Evidence for maternally transmitted small interfering RNA in the repression of transposition in Drosophila virilis.

abstract：:Human cancer cells that had had high (greater than 160) tissue culture passages, when transplanted into antithymocyte-treated F344 newborn rats, caused induction of rat sarcomas in the rats within 2 or 3 subcultures, whereas human cancer cells with low (5-33) passages in vitro did not cause overt induction of rat sarc...

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

authors： Huebner RJ,Fish DC,Djurickovic D,Trimmer RW,Bare AL,Bare RM,Smith GT

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental work in animals has shown that memory formation depends on a cascade of molecular events. Here we show that variability of human memory performance is related to variability in genes encoding proteins of this signaling cascade, including the NMDA and metabotrobic glutamate receptors, adenylyl cyclase, CAM...

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

authors： de Quervain DJ,Papassotiropoulos A

更新日期：2006-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication-defective human adenovirus (Ad) group C transducing vectors, most of which have the E1A, E1B, and E3 genes deleted, are highly inflammatory despite the fact that the parental viruses typically cause subclinical or mild infections. To investigate this paradox, the roles that the E1A, E1B, and E3 genes play ...

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

authors： Schaack J,Bennett ML,Colbert JD,Torres AV,Clayton GH,Ornelles D,Moorhead J

更新日期：2004-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The key enzyme for transcription of protein-encoding genes in eukaryotes is RNA polymerase II (RNAPII). The recruitment of this enzyme during transcription initiation and its passage along the template during transcription elongation is regulated through the association and dissociation of several complexes. Elongator...

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

authors： Nelissen H,Fleury D,Bruno L,Robles P,De Veylder L,Traas J,Micol JL,Van Montagu M,Inzé D,Van Lijsebettens M

更新日期：2005-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The retroviral integrase protein (IN) is responsible for catalyzing a concerted integration reaction in which the two termini of linear viral DNA are joined to host DNA. To probe the potential for IN to form protein multimers, we used the yeast two-hybrid system. The coexpression of a GAL4 DNA binding domain-IN fusion...

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

authors： Kalpana GV,Goff SP

更新日期：1993-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally acknowledged that cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen-4 (CTLA-4/CD152) plays a pivotal role in the regulation of T-cell activation and the establishment of self-tolerance in the periphery. CTLA-4-deficient (CTLA-4KO) mice develop a lymphoproliferative disorder and die within 4 weeks of birth, sug...

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

authors： Verhagen J,Gabrysová L,Minaee S,Sabatos CA,Anderson G,Sharpe AH,Wraith DC

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A fraction of the unintegrated viral DNA that appears early after infection of mouse cells by Moloney leukemia virus is infectious. The infectivity could be deomonstrated by an XC plaque assay of the cells exposed to DNA co-precipitated with calcium phosphate. The number of plaques deriving from closed-circular, super...

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

authors： Smotkin D,Gianni AM,Rozenblatt S,Weinberg RA

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human brain relies upon the dynamic formation and dissolution of a hierarchy of functional networks to support ongoing cognition. However, how functional connectivities underlying such networks are supported by cortical microstructure remains poorly understood. Recent animal work has demonstrated that electrical a...

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

authors： Hunt BA,Tewarie PK,Mougin OE,Geades N,Jones DK,Singh KD,Morris PG,Gowland PA,Brookes MJ

更新日期：2016-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Attending to a stimulus is known to enhance the neural responses to that stimulus. Recent experiments on visual attention have shown that this modulation can have object-based characteristics, such that, when certain parts of a visual object are attended, other parts automatically also receive enhanced processing. Her...

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

authors： Busse L,Roberts KC,Crist RE,Weissman DH,Woldorff MG

更新日期：2005-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A type of heritable cellular change, known as habituation, occurs spontaneously in plant tissue and cell culture. This phenomenon is characterized by a newly acquired capacity of plant cells to produce growth regulatory substances. Using cloned lines of tobacco pith parenchyma cells, we demonstrated that a newly acqui...

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

authors： Binns A,Meins F

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary thinking can be applied to both cultural microevolution and macroevolution. However, much of the current literature focuses on cultural microevolution. In this article, we argue that the growing availability of large cross-cultural datasets facilitates the use of computational methods derived from evoluti...

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

authors： Gray RD,Watts J

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli, AK I- HDH I and AK II- HDH II are two bifunctional proteins, derived from a common ancestor, that catalyze the first and third reactions of the common pathway leading to threonine and methionine. An extensive amino acid sequence comparison of both molecules reveals two main features on each of the...

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

authors： Ferrara P,Duchange N,Zakin MM,Cohen GN

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative disorders are associated with the cytoplasmic aggregation of microtubule-associated protein tau. Recent evidence supports transcellular transfer of tau misfolding (seeding) as the mechanism of spread within an affected brain, a process reminiscent of viral infection...

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

authors： McEwan WA,Falcon B,Vaysburd M,Clift D,Oblak AL,Ghetti B,Goedert M,James LC

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertebrate hearing and balance are based in complex asymmetries of inner ear structure. Here, we identify retinoic acid (RA) as an extrinsic signal that acts directly on the ear rudiment to affect its compartmentalization along the anterior-posterior axis. A rostrocaudal wave of RA activity, generated by tissues surro...

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

authors： Bok J,Raft S,Kong KA,Koo SK,Dräger UC,Wu DK

更新日期：2011-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Necessary conditions are derived for a spherical vortex in a perfect fluid to be stationary in the case when the velocities depend on a single surface harmonic. The motion is indeterminate unless an additional condition is imposed. In the case when this condition is incompressibility, the equations are solved, yieldin...

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

authors： Pekeris CL

更新日期：1972-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) is a widely used method for analysis of gene function in tissue culture cells. However, to date there has been no reliable method for testing the specificity of any particular RNAi experiment. The ideal experiment is to rescue the phenotype by expression of the target gene in a form refractory ...

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

authors： Kittler R,Pelletier L,Ma C,Poser I,Fischer S,Hyman AA,Buchholz F

更新日期：2005-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of protein kinase C (PKC) by phorbol ester facilitates hormonal secretion and transmitter release, and phorbol ester-induced synaptic potentiation (PESP) is a model for presynaptic facilitation. A variety of PKC isoforms are expressed in the central nervous system, but the isoform involved in the PESP has n...

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

authors： Saitoh N,Hori T,Takahashi T

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pyrococcus furiosus (PF) ornithine carbamoyltransferase (OTCase; EC 2.1.3.3) is an extremely heat-stable enzyme that maintains about 50% of its activity after heat treatment for 60 min at 100 degrees C. To understand the molecular basis of thermostability of this enzyme, we have determined its three-dimensional st...

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

authors： Villeret V,Clantin B,Tricot C,Legrain C,Roovers M,Stalon V,Glansdorff N,Van Beeumen J

更新日期：1998-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex differences influence brain morphology and physiology during both development and aging. Here we apply a machine learning algorithm to a multiparametric brain PET imaging dataset acquired in a cohort of 20- to 82-year-old, cognitively normal adults (n = 205) to define their metabolic brain age. We find that throug...

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

authors： Goyal MS,Blazey TM,Su Y,Couture LE,Durbin TJ,Bateman RJ,Benzinger TL,Morris JC,Raichle ME,Vlassenko AG

更新日期：2019-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanosensory hair cells of the inner ear are required for hearing and balance and have a distinctive apical structure, the hair bundle, that converts mechanical stimuli into electrical signals. This structure comprises a single cilium, the kinocilium, lying adjacent to an ensemble of actin-based projections know...

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

authors： Honda A,Kita T,Seshadri SV,Misaki K,Ahmed Z,Ladbury JE,Richardson GP,Yonemura S,Ladher RK

更新日期：2018-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The human retinoic acid receptor (hRAR) is a member of the nuclear receptor superfamily that regulates the transcription of target genes in a ligand-dependent manner. The three hRAR isotypes are targets for retinoids that are used in the treatment of various diseases, including breast cancer and skin diseases. Drug ef...

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

authors： Klaholz BP,Mitschler A,Belema M,Zusi C,Moras D

更新日期：2000-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast fatty acid synthase (M(r) = 2.5 x 10(6)) is organized in an alpha 6 beta 6 complex. In these studies, the synthase structure has been examined by negative-stain and cryo-electron microscopy. Side and end views of the structure indicate that the molecule, shaped similar to a prolate ellipsoid, has a high-dens...

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

authors： Stoops JK,Kolodziej SJ,Schroeter JP,Bretaudiere JP,Wakil SJ

更新日期：1992-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Basophils are powerful mediators of Th2 immunity and are present in increased numbers during allergic inflammation and helminth infection. Despite their ability to potentiate Th2 immunity the mechanisms regulating basophil development remain largely unknown. We have found a unique role for isotype-switched antibodies ...

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

authors： Herbst T,Esser J,Prati M,Kulagin M,Stettler R,Zaiss MM,Hewitson JP,Merky P,Verbeek JS,Bourquin C,Camberis M,Prout M,Maizels RM,Le Gros G,Harris NL

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical and gene mapping studies reveal that chloroplast DNA from geranium (Pelargonium hortorum) has sustained a number of extensive duplications and inversions, resulting in a genome arrangement radically unlike that of other plants. At 217 kilobases in size, the circular chromosome is about 50% larger than the typ...

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

authors： Palmer JD,Nugent JM,Herbon LA

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal progenitors and tumor cells possess propensity to proliferate and to migrate. Glutamate regulates proliferation and migration of neurons during development, but it is not known whether it influences proliferation and migration of tumor cells. We demonstrate that glutamate antagonists inhibit proliferation of ...

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

authors： Rzeski W,Turski L,Ikonomidou C

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat beta-lipotropin was isolated from 40 anterior pituitaries using high efficiency chromatography columns and sensitive fluorometric methods. The beta-lipotropin was characterized as to molecular weight, amino acid composition, and generation of opioid activity by trypsinization. Other opioid peptides, as well as a p...

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

authors： Rubinstein M,Stein S,Gerber LD,Udenfriend S

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonization of land by plants was a major transition on Earth, but the developmental and genetic innovations required for this transition remain unknown. Physiological studies and the fossil record strongly suggest that the ability of the first land plants to form symbiotic associations with beneficial fungi was one ...

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

authors： Delaux PM,Radhakrishnan GV,Jayaraman D,Cheema J,Malbreil M,Volkening JD,Sekimoto H,Nishiyama T,Melkonian M,Pokorny L,Rothfels CJ,Sederoff HW,Stevenson DW,Surek B,Zhang Y,Sussman MR,Dunand C,Morris RJ,Roux C,Wong GK

更新日期：2015-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional transcription elongation complexes can be formed by adding RNA polymerase in trans to a preformed nucleic acid construct. This construct consists of a double-stranded DNA fragment that contains a noncomplementary (permanent DNA bubble) region into which an RNA primer oligonucleotide has been hybridized. By ...

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

authors： Daube SS,Hart CR,von Hippel PH

更新日期：1994-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand how the relatively flat antigen-combining sites of antibodies interact with the concave shaped substrate-binding clefts of proteases, we determined the structures of two antibodies in complex with the trypsin-like hepatocyte growth-factor activator (HGFA). The two inhibitory antibodies, Ab58 and A...

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

authors： Wu Y,Eigenbrot C,Liang WC,Stawicki S,Shia S,Fan B,Ganesan R,Lipari MT,Kirchhofer D

更新日期：2007-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviral gene expression is inhibited in embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells. We have constructed a recombinant retroviral vector that is capable of expressing the neomycin-resistance (neo) gene in EC cells. The critical modification that permits expression of the neo gene is the insertion of a composite simian virus 40 ...

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

authors： Rubenstein JL,Nicolas JF,Jacob F

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00