Kinetochore asymmetry defines a single yeast lineage.

abstract：:Single-copy transgenes in Caenorhabditis elegans can be subjected to a potent, irreversible silencing process termed small RNA-induced epigenetic silencing (RNAe). RNAe is promoted by the Piwi Argonaute protein PRG-1 and associated Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), as well as by proteins that promote and respond to seco...

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

authors： Leopold LE,Heestand BN,Seong S,Shtessel L,Ahmed S

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil systems are being increasingly exposed to the interactive effects of biological invasions and climate change, with rising temperatures expected to benefit alien over indigenous species. We assessed this expectation for an important soil-dwelling group, the springtails, by determining whether alien species show br...

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

authors： Janion-Scheepers C,Phillips L,Sgrò CM,Duffy GA,Hallas R,Chown SL

更新日期：2018-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty years after their discovery, knots in proteins are now quite well understood. They are believed to be functionally advantageous and provide extra stability to protein chains. In this work, we go one step further and search for links-entangled structures, more complex than knots, which consist of several compone...

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

authors： Dabrowski-Tumanski P,Sulkowska JI

更新日期：2017-03-28 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 thylakoid compartments of plant chloroplasts are a vital destination for copper. Copper is needed to form holo-plastocyanin, which must shuttle electrons between photosystems to convert light into biologically useful chemical energy. Copper can bind tightly to proteins, so it has been hypothesized that copper part...

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

authors： Banci L,Bertini I,Ciofi-Baffoni S,Kandias NG,Robinson NJ,Spyroulias GA,Su XC,Tottey S,Vanarotti M

更新日期：2006-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:KRAS mutant tumors are largely recalcitrant to targeted therapies. Genetically engineered mouse models (GEMMs) of Kras mutant cancer recapitulate critical aspects of this disease and are widely used for preclinical validation of targets and therapies. Through comprehensive profiling of exomes and matched transcriptome...

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

authors： Chung WJ,Daemen A,Cheng JH,Long JE,Cooper JE,Wang BE,Tran C,Singh M,Gnad F,Modrusan Z,Foreman O,Junttila MR

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the different categories of facial expressions of emotion regularly used by us is essential to gain insights into human cognition and affect as well as for the design of computational models and perceptual interfaces. Past research on facial expressions of emotion has focused on the study of six basic ca...

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

authors： Du S,Tao Y,Martinez AM

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the caspase family of cysteine proteases play central roles in coordinating the stereotypical events that occur during apoptosis. Because the major executioner caspases, caspase-3 and caspase-7, exhibit almost indistinguishable activity toward certain synthetic peptide substrates, this has led to the widesp...

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

authors： Walsh JG,Cullen SP,Sheridan C,Lüthi AU,Gerner C,Martin SJ

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Capsaicin is a unique alkaloid of the plant kingdom restricted to the genus Capsicum. Capsaicin is the pungency factor, a bioactive molecule of food and of medicinal importance. Capsaicin is useful as a counterirritant, antiarthritic, analgesic, antioxidant, and anticancer agent. Capsaicin biosynthesis involves conden...

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

authors： Prasad BC,Kumar V,Gururaj HB,Parimalan R,Giridhar P,Ravishankar GA

更新日期：2006-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell-surface antigen detected by the monoclonal antibody JONES is expressed in the retina and a number of other central nervous system regions of the rat during the latter part of embryonic development and the early postnatal period. In addition to the expression on certain neuroblast populations it is found on so...

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

authors： Blum AS,Barnstable CJ

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urate oxidase (UOxase; urate:oxygen oxidoreductase, EC 1.7.3.3), which catalyzes the oxidation of uric acid to allantoin, is present in most mammals but is absent in humans and certain primates. A cDNA clone for UOxase containing an insert of 1.3 kilobases (kb) was isolated from a lambda gt11 cDNA library prepared fro...

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

authors： Reddy PG,Nemali MR,Reddy MK,Reddy MN,Yuan PM,Yuen S,Laffler TG,Shiroza T,Kuramitsu HK,Usuda N

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta1,4-Galactosyltransferase (beta4GalT-I) participates in both glycoconjugate biosynthesis (ubiquitous activity) and lactose biosynthesis (mammary gland-specific activity). In somatic tissues, transcription of the mammalian beta4GalT-I gene results in a 4.1-kb mRNA and a 3.9-kb mRNA as a consequence of initiation at...

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

authors： Charron M,Shaper JH,Shaper NL

更新日期：1998-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:This communication reports an analysis of Tn5/IS50 target site selection by using an extensive collection of Tn5 and IS50 insertions in two relatively small regions of DNA (less than 1 kb each). For both regions data were collected resulting from in vitro and in vivo transposition events. Since the data sets are consi...

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

authors： Goryshin IY,Miller JA,Kil YV,Lanzov VA,Reznikoff WS

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of integrated viral DNA in normal and leukemic chicken cells has been studied by sequential nucleic acid hybridization procedures that localize the viral specific DNA in cellular DNA regions differing in reiteration frequency. First, DNA.DNA reassociation was employed to fractionate cellular DNA sequences a...

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

authors： Evans RM,Baluda MA,Shoyab M

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiology of systemic inflammation and sepsis involves peripheral organs, causing gastrointestinal, renal, and cardiovascular alterations, as well as the central nervous system (CNS), affecting sleep, temperature regulation, behavior, and neuroendocrine function. The molecular basis of the CNS effects of sys...

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

authors： Wong ML,Bongiorno PB,Rettori V,McCann SM,Licinio J

更新日期：1997-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracy of tail-anchored (TA) protein targeting to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) depends on the Guided Entry of Tail-Anchored (Get) protein targeting machinery. The fate of TA proteins that become inappropriately inserted into other organelles, such as mitochondria, is unknown. Here, we identify Msp1, a conserve...

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

authors： Okreglak V,Walter P

更新日期：2014-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously linked aging, carcinogenesis, and de novo methylation within the promoter of the estrogen receptor (ER) gene in human colon. We now examine the dynamics of this process for the imprinted gene for insulin-like growth factor II (IGF2). In young individuals, the P2-4 promoters of IGF2 are methylated ex...

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

authors： Issa JP,Vertino PM,Boehm CD,Newsham IF,Baylin SB

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

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：:The sequence of the transforming region of simian sarcoma virus (SSV) has been determined by using molecularly cloned viral DNA. This region encompassed the 1.0-kilobase pair woolly monkey cell-derived insertion sequence, v-sis, and flanking simian sarcoma-associated viral (SSAV) sequences. A 675-nucleotide-long open ...

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

authors： Devare SG,Reddy EP,Robbins KC,Andersen PR,Tronick SR,Aaronson SA

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), released from gut endocrine L cells in response to glucose, regulates appetite, insulin secretion, and gut motility. How glucose given orally, but not systemically, induces GLP-1 secretion is unknown. We show that human duodenal L cells express sweet taste receptors, the taste G protei...

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

authors： Jang HJ,Kokrashvili Z,Theodorakis MJ,Carlson OD,Kim BJ,Zhou J,Kim HH,Xu X,Chan SL,Juhaszova M,Bernier M,Mosinger B,Margolskee RF,Egan JM

更新日期：2007-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the integration of laser-scanning fluorometric cytometry and nonseparation ligand-binding techniques to provide new assay methods adaptable to miniaturization and high-throughput screening. Receptor-bound, cyanine dye-labeled ligands, [Cy]ligands, were discriminated from those free in solution by...

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

authors： Zuck P,Lao Z,Skwish S,Glickman JF,Yang K,Burbaum J,Inglese J

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Synergism between transcriptional activators is a powerful way of potentiating their function. Here we show that the glial POU domain protein Tst-1 (also known as Oct-6 and SCIP) and large tumor antigen (T antigen) synergistically increased transcription from both the early and the late promoters of papovavirus JC in ...

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

authors： Renner K,Leger H,Wegner M

更新日期：1994-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the rice transcription factor, REB (rice endosperm bZIP) was cloned from a bacterial artificial chromosome library of rice. The cloned 6,227-bp-long Reb gene is composed of six exons and five introns and is flanked by a 1.2-kb 5' promoter and a 1.2-kb 3' terminator region. The function of the Reb gen...

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

authors： Yang D,Wu L,Hwang YS,Chen L,Huang N

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The versatility of CRISPR-Cas endonucleases as a tool for biomedical research has led to diverse applications in gene editing, programmable transcriptional control, and nucleic acid detection. Most CRISPR-Cas systems, however, suffer from off-target effects and unpredictable nonspecific binding that negatively impact ...

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

authors： Specht DA,Xu Y,Lambert G

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Preadipocytes can give rise to either white adipocytes or beige adipocytes. Owing to their distinct abilities in nutrient storage and energy expenditure, strategies that specifically promote "beiging" of adipocytes hold great promise for counterbalancing obesity and metabolic diseases. Yet, factors dictating the diffe...

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

authors： Liu K,Lin L,Li Q,Xue Y,Zheng F,Wang G,Zheng C,Du L,Hu M,Huang Y,Shao C,Kong X,Melino G,Shi Y,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Osmotic homeostasis in the brain involves movement of water through aquaporin-4 (AQP4) membrane channels. Perivascular astrocyte end-feet contain distinctive orthogonal lattices (square arrays) assembled from 4- to 6-nm intramembrane particles (IMPs) corresponding to individual AQP4 tetramers. Two isoforms of AQP4 res...

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

authors： Furman CS,Gorelick-Feldman DA,Davidson KG,Yasumura T,Neely JD,Agre P,Rash JE

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:ApcMin (Min, multiple intestinal neoplasia) is a point mutation in the murine homolog of the APC gene. Min/+ mice develop multiple intestinal adenomas, as do humans carrying germ-line mutations in APC. Female mice carrying Min are also prone to develop mammary tumors. Min/+ mammary glands are more sensitive to chemica...

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

authors： Moser AR,Mattes EM,Dove WF,Lindstrom MJ,Haag JD,Gould MN

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin X (MyoX), encoded by Myo10, is a representative member of the MyTH4-FERM domain-containing myosins, and this family of unconventional myosins shares common functions in promoting formation of filopodia/stereocilia structures in many cell types with unknown mechanisms. Here, we present the structure of the MyoX ...

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

authors： Wei Z,Yan J,Lu Q,Pan L,Zhang M

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An efficient technique has been developed for performing in vivo site-directed mutagenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. This procedure involves directed repair of P-element-induced DNA lesions after injection of a modified DNA sequence into early embryos. An oligonucleotide of 50 base pairs, whose sequence spans the P-...

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

authors： Banga SS,Boyd JB

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of pH on the membrane-fusion activity of Sendai virus was examined (pH 5.0-9.5) by using, as assays of activity, hemolysis of chicken erythrocytes and the fusion of baby hamster kidney (BHK-21) cells. Exposure of virus to basic pH increased fusion activity; the optimum pH was found to be approximately equal...

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

authors： Hsu MC,Scheid A,Choppin PW

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00