SH3TC2/KIAA1985 protein is required for proper myelination and the integrity of the node of Ranvier in the peripheral nervous system.

abstract：:Noncanonical DNA structures that stall DNA replication can cause errors in genomic DNA. Here, we investigated how the noncanonical structures formed by sequences in genes associated with a number of diseases impacted DNA polymerization by the Klenow fragment of DNA polymerase. Replication of a DNA sequence forming an ...

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

authors： Takahashi S,Brazier JA,Sugimoto N

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison of five constant region sequences of human and mouse k and lambda immunoglobulin chains has been undertaken in order to reveal sequence homologies and evolutionary relationships. Simultaneously, a comparison with the three-dimensional structure of one mouse k-chain (McPC 603) has suggested structural reas...

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

authors： Kabat EA,Padlan EA,Davies DR

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using titin as a model system, we have demonstrated that fluorescence quenching can be used to study protein folding at the single molecule level. The unfolded titin molecules with multiple dye molecules attached are able to fold to the native state. In the native folded state, the fluorescence from dye molecules i...

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

authors： Zhuang X,Ha T,Kim HD,Centner T,Labeit S,Chu S

更新日期：2000-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Tauopathies are a class of neurodegenerative diseases associated with pathological tau. Despite many advances in our understanding of these diseases, the direct mechanism through which tau contributes to neurodegeneration remains poorly understood. Previously, our laboratory implicated the histone demethylase LSD1 in ...

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

authors： Engstrom AK,Walker AC,Moudgal RA,Myrick DA,Kyle SM,Bai Y,Rowley MJ,Katz DJ

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic wounds represent a substantial public health problem. The development of tools that would enable sophisticated scrutiny of clinical wound tissue material is highly desirable. This work presents evidence enabling rapid specific identification and laser capture of blood vessels from human tissue in a manner whic...

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

authors： Roy S,Patel D,Khanna S,Gordillo GM,Biswas S,Friedman A,Sen CK

更新日期：2007-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetrodotoxin was infused into the suprachiasmatic nuclei of unanesthetized and unrestrained rats continuously for 14 days. The internal timekeeping mechanism of the circadian pacemaker in the nuclei continued to oscillate unaffected by this treatment, although the toxin reversibly blocked function of both the input pa...

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

authors： Schwartz WJ,Gross RA,Morton MT

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Okadaic acid is a non-phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA)-type tumor promoter on mouse skin and known to be a potent inhibitor of serine/threonine protein phosphatases. Contrary to expectation from its tumor-promoting activity, okadaic acid was shown to have a potential to revert the phenotypes of cells transformed ...

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

authors： Sakai R,Ikeda I,Kitani H,Fujiki H,Takaku F,Rapp U,Sugimura T,Nagao M

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sialic acid-recognizing Ig-like lectins (Siglecs) are signaling receptors that modulate immune responses, and are targeted for interactions by certain pathogens. We describe two primate Siglecs that were rendered nonfunctional by single genetic events during hominin evolution after our common ancestor with the chimpan...

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

authors： Wang X,Mitra N,Secundino I,Banda K,Cruz P,Padler-Karavani V,Verhagen A,Reid C,Lari M,Rizzi E,Balsamo C,Corti G,De Bellis G,Longo L,NISC Comparative Sequencing Program.,Beggs W,Caramelli D,Tishkoff SA,Hayakawa T,Gree

更新日期：2012-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical stability in many biological materials is provided by the crosslinking of large structural proteins with gamma-glutamyl-epsilon-lysyl amide bonds. The three-dimensional structure of human recombinant factor XIII (EC 2.3.2.13 zymogen; protein-glutamine:amine gamma-glutamyltransferase a chain), a transglutami...

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

authors： Yee VC,Pedersen LC,Le Trong I,Bishop PD,Stenkamp RE,Teller DC

更新日期：1994-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent analyses of high-throughput protein interaction data coupled with large-scale investigations of evolutionary properties of interaction networks have left some unanswered questions. To what extent do protein interactions act as constraints during evolution of the protein sequence? How does the type of interactio...

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

authors： Mintseris J,Weng Z

更新日期：2005-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a multinanosecond molecular dynamics study of a bio-nano complex formed by a carbon nanoparticle, a buckyball C(60), and a biological molecule, an antibody, with high binding affinity and specificity. In the simulation, the ball is completely desolvated by the binding site of the antibody by means of a nearly ...

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

authors： Noon WH,Kong Y,Ma J

更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The transformation of human cells was examined by transfection of cloned oncogenic DNAs derived from the tumor virus simian virus 40 and from the human bladder carcinoma cell line EJ into diploid fibroblasts derived from foreskin (FS-2 cells). The simian virus 40 DNA was found to induce a morphologically transformed p...

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

authors： Sager R,Tanaka K,Lau CC,Ebina Y,Anisowicz A

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human isoform 2 of pantothenate kinase (PanK2) is localized to the mitochondria, and mutations in this protein are associated with a progressive neurodegenerative disorder. PanK2 inhibition by acetyl-CoA is so stringent (IC50 < 1 microM) that it is unclear how the enzyme functions in the presence of intracellular ...

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

authors： Leonardi R,Rock CO,Jackowski S,Zhang YM

更新日期：2007-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown changes in membrane properties of neurons in rat deep cerebellar nuclei (DCN) as a function of development, but due to technical difficulties in obtaining viable DCN slices from adult animals, it remains unclear whether there are learning-related alterations in the membrane properties of DC...

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

authors： Wang D,Smith-Bell CA,Burhans LB,O'Dell DE,Bell RW,Schreurs BG

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis have become an increasingly important subject as pathogens have become increasingly resistant to current antibiotics. The adhesion of microorganisms to the surface of host tissue is often a first step in pathogenesis and is a plausible target for new antiinfective agents. Examinati...

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

authors： Liang MN,Smith SP,Metallo SJ,Choi IS,Prentiss M,Whitesides GM

更新日期：2000-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Monospecific antibodies were produced in vitro by fusing mouse myeloma cells with spleen cells from a BALB/c mouse immunized with rat skeletal myofibrils. After cloning 3 times on agarose, two stable clones were obtained and chosen for further characterization. The first clone, JLB1, produced an antibody that recogniz...

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

authors： Lin JJ

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of founder events in promoting evolutionary changes on islands has been a subject of long-running controversy. Resolution of this debate has been hindered by a lack of empirical evidence from naturally founded island populations. Here we undertake a genetic analysis of a series of historically documente...

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

authors： Clegg SM,Degnan SM,Kikkawa J,Moritz C,Estoup A,Owens IP

更新日期：2002-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse hepatoma line Hepa-1 has high and inducible aryl hydrocarbon (benzo[a]pyrene) hydroxylase[benzo[a]pyrene, reduced-flavoprotein:oxygen oxidoreductase (3-hydroxylating), EC 1.14.14.2] activity. Fourteen subclones of a clonal derivative of Hepa-1 were isolated and shown not to display heterogeneity in aryl hydr...

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

authors： Hankinson O

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex biomechanical events associated with embryo development are investigated in vivo, by using femtosecond laser pulse-induced ablation combined with multimodal nonlinear microscopy. We demonstrate controlled intravital ablations preserving local cytoskeleton dynamics and resulting in the modulation of specifi...

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

authors： Supatto W,Débarre D,Moulia B,Brouzés E,Martin JL,Farge E,Beaurepaire E

更新日期：2005-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:During exercise, increased energy demands are met by increased glucose production that occurs simultaneously with the increased glucose uptake. We had previously observed that, during exercise, metabolic clearance rate of glucose (MCR) increases markedly in normal, but only marginally in poorly controlled diabetic dog...

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

authors： Miles PD,Yamatani K,Lickley HL,Vranic M

更新日期：1991-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The pancreatic beta cell can respond in the long term to hyperglycemia both with an increased capacity for insulin production and, in susceptible individuals, with apoptosis. When glucose-induced apoptosis offsets the increasing beta cell capacity, type 2 diabetes results. Here, we tested the idea that the pathway of ...

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

authors： Liu K,Paterson AJ,Chin E,Kudlow JE

更新日期：2000-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytes regulate synaptic transmission through controlling neurotransmitter concentrations around synapses. Little is known, however, about their roles in neural circuit development. Here we report that Bergmann glia (BG), specialized cerebellar astrocytes that thoroughly enwrap Purkinje cells (PCs), are essential ...

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

authors： Miyazaki T,Yamasaki M,Hashimoto K,Kohda K,Yuzaki M,Shimamoto K,Tanaka K,Kano M,Watanabe M

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the regulation of the expression of two growth factors found in vascular smooth muscle, transforming growth factor alpha (TGF alpha) and basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF). Cells cultured in medium containing 30 mM glucose exhibited a 2-fold increase in TGF alpha mRNA and a 3-fold increase in b...

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

authors： McClain DA,Paterson AJ,Roos MD,Wei X,Kudlow JE

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrations in the T cell repertoire with the emergence of oligoclonal populations have been described in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, the extent of the repertoire perturbations as well as the underlying mechanisms are not known. We now have examined the diversity of the peripheral CD4 T cell repe...

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

authors： Wagner UG,Koetz K,Weyand CM,Goronzy JJ

更新日期：1998-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the multistep process of cervical cancer development, we analyzed 128 frozen cervical samples spanning normalcy, increasingly severe cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN1- CIN3), and cervical cancer (CxCa) from multiple perspectives, revealing a cascade of progressive changes. Compared with normal tissue, ...

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

authors： den Boon JA,Pyeon D,Wang SS,Horswill M,Schiffman M,Sherman M,Zuna RE,Wang Z,Hewitt SM,Pearson R,Schott M,Chung L,He Q,Lambert P,Walker J,Newton MA,Wentzensen N,Ahlquist P

更新日期：2015-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Fast-atom bombardment mass spectrometry was used to follow the time course of disulfide bond formation during in vitro refolding of recombinant human macrophage-colony-stimulating factor. The content of iodoacetamide-alkylated half-cystines in proteolytic peptides of trapped refolding intermediates collected at 0, 6, ...

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

authors： Glocker MO,Arbogast B,Milley R,Cowgill C,Deinzer ML

更新日期：1994-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The stability of an immunogen against enzymatic degradation is considered an important factor for the design of synthetic vaccines. For our studies, we have selected an epitope from the tandem-repeat unit of the high-molecular-weight MUC2 mucin glycoprotein, which can be underglycosylated in case of colon cancer. In t...

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

authors： Tugyi R,Uray K,Iván D,Fellinger E,Perkins A,Hudecz F

更新日期：2005-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a cold-sensitive mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in which there is a deficit of 60S ribosomal subunits. Cold sensitivity and the assembly defect are recessive and cosegregate, defining a single essential gene that we designated DRS1 (deficiency of ribosomal subunits). The wild-type DRS1 gene was cl...

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

authors： Ripmaster TL,Vaughn GP,Woolford JL Jr

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local changes in conformation between the calcium-saturated and calcium-free forms of calmodulin were monitored using antisera to four peptides corresponding to three helical regions of the calcium-saturated protein. The N-terminal helix was monitored using antiserum to residues 9-19, calmodulin-(9-19); the C-terminal...

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

authors： Gariépy J,Mietzner TA,Schoolnik GK

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Through a process called "bioturbation," burrowing macrofauna have altered the seafloor habitat and modified global carbon cycling since the Cambrian. However, the impact of macrofauna on the community structure of microorganisms is poorly understood. Here, we show that microbial communities across bioturbated, but ge...

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

authors： Deng L,Bölsterli D,Kristensen E,Meile C,Su CC,Bernasconi SM,Seidenkrantz MS,Glombitza C,Lagostina L,Han X,Jørgensen BB,Røy H,Lever MA

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00