Evidence for helical structures in poly(1-olefin sulfones) by transmission electron microscopy.

abstract：:We have used restriction endonuclease mapping of cell DNA to investigate the structure of the beta-globin gene in beta-thalassemias. Among 17 individuals with beta +- and beta 0-thalassemia, we observed three patients of Indian origin with beta 0-thalassemia whose DNA revealed a consistent mapping abnormality. In one ...

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

authors： Orkin SH,Old JM,Weatherall DJ,Nathan DG

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental problem in cell biology is to understand how spatial information is recognized and integrated into morphogenetic responses. Budding yeast undergoes differentiation to filamentous growth, which involves changes in cell polarity through mechanisms that remain obscure. Here we define a regulatory input wher...

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

authors： Basu S,Vadaie N,Prabhakar A,Li B,Adhikari H,Pitoniak A,Chow J,Chavel CA,Cullen PJ

更新日期：2016-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Superantigens such as the staphylococcal enterotoxins can play an important role in exacerbation of autoimmune disorders such as experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) in mice. In fact, superantigens can reactivate EAE in PL/J mice that have been sensitized to rat myelin basic protein (MBP). The T-cell subset p...

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

authors： Soos JM,Hobeika AC,Butfiloski EJ,Schiffenbauer J,Johnson HM

更新日期：1995-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we examine the effects of chronic anaerobic exposure and subsequent reoxygenation on protein synthesis patterns in Chinese hamster ovary cells. It is observed by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (isoelectric focusing/NaDodSO4/PAGE) that the transition from an atmospheric environment to an anaerobic s...

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

authors： Sciandra JJ,Subjeck JR,Hughes CS

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multituberculates were the longest-lived order of the Class Mammalia and, during the Mesozoic and early Cenozoic, were among the most diverse and abundant representatives of the class. However, until the recent discovery of two Cretaceous teeth, one from South America and one from Africa, they were known only from nor...

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

authors： Krause DW,Bonaparte JF

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Near-zero-index (NZI) supercoupling, the transmission of electromagnetic waves inside a waveguide irrespective of its shape, is a counterintuitive wave effect that finds applications in optical interconnects and engineering light-matter interactions. However, there is a limited knowledge on the local properties of the...

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

authors： Liberal I,Lobet M,Li Y,Engheta N

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Zn2+ is critical for the functional and structural integrity of cells and contributes to a number of important processes including gene expression. It has been shown that NO exogenously applied via NO donors resulting in nitrosative stress leads to cytoplasmic Zn2+ release from the zinc storing protein metallothionein...

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

authors： Spahl DU,Berendji-Grün D,Suschek CV,Kolb-Bachofen V,Kröncke KD

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Heteroduplex molecules of pneumococcal DNA, prepared by cross-annealing resolved complementary strands, have been used as donors in transformation. A number of pairs of genetic markers are situated exclusively in the trans configuration in these heteroduplexes. Insertion of two markers from trans configuration into op...

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

authors： Roger M

更新日期：1972-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A five-helix secondary structural model is proposed for eukaryotic cytoplasmic 5S rRNA. All available sequence data are consistent with this model including those from Chlorella 5S rRNA whose sequence is revised by data included here. Various architectural features of eukaryotic 5S rRNA are summarized in terms of this...

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

authors： Luehrsen KR,Fox GE

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed the cell cycle regulation of human cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2), a protein closely related to the cell cycle-regulatory protein kinase CDC2. We find that CDK2 activity, like that of CDC2, oscillates during the cell cycle in cultured mammalian fibroblasts. Unlike CDC2 activity (which peaks during m...

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

authors： Rosenblatt J,Gu Y,Morgan DO

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication and transcription of viral RNA genomes rely on host-donated proteins. Qbeta virus infects Escherichia coli and replicates and transcribes its own genomic RNA by Qbeta replicase. Qbeta replicase requires the virus-encoded RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (beta-subunit), and the host-donated translational elonga...

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

authors： Takeshita D,Tomita K

更新日期：2010-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein S (ProS) and growth arrest-specific 6 (Gas6) bind to phosphatidylserine (PtdSer) and induce efferocytosis upon binding TAM-family receptors (Tyro3, Axl, and Mer). Here, we produced mouse ProS, Gas6, and TAM-receptor extracellular region fused to IgG fragment crystallizable region in HEK293T cells. ProS and Gas...

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

authors： Yanagihashi Y,Segawa K,Maeda R,Nabeshima YI,Nagata S

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During performance of attention-demanding cognitive tasks, certain regions of the brain routinely increase activity, whereas others routinely decrease activity. In this study, we investigate the extent to which this task-related dichotomy is represented intrinsically in the resting human brain through examination of s...

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

authors： Fox MD,Snyder AZ,Vincent JL,Corbetta M,Van Essen DC,Raichle ME

更新日期：2005-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bam complex assembles β-barrel proteins into the outer membrane (OM) of Gram-negative bacteria. These proteins comprise cylindrical β-sheets with long extracellular loops and create pores to allow passage of nutrients and waste products across the membrane. Despite their functional importance, several questions re...

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

authors： Wzorek JS,Lee J,Tomasek D,Hagan CL,Kahne DE

更新日期：2017-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The actin cytoskeleton is a critical regulator of cytoplasmic architecture and mechanics, essential in a myriad of physiological processes. Here we demonstrate a liquid phase of actin filaments in the presence of the physiological cross-linker, filamin. Filamin condenses short actin filaments into spindle-shaped dropl...

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

authors： Weirich KL,Banerjee S,Dasbiswas K,Witten TA,Vaikuntanathan S,Gardel ML

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptionally silent genes are maintained in inaccessible chromatin. Accessibility of these genes requires their modification by chromatin remodeling complexes (CRCs), which are recruited to promoters by sequence-specific DNA-binding proteins. Early B-cell factor (EBF), which is crucial for B-cell lineage specific...

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

authors： Gao H,Lukin K,Ramírez J,Fields S,Lopez D,Hagman J

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Noncatalytic carbohydrate binding modules (CBMs) are components of glycoside hydrolases that attack generally inaccessible substrates. CBMs mediate a two- to fivefold elevation in the activity of endo-acting enzymes, likely through increasing the concentration of the appended enzymes in the vicinity of the substrate. ...

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

authors： Cuskin F,Flint JE,Gloster TM,Morland C,Baslé A,Henrissat B,Coutinho PM,Strazzulli A,Solovyova AS,Davies GJ,Gilbert HJ

更新日期：2012-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported in previous studies that prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) has central effects of augmenting wakefulness and suppressing slow-wave sleep (SWS) and paradoxical sleep (PS) in rats. In the present study, we tested the effect of AH 6809, an antagonist of PGE2 receptors, on sleep-wake activities. AH 6809 in saline was in...

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

authors： Matsumura H,Honda K,Choi WS,Inoué S,Sakai T,Hayaishi O

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MHC class I antigen presentation pathway allows the immune system to distinguish between self and nonself. Despite extensive research on the processing of antigenic peptides, little is known about their origin. Here, we show that mRNAs carrying premature stop codons that prevent the production of full-length prote...

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

authors： Apcher S,Daskalogianni C,Lejeune F,Manoury B,Imhoos G,Heslop L,Fåhraeus R

更新日期：2011-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of receptor binding in the potent immunogenicity of Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin B subunit (EtxB) was tested by comparing its immunogical properties with those of a receptor binding mutant, EtxB(G33D). Subcutaneous immunization of EtxB(G33D) resulted in 160-fold reduction in antibody titer c...

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

authors： Nashar TO,Webb HM,Eaglestone S,Williams NA,Hirst TR

更新日期：1996-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Graphene oxide (GO), the main precursor of graphene-based materials made by solution processing, is known to be very stiff. Indeed, it has a Young's modulus comparable to steel, on the order of 300 GPa. Despite its very high stiffness, we show here that GO is superflexible. We quantitatively measure the GO bending rig...

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

authors： Poulin P,Jalili R,Neri W,Nallet F,Divoux T,Colin A,Aboutalebi SH,Wallace G,Zakri C

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:By employing the nuclear DNA of the African rice Oryza glaberrima as a reference genome, the timing, natures, mechanisms, and specificities of recent sequence evolution in the indica and japonica subspecies of Oryza sativa were identified. The data indicate that the genome sizes of both indica and japonica have increa...

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

authors： Ma J,Bennetzen JL

更新日期：2004-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments reported here show that some UV-irradiated wild-type T7 phage markers can be rescued efficiently by coinfection with T7 amber mutant phage in a permissive host. Other results show that the segments of a UV-irradiated genome that replicate efficiently are those that also are rescued efficiently during a mar...

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

authors： Burck KB,Miller RC Jr

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared chicken erythrocyte linker histones H1 and H5 binding to a synthetic four-way DNA junction. Each histone binds to form a single complex, with an affinity which permits competition against a large excess of linear duplex DNA. The affinity of H5 is higher than that of H1. The globular domain from either...

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

authors： Varga-Weisz P,Zlatanova J,Leuba SH,Schroth GP,van Holde K

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear receptor SET domain containing protein 2 (NSD2) catalyzes the methylation of histone H3 lysine 36 (H3K36). It is a determinant in Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome and is overexpressed in human multiple myeloma. Despite the relevance of NSD2 to cancer, there are no potent, selective inhibitors of this enzyme reported. ...

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

authors： Poulin MB,Schneck JL,Matico RE,McDevitt PJ,Huddleston MJ,Hou W,Johnson NW,Thrall SH,Meek TD,Schramm VL

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:As chips further shrink toward smaller scales, fabrication processes based on the self-assembly of individual particles into patterns or structures are often sought. One of the most popular techniques for two-dimensional assembly (self-assembled monolayers) is based on capillary forces acting on particles placed at a ...

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

authors： Aubry N,Singh P,Janjua M,Nudurupati S

更新日期：2008-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of human fibroblast cells with human fibroblast (beta)interferon for up to 8 hr resulted in the accumulation of at least four mRNAs. The mRNAs were isolated from cellular polysomes and characterized by stimulation of translation in a wheat germ cell-free protein synthesis system. The mRNAs appear as early as...

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

authors： Colonno RJ

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in sequences at the C terminus of the capsid precursor protein of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 that affect the viral p6 protein prevent release of budded virus particles from the cell surface. The experiments reported here define an important step in the life cycle of the virus, the release of the bud...

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

authors： Göttlinger HG,Dorfman T,Sodroski JG,Haseltine WA

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factors that act in hepatocyte-specific gene expression include proteins that are present mainly in liver cells (HNF-1/LFB1, C/EBP, HNF-3, HNF-4) (HNF, hepatocyte nuclear factor; C/EBP, rat enhancer binding protein) and proteins that are widely distributed (AP-1, NF-1, NF-Y/ACF). We show here that th...

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

authors： Xanthopoulos KG,Prezioso VR,Chen WS,Sladek FM,Cortese R,Darnell JE Jr

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many newly synthesized proteins have to become unfolded during translocation across biological membranes. We have analyzed the effects of various stabilization/destabilization mutations in the Ig-like module of the muscle protein titin upon its import from the N terminus or C terminus into mitochondria. The effects of...

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

authors： Sato T,Esaki M,Fernandez JM,Endo T

更新日期：2005-12-13 00:00:00