Shaping a bacterial genome by large chromosomal replacements, the evolutionary history of Streptococcus agalactiae.

abstract：:We reported in previous studies that prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) has central effects of augmenting wakefulness and suppressing slow-wave sleep (SWS) and paradoxical sleep (PS) in rats. In the present study, we tested the effect of AH 6809, an antagonist of PGE2 receptors, on sleep-wake activities. AH 6809 in saline was in...

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

authors： Matsumura H,Honda K,Choi WS,Inoué S,Sakai T,Hayaishi O

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytosine methylation is an epigenetic mark that promotes gene silencing and plays important roles in development and genome defense against transposons. Methylation patterns are established and maintained by DNA methyltransferases that catalyze transfer of a methyl group from S-adenosyl-L-methionine to cytosine bases ...

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

authors： Morales-Ruiz T,Ortega-Galisteo AP,Ponferrada-Marín MI,Martínez-Macías MI,Ariza RR,Roldán-Arjona T

更新日期：2006-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive-strand RNA viruses are the largest virus class and include many pathogens such as hepatitis C virus and the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS). Brome mosaic virus (BMV) is a representative positive-strand RNA virus whose RNA replication, gene expression, and encapsidation have been reproduce...

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

authors： Kushner DB,Lindenbach BD,Grdzelishvili VZ,Noueiry AO,Paul SM,Ahlquist P

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendrite morphogenesis is regulated by neuronal activity or neurotrophins, which may function by activating intrinsic signaling proteins, including Rho family GTPases. Here we report that activity- and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)-dependent dendritic morphogenesis requires activation of geranylgeranyltrans...

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

authors： Zhou XP,Wu KY,Liang B,Fu XQ,Luo ZG

更新日期：2008-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Brief incubation of partially purified preparations of hormone-sensitive lipase from rat epididymal fat pads with ATP, Mg(++), cyclic adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate and rabbit muscle protein kinase (phosphorylase b kinase kinase) resulted in enhancement of lipolytic activity (44-93%). Little or no activation was observ...

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

authors： Huttunen JK,Steinberg D,Mayer SE

更新日期：1970-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Src tyrosine kinase has long been implicated in colon cancer but much remains to be learned about its substrates. The nuclear receptor hepatocyte nuclear factor 4α (HNF4α) has just recently been implicated in colon cancer but its role is poorly defined. Here we show that c-Src phosphorylates human HNF4α on three tyros...

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

authors： Chellappa K,Jankova L,Schnabl JM,Pan S,Brelivet Y,Fung CL,Chan C,Dent OF,Clarke SJ,Robertson GR,Sladek FM

更新日期：2012-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin resistance, obesity, diabetes, dyslipidemia, and nonalcoholic fatty liver are components of the metabolic syndrome, a disease complex that is increasing at epidemic rates in westernized countries. Although proinflammatory cytokines have been suggested to contribute to the development of these disorders, the mo...

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

authors： Ueki K,Kondo T,Tseng YH,Kahn CR

更新日期：2004-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Several cDNA clones encoding the human immunoglobulin G receptor CD16 were isolated from human lung or peripheral blood leukocyte cDNA libraries. Nucleotide sequence comparisons revealed that the cDNAs could be divided into two groups. cDNA clones in one group encode a protein that terminates 4 amino acids after the p...

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

authors： Scallon BJ,Scigliano E,Freedman VH,Miedel MC,Pan YC,Unkeless JC,Kochan JP

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the coupled binding and folding of alpha-synuclein, an intrinsically disordered protein linked with Parkinson's disease. Using single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer and correlation methods, we directly probed protein membrane association, structural distributions, and dynamics. Results reve...

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

authors： Ferreon AC,Gambin Y,Lemke EA,Deniz AA

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In Arabidopsis, the two-dimensional expansion of leaves is regulated via the polarized elongation of cells. The ROTUNDIFOLIA3 (ROT3) protein, a member of the family of cytochromes P450, is involved in this process and regulates leaf length. Transgenic plants that overexpressed a wild-type ROT3 gene had longer leaves t...

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

authors： Kim GT,Tsukaya H,Saito Y,Uchimiya H

更新日期：1999-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:People who are more avoidant of pathogens are more politically conservative, as are nations with greater parasite stress. In the current research, we test two prominent hypotheses that have been proposed as explanations for these relationships. The first, which is an intragroup account, holds that these relationships ...

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

authors： Tybur JM,Inbar Y,Aarøe L,Barclay P,Barlow FK,de Barra M,Becker DV,Borovoi L,Choi I,Choi JA,Consedine NS,Conway A,Conway JR,Conway P,Adoric VC,Demirci DE,Fernández AM,Ferreira DC,Ishii K,Jakšić I,Ji T,van Leeuwen

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer relapse after surgery is a common occurrence, most frequently resulting from the outgrowth of minimal residual disease in the form of metastases. We examined the effectiveness of cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4) blockade as an adjunctive immunotherapy to reduce metastatic relapse after prima...

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

authors： Kwon ED,Foster BA,Hurwitz AA,Madias C,Allison JP,Greenberg NM,Burg MB

更新日期：1999-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination is the most effective medical intervention ever introduced and, together with clean water and sanitation, it has eliminated a large part of the infectious diseases that once killed millions of people. A recent study concluded that since 1924 in the United States alone, vaccines have prevented 40 million ca...

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

authors： Rappuoli R,Pizza M,Del Giudice G,De Gregorio E

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Superoxide dismutases (SODs; superoxide: superoxide oxidoreductase, EC 1.15.1.1) play a key role in protection against oxygen radicals, and SOD gene expression is highly induced during environmental stress. To determine the conditions of SOD induction, the promoter of the cytosolic copper/zinc SOD (Cu/ZnSODcyt) gene w...

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

authors： Hérouart D,Van Montagu M,Inzé D

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is pronounced seasonal plasticity in the morphology of the neural circuits that regulate song behavior in adult songbirds, primarily in response to changes in plasma testosterone (T) levels. Most song nuclei have androgen receptors. Afferent input from the telencephalic nucleus HVc (also known as the "high vocal...

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

authors： Brenowitz EA,Lent K

更新日期：2002-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:FK506-binding protein 52 (FKBP52), which binds FK506 and possesses peptidylprolyl isomerase activity, is an important immunophilin involved in the heterocomplex of steroid receptors with heat-shock protein 90. Here we report the crystal structures of two overlapped fragments [N(1-260) and C(145-459)] of FKBP52 and the...

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

authors： Wu B,Li P,Liu Y,Lou Z,Ding Y,Shu C,Ye S,Bartlam M,Shen B,Rao Z

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of interleukin 8 (IL-8) with heparin was studied by using synthetic IL-8 analogs with C- and N-terminal truncations. Elimination of the N-terminal region preceding the first cysteine, which constitutes the IL-8 receptor binding site, did not affect the affinity to heparin-Sepharose. Affinity, however, ...

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

authors： Webb LM,Ehrengruber MU,Clark-Lewis I,Baggiolini M,Rot A

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linkage disequilibrium between polymorphisms in a natural population may result from various evolutionary forces, including random genetic drift due to sampling of gametes during reproduction, restricted migration between subpopulations in a subdivided population, or epistatic selection. In this report, we present evi...

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

authors： Kirby DA,Muse SV,Stephan W

更新日期：1995-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic oligonucleotide probes can be easily obtained and used, in contrast to cDNA cloning to develop probes, and thus the present study was carried out to determine whether such probes could also be useful for in situ hybridization. A 24-base synthetic oligonucleotide complementary to part of the alpha-melanocyte-...

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

authors： Lewis ME,Sherman TG,Burke S,Akil H,Davis LG,Arentzen R,Watson SJ

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse interferon preparations inhibited the multiplication of mouse leukemia L 1210 cells cultivated under steady-state conditions in a chemostat. The use of this sensitive and controlled system led to the detection of a rapid inhibition in the incorporation of (3-H)thymidine into cellular acid-precipitable material 2...

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

authors： Tovey M,Brouty-Boyé D,Gresser I

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to ionizing radiation (IR), which is a conventional treatment for osteosarcoma that cannot be resected, undermines the efficacy of this therapy. However, the mechanism by which IR induces radioresistance in osteosarcoma is not defined. Here, we report that CR6-interacting factor-1 (CRIF1) is highly expresse...

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

authors： Ran Q,Jin F,Xiang Y,Xiang L,Wang Q,Li F,Chen L,Zhang Y,Wu C,Zhou L,Xiao Y,Chen L,Wu J,Zhong JF,Li SC,Li Z

更新日期：2019-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Current theory indicates that mitochondria were obtained 1.5 billion years ago from an ancient prokaryote. The mitochondria provided the capacity for aerobic respiration, the creation of the eukaryotic cell, and eventually complex multicellular organisms. Recent reports have found that mitochondria play essential role...

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

authors： Spees JL,Olson SD,Whitney MJ,Prockop DJ

更新日期：2006-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we report the transcriptional organization of a 450-kb gene cluster in Xq28, flanked by the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and the color vision genes. CpG islands previously identified and mapped to distal Xq28 have helped in construction of a continuous contig of cosmids and in identification of cDN...

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

authors： Bione S,Tamanini F,Maestrini E,Tribioli C,Poustka A,Torri G,Rivella S,Toniolo D

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homing endonucleases stimulate gene conversion by generating site-specific DNA double-strand breaks that are repaired by homologous recombination. These enzymes are potentially valuable tools for targeted gene correction and genome engineering. We have engineered a variant of the I-AniI homing endonuclease that nicks ...

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

authors： McConnell Smith A,Takeuchi R,Pellenz S,Davis L,Maizels N,Monnat RJ Jr,Stoddard BL

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca channel currents were studied in freshly dispersed bovine adrenal glomerulosa cells to better understand the control of aldosterone secretion by extracellular K concentration (Ko) and angiotensin II (AII). The whole-cell variation of the patch voltage clamp technique was used. Two types of Ca channels were found. O...

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

authors： Cohen CJ,McCarthy RT,Barrett PQ,Rasmussen H

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of arbuscules in Aglaophyton major, an Early Devonian land plant, provides unequivocal evidence that mycorrhizae were established >400 million years ago. Nonseptate hyphac and arbuscules occur in a specialized meristematic region of the cortex that continually provided new cells for fungal infection. Arb...

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

authors： Remy W,Taylor TN,Hass H,Kerp H

更新日期：1994-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi must recognize plant-specific signals to initiate subsequent morphogenetic events such as filamentation that lead to infection. Here we show that the plant hormone indoleacetic acid (IAA) induces adhesion and filamentation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genome expression profiling of cells treated with IAA identif...

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

authors： Prusty R,Grisafi P,Fink GR

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A glnB gene is identified in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942, and its gene product is found to be covalently modified as a result of imbalance in electron transfer in photosynthesis, where photosystem II is favored over photosystem I. The gene was cloned and sequenced and found to encode a polypeptide of...

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

authors： Tsinoremas NF,Castets AM,Harrison MA,Allen JF,Tandeau de Marsac N

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a low stringency polymerase chain reaction (LSPCR) to isolate the unknown neighboring region around a known DNA sequence, thus allowing efficient targeted gene walking. The method involves the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with a single primer under conditions of low stringency for primer annealing...

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

authors： Malo MS,Srivastava K,Andresen JM,Chen XN,Korenberg JR,Ingram VM

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of the decapeptide Boc-Aib-Glu(OBzl)-Leu-Aib-Ala-Leu-Aib-Ala-Lys(Z)-Aib-OMe (where Aib is alpha-aminoisobutyryl, Boc is t-butoxycarbonyl, OBzl is benzyl ester, and Z is benzyloxycarbonyl) illustrates a parallel zipper arrangement of interacting helical peptide columns. Head-to-tail NH...OC hydrog...

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

authors： Karle IL,Flippen-Anderson JL,Uma K,Balaram P

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00