A single amino acid substitution strongly modulates the activity and substrate specificity of the mouse mdr1 and mdr3 drug efflux pumps.

abstract：:To determine which of seven library design algorithms best introduces new protein function without destroying it altogether, seven combinatorial libraries of green fluorescent protein variants were designed and synthesized. Each was evaluated by distributions of emission intensity and color compiled from measurements ...

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

authors： Treynor TP,Vizcarra CL,Nedelcu D,Mayo SL

更新日期：2007-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted gene disruption in the murine TOP3beta gene-encoding DNA topoisomerase IIIbeta was carried out. In contrast to the embryonic lethality of mutant mice lacking DNA topoisomerase IIIalpha, top3beta(-/-) nulls are viable and grow to maturity with no apparent defects. Mice lacking DNA topoisomerase IIIbeta have a ...

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

authors： Kwan KY,Wang JC

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat insulin-like growth factor II gene, encoding a fetal somatomedin, expresses a multitranscript family in embryonic/fetal tissues and in the adult brain and spinal cord. By performing in situ hybridization on tissue sections of adult brain and spinal cord, we have found that these transcripts are not expressed i...

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

authors： Stylianopoulou F,Herbert J,Soares MB,Efstratiadis A

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenin (Ang), an inducer of neovascularization, is secreted by several types of human tumor cells and appears critical for their growth. The murine anti-Ang monoclonal antibody (mAb) 26-2F neutralizes the activities of Ang and dramatically prevents the establishment and metastatic dissemination of human tumor cell...

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

authors： Piccoli R,Olson KA,Vallee BL,Fett JW

更新日期：1998-04-14 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：:Allergic asthma is an inflammatory disease of the lung characterized by abnormal T helper-2 (T(H)2) lymphocyte responses to inhaled antigens. The molecular mechanisms leading to the generation of T(H)2 responses remain unclear, although toll-like receptors (TLRs) present on innate immune cells play a pivotal role in s...

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

authors： Mattes J,Collison A,Plank M,Phipps S,Foster PS

更新日期：2009-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Metallothioneins are small cysteine-rich proteins capable of binding heavy metal ions such as Zn2+ and Cd2+. They are ubiquitous tissue components in higher organisms, which tentatively have been attributed both unspecific protective functions against toxic metal ions and highly specific roles in fundamental zinc-regu...

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

authors： Braun W,Vasák M,Robbins AH,Stout CD,Wagner G,Kägi JH,Wüthrich K

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent climate change has increased arctic soil temperatures and thawed large areas of permafrost, allowing for microbial respiration of previously frozen C. Furthermore, soil destabilization from melting ice has caused an increase in thermokarst failures that expose buried C and release dissolved organic C (DOC) to s...

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

authors： Cory RM,Crump BC,Dobkowski JA,Kling GW

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:During an investigation of the role of ions in growth regulation, it was found that ethylene diamine tetraacetate (EDTA) inhibits DNA synthesis about 10-fold in cultures of chick embryo cells, while ethylene glycol bis(beta-amino ethyl ether)-N,N'-tetraacetate has no effect. RNA synthesis is only slightly inhibited by...

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

authors： Rubin H

更新日期：1972-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High vein density, a distinctive trait of C4 leaves, is central to both C3-to-C4 evolution and conversion of C3 to C4-like crops. We tested the hypothesis that high vein density in C4 leaves is due to elevated auxin biosynthesis and transport in developing leaves. Up-regulation of genes in auxin biosynthesis pathways ...

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

authors： Huang CF,Yu CP,Wu YH,Lu MJ,Tu SL,Wu SH,Shiu SH,Ku MSB,Li WH

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Injection of 3':5'-cyclic AMP (cAMP) into larvae of the fly Sarcophaga bullata 3-4 hr before the beginning of puparium formation (red-spiracle stage) greatly accelerates the onset of tanning without affecting initiation of puparium formation (anterior retraction). Accelerated tanning resembles real tanning in two impo...

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

authors： Fraenkel G,Blechl A,Blechl J,Herman P,Seligman MI

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the influence of interareal distance on connectivity patterns in a database obtained from the injection of retrograde tracers in 29 areas distributed over six regions (occipital, temporal, parietal, frontal, prefrontal, and limbic). One-third of the 1,615 pathways projecting to the 29 target areas were...

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

authors： Markov NT,Ercsey-Ravasz M,Lamy C,Ribeiro Gomes AR,Magrou L,Misery P,Giroud P,Barone P,Dehay C,Toroczkai Z,Knoblauch K,Van Essen DC,Kennedy H

更新日期：2013-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Besides ethanol, acetic acid is produced in naturally fermenting sweet resources and is a significant environmental stress for fruit-breeding Drosophila populations and species. Although not related to the presence of an active alcohol dehydrogenase, adult acetic acid tolerance was found to correlate with ethanol tole...

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

authors： Chakir M,Peridy O,Capy P,Pla E,David JR

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mus poschiavinus x M. musculus hybrids, which had seven metacentric chromosomes derived from the poschiavinus complement, were repeatedly backcrossed to M. musculus and selected for the chromosome carrying the H-2 complex. A line called T1/Klj was established which had one metacentric chromosome. It was shown by linka...

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

authors： Klein J

更新日期：1971-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase [GAPDH; D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate:NAD+ oxidoreductase (phosphorylating), EC 1.2.1.12] mRNA levels are induced by physiologic concentrations of insulin in cultured 3T3-F442A adipocyte and H35 hepatoma cell lines. To examine the mechanism by which insulin regulates GAPDH mRNA ...

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

authors： Alexander MC,Lomanto M,Nasrin N,Ramaika C

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene editing techniques have been extensively used to attempt to model recurrent genomic rearrangements found in tumor cells. These methods involve the induction of double-strand breaks at endogenous loci followed by the identification of breakpoint junctions within a population, which typically arise by nonhomologous...

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

authors： Vanoli F,Tomishima M,Feng W,Lamribet K,Babin L,Brunet E,Jasin M

更新日期：2017-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete primary structure of the purple membrane protein bacteriorhodopsin, which contains 248 amino acid residues, has been determined. Methods used for separation of the hydrophobic fragments included gel permeation and reverse-phase high-pressure liquid chromatography in organic solvents. The amino acid sequen...

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

authors： Khorana HG,Gerber GE,Herlihy WC,Gray CP,Anderegg RJ,Nihei K,Biemann K

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Movement over and colonization of surfaces are important survival strategies for bacteria, and many find it advantageous to perform these activities as a group, using quorum sensing to sample population size and synchronize behavior. It is puzzling however, that swarming-proficient and virulent strains of Vibrio parah...

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

authors： Trimble MJ,McCarter LL

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro, polynucleotide phosphorylase of Escherichia coli can both synthesize RNA by using nucleotide diphosphates as precursors and exonucleolytically degrade RNA in the presence of inorganic phosphate. However, because of the high in vivo concentration of inorganic phosphate in exponentially growing cells, it has b...

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

authors： Mohanty BK,Kushner SR

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In earlier studies with the acetylcholine receptor (AcChoR) of Electrophorus electricus the rate and equilibrium constants for a model that relates the ligand binding to ion translocation were determined, and the dependence of these constants on the concentrations of carbamoylcholine and acetylcholine, over a 200- and...

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

authors： Hess GP,Pasquale EB,Walker JW,McNamee MG

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sparking of cut grape hemispheres in a household microwave oven has been a poorly explained Internet parlor trick for over two decades. By expanding this phenomenon to whole spherical dimers of various grape-sized fruit and hydrogel water beads, we demonstrate that the formation of plasma is due to electromagnetic...

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

authors： Khattak HK,Bianucci P,Slepkov AD

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we reported that bilateral excitotoxic lesions of the basolateral nucleus of the amygdala (BLA) block the enhancing effects of posttraining systemic or intrahippocampal glucocorticoid administration on memory for inhibitory avoidance training. The present study further examined the basis of this permissive...

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

authors： Roozendaal B,Nguyen BT,Power AE,McGaugh JL

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In t(15;17) acute promyelocytic leukemia, all-trans retinoic acid (RA) induces leukemic cell maturation in vitro and remission in acute promyelocytic leukemia patients, but in vivo treatments invariably lead to relapse with resistance to RA. NB4, a maturation-inducible cell line, and NB4-RAr sublines (R1 and R2) displ...

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

authors： Ruchaud S,Duprez E,Gendron MC,Houge G,Genieser HG,Jastorff B,Doskeland SO,Lanotte M

更新日期：1994-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A decade ago, it seemed rational that our rapidly increasing knowledge of the molecular identities of tumor antigens and a deeper understanding of basic immunology would point the way to an effective therapeutic cancer vaccine. Significant progress has been made, but we do not yet have a cancer vaccine that can reliab...

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

authors： Lewis JJ

更新日期：2004-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have tried to find out why Ascaris hemoglobin has such an exceptionally high oxygen affinity (P50 approximately 0.004 mmHg; 1 mmHg = 133 Pa). Following Kloek et al., we have synthesized the N-terminal globin domain of Ascaris hemoglobin in Escherichia coli [Kloek, A. P., Yang, J., Mathews, F. S. & Goldberg, D. (199...

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

authors： De Baere I,Perutz MF,Kiger L,Marden MC,Poyart C

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The tissue-specific transcriptional coactivator OCA-B is required for antigen-dependent B cell differentiation events, including germinal center formation. However, the identity of OCA-B target genes involved in this process is unknown. This study has used large-scale cDNA arrays to monitor changes in gene expression ...

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

authors： Kim U,Siegel R,Ren X,Gunther CS,Gaasterland T,Roeder RG

更新日期：2003-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP-dependent DNA supercoiling catalyzed by Escherichia coli DNA gyrase was inhibited by oxolinic acid, a compound similar to but more potent than nalidixic acid and a known inhibitor of DNA replication in E. coli. The supercoiling activity of DNA gyrase purified from nalidixic acid-resistant mutant (nalA(R)) bacteria...

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

authors： Gellert M,Mizuuchi K,O'Dea MH,Itoh T,Tomizawa JI

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites are the defining neuropathological characteristics of Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. They are made of abnormal filamentous assemblies of unknown composition. We show here that Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites from Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies are stai...

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

authors： Spillantini MG,Crowther RA,Jakes R,Hasegawa M,Goedert M

更新日期：1998-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of bacteria to regulate gene expression in response to changes in cell density is termed quorum sensing. This behavior involves the synthesis and recognition of extracellular, hormone-like compounds known as autoinducers. Here we report the structure of an autoinducer synthase, LuxS from Bacillus subtilis,...

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

authors： Hilgers MT,Ludwig ML

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Protection of poikilothermic animals from seasonal cold is widely regarded as being causally linked to changes in the unsaturation of membrane phospholipids, yet in animals this proposition remains formally untested. We have now achieved this by the genetic manipulation of lipid biosynthesis of Caenorhabditis elegans ...

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

authors： Murray P,Hayward SA,Govan GG,Gracey AY,Cossins AR

更新日期：2007-03-27 00:00:00