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Volume 9;  2008
Research Articles
A direct repeat of E-box-like elements is required for cell-autonomous circadian rhythm of clock genes
Yasukazu Nakahata, Mayumi Yoshida, Atsuko Takano, Haruhiko Soma, Takuro Yamamoto, Akio Yasuda, Toru Nakatsu, and Toru Takumi
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 1. Published online 2008 January 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-1.
PMCID: PMC2254435
Specificity of DNA-binding by the FAX-1 and NHR-67 nuclear receptors of Caenorhabditis elegans is partially mediated via a subclass-specific P-box residue
Stephen D DeMeo, Rebecca M Lombel, Melissa Cronin, Eric L Smith, Danielle R Snowflack, Kristy Reinert, Sheila Clever, and Bruce Wightman
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 2. Published online 2008 January 7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-2.
PMCID: PMC2225407
The Paf1 complex promotes displacement of histones upon rapid induction of transcription by RNA polymerase II
Heather A Marton and Stephen Desiderio
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 4. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-4.
PMCID: PMC2265735
Regulation of mouse Scgb3a1 gene expression by NF-Y and association of CpG methylation with its tissue-specific expression
Takeshi Tomita and Shioko Kimura
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 5. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-5.
PMCID: PMC2266941
Small RNAs and the regulation of cis-natural antisense transcripts in Arabidopsis
Hailing Jin, Vladimir Vacic, Thomas Girke, Stefano Lonardi, and Jian-Kang Zhu
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 6. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-6.
PMCID: PMC2262095
Substrate specificity of new methyl-directed DNA endonuclease GlaI
Galina V Tarasova, Tatiana N Nayakshina, and Sergey KH Degtyarev
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 7. Published online 2008 January 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-7.
PMCID: PMC2257971
The human SIN3B corepressor forms a nucleolar complex with leukemia-associated ETO homologues
Rakesh Singh Dhanda, Sofia Rondin Lindberg, and Inge Olsson
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 8. Published online 2008 January 19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-8.
PMCID: PMC2266940
Selection and validation of a set of reliable reference genes for quantitative sod gene expression analysis in C. elegans
David Hoogewijs, Koen Houthoofd, Filip Matthijssens, Jo Vandesompele, and Jacques R Vanfleteren
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 9. Published online 2008 January 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-9.
PMCID: PMC2254638
Alternative splicing and differential subcellular localization of the rat FGF antisense gene product
Shuo Cheng Zhang, Kimberley A MacDonald, Mark Baguma-Nibasheka, Laurette Geldenhuys, Alan G Casson, and Paul R Murphy
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 10. Published online 2008 January 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-10.
PMCID: PMC2254637
Ror2 modulates the canonical Wnt signaling in lung epithelial cells through cooperation with Fzd2
Changgong Li, Hongyan Chen, Lingyan Hu, Yiming Xing, Tomoyo Sasaki, Maria F Villosis, John Li, Michiru Nishita, Yasuhiro Minami, and Parviz Minoo
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 11. Published online 2008 January 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-11.
PMCID: PMC2254434
Differential regulation of the two transcriptional activation domains of the coiled-coil coactivator CoCoA by sumoylation
Catherine K Yang, Jeong Hoon Kim, David K Ann, and Michael R Stallcup
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 12. Published online 2008 January 25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-12.
PMCID: PMC2263068
Analysis of the transcriptional activity of endogenous NFAT5 in primary cells using transgenic NFAT-luciferase reporter mice
Beatriz Morancho, Jordi Minguillón, Jeffery D Molkentin, Cristina López-Rodríguez, and Jose Aramburu
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 13. Published online 2008 January 25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-13.
PMCID: PMC2262899
Simultaneous targeted exchange of two nucleotides by single-stranded oligonucleotides clusters within a region of about fourteen nucleotides
Heike Hegele, Matthias Wuepping, Caroline Ref, Oliver Kenner, and Dieter Kaufmann
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 14. Published online 2008 January 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-14.
PMCID: PMC2266939
Iron-dependent degradation of IRP2 requires its C-terminal region and IRP structural integrity
Jian Wang, Guohua Chen, Julie Lee, and Kostas Pantopoulos
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 15. Published online 2008 January 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-15.
PMCID: PMC2267205
Expression of yeast lipid phosphatase Sac1p is regulated by phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate
Andreas Knödler, Gerlinde Konrad, and Peter Mayinger
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 16. Published online 2008 January 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-16.
PMCID: PMC2258305
Reference genes for normalization of gene expression studies in human osteoarthritic articular cartilage
Manuel Pombo-Suarez, Manuel Calaza, Juan J Gomez-Reino, and Antonio Gonzalez
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 17. Published online 2008 January 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-17.
PMCID: PMC2248200
Housekeeping genes for quantitative expression studies in the three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus
Sascha Hibbeler, Joern P Scharsack, and Sven Becker
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 18. Published online 2008 January 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-18.
PMCID: PMC2254436
Molecular characterization and expression analysis of five different elongation factor 1 alpha genes in the flatfish Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis Kaup): Differential gene expression and thyroid hormones dependence during metamorphosis
Carlos Infante, Esther Asensio, José Pedro Cañavate, and Manuel Manchado
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 19. Published online 2008 January 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-19.
PMCID: PMC2270864
Comparative genomic analysis of the arthropod muscle myosin heavy chain genes allows ancestral gene reconstruction and reveals a new type of 'partially' processed pseudogene
Florian Odronitz and Martin Kollmar
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 21. Published online 2008 February 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-21.
PMCID: PMC2257972
A novel mutant of the Sup35 protein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae defective in translation termination and in GTPase activity still supports cell viability
Céline Fabret, Bruno Cosnier, Sergey Lekomtsev, Sylvie Gillet, Isabelle Hatin, Pierre Le Maréchal, and Jean Pierre Rousset
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 22. Published online 2008 February 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-22.
PMCID: PMC2259375
Ligand-induced sequestering of branchpoint sequence allows conditional control of splicing
Dong-Suk Kim, Veronica Gusti, Kenneth J Dery, and Rajesh K Gaur
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 23. Published online 2008 February 12. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-23.
PMCID: PMC2275289
hMMS2 serves a redundant role in human PCNA polyubiquitination
Jan Brun, Roland Chiu, Katherine Lockhart, Wei Xiao, Bradly G Wouters, and Douglas A Gray
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 24. Published online 2008 February 19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-24.
PMCID: PMC2263069
The Mre11 protein interacts with both Rad50 and the HerA bipolar helicase and is recruited to DNA following gamma irradiation in the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius
Achim Quaiser, Florence Constantinesco, Malcolm F White, Patrick Forterre, and Christiane Elie
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 25. Published online 2008 February 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-25.
PMCID: PMC2288612
Characterization of human mesenchymal stem cell secretome at early steps of adipocyte and osteoblast differentiation
Chiara Chiellini, Olivia Cochet, Luc Negroni, Michel Samson, Marjorie Poggi, Gérard Ailhaud, Marie-Christine Alessi, Christian Dani, and Ez-Zoubir Amri
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 26. Published online 2008 February 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-26.
PMCID: PMC2279142
Essential and distinct roles of the F-box and helicase domains of Fbh1 in DNA damage repair
Chikako Sakaguchi, Takashi Morishita, Hideo Shinagawa, and Takashi Hishida
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 27. Published online 2008 March 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-27.
PMCID: PMC2294136
Selection of housekeeping genes for gene expression studies in larvae from flatfish using real-time PCR
Carlos Infante, Makoto P Matsuoka, Esther Asensio, José Pedro Cañavate, Michael Reith, and Manuel Manchado
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 28. Published online 2008 March 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-28.
PMCID: PMC2275743
Association of ATRX with pericentric heterochromatin and the Y chromosome of neonatal mouse spermatogonia
Claudia Baumann, Anja Schmidtmann, Kathrin Muegge, and Rabindranath De La Fuente
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 29. Published online 2008 March 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-29.
PMCID: PMC2275742
Characterization of the human DYRK1A promoter and its regulation by the transcription factor E2F1
Barbara Maenz, Paul Hekerman, Eva M Vela, Juan Galceran, and Walter Becker
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 30. Published online 2008 March 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-30.
PMCID: PMC2292204
Novel forms of Paired-like homeodomain transcription factor 2 (PITX2): Generation by alternative translation initiation and mRNA splicing
Pankaj Lamba, Tord A Hjalt, and Daniel J Bernard
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 31. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-31.
PMCID: PMC2330153
HMG-box domain stimulation of RAG1/2 cleavage activity is metal ion dependent
Aleksei N Kriatchko, Serge Bergeron, and Patrick C Swanson
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 32. Published online 2008 April 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-32.
PMCID: PMC2324110
The katG mRNA of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium smegmatis is processed at its 5' end and is stabilized by both a polypurine sequence and translation initiation
Claudia Sala, Francesca Forti, Francesca Magnoni, and Daniela Ghisotti
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 33. Published online 2008 April 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-33.
PMCID: PMC2358910
Transcriptional profile of the homologous recombination machinery and characterization of the EhRAD51 recombinase in response to DNA damage in Entamoeba histolytica
Mavil López-Casamichana, Esther Orozco, Laurence A Marchat, and César López-Camarillo
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 35. Published online 2008 April 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-35.
PMCID: PMC2324109
Drosophila Uri, a PP1α binding protein, is essential for viability, maintenance of DNA integrity and normal transcriptional activity
Jasmin Kirchner, Emese Vissi, Sascha Gross, Balazs Szoor, Andrey Rudenko, Luke Alphey, and Helen White-Cooper
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 36. Published online 2008 April 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-36.
PMCID: PMC2346476
Gene transfer of Hodgkin cell lines via multivalent anti-CD30 scFv displaying bacteriophage
Yoon-Suk A Chung, Katja Sabel, Martin Krönke, and Alexander Klimka
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 37. Published online 2008 April 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-37.
PMCID: PMC2375901
The calcium channel β2 (CACNB2) subunit repertoire in teleosts
Alicia M Ebert, Catherine A McAnelly, Ashok Srinivasan, Rachel Lockridge Mueller, David B Garrity, and Deborah M Garrity
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 38. Published online 2008 April 17. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-38.
PMCID: PMC2365960
DNA demethylation-dependent enhancement of toll-like receptor-2 gene expression in cystic fibrosis epithelial cells involves SP1-activated transcription
Takashi Furuta, Tsuyoshi Shuto, Shogo Shimasaki, Yuko Ohira, Mary Ann Suico, Dieter C Gruenert, and Hirofumi Kai
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 39. Published online 2008 April 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-39.
PMCID: PMC2387165
DNA watermarks: A proof of concept
Dominik Heider and Angelika Barnekow
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 40. Published online 2008 April 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-40.
PMCID: PMC2375902
Interaction of circadian clock proteins PER2 and CRY with BMAL1 and CLOCK
Sonja Langmesser, Tiziano Tallone, Alain Bordon, Sandro Rusconi, and Urs Albrecht
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 41. Published online 2008 April 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-41.
PMCID: PMC2383916
Molecular characterization of senescence marker protein-30 gene promoter: Identification of repressor elements and functional nuclear factor binding sites
Bandita Rath, Ravi S Pandey, Priya R Debata, Naoki Maruyama, and Prakash C Supakar
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 43. Published online 2008 April 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-43.
PMCID: PMC2386801
A GATA4/WT1 cooperation regulates transcription of genes required for mammalian sex determination and differentiation
Yoko Miyamoto, Hiroaki Taniguchi, Frédéric Hamel, David W Silversides, and Robert S Viger
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 44. Published online 2008 April 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-44.
PMCID: PMC2387164
Characterization of two functional NKX3.1 binding sites upstream of the PCAN1 gene that are involved in the positive regulation of PCAN1 gene transcription
Wenwen Liu, Pengju Zhang, Weiwen Chen, Chunxiao Yu, Fuai Cui, Feng Kong, Jianye Zhang, and Anli Jiang
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 45. Published online 2008 May 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-45.
PMCID: PMC2390571
Identification of valid reference genes for the normalization of RT qPCR gene expression data in human brain tissue
David TR Coulson, Simon Brockbank, Joseph G Quinn, Suzanne Murphy, Rivka Ravid, G Brent Irvine, and Janet A Johnston
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 46. Published online 2008 May 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-46.
PMCID: PMC2396658
Distinct and stage specific nuclear factors regulate the expression of falcipains, Plasmodium falciparum cysteine proteases
Sujatha Sunil, Virander S Chauhan, and Pawan Malhotra
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 47. Published online 2008 May 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-47.
PMCID: PMC2409366
The BsaHI restriction-modification system: Cloning, sequencing and analysis of conserved motifs
Robert K Neely and Richard J Roberts
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 48. Published online 2008 May 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-48.
PMCID: PMC2413257
Exercise induced stress in horses: Selection of the most stable reference genes for quantitative RT-PCR normalization
Katia Cappelli, Michela Felicetti, Stefano Capomaccio, Giacomo Spinsanti, Maurizio Silvestrelli, and Andrea Verini Supplizi
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 49. Published online 2008 May 19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-49.
PMCID: PMC2412902
Comparative in silico analysis identifies bona fide MyoD binding sites within the Myocyte Stress 1 gene promoter
Samir Ounzain, Caroline S Dacwag, Nilesh J Samani, Anthony N Imbalzano, and Nelson W Chong
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 50. Published online 2008 May 19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-50.
PMCID: PMC2408591
Characterization and expression patterns of a membrane-bound trehalase from Spodoptera exigua
Bin Tang, Xiaofei Chen, Yang Liu, Honggang Tian, Jian Liu, Jian Hu, Weihua Xu, and Wenqing Zhang
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 51. Published online 2008 May 20. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-51.
PMCID: PMC2424068
IRES-mediated translation of the carboxy-terminal domain of the horizontal cell specific connexin Cx55.5 in vivo and in vitro
Mahboob Ul-Hussain, Georg Zoidl, Jan Klooster, Maarten Kamermans, and Rolf Dermietzel
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 52. Published online 2008 May 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-52.
PMCID: PMC2435236
Selection of reference genes for quantitative real-time PCR in a rat asphyxial cardiac arrest model
Kristina Langnaese, Robin John, Hannes Schweizer, Uwe Ebmeyer, and Gerburg Keilhoff
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 53. Published online 2008 May 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-53.
PMCID: PMC2430208
LTR retrotransposons and the evolution of dosage compensation in Drosophila
Lilya V Matyunina, Nathan J Bowen, and John F McDonald
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 55. Published online 2008 June 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-55.
PMCID: PMC2443393
Identification of a candidate alternative promoter region of the human Bcl2L11 (Bim) gene
Margherita Gaviraghi, Andrea Caricasole, Chiara Costanzo, Daniela Diamanti, Mario Dandrea, Massimo Donadelli, Aldo Scarpa, and Marta Palmieri
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 56. Published online 2008 June 12. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-56.
PMCID: PMC2442123
TATA binding protein associated factor 3 (TAF3) interacts with p53 and inhibits its function
Orsolya Bereczki, Zsuzsanna Ujfaludi, Norbert Pardi, Zita Nagy, Laszlo Tora, Imre M Boros, and Eva Balint
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 57. Published online 2008 June 12. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-57.
PMCID: PMC2441632
Systemic RNAi mediated gene silencing in the anhydrobiotic nematode Panagrolaimus superbus
Adam J Shannon, Trevor Tyson, Ilona Dix, Jacqueline Boyd, and Ann M Burnell
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 58. Published online 2008 June 19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-58.
PMCID: PMC2453295
Validation of internal control for gene expression study in soybean by quantitative real-time PCR
Bo Jian, Bin Liu, Yurong Bi, Wensheng Hou, Cunxiang Wu, and Tianfu Han
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 59. Published online 2008 June 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-59.
PMCID: PMC2443375
Off-target effects of siRNA specific for GFP
Cordula Tschuch, Angela Schulz, Armin Pscherer, Wiebke Werft, Axel Benner, Agnes Hotz-Wagenblatt, Leticia Serra Barrionuevo, Peter Lichter, and Daniel Mertens
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 60. Published online 2008 June 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-60.
PMCID: PMC2443166
Phosphorylation at Ser473 regulates heterochromatin protein 1 binding and corepressor function of TIF1beta/KAP1
Chiung-Wen Chang, Han-Yi Chou, Yu-Sheng Lin, Kuo-Hsiang Huang, Ching-Jin Chang, Tsui-Chun Hsu, and Sheng-Chung Lee
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 61. Published online 2008 July 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-61.
PMCID: PMC2474647
Housekeeping while brain's storming Validation of normalizing factors for gene expression studies in a murine model of traumatic brain injury
Hervé Rhinn, Catherine Marchand-Leroux, Nicole Croci, Michel Plotkine, Daniel Scherman, and Virginie Escriou
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 62. Published online 2008 July 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-62.
PMCID: PMC2500043
Quantification of mRNA in single cells and modelling of RT-qPCR induced noise
Martin Bengtsson, Martin Hemberg, Patrik Rorsman, and Anders Ståhlberg
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 63. Published online 2008 July 17. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-63.
PMCID: PMC2483285
Genomic actions of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 on insulin receptor gene expression, insulin receptor number and insulin activity in the kidney, liver and adipose tissue of streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats
Consuelo Calle, Begoña Maestro, and Moisés García-Arencibia
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 65. Published online 2008 July 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-65.
PMCID: PMC2533347
Statistical modelling of transcript profiles of differentially regulated genes
Daniel C Eastwood, Andrew Mead, Martin J Sergeant, and Kerry S Burton
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 66. Published online 2008 July 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-66.
PMCID: PMC2525656
Expression profiles of the pluripotency marker gene POU5F1 and validation of reference genes in rabbit oocytes and preimplantation stage embryos
Solomon Mamo, Arpad Baji Gal, Zsuzsanna Polgar, and Andras Dinnyes
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 67. Published online 2008 July 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-67.
PMCID: PMC2507718
Optical mapping discerns genome wide DNA methylation profiles
Gene E Ananiev, Steve Goldstein, Rod Runnheim, Dan K Forrest, Shiguo Zhou, Konstantinos Potamousis, Chris P Churas, Veit Bergendahl, James A Thomson, and David C Schwartz
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 68. Published online 2008 July 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-68.
PMCID: PMC2516518
PSMB2 and RPL32 are suitable denominators to normalize gene expression profiles in bronchoalveolar cells
Eva Kriegova, Arsen Arakelyan, Regina Fillerova, Jaromir Zatloukal, Frantisek Mrazek, Zdenka Navratilova, Vitezslav Kolek, Roland M du Bois, and Martin Petrek
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 69. Published online 2008 July 31. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-69.
PMCID: PMC2529339
In vivo analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans noncoding RNA promoter motifs
Tiantian Li, Housheng He, Yunfei Wang, Haixia Zheng, Geir Skogerbø, and Runsheng Chen
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 71. Published online 2008 August 5. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-71.
PMCID: PMC2527325
Analysis of the piggyBac transposase reveals a functional nuclear targeting signal in the 94 c-terminal residues
James H Keith, Tresa S Fraser, and Malcolm J Fraser, Jr
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 72. Published online 2008 August 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-72.
PMCID: PMC2532691
Mutational analysis of highly conserved aspartate residues essential to the catalytic core of the piggyBac transposase
James H Keith, Cheryl A Schaeper, Tresa S Fraser, and Malcolm J Fraser, Jr
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 73. Published online 2008 August 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-73.
PMCID: PMC2533014
Differential expression of the TFIIIB subunits Brf1 and Brf2 in cancer cells
Stephanie Cabarcas, Joby Jacob, Ingrid Veras, and Laura Schramm
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 74. Published online 2008 August 12. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-74.
PMCID: PMC2533013
Evaluation of suitable reference genes for gene expression studies in bovine muscular tissue
Raquel Pérez, Isabel Tupac-Yupanqui, and Susana Dunner
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 79. Published online 2008 September 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-79.
PMCID: PMC2561043
Sense and antisense OsDof12 transcripts in rice
Dejun Li, Chunhua Yang, Xiaobing Li, Guobiao Ji, and Lihuang Zhu
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 80. Published online 2008 September 17. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-80.
PMCID: PMC2576344
Regulation of expression of two LY-6 family genes by intron retention and transcription induced chimerism
Vincenzo Calvanese, Meera Mallya, R Duncan Campbell, and Begoña Aguado
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 81. Published online 2008 September 25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-81.
PMCID: PMC2562388
Pioglitazone retrieves hepatic antioxidant DNA repair in a mice model of high fat diet
Pi-Jung Hsiao, Tusty-Jiuan Hsieh, Kung-Kai Kuo, Wei-Wen Hung, Kun-Bow Tsai, Ching-Hsiu Yang, Ming-Lung Yu, and Shyi-Jang Shin
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 82. Published online 2008 September 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-82.
PMCID: PMC2565677
Identification and characterization of CCAAT/Enhancer Binding proteindelta (C/EBPdelta) target genes in G0 growth arrested mammary epithelial cells
Yingjie Zhang, Tong Liu, Pearlly Yan, Tim Huang, and Jim DeWille
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 83. Published online 2008 October 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-83.
PMCID: PMC2576343
Mutant huntingtin activates Nrf2-responsive genes and impairs dopamine synthesis in a PC12 model of Huntington's disease
Willeke MC van Roon-Mom, Barry A Pepers, Peter AC 't Hoen, Carola ACM Verwijmeren, Johan T den Dunnen, Josephine C Dorsman, and GertJan B van Ommen
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 84. Published online 2008 October 9. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-84.
PMCID: PMC2588454
New insights into SRY regulation through identification of 5' conserved sequences
Diana GF Ross, Josephine Bowles, Peter Koopman, and Sigrid Lehnert
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 85. Published online 2008 October 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-85.
PMCID: PMC2572636
The orthologue of the "acatalytic" mammalian ART4 in chicken is an arginine-specific mono-ADP-ribosyltransferase
Andreas Grahnert, Steffi Richter, Fritzi Siegert, Angela Berndt, and Sunna Hauschildt
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 86. Published online 2008 October 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-86.
PMCID: PMC2576468
FIZ1 is part of the regulatory protein complex on active photoreceptor-specific gene promoters in vivo
Raghuveer S Mali, Guang-Hua Peng, Xiao Zhang, Loan Dang, Shiming Chen, and Kenneth P Mitton
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 87. Published online 2008 October 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-87.
PMCID: PMC2571102
Computational modeling and in silico analysis of differential regulation of myo-inositol catabolic enzymes in Cryptococcus neoformans
Emalee A Mackenzie and Lisa S Klig
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 88. Published online 2008 October 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-88.
PMCID: PMC2584100
Identifying intrinsic and extrinsic determinants that regulate internal initiation of translation mediated by the FMR1 5' leader
Tara Dobson, Erika Kube, Stephanie Timmerman, and Les A Krushel
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 89. Published online 2008 October 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-89.
PMCID: PMC2576346
Identification of two regulatory binding sites which confer myotube specific expression of the mono-ADP-ribosyltransferase ART1 gene
Maik Friedrich, Levin Böhlig, Ralf D Kirschner, Kurt Engeland, and Sunna Hauschildt
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 91. Published online 2008 October 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-91.
PMCID: PMC2575215
Characterization of the internal IRES element of the zebrafish connexin55.5 reveals functional implication of the polypyrimidine tract binding protein
Mahboob Ul-Hussain, Rolf Dermietzel, and Georg Zoidl
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 92. Published online 2008 October 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-92.
PMCID: PMC2579433
Novel RNA-binding properties of the MTG chromatin regulatory proteins
Stefano Rossetti, Leontine van Unen, Nicoletta Sacchi, and Andre T Hoogeveen
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 93. Published online 2008 October 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-93.
PMCID: PMC2579434
High-fidelity correction of genomic uracil by human mismatch repair activities
Erik D Larson, David W Bednarski, and Nancy Maizels
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 94. Published online 2008 October 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-94.
PMCID: PMC2606688
Complex organisation and structure of the ghrelin antisense strand gene GHRLOS, a candidate non-coding RNA gene
Inge Seim, Shea L Carter, Adrian C Herington, and Lisa K Chopin
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 95. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-95.
PMCID: PMC2621237
Instability of standard PCR reference genes in adipose-derived stem cells during propagation, differentiation and hypoxic exposure
Trine Fink, Pia Lund, Linda Pilgaard, Jeppe Grøndahl Rasmussen, Meg Duroux, and Vladimir Zachar
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 98. Published online 2008 October 31. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-98.
PMCID: PMC2585587
Promoter Hypermethylation-mediated Inactivation of LRRC4 in Gliomas
Zuping Zhang, Dan Li, Minghua Wu, Bo Xiang, Li Wang, Ming Zhou, Pan Chen, Xiaoling Li, Shourong Shen, and Guiyuan Li
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 99. Published online 2008 November 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-99.
PMCID: PMC2588634
Control of replication initiation by the Sum1/Rfm1/Hst1 histone deacetylase
Jan M Weber, Horst Irlbacher, and Ann E Ehrenhofer-Murray
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 100. Published online 2008 November 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-100.
PMCID: PMC2585588
Characterization of housekeeping genes in zebrafish: male-female differences and effects of tissue type, developmental stage and chemical treatment
Amy T McCurley and Gloria V Callard
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 102. Published online 2008 November 12. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-102.
PMCID: PMC2588455
Identification of Importin 8 (IPO8) as the most accurate reference gene for the clinicopathological analysis of lung specimens
Paul A Nguewa, Jackeline Agorreta, David Blanco, Maria Dolores Lozano, Javier Gomez-Roman, Blas A Sanchez, Iñaki Valles, Maria J Pajares, Ruben Pio, Maria Jose Rodriguez, Luis M Montuenga, and Alfonso Calvo
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 103. Published online 2008 November 17. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-103.
PMCID: PMC2612021
The artiodactyl APOBEC3 innate immune repertoire shows evidence for a multi-functional domain organization that existed in the ancestor of placental mammals
Rebecca S LaRue, Stefán R Jónsson, Kevin AT Silverstein, Mathieu Lajoie, Denis Bertrand, Nadia El-Mabrouk, Isidro Hötzel, Valgerdur Andrésdóttir, Timothy PL Smith, and Reuben S Harris
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 104. Published online 2008 November 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-104.
PMCID: PMC2612020
Identification of phylogenetically conserved sequence motifs in microRNA 5' flanking sites from C. elegans and C. briggsae
Liisa Heikkinen, Suvi Asikainen, and Garry Wong
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 105. Published online 2008 November 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-105.
PMCID: PMC2613404
Two evolutionarily conserved sequence elements for Peg3/Usp29 transcription
Jeong Do Kim, Sungryul Yu, Jung Ha Choo, and Joomyeong Kim
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 108. Published online 2008 December 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-108.
PMCID: PMC2615030
Methodology Articles
Preamplification techniques for real-time RT-PCR analyses of endomyocardial biopsies
Michel Noutsias, Maria Rohde, Andrea Block, Katrin Klippert, Olga Lettau, Katja Blunert, Michael Hummel, Uwe Kühl, Hans Lehmkuhl, Roland Hetzer, Ursula Rauch, Wolfgang Poller, Matthias Pauschinger, Heinz P Schultheiss, Hans D Volk, and Katja Kotsch
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 3. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-3.
PMCID: PMC2262094
Use of the lambda Red recombinase system to rapidly generate mutants in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Biliana Lesic and Laurence G Rahme
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 20. Published online 2008 February 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-20.
PMCID: PMC2287187
miR-Q: a novel quantitative RT-PCR approach for the expression profiling of small RNA molecules such as miRNAs in a complex sample
Soroush Sharbati-Tehrani, Barbara Kutz-Lohroff, Ramona Bergbauer, Jutta Scholven, and Ralf Einspanier
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 34. Published online 2008 April 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-34.
PMCID: PMC2374797
Mutation detection using ENDO1: Application to disease diagnostics in humans and TILLING and Eco-TILLING in plants
Karine Triques, Elodie Piednoir, Marion Dalmais, Julien Schmidt, Christine Le Signor, Mark Sharkey, Michel Caboche, Bénédicte Sturbois, and Abdelhafid Bendahmane
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 42. Published online 2008 April 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-42.
PMCID: PMC2386800
A novel universal real-time PCR system using the attached universal duplex probes for quantitative analysis of nucleic acids
Litao Yang, Wanqi Liang, Lingxi Jiang, Wenquan Li, Wei Cao, Zoe A Wilson, and Dabing Zhang
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 54. Published online 2008 June 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-54.
PMCID: PMC2443376
Selection of housekeeping genes for gene expression studies in the adult rat submandibular gland under normal, inflamed, atrophic and regenerative states
Nicholas Silver, Emanuele Cotroneo, Gordon Proctor, Samira Osailan, Katherine L Paterson, and Guy H Carpenter
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 64. Published online 2008 July 17. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-64.
PMCID: PMC2492873
Efficient four fragment cloning for the construction of vectors for targeted gene replacement in filamentous fungi
Rasmus JN Frandsen, Jens A Andersson, Matilde B Kristensen, and Henriette Giese
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 70. Published online 2008 August 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-70.
PMCID: PMC2533011
Normalisation genes for expression analyses in the brown alga model Ectocarpus siliculosus
Aude Le Bail, Simon M Dittami, Pierre-Olivier de Franco, Sylvie Rousvoal, Mark J Cock, Thierry Tonon, and Bénédicte Charrier
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 75. Published online 2008 August 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-75.
PMCID: PMC2546422
Identification of suitable endogenous control genes for microRNA gene expression analysis in human breast cancer
Pamela A Davoren, Roisin E McNeill, Aoife J Lowery, Michael J Kerin, and Nicola Miller
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 76. Published online 2008 August 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-76.
PMCID: PMC2533012
Phi29 polymerase based random amplification of viral RNA as an alternative to random RT-PCR
Nicolas Berthet, Anita K Reinhardt, India Leclercq, Sven van Ooyen, Christophe Batéjat, Philip Dickinson, Rayna Stamboliyska, Iain G Old, Katherine A Kong, Laurent Dacheux, Hervé Bourhy, Giulia C Kennedy, Christian Korfhage, Stewart T Cole, and Jean-Claude Manuguerra
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 77. Published online 2008 September 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-77.
PMCID: PMC2535778
Selection of internal reference genes for SYBR green qRT-PCR studies of rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) tissues
Kung Ahn, Jae-Won Huh, Sang-Je Park, Dae-Soo Kim, Hong-Seok Ha, Yun-Ji Kim, Ja-Rang Lee, Kyu-Tae Chang, and Heui-Soo Kim
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 78. Published online 2008 September 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-78.
PMCID: PMC2561044
Ectopic expression of a truncated CD40L protein from synthetic post-transcriptionally capped RNA in dendritic cells induces high levels of IL-12 secretion
Irina Y Tcherepanova, Melissa D Adams, Xiaorong Feng, Atsushi Hinohara, Joe Horvatinovich, David Calderhead, Don Healey, and Charles A Nicolette
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 90. Published online 2008 October 17. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-90.
PMCID: PMC2576345
Critical evaluation of methods used to determine amplification efficiency refutes the exponential character of real-time PCR
Robert G Rutledge and Don Stewart
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 96. Published online 2008 October 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-96.
PMCID: PMC2587475
Isolation of novel coregulatory protein networks associated with DNA-bound estrogen receptor alpha
Jennifer R Schultz-Norton, Yvonne S Ziegler, Varsha S Likhite, John R Yates, and Ann M Nardulli
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 97. Published online 2008 October 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-97.
PMCID: PMC2585101
Analysis of chromatin boundary activity in Drosophila cells
Mo Li, Vladimir E Belozerov, and Haini N Cai
BMC Mol Biol. 2008; 9: 109. Published online 2008 December 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-9-109.
PMCID: PMC2621236
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