Evolution of Antp-class genes and differential expression of Hydra Hox/paraHox genes in anterior patterning.

abstract：:Several overlapping chromosomal deletions spanning the albino locus in the mouse cause perinatal lethality when homozygous and a block in the transcriptional induction of various unlinked hepatocyte-specific genes. Studies of such lethal albino deletion homozygotes in perinatal stages revealed a deficiency in the tran...

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

authors： Zaret KS,Milos P,Lia M,Bali D,Gluecksohn-Waelsch S

更新日期：1992-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) preparations contain activity against HIV type 1 (HIV-1). However, there has been controversy about whether some biological activities of hCG beta-subunit (hCGbeta) preparations are caused by the beta-subunit itself or other proteins present in the preparations. We report here the pu...

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

authors： Lee-Huang S,Huang PL,Sun Y,Huang PL,Kung HF,Blithe DL,Chen HC

更新日期：1999-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomes are compacted hundreds of times to fit in the cell, packaged into dynamic folds whose structures are largely unknown. Here, we examine patterns in gene locations to infer large-scale features of bacterial chromosomes. Specifically, we analyzed >100 genomes and identified thousands of gene pairs that displa...

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

authors： Wright MA,Kharchenko P,Church GM,Segrè D

更新日期：2007-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of alphavbeta3- or alphavbeta5-integrins and selectins is widespread on blood cells and endothelial cells. Here we report that human tumor cells injected s.c. into mice lacking beta3- or beta3/beta5-integrins or various selectins show enhanced tumor growth compared with growth in control mice. There was inc...

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

authors： Taverna D,Moher H,Crowley D,Borsig L,Varki A,Hynes RO

更新日期：2004-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of photoinitiated electron transfer in donor-bridge-acceptor molecules has helped elucidate the distance dependence of electron transfer rates and behavior of various electron transfer mechanisms. In all reported cases, the energies of the bridge electronic states involved in the electron transfer change dra...

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

authors： Goldsmith RH,Sinks LE,Kelley RF,Betzen LJ,Liu W,Weiss EA,Ratner MA,Wasielewski MR

更新日期：2005-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the distribution of the cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) aphid transmission factor (ATF), produced via a baculovirus recombinant, within Sf9 insect cells. Immunogold labeling revealed that the ATF colocalizes with an atypical cytoskeletal network. Detailed observation by electron microscopy demonstrated tha...

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

authors： Blanc S,Schmidt I,Vantard M,Scholthof HB,Kuhl G,Esperandieu P,Cerutti M,Louis C

更新日期：1996-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of cullin-containing ubiquitin protein ligase complexes is stimulated by linkage to cullin of the ubiquitin-like protein Nedd8 ("neddylation"). Neddylation is inhibited by the tight binding of cullins to CAND1 (cullin-associated and neddylation-dissociated 1) protein, and Nedd8 is removed from cullins by ...

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

authors： Bornstein G,Ganoth D,Hershko A

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:These studies sought to determine if neurons in the estrogen receptor-alpha knockout (ERalphaKO) mouse brain concentrated 16alpha-[125I]iodo-11beta-methoxy-17beta-estradiol (125I-estrogen), and if so, whether estrogen binding augmented the expression of progesterone receptor (PR) mRNA. Mice were injected with 125I-est...

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

authors： Shughrue PJ,Lubahn DB,Negro-Vilar A,Korach KS,Merchenthaler I

更新日期：1997-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular replicative DNA polymerases cannot initiate DNA synthesis without a priming 3' OH. During DNA replication, this is supplied in the context of a short RNA primer molecule synthesized by DNA primase. The primase of archaea and eukaryotes, despite having varying subunit compositions, share sequence and struc...

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

authors： Yan J,Holzer S,Pellegrini L,Bell SD

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The minimal size of the recombination site required for efficient FLP recombinase-catalyzed recombination in vitro is no more than 28 base pairs, which includes parts of two 13-base-pair inverted repeats and all of an 8-base-pair spacer. The FLP recombinase cleaves the DNA at the boundaries of the spacer, becomes cova...

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

authors： Senecoff JF,Bruckner RC,Cox MM

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral sensitization of the gill-withdrawal reflex of Aplysia is caused by presynaptic facilitation at the synapses of the mechanoreceptor sensory neurons of the reflex onto the motor neurons and interneurons. The presynaptic facilitation has been shown to be simulated by serotonin (the putative presynaptic facili...

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

authors： Klein M,Kandel ER

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) have been found as monomers but also as dimers or higher-order oligomers in cells. The relevance of the monomeric or dimeric receptor state for G protein activation is currently under debate for class A rhodopsin-like GPCRs. Clarification of this issue requires the availability of w...

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

authors： White JF,Grodnitzky J,Louis JM,Trinh LB,Shiloach J,Gutierrez J,Northup JK,Grisshammer R

更新日期：2007-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Programmed cell death (apoptosis) is a normal physiological process, which could in principle be manipulated to play an important role in cancer therapy. The key importance of p53 expression in the apoptotic response to DNA-damaging agents has been stressed because mutant or deleted p53 is so common in most kinds of c...

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

authors： Xu C,Meikrantz W,Schlegel R,Sager R

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factors (TNF) alpha and beta are structurally related cytokines that mediate a wide range of immunological, inflammatory, and cytotoxic effects. During bacterial infection of the bloodstream (sepsis), TNF-alpha induction by bacterial endotoxin is thought to be a major factor contributing to the cardiova...

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

authors： Ashkenazi A,Marsters SA,Capon DJ,Chamow SM,Figari IS,Pennica D,Goeddel DV,Palladino MA,Smith DH

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major goal of tumor immunotherapy is the effective eradication of established metastases associated with the induction of a T cell-mediated protective immunity. We achieved this in a poorly immunogenic murine neuroblastoma model by gene therapy with a single chain interleukin 12 (scIL-12) fusion protein that assures...

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

authors： Lode HN,Dreier T,Xiang R,Varki NM,Kang AS,Reisfeld RA

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Parathyroid hormone (PTH) is central to calcium homeostasis and bone maintenance in vertebrates, and as such it has been used for treating osteoporosis. It acts primarily by binding to its receptor, PTH1R, a member of the class B G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) family that also includes receptors for glucagon, calci...

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

authors： Pioszak AA,Xu HE

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human craniofacial data were used to assess the similarities and differences between recent and prehistoric Old World samples, and between these samples and a similar representation of samples from the New World. The data were analyzed by the neighbor-joining clustering procedure, assisted by bootstrapping and by cano...

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

authors： Brace CL,Nelson AR,Seguchi N,Oe H,Sering L,Qifeng P,Yongyi L,Tumen D

更新日期：2001-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged periods of extreme heat or drought in the first year after fire affect the resilience and diversity of fire-dependent ecosystems by inhibiting seed germination or increasing mortality of seedlings and resprouting individuals. This interaction between weather and fire is of growing concern as climate changes,...

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

authors： Slingsby JA,Merow C,Aiello-Lammens M,Allsopp N,Hall S,Kilroy Mollmann H,Turner R,Wilson AM,Silander JA Jr

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of the molecular control of many disease pathologies requires the identification of direct substrates targeted by specific protein kinases. Here we describe an integrated proteomic strategy, termed kinase assay linked with phosphoproteomics, which combines a sensitive kinase reaction with endogenous ...

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

authors： Xue L,Wang WH,Iliuk A,Hu L,Galan JA,Yu S,Hans M,Geahlen RL,Tao WA

更新日期：2012-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli glutamine synthetase (GS) was inactivated by a nonenzymic mixed-function oxidation system composed of ascorbate, O2, and Fe(III). Partial inactivation of GS by this system leads to the formation of hybrid GS molecules (dodecamers) composed of both active and inactive subunits. Subunit interactions in ...

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

authors： Nakamura K,Stadtman ER

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two affinity species of the interleukin 2 (IL-2) receptor are different states of a single receptor molecule. We assumed that a binary complex between the IL-2 receptor and another lymphocyte-specific protein would constitute the high-affinity receptor. To test this assumption, we counted the numbers of IL-2 receptors...

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

authors： Kondo S,Shimizu A,Saito Y,Kinoshita M,Honjo T

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that the BC200 RNA gene, which encodes a neural small cytoplasmic RNA, is a member of the most prodigious family of interspersed repetitive DNA and that its product represents an example of a primate tissue-specific RNA polymerase III transcript. The BC200 RNA gene is an early monomeric member and one o...

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

authors： Martignetti JA,Brosius J

更新日期：1993-12-15 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：:IL-33, a cytokine of the IL-1 family, is closely associated with type II T cell responses. Here, we report an unexpected proinflammatory role of IL-33 in inflammatory arthritis. IL-33 was expressed in synovial fibroblasts from patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Expression was markedly elevated in vitro by inflam...

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

authors： Xu D,Jiang HR,Kewin P,Li Y,Mu R,Fraser AR,Pitman N,Kurowska-Stolarska M,McKenzie AN,McInnes IB,Liew FY

更新日期：2008-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) production in cultured mononuclear cells from 36 seropositive homosexual males. Production was detected by using an HIV p24 antigen ELISA assay in blood mononuclear cells in 54% of asymptomatic, 71% of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)-related complex, and 100% of...

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

authors： McElrath MJ,Pruett JE,Cohn ZA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gal operon of Escherichia coli is negatively regulated by repressor binding to bipartite operators separated by 11 helical turns of DNA. Synergistic binding of repressor to separate sites on DNA results in looping, with the intervening DNA as a topologically closed domain containing the two promoters. A closed DNA...

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

authors： Choy HE,Park SW,Parrack P,Adhya S

更新日期：1995-08-01 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 activity-regulated cytoskeleton-associated protein (Arc) gene is a neural immediate early gene that is involved in synaptic downscaling and is robustly induced by prolonged wakefulness in rodent brains. Converging evidence has led to the hypothesis that wakefulness potentiates, and sleep reduces, synaptic strength...

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

authors： Suzuki A,Yanagisawa M,Greene RW

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique for systematic peptide variation by a combination of rational and evolutionary approaches is presented. The design scheme consists of five consecutive steps: (i) identification of a "seed peptide" with a desired activity, (ii) generation of variants selected from a physicochemical space around the seed pep...

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

authors： Schneider G,Schrödl W,Wallukat G,Müller J,Nissen E,Rönspeck W,Wrede P,Kunze R

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent demonstrations of correlated low-frequency MRI signal variations between subregions of the spinal cord at rest in humans, similar to those found in the brain, suggest that such resting-state functional connectivity constitutes a common feature of the intrinsic organization of the entire central nervous system. ...

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

authors： Chen LM,Mishra A,Yang PF,Wang F,Gore JC

更新日期：2015-05-12 00:00:00