... of cells in G1, decreased the percentage of cells in G2, increased the percentage of cells undergoing apoptosis and decreased both G1 and G2 cell size It is tempting to speculate that these cells ... regulate cell size Another aim of the screen was to identify genes whose downregulation alters cell size Becuase cells grow as they progress through thecell cycle, dsRNAs that increase the proportion ... on growth or the distribution of cells in thecellcycle These two possibilities could be distinguished by examining the effect of these dsRNAs on cell number Intriguingly, many of these hits for...
... Cremisi CE (2002) The retinoblastoma protein binds the promoter of the survival gene bcl-2 and regulates its transcription in epithelial cells through transcription factor AP-2 Mol Cell Biol 22, ... expression in the face and limbs In a follow-up study, they found that this conserved cis-acting sequence serves to maintain a level of AP-2a expression that limits the size of the hand plate andthe associated ... post-transcriptional processing of the protein [41] Additionally, it is evident that AP-2 transcriptionfactors can indirectly modulate genes by functional interactions with other transcription factors, ...
... propose that the underlying mechanism by which PMLA increases the growth rate and shortens the duration of thecellcycle is the polymer-inherent isosterism of the carboxylates with the array of ... andthe stage of thecellcycle determined as described previously [18] The stages could be fairly well predicted by calculation, taking into account the time elapsed after the fusion andthe ... on the high PMLA producing yellow plasmodia (Table 1) The greater sizes persisted until the end of the experiment We then tested whether the plasmodial size (growth rate, Fig 2A,C,E) and the...
... cyclins E and B, as a function of thecellcycle Western blot analysis of the whole -cell extract and histones from different stages of thecellcycle demonstrated that the overall levels of MLL1 and ... MLL and H3K4 methylations during cellcycle in S phase may not be the same as the marks in other phases of thecellcycle (as shown by immunofluorescence staining and western blotting); rather, ... affected, they are modulated at the promoters of specific genes over different phases of thecellcycle 1630 Results and Discussion Dynamics of MLL1 and its interacting proteins during thecell cycle...
... complex with NrpRII and either of these transcriptionfactors to approximately 20.5% (TBP2) and 36.6% (TFB) Studying potential interactions between MBP–NrpRI andthe three TBPs and TFB demonstrated ... knowledge, the first report of interactions between an archaeal repressor andthe general archaeal transcriptionfactors TBP and TFB besides the recent documentation of interactions between the transcriptional ... promoters, we studied the binding properties of NrpRII to the general transcriptionfactors – TATA-binding protein (TBP) andthe archaeal homolog of the eukaryotic general transcription factor...
... Rat1/ras cells at the G1 phase of thecellcycle We next examined the effect of HR12 on the distribution of Rat1/ras cells in thecellcycle To resolve the G1, S and G2/M phases, we double-labelled the ... examine whether the effects of HR12 on thecell cycle, cell motility andcellcycle components are mediated exclusively by its effect on Ras, rather than on the farnesylation of other protein(s), ... Rat1/ras cells [[6] and this study) This raises the possibility that the HR12-induced increase in p27Kip1 levels might be the consequence of the induction of cellcell contacts, rather than the outcome...
... during the initial stages of thecellcycleand confirm the notion of functional specificity for the H-Ras and N-Ras isoform proteins Materials and methods Cell culture Cell lines from the appropriate ... of thecell cycle, the absence of N-Ras was quantitatively more disruptive for the first transcriptional wave linked to G0/G1 transition, andthe absence of H-Ras affected more potently the transcriptional ... primary cell metabolism, signal transduction, cell development and differentiation andcell adhesion (Figure 4) In particular, the categories of primary cell metabolism andcell development and differentiation...
... Acknowledgements The author's own publications therein cited are, in part, financially supported by the Anonymous Trust (Scotland), the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (England), the ... hemorrhage, Shenkar and Abraham examined in vivo the activation of these nuclear transcriptional factors among intraparenchymal lung mononuclear cells obtained in the immediate posthemorrhage period ... changes in the physiologic processes of many tissues and activates inflammatory cascades that include the activation of stress transcriptional factorsandthe upregulation of cytokine synthesis This...
... cytokines have the ability to suppress inflammatory processes via the inhibition of NF-κB, which can interact with other transcription factors, and these interactions thereby lead to greater transcriptional ... Acknowledgements The author's own publications therein cited are, in part, financially supported by the Anonymous Trust (Scotland), the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (England), the ... organ damage through the rapid and exaggerated production of nitric oxide and prostaglandins Furthermore, in a novel study by Shoshani and colleagues, the identification and cloning of a HIF-1-responsive...
... interferometry and then placed it in thecycle by following it as it moved about until it divided The difference in timing between the measurement andcell division gave the timing in thecycle A second ... quarters of thecycle but rather two linear segments with a rate change point (RCP) between them The position of the RCP showed a large cell- to -cell variation An important moral here is that these ... showed the plateau in growth during the last quarter of thecycle This distinction between single cells and synchronous cultures does of course depend on the frequency and accuracy of the data...
... reporter assays, the roles of thetranscriptionfactors E2F1 and Sp1, andthe transcriptional coactivator p300 in the regulation of DNMT1 expression were investigated Transcription from the human DNMT1 ... RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Regulation of DNMT1 expression in theCellCycle 3.1.1 Inverse relationship between DNMT1 and p21WAF1 in the 63 cellcycle 3.1.1.1 3.1.1.2 DNMT1 expression in thecellcycle ... facilitate cellcycle arrest governed by p53 as well as enhance the apoptotic activity of E2F1, the levels of p53 and E2F1 in cells may have a profound impact on cellcycle progression Other than transcriptional...
... affinity of the subunits for the substrate (KS1 and KS2) and for Pi (KI1 and KI2), presented in Table and Table 2, respectively, are independent of the Zn2+ ion concentration In order to support the ... constants KI1 and KI2, describing the affinity for Pi, differ less than constants KS1 and KS2 Therefore, the dimer with the substrate bound to the high affinity subunit (21) is more stable than the dimer ... subunits and If the ligand concentration is higher than that of the substrate, the conformational change occurs more often, enhancing the overall reaction velocity The catalytic path A, active in the...
... transcriptionfactors regulated the expression of the aV integrin in mouse melanoma cells [54] andthe a5 integrin in human glioma cells [55] These factors have also been shown to regulate the expression ... plasmid The assays were carried out in triplicate, andthe error bars indicate the standard deviation Fig Nucleotide sequence of the 5¢-flanking region of the mouse a3 integrin gene Major and minor transcription ... Carcinoma cells (5 · 105 cells) were seeded in a 35-mm dish and cultured for 20 h The cells were then transfected with the mixture of the plasmid construct in pGL3 vector (3.0 lg) and pRSV-b-Gal...
... localized in the cytosol [32,33] Here we investigate the evolution of the enzymes of the pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) complex, the tricarboxylic acid cycle, andthe glyoxylate cycle by examining the individual ... into the origin of its individual enzymes However, the study of the enzymes of the tricarboxylic acid cycle necessarily also entails the study of the several enzymes involved in the glyoxylate cycle ... a-proteobacterial, homologues (MDH, CS and aconitase in the tricarboxylic acid cycle, and all of the enzymes of the glyoxylate cycle There are two general patterns among the Ôeubacterial but not speci®cally...
... GAP>0, and zero otherwise Then, we interact the dummy variable with the output gap and one minus the dummy variable with the output gap and include both interaction terms in the regression Thus, the ... savings and particularly the cooperative bank sector (Deutsche Bundesbank 2003) The dummy variable is unity for the acquirer in the year of the merger and zero otherwise The expected sign of the ... states the hypotheses to be tested, and describes the methodology Second, it defines the measures of the variables of interest, banks’ capital buffers andthe business cycle Third, it defines the...
... Wage Cushion andthe Business Cycle Here we examine the extent to which contractual wages, on the one hand, and firm-specific wage arrangements, in the form of the wage cushion, on the other, are ... retain the last two estimates of α and use the three data points to adjust the trajectory of the estimates for the fixed effects The estimation routines for the OLS coefficients, standard errors, and ... in Stata and discussed in Guimarães and Portugal (2009) Estimation of the standard error associated with thecycle variable Estimation of the standard error associated with the variable cyclet...
... HeLa cells were incubated with nocodazole Cells detached from the bottle by shaking were collected and named mitotic (M) cells Residual cells were collected and named G2 cells These cells and ... growing cells and cells synchronized at the G2 and M phase was examined (Fig 4) Because the MCM proteins, including MCM4, are almost exclusively detached from chromatin in the G2 and M phase, they ... HeLa cells Changes in the phosphorylation level during thecellcycleandthe nuclear localization of phosphorylated MCM4 suggest that MCM4 phosphorylated at these sites has several distinct and...
... accessibility to transcriptionfactorsandthe sequence in which thetranscriptionfactors bind play a role Furthermore, it remains unclear whether accessory factors have to bind first to the GRU, thereby ... on the lower strand FoxA binding resulted in protection of the guanines at positions 347 and 351 on the upper strand, and protection at position 352 on the lower strand These footprints in the ... liver-enriched factors FoxA and C ⁄ EBP, they differ in their recruitment of these common transcriptionfactors Although it is still unclear what determines these differences in the assembly of the transcription...
... 2001 of the DNA strands causes a distortion in the double strand The rigid junction between the PNA andthe DNA at the 50 end of the DNA might play an important role in the conformation of the chimeric ... to the DNA transcription factor complex Finally, the comparison of the relative orientation of the two subunits, both in the solid-state structures and in the MD average models, reveals that the ... Raji cells, and processed as described for the experiments shown in Fig 4A The obtained data confirm that the double stranded PDP– PDP chimera inhibits the binding of protein factors to the 32P-end-labelled...
... between the TRAC andthecellcycleThe release of H2S by a significant fraction of the cells in the fermenter ensures that no cells in the fermenter will be able to respire We have suggested that the ... products of the reaction used to represent thecellcycle in each of the cells In this case, the attractor used to represent each cell was the Rossler attractor and each cell ran the identical ... of yeast as a stochastic tissue The details of the cellular dynamics that lead to the emergence of redox and TRAC oscillations andthe gating of cells into cell- cycle stages are still not completely...