abstract：:We generated knockout mice for MCM8 and MCM9 and show that deficiency for these genes impairs homologous recombination (HR)-mediated DNA repair during gametogenesis and somatic cells cycles. MCM8(-/-) mice are sterile because spermatocytes are blocked in meiotic prophase I, and females have only arrested primary folli...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Lutzmann M,Grey C,Traver S,Ganier O,Maya-Mendoza A,Ranisavljevic N,Bernex F,Nishiyama A,Montel N,Gavois E,Forichon L,de Massy B,Méchali M

更新日期：2012-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The ER-associated degradation (ERAD) pathway serves as an important cellular safeguard by directing incorrectly folded and unassembled proteins from the ER to the proteasome. Still, however, little is known about the components mediating ERAD of membrane proteins. Here we show that the evolutionary conserved rhomboid ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Fleig L,Bergbold N,Sahasrabudhe P,Geiger B,Kaltak L,Lemberg MK

更新日期：2012-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:AAA+ proteins (ATPases associated with various cellular activities) are oligomeric ATPases that use ATP hydrolysis to remodel their substrates. By similarity with GTPases, a dynamic organization of the nucleotide-binding pockets between ATPase protomers is proposed to regulate functionality. Using the transcription ac...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Joly N,Zhang N,Buck M

更新日期：2012-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins with annealing activity are newly identified ATP-dependent motors that can rewind RPA-coated complementary single-stranded DNA bubbles. AH2 (annealing helicase 2, also named as ZRANB3) is the second protein with annealing activity, the function of which is still unknown. Here, we report that AH2 is recruited ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Yuan J,Ghosal G,Chen J

更新日期：2012-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3Ks) and Ras and Rho family small GTPases are key regulators of cell polarization, motility, and chemotaxis. They influence each other's activities by direct and indirect feedback processes that are only partially understood. Here, we show that 21 small GTPase homologs activate PI3K. Usin...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Yang HW,Shin MG,Lee S,Kim JR,Park WS,Cho KH,Meyer T,Heo WD

更新日期：2012-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue, Takahara and Maeda (2012) discover that together, Pbp1 and sequestration of the TORC1 complex in cytoplasmic mRNP stress granules provides a negative regulatory mechanism for TORC1 signaling during stress. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Buchan JR,Capaldi AP,Parker R

更新日期：2012-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Molecular Cell, Pont et al. (2012) show that AUF1/hnRNP D promotes TERT transcription, which is required for telomere maintenance in mice. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Chen LY,Lingner J

更新日期：2012-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative inclusion of exons increases the functional diversity of proteins. Among alternatively spliced exons, tissue-specific exons play a critical role in maintaining tissue identity. This raises the question of how tissue-specific protein-coding exons influence protein function. Here we investigate the structura...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Buljan M,Chalancon G,Eustermann S,Wagner GP,Fuxreiter M,Bateman A,Babu MM

更新日期：2012-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacterial and archaeal CRISPR immune pathways, DNA sequences from invading bacteriophage or plasmids are integrated into CRISPR loci within the host genome, conferring immunity against subsequent infections. The ribonucleoprotein complex Cascade utilizes RNAs generated from these loci to target complementary "nonse...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Sashital DG,Wiedenheft B,Doudna JA

更新日期：2012-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, cross-species comparisons of genetic interactomes have been restricted to small or functionally related gene sets, limiting our ability to infer evolutionary trends. To facilitate a more comprehensive analysis, we constructed a genome-scale epistasis map (E-MAP) for the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Ryan CJ,Roguev A,Patrick K,Xu J,Jahari H,Tong Z,Beltrao P,Shales M,Qu H,Collins SR,Kliegman JI,Jiang L,Kuo D,Tosti E,Kim HS,Edelmann W,Keogh MC,Greene D,Tang C,Cunningham P,Shokat KM,Cagney G,Svensson JP,Gut

更新日期：2012-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Programmed cell death is a gene-directed process involved in the development and homeostasis of multicellular organisms. The most common mode of programmed cell death is apoptosis, which is characterized by a stereotypical set of biochemical and morphological hallmarks. Here we report that Escherichia coli also exhibi...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Dwyer DJ,Camacho DM,Kohanski MA,Callura JM,Collins JJ

更新日期：2012-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In E. coli homologous recombination, a filament of RecA protein formed on DNA searches and pairs a homologous sequence within a second DNA molecule with remarkable speed and fidelity. Here, we directly probe the strength of the two-molecule interactions involved in homology search and recognition using dual-molecule m...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： De Vlaminck I,van Loenhout MT,Zweifel L,den Blanken J,Hooning K,Hage S,Kerssemakers J,Dekker C

更新日期：2012-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) functions not only as a bioactive lipid molecule, but also as an important intermediate of the sole sphingolipid-to-glycerolipid metabolic pathway. However, the precise reactions and the enzymes involved in this pathway remain unresolved. We report here that yeast HFD1 and the Sjögren-Lar...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Nakahara K,Ohkuni A,Kitamura T,Abe K,Naganuma T,Ohno Y,Zoeller RA,Kihara A

更新日期：2012-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ska complex is an essential mitotic component required for accurate cell division in human cells. It is composed of three subunits that function together to establish stable kinetochore-microtubule interactions in concert with the Ndc80 network. We show that the structure of the Ska core complex is a W-shaped dime...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Jeyaprakash AA,Santamaria A,Jayachandran U,Chan YW,Benda C,Nigg EA,Conti E

更新日期：2012-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:RanBP2/Nup358 is an essential protein with roles in nuclear transport and mitosis, and is one of the few known SUMO E3 ligases. However, why RanBP2 functions in vivo has been unclear: throughout the cell cycle it stably interacts with RanGAP1*SUMO1 and Ubc9, whose binding sites overlap with the E3 ligase region. Here ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Werner A,Flotho A,Melchior F

更新日期：2012-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Argonaute proteins are required for the biogenesis of some small RNAs (sRNAs), including the PIWI-interacting RNAs and some microRNAs. How Argonautes mediate maturation of sRNAs independent of their slicer activity is not clear. The maturation of the Neurospora microRNA-like sRNA, milR-1, requires the Argonaute protei...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Xue Z,Yuan H,Guo J,Liu Y

更新日期：2012-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Faithful propagation of specific chromatin states requires re-establishment of epigenetic marks after every cell division. How the original epigenetic signature is inherited after disruption during DNA replication is still poorly understood. Here, we show that the poly(ADP-ribose)-polymerase-1 (PARP1/ARTD1) is implica...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Guetg C,Scheifele F,Rosenthal F,Hottiger MO,Santoro R

更新日期：2012-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Molecular Cell, Ginno et al. (2012) describe unusual sequence features at promoter CpG islands that can lead to formation of persistent RNA-DNA hybrids (R loops), which are proposed to prevent genomic DNA methylation. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Vertino PM,Wade PA

更新日期：2012-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The WTX gene is frequently lost or mutated in Wilms tumor. In this issue of Molecular Cell, Kim et al. (2012) identify WTX modulation of p53 tumor-suppressor activity through regulation of p53 acetylation. Therefore, WTX differentially regulates the oncogenic β-catenin pathway and the tumor-suppressing p53 pathway. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Dai C,Gu W

更新日期：2012-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA double-strand break (DSB) signaling and repair are critical for cell viability, and rely on highly coordinated pathways whose molecular organization is still incompletely understood. Here, we show that heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein U-like (hnRNPUL) proteins 1 and 2 play key roles in cellular responses to...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Polo SE,Blackford AN,Chapman JR,Baskcomb L,Gravel S,Rusch A,Thomas A,Blundred R,Smith P,Kzhyshkowska J,Dobner T,Taylor AM,Turnell AS,Stewart GS,Grand RJ,Jackson SP

更新日期：2012-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the earliest steps in metazoan pre-mRNA splicing involves binding of U2 snRNP auxiliary factor (U2AF) 65 KDa subunit to the polypyrimidine (Py) tract and of the 35 KDa subunit to the invariant AG dinucleotide at the intron 3' end. Here we use in vitro and in vivo depletion, as well as reconstitution assays usin...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Tavanez JP,Madl T,Kooshapur H,Sattler M,Valcárcel J

更新日期：2012-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of mRNPs controls the interaction of the translation and degradation machinery with individual mRNAs. The yeast Scd6 protein and its orthologs regulate translation and mRNA degradation in yeast, C. elegans, D. melanogaster, and humans by an unknown mechanism. We demonstrate that Scd6 represses translatio...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Rajyaguru P,She M,Parker R

更新日期：2012-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:BIK protein is an initiator of mitochondrial apoptosis, and BIK expression is induced by proapoptotic signals, including DNA damage. Here, we demonstrate that 3' end processing and expression of BIK mRNA are controlled by the nuclear PI4,5P(2)-regulated poly(A) polymerase Star-PAP downstream of DNA damage. Nuclear PKC...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Li W,Laishram RS,Ji Z,Barlow CA,Tian B,Anderson RA

更新日期：2012-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The carboxy-terminal domain (CTD) of the large subunit of RNA polymerase II (Pol II) comprises multiple heptapeptide repeats of the consensus Tyr1-Ser2-Pro3-Thr4-Ser5-Pro6-Ser7. Reversible phosphorylation of Ser2, Ser5, and Ser7 during the transcription cycle mediates the sequential recruitment of transcription/RNA pr...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Egloff S,Zaborowska J,Laitem C,Kiss T,Murphy S

更新日期：2012-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA:DNA hybrids in the genome are constantly being generated as a by-product of transcription; in this issue, two papers, from Helmrich et al. (2011) and Wahba et al. (2011), provide insight into how RNA:DNA hybrids lead to genetic instability. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Potenski CJ,Klein HL

更新日期：2011-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome instability, a hallmark of cancer progression, is thought to arise through DNA double strand breaks (DSBs). Studies in yeast and mammalian cells have shown that DSBs and instability can occur through RNA:DNA hybrids generated by defects in RNA elongation and splicing. We report that in yeast hybrids naturally f...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Wahba L,Amon JD,Koshland D,Vuica-Ross M

更新日期：2011-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Cdh1 is a well-established activator of APC/C, a RING-type ubiquitin ligase. In this issue of Molecular Cell, Wan et al. (2011) report an APC/C-independent role of Cdh1 during development as an activator for Smurf1, a HECT-type ubiquitin ligase. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Jia L,Yu H

更新日期：2011-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Both H4K16 acetylation and H3K4 trimethylation are required for gene activation. However, it is still largely unclear how these modifications are orchestrated by transcriptional factors. Here, we analyzed the mechanism of the transcriptional activation by FOXP3, an X-linked suppressor of autoimmune diseases and cancer...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Katoh H,Qin ZS,Liu R,Wang L,Li W,Li X,Wu L,Du Z,Lyons R,Liu CG,Liu X,Dou Y,Zheng P,Liu Y

更新日期：2011-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Molecular Cell, Yang et al. (2011) demonstrate that Aurora B phosphorylates ATM, leading to its mitotic activation and ability to phosphorylate Bub1 and regulate the spindle checkpoint, thus maintaining genomic integrity. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Bihani T,Hinds PW

更新日期：2011-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional pausing by RNA polymerase (RNAP) plays an essential role in gene regulation. Pausing is modified by various elongation factors, including prokaryotic NusA, but the mechanisms underlying pausing and NusA function remain unclear. Alternative models for pausing invoke blockade events that precede transloc...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Zhou J,Ha KS,La Porta A,Landick R,Block SM

更新日期：2011-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Molecular Cell, Dango and Mosammaparast discover that the human oxidative demethylase ALKBH3 functions in complex with a DNA helicase to eliminate N3-methylcytosine lesions from ssDNA and that specific cancer cell lines are dependent on this activity for proliferation (Dango et al., 2011). ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Camps M,Eichman BF

更新日期：2011-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Atg7 is a noncanonical, homodimeric E1 enzyme that interacts with the noncanonical E2 enzyme, Atg3, to mediate conjugation of the ubiquitin-like protein (UBL) Atg8 during autophagy. Here we report that the unique N-terminal domain of Atg7 (Atg7(NTD)) recruits a unique "flexible region" from Atg3 (Atg3(FR)). The struct...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Taherbhoy AM,Tait SW,Kaiser SE,Williams AH,Deng A,Nourse A,Hammel M,Kurinov I,Rock CO,Green DR,Schulman BA

更新日期：2011-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the structural core of the ribosome is conserved in all kingdoms of life, eukaryotic ribosomes are significantly larger and more complex than their bacterial counterparts. The extent to which these differences influence the molecular mechanism of translation remains elusive. Multiparticle cryo-electron micros...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Budkevich T,Giesebrecht J,Altman RB,Munro JB,Mielke T,Nierhaus KH,Blanchard SC,Spahn CM

更新日期：2011-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Faithful transmission of genomic information requires tight spatiotemporal regulation of DNA replication factors. In the licensing step of DNA replication, CDT-1 is loaded onto chromatin to subsequently promote the recruitment of additional replication factors, including CDC-45 and GINS. During the elongation step, th...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Franz A,Orth M,Pirson PA,Sonneville R,Blow JJ,Gartner A,Stemmann O,Hoppe T

更新日期：2011-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA molecules play diverse functional roles in natural biological systems. There has been growing interest in designing synthetic RNA counterparts for programming biological function. The design of synthetic RNA molecules that exhibit diverse activities, including sensing, regulatory, information processing, and scaff...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Liang JC,Bloom RJ,Smolke CD

更新日期：2011-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Both p53 and Mdmx are ubiquitinated and degraded by the same E3 ligase Mdm2; interestingly, however, while p53 is rapidly degraded by Mdm2, Mdmx is a stable protein in most cancer cells. Thus, the mechanism by which Mdmx is degraded by Mdm2 needs further elucidation. Here, we identified the noncoding 5S rRNA as a majo...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Li M,Gu W

更新日期：2011-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive phosphorylation of circadian clock proteins is a hallmark of time-keeping. In this issue of Molecular Cell, Querfurth et al. (2011) demonstrate that phosphorylation of Neurospora FRQ induces a conformational change, which can account for its temporally gated degradation. ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Menet JS,Rosbash M

更新日期：2011-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Both EZH2 and NF-κB contribute to aggressive breast cancer, yet whether the two oncogenic factors have functional crosstalk in breast cancer is unknown. Here, we uncover an unexpected role of EZH2 in conferring the constitutive activation of NF-κB target gene expression in ER-negative basal-like breast cancer cells. T...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Lee ST,Li Z,Wu Z,Aau M,Guan P,Karuturi RK,Liou YC,Yu Q

更新日期：2011-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenin is a stress-activated ribonuclease that cleaves tRNA within anticodon loops to produce tRNA-derived stress-induced fragments (tiRNAs). Transfection of natural or synthetic tiRNAs inhibits protein synthesis and triggers the phospho-eIF2α-independent assembly of stress granules (SGs), essential components of ...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Ivanov P,Emara MM,Villen J,Gygi SP,Anderson P

更新日期：2011-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular regulation of cell death pathways by cIAPs has been enigmatic. Here we show that loss of cIAPs promotes the spontaneous formation of an intracellular platform that activates either apoptosis or necroptosis. This 2 MDa intracellular complex that we designate "Ripoptosome" is necessary but not sufficie...

journal_title：Molecular cell

authors： Feoktistova M,Geserick P,Kellert B,Dimitrova DP,Langlais C,Hupe M,Cain K,MacFarlane M,Häcker G,Leverkus M

更新日期：2011-08-05 00:00:00