Site-specific recombinase and integrase activities of a conjugative relaxase in recipient cells.

abstract：:MacArthur and Wilson [MacArthur, R. H. & Wilson, E. O. (1967) The Theory of Island Biogeography (Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ)] used the rate of recolonization of the Krakatau Islands (sterilized in the cataclysmic 1883 eruption) by birds and vascular plants to test their equilibrium model of immigration and e...

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

authors： Thornton IW,Zann RA,Rawlinson PA,Tidemann CR,Adikerana AS,Widjoya AH

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical spectra of biological polymers contain important information about their structure and function in living organisms. This information can be accessed by extracting an optical interaction of monomers, i.e., their exciton coupling, from experimental data. This coupling is sensitive to molecular structure, geomet...

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

authors： Burin AL,Armbruster ME,Hariharan M,Lewis FD

更新日期：2009-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now well established that glasses feature quasilocalized nonphononic excitations-coined "soft spots"-, which follow a universal [Formula: see text] density of states in the limit of low frequencies ω. All glass-specific properties, such as the dependence on the preparation protocol or composition, are encapsulat...

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

authors： Rainone C,Bouchbinder E,Lerner E

更新日期：2020-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In adult skeletal muscles, 2 junctophilin isoforms (JPH1 and JPH2) tether the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) to transverse tubule (T-tubule) membranes, generating stable membrane contact sites known as triads. JPHs are anchored to the membrane of the SR by a C-terminal transmembrane domain (TMD) and bind the T-tubule mem...

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

authors： Rossi D,Scarcella AM,Liguori E,Lorenzini S,Pierantozzi E,Kutchukian C,Jacquemond V,Messa M,De Camilli P,Sorrentino V

更新日期：2019-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that poly(dA-dT) can adopt two conformations in solution, with the relative proportions dependent on the nature and concentration of the counter ion and cationic ligands. The synthetic DNA exhibits a dinucleotide repeat conformation on addition of CsF and Me4NCl at molar concentrations, with the NMR spe...

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

authors： Patel DJ,Kozlowski SA,Suggs JW,Cox SD

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major virulence determinant of the rodent malaria parasite, Plasmodium yoelii, has remained unresolved since the discovery of the lethal line in the 1970s. Because virulence in this parasite correlates with the ability to invade different types of erythrocytes, we evaluated the potential role of the parasite eryth...

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

authors： Otsuki H,Kaneko O,Thongkukiatkul A,Tachibana M,Iriko H,Takeo S,Tsuboi T,Torii M

更新日期：2009-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli infections, a leading cause of septic shock, remain a major threat to human health because of the fatal action to endotoxin (LPS). Therapeutic attempts to neutralize endotoxin currently focus on inhibiting the interaction of the toxic component lipid A with myeloid differentiating factor 2, which form...

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

authors： Gomery K,Müller-Loennies S,Brooks CL,Brade L,Kosma P,Di Padova F,Brade H,Evans SV

更新日期：2012-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Water dynamics in concentrated ionic solutions plays an important role in a number of material and energy conversion processes such as the charge transfer at the electrolyte-electrode interface in aqueous rechargeable ion batteries. One long-standing puzzle is that all electrolytes, regardless of their "structure-maki...

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

authors： Zhang Q,Wu T,Chen C,Mukamel S,Zhuang W

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) play central roles in almost all physiological functions; mutations in GPCRs are responsible for more than 30 disorders. There is a great deal of information about GPCR structure but little information that directly relates structure to protein trafficking or to activation. The gona...

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

authors： Janovick JA,Conn PM

更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamine-dependent carbamylphosphate synthetase (Escherichia coli) is composed of a heavy subunit (molecular weight about 130,000) and a light subunit (molecular weight about 42,000), which can be separated with retention of catalytic activities. The separated heavy subunit can catalyze activation of CO(2) by ATP and...

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

authors： Trotta PP,Wellner VP,Pinkus LM,Meister A

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic-resistant isolates of Salmonella enterica were selected on plates containing lethal concentrations of rifampicin, kanamycin, and nalidixic acid. The stability of the resistance phenotype was scored after nonselective growth. Rifampicin-resistant (Rif(r)) isolates were stable, suggesting that they had arisen...

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

authors： Sánchez-Romero MA,Casadesús J

更新日期：2014-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA-binding motif protein 4 (RBM4) plays a regulatory role in alternative splicing of precursor mRNA. We show here that cell stress such as arsenite exposure induces phosphorylation of RBM4 at serine 309 and also drives its cytoplasmic accumulation and targeting to stress granule via the MKK(3/6)-p38 signaling pathway...

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

authors： Lin JC,Hsu M,Tarn WY

更新日期：2007-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study identifies CCR8+ regulatory T cells (Treg cells) as drivers of immunosuppression. We show that in human peripheral blood cells, more than 30% of Treg up-regulate CCR8 following activation in the presence of CCL1. This interaction induces STAT3-dependent up-regulation of FOXp3, CD39, IL-10, and granzy...

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

authors： Barsheshet Y,Wildbaum G,Levy E,Vitenshtein A,Akinseye C,Griggs J,Lira SA,Karin N

更新日期：2017-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Silicon, with its great abundance and mature infrastructure, is a foundational material for a range of applications, such as electronics, sensors, solar cells, batteries, and thermoelectrics. These applications rely on the purification of Si to different levels. Recently, it has been shown that nanosized silicon can o...

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

authors： Zong L,Zhu B,Lu Z,Tan Y,Jin Y,Liu N,Hu Y,Gu S,Zhu J,Cui Y

更新日期：2015-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a reliable genetic selection strategy for isolating interacting proteins based on the "hitchhiker" mechanism of the Escherichia coli twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathway. This method, designated FLI-TRAP (functional ligand-binding identification by Tat-based recognition of associating proteins),...

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

authors： Waraho D,DeLisa MP

更新日期：2009-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinach chloroplasts were found to contain three forms of cytochrome b(559) that have the same alpha-peak at 559 nm, but are distinguished from one another by their oxidation-reduction potentials. The high-potential (H) form (E(m) about 330-350 mV) is reducible by hydroquinone, the middle-potential (M) form (E(m) abou...

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

authors： Wada K,Arnon DI

更新日期：1971-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cardinal symptom of major depressive disorder (MDD) is the disruption of circadian patterns. However, to date, there is no direct evidence of circadian clock dysregulation in the brains of patients who have MDD. Circadian rhythmicity of gene expression has been observed in animals and peripheral human tissues, but i...

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

authors： Li JZ,Bunney BG,Meng F,Hagenauer MH,Walsh DM,Vawter MP,Evans SJ,Choudary PV,Cartagena P,Barchas JD,Schatzberg AF,Jones EG,Myers RM,Watson SJ Jr,Akil H,Bunney WE

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:c-Mpl, a member of the hematopoietic cytokine receptor family, is the receptor for thrombopoietin. To investigate signal transduction by c-Mpl, a chimeric receptor, composed of the extracellular domain of human growth hormone receptor and the intracellular domain of c-Mpl, was introduced into the interleukin 3-depende...

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

authors： Gurney AL,Wong SC,Henzel WJ,de Sauvage FJ

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila heteroneura and D. silvestris are sympatric species living on the island of Hawaii, while D. planitibia is allopatric on the nearby island of Maui. A pronounced ethological isolation is found between the sympatric species, and none between allopatric ones, except that D. planitibia females discriminate agai...

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

authors： Ahearn JN,Carson HL,Dobzhansky T,Kaneshiro KY

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mosquito midgut plays a central role in the sporogonic development of malaria parasites. We have found that polyclonal sera, produced against mosquito midguts, blocked the passage of Plasmodium falciparum ookinetes across the midgut, leading to a significant reduction of infections in mosquitoes. Anti-midgut mAbs ...

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

authors： Lal AA,Patterson PS,Sacci JB,Vaughan JA,Paul C,Collins WE,Wirtz RA,Azad AF

更新日期：2001-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent findings intriguingly place DNA double-strand break repair proteins at chromosome ends in yeast, where they help maintain normal telomere length and structure. In the present study, an essential telomere function, the ability to cap and thereby protect chromosomes from end-to-end fusions, was assessed in repair...

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

authors： Bailey SM,Meyne J,Chen DJ,Kurimasa A,Li GC,Lehnert BE,Goodwin EH

更新日期：1999-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The human cytokine I-309 is a small glycoprotein secreted by activated T lymphocytes and structurally related to a number of inflammatory cytokines. To investigate the biological activities of I-309 protein, we produced a stable Chinese hamster ovary cell transfectant, CDI.10, which constitutively secretes I-309 prote...

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

authors： Miller MD,Krangel MS

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse p19Arf (human p14ARF) tumor suppressor protein, encoded in part from an alternative reading frame of the Ink4a (Cdkn2a) gene, inhibits the Mdm2 E3 ubiquitin ligase to activate p53. Arf is not expressed in most normal tissues of young mice but is induced by high thresholds of aberrant hyperproliferative signa...

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

authors： van Oosterwijk JG,Li C,Yang X,Opferman JT,Sherr CJ

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Most studies of cytoskeletal organelles have concentrated on molecular analyses of abundant and biochemically accessible structures. In many of the classical cases, however, the nature of the system chosen has precluded a concurrent genetic analysis. The mitotic spindle of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is one exa...

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

authors： Pillus L,Solomon F

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Before secretory vesicles undergo exocytosis, they must recruit the proteins syntaxin-1 and synaptosomal associated protein 25 (SNAP-25) in the plasma membrane. GFP-labeled versions of both proteins cluster at sites where secretory granules have docked. Single-particle tracking shows that minority populations of both ...

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

authors： Knowles MK,Barg S,Wan L,Midorikawa M,Chen X,Almers W

更新日期：2010-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintenance of genome stability is essential for the accurate propagation of genetic information and cell growth and survival. Organisms have therefore developed efficient strategies to prevent DNA lesions and rearrangements. Much of the information concerning these strategies has been obtained through the study of ba...

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

authors： Maréchal A,Parent JS,Véronneau-Lafortune F,Joyeux A,Lang BF,Brisson N

更新日期：2009-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We searched for germ-line mutations of the APC gene in 79 unrelated patients with familial adenomatous polyposis using a ribonuclease protection analysis coupled with polymerase chain reaction amplifications of genomic DNA. Mutations were found in 53 patients (67%); 28 of the mutations were small deletions and 2 were ...

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

authors： Miyoshi Y,Ando H,Nagase H,Nishisho I,Horii A,Miki Y,Mori T,Utsunomiya J,Baba S,Petersen G

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterosis is widely applied in agriculture; however, the underlying molecular mechanisms for superior performance are not well understood. Ethylene biosynthesis and signaling genes are shown to be down-regulated in Arabidopsis interspecific hybrids. Ethylene is a plant hormone that promotes fruit ripening and maturati...

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

authors： Song Q,Ando A,Xu D,Fang L,Zhang T,Huq E,Qiao H,Deng XW,Chen ZJ

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of androgen receptor (AR) via androgen in muscle cells has been closely linked to their growth and differentiation. Here, we report the cloning and characterization of supervillin (SV), a 205-kDa actin-binding protein, as an AR coregulator from the skeletal muscle cDNA library. Mammalian two-hybrid and glut...

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

authors： Ting HJ,Yeh S,Nishimura K,Chang C

更新日期：2002-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Candidate single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were analyzed for associations to an unselected whole genome pool of tumor mRNA transcripts in 50 unrelated patients with breast cancer. SNPs were selected from 203 candidate genes of the reactive oxygen species pathway. We describe a general statistical framework for t...

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

authors： Kristensen VN,Edvardsen H,Tsalenko A,Nordgard SH,Sørlie T,Sharan R,Vailaya A,Ben-Dor A,Lønning PE,Lien S,Omholt S,Syvänen AC,Yakhini Z,Børresen-Dale AL

更新日期：2006-05-16 00:00:00