The final acylation step in taxol biosynthesis: cloning of the taxoid C13-side-chain N-benzoyltransferase from Taxus.

abstract：:The genes encoding the histone acetyl-transferases (HATs) CREB binding protein (CREBBP) and EP300 are recurrently mutated in the activated B cell-like and germinal center (GC) B cell-like subtypes of diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Here, we introduced a patient mutation into a human DLBCL cell line using CRISPR...

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

authors： Hashwah H,Schmid CA,Kasser S,Bertram K,Stelling A,Manz MG,Müller A

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial adaptive immune system CRISPR-Cas9 has been appropriated as a versatile tool for editing genomes, controlling gene expression, and visualizing genetic loci. To analyze Cas9's ability to bind DNA rapidly and specifically, we generated multiple libraries of potential binding partners for measuring the kine...

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

authors： Boyle EA,Andreasson JOL,Chircus LM,Sternberg SH,Wu MJ,Guegler CK,Doudna JA,Greenleaf WJ

更新日期：2017-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics for hydrogen exchange at individual base pairs in self-complementary deoxydodecanucleotide duplexes have been estimated from NMR saturation recovery measurements on the resolved imino protons as a function of temperature. The imino protons of dA . dT base pairs in the center of the fully alternating d(C-G...

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

authors： Patel DJ,Ikuta S,Kozlowski S,Itakura K

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural environments typically contain multiple sound sources. The sounds from these sources frequently overlap in time and often mask each other. Masking could potentially distort the representation of a sound's spectrum, altering its timbre and impairing object recognition. Here, we report that the auditory system p...

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

authors： McDermott JH,Oxenham AJ

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of recent studies have shown that iron dissolution in Fe-containing dust aerosol can be linked to source material (mineral or anthropogenic), mineralogy, and iron speciation. All of these factors need to be incorporated into atmospheric chemistry models if these models are to accurately predict the impact of ...

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

authors： Rubasinghege G,Lentz RW,Scherer MM,Grassian VH

更新日期：2010-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The freezing tolerance of protoplasts isolated from nonacclimated rye leaves (Secale cereale L. cv Puma) was significantly altered by using a pH-induced protoplastliposome fusion technique to modify the lipid composition of the plasma membrane. The increase in freezing tolerance was elicited by fusion with liposomes c...

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

authors： Steponkus PL,Uemura M,Balsamo RA,Arvinte T,Lynch DV

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP-sensitive potassium channels (K(ATP)) are involved in a diverse array of physiologic functions including protection of tissue against ischemic insult, regulation of vascular tone, and modulation of insulin secretion. To improve our understanding of the role of K(ATP) in these processes, we used a gene-targeting st...

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

authors： Chutkow WA,Samuel V,Hansen PA,Pu J,Valdivia CR,Makielski JC,Burant CF

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA in chromatin of isolated thymus nuclei, and in two different preparations of deoxyribonucleoprotein extracted from chromatin, has been digested with DNase. By variation of the time of reaction and the concentration of enzyme, and by comparison of the action of the enzyme on (protein-free) DNA with its action o...

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

authors： Mirsky AE

更新日期：1971-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce a coarse-grained model for atomic glass formers. Its elements are physically motivated local microscopic dynamical rules parameterized by observables. Results of the model are established and used to interpret the measured behaviors of supercooled fluids approaching glass transitions. The model predicts t...

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

authors： Garrahan JP,Chandler D

更新日期：2003-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Four different human cell lines transformed by simian virus 40 (SV40) were tested for their tumorigenicity in athymic nude mice. Two of these lines, W18Va2 and GM52VA, were found to be tumorigenic when inoculated at a concentration of 1 x 10(7) cells per mouse. The other two cell lines, LN-SV and GM54VA, were found to...

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

authors： Koprowski H,Croce CM

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent study showed that limited trypsin treatment of liposomes containing purified Electrophorus electricus sodium channels activates a sodium radiotracer flux. We now report that similarly treated sodium channels show voltage-gated, tetrodotoxin-sensitive and highly sodium-selective single-channel currents when in...

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

authors： Shenkel S,Cooper EC,James W,Agnew WS,Sigworth FJ

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cancers have substantial genomic heterogeneity within a given tumor, and to fully understand that diversity requires the ability to perform single cell analysis. We performed targeted sequencing of a panel of single nucleotide variants (SNVs), deletions, and IgH sequences in 1,479 single tumor cells from six acut...

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

authors： Gawad C,Koh W,Quake SR

更新日期：2014-12-16 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：:Emerging and reemerging viruses are responsible for a number of recent epidemic outbreaks. A crucial step in predicting and controlling outbreaks is the timely and accurate characterization of emerging virus strains. We present a portable microfluidic platform containing carbon nanotube arrays with differential filtra...

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

authors： Yeh YT,Gulino K,Zhang Y,Sabestien A,Chou TW,Zhou B,Lin Z,Albert I,Lu H,Swaminathan V,Ghedin E,Terrones M

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific protein domains and amino acids responsible for the apparent capacity of P-glycoprotein (mdr) to recognize and transport a large group of structurally unrelated drugs have not been identified. We have introduced a single Ser----Phe substitution within the predicted TM11 domain of mdr1 (position 941) and mdr3 ...

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

authors： Gros P,Dhir R,Croop J,Talbot F

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Early events in the action of 17-beta-estradiol can be studied in soluble extracts of rat uterus by exposure of the estradiol-receptor protein to a DNA-cellulose matrix. After complexing with [(3)H]estradiol, the 4S receptor protein binds to the DNA, and it can be eluted with buffer of high ionic strength as a more ti...

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

authors： Yamamoto KR,Alberts BM

更新日期：1972-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia, reoxygenation, and the tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor pervanadate activate the transcription factor NF-kappaB, involving phosphorylation of its inhibitor IkappaB-alpha on tyrosine 42. This modification does not lead to degradation of IkappaB by the proteasome/ubiquitin pathway, as is seen on stimulation of ce...

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

authors： Béraud C,Henzel WJ,Baeuerle PA

更新日期：1999-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the widespread use of silicon in modern technology, its peculiar thermal expansion is not well understood. Adapting harmonic phonons to the specific volume at temperature, the quasiharmonic approximation, has become accepted for simulating the thermal expansion, but has given ambiguous interpretations for micr...

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

authors： Kim DS,Hellman O,Herriman J,Smith HL,Lin JYY,Shulumba N,Niedziela JL,Li CW,Abernathy DL,Fultz B

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a defective herpes simplex virus (HSV) vector system that permits the introduction of virtually any gene into mammalian central nervous system neurons. The prototype vector, pHSVlac, contains a transcription unit that places the Escherichia coli lacZ gene under the control of the HSV-1 immediate earl...

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

authors： Geller AI,Freese A

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eccentricity, obliquity, and precession are cyclic parameters of the Earth's orbit whose climatic implications have been widely demonstrated on recent and short time intervals. Amplitude modulations of these parameters on million-year time scales induce "grand orbital cycles," but the behavior and the paleoenvironment...

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

authors： Martinez M,Dera G

更新日期：2015-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertebrates, from zebra fish to humans, have an innate immune recognition of many bacterial flagellins. This involves a conserved eight-amino acid epitope in flagellin recognized by the Toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5). Several important human pathogens, such as Helicobacter pylori and Campylobacter jejuni, have escaped TL...

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

authors： Kreutzberger MAB,Ewing C,Poly F,Wang F,Egelman EH

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have implicated local inflammation and activation of complement amongst the processes involved in the pathogenesis of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Several lines of investigation also indicate that bis-retinoid pigments, such as A2E, that accumulate as lipofuscin in retinal pigment epithelial ...

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

authors： Zhou J,Jang YP,Kim SR,Sparrow JR

更新日期：2006-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclodextrins are cyclic oligosaccharides widely used in the pharmaceutical industry to improve drug delivery and to increase the solubility of hydrophobic compounds. Anabaenolysins are lipopeptides produced by cyanobacteria with potent lytic activity in cholesterol-containing membranes. Here, we identified the 23- to...

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

authors： Shishido TK,Jokela J,Kolehmainen CT,Fewer DP,Wahlsten M,Wang H,Rouhiainen L,Rizzi E,De Bellis G,Permi P,Sivonen K

更新日期：2015-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Negative cooperativity has been observed in CTP synthetase, an allosteric enzyme which contains a regulatory site. Thus, the same enzyme exhibits negative cooperativity for GTP (an effector) and glutamine (a substrate) and positive cooperativity for ATP and UTP (both substrates). In the process of the delineation of t...

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

authors： Levitzki A,Koshland DE Jr

更新日期：1969-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector delivery of an Apaf-1-dominant negative inhibitor was tested for its antiapoptotic effect on degenerating nigrostriatal neurons in a 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) model of Parkinson's disease. The wild-type caspase recruitment domain of Apaf-1 was used as a dom...

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

authors： Mochizuki H,Hayakawa H,Migita M,Shibata M,Tanaka R,Suzuki A,Shimo-Nakanishi Y,Urabe T,Yamada M,Tamayose K,Shimada T,Miura M,Mizuno Y

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular junctions are essentially modified electrodes familiar to electrochemists where the electrolyte is replaced by a conducting "contact." It is generally hypothesized that changing molecular structure will alter system energy levels leading to a change in the transport barrier. Here, we show the conductance of ...

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

authors： Sayed SY,Fereiro JA,Yan H,McCreery RL,Bergren AJ

更新日期：2012-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:It has recently been demonstrated that coupled enzymatic processes may possess, for a particular choice of the state variables, multidimensional inflection points in thermodynamic force-flow space. The conditions for reciprocity in the linear region near such a reference state, which may be far from equilibrium, are o...

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

authors： Caplan SR

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A tetramer of the Mu transposase (MuA) pairs the recombination sites, cleaves the donor DNA, and joins these ends to a target DNA by strand transfer. Juxtaposition of the recombination sites is accomplished by the assembly of a stable synaptic complex of MuA protein and Mu DNA. This initial critical step is facilitate...

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

authors： Clubb RT,Mizuuchi M,Huth JR,Omichinski JG,Savilahti H,Mizuuchi K,Clore GM,Gronenborn AM

更新日期：1996-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The satellite sequences (AGGGAG)(n) and Ty3/gypsy-like retrotransposons are known to localize at the barley centromeres. Using a gametocidal system, which induces chromosomal mutations in barley chromosomes added to common wheat, we obtained an isochromosome for the short arm of barley chromosome 7H (7HS) that lacked ...

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

authors： Nasuda S,Hudakova S,Schubert I,Houben A,Endo TR

更新日期：2005-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:After pair-bonding, male prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) display aggression toward novel females but not toward their female partner. Here we show that this selective aggression in pair-bonded male prairie voles is associated with increased release of vasopressin (AVP) in the anterior hypothalamus (AH). Pharmacol...

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

authors： Gobrogge KL,Liu Y,Young LJ,Wang Z

更新日期：2009-11-10 00:00:00