Stochastic gene expression as a many-body problem.

abstract：:Activator of G protein signaling 3 (AGS3), originally identified in a functional screen for mammalian proteins that activate heterotrimeric G protein signaling, is known to be involved in drug-seeking behavior and is up-regulated during cocaine withdrawal in animal models. These observations indicate a potential role ...

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

authors： Groves B,Gong Q,Xu Z,Huntsman C,Nguyen C,Li D,Ma D

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Through the agr quorum-sensing system, staphylococci secrete unique autoinducing peptides (AIPs) and detect their concentration via the AgrC transmembrane receptor, coordinating local bacterial population density with global changes in gene expression. Unique AIP and AgrC variants exist within and between species, and...

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

authors： Geisinger E,Muir TW,Novick RP

更新日期：2009-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The human cytokine I-309 is a small glycoprotein secreted by activated T lymphocytes and structurally related to a number of inflammatory cytokines. To investigate the biological activities of I-309 protein, we produced a stable Chinese hamster ovary cell transfectant, CDI.10, which constitutively secretes I-309 prote...

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

authors： Miller MD,Krangel MS

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tubercle bacillus parasitizes macrophages by inhibiting phagosome maturation into the phagolysosome. This phenomenon underlies the tuberculosis pandemic involving 2 billion people. We report here how Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes phagosome maturation arrest. A glycosylated M. tuberculosis phosphatidylinositol ...

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

authors： Fratti RA,Chua J,Vergne I,Deretic V

更新日期：2003-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A change-point detection is proposed by using a Bayesian-type statistic based on the shortest Hamiltonian path, and the change-point is estimated by using ratio cut. A permutation procedure is applied to approximate the significance of Bayesian-type statistics. The change-point test is proven to be consistent, and an ...

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

authors： Shi X,Wu Y,Rao CR

更新日期：2017-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Carney-Stratakis syndrome, an inherited condition predisposing affected individuals to gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) and paraganglioma, is caused by germline mutations in succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) subunits B, C, or D, leading to dysfunction of complex II of the electron transport chain. We evaluated the ro...

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

authors： Janeway KA,Kim SY,Lodish M,Nosé V,Rustin P,Gaal J,Dahia PL,Liegl B,Ball ER,Raygada M,Lai AH,Kelly L,Hornick JL,NIH Pediatric and Wild-Type GIST Clinic.,O'Sullivan M,de Krijger RR,Dinjens WN,Demetri GD,Antonescu CR,F

更新日期：2011-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is a disorder of iron metabolism caused by common mutations in the gene HFE. The HFE protein binds to transferrin receptor-1 (TfR1) in competition with transferrin, and in vitro, reduces cellular iron by reducing iron uptake. However, in vivo, HFE is strongly expressed by liver macropha...

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

authors： Drakesmith H,Sweetland E,Schimanski L,Edwards J,Cowley D,Ashraf M,Bastin J,Townsend AR

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphonuclear leukocytes isolated from chicken peritoneal exudates have been found to catalyze cyanide-insensitive stimulation of respiration and the hexose monophosphate shunt upon exposure to heat-inactivated Staphylococcus aureus. However, there was no demonstrable formate oxidation concomitant with phagocytosi...

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

authors： Penniall R,Spitznagel JK

更新日期：1975-12-01 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：:Marriage in many traditional societies often concerns the institutionalized exchange of reproductive partners among groups of kin. Such exchanges most often involve cross-cousins-marriage with the child of a parent's opposite-sex sibling-but it is unclear who benefits from these exchanges. Here we analyze the fitness ...

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

authors： Chagnon NA,Lynch RF,Shenk MK,Hames R,Flinn MV

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Striking taste disturbances are reported in cancer patients treated with Hedgehog (HH)-pathway inhibitor drugs, including sonidegib (LDE225), which block the HH pathway effector Smoothened (SMO). We tested the potential for molecular, cellular, and functional recovery in mice from the severe disruption of taste-organ ...

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

authors： Kumari A,Ermilov AN,Grachtchouk M,Dlugosz AA,Allen BL,Bradley RM,Mistretta CM

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical feed-forward inhibition involves an excitation-inhibition sequence that enhances the temporal precision of neuronal responses by narrowing the window for synaptic integration. In the input layer of the cerebellum, feed-forward inhibition is thought to preserve the temporal fidelity of granule cell spikes dur...

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

authors： Duguid I,Branco T,Chadderton P,Arlt C,Powell K,Häusser M

更新日期：2015-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The adenosine deaminases that act on RNA (ADARs) catalyze the site-specific conversion of adenosine to inosine (A to I) in primary mRNA transcripts, thereby affecting the splicing pattern or coding potential of mature mRNAs. Although the subnuclear localization of A-to-I editing has not been precisely defined, ADARs h...

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

authors： Sansam CL,Wells KS,Emeson RB

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:LMB-7 [B3(Fv)-PE38] is a single-chain immunotoxin constructed from the murine monoclonal antibody B3 and a truncated from of Pseudomonas exotoxin PE38. Antibody B3 recognizes a carbohydrate epitope found on solid tumors that frequently invade the intrathecal space and cause neoplastic meningitis. We tested the therape...

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

authors： Pastan IH,Archer GE,McLendon RE,Friedman HS,Fuchs HE,Wang QC,Pai LH,Herndon J,Bigner DD

更新日期：1995-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the cell-surface molecules involved in T-cell immune responses are N-linked glycoproteins. We have investigated the effects of inhibitors of glycoprotein processing on specific T-cell functions, with the dual aims of examining the functional role of carbohydrate and of testing the usefulness of such compounds ...

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

authors： Wall KA,Pierce JD,Elbein AD

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the late Pleistocene, early anatomically modern humans coexisted in Europe with the anatomically archaic Neandertals for some thousand years. Under the recent variants of the multiregional model of human evolution, modern and archaic forms were different but related populations within a single evolving species,...

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

authors： Caramelli D,Lalueza-Fox C,Vernesi C,Lari M,Casoli A,Mallegni F,Chiarelli B,Dupanloup I,Bertranpetit J,Barbujani G,Bertorelle G

更新日期：2003-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenovirus (Ad) vectors have been extensively used to deliver recombinant genes to a great variety of cell types in vitro and in vivo. Ad-based vectors are available that replace the Ad early region 1 (E1) with recombinant foreign genes. The resultant E1-deleted vectors can then be propagated on 293 cells, a human emb...

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

authors： Amalfitano A,Begy CR,Chamberlain JS

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We find that the transcription of various ribosomal proteins can be differentially affected by polyamines and by changes in growth rates. Using strain MG1655 of Escherichia coli K-12 (F-, lambda-), we have determined the effects of polyamines and changes in growth rate on the transcription of several ribosomal genes a...

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

authors： Huang SC,Panagiotidis CA,Canellakis ES

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the "beyond Li-ion" battery chemistries, nonaqueous Li-O2 batteries have the highest theoretical specific energy and, as a result, have attracted significant research attention over the past decade. A critical scientific challenge facing nonaqueous Li-O2 batteries is the electronically insulating nature of the p...

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

authors： Burke CM,Pande V,Khetan A,Viswanathan V,McCloskey BD

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium requires the mgtC gene to cause disease. The mgtC transcript includes a long leader region that harbors a short proline codon-rich ORF--termed mgtP--the translation of which is predicted to favor formation of one of two alternative stem-loop structures...

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

authors： Lee EJ,Choi J,Groisman EA

更新日期：2014-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Maltose-binding protein (MBP) is a two-domain protein that undergoes a ligand-mediated conformational rearrangement from an "open" to a "closed" structure on binding to maltooligosaccharides. To characterize the energy landscape associated with this transition, we have generated five variants of MBP with mutations loc...

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

authors： Millet O,Hudson RP,Kay LE

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The high susceptibility of human immunoglobulin D to proteolytic degradation affects its biological function, metabolism, and immunoassay. High-pressure liquid chromatography was used to investigate the mechanism and rate of limited proteolytic cleavage of IgD and also to identify, isolate, and quantify the reaction p...

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

authors： Ishioka N,Takahashi N,Putnam FW

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanopsin, the photopigment of the "circadian" receptors that regulate the biological clock and the pupillary reflex in mammals, is homologous to invertebrate rhodopsins. Evidence supporting the involvement of phosphoinositides in light-signaling has been garnered, but the downstream effectors that control the light-...

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

authors： Peinado G,Osorno T,Gomez Mdel P,Nasi E

更新日期：2015-06-23 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：:Excitotoxicity, resulting from sustained activation of glutamate receptors of the N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) subtype, is considered to play a causative role in the etiology of ischemic stroke and several neurodegenerative diseases. The NMDA receptor is therefore a target for the development of neuroprotective agents....

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

authors： Tai KK,Blondelle SE,Ostresh JM,Houghten RA,Montal M

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation of chloroplast DNA and nuclear ribosomal DNA (DNA encoding ribosomal RNA) was studied for five species of white oak native to the eastern United States. Although these species differ in many morphological characters and have different (though overlapping) geographical ranges and ecological tolerances, they a...

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

authors： Whittemore AT,Schaal BA

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly selective alpha 1-adrenergic receptor antagonist prazosin was used to identify binding sites having alpha-adrenergic specificity in rat hepatic plasma membranes. Solubilization of the membrane-bound receptors was achieved by incubation with the nonionic detergent digitonin, and binding activity was assayed ...

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

authors： Graham RM,Hess HJ,Homcy CJ

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primate visual motion system performs numerous functions essential for survival in a dynamic visual world. Prominent among these functions is the ability to recover and represent the trajectories of objects in a form that facilitates behavioral responses to those movements. The first step toward this goal, which c...

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

authors： Albright TD,Stoner GR

更新日期：1995-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the technical bottlenecks in producing nonhuman primate models is that current assisted reproductive techniques, such as in vitro culture and frozen conservation of multicell-stage embryos, often result in poor embryo quality and subsequently lead to low birth rates. We investigated whether pronuclear embryo tr...

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

authors： Sun Q,Dong J,Yang W,Jin Y,Yang M,Wang Y,Wang PL,Hu Y,Tsien JZ

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated an Arabidopsis thaliana gene that codes for a receptor related to antifungal pathogenesis-related (PR) proteins. The PR5K gene codes for a predicted 665-amino acid polypeptide that comprises an extracellular domain related to the PR5 proteins, a central transmembrane-spanning domain, and an intracellu...

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

authors： Wang X,Zafian P,Choudhary M,Lawton M

更新日期：1996-03-19 00:00:00