Cardiac hypertrophy and sudden death in mice with a genetically clamped renin transgene.

abstract：:Understanding the molecular determinants of specificity in protein-protein interaction is an outstanding challenge of postgenome biology. The availability of large protein databases generated from sequences of hundreds of bacterial genomes enables various statistical approaches to this problem. In this context covaria...

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

authors： Weigt M,White RA,Szurmant H,Hoch JA,Hwa T

更新日期：2009-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Circular dichroism (CD) and magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectra of nitrogenase components (MoFe protein and Fe protein) from Azotobacter vinelandii (Av) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (Kp) have been obtained in the near infrared-visible-near ultraviolet spectral region. Previously, visible CD was reported to be absen...

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

authors： Stephens PJ,McKenna CE,Smith BE,Nguyen HT,McKenna MC,Thomson AJ,Devlin F,Jones JB

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Karrikins are a class of seed germination stimulants identified in smoke from wildfires. Microarray analysis of imbibed Arabidopsis thaliana seeds was performed to identify transcriptional responses to KAR(1) before germination. A small set of genes that are regulated by KAR(1), even when germination is prevented by t...

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

authors： Nelson DC,Flematti GR,Riseborough JA,Ghisalberti EL,Dixon KW,Smith SM

更新日期：2010-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishment of loss-of-function phenotypes is often a key step in determining the biological function of a gene. We describe a procedure to obtain mutant petunia plants in which a specific gene with known sequence is inactivated by the transposable element dTph1. Leaves are collected from batches of 1000 plants with...

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

authors： Koes R,Souer E,van Houwelingen A,Mur L,Spelt C,Quattrocchio F,Wing J,Oppedijk B,Ahmed S,Maes T

更新日期：1995-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Plastid development in seedlings of Arabidopsis thaliana is affected by the transfer of (1)O(2)-mediated retrograde signals from the plastid to the nucleus and changes in nuclear gene expression during late embryogenesis. The potential impact of these mechanisms on plastid differentiation is maintained throughout seed...

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

authors： Kim C,Lee KP,Baruah A,Nater M,Göbel C,Feussner I,Apel K

更新日期：2009-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of T7 DNA by T7 RNA polymerase in vitro gives rise to six major size classes of RNAs comprising seven major T7 RNA species. These RNAs are all read from the r-strand of T7 DNA and are not derived from the early (leftmost on the conventional genetic map) region of the molecule. When artifically shortened ...

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

authors： Golomb M,Chamberlin M

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Higher plants process two distinct, nuclear gene-encoded glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) proteins, a Calvin-cycle enzyme active within chloroplasts and a glycolytic enzyme active within the cytosol. The gene for the chloroplast enzyme was previously suggested to be of endosymbiotic origin. Since the a...

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

authors： Martin W,Brinkmann H,Savonna C,Cerff R

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The protective effects of estrogen in the cardiovascular system result from both systemic effects and direct actions of the hormone on the vasculature. Two estrogen receptors have been identified, ERalpha and ERbeta. We demonstrated previously that estrogen inhibits the response to vascular injury in both wild-type an...

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

authors： Karas RH,Hodgin JB,Kwoun M,Krege JH,Aronovitz M,Mackey W,Gustafsson JA,Korach KS,Smithies O,Mendelsohn ME

更新日期：1999-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular injury during hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection has been postulated to result from a human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-restricted T-lymphocyte host immune response against HBV antigens. Although HLA expression is enhanced in the presence of hepatic inflammation, whether HBV itself can induce HLA expression ...

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

authors： Hu KQ,Vierling JM,Siddiqui A

更新日期：1990-09-01 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：:Thiazides and related diuretics inhibit NaCl reabsorption in the distal tubule through an unknown mechanism. We report here that [3H]metolazone, a diuretic with a thiazide-like mechanism of action, labels a site in rat kidney membranes that has characteristics of the thiazide-sensitive ion transporter. [3H]Metolazone ...

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

authors： Beaumont K,Vaughn DA,Fanestil DD

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many empirical studies throughout the social and biomedical sciences focus only on very narrow outcomes such as income, or a single specific disease state, or a measure of positive affect. Human well-being or flourishing, however, consists in a much broader range of states and outcomes, certainly including mental and ...

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

authors： VanderWeele TJ

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding plant metabolism as an integrated system is essential for metabolic engineering aimed at the effective production of compounds useful to human life and the global environment. The "omics" approach integrates transcriptome and metabolome data into a single data set and can lead to the identification of un...

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

authors： Hirai MY,Sugiyama K,Sawada Y,Tohge T,Obayashi T,Suzuki A,Araki R,Sakurai N,Suzuki H,Aoki K,Goda H,Nishizawa OI,Shibata D,Saito K

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:HLA-DR2 is associated with susceptibility to multiple sclerosis (MS). A peptide from human myelin basic protein (MBP, residues 85-99) was previously found to bind to purified HLA-DR2 (DRA, DRB1*1501) and to be recognized by human MBP-specific T cell clones. Soluble HLA-DR2 was expressed in the baculovirus system by re...

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

authors： Gauthier L,Smith KJ,Pyrdol J,Kalandadze A,Strominger JL,Wiley DC,Wucherpfennig KW

更新日期：1998-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Junctional Adhesion Molecule-A (JAM-A) is a transmembrane adhesive protein expressed at endothelial junctions and in leukocytes. Here we report that JAM-A is required for the correct infiltration of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) into an inflamed peritoneum or in the heart upon ischemia-reperfusion injury. The def...

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

authors： Corada M,Chimenti S,Cera MR,Vinci M,Salio M,Fiordaliso F,De Angelis N,Villa A,Bossi M,Staszewsky LI,Vecchi A,Parazzoli D,Motoike T,Latini R,Dejana E

更新日期：2005-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Achieving long-term pancellular expression of a transferred gene at therapeutic level in a given hematopoietic lineage remains an important goal of gene therapy. Advances have recently been made in the genetic correction of the hemoglobinopathies by means of lentiviral vectors and large locus control region (LCR) deri...

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

authors： Imren S,Payen E,Westerman KA,Pawliuk R,Fabry ME,Eaves CJ,Cavilla B,Wadsworth LD,Beuzard Y,Bouhassira EE,Russell R,London IM,Nagel RL,Leboulch P,Humphries RK

更新日期：2002-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD), which degrades transcripts harboring a premature termination codon (PTC), depends on the helicase up-frameshift 1 (UPF1). However, mRNAs that are not NMD targets also bind UPF1. What governs the timing, position, and function of UPF1 binding to mRNAs remains unclear. We provide evid...

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

authors： Kurosaki T,Maquat LE

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We use quantized molecular dynamics simulations to characterize the role of enzyme vibrations in facilitating dihydrofolate reductase hydride transfer. By sampling the full ensemble of reactive trajectories, we are able to quantify and distinguish between statistical and dynamical correlations in the enzyme motion. We...

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

authors： Boekelheide N,Salomón-Ferrer R,Miller TF 3rd

更新日期：2011-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we describe two mammalian transcription factors selectively expressed in the central nervous system. Both proteins, neuronal PAS domain protein (NPAS) 1 and NPAS2, are members of the basic helix-loop-helix-PAS family of transcription factors. cDNAs encoding mouse and human forms of NPAS1 and NPAS2 have been isola...

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

authors： Zhou YD,Barnard M,Tian H,Li X,Ring HZ,Francke U,Shelton J,Richardson J,Russell DW,McKnight SL

更新日期：1997-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:DPB11, a gene that suppresses mutations in two essential subunits of Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA polymerase II(epsilon) encoded by POL2 and DPB2, was isolated on a multicopy plasmid. The nucleotide sequence of the DPB11 gene revealed an open reading frame predicting an 87-kDa protein. This protein is homologous to th...

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

authors： Araki H,Leem SH,Phongdara A,Sugino A

更新日期：1995-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The generalized seizures of status epilepticus (SE) trigger a series of molecular and cellular events that produce cognitive deficits and can culminate in the development of epilepsy. Known early events include opening of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and astrocytosis accompanied by activation of brain microglia. Wher...

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

authors： Varvel NH,Neher JJ,Bosch A,Wang W,Ransohoff RM,Miller RJ,Dingledine R

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Valproic acid (VPA) is an anticonvulsant drug that is also used to treat migraines and bipolar disorder. Its proposed biological targets include human voltage-gated sodium channels, among other membrane proteins. We used the prokaryotic NavMs sodium channel, which has been shown to be a good exemplar for drug binding ...

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

authors： Zanatta G,Sula A,Miles AJ,Ng LCT,Torella R,Pryde DC,DeCaen PG,Wallace BA

更新日期：2019-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying the downstream targets of microRNAs (miRNAs) is essential to understanding cellular regulatory networks. We devised a direct biochemical method for miRNA target discovery that combined RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) purification with microarray analysis of bound mRNAs. Because targets of miR-124a hav...

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

authors： Karginov FV,Conaco C,Xuan Z,Schmidt BH,Parker JS,Mandel G,Hannon GJ

更新日期：2007-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In the 7 years since dynamin was first isolated from bovine brain in search of novel microtubule-based motors, our understanding of this enzyme has expanded significantly. We now know that brain dynamin belongs to a family of large GTPases, which mediate vesicle trafficking. Furthermore, this enzymatic activity is mar...

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

authors： Urrutia R,Henley JR,Cook T,McNiven MA

更新日期：1997-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The respiratory burst oxidase of neutrophils can be activated in a cell-free system in which plasma membranes, cytosol, Mg2+, and a membrane-perturbing detergent, such as arachidonate or sodium dodecyl sulfate, are all required. Using the technique of preparative isoelectric focusing, the cytosol factor required for o...

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

authors： Curnutte JT,Scott PJ,Mayo LA

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of studies have noted that nucleotide substitution rates at the chloroplast-encoded rbcL locus violate the molecular clock principle. Substitution rate variation at this plastid gene is particularly pronounced between palms and grasses; for example, a previous study estimated that substitution rates in rbcL s...

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

authors： Gaut BS,Morton BR,McCaig BC,Clegg MT

更新日期：1996-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells are key players in the innate response to viruses, including herpesviruses. In particular, the variety of viral strategies to modulate the recognition of certain herpesviruses witnesses the importance of NK cells in the control of this group of viruses. Still, NK evasion strategies have remai...

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

authors： Grauwet K,Cantoni C,Parodi M,De Maria A,Devriendt B,Pende D,Moretta L,Vitale M,Favoreel HW

更新日期：2014-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have accelerated atherosclerosis. The underlying mechanisms are poorly understood, and investigations have been hampered by the absence of animal models that reflect the human condition of generalized atherosclerosis and lupus. We addressed this problem by transferring ...

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

authors： Stanic AK,Stein CM,Morgan AC,Fazio S,Linton MF,Wakeland EK,Olsen NJ,Major AS

更新日期：2006-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of protein function through ligand-induced conformational changes is crucial for many signal transduction processes. The binding of a ligand alters the delicate energy balance within the protein structure, eventually leading to such conformational changes. In this study, we elucidate the energetic and m...

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

authors： Bauer D,Merz DR,Pelz B,Theisen KE,Yacyshyn G,Mokranjac D,Dima RI,Rief M,Žoldák G

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In the nitrogen-fixing symbiosis between legume hosts and rhizobia, the bacteria are engulfed by a plant cell membrane to become intracellular organelles. In the model legume Medicago truncatula, internalization and differentiation of Sinorhizobium (also known as Ensifer) meliloti is a prerequisite for nitrogen fixati...

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

authors： Kim M,Chen Y,Xi J,Waters C,Chen R,Wang D

更新日期：2015-12-08 00:00:00