Mirka Uhlirova

Use of Sindbis virus-mediated RNA interference to demonstrate a conserved role of Broad-Complex in insect metamorphosis

Uhlirova, Mirka, Foy, Brian D., Beaty, Barry J., Olson, Ken E., Riddiford, Lynn M., Jindra, Marek

The transcription factor Broad-Complex (BR-C) is required for differentiation of adult structures as well as for the programmed death of obsolete larval organs during metamorphosis of the fruit fly...

Coactivator MBF1 preserves the redox-dependent AP-1 activity during oxidative stress in Drosophila

Jindra, Marek, Gaziova, Ivana, Uhlirova, Mirka, Okabe, Masataka, Hiromi, Yasushi, Hirose, Susumu

Basic leucine zipper proteins Jun and Fos form the dimeric transcription factor AP-1, essential for cell differentiation and immune and antioxidant defenses. AP-1 activity is controlled, in part, by...

Non-cell-autonomous induction of tissue overgrowth by JNK/Ras cooperation in a Drosophila tumor model

Uhlirova, Mirka, Jasper, Heinrich, Bohmann, Dirk

The role of c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) signaling in cancer is enigmatic, and both tumor-promoting and tumor-suppressing functions have been ascribed to JNK pathway components. We have used the...

Use of Sindbis virus-mediated RNA interference to demonstrate a conserved role of Broad-Complex in insect metamorphosis

Uhlirova, Mirka, Foy, Brian D., Beaty, Barry J., Olson, Ken E., Riddiford, Lynn M., Jindra, Marek

The transcription factor Broad-Complex (BR-C) is required for differentiation of adult structures as well as for the programmed death of obsolete larval organs during metamorphosis of the fruit fly...

Coactivator MBF1 preserves the redox-dependent AP-1 activity during oxidative stress in Drosophila

Jindra, Marek, Gaziova, Ivana, Uhlirova, Mirka, Okabe, Masataka, Hiromi, Yasushi, Hirose, Susumu

Basic leucine zipper proteins Jun and Fos form the dimeric transcription factor AP-1, essential for cell differentiation and immune and antioxidant defenses. AP-1 activity is controlled, in part, by...

Non-cell-autonomous induction of tissue overgrowth by JNK/Ras cooperation in a Drosophila tumor model

Uhlirova, Mirka, Jasper, Heinrich, Bohmann, Dirk

The role of c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) signaling in cancer is enigmatic, and both tumor-promoting and tumor-suppressing functions have been ascribed to JNK pathway components. We have used the...

JNK- and Fos-regulated Mmp1 expression cooperates with Ras to induce invasive tumors in Drosophila

Uhlirova, Mirka, Bohmann, Dirk

Loss of the epithelial polarity gene scribble in clones of Drosophila imaginal disc cells can cooperate with Ras signaling to induce malignant tumors. Such mutant tissue overproliferates, resists...