abstract：:A major goal of cancer research is the identification of tumor-specific vulnerabilities that can be exploited for the development of therapies that are selectively toxic to the tumor. We show here that the transcriptional coactivators peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator 1β (PGC1β) and estrogen...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Fisher KW,Das B,Kim HS,Clymer BK,Gehring D,Smith DR,Costanzo-Garvey DL,Fernandez MR,Brattain MG,Kelly DL,MacMillan J,White MA,Lewis RE

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombospondins are a family of stress-inducible secreted glycoproteins that underlie tissue remodeling. We recently reported that thrombospondin-4 (Thbs4) has a critical intracellular function, regulating the adaptive endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress pathway through activating transcription factor 6α (Atf6α). In the...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Brody MJ,Schips TG,Vanhoutte D,Kanisicak O,Karch J,Maliken BD,Blair NS,Sargent MA,Prasad V,Molkentin JD

更新日期：2015-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The interleukin enhancer binding factors ILF2 (NF45) and ILF3 (NF90/NF110) have been implicated in various cellular pathways, such as transcription, microRNA (miRNA) processing, DNA repair, and translation, in mammalian cells. Using tandem affinity purification, we identified human NF45 and NF90 as components of precu...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Wandrey F,Montellese C,Koos K,Badertscher L,Bammert L,Cook AG,Zemp I,Horvath P,Kutay U

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CTCFL, a paralog of CTCF, also known as BORIS (brother of regulator of imprinted sites), is a testis-expressed gene whose function is largely unknown. Its product is a cancer testis antigen (CTA), and it is often expressed in tumor cells and also seen in two benign human vascular malformations, juvenile angiofibromas ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Sati L,Zeiss C,Yekkala K,Demir R,McGrath J

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although TRAIL is considered a potential anticancer agent, it enhances tumor progression by activating NF-κB in apoptosis-resistant cells. Cellular FLICE-like inhibitory protein (cFLIP) overexpression and caspase-8 activation have been implicated in TRAIL-induced NF-κB activation; however, the underlying mechanisms ar...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Zhang L,Blackwell K,Workman LM,Chen S,Pope MR,Janz S,Habelhah H

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eukaryotic Spt4-Spt5 heterodimer forms a higher-order complex with RNA polymerase II (and I) to regulate transcription elongation. Extensive genetic and functional data have revealed diverse roles of Spt4-Spt5 in coupling elongation with chromatin modification and RNA-processing pathways. A mechanistic understandi...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Meyer PA,Li S,Zhang M,Yamada K,Takagi Y,Hartzog GA,Fu J

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ∼230-residue C-terminal tail of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is phosphorylated upon activation. We examined whether this phosphorylation is affected by deletions within the tail and whether the two tails in the asymmetric active EGFR dimer are phosphorylated differently. We monitored autophosphoryla...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Kovacs E,Das R,Wang Q,Collier TS,Cantor A,Huang Y,Wong K,Mirza A,Barros T,Grob P,Jura N,Bose R,Kuriyan J

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttranslational modifications (PTMs) can alter many fundamental properties of a protein. One or combinations of them have been known to regulate the dynamics of many cellular pathways and consequently regulate all vital processes. Understandably, pathogens have evolved sophisticated strategies to subvert these mecha...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Verma S,Mohapatra G,Ahmad SM,Rana S,Jain S,Khalsa JK,Srikanth CV

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ADP-ribosyltransferase diphtheria-toxin like 1/poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 (ARTD1/PARP1) is a chromatin-associated protein in the nucleus and plays an important role in different cellular processes such as regulation of gene transcription. ARTD1 has been shown to coregulate the inflammatory response by modulating th...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Minotti R,Andersson A,Hottiger MO

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scaffold attachment factor A (SAF-A), also called heterogenous nuclear ribonuclear protein U (hnRNP-U), is phosphorylated on serine 59 by the DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) in response to DNA damage. Since SAF-A, DNA-PK catalytic subunit (DNA-PKcs), and protein phosphatase 6 (PP6), which interacts with DNA-PKcs...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Douglas P,Ye R,Morrice N,Britton S,Trinkle-Mulcahy L,Lees-Miller SP

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enamel mineralization is accompanied by the release of protons into the extracellular matrix, which is buffered to regulate the pH value in the local microenvironment. The present study aimed to investigate the role of microRNA 224 (miR-224) as a regulator of SLC4A4 and CFTR, encoding the key buffering ion transporter...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Fan Y,Zhou Y,Zhou X,Sun F,Gao B,Wan M,Zhou X,Sun J,Xu X,Cheng L,Crane J,Zheng L

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We provide evidence that human SLFN5, an interferon (IFN)-inducible member of the Schlafen (SLFN) family of proteins, exhibits key roles in controlling motility and invasiveness of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) cells. Our studies define the mechanism by which this occurs, demonstrating that SLFN5 negatively controls expr...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Sassano A,Mavrommatis E,Arslan AD,Kroczynska B,Beauchamp EM,Khuon S,Chew TL,Green KJ,Munshi HG,Verma AK,Platanias LC

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclooxygenase (COX) catalyzes the first step in prostanoid biosynthesis and exists as two isoforms. COX-1 is a constitutive enzyme involved in physiological processes, whereas COX-2 is induced by a variety of stimuli. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are noncoding RNAs that function as key posttranscriptional regulators of gene ex...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Motiño O,Francés DE,Mayoral R,Castro-Sánchez L,Fernández-Velasco M,Boscá L,García-Monzón C,Brea R,Casado M,Agra N,Martín-Sanz P

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Setd8 is the sole histone methyltransferase in mammals capable of monomethylating histone H4 lysine 20 (H4K20me1). Setd8 is expressed at significantly higher levels in erythroid cells than any other cell or tissue type, suggesting that Setd8 has an erythroid-cell-specific function. To test this hypothesis, stable Setd...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Malik J,Getman M,Steiner LA

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies showed that cyclophilin A (CypA) promotes NF-κB/p65 nuclear translocation, resulting in enhanced NF-κB activity and altered expression of its target genes, such as the Sox9 transcriptional factor, which plays a critical role in chondrogenic differentiation and endochondral ossification. In this report, ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Guo M,Shen J,Kwak JH,Choi B,Lee M,Hu S,Zhang X,Ting K,Soo CB,Chiu RH

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three classes of E3 ubiquitin ligases, members of the Cbl, Hakai, and SOCS-Cul5-RING ligase families, stimulate the ubiquitination of phosphotyrosine-containing proteins, including receptor and nonreceptor tyrosine kinases and their phosphorylated substrates. Because ubiquitination frequently routes proteins for degra...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Cooper JA,Kaneko T,Li SS

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone metastasis is the hallmark of progressive and castration-resistant prostate cancers. MicroRNA 1 (miR-1) levels are decreased in clinical samples of primary prostate cancer and further reduced in metastases. SRC has been implicated as a critical factor in bone metastasis, and here we show that SRC is a direct targ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Liu YN,Yin J,Barrett B,Sheppard-Tillman H,Li D,Casey OM,Fang L,Hynes PG,Ameri AH,Kelly K

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insults to cellular health cause p53 protein accumulation, and loss of p53 function leads to tumorigenesis. Thus, p53 has to be tightly controlled. Here we report that the BTB/POZ domain transcription factor PATZ1 (MAZR), previously known for its transcriptional suppressor functions in T lymphocytes, is a crucial regu...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Keskin N,Deniz E,Eryilmaz J,Un M,Batur T,Ersahin T,Cetin Atalay R,Sakaguchi S,Ellmeier W,Erman B

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding human hemojuvelin (HJV) is one of the genes that, when mutated, can cause juvenile hemochromatosis, an early-onset inherited disorder associated with iron overload. The 5' untranslated region of the human HJV mRNA has two upstream open reading frames (uORFs), with 28 and 19 codons formed by two upstr...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Onofre C,Tomé F,Barbosa C,Silva AL,Romão L

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid production in the adrenal cortex is activated in response to an increase in cyclic AMP (cAMP) signaling. The nuclear protein p54(nrb)/NONO belongs to the Drosophila behavior/human splicing (DBHS) family and has been implicated in several nuclear processes, including transcription, splicing, and RNA expo...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Lu JY,Sewer MB

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotic cells, calcium entry across the cell surface activates nuclear gene expression, a process critically important for cell growth and differentiation, learning, and memory and immune cell functions. In immune cells, calcium entry occurs through store-operated Ca(2+) release-activated Ca(2+) (CRAC) channels,...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Yeh YC,Parekh AB

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Signaling via the pre-T-cell receptor (pre-TCR), along with associated signals from Notch and chemokine receptors, regulates the β-selection checkpoint that operates on CD4(-) CD8(-) doubly negative (DN) thymocytes. Since many hematopoietic malignancies arise at the immature developmental stages of lymphocytes, unders...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Trampont PC,Zhang L,Giles AJ,Walk SF,Gu JJ,Pendergast AM,Ravichandran KS

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory hair cells convert mechanical motion into chemical signals. Otoferlin, a six-C2 domain transmembrane protein linked to deafness in humans, is hypothesized to play a role in exocytosis at hair cell ribbon synapses. To date, however, otoferlin has been studied almost exclusively in mouse models, and no rescue ex...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Chatterjee P,Padmanarayana M,Abdullah N,Holman CL,LaDu J,Tanguay RL,Johnson CP

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury, reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation and upregulation of the hypoxia-inducible protein BNIP3 result in mitochondrial permeabilization, but impairment in autophagic removal of damaged mitochondria provokes programmed cardiomyocyte death. BNIP3 expression and ROS generation re...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ma X,Liu H,Murphy JT,Foyil SR,Godar RJ,Abuirqeba H,Weinheimer CJ,Barger PM,Diwan A

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GATA1 is a master regulator of erythropoiesis, expression of which is regulated by multiple discrete cis-acting elements. In this study, we examine the activity of a promoter-proximal double GATA (dbGATA) motif, using a Gata1 bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC)-transgenic green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter (G1...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Moriguchi T,Suzuki M,Yu L,Takai J,Ohneda K,Yamamoto M

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviruses have evolved complex transcriptional enhancers and promoters that allow their replication in a wide range of tissue and cell types. Embryonic stem (ES) cells, however, characteristically suppress transcription of proviruses formed after infection by exogenous retroviruses and also of most members of the v...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Schlesinger S,Goff SP

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensing of extracellular glucose is necessary for cells to adapt to glucose variation in their environment. In the respiratory yeast Kluyveromyces lactis, extracellular glucose controls the expression of major glucose permease gene RAG1 through a cascade similar to the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Snf3/Rgt2/Rgt1 glucose s...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Cairey-Remonnay A,Deffaud J,Wésolowski-Louvel M,Lemaire M,Soulard A

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An in silico screen for myogenic long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) revealed nine lncRNAs that are upregulated more than 10-fold in myotubes versus levels in myoblasts. One of these lncRNAs, MyoD upstream noncoding (MUNC, also known as DRR(eRNA)), is encoded 5 kb upstream of the transcription start site of MyoD, a myogenic...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Mueller AC,Cichewicz MA,Dey BK,Layer R,Reon BJ,Gagan JR,Dutta A

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelin membranes are sheet-like extensions of oligodendrocytes that can be considered membrane domains distinct from the cell's plasma membrane. Consistent with the polarized nature of oligodendrocytes, we demonstrate that transcytotic transport of the major myelin-resident protein proteolipid protein (PLP) is a key e...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Baron W,Ozgen H,Klunder B,de Jonge JC,Nomden A,Plat A,Trifilieff E,de Vries H,Hoekstra D

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:JUN transcription factors bind DNA as part of the AP-1 complex, regulate many cellular processes, and play a key role in oncogenesis. The three JUN proteins (c-JUN, JUNB, and JUND) can have both redundant and unique functions depending on the biological phenotype and cell type assayed. Mechanisms that allow this dynam...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Selvaraj N,Budka JA,Ferris MW,Plotnik JP,Hollenhorst PC

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, we demonstrated that the microRNA 424(322)/503 [miR-424(322)/503] cluster is transcriptionally controlled by transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) in the mammary epithelium. Induction of this microRNA cluster impacts mammary epithelium fate by regulating apoptosis and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) signa...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Llobet-Navas D,Rodriguez-Barrueco R,de la Iglesia-Vicente J,Olivan M,Castro V,Saucedo-Cuevas L,Marshall N,Putcha P,Castillo-Martin M,Bardot E,Ezhkova E,Iavarone A,Cordon-Cardo C,Silva JM

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular smooth muscle cells (vSMCs) are key in the regulation of blood pressure and the engagement of vascular pathologies, such as hypertension, arterial remodeling, and neointima formation. The role of the Rac1 GTPase in these cells remains poorly characterized. To clarify this issue, we have utilized genetically e...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Fabbiano S,Menacho-Márquez M,Sevilla MA,Albarrán-Juárez J,Zheng Y,Offermanns S,Montero MJ,Bustelo XR

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both chemotaxis and phagocytosis depend upon actin-driven cell protrusions and cell membrane remodeling. While chemoattractant receptors rely upon canonical G-protein signaling to activate downstream effectors, whether such signaling pathways affect phagocytosis is contentious. Here, we report that Gαi nucleotide exch...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Huang NN,Becker S,Boularan C,Kamenyeva O,Vural A,Hwang IY,Shi CS,Kehrl JH

更新日期：2014-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative mRNA splicing is an important means of diversifying function in higher eukaryotes. Notably, both NCoR and SMRT corepressors are subject to alternative mRNA splicing, yielding a series of distinct corepressor variants with highly divergent functions. Normal adipogenesis is associated with a switch in corepr...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Goodson ML,Young BM,Snyder CA,Schroeder AC,Privalsky ML

更新日期：2014-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylation of histone H3 on lysine 9 or 27 is crucial for heterochromatin formation. Previously considered hallmarks of, respectively, constitutive and facultative heterochromatin, recent evidence has accumulated in favor of coexistence of these two marks and their cooperation in gene silencing maintenance. H3K9me2/3...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Boros J,Arnoult N,Stroobant V,Collet JF,Decottignies A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia promotes stem cell maintenance and tumor progression, but it remains unclear how it regulates long-term adaptation toward these processes. We reveal a striking downregulation of the hypoxia-inducible histone H3 lysine 9 (H3K9) demethylase JMJD1A as a hallmark of clinical human germ cell-derived tumors, such as...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Ueda J,Ho JC,Lee KL,Kitajima S,Yang H,Sun W,Fukuhara N,Zaiden N,Chan SL,Tachibana M,Shinkai Y,Kato H,Poellinger L

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor (EGFR) has been implicated in tumor development and invasion. Dimerization and autophosphorylation of EGFR are the critical events for EGFR activation. However, the regulation of EGF-dependent and EGF-independent dimerization and phosphorylation of EGFR has not been fully underst...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Arimoto K,Burkart C,Yan M,Ran D,Weng S,Zhang DE

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different models have been proposed explaining how eukaryotic gene transcription is terminated. Recently, Nsi1, a factor involved in silencing of ribosomal DNA (rDNA), was shown to be required for efficient termination of rDNA transcription by RNA polymerase I (Pol I) in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nsi1 contai...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Merkl P,Perez-Fernandez J,Pilsl M,Reiter A,Williams L,Gerber J,Böhm M,Deutzmann R,Griesenbeck J,Milkereit P,Tschochner H

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In selective autophagy, the adaptor protein SQSTM1/p62 plays a critical role in recognizing/loading cargo (e.g., malfolded proteins) into autophagosomes for lysosomal degradation. Here we report that whereas SQSTM1/p62 levels fluctuated in a time-dependent manner during autophagy, inhibition or knockdown of Cdk9/cycli...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Chen S,Zhou L,Zhang Y,Leng Y,Pei XY,Lin H,Jones R,Orlowski RZ,Dai Y,Grant S

更新日期：2014-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron is an essential micronutrient for all eukaryotic organisms because it participates as a redox-active cofactor in many biological processes, including DNA replication and repair. Eukaryotic ribonucleotide reductases (RNRs) are Fe-dependent enzymes that catalyze deoxyribonucleoside diphosphate (dNDP) synthesis. We ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biology

authors： Sanvisens N,Romero AM,An X,Zhang C,de Llanos R,Martínez-Pastor MT,Bañó MC,Huang M,Puig S

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00