Genetic analysis of traditional and evolved Basmati and non-Basmati rice varieties by using fluorescence-based ISSR-PCR and SSR markers.

abstract：:There is considerable interest in engineering plant cell wall components, particularly lignin, to improve forage quality and biomass properties for processing to fuels and bioproducts. However, modifying lignin content and/or composition in transgenic plants through down-regulation of lignin biosynthetic enzymes can i...

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

authors： Gallego-Giraldo L,Liu C,Pose-Albacete S,Pattathil S,Peralta AG,Young J,Westpheling J,Hahn MG,Rao X,Knox JP,De Meester B,Boerjan W,Dixon RA

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian cells typically contain thousands of copies of mitochondrial DNA assembled into hundreds of nucleoids. Here we analyzed the dynamic features of nucleoids in terms of mitochondrial membrane dynamics involving balanced fusion and fission. In mitochondrial fission GTPase dynamin-related protein (Drp1)-deficient...

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

authors： Ban-Ishihara R,Ishihara T,Sasaki N,Mihara K,Ishihara N

更新日期：2013-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The leukemic fusion gene AML1-MDS1-EVI1 (AME) encodes a chimeric transcription factor that results from the t(3,21)(q26;q22) translocation seen in patients with acute myeloid leukemia, with therapy-related myelodysplastic syndrome, or with chronic myeloid leukemia in blast crisis. The myeloid transcription factor CEBP...

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

authors： Helbling D,Mueller BU,Timchenko NA,Hagemeijer A,Jotterand M,Meyer-Monard S,Lister A,Rowley JD,Huegli B,Fey MF,Pabst T

更新日期：2004-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Free gangliosides bind fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2), thus preventing cell interaction and biological activity of the growth factor in endothelial cells. Here we investigated the role of cell-associated gangliosides in mediating the biological activity of FGF2. Treatment of endothelial cells of different origin wi...

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

authors： Rusnati M,Urbinati C,Tanghetti E,Dell'Era P,Lortat-Jacob H,Presta M

更新日期：2002-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian myelocytomatosis virus (MC29), a defective acute leukemia virus, has a broad oncogenic spectrum in vivo and transforms fibroblasts and hematopoietic target cells in vitro. We have used recombinant DNA technology to isolate and to characterize the sequences that are essential in the transformation process. Integr...

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

authors： Lautenberger JA,Schulz RA,Garon CF,Tsichlis PN,Papas TS

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Met mutant of Drosophila melanogaster is highly resistant to juvenile hormone III (JH III) or its chemical analog, methoprene, an insect growth regulator. Five major mechanisms of insecticide resistance were examined in Met and susceptible Met+ flies. These two strains showed only minor differences when penetratio...

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

authors： Shemshedini L,Wilson TG

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Energy-coupling factor (ECF) transporters are a recently discovered family of primary active transporters for micronutrients and vitamins, such as biotin, thiamine, and riboflavin. Found exclusively in archaea and bacteria, including the human pathogens Listeria, Streptococcus, and Staphylococcus, ECF transporters may...

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

authors： Karpowich NK,Wang DN

更新日期：2013-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The archaeological record shows that typically human cultural traits emerged at different times, in different parts of the world, and among different hominin taxa. This pattern suggests that their emergence is the outcome of complex and nonlinear evolutionary trajectories, influenced by environmental, demographic, and...

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

authors： d'Errico F,Banks WE,Warren DL,Sgubin G,van Niekerk K,Henshilwood C,Daniau AL,Sánchez Goñi MF

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukocyte adherence to endothelium is in part mediated by the transient expression of endothelial-leukocyte adhesion molecule 1 (ELAM-1) on endothelial surfaces stimulated by tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF), interleukin (IL) 1, or bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS). The intracellular factors controlling induction of...

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

authors： Montgomery KF,Osborn L,Hession C,Tizard R,Goff D,Vassallo C,Tarr PI,Bomsztyk K,Lobb R,Harlan JM

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial cells (EC) play a central role in inflammatory immune responses and efficiently induce effector functions in T cells, despite lacking the classical costimulatory ligands CD80 and CD86. By using the mAb HIL-131 we now demonstrate that human inducible costimulator-ligand (ICOS-L), a molecule related to CD80/...

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

authors： Khayyamian S,Hutloff A,Büchner K,Gräfe M,Henn V,Kroczek RA,Mages HW

更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Transferrin, a nonheme iron-binding protein, is polymorphic in most vertebrate species that have been examined. In pigeons, it is controlled by an autosomal gene, with two known codominant alleles, Tf(A) and Tf(B). The two alleles are found in nearly equal frequencies and the three genotypes are at Hardy-Weinberg equi...

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

authors： Frelinger JA

更新日期：1972-02-01 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：:Childhood exposure to low-level lead can permanently reduce intelligence, but the neurobiologic mechanism for this effect is unknown. We examined the impact of lead exposure on the development of cortical columns, using the rodent barrel field as a model. In all areas of mammalian neocortex, cortical columns constitut...

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

authors： Wilson MA,Johnston MV,Goldstein GW,Blue ME

更新日期：2000-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:When encountering unexpected event changes, memories of relevant past experiences must be updated to form new representations. Current models of memory updating propose that people must first generate memory-based predictions to detect and register that features of the environment have changed, then encode the new eve...

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

authors： Stawarczyk D,Wahlheim CN,Etzel JA,Snyder AZ,Zacks JM

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic administration of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) causes parkinsonism in humans and subhuman primates, but not in rats and many other laboratory animals; mice are intermediate in their susceptibility. Since MPTP causes selective dopaminergic neurotoxicity when infused directly into rat sub...

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

authors： Kalaria RN,Mitchell MJ,Harik SI

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cell (DC) lectins mediate the recognition, uptake, and processing of antigens, but they can also be coopted by pathogens for infection. These distinct activities depend upon the routing of antigens within the cell. Antigens directed to endosomal compartments are degraded, and the peptides are presented on ma...

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

authors： Jarvis CM,Zwick DB,Grim JC,Alam MM,Prost LR,Gardiner JC,Park S,Zimdars LL,Sherer NM,Kiessling LL

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that perceived pain intensity can influence placebo analgesia was tested. One hundred and seven subjects rated their pain from from 0 to 10 on a visual analog scale after a standard wisdom tooth extraction. The expected course of such postoperative pain in the absence of therapy or placebo is a steady i...

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

authors： Levine JD,Gordon NC,Bornstein JC,Fields HL

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are interested in tracking changes in large-scale data by periodically creating an agglomerative clustering and examining the evolution of clusters (communities) over time. We examine a large real-world data set: the NEC CiteSeer database, a linked network of >250,000 papers. Tracking changes over time requires a c...

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

authors： Hopcroft J,Khan O,Kulis B,Selman B

更新日期：2004-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytic cells are a critical line of defense against infection. The ability of a pathogen to survive and even replicate within phagocytic cells is a potent method of evading the defense mechanisms of the host. A number of pathogens survive within macrophages after phagocytosis and this contributes to their virulenc...

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

authors： Lindgren SW,Stojiljkovic I,Heffron F

更新日期：1996-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:When we grasp and manipulate an object, populations of tactile nerve fibers become activated and convey information about the shape, size, and texture of the object and its motion across the skin. The response properties of tactile fibers have been extensively characterized in single-unit recordings, yielding importan...

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

authors： Saal HP,Delhaye BP,Rayhaun BC,Bensmaia SJ

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Spantide (D-Arg1-Pro2-Lys3-Pro4-Gln5-Gln6-D-Trp7-Phe8-D-Trp9-++ +Leu10-Leu11-NH2) was introduced as a tachykinin antagonist in 1984 and has served as a starting point in the design of new antagonists that have proven to be more effective and have exhibited no neurological side effects. The most remarkable and unpredic...

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

authors： Folkers K,Feng DM,Asano N,Håkanson R,Weisenfeld-Hallin Z,Leander S

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human interleukin 12 and interleukin 23 (IL12/23) influence susceptibility or resistance to multiple diseases. However, the reasons underlying individual differences in IL12/23 sensitivity remain poorly understood. Here we report that in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and inflamed lungs, the majority...

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

authors： Turner AJ,Aggarwal P,Miller HE,Waukau J,Routes JM,Broeckel U,Robinson RT

更新日期：2015-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A small proportion of the RNAs of mouse reticulocytes consists of beta major-globin mRNA sequences linked to sequences transcribed from the 5'-flanking region of the beta major-globin gene. These upstream RNAs are polyadenylylated and contain 700-800 nucleotides, and their 5' regions are heterogeneous. RNAs with simil...

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

authors： Carlson DP,Ross J

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Base excision repair (BER) removes at least 20,000 DNA lesions per human cell per day and is critical for the maintenance of genomic stability. We hypothesize that aberrant BER, resulting from mutations in BER genes, can lead to genomic instability and cancer. The first step in BER is catalyzed by DNA N-glycosylases. ...

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

authors： Galick HA,Kathe S,Liu M,Robey-Bond S,Kidane D,Wallace SS,Sweasy JB

更新日期：2013-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A clone for the iron-responsive element (IRE)-binding protein (IRE-BP) has been transfected and expressed in mouse fibroblasts. The IRE-BP gene product binds IREs with high affinity and specificity. Amino acid alignments reveal that the IRE-BP is 30% identical to mitochondrial aconitase. The 18 active site residues of...

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

authors： Kaptain S,Downey WE,Tang C,Philpott C,Haile D,Orloff DG,Harford JB,Rouault TA,Klausner RD

更新日期：1991-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This work describes the rational design, synthesis, and study of a ligand that selectively complexes CUG repeats in RNA (and CTG repeats in DNA) with high nanomolar affinity. This sequence is considered a causative agent of myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) because of its ability to sequester muscleblind-like (MBNL) pro...

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

authors： Arambula JF,Ramisetty SR,Baranger AM,Zimmerman SC

更新日期：2009-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the RET (rearranged during transfection) receptor by glial cell-line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) has been identified as an important differentiation and survival factor for dopaminergic neurons of the midbrain in preclinical experiments. These encouraging results have led to clinical trials of GDN...

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

authors： Kowsky S,Pöppelmeyer C,Kramer ER,Falkenburger BH,Kruse A,Klein R,Schulz JB

更新日期：2007-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancers caused by activating mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) are initially responsive to small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), but the efficacy of these agents is often limited because of the emergence of drug resistance conferred by a second mutation, T790M. Threonine 790 is ...

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

authors： Yun CH,Mengwasser KE,Toms AV,Woo MS,Greulich H,Wong KK,Meyerson M,Eck MJ

更新日期：2008-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A way to assess specific CD8+ T-cell activity in a skin test analogous to the conventional delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) reaction for CD4+ T cells is presented. Local injection of viral class I binding peptides caused a specific CD8+ T-cell-mediated DTH in footpads of virally infected mice. The DTH was inducible...

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

authors： Kündig TM,Althage A,Hengartner H,Zinkernagel RM

更新日期：1992-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Inteins are intervening protein sequences that undergo self-excision from a precursor protein with concomitant joining of the flanking sequences. Here, we demonstrate intein trans-splicing in Nicotiana tabacum chloroplasts by using the naturally split Ssp DnaE intein. Trans-splicing occurred whether both intein fragme...

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

authors： Chin HG,Kim GD,Marin I,Mersha F,Evans TC Jr,Chen L,Xu MQ,Pradhan S

更新日期：2003-04-15 00:00:00