A vertebrate fatty acid desaturase with Delta 5 and Delta 6 activities.

abstract：:Activation of phospholipase Cgamma1 (PLCgamma1) by vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2 (VEGFR-2) in endothelial cells in part is responsible for angiogenesis in vivo. The cellular mechanisms exerting negative control over PLCgamma1 activation, however, remain unaddressed. Here by using in vitro and in vivo b...

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

authors： Singh AJ,Meyer RD,Navruzbekov G,Shelke R,Duan L,Band H,Leeman SE,Rahimi N

更新日期：2007-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast genome becomes unstable during stress, which often results in adaptive aneuploidy, allowing rapid activation of protective mechanisms that restore cellular homeostasis. In this study, we performed a genetic screen in Saccharomyces cerevisiae to identify genome adaptations that confer resistance to tunicamyci...

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

authors： Beaupere C,Dinatto L,Wasko BM,Chen RB,VanValkenburg L,Kiflezghi MG,Lee MB,Promislow DEL,Dang W,Kaeberlein M,Labunskyy VM

更新日期：2018-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondria are the major source of chronic oxidative stress, which has been implicated in the aging process. Along with other cellular changes, aged cells accumulate mutations in both their nuclear and mitochondrial genomes, and they contain increased amounts of oxidatively damaged mutagenic bases such as 7,8-di...

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

authors： Szczesny B,Hazra TK,Papaconstantinou J,Mitra S,Boldogh I

更新日期：2003-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:For almost a century the plant hormone auxin has been central to theories on apical dominance, whereby the growing shoot tip suppresses the growth of the axillary buds below. According to the classic model, the auxin indole-3-acetic acid is produced in the shoot tip and transported down the stem, where it inhibits bud...

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

authors： Mason MG,Ross JJ,Babst BA,Wienclaw BN,Beveridge CA

更新日期：2014-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we report a time-course study of development of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis in Lewis rats, by monitoring neuroendocrine regulation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis through corticotropin-releasing hormone mRNA expression, inflammatory cellular infiltrate, macrophagic and neuronal nit...

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

authors： Calzà L,Giardino L,Pozza M,Micera A,Aloe L

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To permit rapid optical control of brain activity, we have engineered multiple lines of transgenic mice that express the light-activated cation channel Channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2) in subsets of neurons. Illumination of ChR2-positive neurons in brain slices produced photocurrents that generated action potentials within m...

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

authors： Wang H,Peca J,Matsuzaki M,Matsuzaki K,Noguchi J,Qiu L,Wang D,Zhang F,Boyden E,Deisseroth K,Kasai H,Hall WC,Feng G,Augustine GJ

更新日期：2007-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Partial amino acid sequence of the Ia molecule encoded by the I-E or I-C (I-EC) subregion of the major histocompatibility complex of the mouse are presented. The Ia molecule appears to be comprised of two noncovalently associated polypeptides. The larger subunit, alpha, has an approximate molecular weight of 35,000 an...

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

authors： McMillan M,Cecka JM,Murphy DB,McDevitt HO,Hood L

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Picosecond studies of rhodopsin in low-temperature glasses have been carried out in order to observe directly the risetime of prelumirhodopsin, the first intermediate in the visual pathway. Only at 20 K or below can the risetime of this intermediate be resolved and even at 4 K it is astoundingly rapid, about 36 psec. ...

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

authors： Peters K,Applebury ML,Rentzepis PM

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we report the transcriptional organization of a 450-kb gene cluster in Xq28, flanked by the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and the color vision genes. CpG islands previously identified and mapped to distal Xq28 have helped in construction of a continuous contig of cosmids and in identification of cDN...

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

authors： Bione S,Tamanini F,Maestrini E,Tribioli C,Poustka A,Torri G,Rivella S,Toniolo D

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RsbR is a regulator of sigma(B), the RNA polymerase sigma factor subunit responsible for transcribing the general stress response genes when environmental stress is imposed on Bacillus subtilis. The C-terminal domain of RsbR and its paralogues is a substrate for the kinase function of another sigma(B) regulator, RsbT,...

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

authors： Murray JW,Delumeau O,Lewis RJ

更新日期：2005-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Proinflammatory macrophages are key mediators in several pathologies; thus, controlling their activation is necessary. The endocannabinoid system is implicated in various inflammatory processes. Here we show that in macrophages, the newly characterized enzyme α/β-hydrolase domain 6 (ABHD6) controls 2-arachidonoylglyce...

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

authors： Alhouayek M,Masquelier J,Cani PD,Lambert DM,Muccioli GG

更新日期：2013-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:After fertilization of the sea urchin, Strongyl-ocentrotus purpuratus, a crosslinked fertilization membrane is formed; the crosslinks (dityrosine residues) are synthesized in a reaction catalyzed by an ovoperoxidase that is released from the cortical granules during fertilization. The substrate for ovoperoxidase activ...

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

authors： Foerder CA,Klebanoff SJ,Shapiro BM

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma membrane fractions from Xenopus laevis oocytes were incorporated into planar lipid bilayers. We show the existence of numerous Ca2+-activated nonspecific channels that are more permeable to anions. These channels are activated by Ca2+ at micromolar concentration but not by Mg2+, Zn2+, or Mn2+, even at millimola...

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

authors： Young GP,Young JD,Deshpande AK,Goldstein M,Koide SS,Cohn ZA

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitotic (or spindle assembly) checkpoint system prevents premature separation of sister chromatids in mitosis. When the checkpoint is turned on, the mitotic checkpoint complex (MCC) inhibits the ubiquitin ligase anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C). MCC is composed of the checkpoint proteins BubR1, Bub3, a...

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

authors： Eytan E,Sitry-Shevah D,Teichner A,Hershko A

更新日期：2013-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The ASCAPE agent-based modeling environment greatly eases the task of designing and investigating agent-based models. However, effective design can still require a relatively deep knowledge of programming and agent-based modeling. This issue has almost certainly slowed the adoption of agent-based modeling approaches t...

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

authors： Inchiosa ME,Parker MT

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintenance of genomic stability is essential for normal organismal development and is vital to prevent diseases such as cancer. As genetic information is packaged into chromatin, it has become increasingly clear that the chromatin environment plays an important role in DNA damage response. However, how DNA repair is ...

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

authors： Li X,Liu L,Yang S,Song N,Zhou X,Gao J,Yu N,Shan L,Wang Q,Liang J,Xuan C,Wang Y,Shang Y,Shi L

更新日期：2014-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The one-sided multipliers of an operator space X are a key to "latent operator algebraic structure" in X. We begin with a survey of these multipliers, together with several of the applications that they have had to operator algebras. We then describe several new results on one-sided multipliers, and new applications, ...

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

authors： Blecher DP,Zarikian V

更新日期：2004-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) signals through a receptor complex containing the type I (TGF-beta RI) and type II (TGF-beta RII) receptors. We describe here biochemical studies on early events in the TGF-beta signaling pathways. TGF-beta RII is highly phosphorylated when expressed alone in COS-1 cells; its...

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

authors： Chen F,Weinberg RA

更新日期：1995-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The Na(+)/I(-) symporter (NIS) is a key plasma membrane protein that mediates active I(-) uptake in the thyroid, lactating breast, and other tissues with an electrogenic stoichiometry of 2 Na(+) per I(-). In the thyroid, NIS-mediated I(-) uptake is the first step in the biosynthesis of the iodine-containing thyroid ho...

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

authors： Dohán O,Portulano C,Basquin C,Reyna-Neyra A,Amzel LM,Carrasco N

更新日期：2007-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a global epidemic manifested mainly by chronic infection. One strategy that HCV employs to establish chronic infection is to use the viral Ser protease NS3/4A to cleave some unknown cellular targets involved in innate immunity. Here we show that the target of NS3/4A is the mitochondrial anti...

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

authors： Li XD,Sun L,Seth RB,Pineda G,Chen ZJ

更新日期：2005-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The scaling of respiratory metabolism with body mass is one of the most pervasive phenomena in biology. Using a single allometric equation to characterize empirical scaling relationships and to evaluate alternative hypotheses about mechanisms has been controversial. We developed a method to directly measure respiratio...

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

authors： Mori S,Yamaji K,Ishida A,Prokushkin SG,Masyagina OV,Hagihara A,Hoque AT,Suwa R,Osawa A,Nishizono T,Ueda T,Kinjo M,Miyagi T,Kajimoto T,Koike T,Matsuura Y,Toma T,Zyryanova OA,Abaimov AP,Awaya Y,Araki MG,Kawasaki T

更新日期：2010-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial distribution of plant defenses within a leaf may be critical in explaining patterns of herbivory. The generalist lepidopteran larvae, Helicoverpa armigera (the cotton bollworm), avoided the midvein and periphery of Arabidopsis thaliana rosette leaves and fed almost exclusively on the inner lamina. This fee...

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

authors： Shroff R,Vergara F,Muck A,Svatos A,Gershenzon J

更新日期：2008-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary stability of cooperation is a problem of fundamental importance for the biological and social sciences. Different claims have been made about this issue: whereas Axelrod and Hamilton's [Axelrod, R. & Hamilton, W. (1981) Science 211, 1390-1398] widely recognized conclusion is that cooperative rules suc...

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

authors： Bendor J,Swistak P

更新日期：1995-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:There exist a limited but growing number of biological metal centers whose properties lie conspicuously outside the realm of known inorganic chemistry. The synthetic analogue approach, broadly directed, offers a powerful exploratory tool that can define intrinsic chemical possibilities for these sites while simultaneo...

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

authors： Lee SC,Holm RH

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods are described for the removal of the sporophytic pollen grain coating of Brassica oleracea and for the isolation of coat polypeptides. The coat contains a small number of proteins ranging from 6 to 45 kDa. Many of the larger proteins are glycosylated, while all carry high positive charges resulting in pI value...

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

authors： Doughty J,Hedderson F,McCubbin A,Dickinson H

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of a 1,163-base-pair fragment that encodes the entire thyA gene of Escherichia coli K-12 was determined. The strategy involved sequence determination of both DNA strands by using overlapping deletions that had been generated in vitro from the two ends of the fragment with BAL-31 nuclease. The a...

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

authors： Belfort M,Maley G,Pedersen-Lane J,Maley F

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional molecular aggregate (2DMA), a thin sheet of strongly interacting dipole molecules self-assembled at close distance on an ordered lattice, is a fascinating fluorescent material. It is distinctively different from the conventional (single or colloidal) dye molecules and quantum dots. In this paper, we ve...

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

authors： Hu Q,Jin D,Xiao J,Nam SH,Liu X,Liu Y,Zhang X,Fang NX

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A subclass of zinc finger proteins containing a unique protein motif called the positive regulatory (PR) domain has been described. The members include the PRDI-BF1/Blimp-1 protein, the Caenorhabditis elegans egl-43 and EVI1 gene products, and the retinoblastoma interacting protein RIZ. Here we describe a member of th...

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

authors： Chittka A,Chao MV

更新日期：1999-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a fractionation and purification scheme for the Drosophila RNA polymerase II general transcription factors. Drosophila TFIIE, TFIIF, TFIIH, and RNA polymerase II have been purified to greater than 50% homogeneity from Drosophila embryo nuclear extracts. TFIID has been purified 80-fold and is not significan...

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

authors： Austin RJ,Biggin MD

更新日期：1996-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Biosynthesis of sucrose-6-P catalyzed by sucrose-phosphate synthase (SPS), and the presence of sucrose-phosphate phosphatase (SPP) leading to the formation of sucrose, have both been ascertained in a prokaryotic organism: Anabaena 7119, a filamentous heterocystic cyanobacterium. Two SPS activities (SPS-I and SPS-II) w...

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

authors： Porchia AC,Salerno GL

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00