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Anything but Ordinary - Emerging Splicing Mechanisms in Eukaryotic Gene Regulation.
2021
Splicing of precursor mRNAs (pre-mRNA) is an important step during eukaryotic gene expression. The identification of the actual splice sites and the proper removal of introns are essential for the production of the desired mRNA isoforms and their encoded proteins. While the basic mechanisms of splicing regulation are well understood, recent work has uncovered a growing number of noncanonical splicing mechanisms that play key roles in the regulation of gene expression. In this review, we summarize the current principles of splicing regulation, including the impact of cis and trans regulatory elements, as well as the influence of chromatin structure, transcription, and RNA modifications. We f…
Transcription- and apoptosis-dependent long-range distribution of tight DNA-protein complexes in the chicken alpha-globin gene.
2008
The proteins tightly bound to DNA (TBP) are a group of proteins that remain attached to DNA with covalent or noncovalent bonds after its deproteinization, and have been hypothesized to be involved in regulation of gene expression. To investigate this question further, oligonucleotide DNA arrays were used to determine the distribution of tightly bound proteins along a 100-kb DNA fragment surrounding the chicken alpha-globin gene domain in DNA from chicken erythrocytes, liver, and AEV-transformed HD3 (erythroblast) cells in different physiological conditions. DNA was fractionated into TBP-free (F) and TBP-enriched (R) fractions by separation on nitrocellulose, and these fractions were used as…
Systematic Comparative Protein Expression Profiling of Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma
2009
Proteome-based technologies represent powerful tools for the analysis of protein expression profiles, including the identification of potential cancer candidate biomarkers. Thus, here we provide a comprehensive protein expression map for clear cell renal cell carcinoma established by systematic comparative two-dimensional gel electrophoresis-based protein expression profiling of 16 paired tissue systems comprising clear cell renal cell carcinoma lesions and corresponding tumor-adjacent renal epithelium using overlapping narrow pH gradients. This approach led to the mapping of 348 distinct spots corresponding to 248 different protein identities. By implementing restriction criteria concernin…
Competing endogenous RNA and interactome bioinformatic analyses on human telomerase.
2014
We present a classic interactome bioinformatic analysis and a study on competing endogenous (ce) RNAs for hTERT. The hTERT gene codes for the catalytic subunit and limiting component of the human telomerase complex. Human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) is essential for the integrity of telomeres. Telomere dysfunctions have been widely reported to be involved in aging, cancer, and cellular senescence. The hTERT gene network has been analyzed using the BioGRID interaction database (http://thebiogrid.org/) and related analysis tools such as Osprey (http://biodata.mshri.on.ca/osprey/servlet/Index) and GeneMANIA (http://genemania.org/). The network of interaction of hTERT transcripts h…
Complex Contribution of the 3′-Untranslated Region to the Expressional Regulation of the Human Inducible Nitric-oxide Synthase Gene
2000
Cytokine stimulation of human DLD-1 cells resulted in a marked expression of nitric-oxide synthase (NOS) II mRNA and protein accompanied by only a moderate increase in transcriptional activity. Also, there was a basal transcription of the NOS II gene, which did not result in measurable NOS II expression. The 3′-untranslated region (3′-UTR) of the NOS II mRNA contains four AUUUA motifs and one AUUUUA motif, known to destabilize the mRNAs of proto-oncogenes, nuclear transcription factors, and cytokines. Luciferase reporter gene constructs containing the NOS II 3′-UTR showed a significantly reduced luciferase activity. The embryonic lethal abnormal vision (ELAV)-like protein HuR was found to b…
Respiration and low cAMP-dependent protein kinase activity are required for high-level expression of the peroxisomal thiolase gene in Saccharomyces c…
1996
Transcription of genes for peroxisomal proteins is repressed by glucose and induced by oleate. At least for the peroxisomal thiolase gene (POT1) there is a third regulatory mechanism, mediated by the transcription factor Adr1p, which is responsible for the high-level expression of the gene in stationary phase. Here we show that a region in the POT1 promoter that extends from positions -238 to -152 mediates this mechanism, and we suggest that Adr1p acts indirectly on POT1. We have also analyzed the role of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) in the transcriptional regulation of POT1. PKA exerts a negative control: the high, unregulated PKA activity in a bcy1 mutant maintains POT1 transcr…
The putative sponge aggregation receptor. Isolation and characterization of a molecule composed of scavenger receptor cysteine-rich domains and short…
1998
Porifera (sponges) are the oldest extant metazoan phylum. Dissociated sponge cells serve as a classic system to study processes of cell reaggregation. The reaggregation of dissociated cells is mediated by an extracellularly localized aggregation factor (AF), based on heterophilic interactions of the third order; the AF bridges two cells by ligating a cell-surface-bound aggregation receptor (AR). In the present study we report cloning, expression and immunohistochemical localization of a polypeptide from the marine sponge Geodia cydonium, which very likely represents the AR. The presumed AR gene gives rise to at least three forms of alternatively spliced transcripts of 6.5, 4.9 and 3.9 kb, a…
Mboat7 down-regulation by hyper-insulinemia induces fat accumulation in hepatocytes.
2020
Background: Naturally occurring variation in Membrane-bound O-acyltransferase domain-containing 7 (MBOAT7), encoding for an enzyme involved in phosphatidylinositol acyl-chain remodelling, has been associated with fatty liver and hepatic disorders. Here, we examined the relationship between hepatic Mboat7 down-regulation and fat accumulation. Methods: Hepatic MBOAT7 expression was surveyed in 119 obese individuals and in experimental models. MBOAT7 was acutely silenced by antisense oligonucleotides in C57Bl/6 mice, and by CRISPR/Cas9 in HepG2 hepatocytes. Findings: In obese individuals, hepatic MBOAT7 mRNA decreased from normal liver to steatohepatitis, independently of diabetes, inflammatio…
Potential of human serum albumin as chiral selector of basic drugs in affinity electrokinetic chromatography-partial filling technique
2006
The enantiomeric resolution of compounds using HSA by means of affinity EKC (AEKC)-partial filling technique is the result of a delicate balance between different experimental variables such as protein concentration, running pH (background electrophoretic buffer (BGE), protein, and compound solutions), and plug length. In this paper, the possibility of using HSA as chiral selector for enantioseparation of 28 basic drugs using this methodology is studied. The effect of the physicochemical parameters, the structural properties of compounds, and compound-HSA protein binding percentages over their chiral resolution with HSA is outlined. Based on the results obtained, a decision tree is proposed…
The peroxisome proliferator response element (PPRE) present at positions -681/-669 in the rat liver 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase B gene functionally inter…
2000
Although previous data showed that the putative thiolase B PPRE located at -681/-669 bind the PPARalpha-RXRalpha heterodimer in vitro (Kliewer et al. (1992) Nature 358, 771-774), there is no evidence about the functional role of this element. By gel mobility-shift assay, we found an interaction of this PPRE with not only PPARalpha but also with HNF-4. By transfection of cells with the putative PPRE-driven luciferase reporter vector and PPARalpha, we found no significant activation of the luciferase gene expression, in contrast to the case with reporter expression driven by the PPRE of the peroxisomal bifunctional enzyme. On the other hand, HNF-4 activated the luciferase gene expression driv…