Alpha-catenin is essential in intestinal adenoma formation.

abstract：:Up to half of all transcription termination events in bacteria rely on the RNA-dependent helicase Rho. However, the nucleic acid sequences that promote Rho-dependent termination remain poorly characterized. Defining the molecular determinants that confer Rho-dependent termination is especially important for understand...

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

authors： Hollands K,Sevostiyanova A,Groisman EA

更新日期：2014-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is an inherited neurodegenerative disease, in which the death of mutant rod photoreceptors leads secondarily to the non-cell autonomous death of cone photoreceptors. Gene therapy is a promising treatment strategy. Unfortunately, current methods of gene delivery treat only a fraction of diseas...

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

authors： Koch SF,Duong JK,Hsu CW,Tsai YT,Lin CS,Wahl-Schott CA,Tsang SH

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Focally evoked calcium waves in astrocyte cultures have been thought to propagate by gap-junction-mediated intercellular passage of chemical signal(s). In contrast to this mechanism we observed isolated astrocytes, which had no physical contact with other astrocytes in the culture, participating in a calcium wave. Thi...

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

authors： Hassinger TD,Guthrie PB,Atkinson PB,Bennett MV,Kater SB

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The density of benzodiazepine/gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor binding sites was lower in the midbrain of seizure-susceptible gerbils compared to control seizure-resistant gerbils. Binding of [3H]diazepam to high-affinity brain-specific sites in membrane homogenates of gerbil brain showed a 20-30% lower binding in mid...

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

authors： Olsen RW,Wamsley JK,McCabe RT,Lee RJ,Lomax P

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GM54VA human cells transformed by simian virus 40 (SV40) were fused with peritoneal macrophages obtained from three different mouse strains. All 27 hybrid clones studied were positive for SV40 tumor antigen in 100% of their cells and contained human chromosome 17. Human chromosome 17 was the only human chromosome pres...

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

authors： Croce CM

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant glucose metabolism is one of the hallmarks of cancer that facilitates cancer cell survival and proliferation. Here, we demonstrate that MUC1, a large, type I transmembrane protein that is overexpressed in several carcinomas including pancreatic adenocarcinoma, modulates cancer cell metabolism to facilitate gr...

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

authors： Chaika NV,Gebregiworgis T,Lewallen ME,Purohit V,Radhakrishnan P,Liu X,Zhang B,Mehla K,Brown RB,Caffrey T,Yu F,Johnson KR,Powers R,Hollingsworth MA,Singh PK

更新日期：2012-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell separation technique was designed based on the interaction between cell-surface-bound IgG and protein A of Staphylococcus aureus. The density of lymphoid cells coated with IgG antibodies against one of the surface markers was increased by adherence of staphylococci. Cells with adhering bacteria were separated f...

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

authors： Ghetie V,Nilsson K,Sjöquist J

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sudden appearance of calcified skeletons among many different invertebrate taxa at the Precambrian-Cambrian transition may have required minor reorganization of preexisting secretory functions. In particular, features of the skeletal organic matrix responsible for regulating crystal growth by inhibition may be der...

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

authors： Marin F,Smith M,Isa Y,Muyzer G,Westbroek P

更新日期：1996-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics for hydrogen exchange at individual base pairs in self-complementary deoxydodecanucleotide duplexes have been estimated from NMR saturation recovery measurements on the resolved imino protons as a function of temperature. The imino protons of dA . dT base pairs in the center of the fully alternating d(C-G...

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

authors： Patel DJ,Ikuta S,Kozlowski S,Itakura K

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ipl (Tssc3) gene lies in an extended imprinted region of distal mouse chromosome 7, which also contains the Igf2 gene. Expression of Ipl is highest in placenta and yolk sac, where its mRNA is derived almost entirely from the maternal allele. Ipl encodes a small cytoplasmic protein with a pleckstrin-homology (PH) d...

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

authors： Frank D,Fortino W,Clark L,Musalo R,Wang W,Saxena A,Li CM,Reik W,Ludwig T,Tycko B

更新日期：2002-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Miraculin (MCL) is a homodimeric protein isolated from the red berries of Richadella dulcifica. MCL, although flat in taste at neutral pH, has taste-modifying activity to convert sour stimuli to sweetness. Once MCL is held on the tongue, strong sweetness is sensed over 1 h each time we taste a sour solution. Neverthel...

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

authors： Koizumi A,Tsuchiya A,Nakajima K,Ito K,Terada T,Shimizu-Ibuka A,Briand L,Asakura T,Misaka T,Abe K

更新日期：2011-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:An earthquake of magnitude M and linear source dimension L(M) is preceded within a few years by certain patterns of seismicity in the magnitude range down to about (M - 3) in an area of linear dimension about 5L-10L. Prediction algorithms based on such patterns may allow one to predict approximately 80% of strong eart...

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

authors： Keilis-Borok VI

更新日期：1996-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The homogeneous exchange process whereby IgG molecules adsorbed onto latex particles are replaced by IgG molecules from the bulk solution was studied by means of 125I radiolabeling. The exchange mechanism was investigated on surfaces saturated with either labeled or unlabeled proteins in the presence of a solution of ...

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

authors： Ball V,Huetz P,Elaissari A,Cazenave JP,Voegel JC,Schaaf P

更新日期：1994-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The equations of motion of the coupled electron-phonon system are integrated in real time for the model of polyacetylene recently proposed. To illustrate the physical behavior of this nonlinear system we consider the time evolution starting from three physically relevant configurations: (i) end generated soliton, (ii)...

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

authors： Su WP,Schrieffer JR

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant cuticles are composed of wax and cutin and evolved in the land plants as a hydrophobic boundary that reduces water loss from the plant epidermis. The expanding maize adult leaf displays a dynamic, proximodistal gradient of cuticle development, from the leaf base to the tip. Laser microdissection RNA Sequencing (...

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

authors： Qiao P,Bourgault R,Mohammadi M,Matschi S,Philippe G,Smith LG,Gore MA,Molina I,Scanlon MJ

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor (CNTF) was first characterized as a trophic factor for motor neurons in the ciliary ganglion and spinal cord, leading to its evaluation in humans suffering from motor neuron disease. In these trials, CNTF caused unexpected and substantial weight loss, raising concerns that it might produce ...

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

authors： Lambert PD,Anderson KD,Sleeman MW,Wong V,Tan J,Hijarunguru A,Corcoran TL,Murray JD,Thabet KE,Yancopoulos GD,Wiegand SJ

更新日期：2001-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombination is unknown in natural populations of Rivulus marmoratus, a selfing hermaphrodite, and genetic variation is likely due to mutation alone. DNA fingerprinting with an array of microsatellite [e.g., (CT)9] and minisatellite (e.g., the 33.15 core sequence) probes reveals very high clonal diversity within samp...

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

authors： Turner BJ,Elder JF Jr,Laughlin TF,Davis WP,Taylor DS

更新日期：1992-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In epithelial cells, sorting of membrane proteins to the basolateral surface depends on the presence of a basolateral sorting signal (BaSS) in their cytoplasmic domain. Amyloid precursor protein (APP), a basolateral protein implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, contains a tyrosine-based BaSS, and muta...

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

authors： Zheng P,Eastman J,Vande Pol S,Pimplikar SW

更新日期：1998-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Frogs (Anura) are one of the most diverse groups of vertebrates and comprise nearly 90% of living amphibian species. Their worldwide distribution and diverse biology make them well-suited for assessing fundamental questions in evolution, ecology, and conservation. However, despite their scientific importance, the evol...

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

authors： Feng YJ,Blackburn DC,Liang D,Hillis DM,Wake DB,Cannatella DC,Zhang P

更新日期：2017-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that requires preexisiting epithelial injury to cause acute infections. We report that P. aeruginosa inhibits mammalian cytokinesis in a type III secretion system and exotoxin T (ExoT)-dependent manner. ExoT is a bifunctional type III secretion system effector protei...

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

authors： Shafikhani SH,Engel J

更新日期：2006-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic capacitance refers to the ability of a genome to accumulate mutations that are conditionally hidden and only reveal phenotype-altering effects after certain environmental or genetic changes. Capacitance has important implications for the evolution of novel forms and functions, but experimentally studied mec...

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

authors： Hayden EJ,Bendixsen DP,Wagner A

更新日期：2015-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed Differential Specificity and Energy Landscape (DiSEL) analysis to comprehensively compare DNA-protein interactomes (DPIs) obtained by high-throughput experimental platforms and cutting edge computational methods. While high-affinity DNA binding sites are identified by most methods, DiSEL uncovered nu...

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

authors： Bhimsaria D,Rodríguez-Martínez JA,Pan J,Roston D,Korkmaz EN,Cui Q,Ramanathan P,Ansari AZ

更新日期：2018-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:CD83 is commonly known as a specific marker for mature dendritic cells. It has been shown to be important for CD4(+) T-cell development in the thymus. However, its function in the peripheral immune system remains enigmatic. Here, we show that CD83 inhibits proliferation and production of IL-2 and IFN-γ by T cells, and...

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

authors： Chen L,Zhu Y,Zhang G,Gao C,Zhong W,Zhang X

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed and characterized a polyoma virus-based plasmid that is maintained as an autonomously replicating extrachromosomal element (episome) in mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells. Plasmid pMGD20neo contains the polyoma origin of replication harboring a mutated enhancer (PyF101), a modified polyoma early regio...

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

authors： Gassmann M,Donoho G,Berg P

更新日期：1995-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Refinement of neural circuits in the mammalian cerebral cortex shapes brain function during development and in the adult. However, the signaling mechanisms underlying the synapse-specific shrinkage and loss of spiny synapses when neural circuits are remodeled remain poorly defined. Here, we show that low-frequency glu...

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

authors： Oh WC,Hill TC,Zito K

更新日期：2013-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study determined the effect of [Sar(1)-Ile(8)]-angiotensin II on steroidogenesis and induced aldosterone synthesis by the octapeptide angiotensin II, the heptapeptide des-Asp(1)-angiotensin II, and adrenocorticotropic hormone. Rabbit adrenal cells were suspended by incubation of the capsular cortical tissu...

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

authors： Chiu AT,Peach MJ

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we introduce a method to account for the shape of the potential energy curve in the evaluation of conformational free energies. The method is based on a procedure that generates a set of conformations, each with its own force-field energy, but adds a term to this energy that favors conformations that ar...

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

authors： Xiang Z,Soto CS,Honig B

更新日期：2002-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor XI (plasma thromboplastin antecedent) deficiency is a blood coagulation abnormality occurring in high frequency in Ashkenazi Jews. Three independent point mutations that result in a blood coagulation abnormality have been identified in the factor XI gene of six unrelated Ashkenazi patients. These mutations eith...

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

authors： Asakai R,Chung DW,Ratnoff OD,Davie EW

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The papain-solubilized fragment of the heavy chain of HLA-B7, which is the NH2-terminal part of the whole polypeptide chain, can be divided into three regions by mild acid and cyanogen bromide cleavages. The first 100 amino acids terminating in a methionine residue contain the carbohydrate moiety; this segment is foll...

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

authors： Terhorst C,Robb R,Jones C,Strominger JL

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The principal methyl donor of the cell, S-adenosylmethionine (SAMe), is produced by the highly conserved family of methionine adenosyltranferases (MATs) via an ATP-driven process. These enzymes play an important role in the preservation of life, and their dysregulation has been tightly linked to liver and colon cancer...

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

authors： Murray B,Antonyuk SV,Marina A,Lu SC,Mato JM,Hasnain SS,Rojas AL

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00