Phytochromes promote seedling light responses by inhibiting four negatively-acting phytochrome-interacting factors.

abstract：:Improving global yields of important agricultural crops is a complex challenge. Enhancing yield and resource use by engineering improvements to photosynthetic carbon assimilation is one potential solution. During the last 40 million years C(4) photosynthesis has evolved multiple times, enabling plants to evade the cat...

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

authors： Whitney SM,Sharwood RE,Orr D,White SJ,Alonso H,Galmés J

更新日期：2011-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:An effective plant alkaloid chemical defense requires a variety of transport processes, but few alkaloid transporters have been characterized at the molecular level. Previously, a gene fragment encoding a putative plasma membrane proton symporter was isolated, because it was coordinately regulated with several nicotin...

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

authors： Hildreth SB,Gehman EA,Yang H,Lu RH,Ritesh KC,Harich KC,Yu S,Lin J,Sandoe JL,Okumoto S,Murphy AS,Jelesko JG

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure is described to discover genes that are specifically expressed in human prostate. The procedure involves searching the expressed sequence tag (EST) database for genes that have many related EST sequences from human prostate cDNA libraries but none or few from nonprostate human libraries. The selected candi...

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

authors： Vasmatzis G,Essand M,Brinkmann U,Lee B,Pastan I

更新日期：1998-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Human breast cancers contain an RNA related to that of mouse mammary tumor virus. In 79% of the breast malignancies examined, this type of RNA is a 70S-component encapsulated with RNA-instructed DNA polymerase in a particle possessing the density characteristics of RNA tumor viruses. Further, the DNA synthesized by th...

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

authors： Axel R,Gulati SC,Spiegelman S

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Salmonella typhimurium, the CobU, CobS, CobT, and CobC proteins have been proposed to catalyze the late steps in adenosylcobalamin biosynthesis, which define the nucleotide loop assembly pathway. This paper reports the in vitro assembly of the nucleotide loop of adenosylcobalamin from its precursors adenosylcobinam...

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

authors： Maggio-Hall LA,Escalante-Semerena JC

更新日期：1999-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular cloning has established the primary structures of two precursors of the human pancreas growth hormone-releasing factor (hpGRF-44), somatocrinin. Both polypeptides contain the sequence of hpGRF-44 flanked by basic processing sites. Furthermore, the precursors include a putative signal sequence and a carboxyl-...

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

authors： Gubler U,Monahan JJ,Lomedico PT,Bhatt RS,Collier KJ,Hoffman BJ,Böhlen P,Esch F,Ling N,Zeytin F,Brazeau P,Poonian MS,Gage LP

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspartic acid in the second transmembrane domain is a highly conserved amino acid among the G protein-coupled receptors and is functionally important for agonist binding and G-protein coupling in beta 2-adrenergic and luteinizing hormone receptors. To determine whether this aspartic acid is also involved in the functi...

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

authors： Bihoreau C,Monnot C,Davies E,Teutsch B,Bernstein KE,Corvol P,Clauser E

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms involved in the uptake of uni- and multi-lamellar lipid vesicles by BALB/c mouse 3T3 cells have been investigated. Vesicles are incorporated into cells both by endocytosis and by a nonendocytotic mechanism which we propose involves fusion of vesicles with the plasma membrane. The nonendocytotic pathway ...

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

authors： Poste G,Papahadjopoulos D

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression has a stochastic component because of the single-molecule nature of the gene and the small number of copies of individual DNA-binding proteins in the cell. We show how the statistics of such systems can be mapped onto quantum many-body problems. The dynamics of a single gene switch resembles the spin-b...

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

authors： Sasai M,Wolynes PG

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication-defective human adenovirus (Ad) group C transducing vectors, most of which have the E1A, E1B, and E3 genes deleted, are highly inflammatory despite the fact that the parental viruses typically cause subclinical or mild infections. To investigate this paradox, the roles that the E1A, E1B, and E3 genes play ...

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

authors： Schaack J,Bennett ML,Colbert JD,Torres AV,Clayton GH,Ornelles D,Moorhead J

更新日期：2004-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The Schiff base adducts of glyceraldehyde with hemoglobin undergo Amadori rearrangement to form stable ketoamine structures; this reaction is similar to the nonenzymic glucosylation of proteins. In the present studies the analogous rearrangement of the Schiff base adducts of glycolaldehyde with proteins has been demon...

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

authors： Acharya AS,Manning JM

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine causes a significant retraction of neurites of bull-head catfish horizontal cells maintained in culture. The effects of dopamine are blocked by haloperidol and SCH 23390, a D1 antagonist, but not by sulpiride, a D2 antagonist. The dopamine-induced morphological changes were mimicked by SKF 38393, a D1 agonist...

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

authors： Rodrigues Pdos S,Dowling JE

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/protein kinase B (Akt) signaling pathway was recently shown to negatively regulate LPS-induced acute inflammatory responses. We previously observed that the metabolic thiol antioxidant alpha-lipoic acid (LA) inhibits LPS-induced expression of cellular adhesion molecules and adheren...

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

authors： Zhang WJ,Wei H,Hagen T,Frei B

更新日期：2007-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:O-GlcNAc glycosylation (or O-GlcNAcylation) is a dynamic, inducible posttranslational modification found on proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as α-synuclein, amyloid precursor protein, and tau. Deletion of the O-GlcNAc transferase (ogt) gene responsible for the modification causes early postnata...

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

authors： Wang AC,Jensen EH,Rexach JE,Vinters HV,Hsieh-Wilson LC

更新日期：2016-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene for the RNA-dependent eIF-2 alpha protein kinase (PKR) was isolated from mouse genomic DNA and characterized. The mouse PKR gene contains 16 exons and spans about 28 kilobase pairs. Exon 1 is untranslated; the AUG translation initiation site is located early in the second exon. Exon 16 includes the UAG transl...

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

authors： Tanaka H,Samuel CE

更新日期：1994-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of lysosomes to move within the cytoplasm is important for many cellular functions. This ability is particularly critical in neurons, which comprise vast, highly differentiated domains such as the axon and dendrites. The mechanisms that control lysosome movement in these domains, however, remain poorly und...

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

authors： Farías GG,Guardia CM,De Pace R,Britt DJ,Bonifacino JS

更新日期：2017-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated three classes of monoclonal antibodies against Drosophila cell-surface antigens that are expressed with positional specificity in imaginal discs. Comparison of immunofluorescence patterns with the wing-disc fate map reveals that expression of the antigens is not directly related to the specific type o...

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

authors： Brower DL,Wilcox M,Piovant M,Smith RJ,Reger LA

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We use age distributions of sea otters (Enhydra lutris) found dead on beaches of western Prince William Sound, Alaska, between 1976 and 1998 in conjunction with time-varying demographic models to test for lingering effects from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Our results show that sea otters in this area had decrease...

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

authors： Monson DH,Doak DF,Ballachey BE,Johnson A,Bodkin JL

更新日期：2000-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone methyltransferase G9a has critical roles in promoting cancer-cell growth and gene suppression, but whether it is also associated with the DNA damage response is rarely studied. Here, we report that loss of G9a impairs DNA damage repair and enhances the sensitivity of cancer cells to radiation and chemotherapeu...

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

authors： Yang Q,Zhu Q,Lu X,Du Y,Cao L,Shen C,Hou T,Li M,Li Z,Liu C,Wu D,Xu X,Wang L,Wang H,Zhao Y,Yang Y,Zhu WG

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Digital droplet assays-in which biological samples are compartmentalized into millions of femtoliter-volume droplets and interrogated individually-have generated enormous enthusiasm for their ability to detect biomarkers with single-molecule sensitivity. These assays have untapped potential for point-of-care diagnosti...

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

authors： Yelleswarapu V,Buser JR,Haber M,Baron J,Inapuri E,Issadore D

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the expression of Hox genes have been widely linked to the evolution of animal body plans, but functional demonstrations of this relationship have been impeded by the lack of suitable model organisms. A classic case study involves the repeated evolution of specialized feeding appendages, called maxillipeds,...

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

authors： Pavlopoulos A,Kontarakis Z,Liubicich DM,Serano JM,Akam M,Patel NH,Averof M

更新日期：2009-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma resistance to glucocorticoid treatment is a major health problem with unclear etiology. Glucocorticoids inhibit adrenal androgen production. However, androgens have potential benefits in asthma. HSD3B1 encodes for 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase-1 (3β-HSD1), which catalyzes peripheral conversion from adrenal de...

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

authors： Zein J,Gaston B,Bazeley P,DeBoer MD,Igo RP Jr,Bleecker ER,Meyers D,Comhair S,Marozkina NV,Cotton C,Patel M,Alyamani M,Xu W,Busse WW,Calhoun WJ,Ortega V,Hawkins GA,Castro M,Chung KF,Fahy JV,Fitzpatrick AM,Israel

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Reaction networks displaying bistability provide a chemical mechanism for long-term memory storage in cells, as exemplified by many epigenetic switches. These biological systems are not only bistable but switchable, in the sense that they can be flipped from one state to the other by application of specific molecular ...

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

authors： Padirac A,Fujii T,Rondelez Y

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenic mosaic of the Archaebacterium Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum, strain delta H, was analyzed with a panel of six monoclonal antibodies. Five antigenic determinants were identified. One contains N-acetyl-D-glucosamine, another contains N-acetyl-D-galactosamine, and a third contains gamma-glutamylalani...

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

authors： Conway de Macario E,Macario AJ,Magariños MC,König H,Kandler O

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of human papillomavirus (HPV) and activated oncogenes on the growth and morphology of primary baby mouse kidney (BMK) cells has been studied. Early region DNA from HPV types 16, 18, 31, and 33, but not type 6, under the transcriptional control of a heterologous, retroviral promoter cooperated with EJ-ras to...

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

authors： Crook T,Storey A,Almond N,Osborn K,Crawford L

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:E2F is a heterodimeric transcription factor that regulates the expression of genes at the G1/S boundary and is composed of two related but distinct families of proteins, E2F and DP. E2F/DP heterodimers form complexes with the retinoblastoma (Rb) protein, the Rb-related proteins p107 and p130, and cyclins/cdks in a cel...

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

authors： Rogers KT,Higgins PD,Milla MM,Phillips RS,Horowitz JM

更新日期：1996-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether the human pituitary contains a previously unidentified, nonprolactin (non-hPRL), non-growth-hormone (non-hGH) factor capable of stimulating mammary development, we tested the effects of whole human pituitary extract (hPE) and pituitary extracts depleted of hPRL and hGH ("stripped hPE") in hypophys...

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

authors： Newman CB,Cosby H,Friesen HG,Feldman M,Cooper P,De Crescito V,Pilon M,Kleinberg DL

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We construct a class of global exact solutions of the Einstein equations that extend the Oppeheimer-Snyder model to the case of nonzero pressure, inside the black hole, by incorporating a shock wave at the leading edge of the expansion of the galaxies, arbitrarily far beyond the Hubble length in the Friedmann-Robertso...

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

authors： Smoller J,Temple B

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We applied an innovation framework to sustainable livestock development research projects in Africa and Asia. The focus of these projects ranged from pastoral systems to poverty and ecosystems services mapping to market access by the poor to fodder and natural resource management to livestock parasite drug resistance....

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

authors： Kristjanson P,Reid RS,Dickson N,Clark WC,Romney D,Puskur R,Macmillan S,Grace D

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified cell surface markers associated with repression of p16(INK4a)/cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2A(CDKN2A), a critical determinant in the acquisition of a plastic state. These cell surface markers allowed direct isolation of rare cells from healthy human breast tissue that exhibit extensive lineage plast...

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

authors： Roy S,Gascard P,Dumont N,Zhao J,Pan D,Petrie S,Margeta M,Tlsty TD

更新日期：2013-03-19 00:00:00