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Double-strand breaks (DSBs) are the most detrimental form of DNA damage. Failure to repair these cytotoxic lesions can result
in genome rearrangements conducive to the development of many diseases, including cancer. The DNA damage response (DDR) ensures
the rapid detection and repair of DSBs in order to maintain genome integrity. Central to the DDR are the DNA damage checkpoints.
When activated by DNA damage, these sophisticated surveillance mechanisms induce transient cell cycle arrests, allowing sufficient
time for DNA repair. Since the term “checkpoint” was coined over 20 years ago, our understanding of the molecular mechanisms
governing the DNA damage checkpoint has advanced significantly. These pathways are highly conserved from yeast to humans.
Thus, significant findings in yeast may be extrapolated to vertebrates, greatly facilitating the molecular dissection of these
complex regulatory networks. This review focuses on the cellular response to DSBs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, providing a comprehensive overview of how these signalling pathways function to orchestrate the cellular response to DNA
damage and preserve genome stability in eukaryotic cells. 相似文献
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Austin DW Allen MS McCollum JM Dar RD Wilgus JR Sayler GS Samatova NF Cox CD Simpson ML 《Nature》2006,439(7076):608-611
Recent work demonstrates that stochastic fluctuations in molecular populations have consequences for gene regulation. Previous experiments focused on noise sources or noise propagation through gene networks by measuring noise magnitudes. However, in theoretical analysis, we showed that noise frequency content is determined by the underlying gene circuits, leading to a mapping between gene circuit structure and the noise frequency range. An intriguing prediction from our previous studies was that negative autoregulation shifts noise to higher frequencies where it is more easily filtered out by gene networks--a property that may contribute to the prevalence of autoregulation motifs (for example, found in the regulation of approximately 40% of Escherichia coli genes). Here we measure noise frequency content in growing cultures of E. coli, and verify the link between gene circuit structure and noise spectra by demonstrating the negative autoregulation-mediated spectral shift. We further demonstrate that noise spectral measurements provide mechanistic insights into gene regulation, as perturbations of gene circuit parameters are discernible in the measured noise frequency ranges. These results suggest that noise spectral measurements could facilitate the discovery of novel regulatory relationships. 相似文献
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Thomas JW Touchman JW Blakesley RW Bouffard GG Beckstrom-Sternberg SM Margulies EH Blanchette M Siepel AC Thomas PJ McDowell JC Maskeri B Hansen NF Schwartz MS Weber RJ Kent WJ Karolchik D Bruen TC Bevan R Cutler DJ Schwartz S Elnitski L Idol JR Prasad AB Lee-Lin SQ Maduro VV Summers TJ Portnoy ME Dietrich NL Akhter N Ayele K Benjamin B Cariaga K Brinkley CP Brooks SY Granite S Guan X Gupta J Haghighi P Ho SL Huang MC Karlins E Laric PL Legaspi R Lim MJ Maduro QL Masiello CA Mastrian SD 《Nature》2003,424(6950):788-793
The systematic comparison of genomic sequences from different organisms represents a central focus of contemporary genome analysis. Comparative analyses of vertebrate sequences can identify coding and conserved non-coding regions, including regulatory elements, and provide insight into the forces that have rendered modern-day genomes. As a complement to whole-genome sequencing efforts, we are sequencing and comparing targeted genomic regions in multiple, evolutionarily diverse vertebrates. Here we report the generation and analysis of over 12 megabases (Mb) of sequence from 12 species, all derived from the genomic region orthologous to a segment of about 1.8 Mb on human chromosome 7 containing ten genes, including the gene mutated in cystic fibrosis. These sequences show conservation reflecting both functional constraints and the neutral mutational events that shaped this genomic region. In particular, we identify substantial numbers of conserved non-coding segments beyond those previously identified experimentally, most of which are not detectable by pair-wise sequence comparisons alone. Analysis of transposable element insertions highlights the variation in genome dynamics among these species and confirms the placement of rodents as a sister group to the primates. 相似文献
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Mechanisms of self-incompatibility in flowering plants 总被引:14,自引:0,他引:14
Self-incompatibility is a widespread mechanism in flowering plants that prevents inbreeding and promotes outcrossing. The
self-incompatibility response is genetically controlled by one or more multi-allelic loci, and relies on a series of complex
cellular interactions between the self-incompatible pollen and pistil. Although self-incompatibility functions ultimately
to prevent self-fertilization, flowering plants have evolved several unique mechanisms for rejecting the self-incompatible
pollen. The self-incompatibility system in the Solanaceae makes use of a multi-allelic RNase in the pistil to block incompatible pollen tube growth. In contrast, the Papaveraceae system appears to have complex cellular responses such as calcium fluxes, actin rearrangements, and programmed cell death
occurring in the incompatible pollen tube. Finally, the Brassicaceae system has a receptor kinase signalling pathway activated in the pistil leading to pollen rejection. This review highlights
the recent advances made towards understanding the cellular mechanisms involved in these self-incompatibility systems and
discusses the striking differences between these systems.
Received 10 May 2001; received after revision 20 June 2001; accepted 20 June 2001 相似文献