A manganese transporter, BB0219 (BmtA), is required for virulence by the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi.

abstract：:Molecular junctions are essentially modified electrodes familiar to electrochemists where the electrolyte is replaced by a conducting "contact." It is generally hypothesized that changing molecular structure will alter system energy levels leading to a change in the transport barrier. Here, we show the conductance of ...

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

authors： Sayed SY,Fereiro JA,Yan H,McCreery RL,Bergren AJ

更新日期：2012-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Tubular membrane structures are widespread in eukaryotic cells, but the mechanisms underlying their formation and stability are not well understood. Previous work has focused on tube extrusion from cells and model membranes under the application of external forces. Here, we present novel membrane/polymer systems, wher...

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

authors： Li Y,Lipowsky R,Dimova R

更新日期：2011-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The subcellular localization of Ocrl, the inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatase that is mutated in Lowe syndrome, was investigated by fluorescence microscopy. Ocrl was localized to endosomes and Golgi membranes along with clathrin, giantin, the mannose 6-phosphate receptor, transferrin, and the early endosomal antigen ...

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

authors： Ungewickell A,Ward ME,Ungewickell E,Majerus PW

更新日期：2004-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ten-Eleven-Translocation 2 (TET2) gene encodes a member of TET family enzymes that alters the epigenetic status of DNA by oxidizing 5-methylcytosine to 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC). Somatic loss-of-function mutations of TET2 are frequently observed in patients with diverse myeloid malignancies, including myelody...

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

authors： Ko M,Bandukwala HS,An J,Lamperti ED,Thompson EC,Hastie R,Tsangaratou A,Rajewsky K,Koralov SB,Rao A

更新日期：2011-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:How olfactory sensory neurons converge on spatially invariant glomeruli in the olfactory bulb is largely unknown. In one model, olfactory sensory neurons interact with spatially restricted guidance cues in the bulb that orient and guide them to their target. Identifying differentially expressed molecules in the olfact...

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

authors： Lin DM,Yang YH,Scolnick JA,Brunet LJ,Marsh H,Peng V,Okazaki Y,Hayashizaki Y,Speed TP,Ngai J

更新日期：2004-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:When histones in chromatin core particles were crosslinked with dimethylsuberimidate, the resulting particles had properties closely similar to those of native core particles. A crosslinked octameric histone complex was isolated from these particles under nondenaturing conditions. Upon reaction with DNA, this octameri...

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

authors： Stein A,Bina-Stein M,Simpson RT

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of heparan sulfate occurs within the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi complex-trans-Golgi network by the concerted action of several glycosyltransferases, an epimerase, and multiple sulfotransferases. In this report, we have examined the location and interaction of tagged forms of five of the bio...

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

authors： Pinhal MA,Smith B,Olson S,Aikawa J,Kimata K,Esko JD

更新日期：2001-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:For almost a century the plant hormone auxin has been central to theories on apical dominance, whereby the growing shoot tip suppresses the growth of the axillary buds below. According to the classic model, the auxin indole-3-acetic acid is produced in the shoot tip and transported down the stem, where it inhibits bud...

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

authors： Mason MG,Ross JJ,Babst BA,Wienclaw BN,Beveridge CA

更新日期：2014-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly effective vaccine would be a valuable weapon in the drive toward malaria elimination. No such vaccine currently exists, and only a handful of the hundreds of potential candidates in the parasite genome have been evaluated. In this study, we systematically evaluated 29 antigens likely to be involved in erythro...

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

authors： Bustamante LY,Powell GT,Lin YC,Macklin MD,Cross N,Kemp A,Cawkill P,Sanderson T,Crosnier C,Muller-Sienerth N,Doumbo OK,Traore B,Crompton PD,Cicuta P,Tran TM,Wright GJ,Rayner JC

更新日期：2017-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The utilization of the isoaccepting species of leucyl-tRNA in protein synthesis has been examined in E. coli. Two minor leucyl-tRNA species, isoacceptors tRNA3Leu and tRNA4Leu, are the predominant species found bound to ribosomes during exponential growth in minimal medium. In rich medium, an increased proportion of t...

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

authors： Holmes WM,Goldman E,Miner TA,Hatfield GW

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taz1 is a hybrid signal-transducing membrane receptor between Tar, an aspartate chemoreceptor, and EnvZ, an osmosensor of Escherichia coli that is able to induce ompC expression by phosphorylating OmpR (a transcriptional activator) in response to aspartate. When the Taz1 His-277, the proposed autophosphorylation site ...

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

authors： Yang Y,Inouye M

更新日期：1991-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a vector-borne viral disease widespread in Africa. The primary cycle involves mosquitoes and wild and domestic ruminant hosts. Humans are usually contaminated after contact with infected ruminants. As many environmental, agricultural, epidemiological, and anthropogenic factors are implicated...

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

authors： Lancelot R,Béral M,Rakotoharinome VM,Andriamandimby SF,Héraud JM,Coste C,Apolloni A,Squarzoni-Diaw C,de La Rocque S,Formenty PB,Bouyer J,Wint GR,Cardinale E

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium requires the mgtC gene to cause disease. The mgtC transcript includes a long leader region that harbors a short proline codon-rich ORF--termed mgtP--the translation of which is predicted to favor formation of one of two alternative stem-loop structures...

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

authors： Lee EJ,Choi J,Groisman EA

更新日期：2014-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We have made direct, quantitative measurements of the lateral motion and age-dependent distribution of acetylcholine receptors (AChR) on the surface of rat myotubes in primary culture. AChR were fluorescently marked with tetramethylrhodamine-labeled alpha-bungarotoxin and AChR lateral motion was measured by the fluore...

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

authors： Axelrod D,Ravdin P,Koppel DE,Schlessinger J,Webb WW,Elson EL,Podleski TR

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methane is a major greenhouse gas linked to global warming; however, patterns of in situ methane oxidation by methane-oxidizing bacteria (methanotrophs), nature's main biological mechanism for methane suppression, are often inconsistent with laboratory predictions. For example, one would expect a strong relationship b...

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

authors： Knapp CW,Fowle DA,Kulczycki E,Roberts JA,Graham DW

更新日期：2007-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Na+ channels in chick brain and heart have been directly compared by measuring binding of tritium-labeled saxitoxin ([3H]STX) to the two tissues under identical conditions. Maximum saturable uptake and toxin affinity were considerably less in chick heart than in chick brain, requiring the development of an assay metho...

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

authors： Rogart RB,Regan LJ,Dziekan LC,Galper JB

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Curved DNA molecules and unusually small circles have been obtained by ligation of synthetic 21-base precursors: (sequence in text). The ligation resulted in the formation of double-stranded oligo-(precursor)s possessing a strong 10.5-base-pair (bp) periodicity of the runs of adenines. Two-dimensional polyacrylamide g...

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

authors： Ulanovsky L,Bodner M,Trifonov EN,Choder M

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The best-studied cytoskeletal system is the inner surface of the erythrocyte membrane, which provides an erythrocyte with the structural support needed to be stable yet flexible as it passes through the circulation. Current structural models predict that the spectrin-actin-based cytoskeletal network is attached to the...

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

authors： Stefanovic M,Markham NO,Parry EM,Garrett-Beal LJ,Cline AP,Gallagher PG,Low PS,Bodine DM

更新日期：2007-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Down syndrome (DS) is the most common form of intellectual disability. The cognitive alterations in DS are thought to depend on brain regions critical for learning and memory such as the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and the hippocampus (HPC). Neuroimaging studies suggest that increased brain connectivity correlates with lo...

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

authors： Alemany-González M,Gener T,Nebot P,Vilademunt M,Dierssen M,Puig MV

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpesviruses must traverse the nuclear envelope to gain access to the cytoplasm and, ultimately, to exit cells. It is believed that herpesvirus nucleocapsids enter the perinuclear space by budding through the inner nuclear membrane (NM). To reach the cytoplasm these enveloped particles must fuse with the outer NM and...

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

authors： Farnsworth A,Wisner TW,Webb M,Roller R,Cohen G,Eisenberg R,Johnson DC

更新日期：2007-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) resolution has advanced because newer techniques use increasingly decondensed chromatin. FISH cannot analyze restriction enzyme cutting sites due to limitations of the hybridization and detection technologies. The RecA-assisted restriction endonuclease (RARE) technique cleaves...

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

authors： Wang YK,Huff EJ,Schwartz DC

更新日期：1995-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In adult rodents, neurons are continually generated in the subventricular zone of the forebrain, from where they migrate tangentially toward the olfactory bulb, the only known target for these neuronal precursors. Within the main olfactory bulb, they ascend radially into the granule and periglomerular cell layers, whe...

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

authors： Gheusi G,Cremer H,McLean H,Chazal G,Vincent JD,Lledo PM

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A yeast gene has been identified by screening for DNA replication mutants using a permeabilized cell replication assay. The mutant is temperature sensitive for growth and shows a cell cycle phenotype typical of DNA replication mutants. RNA synthesis is normal in the mutant but DNA synthesis ceases upon shift to the no...

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

authors： Budd ME,Campbell JL

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The high concentration of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) in milk of several species implies that the mammary gland is either a site of synthesis for this neuropeptide or that it is efficiently concentrated from plasma by this organ. By PCR amplification of mammary gland cDNA, we have demonstrated expression of ...

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

authors： Palmon A,Ben Aroya N,Tel-Or S,Burstein Y,Fridkin M,Koch Y

更新日期：1994-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat-shock factor 1 (HSF1) is the master transcriptional regulator of the cellular response to heat and a wide variety of other stressors. We previously reported that HSF1 promotes the survival and proliferation of malignant cells. At this time, however, the clinical and prognostic significance of HSF1 in cancer is un...

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

authors： Santagata S,Hu R,Lin NU,Mendillo ML,Collins LC,Hankinson SE,Schnitt SJ,Whitesell L,Tamimi RM,Lindquist S,Ince TA

更新日期：2011-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The C4B isotype of the fourth component of human complement (C4) displays 3- to 4-fold greater hemolytic activity than does its other isotype C4A. This correlates with differences in their covalent binding efficiencies to erythrocytes coated with antibody and complement C1. C4A binds to a greater extent when C1 is on ...

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

authors： Carroll MC,Fathallah DM,Bergamaschini L,Alicot EM,Isenman DE

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most genetic regulatory mechanisms involve protein-DNA interactions. In these processes, the classical Watson-Crick DNA structure sometimes is distorted severely, which in turn enables the precise recognition of the specific sites by the protein. Despite its key importance, very little is known about such deformation ...

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

authors： Leger JF,Robert J,Bourdieu L,Chatenay D,Marko JF

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the effects of a stromal cell-derived cytokine designated interleukin 11 (IL-11) on the proliferation of murine hemopoietic progenitors in methylcellulose culture. COS cell-conditioned medium containing IL-11 supported formation of granulocyte/macrophage colonies and a small number of multilineage col...

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

authors： Musashi M,Yang YC,Paul SR,Clark SC,Sudo T,Ogawa M

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports that there are major differences between mammalian cell lines in the propensity to progress into subsequent cell cycles when mitosis is inhibited with agents that disrupt the assembly of the mitotic spindle apparatus (Colcemid, nocodazole, and taxol). Human HeLa S3 cells, which represent one extreme...

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

authors： Kung AL,Sherwood SW,Schimke RT

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prothoracicotropic hormone (PTTH) is the central cerebral neurohormone in insect development. Its release has been believed for decades to be confined to one (or two) critical moments early in each developmental stage at which time it triggers prolonged activation of the prothoracic glands to synthesize and release th...

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

authors： Vafopoulou X,Steel CG

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00