Identification and evolution of fungal mitochondrial tyrosyl-tRNA synthetases with group I intron splicing activity.

abstract：:A method for estimating intrafamilial correlations under variable family sizes involving weightings of paired data points is introduced. Classical methods of intrafamilial correlation estimation and those in current use are outlined and critically analyzed. Extensions of the proposed estimation method to more general ...

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

authors： Karlin S,Cameron EC,Williams PT

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In characterizing mice with targeted disruption of the SerpinB2 gene, we observed animals that were small at birth with delayed growth and decreased life expectancy. Although this phenotype cosegregated with homozygosity for the inactive SerpinB2 allele, analysis of homozygous SerpinB2-deficient mice derived from two ...

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

authors： Westrick RJ,Mohlke KL,Korepta LM,Yang AY,Zhu G,Manning SL,Winn ME,Dougherty KM,Ginsburg D

更新日期：2010-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, utilization of galactose requires four inducible enzyme activities. Three of these activities (galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase, EC 2.7.7.10; uridine diphosphogalactose 4-epimerase, EC 5.1.3.2; and galactokinase, EC 2.7.1.6) are specified by three tightly linked genes (GAL7, GAL10,...

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

authors： Hopper JE,Broach JR,Rowe LB

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GSTs catalyze the conjugation of glutathione with a wide variety of hydrophobic compounds, generally resulting in nontoxic products that can be readily eliminated. In contrast to many other organisms, the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum possesses only one GST isoenzyme (PfGST). This GST is highly abundant in t...

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

authors： Fritz-Wolf K,Becker A,Rahlfs S,Harwaldt P,Schirmer RH,Kabsch W,Becker K

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Most Escherichia coli promoters initiate transcription with a purine 7 or 8 nt downstream from the -10 hexamer, but some promoters, including the ribosomal RNA promoter rrnB P1, start 9 nt from the -10 element. We identified promoter and RNA polymerase determinants of this noncanonical rrnB P1 start site using biochem...

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

authors： Winkelman JT,Chandrangsu P,Ross W,Gourse RL

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified and purified a cell surface glycoprotein from retina and brain, called neural cell adhesion molecule or N-CAM, that appears to be involved in neural cell--cell adhesion, the fasciculation of neurites, and the formation of normal tissue patterns in the retina. The present studies reveal th...

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

authors： Rutishauser U,Hoffman S,Edelman GM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After decades of robust growth, the rise in US life expectancy stalled after 2010. Explanations for the stall have focused on rising drug-related deaths. Here we show that a stagnating decline in cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality was the main culprit, outpacing and overshadowing the effects of all other causes of...

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

authors： Mehta NK,Abrams LR,Myrskylä M

更新日期：2020-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells are activated physiologically by triggering the T-cell receptor-CD3 complex. There is evidence that invariant accessory molecules on the T-cell membrane (CD8 and CD4) are involved in the major histocompatibility complex-restricted recognition process. Moreover, binding and crosslinking of these accessory molec...

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

authors： Samstag Y,Emmrich F,Staehelin T

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By double indirect immunofluorescence, using primary rabbit antibodies to tubulin and guinea pig antibodies to vimentin, we have simultaneously labeled microtubules and intermediate filaments in several types of cultured normal fibroblasts. With well-spread interphase cells there was an extensive but not complete corr...

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

authors： Ball EH,Singer SJ

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As an electron transfer-driven proton pump, cytochrome c oxidase (ferrocytochrome-c:oxygen oxidoreductase, EC 1.9.3.1) must alternate between two conformations in each valence state of the redox element associated with ion translocation. Using second derivative absorption spectroscopy, the conformation of the cytochro...

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

authors： Copeland RA

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear import of classical nuclear localization sequence-bearing proteins is mediated by karyopherin alpha/beta1 heterodimers. A second nuclear import pathway, mediated by karyopherin beta2 (transportin), recently was described for mRNA-binding proteins. Here we report the cloning and characterization of human karyop...

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

authors： Yaseen NR,Blobel G

更新日期：1997-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:How genome divergence eventually leads to speciation is a topic of prime evolutionary interest. Genomic islands of elevated divergence are frequently reported between diverging lineages, and their size is expected to increase with time and gene flow under the speciation-with-gene-flow model. However, such islands can ...

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

authors： Ma T,Wang K,Hu Q,Xi Z,Wan D,Wang Q,Feng J,Jiang D,Ahani H,Abbott RJ,Lascoux M,Nevo E,Liu J

更新日期：2018-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1), first discovered in Drosophila melanogaster, is a highly conserved chromosomal protein implicated in both heterochromatin formation and gene silencing. We report here characterization of an HP1-interacting protein, heterochromatin protein 2 (HP2), which codistributes with HP1 in the pe...

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

authors： Shaffer CD,Stephens GE,Thompson BA,Funches L,Bernat JA,Craig CA,Elgin SC

更新日期：2002-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a comprehensive transcriptome analysis, a Z chromosome-linked chicken homolog of hemogen (cHEMGN) was identified and shown to be specifically involved in testis differentiation in early chicken embryos. Hemogen [Hemgn in mice, EDAG (erythroid differentiation-associated gene protein) in humans] was recently chara...

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

authors： Nakata T,Ishiguro M,Aduma N,Izumi H,Kuroiwa A

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypernociceptive effects of cytokines [TNF-alpha, keratinocyte-derived chemokine (KC), and IL-1beta] and their participation in carrageenan (Cg)-induced inflammatory hypernociception in mice were investigated. Nociceptor sensitization (hypernociception) was quantified with an electronic version of the von Frey fil...

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

authors： Cunha TM,Verri WA Jr,Silva JS,Poole S,Cunha FQ,Ferreira SH

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antitumor effect of doxorubicin (DOX) conjugated to a biodegradable dendrimer was evaluated in mice bearing C-26 colon carcinomas. An asymmetric biodegradable polyester dendrimer containing 8-10 wt % DOX was prepared. The design of the dendrimer carrier optimized blood circulation time through size and molecular a...

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

authors： Lee CC,Gillies ER,Fox ME,Guillaudeu SJ,Fréchet JM,Dy EE,Szoka FC

更新日期：2006-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Substance P prohormones were identified in the caudate nucleus, hypothalamus, and substantia nigra of human brain. A polypeptide fraction of acidic brain extracts was fractionated on Sephadex G-50. The lyophilized fractions were sequentially treated with trypsin and a substance P-degrading enzyme with strong preferenc...

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

authors： Nyberg F,le Grevés P,Terenius L

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ectopic activation of the Wnt signaling pathway is highly oncogenic for many human tissues. Here, we show that ectopic Wnt signaling increases the effective stem cell activity in mouse mammary glands in vivo. Furthermore, Wnt effectors induce the accumulation of mouse mammary epithelial progenitors (assayed by Hoechst...

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

authors： Liu BY,McDermott SP,Khwaja SS,Alexander CM

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonuclease H (EC 3.1.4.34) has been used to remove selectively much of the 3'-terminal poly(adenylic acid) [poly(A)] from poliovirus RNA by treating the RNA with the enzyme in the presence of poly(dT). Over 80% of the poly(A) could be removed and the residuum was found as oligo(A) stretches attached to many or all o...

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

authors： Spector DH,Baltimore D

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To modify the lac permease of Escherichia coli for fluorescence spectroscopy, six tryptophan residues at positions 10, 33, 78, 151, 171, and 223 were first replaced individually with phenylalanine by using oligonucleotide-directed site-specific mutagenesis. None of the tryptophan residues is critical for activity, as ...

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

authors： Menezes ME,Roepe PD,Kaback HR

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical studies have revealed that genetic variations in metabotropic glutamate receptor 3 (mGlu3) affect performance on cognitive tasks dependent upon the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and may be linked to psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and addiction. We have performed a series of studies ...

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

authors： Walker AG,Wenthur CJ,Xiang Z,Rook JM,Emmitte KA,Niswender CM,Lindsley CW,Conn PJ

更新日期：2015-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent intensification of agriculture, and the prospects of future intensification, will have major detrimental impacts on the nonagricultural terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems of the world. The doubling of agricultural food production during the past 35 years was associated with a 6.87-fold increase in nitrogen ...

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

authors： Tilman D

更新日期：1999-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported previously that Go-deficient mice develop severe neurological defects that include hyperalgesia, a generalized tremor, lack of coordination, and a turning syndrome somewhat reminiscent of unilateral lesions of the dopaminergic nigro-striatal pathway. By using frozen coronal sections of serially sectioned b...

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

authors： Jiang M,Spicher K,Boulay G,Wang Y,Birnbaumer L

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A density-shift method is described for analyzing insulin receptor synthesis and turnover in cultured cells labeled with "heavy" amino acids (2H, 13C, and 15N). Solubilized newly synthesized heavy and old "light" receptors are separated by isopycnic banding on CsCl gradients and then quantitated. Insulin receptor synt...

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

authors： Reed BC,Lane MD

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation leukemia virus, isolated from radiation-induced lymphomas in C57BL/Ka mice and propagated in that strain, is thymotropic and leukemogenic in vivo but replicates poorly, if at all, in mouse and mink fibroblast cultures in vitro. Comparative studies indicate that this naturally occurring virus is distinct from...

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

authors： Declève A,Lieberman M,Ihle JN,Kaplan HS

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retinoid was isolated by a multistep procedure from the small intestines of vitamin A-deficient rats given a single dose of retinoic acid. The compound, designated 8II, was pure, as demonstrated by four high-pressure liquid chromatographic procedures. It was positively identified as 5,8-oxyretinoic acid by ultraviol...

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

authors： Napoli JL,McCormick AM,Schnoes HK,DeLuca HF

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of sickle cells with cystamine, a thiol reagnet, resulted in the formation of an intracellular S-ethylamine derivative. The rate of the reaction was dependent upon the cystamine concentration, the temperature, and the duration of the incubation. The cystamine-treated cells demonstrated a marked inhibition o...

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

authors： Hassan W,Beuzard Y,Rosa J

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organelles in the axoplasm from the squid giant axon move along exogenous actin filaments toward their barbed ends. An approximately 235-kDa protein, the only band recognized by a pan-myosin antibody in Western blots of isolated axoplasmic organelles, has been previously proposed to be a motor for these movements. Her...

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

authors： Bearer EL,DeGiorgis JA,Jaffe H,Medeiros NA,Reese TS

更新日期：1996-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently showed that culture-derived metacyclic trypomastigotes (CMT), but not epimastigotes (Epi), of the Miranda 88 strain of Trypanosoma cruzi evade lysis by the human alternative complement pathway because of inefficient binding of factor B to complement component C3b on the parasite surface. These results sugg...

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

authors： Rimoldi MT,Sher A,Heiny S,Lituchy A,Hammer CH,Joiner K

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the Rous sarcoma virus envelope glycoprotein complex was studied by sedimentation gradient centrifugation analyses of detergent-solubilized wild-type and mutant envelope (env) gene products. These studies show that the envelope glycoprotein forms an oligomer during biosynthesis, which is most likely a...

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

authors： Einfeld D,Hunter E

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00