Maize AMEIOTIC1 is essential for multiple early meiotic processes and likely required for the initiation of meiosis.

abstract：:We propose differential principal component analysis (dPCA) for analyzing multiple ChIP-sequencing datasets to identify differential protein-DNA interactions between two biological conditions. dPCA integrates unsupervised pattern discovery, dimension reduction, and statistical inference into a single framework. It use...

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

authors： Ji H,Li X,Wang QF,Ning Y

更新日期：2013-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescent bisretinoids, such as A2E and all-trans-retinal dimer, form as a by-product of vitamin A cycling in retina and accumulate in retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells as lipofuscin pigments. These pigments are implicated in pathological mechanisms involved in several vision-threatening diseases including age-...

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

authors： Wu Y,Yanase E,Feng X,Siegel MM,Sparrow JR

更新日期：2010-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein A-I (apo A-I), the major apolipoprotein in human high density lipoproteins, is involved in the disease atherosclerosis. Cloned apo A-I cDNA (pA1-3) was used as a probe in chromosome mapping studies to detect the human apo A-I structural gene sequence in human-Chinese hamster cell hybrids. Southern blot ...

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

authors： Cheung P,Kao FT,Law ML,Jones C,Puck TT,Chan L

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methionine sulfoxide reductase A (MsrA) catalyzes the reduction of methionine sulfoxide to methionine and is specific for the S epimer of methionine sulfoxide. The enzyme participates in defense against oxidative stresses by reducing methionine sulfoxide residues in proteins back to methionine. Because oxidation of me...

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

authors： Lim JC,You Z,Kim G,Levine RL

更新日期：2011-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Intermediate filaments-cytoplasmic filaments with a diameter of 8-9 nm-have been described in a large variety of cell types. In this study, the subunit protein of the neurofilament and the presumptive subunit of the astroglial filament are compared by immunological and biochemical methods and are found to be very simi...

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

authors： Yen SH,Dahl D,Schachner M,Shelanski ML

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly(ADP ribose) polymerase inhibitors (PARPi) have efficacy in triple negative breast (TNBC) and ovarian cancers (OCs) harboring BRCA mutations, generating homologous recombination deficiencies (HRDs). DNA methyltransferase inhibitors (DNMTi) increase PARP trapping and reprogram the DNA damage response to generate HR...

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

authors： McLaughlin LJ,Stojanovic L,Kogan AA,Rutherford JL,Choi EY,Yen RC,Xia L,Zou Y,Lapidus RG,Baylin SB,Topper MJ,Rassool FV

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Estradiol-17beta administration to young (10- to 12-week-old) rabbits to produce the "estrogen-dominated" uterus increased the uterine contractile response to both oxytocin and methacholine in vitro. In "progesterone-dominated" uteri, obtained from rabbits that received progesterone for 4 days after estrogen pretreatm...

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

authors： Nissenson R,Fluoret G,Hechter O

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ca2+/calmodulin (CaM)-dependent protein phosphatase calcineurin is rapidly phosphorylated (0.8 mol of 32PO4 per mol of 60-kDa subunit of calcineurin) by brain Ca2+/CaM-dependent protein kinase II (CaM-kinase II). This reaction requires the autophosphorylated, Ca2+-independent form of CaM-kinase II since Ca2+/CaM b...

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

authors： Hashimoto Y,King MM,Soderling TR

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flagellar polypeptides of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii were analyzed in two-dimensions by isoelectric focusing and electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate. In addition to flagellar tubulin, over 130 polypeptides were resolved and 100 of these were identified as axonemal components in wild-type organisms...

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

authors： Piperno G,Huang B,Luck DJ

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The IL-2R gamma chain (IL-2R gamma) is an essential component of high- and intermediate-affinity IL-2Rs, playing critical roles for ligand binding and internalization. Recently, our laboratory has demonstrated that IL-2R gamma mutation results in X chromosome-linked severe combined immunodeficiency in humans, suggesti...

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

authors： Cao X,Kozak CA,Liu YJ,Noguchi M,O'Connell E,Leonard WJ

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor suppressor protein p53 localizes to microtubules (MT) and, in response to DNA damage, is transported to the nucleus via the MT minus-end-directed motor protein dynein. Dynein is also responsible for MT-mediated nuclear targeting of adenovirus type 2 (Ad2). Here we show that treatment with low concentrations ...

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

authors： Giannakakou P,Nakano M,Nicolaou KC,O'Brate A,Yu J,Blagosklonny MV,Greber UF,Fojo T

更新日期：2002-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The MHC class I antigen presentation pathway allows the immune system to distinguish between self and nonself. Despite extensive research on the processing of antigenic peptides, little is known about their origin. Here, we show that mRNAs carrying premature stop codons that prevent the production of full-length prote...

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

authors： Apcher S,Daskalogianni C,Lejeune F,Manoury B,Imhoos G,Heslop L,Fåhraeus R

更新日期：2011-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Bullvalene is a structurally unique dynamic molecule thought to interconvert among 1.2 million degenerate isomers. The incorporation of different chemical substituents onto the bullvalene core should lead to a "shape-shifting" molecule that can interconvert among thousands of discrete structural isomers. Previous NMR ...

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

authors： He M,Bode JW

更新日期：2011-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The Amazon rainforest is the Earth's largest reservoir of plant and animal diversity, and it has been subjected to especially high rates of land use change, primarily to cattle pasture. This conversion has had a strongly negative effect on biological diversity, reducing the number of plant and animal species and homog...

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

authors： Rodrigues JL,Pellizari VH,Mueller R,Baek K,Jesus Eda C,Paula FS,Mirza B,Hamaoui GS Jr,Tsai SM,Feigl B,Tiedje JM,Bohannan BJ,Nüsslein K

更新日期：2013-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) specifies in the infected cell a set of polypeptides (alpha) whose mRNAs are made in the absence of protein synthesis. The individual mRNAs specifying alpha polypeptides 0, 4, 22, and 27 were purified by hybridization to strand-separated or total HSV-1 DNA fragments cloned in pBR322 plas...

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

authors： Mackem S,Roizman B

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ezrin plays a key role in coupling signal transduction to cortical cell organization. This actin-membrane linker undergoes a series of conformational changes that modulate its interactions with various partners and its localization in membrane or cytosolic pools. Its mobility and exchange rates within and between thes...

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

authors： Coscoy S,Waharte F,Gautreau A,Martin M,Louvard D,Mangeat P,Arpin M,Amblard F

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of mice with sporozoites of Plasmodium berghei or Plasmodium yoelii has been used extensively to evaluate liver-stage protection by candidate preerythrocytic malaria vaccines. Unfortunately, repeated success of such vaccines in mice has not translated readily to effective malaria vaccines in humans. Thus, mi...

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

authors： Schmidt NW,Podyminogin RL,Butler NS,Badovinac VP,Tucker BJ,Bahjat KS,Lauer P,Reyes-Sandoval A,Hutchings CL,Moore AC,Gilbert SC,Hill AV,Bartholomay LC,Harty JT

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have assayed carbonic anhydrase activity (carbonate dehydratase, carbonate hydro-lyase, EC 4.2.1.1) and bicarbonate permeability in suspensions of broken and intact guinea pig mitochondria by monitoring the disappearance of C16O18O. We found significant activity in preparations from liver and skeletal muscle, but n...

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

authors： Dodgson SJ,Forster RE 2nd,Storey BT,Mela L

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins that recognize the core sequence GATA are important regulators of hematopoietic-specific gene transcription. We have characterized cDNAs encoding the Xenopus laevis homologues of three related transcription factors, designated GATA-1, -2, and -3. Comparative sequence analysis reveals strong conservation of th...

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

authors： Zon LI,Mather C,Burgess S,Bolce ME,Harland RM,Orkin SH

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thymic microenvironment involves complex cell interactions among different types of epithelial cells, macrophages, tissue histiocytes, and immature and maturing T cells. We describe the isolation of a subset of thymic epithelial cells by selective primary culture followed by cotransfection with a simian virus 40 r...

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

authors： Mizutani S,Watt SM,Robertson D,Hussein S,Healy LE,Furley AJ,Greaves MF

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:gC1qR is one of the C1q receptors implicated in the regulation of innate and adaptive immunity. We found that gC1qR inhibits RIG-I and MDA5-dependent antiviral signaling. Double stranded RNA and virus trigger the translocation of gC1qR to the mitochondrial outer membrane leading to the interaction of gC1qR with the RI...

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

authors： Xu L,Xiao N,Liu F,Ren H,Gu J

更新日期：2009-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms that regulate hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) fate decisions between proliferation and multilineage differentiation are unclear. Members of the Wnt family of ligands that activate the canonical Wnt signaling pathway, which utilizes beta-catenin to relay the signal, have been demonstrated to regulate HSC f...

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

authors： Nemeth MJ,Topol L,Anderson SM,Yang Y,Bodine DM

更新日期：2007-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of rising atmospheric CO2 in modulating estuarine carbonate system dynamics remains poorly characterized, likely due to myriad processes driving the complex chemistry in these habitats. We reconstructed the full carbonate system of an estuarine seagrass habitat for a summer period of 2.5 months utilizing a co...

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

authors： Pacella SR,Brown CA,Waldbusser GG,Labiosa RG,Hales B

更新日期：2018-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The six-layered neocortex is a uniquely mammalian structure with evolutionary origins that remain in dispute. One long-standing hypothesis, based on similarities in neuronal connectivity, proposes that homologs of the layer 4 input and layer 5 output neurons of neocortex are present in the avian forebrain, where they ...

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

authors： Dugas-Ford J,Rowell JJ,Ragsdale CW

更新日期：2012-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleus accumbens is considered a critical target of the action of drugs of abuse. In this nucleus a "shell" and a "core" have been distinguished on the basis of anatomical and histochemical criteria. The present study investigated the effect in freely moving rats of intravenous cocaine, amphetamine, and morphine ...

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

authors： Pontieri FE,Tanda G,Di Chiara G

更新日期：1995-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Vacuoles are essential organelles in plants, playing crucial roles, such as cellular material degradation, ion and metabolite storage, and turgor maintenance. Vacuoles receive material via the endocytic, secretory, and autophagic pathways. Membrane fusion is the last step during which prevacuolar compartments (PVCs) a...

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

authors： Rodriguez-Furlan C,Domozych D,Qian W,Enquist PA,Li X,Zhang C,Schenk R,Winbigler HS,Jackson W,Raikhel NV,Hicks GR

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The aggregation of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide is linked to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). In particular, some point mutations within Aβ are associated with early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease. Here we set out to explore how the physical properties of the altered side chains, including their sizes a...

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

authors： Yang X,Meisl G,Frohm B,Thulin E,Knowles TPJ,Linse S

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In the presence of phenylalanine, GTP cyclohydrolase I feedback regulatory protein (GFRP) forms a stimulatory 360-kDa complex with GTP cyclohydrolase I (GTPCHI), which is the rate-limiting enzyme in the biosynthesis of tetrahydrobiopterin. The crystal structure of the stimulatory complex reveals that the GTPCHI decame...

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

authors： Maita N,Okada K,Hatakeyama K,Hakoshima T

更新日期：2002-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the first part of a quantitative theory for the structure and dynamics of forests at demographic and resource steady state. The theory uses allometric scaling relations, based on metabolism and biomechanics, to quantify how trees use resources, fill space, and grow. These individual-level traits and propert...

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

authors： West GB,Enquist BJ,Brown JH

更新日期：2009-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene delivery to the central nervous system is central to the development of gene therapy for neurological diseases. We developed a baculovirus-derived vector, the Bac-CMV-GFP vector, containing a reporter gene encoding for the green fluorescent protein (GFP) under the control of the cytomegalovirus (CMV) promoter. Tw...

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

authors： Sarkis C,Serguera C,Petres S,Buchet D,Ridet JL,Edelman L,Mallet J

更新日期：2000-12-19 00:00:00