P. W. Tucker

Publication List Details

Period

2000 - 2001

Number

73

Co-Authors

Immunoglobulin heavy chain enhancer is located near or in an initiation zone of chromosomal DNA replication.

Ariizumi, K, Wang, Z, Tucker, P W

In several animal viruses, enhancers have been implicated in both DNA replication and transcriptional activation. The linkage of the two mechanisms appears intimate, in that common DNA binding...

Human immunoglobulin heavy-chain minilocus recombination in transgenic mice: gene-segment use in mu and gamma transcripts.

Tuaillon, N, Taylor, L D, Lonberg, N, Tucker, P W, Capra, J D

We (N.L. and L.D.T.) have introduced a human heavy-chain minilocus into mice transgenically. Constructs contain 2 heavy-chain variable (VH; psi VH3-105 and VH5-251), 10 diversity (D), 6 heavy-chain...

DNA-binding properties and secondary structural model of the hepatocyte nuclear factor 3/fork head domain.

Li, C, Tucker, P W

An 84-amino acid segment of QRF-1 [glutamine (Q)-rich factor 1], a newly cloned, B-cell-derived DNA-binding protein, shows significant sequence homology with the DNA-binding domains of the hepatocyte...

Recombinant antibody-metallothionein: design and evaluation for radioimmunoimaging.

Das, C, Kulkarni, P V, Constantinescu, A, Antich, P, Blattner, F R, Tucker, P W

We have produced a chimeric antibody (Ab) in which metallothionein, a well-characterized biological chelator of metals, was genetically fused to the F(ab') domain of the S107 Ab heavy chain....

Metal-binding chimeric antibodies expressed in Escherichia coli.

Sawyer, J R, Tucker, P W, Blattner, F R

Metallothionein, a well-characterized biological chelator of metals, has been genetically fused to the binding domain of an antibody and expressed in the periplasm of Escherichia coli. Specific...

NonO enhances the association of many DNA-binding proteins to their targets.

Yang, Y S, Yang, M C, Tucker, P W, Capra, J D

NonO is an unusual nucleic acid binding protein not only in that it binds both DNA and RNA but that it does so via functionally separable domains. Here we document that NonO enhances the binding of...

Poly(A) site choice rather than splice site choice governs the regulated production of IgM heavy-chain RNAs.

Galli, G, Guise, J, Tucker, P W, Nevins, J R

Alternative processing of the immunoglobulin mu primary transcript results in regulated production of mRNAs encoding the secreted (microseconds) and membrane-bound (micro m) form of IgM heavy chain...

Identification of murine nuclear proteins that bind to the conserved octamer sequence of the immunoglobulin promoter region.

Hanke, J H, Landolfi, N F, Tucker, P W, Capra, J D

Sequence-specific DNA-affinity chromatography was used to purify a nuclear protein from the B-cell leukemia cell line BCL1 that specifically binds to the octamer sequence ATTTGCAT, previously shown...

Immunoglobulin receptor signaling depends on the carboxyl terminus but not the heavy-chain class.

Webb, C F, Nakai, C, Tucker, P W

To examine the isotypic and structural requirements involved in signaling through the immunoglobulin (Ig) receptor on B lymphocytes, we established a panel of T15 idiotype-positive transfectants that...

Protein-nucleotide contacts in the immunoglobulin heavy-chain promoter region.

Landolfi, N F, Capra, J D, Tucker, P W

Immunoglobulin heavy-chain variable-region genes contain the octanucleotide ATGCAAAT upstream from the site of transcription initiation. The complement of this sequence, in the reverse orientation,...

Production and characterization of recombinant human Ku antigen.

Ono, M, Tucker, P W, Capra, J D

Ku is an ubiquitous nuclear heterodimeric protein consisting of p70 and p86 subunits that binds double-stranded DNA termini and associates with chromosomes in vivo. It was originally described as an...

Exoquence DNA sequencing.

Li, C, Tucker, P W

We have developed a strategy for DNA sequencing based on exonuclease III digestion followed by double strand specific endonuclease digestion and direct dideoxynucleotide sequencing reaction. This...

Regulatory elements necessary for termination of transcription within the Ig heavy chain gene locus.

Moore, B B, Tan, J, Lim, P L, Tucker, P W, Yuan, D

Previous experiments have shown that the extent of delta gene transcription during B cell development is regulated primarily at the transcriptional level. We have shown that deletion of a sequence...

Construction of recombinant DNA by exonuclease recession.

Yang, Y S, Watson, W J, Tucker, P W, Capra, J D

We describe a new exonuclease-based method for joining and/or constructing two or more DNA molecules. DNA fragments containing ends complementary to those of a vector or another independent molecules...

Phylogenetic conservation of immunoglobulin heavy chains: direct comparison of hamster and mouse Cmu genes.

McGuire, K L, Duncan, W R, Tucker, P W

We have analyzed the JH-Cmu locus of the Syrian hamster by DNA cloning and sequencing. The single Cmu gene is highly homologous to that of the mouse. The hamster equivalents of the JH and switch (S)...

A conserved heptamer upstream of the IgH promoter region octamer can be the site of a coordinate protein-DNA interaction.

Landolfi, N F, Yin, X M, Capra, J D, Tucker, P W

Immunoglobulin genes contain a conserved eight base sequence element 5' to the site of transcription initiation. This octamer can serve as a site for the binding of nuclear proteins which are...

Illegitimate recombination generates a class switch from C mu to C delta in an IgD-secreting plasmacytoma.

Gilliam, A C, Shen, A, Richards, J E, Blattner, F R, Mushinski, J F, Tucker, P W

We present here the sequence characterization of a C mu----C delta immunoglobulin (Ig) heavy chain class switch. In the murine IgD-secreting plasmacytoma TEPC 1017, deletion of most of the mu switch...

Simultaneous expression of immunoglobulin mu and delta heavy chains by a cloned B-cell lymphoma: a single copy of the VH gene is shared by two adjacent CH genes.

Knapp, M R, Liu, C P, Newell, N, Ward, R B, Tucker, P W, Strober, S, ...

The cloned murine B-cell lymphoma line (BCL1) that expresses surface IgM and IgD is considered to be a model for the immunoglobulin gene expression of the mature virgin B cell. Of particular interest...

Molecular cloning of equine herpesvirus type 1 DNA: analysis of standard and defective viral genomes and viral sequences in oncogenically transformed cells.

Robinson, R A, Tucker, P W, Dauenhauer, S A, O'Callaghan, D J

Genomic DNA sequences of equine herpesvirus type 1 (EHV-1) have been cloned as BamHI and EcoRI restriction fragments into the plasmid pBR322 and propagated in Escherichia coli. With the exception of...

Mouse IgA heavy chain gene sequence: implications for evolution of immunoglobulin hinge axons.

Tucker, P W, Slightom, J L, Blattner, F R

The complete nucleotide sequence of the gene and mRNA coding for the constant (C) region of the secreted form of the BALB/c mouse IgA immunoglobulin alpha heavy (H) chain has been determined. As in...

Mouse immunoglobulin D: construction and characterization of a cloned delta chain cDNA.

Mushinski, J F, Blattner, F R, Owens, J D, Finkelman, F D, Kessler, S W, Fitzmaurice, L, ...

TEPC 1017 is a BALB/c plasmacytoma that synthesizes IgD in large enough amounts to permit the isolation of mRNA for mouse delta chains. cDNA has been prepared from this mRNA, and an 880-base-pair...

Functional analysis of the V gamma 3 promoter of the murine gamma delta T-cell receptor.

Clausell, A, Tucker, P W

The initial day 14 wave of fetal thymocytes express a gamma delta T-cell receptor (TCR). This surface TCR is generated by preferential rearrangement of V gamma 3 and V delta 1 recombination segments....

NonO, a non-POU-domain-containing, octamer-binding protein, is the mammalian homolog of Drosophila nonAdiss.

Yang, Y S, Hanke, J H, Carayannopoulos, L, Craft, C M, Capra, J D, Tucker, P W

We have cloned the ubiquitous form of an octamer-binding, 60-kDa protein (NonO) that appears to be the mammalian equivalent of the Drosophila visual and courtship song behavior protein,...

Elements in the immunoglobulin heavy-chain enhancer directly regulate simian virus 40 ori-dependent DNA replication.

Ariizumi, K, Ghosh, M R, Tucker, P W

In a previous study, we showed that the immunoglobulin heavy-chain (IgH) enhancer (IgHe) is near or in an initiation zone of chromosomal DNA replication, which is preferentially active in B cells (K....

Immunoglobulin D switching can occur through homologous recombination in human B cells.

White, M B, Word, C J, Humphries, C G, Blattner, F R, Tucker, P W

Prototypical class switching in mouse and human immunoglobulin heavy chains occurs through recombination of tandem blocks of short repeats located 5' to each heavy chain constant region (CH) except C...

The ubiquitous octamer-binding protein(s) is sufficient for transcription of immunoglobulin genes.

Johnson, D G, Carayannopoulos, L, Capra, J D, Tucker, P W, Hanke, J H

All immunoglobulin genes contain a conserved octanucleotide promoter element, ATGCAAAT, which has been shown to be required for their normal B-cell-specific transcription. Proteins that bind this...

Novel protein-DNA interactions associated with increased immunoglobulin transcription in response to antigen plus interleukin-5.

Webb, C F, Das, C, Eaton, S, Calame, K, Tucker, P W

Although much has been learned about basal levels of immunoglobulin (Ig) transcription, the regulatory effects of cytokines and antigen (Ag) upon Ig expression in lymphocytes have not been fully...

Identification of a matrix-associated region 5' of an immunoglobulin heavy chain variable region gene.

Webb, C F, Das, C, Eneff, K L, Tucker, P W

In the accompanying report (C. F. Webb, C. Das, S. Eaton, K. Calame, and P. Tucker, Mol. Cell. Biol. 11:5197-5205, 1991), we characterize B-cell-specific protein-DNA interactions at -500 and -200 bp...

Structure of hemoglobins Zürich [His E7(63)beta replaced by Arg] and Sydney [Val E11(67)beta replaced by Ala] and role of the distal residues in ligand binding.

Tucker, P W, Phillips, S E, Perutz, M F, Houtchens, R, Caughey, W S

In hemoglobin Zürich the side chain of the distal arginine attaches itself to the propionate of the heme, leaving the heme pocket wide open, allowing sulfanilamides easy access to the iron, and...

Tumor-inhibiting properties of the neutral P-O-ethyl ester of adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate in correlation with its crystal and molecular structure.

Cotton, F A, Gillen, R G, Gohil, R N, Hazen, E E, Kirchner, C R, Nagyvary, J, ...

The P-O-ethyl ester of cAMP has been synthesized, its inhibition of solid and ascites tumors studied, and its pattern of urinary excretion followed. Et-cAMP is more effective than cAMP against solid...

Organization of the murine immunoglobulin VH complex in the inbred strains.

Rathbun, G A, Capra, J D, Tucker, P W

Deletion mapping analyses have been employed to order the heavy chain variable region (VH) gene families in three inbred murine strains. These nine VH gene families have been positioned with respect...

The murine immunoglobulin alpha gene expresses multiple transcripts from a unique membrane exon.

Word, C J, Mushinski, J F, Tucker, P W

Immunoglobulin heavy chains of each class exist in two forms, membrane (m) and secreted (s), which have different carboxy-terminal sequences encoded by different gene segments. We have sequenced the...

Structural analysis of the murine IgG3 constant region gene.

Wels, J A, Word, C J, Rimm, D, Der-Balan, G P, Martinez, H M, Tucker, P W, ...

We have determined the complete sequence of the gamma 3 heavy chain constant (C gamma 3) region gene of the BALB/c mouse including the 5'-flanking region up to the switch site and the 3'-flanking...

Immunoglobulin heavy chain enhancer is located near or in an initiation zone of chromosomal DNA replication.

Ariizumi, K, Wang, Z, Tucker, P W

In several animal viruses, enhancers have been implicated in both DNA replication and transcriptional activation. The linkage of the two mechanisms appears intimate, in that common DNA binding...

Human immunoglobulin heavy-chain minilocus recombination in transgenic mice: gene-segment use in mu and gamma transcripts.

Tuaillon, N, Taylor, L D, Lonberg, N, Tucker, P W, Capra, J D

We (N.L. and L.D.T.) have introduced a human heavy-chain minilocus into mice transgenically. Constructs contain 2 heavy-chain variable (VH; psi VH3-105 and VH5-251), 10 diversity (D), 6 heavy-chain...

DNA-binding properties and secondary structural model of the hepatocyte nuclear factor 3/fork head domain.

Li, C, Tucker, P W

An 84-amino acid segment of QRF-1 [glutamine (Q)-rich factor 1], a newly cloned, B-cell-derived DNA-binding protein, shows significant sequence homology with the DNA-binding domains of the hepatocyte...

Recombinant antibody-metallothionein: design and evaluation for radioimmunoimaging.

Das, C, Kulkarni, P V, Constantinescu, A, Antich, P, Blattner, F R, Tucker, P W

We have produced a chimeric antibody (Ab) in which metallothionein, a well-characterized biological chelator of metals, was genetically fused to the F(ab') domain of the S107 Ab heavy chain....

Metal-binding chimeric antibodies expressed in Escherichia coli.

Sawyer, J R, Tucker, P W, Blattner, F R

Metallothionein, a well-characterized biological chelator of metals, has been genetically fused to the binding domain of an antibody and expressed in the periplasm of Escherichia coli. Specific...

NonO enhances the association of many DNA-binding proteins to their targets.

Yang, Y S, Yang, M C, Tucker, P W, Capra, J D

NonO is an unusual nucleic acid binding protein not only in that it binds both DNA and RNA but that it does so via functionally separable domains. Here we document that NonO enhances the binding of...

Poly(A) site choice rather than splice site choice governs the regulated production of IgM heavy-chain RNAs.

Galli, G, Guise, J, Tucker, P W, Nevins, J R

Alternative processing of the immunoglobulin mu primary transcript results in regulated production of mRNAs encoding the secreted (microseconds) and membrane-bound (micro m) form of IgM heavy chain...

Identification of murine nuclear proteins that bind to the conserved octamer sequence of the immunoglobulin promoter region.

Hanke, J H, Landolfi, N F, Tucker, P W, Capra, J D

Sequence-specific DNA-affinity chromatography was used to purify a nuclear protein from the B-cell leukemia cell line BCL1 that specifically binds to the octamer sequence ATTTGCAT, previously shown...

Immunoglobulin receptor signaling depends on the carboxyl terminus but not the heavy-chain class.

Webb, C F, Nakai, C, Tucker, P W

To examine the isotypic and structural requirements involved in signaling through the immunoglobulin (Ig) receptor on B lymphocytes, we established a panel of T15 idiotype-positive transfectants that...

Protein-nucleotide contacts in the immunoglobulin heavy-chain promoter region.

Landolfi, N F, Capra, J D, Tucker, P W

Immunoglobulin heavy-chain variable-region genes contain the octanucleotide ATGCAAAT upstream from the site of transcription initiation. The complement of this sequence, in the reverse orientation,...

Production and characterization of recombinant human Ku antigen.

Ono, M, Tucker, P W, Capra, J D

Ku is an ubiquitous nuclear heterodimeric protein consisting of p70 and p86 subunits that binds double-stranded DNA termini and associates with chromosomes in vivo. It was originally described as an...

Exoquence DNA sequencing.

Li, C, Tucker, P W

We have developed a strategy for DNA sequencing based on exonuclease III digestion followed by double strand specific endonuclease digestion and direct dideoxynucleotide sequencing reaction. This...

Regulatory elements necessary for termination of transcription within the Ig heavy chain gene locus.

Moore, B B, Tan, J, Lim, P L, Tucker, P W, Yuan, D

Previous experiments have shown that the extent of delta gene transcription during B cell development is regulated primarily at the transcriptional level. We have shown that deletion of a sequence...

Construction of recombinant DNA by exonuclease recession.

Yang, Y S, Watson, W J, Tucker, P W, Capra, J D

We describe a new exonuclease-based method for joining and/or constructing two or more DNA molecules. DNA fragments containing ends complementary to those of a vector or another independent molecules...

Phylogenetic conservation of immunoglobulin heavy chains: direct comparison of hamster and mouse Cmu genes.

McGuire, K L, Duncan, W R, Tucker, P W

We have analyzed the JH-Cmu locus of the Syrian hamster by DNA cloning and sequencing. The single Cmu gene is highly homologous to that of the mouse. The hamster equivalents of the JH and switch (S)...

A conserved heptamer upstream of the IgH promoter region octamer can be the site of a coordinate protein-DNA interaction.

Landolfi, N F, Yin, X M, Capra, J D, Tucker, P W

Immunoglobulin genes contain a conserved eight base sequence element 5' to the site of transcription initiation. This octamer can serve as a site for the binding of nuclear proteins which are...

Illegitimate recombination generates a class switch from C mu to C delta in an IgD-secreting plasmacytoma.

Gilliam, A C, Shen, A, Richards, J E, Blattner, F R, Mushinski, J F, Tucker, P W

We present here the sequence characterization of a C mu----C delta immunoglobulin (Ig) heavy chain class switch. In the murine IgD-secreting plasmacytoma TEPC 1017, deletion of most of the mu switch...

Simultaneous expression of immunoglobulin mu and delta heavy chains by a cloned B-cell lymphoma: a single copy of the VH gene is shared by two adjacent CH genes.

Knapp, M R, Liu, C P, Newell, N, Ward, R B, Tucker, P W, Strober, S, ...

The cloned murine B-cell lymphoma line (BCL1) that expresses surface IgM and IgD is considered to be a model for the immunoglobulin gene expression of the mature virgin B cell. Of particular interest...

Molecular cloning of equine herpesvirus type 1 DNA: analysis of standard and defective viral genomes and viral sequences in oncogenically transformed cells.

Robinson, R A, Tucker, P W, Dauenhauer, S A, O'Callaghan, D J

Genomic DNA sequences of equine herpesvirus type 1 (EHV-1) have been cloned as BamHI and EcoRI restriction fragments into the plasmid pBR322 and propagated in Escherichia coli. With the exception of...

Mouse IgA heavy chain gene sequence: implications for evolution of immunoglobulin hinge axons.

Tucker, P W, Slightom, J L, Blattner, F R

The complete nucleotide sequence of the gene and mRNA coding for the constant (C) region of the secreted form of the BALB/c mouse IgA immunoglobulin alpha heavy (H) chain has been determined. As in...

Mouse immunoglobulin D: construction and characterization of a cloned delta chain cDNA.

Mushinski, J F, Blattner, F R, Owens, J D, Finkelman, F D, Kessler, S W, Fitzmaurice, L, ...

TEPC 1017 is a BALB/c plasmacytoma that synthesizes IgD in large enough amounts to permit the isolation of mRNA for mouse delta chains. cDNA has been prepared from this mRNA, and an 880-base-pair...

Functional analysis of the V gamma 3 promoter of the murine gamma delta T-cell receptor.

Clausell, A, Tucker, P W

The initial day 14 wave of fetal thymocytes express a gamma delta T-cell receptor (TCR). This surface TCR is generated by preferential rearrangement of V gamma 3 and V delta 1 recombination segments....

NonO, a non-POU-domain-containing, octamer-binding protein, is the mammalian homolog of Drosophila nonAdiss.

Yang, Y S, Hanke, J H, Carayannopoulos, L, Craft, C M, Capra, J D, Tucker, P W

We have cloned the ubiquitous form of an octamer-binding, 60-kDa protein (NonO) that appears to be the mammalian equivalent of the Drosophila visual and courtship song behavior protein,...

Elements in the immunoglobulin heavy-chain enhancer directly regulate simian virus 40 ori-dependent DNA replication.

Ariizumi, K, Ghosh, M R, Tucker, P W

In a previous study, we showed that the immunoglobulin heavy-chain (IgH) enhancer (IgHe) is near or in an initiation zone of chromosomal DNA replication, which is preferentially active in B cells (K....

Immunoglobulin D switching can occur through homologous recombination in human B cells.

White, M B, Word, C J, Humphries, C G, Blattner, F R, Tucker, P W

Prototypical class switching in mouse and human immunoglobulin heavy chains occurs through recombination of tandem blocks of short repeats located 5' to each heavy chain constant region (CH) except C...

The ubiquitous octamer-binding protein(s) is sufficient for transcription of immunoglobulin genes.

Johnson, D G, Carayannopoulos, L, Capra, J D, Tucker, P W, Hanke, J H

All immunoglobulin genes contain a conserved octanucleotide promoter element, ATGCAAAT, which has been shown to be required for their normal B-cell-specific transcription. Proteins that bind this...

Novel protein-DNA interactions associated with increased immunoglobulin transcription in response to antigen plus interleukin-5.

Webb, C F, Das, C, Eaton, S, Calame, K, Tucker, P W

Although much has been learned about basal levels of immunoglobulin (Ig) transcription, the regulatory effects of cytokines and antigen (Ag) upon Ig expression in lymphocytes have not been fully...

Identification of a matrix-associated region 5' of an immunoglobulin heavy chain variable region gene.

Webb, C F, Das, C, Eneff, K L, Tucker, P W

In the accompanying report (C. F. Webb, C. Das, S. Eaton, K. Calame, and P. Tucker, Mol. Cell. Biol. 11:5197-5205, 1991), we characterize B-cell-specific protein-DNA interactions at -500 and -200 bp...

Structure of hemoglobins Zürich [His E7(63)beta replaced by Arg] and Sydney [Val E11(67)beta replaced by Ala] and role of the distal residues in ligand binding.

Tucker, P W, Phillips, S E, Perutz, M F, Houtchens, R, Caughey, W S

In hemoglobin Zürich the side chain of the distal arginine attaches itself to the propionate of the heme, leaving the heme pocket wide open, allowing sulfanilamides easy access to the iron, and...

Tumor-inhibiting properties of the neutral P-O-ethyl ester of adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate in correlation with its crystal and molecular structure.

Cotton, F A, Gillen, R G, Gohil, R N, Hazen, E E, Kirchner, C R, Nagyvary, J, ...

The P-O-ethyl ester of cAMP has been synthesized, its inhibition of solid and ascites tumors studied, and its pattern of urinary excretion followed. Et-cAMP is more effective than cAMP against solid...

Organization of the murine immunoglobulin VH complex in the inbred strains.

Rathbun, G A, Capra, J D, Tucker, P W

Deletion mapping analyses have been employed to order the heavy chain variable region (VH) gene families in three inbred murine strains. These nine VH gene families have been positioned with respect...

The murine immunoglobulin alpha gene expresses multiple transcripts from a unique membrane exon.

Word, C J, Mushinski, J F, Tucker, P W

Immunoglobulin heavy chains of each class exist in two forms, membrane (m) and secreted (s), which have different carboxy-terminal sequences encoded by different gene segments. We have sequenced the...