The enhancer elements from either simian virus 40 or murine sarcoma virus activate the expression of a transfected rat insulin 1 (r11) gene when placed within 2.0 kilobases or less of the rl1 gene cap site. Inclusion of 4.0 kilobases of upstream r11 sequence, however, results in a substantial reduction in the enhancer-dependent insulin gene expression. These observations suggested that a negati...

abstract background: given the fact of irrecoverable consequences of noise in industrial societies and the environment, acoustic filter (silencer) is an instrument which obstacles the transmission of sound waves. a sort of this silencer is helmholtz resonator (branch amplifier) which comes to sound appropriate for low and below 200 hz frequencies in fan and channel noise. the purpose of this ar...

PURPOSE To localize cis-acting elements involved in the expression of the cone-specific G-protein, cone transducin alpha-subunit (GNAT2). METHODS In this study, the authors used a genomic clone, HGLG3, to sequence 3139 base pairs of the upstream region of the GNAT2 gene and to localize cis-acting elements involved in the expression of GNAT2. Upstream elements were localized functionally by tr...

Spontaneous signaling from death-domain-containing receptors can result in inappropriate cell death. An inhibitory protein has recently been identified, called silencer of death domains (SODD), that binds to the death domain of tumor necrosis factor receptor 1, thereby negatively regulating downstream signaling.