Tri-split tRNA is a transfer RNA made from 3 transcripts that provides insight into the evolution of fragmented tRNAs in archaea.

abstract：:Cell walls of Mycobacterium leprae, prepared by differential solvent extraction, were shown to contain arabinogalactan, mycolates, and peptidoglycan. In addition, amino acid analysis revealed the unexpected presence of large amounts of protein that retained potent immunological reactivity. Purified cell walls stimulat...

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

authors： Melancon-Kaplan J,Hunter SW,McNeil M,Stewart C,Modlin RL,Rea TH,Convit J,Salgame P,Mehra V,Bloom BR

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Do negative feelings in general trigger addictive behavior, or do specific emotions play a stronger role? Testing these alternative accounts of emotion and decision making, we drew on the Appraisal Tendency Framework to predict that sadness, specifically, rather than negative mood, generally, would 1) increase craving...

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

authors： Dorison CA,Wang K,Rees VW,Kawachi I,Ericson KMM,Lerner JS

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:β subunits of high voltage-gated Ca2+ (CaV) channels promote cell-surface expression of pore-forming α1 subunits and regulate channel gating through binding to the α-interaction domain (AID) in the first intracellular loop. We addressed the stability of CaV α1B-β interactions by rapamycin-translocatable CaV β subunits...

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

authors： Yeon JH,Park CG,Hille B,Suh BC

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The survival of motor neurons is controlled by multiple factors that regulate different aspects of their physiology. The identification of these factors is important because of their relationship to motor neuron disease. We investigate here whether Mullerian Inhibiting Substance (MIS) is a motor neuron survival factor...

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

authors： Wang PY,Koishi K,McGeachie AB,Kimber M,Maclaughlin DT,Donahoe PK,McLennan IS

更新日期：2005-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional digital computers can execute advanced operations by a sequence of elementary Boolean functions of 2 or more bits. As a result, complicated tasks such as solving a linear system or solving a differential equation require a large number of computing steps and an extensive use of memory units to store indiv...

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

authors： Sun Z,Pedretti G,Ambrosi E,Bricalli A,Wang W,Ielmini D

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNAs representing the alpha subunit of polyomavirus enhancer binding protein 2 (PEBP2; also called PEA2) were isolated. The products of the cDNAs are highly homologous to that of Drosophila segmentation gene runt (run) for an N-proximal 128-amino acid region showing 66% identity. The run homology region encompasses t...

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

authors： Ogawa E,Maruyama M,Kagoshima H,Inuzuka M,Lu J,Satake M,Shigesada K,Ito Y

更新日期：1993-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatio-temporal studies on the growth of capillary blood vessels and capillary lymphatic vessels in tissue remodeling have suggested that lymphangiogenesis is angiogenesis-dependent. We revisited this concept by using fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF-2) (80 ng) to stimulate the growth of both vessel types in the mouse ...

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

authors： Chang LK,Garcia-Cardeña G,Farnebo F,Fannon M,Chen EJ,Butterfield C,Moses MA,Mulligan RC,Folkman J,Kaipainen A

更新日期：2004-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:BCL6 encodes a transcriptional repressor that is essential for the germinal center (GC) reaction and important in lymphomagenesis. Although its promoter has been well studied, little is known concerning its possible regulation by more distal elements. To gain such information, we mapped critical histone modifications ...

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

authors： Ramachandrareddy H,Bouska A,Shen Y,Ji M,Rizzino A,Chan WC,McKeithan TW

更新日期：2010-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Trigger factor (TF), the first chaperone in eubacteria to encounter the emerging nascent chain, binds to the large ribosomal subunit in the vicinity of the protein exit tunnel opening and forms a sheltered folding space. Here, we present the 3.5-A crystal structure of the physiological complex of the large ribosomal s...

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

authors： Baram D,Pyetan E,Sittner A,Auerbach-Nevo T,Bashan A,Yonath A

更新日期：2005-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a simple theory that uses thermodynamic parameters to predict the probability that a protein retains the wild-type structure after one or more random amino acid substitutions. Our theory predicts that for large numbers of substitutions the probability that a protein retains its structure will decline expone...

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

authors： Bloom JD,Silberg JJ,Wilke CO,Drummond DA,Adami C,Arnold FH

更新日期：2005-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The developmental origin of dendritic cells, a specialized system of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II-rich antigen-presenting cells for T-cell immunity and tolerance, is not well characterized. Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is known to stimulate dendritic cells, including gro...

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

authors： Inaba K,Inaba M,Deguchi M,Hagi K,Yasumizu R,Ikehara S,Muramatsu S,Steinman RM

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An in-depth knowledge of the interaction of water with amorphous silica is critical to fundamental studies of interfacial hydration water, as well as to industrial processes such as catalysis, nanofabrication, and chromatography. Silica has a tunable surface comprising hydrophilic silanol groups and moderately hydroph...

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

authors： Schrader AM,Monroe JI,Sheil R,Dobbs HA,Keller TJ,Li Y,Jain S,Shell MS,Israelachvili JN,Han S

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic 3-phosphocitrate, an extremely potent inhibitor of calcium phosphate crystallization as determined in a nonbiological physical-chemical assay, has many similarities to a mitochondrial factor that inhibits crystallization of nondiffracting amorphous calcium phosphate. In order to determine whether phosphocitr...

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

authors： Tew WP,Malis CD,Howard JE,Lehninger AL

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of how insects are actually affected by sex pheromones deployed throughout a crop so as to disrupt mating has lacked a mechanistic framework sufficient for guiding optimization of this environmentally friendly pest-control tactic. Major hypotheses are competitive attraction, desensitization, and camouflage. ...

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

authors： Miller JR,McGhee PS,Siegert PY,Adams CG,Huang J,Grieshop MJ,Gut LJ

更新日期：2010-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:At what range can a mammalian cell sense the presence of another cell and through what medium? To approach these questions, the formation of aggregates of a 3T3 cell variant (3T3x cells) grown on solid substrates was studied. Each of the aggregates consisted of cells that, at the time of their seeding, were single and...

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

authors： Albrecht-Buehler G

更新日期：2005-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Pheromone biosynthesis-activating neuropeptide (PBAN) regulates sex pheromone biosynthesis in female Helicoverpa (Heliothis) zea. Two oligonucleotide probes representing two overlapping amino acid regions of PBAN were used to screen 2.5 x 10(5) recombinant plaques, and a positive recombinant clone was isolated. Sequen...

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

authors： Davis MT,Vakharia VN,Henry J,Kempe TG,Raina AK

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although introduced hemosporidian (malaria) parasites (Apicomplexa: Haemosporida) have hastened the extinction of endemic bird species in the Hawaiian Islands and perhaps elsewhere, little is known about the temporal dynamics of endemic malaria parasite populations. Haemosporidian parasites do not leave informative fo...

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

authors： Soares L,Latta SC,Ricklefs RE

更新日期：2017-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it has long been recognized that the enteric community of bacteria that inhabit the human distal intestinal track broadly impacts human health, the biochemical details that underlie these effects remain largely undefined. Here, we report a broad MS-based metabolomics study that demonstrates a surprisingly lar...

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

authors： Wikoff WR,Anfora AT,Liu J,Schultz PG,Lesley SA,Peters EC,Siuzdak G

更新日期：2009-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:During the late Pleistocene, early anatomically modern humans coexisted in Europe with the anatomically archaic Neandertals for some thousand years. Under the recent variants of the multiregional model of human evolution, modern and archaic forms were different but related populations within a single evolving species,...

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

authors： Caramelli D,Lalueza-Fox C,Vernesi C,Lari M,Casoli A,Mallegni F,Chiarelli B,Dupanloup I,Bertranpetit J,Barbujani G,Bertorelle G

更新日期：2003-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Autopsy studies suggest that most aging men will develop lesions that, if detected clinically, would be diagnosed as prostate cancer (PCa). Most of these cancers are indolent and remain localized; however, a subset of PCa is aggressive and accounts for more than 27,000 deaths in the United States annually. Identificat...

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

authors： Xu J,Zheng SL,Isaacs SD,Wiley KE,Wiklund F,Sun J,Kader AK,Li G,Purcell LD,Kim ST,Hsu FC,Stattin P,Hugosson J,Adolfsson J,Walsh PC,Trent JM,Duggan D,Carpten J,Grönberg H,Isaacs WB

更新日期：2010-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The perinuclear localization of myosin-V was investigated in a variety of cultured mammalian cells and in primary cultures of rat hippocampus. In all cells investigated, myosin-V immunoreactivity was associated with the centrosome. In interphase cells, myosin-V was found in pericentriolar material, and in both mother ...

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

authors： Espreafico EM,Coling DE,Tsakraklides V,Krogh K,Wolenski JS,Kalinec G,Kachar B

更新日期：1998-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Misfolded proteins are eliminated from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) by retrotranslocation into the cytosol, a pathway hijacked by certain viruses to destroy MHC class I heavy chains. The translocation of polypeptides across the ER membrane requires their polyubiquitination and subsequent extraction from the membrane...

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

authors： Ye Y,Shibata Y,Kikkert M,van Voorden S,Wiertz E,Rapoport TA

更新日期：2005-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The mRNA for organic anion transport protein (oatp) was previously shown to be present in abundance in liver and kidney, and in small amounts in brain. Data obtained from experiments with reverse transcriptase-PCR techniques and in situ hybridization analysis showed that the oatp mRNA is present within the brain, loca...

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

authors： Angeletti RH,Novikoff PM,Juvvadi SR,Fritschy JM,Meier PJ,Wolkoff AW

更新日期：1997-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a high-titer recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vector to express WT or mutant human alpha-synuclein in the substantia nigra of adult marmosets. The alpha-synuclein protein was expressed in 90-95% of all nigral dopamine neurons and distributed by anterograde transport throughout their axonal and dendrit...

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

authors： Kirik D,Annett LE,Burger C,Muzyczka N,Mandel RJ,Björklund A

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hurler syndrome (alpha-L-iduronidase deficiency disease) is a severe lysosomal storage disorder that is potentially amenable to enzyme-replacement therapy. Availability of a canine model of the disease and a sufficient supply of corrective enzyme have permitted a therapeutic trial lasting 3 mo. Recombinant human a...

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

authors： Shull RM,Kakkis ED,McEntee MF,Kania SA,Jonas AJ,Neufeld EF

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In the recently halted HIV type 1 (HIV-1) vaccine STEP trial, individuals that were seropositive for adenovirus serotype 5 (Ad5) showed increased rates of HIV-1 infection on vaccination with an Ad5 vaccine. We propose that this was due to activation and expansion of Ad5-specific mucosal-homing memory CD4 T cells. To t...

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

authors： Benlahrech A,Harris J,Meiser A,Papagatsias T,Hornig J,Hayes P,Lieber A,Athanasopoulos T,Bachy V,Csomor E,Daniels R,Fisher K,Gotch F,Seymour L,Logan K,Barbagallo R,Klavinskis L,Dickson G,Patterson S

更新日期：2009-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium vivax uses a single member of the Duffy binding-like (DBL) receptor family to invade erythrocytes and is not found in West Africa where its erythrocyte ligand, the Duffy blood group antigen, is missing. In contrast, Plasmodium falciparum expresses four members of the DBL family, and remarkably, single-point...

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

authors： Mayer DC,Jiang L,Achur RN,Kakizaki I,Gowda DC,Miller LH

更新日期：2006-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The eukaryotic DNA sliding clamp that keeps DNA polymerase engaged at a replication fork, called proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), is loaded onto the 3' ends of primer DNA through its interaction with a heteropentameric protein complex called replication factor C (RFC). The ATPase activity of RFC is necessary...

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

authors： Shiomi Y,Usukura J,Masamura Y,Takeyasu K,Nakayama Y,Obuse C,Yoshikawa H,Tsurimoto T

更新日期：2000-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential involvement of ceramide-related signaling processes in the induction of apoptosis by tumor necrosis factor alpha was assessed by multiple biochemical strategies in the human leukemic cell lines HL-60 and U937 and the murine fibrosarcoma cell lines L929/LM and WEHI 164/13. Exposure of these cells to tumor...

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

authors： Jarvis WD,Kolesnick RN,Fornari FA,Traylor RS,Gewirtz DA,Grant S

更新日期：1994-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, self-recognition and the thereby promoted aggregation of thousands of cells into protective flocs is mediated by a family of cell-surface adhesins, the flocculins (Flo). Based on this social behavior FLO genes fulfill the definition of "greenbeard" genes, which direct coo...

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

authors： Veelders M,Brückner S,Ott D,Unverzagt C,Mösch HU,Essen LO

更新日期：2010-12-28 00:00:00