Site-specific effect of thymine dimer formation on dAn.dTn tract bending and its biological implications.

abstract：:There is an important medical need for new antifungal agents with novel mechanisms of action to treat the increasing number of patients with life-threatening systemic fungal disease and to overcome the growing problem of resistance to current therapies. F901318, the leading representative of a novel class of drug, the...

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

authors： Oliver JD,Sibley GEM,Beckmann N,Dobb KS,Slater MJ,McEntee L,du Pré S,Livermore J,Bromley MJ,Wiederhold NP,Hope WW,Kennedy AJ,Law D,Birch M

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which cells recognize and complete replicated regions at their precise doubling point must be remarkably efficient, occurring thousands of times per cell division along the chromosomes of humans. However, this process remains poorly understood. Here we show that, in Escherichia coli, the completion of...

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

authors： Wendel BM,Courcelle CT,Courcelle J

更新日期：2014-11-18 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：:Despite advances in resolution accompanying the development of high-field superconducting magnets, biomolecular applications of NMR require multiple dimensions in order to resolve individual resonances, and the achievable resolution is typically limited by practical constraints on measuring time. In addition to the ne...

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

authors： Maciejewski MW,Fenwick M,Schuyler AD,Stern AS,Gorbatyuk V,Hoch JC

更新日期：2011-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Our long-term goal is the in vivo expression of intrinsically colored proteins without the need for further posttranslational modification or chemical functionalization by externally added reagents. Biocompatible (Aza)Indoles (Inds)/(Aza)Tryptophans (Trp) as optical probes represent almost ideal isosteric substitutes ...

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

authors： Lepthien S,Hoesl MG,Merkel L,Budisa N

更新日期：2008-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Kruppel-like factor 4 (KLF4) is involved in self-renewal of embryonic stem cells and reprogramming of somatic cells to pluripotency. However, its role in lineage-committed stem cells remains largely unknown. Here, we show that KLF4 is expressed in neural stem cells (NSCs) and is down-regulated during neuronal differen...

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

authors： Qin S,Liu M,Niu W,Zhang CL

更新日期：2011-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is a cellular catabolic pathway by which long-lived proteins and damaged organelles are targeted for degradation. Activation of autophagy enhances cellular tolerance to various stresses. Recent studies indicate that a class of anticancer agents, histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors, can induce autophagy. On...

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

authors： Gammoh N,Lam D,Puente C,Ganley I,Marks PA,Jiang X

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In adipocytes, adenylate cyclase is positively regulated by beta-adrenergic agents and negatively regulated by adenosine. Incubation of adipocytes with adenosine deaminase relieves the inhibition of adenylate cyclase by destroying the adenosine that the cells release into the medium. When adipocytes are incubated with...

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

authors： Chung FZ,Weber HW,Appleman MM

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic islets regulate glucose homeostasis through coordinated actions of hormone-secreting cells. What underlies the function of the islet as a unit is the close approximation and communication among heterogeneous cell populations, but the structural mediators of islet cellular cross talk remain incompletely char...

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

authors： Hughes JW,Cho JH,Conway HE,DiGruccio MR,Ng XW,Roseman HF,Abreu D,Urano F,Piston DW

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The human chemokine receptors CCR5 and CXCR4 have emerged as the predominant cofactors, along with CD4, for cellular entry of HIV-1 in vivo whereas the contribution of other chemokine receptors to HIV disease has not been yet determined. CCR5-specific (R5) viruses predominate during primary HIV-1 infection whereas vir...

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

authors： Penn ML,Grivel JC,Schramm B,Goldsmith MA,Margolis L

更新日期：1999-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Banded iron formations (BIFs) record a time of extensive Fe deposition in the Precambrian oceans, but the sources and pathways for metals in BIFs remain controversial. Here, we present Fe- and Nd-isotope data that indicate two sources of Fe for the large BIF units deposited 2.5 billion y ago. High-εNd and -δ(56)Fe sig...

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

authors： Li W,Beard BL,Johnson CM

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfated glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) such as heparan sulfate (HS) are heteropolysaccharides implicated in the pathology of protein aggregation diseases including localized and systemic forms of amyloidosis. Among subdomains of sulfated GAGs, highly sulfated domains of HS, called HS S-domains, have been highlighted as be...

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

authors： Iwahashi N,Ikezaki M,Nishikawa T,Namba N,Ohgita T,Saito H,Ihara Y,Shimanouchi T,Ino K,Uchimura K,Nishitsuji K

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of the fluorescence polarization of 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene in membranes of normal, transformed, and revertant 3T3 cells allowed estimation of microviscosities (eta) of the lipid bilayers of these cells. Fluorescence polarization values observed with normal cells were significantly lower than those obser...

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

authors： Fuchs P,Parola A,Robbins PW,Blout ER

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a model for DNA polymerase fidelity in which free energy differences, delta delta G, between matched and mismatched nucleotides are magnified at the enzyme's active site. Both hydrogen bonding and stacking components of the interaction energy are amplified, with the most profound effect being on the magnitu...

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

authors： Petruska J,Sowers LC,Goodman MF

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant hormones abscisic acid (ABA) and gibberellic acid (GA) are important regulators of the dormancy and germination of seeds. In cereals, GA enhances the synthesis and secretion of enzymes (principally alpha-amylases) in the aleurone cells of the endosperm, which then mobilize the storage reserves that fuel germ...

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

authors： Ritchie S,Gilroy S

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Both neocortical and hippocampal networks organize the firing patterns of their neurons by prominent oscillations during sleep, but the functional role of these rhythms is not well understood. Here, we show a robust correlation of neuronal discharges between the somatosensory cortex and hippocampus on both slow and fi...

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

authors： Sirota A,Csicsvari J,Buhl D,Buzsáki G

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) was used to label the rabbit intestinal brush border Na+-glucose carrier, identify the carrier protein on sodium dodecyl sulfate/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and monitor the effect of ions and substrates on fluorescence quenching. Enriched brush border preparations were employe...

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

authors： Peerce BE,Wright EM

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water dynamics in concentrated ionic solutions plays an important role in a number of material and energy conversion processes such as the charge transfer at the electrolyte-electrode interface in aqueous rechargeable ion batteries. One long-standing puzzle is that all electrolytes, regardless of their "structure-maki...

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

authors： Zhang Q,Wu T,Chen C,Mukamel S,Zhuang W

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-genome-negative human lymphoma lines, Ramos and BJAB, can be converted by EBV in vitro into EBV-genome-positive virus nonproducer lines. These cell lines have been used to identify surface antigens unique to EBV, with the expectation that such determinants might be related to the antigenic tar...

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

authors： Lasky RD,Troy FA

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding and uptake of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) by mouse T-lymphoma YAC-1 cells exhibited the characteristics of receptor-mediated endocytosis. The binding saturation curve obtained by incubating YAC-1 cells at 4 degrees C with 125I-labeled AFP at different concentrations (50 ng/ml to 2.5 mg/ml) showed three saturation ...

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

authors： Naval J,Villacampa MJ,Goguel AF,Uriel J

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bifunctional Neurospora crassa mitochondrial tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase (CYT-18 protein) both aminoacylates mitochondrial tRNA(Tyr) and acts as a structure-stabilizing splicing cofactor for group I introns. Previous studies showed that CYT-18 has distinct tRNA(Tyr) and group I intron-binding sites, with the latter fo...

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

authors： Paukstelis PJ,Lambowitz AM

更新日期：2008-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In both human patients and murine models, the progression from insulitis to diabetes is neither immediate nor inevitable, as illustrated by the innocuous versus destructive infiltrates of BDC2.5 transgenic mice on the nonobese diabetic (NOD) versus C57BL/6.H-2g7 genetic backgrounds. Natural killer (NK)-cell-specific t...

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

authors： Poirot L,Benoist C,Mathis D

更新日期：2004-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In yeasts and mammals, PEX10 encodes an integral membrane protein with a C3HC4 RING finger motif in its C-terminal domain and is required for peroxisome biogenesis and matrix protein import. In humans, its dysfunction in peroxisome biogenesis leads to severe Zellweger Syndrome and infantile Refsum disease. Here we sho...

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

authors： Schumann U,Wanner G,Veenhuis M,Schmid M,Gietl C

更新日期：2003-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) undergo self-renewal divisions to support spermatogenesis throughout life. Although several positive regulators of SSC self-renewal have been discovered, little is known about the negative regulators. Here, we report that F-box and WD-40 domain protein 7 (FBXW7), a component of the Skp...

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

authors： Kanatsu-Shinohara M,Onoyama I,Nakayama KI,Shinohara T

更新日期：2014-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-surface labeling with fluorescamine indicates that the fluorescence of Balb 3T3 A31 cells in considerably decreased after both viral and chemical transformation. This phenomenon, coupled with the technique of flow microfluorometry, enabled nontransformed and transformed cells to be distinguished. A second fluroes...

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

authors： Hawkes SP,Bartholomew JC

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication through a diverse array of DNA lesions occurs by the sequential action of two translesion synthesis (TLS) DNA polymerases (Pols), in which one inserts the nucleotide opposite the lesion and the other carries out the subsequent extension. By extending from the nucleotide inserted by another Pol, Polζ plays ...

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

authors： Johnson RE,Prakash L,Prakash S

更新日期：2012-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T cell clones were analyzed for their susceptibility to activation-induced cell death (AICD) in response to CD3/T cell receptor ligation. AICD was observed only in Th1 clones and was Fas-mediated, whereas Th2 clones resisted AICD. Analysis of a panel of Th0 clones, characterized by their ability to secrete both ...

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

authors： Varadhachary AS,Perdow SN,Hu C,Ramanarayanan M,Salgame P

更新日期：1997-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The paradigmatic example of a continuous quantum phase transition is the transverse field Ising ferromagnet. In contrast to classical critical systems, whose properties depend only on symmetry and the dimension of space, the nature of a quantum phase transition also depends on the dynamics. In the transverse field Isi...

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

authors： Maharaj AV,Rosenberg EW,Hristov AT,Berg E,Fernandes RM,Fisher IR,Kivelson SA

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:AB5 bacterial toxins and polyomaviruses induce membrane curvature as a mechanism to facilitate their entry into host cells. How membrane bending is accomplished is not yet fully understood but has been linked to the simultaneous binding of the pentameric B subunit to multiple copies of glycosphingolipid receptors. Her...

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

authors： Kabbani AM,Raghunathan K,Lencer WI,Kenworthy AK,Kelly CV

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurobiological theories of awareness propose divergent accounts of the spatial extent of brain changes that support conscious perception. Whereas focal theories posit mostly local regional changes, global theories propose that awareness emerges from the propagation of neural signals across a broad extent of sensory a...

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

authors： Godwin D,Barry RL,Marois R

更新日期：2015-03-24 00:00:00