The tomato ethylene receptors NR and LeETR4 are negative regulators of ethylene response and exhibit functional compensation within a multigene family.

abstract：:That tumors cause changes in surrounding tissues is well documented, but whether they also affect distant tissues is uncertain. Such knowledge may be important in understanding the relationship between cancer and overall patient health. To address this question, we examined tissues distant to sites of implanted tumors...

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

authors： Redon CE,Dickey JS,Nakamura AJ,Kareva IG,Naf D,Nowsheen S,Kryston TB,Bonner WM,Georgakilas AG,Sedelnikova OA

更新日期：2010-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Free hydrogen (H2) is a basal energy source underlying chemosynthetic activity within igneous ocean crust. In an attempt to systematically account for all H2 within young oceanic lithosphere (<10 Ma) near the Mid-Ocean Ridge (MOR), we construct a box model of this environment. Within this control volume, we assess abi...

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

authors： Worman SL,Pratson LF,Karson JA,Schlesinger WH

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hippo-YAP/TAZ signaling pathway plays a pivotal role in growth control during development and regeneration and its dysregulation is widely implicated in various cancers. To further understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying Hippo signaling regulation, we have found that activities of core Hippo si...

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

authors： Kim W,Cho YS,Wang X,Park O,Ma X,Kim H,Gan W,Jho EH,Cha B,Jeung YJ,Zhang L,Gao B,Wei W,Jiang J,Chung KS,Yang Y

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro T-cell receptor-induced programmed cell death in both activated T cells from human immunodeficiency virus-seronegative (HIV-) donors and resting T cells from HIV+ donors was substantially influenced by cytokines. Addition of exogenous recombinant "type 1" lymphokines interferon gamma and interleukin 2 (IL-2),...

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

authors： Clerici M,Sarin A,Coffman RL,Wynn TA,Blatt SP,Hendrix CW,Wolf SF,Shearer GM,Henkart PA

更新日期：1994-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:By exploiting the cell-cycle-dependent proteolysis of two ubiquitination oscillators, human Cdt1 and geminin, which are the direct substrates of SCF(Skp2) and APC(Cdh1) complexes, respectively, Fucci technique labels mammalian cell nuclei in G(1) and S/G(2)/M phases with different colors. Transgenic mice expressing th...

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

authors： Sugiyama M,Sakaue-Sawano A,Iimura T,Fukami K,Kitaguchi T,Kawakami K,Okamoto H,Higashijima S,Miyawaki A

更新日期：2009-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane-mediated particle interactions depend both on the properties of the particles themselves and the membrane environment in which they are suspended. Experiments have shown that chiral rod-like inclusions dissolved in a colloidal membrane of opposite handedness assemble into colloidal rafts, which are finite-siz...

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

authors： Miller JM,Joshi C,Sharma P,Baskaran A,Baskaran A,Grason GM,Hagan MF,Dogic Z

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymidine kinase-deficient mouse L cells have been transformed with plasmid DNAs carrying 8-base-pair Xho I linker insertion mutations in the coding region of the herpes simplex virus type 1 thymidine kinase gene. When the mutant plasmids are introduced individually into LTK- cells, transformation efficiencies are gre...

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

authors： Shapira G,Stachelek JL,Letsou A,Soodak LK,Liskay RM

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Degradation of the most abundant membrane protein on earth, the light-harvesting complex of Photosystem II (LHC II), is highly regulated under various environmental conditions, e.g., light stress, to prevent photochemical damage to the reaction center. We identified the LHC II degrading protease in Arabidopsis thalian...

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

authors： Zelisko A,García-Lorenzo M,Jackowski G,Jansson S,Funk C

更新日期：2005-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the role of APP and PSEN genes in genetic Alzheimer's disease (AD) cases is well established, fairly little is known about the molecular mechanisms affecting Abeta generation in sporadic AD. Deficiency in Abeta clearance is certainly a possibility, but increased expression of proteins like APP or BACE1/beta-s...

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

authors： Hébert SS,Horré K,Nicolaï L,Papadopoulou AS,Mandemakers W,Silahtaroglu AN,Kauppinen S,Delacourte A,De Strooper B

更新日期：2008-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely accepted that modern humans originated in sub-Saharan Africa approximately 150-200 thousand years ago (ka), but their route of dispersal across the currently hyperarid Sahara remains controversial. Given that the first modern humans north of the Sahara are found in the Levant approximately 120-90 ka, nort...

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

authors： Osborne AH,Vance D,Rohling EJ,Barton N,Rogerson M,Fello N

更新日期：2008-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of antimicrobials is critical in this time of increasing antibiotic resistance of most clinically relevant bacteria. To date, all current antibiotics focus on inhibiting crucial enzymatic activities of their protein targets (i.e., trimethoprim for dihydrofolate reductase), thus disrupting in vitro esse...

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

authors： Shakhnovich EA,Hung DT,Pierson E,Lee K,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：2007-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:McKay et al. [(1996) Science 273, 924-930] suggested that carbonate globules in the meteorite ALH84001 contained the fossil remains of Martian microbes. We have characterized a subpopulation of magnetite (Fe(3)O(4)) crystals present in abundance within the Fe-rich rims of these carbonate globules. We find these Martia...

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

authors： Thomas-Keprta KL,Clemett SJ,Bazylinski DA,Kirschvink JL,McKay DS,Wentworth SJ,Vali H,Gibson EK Jr,McKay MF,Romanek CS

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The "UV footprinting" technique has been used to detect contacts between EcoRI endonuclease and its recognition sequence at single nucleotide resolution. Comparison of the UV-footprinting results to the published crystal structure of the EcoRI endonuclease-DNA complex allows us to determine how UV light detects protei...

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

authors： Becker MM,Lesser D,Kurpiewski M,Baranger A,Jen-Jacobson L

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Schiff base adducts of glyceraldehyde with hemoglobin undergo Amadori rearrangement to form stable ketoamine structures; this reaction is similar to the nonenzymic glucosylation of proteins. In the present studies the analogous rearrangement of the Schiff base adducts of glycolaldehyde with proteins has been demon...

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

authors： Acharya AS,Manning JM

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative genetic maps of Papuan Saccharum officinarum L. (2n = 80) and S. robustum (2n = 80) were constructed by using single-dose DNA markers (SDMs). SDM-framework maps of S. officinarum and S. robustum were compared with genetic maps of sorghum and maize by way of anchor restriction fragment length polymorphism p...

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

authors： Guimarães CT,Sills GR,Sobral BW

更新日期：1997-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic amyloid A (AA) amyloidosis is a serious complication of chronic inflammation. Serum AA protein (SAA), an acute phase plasma protein, is deposited extracellularly as insoluble amyloid fibrils that damage tissue structure and function. Clinical AA amyloidosis is typically preceded by many years of active inflam...

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

authors： Simons JP,Al-Shawi R,Ellmerich S,Speck I,Aslam S,Hutchinson WL,Mangione PP,Disterer P,Gilbertson JA,Hunt T,Millar DJ,Minogue S,Bodin K,Pepys MB,Hawkins PN

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultraviolet irradiation of the [3H]colchicine-tubulin complex leads to direct photolabeling of tubulin with low but practicable efficiency. The bulk (70% to greater than 90%) of the labeling occurs on beta-tubulin and appears early after irradiation, whereas alpha-tubulin is labeled later. The labeling ratio of beta-t...

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

authors： Wolff J,Knipling L,Cahnmann HJ,Palumbo G

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cloned Bacillus subtilis gene (sprE) expressed only during the stationary growth phase is shown to encode the subtilisin E protease, an enzyme associated with sporulation. We have determined the DNA sequence of the sprE promoter region and the promoter-proximal half of the structural gene. The sprE gene codes for a ...

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

authors： Wong SL,Price CW,Goldfarb DS,Doi RH

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We establish size limitations for assembling structures of controlled size and shape out of colloidal particles with short-ranged interactions. Through simulations we show that structures with highly variable shapes made out of dozens of particles can form with high yield, as long as each particle in the structure bin...

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

authors： Zeravcic Z,Manoharan VN,Brenner MP

更新日期：2014-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescence of the supposedly buried tryptophan in ribonuclease T1 has been found to be collisionally quenched by acrylamide with a rate constant of 3 X 10(8) M--1 sec--1. Only a slight decrease in the quenching rate is observed upon a 5-fold increase in the viscosity of the solution. For this to be the case, the...

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

authors： Eftink MR,Ghiron CA

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In experiments originally designed to examine selective turnover of methylated "caps" in renal mRNA, we observed that [3H]methyl label decayed from mRNA containing poly(A) with a half-life of 1-2 hr. (Caps are blocked, methylated mRNA sequences of the general structure m7GpppNm p(1 or 2)Np.). To distinguish between me...

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

authors： Ouellette AJ,Reed SL,Malt RA

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two genes have a synthetically lethal relationship when the silencing or inhibiting of 1 gene is only lethal in the context of a mutation or activation of the second gene. This situation offers an attractive therapeutic strategy, as inhibition of such a gene will only trigger cell death in tumor cells with an activate...

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

authors： Molenaar JJ,Ebus ME,Geerts D,Koster J,Lamers F,Valentijn LJ,Westerhout EM,Versteeg R,Caron HN

更新日期：2009-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Injection of exogenous mRNA purified from various tissue preparations into cellular translation systems such as Xenopus oocytes has allowed expression of complex proteins (e.g., receptors for neurotransmitters). No evidence for expression of injected exogenous mRNA, however, has been reported in terminally differentia...

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

authors： Mochida S,Poulain B,Eisel U,Binz T,Kurazono H,Niemann H,Tauc L

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The active form of vitamin D, 1alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D [1alpha,25(OH)2D], is synthesized from its precursor 25 hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] via the catalytic action of the 25(OH)D-1alpha-hydroxylase [1alpha(OH)ase] enzyme. Many roles in cell growth and differentiation have been attributed to 1,25(OH)2D, including a ...

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

authors： Panda DK,Miao D,Tremblay ML,Sirois J,Farookhi R,Hendy GN,Goltzman D

更新日期：2001-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I interferons, a protein family of multiple IFNalphas and a single IFNbeta, initially identified on the basis of their antiviral activities have recently been attributed important roles in bacterial and parasitic infections. To assess the cellular sources of IFNbeta, the IFN produced first in most situations, we ...

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

authors： Scheu S,Dresing P,Locksley RM

更新日期：2008-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Although genetic analysis has demonstrated that members of the winged helix, or forkhead, family of transcription factors play pivotal roles in the regulation of cellular differentiation and proliferation, both during development and in the adult, little is known of the mechanisms underlying their regulation. Here we ...

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

authors： Biggs WH 3rd,Meisenhelder J,Hunter T,Cavenee WK,Arden KC

更新日期：1999-06-22 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：:Antibody specific for the native form of Chinese hamster hypoxanthine/guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT; IMP:pyrophosphate phosphoribosyltransferase, EC 2.4.2.8) was used to detect the synthesis of HPRT protein in a rabbit reticulocyte lysate translation system primed with mRNA from Chinese hamster tissues and c...

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

authors： Melton DW,Konecki DS,Ledbetter DH,Hejtmancik JF,Caskey CT

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Young male baboons born in captivity were immunized with an attenuated, cryopreserved schistosomular vaccine derived from gamma-irradiated (50 krad) cercariae of the Puerto Rican strain of Schistosoma mansoni. Protection against a heterologous Kenyan strain of S. mansoni, after percutaneous infection, was assessed. Pa...

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

authors： Damian RT,Roberts ML,Powell MR,Clark JD,Lewis FA,Stirewalt MA

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional activity of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors requires both glutamate binding and the binding of an endogenous coagonist that has been presumed to be glycine, although D-serine is a more potent agonist. Localizations of D-serine and it biosynthetic enzyme serine racemase approximate the distribution of ...

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

authors： Mothet JP,Parent AT,Wolosker H,Brady RO Jr,Linden DJ,Ferris CD,Rogawski MA,Snyder SH

更新日期：2000-04-25 00:00:00