Sequences of five potential recombination sites encoded close to an immunoglobulin kappa constant region gene.

abstract：:Eukaryotic transcriptional activators may function by stimulating formation of RNA polymerase II preinitiation complexes at the core promoter of genes. In this case, their mode of action will intrinsically depend on how these complexes assemble on promoters in living cells, an issue that remains largely unexplored. He...

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

authors： Gonzalez-Couto E,Klages N,Strubin M

更新日期：1997-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic differences in acetylcholine receptors from skeletal neuromuscular synapses of various species of snakes and lizards have been investigated, using the snake venom alpha-neurotoxins alpha-atratoxin (cobrotoxin) and alpha-bungarotoxin. The acetylcholine receptors of the phylogenetically primitive lizards, l...

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

authors： Burden SJ,Hartzell HC,Yoshikami D

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The perceptual quality of odors usually is robust to variability in concentration. However, maps of neural activation across the olfactory bulb glomerular layer are not stable in this respect; rather, glomerular odor representations both broaden and intensify as odorant concentrations are increased. The relative level...

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

authors： Cleland TA,Johnson BA,Leon M,Linster C

更新日期：2007-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the interaction of ethanol with the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)ergic system in neurons of slices of the rat central amygdala nucleus (CeA), a brain region thought to be critical for the reinforcing effects of ethanol. Brief superfusion of 11-66 mM ethanol significantly increased GABA type A (GABA(A)) re...

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

authors： Roberto M,Madamba SG,Moore SD,Tallent MK,Siggins GR

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper exploits a unique ongoing experiment to analyze the effects of early rearing conditions on physical and mental health in a sample of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). We analyze the health records of 231 monkeys that were randomly allocated at birth across three rearing conditions: mother rearing, peer reari...

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

authors： Conti G,Hansman C,Heckman JJ,Novak MF,Ruggiero A,Suomi SJ

更新日期：2012-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical forces have key roles in regulating activation of T cells and coordination of the adaptive immune response. A recent example is the ability of T cells to sense the rigidity of an underlying substrate through the T-cell receptor (TCR) coreceptor CD3 and CD28, a costimulation signal essential for cell activat...

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

authors： Bashour KT,Gondarenko A,Chen H,Shen K,Liu X,Huse M,Hone JC,Kam LC

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein homeostasis is critically important for cell viability. Key to this process is the refolding of misfolded or aggregated proteins by molecular chaperones or, alternatively, their degradation by proteases. In most prokaryotes and in chloroplasts and mitochondria, protein degradation is performed by the caseinoly...

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

authors： Vahidi S,Ripstein ZA,Bonomi M,Yuwen T,Mabanglo MF,Juravsky JB,Rizzolo K,Velyvis A,Houry WA,Vendruscolo M,Rubinstein JL,Kay LE

更新日期：2018-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Gel-forming mucins, the primary macromolecular components of airway mucus, facilitate airway clearance by mucociliary transport. In cystic fibrosis (CF) altered mucus properties impair mucociliary transport. Airways primarily secrete two closely related gel-forming mucins, MUC5B and MUC5AC. However, their morphologic ...

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

authors： Ostedgaard LS,Moninger TO,McMenimen JD,Sawin NM,Parker CP,Thornell IM,Powers LS,Gansemer ND,Bouzek DC,Cook DP,Meyerholz DK,Abou Alaiwa MH,Stoltz DA,Welsh MJ

更新日期：2017-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Trimeric class I virus fusion proteins undergo a series of conformational rearrangements that leads to the association of C- and N-terminal heptad repeat domains in a "trimer-of-hairpins" structure, facilitating the apposition of viral and cellular membranes during fusion. This final fusion hairpin structure is sustai...

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

authors： Cianci C,Langley DR,Dischino DD,Sun Y,Yu KL,Stanley A,Roach J,Li Z,Dalterio R,Colonno R,Meanwell NA,Krystal M

更新日期：2004-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Three components of differentiated muscle membrane, the acetylcholine receptor, acetylcholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.7; acetylcholine hydrolase), and adenylate cyclase [EC 4.6.1.1; ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing)], appear simultaneously during myogenesis in cultures of embryonic chick muscle, after the main period of ra...

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

authors： Prives JM,Paterson BM

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of MECP2 (Methyl-CpG Binding Protein 2) cause Rett syndrome. As a chromatin-associated multifunctional protein, how MeCP2 integrates external signals and regulates neuronal function remain unclear. Although neuronal activity-induced phosphorylation of MeCP2 at serine 421 (S421) has been reported, the full sp...

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

authors： Tao J,Hu K,Chang Q,Wu H,Sherman NE,Martinowich K,Klose RJ,Schanen C,Jaenisch R,Wang W,Sun YE

更新日期：2009-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified and purified a cell surface glycoprotein from retina and brain, called neural cell adhesion molecule or N-CAM, that appears to be involved in neural cell--cell adhesion, the fasciculation of neurites, and the formation of normal tissue patterns in the retina. The present studies reveal th...

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

authors： Rutishauser U,Hoffman S,Edelman GM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional asymmetric PCR is inefficient and difficult to optimize because limiting the concentration of one primer lowers its melting temperature below the reaction annealing temperature. Linear-After-The-Exponential (LATE)-PCR describes a new paradigm for primer design that renders assays as efficient as symmetric...

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

authors： Sanchez JA,Pierce KE,Rice JE,Wangh LJ

更新日期：2004-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotinic AChRs (nAChRs) represent a paradigm for ligand-gated ion channels. Despite intensive studies over many years, our understanding of the mechanisms of activation and inhibition for nAChRs is still incomplete. Here, we present molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the alpha7 nAChR ligand-binding domain, both i...

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

authors： Yi M,Tjong H,Zhou HX

更新日期：2008-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonal deletion provides an important mechanism for the elimination of autoreactive T cells. Deletion is accomplished by programmed cell death directed by interaction of the T-cell receptor (TCR) of the developing thymocyte with major histocompatibility complex elements in the thymic environment. In this report we pre...

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

authors： Russell JH,White CL,Loh DY,Meleedy-Rey P

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:PKC eta is expressed predominantly in the epithelial tissues; however, its role in the regulation of epithelial tight junctions (TJs) is unknown. We present evidence that PKC eta phosphorylates occludin on threonine residues (T403 and T404) and plays a crucial role in the assembly and/or maintenance of TJs in Caco-2 a...

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

authors： Suzuki T,Elias BC,Seth A,Shen L,Turner JR,Giorgianni F,Desiderio D,Guntaka R,Rao R

更新日期：2009-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Arrestins are regulatory molecules for G-protein coupled receptor function. In visual rhodopsin, selective binding of arrestin to the cytoplasmic side of light-activated, phosphorylated rhodopsin (P-Rh*) terminates signaling via the G-protein transducin. While the "phosphate-sensor" of arrestin for the recognition of ...

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

authors： Kirchberg K,Kim TY,Möller M,Skegro D,Dasara Raju G,Granzin J,Büldt G,Schlesinger R,Alexiev U

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemosensory proteins (CSPs) have been proposed to transport hydrophobic chemicals from air to olfactory or taste receptors. They have been isolated from several sensory organs of a wide range of insect species. The x-ray structure of CSPMbraA6, a 112-aa antennal protein from the moth Mamestra brassicae (Mbra), was sh...

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

authors： Campanacci V,Lartigue A,Hällberg BM,Jones TA,Giudici-Orticoni MT,Tegoni M,Cambillau C

更新日期：2003-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Although adaptor ADAP (FYB) and its binding to SLP-76 has been implicated in TcR-induced "inside-out" signaling for LFA-1 activation in T cells, little is known regarding its role in LFA-1-mediated "outside-in" signaling. In this study, we demonstrate that ADAP and SLP-76-ADAP binding are coupled to LFA-1 costimulatio...

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

authors： Wang H,Wei B,Bismuth G,Rudd CE

更新日期：2009-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Water freezing on solid surfaces is ubiquitous in nature. Even though icing/frosting impairs the performance and safety in many processes, its mechanism remains inadequately understood. Changing atmospheric conditions, surface properties, the complexity of icing physics, and the unorthodox behavior of water are the pr...

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

authors： Jung S,Tiwari MK,Poulikakos D

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The convulsant agent methionine sulfoximine inhibits brain glutamine synthetase irreversibly and the inhibitor becomes bound to the active site of the enzyme as methionine sulfoximine phosphate. Only one of the four isomers of methionine sulfoximine, L-methionine-S-sulfoximine, inhibits glutamine synthetase. In the pr...

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

authors： Rowe WB,Meister A

更新日期：1970-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The refractoriness of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) with t(11;17)(q23;q21) to all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA)-based therapy concerns clinicians and intrigues basic researchers. By using a murine leukemic model carrying both promyelocytic leukemia zinc finger/retinoic acid receptor-α (PLZF/RARα) and RARα/PLZF fusio...

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

authors： Jiao B,Ren ZH,Liu P,Chen LJ,Shi JY,Dong Y,Ablain J,Shi L,Gao L,Hu JP,Ren RB,de Thé H,Chen Z,Chen SJ

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of mature erythrocytes requires multiple growth factors, but we do not know how their actions are coordinated. Here we show that erythroid progenitors from erythropoietin receptor (Epo-R)-/- fetal livers, infected in vitro with a retrovirus expressing the wild-type Epo-R, require addition of both Epo and st...

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

authors： Wu H,Klingmüller U,Acurio A,Hsiao JG,Lodish HF

更新日期：1997-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We have carried out free energy perturbation calculations on DNA double-stranded hexanucleotides. The sequence d(CGCGCG)2 has been "mutated" into d(CGTGCG).d(CGCACG) with the oligonucleotide in the A, B, and Z structural forms, both in vacuo and in aqueous solution. In addition, model free energy calculations have bee...

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

authors： Dang LX,Pearlman DA,Kollman PA

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early passages of NIH 3T3 cells yield about 10 transformed foci for every 10(5) cells seeded after the cells multiply to confluence in a standardized 2-week assay. The question arose whether more cells would give rise to foci if given more time for their development. This question could not be answered simply by exten...

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

authors： Chow M,Yao A,Rubin H

更新日期：1994-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Each person's genome sequence has thousands of missense variants. Practical interpretation of their functional significance must rely on computational inferences in the absence of exhaustive experimental measurements. Here we analyzed the efficacy of these inferences in 33 de novo missense mutations revealed by sequen...

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

authors： Miosge LA,Field MA,Sontani Y,Cho V,Johnson S,Palkova A,Balakishnan B,Liang R,Zhang Y,Lyon S,Beutler B,Whittle B,Bertram EM,Enders A,Goodnow CC,Andrews TD

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenin (Ang), an inducer of neovascularization, is secreted by several types of human tumor cells and appears critical for their growth. The murine anti-Ang monoclonal antibody (mAb) 26-2F neutralizes the activities of Ang and dramatically prevents the establishment and metastatic dissemination of human tumor cell...

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

authors： Piccoli R,Olson KA,Vallee BL,Fett JW

更新日期：1998-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of legume nodules have indicated that formation of the heme moiety of leghemoglobin is a function of the bacterial symbiont. We now show that a hemA mutant of Bradyrhizobium japonicum that cannot carry out the first step in heme biosynthesis forms fully effective nodules on soybeans. The bacterial mut...

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

authors： Guerinot ML,Chelm BK

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In adult rodents, neurons are continually generated in the subventricular zone of the forebrain, from where they migrate tangentially toward the olfactory bulb, the only known target for these neuronal precursors. Within the main olfactory bulb, they ascend radially into the granule and periglomerular cell layers, whe...

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

authors： Gheusi G,Cremer H,McLean H,Chazal G,Vincent JD,Lledo PM

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed a recombinant DNA molecule carrying the coding region and the 3' flanking sequences of the rat preproinsulin I gene, replacing the late region of a simian virus 40 (SV40) viral vector. The sequences making up the single intron of the preproinsulin I gene, located within the nontranslated leader region, ...

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

authors： Gruss P,Efstratiadis A,Karathanasis S,König M,Khoury G

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00