Transcriptional control of muscle development by myocyte enhancer factor-2 (MEF2) proteins

BL Black, EN Olson - Annual review of cell and developmental …, 1998 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Metazoans contain multiple types of muscle cells that share several common
properties, including contractility, excitability, and expression of overlap** sets of muscle …

Combinatorial control of muscle development by basic helix-loop-helix and MADS-box transcription factors.

JD Molkentin, EN Olson - Proceedings of the National …, 1996 - National Acad Sciences
Members of the MyoD family of muscle-specific basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) proteins
function within a genetic pathway to control skeletal muscle development. Mutational …

Classification and phylogeny of the MADS-box multigene family suggest defined roles of MADS-box gene subfamilies in the morphological evolution of eukaryotes

G Theißen, JT Kim, H Saedler - Journal of Molecular Evolution, 1996 - Springer
The MADS-box encodes a novel type of DNA-binding domain found so far in a diverse
group of transcription factors from yeast, animals, and seed plants. Here, our first aim was to …

Defining the regulatory networks for muscle development

JD Molkentin, EN Olson - Current opinion in genetics & development, 1996 - Elsevier
The formation of skeletal muscle during vertebrate embryogenesis requires commitment of
mesodermal precursor cells to the skeletal muscle lineage, withdrawal of myoblasts from the …

Role of MADS box proteins and their cofactors in combinatorial control of gene expression and cell development

F Messenguy, E Dubois - Gene, 2003 - Elsevier
In all organisms, correct development, growth and function depends on the precise and
integrated control of the expression of their genes. Often, gene regulation depends upon the …

Regulation of muscle regulatory factors by DNA‐binding, interacting proteins, and post‐transcriptional modifications

PL Puri, V Sartorelli - Journal of cellular physiology, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Skeletal muscle differentiation is influenced by multiple pathways, which regulate the activity
of myogenic regulatory factors (MRFs)—the myogenic basic helix‐loop‐helix proteins and …

Mutational analysis of the DNA binding, dimerization, and transcriptional activation domains of MEF2C

JD Molkentin, BL Black, JF Martin… - Molecular and cellular …, 1996 - Am Soc Microbiol
There are four members of the myocyte enhancer factor 2 (MEF2) family of transcription
factors in vertebrates, MEF2A,-B,-C, and-D, which have homology within a MADS box at …

The Saccharomyces cerevisiae MADS-box transcription factor Rlm1 is a target for the Mpk1 mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway

E Dodou, R Treisman - Molecular and cellular biology, 1997 - Am Soc Microbiol
Mutation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae RLM1, which encodes a MADS-box transcription
factor, confers resistance to the toxic effects of constitutive activity of the Mpk1 mitogen …

Cell cycle-dependent transcription in yeast: promoters, transcription factors, and transcriptomes

C Wittenberg, SI Reed - Oncogene, 2005 - nature.com
In the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a significant fraction of genes (> 10%) are
transcribed with cell cycle periodicity. These genes encode critical cell cycle regulators as …

[HTML][HTML] MEF‐2 function is modified by a novel co‐repressor, MITR

DB Sparrow, EA Miska, E Langley… - The EMBO …, 1999 - embopress.org
The MEF‐2 proteins are a family of transcriptional activators that have been detected in a
wide variety of cell types. In skeletal muscle cells, MEF‐2 proteins interact with members of …