Haploinsufficiency of telomerase reverse transcriptase leads to anticipation in autosomal dominant dyskeratosis congenita.

abstract：:TNF superfamily death ligands are expressed on the surface of immune cells and can trigger apoptosis in susceptible cancer cells by engaging cognate death receptors. A recombinant soluble protein comprising the ectodomain of Apo2 ligand/TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (Apo2L/TRAIL) has shown remarkable preclinic...

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

authors： Nair PM,Flores H,Gogineni A,Marsters S,Lawrence DA,Kelley RF,Ngu H,Sagolla M,Komuves L,Bourgon R,Settleman J,Ashkenazi A

更新日期：2015-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) long terminal repeat (LTR) sequences were inserted into adenovirus in place of the E1 region. The HIV-1 LTR contained in this recombinant adenovirus responds to trans-activation by tatIII in a HeLa cell line constitutively expressing that HIV-1 gene product. In addition, the ...

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

authors： Rice AP,Mathews MB

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent reports on the dystrophic mouse mutant suggest that the prominent extracellular matrix component of peripheral nerve tissues plays an important role in peripheral nerve development. We have examined the disposition of two prominent extracellular matrix components, fibronectin and laminin, both in mature periphe...

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

authors： Cornbrooks CJ,Carey DJ,McDonald JA,Timpl R,Bunge RP

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermotaxis by individual amoebae of Dictyostelium discoideum on a temperature gradient is described. These amoebae show positive thermotaxis at temperatures between 14 degrees C and 28 degrees C shortly (3 hr) after food depletion. Increasing time on the gradient reduces the positive thermotactic response at the lowe...

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

authors： Hong CB,Fontana DR,Poff KL

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta 2-adrenergic receptor (beta 2AR) can be constitutively activated by mutations in the third intracellular loop. Whereas the wild-type receptor exists predominantly in an inactive conformation (R) in the absence of agonist, the mutant receptor appears to spontaneously adopt an active conformation (R*). We now d...

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

authors： Pei G,Samama P,Lohse M,Wang M,Codina J,Lefkowitz RJ

更新日期：1994-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the distributions of short tandemly repeated DNAs (microsatellites) in nine complete microbial genomes (Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Archaeoglobus fulgidus, Escherichia coli, Haemophilus influenzae, Helicobacter pylori, Methanococcus jannaschii, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, M. genitalium, and Synechocystis PCC6803....

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

authors： Field D,Wills C

更新日期：1998-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-stranded DNA oligonucleotides can achieve targeted base-pair substitution with modest efficiency but high precision. We show that "oligo targeting" can be used effectively to study missense mutations in DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes. Inherited inactivating mutations in DNA MMR genes are causative for the canc...

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

authors： Houlleberghs H,Dekker M,Lantermans H,Kleinendorst R,Dubbink HJ,Hofstra RM,Verhoef S,Te Riele H

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:By analogy with receptor-mediated endocytosis, clathrin-coated membrane segments at locations other than at the plasma membrane have been implicated in intracellular membrane transport/sorting. The crucial role of the Golgi apparatus in these processes prompted us to study the distribution at this level of clathrin-im...

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

authors： Orci L,Ravazzola M,Amherdt M,Louvard D,Perrelet A

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of genes associated with sexual traits and reproduction evolve at the sequence level faster than the majority of genes coding for non-sex-related traits. Whole genome analyses allow this observation to be extended beyond the limited set of genes that have been studied thus far. We use cDNA microarrays to demo...

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

authors： Meiklejohn CD,Parsch J,Ranz JM,Hartl DL

更新日期：2003-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli flagellar motor senses the intracellular concentration of the response regulator CheY-P and responds by varying the bias between its counterclockwise (CCW) and clockwise (CW) rotational states. The response is ultrasensitive with a large Hill coefficient (approximately 10). Recently, the detailed ...

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

authors： Tu Y

更新日期：2008-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a combined thermodynamic and structural characterization of a DNA tetraplex. Using spectroscopic and calorimetric techniques, we demonstrate that d(TG3T) and d(TG3T2G3T), in the presence of K+, form stable tetramolecular complexes. From differential scanning calorimetry measurements, we obtain the following ...

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

authors： Jin R,Gaffney BL,Wang C,Jones RA,Breslauer KJ

更新日期：1992-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last several decades corals have been in decline and at least one-third of all coral species are now threatened with extinction. Coral disease has been a major contributor to this threat, but little is known about the responsible pathogens. To date most research has focused on bacterial and fungal diseases;...

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

authors： Vega Thurber RL,Barott KL,Hall D,Liu H,Rodriguez-Mueller B,Desnues C,Edwards RA,Haynes M,Angly FE,Wegley L,Rohwer FL

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A striking and widespread observation is that higher-order folding for many RNAs is very slow, often requiring minutes. In some cases, slow folding reflects the need to disrupt stable, but incorrect, interactions. However, a molecular explanation for slow folding in most RNAs is unknown. The specificity domain of the ...

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

authors： Mortimer SA,Weeks KM

更新日期：2009-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-gated Na+ channels are the molecular targets of local anesthetics, class I antiarrhythmic drugs, and some anticonvulsants. These chemically diverse drugs inhibit Na+ channels with complex voltage- and frequency-dependent properties that reflect preferential drug binding to open and inactivated channel states. ...

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

authors： Ragsdale DS,McPhee JC,Scheuer T,Catterall WA

更新日期：1996-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome movement during mitosis is powered in part by energy released through the depolymerization of kinetochore microtubules (MTs). Strong but indirect evidence suggests the existence of a specialized coupling between kinetochores and MT plus ends that enables this transduction of chemical energy into mechanical ...

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

authors： Molodtsov MI,Grishchuk EL,Efremov AK,McIntosh JR,Ataullakhanov FI

更新日期：2005-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular weight of the major glycoprotein from the human erythrocyte membrane is 29,000, of which 55% is carbohydrate and 45% is protein. The binding of sodium dodecyl sulfate to this glycoprotein is anomalous when compared to water soluble proteins and leads to migration rates in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacryl...

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

authors： Grefrath SP,Reynolds JA

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The members of the chimaerin family of Rac-GTPase-activating proteins possess a single C1 domain with high homology to those present in protein kinase C (PKC) isozymes. This domain in PKCs is involved in phorbol ester and diacylglycerol (DAG) binding. We previously have demonstrated that one of the chimaerin isoforms,...

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

authors： Caloca MJ,Garcia-Bermejo ML,Blumberg PM,Lewin NE,Kremmer E,Mischak H,Wang S,Nacro K,Bienfait B,Marquez VE,Kazanietz MG

更新日期：1999-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by mutations in the gene encoding the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) anion channel. Airway disease is the major source of morbidity and mortality. Successful implementation of gene- and cell-based therapies for CF airway disease requires knowledge of relations...

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

authors： Shah VS,Ernst S,Tang XX,Karp PH,Parker CP,Ostedgaard LS,Welsh MJ

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil spontaneous death plays essential roles in neutrophil homeostasis and resolution of inflammation, whereas the underlying molecular mechanisms are still ill-defined. Neutrophils die because of programmed cell death or apoptosis. However, treatment with inhibitor of caspases, which are responsible for the maj...

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

authors： Zhu D,Hattori H,Jo H,Jia Y,Subramanian KK,Loison F,You J,Le Y,Honczarenko M,Silberstein L,Luo HR

更新日期：2006-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene amplification may be visualized within a chromosome as a homogeneously stained region (HSR) and HSRs have rarely been reported in human tumor cells with identification of the amplified gene. A parental line and seven clones derived from KB cells resistant to methotrexate (MTX) contain dihydrofolate reductase (DHF...

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

authors： Wolman SR,Craven ML,Grill SP,Domin BA,Cheng YC

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At mammalian neuromuscular junctions (NMJs), innervation induces and maintains the metabolic stability of acetylcholine receptors (AChRs). To explore whether neural agrin may cause similar receptor stabilization, we injected neural agrin cDNA of increasing transfection efficiencies into denervated adult rat soleus (SO...

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

authors： Bezakova G,Rabben I,Sefland I,Fumagalli G,Lømo T

更新日期：2001-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Achieving label-free, molecular-specific imaging with high spatial resolution in deep tissue is often considered the grand challenge of optical imaging. To accomplish this goal, significant optical scattering in tissues has to be overcome while achieving molecular specificity without resorting to extrinsic labeling. W...

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

authors： Yakovlev VV,Zhang HF,Noojin GD,Denton ML,Thomas RJ,Scully MO

更新日期：2010-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza is a paradigm for understanding viral infections. As an opportunistic pathogen exploiting the cellular endocytic machinery for infection, influenza is also a valuable model system for exploring the cell's constitutive endocytic pathway. We have studied the transport, acidification, and fusion of single influ...

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

authors： Lakadamyali M,Rust MJ,Babcock HP,Zhuang X

更新日期：2003-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In skeletal muscle, dihydropyridine receptors are functionally coupled to ryanodine receptors of the sarcoplasmic reticulum in triadic or diadic junctional complexes. In cardiac muscle direct physical or functional couplings have not been demonstrated. We have tested the hypothesis of functional coupling of L-type Ca2...

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

authors： Sham JS,Cleemann L,Morad M

更新日期：1995-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Four overlapping cosmid clones were constructed that contain the complete genome of the attenuated Oka strain of VZV. Transfection of human melanoma cells with the four cosmids resulted in production of infectious VZV. A double-stranded oligonucleotide, encoding a stop codon in all three open reading frames, was inser...

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

authors： Cohen JI,Seidel KE

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress is known to cause tumorigenesis through induction of DNA and lipid damage. It also promotes cancer progression through a largely unknown mechanism. Sulfiredoxin (Srx) is a novel oxidative stress-induced antioxidant protein whose function in tumorigenesis and cancer progression has not been well studie...

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

authors： Wei Q,Jiang H,Xiao Z,Baker A,Young MR,Veenstra TD,Colburn NH

更新日期：2011-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Many complex systems are organized in the form of a network embedded in space. Important examples include the physical Internet infrastructure, road networks, flight connections, brain functional networks, and social networks. The effect of space on network topology has recently come under the spotlight because of the...

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

authors： Expert P,Evans TS,Blondel VD,Lambiotte R

更新日期：2011-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomes of hyperthermophilic Archaea encode dozens of methylation guide, C/D box small RNAs that guide 2'-O-methylation of ribose to specific sites in rRNA and various tRNAs. The genes encoding the Sulfolobus homologues of eukaryotic proteins that are known to be present in C/D box small nucleolar ribonucleoprotei...

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

authors： Omer AD,Ziesche S,Ebhardt H,Dennis PP

更新日期：2002-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work identified the Rap1 GTPase-activating protein Sipa1 as a germ-line-encoded metastasis modifier. The bromodomain protein Brd4 physically interacts with and modulates the enzymatic activity of Sipa1. In vitro analysis of a highly metastatic mouse mammary tumor cell line ectopically expressing Brd4 demonstr...

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

authors： Crawford NP,Alsarraj J,Lukes L,Walker RC,Officewala JS,Yang HH,Lee MP,Ozato K,Hunter KW

更新日期：2008-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular localization of phytochrome was seen in dark-grown oat (Avena sativa L., cv. Garry) and rice (Oryza sativa L., cv. unknown) shoots after various light treatments using an indirect peroxidase-antiperoxidase antibody labeling method. Phytochrome is generally distributed throughout the cytoplasm in cell...

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

authors： Mackenzie JM Jr,Coleman RA,Briggs WR,Pratt LH

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00