Design and construction of diverse mammalian prion strains.

abstract：:The complete nucleotide sequences of the cDNAs encoding the heavy- and light-chain variable regions (VH and VL) of myeloma protein W3129, an anti-alpha(1----6)-dextran with a unique combining site, have been determined. The VH region is encoded by a germ-line gene highly homologous to VH441, which also appears to be u...

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

authors： Borden P,Kabat EA

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA-dependent RNA polymerase has been purified from disrupted virions of the Escherichia coli bacteriophage N4. The RNA polymerase is phage-coded and is required for class I N4 RNA synthesis, which is defined as RNA synthesized in vivo in the absence of post-infection protein synthesis. A polypeptide of molecular we...

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

authors： Falco SC,Zivin R,Rothman-Denes LB

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas all mammals have one glutamate dehydrogenase gene (GLUD1), humans and apes carry an additional gene (GLUD2), which encodes an enzyme with distinct biochemical properties. We inserted a bacterial artificial chromosome containing the human GLUD2 gene into mice and analyzed the resulting changes in the transcript...

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

authors： Li Q,Guo S,Jiang X,Bryk J,Naumann R,Enard W,Tomita M,Sugimoto M,Khaitovich P,Pääbo S

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocean acidification (OA) refers to the ongoing decline in oceanic pH resulting from the uptake of atmospheric CO(2). Mounting experimental evidence suggests that OA will have negative consequences for a variety of marine organisms. Whereas the effect of OA on the calcification of adult reef corals is increasingly well...

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

authors： Albright R,Mason B,Miller M,Langdon C

更新日期：2010-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Microinjection of progesterone dissolved in paraffin oil induces the reinitiation of meiotic maturation in the Xenopus oocyte; 50% maturation is obtained when 50 nl of a 50 microM solution is microinjected into the oocyte. The kinetics of the response to microinjected progesterone are similar to the kinetics of respon...

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

authors： Tso J,Thibier C,Mulner O,Ozon R

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scattering of light from dielectric particles whose size is on the order of an optical wavelength underlies a plethora of visual phenomena in nature and is a foundation for optical coatings and paints. Tailoring the internal nanoscale geometry of such "photonic particles" allows tuning their optical scattering charact...

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

authors： Tao G,Kaufman JJ,Shabahang S,Rezvani Naraghi R,Sukhov SV,Joannopoulos JD,Fink Y,Dogariu A,Abouraddy AF

更新日期：2016-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-gated Na+ channels are the molecular targets of local anesthetics, class I antiarrhythmic drugs, and some anticonvulsants. These chemically diverse drugs inhibit Na+ channels with complex voltage- and frequency-dependent properties that reflect preferential drug binding to open and inactivated channel states. ...

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

authors： Ragsdale DS,McPhee JC,Scheuer T,Catterall WA

更新日期：1996-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:[3H]Thymidine-labeled progeny DNA was isolated after infection of Escherichia coli with two different bacteriophage T4 mutants. These strands were isolated shortly after the initiation of DNA replication and hybridized to 15 different (EcoRI) T4 restriction fragments cloned in plasmid vectors. Uniformly labeled T4 [32...

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

authors： Halpern ME,Mattson T,Kozinski AW

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-cell interactions organize lens fiber cells into highly ordered structures to maintain transparency. However, signals regulating such interactions have not been well characterized. We report here that ephrin-A5, a ligand of the Eph receptor tyrosine kinases, plays a key role in lens fiber cell shape and cell-cell...

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

authors： Cooper MA,Son AI,Komlos D,Sun Y,Kleiman NJ,Zhou R

更新日期：2008-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological membranes are complex, self-organized structures that define boundaries and compartmentalize space in living matter. Composed of a wide variety of lipid and protein molecules, these responsive surfaces mediate transmembrane signaling and material transport within the cell and with its environment. It is wel...

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

authors： Watkins EB,Miller CE,Majewski J,Kuhl TL

更新日期：2011-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations at the mouse limb deformity (ld) locus result in defects of growth and patterning of the limb and kidney during embryonic development. The gene responsible for this phenotype is large and complex, with the capacity to generate a number of alternatively spliced messenger RNA transcripts encoding nuclear prote...

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

authors： Vogt TF,Jackson-Grusby L,Rush J,Leder P

更新日期：1993-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Let t --> gamma(t) be a homogeneous curve in R(n). For suitable f, define [unk](f)(x) = sup(h > 0)|(1/h) [unk](0) (h)f(x - gamma(t)) dt|. Then parallel[unk](f) parallel(p)

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

authors： Stein EM

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator 1-alpha (PGC-1α) is a transcriptional coactivator that controls expression of metabolic/energetic genes, programming cellular responses to nutrient and environmental adaptations such as fasting, cold, or exercise. Unlike other coactivators, PGC-1α contai...

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

authors： Tavares CDJ,Aigner S,Sharabi K,Sathe S,Mutlu B,Yeo GW,Puigserver P

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Charge transport (CT) through the DNA base pairs provides a means to promote redox reactions at a remote site and potentially to effect signaling between molecules bound to DNA. Here we describe the oxidation of a cell-cycle regulatory protein, p53, from a distance through DNA-mediated CT. A consensus p53 binding site...

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

authors： Augustyn KE,Merino EJ,Barton JK

更新日期：2007-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:cGMP is a second messenger that mediates numerous metabolic events; in the present work a role in myeloid cell differentiation was demonstrated. Nitroprusside and NaNO2, which activate cytosolic guanylate cyclase and increase the intracellular cGMP concentration, induced granulocytic differentiation of the human promy...

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

authors： Boss GR

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sunlight exposure is strongly indicated as one of the important etiologic agents in human cutaneous malignant melanoma. However, because of the absence of good animal models, it has not been possible to estimate the wavelengths or wavelength regions involved. We have developed a useful animal model from crosses and ba...

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

authors： Setlow RB,Woodhead AD,Grist E

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequence complementary to Trypanosoma brucei mRNAs coding for the synthesis of the variant-specific antigens AnTat 1.1 and AnTat 1.8 have been cloned and characterized. These sequences have been used as probes to analyze the corresponding genes in the nuclear DNA. The two genes seem to be represented in several (t...

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

authors： Pays E,Van Meirvenne N,Le Ray D,Steinert M

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells have evolved complex regulatory networks that reorganize gene expression patterns in response to changing environmental conditions. These changes often involve redundant mechanisms that affect various levels of gene expression. Here, we examine the consequences of enhanced mRNA degradation in the galactose utili...

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

authors： Baumgartner BL,Bennett MR,Ferry M,Johnson TL,Tsimring LS,Hasty J

更新日期：2011-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The subcellular localization of cathepsin B activity (EC 3.4.22.1) in three murine melanomas of increasing metastatic potential (Cloudman less than B16-F1 less than B16 amelanotic) was determined. Cathepsin B activity was localized in the heavy mitochondrial fraction of normal murine liver but in the light mitochondri...

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

authors： Sloane BF,Rozhin J,Johnson K,Taylor H,Crissman JD,Honn KV

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual information is conveyed from the eye to the brain by distinct types of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). It is largely unknown how RGCs acquire their defining morphological and physiological features and connect to upstream and downstream synaptic partners. The three Brn3/Pou4f transcription factors (TFs) particip...

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

authors： Sajgo S,Ghinia MG,Brooks M,Kretschmer F,Chuang K,Hiriyanna S,Wu Z,Popescu O,Badea TC

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The GTPase-activating protein (GAP) has been postulated to function either as a negative regulator or as a possible target protein of Ras in mammalian cells and Xenopus oocytes. Ras must be localized in the plasma membrane of vertebrate cells to function, but GAP is localized in the cytosol. To test whether Ras functi...

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

authors： Gibbs JB,Schaber MD,Schofield TL,Scolnick EM,Sigal IS

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral mobility of an active fluorescent derivative of cytochrome c on the membranes of giant mitochondria was measured by fluorescence redistribution after photobleaching. A diffusion coefficient of 1.6 X 10(-10) cm2/sec was determined for the labeled cytochrome c on inner mitochondrial membranes under conditions wh...

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

authors： Hochman JH,Schindler M,Lee JG,Ferguson-Miller S

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosins play countless critical roles in the cell, each requiring it to be activated at a specific location and time. To control myosin VI with this specificity, we created an optogenetic tool for activating myosin VI by fusing the light-sensitive Avena sativa phototropin1 LOV2 domain to a peptide from Dab2 (LOVDab), ...

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

authors： French AR,Sosnick TR,Rock RS

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Assembly of light-harvesting complexes requires synchronization of chlorophyll (Chl) biosynthesis with biogenesis of light-harvesting Chl a/b-binding proteins (LHCPs). The chloroplast signal recognition particle (cpSRP) pathway is responsible for transport of nucleus-encoded LHCPs in the stroma of the plastid and thei...

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

authors： Wang P,Liang FC,Wittmann D,Siegel A,Shan SO,Grimm B

更新日期：2018-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Archaeologists often argue whether Paleolithic works of art, cave paintings in particular, constitute reflections of the natural environment of humans at the time. They also debate the extent to which these paintings actually contain creative artistic expression, reflect the phenotypic variation of the surrounding env...

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

authors： Pruvost M,Bellone R,Benecke N,Sandoval-Castellanos E,Cieslak M,Kuznetsova T,Morales-Muñiz A,O'Connor T,Reissmann M,Hofreiter M,Ludwig A

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Microprocessor [Drosha-DGCR8 (DiGeorge syndrome critical region gene 8) complex] processing of primary microRNA (pri-miRNA) is the critical first step in miRNA biogenesis, but how the Drosha cleavage site is determined has been unclear. Previous models proposed that the Drosha-DGCR8 complex measures either ~22 nt from...

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

authors： Ma H,Wu Y,Choi JG,Wu H

更新日期：2013-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Delayed gastric ulcer healing is a well recognized problem associated with the use of cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitors. In contrast, NO-releasing COX inhibitors do not interfere with ulcer healing. These divergent effects may in part be due to differences in their effects on platelets, which are known to influence ulce...

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

authors： Ma L,del Soldato P,Wallace JL

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenylate cyclase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1] activity of purified secretory vesicle membranes from the adrenal medulla is inhibited by I-isoproterenol and I-epinephrine, as well as by nerve growth factor (NGF). The effect of these agents was found to be dose-dependent and, in the case of the cat...

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

authors： Nikodijevic O,Nikodijevic B,Zinder O,Yu MY,Guroff G,Pollard HB

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the effect of diphtheria toxin, Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A, and cycloheximide on the CV-1 cell cytoskeleton. Within a few hours after producing an inhibition of cellular protein synthesis, all these agents specifically disrupted the organization of the vimentin filament system with no discernab...

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

authors： Sharpe AH,Chen LB,Murphy JR,Fields BN

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mosquitoes are major disease vectors because most species must feed on blood from a vertebrate host to produce eggs. Blood feeding by the vector mosquito Aedes aegypti triggers the release of two neurohormones, ovary ecdysteroidogenic hormone (OEH) and insulin-like peptides (ILPs), which activate multiple processes re...

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

authors： Vogel KJ,Brown MR,Strand MR

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00