Absence of equilibrium cluster phase in concentrated lysozyme solutions.

abstract：:We report an approach for studying protein-induced DNA bends in solution that is based on measuring the sizes of circular DNA molecules by using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. These circular fragments are obtained by ligating short synthetic oligonucleotides containing a protein-recognition region in the presenc...

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

authors： Lyubchenko Y,Shlyakhtenko L,Chernov B,Harrington RE

更新日期：1991-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypothesis that the nonrandom organization of the contents of interphase nuclei represents a compartmentalization of function, we examined the relative, spatial relationship of small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) and of DNase I hypersensitive chromatin (DHC) in rat pheochromocytoma cells. In controls...

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

authors： Park PC,De Boni U

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), the prototypic nonsegmented negative-strand RNA virus, was recovered from a full-length cDNA clone of the viral genome. Bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase expressed from a recombinant vaccinia virus was used to drive the synthesis of a genome-length positive-sense transcript o...

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

authors： Whelan SP,Ball LA,Barr JN,Wertz GT

更新日期：1995-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterization and functional annotation of the large number of proteins predicted from genome sequencing projects poses a major scientific challenge. Whereas several proteomics techniques have been developed to quantify the abundance of proteins, these methods provide little information regarding protein function. ...

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

authors： Okerberg ES,Wu J,Zhang B,Samii B,Blackford K,Winn DT,Shreder KR,Burbaum JJ,Patricelli MP

更新日期：2005-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-term viability of a forest industry in the Amazon region of Brazil depends on the maintenance of adequate timber volume and growth in healthy forests. Using extensive high-resolution satellite analyses, we studied the forest damage caused by recent logging operations and the likelihood that logged forests wou...

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

authors： Asner GP,Broadbent EN,Oliveira PJ,Keller M,Knapp DE,Silva JN

更新日期：2006-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cycle progression is tightly regulated by cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs). The ankyrin-repeat protein p19INK4d functions as a key regulator of G1/S transition; however, its molecular mode of action is unknown. Here, we combine cell and structural biology methods to unravel the mechanism by which p19INK4d controls...

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

authors： Kumar A,Gopalswamy M,Wolf A,Brockwell DJ,Hatzfeld M,Balbach J

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The CD8 dimer interacts with the alpha 3 domain of major histocompatibility complex class I molecules through two immunoglobulin variable-like domains. In this study a crystal structure-informed mutational analysis has been performed to identify amino acids in the CD8 alpha/alpha homodimer that are likely to be involv...

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

authors： Giblin PA,Leahy DJ,Mennone J,Kavathas PB

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The posterodorsal part of the medial nucleus of the amygdala (MeAp) receives its major sensory input from the accessory olfactory bulb and projects massively to the medial preoptic nucleus and other sexually dimorphic hypothalamic nuclei thought to play key roles in mediating steroid-sensitive reproductive functions. ...

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

authors： Simerly RB,Young BJ,Capozza MA,Swanson LW

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori is a Gram-negative bacterial pathogen with a small genome of 1.64-1.67 Mb. More than 20 putative DNA restriction-modification (R-M) systems, comprising more than 4% of the total genome, have been identified in the two completely sequenced H. pylori strains, 26695 and J99, based on sequence similari...

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

authors： Lin LF,Posfai J,Roberts RJ,Kong H

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Phase separation of multivalent protein and RNA molecules underlies the biogenesis of biomolecular condensates such as membraneless organelles. In vivo, these condensates encompass hundreds of distinct types of molecules that typically organize into multilayered structures supporting the differential partitioning of m...

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

authors： Boeynaems S,Holehouse AS,Weinhardt V,Kovacs D,Van Lindt J,Larabell C,Van Den Bosch L,Das R,Tompa PS,Pappu RV,Gitler AD

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:High-quality protein crystals meant for structural analysis by X-ray diffraction have been grown by various methods. The observation of dynamical diffraction in protein crystals is an interesting topic because dynamical diffraction generally occurs in perfect crystals such as Si crystals. However, to our knowledge, th...

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

authors： Suzuki R,Koizumi H,Hirano K,Kumasaka T,Kojima K,Tachibana M

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of BALB/3T3 cells by polyoma virus causes an alteration in the cell surface, characterized by enhanced agglutination of the cells by wheat germ agglutinin or concanavalin A. Infection by the thermosensitive mutant of polyoma, ts-3, causes the cell surface alteration at the permissive temperature, but not at ...

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

authors： Eckhart W,Dulbecco R,Burger MM

更新日期：1971-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes are down-regulated during osteogenesis, myogenesis, and adipogenesis, necessitating a mechanistic understanding of interrelationships between growth control and phenotype commitment. Here, we show that cell fate-determining factors [MyoD, myogenin (Mgn), Runx2, C/EBPbeta] occupy rDNA loci an...

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

authors： Ali SA,Zaidi SK,Dacwag CS,Salma N,Young DW,Shakoori AR,Montecino MA,Lian JB,van Wijnen AJ,Imbalzano AN,Stein GS,Stein JL

更新日期：2008-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the development of infectious cDNA clones of viral RNA genomes and the means of delivery of the in vitro-synthesized RNA into cells, alphaviruses have become an attractive system for expression of heterologous genetic information. Alphaviruses replicate exclusively in the cytoplasm, and their genetic material ca...

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

authors： Kim DY,Atasheva S,McAuley AJ,Plante JA,Frolova EI,Beasley DW,Frolov I

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the results of a randomized field experiment involving registered voters in the city of New Haven. Nonpartisan get-out-the-vote messages were delivered through personal canvassing shortly before the November 1998 election. We find that personal canvassing increased voter turnout by approximately 6. ...

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

authors： Gerber AS,Green DP

更新日期：1999-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The piriform cortex (PCX) is the largest component of the olfactory cortex and is hypothesized to be the locus of odor object formation. The distributed odorant representation found in PCX contrasts sharply with the topographical representation seen in other primary sensory cortices, making it difficult to test this v...

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

authors： Chen CF,Zou DJ,Altomare CG,Xu L,Greer CA,Firestein SJ

更新日期：2014-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Reward-guided decision-making depends on a network of brain regions. Among these are the orbitofrontal and the anterior cingulate cortex. However, it is difficult to ascertain if these areas constitute anatomical and functional unities, and how these areas correspond between monkeys and humans. To address these questi...

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

authors： Neubert FX,Mars RB,Sallet J,Rushworth MF

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A single intravenous (i.v.) injection of the water-soluble mammary carcinogen N-nitroso-N-methylurea (NMU; 35 mg/kg of body weight) elicited cancer of the breast in young female rats of two strains in the following incidence: Long-Evans strain, 4%; Sprague-Dawley strain, 70%. In sisters of these rats, a set of 5 i.v. ...

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

authors： Huggins CB,Ueda N,Wiessler M

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA polymerase pausing represents an important mechanism of transcriptional regulation. In this study, we use a single-molecule transcription assay to investigate the effect of template base-pair composition on pausing by RNA polymerase II and the evolutionarily distinct mitochondrial polymerase Rpo41. For both enzyme...

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

authors： Zamft B,Bintu L,Ishibashi T,Bustamante C

更新日期：2012-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:New important applications of copper metal, e.g., in the areas of hydrogen production, fuel cell operation, and spent nuclear fuel disposal, require accurate knowledge of the physical and chemical properties of stable and metastable copper compounds. Among the copper(I) compounds with oxygen and hydrogen, cuprous oxid...

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

authors： Korzhavyi PA,Soroka IL,Isaev EI,Lilja C,Johansson B

更新日期：2012-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The inability to perceive and coordinate both internal and external signals that function to regulate cellular growth and proliferation is a hallmark of oncogenic transformation. To examine the effects of the v-mos oncogene on distinct signal transduction pathways, the 6m2 cell line was used, in which expression of th...

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

authors： Hamilton BJ,DeFranco D

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids rapidly and completely inhibit intracellular plasminogen activator activity in rat hepatoma cells, as assayed by the solubilization of 125I-labeled fibrin. Experiments in which extracts of dexamethasone-treated cells are mixed with extracts of control cells demonstrate an inhibitor of protease activity...

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

authors： Seifert SC,Gelehrter TD

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific binding properties of the tritium-labeled delta opiate receptor agonist [3H][2-D-penicillamine, 5-D-penicillamine]enkephalin [( 3H][D-Pen2, D-Pen5]enkephalin) were characterized in the rat brain and in a mouse neuroblastoma-rat glioma hybrid cell line (NG 108-15). Saturation isotherms of [3H][D-Pen2, D-Pen5]e...

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

authors： Akiyama K,Gee KW,Mosberg HI,Hruby VJ,Yamamura HI

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autocatalytic chemical reactions are widely studied as models of biological processes and to better understand the origins of life on Earth. Minimal self-reproducing amphiphiles have been developed in this context and as an approach to de novo "bottom-up" synthetic protocells. How chemicals come together to produce li...

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

authors： Ortega-Arroyo J,Bissette AJ,Kukura P,Fletcher SP

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Searches of ribosomal RNA sequences for compensatory base changes preserving Watson-Crick base pairing have led to detailed models of the conserved secondary structures of these RNAs. In principle, tertiary interactions can also be detected by searches for phylogenetically covariant bases. Within a highly conserved re...

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

authors： Ryan PC,Draper DE

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The neonatal Fc receptor for IgG (FcRn) is a distant member of the MHC class I protein family. It binds IgG and albumin in a pH-dependent manner and protects these from catabolism by diverting them from a degradative fate in lysosomes. In addition, FcRn-mediated IgG transport across epithelial barriers is responsible ...

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

authors： Qiao SW,Kobayashi K,Johansen FE,Sollid LM,Andersen JT,Milford E,Roopenian DC,Lencer WI,Blumberg RS

更新日期：2008-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Basic neurophysiological research with monkeys has shown how neurons in the motor cortex have firing rates tuned to movement direction. This original finding would have been difficult to uncover without the use of a behaving primate paradigm in which subjects grasped a handle and moved purposefully to targets in diffe...

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

authors： Kennedy SD,Schwartz AB

更新日期：2019-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Transthyretin (TTR) is a globular tetrameric transport protein in plasma. Nearly 140 single amino acid substitutions in TTR cause life-threatening amyloid disease. We report a one-of-a-kind pathological variant featuring a Glu51, Ser52 duplication mutation (Glu51_Ser52dup). The proband, heterozygous for the mutation, ...

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

authors： Klimtchuk ES,Prokaeva T,Frame NM,Abdullahi HA,Spencer B,Dasari S,Cui H,Berk JL,Kurtin PJ,Connors LH,Gursky O

更新日期：2018-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct visualization of genomic loci in the 3D nucleus is important for understanding the spatial organization of the genome and its association with gene expression. Various DNA FISH methods have been developed in the past decades, all involving denaturing dsDNA and hybridizing fluorescent nucleic acid probes. Here w...

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

authors： Deng W,Shi X,Tjian R,Lionnet T,Singer RH

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphangiogenesis is an important process that contributes to the spread of cancer. Here we show that insulin-like growth factors 1 (IGF-1) and 2 (IGF-2) induce lymphangiogenesis in vivo. In a mouse cornea assay, IGF-1 and IGF-2 induce lymphangiogenesis as detected with LYVE-1, a specific marker for lymphatic endothel...

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

authors： Björndahl M,Cao R,Nissen LJ,Clasper S,Johnson LA,Xue Y,Zhou Z,Jackson D,Hansen AJ,Cao Y

更新日期：2005-10-25 00:00:00