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Biochem J (2023) 480 (5): 297–306.
Published: 09 March 2023
...Josef Houser; Kristina Jendruchova; Andrea Knight; Martin Piskacek The nine-amino-acid transactivation domains (9aaTAD) was identified in numerous transcription factors including Gal4, p53, E2A, MLL, c-Myc, N-Myc, and also in SP, KLF, and SOX families. Most of the 9aaTAD domains interact...
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Biochem J (2022) 479 (11): 1205–1220.
Published: 13 June 2022
... , ZC3H11A ) lead to melanoma progression and metastasis through sequestration of distinct miRNAs species with tumor suppressor function [ 93 ]. Collectively, these results show that the regulation of NUCKS1 transcription is complex, and that NUCKS1 can be mis-regulated post-transcriptionally...
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Biochem J (2022) 479 (6): 767–786.
Published: 28 March 2022
... responses. It has been suggested that basal gene expression profiles define, at least in part, cell type specific transitional responses to hypoxia, with genes transcriptionally active prior to hypoxia stimulation in a given cell type being susceptible to hypoxia induced transcriptional regulation [ 24...
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Biochem J (2021) 478 (6): 1261–1282.
Published: 19 March 2021
...Diti Chatterjee Bhowmick; Lydia Burnett; Zhanar Kudaibergenova; Aleksandar M. Jeremic Here, we investigated transcriptional and trafficking mechanisms of human islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP) in normal and stressed β-cells. In high glucose-challenged human islets and rat insulinoma cells...
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Biochem J (2020) 477 (6): 1137–1148.
Published: 27 March 2020
.... The recent recognition of the presence of brown or beige adipocytes in human adults has attracted much attention to elucidate the molecular mechanism underlying the thermogenic adipose program. Many key transcriptional regulators critical for the thermogenic gene program centering on activating the UCP1...
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Biochem J (2018) 475 (12): 2073–2090.
Published: 29 June 2018
...John Biddlestone; Michael Batie; Daniel Bandarra; Ivan Munoz; Sonia Rocha The SIN3A–HDAC (histone deacetylase) complex is a master transcriptional repressor, required for development but often deregulated in disease. Here, we report that the recently identified new component of this complex...
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Biochem J (2018) 475 (6): 1059–1062.
Published: 20 March 2018
...David Harrich; Hongping Jin The HIV-1 tat gene encodes a small 86–104 amino acid protein depending on the HIV-1 strain. Tat is essential for HIV-1 replication through interactions with numerous cellular transcription factors. The interaction between Tat and P-TEFb, which is a cellular protein...
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Biochem J (2016) 473 (21): 3741–3753.
Published: 27 October 2016
...Nan Zhang; Vidya C. Darbari; Robert Glyde; Xiaodong Zhang; Martin Buck Transcription initiation is highly regulated in bacterial cells, allowing adaptive gene regulation in response to environment cues. One class of promoter specificity factor called sigma54 enables such adaptive gene expression...
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Biochem J (2016) 473 (19): 3065–3079.
Published: 27 September 2016
...M. Gomar-Alba; M. del Olmo Hyperosmotic stress response involves the adaptative mechanisms needed for cell survival. Under high osmolarity conditions, many stress response genes are activated by several unrelated transcription factors that are controlled by the Hog1 kinase. Osmostress transcription...
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Biochem J (2015) 469 (3): 391–398.
Published: 23 July 2015
...Beiying Qiu; Xiaohe Shi; Qiling Zhou; Hui Shan Chen; Joy Lim; Weiping Han; Vinay Tergaonkar Nuclear ubiquitous casein and cyclin-dependent kinase substrate (NUCKS) is highly expressed in the brain and peripheral metabolic organs, and regulates transcription of a number of genes involved in insulin...
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Biochem J (2015) 466 (3): 587–599.
Published: 06 March 2015
... ) on a few transcription factors known to be activated by CARM1. However, O-GlcNAc-depleted CARM1 generated by wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) enrichment, O-GlcNAcase (OGA) treatment and mutation of putative O-GlcNAcylation sites displays different substrate specificity from that of CARM1 WT . Our findings...
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Biochem J (2014) 462 (3): 385–395.
Published: 22 August 2014
... that gene expression is co-ordinated by changes in transcription and translation in hypoxia, much less is known about how chromatin changes allow for transcription to take place. The missing link between co-ordinating chromatin structure and the hypoxia-induced transcriptional programme could be in the form...
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Biochem J (2014) 462 (2): 373–384.
Published: 07 August 2014
... van der Oost MBF1 (multi-protein bridging factor 1) is a protein containing a conserved HTH (helix–turn–helix) domain in both eukaryotes and archaea. Eukaryotic MBF1 has been reported to function as a transcriptional co-activator that physically bridges transcription regulators with the core...
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Biochem J (2014) 461 (1): 15–32.
Published: 13 June 2014
..., the physiological relevance and function of WT1 as a regulator of post-transcriptional processes is still not clear. It been proposed that WT1 −KTS isoforms function optimally as transcriptional factors, whereas the +KTS isoforms might act post-transcriptionally [ 95 ]. WT1 +KTS isoforms were found to localize...
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Biochem J (2014) 458 (1): 153–158.
Published: 20 January 2014
..., but not at the nucleosome dyad. We show further that in vivo TALEs bind to transcriptionally repressed chromatin and that transcription increases binding by only 2-fold. These data therefore imply that TALEs are likely to bind to their target in vivo even at inactive loci. 1 These authors contributed equally...
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Biochem J (2014) 457 (3): 401–413.
Published: 10 January 2014
...Maja Milanovic; Michael Kracht; M. Lienhard Schmitz The transcription factor NF-κB (nuclear factor κB) serves to up-regulate gene expression in response to precarious signals such as the pro-inflammatory cytokines TNF (tumour necrosis factor) and IL-1 (interleukin 1). In the present study we show...
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Biochem J (2014) 457 (2): 231–242.
Published: 20 December 2013
... eukaryotes independently of their catalytic activities [ 11 – 13 ]. Although capping occurs predominantly during transcription, accumulating evidence suggests that cap-like structures can be also formed post-transcriptionally [ 14 ]. Figure 2 7mG synthesis in S. cerevisiae , Schizosaccharomyces...
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Biochem J (2013) 456 (1): 55–66.
Published: 24 October 2013
...Shuliang Chen; Ke Chen; Qinghua Zhang; Hanhua Cheng; Rongjia Zhou Loss and/or inactivation of the VHL (von Hippel–Lindau) tumour suppressor causes various tumours. Using a yeast two-hybrid system, we have identified the AR (androgen receptor) co-activator UXT (ubiquitously expressed transcript...
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Biochem J (2013) 452 (2): 321–329.
Published: 10 May 2013
...) mutant p53 stress transcription HSF1 (heat-shock factor 1) is transcriptionally activated by cells in response to a variety of extrinsic and intrinsic stresses, including heat shock, oxidative stress, nutrient deprivation and oncogene activation [ 1 ]. Its activation results in the expression...
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Biochem J (2013) 449 (3): 707–717.
Published: 09 January 2013
... docking site (Mf2 domain) in an intrinsically disordered domain of IRF-1 [IFN (interferon) regulatory factor-1], a short-lived IFNγ-regulated transcription factor, in ubiquitination of the protein. Ubiquitin modification of full-length IRF-1 by E3 ligases such as CHIP [C-terminus of the Hsc (heat-shock...
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Biochem J (2012) 443 (3): 757–768.
Published: 16 April 2012
... [SRE (sterol-regulatory element)-binding protein 2] that activates PCSK9 gene transcription through an SRE motif of the promoter. In addition to SREBP2, HNF1α (hepatic nuclear factor 1α) positively regulates PCSK9 gene transcription in hepatic cells through a binding site located 28 bp upstream from...
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Biochem J (2012) 441 (1): 481–485.
Published: 14 December 2011
...María-Antonia Sánchez-Romero; David J. Lee; Eugenio Sánchez-Morán; Stephen J. W. Busby In the present paper, we report that transcription affects the location of a DNA target in Escherichia coli K-12. A strain whose chromosome had been engineered to encode a lac repressor–GFP (green fluorescent...
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Biochem J (2012) 441 (1): 61–76.
Published: 14 December 2011
... studies show that the metabolite 1,25(OH) 2 D (1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D) is a biologically active metabolite that works through vitamin D receptor to regulate gene transcription. In the present review we discuss the literature relevant to the molecular events that may account for the beneficial impact...
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Biochem J (2011) 439 (3): 487–502.
Published: 13 October 2011
...Jin Zhao; Wee Leng Siew; Weiqi Sun; Norbert Lehming The nucleosomes occupying the chromosomal start sites of transcription contain the histone H2A variant H2A.Z in place of H2A. Upon galactose induction, nucleosomes are evicted from the GAL1 locus in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells. H2A.Z (which...
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Biochem J (2011) 437 (3): 555–564.
Published: 13 July 2011
... that CD82, which was transcriptionally regulated by KAT5, might be a candidate effector of cell invasion promoted by PLU1. The present study demonstrated a functional contribution of PLU1 overexpression with concomitant epigenetic dysregulation in cancer progression. ChIP experiments were performed...
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Biochem J (2011) 435 (3): 641–649.
Published: 13 April 2011
... reports about the functional role of the degradation of transcriptional activators and indicate that gene expression studies interfering with proteasome degradation should take the stabilization of potential repressors into account. 1 To whom correspondence should be addressed (email micln...
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Biochem J (2011) 435 (2): 489–498.
Published: 29 March 2011
... cannot be differentiated between and are thus referred to as SUMO2/3. Whether these two isoforms are regulated in distinct manners has never been addressed. In the present paper we report that the expression of SUMO3, but not SUMO2, can be down-regulated at the transcription level by cellular oxidative...
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Biochem J (2011) 435 (1): 247–257.
Published: 15 March 2011
... wild-type β-catenin or constitutively active β-catenin S37A abrogated β-catenin-induced axis duplication and attenuated β-catenin-stimulated reporter transcription. Lastly, we provide evidence that Xrel3, but not XrelA, can interact with β-catenin without affecting the association of β-catenin...
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Biochem J (2011) 435 (1): 259–266.
Published: 15 March 2011
... suggested that the ZRG17 gene is regulated in response to zinc status by the Zap1 transcription factor. Zap1 activates the expression of many genes in zinc-deficient cells. In the present study, we assessed whether ZRG17 is a direct Zap1 target gene. We showed that ZRG17 mRNA levels were elevated in zinc...
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Biochem J (2011) 434 (1): 83–92.
Published: 27 January 2011
... / BAF250b that are unique to the BAF complex and absent in the related PBAF (Polybromo BAF). hOsa / BAF250 has been shown to interact with transcriptional activators and bind to DNA suggesting that it acts to target the remodelling complex to chromatin. To better understand the functions of hOsa2, we...
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Biochem J (2010) 432 (3): 473–486.
Published: 25 November 2010
... Society 2010 gene expression luteinizing hormone pituitary steroidogenesis transcription To date, SF-1 is known to directly enhance the transcription of more than 20 genes. Numerous target genes are required for cholesterol mobilization and steroid hormone biosynthesis...
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Biochem J (2010) 431 (2): 179–187.
Published: 28 September 2010
...Eun-Jung Park; Shin-Kyoung Hur; Jongbum Kwon Recent studies have shown that the SWI/SNF family of ATP-dependent chromatin-remodelling complexes play important roles in DNA repair as well as in transcription. The INO80 complex, the most recently described member of this family, has been shown...
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Biochem J (2010) 430 (1): 107–117.
Published: 28 July 2010
.... These results suggest that appropriate control of NEU3 gene expression is required for homoeostasis of cellular functions. To gain insights into regulation mechanisms, we determined the gene structure and assessed transcription factor involvement. Oligo-capping analysis indicated the existence of alternative...
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Biochem J (2010) 428 (2): 247–254.
Published: 13 May 2010
... to be elicited. This dynamism is controlled by two competing conjugating and deconjugating activities. The latter activity is mediated by the SENP [SUMO1/sentrin/SMT3 (suppressor of mif two 3 homologue 1)-specific peptidase] family of SUMO-specific proteases. The transcription factor Elk-1 [ETS (E twenty-six...
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Biochem J (2010) 427 (3): 541–550.
Published: 14 April 2010
...-hypersensitive site mapping. Gel-shift assays and chromatin immunoprecipitation of the core region of a hypersensitive site 4.4 kb upstream of BCL6 transcription initiation (HSS-4.4) showed an E-box element-binding ZEB1 (zinc finger E-boxbinding homeobox 1) and the co-repressor CtBP (C-terminal binding protein...
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Biochem J (2010) 425 (2): 295–302.
Published: 23 December 2009
... transcription elongation. This is discussed in more detail below in the discussion of the mechanism of mRNA cap methylation. Figure 3 mRNA cap methylation occurs co-transcriptionally RNA polymerase II is recruited to chromatin with the CTD hypophosphorylated. At the initiation of transcription, TFIIH...
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Biochem J (2010) 425 (1): 215–224.
Published: 14 December 2009
...Victoria A. Payne; Wo-Shing Au; Christopher E. Lowe; Shaikh M. Rahman; Jacob E. Friedman; Stephen O'Rahilly; Justin J. Rochford The transcription factor SREBP1c (sterol-regulatory-element-binding protein 1c) is highly expressed in adipose tissue and plays a central role in several aspects...
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Biochem J (2009) 422 (3): 543–551.
Published: 27 August 2009
...Hanshao Liu; Hoi Chin Hew; Zheng-Guang Lu; Tomoko Yamaguchi; Yoshio Miki; Kiyotsugu Yoshida Transcriptional regulation of the p53 tumour suppressor gene plays an important role in the control of the expression of various target genes involved in the DNA damage response. However, the molecular basis...
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Biochem J (2009) 422 (2): 363–372.
Published: 13 August 2009
... previous work showed that S100A9 was severely down-regulated in human ESCC (oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma). To further investigate the transcriptional regulation of S100A9, we analysed the S100A9 promoter region and found several putative p53BS (p53-binding sites). Luciferase reporter assays showed...
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Biochem J (2009) 420 (3): 421–428.
Published: 27 May 2009
...Wen Tang; Wanhui You; Feng Shi; Tianyang Qi; Ling Wang; Zina Djouder; Wenguang Liu; Xianlu Zeng Actin, the major component of the cytoplasmic skeleton, has been shown to exist in the nucleus. Nuclear actin functions in several steps of the transcription process, including chromatin remodelling...
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Biochem J (2009) 419 (1): 167–176.
Published: 13 March 2009
...Moritz Hentschke; Ute Süsens; Uwe Borgmeyer Modification with SUMOs (small ubiquitin-related modifiers) has emerged as an important means of regulating the activity of transcription factors, often by repressing their activity. The ERRγ [oestrogen receptor-related receptor γ; ERR3 or NR3B3 (nuclear...