Rous sarcoma virus activates embryonic globin genes in chicken fibroblasts.

abstract：:ADP activates a family of cell surface receptors that modulate signaling pathways in a broad range of cells. ADP receptor antagonists are widely used to treat cardiovascular disease states. These studies identify a critical role for the stable reactive oxygen species hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in mediating cellular resp...

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

authors： Kalwa H,Sartoretto JL,Martinelli R,Romero N,Steinhorn BS,Tao M,Ozaki CK,Carman CV,Michel T

更新日期：2014-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Salt and water secretion from intestinal epithelia requires enhancement of anion permeability across the apical membrane of Cl- secreting cells lining the crypt, the secretory gland of the intestine. Paneth cells located at the base of the small intestinal crypt release enteric defensins (cryptdins) apically into the ...

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

authors： Lencer WI,Cheung G,Strohmeier GR,Currie MG,Ouellette AJ,Selsted ME,Madara JL

更新日期：1997-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclin E is an important regulator of cell cycle progression that together with cyclin-dependent kinase (cdk) 2 is crucial for the G1/S transition during the mammalian cell cycle. Previously, we showed that severe overexpression of cyclin E protein in tumor cells and tissues results in the appearance of lower molecula...

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

authors： Gray-Bablin J,Zalvide J,Fox MP,Knickerbocker CJ,DeCaprio JA,Keyomarsi K

更新日期：1996-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutants of Escherichia coli sensitive to phage T4 gene 2 mutants were obtained following ethyl methanesulfonate mutagenesis. By mapping and complementation analysis, the mutations in each of the six mutants are in recB and recC. By both in vivo and in vitro analyses, the nuclease activity of RecBC enzyme is undetectab...

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

authors： Chaudhury AM,Smith GR

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dark-cycle, night administration of the pineal hormone melatonin in drinking water to aging mice (15 months of age) prolongs survival of BALB/c females from 23.8 to 28.1 months and preserves aspects of their youthful state. Similar results were seen in New Zealand Black females beginning at 5 months and C57BL/6 males ...

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

authors： Pierpaoli W,Regelson W

更新日期：1994-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Preparations of the hemin-controlled repressor (HCR) from rabbit reticulocytes contain 3':5'-cyclic-AMP-independent protein kinase activity for the smallest subunit of the peptide initiation factor eIF-2 and for proteins of reticulocyte 40S ribosomal subunits. Binding of the ternary complex formed between Met-tRNAf, G...

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

authors： Kramer G,Henderson AB,Pinphanichakarn P,Wallis MH,Hardesty B

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Undesired side products of DNA transfections are usually discarded. However, here, we show that such products may provide insight into mutational events that are also a major driving force in protein evolution. While studying the small heat-shock protein alphaA-crystallin, we transfected the hamster alphaA-crystallin ...

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

authors： van Rijk AA,de Jong WW,Bloemendal H

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The local conformations of proteins and peptides are determined by the amino acid sequence. However, the 20 amino acids encoded by the genome allow the peptide backbone to fold into many conformations, so that even for a small peptide it becomes very difficult to predict the three-dimensional structure. By using empir...

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

authors： Burgess AW

更新日期：1994-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of domestic cattle origins in Africa are unclear as archaeological data are relatively sparse. The earliest domesticates were humpless, or Bos taurus, in morphology and may have shared a common origin with the ancestors of European cattle in the Near East. Alternatively, local strains of the wild ox, the au...

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

authors： Bradley DG,MacHugh DE,Cunningham P,Loftus RT

更新日期：1996-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Thalassemia is a heritable human anemia caused by a variety of mutations that affect expression of the alpha- or the beta-chain of hemoglobin. The expressivity of the phenotype is likely to be influenced by unlinked modifying genes. Indeed, by using a mouse model of alpha-thalassemia, we find that its phenotype is str...

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

authors： Leder A,Wiener E,Lee MJ,Wickramasinghe SN,Leder P

更新日期：1999-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:APOBEC3 (A3) genes are members of the AID/APOBEC gene family that are found exclusively in mammals. A3 genes encode antiviral proteins that restrict the replication of retroviruses by inducing G-to-A mutations in their genomes and have undergone extensive amplification and diversification during mammalian evolution. E...

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

authors： Ito J,Gifford RJ,Sato K

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously described an antigen-specific I-Ad-restricted T-cell hybridoma, A1.1, that constitutively releases an antigen-specific immunoregulatory activity into supernatants. Using retrovirally mediated gene transfer, we have found that transfer of the T-cell receptor alpha chain (TCR alpha) gene from A1.1 to ...

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

authors： Green DR,Bissonnette R,Zheng HG,Onda T,Echeverri F,Mogil RJ,Steele JK,Voralia M,Fotedar A

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood mononuclear cells of 10 out of 26 patients with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) released IgE-binding factors, as determined by two independent assays. The formation of the factors by the mononuclear cells was enhanced by incubation of the cells with homologous IgE. In the presence of IgE, ...

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

authors： Carini C,Margolick J,Yodoi J,Ishizaka K

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusions of the lac operon to genes induced by treatment with sublethal levels of alkylating agents have been selected from random insertions of the Mu-dl(ApRlac) phage by screening for induction of beta-galactosidase activity in the presence of methyl methanesulfonate. Genetic analysis reveals that these fusions resul...

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

authors： Volkert MR,Nguyen DC

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblasts cultured from the skin of a patient with metachromatic leukodystrophy have been found to manifest the biochemical defect of this inborn error of metabolism, a deficiency of arylsulfatase A. Diseased cells had less than five per cent of normal arylsulfatase-A activity, while activities of other lysosomal en...

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

authors： Porter MT,Fluharty AL,Kihara H

更新日期：1969-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The retrosplenial cortex (RSC) is part of a network of interconnected cortical, hippocampal, and thalamic structures harboring spatially modulated neurons. The RSC contains head direction cells and connects to the parahippocampal region and anterior thalamus. Manipulations of the RSC can affect spatial and contextual ...

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

authors： Czajkowski R,Jayaprakash B,Wiltgen B,Rogerson T,Guzman-Karlsson MC,Barth AL,Trachtenberg JT,Silva AJ

更新日期：2014-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-negative bacteria deliver a cadre of virulence factors directly into the cytoplasm of eukaryotic host cells to promote pathogenesis and/or commensalism. Recently, families of virulence proteins have been recognized that function as E3 Ubiquitin-ligases. How these bacterial ligases integrate into the ubiquitin (Ub...

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

authors： Levin I,Eakin C,Blanc MP,Klevit RE,Miller SI,Brzovic PS

更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Folding mechanisms of proteins incorporated within supramolecular assemblies, including viruses, are little understood and may differ fundamentally from folding mechanisms of small globular proteins. We describe a novel Raman dynamic probe of hydrogen-isotope exchange to investigate directly these protein folding/asse...

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

authors： Tuma R,Prevelige PE Jr,Thomas GJ Jr

更新日期：1998-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of cellular protein levels is a complex process involving many regulatory mechanisms, each introducing stochastic events, leading to variability of protein levels between isogenic cells. Previous studies have shown that perturbing genes involved in transcription regulation affects the amount of cell-to-...

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

authors： Rinott R,Jaimovich A,Friedman N

更新日期：2011-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:High-accuracy ab initio folding has remained an elusive objective despite decades of effort. To explore the folding landscape of villin headpiece subdomain HP35, we conducted two sets of replica exchange molecular dynamics for 200 ns each and three sets of conventional microsecond-long molecular dynamics simulations, ...

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

authors： Lei H,Wu C,Liu H,Duan Y

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified human platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) induces an increase in amino acid uptake via system A in quiescent human diploid fibroblasts. Cells must be exposed to PDGF for 45 min to obtain maximum transport stimulation. Transport stimulation requires protein synthesis. Transient exposure to PDGF, alone, in th...

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

authors： Owen AJ 3rd,Geyer RP,Antoniades HN

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron microscopy is arguably the most powerful tool for spatial imaging of structures. As such, 2D and 3D microscopies provide static structures with subnanometer and increasingly with angstrom-scale spatial resolution. Here we report the development of 4D ultrafast electron microscopy, whose capability imparts ano...

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

authors： Lobastov VA,Srinivasan R,Zewail AH

更新日期：2005-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Anisotropic expansion of plant cells requires organized arrays of cortical microtubules. Mutations in microtubule-associated proteins and a particular mutation in alpha-tubulins were reported to cause abnormal microtubule arrays and result in helical growth in Arabidopsis thaliana. However, the way in which these muta...

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

authors： Ishida T,Kaneko Y,Iwano M,Hashimoto T

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced functional bladder capacity and concomitant increased micturition frequency (pollakisuria) are common lower urinary tract symptoms associated with conditions such as cystitis, prostatic hyperplasia, neurological disease, and overactive bladder syndrome. These symptoms can profoundly affect the quality of life ...

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

authors： Everaerts W,Zhen X,Ghosh D,Vriens J,Gevaert T,Gilbert JP,Hayward NJ,McNamara CR,Xue F,Moran MM,Strassmaier T,Uykal E,Owsianik G,Vennekens R,De Ridder D,Nilius B,Fanger CM,Voets T

更新日期：2010-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinically available drugs active against Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and other human herpesviruses are limited to those targeting viral DNA replication. To identify compounds directed against other steps in the viral life cycle, we searched for drugs active against the EBV SM protein, which is essential for infectious v...

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

authors： Verma D,Thompson J,Swaminathan S

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Tikal has long been viewed as one of the leading polities of the ancient Maya realm, yet how the city was able to maintain its substantial population in the midst of a tropical forest environment has been a topic of unresolved debate among researchers for decades. We present ecological, paleoethnobotanical, hydraulic,...

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

authors： Lentz DL,Dunning NP,Scarborough VL,Magee KS,Thompson KM,Weaver E,Carr C,Terry RE,Islebe G,Tankersley KB,Grazioso Sierra L,Jones JG,Buttles P,Valdez F,Ramos Hernandez CE

更新日期：2014-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:When the Mn(2+) and Ca(2+) ions normally present in concanavalin A are removed, the protein becomes incapable of binding saccharides. To explore the structural differences between the native and demetallized forms and their effects on the saccharide-binding properties of the protein, we have refined and compared the c...

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

authors： Reeke GN Jr,Becker JW,Edelman GM

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tridecaptin A1 (TriA1) is a nonribosomal lipopeptide with selective antimicrobial activity against Gram-negative bacteria. Here we show that TriA1 exerts its bactericidal effect by binding to the bacterial cell-wall precursor lipid II on the inner membrane, disrupting the proton motive force. Biochemical and biophysic...

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

authors： Cochrane SA,Findlay B,Bakhtiary A,Acedo JZ,Rodriguez-Lopez EM,Mercier P,Vederas JC

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A 60,000-dalton polypeptide (p60) has been identified in the feline leukemia virus (FeLV) pseudotype of Moloney sarcoma virus [MSV(FeLV)]. This polypeptide is present in the purified virus complex in concentrations greater than either the murine p30 or the feline p27. Purified p60 crossreacts immunologically with muri...

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

authors： Oskarsson MK,Robey WG,Harris CL,Fischinger PJ,Haapala DK,Vande Woude GF

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terrestrial solar UVB radiation ( approximately 295-320 nm) readily induces cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) in human skin DNA that result in characteristic mutations associated with nonmelanoma skin cancer. The proinflammatory cytokine TNFalpha is important in mouse skin chemical carcinogenesis and is thought to ...

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

authors： Walker SL,Young AR

更新日期：2007-11-27 00:00:00