Ethionamide activation and sensitivity in multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

abstract：:Disordered systems like liquids, gels, glasses, or granular materials are not only ubiquitous in daily life and in industrial applications, but they are also crucial for the mechanical stability of cells or the transport of chemical and biological agents in living organisms. Despite the importance of these systems, th...

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

authors： Zhang Z,Kob W

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A model chemical network involving reactions and diffusion is studied. Spatially and temporally ordered solutions of the equations are found by bifurcation theory. These solutions are calculated analytically and their stability is studied. Properties of these dissipative structures are discussed, and a comparison with...

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

authors： Nicolis G,Auchmuty JF

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AvrXa7 is a member of the avrBs3 avirulence gene family, which encodes proteins targeted to plant cells by a type III secretion apparatus. AvrXa7, the product of avrXa7, is also a virulence factor in strain PXO86 of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae. Avirulence and virulence specificities are associated with the central r...

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

authors： Yang B,Zhu W,Johnson LB,White FF

更新日期：2000-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Progress toward understanding the biology of prostate cancer has been slow due to the few animal research models available to study the spectrum of this uniquely human disease. To develop an animal model for prostate cancer, several lines of transgenic mice were generated by using the prostate-specific rat probasin pr...

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

authors： Greenberg NM,DeMayo F,Finegold MJ,Medina D,Tilley WD,Aspinall JO,Cunha GR,Donjacour AA,Matusik RJ,Rosen JM

更新日期：1995-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerase chain reaction was used to amplify DNA surrounding the codon 12 region of the c-Ki-ras gene from C3H/10T1/2 cells and from a number of 3-methylcholanthrene (MCA)-transformed derivatives of these cells. Sequence analysis demonstrated that tumorigenic MCAC116/39 cells, known by DNA-mediated transfection t...

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

authors： Chen AC,Herschman HR

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferroelectricity has long been speculated to have important biological functions, although its very existence in biology has never been firmly established. Here, we present compelling evidence that elastin, the key ECM protein found in connective tissues, is ferroelectric, and we elucidate the molecular mechanism of i...

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

authors： Liu Y,Cai HL,Zelisko M,Wang Y,Sun J,Yan F,Ma F,Wang P,Chen QN,Zheng H,Meng X,Sharma P,Zhang Y,Li J

更新日期：2014-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:To specify when and where Ig class switch recombination (CSR) takes place, a good molecular marker closely associated with active CSR is required. CSR is accompanied by deletion of circular DNA from the Ig heavy chain locus. The circular DNA contains a DNA segment between Smu and a target S region including its I prom...

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

authors： Kinoshita K,Harigai M,Fagarasan S,Muramatsu M,Honjo T

更新日期：2001-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In genotypic mutation analysis DNA sequence changes are determined without the in vivo or in vitro selection of phenotypically altered cells. We have studied the induction of base-pair changes by N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea in Taq I endonuclease recognition site 2508-2511 (TCGA) of the c-H-ras1 gene in human fibroblasts by ...

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

authors： Chiocca SM,Sandy MS,Cerutti PA

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Human tuberculosis is caused by members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) that vary in virulence and transmissibility. While genome-wide association studies have uncovered several mutations conferring drug resistance, much less is known about the factors underlying other bacterial phenotypes. Variation ...

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

authors： Øyås O,Borrell S,Trauner A,Zimmermann M,Feldmann J,Liphardt T,Gagneux S,Stelling J,Sauer U,Zampieri M

更新日期：2020-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Chinese hamster-human somatic cell hybrids were analyzed for the expression of human galactose-1-phosphate uridyltransferase (GALT; UDPglucose:alpha-D-galactose-1-phosphate uridyltransferase, EC 2.7.7.12) by electrophoresis and for the presence of human chromosomes cytogenetically with the aid of Q-banding. Three of t...

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

authors： Mohandas T,Sparkes RS,Sparkes MC,Shulkin JD

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of interleukin 8 (IL-8) with heparin was studied by using synthetic IL-8 analogs with C- and N-terminal truncations. Elimination of the N-terminal region preceding the first cysteine, which constitutes the IL-8 receptor binding site, did not affect the affinity to heparin-Sepharose. Affinity, however, ...

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

authors： Webb LM,Ehrengruber MU,Clark-Lewis I,Baggiolini M,Rot A

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanocyte stimulating hormone coupled to Sepharose effects an increase in tryosinase (EC 1.14.18.1; monophenol monoxygenase) activity of cultivated mouse melanoma cells. Synchronized cells are found to respond to melanocyte stimulating hormone only in the G2 phase of the cell cycle, although their response to cyclic ...

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

authors： Varga JM,Dipasquale A,Pawelek J,McGuire JS,Lerner AB

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enveloped viruses enter cells via a process of membrane fusion between the viral envelope and a cellular membrane. For influenza virus, mutational data have shown that the membrane-inserted portions of the hemagglutinin protein play a critical role in achieving fusion. In contrast to the relatively well-understood ect...

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

authors： Pabis A,Rawle RJ,Kasson PM

更新日期：2020-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is characterized by the presence of abundant desmoplastic stroma primarily composed of cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs). It is generally accepted that CAFs stimulate tumor progression and might be implicated in drug resistance and immunosuppression. Here, we have compared th...

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

authors： Djurec M,Graña O,Lee A,Troulé K,Espinet E,Cabras L,Navas C,Blasco MT,Martín-Díaz L,Burdiel M,Li J,Liu Z,Vallespinós M,Sanchez-Bueno F,Sprick MR,Trumpp A,Sainz B Jr,Al-Shahrour F,Rabadan R,Guerra C,Barbacid M

更新日期：2018-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In Arabidopsis, the two-dimensional expansion of leaves is regulated via the polarized elongation of cells. The ROTUNDIFOLIA3 (ROT3) protein, a member of the family of cytochromes P450, is involved in this process and regulates leaf length. Transgenic plants that overexpressed a wild-type ROT3 gene had longer leaves t...

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

authors： Kim GT,Tsukaya H,Saito Y,Uchimiya H

更新日期：1999-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Beetle luciferases are thought to have evolved from fatty acyl-CoA synthetases present in all insects. Both classes of enzymes activate fatty acids with ATP to form acyl-adenylate intermediates, but only luciferases can activate and oxidize d-luciferin to emit light. Here we show that the Drosophila fatty acyl-CoA syn...

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

authors： Mofford DM,Reddy GR,Miller SC

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The glutathione S-transferases (GST) (glutathione transferase; EC 2.5.1.18) are a family of enzymes responsible for the metabolism of a broad range of xenobiotics and carcinogens. A cDNA clone containing the entire amino acid coding sequence of a human GST-2 subunit has been isolated using a lambda gt11 expression lib...

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

authors： Board PG,Webb GC

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital malformations now represent the largest single cause of mortality in the infant of the diabetic mother. The mechanism by which diabetes exerts its teratogenic effects is not known. This study evaluated whether arachidonic acid might be involved, a possibility raised by the role of arachidonic acid in palata...

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

authors： Goldman AS,Baker L,Piddington R,Marx B,Herold R,Egler J

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most kinases are capable of recognizing and phosphorylating peptides containing short, linear sequence motifs. To measure the activation state of many kinases from the same cell lysate, we created a multiplexed, mass-spectrometry-based in vitro kinase assay. Ninety chemically synthesized peptides derived from well-cha...

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

authors： Yu Y,Anjum R,Kubota K,Rush J,Villen J,Gygi SP

更新日期：2009-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Many of the world's around 6,000 languages are in danger of disappearing as people give up use of a minority language in favor of the majority language in a process called language shift. Language shift can be monitored on a large scale through the use of mathematical models by way of differential equations, for examp...

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

authors： Prochazka K,Vogl G

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant cells sense environmental nitrogen levels and alter their gene expression accordingly to survive; however, the underlying regulatory mechanisms still remains to be elucidated. Here, we identified and characterized a transcription factor that is responsible for expression of nitrogen assimilation genes in a unice...

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

authors： Imamura S,Kanesaki Y,Ohnuma M,Inouye T,Sekine Y,Fujiwara T,Kuroiwa T,Tanaka K

更新日期：2009-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysine to methionine (K-to-M) mutations in genes encoding histone H3 are thought to drive a subset of pediatric brain and bone cancers. These high-frequency K-to-M mutations occur at sites of methylation on histone H3, and tumors containing the mutant histones exhibit a global loss of specific histone methylation mark...

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

authors： Jayaram H,Hoelper D,Jain SU,Cantone N,Lundgren SM,Poy F,Allis CD,Cummings R,Bellon S,Lewis PW

更新日期：2016-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A neuroethological approach to human and nonhuman primate behavior and cognition predicts biological specializations for social life. Evidence reviewed here indicates that ancestral mechanisms are often duplicated, repurposed, and differentially regulated to support social behavior. Focusing on recent research from no...

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

authors： Chang SW,Brent LJ,Adams GK,Klein JT,Pearson JM,Watson KK,Platt ML

更新日期：2013-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomes condense during mitotic entry to facilitate their segregation. Condensation is typically assayed in fixed preparations, limiting analysis of contributing factors. Here, we describe a quantitative method to monitor condensation kinetics in living cells expressing GFP fused to a core histone. We demonstrate ...

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

authors： Maddox PS,Portier N,Desai A,Oegema K

更新日期：2006-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisomes play an essential role in a number of different metabolic pathways, including the beta-oxidation of a distinct set of fatty acids and fatty acid derivatives. The importance of the peroxisomal beta-oxidation system in humans is made apparent by the existence of a group of inherited diseases in which peroxis...

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

authors： van Grunsven EG,van Berkel E,Ijlst L,Vreken P,de Klerk JB,Adamski J,Lemonde H,Clayton PT,Cuebas DA,Wanders RJ

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared private and social decision making to investigate the neural underpinnings of the effect of social comparison on risky choices. We measured brain activity using functional MRI while participants chose between two lotteries: in the private condition, they observed the outcome of the unchosen lottery, and in...

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

authors： Bault N,Joffily M,Rustichini A,Coricelli G

更新日期：2011-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:S-Adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase (SAHH) is a key enzyme in transmethylation reactions that use S-adenosylmethionine as the methyl donor. Because of the importance of SAHH in a number of S-adenosylmethionine-dependent transmethylation reactions, particularly the 5' capping of mRNA during viral replication, SAHH has bee...

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

authors： Masuta C,Tanaka H,Uehara K,Kuwata S,Koiwai A,Noma M

更新日期：1995-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:129/SvEv mice with a loss-of-function mutation in the heterotrimeric G protein α-subunit gene Gnai3 have fusions of ribs and lumbar vertebrae, indicating a requirement for Gα(i) (the "inhibitory" class of α-subunits) in somite derivatives. Mice with mutations of Gnai1 or Gnai2 have neither defect, but loss of both Gna...

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

authors： Plummer NW,Spicher K,Malphurs J,Akiyama H,Abramowitz J,Nürnberg B,Birnbaumer L

更新日期：2012-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Several publications have attested to the ability of herpes simplex viruses to protect cells against apoptosis. We investigated the ability of the virus to protect cells in continuous cultivation from apoptosis induced by the virus itself, and by other known inducers such as exposure to the tumor necrosis factor alpha...

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

authors： Galvan V,Roizman B

更新日期：1998-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently developed the electron force field (eFF) method for practical nonadiabatic electron dynamics simulations of materials under extreme conditions and showed that it gave an excellent description of the shock thermodynamics of hydrogen from molecules to atoms to plasma, as well as the electron dynamics of the ...

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

authors： Kim H,Su JT,Goddard WA 3rd

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00