Transcription factors as key molecular target to strengthen the drought stress tolerance in plants

M Manna, T Thakur, O Chirom, R Mandlik… - Physiologia …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Amid apprehension of global climate change, crop plants are inevitably confronted with a
myriad of abiotic stress factors during their growth that inflicts a serious threat to their …

Protein assembly: versatile approaches to construct highly ordered nanostructures

Q Luo, C Hou, Y Bai, R Wang, J Liu - Chemical Reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Nature endows life with a wide variety of sophisticated, synergistic, and highly functional
protein assemblies. Following Nature's inspiration to assemble protein building blocks into …

The AP-1 transcriptional complex: Local switch or remote command?

F Bejjani, E Evanno, K Zibara, M Piechaczyk… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2019 - Elsevier
The ubiquitous family of AP-1 dimeric transcription complexes is involved in virtually all
cellular and physiological functions. It is paramount for cells to reprogram gene expression …

Accurate prediction of protein function using statistics-informed graph networks

YJ Jang, QQ Qin, SY Huang, ATJ Peter… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding protein function is pivotal in comprehending the intricate mechanisms that
underlie many crucial biological activities, with far-reaching implications in the fields of …

ATF3 induction prevents precocious activation of skeletal muscle stem cell by regulating H2B expression

S Zhang, F Yang, Y Huang, L He, Y Li, YCE Wan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Skeletal muscle stem cells (also called satellite cells, SCs) are important for maintaining
muscle tissue homeostasis and damage-induced regeneration. However, it remains poorly …

Transcription factor binding site orientation and order are major drivers of gene regulatory activity

I Georgakopoulos-Soares, C Deng, V Agarwal… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The gene regulatory code and grammar remain largely unknown, precluding our ability to
link phenotype to genotype in regulatory sequences. Here, using a massively parallel …

AP-1: a double-edged sword in tumorigenesis

R Eferl, EF Wagner - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2003 - nature.com
The AP-1 transcription factor is a dimeric complex that contains members of the JUN, FOS,
ATF and MAF protein families. AP-1 proteins are primarily considered to be oncogenic, but …

BACH2 regulates CD8+ T cell differentiation by controlling access of AP-1 factors to enhancers

R Roychoudhuri, D Clever, P Li, Y Wakabayashi… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
T cell antigen receptor (TCR) signaling drives distinct responses depending on the
differentiation state and context of CD8+ T cells. We hypothesized that access of signal …

Intrinsic disorder and protein function

AK Dunker, CJ Brown, JD Lawson, LM Iakoucheva… - Biochemistry, 2002 - ACS Publications
The dominant view of protein structure-function is that an amino acid sequence specifies a
three-dimensional (3-D) structure that is a prerequisite for protein function. In contrast, many …

Visualization of interactions among bZIP and Rel family proteins in living cells using bimolecular fluorescence complementation

CD Hu, Y Chinenov, TK Kerppola - Molecular cell, 2002 - cell.com
Networks of protein interactions coordinate cellular functions. We describe a bimolecular
fluorescence complementation (BiFC) assay for determination of the locations of protein …