Deletion of XPC leads to lung tumors in mice and is associated with early events in human lung carcinogenesis.

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera, has reservoirs in fresh and brackish water where it interacts with virulent bacteriophages. Phages are the most abundant biological entity on earth and coevolve with bacteria. It was reported that concentrations of phage and V. cholerae inversely correlate in aquatic re...

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

authors： Silva-Valenzuela CA,Camilli A

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) have been associated with a wide range of adverse health effects. Our case-control study was performed to explore the association between placental levels of selected POPs and risks for neural tube defects (NTDs) in a Chinese population with a high prevalence of NTDs. Cases include...

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

authors： Ren A,Qiu X,Jin L,Ma J,Li Z,Zhang L,Zhu H,Finnell RH,Zhu T

更新日期：2011-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A gamma-trace variant protein is the major constituent of the amyloid fibrils in patients from Iceland with hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis. The protein consists of 110 residues and is similar to human urinary gamma-trace basic protein (or cystatin C) beginning at its 11th amino-terminal residue. It ha...

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

authors： Ghiso J,Jensson O,Frangione B

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein-protein interaction (PPI) network is crucial for cellular information processing and decision-making. With suitable inputs, PPI networks drive the cells to diverse functional outcomes such as cell proliferation or cell death. Here, we characterize the structural controllability of a large directed human PP...

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

authors： Vinayagam A,Gibson TE,Lee HJ,Yilmazel B,Roesel C,Hu Y,Kwon Y,Sharma A,Liu YY,Perrimon N,Barabási AL

更新日期：2016-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic comparison of rRNA sequences has suggested that a pseudoknot structure exists in the central domain of small-subunit rRNA. In Escherichia coli 16S rRNA, this pseudoknot would form when positions 570 and 571 pair with positions 865 and 866. Mutations were introduced into this pseudoknot at the phylogenetic...

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

authors： Vila A,Viril-Farley J,Tapprich WE

更新日期：1994-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) enables the quantification of each gene's expression distribution across cells, thus allowing the assessment of the dispersion, nonzero fraction, and other aspects of its distribution beyond the mean. These statistical characterizations of the gene expression distribution are cri...

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

authors： Wang J,Huang M,Torre E,Dueck H,Shaffer S,Murray J,Raj A,Li M,Zhang NR

更新日期：2018-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Most cells in the well-known pre-B-lymphocyte line 18-81 have correctly assembled genes for both alleles at the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus. Only one allele is "active"; the other, "silent" allele contains an amber termination codon. The rate of reversion of this amber codon was determined to be 0.3-1 X 10(-4) pe...

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

authors： Wabl M,Burrows PD,von Gabain A,Steinberg C

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We estimated the unliganded opening and closing rate constants of neuromuscular acetylcholine receptor-channels (AChRs) having mutations that increased the gating equilibrium constant. For some mutant combinations, spontaneous openings occurred in clusters. For 25 different constructs, the unliganded gating equilibriu...

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

authors： Purohit P,Auerbach A

更新日期：2009-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene V protein of bacteriophage f1 is a single-stranded DNA and RNA-binding protein composed of two identical subunits. We have constructed single-chain variants of the protein using short peptide linkers of five or six amino acids to connect the carboxyl terminus of one monomer to the amino terminus of the second...

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

authors： Liang H,Sandberg WS,Terwilliger TC

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An intermolecular intercalation of base pairs was found at the CA step in the I222 crystal structure of the RNA.DNA hybrid, r(CAAAGAAAAG).d(CTTTTCTTTG), which contains two-thirds of the polypurine tract sequence of HIV-1 with a substitution of cytosine for the initial adenine. This sequence crystallized in both P21212...

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

authors： Han GW,Kopka ML,Langs D,Sawaya MR,Dickerson RE

更新日期：2003-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The rewards of promiscuity for males are undisputed. But why should a female mate promiscuously, particularly when her partners offer no resources other than sperm and increase her chances of succumbing to predation or disease? This question has been hotly debated but at present remains largely unresolved [Jennions, M...

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

authors： Evans JP,Magurran AE

更新日期：2000-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycoprotein I complex, consisting of two polypeptides of Mr 210,000 and 150,000, was isolated from human platelet membranes by wheat germ lectin affinity chromatography. Glycocalicin, a soluble loosely bound membrane glycoprotein of Mr 150,000 related to the glycoprotein I system, was also purified. The isolated ...

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

authors： Nachman RL,Kinoshita T,Ferris B

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial uniporter is a Ca2+-channel complex resident within the organelle's inner membrane. In mammalian cells the uniporter's activity is regulated by Ca2+ due to concerted action of MICU1 and MICU2, two paralogous, but functionally distinct, EF-hand Ca2+-binding proteins. Here we present the X-ray structur...

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

authors： Kamer KJ,Jiang W,Kaushik VK,Mootha VK,Grabarek Z

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer-22 (NK-22) cells are a human NK cell subset situated in mucosal-associated lymphoid tissues that specialize in IL-22 secretion in response to IL-23. Here we investigated the cytokine requirements for NK-22 cell expansion. IL-7 maintained the survival of NK-22 cells and IL-22 production in response to IL...

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

authors： Cella M,Otero K,Colonna M

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned two species of EcoRI-cleaved DNA segments that together cover the entire sequence for the human interleukin 2 gene and have determined the nucleotide sequence of the gene and its flanking regions. The gene contains three introns and the exon sequences can be aligned with the previously reported cDNA seq...

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

authors： Fujita T,Takaoka C,Matsui H,Taniguchi T

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthetic polypeptide antigen poly(LTyr, LGlu)-poly(DLAl)- -poly(LLys)[T,G)-A- -L] was covalently linked to N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanyl-D-isoglutamine (MDP), which is the minimal adjuvant-active structure that can substitute for Mycobacteria in complete Freund's adjuvant. When injected in aqueous solution into mice, ...

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

authors： Mozes E,Sela M,Chedid L

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper summarizes future needs in information and tools, technology, infrastructure, training, funding, and bioinformatics, to provide the genomic knowledge and tools for breeding and biotechnological goals in maize. The National Corn Genome Initiative (NCGA) has developed through actions taken by the Natio...

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

authors： Coe EH

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Massive datasets that capture human movements and social interactions have catalyzed rapid advances in our quantitative understanding of human behavior during the past years. One important aspect affecting both areas is the critical role space plays. Indeed, growing evidence suggests both our movements and communicati...

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

authors： Deville P,Song C,Eagle N,Blondel VD,Barabási AL,Wang D

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to cobalt, zinc, and cadmium specified by the czc determinant on plasmid pMOL30 in Alcaligenes eutrophus results from a cation efflux system. Five membrane-bound polypeptides that were expressed in Escherichia coli from this determinant under the control of a phage T7 promoter were assigned to four open rea...

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

authors： Nies DH,Nies A,Chu L,Silver S

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A galanin receptor protein was solubilized with 3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)dimethylammonio]-1-propanesulfonate (CHAPS) from pig brain membranes and then purified by single-step affinity chromatography. The product exhibits saturable and specific binding for galanin with a binding activity of 17 nmol/mg of protein and a dis...

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

authors： Chen Y,Fournier A,Couvineau A,Laburthe M,Amiranoff B

更新日期：1993-05-01 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

abstract：:During latent infection of humans with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, bacteria persist in the asymptomatic host within granulomas, organized collections of differentiated macrophages, and other immune cells. The mechanisms for persistence remain poorly understood, as is the metabolic and replicative state of the microbes...

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

authors： Chan K,Knaak T,Satkamp L,Humbert O,Falkow S,Ramakrishnan L

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) spectra are reported for flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) and glucose oxidase (beta-D-glucose:oxygen 1-oxidoreductase; EC 1.1.3.4), in resonance with the 450 nm flavin absorption band. Several isoalloxazine ring modes were observed (1635, 1584, 1507, 1416, and 1359 cm(-1))...

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

authors： Dutta PK,Nestor JR,Spiro TG

更新日期：1977-10-01 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：:Chemical modifications of RNAs have long been established as key modulators of nonprotein-coding RNA structure and function in cells. There is a growing appreciation that messenger RNA (mRNA) sequences responsible for directing protein synthesis can also be posttranscriptionally modified. The enzymatic incorporation o...

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

authors： Eyler DE,Franco MK,Batool Z,Wu MZ,Dubuke ML,Dobosz-Bartoszek M,Jones JD,Polikanov YS,Roy B,Koutmou KS

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:SoxR is a transcription factor that governs a global defense against the oxidative stress caused by nitric oxide or excess superoxide in Escherichia coli. SoxR is a homodimer containing a pair of [2Fe-2S] clusters essential for its transcriptional activity, and changes in the stability of these metal centers could con...

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

authors： Ding H,Demple B

更新日期：1996-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:As a first step in assessing the efficacy of a gene transfer approach to the induction of transplantation tolerance in our miniature swine model, double-copy retroviral vectors engineered to express a drug-resistance marker (neomycin) and a swine class II DRB cDNA were constructed. Infectious particles containing thes...

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

authors： Shafer GE,Emery DW,Gustafsson K,Germana S,Anderson WF,Sachs DH,LeGuern C

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphorylation of diacylglycerol (DG), a reaction catalyzed by DG kinase, may be critical in the termination of effector-induced signals mediated by protein kinase C. Synapsin I is a principal target of intracellular protein kinases and is thought to be involved in the release of neurotransmitter from axon termin...

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

authors： Kahn DW,Besterman JM

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusions with the bacterial gene for chloramphenicol acetyltransferase followed by P-element-mediated germ-line transformation in Drosophila have permitted localization of the DNA sequence that confers a high degree of developmental specificity on a pair of silkmoth eggshell (chorion) genes. The short, 272-base-pair, 5...

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

authors： Mitsialis SA,Spoerel N,Leviten M,Kafatos FC

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction endonucleases such as EcoRI bind and cleave DNA with great specificity and represent a paradigm for protein-DNA interactions and molecular recognition. Using osmotic pressure to induce water release, we demonstrate the participation of bound waters in the sequence discrimination of substrate DNA by EcoRI. ...

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

authors： Robinson CR,Sligar SG

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00