Loss of the plant DEAD-box protein ISE1 leads to defective mitochondria and increased cell-to-cell transport via plasmodesmata.

abstract：:We have used fast time-resolved infrared spectroscopy to characterize a series of organometallic methane and ethane complexes in solution at room temperature: W(CO)5(CH4) and M(eta5-C5R5)(CO)2(L) [where M = Mn or Re, R = H or CH3 (Re only); and L = CH4 or C2H6]. In all cases, the methane complexes are found to be shor...

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

authors： Cowan AJ,Portius P,Kawanami HK,Jina OS,Grills DC,Sun XZ,McMaster J,George MW

更新日期：2007-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is a central regulator of cell growth and proliferation in response to growth factor and nutrient signaling. Consequently, this kinase is implicated in metabolic diseases including cancer and diabetes, so there is great interest in understanding the complete spectrum of mTOR-re...

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

authors： Wang BT,Ducker GS,Barczak AJ,Barbeau R,Erle DJ,Shokat KM

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Variable regions of Ig chains provide the antigen recognition portion of B-cell receptors and derivative antibodies. Ig heavy-chain variable region exons are assembled developmentally from V, D, J gene segments. Each variable region contains three antigen-contacting complementarity-determining regions (CDRs), with CDR...

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

authors： Hwang JK,Wang C,Du Z,Meyers RM,Kepler TB,Neuberg D,Kwong PD,Mascola JR,Joyce MG,Bonsignori M,Haynes BF,Yeap LS,Alt FW

更新日期：2017-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:At meiotic prophase, chromatin loops around a proteinaceous core, with the sizes of these loops varying between species. Comparison of the morphology of sequence-related inserts at different sites in transgenic mice demonstrates that loop size also varies with chromosomal geography. Similarly, chromatin loop lengths d...

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

authors： Heng HH,Chamberlain JW,Shi XM,Spyropoulos B,Tsui LC,Moens PB

更新日期：1996-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) family has recently expanded by the identification and cloning of three additional members, namely VEGF-B, VEGF-C, and VEGF-D. In this study we demonstrate that VEGF-B binds selectively to VEGF receptor-1/Flt-1. This binding can be blocked by excess VEGF, indicating that t...

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

authors： Olofsson B,Korpelainen E,Pepper MS,Mandriota SJ,Aase K,Kumar V,Gunji Y,Jeltsch MM,Shibuya M,Alitalo K,Eriksson U

更新日期：1998-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The mapping of eye-specific, geniculocortical inputs to primary visual cortex (V1) is highly sensitive to the balance of correlated activity between the two eyes during a restricted postnatal critical period for ocular dominance plasticity. This critical period is likely to have amplified expression of genes and prote...

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

authors： Lyckman AW,Horng S,Leamey CA,Tropea D,Watakabe A,Van Wart A,McCurry C,Yamamori T,Sur M

更新日期：2008-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic DNA replication fidelity relies on the concerted action of DNA polymerase nucleotide selectivity, proofreading activity, and DNA mismatch repair (MMR). Nucleotide selectivity and proofreading are affected by the balance and concentration of deoxyribonucleotide (dNTP) pools, which are strictly regulated by r...

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

authors： Schmidt TT,Reyes G,Gries K,Ceylan CÜ,Sharma S,Meurer M,Knop M,Chabes A,Hombauer H

更新日期：2017-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Six alternative hypotheses for the phylogenetic origin of Bilateria are evaluated by using complete 18S rRNA gene sequences for 52 taxa. These data suggest that there is little support for three of these hypotheses. Bilateria is not likely to be the sister group of Radiata or Ctenophora, nor is it likely that Bilateri...

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

authors： Collins AG

更新日期：1998-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Originally identified as an essential component of the herpes simplex virus immediate early (IE) gene enhancer complex, the transcriptional coactivator host cell factor-1 (HCF-1) has been implicated in a broad range of cellular regulatory circuits. The protein mediates activation through multiple interactions with tra...

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

authors： Narayanan A,Ruyechan WT,Kristie TM

更新日期：2007-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:MscS is a mechanosensitive channel that is ubiquitous among bacteria. Recent progress in the genome projects has revealed that homologs of MscS are also present in eukaryotes, but whether they operate as ion channels is unknown. In this study we cloned MSC1, a homolog of MscS in Chlamydomonas, and examined its functio...

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

authors： Nakayama Y,Fujiu K,Sokabe M,Yoshimura K

更新日期：2007-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Explants of human endometrium were cultured to study the release of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). Analysis of conditioned media by zymography revealed latent and active forms of collagenase (MMP-1, EC 3.4.24.7), 72-kDa gelatinase A (MMP-2, EC 3.4.24.24), and 92-kDa gelatinase B (MMP-9, EC 3.4.24.35). These protein...

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

authors： Marbaix E,Donnez J,Courtoy PJ,Eeckhout Y

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The endogenous cannabinoid anandamide is removed from the synaptic space by a high-affinity transport system present in neurons and astrocytes, which is inhibited by N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-arachidonamide (AM404). After internalization, anandamide is hydrolyzed by fatty-acid amide hydrolase (FAAH), an intracellular membra...

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

authors： Fegley D,Kathuria S,Mercier R,Li C,Goutopoulos A,Makriyannis A,Piomelli D

更新日期：2004-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid hormones increase the level of hepatic tryptophan oxygenase (EC 1.13.11.11; L-tryptophan:oxygen 2,3-oxidoreductase (decyclizing) by increasing its rate of synthesis. Studies were performed to determine whether this induction is mediated by controlling the level of the mRNA for tryptophan oxygenase of by...

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

authors： Schutz G,Killewich L,Chen G,Feigelson P

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early embryos of many organisms develop outside the mother and are immediately confronted with myriads of potential colonizers. How these naive developmental stages control and shape the bacterial colonization is largely unknown. Here we show that early embryonic stages of the basal metazoan Hydra are able to control ...

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

authors： Fraune S,Augustin R,Anton-Erxleben F,Wittlieb J,Gelhaus C,Klimovich VB,Samoilovich MP,Bosch TC

更新日期：2010-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular fatty acid incorporation into the phospholipids of Staphylococcus aureus occurs via fatty acid phosphorylation. We show that fatty acid kinase (Fak) is composed of two dissociable protein subunits encoded by separate genes. FakA provides the ATP binding domain and interacts with two distinct FakB protein...

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

authors： Parsons JB,Broussard TC,Bose JL,Rosch JW,Jackson P,Subramanian C,Rock CO

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:When two phases of water are at equilibrium, the ratio of hydrogen isotopes in each is slightly altered because of their different phase affinities. This isotopic fractionation process can be utilized to analyze water's movement in the world's climate. Here we show that equilibrium fractionation ratios, an entirely qu...

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

authors： Markland TE,Berne BJ

更新日期：2012-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A disulfide bond that is evidently conserved in the guanine nucleotide-binding protein-coupled receptors is present in rhodopsin between Cys-110 and Cys-187. We have replaced these two cysteine residues by alanine residues and now report on the properties of the resulting rhodopsin mutants. The mutant protein C110A/C1...

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

authors： Davidson FF,Loewen PC,Khorana HG

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal models of human cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections have not been available to study pathogenesis or to evaluate antiviral drugs. Severe combined immunodeficient mice implanted with human fetal tissues (SCID-hu) were found to support CMV replication and may provide a model for this species-specific virus. When con...

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

authors： Mocarski ES,Bonyhadi M,Salimi S,McCune JM,Kaneshima H

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Before the origin of simple cellular life, the building blocks of RNA (nucleotides) had to form and polymerize in favorable environments on early Earth. At this time, meteorites and interplanetary dust particles delivered organics such as nucleobases (the characteristic molecules of nucleotides) to warm little ponds w...

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

authors： Pearce BKD,Pudritz RE,Semenov DA,Henning TK

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In the developing cerebellum, switching of the subunit composition of NMDA receptors occurs in granule cells from NR2B-containing receptors to NR2C-containing ones. We investigated the mechanisms underlying switching of NR2B and NR2C subunit composition in primary cultures of mouse granule cells at the physiological K...

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

authors： Iijima K,Abe H,Okazawa M,Moriyoshi K,Nakanishi S

更新日期：2008-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The type 6 secretion system (T6SS) is used by many Gram-negative bacterial species to deliver toxic effector proteins into nearby bacteria prey cells to kill or inhibit their growth. VgrG proteins are core conserved secretion substrates of the T6SS and one subset of T6SS effectors consists of VgrG proteins with C-term...

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

authors： Ho BT,Fu Y,Dong TG,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：2017-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The sophistication of the insect olfactory system is elegantly demonstrated by the reception of sex pheromone by the Japanese beetle. In this insect, two olfactory receptor neurons housed in antennal sensilla placodea are highly sensitive. One neuron specifically detects the sex pheromone produced by conspecific femal...

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

authors： Ishida Y,Leal WS

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a mandible recovered in 2003 from the Aurora Stratum of the TD6 level of the Gran Dolina site (Sierra de Atapuerca, northern Spain). The specimen, catalogued as ATD6-96, adds to the hominin sample recovered from this site in 1994-1996, and assigned to Homo antecessor. ATD6-96 is the left half of a gracile m...

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

authors： Carbonell E,Bermúdez de Castro JM,Arsuaga JL,Allue E,Bastir M,Benito A,Cáceres I,Canals T,Díez JC,van der Made J,Mosquera M,Ollé A,Pérez-González A,Rodríguez J,Rodríguez XP,Rosas A,Rosell J,Sala R,Vallverdú J,Vergés

更新日期：2005-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The oncoproteins MDM2 and MDMX negatively regulate the activity and stability of the tumor suppressor protein p53--a cellular process initiated by MDM2 and/or MDMX binding to the N-terminal transactivation domain of p53. MDM2 and MDMX in many tumors confer p53 inactivation and tumor survival, and are important molecul...

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

authors： Pazgier M,Liu M,Zou G,Yuan W,Li C,Li C,Li J,Monbo J,Zella D,Tarasov SG,Lu W

更新日期：2009-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-2-PE40 is a chimeric protein composed of human interleukin 2 (IL-2) genetically fused to the amino terminus of a modified form of Pseudomonas exotoxin lacking its cell recognition domain. IL-2-PE40, which is extremely cytotoxic to IL-2 receptor-positive cells, was examined for its ability to prevent graft rejection...

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

authors： Lorberboum-Galski H,Barrett LV,Kirkman RL,Ogata M,Willingham MC,FitzGerald DJ,Pastan I

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromin gene (NF1) mutation causes neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), a disorder in which brain white matter deficits identified by neuroimaging are common, yet of unknown cellular etiology. In mice, Nf1 loss in adult oligodendrocytes causes myelin decompaction and increases oligodendrocyte nitric oxide (NO) levels...

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

authors： Asleh J,Shofty B,Cohen N,Kavushansky A,López-Juárez A,Constantini S,Ratner N,Kahn I

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The kidney develops through reciprocal interactions between two precursor tissues: the metanephric mesenchyme and the ureteric bud. We previously demonstrated that the zinc finger protein Sall1 is essential for ureteric bud attraction toward the mesenchyme. Here, we show that Kif26b, a kinesin family gene, is a downst...

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

authors： Uchiyama Y,Sakaguchi M,Terabayashi T,Inenaga T,Inoue S,Kobayashi C,Oshima N,Kiyonari H,Nakagata N,Sato Y,Sekiguchi K,Miki H,Araki E,Fujimura S,Tanaka SS,Nishinakamura R

更新日期：2010-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a Kappa-on-Heavy (KoH) mouse that produces a class of highly diverse, fully human, antibody-like agents. This mouse was made by replacing the germline variable sequences of both the Ig heavy-chain (IgH) and Ig kappa (IgK) loci with the human IgK germline variable sequences, producing antibody-like molecule...

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

authors： Macdonald LE,Meagher KA,Franklin MC,Levenkova N,Hansen J,Badithe AT,Zhong M,Krueger P,Rafique A,Tu N,Shevchuk J,Wadhwa S,Ehrlich G,Bautista J,Grant C,Esau L,Poueymirou WT,Auerbach W,Morton L,Babb R,Chen G,Huang

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms by which phosphorus homeostasis is preserved in mammals are not completely understood. We demonstrate the presence of a mechanism by which the intestine detects the presence of increased dietary phosphate and rapidly increases renal phosphate excretion. The mechanism is of physiological relevance becaus...

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

authors： Berndt T,Thomas LF,Craig TA,Sommer S,Li X,Bergstralh EJ,Kumar R

更新日期：2007-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A 1-hr exposure of bovine lenses in organ culture to H2O2 concentrations in the range found in the aqueous fluid of patients with cataracts inhibits 86Rb+ influx. At 1 mM H2O2, complete inhibition was observed and further investigated. Membrane permeability is slightly decreased. Although lactate concentrations increa...

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

authors： Garner WH,Garner MH,Spector A

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00