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  • Transcription, Genetic  (37)
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)  (37)
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  • 1987  (37)
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    Biochemistry of information storage in the nervous system (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-06-05
    Description: The use of molecular biological approaches has defined new mechanisms that store information in the mammalian nervous system. Environmental stimuli alter steady-state levels of messenger RNA species encoding neurotransmitters, thereby altering synaptic, neuronal, and network function over time. External or internal stimuli alter impulse activity, which alters membrane depolarization and selectively changes the expression of specific transmitter genes. These processes occur in diverse peripheral and central neurons, suggesting that information storage is widespread in the neuraxis. The temporal profile of any particular molecular mnemonic process is determined by specific kinetics of turnover and by the geometry of the neuron resulting in axonal transport of molecules to different synaptic arrays at different times. Generally, transmitters, the agents of millisecond-to-millisecond communication, are subject to relatively long-lasting changes in expression, ensuring that ongoing physiological function is translated into information storage.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Black, I B -- Adler, J E -- Dreyfus, C F -- Friedman, W F -- LaGamma, E F -- Roach, A H -- HD 12108/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- NS 10259/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- NS 20788/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Jun 5;236(4806):1263-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2884727" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adrenal Medulla/metabolism ; Animals ; Brain/physiology ; Memory/*physiology ; Nervous System/anatomy & histology/metabolism ; *Nervous System Physiological Phenomena ; Neurons/physiology ; Neurotransmitter Agents/metabolism/*physiology ; Sympathetic Nervous System/metabolism/physiology ; Transcription, Genetic
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    Transformation of rat fibroblasts by FSV rapidly increases glucose transporter gene transcription (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-03-20
    Description: Elevation of glucose transport is an alteration common to most virally induced tumors. Rat fibroblasts transformed with wild-type or a temperature-sensitive Fujinami sarcoma virus (FSV) were studied in order to determine the mechanisms underlying the increased transport. Five- to tenfold increases in total cellular glucose transporter protein in response to transformation were accompanied by similar increases in transporter messenger RNA levels. This, in turn, was preceded by an absolute increase in the rate of glucose transporter gene transcription within 30 minutes after shift of the temperature-sensitive FSV-transformed cells to the permissive temperature. The transporter messenger RNA levels in transformed fibroblasts were higher than those found in proliferating cells maintained at the nonpermissive temperature. The activation of transporter gene transcription by transformation represents one of the earliest known effects of oncogenesis on the expression of a gene encoding a protein of well-defined function.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Birnbaum, M J -- Haspel, H C -- Rosen, O M -- AM35430-01/AM/NIADDK NIH HHS/ -- DK 35158/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Mar 20;235(4795):1495-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3029870" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Avian Sarcoma Viruses ; Cell Division ; Cell Line ; *Cell Transformation, Viral ; Fibroblasts ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Kinetics ; Monosaccharide Transport Proteins/*genetics ; RNA, Messenger/genetics ; Rats ; Transcription, Genetic
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    A novel thyroid hormone receptor encoded by a cDNA clone from a human testis library (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-11-06
    Description: The c-erbA gene belongs to a multigene family that encodes transcriptional regulatory proteins including the v-erbA oncogene product, steroid hormone receptors, and the vitamin D3 receptor. A v-erbA DNA probe encoding the DNA-binding region of the v-erbA protein was used to screen a human complementary DNA testis library. One of the clones isolated, erbA-T-1, was found to encode a 490-amino acid protein (erbA-T). The erbA-T polypeptide shows high homology with the proteins encoded by both the chicken c-erbA and the human c-erbA-beta genes but is most closely related to the chicken gene. The chicken c-erbA and the human c-erbA-beta genes encode high-affinity receptors for thyroid hormone, and here it is shown that the erbA-T protein binds specifically to 3,5,3'-triiodo-L-thyronine with a dissociation constant of 3.8 +/- 0.2 x 10(-10) M. These data imply that more than one thyroid hormone receptor exists in humans and that these receptors might have different tissue- and gene-activating specificities.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Benbrook, D -- Pfahl, M -- DK-35083/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Nov 6;238(4828):788-91.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Cancer Research Center, La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation, CA 92037.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3672126" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; *Cloning, Molecular ; DNA/*metabolism ; *Genes ; Humans ; Kinetics ; Male ; Protein Biosynthesis ; *Proto-Oncogenes ; Receptors, Thyroid Hormone/*genetics/metabolism ; Testis/*metabolism ; Transcription, Genetic
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    The adenovirus major late transcription factor activates the rat gamma-fibrinogen promoter (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-10-30
    Description: The major late transcription factor (MLTF) is a 46-kilodalton polypeptide that specifically binds to and activates transcription from the major late promoter of adenovirus. The presence of this promoter-specific transcription factor in uninfected HeLa cell extracts suggests that MLTF is also involved in the transcription of cellular genes. This report demonstrates that MLTF specifically stimulates transcription of the rat gamma-fibrinogen gene through a high-affinity binding site. Stimulation of transcription by MLTF was not dependent on the exact position of the MLTF binding site with respect either to the transcription initiation site or to adjacent promoter elements. These results suggest that one of the cellular functions of MLTF is to control gamma-fibrinogen gene expression.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chodosh, L A -- Carthew, R W -- Morgan, J G -- Crabtree, G R -- Sharp, P A -- P01-CA42063/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P30-CA14051/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Oct 30;238(4827):684-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3672119" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenoviruses, Human/*genetics ; Animals ; DNA-Binding Proteins/*genetics ; Fibrinogen/*genetics ; *Gene Expression Regulation ; *Promoter Regions, Genetic ; RNA Polymerase II/metabolism ; Rats ; Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid ; Transcription Factors/*genetics ; Transcription, Genetic ; Viral Proteins/genetics
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    Characterization and chromosomal localization of a cDNA encoding brain amyloid of Alzheimer's disease (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-02-20
    Description: Four clones were isolated from an adult human brain complementary DNA library with an oligonucleotide probe corresponding to the first 20 amino acids of the beta peptide of brain amyloid from Alzheimer's disease. The open reading frame of the sequenced clone coded for 97 amino acids, including the known amino acid sequence of this polypeptide. The 3.5-kilobase messenger RNA was detected in mammalian brains and human thymus. The gene is highly conserved in evolution and has been mapped to human chromosome 21.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Goldgaber, D -- Lerman, M I -- McBride, O W -- Saffiotti, U -- Gajdusek, D C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Feb 20;235(4791):877-80.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3810169" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alzheimer Disease/*genetics ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Amyloid/*genetics ; *Chromosomes, Human, Pair 21 ; Cloning, Molecular ; DNA/genetics ; Humans ; Protein Conformation ; RNA, Messenger/genetics ; Solubility ; Transcription, Genetic
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    A novel putative tyrosine kinase receptor encoded by the eph gene (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-12-18
    Description: Growth factors and their receptors are involved in the regulation of cell proliferation and also play a key role in oncogenesis. In this study, a novel putative kinase receptor gene, termed eph, has been identified and characterized by molecular cloning. Its primary structure is similar to that of tyrosine kinase receptors thus far cloned and includes a cysteine-rich region in the extracellular domain. However, other features of the sequence distinguish the eph gene product from known receptors with tyrosine kinase activity. Thus the eph protein may define a new class of these molecules. The eph gene is overexpressed in several human carcinomas, suggesting that this gene may be involved in the neoplastic process of some tumors.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hirai, H -- Maru, Y -- Hagiwara, K -- Nishida, J -- Takaku, F -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Dec 18;238(4834):1717-20.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Third Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2825356" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Base Sequence ; DNA Restriction Enzymes ; *Genes ; Humans ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Neoplasms/metabolism ; Oncogenes ; Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/metabolism ; Receptor, Epidermal Growth Factor/*genetics ; Transcription, Genetic
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    Smooth muscle-mediated connective tissue remodeling in pulmonary hypertension (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-07-24
    Description: Abnormal accumulation of connective tissue in blood vessels contributes to alterations in vascular physiology associated with disease states such as hypertension and atherosclerosis. Elastin synthesis was studied in blood vessels from newborn calves with severe pulmonary hypertension induced by alveolar hypoxia in order to investigate the cellular stimuli that elicit changes in pulmonary arterial connective tissue production. A two- to fourfold increase in elastin production was observed in pulmonary artery tissue and medial smooth muscle cells from hypertensive calves. This stimulation of elastin production was accompanied by a corresponding increase in elastin messenger RNA consistent with regulation at the transcriptional level. Conditioned serum harvested from cultures of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells isolated from hypertensive animals contained one or more low molecular weight elastogenic factors that stimulated the production of elastin in both fibroblasts and smooth muscle cells and altered the chemotactic responsiveness of fibroblasts to elastin peptides. These results suggest that connective tissue changes in the pulmonary vasculature in response to pulmonary hypertension are orchestrated by the medial smooth muscle cell through the generation of specific differentiation factors that alter both the secretory phenotype and responsive properties of surrounding cells.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mecham, R P -- Whitehouse, L A -- Wrenn, D S -- Parks, W C -- Griffin, G L -- Senior, R M -- Crouch, E C -- Stenmark, K R -- Voelkel, N F -- CA31777/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- HD20521/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- HL14985/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Jul 24;237(4813):423-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3603030" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Anoxia ; Cattle ; Connective Tissue/pathology/*physiopathology ; Disease Models, Animal ; Elastin/genetics/physiology ; Humans ; Hypertension, Pulmonary/pathology/*physiopathology ; Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/pathology/*physiopathology ; RNA, Messenger/genetics ; Transcription, Genetic
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    Allelic exclusion in transgenic mice that express the membrane form of immunoglobulin mu (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-05-15
    Description: Antibody-producing cells display a special form of regulation whereby each cell produces immunoglobulin from only one of its two sets of antibody genes. This phenomenon, called allelic exclusion, is thought to be mediated by the product of one heavy chain allele restricting the expression of the other. Heavy chains are synthesized in two molecular forms, secreted and membrane bound. In order to determine whether it is specifically the membrane-bound form of the immunoglobulin M (IgM) heavy chain (mu) that mediates this regulation, transgenic mice were created that carry a human mu chain gene altered so that it can only direct the synthesis of the membrane-bound protein. The membrane-bound form of the human mu chain was made by most of the B cells in these animals as measured by assays of messenger RNA and surface immunoglobulins. Further, the many B cells that express the human gene do not express endogenous mouse IgM, and the few B cells that express endogenous mouse mu do not express the transgene. Thus, the membrane-bound form of the mu chain is sufficient to mediate allelic exclusion. In addition, the molecular structures recognized for this purpose are conserved between human and mouse systems.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Nussenzweig, M C -- Shaw, A C -- Sinn, E -- Danner, D B -- Holmes, K L -- Morse, H C 3rd -- Leder, P -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 May 15;236(4803):816-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3107126" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Alleles ; Animals ; Antibody-Producing Cells/*immunology ; Gene Expression Regulation ; *Genes ; Humans ; Immunoglobulin M/genetics ; Immunoglobulin mu-Chains/*genetics ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred Strains ; RNA, Messenger/genetics ; Transcription, Genetic
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    Metalloregulatory DNA-binding protein encoded by the merR gene: isolation and characterization (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-01-09
    Description: The MerR protein mediates the induction of the mercury resistance phenotype in bacteria; it has been isolated in order to study the effects of metal-ion induced changes in the metabolism of prokaryotic cells at the molecular level. After DNA sequences responsible for negative autoregulation were removed, the 16-kilodalton protein was overproduced and purified to more than 90 percent homogeneity by a salt extraction procedure that yields about 5 milligrams of protein per gram of cells. Complementation data, amino terminal analysis, gel filtration, and deoxyribonuclease I protection studies demonstrate that the purified merR gene product is a dimer under nondenaturing conditions and that it binds specifically to DNA, in the presence and absence of mercury, at a palindromic site which is directly between the -10 and -35 regions of the structural genes and adjacent to its own promoter. These initial results indicate that MerR is a DNA-binding metalloregulatory protein that plays a central role in this heavy metal responsive system and they delineate an operator site in the mer operon.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉O'Halloran, T -- Walsh, C -- AI07256/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- GM20011/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Jan 9;235(4785):211-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3798107" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Bacterial Proteins/genetics/*isolation & purification ; Base Sequence ; Chromatography, Gel ; DNA/metabolism ; DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics/*isolation & purification ; Macromolecular Substances ; *Mercury ; Operator Regions, Genetic ; R Factors/*genetics ; Transcription, Genetic
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    Cloning of genomic and complementary DNA from Shaker, a putative potassium channel gene from Drosophila (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-08-14
    Description: On the basis of electrophysiological analysis of Shaker mutants, the Shaker locus of Drosophila melanogaster has been proposed to encode a structural component of a voltage-dependent potassium channel, the A channel. Unlike sodium channels, acetylcholine receptors, and calcium channels, K+ channels have not been purified biochemically. To facilitate biochemical studies of a K+ channel, genomic DNA from the Shaker locus has been cloned. Rearrangements in five Shaker mutants have been mapped to a 60-kilobase segment of the genome. Four complementary DNA clones have been analyzed. These clones indicate that the Shaker gene contains multiple exons distributed over at least 65 kilobases of genomic DNA in the region where the mutations mapped. Furthermore, the gene may produce several classes of alternatively spliced transcripts. Two of the complementary DNA clones have been sequenced and their sequences support the hypothesis that Shaker encodes a component of a K+ channel.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Papazian, D M -- Schwarz, T L -- Tempel, B L -- Jan, Y N -- Jan, L Y -- NS15963/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Aug 14;237(4816):749-53.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2441470" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Base Sequence ; Cloning, Molecular ; DNA/*genetics/isolation & purification ; Drosophila melanogaster/*genetics ; Exons ; *Ion Channels ; Membrane Proteins/*genetics ; Mutation ; Nucleic Acid Hybridization ; Potassium/*metabolism ; RNA Splicing ; Transcription, Genetic ; Translocation, Genetic
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    Avian v-myc replaces chromosomal translocation in murine plasmacytomagenesis (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-02-13
    Description: Deregulation of c-myc expression in association with chromosomal translocations occurs in over 95% of murine plasmacytomas, rat immunocytomas, and human Burkitt lymphomas. Infection with a murine retrovirus (J-3) containing an avian v-myc rapidly induced plasmacytomas in pristane-primed BALB/cAn mice. Only 17% of the induced plasmacytomas that were karyotyped showed the characteristic chromosomal translocations involving the c-myc locus. Instead, all of the translocation-negative tumors demonstrated characteristic J-3 virus integration sites that were actively transcribed. Thus, the high levels of v-myc expression have replaced the requirement for chromosomal translocation in plasmacytomagenesis and accelerated the process of transformation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Potter, M -- Mushinski, J F -- Mushinski, E B -- Brust, S -- Wax, J S -- Wiener, F -- Babonits, M -- Rapp, U R -- Morse, H C 3rd -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Feb 13;235(4790):787-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3810165" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Birds ; *Cell Transformation, Neoplastic ; *Genes, Viral ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred BALB C ; Mice, Inbred Strains ; Moloney murine leukemia virus/*genetics ; Nucleic Acid Hybridization ; *Oncogenes ; Plasmacytoma/genetics/*microbiology ; Retroviridae/*genetics ; Transcription, Genetic ; *Translocation, Genetic
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    Activation of the HIV-1 LTR by T cell mitogens and the trans-activator protein of HTLV-I (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-12-11
    Description: To investigate the mechanism by which immune activation augments replication of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) in infected T cells, four different classes of T cell mitogens were evaluated for their effects on the HIV-1 long terminal repeat (LTR). Phytohemagglutinin (PHA), a mitogenic lectin; phorbol 12-myristic 13-acetate, a tumor promoter; ionomycin, a calcium ionophore; and tat-1, the trans-activator protein from the human T cell leukemia/lymphoma virus type I (HTLV-I) each stimulated the HIV-1 LTR. Studies of deleted forms of the LTR supported a central role in these responses for the HIV-1 enhancer, which alone was sufficient for mitogen inducibility, but also suggested that other 5' positive and negative regulatory elements contribute to the overall magnitude of the response. Synergistic activation of the HIV-1 LTR (up to several thousandfold) was observed with combinations of these mitogens and the HIV-1--derived tat-III protein. Cyclosporin A, an immunosuppressive agent, inhibited PHA-mediated activation of the HIV-1 LTR but was without effect in the presence of other mitogens. Thus, HIV-1 gene expression and replication appear to be regulated, via the HIV-1 LTR, by the same mitogenic signals that induce T cell activation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Siekevitz, M -- Josephs, S F -- Dukovich, M -- Peffer, N -- Wong-Staal, F -- Greene, W C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Dec 11;238(4833):1575-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2825351" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Cell Line ; Cyclosporins/pharmacology ; Deltaretrovirus/*physiology ; Genes, Viral ; HIV/drug effects/genetics/*growth & development ; Mitogens/*pharmacology ; Retroviridae Proteins/*physiology ; T-Lymphocytes/*immunology ; Trans-Activators ; Transcription Factors/*physiology ; Transcription, Genetic ; *Virus Activation/drug effects
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    Two mammalian genes transcribed from opposite strands of the same DNA locus (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-03-20
    Description: This report describes the characterization of a genomic locus in the rat that encodes overlapping genes occupying both strands of the same piece of DNA. One gene (strand) encodes gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH). A second gene, SH, is transcribed from the other DNA strand to produce RNA of undefined function. The RNAs transcribed from each DNA strand are spliced and polyadenylated, and share significant exon domains. GnRH is expressed in the central nervous system while SH transcripts are present in the heart. Thus, the genome of a mammalian organism encodes two distinct genes by using both strands of the same DNA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Adelman, J P -- Bond, C T -- Douglass, J -- Herbert, E -- AM-16879/AM/NIADDK NIH HHS/ -- AM-30155/AM/NIADDK NIH HHS/ -- DA-02736/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Mar 20;235(4795):1514-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3547652" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Base Sequence ; DNA/*genetics ; Exons ; *Genes ; Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone/*genetics ; Heart/physiology ; Hypothalamus/physiology ; Introns ; RNA Splicing ; RNA, Messenger/*genetics ; Rats ; Templates, Genetic ; Transcription, Genetic
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    Expression of functional cell-cell channels from cloned rat liver gap junction complementary DNA (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-06-05
    Description: An oocyte expression system was used to test the relation between a complementary DNA (cDNA) clone encoding the liver gap junction protein and cell-cell channels. Total liver polyadenylated messenger RNA injected into oocytes induced cell-cell channels between paired oocytes. This induction was blocked by simultaneous injection of antisense RNA transcribed from the gap junction cDNA. Messenger RNA selected by hybridization to the cDNA clone and translated in oocyte pairs yielded a higher junctional conductance than unselected liver messenger RNA. Cell-cell channels between oocytes were also formed when the cloned cDNA was expressed under the control of a heat-shock promoter. A concentration-dependent induction of channels was observed in response to injection with in vitro transcribed gap junction messenger RNA. Thus, the liver gap junction cDNA encodes a protein that is essential for the formation of functional cell-cell channels.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Dahl, G -- Miller, T -- Paul, D -- Voellmy, R -- Werner, R -- GM 31125/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Jun 5;236(4806):1290-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3035715" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cloning, Molecular ; Connexins ; DNA/metabolism ; Heat-Shock Proteins/genetics ; Intercellular Junctions/*metabolism ; Liver/*metabolism ; Membrane Proteins/biosynthesis/*genetics ; Nucleic Acid Hybridization ; Oocytes/metabolism ; Promoter Regions, Genetic ; RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis ; Rats ; Transcription, Genetic ; Xenopus
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    In vivo uncoating and efficient expression of foreign mRNAs packaged in TMV-like particles (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-05-29
    Description: The ribonucleocapsids of many plant viruses are extremely stable. The protein coat protects the RNA genome against degradation during the accumulation and spread of progeny virions. Chimeric single-stranded RNA molecules were transcribed in vitro from recombinant plasmids and later encapsidated, in vitro, into ribonucleoprotein particles (pseudoviruses) 60 nanometers long that resembled tobacco mosaic virus. Transcripts encoding an assayable enzyme, chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT), were packaged into pseudovirus particles to assess the utility of this single-stranded RNA delivery system in a wide range of cell types. In all cases, packaged CAT messenger RNA was uncoated and transiently expressed. Significantly higher levels of CAT activity were detected with packaged than with naked CAT messenger RNA after inoculation of plant protoplasts in the presence of polyethylene glycol or abrasive inoculation of intact leaf surfaces. Structural events that lead to the uncoating and expression of CAT messenger RNA showed no cell specificity. This observation may support the view that the comparatively restricted host range of a true plant virus results from events that occur later during the infection cycle.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gallie, D R -- Sleat, D E -- Watts, J W -- Turner, P C -- Wilson, T M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 May 29;236(4805):1122-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3472350" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetyltransferases/genetics ; Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase ; Fabaceae/microbiology ; Genetic Engineering/*methods ; Plants, Medicinal ; Plants, Toxic ; Protoplasts/microbiology ; RNA, Messenger/*genetics ; Tobacco/microbiology ; *Tobacco Mosaic Virus ; Transcription, Genetic ; Virus Diseases/microbiology
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    Structural evidence for the authenticity of the human retinoblastoma gene (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-06-26
    Description: The retinoblastoma (Rb) gene is the prototype for a class of recessive human cancer genes in which loss of activity of both normal alleles is thought to be associated with tumorigenesis. Sixteen of 40 retinoblastomas examined with a complementary DNA probe shown to be the Rb gene had identifiable structural changes of the Rb gene including in some cases homozygous internal deletions with corresponding truncated transcripts. An osteosarcoma also had a homozygous internal deletion with a truncated transcript. In addition, possible hot spots for deletion were identified within the Rb genomic locus. Among those tumors with no identifiable structural changes there was either absence of an Rb transcript or abnormal expression of the Rb transcript. Comparison of the structural changes in the tumor cells and fibroblasts of certain patients provided support for Knudson's two-hit hypothesis for the development of retinoblastoma at the molecular level. The ability to detect germline structural deletions in fibroblasts from some patients with bilateral retinoblastoma also indicates that the isolated gene is useful for diagnostic purposes.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Fung, Y K -- Murphree, A L -- T'Ang, A -- Qian, J -- Hinrichs, S H -- Benedict, W F -- EY02715/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- EY0619502/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Jun 26;236(4809):1657-61.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2885916" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alleles ; Animals ; Chromosome Deletion ; *Chromosome Mapping ; Cloning, Molecular ; Cricetinae ; Dna ; DNA Restriction Enzymes ; DNA, Neoplasm/analysis ; Eye Neoplasms/*genetics ; Fibroblasts/ultrastructure ; Genotype ; Humans ; Nucleic Acid Hybridization ; Osteosarcoma/genetics ; Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length ; Retinoblastoma/*genetics ; Transcription, Genetic
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    Diversity of alpha-fetoprotein gene expression in mice is generated by a combination of separate enhancer elements (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-01-02
    Description: The 5' flanking region of the mouse alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) gene contains a tissue-specific promoter and three upstream regulatory elements that behave as classical enhancers. At least one of these enhancers is now shown to be required for the tissue-specific expression of the AFP gene when it is introduced into the mouse genome by microinjection of cloned DNA fragments into fertilized eggs. Each enhancer can direct expression in the appropriate tissues, the visceral endoderm of the yolk sac, the fetal liver, and the gastrointestinal tract, but each exerts different influence in these three tissues. These differences may explain the tissue-specific diversity in the levels of expression characteristic of the AFP gene. The postnatal repression of transcription of the AFP gene in both liver and gut, as well as the reinitiation of its transcription during liver regeneration, is mimicked by the introduced gene when it is linked to the enhancer domains together or singly. Thus, the DNA sequence elements responsible for directing the activation of AFP transcription, its repression, and reinduction are contained in a limited segment of DNA within or 5' to the gene (or both) and are operative in the absence of the closely linked albumin gene.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hammer, R E -- Krumlauf, R -- Camper, S A -- Brinster, R L -- Tilghman, S M -- CA06927/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA28050/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- HD17321/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Jan 2;235(4784):53-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2432657" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cloning, Molecular ; *Enhancer Elements, Genetic ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Genes ; *Genes, Regulator ; Intestines/physiology ; Liver/physiology ; Mice ; Promoter Regions, Genetic ; RNA, Messenger/genetics ; Tissue Distribution ; Transcription, Genetic ; Transfection ; Yolk Sac/physiology ; alpha-Fetoproteins/*genetics
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    U3 sequences from HTLV-I and -II LTRs confer pX protein response to a murine leukemia virus LTR (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-02-20
    Description: Human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV) types I and II are unusual among replication-competent retroviruses in that they contain a fourth gene (chi) necessary for replication. The chi gene product, p chi, transcriptionally transactivates the viral long repeat (LTR), and is thus a positive regulator. To investigate p chi transactivation, sequences from the U3 regions of the LTRs of HTLV-I and -II were inserted into the Moloney murine leukemia virus (M-MuLV) LTR by recombinant DNA techniques. Transient expression assays of the chimeric LTRs indicated that the HTLV sequences conferred to the M-MuLV LTR responsiveness to HTLV p chi protein. M-MuLV enhancers were not required for function of the chimeric LTRs. Infectious recombinant M-MuLVs containing chimeric LTRs were also generated. These viruses showed higher infectivity when assayed in mouse cells expressing HTLV-II p chi protein compared to normal mouse cells. Thus the HTLV sequences were able to confer p chi responsiveness to infectious M-MuLV. The generation of a virus dependent on a transactivating protein for its replication has implications for the evolution of the human T-cell leukemia viruses.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kitado, H -- Chen, I S -- Shah, N P -- Cann, A J -- Shimotohno, K -- Fan, H -- CA32454/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA32455/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA38597/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Feb 20;235(4791):901-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3027896" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: DNA, Viral/*genetics ; Deltaretrovirus/*genetics ; Enhancer Elements, Genetic ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Moloney murine leukemia virus/*genetics ; Promoter Regions, Genetic ; Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid ; Retroviridae Proteins/*genetics ; Trans-Activators ; Transcription Factors/*genetics ; Transcription, Genetic ; *Virus Replication
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    HTLV x gene mutants exhibit novel transcriptional regulatory phenotypes (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-02-06
    Description: The human T-cell leukemia viruses, HTLV-I and HTLV-II, contain a gene, termed x, with transcriptional regulatory function. The properties of the x proteins were analyzed by constructing mutant genes containing site-directed deletions and point mutations. The results demonstrate that the amino terminal 17 amino acids of the x protein constitute part of a functional domain that is critical for the transcriptional activating properties of the protein. Within this region, substitution of a leucine residue for a proline residue results in major changes in the trans-activation phenotype of the protein. The mutant HTLV-II x protein, though incapable of activating the HTLV-II long terminal repeat, will block trans-activation of the HTLV-II long terminal repeat by the wild-type protein. The altered phenotype of this mutant suggests a potential negative regulatory function of the x protein.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wachsman, W -- Cann, A J -- Williams, J L -- Slamon, D J -- Souza, L -- Shah, N P -- Chen, I S -- CA 30388/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA 32727/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA 38597/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Feb 6;235(4789):674-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3027894" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Deltaretrovirus/*genetics ; Gene Expression Regulation ; *Genes, Viral ; Mutation ; Transcription Factors/*genetics ; Transcription, Genetic
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    Cloning of human mineralocorticoid receptor complementary DNA: structural and functional kinship with the glucocorticoid receptor (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-07-17
    Description: Low-stringency hybridization with human glucocorticoid receptor (hGR) complementary DNA was used to isolate a new gene encoding a predicted 107-kilodalton polypeptide. Expression studies demonstrate its ability to bind aldosterone with high affinity and to activate gene transcription in response to aldosterone, thus establishing its identity as the human mineralocorticoid receptor (hMR). This molecule also shows high affinity for glucocorticoids and stimulates a glucocorticoid-responsive promoter. Together the hMR and hGR provide unexpected functional diversity in which hormone-binding properties, target gene interactions, and patterns of tissue-specific expression may be used in a combinatorial fashion to achieve complex physiologic control.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Arriza, J L -- Weinberger, C -- Cerelli, G -- Glaser, T M -- Handelin, B L -- Housman, D E -- Evans, R M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Jul 17;237(4812):268-75.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3037703" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Base Sequence ; Chromosomes, Human, Pair 4 ; Cloning, Molecular ; DNA/genetics ; DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics ; Humans ; Rats ; Receptors, Glucocorticoid/*genetics ; Receptors, Mineralocorticoid ; Receptors, Steroid/*genetics ; Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid ; Tissue Distribution ; Transcription Factors/*genetics ; Transcription, Genetic
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    Multiple global regulators control HIS4 transcription in yeast (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-08-21
    Description: Gene expression is dependent on the interaction of DNA binding factors with distinct promoter control elements to activate RNA synthesis. The expression of the HIS4 gene in yeast is under two different control systems. One of these, general amino acid control, involves a DNA binding protein, GCN4, that stimulates transcription in response to amino acid starvation by binding to 5'-TGACTC-3' sequences in the HIS4 promoter region. A second system, the basal level control, stimulates HIS4 transcription in the absence of amino acid starvation. The basal level transcription of the HIS4 gene is under the control of two genes, BAS1 and BAS2, which are also required for the control of purine biosynthesis. In addition, BAS2 is required for the utilization of organic phosphates in the growth medium. Genetic mapping and DNA sequence analysis show that BAS2 is PHO2, a gene previously identified as a regulator of phosphate metabolism. Direct biochemical analysis shows that the BAS2 gene encodes a protein that binds to both the HIS4 and PHO5 promoters. The involvement of a single DNA binding protein in the regulation of histidine, adenine, and phosphate metabolism suggests that yeast may use a few key DNA binding proteins to coordinate the regulation of diverse metabolic pathways.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Arndt, K T -- Styles, C -- Fink, G R -- GM 35010-04/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Aug 21;237(4817):874-80.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3303332" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acid Phosphatase/*genetics ; Chromosome Mapping ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Genes, Fungal ; Histidine/*genetics ; Mutation ; Phosphates/physiology ; Promoter Regions, Genetic ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/*genetics ; Transcription Factors/physiology ; Transcription, Genetic
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    Structurally distinct, stage-specific ribosomes occur in Plasmodium (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-11-13
    Description: Two structurally distinct nuclear genes code for cytoplasmic small subunit ribosomal RNA's in the parasite Plasmodium berghei. Stable transcripts from one of the ribosomal RNA genes are found almost exclusively in those stages of the life cycle that develop in the mosquito. When the parasite infects the mammalian host, transcripts from the second gene become the predominant small subunit ribosomal RNA species.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gunderson, J H -- Sogin, M L -- Wollett, G -- Hollingdale, M -- de la Cruz, V F -- Waters, A P -- McCutchan, T F -- GM 32964/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Nov 13;238(4829):933-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Denver, CO 80206.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3672135" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Base Sequence ; *Genes ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; Plasmodium/*genetics/growth & development ; RNA, Ribosomal/*genetics ; Ribosomes/*physiology ; Transcription, Genetic
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    Oncogenesis of the lens in transgenic mice (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-03-27
    Description: Neoplastic tumors of the ocular lens of vertebrates do not naturally occur. Transgenic mice carrying a hybrid gene comprising the murine alpha A-crystallin promoter (-366 to +46) fused to the coding sequence of the SV40 T antigens developed lens tumors, which obliterated the eye cavity and even invaded neighboring tissue, thus establishing that the lens is not refractive to oncogenesis. Large-T antigen was detected early in lens development; it elicited morphological changes and specifically interfered with differentiation of lens fiber cells. Both alpha- and beta-crystallins persisted in many of the lens tumor cells, while gamma-crystallin was selectively reduced. Accessibility, characteristic morphology, and defined protein markers make this transparent epithelial eye tissue a potentially useful system for testing tumorigenicity of oncogenes and for studying malignant transformation from its inception until death of the animal.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mahon, K A -- Chepelinsky, A B -- Khillan, J S -- Overbeek, P A -- Piatigorsky, J -- Westphal, H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Mar 27;235(4796):1622-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3029873" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming ; Antigens, Viral, Tumor/analysis ; Cell Transformation, Neoplastic ; Cell Transformation, Viral ; Chimera ; Crystallins/analysis ; Eye Neoplasms/*pathology ; Female ; Lens Diseases/*pathology ; Lens, Crystalline/growth & development ; Mice/*genetics ; Oncogene Proteins, Viral/analysis ; Phenotype ; Pregnancy ; Simian virus 40 ; Transcription, Genetic
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    The tat gene of human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 induces mesenchymal tumors in transgenic mice (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-09-11
    Description: Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is a suspected causative agent of adult T-cell leukemia. One of the viral genes encodes a protein (tat) that not only results in transactivation of viral gene expression but may also regulate the expression of certain cellular genes that are important for cell growth. Transgenic mice that expressed the authentic tat protein under the control of the HTLV-1 long terminal repeat were generated, and cell types that are permissive for the viral promoter and the effects of the tat gene on these cells were studied. Three of eight founder mice with high levels of expression of the transgene in muscle were bred and then analyzed. All developed soft tissue tumors at multiple sites between 13 to 17 weeks of age. This phenotype was transmitted to nine of nine offspring that inherited the tat gene and were available for analysis. The remaining five founders expressed the transgene in the thymus, as well as in muscle. This second group of mice all exhibited extensive thymic depletion and growth retardation; in all of these mice, death occurred between 3 to 6 weeks of age before tumors became macroscopically visible. The tat gene under the control of the HTLV-1 regulatory region showed tissue-specific expression and the tat protein efficiently induced mesenchymal tumors. The data establish tat as an oncogenic protein and HTLV-1 as a transforming virus.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Nerenberg, M -- Hinrichs, S H -- Reynolds, R K -- Khoury, G -- Jay, G -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Sep 11;237(4820):1324-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2888190" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Base Sequence ; Deltaretrovirus/*genetics ; Deltaretrovirus Infections/*genetics ; Female ; *Genes, Viral ; Genetic Engineering ; Genetic Vectors ; Male ; Mesenchymoma/genetics/*microbiology ; Mice ; Pedigree ; Plasmids ; Protein Biosynthesis ; Transcription, Genetic
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    Region-specific expression of two mouse homeo box genes (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-03-13
    Description: Mammalian homeo box genes have been identified on the basis of sequence homology to Drosophila homeotic and segmentation genes. These studies examine the distribution of transcripts from two mouse homeo box genes, Hox-2.1 and Hox-3.1, throughout the latter third of prenatal development. Transcripts from these genes are regionally localized along the rostro-caudal axis of the developing central nervous system, yielding expression patterns very similar to patterns of Drosophila homeotic gene expression.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Utset, M F -- Awgulewitsch, A -- Ruddle, F H -- McGinnis, W -- GM09966/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Mar 13;235(4794):1379-82.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2881353" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Animals, Newborn/genetics ; Base Sequence ; Brain/metabolism ; Cell Differentiation ; Drosophila melanogaster/genetics ; Fetus/metabolism ; *Gene Expression Regulation ; *Genes, Homeobox ; Mice ; Morphogenesis ; Nucleic Acid Hybridization ; Spinal Cord/metabolism ; Transcription, Genetic
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    A promoter with an internal regulatory domain is part of the origin of replication in BPV-1 (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-06-26
    Description: Extrachromosomal elements that are stably maintained at a constant copy number through cell doublings are a good model system for the study of the regulation of DNA replication in higher eukaryotes. Previous studies have defined both cis and trans functions required for the regulated plasmid replication of the bovine papilloma virus in stably transformed cells. Here, a sequence known to be a cis-dominant element of the replication origin of the plasmid is shown to contain a promoter for transcription. Both in vitro and in vivo assays have been used to define this promoter and show that a sequence located just 3' to the transcriptional start site is required for activity. This DNA sequence element, which has been defined through deletions, coincides with a binding site for a cellular factor and is also required for a functional origin of replication. Possible models for how a transcription factor may play a role in the regulation of DNA replication are discussed.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Stenlund, A -- Bream, G L -- Botchan, M R -- CA 42414/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Jun 26;236(4809):1666-71.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3037693" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetyltransferases/genetics ; Base Sequence ; Bovine papillomavirus 1/*genetics/physiology ; Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase ; Chromosome Deletion ; Cycloheximide/pharmacology ; *DNA Replication ; Genes, Viral ; Papillomaviridae/*genetics ; *Promoter Regions, Genetic ; RNA, Viral/analysis ; Templates, Genetic ; Transcription, Genetic ; *Virus Replication
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    Human proto-oncogene c-jun encodes a DNA binding protein with structural and functional properties of transcription factor AP-1 (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-12-04
    Description: Nuclear oncogene products have the potential to induce alterations in gene regulation leading to the genesis of cancer. The biochemical mechanisms by which nuclear oncoproteins act remain unknown. Recently, an oncogene, v-jun, was found to share homology with the DNA binding domain of a yeast transcription factor, GCN4. Furthermore, GCN4 and the phorbol ester-inducible enhancer binding protein, AP-1, recognize very similar DNA sequences. The human proto-oncogene c-jun has now been isolated, and the deduced amino acid sequence indicates more than 80 percent identity with v-jun. Expression of cloned c-jun in bacteria produced a protein with sequence-specific DNA binding properties identical to AP-1. Antibodies raised against two distinct peptides derived from v-jun reacted specifically with human AP-1. In addition, partial amino acid sequence of purified AP-1 revealed tryptic peptides in common with the c-jun protein. The structural and functional similarities between the c-jun product and the enhancer binding protein suggest that AP-1 may be encoded by c-jun. These findings demonstrate that the proto-oncogene product of c-jun interacts directly with specific target DNA sequences to regulate gene expression, and therefore it may now be possible to identify genes under the control of c-jun that affect cell growth and neoplasia.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bohmann, D -- Bos, T J -- Admon, A -- Nishimura, T -- Vogt, P K -- Tjian, R -- CA25417/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA42564/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Dec 4;238(4832):1386-92.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2825349" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Antibodies/immunology ; Avian Sarcoma Viruses/genetics ; Base Sequence ; Cross Reactions ; DNA/genetics ; DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics/immunology/*physiology ; Enhancer Elements, Genetic ; Fungal Proteins/genetics ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Genes, Viral ; Humans ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Oncogene Protein p65(gag-jun) ; Oncogenes ; *Protein Kinases ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics/immunology/*physiology ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-jun ; *Proto-Oncogenes ; Recombinant Proteins/genetics ; Retroviridae Proteins/genetics ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics ; *Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins ; Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid ; Transcription Factors/genetics/immunology/*physiology ; Transcription, Genetic
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    Germline organization of the murine T cell receptor beta-chain genes (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-10-23
    Description: The complete germline organization of the beta-chain genes of the murine T cell receptor was elucidated in order to obtain the structural basis for understanding the mechanisms of somatic DNA rearrangements. Twenty of the 22 known variable (V beta) genes are clustered within 250 kilobases of DNA 5' to the constant region (C beta) genes. These V beta genes share the same transcriptional orientation as the diversity (D beta), joining (J beta), and C beta genes, which implies that chromosomal deletion is the mechanism for most V beta to D beta-J beta rearrangements. Within this V beta cluster, the distance between the most proximal V beta gene and the D beta-J beta-C beta cluster is 320 kilobases, as determined by field-inversion gel electrophoresis. The large distance between V beta and D beta, relative to that between D beta and J beta, may have significant implications for the ordered rearrangement of the T cell receptor beta-chain genes.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chou, H S -- Nelson, C A -- Godambe, S A -- Chaplin, D D -- Loh, D Y -- GM07067/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Oct 23;238(4826):545-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2821625" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Chromosome Deletion ; Chromosome Mapping ; DNA/genetics ; DNA Restriction Enzymes ; Electrophoresis ; Macromolecular Substances ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred BALB C ; Mice, Mutant Strains ; Nucleic Acid Hybridization ; Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/*genetics ; Transcription, Genetic
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    Adipsin: a circulating serine protease homolog secreted by adipose tissue and sciatic nerve (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-07-24
    Description: Adipsin is a serine protease homolog whose primary structure was predicted from the nucleotide sequence of a differentiation-dependent adipocyte messenger RNA. Immunoblots probed with antisera to synthetic peptides identify two forms of adipsin that are synthesized and secreted by 3T3 adipocytes. These proteins of 44 and 37 kilodaltons are converted to 25.5 kilodaltons by enzymatic deglycosylation. Although adipsin is principally synthesized in adipose tissue, it is also produced by sciatic nerve and is found in the bloodstream. Because of the apparent restriction of adipsin synthesis to tissues highly active in lipid metabolism, its presence in serum, and its modulation in altered metabolic states, this molecule may play a previously unrecognized role in systemic lipid metabolism or energy balance.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cook, K S -- Min, H Y -- Johnson, D -- Chaplinsky, R J -- Flier, J S -- Hunt, C R -- Spiegelman, B M -- AM07230/AM/NIADDK NIH HHS/ -- AM31405/AM/NIADDK NIH HHS/ -- DK34605/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Jul 24;237(4813):402-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3299705" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adipose Tissue/*enzymology ; Animals ; Cells, Cultured ; Complement Factor D ; Endopeptidases/blood/genetics/*secretion ; Male ; Mice ; Molecular Weight ; Organ Culture Techniques ; RNA, Messenger/genetics ; Sciatic Nerve/*enzymology ; *Serine Endopeptidases ; Transcription, Genetic
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    Sevenless, a cell-specific homeotic gene of Drosophila, encodes a putative transmembrane receptor with a tyrosine kinase domain (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-04-03
    Description: The determination of cell fates during the assembly of the ommatidia in the compound eye of Drosophila appears to be controlled by cell-cell interactions. In this process, the sevenless gene is essential for the development of a single type of photoreceptor cell. In the absence of proper sevenless function the cells that would normally become the R7 photoreceptors instead become nonneuronal cells. Previous morphological and genetic analysis has indicated that the product of the sevenless gene is involved in reading or interpreting the positional information that specifies this particular developmental pathway. The sevenless gene has now been isolated and characterized. The data indicate that sevenless encodes a transmembrane protein with a tyrosine kinase domain. This structural similarity between sevenless and certain hormone receptors suggests that similar mechanisms are involved in developmental decisions based on cell-cell interaction and physiological or developmental changes induced by diffusible factors.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hafen, E -- Basler, K -- Edstroem, J E -- Rubin, G M -- GM32795/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Apr 3;236(4797):55-63.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2882603" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Base Sequence ; Chromosome Mapping ; Cloning, Molecular ; DNA Restriction Enzymes ; Drosophila melanogaster/*embryology/genetics ; Eye/cytology/embryology ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Genes ; *Genes, Homeobox ; Growth Substances/physiology ; Membrane Proteins/genetics ; Phenotype ; Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/*genetics/physiology ; Receptors, Cell Surface/*genetics/physiology ; Transcription, Genetic
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    Human retinoblastoma susceptibility gene: cloning, identification, and sequence (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-03-13
    Description: Recent evidence indicates the existence of a genetic locus in chromosome region 13q14 that confers susceptibility to retinoblastoma, a cancer of the eye in children. A gene encoding a messenger RNA (mRNA) of 4.6 kilobases (kb), located in the proximity of esterase D, was identified as the retinoblastoma susceptibility (RB) gene on the basis of chromosomal location, homozygous deletion, and tumor-specific alterations in expression. Transcription of this gene was abnormal in six of six retinoblastomas examined: in two tumors, RB mRNA was not detectable, while four others expressed variable quantities of RB mRNA with decreased molecular size of about 4.0 kb. In contrast, full-length RB mRNA was present in human fetal retina and placenta, and in other tumors such as neuroblastoma and medulloblastoma. DNA from retinoblastoma cells had a homozygous gene deletion in one case and hemizygous deletion in another case, while the remainder were not grossly different from normal human control DNA. The gene contains at least 12 exons distributed in a region of over 100 kb. Sequence analysis of complementary DNA clones yielded a single long open reading frame that could encode a hypothetical protein of 816 amino acids. A computer-assisted search of a protein sequence database revealed no closely related proteins. Features of the predicted amino acid sequence include potential metal-binding domains similar to those found in nucleic acid-binding proteins. These results provide a framework for further study of recessive genetic mechanisms in human cancers.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lee, W H -- Bookstein, R -- Hong, F -- Young, L J -- Shew, J Y -- Lee, E Y -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Mar 13;235(4794):1394-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3823889" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Base Sequence ; *Carboxylesterase ; Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases/genetics ; Chromosome Mapping ; *Chromosomes, Human, Pair 13 ; *Cloning, Molecular ; DNA/genetics ; Eye Neoplasms/*genetics ; Female ; Homozygote ; Humans ; Nucleic Acid Hybridization ; Placenta/analysis ; Pregnancy ; RNA, Messenger/genetics ; Retina/analysis/embryology ; Retinoblastoma/*genetics ; Transcription, Genetic
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    Identification by cell fusion of gene sequences that interact with positive trans-acting factors (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-07-17
    Description: Cell fusion experiments have implicated positive or negative regulatory factors in the cell type--specific expression of specialized endogenous genes. The inability to readily manipulate such genes has prevented characterization of the cis-acting DNA sequences that interact with these factors. A transfection-fusion technique, which combined stable gene transfer and formation of transient heterokaryons, was used to study this class of factors and their DNA binding sites. Messenger RNA directed by a quiescent, rat prolactin promoter region stably transferred into mouse fibroblasts was detected only after fusion to rat pituitary cells, implying that pituitary cells contain a positive cell type--specific factor or factors. Nuclear run-on assays showed that fusion activation is transcriptional. Fusion did not activate either a stably transferred rat growth hormone gene promoter or expression of the endogenous silent fibroblast prolactin or growth hormone genes. Analysis by 5'-deletion mutation identified a 30-base pair DNA sequence required for cell fusion activation of the rat prolactin promoter region. Comparison with previous results from direct cellular transfer of this region implies that transfection-fusion identifies novel regulatory DNA sequences.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lufkin, T -- Bancroft, C -- GM36847/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Jul 17;237(4812):283-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3474782" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetyltransferases/genetics ; Animals ; Cell Fusion ; Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Growth Hormone/genetics ; Pituitary Gland/*physiology ; Prolactin/*genetics ; *Promoter Regions, Genetic ; Rats ; Transcription Factors/*genetics ; Transcription, Genetic ; Transfection
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    Expression of an exogenous growth hormone gene by transplantable human epidermal cells (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-09-18
    Description: Retrovirus-mediated gene transfer was used to introduce a recombinant human growth hormone gene into cultured human keratinocytes. The transduced keratinocytes secreted biologically active growth hormone into the culture medium. When grafted as an epithelial sheet onto athymic mice, these cultured keratinocytes reconstituted an epidermis that was similar in appearance to that resulting from normal cells, but from which human growth hormone could be extracted. Transduced epidermal cells may prove to be a general vehicle for the delivery of gene products by means of grafting.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Morgan, J R -- Barrandon, Y -- Green, H -- Mulligan, R C -- CA26712/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA38497/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA40029/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Sep 18;237(4821):1476-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3629250" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: DNA, Recombinant/metabolism ; Epidermis/*metabolism ; *Gene Expression Regulation ; Growth Hormone/*genetics ; Humans ; Retroviridae/genetics ; Transcription, Genetic ; Transduction, Genetic
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    Post-transcriptional control of class I MHC mRNA expression in adenovirus 12-transformed cells (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-03-20
    Description: Expression of the class I transplantation antigens of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is suppressed in cells transformed by the oncogenic human adenovirus 12 (Ad12). This suppression of class I antigen expression, which contributes to the tumorigenic phenotype of the transformed cells, has also been observed in some naturally occurring cancers. In the present study, the rate of transcription initiation of class I genes was measured by a nuclear run-on assay in Ad5- and Ad12-transformed cells of three different types. The rate of transcription was the same in all three. The stability of the class I messenger RNA was also examined and found to be the same in all three cell types. The results indicate that in Ad12-transformed cells the suppression is caused by an inhibition of the post-transcriptional processing of class I MHC messenger RNA in the nucleus.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Vaessen, R T -- Houweling, A -- van der Eb, A J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Mar 20;235(4795):1486-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3823900" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenoviruses, Human ; Cell Nucleus/metabolism ; *Cell Transformation, Viral ; Gene Expression Regulation ; HLA Antigens/*genetics ; Humans ; RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional ; RNA, Messenger/genetics ; Transcription, Genetic
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    The maize transposable element Ds is spliced from RNA (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-08-21
    Description: In some instances, insertion of maize transposable elements into exons does not result in the total loss of enzymatic activity. In other instances, messenger RNAs of wild-type size are encoded by genes known to contain the maize transposable element Dissociation (Ds) in exons. To understand how Ds is processed from RNA, a study was made of transcripts encoded by two alleles of the maize waxy (wx) gene containing Ds insertions in exon sequences. The analysis was carried out in strains where the Ds element could not excise from the wx gene. Despite insertions of 4.3- and 1.5-Ds elements, the predominant transcripts encoded by these two genes were wild type in size. For both alleles, DNA sequencing of complementary DNAs revealed that the Ds elements had been spliced in a similar manner. Splicing was accomplished by the utilization of multiple 5' donor splice sites in the Ds termini and a 3' acceptor site within the wx gene adjacent to the Ds element. The net effect in both cases was the removal of most of the Ds element from the messenger RNA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wessler, S R -- Baran, G -- Varagona, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Aug 21;237(4817):916-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3039661" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Base Sequence ; Cloning, Molecular ; DNA/genetics ; *DNA Transposable Elements ; Exons ; *RNA Splicing ; RNA, Messenger/*genetics ; Transcription, Genetic ; Zea mays/*genetics
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    RNA complementary to a herpesvirus alpha gene mRNA is prominent in latently infected neurons (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-02-27
    Description: In initial attempts to define the molecular events responsible for the latent state of herpes simplex virus, in situ hybridization was utilized to search for virally encoded RNA transcripts in latently infected sensory neurons. The use of cloned probes representing the entire viral genome indicated that transcripts encoded within terminal repeats were present. When the alpha genes encoding ICP-0, ICP-4, and ICP-27 and the gamma 1 gene encoding VP-5 were employed, only RNA transcripts hybridizing to the ICP-0 probe were detected. In latently infected cells, the ICP-0--related transcripts were localized principally in the nucleus; this was not the case in acutely (productively) infected neurons or in neurons probed for RNA transcripts coding for actin. In Northern blotting experiments, an RNA of 2.6 kilobases was detected with the ICP-0 probe. When single-stranded DNAs from the ICP-0 region were used as probes, RNA from the strand complementary to that encoding ICP-0 messenger RNA (mRNA) was the major species detected. This RNA species may play a significant role in maintaining the latent infection.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Stevens, J G -- Wagner, E K -- Devi-Rao, G B -- Cook, M L -- Feldman, L T -- AI-06246/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- CA 11861/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Feb 27;235(4792):1056-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2434993" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Ganglia, Spinal/microbiology ; *Genes, Viral ; Herpes Simplex/microbiology ; Mice ; Neurons/*microbiology ; Nucleic Acid Hybridization ; RNA/*genetics ; RNA, Complementary ; RNA, Messenger/genetics ; RNA, Viral/*genetics ; Simplexvirus/*genetics ; Transcription, Genetic ; Viral Proteins/genetics
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    Amyloid beta protein gene: cDNA, mRNA distribution, and genetic linkage near the Alzheimer locus (1987)
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    Publication Date: 1987-02-20
    Description: The amyloid beta protein has been identified as an important component of both cerebrovascular amyloid and amyloid plaques of Alzheimer's disease and Down syndrome. A complementary DNA for the beta protein suggests that it derives from a larger protein expressed in a variety of tissues. Overexpression of the gene in brain tissue from fetuses with Down syndrome (trisomy 21) can be explained by dosage since the locus encoding the beta protein maps to chromosome 21. Regional localization of this gene by both physical and genetic mapping places it in the vicinity of the genetic defect causing the inherited form of Alzheimer's disease.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Tanzi, R E -- Gusella, J F -- Watkins, P C -- Bruns, G A -- St George-Hyslop, P -- Van Keuren, M L -- Patterson, D -- Pagan, S -- Kurnit, D M -- Neve, R L -- AG00029/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- HD10658/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- HD20118/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Feb 20;235(4791):880-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2949367" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alzheimer Disease/*genetics ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Amyloid/*genetics ; Amyloidosis/genetics ; Brain/physiopathology ; Chromosome Mapping ; *Chromosomes, Human, Pair 21 ; DNA/genetics ; Down Syndrome/genetics ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Genetic Linkage ; Humans ; RNA, Messenger/genetics ; Tissue Distribution ; Transcription, Genetic
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