Distinct structural and mechanical properties of the nuclear lamina in Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome.

abstract：:The reported isolation of nanobacteria from human kidney stones raises the intriguing possibility that these microorganisms are etiological agents of pathological extraskeletal calcification [Kajander, E. O. & Ciftçioglu, N. (1998) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 8274-8279]. Nanobacteria were previously isolated from F...

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

authors： Cisar JO,Xu DQ,Thompson J,Swaim W,Hu L,Kopecko DJ

更新日期：2000-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In biosynthesis of the pancreatic cancer drug streptozotocin, the tridomain nonheme-iron oxygenase SznF hydroxylates Nδ and Nω' of Nω-methyl-l-arginine before oxidatively rearranging the triply modified guanidine to the N-methyl-N-nitrosourea pharmacophore. A previously published structure visualized the monoiron cofa...

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

authors： McBride MJ,Pope SR,Hu K,Okafor CD,Balskus EP,Bollinger JM Jr,Boal AK

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Two endocytic receptors, the low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor (LDLR) and the LDLR-related protein (LRP), are thought to act in concert in the hepatic uptake of partially metabolized dietary lipoproteins, the chylomicron remnants. We have evaluated the role of these two receptors in the hepatic metabolism of chyl...

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

authors： Herz J,Qiu SQ,Oesterle A,DeSilva HV,Shafi S,Havel RJ

更新日期：1995-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:This article extends our previous quantitative analysis of the relationship between the dynamics of the primary structure of DNA and mutagenesis associated with single-strand lesions to an analysis of the production and processing of endogenous double-strand breaks (EDSBs) and to their implications for oncogenesis. We...

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

authors： Vilenchik MM,Knudson AG

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic selections that use proteinaceous transdominant inhibitors encoded by DNA libraries to cause mutant phenocopies may facilitate genetic analysis in traditionally nongenetic organisms. We performed a selection for random short peptides and larger protein fragments (collectively termed "perturbagens") that inhibi...

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

authors： Caponigro G,Abedi MR,Hurlburt AP,Maxfield A,Judd W,Kamb A

更新日期：1998-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The copy number of plasmid ColE1 has been known to increase when the Hae II-C segment downstream from the replication origin is deleted. The presence of the 306-base-pair (bp) Hpa II region in the segment is sufficient for reduction of the copy number. Plasmids harboring the region express a trans-acting function that...

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

authors： Som T,Tomizawa J

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integration of viral DNA into the host nuclear genome, although not unusual in bacterial and animal systems, has surprisingly not been reported for plants. We have discovered geminvirus-related DNA (GRD) sequences, in the form of distinct sets of multiple direct repeats comprising three related repeat classes, situate...

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

authors： Bejarano ER,Khashoggi A,Witty M,Lichtenstein C

更新日期：1996-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found a soluble cyclase, using for assay radioactively marked ATP as precursor. The reaction product was isolated by thin-layer chromatography and identified by specific degradation. After homogenization, part of the activity remained in the particulate fraction but could be easily extracted. The cyclase was c...

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

authors： Tao M,Lipmann F

更新日期：1969-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP-2) is a potent inducer of differentiation of osteoblasts both in vivo and in vitro. We examined the action of BMP-2 on expression of a helix-loop-helix-type transcription factor, Id (inhibitor of differentiation), in osteoblast-like cells, as well as in osteoblast-enriched cells and p...

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

authors： Ogata T,Wozney JM,Benezra R,Noda M

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biocompatible gold nanoparticles designed to absorb light at wavelengths of high tissue transparency have been of particular interest for biomedical applications. The ability of such nanoparticles to convert absorbed near-infrared light to heat and induce highly localized hyperthermia has been shown to be highly effec...

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

authors： Rastinehad AR,Anastos H,Wajswol E,Winoker JS,Sfakianos JP,Doppalapudi SK,Carrick MR,Knauer CJ,Taouli B,Lewis SC,Tewari AK,Schwartz JA,Canfield SE,George AK,West JL,Halas NJ

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Indirect immunofluorescent analysis revealed that sera from five patients with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis possessed IgD antibodies directed against measles virus components in persistently infected HeLa cells. IgD levels in these sera were within the normal range. Control studies indicated that the reaction w...

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

authors： Luster MI,Armen RC,Hallum JV,Leslie GA

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of transcription factors (TFs) to DNA controls most aspects of cellular function, making the understanding of their binding kinetics imperative. The standard description of bimolecular interactions posits that TF off rates are independent of TF concentration in solution. However, recent observations have r...

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

authors： Kamar RI,Banigan EJ,Erbas A,Giuntoli RD,Olvera de la Cruz M,Johnson RC,Marko JF

更新日期：2017-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Using T- and B-cell deficient C.B-17 mice with the scid mutation, we have previously documented the existence of a T-cell-independent but interferon gamma-dependent pathway of macrophage activation that confers upon the host partial resistance to the facultative intracellular bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. This pat...

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

authors： Rogers HW,Sheehan KC,Brunt LM,Dower SK,Unanue ER,Schreiber RD

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using differential display PCR, we have identified 98 cDNA fragments from the rat dorsal hippocampus that are expressed differentially between the fast learners and slow learners in the water maze learning task. One of these cDNA fragments encodes the rat serum- and glucocorticoid-inducible kinase (sgk) gene. North...

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

authors： Tsai KJ,Chen SK,Ma YL,Hsu WL,Lee EH

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial proteins often localize to distinct sites within the cell, but the primary cues that dictate localization are largely unknown. Recent evidence has shown that positive membrane curvature can serve as a cue for localization of a peripheral membrane protein. Here we report that localization of the peripheral me...

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

authors： Ramamurthi KS,Losick R

更新日期：2009-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Many approaches to the origin of life focus on how the molecules found in biology might be made in the absence of biological processes, from the simplest plausible starting materials. Another approach could be to view the emergence of the chemistry of biology as process whereby the environment effectively directs "pri...

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

authors： Surman AJ,Rodriguez-Garcia M,Abul-Haija YM,Cooper GJT,Gromski PS,Turk-MacLeod R,Mullin M,Mathis C,Walker SI,Cronin L

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A cofactor needed for the reduction of CDP-4-keto-6-deoxy-D-glucose to CDP-4-keto-3,6-dideoxy D-glucose has been detected and purified. Its spectra in neutral, acid, and basic solutions, its behavior on thin-layer chromatography, and other properties led to its identification as pyridoxamine-5'-phosphate. Moreover, au...

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

authors： Gonzalez-Porque P,Strominger JL

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Golgi apparatus is a membrane-bounded organelle with the characteristic shape of a series of stacked flat cisternae. During mitosis in mammalian cells, the Golgi apparatus is once fragmented into small vesicles and then reassembled to form the characteristic shape again in each daughter cell. The mechanism and det...

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

authors： Tachikawa M,Mochizuki A

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluid mixing in active suspensions of microorganisms is important to ecological phenomena and presents a fascinating stochastic process. We investigate the mixing produced by swimming unicellular algal cells (Chlamydomonas) in quasi-two-dimensional liquid films by simultaneously tracking the motion of the cells and th...

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

authors： Kurtuldu H,Guasto JS,Johnson KA,Gollub JP

更新日期：2011-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The novel immune-type receptor (NITR) genes encode a unique multigene family of leukocyte regulatory receptors, which possess an extracellular Ig variable (V) domain and may function in innate immunity. Artificial chromosomes that encode zebrafish NITRs have been assembled into a contig spanning approximately 350 kb. ...

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

authors： Yoder JA,Litman RT,Mueller MG,Desai S,Dobrinski KP,Montgomery JS,Buzzeo MP,Ota T,Amemiya CT,Trede NS,Wei S,Djeu JY,Humphray S,Jekosch K,Hernandez Prada JA,Ostrov DA,Litman GW

更新日期：2004-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:AMP deaminase (adenylate deaminase; AMP aminohydrolase, EC 3.5.4.6), a large flat tetrameric enzyme found in skeletal muscle, binds strongly and specifically to the subfragment-2 region of rabbit skeletal muscle myosin. This allows its use as a structural probe in myosin and myosin rod aggregation studies. When mixed ...

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

authors： Koretz JF

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding interactions between membranes requires measurements on well-controlled systems close to natural conditions, in which fluctuations play an important role. We have determined, by grazing incidence X-ray scattering, the interaction potential between two lipid bilayers, one adsorbed on a solid surface and t...

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

authors： Hemmerle A,Malaquin L,Charitat T,Lecuyer S,Fragneto G,Daillant J

更新日期：2012-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The LSD1-CoREST histone demethylase complex is required to repress neuronal genes in nonneuronal tissues. Here we show that sumoylation of Braf35, one of the subunits of the complex, is required to maintain full repression of neuron-specific genes and for occupancy of the LSD1-CoREST complex at its gene targets. Inter...

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

authors： Ceballos-Chávez M,Rivero S,García-Gutiérrez P,Rodríguez-Paredes M,García-Domínguez M,Bhattacharya S,Reyes JC

更新日期：2012-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:How climate change influences the dynamics of plant populations is not well understood, as few plant studies have measured responses of vital rates to climatic variables and modeled the impact on population growth. The present study used 25 y of demographic data to analyze how survival, growth, and fecundity respond t...

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

authors： Campbell DR

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured high-resolution x-ray absorption spectra of lanthanide (Ln) and heavy transition metal complexes that display prominent narrow absorption peaks near the L2 and L3 absorption edges. The anomalous scattering factors (f' and f"), which are mathematically related to the absorption cross section, have corr...

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

authors： Lye RC,Phillips JC,Kaplan D,Doniach S,Hodgson KO

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) gene responsible for von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis is related to regulators of ras proteins, and a portion of NF1 that is homologous to the ras GTPase-activating protein (GAP) encodes a similar GTPase-stimulating activity. We have raised rabbit antisera to a bacterially synthe...

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

authors： DeClue JE,Cohen BD,Lowy DR

更新日期：1991-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile, a causative agent of antibiotic-associated diarrhea and its potentially lethal form, pseudomembranous colitis, produces two large protein toxins that are responsible for the cellular damage associated with the disease. The level of toxin production appears to be critical for determining the seve...

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

authors： Mani N,Dupuy B

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinopathy of prematurity is a blinding disease, initiated by lack of retinal vascular growth after premature birth. We show that lack of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) in knockout mice prevents normal retinal vascular growth, despite the presence of vascular endothelial growth factor, important to vessel devel...

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

authors： Hellstrom A,Perruzzi C,Ju M,Engstrom E,Hard AL,Liu JL,Albertsson-Wikland K,Carlsson B,Niklasson A,Sjodell L,LeRoith D,Senger DR,Smith LE

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic microbial infections are associated with fibrotic and inflammatory reactions known as granulomas showing similarities to wound-healing and tissue repair processes. We have previously mapped three leishmaniasis susceptibility loci, designated lmr1, -2, and -3, which exert their effect independently of T cell im...

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

authors： Sakthianandeswaren A,Elso CM,Simpson K,Curtis JM,Kumar B,Speed TP,Handman E,Foote SJ

更新日期：2005-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide cyclic di-3',5'- adenosine monophosphate (c-di-AMP) was recently identified as an essential and widespread second messenger in bacterial signaling. Among c-di-AMP-producing bacteria, altered nucleotide levels result in several physiological defects and attenuated virulence. Thus, a detailed molecular un...

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

authors： Huynh TN,Luo S,Pensinger D,Sauer JD,Tong L,Woodward JJ

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00