Expression profiling during ocular development identifies 2 Nlz genes with a critical role in optic fissure closure.

abstract：:The rRNA intervening sequence of Tetrahymena is a catalytic RNA molecule, or "ribozyme." A tertiary-structure model of the active site of this ribozyme has been constructed based on comparative sequence analysis of related group I intervening sequences, data on the accessibility of each nucleotide to chemical and enzy...

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

authors： Kim SH,Cech TR

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome translocations between Ig (Ig) and non-Ig genes are frequently associated with B-cell lymphomas in humans and mice. The best characterized of these is c-myc/IgH translocation, which is associated with Burkitt's lymphoma. These translocations are caused by activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), which p...

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

authors： Jankovic M,Robbiani DF,Dorsett Y,Eisenreich T,Xu Y,Tarakhovsky A,Nussenzweig A,Nussenzweig MC

更新日期：2010-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrobacterium tumefaciens causes crown gall tumors on various plants by delivering transferred DNA (T-DNA) and virulence proteins into host plant cells. Under laboratory conditions, the bacterium is widely used as a vector to genetically modify a wide range of organisms, including plants, yeasts, fungi, and algae. Var...

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

authors： Yang Q,Li X,Tu H,Pan SQ

更新日期：2017-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional unit molecular size of the intestinal brush border membrane-bound Na+/glucose cotransporter was determined by radiation inactivation. Purified brush border membrane vesicles preserved in cryoprotectant buffer were irradiated (-135 degrees C) with high-energy electrons from a 13-MeV (1 eV = 1.602 x 10(-1...

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

authors： Stevens BR,Fernandez A,Hirayama B,Wright EM,Kempner ES

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cry proteins produced by Bacillus thuringiensis are selective biodegradable insecticides used increasingly in bacterial insecticides and transgenic plants as alternatives to synthetic chemical insecticides. However, the potential for development of resistance and cross-resistance in target insect populations to Cry pr...

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

authors： Wirth MC,Georghiou GP,Federici BA

更新日期：1997-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Loquacious-PD (Loqs-PD) is required for biogenesis of many endogenous siRNAs in Drosophila In vitro, Loqs-PD enhances the rate of dsRNA cleavage by Dicer-2 and also enables processing of substrates normally refractory to cleavage. Using purified components, and Loqs-PD truncations, we provide a mechanistic basis for L...

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

authors： Trettin KD,Sinha NK,Eckert DM,Apple SE,Bass BL

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Friction is caused by dissipative lateral forces that act between macroscopic objects. An improved understanding of friction is therefore expected from measurements of dissipative lateral forces acting between individual atoms. Here we establish atomic resolution of both conservative and dissipative forces by lateral ...

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

authors： Giessibl FJ,Herz M,Mannhart J

更新日期：2002-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Hair cells of the inner ear, the mechanosensory receptors, convert sound waves into neural signals that are passed to the brain via the auditory nerve. Little is known about the molecular mechanisms that govern the development of hair cell-neuronal connections. We ascertained a family with autosomal recessive deafness...

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

authors： Diaz-Horta O,Abad C,Sennaroglu L,Foster J 2nd,DeSmidt A,Bademci G,Tokgoz-Yilmaz S,Duman D,Cengiz FB,Grati M,Fitoz S,Liu XZ,Farooq A,Imtiaz F,Currall BB,Morton CC,Nishita M,Minami Y,Lu Z,Walz K,Tekin M

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:T-cell anergy is a state of T cells that is hyporesponsive to stimulation via the T-cell receptor and costimulatory molecules and is thought to be important for self-tolerance. How T-cell anergy is regulated is still poorly understood. We report here that tuberous sclerosis (TSC)1 is critical for T-cell anergy. Defici...

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

authors： Xie DL,Wu J,Lou YL,Zhong XP

更新日期：2012-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on preparation of rhodopsin proteoliposomes with the cytoplasmic domain of rhodopsin facing the exterior of the proteoliposomes. Rhodopsin purified from rod outer segments of bovine retinae by immunoaffinity chromatography in octyl glucoside was reconstituted into liposomes prepared from soybean phospholipid...

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

authors： Niu L,Kim JM,Khorana HG

更新日期：2002-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A paradox in bone tissue is that tissue-level strains due to animal and human locomotion are too small to initiate intracellular chemical responses directly. A model recently was proposed to resolve this paradox, which predicts that the fluid flow through the pericellular matrix in the lacunar-canalicular porosity due...

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

authors： Han Y,Cowin SC,Schaffler MB,Weinbaum S

更新日期：2004-11-23 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：:Historically, rate constants were determined in vitro and it was unknown whether they were valid for in vivo biological processes. Here, we bridge this gap by measuring binding dynamics between a pair of proteins in living HeLa cells. Binding of a β-lactamase to its protein inhibitor was initiated by microinjection an...

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

authors： Phillip Y,Kiss V,Schreiber G

更新日期：2012-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Arteriovenous (AV) malformation (AVM) is a devastating condition characterized by focal lesions of enlarged, tangled vessels that shunt blood from arteries directly to veins. AVMs can form anywhere in the body and can cause debilitating ischemia and life-threatening hemorrhagic stroke. The mechanisms that underlie AVM...

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

authors： Murphy PA,Kim TN,Huang L,Nielsen CM,Lawton MT,Adams RH,Schaffer CB,Wang RA

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A glucose-responsive "closed-loop" insulin delivery system mimicking the function of pancreatic cells has tremendous potential to improve quality of life and health in diabetics. Here, we report a novel glucose-responsive insulin delivery device using a painless microneedle-array patch ("smart insulin patch") containi...

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

authors： Yu J,Zhang Y,Ye Y,DiSanto R,Sun W,Ranson D,Ligler FS,Buse JB,Gu Z

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding human plakoglobin was mapped to chromosome 17q12-q22. An intragenic restriction fragment length polymorphism was used to localize the plakoglobin gene distal to locus KRT10 and proximal to the marker D17S858. The plakoglobin gene colocalizes with the polymorphic 17q21 marker UM8 on the same cosmid in...

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

authors： Aberle H,Bierkamp C,Torchard D,Serova O,Wagner T,Natt E,Wirsching J,Heidkämper C,Montagna M,Lynch HT

更新日期：1995-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Most natural populations are affected by seasonal changes in temperature, rainfall, or resource availability. Seasonally fluctuating selection could potentially make a large contribution to maintaining genetic polymorphism in populations. However, previous theory suggests that the conditions for multilocus polymorphis...

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

authors： Wittmann MJ,Bergland AO,Feldman MW,Schmidt PS,Petrov DA

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin acts as a potent inhibitory factor against obesity by regulating energy expenditure, food intake, and adiposity. The obese diabetic db/db mouse, which has defects in leptin receptor, displays enhanced neural responses and elevated behavioral preference to sweet stimuli. Here, we show the effects of leptin on th...

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

authors： Kawai K,Sugimoto K,Nakashima K,Miura H,Ninomiya Y

更新日期：2000-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A major involvement of IFNalpha in the etiopathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus has been suggested by clinical observations, including the increase of serum levels of this cytokine in patients with active disease. Supporting this hypothesis, we have shown that expression of IFNalpha from a recombinant adenovir...

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

authors： Zagury D,Le Buanec H,Mathian A,Larcier P,Burnett R,Amoura Z,Emilie D,Peltre G,Bensussan A,Bizzini B,Gallo RC,Koutouzov S

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypnotic analgesia in some respects resembles opiate analgesia. We tested the hypothesis that some features of hypnotic analgesia are mediated through neuronal pathways activating specific opiate receptors in brain. The opiate antagonist naloxone had no effect on hypnotic analgesia in three subjects. Thus, the hypothe...

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

authors： Goldstein A,Hilgard ER

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metals in one spatial dimension are described at the lowest energy scales by the Luttinger liquid theory. It is well understood that this free theory, and even interacting integrable models, can support ballistic transport of conserved quantities including energy. In contrast, realistic one-dimensional metals, even wi...

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

authors： Bulchandani VB,Karrasch C,Moore JE

更新日期：2020-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Keratins 14 and 5 are the structural hallmarks of the basal keratinocytes of the epidermis and outer root sheath (ORS) of the hair follicle. Their genes are controlled in a tissue-specific manner and thus serve as useful tools to elucidate the regulatory mechanisms involved in keratinocyte-specific transcription. Prev...

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

authors： Sinha S,Fuchs E

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hippo pathway is an evolutionarily conserved regulator of organ growth and tumorigenesis. In Drosophila, oncogenic RasV12 cooperates with loss-of-cell polarity to promote Hippo pathway-dependent tumor growth. To identify additional factors that modulate this signaling, we performed a genetic screen utilizing the D...

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

authors： Guo X,Sun Y,Azad T,Janse van Rensburg HJ,Luo J,Yang S,Liu P,Lv Z,Zhan M,Lu L,Zhou Y,Ma X,Zhang X,Yang X,Xue L

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesenchymal stromal stem cells (MSCs) isolated from adult tissues offer tangible potential for regenerative medicine, given their feasibility for autologous transplantation. MSC research shows encouraging results in experimental stroke, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and neurotrauma models. However, further translatio...

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

authors： Ropper AE,Thakor DK,Han I,Yu D,Zeng X,Anderson JE,Aljuboori Z,Kim SW,Wang H,Sidman RL,Zafonte RD,Teng YD

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB), a hypothesized impact spike at ∼3.9 Ga, is one of the major scientific concepts to emerge from Apollo-era lunar exploration. A significant portion of the evidence for the existence of the LHB comes from histograms of (40)Ar/(39)Ar "plateau" ages (i.e., regions selected on the basis of...

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

authors： Boehnke P,Harrison TM

更新日期：2016-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The configurations of the hydrocarbon chains in micelles are severely constrained by the space-filling requirements of the chain segments, by the continuity of the chains, and by the micellar geometry. A statistical theory that takes full account of these constraints is developed by using a lattice model. The chain en...

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

authors： Dill KA,Flory PJ

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus is characterized by either the inability to produce insulin (type 1 diabetes) or as insensitivity to insulin secreted by the body (type 2 diabetes). In either case, the body is unable to move blood glucose efficiently across cell membranes to be used. This leads to a variety of local and systemic det...

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

authors： Alipio Z,Liao W,Roemer EJ,Waner M,Fink LM,Ward DC,Ma Y

更新日期：2010-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A plasmid that consists of an 812-base-pair segment containing the replication origin of plasmid ColE1 and of a 1240-base-pair segment containing a beta-lactamase gene has been constructed. The plasmid DNA has three principal sites where transcription is initiated in vitro. One is located in the ColE1 segment 555 nucl...

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

authors： Itoh T,Tomizawa J

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different experimental structures of the same protein or of proteins with high sequence similarity contain many small variations. Here we construct ensembles of "high-sequence similarity Protein Data Bank" (HSP) structures and consider the extent to which such ensembles represent the structural heterogeneity of the na...

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

authors： Best RB,Lindorff-Larsen K,DePristo MA,Vendruscolo M

更新日期：2006-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Here the first reproductive sterility system for the tephritid fruit fly pest, Anastrepha suspensa, is presented, based on lethality primarily limited to embryos heterozygous for a conditional lethal transgene combination. This tetracycline (Tet)-suppressible system uses a driver construct having the promoter from the...

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

authors： Schetelig MF,Handler AM

更新日期：2012-06-12 00:00:00