Insertion site preferences of the P transposable element in Drosophila melanogaster.

abstract：:High-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) has revolutionized the oil and gas industry worldwide but has been accompanied by highly controversial incidents of reported water contamination. For example, groundwater contamination by stray natural gas and spillage of brine and other gas drilling-related fluids is known to o...

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

authors： Llewellyn GT,Dorman F,Westland JL,Yoxtheimer D,Grieve P,Sowers T,Humston-Fulmer E,Brantley SL

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon γ-inducible protein 16 (IFI16) and cGMP-AMP synthase (cGAS) have both been proposed to detect herpesviral DNA directly in herpes simplex virus (HSV)-infected cells and initiate interferon regulatory factor-3 signaling, but it has been unclear how two DNA sensors could both be required for this response. We ...

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

authors： Orzalli MH,Broekema NM,Diner BA,Hancks DC,Elde NC,Cristea IM,Knipe DM

更新日期：2015-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomere syndromes have their most common manifestation in lung disease that is recognized as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema. In both conditions, there is loss of alveolar integrity, but the underlying mechanisms are not known. We tested the capacity of alveolar epithelial and stromal cells from mice with...

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

authors： Alder JK,Barkauskas CE,Limjunyawong N,Stanley SE,Kembou F,Tuder RM,Hogan BL,Mitzner W,Armanios M

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:LTRs of endogenous retroviruses are known to affect expression of several human genes, typically as a relatively minor alternative promoter. Here, we report that an endogenous retrovirus LTR acts as one of at least two alternative promoters for the human beta1,3-galactosyltransferase 5 gene, involved in type 1 Lewis a...

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

authors： Dunn CA,Medstrand P,Mager DL

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A full-length placental alkaline phosphatase (PLAP) cDNA was used to identify and clone the PLAP-like Nagao isozyme gene from human genomic libraries. The entire nucleotide sequence of the gene reveals the existence of 11 exons interrupted by 10 small introns (76-427 base pairs). Putative regulatory sequences have bee...

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

authors： Millán JL,Manes T

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water oxidation by cyanobacteria, algae, and plants is pivotal in oxygenic photosynthesis, the process that powers life on Earth, and is the paradigm for engineering solar fuel-production systems. Each complete reaction cycle of photosynthetic water oxidation requires the removal of four electrons and four protons fro...

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

authors： Klauss A,Haumann M,Dau H

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular senescence is defined by the limited proliferative capacity of normal cultured cells. Immortal cells overcome this regulation and proliferate indefinitively. One step in the immortalization process may be reactivation of telomerase activity, a ribonucleoprotein complex, which, by de novo synthesized telomeric...

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

authors： Härle-Bachor C,Boukamp P

更新日期：1996-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of contrast enhancement of tumors using magnetic resonance imaging was investigated in MCF7 human breast cancer implanted in nude mice. Dynamic contrast-enhanced images recorded at high spatial resolution were analyzed by an image analysis method based on a physiological model, which included the blood c...

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

authors： Furman-Haran E,Margalit R,Grobgeld D,Degani H

更新日期：1996-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:FtsEX is a bacterial ABC transporter that regulates the activity of periplasmic peptidoglycan amidases via its interaction with the murein hydrolase activator, EnvC. In Escherichia coli, FtsEX is required to separate daughter cells after cell division and for viability in low-osmolarity media. Both the ATPase activity...

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

authors： Cook J,Baverstock TC,McAndrew MBL,Stansfeld PJ,Roper DI,Crow A

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In the retinae of many vertebrates, there are classes of horizontal cell that probably utilize gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) as a neurotransmitter. As with other amino acid transmitter agents, the postsynaptic action of GABA is thought to be terminated by uptake into neurons and glia surrounding the release site. The...

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

authors： Malchow RP,Ripps H

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An src/yes-related novel gene named syn (SYN in human gene nomenclature) has been identified in the human genome on chromosome 6 and characterized by molecular cloning. Nucleotide sequence analysis of cDNA clones showed that the c-syn gene could encode a protein-tyrosine kinase that is very similar in primary structur...

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

authors： Semba K,Nishizawa M,Miyajima N,Yoshida MC,Sukegawa J,Yamanashi Y,Sasaki M,Yamamoto T,Toyoshima K

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigation of retinal neurochemistry in a well-defined chick model of form-deprivation myopia indicated that dopamine and its metabolite 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid are reduced in myopic as compared to control eyes. The reduction in retinal dopamine is evident only during light adaptation and is accompanied by a...

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

authors： Stone RA,Lin T,Laties AM,Iuvone PM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse p19Arf (human p14ARF) tumor suppressor protein, encoded in part from an alternative reading frame of the Ink4a (Cdkn2a) gene, inhibits the Mdm2 E3 ubiquitin ligase to activate p53. Arf is not expressed in most normal tissues of young mice but is induced by high thresholds of aberrant hyperproliferative signa...

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

authors： van Oosterwijk JG,Li C,Yang X,Opferman JT,Sherr CJ

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucosal surfaces are a main entry point for pathogens and the principal sites of defense against infection. Both bacteria and phage are associated with this mucus. Here we show that phage-to-bacteria ratios were increased, relative to the adjacent environment, on all mucosal surfaces sampled, ranging from cnidarians t...

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

authors： Barr JJ,Auro R,Furlan M,Whiteson KL,Erb ML,Pogliano J,Stotland A,Wolkowicz R,Cutting AS,Doran KS,Salamon P,Youle M,Rohwer F

更新日期：2013-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly pathogenic avian influenza A viruses of subtypes H5 and H7 are the causative agents of fowl plague in poultry. Influenza A viruses of subtype H5N1 also caused severe respiratory disease in humans in Hong Kong in 1997 and 2003, including at least seven fatal cases, posing a serious human pandemic threat. Between...

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

authors： Fouchier RA,Schneeberger PM,Rozendaal FW,Broekman JM,Kemink SA,Munster V,Kuiken T,Rimmelzwaan GF,Schutten M,Van Doornum GJ,Koch G,Bosman A,Koopmans M,Osterhaus AD

更新日期：2004-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Damage to the protooncogene MYC has been implicated in the genesis of diverse human tumors, but the tumorigenic potential of the isolated gene has been disputed. Here we report the use of a retroviral vector to test the potency of human MYC for neoplastic transformation in avian cells. We found that sustained and abun...

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

authors： Ramsay GM,Moscovici G,Moscovici C,Bishop JM

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male chickens with the henny feathering trait have a female feathering pattern. In two henny-feathered breeds, the Sebright bantam and the Golden Campine, the synthesis of estrogen is increased as a consequence of increased activity of aromatase, a cytochrome P-450 enzyme that converts androgen to estrogen. The activi...

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

authors： Leshin M

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How does genome evolution affect the rate of diversification of biological lineages? Recent studies have suggested that the overall rate of genome evolution is correlated with the rate of diversification. If true, this claim has important consequences for understanding the process of diversification, and implications ...

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

authors： Lanfear R,Ho SY,Love D,Bromham L

更新日期：2010-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Methyl groups placed on varphiXsB1 replicative form DNA by the Escherichia coli B modification enzyme are located in the overlap between fragments Mbo II-3 and Alu I-2, a 61-base-pair DNA segment. Mutations that led to loss of susceptibility to restriction by E. coli B occurred within this segment at three positions s...

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

authors： Lautenberger JA,Kan NC,Lackey D,Linn S,Edgell MH,Hutchison CA 3rd

更新日期：1978-05-01 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：:Type I and type III IFNs bind to different cell-surface receptors but induce identical signal transduction pathways, leading to the expression of antiviral host effector molecules. Despite the fact that type III IFN (IFN-λ) has been shown to predominantly act on mucosal organs, in vivo infection studies have failed to...

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

authors： Pott J,Mahlakõiv T,Mordstein M,Duerr CU,Michiels T,Stockinger S,Staeheli P,Hornef MW

更新日期：2011-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutator activity associated with the common male recombination (MR) chromosomes in Drosophila melanogaster appears to be suppressed in natural populations. Crosses between geographically separated populations, however, lead to the release of mutator activity as measured by a significant increase in visible mutations. ...

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

authors： Thompson JN Jr,Woodruff RC

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular membranes are a heterogeneous mix of lipids, proteins and small molecules. Special groupings enriched in saturated lipids and cholesterol form liquid-ordered domains, known as "lipid rafts," thought to serve as platforms for signaling, trafficking and material transport throughout the secretory pathway. Quest...

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

authors： Ursell TS,Klug WS,Phillips R

更新日期：2009-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved electron cloud bolometer is analyzed. In this device the cloud temperature is read out not via thermal noise induced by the electrons in a coupled LC circuit but via shift in their axial oscillation frequency in the Penning trap confining them. This shift occurs because as the electron cloud expands with i...

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

authors： Dehmelt H

更新日期：1994-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Smad proteins are key intracellular signaling effectors for the transforming growth factor-beta superfamily of peptide growth factors. Following receptor-induced activation, Smads move into the nucleus to activate transcription of a select set of target genes. The activity of Smad proteins must be tightly regulated to...

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

authors： Zhang Y,Chang C,Gehling DJ,Hemmati-Brivanlou A,Derynck R

更新日期：2001-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The transmission of complexity during DNA replication has been investigated to clarify the significance of this molecular property in a deterministic process. Complexity was equated with the amount of randomness within an ordered molecular structure and measured by the entropy of a posteriori probabilities for discret...

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

authors： Davis BK

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are many occasions in which humans and other animals must inhibit the production of some behavior or inhibit the processing of some internal representation. Success in inhibitory processing under normal circumstances can be revealed by the fact that certain brain pathologies render inhibitory processing ineffect...

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

authors： Jonides J,Smith EE,Marshuetz C,Koeppe RA,Reuter-Lorenz PA

更新日期：1998-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The genotypic proportions for major histocompatibility complex loci, HLA-A and HLA-B, of progeny in families in 23 South Amerindian tribes in which segregation for homozygotes and heterozygotes could occur are examined. Overall, there is a large deficiency of homozygotes compared with Mendelian expectations (for HLA-A...

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

authors： Black FL,Hedrick PW

更新日期：1997-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanogen bromide fragments were isolated from the heavy chains of three human IgG myeloma proteins of the V(H)III subgroup, sequenced by an automated method, and localized to the variable region. Inspection of these sequences, together with corresponding stretches from both human and animal proteins (studied in other ...

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

authors： Kehoe JM,Capra JD

更新日期：1971-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several polymorphisms of the transcription factor 4 (TCF4) have been shown to increase the risk for schizophrenia, particularly TCF4 rs9960767. This polymorphism is associated with impaired sensorimotor gating measured by prepulse inhibition--an established endophenotype of schizophrenia. We therefore investigated whe...

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

authors： Quednow BB,Brinkmeyer J,Mobascher A,Nothnagel M,Musso F,Gründer G,Savary N,Petrovsky N,Frommann I,Lennertz L,Spreckelmeyer KN,Wienker TF,Dahmen N,Thuerauf N,Clepce M,Kiefer F,Majic T,Mössner R,Maier W,Gallinat J,D

更新日期：2012-04-17 00:00:00