Adult male rat hippocampus synthesizes estradiol from pregnenolone by cytochromes P45017alpha and P450 aromatase localized in neurons.

abstract：:We present the diploid genome sequence of the fungal pathogen Candida albicans. Because C. albicans has no known haploid or homozygous form, sequencing was performed as a whole-genome shotgun of the heterozygous diploid genome in strain SC5314, a clinical isolate that is the parent of strains widely used for molecular...

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

authors： Jones T,Federspiel NA,Chibana H,Dungan J,Kalman S,Magee BB,Newport G,Thorstenson YR,Agabian N,Magee PT,Davis RW,Scherer S

更新日期：2004-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of metabolic depletion on the maturation-associated loss of membrane functions has been studied by using sheep reticulocytes incubated in vitro at 37 degrees C for periods up to 41 hr. ATP was either maintained with glucose, adenosine plus inosine, or depleted with 2-deoxyglucose plus arsenate. Two membrane...

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

authors： Weigensberg AM,Blostein R

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanos (Nos) is an evolutionarily conserved protein essential for the survival of primordial germ cells. In Drosophila, maternal Nos partitions into pole cells and suppresses apoptosis to permit proper germ-line development. However, how this critical event is regulated by Nos has remained elusive. Here, we report that...

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

authors： Sato K,Hayashi Y,Ninomiya Y,Shigenobu S,Arita K,Mukai M,Kobayashi S

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have devised a method for mapping sites on DNA within the nucleus that are protected against nuclease attack by interaction with bound protein or other factors. This "footprinting" method uses an end-labeled sequence-specific DNA probe, which is annealed to the DNA from nuclear digests under carefully controlled co...

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

authors： Jackson PD,Felsenfeld G

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus type 18 (HPV-18) infects genital squamous epithelium and is an etiological agent of cervical cancer. Cell-type-specific expression of HPV-18 is directed by the region upstream of the viral early genes that contains a transcriptional enhancer whose function is dependent solely on cellular factors. ...

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

authors： Mack DH,Laimins LA

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The basic helix-loop-helix transcriptional repressor Hairy-related transcription factor 2 (Hrt2) is expressed in ventricular, but not atrial, cardiomyocytes, and in endothelial and vascular smooth muscle cells. Mice homozygous for a null mutation of Hrt2 die perinatally from a spectrum of cardiac abnormalities, raisin...

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

authors： Xin M,Small EM,van Rooij E,Qi X,Richardson JA,Srivastava D,Nakagawa O,Olson EN

更新日期：2007-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The geographical structure of a population distributed continuously and homogeneously along an infinite linear habitat is explored. The analysis is restricted to a single locus in the absence of selection, and every mutant is assumed to be new to the population. An explicit formula is derived for the probability that ...

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

authors： Nagylaki T

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose is a fundamental metabolite, yet how cells sense and respond to changes in extracellular glucose concentration is not completely understood. We recently reported that the MondoA:Mlx dimeric transcription factor directly regulates glycolysis. In this article, we consider whether MondoA:Mlx complexes have a broa...

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

authors： Stoltzman CA,Peterson CW,Breen KT,Muoio DM,Billin AN,Ayer DE

更新日期：2008-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Acetylvalyl-tRNA1Val (AcVal-tRNA1Val) was bound to the P site of uniformly 32P-labeled 70S ribosomes from Escherichia coli and crosslinked to 16S RNA in the 30S ribosomal subunit by irradiation with light of 300-400 nm. To identify the crosslinked nucleotide in 16S RNA. AcVal-tRNA1Val-16S [32P]RNA was digested compl...

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

authors： Prince JB,Taylor BH,Thurlow DL,Ofengand J,Zimmermann RA

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In North America there are two generally recognized pathotypes (pathotypes 1 and 2) of the fungus Entomophaga grylli which show host-preferential infection of grasshopper subfamilies. Pathotype 3, discovered in Australia, has a broader grasshopper host range and was considered to be a good biocontrol agent. Between 19...

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

authors： Bidochka MJ,Walsh SR,Ramos ME,St Leger RJ,Silver JC,Roberts DW

更新日期：1996-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA from one biopsy sample of invasive cancer of the cervix contained sequences hybridizing with human papillomavirus (HPV) type 11 DNA only under nonstringent conditions. This DNA was molecularly cloned in lambda phage. Under stringent conditions of hybridization it cross-hybridized to a minor extent (less than 0.1%)...

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

authors： Dürst M,Gissmann L,Ikenberg H,zur Hausen H

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host-encoded factors play an important role in virus multiplication, acting in concert with virus-encoded factors. However, information regarding the host factors involved in this process is limited. Here we report the map-based cloning of an Arabidopsis thaliana gene, TOM1, which is necessary for the efficient multip...

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

authors： Yamanaka T,Ohta T,Takahashi M,Meshi T,Schmidt R,Dean C,Naito S,Ishikawa M

更新日期：2000-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The influx of Ca ions into the presynaptic nerve terminal through ion channels is a key link between the action potential and the release of chemical transmitters. It is not clear, however, which types of Ca channel are involved in neurosecretion at vertebrate synapses. In particular, there is disagreement as to wheth...

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

authors： Stanley EF,Atrakchi AH

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The traditional morphologically grounded placement of South American guinea pig-like rodents (Caviomorpha) within one of the two rodent suborders, Hystricognathi, has been disputed by recent analysis of protein and nucleic acid sequence data. The Caviomorpha and possibly all Hystricognathi would be considered a separa...

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

authors： Martignetti JA,Brosius J

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatophores of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides yield the antenna complex B850 in either of two states, depending on the method of isolation. Methods using dodecyl (= lauryl) dimethylamine oxide yield B850 with an absorption spectrum like that in vivo: the bands at 800 and 850 nm, due to the bacteriochlorophyll (Bchl) ...

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

authors： Clayton RK,Clayton BJ

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elastin peptides prepared by alcoholic potassium hydroxide degradation of highly purified fibrous elastin from bovine ligamentum nuchae (kappa-elastin) were shown to act on the ion channels of human monocytes, aorta smooth muscle cells, and skin fibroblasts. In small amounts (between 0.1 and 1 microgram/ml), elastin p...

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

authors： Jacob MP,Fülöp T Jr,Foris G,Robert L

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative importance of the roles of adaptation and chance in determining genetic diversity and evolution has received attention in the last 50 years, but our understanding is still incomplete. All statements about the relative effects of evolutionary factors, especially drift, need confirmation by strong demograph...

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

authors： Chiaroni J,Underhill PA,Cavalli-Sforza LL

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antagonists of growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) inhibit the proliferation of various human cancers in vitro and in vivo by mechanisms that include apparent direct effects through specific binding sites expressed on tumors and that differ from pituitary human GHRH (hGHRH) receptors. In this study, GHRH antagonis...

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

authors： Halmos G,Schally AV,Varga JL,Plonowski A,Rekasi Z,Czompoly T

更新日期：2000-09-12 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：:Ultraviolet photosensitivity of the single-stranded forms of poly(A) and poly(dA) is compared. In contrast to poly(A), poly(dA) is rather sensitive to ultraviolet irradiation. Relatively low doses of ultraviolet light lead to characteristic changes of the ultraviolet and circular dichroism spectra of poly(dA), suggest...

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

authors： Pörschke D

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An initiation complex has been formed in high yields from E. coli ribosomes, 9S messenger RNA for rabbit hemoglobin, and N-formylmethionine-tRNA. Initiation factor IF-3 is required for the binding and puromycin is required for the release of fMet. Valyl-tRNA fails to bind to the second codon, whereas a mixture of 15 a...

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

authors： Noll M,Noll H,Lingrel JB

更新日期：1972-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas amyloid-β (Aβ) accumulates in the brain of normal animals dosed with low levels of copper (Cu), the mechanism is not completely known. Cu could contribute to Aβ accumulation by altering its clearance and/or its production. Because Cu homeostasis is altered in transgenic mice overexpressing Aβ precursor protein...

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

authors： Singh I,Sagare AP,Coma M,Perlmutter D,Gelein R,Bell RD,Deane RJ,Zhong E,Parisi M,Ciszewski J,Kasper RT,Deane R

更新日期：2013-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We establish size limitations for assembling structures of controlled size and shape out of colloidal particles with short-ranged interactions. Through simulations we show that structures with highly variable shapes made out of dozens of particles can form with high yield, as long as each particle in the structure bin...

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

authors： Zeravcic Z,Manoharan VN,Brenner MP

更新日期：2014-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Coordinated near-threshold depolarized states in cortical and striatal neurons may contribute to form functionally segregated channels of information processing. Recent anatomical studies have identified pathways that could support spiraling interactions across corticostriatal channels, but a functional outcome of suc...

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

authors： Kasanetz F,Riquelme LA,Della-Maggiore V,O'Donnell P,Murer MG

更新日期：2008-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Primates can store sensory stimulus parameters in working memory for subsequent manipulation, but until now, there has been no demonstration of this capacity in rodents. Here we report tactile working memory in rats. Each stimulus is a vibration, generated as a series of velocity values sampled from a normal distribut...

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

authors： Fassihi A,Akrami A,Esmaeili V,Diamond ME

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of complementary-strand DNA in filamentous phages is initiated by a primer RNA that is synthesized at the minus-strand origin on the viral single-stranded DNA by Escherichia coli RNA polymerase holoenzyme containing the sigma70 subunit. We have demonstrated that the affinity of RNA polymerase in vitro to t...

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

authors： Higashitani A,Higashitani N,Horiuchi K

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An RNA polymerase (nucleosidetriphosphate:RNA nucleotidyltransferase, EC 2.7.7.6) has been purified from phage-SP01-infected Bacillus subtilis that copies RNA almost exclusively from the heavy strand of native SP01 DNA, the DNA strand from which "middle" and "late" classes of RNA are copied in vivo. Hybridization-com...

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

authors： Pero J,Nelson J,Fox TD

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycosyltransferases of the mammalian Golgi complex must recycle between the stacked cisternae of that organelle to maintain their proper steady-state localization. This trafficking is mediated by COPI-coated vesicles, but how the glycosyltransferases are incorporated into these transport vesicles is poorly unders...

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

authors： Liu L,Doray B,Kornfeld S

更新日期：2018-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinoblastoma gene product (the RB protein) is phosphorylated in a cell cycle-dependent manner and this modification is believed to be important for cells to progress through the cell cycle. We found that purified cdk2 (cyclin-dependent kinase/cell division kinase 2) can phosphorylate the RB protein in vitro at t...

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

authors： Akiyama T,Ohuchi T,Sumida S,Matsumoto K,Toyoshima K

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intergroup conflict persists when and because individuals make costly contributions to their group's fighting capacity, but how groups organize contributions into effective collective action remains poorly understood. Here we distinguish between contributions aimed at subordinating out-groups (out-group aggression) fr...

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

authors： De Dreu CK,Gross J,Méder Z,Giffin M,Prochazkova E,Krikeb J,Columbus S

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00