Anomalous high-pressure behavior of amorphous selenium from synchrotron x-ray diffraction and microtomography.

abstract：:This report describes an unbiased method for systematically determining gene function in mammalian cells. A total of 20,704 predicted human full-length cDNAs were tested for induction of the IL-8 promoter. A number of genes, including those for cytokines, receptors, adapters, kinases, and transcription factors, were i...

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

authors： Iourgenko V,Zhang W,Mickanin C,Daly I,Jiang C,Hexham JM,Orth AP,Miraglia L,Meltzer J,Garza D,Chirn GW,McWhinnie E,Cohen D,Skelton J,Terry R,Yu Y,Bodian D,Buxton FP,Zhu J,Song C,Labow MA

更新日期：2003-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of homogeneous preparations of mouse submandibular gland nerve growth factor (NGF) with the classical complement pathway was studied. NGF was found to be capable of carrying out the enzyme activities of the first component (C1-) of the classical complement pathway (i.e., the cleavage of zymogen C4 and ...

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

authors： Boyle MD,Young M

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A calmodulin-neomycin-resistance fusion gene was introduced into Trypanosoma brucei by electroporation, and stably transformed cell lines were obtained. In all of the transformants, the fusion gene had integrated into the host genome at the cognate locus, evidently by homologous recombination within flanking calmoduli...

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

authors： Eid J,Sollner-Webb B

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal rabies control has been frustrated by the existence of multiple wildlife reservoirs and the lack of efficacious oral vaccines. In this investigation, raccoons fed a vaccinia-rabies glycoprotein recombinant virus in a sponge bait developed rabies virus-neutralizing antibody (0.6-54.0 units) and resisted street r...

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

authors： Rupprecht CE,Wiktor TJ,Johnston DH,Hamir AN,Dietzschold B,Wunner WH,Glickman LT,Koprowski H

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:mRNA coding for mouse major transplantation antigens of the d haplotype was partially purified, copied into double-stranded cDNA, and cloned in Escherichia coli. Clones were selected by their ability to hybridize specifically with mRNA coding for H-2K, D, or L antigens. One of these clones, pH-2d-1, carries a 1200-bas...

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

authors： Kvist S,Bregegere F,Rask L,Cami B,Garoff H,Daniel F,Wiman K,Larhammar D,Abastado JP,Gachelin G,Peterson PA,Dobberstein B,Kourilsky P

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing knowledge of the key molecular components involved in biological processes such as endocytosis, exocytosis, and motility has enabled direct testing of proposed mechanistic models by reconstitution. However, current techniques for building increasingly complex cellular structures and functions from purified com...

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

authors： Richmond DL,Schmid EM,Martens S,Stachowiak JC,Liska N,Fletcher DA

更新日期：2011-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Tripartite motif 39 (Trim39) is a RING domain-containing E3 ubiquitin ligase able to inhibit the anaphase-promoting complex (APC/C) directly. Through analysis of Trim39 function in p53-positive and p53-negative cells, we have found, surprisingly, that p53-positive cells lacking Trim39 could not traverse the G1/S trans...

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

authors： Zhang L,Huang NJ,Chen C,Tang W,Kornbluth S

更新日期：2012-12-18 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：:Phage phi 29 terminal protein, p3, essentially pure, was isolated in a denatured form from viral particles, and anti-p3 antiserum was obtained. A radioimmunoassay to detect and quantitate protein p3 was developed. By using this assay, native protein p3 was highly purified from Escherichia coli cells harboring a gene 3...

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

authors： Prieto I,Lázaro JM,García JA,Hermoso JM,Salas M

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate protein folding is essential for proper cellular and organismal function. In the cell, protein folding is carefully regulated; changes in folding homeostasis (proteostasis) can disrupt many cellular processes and have been implicated in various neurodegenerative diseases and other pathologies. For many protei...

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

authors： Samelson AJ,Jensen MK,Soto RA,Cate JH,Marqusee S

更新日期：2016-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The ribosome is one of the major targets for therapeutic antibiotics; however, the rise in multidrug resistance is a growing threat to the utility of our current arsenal. The orthosomycin antibiotics evernimicin (EVN) and avilamycin (AVI) target the ribosome and do not display cross-resistance with any other classes o...

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

authors： Arenz S,Juette MF,Graf M,Nguyen F,Huter P,Polikanov YS,Blanchard SC,Wilson DN

更新日期：2016-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen.antibody complexes (Ag.Ab) prepared from (125)I-labeled bovine serum albumin and guinea pig anti-albumin were incubated at 37 degrees C for 30 min with normal human serum diluted optimally for binding (1:16) and then with autologous erythrocytes (RBC). After washing, RBC-bearing antigen.antibody.complement com...

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

authors： Medof ME,Prince GM,Mold C

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme oxygenase (HO) catalyzes the opening of the heme ring with the release of iron in both plants and animals. In cyanobacteria, red algae, and cryptophyceae, HO is a key enzyme in the synthesis of the chromophoric part of the photosynthetic antennae. In an attempt to study the regulation of this key metabolic step, ...

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

authors： Richaud C,Zabulon G

更新日期：1997-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides are postulated to disrupt microbial phospholipid membranes. The prevailing molecular model is based on the formation of stable or transient pores although the direct observation of the fundamental processes is lacking. By combining rational peptide design with topographical (atomic force microsc...

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

authors： Rakowska PD,Jiang H,Ray S,Pyne A,Lamarre B,Carr M,Judge PJ,Ravi J,Gerling UI,Koksch B,Martyna GJ,Hoogenboom BW,Watts A,Crain J,Grovenor CR,Ryadnov MG

更新日期：2013-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell surface receptor membrane localization is strongly dependent on protein-protein interactions often involving regulation by phosphorylation/dephosphorylation of the intracellular domains of membrane proteins. The present study was carried out to identify metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) 3 regulatory binding...

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

authors： Flajolet M,Rakhilin S,Wang H,Starkova N,Nuangchamnong N,Nairn AC,Greengard P

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Total chemical synthesis was used to prepare the mirror image (D-protein) form of the angiogenic protein vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF-A). Phage display against D-VEGF-A was used to screen designed libraries based on a unique small protein scaffold in order to identify a high affinity ligand. Chemically syn...

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

authors： Mandal K,Uppalapati M,Ault-Riché D,Kenney J,Lowitz J,Sidhu SS,Kent SB

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Although preterm delivery is a major global health issue, its causes and underlying mechanism remain elusive. Using mutant mice, mimicking aspects of human preterm birth, we show here that uterine decidual senescence early in pregnancy via heightened mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) signaling is a sign...

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

authors： Hirota Y,Cha J,Yoshie M,Daikoku T,Dey SK

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salicylic acid (SA) plays an important role in activating various plant defense responses, including expression of the pathogenesis-related (PR) genes and systemic acquired resistance. A critical positive regulator of the SA signaling pathway in Arabidopsis is encoded by the NPR1 gene. However, there is growing eviden...

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

authors： Kachroo P,Shanklin J,Shah J,Whittle EJ,Klessig DF

更新日期：2001-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Coacervation is a common phenomenon in natural polymers and has been applied to synthetic materials systems for coatings, adhesives, and encapsulants. Single-component coacervates are formed when block polyampholytes exhibit self-coacervation, phase separating into a dense liquid coacervate phase rich in the polyampho...

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

authors： Danielsen SPO,McCarty J,Shea JE,Delaney KT,Fredrickson GH

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional methods of determining the coupling factor alpha(2)(omega)F(omega) for the newly discovered high transition temperature (T(c)) cuprate superconductors by using tunneling and infrared measurements have thus far failed to show the cause of the very high T(c) of these compounds. This is due in part to diffic...

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

authors： Little WA,Collman JP

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the process of molecularly cloning unintegrated proviral DNA from NIH-3T3 mouse cells infected with Rauscher murine leukemia virus, we observed the occurrence of clones with inserts smaller than the expected Rauscher murine leukemia virus fragments. The insert of one of these clones, lambda.Xe-1, was characterized ...

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

authors： van der Hoorn FA,Onnekink C,van der Putten H,Zijlstra M,Bloemers HP

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified a cDNA from a human phytohemagglutinin-activated lymphoblast library encoding a protein that binds 125I-labeled human interleukin 12 (125I-huIL-12) with a Kd of about 5 nM when expressed in COS-7 cells. When coexpressed in COS-7 cells with the previously identified IL-12 beta receptor (IL-12R beta) ...

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

authors： Presky DH,Yang H,Minetti LJ,Chua AO,Nabavi N,Wu CY,Gately MK,Gubler U

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here a third region of variability in human fibronectin (FN) due to alternative RNA splicing. Two other positions of alternative splicing have been reported previously (ED and IIICS). The third region involves a 273-nucleotide exon encoding exactly one 91-amino acid repeat of type III homology, located bet...

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

authors： Gutman A,Kornblihtt AR

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Banded iron formations (BIFs) record a time of extensive Fe deposition in the Precambrian oceans, but the sources and pathways for metals in BIFs remain controversial. Here, we present Fe- and Nd-isotope data that indicate two sources of Fe for the large BIF units deposited 2.5 billion y ago. High-εNd and -δ(56)Fe sig...

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

authors： Li W,Beard BL,Johnson CM

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In Gram-negative bacteria, the outer membrane contains primarily β-barrel transmembrane proteins and lipoproteins. The insertion and assembly of β-barrel outer-membrane proteins (OMPs) is mediated by the β-barrel assembly machinery (BAM) complex, the core component of which is the 16-stranded transmembrane β-barrel Ba...

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

authors： Lundquist K,Bakelar J,Noinaj N,Gumbart JC

更新日期：2018-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In the cytoplasm of well-spread cultured normal fibroblasts, actin is organized into a network of cables that run the length of the cell just inside the adherent cell membrane. A diffuse matrix replaces the cables in fibroblasts that have become tumorigenic as a result of oncogenic transformation. We have found a simi...

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

authors： Kopelovich L,Conlon S,Pollack R

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-copy transgenes in Caenorhabditis elegans can be subjected to a potent, irreversible silencing process termed small RNA-induced epigenetic silencing (RNAe). RNAe is promoted by the Piwi Argonaute protein PRG-1 and associated Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), as well as by proteins that promote and respond to seco...

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

authors： Leopold LE,Heestand BN,Seong S,Shtessel L,Ahmed S

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The polypeptide chain initiation factor 2 (eIF-2) binds phospholipid (PL) and becomes a potent inhibitor of translation in hemin-supplemented reticulocyte lysates. This binding is markedly reduced by prior treatment of eIF-2 with N-ethylmaleimide. Although PL is probably bound by all three eIF-2 subunits, our results ...

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

authors： de Haro C,de Herreros AG,Ochoa S

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results on the subcellular localization of the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) have been controversial. To determine the subcellular distribution and trafficking of the MR in living cells after binding of agonists and antagonists, we expressed a MR-green fluorescent protein (GFP) chimera in mammalian cells lacking end...

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

authors： Fejes-Tóth G,Pearce D,Náray-Fejes-Tóth A

更新日期：1998-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern protein crystal structures are based nearly exclusively on X-ray data collected at cryogenic temperatures (generally 100 K). The cooling process is thought to introduce little bias in the functional interpretation of structural results, because cryogenic temperatures minimally perturb the overall protein backbo...

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

authors： Fraser JS,van den Bedem H,Samelson AJ,Lang PT,Holton JM,Echols N,Alber T

更新日期：2011-09-27 00:00:00