Charles S. Goldsmith's research while affiliated with Texas A&M University and other places

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Background: The circadian clock is the basis for biological time keeping in eukaryotic organisms. The clock mechanism relies on biochemical signaling pathways to detect environmental stimuli and to regulate the expression of clock-controlled genes throughout the body. MAPK signaling pathways function in both circadian input and output pathways in...
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The mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) family of genes aids cells in sensing both extracellular and intracellular stimuli, and emerging data indicate that MAPKs have fundamental, yet diverse, roles in the circadian biological clock. In the mammalian suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), MAPK pathways can function as inputs allowing the endogenous clo...
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Phospho-OS-2 is induced by salt treatment in the ΔLRE1-3-os4 mutant. Liquid cultures of the indicated strains were grown in 1× Vogels salts, 0.5% arginine, 2% glucose, pH 6.0, in LL for 24 h at 30°C and then transferred to DD at 25°C. After 24 h of growth in DD, the cultures were treated with 4% NaCl for the indicated times and Western blots for ph...
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os-1, os-5, and rrg-1 mRNA do not accumulate with a circadian rhythm. RNA was prepared from tissue grown in the dark (DD) for the indicated times, and transcripts were detected on northern blots using [α-32P]-UTP labeled anti-sense RNA probes for os-1, os-5, and rrg-1. Densitometirc analysis of the northern blots are plotted as the level of mRNA ov...
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MAPK signal transduction pathways are important regulators of stress responses, cellular growth, and differentiation. In Neurospora, the circadian clock controls rhythms in phosphorylation of the p38-like MAPK (OS-2); however, the mechanism for this regulation is not known. We show that the WCC, a transcription factor and clock component, binds to...
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os-4 mRNA is induced by salt treatment in the ΔLRE1-3-os4 mutant. Cultures were grown as described in Supplemental Figure S2 and os-4 mRNA detected by northern blot. (TIF)
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os-4 mRNA rhythms persist in rrg-1 mutants. Northern blot assay detecting os-4 mRNA. Cells from mutant strains were harvested at the indicated times in the dark (DD). The RRG-1 deletion strain KB1052 [10], obtained from Dr. Katherine Borkovich, and the rrg-1 null mutant strain (rrg-1COP1-4) [2] have been previously described. (TIF)
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In the filamentous fungus Neuropora crassa, the Osmotically Sensitive (OS) signal transduction pathway is rhythmically activated and functions as an output pathway from the circadian clock. This conserved fungal pathway is composed of a sensory phosphorelay coupled to a mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade. Our goal is to define the mech...
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Circadian clocks are composed of central oscillators, input pathways that transduce external information to the oscillators, and output pathways that allow the oscillators to temporally regulate cellular processes. Little is known about the output pathways. In this study, we show that the Neurospora crassa osmosensing MAPK pathway, essential for os...

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... Surprisingly, whereas some studies reported that GBM cell lines/tissues exhibited disrupted circadian rhythms 46,50 the majority of studies found normal circadian rhythms in GBM models 16,48,51,69,76 . A study by Zhang et al. using TCGA and GTEx datasets showed that the circadian rhythm, i.e., the expression of clock proteins was more severely altered in LGG than in GBM and only in LGG was the alteration of clock gene expression a prognostic factor 77 . ...
... Importantly, in numerous model organisms and diverse tissue types MAPK pathway activation shows circadian patterns, affording coordinated and time-qualified transcription of tissue-specific target genes. MAPK signaling and circadian pathways impact analogous cell processes and biological phenomena and failing or changes in one or the other pathway are implicated in numerous analogous human diseases [52][53][54]. ...
... Importantly, in numerous model organisms and diverse tissue types MAPK pathway activation shows circadian patterns, affording coordinated and time-qualified transcription of tissue-specific target genes. MAPK signaling and circadian pathways impact analogous cell processes and biological phenomena and failing or changes in one or the other pathway are implicated in numerous analogous human diseases [52][53][54]. ...
... MAPkinases play an important role in circadian rhythmicity due to their rhythmic activation and their role in phosphorylation of clock proteins 28 . They are a crucial output pathway of the circadian clock 29 . ...