YB-1 regulates stress granule formation and tumor progression by translationally activating G3BP1

SP Somasekharan, A El-Naggar, G Leprivier… - Journal of Cell …, 2015 - rupress.org
Under cell stress, global protein synthesis is inhibited to preserve energy. One mechanism is
to sequester and silence mRNAs in ribonucleoprotein complexes known as stress granules …

YY1 plays an essential role at all stages of B-cell differentiation

E Kleiman, H Jia, S Loguercio, AI Su… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Ying Yang 1 (YY1) is a ubiquitously expressed transcription factor shown to be essential for
pro–B-cell development. However, the role of YY1 in other B-cell populations has never …

Akt-mediated YB-1 phosphorylation activates translation of silent mRNA species

V Evdokimova, P Ruzanov, MS Anglesio… - … and cellular biology, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
YB-1 is a broad-specificity RNA-binding protein that is involved in regulation of mRNA
transcription, splicing, translation, and stability. In both germinal and somatic cells, YB-1 and …

Y-box binding protein 1: providing a new angle on translational regulation

V Evdokimova, LP Ovchinnikov, PHB Sorensen - Cell Cycle, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Current models of translational regulation are mostly focused on how translational factors
engage a messenger mRNA to the ribosome to initiate translation. Since the majority of …

Y-box binding protein 1–a prognostic marker and target in tumour therapy

C Kosnopfel, T Sinnberg, B Schittek - European journal of cell biology, 2014 - Elsevier
Y-box binding protein 1 (YB-1) is a multifunctional protein involved in various cellular
processes including both transcriptional and translational regulation of target gene …

Transcription factor YB-1 mediates DNA polymerase α gene expression

A En-Nia, E Yilmaz, U Klinge, DH Lovett… - Journal of Biological …, 2005 - ASBMB
Y-box protein-1 involvement in cyclin A and B1 gene regulation has recently been
demonstrated. A more generalized role of this protein for cell replication is hypothesized as …

Inhibition of protein synthesis by Y box-binding protein 1 blocks oncogenic cell transformation

AG Bader, PK Vogt - Molecular and cellular biology, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
The multifunctional Y box-binding protein 1 (YB-1) is transcriptionally repressed by the
oncogenic phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway (with P3K as an oncogenic homolog …

A role for Y‐box proteins in cell proliferation

M Ladomery, J Sommerville - Bioessays, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
Members of the Y-box (YB) family of transcription factors are expressed in a wide range of
cell types and are implicated in the regulation of a rapidly increasing number of genes …

Targeting the Y/CCAAT box in cancer: YB-1 (YBX1) or NF-Y?

D Dolfini, R Mantovani - Cell Death & Differentiation, 2013 - nature.com
The Y box is an important sequence motif found in promoters and enhancers containing a
CCAAT box–one of the few elements enriched in promoters of large sets of genes …

Function of YY1 in long-distance DNA interactions

ML Atchison - Frontiers in immunology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
During B cell development, long-distance DNA interactions are needed for V (D) J somatic
rearrangement of the immunoglobulin (Ig) loci to produce functional Ig genes, and for class …