Increased efficiency of oligonucleotide-mediated gene repair through slowing replication fork progression.

abstract：:Functional MRI based on blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) contrast is well established as a neuroimaging technique for detecting neural activity in the cortex of the human brain. While detection and characterization of BOLD signals, as well as their electrophysiological and hemodynamic/metabolic origins, have b...

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

authors： Ding Z,Huang Y,Bailey SK,Gao Y,Cutting LE,Rogers BP,Newton AT,Gore JC

更新日期：2018-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Although ghrelin has been demonstrated to stimulate energy intake and storage through a central mechanism, its effect on hepatic lipid metabolism remains largely uncharacterized. Ghrelin receptor antagonism or gene deletion significantly decreased obesity-associated hepatic steatosis by suppression of de novo lipogene...

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

authors： Li Z,Xu G,Qin Y,Zhang C,Tang H,Yin Y,Xiang X,Li Y,Zhao J,Mulholland M,Zhang W

更新日期：2014-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In autotrophically grown Chlorella cells, glucose induces a hexose transport system but, at the same time, the synthesis of two amino acid transport systems is also induced. Thus, the rates of uptake of glycine, L-alanine, L-proline, and L-serine, all of which compete with each other for entry into the cells, increase...

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

authors： Cho BH,Sauer N,Komor E,Tanner W

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Creatine, a nitrogenous organic acid, replenishes cytoplasmic ATP at the expense of mitochondrial ATP via the phosphocreatine shuttle. Creatine levels are maintained by diet and endogenous synthesis from arginine and glycine. Glycine amidinotransferase (GATM) catalyzes the rate-limiting step of creatine biosynthesis: ...

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

authors： Turer E,McAlpine W,Wang KW,Lu T,Li X,Tang M,Zhan X,Wang T,Zhan X,Bu CH,Murray AR,Beutler B

更新日期：2017-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is proposed for analyzing fast (10 μs) single-molecule rotation trajectories in F1 adenosinetriphosphatase ([Formula: see text]-ATPase). This method is based on the distribution of jumps in the rotation angle that occur in the transitions during the steps between subsequent catalytic dwells. The method is com...

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

authors： Volkán-Kacsó S,Le LQ,Zhu K,Su H,Marcus RA

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate carcinoma is the second leading cause of death from malignancy in men in the United States. Prostate cancer cells express type I insulin-like growth factor receptor (IGF-IR) and prostate cancer selectively metastazises to bone, which is an environment rich in insulin-like growth factors (IGFs), thereby suppor...

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

authors： Burfeind P,Chernicky CL,Rininsland F,Ilan J,Ilan J

更新日期：1996-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The covalent joining of topoisomerases to DNA is normally a transient step in the reaction cycle of these important enzymes. However, under a variety of circumstances, the covalent complex is converted to a long-lived or dead-end product that can result in chromosome breakage and cell death. We have discovered and par...

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

authors： Yang SW,Burgin AB Jr,Huizenga BN,Robertson CA,Yao KC,Nash HA

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine Ly-6-encoded molecules play an important role in the antigen-independent activation of lymphocytes. We have described the cloning of a cDNA encoding the protein component of an Ly-6 molecule. Hybridization studies indicated that this cDNA identified multiple DNA fragments on Southern blots. The banding pattern ...

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

authors： LeClair KP,Rabin M,Nesbitt MN,Pravtcheva D,Ruddle FH,Palfree RG,Bothwell A

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding nuclear receptor signaling in vivo would be facilitated by an efficient methodology to determine where a nuclear receptor is active. Herein, we present a feedback-inducible expression system in transgenic mice to detect activated nuclear receptor effector proteins by using an inducible reporter gene. Wit...

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

authors： Mata De Urquiza A,Solomin L,Perlmann T

更新日期：1999-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of additional promoter sites by production of an alternative sigma subunit for RNA polymerase is a common strategy for the coordinate regulation of gene expression. Many alternative sigma factors control genes for specialized, and often narrowly distributed, functions. For example, most of the alternati...

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

authors： Chen YF,Helmann JD

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is a small human Dependovirus whose low immunogenicity and capacity for long-term persistence have led to its widespread use as vector for gene therapy. Despite great recent successes in AAV-based gene therapy, further improvements in vector technology may be hindered by an inadequate unde...

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

authors： Smith-Moore S,Neil SJD,Fraefel C,Linden RM,Bollen M,Rowe HM,Henckaerts E

更新日期：2018-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of graphene materials is typically carried out by oxidizing graphite to graphite oxide followed by a reduction process. Numerous methods exist for both the oxidation and reduction steps, which causes unpredictable contamination from metallic impurities into the final material. These impurities are known ...

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

authors： Wong CH,Sofer Z,Kubešová M,Kučera J,Matějková S,Pumera M

更新日期：2014-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found that phagocytic leukocytes exposed to the tumor-promoting agent, 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol-13-acetate, efficiently release carbon-1 of 2-deoxyglucose in the form of CO2 with concurrent intracellular accumulation of a phosphorylated 5-carbon intermediate. In the absence of 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol-13-a...

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

authors： Zabos P,Kyner D,Mendelsohn N,Schreiber C,Waxman S,Christman J,Acs G

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allostery plays a key role in the regulation of the activity and function of many biomolecules. And although many ligands act through allostery, no systematic use is made of it in drug design strategies. Here we describe a procedure for identifying the regions of a protein that can be used to control its activity thro...

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

authors： Laine E,Goncalves C,Karst JC,Lesnard A,Rault S,Tang WJ,Malliavin TE,Ladant D,Blondel A

更新日期：2010-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Frame-shift mutations at microsatellites occur as a time-dependent function of polymerase errors followed by failure of postreplicational mismatch repair. A cell-culture system was developed that allows identification of intermediate mutant cells that carry the mutation on a single DNA strand after the initial DNA pol...

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

authors： Gasche C,Chang CL,Natarajan L,Goel A,Rhees J,Young DJ,Arnold CN,Boland CR

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Early events in both T-cell receptor (CD3)- and CD4-induced signal transduction pathways include tyrosine phosphorylation of protein substrates, the generation of phosphatidylinositol-phosphate breakdown products, and the mobilization of intracellular Ca2+. Oxidative stress in T cells mediated by sulfhydryl-reactive n...

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

authors： Kanner SB,Kavanagh TJ,Grossmann A,Hu SL,Bolen JB,Rabinovitch PS,Ledbetter JA

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine proinsulin has been crystallized under a variety of conditions at both neutral and acid pH. Microtechniques were employed with sample weights of about 200 mug and volumes of 5-20 mul. The crystalline preparations all differ from each other morphologically.X-ray photographs of one form, tetragonal bipyramids gro...

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

authors： Fullerton WW,Potter R,Low BW

更新日期：1970-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that a drop of liquid a few hundred microns in diameter placed under a solid, elastic, thin film (∼10 μm thick) causes it to bulge by tens of microns. The deformed shape is governed by equilibrium of tensions exerted by the various interfaces and the solid film, a form of Neumann's triangle. Unlike Young's equ...

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

authors： Nadermann N,Hui CY,Jagota A

更新日期：2013-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The semidwarf phenotype has been extensively selected during modern crop breeding as an agronomically important trait. Introduction of the semidwarf gene, semi-dwarf1 (sd1), which encodes a gibberellin biosynthesis enzyme, made significant contributions to the "green revolution" in rice (Oryza sativa L.). Here we repo...

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

authors： Asano K,Yamasaki M,Takuno S,Miura K,Katagiri S,Ito T,Doi K,Wu J,Ebana K,Matsumoto T,Innan H,Kitano H,Ashikari M,Matsuoka M

更新日期：2011-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein aggregation is a hallmark of many diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), where aggregation of Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) is implicated in causing neurodegeneration. Recent studies have suggested that destabilization and aggregation of the most immature form of SOD1, the disulfide-reduc...

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

authors： Vassall KA,Stubbs HR,Primmer HA,Tong MS,Sullivan SM,Sobering R,Srinivasan S,Briere LA,Dunn SD,Colón W,Meiering EM

更新日期：2011-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide excision repair (NER) prevents skin cancer by eliminating highly genotoxic cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) induced in DNA by the UVB component of sunlight. NER consists of two distinct but overlapping subpathways, i.e., global NER, which removes CPD from the genome overall, and transcription-coupled NE...

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

authors： Mathonnet G,Leger C,Desnoyers J,Drouin R,Therrien JP,Drobetsky EA

更新日期：2003-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Phalloidin, a toxic bicyclic peptide of rapid action from the toadstool, Amanita phalloides, gives rise to polymerization of G-actin to filamentous structures (Ph-actin) in a medium of low ionic strength. Ph-actin closely resembles the microfilaments found in liver membrane fractions (Ph-filaments) after in vivo or in...

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

authors： Lengsfeld AM,Löw I,Wieland T,Dancker P,Hasselbach W

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA-binding domain of c-Myb consists of three homologous tandem repeats of 52 amino acids. The structure of the third (C-terminal) repeat obtained by NMR analysis has a conformation related to the helix-turn-helix motif. To identify the role of each repeat in the sequence recognition of DNA, we analyzed specific i...

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

authors： Tanikawa J,Yasukawa T,Enari M,Ogata K,Nishimura Y,Ishii S,Sarai A

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:How climate change influences the dynamics of plant populations is not well understood, as few plant studies have measured responses of vital rates to climatic variables and modeled the impact on population growth. The present study used 25 y of demographic data to analyze how survival, growth, and fecundity respond t...

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

authors： Campbell DR

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A photoreactive derivative of epidermal growth factor (EGF) has been used to identify and specifically label a membrane receptor for EGF on mouse 3T3 cells. Photoactivable EGF, labeled with 125I, was incubated with 3T3 cells and then photolyzed in situ to generate a nitrene capable of reacting with a wide variety of c...

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

authors： Das M,Miyakawa T,Fox CF,Pruss RM,Aharonov A,Herschman HR

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used DNase I as a probe to examine the chromatin structure of mouse immunoglobulin kappa light chain genes in rearranged and unrearranged chromosomes--i.e., in nuclei from myeloma cells and from brain and liver cells. Tissue-specific DNase I-hypersensitive sites are observed 0.7 and 1.7 kilobases upstream from...

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

authors： Chung SY,Folsom V,Wooley J

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a Xenopus mRNA, Xrel1, that is related to the avian protooncogene c-rel, the embryonic pattern gene dorsal of Drosophila, and the mammalian transcription factor NK-kappa B/KBF1. The sequence of Xrel1 is homologous to the other rel-related proteins in the large amino-terminal region that defines this class ...

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

authors： Kao KR,Hopwood ND

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rodless retina (gene symbol, r) was discovered in mice by Keeler 70 years ago and was first described in this journal as an autosomal recessive mutation leading to "the absence of the visual cells (rods), the external nuclear layer, and the external molecular layer" [Keeler, C. E. (1924) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 10,...

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

authors： Pittler SJ,Keeler CE,Sidman RL,Baehr W

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:B-cell translocation gene 3 (BTG3) is a member of the antiproliferative BTG/ Transducer of ErbB2 gene family and is induced by genotoxic stress in a p53- and Checkpoint kinase 1 (CHK1)-dependent manner. Down-regulation of BTG3 has been observed in human cancers, suggesting that it plays an important role in tumor supp...

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

authors： Cheng YC,Lin TY,Shieh SY

更新日期：2013-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyclic enzymatic function of a cytochrome P450, as it catalyzes the oxygen-dependent metabolism of many organic chemicals, requires the delivery of two electrons to the hemeprotein. In general these electrons are transferred from NADPH to the P450 via an FMN- and FAD-containing flavoprotein (NADPH-P450 reductase)....

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

authors： Faulkner KM,Shet MS,Fisher CW,Estabrook RW

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00