A normal beta-globin allele as a modifier gene ameliorating the severity of alpha-thalassemia in mice.

abstract：:A 43-kDa peripheral membrane protein is known to copurify with acetylcholine receptor (AcChoR)-rich membranes isolated from the electric organ of Torpedo californica. Immunoelectron microscopy and crosslinking studies have demonstrated that this 43-kDa protein is closely associated with the cytoplasmic domain(s) of th...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Burden SJ

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this model gravitation results from the emission and absorption of quanta (gravitons) that are scattered a few times in crossing a typical galaxy. Many features of the universe can be explained in terms of this model, although theoretical justification for the scattering of gravitons is lacking. Gravitons follow a ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Britten RJ

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of transcription of the GAL genes of yeast by galactose is a multistep process: Galactose frees the activator Gal4 of its inhibitor, Gal80, allowing Gal4 to recruit proteins required to transcribe the GAL genes. Here, we show that deletion of components of either the HSP90 or the HSP70 chaperone machinery de...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Floer M,Bryant GO,Ptashne M

更新日期：2008-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Phages of the Caudovirales order possess a tail that recognizes the host and ensures genome delivery upon infection. The X-ray structure of the approximately 1.8 MDa host adsorption device (baseplate) from the lactococcal phage TP901-1 shows that the receptor-binding proteins are pointing in the direction of the host,...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Veesler D,Spinelli S,Mahony J,Lichière J,Blangy S,Bricogne G,Legrand P,Ortiz-Lombardia M,Campanacci V,van Sinderen D,Cambillau C

更新日期：2012-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:R. A. Fisher's 1930 "reproductive value" is defined as the contribution made by a population's initial age elements to its asymptotically dominating exponential growth mode. For the Leslie discrete-time model, it is the characteristic row vector of the Leslie matrix, and for the integral-equation model of Lotka the si...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Samuelson PA

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The photopigment melanopsin supports reflexive visual functions in people, such as pupil constriction and circadian photoentrainment. What contribution melanopsin makes to conscious visual perception is less studied. We devised a stimulus that targeted melanopsin separately from the cones using pulsed (3-s) spectral m...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Spitschan M,Bock AS,Ryan J,Frazzetta G,Brainard DH,Aguirre GK

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The multisubunit enzyme aspartate transcarbamylase consists of six copies of two types of polypeptide chains, catalytic (C) and regulatory (R). A complex formed by the partial dissociation of this enzyme has been isolated. This species, which has the structure C(6)R(4), is a likely intermediate in the stepwise dissoci...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Evans DR,Pastra-Landis SC,Lipscomb WN

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the proclamation of Lowenstam and Weiner that crustaceans are the "champions of mineral mobilization and deposition of the animal kingdom," relatively few proteins from the two main calcification sites in these animals, i.e., the exoskeleton and the transient calcium storage organs, have been identified, seque...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Shechter A,Glazer L,Cheled S,Mor E,Weil S,Berman A,Bentov S,Aflalo ED,Khalaila I,Sagi A

更新日期：2008-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsomal NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase (CPR) is one of only two mammalian enzymes known to contain both FAD and FMN, the other being nitric-oxide synthase. CPR is a membrane-bound protein and catalyzes electron transfer from NADPH to all known microsomal cytochromes P450. The structure of rat liver CPR, expressed ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Wang M,Roberts DL,Paschke R,Shea TM,Masters BS,Kim JJ

更新日期：1997-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of bacteria in the natural environment live within the confines of a biofilm. The Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis forms biofilms that exhibit a characteristic wrinkled morphology and a highly hydrophobic surface. A critical component in generating these properties is the protein BslA, which form...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Bromley KM,Morris RJ,Hobley L,Brandani G,Gillespie RM,McCluskey M,Zachariae U,Marenduzzo D,Stanley-Wall NR,MacPhee CE

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:When an unusually high frequency of an allele is encountered in a population, "founder effect" is often invoked as an explanation. As usually used, the term implies the disproportionate increase through chance (rather than selection) of an allele contributed to the population by a particular ancestor. While genetic th...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Thompson EA,Neel JV

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an important medical need for new antifungal agents with novel mechanisms of action to treat the increasing number of patients with life-threatening systemic fungal disease and to overcome the growing problem of resistance to current therapies. F901318, the leading representative of a novel class of drug, the...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Oliver JD,Sibley GEM,Beckmann N,Dobb KS,Slater MJ,McEntee L,du Pré S,Livermore J,Bromley MJ,Wiederhold NP,Hope WW,Kennedy AJ,Law D,Birch M

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A typical homing endonuclease initiates mobility of its group I intron by recognizing DNA both upstream and downstream of the intron insertion site of intronless alleles, preventing the endonuclease from binding and cleaving its own intron-containing allele. Here, we describe a GIY-YIG family homing endonuclease, I-Bm...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Edgell DR,Shub DA

更新日期：2001-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation is a hallmark of many diseases, such as atherosclerosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, arthritis, infectious diseases, and cancer. Although steroids and cyclooxygenase inhibitors are effective antiinflammatory therapeutical agents, they may cause serious side effects. Therefore, developing unique...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Jeon KI,Xu X,Aizawa T,Lim JH,Jono H,Kwon DS,Abe J,Berk BC,Li JD,Yan C

更新日期：2010-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:One can imagine a variety of mechanisms that should result in self-perpetuating biological states. It is generally assumed that cytosine methylation is propagated in eukaryotes by enzymes that specifically methylate hemimethylated symmetrical sites (e.g., (5')CpGGpC(5') or (5')CpNpGGpNpC(5')). Although there is wide s...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Selker EU,Freitag M,Kothe GO,Margolin BS,Rountree MR,Allis CD,Tamaru H

更新日期：2002-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The 16S rRNA genes of Pyrobaculum aerophilum and Pyrobaculum islandicum were amplified by the polymerase chain reaction, and the resulting products were sequenced directly. The two organisms are closely related by this measure (over 98% similar). However, they differ in that the (lone) 16S rRNA gene of Pyrobaculum aer...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Burggraf S,Larsen N,Woese CR,Stetter KO

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The lineage-determining transcription factor CCAAT enhancer binding protein alpha (C/EBPalpha) is required for myeloid differentiation. Decreased function or expression of C/EBPalpha is often found in human acute myeloid leukemia. However, the precise impact of C/EBPalpha deficiency on the maturation arrest in leukemo...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Wagner K,Zhang P,Rosenbauer F,Drescher B,Kobayashi S,Radomska HS,Kutok JL,Gilliland DG,Krauter J,Tenen DG

更新日期：2006-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent excavations at Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) WF16 in southern Jordan have revealed remarkable evidence of architectural developments in the early Neolithic. This sheds light on both special purpose structures and "domestic" settlement, allowing fresh insights into the development of increasingly sedentary comm...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Finlayson B,Mithen SJ,Najjar M,Smith S,Maričević D,Pankhurst N,Yeomans L

更新日期：2011-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:I discuss two exotic objects that must be experimentally identified in chiral superfluids and superconductors. These are (i) the vortex with a fractional quantum number (N = 1/2 in chiral superfluids, and N = 1/2 and N = 1/4 in chiral superconductors), which plays the part of the Alice string in relativistic theories ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Volovik GE

更新日期：2000-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A mechanism of ion transport across membranes is reported. Microbial transport of Fe(3+) generally delivers iron, a growth-limiting nutrient, to cells via highly specific siderophore-mediated transport systems. In contrast, iron transport in the fresh water bacterium Aeromonas hydrophila is found to occur by means of ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Stintzi A,Barnes C,Xu J,Raymond KN

更新日期：2000-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragment screens for new ligands have had wide success, notwithstanding their constraint to libraries of 1,000-10,000 molecules. Larger libraries would be addressable were molecular docking reliable for fragment screens, but this has not been widely accepted. To investigate docking's ability to prioritize fragments, a...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Teotico DG,Babaoglu K,Rocklin GJ,Ferreira RS,Giannetti AM,Shoichet BK

更新日期：2009-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurotrophin (NT) brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) plays an essential role in the formation of long-term potentiation (LTP). Here, we address whether this modulation by BDNF requires its continuous presence, or whether a local increase in BDNF is necessary during a specific time period of LTP initiation. U...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Gärtner A,Staiger V

更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper homeostasis is essential for bacterial pathogen fitness and infection, and has been the focus of a number of recent studies. In Salmonella, envelope protection against copper overload and macrophage survival depends on CueP, a major copper-binding protein in the periplasm. This protein is also required to deliv...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Pezza A,Pontel LB,López C,Soncini FC

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite their importance for biological activity, slower molecular motions beyond the nanosecond range remain poorly understood. We have assembled an unprecedented set of experimental NMR data, comprising up to 27 residual dipolar couplings per amino acid, to define the nature and amplitude of backbone motion in prote...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Bouvignies G,Bernadó P,Meier S,Cho K,Grzesiek S,Brüschweiler R,Blackledge M

更新日期：2005-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A natural (evolutionary) classification is provided for 242 basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) motif-containing proteins. Phylogenetic analyses of amino acid sequences describe the patterns of evolutionary change within the motif and delimit evolutionary lineages. These evolutionary lineages represent well known functional...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Atchley WR,Fitch WM

更新日期：1997-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were performed to ascertain the degree to which the amount of amino acids might be one of the regulatory factors that control the activity of the nucleolar RNA polymerase. Assays of the enzymatic activity were done with isolated nuclei from cells incubated with low and high concentrations of amino acids. S...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Franze-Fernández MT,Pogo AO

更新日期：1971-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extrachromosomal copies of the 1.6-kilobase transposable element Tc1 are present at the level of between 0.1 and 1.0 copy per cell in Caenorhabditis elegans strain Bergerac. Extrachromosomal elements were detected and studied using Southern hybridizations employing a Tc1-specific probe. The amount of extrachromosomal ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Ruan K,Emmons SW

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned four lambda light chain constant region (C) genes from mouse embryo DNA. Each carries its own joining (J) segment approximately 1.3 kilobases to its 5' side. The four C genes occur in two clusters, 5' J3C3J1C13' and 5' J2C2J4C43', with C4 being a new C lambda gene. We have also shown that V lambda 1 is ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Blomberg B,Traunecker A,Eisen H,Tonegawa S

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myeloid leukemia subtype M4 with eosinophilia is associated with a chromosome 16 inversion that creates a fusion gene CBFB-MYH11. We have previously shown that CBFB-MYH11 is necessary but not sufficient for leukemogenesis. Here, we report the identification of genes that specifically cooperate with CBFB-MYH11 in...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Castilla LH,Perrat P,Martinez NJ,Landrette SF,Keys R,Oikemus S,Flanegan J,Heilman S,Garrett L,Dutra A,Anderson S,Pihan GA,Wolff L,Liu PP

更新日期：2004-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The composition of biologic molecules isolated from biominerals suggests that control of mineral growth is linked to biochemical features. Here, we define a systematic relationship between the ability of biomolecules in solution to promote the growth of calcite (CaCO3) and their net negative molecular charge and hydro...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Elhadj S,De Yoreo JJ,Hoyer JR,Dove PM

更新日期：2006-12-19 00:00:00