Mosaic organization and heterogeneity in frequency of allelic recombination of the Plasmodium vivax merozoite surface protein-1 locus.

abstract：:A modification of the polymerase chain reaction has been used to establish the fact that a collection of Staphylococcus aureus toxins are "superantigens," each of which interacts with the T-cell alpha beta receptor of human T cells by means of a specific set of V beta elements. ...

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

authors： Choi YW,Kotzin B,Herron L,Callahan J,Marrack P,Kappler J

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 3- to 5-year cycle of vole abundances is a characteristic phenomenon in the ecology of northern regions, and their explanation stands as a central theoretical challenge in population ecology. Although many species of voles usually coexist and are in severe competition for food and breeding space, the role of intersp...

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

authors： Hansen TF,Stenseth NC,Henttonen H,Tast J

更新日期：1999-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique is described for isolation of plasmid DNA in closed and open circular double-stranded forms from bacterial cells, by use of ATP-dependent deoxyribonuclease purified from Micrococcus luteus. This DNase, acting only upon linear DNA molecules, degrades all bacterial chromosomal DNA extracted in the linear for...

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

authors： Mukai T,Matsubara K,Takagi Y

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Explosions account for 79% of combat-related injuries, leading to multiorgan hemorrhage and uncontrolled bleeding. Uncontrolled bleeding is the leading cause of death in battlefield traumas as well as in civilian life. We need to stop the bleeding quickly to save lives, but, shockingly, there are no treatments to stop...

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

authors： Lashof-Sullivan MM,Shoffstall E,Atkins KT,Keane N,Bir C,VandeVord P,Lavik EB

更新日期：2014-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic screens have been performed to identify mutants with altered auxin homeostasis in Arabidopsis. A tagged allele of the auxin-overproducing mutant sur2 was identified within a transposon mutagenized population. The SUR2 gene was cloned and shown to encode the CYP83B1 protein, which belongs to the large family of...

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

authors： Barlier I,Kowalczyk M,Marchant A,Ljung K,Bhalerao R,Bennett M,Sandberg G,Bellini C

更新日期：2000-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoprotein oxidation is thought to play a pivotal role in atherogenesis, yet the underlying reaction mechanisms remain poorly understood. We have explored the possibility that high density lipoprotein (HDL) might be oxidized by peroxidase-generated tyrosyl radical. Exposure of HDL to L-tyrosine, H2O2, and horseradish...

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

authors： Francis GA,Mendez AJ,Bierman EL,Heinecke JW

更新日期：1993-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Allostery, the coupling between ligand binding and protein conformational change, is the heart of biological network and it has often been explained by two representative models, the induced-fit and the population-shift models. Here, we clarified for what systems one model fits better than the other by performing mole...

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

authors： Okazaki K,Takada S

更新日期：2008-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Injection of antisense oligonucleotides was used to investigate the function of c-mos in murine oocytes. Oocytes injected with antisense c-mos oligonucleotides completed the first meiotic division but failed to initiate meiosis II. Instead, loss of c-mos function led to chromosome decondensation, reformation of a nucl...

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

authors： O'Keefe SJ,Wolfes H,Kiessling AA,Cooper GM

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human skin and lung mast cells and rodent peritoneal mast cells contain a carboxypeptidase in their secretory granules. We have screened human lung cDNA libraries with a mouse mast cell carboxypeptidase A (MC-CPA) cDNA probe to isolate a near-full-length cDNA that encodes human MC-CPA. The 5' end of the human MC-CPA t...

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

authors： Reynolds DS,Gurley DS,Stevens RL,Sugarbaker DJ,Austen KF,Serafin WE

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is great interest in developing selective protein kinase inhibitors by targeting allosteric sites, but these sites often involve protein-protein or protein-peptide interfaces that are very challenging to target with small molecules. Here we present a systematic approach to targeting a functionally conserved allo...

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

authors： Rettenmaier TJ,Sadowsky JD,Thomsen ND,Chen SC,Doak AK,Arkin MR,Wells JA

更新日期：2014-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Plastid development in seedlings of Arabidopsis thaliana is affected by the transfer of (1)O(2)-mediated retrograde signals from the plastid to the nucleus and changes in nuclear gene expression during late embryogenesis. The potential impact of these mechanisms on plastid differentiation is maintained throughout seed...

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

authors： Kim C,Lee KP,Baruah A,Nater M,Göbel C,Feussner I,Apel K

更新日期：2009-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been recent experimental support for efficiency wage theories of the labor market. This short paper initiates the larger process of evaluating the boundary conditions of the gift- exchange phenomenon. In particular, we will see whether behavior consistent with the fair wage-effort hypothesis can emerge and b...

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

authors： Rigdon ML

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ribonucleotide reductase system of Escherichia coli B participates in the biosynthesis of DNA by reducing ribonucleoside diphosphates to the corresponding deoxyribonucleotides. The enzyme is regulated in a complicated way by allosteric modifiers. We now find that infection of E. coli with the bacteriophage T4 resu...

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

authors： Berglund O,Karlström O,Reichard P

更新日期：1969-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of receptor-rich membrane fragments from Torpedo marmorata to carbamylcholine causes a slow (half-time of 5--10 min) and reversible change of properties of the cholinergic receptor protein manifested by a decrease of the initial rate of Naja nigricollis alpha-[3H]toxin binding in the presence of carbamylcholi...

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

authors： Weber M,David-Pfeuty T,Changeux JP

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a metabolic study of human and mouse preimplantation embryos (preembryos), we measured glucose uptake and phosphorylation with nonradioactive 2-deoxyglucose (DG) as tracer. Initial experiments indicated an active hexose transport capacity, a property thought to be restricted in mammals to intestinal villi and kidne...

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

authors： Chi MM,Manchester JK,Basuray R,Mahendra S,Strickler RC,McDougal DB Jr,Lowry OH

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how electric fields and their fluctuations in the active site of enzymes affect efficient catalysis represents a critical objective of biochemical research. We have directly measured the dynamics of the electric field in the active site of a highly proficient enzyme, Δ(5)-3-ketosteroid isomerase (KSI), i...

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

authors： Jha SK,Ji M,Gaffney KJ,Boxer SG

更新日期：2011-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is a central regulator of cell growth and proliferation in response to growth factor and nutrient signaling. Consequently, this kinase is implicated in metabolic diseases including cancer and diabetes, so there is great interest in understanding the complete spectrum of mTOR-re...

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

authors： Wang BT,Ducker GS,Barczak AJ,Barbeau R,Erle DJ,Shokat KM

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A 10-aa motif in transmembrane helix 1 of diphtheria toxin that is conserved in anthrax edema factor, anthrax lethal factor, and botulinum neurotoxin serotypes A, C, and D was identified by blast, clustal w, and meme computational analysis. Using the diphtheria toxin-related fusion protein toxin DAB(389)IL-2, we demon...

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

authors： Ratts R,Trujillo C,Bharti A,vanderSpek J,Harrison R,Murphy JR

更新日期：2005-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Electromyographic recordings from individual identified ankle muscles of the 7-day chick embryo (stage 31) were used to determine the organization of motor output at a developmental stage shortly after the onset of spontaneous motility in the leg. During spontaneous motility of the embryo, the electromyographic record...

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

authors： Bekoff A,Stein PS,Hamburger V

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine has been identified in the anterior pituitary gland and is secreted from cultured folliculostellate (FS) cells. To determine whether adenosine controls the secretion of anterior pituitary hormones in vitro, adenosine was incubated with anterior pituitaries. It stimulated prolactin (PRL) release at the lowest...

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

authors： Yu WH,Kimura M,Walczewska A,Porter JC,McCann SM

更新日期：1998-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:High-quality protein crystals meant for structural analysis by X-ray diffraction have been grown by various methods. The observation of dynamical diffraction in protein crystals is an interesting topic because dynamical diffraction generally occurs in perfect crystals such as Si crystals. However, to our knowledge, th...

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

authors： Suzuki R,Koizumi H,Hirano K,Kumasaka T,Kojima K,Tachibana M

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Sprouty proteins act as intracellular inhibitors of receptor tyrosine kinase signaling. Here we show that the mammalian Sprouty2 protein contains an iron-sulfur complex that can exist in an oxidized, reduced, or nitrosylated state. Purified Sprouty2 assembles into large monodisperse spheres containing approximately 24...

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

authors： Wu X,Alexander PB,He Y,Kikkawa M,Vogel PD,McKnight SL

更新日期：2005-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional capacities of CD8(+) T cells important for virus clearance are influenced by interactions with antigen presenting cells (APCs) and CD4(+) T cells during initial selection, subsequent expansion, and development of memory. Recently, investigators have shown that polyfunctional T cells correlate best with ...

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

authors： Ndhlovu ZM,Oelke M,Schneck JP,Griffin DE

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand molecular interactions that organize developing myofibrils, we examined the biosynthesis and interaction of titin and myosin heavy chain in cultures of developing muscle. Use of pulse-labeling, immunoprecipitation, and a reversible cross-linking procedure demonstrates that within minutes of synthesis, ti...

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

authors： Isaacs WB,Kim IS,Struve A,Fulton AB

更新日期：1992-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Interaction between a peptide hormone and extracellular domains of its receptor is a crucial step for initiation of hormone action. We have developed a modification of the yeast two-hybrid system to study this interaction and have used it to characterize the interaction of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) with its...

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

authors： Zhu J,Kahn CR

更新日期：1997-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon regulatory factor (IRF) 4 is a member of the IRF family of transcription factors and plays critical roles in the development of CD4(+) T cells into Th2 and Th17 cells. Using the infection model of Nippostrongyrus brasiliensis, we have confirmed the critical roles of IRF-4 in Th2 development in vivo by using...

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

authors： Honma K,Kimura D,Tominaga N,Miyakoda M,Matsuyama T,Yui K

更新日期：2008-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Ventilator-induced diaphragmatic dysfunction (VIDD) refers to the diaphragm muscle weakness that occurs following prolonged controlled mechanical ventilation (MV). The presence of VIDD impedes recovery from respiratory failure. However, the pathophysiological mechanisms accounting for VIDD are still not fully understo...

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

authors： Matecki S,Dridi H,Jung B,Saint N,Reiken SR,Scheuermann V,Mrozek S,Santulli G,Umanskaya A,Petrof BJ,Jaber S,Marks AR,Lacampagne A

更新日期：2016-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The peptide chain release factor 2 (RF2) gene, prfB, was cloned from Salmonella typhimurium by DNA hybridization using the Escherichia coli prfB probe. The nucleotide and amino acid sequences of prfB are 87.0% and 95.6% homologous between E. coli and S. typhimurium, respectively, including an in-frame premature UGA st...

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

authors： Kawakami K,Nakamura Y

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Particle tracking is a powerful biophysical tool that requires conversion of large video files into position time series, i.e., traces of the species of interest for data analysis. Current tracking methods, based on a limited set of input parameters to identify bright objects, are ill-equipped to handle the spectrum o...

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

authors： Newby JM,Schaefer AM,Lee PT,Forest MG,Lai SK

更新日期：2018-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural and functional organization of the cell nucleus has been investigated using three-dimensional reconstruction, immunoelectron microscopy, and high-resolution in situ autoradiography. Nuclear regions enriched in small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles (snRNPs) form a reticular network within the nucleop...

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

authors： Spector DL

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00