neurogenin2 elicits the genesis of retinal neurons from cultures of nonneural cells.

abstract：:A 24-amino acid residue peptide has been isolated from the Fc region of a human IgG1 myeloma protein. The peptide has associated with it the same ability to induce murine B cells to polyclonally secrete antibody as does the intact Fc fragment. Amino acid composition of the peptide indicates that on a mole/mole basis t...

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

authors： Morgan EL,Hugli TE,Weigle WO

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA mismatch repair (MMR), the guardian of the genome, commences when MutS identifies a mismatch and recruits MutL to nick the error-containing strand, allowing excision and DNA resynthesis. Dominant MMR models posit that after mismatch recognition, ATP converts MutS to a hydrolysis-independent, diffusive mobile clamp...

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

authors： Hao P,LeBlanc SJ,Case BC,Elston TC,Hingorani MM,Erie DA,Weninger KR

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant of E. coli defective in DNA polymerase II activity was isolated. Extracts had about 0.1% of the normal activity of the DNA polymerase. The effect of the mutation on the ability of cells to replicate DNA of various sources was analyzed. Mutant bacteria grow normally, at 41 degrees as well as at 30 degrees . Al...

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

authors： Hirota Y,Gefter M,Mindich L

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New Zealand black x New Zealand white (NZB/W) F1 mice spontaneously develop an autoimmune syndrome with notable similarities to human systemic lupus erythematosus. Female NZB/WF1 mice produce high titers of antinuclear antibodies and invariably succumb to severe glomerulonephritis by 12 months of age. Although the dev...

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

authors： Wang Y,Hu Q,Madri JA,Rollins SA,Chodera A,Matis LA

更新日期：1996-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoprecipitation followed by mass spectrometry (IP/MS) has recently emerged as a preferred method in the analysis of protein complex components and cellular protein networks. Targeting endogenous protein complexes of higher eukaryotes, particularly in large-scale efforts, has been challenging due to cellular hetero...

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

authors： Malovannaya A,Li Y,Bulynko Y,Jung SY,Wang Y,Lanz RB,O'Malley BW,Qin J

更新日期：2010-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific binding properties of the tritium-labeled delta opiate receptor agonist [3H][2-D-penicillamine, 5-D-penicillamine]enkephalin [( 3H][D-Pen2, D-Pen5]enkephalin) were characterized in the rat brain and in a mouse neuroblastoma-rat glioma hybrid cell line (NG 108-15). Saturation isotherms of [3H][D-Pen2, D-Pen5]e...

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

authors： Akiyama K,Gee KW,Mosberg HI,Hruby VJ,Yamamura HI

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Awareness that our planet is a self-supporting biosphere with sunlight as its major source of energy for life has resulted in a long-term historical fascination with the workings of self-supporting ecological systems. However, the studies of such systems have never entered the canon of ecological or evolutionary tools...

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

authors： Rillig MC,Antonovics J

更新日期：2019-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Six overlapping cosmid clones having an average insert size of 40 kilobase pairs were identified and isolated from a human genomic library by using a cDNA probe, Alu-7, specific for the amino acid sequence of C4d, a known region of the fourth component of human complement. Analysis of these genomic clones by restricti...

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

authors： Carroll MC,Porter RR

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During transcription, RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) must select the correct nucleotide, catalyze its addition to the growing RNA transcript, and move stepwise along the DNA until a gene is fully transcribed. In all kingdoms of life, transcription must be finely tuned to ensure an appropriate balance between fidelity and ...

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

authors： Larson MH,Zhou J,Kaplan CD,Palangat M,Kornberg RD,Landick R,Block SM

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide growth factors were isolated from conditioned medium derived from rice (Oryza sativa L.) suspension cultures and identified to be a sulfated pentapeptide [H-Tyr(SO3H)-Ile-Tyr(SO3H)-Thr-Gln-OH] and its C-terminal-truncated tetrapeptide [H-Tyr(SO3H)-Ile-Tyr(SO3H)-Thr-OH]. These structures were identical to the p...

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

authors： Matsubayashi Y,Takagi L,Sakagami Y

更新日期：1997-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Biogenesis of plant microRNAs (miRNAs) takes place in nuclear dicing bodies (D-bodies), where the ribonulease III-type enzyme Dicer-like 1 (DCL1) processes primary transcripts of miRNAs (pri-miRNAs) into miRNA/miRNA* (*, passenger strand) duplexes from either base-to-loop or loop-to-base directions. Hyponastic Leaves ...

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

authors： Gao S,Wang J,Jiang N,Zhang S,Wang Y,Zhang J,Li N,Fang Y,Yang L,Chen S,Yan B,Huang T,Kuai B,Wang Y,Chang F,Ren G

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimyristoyl lecithin liposomes, containing cytochrome b5 reductase (NADH:ferricytochrome b5 oxidoreductase, EC 1.6.2.2) and varying amounts of cytochrome b5, were used to measure flavoprotein catalysis alone and catalysis requiring electron transfer between the reductase and cytochrome as a function of temperature. Wh...

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

authors： Strittmatter P,Rogers MJ

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human epidermal stem cells express higher levels of beta1 integrins and are more adhesive than keratinocytes that are destined to differentiate. To investigate whether high beta1 integrin expression and adhesiveness are essential for maintaining keratinocytes in the stem cell compartment, we introduced a dominant-nega...

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

authors： Zhu AJ,Haase I,Watt FM

更新日期：1999-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The human major histocompatibility complex includes approximately 14 class II HLA genes within the HLA-D region, most of which exist in multiple allelic forms. One of these genes, the DQ3.2 beta gene, accounts for the well-documented association of HLA-DR4 with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and is the single all...

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

authors： Kwok WW,Lotshaw C,Milner EC,Knitter-Jack N,Nepom GT

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have totally synthesized a gene that codes for rat hepatic cytochrome b5. The 5' flanking region was designed for efficient expression of this gene in Escherichia coli by incorporating an optimum ribosome binding site and spacer region. Both a soluble form, analogous to the protease-treated microsomal protein, as w...

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

authors： Beck von Bodman S,Schuler MA,Jollie DR,Sligar SG

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerobic respiration is a fundamental energy-generating process; however, there is cost associated with living in an oxygen-rich environment, because partially reduced oxygen species can damage cellular components. Organisms evolved enzymes that alleviate this damage and protect the intracellular milieu, most notably t...

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

authors： Kaya A,Gerashchenko MV,Seim I,Labarre J,Toledano MB,Gladyshev VN

更新日期：2015-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Duplexes of 21-nt RNAs, known as short-interfering RNAs (siRNAs), efficiently inhibit gene expression by RNA interference (RNAi) when introduced into mammalian cells. We show that siRNAs can be synthesized by in vitro transcription with T7 RNA polymerase, providing an economical alternative to chemical synthesis of si...

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

authors： Yu JY,DeRuiter SL,Turner DL

更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the mechanisms by which a cell detects exogenous DNA is important for controlling pathogen infection, because most pathogens entail the presence of exogenous DNA in the cytosol, as well as for understanding the cell's response to artificially transfected DNA. The cellular response to pathogen invasion has...

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

authors： Kobayashi S,Koujin T,Kojidani T,Osakada H,Mori C,Hiraoka Y,Haraguchi T

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a model for transposition that allows a choice between cointegrate formation (replicon fusion) and direct transposition. We propose that initiation of the process occurs by invasion of the target DNA by a single-stranded end of the transposable element. This leads to nicking of one of the DNA strands of the...

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

authors： Galas DJ,Chandler M

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mid-winter development of refractoriness to melatonin (Mel) triggers recrudescence of the atrophied reproductive apparatus of rodents. As a consequence, over-wintering animals become reproductively competent just before the onset of spring conditions favorable for breeding. The neural target tissues that cease to ...

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

authors： Freeman DA,Zucker I

更新日期：2001-05-22 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：:The mathematical theory of compressed sensing (CS) asserts that one can acquire signals from measurements whose rate is much lower than the total bandwidth. Whereas the CS theory is now well developed, challenges concerning hardware implementations of CS-based acquisition devices--especially in optics--have only start...

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

authors： Studer V,Bobin J,Chahid M,Mousavi HS,Candes E,Dahan M

更新日期：2012-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) induces differentiation of M1 murine myeloid leukemia cells into mature granulocytes/macrophages and also causes accumulation of the cells in the G1 phase of the cell cycle. We examined, therefore, whether synchronization of M1 cells in the G1 phase could affect G-CSF-indu...

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

authors： Tsuda H,Neckers LM,Pluznik DH

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purine nucleoside analogs modified by replacement of the nitrogen atom at the 3 position by a CH group give a characteristic circular dichroism curve that is not substantially modified by chemical substitution at the 8 position. Since it is rather well established that 8-substituted purine nucleosides are predominantl...

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

authors： Miles DW,Townsend LB,Redington P,Eyring H

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans readily form social impressions, such as attractiveness and trustworthiness, from a stranger's facial features. Understanding the provenance of these impressions has clear scientific importance and societal implications. Motivated by the efficient coding hypothesis of brain representation, as well as Claude Sha...

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

authors： Ryali CK,Goffin S,Winkielman P,Yu AJ

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The interleukin 2 (IL-2) receptor (IL-2R) is a multisubunit receptor that includes three major IL-2 binding subunits, the IL-2R alpha, beta, and gamma chains. We have detected and analyzed cooperative interactions between the IL-2R alpha and beta chains (IL-2R alpha and IL-2R beta, respectively) in COS cells transfect...

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

authors： Roessler E,Grant A,Ju G,Tsudo M,Sugamura K,Waldmann TA

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas NF-kappaB has potent antiapoptotic function in most cell types, it was reported that in pancreatic beta cells it serves a proapoptotic function and may contribute to the pathogenesis of autoimmune type 1 diabetes. To investigate the role of beta cell NF-kappaB in autoimmune diabetes, we produced transgenic mic...

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

authors： Kim S,Millet I,Kim HS,Kim JY,Han MS,Lee MK,Kim KW,Sherwin RS,Karin M,Lee MS

更新日期：2007-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of plant chemical ecology generally dates to the late 1950s, when evolutionary entomologists recognized the essential role of plant secondary metabolites in plant-insect interactions and suggested that plant chemical diversity evolved under the selection pressure of herbivory. However, similar ideas had alr...

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

authors： Hartmann T

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed a comprehensive cDNA library from HeLa cell mRNA in a vector that directs expression of the cDNA in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We used this library to clone the human counterpart of the Sa. cerevisiae CCAAT-binding transcription factor, Hap2, by functional complementation of a hap2 mutation. The cDNA enc...

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

authors： Becker DM,Fikes JD,Guarente L

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microvillus core-filament bundle from intestinal epithelial cells is a highly ordered structure containing actin and four major associated proteins. Two of these, villin and calmodulin, bind calcium ions (Kd approximately 10(-6) M) in the physiologically important range. Because ethylene glycol bis(beta-aminoethyl...

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

authors： Glenney JR Jr,Bretscher A,Weber K

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00