Homologous DNA recombination in vertebrate cells.

abstract：:We sequenced the genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain YJM789, which was derived from a yeast isolated from the lung of an AIDS patient with pneumonia. The strain is used for studies of fungal infections and quantitative genetics because of its extensive phenotypic differences to the laboratory reference strain, i...

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

authors： Wei W,McCusker JH,Hyman RW,Jones T,Ning Y,Cao Z,Gu Z,Bruno D,Miranda M,Nguyen M,Wilhelmy J,Komp C,Tamse R,Wang X,Jia P,Luedi P,Oefner PJ,David L,Dietrich FS,Li Y,Davis RW,Steinmetz LM

更新日期：2007-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In the growth plate of endochondral bones, parathyroid hormone (PTH)-related peptide (PTHrP) regulates the rate of chondrocyte maturation from prehypertrophic chondrocytes to hypertrophic chondrocytes. Using an antibody specific for Sox9 phosphorylated at serine 181 (S(181)), one of the two consensus protein kinase A ...

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

authors： Huang W,Chung UI,Kronenberg HM,de Crombrugghe B

更新日期：2001-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori VacA, a pore-forming toxin secreted by an autotransporter pathway, causes multiple alterations in human cells, contributes to the pathogenesis of peptic ulcer disease and gastric cancer, and is a candidate antigen for inclusion in an H. pylori vaccine. Here, we present a 2.4-A crystal structure of ...

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

authors： Gangwer KA,Mushrush DJ,Stauff DL,Spiller B,McClain MS,Cover TL,Lacy DB

更新日期：2007-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Involution of the thymus is accompanied by a decline in the number of thymic epithelial cells (TECs) and a severely restricted peripheral repertoire of T-cell specificities. TECs are essential for T-cell differentiation; they originate from a bipotent progenitor that gives rise to cells of cortical (cTEC) and medullar...

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

authors： Rode I,Boehm T

更新日期：2012-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in mice indicate that the gut microbiota promotes energy harvest and storage from components of the diet when these components are plentiful. Here we examine how the microbiota shapes host metabolic and physiologic adaptations to periods of nutrient deprivation. Germ-free (GF) mice and mice who had received a ...

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

authors： Crawford PA,Crowley JR,Sambandam N,Muegge BD,Costello EK,Hamady M,Knight R,Gordon JI

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the role of identity and self-image consideration under "pay-what-you-want" pricing. Results from three field experiments show that often, when granted the opportunity to name the price of a product, fewer consumers choose to buy it than when the price is fixed and low. We show that this opt-out behavio...

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

authors： Gneezy A,Gneezy U,Riener G,Nelson LD

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of transformation by Rous sarcoma virus on the neural cell adhesion molecule N-CAM was assessed by immunoblotting, immunofluorescence staining, and an in vitro cell-cell aggregation assay using highly specific antibodies to the adhesion molecule. Expression of N-CAM was found to be temperature dependent in ...

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

authors： Greenberg ME,Brackenbury R,Edelman GM

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coherent oscillations in the theta-to-gamma frequency range have been proposed as a mechanism that coordinates neural activity in large-scale cortical networks in sensory, motor, and cognitive tasks. Whether this mechanism also involves coherent oscillations at delta frequencies (1-4 Hz) is not known. Rather, delta os...

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

authors： Nácher V,Ledberg A,Deco G,Romo R

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Linkage disequilibrium between polymorphisms in a natural population may result from various evolutionary forces, including random genetic drift due to sampling of gametes during reproduction, restricted migration between subpopulations in a subdivided population, or epistatic selection. In this report, we present evi...

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

authors： Kirby DA,Muse SV,Stephan W

更新日期：1995-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic sleep deprivation perturbs the circadian clock and increases susceptibility to diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and cancer. Increased inflammation is one of the common underlying mechanisms of these diseases, thus raising a hypothesis that circadian-oscillator components may regulate immune response. Here w...

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

authors： Narasimamurthy R,Hatori M,Nayak SK,Liu F,Panda S,Verma IM

更新日期：2012-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuronal isoform of nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) is highly expressed in mammalian skeletal muscle, but its functional role has not been defined. NO has been implicated in the local metabolic regulation of blood flow in contracting skeletal muscle in part by antagonizing sympathetic vasoconstriction. We therefore h...

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

authors： Thomas GD,Sander M,Lau KS,Huang PL,Stull JT,Victor RG

更新日期：1998-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Translesion synthesis at replication-blocking lesions requires the induction of proteins that are controlled by the SOS system in Escherichia coli. Of the proteins identified so far, UmuD', UmuC, and RecA* were shown to facilitate replication across UV-light-induced lesions, yielding both error-free and mutagenic tran...

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

authors： Fuchs RP,Napolitano RL

更新日期：1998-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune regulator (aire) is a transcription factor that controls the self-reactivity of the T cell repertoire. Although previous results indicate that it exerts this function in part by promoting ectopic expression of a battery of peripheral-tissue antigens in epithelial cells of the thymic medulla, recent data arg...

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

authors： Johnnidis JB,Venanzi ES,Taxman DJ,Ting JP,Benoist CO,Mathis DJ

更新日期：2005-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Bves is an integral membrane protein with no determined function and no homology to proteins outside of the Popdc family. It is widely expressed throughout development in myriad organisms. Here, we demonstrate an interaction between Bves and guanine nucleotide exchange factor T (GEFT), a GEF for Rho-family GTPases. Th...

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

authors： Smith TK,Hager HA,Francis R,Kilkenny DM,Lo CW,Bader DM

更新日期：2008-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcicludine (CaC) is a 60-amino acid polypeptide from the venom of Dendroaspis angusticeps. It is structurally homologous to the Kunitz-type protease inhibitor, to dendrotoxins, which block K+ channels, and to the protease inhibitor domain of the amyloid beta protein that accumulates in Alzheimer disease. Voltage-cla...

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

authors： Schweitz H,Heurteaux C,Bois P,Moinier D,Romey G,Lazdunski M

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitation of HbCO by a single 6-psec 530-nm pulse results in photodissociation with a first-order constant of 0.89 X 10(11) sec-1. The kinetics of photodissociation, monitored by following absorbance changes in the Soret band at 440 nm, are interpreted as corresponding to predissociation followed by a corssing into a...

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

authors： Noe LJ,Eisert WG,Rentzepis PM

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species competing exclusively for renewing resources are shown to obey simultaneous differential equations equivalent to the conditions for minimizing a certain quadratic form. In this sense competition acts to select species abundances giving the best least-squares fit in an expression [Formula: see text] Thus the nu...

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

authors： Arthur RM

更新日期：1969-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The guanidinium group of arginine-166 has been postulated to act as an electrophilic species during phosphorylation of alkaline phosphatase. Its role could be either to stabilize the developing negative charge on the oxygen of the leaving group or the pentacoordinate transition state or to help bind the -PO2-3 group. ...

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

authors： Butler-Ransohoff JE,Kendall DA,Kaiser ET

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An efficient technique has been developed for performing in vivo site-directed mutagenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. This procedure involves directed repair of P-element-induced DNA lesions after injection of a modified DNA sequence into early embryos. An oligonucleotide of 50 base pairs, whose sequence spans the P-...

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

authors： Banga SS,Boyd JB

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on contact-inhibited mouse embryo fibroblast 3T3 cells and 3T3 cells transformed by oncogenic RNA and DNA viruses and by a chemical carcinogen have demonstrated differences in plasma membrane architecture. Spin-label and freeze-fracture ultrastructural studies have shown that contact-inhibited cells have order...

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

authors： Barnett RE,Furcht LT,Scott RE

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequence motifs that affect RNA polymerase transcription elongation are well studied in prokaryotic organisms and contribute directly to regulation of gene expression. Despite significant work on the regulation of eukaryotic transcription, the effect of DNA template sequence on RNA polymerase I (Pol I) transcripti...

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

authors： Clarke AM,Engel KL,Giles KE,Petit CM,Schneider DA

更新日期：2018-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Six alternative hypotheses for the phylogenetic origin of Bilateria are evaluated by using complete 18S rRNA gene sequences for 52 taxa. These data suggest that there is little support for three of these hypotheses. Bilateria is not likely to be the sister group of Radiata or Ctenophora, nor is it likely that Bilateri...

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

authors： Collins AG

更新日期：1998-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence polymorphism of class II major histocompatibility complex-encoded molecules (Ia) not only accounts for the allelic variability in Ia structure relevant to T-lymphocyte responses but also seems to result in differential quantitative expression of particular Ia heterodimers. The contributions of different allel...

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

authors： Braunstein NS,Germain RN

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor promoter 12-O-tetra-decanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) has been defined by its ability to promote tumorigenesis on carcinogen-initiated mouse skin. Activation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling has a decisive role in mouse skin carcinogenesis, but it remains unclear how TPA activates Wnt/β-catenin signaling in mouse s...

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

authors： Su Z,Song J,Wang Z,Zhou L,Xia Y,Yu S,Sun Q,Liu SS,Zhao L,Li S,Wei L,Carson DA,Lu D

更新日期：2018-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins containing a caspase recruitment domain (CARD) play pivotal roles in signal transduction leading to apoptosis and NF-kappaB activation and inflammation. Here we identify and characterize human and mouse CARD protein 6 (CARD6), CARD-containing proteins of unique structure. CARD6 associates with microtubules an...

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

authors： Dufner A,Pownall S,Mak TW

更新日期：2006-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell separation technique was designed based on the interaction between cell-surface-bound IgG and protein A of Staphylococcus aureus. The density of lymphoid cells coated with IgG antibodies against one of the surface markers was increased by adherence of staphylococci. Cells with adhering bacteria were separated f...

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

authors： Ghetie V,Nilsson K,Sjöquist J

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi must recognize plant-specific signals to initiate subsequent morphogenetic events such as filamentation that lead to infection. Here we show that the plant hormone indoleacetic acid (IAA) induces adhesion and filamentation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genome expression profiling of cells treated with IAA identif...

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

authors： Prusty R,Grisafi P,Fink GR

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Glomeruli in the olfactory bulb are anatomically discrete modules receiving input from idiotypic olfactory sensory neurons. To examine the functional organization of sensory inputs to individual glomeruli, we loaded olfactory sensory neurons with a Ca(2+) indicator and measured odorant-evoked presynaptic Ca(2+) signal...

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

authors： Wachowiak M,Denk W,Friedrich RW

更新日期：2004-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimerization of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 protease (HIV-1 PR) monomers is an essential prerequisite for viral proteolytic activity and the subsequent generation of infectious virus particles. Disruption of the dimer interface inhibits this activity as does formation of heterodimers between wild-type and defe...

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

authors： McPhee F,Good AC,Kuntz ID,Craik CS

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown previously that hydroxyl radicals (HO*) can be produced by H2O2 and halogenated quinones, independent of transition metal ions; however, the underlying molecular mechanism is still unclear. In the present study, using the electron spin resonance secondary radical spin-trapping method, we found that tetra...

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

authors： Zhu BZ,Kalyanaraman B,Jiang GB

更新日期：2007-11-06 00:00:00