A strategy for the generation of conditional mutations by protein destabilization.

abstract：:The RNA virus, hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the most or second-most important cause of acute clinical hepatitis in adults throughout much of Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. In these regions it is an important cause of acute liver failure, especially in pregnant women who have a mortality rate of 20-30%. Until recentl...

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

authors： Shukla P,Nguyen HT,Torian U,Engle RE,Faulk K,Dalton HR,Bendall RP,Keane FE,Purcell RH,Emerson SU

更新日期：2011-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Charge transport (CT) through the DNA base pairs provides a means to promote redox reactions at a remote site and potentially to effect signaling between molecules bound to DNA. Here we describe the oxidation of a cell-cycle regulatory protein, p53, from a distance through DNA-mediated CT. A consensus p53 binding site...

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

authors： Augustyn KE,Merino EJ,Barton JK

更新日期：2007-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent emergence and reemergence of viruses in the human population has highlighted the need to develop broader panels of therapeutic molecules. High-throughput screening assays opening access to untargeted steps of the viral replication cycle will provide powerful leverage to identify innovative antiviral molecul...

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

authors： Fernandez J,Hassen-Khodja C,Georget V,Rose T,Jacob Y,Janin YL,Nisole S,Vidalain PO,Arhel NJ

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the basis of resistance and sensitivity of normal and transformed cells to histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACi)-induced cell death, specifically the role of caspases and thioredoxin (Trx). An important attribute of HDACis is that they induce cancer cell death at concentrations to which normal cell...

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

authors： Ungerstedt JS,Sowa Y,Xu WS,Shao Y,Dokmanovic M,Perez G,Ngo L,Holmgren A,Jiang X,Marks PA

更新日期：2005-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined the social skills of previously institutionalized, 8-y-old Romanian children from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project and the influence of attachment security and brain electrical activity (alpha power) on these skills. Participants included children randomized to an intervention involv...

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

authors： Almas AN,Degnan KA,Radulescu A,Nelson CA 3rd,Zeanah CH,Fox NA

更新日期：2012-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The template-directed synthesis of a bistable donor-acceptor [2]catenane wherein both translational isomers--one in which a tetrathiafulvalene unit in a mechanically interlocked crown ether occupies the cavity of a cyclobis(paraquat-p-phenylene) ring and the other in which a 1,5-dioxynaphthalene unit in the crown ethe...

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

authors： Wang C,Olson MA,Fang L,Benítez D,Tkatchouk E,Basu S,Basuray AN,Zhang D,Zhu D,Goddard WA,Stoddart JF

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of cullin-containing ubiquitin protein ligase complexes is stimulated by linkage to cullin of the ubiquitin-like protein Nedd8 ("neddylation"). Neddylation is inhibited by the tight binding of cullins to CAND1 (cullin-associated and neddylation-dissociated 1) protein, and Nedd8 is removed from cullins by ...

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

authors： Bornstein G,Ganoth D,Hershko A

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss or reduction in function of tumor suppressor genes contributes to tumorigenesis. Here, by allelic DNA copy number analysis using single-nucleotide polymorphism genotyping array and mass spectrometry, we report homozygous deletion in glioblastoma multiformes at chromosome 13q21, where DACH1 gene is located. We fou...

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

authors： Watanabe A,Ogiwara H,Ehata S,Mukasa A,Ishikawa S,Maeda D,Ueki K,Ino Y,Todo T,Yamada Y,Fukayama M,Saito N,Miyazono K,Aburatani H

更新日期：2011-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In Drosophila, Pumilio (Pum) is important for neuronal homeostasis as well as learning and memory. We have recently characterized a mammalian homolog of Pum, Pum2, which is found in discrete RNA-containing particles in the somatodendritic compartment of polarized neurons. In this study, we investigated the role of Pum...

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

authors： Vessey JP,Schoderboeck L,Gingl E,Luzi E,Riefler J,Di Leva F,Karra D,Thomas S,Kiebler MA,Macchi P

更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The trace fossil record is important in determining the timing of the appearance of bilaterian animals. A conservative estimate puts this time at approximately equal 555 million years ago. The preservational potential of traces made close to the sediment-water interface is crucial to detecting early benthic activity. ...

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

authors： Droser ML,Jensen S,Gehling JG

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum amyloid A (SAA) is an acute-phase plasma protein that functions in innate immunity and lipid homeostasis. SAA is a protein precursor of reactive AA amyloidosis, the major complication of chronic inflammation and one of the most common human systemic amyloid diseases worldwide. Most circulating SAA is protected f...

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

authors： Jayaraman S,Gantz DL,Haupt C,Gursky O

更新日期：2017-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Under a stretching force, the sugar ring of polysaccharide molecules switches from the chair to the boat-like or inverted chair conformation. This conformational change can be observed by stretching single polysaccharide molecules with an atomic force microscope. In those early experiments, the molecules were stretche...

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

authors： Marszalek PE,Li H,Oberhauser AF,Fernandez JM

更新日期：2002-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Exocytotic membrane fusion and secretion are promoted by the concerted action of GTP and Ca2+, although the precise site(s) of action in the process are not presently known. However, the calcium-dependent membrane fusion reaction driven by synexin (annexin VII) is an in vitro model for this process, which we have now ...

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

authors： Caohuy H,Srivastava M,Pollard HB

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The search for ever deeper relationships among the World's languages is bedeviled by the fact that most words evolve too rapidly to preserve evidence of their ancestry beyond 5,000 to 9,000 y. On the other hand, quantitative modeling indicates that some "ultraconserved" words exist that might be used to find evidence ...

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

authors： Pagel M,Atkinson QD,S Calude A,Meade A

更新日期：2013-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Freshwater planarian flatworms are capable of regenerating complete organisms from tiny fragments of their bodies; the basis for this regenerative prowess is an experimentally accessible stem cell population that is present in the adult planarian. The study of these organisms, classic experimental models for investiga...

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

authors： Newmark PA,Reddien PW,Cebrià F,Sánchez Alvarado A

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils are immune cells that bind to, engulf, and destroy bacterial and fungal pathogens in infected tissue, and their clearance by apoptosis is essential for the resolution of inflammation. Killing involves both oxidative and nonoxidative processes, the oxidative pathway requiring electrogenic production of supe...

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

authors： Fay AJ,Qian X,Jan YN,Jan LY

更新日期：2006-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain PP5 has a phosphodiesterase (PDE) deficiency that results in heat-shock sensitivity due to the intracellular accumulation of cAMP. This strain also carries the cam mutation, which confers permeability to cAMP and, as shown here, to other compounds. Expression of rat type IV PDE in these...

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

authors： Pillai R,Kytle K,Reyes A,Colicelli J

更新日期：1993-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ten-Eleven-Translocation 2 (TET2) gene encodes a member of TET family enzymes that alters the epigenetic status of DNA by oxidizing 5-methylcytosine to 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC). Somatic loss-of-function mutations of TET2 are frequently observed in patients with diverse myeloid malignancies, including myelody...

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

authors： Ko M,Bandukwala HS,An J,Lamperti ED,Thompson EC,Hastie R,Tsangaratou A,Rajewsky K,Koralov SB,Rao A

更新日期：2011-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphological and genetic characters from cyprinid fishes of the genus Gila were examined to assess a hypothesized hybrid origin of Gila seminuda from the Virgin River, Arizona-Nevada-Utah. The presumed parents, Gila robusta robusta and Gila elegans, are clearly differentiated from one another based on morphology, all...

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

authors： DeMarais BD,Dowling TE,Douglas ME,Minckley WL,Marsh PC

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By adapting to sustained stimuli, hair cells in the internal ear retain their sensitivity to minute transient displacements. Because one model for adaptation asserts that this process is mediated by a myosin isozyme, we reasoned that we should be able to arrest adaptation by interfering with myosin's ATPase cycle thou...

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

authors： Gillespie PG,Hudspeth AJ

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcine and bovine GH receptor (GHR) cDNAs were stably expressed in mouse L cells, which normally do not possess detectable levels of mouse GHR. Expression of the GHR cDNAs resulted in specific binding of 125I-labeled GH by these cell lines. To study GHR-related signaling events in these cells, protein tyrosine phosph...

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

authors： Wang X,Xu B,Souza SC,Kopchick JJ

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A panel of rat monoclonal antibodies was used to classify mouse mast cells from four different sources on the basis of their surface determinants. Three populations of mast cells were derived by culturing normal bone marrow, spleen, and peripheral blood cells, whereas the fourth population was isolated directly from t...

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

authors： Katz HR,LeBlanc PA,Russell SW

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase Cε (PLCε) has been characterized as a direct effector of Ras in vitro and in cellular systems; however, the role of PLCε in tumorigenesis and its link to Ras in this context remain unclear. To assess the role of PLCε in Ras-driven cancers, we generated two new mouse strains: one carrying a targeted delet...

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

authors： Martins M,McCarthy A,Baxendale R,Guichard S,Magno L,Kessaris N,El-Bahrawy M,Yu P,Katan M

更新日期：2014-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant viruses are submitted to narrow population bottlenecks both during infection of their hosts and during horizontal transmission between host individuals. The size of bottlenecks exerted on virus populations during plant invasion has been estimated in a few pathosystems but is not addressed yet for horizontal tran...

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

authors： Moury B,Fabre F,Senoussi R

更新日期：2007-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The rise of animals occurred during an interval of Earth history that witnessed dynamic marine redox conditions, potentially rapid plate motions, and uniquely large perturbations to global biogeochemical cycles. The largest of these perturbations, the Shuram carbon isotope excursion, has been invoked as a driving mech...

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

authors： Rooney AD,Cantine MD,Bergmann KD,Gómez-Pérez I,Al Baloushi B,Boag TH,Busch JF,Sperling EA,Strauss JV

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic activity of low-dimensional electrocatalysts is highly dependent on their local atomic structures, particularly those less-coordinated sites found at edges and corners; therefore, a direct probe of the electrocatalytic current at specified local sites with true nanoscopic resolution has become critically...

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

authors： Sun T,Wang D,Mirkin MV,Cheng H,Zheng JC,Richards RM,Lin F,Xin HL

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the thyroid hormone receptor α 1 gene (THRA) have recently been identified as a cause of intellectual deficit in humans. Patients present with structural abnormalities including microencephaly, reduced cerebellar volume and decreased axonal density. Here, we show that directed differentiation of THRA muta...

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

authors： Krieger TG,Moran CM,Frangini A,Visser WE,Schoenmakers E,Muntoni F,Clark CA,Gadian D,Chong WK,Kuczynski A,Dattani M,Lyons G,Efthymiadou A,Varga-Khadem F,Simons BD,Chatterjee K,Livesey FJ

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptor signaling and subsequent activation of NF-κB- and MAPK-dependent genes during infection play an important role in antimicrobial host defense. The YopJ protein of pathogenic Yersinia species inhibits NF-κB and MAPK signaling, resulting in blockade of NF-κB-dependent cytokine production and target cel...

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

authors： Philip NH,Dillon CP,Snyder AG,Fitzgerald P,Wynosky-Dolfi MA,Zwack EE,Hu B,Fitzgerald L,Mauldin EA,Copenhaver AM,Shin S,Wei L,Parker M,Zhang J,Oberst A,Green DR,Brodsky IE

更新日期：2014-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Information concerning the dynamics of river meandering is embedded in their planforms. Here, we focus on how bend skewing varies with increasing sinuosity, and how flow direction is embedded in bend skewing. It has often been thought that upstream-skewed bends are dominant within a sufficiently long reach. These bend...

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

authors： Guo X,Chen D,Parker G

更新日期：2019-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Competing populations in shared spaces with nonrenewable resources do not necessarily wage a battle for dominance at the cost of extinction of the less-fit strain if there are fitness advantages to the presence of the other strain. We report on the use of nanofabricated habitat landscapes to study the population dynam...

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

authors： Keymer JE,Galajda P,Lambert G,Liao D,Austin RH

更新日期：2008-12-23 00:00:00