Translational enhancement of the poliovirus 5' noncoding region mediated by virus-encoded polypeptide 2A.

abstract：:Disruption of neurotransmitter vesicle dynamics (transport, capacity, release) has been implicated in a variety of neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric conditions. Here, we report a novel mouse model of enhanced vesicular function via bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC)-mediated overexpression of the vesicular mon...

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

authors： Lohr KM,Bernstein AI,Stout KA,Dunn AR,Lazo CR,Alter SP,Wang M,Li Y,Fan X,Hess EJ,Yi H,Vecchio LM,Goldstein DS,Guillot TS,Salahpour A,Miller GW

更新日期：2014-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A pluripotent cell line, C3H10T1/2, is induced to undergo adipogenesis by a mixture of factors that includes a glucocorticoid such as dexamethasone. We found that expression of myostatin (MSTN), a TGF-beta family member extensively studied in muscle, was induced by dexamethasone under those differentiation conditions....

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

authors： Feldman BJ,Streeper RS,Farese RV Jr,Yamamoto KR

更新日期：2006-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A tandemly repeated DNA sequence organized predominantly, if not entirely, in a specific manner on the human X chromosome has been cloned in pBR322 and characterized. The sequence was detected as a 2-kilobase band in ethidium bromide-stained agarose gels of BamHI-digested total human nuclear DNA. Although in situ hybr...

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

authors： Yang TP,Hansen SK,Oishi KK,Ryder OA,Hamkalo BA

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of HIV-1 Psi-RNA has been elucidated by a concerted approach combining structural probes with mass spectrometric detection (MS3D), which is not affected by the size and crystallization properties of target biomolecules. Distance constraints from bifunctional cross-linkers provided the information require...

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

authors： Yu ET,Hawkins A,Eaton J,Fabris D

更新日期：2008-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiosperm reproduction is characterized by alternate diploid sporophytic and haploid gametophytic generations. Gametogenesis shares similarities with that of animals except for the formation of the gametophyte, whereby haploid cells undergo several rounds of postmeiotic mitosis to form gametes and the accessory cells...

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

authors： Park GT,Frost JM,Park JS,Kim TH,Lee JS,Oh SA,Twell D,Brooks JS,Fischer RL,Choi Y

更新日期：2014-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal development is remarkably robust; cell fates are specified with spatial and temporal precision despite physiological and environmental contingencies. Favorable conditions cause Caenorhabditis elegans to develop rapidly through four larval stages (L1-L4) to the reproductive adult. In unfavorable conditions, L2 l...

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

authors： Hammell CM,Karp X,Ambros V

更新日期：2009-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of activated pig heart aconitase [citrate(isocitrate) hydro-lyase, EC 4.2.1.3] containing a [4Fe-4S] cluster has been refined at 2.5-A resolution to a crystallographic residual of 18.2%. Comparison of this structure to the recently determined 2.1-A resolution structure of the inactive enzyme containing a...

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

authors： Robbins AH,Stout CD

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective culling in populations of most organisms is rank-order: individuals of low rank on a scale of potential fitnesses tend to be eliminated during early development, whereas surviving adults (whose number reflects the carrying capacity of the environment) are generally drawn from the distribution's upper end. Ha...

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

authors： Wallace B

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157:H7, a toxin-producing food and waterborne bacterial pathogen, has been linked to large outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness for more than two decades. E. coli O157 causes a wide range of clinical illness that varies by outbreak, although factors that contribute to variation in disease severity a...

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

authors： Manning SD,Motiwala AS,Springman AC,Qi W,Lacher DW,Ouellette LM,Mladonicky JM,Somsel P,Rudrik JT,Dietrich SE,Zhang W,Swaminathan B,Alland D,Whittam TS

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique for systematic peptide variation by a combination of rational and evolutionary approaches is presented. The design scheme consists of five consecutive steps: (i) identification of a "seed peptide" with a desired activity, (ii) generation of variants selected from a physicochemical space around the seed pep...

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

authors： Schneider G,Schrödl W,Wallukat G,Müller J,Nissen E,Rönspeck W,Wrede P,Kunze R

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The basidiomycete Ustilago maydis is the causative agent of the disease corn smut. To be pathogenic, strains of U. maydis must be heterozygous for a locus called "b," which appears to control both pathogenicity and sexual development. Two alleles of the b locus of U. maydis were isolated by complementation and hybridi...

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

authors： Kronstad JW,Leong SA

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most animals, longevity is achieved at the expense of fertility, but queen honey bees do not show this tradeoff. Queens are both long-lived and fertile, whereas workers, derived from the same genome, are both relatively short-lived and normally sterile. It has been suggested, on the basis of results from workers, t...

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

authors： Corona M,Velarde RA,Remolina S,Moran-Lauter A,Wang Y,Hughes KA,Robinson GE

更新日期：2007-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed the biochemical and biophysical characterization of a red fluorescent protein, eqFP611, from the sea anemone Entacmaea quadricolor cloned in Escherichia coli. With an excitation maximum at 559 nm and an emission maximum at 611 nm, the recombinant protein shows the most red-shifted emission and the largest...

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

authors： Wiedenmann J,Schenk A,Röcker C,Girod A,Spindler KD,Nienhaus GU

更新日期：2002-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Keratins 14 and 5 are the structural hallmarks of the basal keratinocytes of the epidermis and outer root sheath (ORS) of the hair follicle. Their genes are controlled in a tissue-specific manner and thus serve as useful tools to elucidate the regulatory mechanisms involved in keratinocyte-specific transcription. Prev...

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

authors： Sinha S,Fuchs E

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The sigma-N (sigmaN) subunit of the bacterial RNA polymerase is a sequence specific DNA-binding protein. The RNA polymerase holoenzyme formed with sigmaN binds to promoters in an inactive form and only initiates transcription when activated by enhancer-binding positive control proteins. We now provide evidence to show...

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

authors： Cannon WV,Chaney MK,Wang X,Buck M

更新日期：1997-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The paradigmatic example of a continuous quantum phase transition is the transverse field Ising ferromagnet. In contrast to classical critical systems, whose properties depend only on symmetry and the dimension of space, the nature of a quantum phase transition also depends on the dynamics. In the transverse field Isi...

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

authors： Maharaj AV,Rosenberg EW,Hristov AT,Berg E,Fernandes RM,Fisher IR,Kivelson SA

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Some aspects of pattern formation in developing embryos can be described by nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations. An important class of these models accounts for diffusion and degradation of a locally produced single chemical species. At long times, solutions of such models approach a steady state in which the conce...

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

authors： Gordon PV,Sample C,Berezhkovskii AM,Muratov CB,Shvartsman SY

更新日期：2011-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerization of individual RecA-DNA filaments, containing either single-stranded or double-stranded DNA, was followed in real time, and their mechanical properties were characterized with force-measuring laser tweezers. It was found that the stretch modulus of a filament is dominated by its (central) DNA compone...

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

authors： Hegner M,Smith SB,Bustamante C

更新日期：1999-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the CCAAT-binding transcription factor (CTF) family of proteins stimulate the initiation of adenovirus DNA replication and act as transcriptional activators. To investigate the mechanisms underlying CTF-mediated transactivation patterns, we expressed several natural CTF variants in Saccharomyces cerevisiae ...

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

authors： Altmann H,Wendler W,Winnacker EL

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontypeable Hemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is an important human pathogen in both children and adults. In children, it causes otitis media, the most common childhood infection and the leading cause of conductive hearing loss in the United States. In adults, it causes lower respiratory tract infections in the setting of ...

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

authors： Shuto T,Xu H,Wang B,Han J,Kai H,Gu XX,Murphy TF,Lim DJ,Li JD

更新日期：2001-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Septins assemble into filaments and higher-order structures that act as scaffolds for diverse cell functions including cytokinesis, cell polarity, and membrane remodeling. Despite their conserved role in cell organization, little is known about how septin filaments elongate and are knitted together into higher-order a...

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

authors： Bridges AA,Zhang H,Mehta SB,Occhipinti P,Tani T,Gladfelter AS

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitation of HbCO by a single 6-psec 530-nm pulse results in photodissociation with a first-order constant of 0.89 X 10(11) sec-1. The kinetics of photodissociation, monitored by following absorbance changes in the Soret band at 440 nm, are interpreted as corresponding to predissociation followed by a corssing into a...

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

authors： Noe LJ,Eisert WG,Rentzepis PM

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Migration of the cells in osteoblastic lineage, including preosteoblasts and osteoblasts, has been postulated to influence bone formation. However, the molecular bases that link preosteoblastic/osteoblastic cell migration and bone formation are incompletely understood. Nck (noncatalytic region of tyrosine kinase; coll...

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

authors： Aryal A C S,Miyai K,Izu Y,Hayata T,Notomi T,Noda M,Ezura Y

更新日期：2015-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudohypoaldosteronism type II is a salt-sensitive form of hypertension with hyperkalemia in humans caused by mutations in the with-no-lysine kinase 4 (WNK4). Several studies have shown that WNK4 modulates the activity of the renal Na(+)Cl(-) cotransporter, NCC. Because the renal consequences of WNK4 carrying pseudoa...

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

authors： Castañeda-Bueno M,Cervantes-Pérez LG,Vázquez N,Uribe N,Kantesaria S,Morla L,Bobadilla NA,Doucet A,Alessi DR,Gamba G

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A typing method for bacteria was developed and applied to several species, including Escherichia coli and Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans. Total genomic DNA was digested with a restriction endonuclease, and fragments were enabled with [alpha-32P]dATP by using the Klenow fragment of DNA polymerase and separated by...

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

authors： van Steenbergen TJ,Colloms SD,Hermans PW,de Graaff J,Plasterk RH

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Although(,) vascular remodeling is a hallmark of many chronic inflammatory disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and psoriasis, anti-vascular strategies to treat these conditions have received little attention to date. We investigated the anti-inflammatory activity of systemic blockade of...

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

authors： Schonthaler HB,Huggenberger R,Wculek SK,Detmar M,Wagner EF

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin polymerization and assembly into stress fibers (SFs) is central to many cellular processes. However, how SFs form in response to the mechanical interaction of cells with their environment is not fully understood. Here we have identified Piezo2 mechanosensitive cationic channel as a transducer of environmental ph...

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

authors： Pardo-Pastor C,Rubio-Moscardo F,Vogel-González M,Serra SA,Afthinos A,Mrkonjic S,Destaing O,Abenza JF,Fernández-Fernández JM,Trepat X,Albiges-Rizo C,Konstantopoulos K,Valverde MA

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Failure of embryo implantation accounts for a significant percentage of female infertility. Exquisitely coordinated molecular programs govern the interaction between the competent blastocyst and the receptive uterus. Decidualization, the rapid proliferation and differentiation of endometrial stromal cells into decidua...

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

authors： Haller M,Yin Y,Ma L

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes is now the most common cause of progressive kidney failure leading to dialysis or transplantation. The central pathological feature of diabetic nephropathy is accumulation of extracellular matrix within the glomeruli. The factors in the diabetic milieu responsible for extracellular matrix accumulation are not...

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

authors： Yamamoto T,Nakamura T,Noble NA,Ruoslahti E,Border WA

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccine efficacy is determined largely by cellular and humoral immunity as well as long-lasting immunological memory. IL-2 and IL-15 were evaluated in vaccinia vectors expressing HIV gp160 for the establishment of an effective vaccine strategy. Both IL-2 and IL-15 in the vaccinia vector induced strong and long-lasting...

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

authors： Oh S,Berzofsky JA,Burke DS,Waldmann TA,Perera LP

更新日期：2003-03-18 00:00:00