The bacteriophage T4 AsiA protein contacts the beta-flap domain of RNA polymerase.

abstract：:Agricultural foods and technologies are thought to have eased the mechanical demands of diet-how often or how hard one had to chew-in human populations worldwide. Some evidence suggests correspondingly worldwide changes in skull shape and form across the agricultural transition, although these changes have proved diff...

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

authors： Katz DC,Grote MN,Weaver TD

更新日期：2017-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Encoding activity in the medial temporal lobe, presumably evoked by the presentation of stimuli (postonset activity), is known to predict subsequent memory. However, several independent lines of research suggest that preonset activity also affects subsequent memory. We investigated the role of preonset and postonset s...

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

authors： Urgolites ZJ,Wixted JT,Goldinger SD,Papesh MH,Treiman DM,Squire LR,Steinmetz PN

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of GATA4 during the earliest stages of cardiogenesis has not been defined because Gata4 knockout embryos suffer an early developmental arrest caused by deficiencies in extraembryonic visceral endoderm function. We have used tetraploid embryo complementation to rescue these defects and generated clonal embryon...

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

authors： Watt AJ,Battle MA,Li J,Duncan SA

更新日期：2004-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of glucokinase in hepatocytes and pancreatic 6-cells is of major physiologic importance to mammalian glucose homeostasis. Liver glucokinase catalyzes the first committed step in the disposal of glucose, and beta-cell glucokinase catalyzes a rate-limiting step required for glucose-regulated insulin release. ...

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

authors： Heimberg H,De Vos A,Moens K,Quartier E,Bouwens L,Pipeleers D,Van Schaftingen E,Madsen O,Schuit F

更新日期：1996-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The locus control region of the beta-globin gene is composed of four erythroid-specific hypersensitive sites. Hypersensitive site 2 has been shown to be a powerful enhancer and contains a tandem repeat sequence for the transcription factors AP1 and NFE2 (activating protein 1 and nuclear factor erythroid 2, respectivel...

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

authors： Chan K,Lu R,Chang JC,Kan YW

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural-abundance (13)C nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of ten common nucleotides in neutral, aqueous solutions have been determined and interpreted. The spectra of two of these substances were also determined in acidic solutions, and several of the carbon chemical shifts were found to depend markedly on pH. Within...

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

authors： Dorman DE,Roberts JD

更新日期：1970-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A two-component transposon system based on the Ac element of maize was used as a mutagen in Arabidopsis thaliana. Transposition of a Ds element marked with a hygromycin-resistance gene was activated from four different locations in the Arabidopsis genome. The progeny of 201 plants carrying independent transposition ev...

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

authors： Long D,Martin M,Sundberg E,Swinburne J,Puangsomlee P,Coupland G

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mating elicits two major changes in the reproductive behavior of many insect females. The egg-laying rate increases and the readiness to accept males (receptivity) is reduced. These postmating responses last approximately 1 week in Drosophila melanogaster. Males that do not transfer sperm but transfer seminal fluid du...

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

authors： Liu H,Kubli E

更新日期：2003-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Deregulation of microRNA (miRNA) expression can lead to cancer initiation and progression. However, limited information exists on the function of miRNAs in cancer maintenance. We examined these issues in the case of myeloproliferative diseases and neoplasms (MPN), a collection of hematopoietic neoplasms regarded as pr...

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

authors： Guo S,Bai H,Megyola CM,Halene S,Krause DS,Scadden DT,Lu J

更新日期：2012-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In savannas, predicting how vegetation varies is a longstanding challenge. Spatial patterning in vegetation may structure that variability, mediated by spatial interactions, including competition and facilitation. Here, we use unique high-resolution, spatially extensive data of tree distributions in an African savanna...

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

authors： Staver AC,Asner GP,Rodriguez-Iturbe I,Levin SA,Smit IPJ

更新日期：2019-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional structure of alpha-cobra-toxin, the "long" neurotoxin from the venom of Naja naja siamensis, has been determined at 2.8-A resolution. Crystals grown as hexagonal needles have space group P6522 with unit cell parameters a = b = 74.59 A, c = 42.89 A; one molecule per asymmetric unit. Phases were de...

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

authors： Walkinshaw MD,Saenger W,Maelicke A

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have established a transformation system for Dictyostelium discoideum. The transformation vector contains the protein coding region of the Tn5 neomycin resistance gene fused to the proposed promoter of the Dictyostelium actin 8 gene; the vector also contains a sequence that acts as an autonomously replicating seque...

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

authors： Hirth KP,Edwards CA,Firtel RA

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A small number of facial expressions may be universal in that they are produced by the same basic affective states and recognized as such throughout the world. However, other aspects of emotionally expressive behavior vary widely across culture. Just why do they vary? We propose that some cultural differences in expre...

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

authors： Rychlowska M,Miyamoto Y,Matsumoto D,Hess U,Gilboa-Schechtman E,Kamble S,Muluk H,Masuda T,Niedenthal PM

更新日期：2015-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed an in vitro transcription system that uses nuclei isolated from Lemna gibba G-3. The in vitro transcripts include sequences homologous to hybridization probes for the small subunit of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase [3-phospho-D-glycerate carboxy-lyase (dimerizing), EC 4.1.1.39], the light-harv...

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

authors： Silverthorne J,Tobin EM

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies with fibroblasts have shown that peptidylhydroxyproline formation begins toward the end of the log phase of growth and is an expression of the activity of the enzyme, collagen proline hydroxylase, which increase in late log-phase cells. This communication reports a two- to fivefold increase in hydroxyla...

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

authors： Comstock JP,Udenfriend S

更新日期：1970-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone mineralization is an essential step during the embryonic development of vertebrates, and bone serves vital functions in human physiology. To systematically identify unique gene functions essential for osteogenesis, we performed a forward genetic screen in zebrafish and isolated a mutant, no bone (nob), that does ...

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

authors： Huitema LF,Apschner A,Logister I,Spoorendonk KM,Bussmann J,Hammond CL,Schulte-Merker S

更新日期：2012-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Sympatric speciation (SS), i.e., speciation within a freely breeding population or in contiguous populations, was first proposed by Darwin [Darwin C (1859) On the Origins of Species by Means of Natural Selection] and is still controversial despite theoretical support [Gavrilets S (2004) Fitness Landscapes and the Orig...

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

authors： Li K,Hong W,Jiao H,Wang GD,Rodriguez KA,Buffenstein R,Zhao Y,Nevo E,Zhao H

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular response to ionizing radiation (IR) includes induction of the c-jun and EGR1 early response genes. The present work has examined potential cytoplasmic signaling cascades that transduce IR-induced signals to the nucleus. The results demonstrate activation of the 40S ribosomal protein S6 kinase, pp90rsk, in...

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

authors： Kharbanda S,Saleem A,Shafman T,Emoto Y,Weichselbaum R,Kufe D

更新日期：1994-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies previously used for immunofluorescence localization of a myosin heavy chain-like polypeptide to the nuclear envelope in higher eukaryotic cells crossreact with both muscle and nonmuscle isoforms of Drosophila myosin heavy chain. Analyses of Drosophila tissue culture cells and premyogenic embryos suggest tha...

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

authors： Berrios M,Fisher PA,Matz EC

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helminthosporoside is a host-specific toxin produced by Helminthosporium sacchari, both in culture and in infected sugarcane tissue. The susceptibility of any given clone of sugarcane to disease is invariably associated with the presence of a toxin-binding protein. This report presents evidence for the presence of the...

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

authors： Strobel GA,Hess WM

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many of the mutagenic or lethal effects of ionization radiation can be attributed to damage caused to the DNA by low-energy electrons. To gain insight on the parameters affecting this process, we measured the low-energy electron (<2 eV) transmission yield through self-assembled monolayers of short DNA oligomers. The e...

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

authors： Ray SG,Daube SS,Naaman R

更新日期：2005-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA for parafusin, an evolutionarily conserved phosphoglycoprotein involved in exocytosis, has been cloned and sequenced from a unicellular eukaryote, Paramecium tetraurelia. A Paramecium cDNA library was screened with an oligonucleotide probe synthesized to an internal amino acid sequence of isolated parafusin. Th...

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

authors： Subramanian SV,Wyroba E,Andersen AP,Satir BH

更新日期：1994-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Aromatic polyketides make up a large class of natural products with diverse bioactivity. During biosynthesis, linear poly-β-ketone intermediates are regiospecifically cyclized, yielding molecules with defined cyclization patterns that are crucial for polyketide bioactivity. The aromatase/cyclases (ARO/CYCs) are respon...

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

authors： Caldara-Festin G,Jackson DR,Barajas JF,Valentic TR,Patel AB,Aguilar S,Nguyen M,Vo M,Khanna A,Sasaki E,Liu HW,Tsai SC

更新日期：2015-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor (LDLR) cause hypercholesterolemia because of inefficient LDL clearance from the circulation. In addition, there is a paradoxical oversecretion of the metabolic precursor of LDL, very low density lipoprotein (VLDL). We recently demonstrated that the LDLR mediates ...

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

authors： Gillian-Daniel DL,Bates PW,Tebon A,Attie AD

更新日期：2002-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) enables the quantification of each gene's expression distribution across cells, thus allowing the assessment of the dispersion, nonzero fraction, and other aspects of its distribution beyond the mean. These statistical characterizations of the gene expression distribution are cri...

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

authors： Wang J,Huang M,Torre E,Dueck H,Shaffer S,Murray J,Raj A,Li M,Zhang NR

更新日期：2018-07-10 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：:Cl- channels in the apical membranes of salt-secreting epithelia are activated by both cAMP and Ca2+ second-messenger systems, and dysfunctions in their hormonal regulation have been demonstrated in patients with cystic fibrosis. We have transfected the epithelial cell line T84 with an expression vector containing a m...

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

authors： Rogers KV,Goldman PS,Frizzell RA,McKnight GS

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in the multiplication rate of blood stage malaria parasites is often positively correlated with the severity of the disease they cause. The rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium yoelii yoelii has strains with marked differences in multiplication rate and pathogenicity in the blood. We have used genetic analysis...

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

authors： Pattaradilokrat S,Culleton RL,Cheesman SJ,Carter R

更新日期：2009-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Degradable polymers are beginning to play an increasing role as materials for environmental and medical applications. Understanding factors that control erosion, such as bond cleavage and the dissolution and diffusion of degradation products, will be critical to the future development of these materials. Erosion kinet...

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

authors： Tamada JA,Langer R

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA replication intermediates in human melanoma cells have been investigated by using the drug aphidicolin, which inhibits DNA polymerase alpha. In untreated cells, Okazaki fragments and 10-kilobase (kb) DNA intermediates are formed. In aphidicolin-treated cells, the replication fork is stopped and there is no formati...

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

authors： Lönn U,Lönn S

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00