Two proteolytic pathways regulate DNA repair by cotargeting the Mgt1 alkylguanine transferase.

abstract：:Galanin is a neuropeptide with a wide variety of biological functions, including that of a strong endogenous anticonvulsant. No nonpeptide ligands, capable of activating galanin receptors, are available today. Based on known pharmacophores of galanin, a combinatorial library was designed, synthesized, and screened at ...

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

authors： Saar K,Mazarati AM,Mahlapuu R,Hallnemo G,Soomets U,Kilk K,Hellberg S,Pooga M,Tolf BR,Shi TS,Hökfelt T,Wasterlain C,Bartfai T,Langel U

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of Escherichia coli ornithine transcarbamoylase (OTCase, EC 2.1.3.3) complexed with the bisubstrate analog N-(phosphonacetyl)-L-ornithine (PALO) has been determined at 2.8-A resolution. This research on the structure of a transcarbamoylase catalytic trimer with a substrate analog bound provides n...

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

authors： Ha Y,McCann MT,Tuchman M,Allewell NM

更新日期：1997-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified a cellular transcription factor, ATF, which is involved in the expression of multiple adenovirus E1a-inducible genes. Here we show that ATF also binds to regulatory elements in cellular cAMP-inducible promoters. In these cellular promoters, ATF binds to a consensus sequence that has been ...

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

authors： Lin YS,Green MR

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemotaxis network in Escherichia coli is remarkable for its sensitivity to small relative changes in the concentrations of multiple chemical signals. We present a model for signal integration by mixed clusters of interacting two-state chemoreceptors. Our model results compare favorably to the results obtained by ...

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

authors： Keymer JE,Endres RG,Skoge M,Meir Y,Wingreen NS

更新日期：2006-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Let E and F be vector bundles and D:E --> F an operator of order k. We associate a sequence of invariants ((l))(D), l >/= 0 with D which generalize the concept of curvature in a natural way. In the case where D = D(theta) is the differential operator of a connection theta on a vector bundle E, ((1))(D(theta)) is the c...

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

authors： Knapp RE

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PTEN is an important tumor-suppressor gene associated with many cancers. Through expression profiling of glioblastoma tissue samples and prostate cancer xenografts, we identified a molecular signature for loss of the PTEN tumor suppressor in glioblastoma and prostate tumors. The PTEN signature consists of a minimum of...

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

authors： Mehrian-Shai R,Chen CD,Shi T,Horvath S,Nelson SF,Reichardt JK,Sawyers CL

更新日期：2007-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the syk tyrosine kinase occurs almost immediately following engagement of many types of antigen receptors, including Fc receptors, but the mechanism through which syk is activated is currently unclear. Here we demonstrate that Fc receptor-induced syk activation occurs as the result of phosphorylation of ...

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

authors： El-Hillal O,Kurosaki T,Yamamura H,Kinet JP,Scharenberg AM

更新日期：1997-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Newly formed hepatic granulomas around Schistosoma mansoni eggs become progressively smaller during the chronic (greater than or equal to 15 weeks after infection) phase of the disease. This reduction in granuloma size, termed "modulation," is known to be caused in part by a T lymphocyte that can adoptively transfer m...

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

authors： Green WF,Colley DG

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal cation homeostasis is essential for plant nutrition and resistance to toxic heavy metals. Many plant metal transporters remain to be identified at the molecular level. In the present study, we have isolated AtNramp cDNAs from Arabidopsis and show that these genes complement the phenotype of a metal uptake defici...

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

authors： Thomine S,Wang R,Ward JM,Crawford NM,Schroeder JI

更新日期：2000-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychostimulant use is an ever-increasing socioeconomic burden, including a dramatic rise during pregnancy. Nevertheless, brain-wide effects of psychostimulant exposure are incompletely understood. Here, we performed Fos-CreERT2-based activity mapping, correlated for pregnant mouse dams and their fetuses with amphetam...

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

authors： Fuzik J,Rehman S,Girach F,Miklosi AG,Korchynska S,Arque G,Romanov RA,Hanics J,Wagner L,Meletis K,Yanagawa Y,Kovacs GG,Alpár A,Hökfelt TGM,Harkany T

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing concentrations of estradiol (E2) ranging from 0.01 to 10 nM were found to inhibit partially but significantly the lactogenic effect of ovine prolactin (oPRL) on alpha-lactalbumin production in primate mammary tissues maintained in organ culture for 9 days. E2 at 10 nM inhibited by 38% (mean) PRL-stimulated ...

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

authors： Kleinberg DL,Todd J,Babitsky G

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biologically active vitamin D(3) metabolite ("peak V metabolite") more polar than 25-hydroxycholecalciferol has been isolated from chicken intestines in pure form as a mono(trimethylsilyl)ether derivative. The molecule has been identified as 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol by means of mass spectrometry, ultraviolet ab...

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

authors： Holick MF,Schnoes HK,DeLuca HF

更新日期：1971-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are investigating the feasibility of using the positive-strand RNA virus Sindbis virus and its defective interfering (DI) particles as vectors for introducing foreign genes into cells. In previous work we showed by deletion mapping of a cloned cDNA derived from one of the DI RNAs that only nucleotides at the 3' and...

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

authors： Levis R,Huang H,Schlesinger S

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The default mode network (DMN) has been suggested to support a variety of self-referential functions in humans and has been fractionated into subsystems based on distinct responses to cognitive tasks and functional connectivity architecture. Such subsystems are thought to reflect functional hierarchy and segregation w...

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

authors： Hsu LM,Liang X,Gu H,Brynildsen JK,Stark JA,Ash JA,Lin CP,Lu H,Rapp PR,Stein EA,Yang Y

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The "disease-specific" (dsp) region next to the hrp gene cluster of Erwinia amylovora is required for pathogenicity but not for elicitation of the hypersensitive reaction. A 6.6-kb apparent operon, dspEF, was found responsible for this phenotype. The operon contains genes dspE and dspF and is positively regulated by h...

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

authors： Bogdanove AJ,Kim JF,Wei Z,Kolchinsky P,Charkowski AO,Conlin AK,Collmer A,Beer SV

更新日期：1998-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A remote labeling method has been developed to determine (18)O kinetic isotope effects (KIEs) in Ras-catalyzed GTP hydrolysis. Substrate mixtures consist of (13)C-depleted GTP and [(18)O,(13)C]GTP that contains (18)O at phosphoryl positions of mechanistic interest and (13)C at all carbon positions of the guanosine moi...

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

authors： Du X,Black GE,Lecchi P,Abramson FP,Sprang SR

更新日期：2004-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A combined population genetic and reproductive analysis was undertaken to compare free-ranging cheetahs from east Africa (Acinonyx jubatus raineyi) with the genetically impoverished and reproductively impaired south African subspecies (Acinonyx jubatus jubatus). Like that of their south African counterparts, the quali...

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

authors： O'Brien SJ,Wildt DE,Bush M,Caro TM,FitzGibbon C,Aggundey I,Leakey RE

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone mRNAs are naturally intronless and accumulate efficiently in the cytoplasm. To learn whether there are cis-acting sequences within histone genes that allow efficient cytoplasmic accumulation of RNAs, we made recombinant constructs in which sequences from the mouse H2a gene were cloned into a human beta-globin ...

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

authors： Huang Y,Carmichael GG

更新日期：1997-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite substantial size variations, proportions of the developing body plan are maintained with a remarkable precision. Little is known about the mechanisms that ensure this adaptation (scaling) of pattern with size. Most models of patterning by morphogen gradients do not support scaling. In contrast, we show that sc...

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

authors： Ben-Zvi D,Barkai N

更新日期：2010-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:For a distribution F on R(p) and a point x in R(p) the simplicial depth D(x), which is the probability that x be inside a random simplex whose vertices are p + 1 independent observations from F, is introduced. D(x) can be viewed as a measure of depth of the point x relative to F, and its empirical version gives rise t...

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

authors： Liu RY

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sources of human germline mutations are poorly understood. Part of the difficulty is that mutations occur very rarely, and so direct pedigree-based approaches remain limited in the numbers that they can examine. To address this problem, we consider the spectrum of low-frequency variants in a dataset (Genome Aggreg...

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

authors： Agarwal I,Przeworski M

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Truncation selection is known to be the most efficient form of directional selection. When this is modified so that the fitness increases linearly over a range of one or two standard deviations of the value of the selected character, the efficiency is reduced, but not greatly. When truncation selection is compared to ...

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

authors： Crow JF,Kimura M

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells expressing chimeric antigen receptors (CAR T cells) have shown impressive therapeutic efficacy against leukemias and lymphomas. However, they have not been as effective against solid tumors because they become hyporesponsive ("exhausted" or "dysfunctional") within the tumor microenvironment, with decreased cyt...

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

authors： Seo H,Chen J,González-Avalos E,Samaniego-Castruita D,Das A,Wang YH,López-Moyado IF,Georges RO,Zhang W,Onodera A,Wu CJ,Lu LF,Hogan PG,Bhandoola A,Rao A

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of the sterol-synthesizing mevalonate pathway occurs in part through feedback-regulated endoplasmic reticulum degradation of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase (HMG-R). In yeast, the Hmg2p isozyme of HMG-R is regulated in this manner. We have tested the involvement of ubiquitination in the regulated d...

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

authors： Hampton RY,Bhakta H

更新日期：1997-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:During latent infection of humans with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, bacteria persist in the asymptomatic host within granulomas, organized collections of differentiated macrophages, and other immune cells. The mechanisms for persistence remain poorly understood, as is the metabolic and replicative state of the microbes...

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

authors： Chan K,Knaak T,Satkamp L,Humbert O,Falkow S,Ramakrishnan L

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we test the hypothesis that high-altitude native resident Tibetan women with genotypes for high oxygen saturation of hemoglobin, and thus less physiological hypoxic stress, have higher Darwinian fitness than women with low oxygen saturation genotypes. Oxygen saturation and genealogical data were collected from re...

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

authors： Beall CM,Song K,Elston RC,Goldstein MC

更新日期：2004-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:von Willebrand factor (VWF), a protein present in our circulatory system, is necessary to stop bleeding under high shear-stress conditions as found in small blood vessels. The results presented here help unravel how an increase in hydrodynamic shear stress activates VWF's adhesion potential, leading to the counterintu...

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

authors： Schneider SW,Nuschele S,Wixforth A,Gorzelanny C,Alexander-Katz A,Netz RR,Schneider MF

更新日期：2007-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A serum-free culture of dissociated neurons from embryonic rat hippocampus has been established as a rapid and quantitative in vitro test system for neurotrophic signals in the mammalian brain. By means of this cell culture bioassay, a novel low molecular weight neurotrophic factor (NTF) could be identified. NTF is es...

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

authors： Müller HW,Beckh S,Seifert W

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P-glycoprotein is an ATP-binding cassette multidrug transporter that actively transports chemically diverse substrates across the lipid bilayer. The precise molecular mechanism underlying transport is not fully understood. Here, we present crystal structures of a eukaryotic P-glycoprotein homolog, CmABCB1 from Cyanidi...

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

authors： Kodan A,Yamaguchi T,Nakatsu T,Sakiyama K,Hipolito CJ,Fujioka A,Hirokane R,Ikeguchi K,Watanabe B,Hiratake J,Kimura Y,Suga H,Ueda K,Kato H

更新日期：2014-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation is a hallmark of many diseases, such as atherosclerosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, arthritis, infectious diseases, and cancer. Although steroids and cyclooxygenase inhibitors are effective antiinflammatory therapeutical agents, they may cause serious side effects. Therefore, developing unique...

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

authors： Jeon KI,Xu X,Aizawa T,Lim JH,Jono H,Kwon DS,Abe J,Berk BC,Li JD,Yan C

更新日期：2010-05-25 00:00:00