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Ueli Schibler

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Ueli Schibler was a Full Professor at the Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva from 1984-2015.

2000 Louis-Jeantet Prize Winner

1996 Otto Naegeli prize for medicine

Pubmed

2024

Steven A. Brown and the synchronization of circadian rhythms by body temperature cycles.
Eur J Neurosci, ; 60 (2): 3891-3900

2023

How the circadian nuclear orphan receptor REV-ERBα represses transcription: Temporal and spatial phase separation combined.
Mol Cell, ; 83 (19): 3399-3401

2022

Recording of Diurnal Gene Expression in Peripheral Organs of Mice Using the RT-Biolumicorder.
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Methods Mol Biol, ; 2482 : 217-242

2021

PARP-1 drives slumber: A reciprocal relationship between sleep homeostasis and DNA damage repair.
Mol Cell, ; 81 (24): 4958-4959
BMAL1 dephosphorylation determines the pace of the circadian clock.
Genes Dev, ; 35 (15-16): 1076-1078
Circadian hepatocyte clocks keep synchrony in the absence of a master pacemaker in the suprachiasmatic nucleus or other extrahepatic clocks.
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Genes Dev, ; 35 (5-6): 329-334

2020

Senescence of Timing Reverted: NAD(+) Rejuvenates the Circadian Clock.
Mol Cell, ; 78 (5): 805-807

2019

Oxidation of CLOCK boosts circadian rhythms.
Nat Cell Biol, ; 21 (12): 1464-1465

2018

Selenium cysteine and epileptic seizures.
Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol, ; 19 (12): 753
Body clocks: Time for the Nobel Prize.
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Acta Physiol (Oxf), ; 222 (2)

2017

Mammalian Circadian Cogwheels Are Parts of Macromolecular Machines.
Mol Cell, ; 67 (5): 727-729
Getting Surprising Answers to Unasked Questions.
Cell, ; 169 (7): 1162-1167
Diurnal Oscillations in Liver Mass and Cell Size Accompany Ribosome Assembly Cycles.
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Cell, ; 169 (4): 651-663.e14
Transcriptional regulatory logic of the diurnal cycle in the mouse liver.
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PLoS Biol, ; 15 (4): e2001069
Diurnal regulation of RNA polymerase III transcription is under the control of both the feeding-fasting response and the circadian clock.
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Genome Res, ;
Posttranscriptional mechanisms controlling diurnal gene expression cycles by body temperature rhythms.
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RNA Biol, ; 14 (10): 1294-1298

2016

Temperature regulates splicing efficiency of the cold-inducible RNA-binding protein gene Cirbp.
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Genes Dev, ; 30 (17): 2005-2017
Unbiased identification of signal-activated transcription factors by barcoded synthetic tandem repeat promoter screening (BC-STAR-PROM).
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Genes Dev, ; 30 (16): 1895-1907

2015

Clock-Talk: Interactions between Central and Peripheral Circadian Oscillators in Mammals.
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Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol, ; 80 : 223-232
METABOLISM. A pancreatic clock times insulin release.
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Science, ; 350 (6261): 628-629
The systemic control of circadian gene expression.
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Diabetes Obes Metab, ; 17 Suppl 1 : 23-32
Circadian timing of metabolism in animal models and humans.
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J Intern Med, ; 277 (5): 513-527

2014

Circadian rhythms - from genes to physiology and disease.
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Swiss Med Wkly, ; 144 : w13984

2013

Glucocorticoid rhythm renders female mice more daring.
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Cell, ; 155 (6): 1211-1212
Real-time recording of circadian liver gene expression in freely moving mice reveals the phase-setting behavior of hepatocyte clocks.
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Genes Dev, ; 27 (13): 1526-1536
Shedding new light on circadian clocks.
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Elife, ; 2 : e00659
Body temperature cycles: gatekeepers of circadian clocks.
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Cell Cycle, ; 12 (4): 539-540
Blood-borne circadian signal stimulates daily oscillations in actin dynamics and SRF activity.
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Cell, ; 152 (3): 492-503

2012

The ticking tail: daily oscillations in mRNA poly(A) tail length drive circadian cycles in protein synthesis.
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Genes Dev, ; 26 (24): 2669-2672
CAVIN-3 regulates circadian period length and PER:CRY protein abundance and interactions.
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EMBO Rep, ; 13 (12): 1138-1144
Circadian Dbp transcription relies on highly dynamic BMAL1-CLOCK interaction with E boxes and requires the proteasome.
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Mol Cell, ; 48 (2): 277-287
Cold-inducible RNA-binding protein modulates circadian gene expression posttranscriptionally.
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Science, ; 338 (6105): 379-383
REV-ERBs: more than the sum of the individual parts.
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Cell Metab, ; 15 (6): 791-793
Simulated body temperature rhythms reveal the phase-shifting behavior and plasticity of mammalian circadian oscillators.
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Genes Dev, ; 26 (6): 567-580
Genome-wide RNA polymerase II profiles and RNA accumulation reveal kinetics of transcription and associated epigenetic changes during diurnal cycles.
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PLoS Biol, ; 10 (11): e1001442

2011

Origins and consequences of transcriptional discontinuity.
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Curr Opin Cell Biol, ; 23 (6): 657-662
Transcription factor loading: please take my place!
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Cell, ; 146 (4): 497-499
Mammalian genes are transcribed with widely different bursting kinetics.
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Science, ; 332 (6028): 472-474
Proline- and acidic amino acid-rich basic leucine zipper proteins modulate peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARalpha) activity.
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, ; 108 (12): 4794-4799
Crosstalk between components of circadian and metabolic cycles in mammals.
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Cell Metab, ; 13 (2): 125-137
The mammalian circadian timing system: synchronization of peripheral clocks.
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Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol, ; 76 : 39-47

2010

Cardiac hypertrophy, low blood pressure, and low aldosterone levels in mice devoid of the three circadian PAR bZip transcription factors DBP, HLF, and TEF.
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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol, ; 299 (4): R1013-R1019
Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 participates in the phase entrainment of circadian clocks to feeding.
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Cell, ; 142 (6): 943-953
Circadian cell-cycle progression: Cracking open the gate.
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Cell, ; 140 (4): 458-459
The mammalian circadian timing system: organization and coordination of central and peripheral clocks.
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Annu Rev Physiol, ; 72 : 517-549

2009

Physiology. Feeding the clock.
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Science, ; 326 (5951): 378-379
REV-ERBalpha participates in circadian SREBP signaling and bile acid homeostasis.
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PLoS Biol, ; 7 (9): e1000181
Integration of microRNA miR-122 in hepatic circadian gene expression.
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Genes Dev, ; 23 (11): 1313-1326
The 2008 Pittendrigh/Aschoff lecture: peripheral phase coordination in the mammalian circadian timing system.
J Biol Rhythms, ; 24 (1): 3-15
Circadian gene expression is resilient to large fluctuations in overall transcription rates.
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EMBO J, ; 28 (2): 123-134

2008

Circadian glucose homeostasis requires compensatory interference between brain and liver clocks.
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, ; 105 (39): 14753-14754
SIRT1 regulates circadian clock gene expression through PER2 deacetylation.
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Cell, ; 134 (2): 317-328
In Vitro Screening for Regulated Transcription Factors with Differential Display of DNA-Binding Proteins (DDDP).
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CSH Protoc, ; 2008 : pdb.prot5028
Differential display of DNA-binding proteins reveals heat-shock factor 1 as a circadian transcription factor.
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Genes Dev, ; 22 (3): 331-345

2007

Physiology. Proteasomes keep the circadian clock ticking.
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Science, ; 316 (5828): 1135-1136
System-driven and oscillator-dependent circadian transcription in mice with a conditionally active liver clock.
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PLoS Biol, ; 5 (2): e34
Regulation of circadian gene expression in liver by systemic signals and hepatocyte oscillators.
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Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol, ; 72 : 319-330

2006

Properties, entrainment, and physiological functions of mammalian peripheral oscillators.
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J Biol Rhythms, ; 21 (6): 494-506
[Circadian metabolism of medicaments: an important Geneva discovery].
Rev Med Suisse, ; 2 (78): 2076
The circadian PAR-domain basic leucine zipper transcription factors DBP, TEF, and HLF modulate basal and inducible xenobiotic detoxification.
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Cell Metab, ; 4 (1): 25-36
[The inter-individual variability of circadian period length in human skin cells].
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Med Sci (Paris), ; 22 (5): 474-475
Rhythmic CLOCK-BMAL1 binding to multiple E-box motifs drives circadian Dbp transcription and chromatin transitions.
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Nat Genet, ; 38 (3): 369-374
Impact of behavior on central and peripheral circadian clocks in the common vole Microtus arvalis, a mammal with ultradian rhythms.
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, ; 103 (9): 3393-3398
Circadian time keeping: the daily ups and downs of genes, cells, and organisms.
Prog Brain Res, ; 153 : 271-282

2005

The period length of fibroblast circadian gene expression varies widely among human individuals.
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PLoS Biol, ; 3 (10): e338
The daily rhythms of genes, cells and organs. Biological clocks and circadian timing in cells.
EMBO Rep, ; 6 Spec No (Suppl 1): S9-13
PERIOD1-associated proteins modulate the negative limb of the mammalian circadian oscillator.
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Science, ; 308 (5722): 693-696
Cellular oscillators: rhythmic gene expression and metabolism.
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Curr Opin Cell Biol, ; 17 (2): 223-229
Circadian gene expression in cultured cells.
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Methods Enzymol, ; 393 : 543-557

2004

Circadian gene expression in individual fibroblasts: cell-autonomous and self-sustained oscillators pass time to daughter cells.
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Cell, ; 119 (5): 693-705
The mammalian circadian timing system: from gene expression to physiology.
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Chromosoma, ; 113 (3): 103-112
The loss of circadian PAR bZip transcription factors results in epilepsy.
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Genes Dev, ; 18 (12): 1397-1412

2003

Circadian rhythms. Liver regeneration clocks on.
Science, ; 302 (5643): 234-235
Peripheral circadian oscillators in mammals: time and food.
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J Biol Rhythms, ; 18 (3): 250-260
Orphan nuclear receptors, molecular clockwork, and the entrainment of peripheral oscillators.
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Novartis Found Symp, ; 253 : 89-99; discussion 99-109

2002

Rhythms of mammalian body temperature can sustain peripheral circadian clocks.
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Curr Biol, ; 12 (18): 1574-1583
The orphan nuclear receptor REV-ERBalpha controls circadian transcription within the positive limb of the mammalian circadian oscillator.
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Cell, ; 110 (2): 251-260
Phosphorylation of CREB Ser142 regulates light-induced phase shifts of the circadian clock.
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Neuron, ; 34 (2): 245-253
Otto Naegeli Award 2002 honors the work of Prof. Walter Wahli.
Swiss Med Wkly, ; 132 (7-8): 81-82

2001

Glucocorticoid hormones inhibit food-induced phase-shifting of peripheral circadian oscillators.
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EMBO J, ; 20 (24): 7128-7136
Circadian rhythms. Chronobiology--reducing time.
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Science, ; 293 (5529): 437-438
Analysis of circadian liver gene expression by ADDER, a highly sensitive method for the display of differentially expressed mRNAs.
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Nucleic Acids Res, ; 29 (11): E51-E51
Circadian regulation of gene expression in animals.
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Curr Opin Cell Biol, ; 13 (3): 357-362
The Isolation of differentially expressed mRNA sequences by selective amplification via biotin and restriction-mediated enrichment.
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Methods, ; 24 (1): 3-14

2000

Restricted feeding uncouples circadian oscillators in peripheral tissues from the central pacemaker in the suprachiasmatic nucleus.
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Genes Dev, ; 14 (23): 2950-2961
Multiple signaling pathways elicit circadian gene expression in cultured Rat-1 fibroblasts.
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Curr Biol, ; 10 (20): 1291-1294
Resetting of circadian time in peripheral tissues by glucocorticoid signaling.
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Science, ; 289 (5488): 2344-2347
CLOCK, an essential pacemaker component, controls expression of the circadian transcription factor DBP.
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Genes Dev, ; 14 (6): 679-689
Circadian clocks. Heartfelt enlightenment.
Nature, ; 404 (6773): 25, 27-25, 28
The transcription factor DBP affects circadian sleep consolidation and rhythmic EEG activity.
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J Neurosci, ; 20 (2): 617-625
Analysis of differential gene expression using the SABRE enrichment protocol.
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Methods Mol Biol, ; 99 : 321-345

1999

The ins and outs of circadian timekeeping.
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Curr Opin Genet Dev, ; 9 (5): 588-594
Circadian expression of the steroid 15 alpha-hydroxylase (Cyp2a4) and coumarin 7-hydroxylase (Cyp2a5) genes in mouse liver is regulated by the PAR leucine zipper transcription factor DBP.
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Mol Cell Biol, ; 19 (10): 6488-6499
Molecular approaches towards the isolation of sleep-related genes.
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J Sleep Res, ; 8 Suppl 1 : 1-10
An RNA polymerase II complex containing all essential initiation factors binds to the activation domain of PAR leucine zipper transcription factor thyroid embryonic factor.
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Mol Cell Biol, ; 19 (2): 1242-1250

1998

Circadian rhythms. New cogwheels in the clockworks.
Nature, ; 393 (6686): 620-621
A serum shock induces circadian gene expression in mammalian tissue culture cells.
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Cell, ; 93 (6): 929-937

1997

The DBP gene is expressed according to a circadian rhythm in the suprachiasmatic nucleus and influences circadian behavior.
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EMBO J, ; 16 (22): 6762-6771
Selective amplification via biotin- and restriction-mediated enrichment (SABRE), a novel selective amplification procedure for detection of differentially expressed mRNAs.
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, ; 94 (13): 6831-6836
Developmental testis-specific regulation of mRNA levels and mRNA translational efficiencies for TATA-binding protein mRNA isoforms.
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Dev Biol, ; 184 (1): 138-149
Spermatid-specific overexpression of the TATA-binding protein gene involves recruitment of two potent testis-specific promoters.
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J Biol Chem, ; 272 (8): 5326-5334

1996

Biology: an expanding universe--or is convergence to a few principles around the corner?
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Biol Chem, ; 377 (12): 763-764
DNA-binding specificity of PAR and C/EBP leucine zipper proteins: a single amino acid substitution in the C/EBP DNA-binding domain confers PAR-like specificity to C/EBP.
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Biol Chem, ; 377 (12): 797-809
The two PAR leucine zipper proteins, TEF and DBP, display similar circadian and tissue-specific expression, but have different target promoter preferences.
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EMBO J, ; 15 (2): 351-362

1995

A mammalian RNA polymerase II holoenzyme containing all components required for promoter-specific transcription initiation.
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Cell, ; 83 (1): 137-146
The rat hepatic leukemia factor (HLF) gene encodes two transcriptional activators with distinct circadian rhythms, tissue distributions and target preferences.
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EMBO J, ; 14 (17): 4307-4317
High accumulation of components of the RNA polymerase II transcription machinery in rodent spermatids.
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Development, ; 121 (8): 2373-2383
Cell size regulation, a mechanism that controls cellular RNA accumulation: consequences on regulation of the ubiquitous transcription factors Oct1 and NF-Y and the liver-enriched transcription factor DBP.
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J Cell Biol, ; 128 (4): 467-483

1994

Physical isolation of nascent RNA chains transcribed by RNA polymerase II: evidence for cotranscriptional splicing.
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Mol Cell Biol, ; 14 (11): 7219-7225
The 5' flanking region of the rat LAP (C/EBP beta) gene can direct high-level, position-independent, copy number-dependent expression in multiple tissues in transgenic mice.
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Nucleic Acids Res, ; 22 (5): 756-766

1993

A simple method to renature DNA-binding proteins separated by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
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Nucleic Acids Res, ; 21 (25): 6040-6041
Circadian transcription of the cholesterol 7 alpha hydroxylase gene may involve the liver-enriched bZIP protein DBP.
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Genes Dev, ; 7 (10): 1871-1884
CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein mRNA is translated into multiple proteins with different transcription activation potentials.
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, ; 90 (17): 8219-8223

1992

The role of the transcriptional activator protein DBP in circadian liver gene expression.
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J Cell Sci Suppl, ; 16 : 123-127

1991

Tissue-specific expression of the gene encoding hepatocyte nuclear factor 1 may involve hepatocyte nuclear factor 4.
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Genes Dev, ; 5 (12A): 2225-2234
A liver-enriched transcriptional activator protein, LAP, and a transcriptional inhibitory protein, LIP, are translated from the same mRNA.
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Cell, ; 67 (3): 569-579

1990

Expression of the liver-enriched transcriptional activator protein DBP follows a stringent circadian rhythm.
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Cell, ; 63 (6): 1257-1266
LAP, a novel member of the C/EBP gene family, encodes a liver-enriched transcriptional activator protein.
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Genes Dev, ; 4 (9): 1541-1551
A ubiquitous CCAAT factor is required for efficient in vitro transcription from the mouse albumin promoter.
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J Mol Biol, ; 214 (4): 865-874
DBP, a liver-enriched transcriptional activator, is expressed late in ontogeny and its tissue specificity is determined posttranscriptionally.
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Cell, ; 61 (2): 279-291
Differential in vitro transcription from the promoter of a rat alpha 2u globulin gene in liver and spleen nuclear extracts.
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Mol Biol Med, ; 7 (2): 131-146

1989

Rapid identification of DNA fragments containing promoters for RNA polymerase II.
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Gene, ; 84 (2): 371-381
A glycosylated liver-specific transcription factor stimulates transcription of the albumin gene.
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Cell, ; 57 (7): 1179-1187
Metastatic hibernomas in transgenic mice expressing an alpha-amylase-SV40 T antigen hybrid gene.
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Science, ; 244 (4903): 460-463
The role of cis-acting promoter elements in tissue-specific albumin gene expression.
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Science, ; 244 (4902): 343-346

1987

The interplay of DNA-binding proteins on the promoter of the mouse albumin gene.
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Cell, ; 51 (6): 963-973

1986

Structure and expression of the parotid secretory protein gene of mouse.
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J Mol Biol, ; 192 (3): 567-576
Tissue-specific in vitro transcription from the mouse albumin promoter.
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Cell, ; 47 (5): 767-776
Different tissue-specific expression of the amylase gene Amy-1 in mice and rats.
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Mol Cell Biol, ; 6 (11): 4067-4076
Developmental coordination of alpha-amylase and psp gene expression during mouse parotid gland differentiation is controlled posttranscriptionally.
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Cell, ; 47 (1): 107-112
Structural arrangement and tissue-specific expression of the two murine alpha-amylase loci Amy-1 and Amy-2.
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Oxf Surv Eukaryot Genes, ; 3 : 210-234

1985

Expression of mouse Amy-2a alpha-amylase genes is regulated by strong pancreas-specific promoters.
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J Mol Biol, ; 185 (2): 285-293
Mouse alpha-amylase loci, Amy-1a and Amy-2a, are closely linked.
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J Mol Biol, ; 182 (3): 359-365
The two promoters of the mouse alpha-amylase gene Amy-1a are differentially activated during parotid gland differentiation.
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Cell, ; 40 (4): 907-912

1984

Accumulation of rare and moderately abundant mRNAs in mouse L-cells is mainly post-transcriptionally regulated.
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J Mol Biol, ; 178 (4): 869-880
Termination of transcription in the mouse alpha-amylase gene Amy-2a occurs at multiple sites downstream of the polyadenylation site.
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Cell, ; 38 (3): 737-744
Rapid size determination of mRNAs complementary to cloned DNA sequences: plaque and colony hybrid-selection of cDNAs.
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Gene, ; 29 (1-2): 77-85

1983

Two promoters of different strengths control the transcription of the mouse alpha-amylase gene Amy-1a in the parotid gland and the liver.
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Cell, ; 33 (2): 501-508

1982

The mouse alpha-amylase multigene family. Sequence organization of members expressed in the pancreas, salivary gland and liver.
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J Mol Biol, ; 155 (3): 247-266
Tissue specific expression of mouse alpha-amylase genes.
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Adv Exp Med Biol, ; 158 : 381-385

1981

Multiple polyadenylation sites in a mouse alpha-amylase gene.
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Nucleic Acids Res, ; 9 (10): 2313-2323
Mouse beta-globin and adenovirus-2 major late transcripts are initiated at the cap site in vitro.
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, ; 78 (4): 2283-2286
Mouse liver and salivary gland alpha-amylase mRNAs differ only in 5' non-translated sequences.
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Nature, ; 289 (5799): 643-646
A single mouse alpha-amylase gene specifies two different tissue-specific mRNAs.
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Cell, ; 23 (2): 451-458

1980

Tissue-specific expression of mouse alpha-amylase genes.
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J Mol Biol, ; 142 (1): 93-116

1979

Comparison of mRNA precursors in plasmacytomas producing closely related kappa chains.
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, ; 76 (8): 3678-3682
Nuclear transcripts of mouse heavy chain immunoglobulin genes contain only the expressed class of C-region sequences.
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Science, ; 204 (4397): 1087-1088
Selective suppression of the transcription of ribosomal genes in mouse-human hybrid cells.
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J Cell Physiol, ; 98 (3): 553-559

1978

The synthesis and processing of the messenger RNAs specifying heavy and light chain immunoglobulins in MPC-11 cells.
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Cell, ; 15 (4): 1495-1509
The 5'-terminal sequences of immunoglobulin messenger RNAs of a mouse myeloma.
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J Mol Biol, ; 120 (3): 381-400

1977

The 5'-termini of heterogeneous nuclear RNA: a comparison among molecules of different sizes and ages.
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Nucleic Acids Res, ; 4 (12): 4133-4149
Comparison of methylated sequences in messenger RNA and heterogeneous nuclear RNA from mouse L cells.
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J Mol Biol, ; 115 (4): 695-714

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