be restricted to committed substrates that are engaged with the ATPase motor to pre...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Worden EJ,Dong KC,Martin A

更新日期：2017-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription is a source of genetic instability that can notably result from the formation of genotoxic DNA:RNA hybrids, or R-loops, between the nascent mRNA and its template. Here we report an unexpected function for introns in counteracting R-loop accumulation in eukaryotic genomes. Deletion of endogenous introns i...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Bonnet A,Grosso AR,Elkaoutari A,Coleno E,Presle A,Sridhara SC,Janbon G,Géli V,de Almeida SF,Palancade B

更新日期：2017-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation is an essential epigenetic mark in mammals that has to be re-established after each round of DNA replication. The protein UHRF1 is essential for this process; it has been proposed that the protein targets newly replicated DNA by cooperatively binding hemi-methylated DNA and H3K9me2/3, but this model le...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Ferry L,Fournier A,Tsusaka T,Adelmant G,Shimazu T,Matano S,Kirsh O,Amouroux R,Dohmae N,Suzuki T,Filion GJ,Deng W,de Dieuleveult M,Fritsch L,Kudithipudi S,Jeltsch A,Leonhardt H,Hajkova P,Marto JA,Arita K,Shinkai Y

更新日期：2017-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-subunit SMC complexes control chromosome superstructure and promote chromosome disjunction, conceivably by actively translocating along DNA double helices. SMC subunits comprise an ABC ATPase "head" and a "hinge" dimerization domain connected by a 49 nm coiled-coil "arm." The heads undergo ATP-dependent engageme...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Diebold-Durand ML,Lee H,Ruiz Avila LB,Noh H,Shin HC,Im H,Bock FP,Bürmann F,Durand A,Basfeld A,Ham S,Basquin J,Oh BH,Gruber S

更新日期：2017-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Faithful propagation of functionally distinct chromatin states is crucial for maintaining cellular identity, and its breakdown can lead to diseases such as cancer. Whereas mechanisms that sustain repressed states have been intensely studied, regulatory circuits that protect active chromatin from inactivating signals a...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Flury V,Georgescu PR,Iesmantavicius V,Shimada Y,Kuzdere T,Braun S,Bühler M

更新日期：2017-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative splicing (AS) generates isoform diversity for cellular identity and homeostasis in multicellular life. Although AS variation has been observed among single cells, little is known about the biological or evolutionary significance of such variation. We developed Expedition, a computational framework consisti...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Song Y,Botvinnik OB,Lovci MT,Kakaradov B,Liu P,Xu JL,Yeo GW

更新日期：2017-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections can cause a multitude of stresses on the host and microbe. To detect potential infections, the mammalian immune system utilizes several families of pattern recognition receptors, which survey the intracellular and extracellular environments for microbial products. Members of each receptor family induce anti...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Franz KM,Kagan JC

更新日期：2017-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3) family kinases are central cellular regulators highly conserved in all eukaryotes. In Arabidopsis, the GSK3-like kinase BIN2 phosphorylates a range of proteins to control broad developmental processes, and BIN2 is degraded through unknown mechanism upon receptor kinase-mediated br...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Zhu JY,Li Y,Cao DM,Yang H,Oh E,Bi Y,Zhu S,Wang ZY

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein 53BP1 plays a central regulatory role in DNA double-strand break repair. 53BP1 relocates to chromatin by recognizing RNF168-mediated mono-ubiquitylation of histone H2A Lys15 in the nucleosome core particle dimethylated at histone H4 Lys20 (NCP-ubme). 53BP1 relocation is terminated by ubiquitin ligases RNF1...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Hu Q,Botuyan MV,Cui G,Zhao D,Mer G

更新日期：2017-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitin modification of proteins plays pivotal roles in the cellular response to DNA damage. Given the complexity of ubiquitin conjugation due to the formation of poly-conjugates of different linkages, functional roles of linkage-specific ubiquitin modification at DNA damage sites are largely unclear. We identify th...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Paul A,Wang B

更新日期：2017-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The HECT E3 ligases ubiquitinate numerous transcription factors and signaling molecules, and their activity must be tightly controlled to prevent cancer, immune disorders, and other diseases. In this study, we have found unexpectedly that peptide linkers tethering WW domains in several HECT family members are key regu...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Chen Z,Jiang H,Xu W,Li X,Dempsey DR,Zhang X,Devreotes P,Wolberger C,Amzel LM,Gabelli SB,Cole PA

更新日期：2017-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells exposed to hypoxia experience replication stress but do not accumulate DNA damage, suggesting sustained DNA replication. Ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) is the only enzyme capable of de novo synthesis of deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates (dNTPs). However, oxygen is an essential cofactor for mammalian RNR (RRM1/RR...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Foskolou IP,Jorgensen C,Leszczynska KB,Olcina MM,Tarhonskaya H,Haisma B,D'Angiolella V,Myers WK,Domene C,Flashman E,Hammond EM

更新日期：2017-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The CRISPR-associated protein Cas12a (Cpf1), which has been repurposed for genome editing, possesses two distinct nuclease activities: endoribonuclease activity for processing its own guide RNAs and RNA-guided DNase activity for target DNA cleavage. To elucidate the molecular basis of both activities, we determined cr...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Swarts DC,van der Oost J,Jinek M

更新日期：2017-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are abundant and evolutionarily conserved RNAs of largely unknown function. Here, we show that a subset of circRNAs is translated in vivo. By performing ribosome footprinting from fly heads, we demonstrate that a group of circRNAs is associated with translating ribosomes. Many of these ribo-ci...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Pamudurti NR,Bartok O,Jens M,Ashwal-Fluss R,Stottmeister C,Ruhe L,Hanan M,Wyler E,Perez-Hernandez D,Ramberger E,Shenzis S,Samson M,Dittmar G,Landthaler M,Chekulaeva M,Rajewsky N,Kadener S

更新日期：2017-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Molecular Cell, Taneja et al. (2017) uncover a dual role for the conserved chromatin remodeler Fft3 in the maintenance of silent heterochromatin and the suppression of replication barriers at euchromatic loci through controlled histone turnover. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Fortuny A,Polo SE

更新日期：2017-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Dong et al. (2017) establish how the mitochondrial Ca2+ uniporter (MCU) integrates Ca2+ and oxidative stress signals by identifying a cysteine residue that controls MCU channel activity, a mechanism causing mitochondrial Ca2+ overload and cell death during oxidative stress. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Demaurex N,Rosselin M

更新日期：2017-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:R loop, a transcription intermediate containing RNA:DNA hybrids and displaced single-stranded DNA (ssDNA), has emerged as a major source of genomic instability. RNaseH1, which cleaves the RNA in RNA:DNA hybrids, plays an important role in R loop suppression. Here we show that replication protein A (RPA), an ssDNA-bind...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Nguyen HD,Yadav T,Giri S,Saez B,Graubert TA,Zou L

更新日期：2017-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In budding yeast, the nuclear RNA surveillance system is active on all pre-mRNA transcripts and modulated by nutrient availability. To test the role of nuclear surveillance in reprogramming gene expression, we identified transcriptome-wide binding sites for RNA polymerase II and the exosome cofactors Mtr4 (TRAMP compl...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Bresson S,Tuck A,Staneva D,Tollervey D

更新日期：2017-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein function originates from a cooperation of structural rigidity, dynamics at different timescales, and allostery. However, how these three pillars of protein function are integrated is still only poorly understood. Here we show how these pillars are connected in Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase 1B (PTP1B), a drug ta...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Choy MS,Li Y,Machado LESF,Kunze MBA,Connors CR,Wei X,Lindorff-Larsen K,Page R,Peti W

更新日期：2017-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental cues provoke rapid transitions in gene expression to support growth and cellular plasticity through incompletely understood mechanisms. Lin28 RNA-binding proteins have evolutionarily conserved roles in post-transcriptional coordination of pro-growth gene expression, but signaling pathways allowing trophi...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Amen AM,Ruiz-Garzon CR,Shi J,Subramanian M,Pham DL,Meffert MK

更新日期：2017-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycomb proteins are well-known epigenetic repressors with unexplained roles in chromatin folding. In this issue of Molecular Cell, Kundu et al. (2017) investigate the structures of PRC1-mediated domains in stem cells and probe their changes upon differentiation and in PRC knockouts. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Torlai Triglia E,Rito T,Pombo A

更新日期：2017-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Molecular Cell, Chereji et al. (2017) present new data on MNase-sensitive particles previously identified upstream of transcription start sites at many promoters in budding yeast, and they argue, based upon negative histone-ChIP results, that they are non-nucleosomal signals generated by transcription...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Kubik S,Bruzzone MJ,Albert B,Shore D

更新日期：2017-02-02 00:00:00