Differential regulation by multiple promoters of the gene encoding the neuron-restrictive silencer factor.

abstract：:The effect of carlorie intake on the development of spontaneous mammary tumors in virgin C3H mice was studied. Only about 10% of the mice fed a low-calorie diet [10 kcal/day (1 kcal = 4.184 kJ)] since weaning developed mammary tumors, compared to about 60% of those mice that were reared on high-calorie diets (16 kcal/...

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

authors： Sarkar NH,Fernandes G,Telang NT,Kourides IA,Good RA

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is a fatal, genetic, neurological disorder resulting from a trinucleotide repeat expansion in the gene that encodes for the protein huntingtin. These excessive repeats confer a toxic gain of function on huntingtin, which leads to the degeneration of striatal and cortical neurons and a devasta...

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

authors： McBride JL,Ramaswamy S,Gasmi M,Bartus RT,Herzog CD,Brandon EP,Zhou L,Pitzer MR,Berry-Kravis EM,Kordower JH

更新日期：2006-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in rodents and nonhuman primates have linked the activity of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors within the hippocampus to animals' performance on memory-related tasks. However, whether these receptors are similarly essential for human memory is still an open question. Here we present evidence suggesting tha...

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

authors： Grunwald T,Beck H,Lehnertz K,Blümcke I,Pezer N,Kurthen M,Fernández G,Van Roost D,Heinze HJ,Kutas M,Elger CE

更新日期：1999-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of language familiarity upon speaker identification is well established, to such an extent that it has been argued that "Human voice recognition depends on language ability" [Perrachione TK, Del Tufo SN, Gabrieli JDE (2011) Science 333(6042):595]. However, 7-mo-old infants discriminate speakers of their ...

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

authors： Fleming D,Giordano BL,Caldara R,Belin P

更新日期：2014-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The Tat protein coded by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a strong activator of viral gene expression from the long terminal repeat (LTR). It appears that Tat-mediated trans-activation of the HIV LTR is predominantly a transcriptional event. It has been reported that Tat acts at the level of both transcriptional ...

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

authors： Kamine J,Subramanian T,Chinnadurai G

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are 18- to 24-nt RNA molecules that regulate messenger RNAs (mRNAs). Posttranscriptional mechanisms regulate miRNA abundance during development as well as in cancer cells where miRNAs frequently exhibit dysregulated expression. The molecular mechanisms that govern the global efficiency of miRNA biog...

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

authors： Hwang HW,Wentzel EA,Mendell JT

更新日期：2009-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the structure and function of the gene for parathyroid hormone, we obtained recombinant plasmids containing bovine parathyroid hormone cDNA. The nucleotide sequence at the 5' terminus (relative to the sense strand) of the cDNA insert in a recombinant plasmid, pPTHi4, was different from that previously reporte...

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

authors： Weaver CA,Gordon DF,Kemper B

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many aspects of plant development, including patterning and tropisms, are largely dependent on the asymmetric distribution of the plant signaling molecule auxin. Auxin transport inhibitors (ATIs), which interfere with directional auxin transport, have been essential tools in formulating this concept. However, despite ...

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

authors： Dhonukshe P,Grigoriev I,Fischer R,Tominaga M,Robinson DG,Hasek J,Paciorek T,Petrásek J,Seifertová D,Tejos R,Meisel LA,Zazímalová E,Gadella TW Jr,Stierhof YD,Ueda T,Oiwa K,Akhmanova A,Brock R,Spang A,Friml J

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the interaction of ethanol with the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)ergic system in neurons of slices of the rat central amygdala nucleus (CeA), a brain region thought to be critical for the reinforcing effects of ethanol. Brief superfusion of 11-66 mM ethanol significantly increased GABA type A (GABA(A)) re...

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

authors： Roberto M,Madamba SG,Moore SD,Tallent MK,Siggins GR

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Quinate:NAD(+) 3-oxidoreductase (EC 1.1.1.24) from carrot cell suspension cultures has previously been shown to be activated by phosphorylation and inactivated by dephosphorylation. Here it is shown that the reactivation of the inactivated quinate:NAD(+) oxidoreductase is an enzyme-mediated process that requires ATP a...

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

authors： Ranjeva R,Refeno G,Boudet AM,Marmé D

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein Hal is a human gamma4 heavy-chain disease protein whose molecular weight is reduced from 55,000 to 25,000 in 6 M guanidine due to the lack of disulfide bonds between heavy chains. Studies of aminoacid sequence indicate that it contains a gap of about 240 residues, starting 10 residues from the N-terminal end a...

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

authors： Frangione B,Lee L,Haber E,Bloch KJ

更新日期：1973-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The apoprotein corresponding to the mammalian photoreceptor rhodopsin has been expressed by using suspension cultures of HEK293S cells in defined media that contained 6-15N-lysine and 2-13C-glycine. Typical yields were 1.5-1.8 mg/liter. Incorporation of 6-15N-lysine was quantitative, whereas that of 2-13C-glycine was ...

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

authors： Eilers M,Reeves PJ,Ying W,Khorana HG,Smith SO

更新日期：1999-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:High genetic diversity of East Asian village dogs has recently been used to argue for an East Asian origin of the domestic dog. However, global village dog genetic diversity and the extent to which semiferal village dogs represent distinct, indigenous populations instead of admixtures of various dog breeds has not bee...

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

authors： Boyko AR,Boyko RH,Boyko CM,Parker HG,Castelhano M,Corey L,Degenhardt JD,Auton A,Hedimbi M,Kityo R,Ostrander EA,Schoenebeck J,Todhunter RJ,Jones P,Bustamante CD

更新日期：2009-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cultures of Catharanthus roseus were supplied with [2-13C, 3-2H]-deoxyxylulose or [2-13C,4-2H]1-deoxyxylulose. Lutein and chlorophylls were isolated from the cell mass, and hydrolysis of the chlorophyll mixtures afforded phytol. Isotope labeling patterns of phytol and lutein were determined by 2H NMR and 1H,2H-de...

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

authors： Arigoni D,Eisenreich W,Latzel C,Sagner S,Radykewicz T,Zenk MH,Bacher A

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Fertilization and certain later stages in mammalian embryonic development require fusion between membranes of individual cells. The mechanism of eukaryotic cell-cell fusion is unknown, and no surface molecules required for this process have been unequivocally identified. The role of the sperm surface protein fertilin ...

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

authors： Myles DG,Kimmel LH,Blobel CP,White JM,Primakoff P

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient apoptotic cell clearance and induction of immunologic tolerance is a critical mechanism preventing autoimmunity and associated pathology. Our laboratory has reported that apoptotic cells induce tolerance by a mechanism dependent on the tryptophan catabolizing enzyme indoleamine 2,3 dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) in sp...

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

authors： Ravishankar B,Liu H,Shinde R,Chaudhary K,Xiao W,Bradley J,Koritzinsky M,Madaio MP,McGaha TL

更新日期：2015-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We have evaluated the effect of ligand binding on expression of the receptor for IgE on rat basophilic leukemia (RBL) cells. RBL cells were grown in the presence or absence of 131I-labeled IgE and sometimes were also surface labeled with 125I. We found that cells grown in the presence of IgE continued to accumulate re...

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

authors： Furuichi K,Rivera J,Isersky C

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria merozoite invasion of human erythrocytes depends on recognition of specific erythrocyte surface receptors by parasite ligands. Plasmodium vivax merozoite invasion is totally dependent on the recognition of the Duffy blood group antigen by the parasite ligand Duffy-binding protein (DBP). Receptor recognition by...

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

authors： VanBuskirk KM,Sevova E,Adams JH

更新日期：2004-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical robustness of the cell under different modes of stress and deformation is essential to its survival and function. Under tension, mechanical rigidity is provided by the cytoskeletal network; with increasing stress, this network stiffens, providing increased resistance to deformation. However, a cell must als...

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

authors： Zhou EH,Trepat X,Park CY,Lenormand G,Oliver MN,Mijailovich SM,Hardin C,Weitz DA,Butler JP,Fredberg JJ

更新日期：2009-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptors (TLRs) have been shown to participate in the recognition of pathogens by the innate immune system, but it is not clear how a restricted family of receptors has the capacity to recognize the wide spectrum of TLR stimuli known to exist. We report here that two members of the TLR family, TLR2 and TLR6...

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

authors： Ozinsky A,Underhill DM,Fontenot JD,Hajjar AM,Smith KD,Wilson CB,Schroeder L,Aderem A

更新日期：2000-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast centromeric DNA (CEN DNA) binding factor 3 (CBF3) is a multisubunit protein complex that binds to the essential CDEIII element in CEN DNA. The four CBF3 proteins are required for accurate chromosome segregation and are considered to be core components of the yeast kinetochore. We have examined the structure of t...

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

authors： Pietrasanta LI,Thrower D,Hsieh W,Rao S,Stemmann O,Lechner J,Carbon J,Hansma H

更新日期：1999-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A model for the chain melting phase transition in dilute aqueous phospholipid bilayer dispersions is presented. This model includes interactions between head groups, between hydrocarbon chains, and within the chains. The head groups are modeled as hard disks which are constrained to lie on a two-dimensional surface se...

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

authors： Jacobs RE,Hudson B,Andersen HC

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the roles of the pseudospin and the valley degeneracy in electron scattering at graphene edges. It is found that they are strongly correlated with charge density modulations of short-wavelength oscillations and slowly decaying beat patterns in the electronic density profile. Theoretical analyses using n...

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

authors： Park C,Yang H,Mayne AJ,Dujardin G,Seo S,Kuk Y,Ihm J,Kim G

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A role for Notch in the elaboration of existing neural processes is emerging that is distinct from the increasingly well understood function of this gene in binary cell-fate decisions. Several research groups, by using a variety of organisms, have shown that Notch is important in the development of neural ultrastructu...

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

authors： Presente A,Boyles RS,Serway CN,de Belle JS,Andres AJ

更新日期：2004-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies on proteins whose N and C termini are in close proximity have demonstrated that folding of polypeptide chains and assembly of oligomers can be accomplished with circularly permuted chains. As yet no methodical study has been conducted to determine how extensively new termini can be introduced and where ...

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

authors： Graf R,Schachman HK

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe an active polymer network in which processive molecular motors control network elasticity. This system consists of actin filaments cross-linked by filamin A (FLNa) and contracted by bipolar filaments of muscle myosin II. The myosin motors stiffen the network by more than two orders of magnitude by pulling ...

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

authors： Koenderink GH,Dogic Z,Nakamura F,Bendix PM,MacKintosh FC,Hartwig JH,Stossel TP,Weitz DA

更新日期：2009-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical and genetic studies have implicated alpha-gustducin as a key component in the transduction of both bitter or sweet taste. Yet, alpha-gustducin-null mice are not completely unresponsive to bitter or sweet compounds. To gain insights into how gustducin mediates responses to bitter and sweet compounds, and to...

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

authors： Ruiz-Avila L,Wong GT,Damak S,Margolskee RF

更新日期：2001-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:By using single-molecule multiparameter fluorescence detection, fluorescence resonance energy transfer experiments, and newly developed data analysis methods, this study demonstrates directly the existence of three structurally distinct forms of reverse transcriptase (RT):nucleic acid complexes in solution. Single-mol...

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

authors： Rothwell PJ,Berger S,Kensch O,Felekyan S,Antonik M,Wöhrl BM,Restle T,Goody RS,Seidel CA

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of Ca2+-dependent protein-protein interaction and enzyme activation by calmodulin was investigated with the phosphoprotein phosphatase, calcineurin. Dimethylaminonaphthalene (dansyl)-calmodulin, a fluorescent derivative used to monitor complex formation, produced similar maximal activation (10- to 12-fol...

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

authors： Kincaid RL,Vaughan M

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High molecular weight RNA (35S) isolated from avian myeloblastosis virus directs the cell-free synthesis of two prominent polypeptides of 180,000 and 76,000 molecular weight. The latter polypeptide has previously been identified as the precursor to the group-specific antigens of the virus ("gag" proteins) [Vogt, V. M....

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

authors： Paterson BM,Marciani DJ,Papas TS

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00