ATP-dependent structural change of the eukaryotic clamp-loader protein, replication factor C.

abstract：:We quantitatively analyzed, using laser scanning confocal microscopy, the three-dimensional structure of individual senile plaques in Alzheimer disease. We carried out the quantitative analysis using statistical methods to gain insights about the processes that govern Abeta peptide deposition. Our results show that pl...

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

authors： Cruz L,Urbanc B,Buldyrev SV,Christie R,Gómez-Isla T,Havlin S,McNamara M,Stanley HE,Hyman BT

更新日期：1997-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:During an investigation of the role of ions in growth regulation, it was found that ethylene diamine tetraacetate (EDTA) inhibits DNA synthesis about 10-fold in cultures of chick embryo cells, while ethylene glycol bis(beta-amino ethyl ether)-N,N'-tetraacetate has no effect. RNA synthesis is only slightly inhibited by...

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

authors： Rubin H

更新日期：1972-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differentiation of skeletal myoblasts is characterized by permanent withdrawal from the cell cycle and fusion into multinucleated myotubes. Muscle cell survival is critically dependent on the ability of cells to respond to oxidative stress. Base excision repair (BER) is the main repair mechanism of oxidative DNA d...

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

authors： Narciso L,Fortini P,Pajalunga D,Franchitto A,Liu P,Degan P,Frechet M,Demple B,Crescenzi M,Dogliotti E

更新日期：2007-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic basis for virulence in influenza virus is largely unknown. To explore the mutational basis for increased virulence in the lung, the H3N2 prototype clinical isolate, A/HK/1/68, was adapted to the mouse. Genomic sequencing provided the first demonstration, to our knowledge, that a group of 11 mutations can c...

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

authors： Brown EG,Liu H,Kit LC,Baird S,Nesrallah M

更新日期：2001-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:During Drosophila development, nuclear and cell divisions are coordinated in response to developmental signals. In yeast and mammalian cells, signals that control cell division regulate the activity of cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdks) through proteins such as cyclins that interact with the Cdks. Here we describe two Dr...

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

authors： Finley RL Jr,Thomas BJ,Zipursky SL,Brent R

更新日期：1996-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Classification within the genus Pistacia has been based on leaf morphology and geographical distribution. Molecular genetic tools (PCR amplification followed by restriction analysis of a 3.2-kb region of variable chloroplast DNA, and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of the Pistacia cpDNA with tobacco ...

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

authors： Parfitt DE,Badenes ML

更新日期：1997-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that supercoiling of a DNA trefoil, the simplest knotted ring, perturbs differently the spatial writhe of its two chiral forms. As a consequence, the negative-noded and positive-noded DNA trefoils can be resolved by gel electrophoresis. Analysis of the chirality of trefoils produced by cyclization of two linea...

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

authors： Shaw SY,Wang JC

更新日期：1997-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Caenorhabditis elegans sqv mutants are defective in vulval epithelial invagination and have a severe reduction in hermaphrodite fertility. The gene sqv-7 encodes a multitransmembrane hydrophobic protein resembling nucleotide sugar transporters of the Golgi membrane. A Golgi vesicle enriched fraction of Saccharomyces c...

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

authors： Berninsone P,Hwang HY,Zemtseva I,Horvitz HR,Hirschberg CB

更新日期：2001-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We have generated a transgenic mouse line by microinjection of a chimeric DNA fragment (KER-CAT) containing a hair-specific, murine ultra-high-sulfur keratin promoter (KER) fused to the coding region of the bacterial chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) gene. A 671-base pair (bp) stretch of the 5' promoter region w...

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

authors： McNab AR,Andrus P,Wagner TE,Buhl AE,Waldon DJ,Kawabe TT,Rea TJ,Groppi V,Vogeli G

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenicity of fixed rabies virus strains for adult mice depends on the presence of an antigenic determinant on the viral glycoprotein. Two virus-neutralizing monoclonal antibodies have been used to identify this determinant. All pathogenic strains of fixed rabies virus bind to these antibodies and are neutraliz...

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

authors： Dietzschold B,Wunner WH,Wiktor TJ,Lopes AD,Lafon M,Smith CL,Koprowski H

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro recombination of cloned H-2 genes resulted in two allogeneically novel mouse transplantation antigens in which the C2 domains of H-2Ld and H-2Dd were exchanged. These genes were introduced into mouse L cells by DNA-mediated gene transfer. We have used these transformed fibroblast lines, expressing recombinant...

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

authors： Ozato K,Evans GA,Shykind B,Margulies DH,Seidman JG

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reduction in levels of the potentially toxic amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta) has emerged as one of the most important therapeutic goals in Alzheimer's disease. Key targets for this goal are factors that affect the expression and processing of the Abeta precursor protein (betaAPP). Earlier reports from our laboratory ...

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

authors： Shaw KT,Utsuki T,Rogers J,Yu QS,Sambamurti K,Brossi A,Ge YW,Lahiri DK,Greig NH

更新日期：2001-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Gecko and many insects have adopted nanoscale fibrillar structures on their feet as adhesion devices. Here, we consider adhesion between a single fiber and a substrate by van der Waals or electrostatic interactions. For a given contact area A, the theoretical pull-off force of the fiber is sigma(th)A where sigma(th) i...

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

authors： Gao H,Yao H

更新日期：2004-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The human fungal pathogen Candida albicans shows a significant lag in growth when diluted into fresh minimal medium. This lag is abolished by the addition of conditioned medium from a high-density culture. The active component of conditioned medium is tyrosol, which is released into the medium continuously during grow...

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

authors： Chen H,Fujita M,Feng Q,Clardy J,Fink GR

更新日期：2004-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucolipidosis III (ML III), or pseudo-Hurler polydystrophy, is an inherited childhood disorder characterized biochemically by low activities and abnormal electrophoretic patterns of multiple lysosomal enzymes in fibroblasts. The primary deficiency of ML III has been proposed to be in UDP-N-acetylglucosamine:lysosomal ...

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

authors： Honey NK,Mueller OT,Little LE,Miller AL,Shows TB

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HIV type 1 (HIV-1) virion infectivity factor (Vif) protein blocks the action of the host defense factor APOBEC3G in human cells, thereby allowing release of infectious virions, but fails to inhibit similar APOBEC3G proteins present in some simian cells. Conversely, the Vif protein encoded by the African green monk...

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

authors： Bogerd HP,Doehle BP,Wiegand HL,Cullen BR

更新日期：2004-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial DNAs were prepared from maize lines with normal cytoplasm and with the T, C, S, and EP sources of male-sterile cytoplasms. Agarose gel electrophoresis of these preparations revealed a main high-molecular-weight DNA band. In addition, the S cytoplasm was characterized by the presence of two faster migrati...

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

authors： Pring DR,Levings CS,Hu WW,Timothy DH

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the polymerase chain reaction to amplify the entire coding region of canine factor IX from a hemophilia B animal. When the sequence was compared to that which codes for normal canine factor IX, a single missense mutation was identified. This mutation (G----A at nucleotide 1477) results in the substitution...

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

authors： Evans JP,Brinkhous KM,Brayer GD,Reisner HM,High KA

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on preparation of rhodopsin proteoliposomes with the cytoplasmic domain of rhodopsin facing the exterior of the proteoliposomes. Rhodopsin purified from rod outer segments of bovine retinae by immunoaffinity chromatography in octyl glucoside was reconstituted into liposomes prepared from soybean phospholipid...

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

authors： Niu L,Kim JM,Khorana HG

更新日期：2002-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that [35S]methionine is incorporated into the [Met]enkephalin sequences of a 22,000-dalton enkephalin-containing protein in the adrenal medulla. Pulse-chase experiments indicate that label is incorporated into the large polypeptide before it appears in free [Met]enkephalin and a smaller [Met]enkephal...

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

authors： Rossier J,Trifaró JM,Lewis RV,Lee RW,Stern A,Kimura S,Stein S,Udenfriend S

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viperin is an interferon (IFN)-inducible multifunctional protein. Recent evidence from high-throughput analyses indicates that most IFN-inducible proteins, including viperin, are intrinsically expressed in specific tissues; however, the respective intrinsic functions are unknown. Here we show that the intrinsic expres...

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

authors： Eom J,Kim JJ,Yoon SG,Jeong H,Son S,Lee JB,Yoo J,Seo HJ,Cho Y,Kim KS,Choi KM,Kim IY,Lee HY,Nam KT,Cresswell P,Seong JK,Seo JY

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been reported that an insulin 2 gene knockout, when bred onto nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice, accelerates diabetes. We produced insulin 1 gene knockout congenic NOD mice. In contrast to insulin 2, diabetes and insulitis were markedly reduced in insulin 1 knockout mice, with decreased and delayed diabetes in heter...

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

authors： Moriyama H,Abiru N,Paronen J,Sikora K,Liu E,Miao D,Devendra D,Beilke J,Gianani R,Gill RG,Eisenbarth GS

更新日期：2003-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of spatial patterns in multicellular organisms depends on gradients in the concentration of signaling molecules that control gene expression. In the Drosophila embryo, Bicoid (Bcd) morphogen controls cell fate along 70% of the anteroposterior axis but is translated from mRNA localized at the anterior pole....

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

authors： Gregor T,Bialek W,de Ruyter van Steveninck RR,Tank DW,Wieschaus EF

更新日期：2005-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemoresistance of cisplatin therapy is related to extensive repair of cisplatin-modified DNA in the nucleus by the nucleotide excision repair (NER). Delivering cisplatin to the mitochondria to attack mitochondrial genome lacking NER machinery can lead to a rationally designed therapy for metastatic, chemoresistant ca...

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

authors： Marrache S,Pathak RK,Dhar S

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Examination of old human lenses indicates that low-molecular-weight alpha crystallin is not present in the inner 30-40%, the nucleus, of the lens. The remainder of such lenses, the periphery, contains normal levels of this protein. This finding is in marked contrast to observations in young lenses, where a large quant...

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

authors： Roy D,Spector A

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dorsolateral striatum (DLS) is essential for motor and procedure learning, but the role of DLS spiny projection neurons (SPNs) of direct and indirect pathways, as marked, respectively, by D1 and D2 receptor (D1R and D2R) expression, remains to be clarified. Long-term two-photon calcium imaging of the same neuronal...

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

authors： Sheng MJ,Lu D,Shen ZM,Poo MM

更新日期：2019-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cubic cage compounds composed of Co-CN-Ru linkages have been prepared which illustrate the following features: (i) new motifs for alkali metal ion complexation (i.e., cationic receptors for cations), (ii) a new family of triaza-metalloligands, and (iii) a double box-like cage. The cages are synthesized by the condensa...

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

authors： Contakes SM,Kuhlman ML,Ramesh M,Wilson SR,Rauchfuss TB

更新日期：2002-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The influx of Ca2+ ions controls many important processes in excitable cells, including the regulation of the gating of Ca(2+)-activated K+ channels (the current IK[Ca]). Various IK[Ca] channels contribute to the regulation of the action-potential waveform, the repetitive discharge of spikes, and the secretion of neur...

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

authors： Wisgirda ME,Dryer SE

更新日期：1994-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of taxonomic longevity for species of the two Cenozoic radiations of Caribbean planktonic foraminifera shows strong similarity in longevity for extinct taxa, though extant species of the latter radiation are biased towards longer-lived forms. In this case, the present is not the key to the past. A simple o...

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

authors： Levinton JS,Ginzburg L

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid and cyclic AMP increase tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) activity and mRNA levels in pheochromocytoma cultures. The transcriptional activity of the TH gene, as measured by nuclear run-on assay, is also increased when cultures are treated with the synthetic glucocorticoid dexamethasone or agents that increase i...

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

authors： Lewis EJ,Harrington CA,Chikaraishi DM

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00