Blood-testis barrier dynamics are regulated by an engagement/disengagement mechanism between tight and adherens junctions via peripheral adaptors.

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：:The Ser52Pro variant of transthyretin (TTR) produces aggressive, highly penetrant, autosomal-dominant systemic amyloidosis in persons heterozygous for the causative mutation. Together with a minor quantity of full-length wild-type and variant TTR, the main component of the ex vivo fibrils was the residue 49-127 fragme...

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

authors： Mangione PP,Porcari R,Gillmore JD,Pucci P,Monti M,Porcari M,Giorgetti S,Marchese L,Raimondi S,Serpell LC,Chen W,Relini A,Marcoux J,Clatworthy IR,Taylor GW,Tennent GA,Robinson CV,Hawkins PN,Stoppini M,Wood SP,Pepys

更新日期：2014-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Beneficial mutations are the driving force of adaptive evolution. In asexual populations, the identification of beneficial alleles is confounded by the presence of genetically linked hitchhiker mutations. Parallel evolution experiments enable the recognition of common targets of selection; yet these targets are inhere...

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

authors： Buskirk SW,Peace RE,Lang GI

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of distressing trends, including a decline in the share of key research grants going to younger scientists, as well as a steady rise in the age at which investigators receive their first funding, are now a decades-long feature of the US biomedical research workforce. Working committees have proposed recommend...

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

authors： Daniels RJ

更新日期：2015-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultured skin fibroblasts from patients with Menkes disease, an X-linked disorder involving a defect in copper metabolism, were analyzed for copper concentration by means of atomic absorption spectrophotometry. These cultures consistently exhibited elevated copper concentrations (mean = 335.5 ng of copper per mg of pr...

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

authors： Goka TJ,Stevenson RE,Hefferan PM,Howell RR

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C-tail-anchored (TA) proteins often require a transmembrane domain of moderate hydrophobicity to maintain their endoplasmic reticulum residence, but the suggested role of protein-lipid interactions in this phenomenon has not been established. Here, we studied the interaction of TA proteins with lipids by differential ...

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

authors： Ceppi P,Colombo S,Francolini M,Raimondo F,Borgese N,Masserini M

更新日期：2005-11-08 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：:Broken-cell preparations of Salmonella typhimurium rapidly incorporated 75Se from 75SeO3(2-) into tRNA by an ATP-dependent process. Selenium incorporation in the presence of 50 microM 75SeO3(2-) (0.8-1 pmol per A260 unit) was enhanced by the selenocysteine precursor, O-acetyl-L-serine (to 3.7 pmol per A260 unit). This...

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

authors： Veres Z,Tsai L,Politino M,Stadtman TC

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have identified lipid-poor high density lipoproteins with electrophoretic pre-beta mobility as the initial acceptors of cell-derived cholesterol in human plasma. These lipoproteins contain apolipoprotein A-I (apo A-I) as their sole apolipoprotein. In the present study, incubation of human plasma with ...

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

authors： Huang Y,von Eckardstein A,Wu S,Maeda N,Assmann G

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of the vertebrate eye has been found to require the activity of several genes encoding homeodomain proteins (Freund, C., Horsford, D. J. & McInnes, R. R. (1996) Hum. Mol. Genet. 5, 1471-1488). Some of these genes, or portions thereof, are highly conserved across phyla. In this paper, we report the identifi...

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

authors： Furukawa T,Kozak CA,Cepko CL

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucolipidosis III (ML III), or pseudo-Hurler polydystrophy, is an inherited childhood disorder characterized biochemically by low activities and abnormal electrophoretic patterns of multiple lysosomal enzymes in fibroblasts. The primary deficiency of ML III has been proposed to be in UDP-N-acetylglucosamine:lysosomal ...

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

authors： Honey NK,Mueller OT,Little LE,Miller AL,Shows TB

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate added to exponentially growing cells of Hemophilus influenzae strain Rd increases competence for transformation 100- to 10,000-fold. Cyclic AMP added to near-stationary or stationary cells does not increase competence over the high level normally found in the early stationary phase...

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

authors： Wise EM Jr,Alexander SP,Powers M

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD31 is an Ig-like molecule expressed by leukocytes and endothelial cells with an established role in the regulation of leukocyte trafficking. Despite genetic deletion of CD31 being associated with exacerbation of T cell-mediated autoimmunity, the contribution of this molecule to T-cell responses is largely unknown. H...

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

authors： Ma L,Mauro C,Cornish GH,Chai JG,Coe D,Fu H,Patton D,Okkenhaug K,Franzoso G,Dyson J,Nourshargh S,Marelli-Berg FM

更新日期：2010-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of many of the uncharacterized open reading frames discovered by genomic sequencing can be determined at the level of expressed gene products, the proteome. However, identifying the cognate gene from minute amounts of protein has been one of the major problems in molecular biology. Using yeast as an examp...

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

authors： Shevchenko A,Jensen ON,Podtelejnikov AV,Sagliocco F,Wilm M,Vorm O,Mortensen P,Shevchenko A,Boucherie H,Mann M

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of matching variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) profiles to link suspects with crimes is potentially very powerful, but it has been quite controversial. Initial debate over laboratory procedures has largely given way to debate over the statistical and population genetic issues involved in calculating the f...

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

authors： Weir BS

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The HIV envelope (Env) protein mediates entry into cells by binding CD4 and an appropriate coreceptor, which triggers structural changes in Env that lead to fusion between the viral and cellular membranes. The major HIV-1 coreceptors are the seven transmembrane domain chemokine receptors CCR5 and CXCR4. The type of co...

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

authors： Hoffman TL,Canziani G,Jia L,Rucker J,Doms RW

更新日期：2000-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) refers to the earliest clinical manifestation of multiple sclerosis (MS). Currently there are no prognostic biological markers that accurately predict conversion of CIS to clinically definite MS (CDMS). Furthermore, the earliest molecular events in MS are still unknown. We used micro...

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

authors： Corvol JC,Pelletier D,Henry RG,Caillier SJ,Wang J,Pappas D,Casazza S,Okuda DT,Hauser SL,Oksenberg JR,Baranzini SE

更新日期：2008-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteins cdc2 and cyclin form a heterodimer (maturation promoting factor) that controls the major events of the cell cycle. A mathematical model for the interactions of cdc2 and cyclin is constructed. Simulation and analysis of the model show that the control system can operate in three modes: as a steady state wi...

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

authors： Tyson JJ

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A 900-base-pair (bp) sequence from a cDNA clone of the rye endosperm-storage-protein gene Sec-1 was labeled with biotin and hybridized to Secale cereale 'Blanco' chromosomes. Hybridization was seen on the satellite part of the short arm of chromosome 1R, where the Sec-1 gene has been genetically mapped, in approximate...

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

authors： Gustafson JP,Butler E,McIntyre CL

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human lymphocytes obtained from fasted adult subjects and cultured human tumor lymphocytes were investigated for specific insulin receptors. By use of monoiodoinsulin, specific insulin binding sites were demonstrated in peripheral human lymphocytes, cultured human lymphocytes, and in other types of human circulating c...

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

authors： Gavin JR 3rd,Roth J,Jen P,Freychet P

更新日期：1972-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A whole genome cattle-hamster radiation hybrid cell panel was used to construct a map of 54 markers located on bovine chromosome 5 (BTA5). Of the 54 markers, 34 are microsatellites selected from the cattle linkage map and 20 are genes. Among the 20 mapped genes, 10 are new assignments that were made by using the compa...

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

authors： Ozawa A,Band MR,Larson JH,Donovan J,Green CA,Womack JE,Lewin HA

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:To differentiate roles of androgen receptor (AR) in prostate stromal and epithelial cells, we have generated inducible-(ind)ARKO-TRAMP and prostate epithelial-specific ARKO TRAMP (pes-ARKO-TRAMP) mouse models, in which the AR was knocked down in both prostate epithelium and stroma or was knocked out in the prostate ep...

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

authors： Niu Y,Altuwaijri S,Yeh S,Lai KP,Yu S,Chuang KH,Huang SP,Lardy H,Chang C

更新日期：2008-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In many adult tissues, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are closely associated with perivascular niches and coexpress many markers in common with pericytes. The ability of pericytes to act as MSCs, however, remains controversial. By using genetic lineage tracing, we show that some pericytes differentiate into specialized...

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

authors： Feng J,Mantesso A,De Bari C,Nishiyama A,Sharpe PT

更新日期：2011-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A model for protein synthesis is proposed in which the donor for the peptide elongation reaction is peptidyl-5S RNA. Space-filling models show that peptide bond formation between peptidyl-5S RNA and aminoacyl-tRNA is eminently feasible from a stereochemical point of view. The peptide is transferred to 5S RNA, while at...

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

authors： Raacke ID

更新日期：1971-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants, although sessile, can reorient growth axes in response to changing environmental conditions. Phototropism and gravitropism represent adaptive growth responses induced by changes in light direction and growth axis orientation relative to gravitational direction, respectively. The nearly 80-year-old Cholodny-Wen...

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

authors： Esmon CA,Tinsley AG,Ljung K,Sandberg G,Hearne LB,Liscum E

更新日期：2006-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The developmental plasticity of plants relies on the remarkable ability of the meristems to integrate nutrient and energy availability with environmental signals. Meristems in root and shoot apexes share highly similar molecular players but are spatially separated by soil. Whether and how these two meristematic tissue...

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

authors： Li X,Cai W,Liu Y,Li H,Fu L,Liu Z,Xu L,Liu H,Xu T,Xiong Y

更新日期：2017-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified by cDNA cloning 5 mRNAs that appear in resting BALB/c 3T3 cells soon after growth stimulation by serum or platelet-derived growth factor. Five additional mRNAs of this class are described in this report. The mRNAs reached peak levels between 40 and 120 min after serum addition and rapidly...

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

authors： Lau LF,Nathans D

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide sequence analysis of one of several tRNA genes cloned from Tetrahymena thermophila macronuclear DNA indicated that it corresponds to a tRNA species having TTA as anticodon. Subsequently, the tRNA species corresponding to that gene was isolated and its nucleotide sequence was determined by post-labeling tech...

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

authors： Kuchino Y,Hanyu N,Tashiro F,Nishimura S

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:d-amino acids are present in some peptides from amphibian skin. These residues are derived from the corresponding L-amino acids present in the respective precursors. From skin secretions of Bombinae, we have isolated an enzyme that catalyzes the isomerization of an L-Ile in position 2 of a model peptide to D-allo-Ile....

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

authors： Jilek A,Mollay C,Tippelt C,Grassi J,Mignogna G,Müllegger J,Sander V,Fehrer C,Barra D,Kreil G

更新日期：2005-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Maleyl bovine plasma albumin competed on an equimolar basis with malondialdehyde low density lipoprotein (LDL) in suppressing the lysosomal hydrolysis of 125I-labeled malondialdehyde LDL mediated by the scavenger receptor of human monocyte macrophages. Maleyl bovine plasma albumin, in which 94% of the amino groups wer...

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

authors： Haberland ME,Fogelman AM

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00