Micro- and nanoparticles self-assembly for virtually defect-free, adjustable monolayers.

abstract：:A cDNA of the human terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase (TdT; "terminal transferase," EC 2.7.7.31) was isolated from a human lymphoblastoid cell cDNA library in lambda gt 11 by using immunological procedures. Four inserts containing 723 to 939 base pairs were recloned in pBR322 for hybridization and preliminary seque...

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

authors： Peterson RC,Cheung LC,Mattaliano RJ,Chang LM,Bollum FJ

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated that the B chain of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF-B) is transcribed in human atherosclerotic plaques, indicating that production of growth factors within plaques could occur during atherogenesis. However, since atherosclerotic plaques are composed of several cell types and three of th...

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

authors： Barrett TB,Benditt EP

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteocalcin, a bone-specific protein and marker of the mature osteoblast, is expressed only in nonproliferating osteoblasts in a mineralizing extracellular matrix, while type I collagen is expressed in proliferating cells. The nuclear proteins encoded by the c-fos and c-jun protooncogenes are expressed during the prol...

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

authors： Owen TA,Bortell R,Yocum SA,Smock SL,Zhang M,Abate C,Shalhoub V,Aronin N,Wright KL,van Wijnen AJ

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently characterized a transposable element, ISH1, which inactivates the bacterio-opsin (BO) gene in two purple membrane-deficient (Pum-) mutants of Halobacterium halobium. Examination of nine additional Pum- mutants now shows that in all of these the BO gene has been inactivated by insertion of one of two t...

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

authors： DasSarma S,RajBhandary UL,Khorana HG

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex is thought to facilitate accumulation of initially rare beneficial mutations by allowing simultaneous allele replacements at many loci. However, this advantage of sex depends on a restrictive assumption that the fitness of a genotype is determined by fitness potential, a single intermediate variable to which all l...

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

authors： Kondrashov FA,Kondrashov AS

更新日期：2001-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the multistep process of cervical cancer development, we analyzed 128 frozen cervical samples spanning normalcy, increasingly severe cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN1- CIN3), and cervical cancer (CxCa) from multiple perspectives, revealing a cascade of progressive changes. Compared with normal tissue, ...

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

authors： den Boon JA,Pyeon D,Wang SS,Horswill M,Schiffman M,Sherman M,Zuna RE,Wang Z,Hewitt SM,Pearson R,Schott M,Chung L,He Q,Lambert P,Walker J,Newton MA,Wentzensen N,Ahlquist P

更新日期：2015-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Hairs, feathers, and scales normally exhibit precise orientations with respect to the body axes. In Frizzled6 (Fz6)(-/-) mice, the global orientation of hair follicles is disrupted, leading to waves, whorls, and tufts, each comprising many hundreds of hairs. By analyzing the orientation of developing hair follicles, w...

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

authors： Wang Y,Badea T,Nathans J

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:p97/VCP (Cdc48 in yeast) is an essential and abundant member of the AAA+ family of ATPases and is involved in a number of diverse cellular pathways through interactions with different adaptor proteins. The two most characterized adaptors for p97 are p47 and the Ufd1 (ubiquitin fusion degradation 1)-Npl4 (nuclear prote...

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

authors： Pye VE,Beuron F,Keetch CA,McKeown C,Robinson CV,Meyer HH,Zhang X,Freemont PS

更新日期：2007-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) proteins are key players in vital processes involving energy homeostasis and metabolism from the simplest to most complex organisms. We report a 1.5 A x-ray crystal structure of the first identified outer mitochondrial membrane Fe-S protein, mitoNEET. Two protomers intertwine to form a unique dimeri...

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

authors： Paddock ML,Wiley SE,Axelrod HL,Cohen AE,Roy M,Abresch EC,Capraro D,Murphy AN,Nechushtai R,Dixon JE,Jennings PA

更新日期：2007-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of G-quadruplex (G4) DNA structures in key regulatory regions in the genome has emerged as a secondary structure-based epigenetic mechanism for regulating multiple biological processes including transcription, replication, and telomere maintenance. G4 formation (folding), stabilization, and unfolding must be...

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

authors： Roychoudhury S,Pramanik S,Harris HL,Tarpley M,Sarkar A,Spagnol G,Sorgen PL,Chowdhury D,Band V,Klinkebiel D,Bhakat KK

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The endbrain (telencephalon) is at the rostral end of the central nervous system and is primarily responsible for supporting cognition and affect. Structurally, it consists of right and left cerebral hemispheres, each parceled into multiple cortical and nuclear gray matter regions. The global network organization of a...

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

authors： Swanson LW,Hahn JD,Jeub LGS,Fortunato S,Sporns O

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of genes contributing to the adaptation of local populations is of great biological interest. In an attempt to characterize functionally important differences among African and non-African Drosophila melanogaster populations, we surveyed neutral microsatellite variation in an 850-kb genomic sequence...

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

authors： Harr B,Kauer M,Schlötterer C

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Trimenia moorei, an extant member of the ancient angiosperm clade Austrobaileyales, we found a remarkable pattern of female gametophyte (egg-producing structure) development that strikingly resembles that of pollen tubes and their intrasexual competition within the maternal pollen tube transmitting tissues of most ...

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

authors： Bachelier JB,Friedman WE

更新日期：2011-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:CD2 (T11, sheep erythrocyte receptor) is a surface antigen of the human T-lymphocyte lineage. cDNA clones encoding CD2 have been isolated by using the purified, denatured CD2 to raise a rat antiserum. Positive clones were recognized in a phage lambda gt11 expression library prepared from the human leukemia T-cell line...

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

authors： Sewell WA,Brown MH,Dunne J,Owen MJ,Crumpton MJ

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zebrafish carrying heterozygous mutations for 17 different ribosomal protein (rp) genes are prone to developing malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNSTs), a tumor type that is seldom seen in laboratory strains of zebrafish. Interestingly, the same rare tumor type arises in zebrafish that are homozygous for a l...

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

authors： MacInnes AW,Amsterdam A,Whittaker CA,Hopkins N,Lees JA

更新日期：2008-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction of a sequence encoding 147 amino acids from human immunodeficiency virus type I (HIV-1) strain MN glycoprotein gp120 into the RNA genome of the stably attenuated Mengo virus strain vM16 yielded an infectious recombinant virus, vMLN450, which expressed the heterologous HIV-1 sequence along with the normal ...

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

authors： Altmeyer R,Escriou N,Girard M,Palmenberg A,van der Werf S

更新日期：1994-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Bufonid anurans of the genus Atelopus contain both steroidal bufadienolides and various guanidinium alkaloids of the tetrodotoxin class. The former inhibit sodium-potassium ATPases, whereas the latter block voltage-dependent sodium channels. The structure of one guanidinium alkaloid, zetekitoxin AB, has remained a mys...

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

authors： Yotsu-Yamashita M,Kim YH,Dudley SC Jr,Choudhary G,Pfahnl A,Oshima Y,Daly JW

更新日期：2004-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Addition of acetylcholine to growing cultures of mouse neuroblastoma cells induced a 37-fold increase in the specific activity of acetylcholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.7). Morphological changes, consisting of neurite-extensions, were also observed during the logarithmic phase of growth of cells stimulated with acetylcholine....

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

authors： Harkins J,Arsenault M,Schlesinger K,Kates J

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EcoRI endonuclease-generated DNA fragments carrying replication regions of the F'lac and R6-5 plasmids have been cloned and isolated, using as a selection vehicle a nonreplicating ampicillin-resistance DNA fragment derived from a Staphylococcus aureus plasmid. Heteroduplex analysis of the constructed plasmid chimeras ...

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

authors： Timmis K,Cabello F,Cohen SN

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between the ribosomal-stalk protein L7/12 (L12) and initiation factor 2 (IF2) is essential for rapid subunit association, but the underlying mechanism is unknown. Here, we have characterized the L12-IF2 interaction on Escherichia coli ribosomes using site-directed mutagenesis, fast kinetics, and molecu...

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

authors： Ge X,Mandava CS,Lind C,Åqvist J,Sanyal S

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of increased numbers of recorded pertussis cases in the United States, this study sought to understand the role of nonmedical vaccine exemptions and waning immunity may have had on the resurgence of pertussis in the United States at the community level. We used geospatial scan statistics, SaTScan, version 9.4,...

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

authors： Aloe C,Kulldorff M,Bloom BR

更新日期：2017-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The slow rolling motion of leukocytes along the walls of blood vessels mediated by specific receptor-ligand adhesion is important in inflammation and occurs in postcapillary venules over a wide range of wall shear stresses and vessel diameters. The ability of hydrodynamic collisions between cells to induce capture of ...

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

authors： King MR,Hammer DA

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants have evolved adaptive strategies that involve transcriptional networks to cope with and survive environmental challenges. Key transcriptional regulators that mediate responses to environmental fluctuations in nitrate have been identified; however, little is known about how these regulators interact to orchestra...

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

authors： Guan P,Ripoll JJ,Wang R,Vuong L,Bailey-Steinitz LJ,Ye D,Crawford NM

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet-derived growth factors (PDGFs) and their receptors (PDGFRs) are prototypic growth factors and receptor tyrosine kinases which have critical functions in development. We show that PDGFs share a conserved region in their prodomain sequences which can remain noncovalently associated with the mature cystine-knot ...

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

authors： Shim AH,Liu H,Focia PJ,Chen X,Lin PC,He X

更新日期：2010-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I Interferons (IFNs) are requisite components in antiviral innate immunity. Classically, a Toll-like receptor-dependent pathway induces type I interferons. However, recent recognition of melanoma differentiation associated gene-5 (MDA-5) and retinoic acid inducible gene-I (RIG-I) as primary sensors of RNA viruses...

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

authors： Sarkar D,Desalle R,Fisher PB

更新日期：2008-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian CLC proteins function as Cl(-) channels or as electrogenic Cl(-)/H(+) exchangers and are present in the plasma membrane and intracellular vesicles. We now show that the ClC-6 protein is almost exclusively expressed in neurons of the central and peripheral nervous systems, with a particularly high expression ...

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

authors： Poët M,Kornak U,Schweizer M,Zdebik AA,Scheel O,Hoelter S,Wurst W,Schmitt A,Fuhrmann JC,Planells-Cases R,Mole SE,Hübner CA,Jentsch TJ

更新日期：2006-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlling calorie intake (CCI) extends healthful life-span by a mechanism that may involve reduced rates of cell division without detriment to inducible cellular responses. To test whether inducible cellular proliferation is preserved by CCI and whether the mRNA expression levels of oncogenes activated by cell divis...

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

authors： Himeno Y,Engelman RW,Good RA

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium is ubiquitous in tropical and subtropical seas and is an important contributor to global N and C cycling. We sought to characterize metabolic uptake patterns in individual Trichodesmium IMS-101 cells by quantitatively imaging (13)C and (15)N uptake with high-resolution secondary...

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

authors： Finzi-Hart JA,Pett-Ridge J,Weber PK,Popa R,Fallon SJ,Gunderson T,Hutcheon ID,Nealson KH,Capone DG

更新日期：2009-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Hair cells of the inner ear, the mechanosensory receptors, convert sound waves into neural signals that are passed to the brain via the auditory nerve. Little is known about the molecular mechanisms that govern the development of hair cell-neuronal connections. We ascertained a family with autosomal recessive deafness...

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

authors： Diaz-Horta O,Abad C,Sennaroglu L,Foster J 2nd,DeSmidt A,Bademci G,Tokgoz-Yilmaz S,Duman D,Cengiz FB,Grati M,Fitoz S,Liu XZ,Farooq A,Imtiaz F,Currall BB,Morton CC,Nishita M,Minami Y,Lu Z,Walz K,Tekin M

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Domesticated maize and its wild ancestor (teosinte) differ strikingly in morphology and afford an opportunity to examine the connection between strong selection and diversity in a major crop species. The tb1 gene largely controls the increase in apical dominance in maize relative to teosinte, and a region of the tb1 l...

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

authors： Clark RM,Linton E,Messing J,Doebley JF

更新日期：2004-01-20 00:00:00