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CARDINAL, a novel caspase recruitment domain protein, is an inhibitor of multiple NF-kappa B activation pathways.
(2001)Proteins possessing the caspase recruitment domain (CARD) motif have been implicated in pathways leading to activation of caspases or NF-kappaB in the context of apoptosis or inflammation, respectively. Here we report the ... -
Caspase-1 promiscuity is counterbalanced by rapid inactivation of the processed enzyme.
(2011)Members of the caspase family of cysteine proteases coordinate the highly disparate processes of apoptosis and inflammation. However, while hundreds of substrates for the apoptosis effector caspases (caspase-3 and caspase-7) ... -
Caspase-dependent inactivation of proteasome function during programmed cell death in Drosophila and man
(The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2004)The caspase family of cysteine proteases plays a conserved role in the coordinate demolition of cellular structures during programmed cell death from nematodes to man. Because cells undergoing programmed cell death in ... -
Cell envelope gene expression in phosphate-limited Bacillus subtilis cells.
(2011)The high phosphate content of Bacillus subtilis cell walls dictates that cell wall metabolism is an important feature of the PhoPR-mediated phosphate limitation response. Here we report the expression profiles of ... -
Changes in alternative splicing of human and mouse genes are accompanied by faster evolution of constitutive exons
(Oxford University Press, 2005)Alternative splicing is known to be an important source of protein sequence variation, but its evolutionary impact has not been explored in detail. Studying alternative splicing requires extensive sampling of the transcriptome, ... -
Characterization of E2F8, a novel E2F-like cell-cycle regulated repressor of E2F-activated transcription
(2005)The E2F family of transcription factors are downstream effectors of the retinoblastoma protein, pRB, pathway and are essential for the timely regulation of genes necessary for cell-cycle progression. Here we describe the ... -
Characterization of RP1L1, a highly polymorphic paralog of the retinitis pigmentosxa 1 (RP1) gene
(Molecular Vision, 2003)PURPOSE: To determine the full-length sequence of a gene with similarity to RP1 and to screen for mutations in this newly characterized gene, named retinitis pigmentosa 1-like 1(RP1L1). Since mutations in the RP1 gene cause ... -
CHD5 is required for neurogenesis and has a dual role in facilitating gene expression and polycomb gene repression
(2013)The chromatin remodeler CHD5 is expressed in neu- ral tissue and is frequently deleted in aggressive neuroblastoma.Verylittleisknownaboutthefunction of CHD5 in the nervous system or its mechanism of action. Here we ... -
CHD5 is required for neurogenesis and has a dual role in facilitating gene expression and polycomb gene repression.
(2013)The chromatin remodeler CHD5 is expressed in neural tissue and is frequently deleted in aggressive neuroblastoma. Very little is known about the function of CHD5 in the nervous system or its mechanism of action. Here we ... -
ChloroMitoSSRDB: open source repository of perfect and imperfect repeats in organelle genomes for evolutionary genomics.
(2013)Microsatellites or simple sequence repeats (SSRs) are repetitive stretches of nucleotides (A, T, G, C) that are distributed either as single base pair stretches or as a combination of two- to six-nucleotides units that are ... -
A chromatin-independent role of Polycomb-like 1 to stabilize p53 and promote cellular quiescence.
(2015)Polycomb-like proteins 1-3 (PCL1-3) are substoichiometric components of the Polycomb-repressive complex 2 (PRC2) that are essential for association of the complex with chromatin. However, it remains unclear why three ... -
Chromosomal G + C content evolution in yeasts: systematic interspecies differences, and GC-poor troughs at centromeres.
(2010)The G + C content at synonymous codon positions (GC3s) in genes varies along chromosomes in most eukaryotes. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, regions of high GC3s are correlated with recombination hot spots, probably due to ... -
Clusters of co-expressed genes in mammalian genomes are conserved by natural selection
(Oxford University Press, 2005)Genes that belong to the same functional pathways are often packaged into operons in prokaryotes. However, aside from examples in nematode genomes, this form of transcriptional regulation appears to be absent in eukaryotes. ... -
CODON USAGE AND GENE-EXPRESSION LEVEL IN DICTYOSTELIUM-DISCOIDEUM - HIGHLY EXPRESSED GENES DO PREFER OPTIMAL CODONS
(1989)Codon usage patterns in the slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum have been re-examined (a total of 58 genes have been analysed). Considering the extreme A + T-richness of this genome (G + C = 22%), there is a surprising ... -
Coevolution analyses illuminate the dependencies between amino acid sites in the chaperonin system GroES-L.
(2013)BACKGROUND: GroESL is a heat-shock protein ubiquitous in bacteria and eukaryotic organelles. This evolutionarily conserved protein is involved in the folding of a wide variety of other proteins in the cytosol, being ... -
Comparison of BRCAx tumors with BRCA1-, BRCA2-carriers and non-familial breast cancer.
(2015)Aims Women with inherited pathogenic mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes have up to an 85% risk of developing breast cancer in their lifetime. However, only about 20% of familial breast cancer is attributed to mutations ... -
Compensatory evolution of gene regulation in response to stress by Escherichia coli lacking RpoS.
(2009)The RpoS sigma factor protein of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase is the master transcriptional regulator of physiological responses to a variety of stresses. This stress response comes at the expense of scavenging for ...
