Photosensitivity of a protoporphyrin-accumulating, light-sensitive mutant (visA) of Escherichia coli K-12.

abstract：:Calmodulin, a wide-spread eukaryotic Ca2+-binding protein, was phosphorylated at its tyrosine residues in Rous sarcoma virus (RSV)-transformed chicken and rat cells but not in normal chicken embryo fibroblasts. In contrast, serine and threonine phosphorylation of calmodulin was found to occur in both normal and virus-...

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

authors： Fukami Y,Nakamura T,Nakayama A,Kanehisa T

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukocyte adherence to endothelium is in part mediated by the transient expression of endothelial-leukocyte adhesion molecule 1 (ELAM-1) on endothelial surfaces stimulated by tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF), interleukin (IL) 1, or bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS). The intracellular factors controlling induction of...

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

authors： Montgomery KF,Osborn L,Hession C,Tizard R,Goff D,Vassallo C,Tarr PI,Bomsztyk K,Lobb R,Harlan JM

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:African sleeping sickness is a fatal disease that is caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei. Polyamine biosynthesis is an essential pathway in the parasite and is a validated drug target for treatment of the disease. S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (AdoMetDC) catalyzes a key step in polyamine biosynthe...

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

authors： Willert EK,Fitzpatrick R,Phillips MA

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Prochlorococcus marinus CCMP 1375, a ubiquitous and ecologically important marine prochlorophyte, was bound to possess functional genes coding for the alpha and beta subunits of a phycobiliprotein. The latter is similar to phycoerythrins (PE) from marine Synechococcus cyanobacteria and bind a phycourobilin-like pigmen...

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

authors： Hess WR,Partensky F,van der Staay GW,Garcia-Fernandez JM,Börner T,Vaulot D

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TrkC neurotrophin receptor belongs to the functional dependence receptor family, members of which share the ability to induce apoptosis in the absence of their ligands. Such a trait has been hypothesized to confer tumor-suppressor activity. Indeed, cells that express these receptors are thought to be dependent on ...

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

authors： Genevois AL,Ichim G,Coissieux MM,Lambert MP,Lavial F,Goldschneider D,Jarrosson-Wuilleme L,Lepinasse F,Gouysse G,Herceg Z,Scoazec JY,Tauszig-Delamasure S,Mehlen P

更新日期：2013-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:ErbB2 interacting protein (Erbin) is a widely expressed protein and participates in inhibition of several intracellular signaling pathways. Its mRNA has been found to be present in relatively high levels in the heart. However, its physiological role in the heart has not been explored. In the present work, we elucidate...

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

authors： Rachmin I,Tshori S,Smith Y,Oppenheim A,Marchetto S,Kay G,Foo RS,Dagan N,Golomb E,Gilon D,Borg JP,Razin E

更新日期：2014-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The COVID-19 pandemic is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and has spread worldwide, with millions of cases and more than 1 million deaths to date. The gravity of the situation mandates accelerated efforts to identify safe and effective vaccines. Here, we generated measles virus (M...

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

authors： Hörner C,Schürmann C,Auste A,Ebenig A,Muraleedharan S,Dinnon KH 3rd,Scholz T,Herrmann M,Schnierle BS,Baric RS,Mühlebach MD

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In mice, recent thymic emigrants (RTEs) make up a large part of the naïve T cell pool and have been suggested to be a distinct short-lived pool. In humans, however, the life span and number of RTEs are unknown. Although (2)H(2)O labeling in young mice showed high thymic-dependent daily naïve T cell production, long te...

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

authors： Vrisekoop N,den Braber I,de Boer AB,Ruiter AF,Ackermans MT,van der Crabben SN,Schrijver EH,Spierenburg G,Sauerwein HP,Hazenberg MD,de Boer RJ,Miedema F,Borghans JA,Tesselaar K

更新日期：2008-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The virB operon of the Agrobacterium tume-faciens pTiA6NC plasmid likely plays a role in directing T-DNA transfer events at the bacterial membrane, as determined previously by mutagenesis and cellular fractionation studies and by DNA sequence analysis of the approximately 12-kilobase-pair operon. The DNA sequence anal...

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

authors： Christie PJ,Ward JE Jr,Gordon MP,Nester EW

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hyal-1 locus, which we have previously described and mapped to mouse chromosome 9, influences the serum levels and molecular weight forms of hyaluronidase. We have also shown that the growth of two transplantable tumors, the 3LL carcinoma and the B16F10 melanoma, is influenced by the alleles at Hyal-1, in that the...

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

authors： De Maeyer-Guignard J,Lauret E,Eusèbe L,De Maeyer E

更新日期：1993-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-genome duplication (WGD) is believed to be a significant source of major evolutionary innovation. Redundant genes resulting from WGD are thought to be lost or acquire new functions. However, the rates of gene loss and thus temporal process of genome reshaping after WGD remain unclear. The WGD shared by all teleo...

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

authors： Inoue J,Sato Y,Sinclair R,Tsukamoto K,Nishida M

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrothermal vent ecosystems support diverse life forms, many of which rely on symbiotic associations to perform functions integral to survival in these extreme physicochemical environments. Epsilonproteobacteria, found free-living and in intimate associations with vent invertebrates, are the predominant vent-associat...

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

authors： Grzymski JJ,Murray AE,Campbell BJ,Kaplarevic M,Gao GR,Lee C,Daniel R,Ghadiri A,Feldman RA,Cary SC

更新日期：2008-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacteria use acyl homoserine lactone signals to monitor cell density in a type of gene regulation termed quorum sensing and response. Synthesis of these signals is directed by homologs of the luxi gene of Vibrio fischeri. This communication resolves two critical issues concerning the synthesis of the V. fischeri ...

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

authors： Schaefer AL,Val DL,Hanzelka BL,Cronan JE Jr,Greenberg EP

更新日期：1996-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The drug resistance factor RP4, originally isolated in Pseudomonas, was transferred to Rhizobium meliloti. In that strain, RP4 promotes conjugational transfer of chromosomal markers to form haploid recombinants. This mating system has been used to construct a linkage map of R. meliloti. ...

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

authors： Meade HM,Signer ER

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T-regulatory cells (Treg) and mast cells (MC) are abundant in colorectal cancer (CRC) tumors. Interaction between the two is known to promote immune suppression or loss of Treg functions and autoimmunity. Here, we demonstrate that in both human CRC and murine polyposis the outcome of this interaction is the generation...

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

authors： Blatner NR,Bonertz A,Beckhove P,Cheon EC,Krantz SB,Strouch M,Weitz J,Koch M,Halverson AL,Bentrem DJ,Khazaie K

更新日期：2010-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The improvement of motor behavior, based on experience, is a form of learning that is critically dependent on the cerebellum. A well studied example of cerebellar motor learning is short-term saccadic adaptation (STSA). In STSA, information on saccadic errors is used to improve future saccades. The information optimiz...

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

authors： Catz N,Dicke PW,Thier P

更新日期：2008-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In animal cells, exogenous DNA recombines into random chromosomal sites much more frequently than it recombines into homologous sites. Free DNA ends are "recombinogenic" in both processes. To test the effects of specific ends on analogous extrachromosomal processes, we constructed a linear genome of simian virus 40 wi...

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

authors： Chang XB,Wilson JH

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two major DNA double-strand break repair pathways exist in all eukaryotes, nonhomologous DNA end joining (NHEJ) and homologous recombination (HR). Although both pathways can function throughout the cell cycle, NHEJ predominates in G0/G1) (when a replicated sister chromatid is unavailable), whereas HR makes a more subs...

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

authors： Convery E,Shin EK,Ding Q,Wang W,Douglas P,Davis LS,Nickoloff JA,Lees-Miller SP,Meek K

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned and partially characterized 24 loci from the human genome which are complementary to U1, U2, or U3, the three major species of small nuclear RNA (snRNA) in HeLa cells. When compared to the known U1 (human) and U2 (rat) snRNA sequences, the DNA sequences we report here for the complementary regions from ...

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

authors： Denison RA,Van Arsdell SW,Bernstein LB,Weiner AM

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), the causative agent of Lyme disease, is transmitted to mammalian hosts through an arthropod (tick) vector. To establish infection, Bb must acquire essential nutrients, including transition metals, from its mammalian and tick hosts. Thus far, no metal transporter has been identified in Bb. He...

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

authors： Ouyang Z,He M,Oman T,Yang XF,Norgard MV

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The photosystem II (PSII) subunit S (PsbS) plays a key role in nonphotochemical quenching, a photoprotective mechanism for dissipation of excess excitation energy in plants. The precise function of PsbS in nonphotochemical quenching is unknown. By reconstituting PsbS together with the major light-harvesting complex of...

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

authors： Wilk L,Grunwald M,Liao PN,Walla PJ,Kühlbrandt W

更新日期：2013-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulatory mechanisms that use signals of low levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) could be obscured by ROS produced under stress and thus are better investigated under homeostatic conditions. Previous studies showed that the chloroplastic atypical thioredoxin ACHT1 is oxidized by 2-Cys peroxiredoxin (2-Cys Prx...

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

authors： Eliyahu E,Rog I,Inbal D,Danon A

更新日期：2015-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1950, G. Ledyard Stebbins devoted two chapters of his book Variation and Evolution in Plants (Columbia Univ. Press, New York) to polyploidy, one on occurrence and nature and one on distribution and significance. Fifty years later, many of the questions Stebbins posed have not been answered, and many new questions h...

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

authors： Soltis PS,Soltis DE

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Type IV pili (Tfp), which are key virulence factors in many bacterial pathogens, define a large group of multipurpose filamentous nanomachines widespread in Bacteria and Archaea. Tfp biogenesis is a complex multistep process, which relies on macromolecular assemblies composed of 15 conserved proteins in model gram-neg...

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

authors： Goosens VJ,Busch A,Georgiadou M,Castagnini M,Forest KT,Waksman G,Pelicic V

更新日期：2017-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A near-full-length casbene synthase cDNA clone, pCS7, was isolated by using a partial cDNA clone, pCS4, to probe a lambda gt10 library constructed from poly(A)+ RNA from elicited castor bean seedlings. The cDNA insert had a length of 1983 bases with a polyadenylate tail of 19 bases. Translation of the cDNA sequence re...

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

authors： Mau CJ,West CA

更新日期：1994-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-gated Na(+) channels initiate action potentials during electrical signaling in excitable cells. Opening and closing of the pore of voltage-gated ion channels are mechanically linked to voltage-driven outward movement of the positively charged S4 transmembrane segment in their voltage sensors. Disulfide locking...

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

authors： DeCaen PG,Yarov-Yarovoy V,Scheuer T,Catterall WA

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM is a probiotic bacterium that has been produced commercially since 1972. The complete genome is 1,993,564 nt and devoid of plasmids. The average GC content is 34.71% with 1,864 predicted ORFs, of which 72.5% were functionally classified. Nine phage-related integrases were predicted, but ...

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

authors： Altermann E,Russell WM,Azcarate-Peril MA,Barrangou R,Buck BL,McAuliffe O,Souther N,Dobson A,Duong T,Callanan M,Lick S,Hamrick A,Cano R,Klaenhammer TR

更新日期：2005-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An acid extract of pedal ganglia of the mollusc Mytilus edulis was fractionated by high-pressure liquid chromatography with a reverse-phase column. Peak fractions with retention times of those of [Met]- and [Leu]enkephalin were subjected to binding assays in both invertebrate and vertebrate tissues. The results showed...

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

authors： Leung MK,Stefano GB

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene III protein of bacteriophage f1 is inserted into the host cell membrane where it is assembled into phage particles. A truncated form of gene III protein, encoded by a recombinant plasmid and lacking the carboxyl terminus, does not remain in the membrane but instead appears to slip through it. Fusion of a hydropho...

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

authors： Boeke JD,Model P

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By commandeering cellular translation initiation factors, or destroying those dispensable for viral mRNA translation, viruses often suppress host protein synthesis. In contrast, cellular protein synthesis proceeds in human cytomegalovirus (HCMV)-infected cells, forcing viral and cellular mRNAs to compete for limiting ...

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

authors： McKinney C,Perez C,Mohr I

更新日期：2012-04-10 00:00:00