Muller cells are living optical fibers in the vertebrate retina.

abstract：:KRAS mutant tumors are largely recalcitrant to targeted therapies. Genetically engineered mouse models (GEMMs) of Kras mutant cancer recapitulate critical aspects of this disease and are widely used for preclinical validation of targets and therapies. Through comprehensive profiling of exomes and matched transcriptome...

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

authors： Chung WJ,Daemen A,Cheng JH,Long JE,Cooper JE,Wang BE,Tran C,Singh M,Gnad F,Modrusan Z,Foreman O,Junttila MR

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Male white Swiss mice that had previously been made aggressive by several weeks of individual housing were allowed to fight for 5 to 10 minutes each day for 5, 10, or 14 consecutive days; fighting caused a marked enlargement of their adrenals, spleens, and hearts, and a large increase in adrenal catecholamines; brain ...

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

authors： Welch BL,Welch AS

更新日期：1969-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotes, microtubules are essential for cellular plasticity and dynamics. Here we show that P300/CBP-associated factor (PCAF), a kinetochore-associated acetyltransferase, acts as a negative modulator of microtubule stability through acetylation of EB1, a protein that controls the plus ends of microtubules. PCAF ...

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

authors： Xia P,Wang Z,Liu X,Wu B,Wang J,Ward T,Zhang L,Ding X,Gibbons G,Shi Y,Yao X

更新日期：2012-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive in vitro crosslinking technique using a photoactive derivative of the chimeric activator LexA-E2F-1 was used to identify yeast proteins that might influence the response of RNA polymerase II to transcriptional activators. We found that a novel yeast protein, Xtc1p, could be covalently crosslinked to the ac...

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

authors： Emili A,Kobayashi R,Ingles CJ

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Secondary (i.e., heterotrophic or animal) production is a main pathway of energy flow through an ecosystem as it makes energy available to consumers, including humans. Its estimation can play a valuable role in the examination of linkages between ecosystem functions and services. We found that oil and gas platforms of...

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

authors： Claisse JT,Pondella DJ 2nd,Love M,Zahn LA,Williams CM,Williams JP,Bull AS

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Mosquitoes are major disease vectors because most species must feed on blood from a vertebrate host to produce eggs. Blood feeding by the vector mosquito Aedes aegypti triggers the release of two neurohormones, ovary ecdysteroidogenic hormone (OEH) and insulin-like peptides (ILPs), which activate multiple processes re...

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

authors： Vogel KJ,Brown MR,Strand MR

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical recording of membrane potential permits spatially resolved measurement of electrical activity in subcellular regions of single cells, which would be inaccessible to electrodes, and imaging of spatiotemporal patterns of action potential propagation in excitable tissues, such as the brain or heart. However, the ...

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

authors： Yan P,Acker CD,Zhou WL,Lee P,Bollensdorff C,Negrean A,Lotti J,Sacconi L,Antic SD,Kohl P,Mansvelder HD,Pavone FS,Loew LM

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of HIV integrase (HIV-1 IN) inhibitors were synthesized to evaluate the role of the metal-binding group (MBG) in this class of metalloenzyme inhibitors. A total of 21 different raltegravir-chelator derivative (RCD) compounds were prepared that differed only in the nature of the MBG. These IN strand-transfer i...

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

authors： Agrawal A,DeSoto J,Fullagar JL,Maddali K,Rostami S,Richman DD,Pommier Y,Cohen SM

更新日期：2012-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive-strand RNA viruses are the largest virus class and include many pathogens such as hepatitis C virus and the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS). Brome mosaic virus (BMV) is a representative positive-strand RNA virus whose RNA replication, gene expression, and encapsidation have been reproduce...

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

authors： Kushner DB,Lindenbach BD,Grdzelishvili VZ,Noueiry AO,Paul SM,Ahlquist P

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:By using a mixture of synthetic oligodeoxyribonucleotides as a probe, cloned cDNA sequences specific for low molecular weight (LMW) kininogen have been isolated from a cDNA library of bovine liver mRNA sequences. Nucleotide sequence analyses of cloned cDNA inserts have revealed that bovine liver LMW kininogens are enc...

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

authors： Nawa H,Kitamura N,Hirose T,Asai M,Inayama S,Nakanishi S

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RecQ helicases are a widely conserved family of ATP-dependent motors with diverse roles in nearly every aspect of bacterial and eukaryotic genome maintenance. However, the physical mechanisms by which RecQ helicases recognize and process specific DNA replication and repair intermediates are largely unknown. Here, we s...

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

authors： Pike AC,Gomathinayagam S,Swuec P,Berti M,Zhang Y,Schnecke C,Marino F,von Delft F,Renault L,Costa A,Gileadi O,Vindigni A

更新日期：2015-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (P450) in the honey bee, Apis mellifera, detoxify phytochemicals in honey and pollen. The flavonol quercetin is found ubiquitously and abundantly in pollen and frequently at lower concentrations in honey. Worker jelly consumed during the first 3 d of larval development typically contains...

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

authors： Mao W,Schuler MA,Berenbaum MR

更新日期：2017-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of geographic isolation in marine microbial speciation is hotly debated because of the high dispersal potential and large population sizes of planktonic microorganisms and the apparent lack of strong dispersal barriers in the open sea. Here, we show that gene flow between distant populations of the globally d...

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

authors： Casteleyn G,Leliaert F,Backeljau T,Debeer AE,Kotaki Y,Rhodes L,Lundholm N,Sabbe K,Vyverman W

更新日期：2010-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) have been found as monomers but also as dimers or higher-order oligomers in cells. The relevance of the monomeric or dimeric receptor state for G protein activation is currently under debate for class A rhodopsin-like GPCRs. Clarification of this issue requires the availability of w...

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

authors： White JF,Grodnitzky J,Louis JM,Trinh LB,Shiloach J,Gutierrez J,Northup JK,Grisshammer R

更新日期：2007-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The TCR is an alpha beta heterodimer, a part of the multimeric structure through which physiological T-cell activation occurs. The expression of TCR alpha chain is greatly diminished in a beta-chain-deficient mutant Jurkat cell line (J.RT3-T3.5). The relationship between the expression of the TCR alpha and beta chains...

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

authors： Chung S,Strominger JL

更新日期：1995-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA-containing Epstein-Barr herpesvirus has been implicated in the etiology of Burkitt's lymphoma, a malignant tumor of children in Africa. Recently, however, particles possessing four biochemical characteristics of RNA tumor viruses have also been identified in these tumors. The fact that both types of viruses ar...

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

authors： Peters WP,Kufe D,Schlom J,Frankel JW,Prickett CO,Groupé V,Spiegelman S

更新日期：1973-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Williams-Beuren syndrome (also known as Williams syndrome) is caused by a deletion of a 1.55- to 1.84-megabase region from chromosome band 7q11.23. GTF2IRD1 and GTF2I, located within this critical region, encode proteins of the TFII-I family with multiple helix-loop-helix domains known as I repeats. In the present wor...

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

authors： Makeyev AV,Erdenechimeg L,Mungunsukh O,Roth JJ,Enkhmandakh B,Ruddle FH,Bayarsaihan D

更新日期：2004-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel antibiotics are urgently needed to combat multidrug-resistant pathogens. Venoms represent previously untapped sources of novel drugs. Here we repurposed mastoparan-L, the toxic active principle derived from the venom of the wasp Vespula lewisii, into synthetic antimicrobials. We engineered within its N terminus ...

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

authors： Silva ON,Torres MDT,Cao J,Alves ESF,Rodrigues LV,Resende JM,Lião LM,Porto WF,Fensterseifer ICM,Lu TK,Franco OL,de la Fuente-Nunez C

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A 32-base-pair (bp) DNA duplex with deletions in one strand, and thus extra bases in the opposing strand, was ligated head-to-tail to produce linear and circular multimers. The electrophoretic mobility of the linear multimers was analyzed in polyacrylamide gels and the size of the circular DNA was determined by electr...

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

authors： Hsieh CH,Griffith JD

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analyses of genomic DNA and clones indicate that the pyruvate, orthophosphate dikinase (PPDK; ATP: pyruvate, orthophosphate phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.9.1) gene family of maize (Zea mays L. subsp. mays, line B73) contains two members. Restriction site and DNA sequence comparisons between PPDK genomic and leaf cDNA clo...

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

authors： Glackin CA,Grula JW

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six groups of Munich-Wistar rats underwent micropuncture study 2-10 weeks and morphologic studies 11-13 months after induction of streptozotocin diabetes or after sham treatment. Diabetic rats received diets containing 6% (group D6), 12% (D12), or 50% protein (D50) and were maintained under similar conditions of moder...

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

authors： Zatz R,Meyer TW,Rennke HG,Brenner BM

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant subline of V79 Chinese hamster cells resistant to antimycin A (ANT) was obtained by treatment with ethyl methanesulfonate followed by serial selection in ANT-containing medium. Clonal derivatives of the resistant line are less susceptible than parent cells to growth inhibition by ANT in mass populations and s...

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

authors： Harris M

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, single molecule-based superresolution fluorescence microscopy has surpassed the diffraction limit to improve resolution to the order of 20 nm or better. These methods typically use image fitting that assumes an isotropic emission pattern from the single emitters as well as control of the emitter concentratio...

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

authors： Backlund MP,Lew MD,Backer AS,Sahl SJ,Grover G,Agrawal A,Piestun R,Moerner WE

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:An efficient technique has been developed for performing in vivo site-directed mutagenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. This procedure involves directed repair of P-element-induced DNA lesions after injection of a modified DNA sequence into early embryos. An oligonucleotide of 50 base pairs, whose sequence spans the P-...

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

authors： Banga SS,Boyd JB

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell membrane proteins synthesized after infection of Escherichia coli B with wild-type phage T4 and rIIA mutants were analyzed by dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. A protein with an approximate molecular weight of 74,000 is present in membranes isolated from T4r(+)-infected cells, but is not found i...

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

authors： Ennis HL,Kievitt KD

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colloidal particles with directional interactions are key in the realization of new colloidal materials with possibly unconventional phase behaviors. Here we exploit DNA self-assembly to produce bulk quantities of "DNA stars" with three or four sticky terminals, mimicking molecules with controlled limited valence. Sol...

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

authors： Biffi S,Cerbino R,Bomboi F,Paraboschi EM,Asselta R,Sciortino F,Bellini T

更新日期：2013-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The autoimmune dermatologic disease pemphigus vulgaris (PV) is associated with the HLA serotypes DR4 and DRw6. Susceptibility to PV could be conferred either by sequences shared between the DR4 and DRw6 haplotypes or by different sequences in these haplotypes. We have examined the distribution of DR and DQ beta-chain ...

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

authors： Scharf SJ,Friedmann A,Brautbar C,Szafer F,Steinman L,Horn G,Gyllensten U,Erlich HA

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian AML/CBFalpha runt domain (RD) transcription factors regulate hematopoiesis and osteoblast differentiation. Like their Drosophila counterparts, most mammalian RD proteins terminate in a common pentapeptide, VWRPY, which serves to recruit the corepressor Groucho (Gro). Using a yeast two-hybrid assay, in vi...

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

authors： Levanon D,Goldstein RE,Bernstein Y,Tang H,Goldenberg D,Stifani S,Paroush Z,Groner Y

更新日期：1998-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the prevalence of transposable elements in the genomes of higher eukaryotes, what is virtually unknown is how they amplify to very high copy numbers without killing their host. Here, we report the discovery of rice strains where a miniature inverted-repeat transposable element (mPing) has amplified from approx...

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

authors： Naito K,Cho E,Yang G,Campbell MA,Yano K,Okumoto Y,Tanisaka T,Wessler SR

更新日期：2006-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishing a timeline for the evolution of novelties is a common, unifying goal at the intersection of evolutionary and developmental biology. Analyses of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) provide the ability to understand the underlying genetic and developmental mechanisms responsible for the origin of morphological ...

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

authors： Thompson JR,Erkenbrack EM,Hinman VF,McCauley BS,Petsios E,Bottjer DJ

更新日期：2017-06-06 00:00:00