Controlling integration specificity of a yeast retrotransposon.

abstract：:Accumulating evidence indicates that epigenetic alterations contribute to exacerbated activation or deregulation of the mechanisms that maintain tolerance to self-antigens in patients with lupus, a systemic autoimmune disease that can be triggered by medications taken to treat a variety of conditions. Here, we tested ...

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

authors： Mazari L,Ouarzane M,Zouali M

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (GTP) [GTP;oxaloacetate carboxy-lyase(transphosphorylating); EC 4.1.1.32] is absent in rat liver cytosol during fetal life and is synthesized initially at birth. De novo synthesis of the enzyme can be induced prematurely by injection of dibutyryl cyclic AMP or glucagon into fetal anim...

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

authors： Garcia Ruiz JP,Ingram R,Hanson RW

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme A is an essential cofactor for respiratory terminal oxidases and vital for respiration in aerobic organisms. The final step of heme A biosynthesis is formylation of the C-8 methyl group of heme molecule by heme A synthase (HAS). HAS is a heme-containing integral membrane protein, and its structure and reaction me...

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

authors： Niwa S,Takeda K,Kosugi M,Tsutsumi E,Mogi T,Miki K

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The protooncogene src encodes two proteins, designated pp60c-src+ and pp60c-src.pp60c-src+ is expressed only in neurons, whereas pp60c-src is expressed in neuronal and nonneuronal cells. pp60c-src+ differs from pp60c-src in that it contains an insert of 6 amino acids. To study the evolutionary conservation of the 6-am...

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

authors： Yang XM,Martinez R,Le Beau J,Wiestler O,Walter G

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) refers to the earliest clinical manifestation of multiple sclerosis (MS). Currently there are no prognostic biological markers that accurately predict conversion of CIS to clinically definite MS (CDMS). Furthermore, the earliest molecular events in MS are still unknown. We used micro...

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

authors： Corvol JC,Pelletier D,Henry RG,Caillier SJ,Wang J,Pappas D,Casazza S,Okuda DT,Hauser SL,Oksenberg JR,Baranzini SE

更新日期：2008-08-19 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：:After the start of transcription, the 5' ends of eukaryotic mRNA molecules are modified by the addition of a guanylyl residue to form a cap structure, G(5')ppp(5')N. The guanylyltransferase (GTP:mRNA guanylyltransferase, EC 2.7.7.50) reaction responsible for cap formation usually proceeds via a covalent enzyme-GMP int...

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

authors： Ahola T,Kääriäinen L

更新日期：1995-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug resistance testing has been shown to be beneficial for clinical management of HIV type 1 infected patients. Whereas phenotypic assays directly measure drug resistance, the commonly used genotypic assays provide only indirect evidence of drug resistance, the major challenge being the interpretation of the sequence...

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

authors： Beerenwinkel N,Schmidt B,Walter H,Kaiser R,Lengauer T,Hoffmann D,Korn K,Selbig J

更新日期：2002-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The peripheral axonal branch of primary sensory neurons readily regenerates after peripheral nerve injury, but the central branch, which courses in the dorsal columns of the spinal cord, does not. However, if a peripheral nerve is transected before a spinal cord injury, sensory neurons that course in the dorsal column...

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

authors： Neumann S,Skinner K,Basbaum AI

更新日期：2005-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A juvenile male zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata, kept singly with its father develops a fairly complete imitation of the father's song. The imitation is less complete when other male siblings are present, possibly because as imitation commences, model abundance increases. Here we examine the consequences of allowing ...

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

authors： Tchernichovski O,Lints T,Mitra PP,Nottebohm F

更新日期：1999-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The exquisite selectivity and catalytic activity of enzymes have been shaped by the effects of positive and negative selection pressure during the course of evolution. In contrast, enzyme variants engineered by using in vitro screening techniques to accept novel substrates typically display a higher degree of catalyti...

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

authors： Varadarajan N,Gam J,Olsen MJ,Georgiou G,Iverson BL

更新日期：2005-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective autophagy of damaged mitochondria requires autophagy receptors optineurin (OPTN), NDP52 (CALCOCO2), TAX1BP1, and p62 (SQSTM1) linking ubiquitinated cargo to autophagic membranes. By using quantitative proteomics, we show that Tank-binding kinase 1 (TBK1) phosphorylates all four receptors on several autophagy...

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

authors： Richter B,Sliter DA,Herhaus L,Stolz A,Wang C,Beli P,Zaffagnini G,Wild P,Martens S,Wagner SA,Youle RJ,Dikic I

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Gaseous HCl generated from a variety of sources is ubiquitous in both outdoor and indoor air. Oxides of nitrogen (NO(y)) are also globally distributed, because NO formed in combustion processes is oxidized to NO(2), HNO(3), N(2)O(5) and a variety of other nitrogen oxides during transport. Deposition of HCl and NO(y) o...

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

authors： Raff JD,Njegic B,Chang WL,Gordon MS,Dabdub D,Gerber RB,Finlayson-Pitts BJ

更新日期：2009-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Reef-building corals are critically important species that are threatened by anthropogenic stresses including climate change. In attempts to understand corals' responses to stress and other aspects of their biology, numerous genomic and transcriptomic studies have been performed, generating a variety of hypotheses abo...

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

authors： Cleves PA,Strader ME,Bay LK,Pringle JR,Matz MV

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Activator-dependent recruitment of TFIID initiates formation of the transcriptional preinitiation complex. TFIID binds core promoter DNA elements and directs the assembly of other general transcription factors, leading to binding of RNA polymerase II and activation of RNA synthesis. How TATA box-binding protein (TBP) ...

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

authors： Wright KJ,Marr MT 2nd,Tjian R

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the cascade of proteolytic caspases has been identified as the final common pathway of apoptosis in diverse biological systems. We have isolated a gene, termed MRIT, that possesses overall sequence homology to FLICE (MACH), a large prodomain caspase that links the aggregated complex of the death domain r...

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

authors： Han DK,Chaudhary PM,Wright ME,Friedman C,Trask BJ,Riedel RT,Baskin DG,Schwartz SM,Hood L

更新日期：1997-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A diploid strain of yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) was found to be heterozygous for two forms of the highly repetitious ribosomal DNA. These forms could be distinguished by the pattern of fragments produced after digestion with the site-specific restriction endonuclease EcoRI. The mode of inheritance of ribosomal DN...

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

authors： Petes TD,Botstein D

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggression is a universal social behavior important for the acquisition of food, mates, territory, and social status. Aggression in Drosophila is context-dependent and can thus be expected to involve inputs from multiple sensory modalities. Here, we use mechanical disruption and genetic approaches in Drosophila melano...

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

authors： Versteven M,Vanden Broeck L,Geurten B,Zwarts L,Decraecker L,Beelen M,Göpfert MC,Heinrich R,Callaerts P

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein factor that participates in the formation of a covalent complex between the 80,000-dalton precursor of the adenovirus (Ad) terminal protein (pTP) and 5'-dCMP has been isolated and characterized. This 47,000-dalton protein, isolated from nuclear extracts of uninfected HeLa cells, has been designated nuclear f...

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

authors： Nagata K,Guggenheimer RA,Enomoto T,Lichy JH,Hurwitz J

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asian rice, Oryza sativa, is one of world's oldest and most important crop species. Rice is believed to have been domesticated ∼9,000 y ago, although debate on its origin remains contentious. A single-origin model suggests that two main subspecies of Asian rice, indica and japonica, were domesticated from the wild ric...

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

authors： Molina J,Sikora M,Garud N,Flowers JM,Rubinstein S,Reynolds A,Huang P,Jackson S,Schaal BA,Bustamante CD,Boyko AR,Purugganan MD

更新日期：2011-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In skeletal muscle, dihydropyridine receptors are functionally coupled to ryanodine receptors of the sarcoplasmic reticulum in triadic or diadic junctional complexes. In cardiac muscle direct physical or functional couplings have not been demonstrated. We have tested the hypothesis of functional coupling of L-type Ca2...

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

authors： Sham JS,Cleemann L,Morad M

更新日期：1995-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Relaxin is a member of the insulin family of polypeptides that is best known as a reproductive hormone. In an effort to elucidate the mechanism of action of relaxin we previously localized the specific binding sites of a 32P-labeled relaxin in the rat uterus and brain. These studies suggested that, in addition to its ...

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

authors： Osheroff PL,Cronin MJ,Lofgren JA

更新日期：1992-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The anti-Tac monoclonal antibody is known to bind to the p55 chain of the human interleukin 2 receptor and to inhibit proliferation of T cells by blocking interleukin 2 binding. However, use of anti-Tac as an immunosuppressant drug would be impaired by the human immune response against this murine antibody. We have th...

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

authors： Queen C,Schneider WP,Selick HE,Payne PW,Landolfi NF,Duncan JF,Avdalovic NM,Levitt M,Junghans RP,Waldmann TA

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of RNA secondary structure on rho-independent and rho-dependent termination of transcription of T3 DNA by Escherichia coli RNA polymerase has been studied by incorporating, into nascent transcripts, base analogs that lead to altered base-pairing properties. A guanine --> hypoxanthine substitution, with atte...

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

authors： Adhya S,Sarkar P,Valenzuela D,Maitra U

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rifamycin antibiotics, which inhibit RNA-directed DNA polymerase of Rauscher leuckemia virus, prevent the leukemogenic activity of the virus, and the effect of leukemogenesis correlates with the magnitude of inhibition of the purified enzyme. This inhibition of enzyme activity by rifamycin SV derivatives is due to a r...

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

authors： Wu AM,Ting RC,Gallo RC

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogenin initiates the synthesis of a maltosaccharide chain covalently attached to itself on Tyr195 via a stepwise glucosylation reaction, priming glycogen synthesis. We have captured crystallographic snapshots of human glycogenin during its reaction cycle, revealing a dynamic conformational switch between ground an...

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

authors： Chaikuad A,Froese DS,Berridge G,von Delft F,Oppermann U,Yue WW

更新日期：2011-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A model for the chain melting phase transition in dilute aqueous phospholipid bilayer dispersions is presented. This model includes interactions between head groups, between hydrocarbon chains, and within the chains. The head groups are modeled as hard disks which are constrained to lie on a two-dimensional surface se...

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

authors： Jacobs RE,Hudson B,Andersen HC

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytosolic concentration of free Ca2+ in bovine neutrophils was monitored by using the intracellular Ca2+ indicator quin2, 2-[[2-bis(acetylamino)-5-methylphenoxy]methyl-6-methoxy-8- bis(acetylamino)]quinoline. Neutrophils at rest have a cytosolic Ca2+ concentration of 85 +/- 5 nM, which in 2-4 min increases to 300-...

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

authors： Gennaro R,Pozzan T,Romeo D

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of variations in the concentrations or structures of biomolecules (e.g., mRNAs, proteins, peptides, natural products) that occur either naturally or in response to environmental or genetic perturbations can provide important insight into complex biological processes. Many biological samples are mixtures that ...

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

authors： Yao S,Anex DS,Caldwell WB,Arnold DW,Smith KB,Schultz PG

更新日期：1999-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthetic origin of the 10,000 molecular weight neurophysins, carriers of the peptide hormones oxytocin and vasopressin, has been studied by cell-free synthesis, Poly(A)-RNA was isolated from bovine hypothalamus and translated in a wheat germ system containing (35)S- or (3)H-labeled amino acids. A number of uni...

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

authors： Giudice LC,Chaiken IM

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00