Structural diversity and differential light control of mRNAs coding for angiosperm glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenases.

abstract：:Two of the most important models to account for the specificity and sensitivity of the T cell receptor (TCR) are the kinetic proofreading and serial ligation models. However, although kinetic proofreading provides a means for individual TCRs to measure accurately the length of time they are engaged and signal appropri...

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

authors： Chan C,George AJ,Stark J

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:With Manduca sexta as a model system, we analyzed how natural odor mixtures that are most effective in eliciting flight and foraging behaviors are encoded in the primary olfactory center in the brain, the antennal lobe. We used gas chromatography coupled with multiunit neural-ensemble recording to identify key odorant...

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

authors： Riffell JA,Lei H,Hildebrand JG

更新日期：2009-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon γ-inducible protein 16 (IFI16) and cGMP-AMP synthase (cGAS) have both been proposed to detect herpesviral DNA directly in herpes simplex virus (HSV)-infected cells and initiate interferon regulatory factor-3 signaling, but it has been unclear how two DNA sensors could both be required for this response. We ...

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

authors： Orzalli MH,Broekema NM,Diner BA,Hancks DC,Elde NC,Cristea IM,Knipe DM

更新日期：2015-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:CD11c, also known as integrin alpha X, is the most widely used defining marker for dendritic cells (DCs). CD11c can bind complement iC3b and mediate phagocytosis in vitro, for which it is also referred to as complement receptor 4. However, the functions of this prominent marker protein in DCs, especially in vivo, rema...

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

authors： Wu J,Wu H,An J,Ballantyne CM,Cyster JG

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the contribution of interleukin-4 (IL-4) to airway inflammation in vivo and to explore directly its relationship to airway reactivity, we created transgenic mice in which the murine cDNA for IL-4 was regulated by the rat Clara cell 10 protein promoter. Expression was detected only in the lung and not in...

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

authors： Rankin JA,Picarella DE,Geba GP,Temann UA,Prasad B,DiCosmo B,Tarallo A,Stripp B,Whitsett J,Flavell RA

更新日期：1996-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the interaction of ethanol with the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)ergic system in neurons of slices of the rat central amygdala nucleus (CeA), a brain region thought to be critical for the reinforcing effects of ethanol. Brief superfusion of 11-66 mM ethanol significantly increased GABA type A (GABA(A)) re...

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

authors： Roberto M,Madamba SG,Moore SD,Tallent MK,Siggins GR

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Terrorist attacks often fuel online hate and increase the expression of xenophobic and antiminority messages. Previous research has focused on the impact of terrorist attacks on prejudiced attitudes toward groups linked to the perpetrators as the cause of this increase. We argue that social norms can contain the expre...

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

authors： Álvarez-Benjumea A,Winter F

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured the fidelity of bidirectional, semiconservative DNA synthesis by a human DNA replication complex in vitro. Replication was performed by extracts of HeLa cells in the presence of simian virus 40 (SV40) large tumor antigen by using a double-stranded phage M13mp2 DNA template containing the SV40 origin o...

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

authors： Roberts JD,Kunkel TA

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A critical step in neuronal development is the formation of axon/dendrite polarity, a process involving symmetry breaking in the newborn neuron. Local self-amplifying processes could enhance and stabilize the initial asymmetry in the distribution of axon/dendrite determinants, but the identity of these processes remai...

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

authors： Cheng PL,Song AH,Wong YH,Wang S,Zhang X,Poo MM

更新日期：2011-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently evolved Hawaiian species Drosophila silvestris has a subdivided population structure and shows great spatial heterogeneity in chromosome inversion distributions and frequencies within its extremely limited geographic range. Pattern analysis of the 11 chromosomal polymorphisms in the context of the recentl...

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

authors： Craddock EM,Carson HL

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCSK9 encodes proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9a (PCSK9), a member of the proteinase K subfamily of subtilases. Missense mutations in PCSK9 cause an autosomal dominant form of hypercholesterolemia in humans, likely due to a gain-of-function mechanism because overexpression of either WT or mutant PCSK9 redu...

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

authors： Rashid S,Curtis DE,Garuti R,Anderson NN,Bashmakov Y,Ho YK,Hammer RE,Moon YA,Horton JD

更新日期：2005-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Nogo isoforms (Nogo-A and -B) have been implicated in regulating neural and cardiovascular functions, such as cell spreading and chemotaxis. Unlike the loop domain (Nogo-66) found in all Nogo isoforms that can interact with a neural-specific Nogo-66 receptor, the receptor for the amino terminus of Nogo-B that mediates...

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

authors： Miao RQ,Gao Y,Harrison KD,Prendergast J,Acevedo LM,Yu J,Hu F,Strittmatter SM,Sessa WC

更新日期：2006-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The redox potentials of electron transfer proteins vary over a wide range, even when the type of redox center is the same. Rees [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (1985) 82, 3082-3085] proposed that this variation of redox potential partly reflects the different net charges of the proteins, and he presented a linear correlat...

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

authors： Moore GR,Pettigrew GW,Rogers NK

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enolase genes from land plants and apicomplexa (intracellular parasites, including the malarial parasite, Plasmodium) share two short insertions. This observation has led to the suggestion that the apicomplexan enolase is the product of a lateral transfer event involving the algal endosymbiont from which the apicomple...

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

authors： Keeling PJ,Palmer JD

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Microprocessor [Drosha-DGCR8 (DiGeorge syndrome critical region gene 8) complex] processing of primary microRNA (pri-miRNA) is the critical first step in miRNA biogenesis, but how the Drosha cleavage site is determined has been unclear. Previous models proposed that the Drosha-DGCR8 complex measures either ~22 nt from...

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

authors： Ma H,Wu Y,Choi JG,Wu H

更新日期：2013-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal studies have shown that the brain is an insulin-responsive organ and that central nervous insulin resistance induces obesity and disturbances in glucose metabolism. In humans, insulin effects in the brain are poorly characterized. We used a magnetoencephalography approach during a two-step hyperinsulinemic eugl...

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

authors： Tschritter O,Preissl H,Hennige AM,Stumvoll M,Porubska K,Frost R,Marx H,Klösel B,Lutzenberger W,Birbaumer N,Häring HU,Fritsche A

更新日期：2006-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b protein (LHCP) is an integral thylakoid membrane protein. It is made in the cytosol as a precursor (pLHCP), imported into chloroplasts, and subsequently integrated into thylakoids. Integration of pLHCP into thylakoids requires a stromal protein factor that functions in part to main...

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

authors： Yuan J,Henry R,Cline K

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Responses of tethered cells of Escherichia coli to impulse, step, exponential-ramp or exponentiated sine-wave stimuli are internally consistent, provided that allowance is made for the nonlinear effect of thresholds. This result confirms that wild-type cells exposed to stimuli in the physiological range make short-ter...

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

authors： Segall JE,Block SM,Berg HC

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although still poorly understood, the chemistry that occurs on the surfaces of interstellar dust particles profoundly affects the growth of molecules in the interstellar medium. The most important surface reaction is the conversion of atomic to molecular hydrogen, which is a precursor for all subsequent molecular deve...

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

authors： Herbst E,Cuppen HM

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The gluconate (gnt) operon of Bacillus subtilis consists of four gnt genes; the second and third genes code for gluconate kinase (gluconokinase, EC 2.7.1.12) and gluconate permease, respectively. A fragment carrying the promoter of this operon (gnt promoter) and the first gene (gntR) was subcloned into a promoter prob...

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

authors： Fujita Y,Fujita T

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear factor-erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) is a key transcriptional regulator for antioxidant and anti-inflammation enzymes that binds to its endogenous inhibitor protein, Kelch-like ECH (erythroid cell-derived protein with CNC homology)-associated protein 1, in the cytoplasm under normal conditions. Various e...

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

authors： Kim SB,Pandita RK,Eskiocak U,Ly P,Kaisani A,Kumar R,Cornelius C,Wright WE,Pandita TK,Shay JW

更新日期：2012-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the structure and function of the gene for parathyroid hormone, we obtained recombinant plasmids containing bovine parathyroid hormone cDNA. The nucleotide sequence at the 5' terminus (relative to the sense strand) of the cDNA insert in a recombinant plasmid, pPTHi4, was different from that previously reporte...

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

authors： Weaver CA,Gordon DF,Kemper B

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutathione, an essential cellular antioxidant required for mitochondrial function, is not synthesized by mitochondria but is imported from the cytosol. Rat liver mitochondria have a multicomponent system that underlies the remarkable ability of mitochondria to take up and retain glutathione. At external glutathione l...

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

authors： Mårtensson J,Lai JC,Meister A

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Daphnia pulex de Geer and Daphnia magna Straus populations cannot be maintained in defined (sensu stricto) media containing less than 0.1 part per billion (ppb) of selenium. A concentration of 1 ppb is sufficient to satisfy minimal needs in otherwise sufficient media. In the first generation with no selenium added to ...

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

authors： Keating KI,Dagbusan BC

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have synthesized two sets of 15-base-long oligodeoxyribonucleotides corresponding to all possible coding sequences for a small portion of human beta 2-microglobulin. Labeled oligonucleotides were used as hybridization probes to screen bacterial clones containing cDNA sequences primed with oligo(dT) and inserted int...

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

authors： Suggs SV,Wallace RB,Hirose T,Kawashima EH,Itakura K

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nipah virus (NiV) and Hendra virus are the type species of the highly pathogenic paramyxovirus genus Henipavirus, which can cause severe respiratory disease and fatal encephalitis infections in humans, with case fatality rates approaching 75%. NiV contains two envelope glycoproteins, the receptor-binding G glycoprotei...

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

authors： Xu K,Rajashankar KR,Chan YP,Himanen JP,Broder CC,Nikolov DB

更新日期：2008-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Oriented cell division is critical for cell fate specification, tissue organization, and tissue homeostasis, and relies on proper orientation of the mitotic spindle. The molecular mechanisms underlying the regulation of spindle orientation remain largely unknown. Herein, we identify a critical role for cylindromatosis...

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

authors： Yang Y,Liu M,Li D,Ran J,Gao J,Suo S,Sun SC,Zhou J

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The orphan nuclear receptor Nur77/N10 has recently been demonstrated to be involved in apoptosis of T cell hybridomas. We report here that chronic expression of Nur77/N10 in thymocytes of transgenic mice results in a dramatic reduction of CD4+CD8+ double-positive as well as CD4+CD8- and CD4-CD8+ single-positive cell p...

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

authors： Weih F,Ryseck RP,Chen L,Bravo R

更新日期：1996-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In biological processes, such as fission, fusion and trafficking, it has been shown that lipids of different shapes are sorted into regions with different membrane curvatures. This lipid sorting has been hypothesized to be due to the coupling between the membrane curvature and the lipid's spontaneous curvature, which ...

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

authors： Kamal MM,Mills D,Grzybek M,Howard J

更新日期：2009-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress sensors use a related luminal domain to monitor the unfolded protein load and convey the signal to downstream effectors, signaling an unfolded protein response (UPR) that maintains compartment-specific protein folding homeostasis. Surprisingly, perturbation of cellular lipid compositi...

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

authors： Volmer R,van der Ploeg K,Ron D

更新日期：2013-03-19 00:00:00