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Genomes and Genes | beta galactosidaseSummarySummary: A group of enzymes that catalyzes the hydrolysis of terminal, non-reducing beta-D-galactose residues in beta-galactosides. Deficiency of beta-Galactosidase A1 may cause GANGLIOSIDOSIS GM1. Top Publications
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Multiple sensors control reciprocal expression of Pseudomonas aeruginosa regulatory RNA and virulence genesIsabelle Ventre
, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Biologie Structurale et Microbiologie, , 31 Chemin Joseph Aiguier, 13402 Marseille Cedex 20, France
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:171-6. 2006....
Senescence-associated (beta)-galactosidase reflects an increase in lysosomal mass during replicative ageing of human endothelial cellsD J Kurz
Cell Biology Group, Centre for Cardiovascular Biology and Medicine, Department of Medicine, Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London, London WC1E 6JJ, UK
J Cell Sci 113:3613-22. 2000..These findings demonstrate that senescence-associated (beta)-galactosidase is a manifestation of residual lysosomal activity at a suboptimal pH, which becomes detectable due to the increased lysosomal content in senescent cells...
Loss of AP-2alpha impacts multiple aspects of ventral body wall development and closureStephanie Brewer
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Dev Biol 267:399-417. 2004..These findings provide a fundamental understanding of how AP-2alpha functions in the closure of the ventral body wall, as well as offer insight into related human birth defects...
Identification and functional characterization of distinct critically important bone morphogenetic protein-specific response elements in the Id1 promoterOlexander Korchynskyi
Division of Cellular Biochemistry, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Biol Chem 277:4883-91. 2002..Our results provide important new insights into how the BMP/Smad pathway can specifically activate target genes...
Senescence-associated beta-galactosidase is lysosomal beta-galactosidaseBo Yun Lee
Department of Life Science, University of Seoul, Dongdaemungu, Jeonnongdong, Seoul, Korea 130 743
Aging Cell 5:187-95. 2006..SA-beta-gal induction during senescence was due at least in part to increased expression of the lysosomal beta-galactosidase protein. These results also indicate that SA-beta-gal is not required for senescence...
Treatment of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma in vitro with a mutant vaccinia virusShu Fu Lin
Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10021, USA
Surgery 142:976-83; discussion 976-83. 2007..Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is a fatal disease resistant to all conventional treatments. Novel therapies are needed to improve dismal outcomes...
Novel oncolytic agent GLV-1h68 is effective against malignant pleural mesotheliomaKaitlyn J Kelly
Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
Hum Gene Ther 19:774-82. 2008..GLV-1h68 was successfully used to treat MPM in vitro and in an orthotopic model (in vivo). These promising results warrant clinical investigation of GLV-1h68 as a novel agent in the treatment of MPM...
The spoIIIA operon of Bacillus subtilis defines a new temporal class of mother-cell-specific sporulation genes under the control of the sigma E form of RNA polymeraseN Illing
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK
Mol Microbiol 5:1927-40. 1991..Since the onset of spoIIID expression occurs about 10 minutes after that of spoIIIA, spoIIIA expression is transient. Thus spoIIIA defines a third temporal class of gene controlled by the sigma E form of RNA polymerase...
Extension of life-span by introduction of telomerase into normal human cellsA G Bodnar
Geron Corporation, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Science 279:349-52. 1998..The ability to maintain normal human cells in a phenotypically youthful state could have important applications in research and medicine...
Three-dimensional structure of beta-galactosidase from E. coliR H Jacobson
Institute of Molecular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene 97403
Nature 369:761-6. 1994..Non-crystallographic symmetry averaging proved to be a very powerful tool in the structure determination, as has been shown in other contexts...
Determination of the roles of Glu-461 in beta-galactosidase (Escherichia coli) using site-specific mutagenesisC G Cupples
Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles 90024
J Biol Chem 265:5512-8. 1990..The enzyme with His substituted for Glu-461 had the highest kappa 3 value. This is probably a result of the formation of a covalent bond between His and the galactosyl part of the substrate...
Disruption of overlapping transcripts in the ROSA beta geo 26 gene trap strain leads to widespread expression of beta-galactosidase in mouse embryos and hematopoietic cellsB P Zambrowicz
Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 94:3789-94. 1997..This third transcript potentially encodes a novel protein of at least 505 amino acids that is conserved in humans and in Caenorhabditis elegans...
In vivo imaging of beta-galactosidase activity using far red fluorescent switchChing Hsuan Tung
Center for Molecular Imaging Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
Cancer Res 64:1579-83. 2004..The results indicated that in vivo real-time detection of beta-gal activity is possible by fluorescence imaging technology...
Ink4a/Arf expression is a biomarker of agingJanakiraman Krishnamurthy
Department of Medicine, The Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599 7295, USA
J Clin Invest 114:1299-307. 2004..These data suggest that expression of the Ink4a/Arf tumor suppressor locus is a robust biomarker, and possible effector, of mammalian aging...
Inducible Cre-mediated control of gene expression in the murine gastrointestinal tract: effect of loss of beta-cateninHeather Ireland
Department of Oncology, Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute of Medical Research, Wellcome Trust MRC Building, Addenbrooke s Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2XY, UK
Gastroenterology 126:1236-46. 2004....
Vascular bed-specific expression of an endothelial cell gene is programmed by the tissue microenvironmentW C Aird
Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02119, USA
J Cell Biol 138:1117-24. 1997..Taken together, the results suggest that the vWF gene is regulated by vascular bed-specific pathways in response to signals derived from the local microenvironment...
Glu-537, not Glu-461, is the nucleophile in the active site of (lac Z) beta-galactosidase from Escherichia coliJ C Gebler
Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
J Biol Chem 267:11126-30. 1992..and Legler, G. (1984) Eur. J. Biochem. 138, 527-531) on the basis of affinity labeling studies with conduritol C cis-epoxide. A role for glutamic acid residue 461 as the acid/base catalyst is proposed and justified...
Endothelial cell senescence in human atherosclerosis: role of telomere in endothelial dysfunctionTohru Minamino
Department of Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan
Circulation 105:1541-4. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: Vascular endothelial cells with senescence-associated phenotypes are present in human atherosclerotic lesions, and endothelial cell senescence induced by telomere shortening may contribute to atherogenesis...
Novel NMR approach to assessing gene transfection: 4-fluoro-2-nitrophenyl-beta-D-galactopyranoside as a prototype reporter molecule for beta-galactosidaseWeina Cui
Department of Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas 75390-9058, USA
Magn Reson Med 51:616-20. 2004..Molecular and 19F NMR characteristics of PFONPG in solution, blood, and prostate tumor cells are presented. This prototype molecule facilitates a novel approach for assaying gene activity in vivo...
Fluctuations in transcription factor binding can explain the graded and binary responses observed in inducible gene expressionJason R Pirone
Biomathematics Graduate Program and Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, Campus Box 8203, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 8203, USA
J Theor Biol 226:111-21. 2004..Our modeling results are in good qualitative agreement with the experimental data, and illustrate how the binary and graded responses can stem from the same underlying mechanism...
Crystal structures of beta-galactosidase from Penicillium sp. and its complex with galactoseA L Rojas
, , , , SP, Brazil
J Mol Biol 343:1281-92. 2004..Penicillium sp. beta-galactosidase is a glycoprotein containing seven N-linked oligosaccharide chains and is the only structure of a glycosylated beta-galactosidase described to date...
Expression of beta-galactosidase and beta-xylosidase genes during microspore and pollen developmentPetra Hrubá
Institute of Experimental Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Na Pernikarce 15, 160 00, Prague 6, Czech Republic
Planta 220:931-40. 2005....
Superoxide dismutase 1 knock-down induces senescence in human fibroblastsGil Blander
Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
J Biol Chem 278:38966-9. 2003..Together, these findings support the notion that in normal human cells the SOD1 protein may play a role in the regulation of cellular lifespan by p53 and may also regulate the death signals in cancer cells...
Synthesis and evaluation of novel fluorogenic substrates for the detection of bacterial beta-galactosidaseK F Chilvers
Department of Microbiology, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
J Appl Microbiol 91:1118-30. 2001....
Beta-galactosidase from a cold-adapted bacterium: purification, characterization and application for lactose hydrolysisS Fernandes
Department of Biotechnology, Center for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lund University, Sweden
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 58:313-21. 2002..The enzyme could be immobilized to Sepharose via different chemistries with 60-70% retention of activity. The immobilized enzyme was more stable and its ability to hydrolyze lactose was similar to that of the soluble enzyme...
Construction of a flocculent Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain secreting high levels of Aspergillus niger beta-galactosidaseL Domingues
, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 58:645-50. 2002..Moreover, the use of flocculating yeast cells allows for enzyme production with high productivity in continuous fermentation systems with facilitated downstream processing...
A double reporter assay for detecting changes in the ratio of spliced and unspliced mRNA in mammalian cellsMd Talat Nasim
Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 30:e109. 2002..This provides a rapid and convenient assay for the effects on splicing efficiency of trans-acting factors or of alterations in the sequences of the intron and surrounding exon sequences...
Purification and characterization of a beta-galactosidase from peach (Prunus persica)Dong Hoon Lee
Department of Horticulture, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 712-749, Korea
Mol Cells 15:68-74. 2003..Therefore, enzymatic, immunological, and molecular evidences in this study indicate that the purified 42-kDa protein is a peach beta-galactosidase...
The role of chondrocyte senescence in the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis and in limiting cartilage repairJames A Martin
Department of Orthopaedics, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242, USA
J Bone Joint Surg Am 85:106-10. 2003..The creation of immortal cells with increased telomere length suggests that the progression of human chondrocytes toward senescence is not inevitable...
A reporter gene system for the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus based on a selectable and integrative shuttle vectorMelanie Jonuscheit
Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Darmstadt University of Technology, Schnittspahnstr 10, Germany
Mol Microbiol 48:1241-52. 2003....
Cloning of a Cicer arietinum beta-galactosidase with pectin-degrading functionRocío Esteban
Dpto de Fisiología Vegetal Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Salamanca, Centro Hispano Luso de Investigaciones Agrarias, Pza Doctores de la Reina s n, Salamanca 37007, Spain
Plant Cell Physiol 44:718-25. 2003..It is suggested that the increase in the size of cell wall pores could permit access of other cell wall-modifying enzymes to their substrate...
The zebrafish as a vertebrate model of functional aging and very gradual senescenceShuji Kishi
Department of Cancer Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115 6084, USA
Exp Gerontol 38:777-86. 2003....
Antisense suppression of a beta-galactosidase gene (TB G6) in tomato increases fruit crackingEdgar Moctezuma
Produce Quality and Safety Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Building 002, Henry A Wallace Beltsville Area Research Center, 10300 Baltimore Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705-2350, USA
J Exp Bot 54:2025-33. 2003..Although the exact function of the TBG6 product is still unknown, these results implicate an important role for this enzyme in early fruit growth and development in tomato...
Mature hepatocytes are the source of small hepatocyte-like progenitor cells in the retrorsine model of liver injuryAudrey Avril
, CIC-INSERM 00-04, , 44093 Nantes Cedex 01, France
J Hepatol 41:737-43. 2004..Furthermore, mature hepatocytes are the source of SHPC after retrorsine injury...
Analyzing mRNA-protein complexes using a yeast three-hybrid systemDavid S Bernstein
Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53706, USA
Methods 26:123-41. 2002..Multicomponent complexes containing more than one protein can be detected, identified, and analyzed. We describe the method and how to use it, and discuss applications that bear particularly on eukaryotic mRNAs...
Progressive loss of SIRT1 with cell cycle withdrawalTsutomu Sasaki
Department of Neuroscience, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
Aging Cell 5:413-22. 2006..Thus, as mitotic activity ceases in mouse and human cells in the normal environment of the animal or in the culture dish, there is a concomitant decline in the level of SIRT1...
Construction and characterization of a novel maltose inducible expression vector in Bacillus subtilisYang Ming-Ming
Institute of Biochemical Engineering, College of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, P.R. China
Biotechnol Lett 28:1713-8. 2006..16 U/ml) when induced and its expression was markedly repressed by glucose. Using this vector, we successfully expressed the other two genes, bioA and vgb. This thus provided a potential expression system for cloned genes in B. subtilis...
Calcium alginate entrapped preparations of Aspergillus oryzae beta galactosidase: its stability and applications in the hydrolysis of lactoseToshiba Haider
Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202002, UP, India
Int J Biol Macromol 41:72-80. 2007Insoluble concanavalin A-beta galactosidase complex was obtained by using jack bean extract and this complex was crosslinked with glutaraldehyde, in order to maintain the integrity of complex in the presence of its substrate or products...
19F-NMR detection of lacZ gene expression via the enzymic hydrolysis of 2-fluoro-4-nitrophenyl beta-D-galactopyranoside in vivo in PC3 prostate tumor xenografts in the mouseLi Liu
Department of Radiology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, Texas 75390 9058, USA
FASEB J 21:2014-9. 2007..More importantly, we demonstrate for the first time the ability to differentiate wild-type and lacZ-expressing prostate tumor xenografts in mice using this approach...
Beta galactosidase complementation: a cell-based luminescent assay platform for drug discoveryKeith R Olson
DiscoveRx Corp, Fremont, CA, USA
Assay Drug Dev Technol 5:137-44. 2007..This review describes the various uses of this flexible technology to cell-based assay development...
Overexpression and functional analysis of cold-active beta-galactosidase from Arthrobacter psychrolactophilus strain F2Tomoyuki Nakagawa
Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Bioindustry, Tokyo University of Agriculture, 196 Yasaka, Abashiri, Hokkaido 099 2493, Japan
Protein Expr Purif 54:295-9. 2007..We conclude that rBglAp is a cold-active enzyme that is extremely heat labile and has significant potential application to the food industry...
Sirt1 modulates premature senescence-like phenotype in human endothelial cellsHidetaka Ota
Department of Geriatric Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7 3 1 Hongo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo 113 8655, Japan
J Mol Cell Cardiol 43:571-9. 2007..Our data suggest that Sirt1 may exert protective effects against endothelial dysfunction by preventing stress-induced premature senescence and deranged expression of PAI-1 and eNOS...
SIRT1 overexpression antagonizes cellular senescence with activated ERK/S6k1 signaling in human diploid fibroblastsJing Huang
Peking University Research Center on Aging, Beijing, People s Republic of China
PLoS ONE 3:e1710. 2008..These findings suggested that SIRT1-promoted cell proliferation and antagonized cellular senescence in human diploid fibroblasts may be, in part, via the activation of ERK/ S6K1 signaling...
Expression of senescence-related genes in human corneal endothelial cellsZhenhua Song
State Key Lab Cultivation Base, Shandong Provincial Key Lab of Ophthalmology, Shandong Eye Institute, Qingdao, China
Mol Vis 14:161-70. 2008..To investigate the expression of p16(INK4a), p21(WAF1/CIP1), p27(KIP1), and p53 in human corneal endothelial cell (HCEC) senescence ex vivo at various donor ages...
Isolation of the promoter of a cotton beta-galactosidase gene (GhGal1) and its expression in transgenic tobacco plantsAimin Wu
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Sci China C Life Sci 49:105-14. 2006..These results indicated the temporal and spatial expression characterization of the GhGal1 promoter in transgenic tobacco plants and provided an important insight into the roles of GhGal1 in cotton fiber development...
Replication competence and senescence in central and peripheral human corneal endotheliumTatsuya Mimura
Schepens Eye Research Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 47:1387-96. 2006..This reduction in replicative competence negatively correlates with the observed increase in the population of central HCECs exhibiting senescence-like characteristics...
Luminescent imaging of beta-galactosidase activity in living subjects using sequential reporter-enzyme luminescenceThomas S Wehrman
Baxter Laboratory in Genetic Pharmacology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Nat Methods 3:295-301. 2006..Thus, coupling the properties of FLuc to the advantages of beta-gal permits bioluminescent imaging applications that previously were not possible...
Cloning, expression, and purification of a recombinant cold-adapted beta-galactosidase from antarctic bacterium Pseudoalteromonas sp. 22bHubert Cieśliński
Department of Microbiology, Gdansk University of Technology, ul G Narutowicza 11 12, 80 952 Gdansk, Poland
Protein Expr Purif 39:27-34. 2005..Because of its attributes, the recombinant Pseudoalteromonas sp. 22b beta-galactosidase could be applied at refrigeration temperatures for production of lactose-reduced dairy products...
Transcriptional regulation of sitABCD of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium by MntR and FurJack S Ikeda
Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, B103 CLSL, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
J Bacteriol 187:912-22. 2005....
Papaya beta-galactosidase/galactanase isoforms in differential cell wall hydrolysis and fruit softening during ripeningHamid Lazan
Faculty of Science and Technology, School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, University Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
Plant Physiol Biochem 42:847-53. 2004..Collectively, the results support the case for a functional relevance of the papaya enzymes in softening related changes during ripening...
Irreversible cellular senescence induced by prolonged exposure to H2O2 involves DNA-damage-and-repair genes and telomere shorteningJianming Duan
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100083, China
Int J Biochem Cell Biol 37:1407-20. 2005..Our findings indicate that several aging theories can be merged together by a common mechanism of oxidative damage, and that the level of oxidative DNA-damage-and-repair capacity may be exploited as reliable markers of cell senescence...
Identification of new flagellar genes of Salmonella enterica serovar TyphimuriumJonathan Frye
Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego, California 92121, USA
J Bacteriol 188:2233-43. 2006..Null alleles in cheV, mcpA, mcpB, mcpC, and srfB did not affect motility, while deletion of yhjH did result in reduced motility compared to that of the wild type...
Cold-active beta-galactosidase from Arthrobacter sp. C2-2 forms compact 660 kDa hexamers: crystal structure at 1.9A resolutionTereza Skalova
Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Heyrovskeho nam 2, 1606 Praha 6, Czech Republic
J Mol Biol 353:282-94. 2005..This structure reveals new insights into the cold-adaptation mechanisms of enzymatic pathways of extremophiles...
Endless versatility in the biotechnological applications of Kluyveromyces LAC genesMarta Rubio-Texeira
68 541, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, 02139, USA
Biotechnol Adv 24:212-25. 2006..Emphasis is also made on the potential that some of the latest technologies, such as the generation of transgenics, will have for a further benefit in the use of these and related genes...
FlhA influences Bacillus thuringiensis PlcR-regulated gene transcription, protein production, and virulenceLaurent Bouillaut
Unité Génétique Microbienne et Environnement, INRA, La Minière, 78285 Guyancourt Cedex, France
Appl Environ Microbiol 71:8903-10. 2005..The decrease in virulence may be due to both a lack of flagella and a lower production of secreted factors. Hence, FlhA appears to be an essential virulence factor with a pleiotropic role...
Stochastic protein expression in individual cells at the single molecule levelLong Cai
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Nature 440:358-62. 2006..This microfluidic single cell assay opens up possibilities for system-wide characterization of the expression of these low copy number proteins...
The potential action of galactose as a "chemical chaperone": increase of beta galactosidase activity in fibroblasts from an adult GM1-gangliosidosis patientAnna Caciotti
Metabolic and Muscular Unit, Clinic of Pediatric Neurology, AOU Meyer, Florence, Italy
Eur J Paediatr Neurol 13:160-4. 2009..Protein misfolding in lysosomal defects may have the potential to be corrected by chemical chaperones: in vitro and clinical approaches are being investigated...
Cooperative effects by the initiation codon and its flanking regions on translation initiationC M Stenström
Department of Microbiology, Stockholm University, S 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
Gene 273:259-65. 2001..The otherwise weak initiation codon UUG, but not GUG, was comparable with AUG in strength, if placed in the context of two of the DRs. The +2 codon was one, but not the only, determinant for this unexpectedly high efficiency of UUG...
A family of at least seven beta-galactosidase genes is expressed during tomato fruit developmentD L Smith
Horticultural Crops Quality Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Building 002, 10300 Baltimore Avenue, Beltsville, Maryland 20705 2350, USA
Plant Physiol 123:1173-83. 2000....
Thermal denaturation of beta-galactosidase and of two site-specific mutantsR A Edwards
Division of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Biochemistry 29:11001-8. 1990..Other effects result from changes in ligand binding, but the magnitude of the resulting changes in stability is not related to the strength of ligand binding in a simple fashion...
Mutations in the Drosophila dTAK1 gene reveal a conserved function for MAPKKKs in the control of rel/NF-kappaB-dependent innate immune responsesS Vidal
Centre de Genetique Moleculaire, CNRS, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France
Genes Dev 15:1900-12. 2001..Our genetic demonstration of dTAK1's role in the regulation of Drosophila antimicrobial peptide gene expression suggests an evolutionary conserved role for TAK1 in the activation of Rel/NF-kappaB-mediated host defense reactions...
Synchronous activity of inhibitory networks in neocortex requires electrical synapses containing connexin36M R Deans
Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Neuron 31:477-85. 2001..However, the synchrony of these rhythms was weaker and more spatially restricted in the knockout. We conclude that electrical synapses containing Cx36 are critical for the generation of widespread, synchronous inhibitory activity...
Transgenic mice demonstrate a testis-specific promoter for lactate dehydrogenase, LDHCS Li
Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
J Biol Chem 273:31191-4. 1998..We conclude that transcription of the transgene and possibly of the endogenous ldhc gene is restricted to leptotene/pachytene primary spermatocytes...
Characterization of hematopoietic progenitor cells that express the transcription factor SCL, using a lacZ "knock-in" strategyA G Elefanty
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and the Cooperative Research Centre for Cellular Growth Factors, P O Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria 3050, Australia
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 95:11897-902. 1998..Our data also suggested that expression of SCL was transient and confined to hematopoietic stem and/or progenitor cells, because the differentiated progeny of most lineages (except the erythroid) were beta-galactosidase-negative...
Characterization of the regulatory region of Adra2c, the gene encoding the murine alpha2C adrenoceptor subtypeWen Kwei Chen
Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, ROC
J Biomed Sci 11:886-901. 2004....
Gene trap expression and mutational analysis for genes involved in the development of the mammalian nervous systemA Stoykova
Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Gottingen, Germany
Dev Dyn 212:198-213. 1998....
Transcriptional activity of the paired-like homeodomain proteins CHX10 and VSX1Kimberley M Dorval
Toronto Western Research Institute, University Health Network Program, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2S8, Canada
J Biol Chem 280:10100-8. 2005..Therefore, CHX10 and VSX1 may control retinal bipolar cell specification or differentiation by repressing genes required for the development of other cell types...
Laser photocoagulation and, to a lesser extent, photodynamic therapy target and enhance adenovirus vector-mediated gene transfer in the rat retinaKaname Anzai
Department of Ophthalmology, Saitama Medical School, Japan
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 46:3883-91. 2005..Adenovirus gene therapy in combination with PC or PDT would have the advantage of increased transduction efficiency; increased duration of transgene expression; targeted delivery; and, potentially, a lower effective dose of virus...
Restricted beta-galactosidase expression of a hygromycin-lacZ gene targeted to the beta-actin locus and embryonic lethality of beta-actin mutant miceW Shawlot
Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030, USA
Transgenic Res 7:95-103. 1998..5 (E8.5) but became growth retarded at E9.5 and subsequently died. The RT-PCR data indicate that this targeted mutation is a hypomorphic allele of beta-actin...
Widespread gene transduction to the central nervous system by adenovirus in utero: implication for prenatal gene therapy to brain involvement of lysosomal storage diseaseJin-Song Shen
Department of Gene Therapy, Institute of DNA Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8461, Japan
J Gene Med 6:1206-15. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: Brain-directed in utero gene therapy through an intra-ventricular route would be an effective strategy to treat some lysosomal storage diseases with early and severe CNS alterations...
Semliki Forest virus is an efficient and selective vector for gene delivery in infarcted rat heartAnnemarieke E Loot
Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Molecular Virology Section, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
J Mol Cell Cardiol 37:137-42. 2004..In conclusion, intracoronarily delivered SFV has a favourable distribution pattern, showing expression of the transgene restricted to the heart...
Ad-mTERT-delta19, a conditional replication-competent adenovirus driven by the human telomerase promoter, selectively replicates in and elicits cytopathic effect in a cancer cell-specific mannerEunhee Kim
BK21 Project for Medical Sciences, Institute for Cancer Research, Yonsei Cancer Center, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 120-752, Korea
Hum Gene Ther 14:1415-28. 2003....
An improved beta-galactosidase reporter geneD S Anson
Department of Chemical Pathology, Women s and Children s Hospital, 72 King William Road, North Adelaide, SA 5006, Australia
J Biotechnol 108:17-30. 2004..coli gene sequence. A variant of the codon-optimised beta-galactosidase gene sequence that includes an effective nuclear localisation signal was also made...
Development of improved Sindbis virus-based DNA expression vectorRyuya Yamanaka
Clinical Gene Therapy Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
DNA Cell Biol 23:75-80. 2004..We have demonstrated a high-level expression of the exogenous beta-galactosidase gene from the pSin-SV40-HDV-SV40pA construct using a Sindbis replication system...
Extended tropism of an adenoviral vector does not circumvent the maturation-dependent transducibility of mouse skeletal muscleJ C van Deutekom
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Musculoskeletal Research Center, Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Gene Med 1:393-9. 1999....
Construction of a multiframe vector to express coding sequences in Escherichia coliV Dominguez-Martinez
Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas e Instituto, Salud Pública, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Ver, Mexico
Can J Microbiol 47:72-6. 2001..In one case, levels of beta-galactosidase activity depended largely on the N-terminus of the translation products. We conclude that pMFV7 may be useful for expressing coding sequences regardless of their reading frame...
BACE (beta-secretase) modulates the processing of APLP2 in vivoL Pastorino
Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Mol Cell Neurosci 25:642-9. 2004..Overexpression of BACE in cultured cells led to increased APLP2 processing. Our results strongly suggest that BACE is a neuronal protein that modulates the processing of both APP and APLP2...
Differences in the carriage and the ability to utilize the serotype associated virulence plasmid in strains of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium investigated by use of a self-transferable virulence plasmid, pOG669John E Olsen
Department of Veterinary Microbiology, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Stigbøjlen 4, DK 1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
Microb Pathog 36:337-47. 2004..An internal fragment of the rpoS gene was sequenced in three strains. These all showed an identical sequence to a published S. typhimurium rpoS gene...
Eukaryotic promoters can direct protein synthesis in Gram-negative bacteriaSylvie Goussard
Unite des Agents Antibacteriens, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol 6:211-8. 2003..These observations should incite to exert caution when interpreting data on the DNA transfer from bacteria to mammallian cells when the genes of interest are under the control of the PCMV or PRSV promoter...
Identification of direct serum-response factor gene targets during Me2SO-induced P19 cardiac cell differentiationShu Xing Zhang
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
J Biol Chem 280:19115-26. 2005..SRF target genes related to cell mitosis and cycle, E2f5, Npm1, Cenpb, Rbbp6, and Scyl1, expressed in the heart tissue were differentially regulated in SRF null ES cells...
Localization of the endothelin-B receptor using a transgenic approachAdele Gordon
Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 44:S144-6. 2004..These mice express beta- galactosidase wherever endothelin-B is expressed and therefore provide a precise in-vivo localization profile of endothelin-B expression...
A member of the cAMP receptor protein family of transcription regulators in Mycobacterium tuberculosis is required for virulence in mice and controls transcription of the rpfA gene coding for a resuscitation promoting factorLisa Rickman
Division of Mycobacterial Research, National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA, UK
Mol Microbiol 56:1274-86. 2005..In summary, it has been shown that Rv3676 is a direct regulator of rpfA expression, and because rpfA codes for a resuscitation promoting factor this may implicate Rv3676 in reactivation of dormant M. tuberculosis infections...
Using thermal energy produced by irradiation of Mn-Zn ferrite magnetic nanoparticles (MZF-NPs) for heat-inducible gene expressionQiu sha Tang
School of Clinical Medical Science, Southeast University, Nanjing 210009, China
Biomaterials 29:2673-9. 2008..This novel system made use of the relative low Curie point of MZF-NPs to control the in vivo hyperthermia temperature and therefore acquired safe and effective heat-inducible transgene expression...
Non-invasive in vivo optical imaging of the lacZ and luc gene expression in miceV Josserand
INSERM U823, Institut Albert Bonniot, La Tronche Cedex, France
Gene Ther 14:1587-93. 2007....
Gene delivery to brain cells with apoprotein E derived peptide conjugated to polylysine (apoEdp-PLL)Mohammad Mousazadeh
Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Pharmacy and Isfahan Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
J Drug Target 15:226-30. 2007..These results suggest a novel gene delivery vector for gene therapy of brain disease...
Optimization of transfection mediated by calcium phosphate for plasmid rAAV-LacZ (recombinant adeno-associated virus-beta-galactosidase reporter gene) production in suspension-cultured HEK-293 (human embryonic kidney 293) cellsLei Feng
State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, People s Republic of China
Biotechnol Appl Biochem 46:127-35. 2007..g. (vector genomes)/60 ml of medium respectively, is promising for the technique's application in the large-scale production of rAAV...
A spreadable, non-integrative and high copy number shuttle vector for Sulfolobus solfataricus based on the genetic element pSSVx from Sulfolobus islandicusTiziana Aucelli
Istituto di Biochimica delle Proteine, Via P Castellino 111, 80131 CNR, Napoli, Italy
Nucleic Acids Res 34:e114. 2006..Complementation of the beta-galactosidase deficiency in a deletion mutant strain of S.solfataricus demonstrated that lacS gene was an efficient marker for selection of single transformants on solid minimal lactose medium...
Pre-deliver chitosanase to cells: a novel strategy to improve gene expression by endocellular degradation-induced vector unpackingDong Chun Liang
Institute of Endocrinology, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300070, China
Int J Pharm 314:63-71. 2006..It is thought that the incorporated chitosanase could aid in chitosan degradation, which would promote gene unpacking, consequently increasing gene expression...
Effects of a common human gene variant of extracellular superoxide dismutase on endothelial function after endotoxin in miceDonald D Lund
Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Center, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
J Physiol 584:583-90. 2007..These findings suggest that, in contrast to ECSOD, the common human gene variant of ECSOD fails to protect against endothelial dysfunction produced by an inflammatory stimulus...
NF-kappaB activity in transgenic mice: developmental regulation and tissue specificityR Schmidt-Ullrich
Unité de Biologie Moléculaire de l Expression Génique, URA 1149 CNRS, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Development 122:2117-28. 1996....
A simple system for converting lacZ to gfp reporter fusions in diverse bacteriaMark Goulian
Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Gene 372:219-26. 2006..Green fluorescent protein expression in the new recombinants reflected the beta galactosidase expression in the parent strains...
Targeting deletion of angiotensin type 1B receptor gene in the mouseX Chen
Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA
Am J Physiol 272:F299-304. 1997....
Cloning, nucleotide sequence, and regulatory analysis of the Nitrosomonas europaea dnaK geneT Iizumi
Kurita Central Laboratories, Kurita Water Industries Ltd, Atsugi, Japan
Appl Environ Microbiol 63:1777-84. 1997..Therefore, we conclude that the heat shock regulatory mechanism of the N. europaea dnaK gene may be similar to the sigma 32-dependent mechanism observed in other gram-negative bacteria...
The p53-family members p63 and p73 inhibit insulin-like growth factor-I receptor gene expression in colon cancer cellsIrit Nahor
Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Growth Horm IGF Res 15:388-96. 2005..In summary, we have identified the IGF-IR gene as a novel downstream target for p63/p73 action...
Identification of a crucial site for synoviolin expressionKaneyuki Tsuchimochi
Department of Genomic Science, Institute of Medical Science, St Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Mol Cell Biol 25:7344-56. 2005..Our results suggest that transcriptional regulation of synoviolin via EBS-1 plays an important role in cellular homeostasis. Our study provides novel insight into the transcriptional regulation for cellular homeostasis...
Construction of plasmid-based expression vectors for Bacillus subtilis exhibiting full structural stabilityHoang Duc Nguyen
Institute of Genetics, University of Bayreuth, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany; Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City, College of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
Plasmid 54:241-8. 2005..The versatility of these expression vectors was demonstrated by fusing their promoters to a reporter gene and by overexpression of the HtpG protein with three of them. All recombinant vectors exhibited full structural stability...
Conditional mutagenesis of the murine serum response factor gene blocks cardiogenesis and the transcription of downstream gene targetsZhiyv Niu
Center for Cardiovascular Development, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, 77030, USA
J Biol Chem 280:32531-8. 2005....
Characterization of tetracycline-inducible bitransgenic Krt12rtTA/+/tet-O-LacZ miceTai ichiro Chikama
Department of Ophthahlmology, University of Cincinnati, Ohio 45267, USA
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 46:1966-72. 2005..To prepare binary transgenic mouse lines that overexpress reporter genes in a corneal-epithelium-specific manner when induced by doxycycline...
Evaluation of promoter strength in mouse and rat primary hepatocytes using adenovirus vectorsEri Arita
Laboratory of Bio Functional Molecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan
Eur J Pharm Biopharm 70:1-6. 2008..These findings should help in the construction of adenovirus vectors for expressing genes of interest in rodent primary cultured hepatocytes...
Environmental factors affecting transcription of the human L1 retrotransposon. II. StressorsJosé F Morales
Radiation Oncology Research Laboratory, University of California San Francisco, 1855 Folsom Street, MCB 200, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
Mutagenesis 18:151-8. 2003..No increase in beta-galactosidase activity was observed after exposure to X-rays or hydrogen peroxide...
The human prepro-orexin gene regulatory region that activates gene expression in the lateral region and represses it in the medial regions of the hypothalamusTakashi Moriguchi
Departments of Pharmacology, Anatomy and Embryology, and Molecular and Developmental Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, and the Center for Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305 8575, Japan
J Biol Chem 277:16985-92. 2002..Thus, OE1 contains crucial cis-acting elements regulating prepro-orexin gene expression specifically in the LHA...
Research Grants
- BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTION AND ATHEROSCLEROSISMacRae Linton; Fiscal Year: 1999..In addition, the transplantation of bone marrow from mice with the normal apoE gene into apo E deficient mice will be tested as a means of promoting regression of atherosclerosis in apoE deficient mice. ..
- DnaK Protein Inhibitor AntimicrobialsMichael Sturgess; Fiscal Year: 2003..abstract_text> ..
- INTERLEUKIN-1 AND PERINATAL BRAIN INJURYFaye Silverstein; Fiscal Year: 1999....
- CYTOMEGALOVIRUS DNA REPLICATION AND INVERSIONEdward Mocarski; Fiscal Year: 1991..CMV insertion mutants will be constructed using E. coli beta galactosidase as a genetic marker...
- CHEMICAL PATHOLOGY OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERSKunihiko Suzuki; Fiscal Year: 1993....
- CHEMICAL PATHOLOGY OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERSKunihiko Suzuki; Fiscal Year: 1999....
- CHEMICAL PATHOLOGY OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERSKunihiko Suzuki; Fiscal Year: 1992..Furthermore, it is conceivable that genetic status resembling Gaucher disease might exist due to abnormality of this factor. Such a possibility will be tested when the factor is adequately characterized...
- CELLULAR REGULATION OF KIDNEY EPITHELIAL CELL POLARITYDennis Brown; Fiscal Year: 2006..abstract_text> ..
- MEMBRANES OF THE DENTAL PATHOGEN STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANSL Jeannine Brady; Fiscal Year: 2002....
- MEMBRANES OF THE DENTAL PATHOGEN STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANSARNOLD BLEIWEIS; Fiscal Year: 2001....
- Genesis of Liver Carcinomas with Oval Cell TraitsDouglas Hixson; Fiscal Year: 2005..By elucidating the role of oval cells in liver carcinogenesis, the results from these studies will provide valuable information that can be translated into new strategies for the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of HCC. ..
- CHEMICAL PATHOLOGY OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERSKunihiko Suzuki; Fiscal Year: 2001..These point mutations are known in sap B and C in humans causing clinical diseases due to deficiency of the respective activator proteins without affecting processing of other domains. ..
- PTEN TUMOR SUPPRESSOR AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTIONRamon Parsons; Fiscal Year: 2005..Finally, PTEN heterozygous mice have tumors in multiple organ systems. They will breed PTEN+/- mice with IRS-2+/- mice to see if IRS-2 loss is able to attenuate the tumor phenotype. ..
- REPRODUCTIVE BIOCHEMISTRY OF TESTIS-SPECIFIC LDH-XErwin Goldberg; Fiscal Year: 2002..Ultimately, these data will permit us to fully realize the potential of gene therapy in alleviating male infertility and for fertility control. ..
- STRATEGIES FOR PRIMATE TRANSGENESISThaddeus Golos; Fiscal Year: 2003..abstract_text> ..
- HETEROLOGOUS RECOMBINATION IN DSRNA PHAGE PHI 6Leonard Mindich; Fiscal Year: 1993..It may be a major element in the evolution of RNA viruses. Phi6 is a model for the dsRNA viruses. Several members of the reoviridae, e.g. rotavirus and blue tongue virus, are the etiologic agents of important human and animal diseases...
