A FOXA1-binding enhancer regulates Hoxb13 expression in the prostate gland.

abstract：:Adriamycin (doxorubicin) was encapsulated in human erythrocytes by means of a dialysis technique involving transient hypotonic hemolysis followed by isotonic resealing. Up to 1.6 mg of the drug was entrapped per ml of packed erythrocytes, with the efficiency of encapsulation being 60-80%. In vitro incubation of the Ad...

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

authors： De Flora A,Benatti U,Guida L,Zocchi E

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The all-cis hexose D-allose, fed to hamster fibroblast cultures over 14-20 hr, brings about a striking down-regulation of hexose transport. This down-regulation by allose is inhibited by 2,4-dinitrophenol. By using D-[14C]allose and thin-layer chromatography, two types of products accumulated that have been identified...

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

authors： Ullrey DB,Kalckar HM

更新日期：1991-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We purified microtubules from a mammalian mitotic extract and obtained an amino acid sequence from each microtubule-associated protein by using mass spectrometry. Most of these proteins are known spindle-associated components with essential functional roles in spindle organization. We generated antibodies against a pr...

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

authors： Mack GJ,Compton DA

更新日期：2001-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The method of evolutionary stable strategies (ESS), in its current form, is confronted with a difficulty when it tries to explain how some social behaviors initiate their evolution. We show that this difficulty may be removed by changing the assumption made tacitly in game theory (and in ESS) of randomness of meetings...

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

authors： Eshel I,Cavalli-Sforza LL

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian hair follicle unit consists of a central follicle and a series of associated structures: sebaceous glands, arrector pili muscles, Merkel cells, and sensory nerve endings. The architecture of this multicellular structure is highly polarized with respect to the body axes. Previous work has implicated Frizz...

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

authors： Chang H,Nathans J

更新日期：2013-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Photolyzed rhodopsin catalyzes the exchange of GTP for FDP bound to a protein in retinal rod outer segments. We previously proposed that the GTP complex of this protein regulates the cyclic GMP phosphodiesterase and that it may be the first amplified intermediate in visual excitation [Fung, B. K.-K. & Stryer, L. (1980...

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

authors： Fung BK,Hurley JB,Stryer L

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B-DNA becomes unstable under superhelical stress and is able to adopt a wide range of alternative conformations including strand-separated DNA and Z-DNA. Localized sequence-dependent structural transitions are important for the regulation of biological processes such as DNA replication and transcription. To directly p...

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

authors： Oberstrass FC,Fernandes LE,Bryant Z

更新日期：2012-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Most growth factors are initially synthesized as precursor proteins and subsequently processed into their mature form by proteolytic cleavage, resulting in simultaneous removal of a pro-peptide. However, compared with that of mature form, the biological role of the pro-peptide is poorly understood. Here, we investigat...

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

authors： Mizui T,Ishikawa Y,Kumanogoh H,Lume M,Matsumoto T,Hara T,Yamawaki S,Takahashi M,Shiosaka S,Itami C,Uegaki K,Saarma M,Kojima M

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In many naturally occurring habitats, bacteria live in micrometer-size confined spaces. Although bacterial growth and motility in such constrictions is of great interest to fields as varied as soil microbiology, water purification, and biomedical research, quantitative studies of the effects of confinement on bacteria...

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

authors： Männik J,Driessen R,Galajda P,Keymer JE,Dekker C

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is proved that the well known Nagata automorphism of the polynomial ring in three variables over a field of characteristic zero is wild, that is, it can not be decomposed into a product of elementary automorphisms. ...

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

authors： Shestakov IP,Umirbaev UU

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein Hal is a human gamma4 heavy-chain disease protein whose molecular weight is reduced from 55,000 to 25,000 in 6 M guanidine due to the lack of disulfide bonds between heavy chains. Studies of aminoacid sequence indicate that it contains a gap of about 240 residues, starting 10 residues from the N-terminal end a...

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

authors： Frangione B,Lee L,Haber E,Bloch KJ

更新日期：1973-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of the near-infrared absorption spectra of three oxygen compounds of membrane-bound cytochrome oxidase (ferrocytochrome c:oxygen oxidoreductase; EC 1.9.3.1) shows that the formation of compound A (oxycytochrome oxidase) causes no significant infrared absorbance changes at -103 degrees. At -64 degrees, the form...

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

authors： Chance B,Leigh JS Jr

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many plants, osmotic stress induces a rapid accumulation of proline through de novo synthesis from glutamate. This response is thought to play a pivotal role in osmotic stress tolerance [Kishor, P. B. K., Hong, Z., Miao, G.-H., Hu, C.-A. A. and Verma, D. P. S. (1995) Plant Physiol. 108, 1387-1394]. During recovery ...

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

authors： Verbruggen N,Hua XJ,May M,Van Montagu M

更新日期：1996-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose that a fundamental problem in the faithful replication of complex chromosomes of higher eukaryotes is the proper control of both the number and timing of the multiple initiations of replication on single chromosomes. When replication patterns are disrupted by any of a variety of agents, overreplication of D...

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

authors： Schimke RT,Sherwood SW,Hill AB,Johnston RN

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A key feature of immune evasion for African trypanosomes is the functional specialization of their surface membrane in an invagination known as the flagellar pocket (FP), the cell's sole site of endocytosis and exocytosis. The FP membrane is biochemically distinct yet continuous with those of the cell body and the fla...

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

authors： Gadelha C,Rothery S,Morphew M,McIntosh JR,Severs NJ,Gull K

更新日期：2009-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy electronic states originating from the f atomic orbitals underlie a rich variety of quantum phases of matter. We use atomic scale imaging and spectroscopy with the scanning tunneling microscope to examine the novel electronic states that emerge from the uranium f states in URu(2)Si(2). We find that, as the tempe...

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

authors： Aynajian P,da Silva Neto EH,Parker CV,Huang Y,Pasupathy A,Mydosh J,Yazdani A

更新日期：2010-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoantibodies directed against the cell surface receptors for insulin are found in some patients with extreme insulin resistance. These antibodies specifically inhibit the binding of insulin to its receptor. A purified IgG fraction from one patient's plasma was labeled with 125I. The 125I-labeled antireceptor antibod...

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

authors： Jarrett DB,Roth J,Kahn CR,Flier JS

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asn-linked glycans (N-glycans) play important roles in the quality control (QC) of glycoprotein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) lumen and in ER-associated degradation (ERAD) of proteins by cytosolic proteasomes. A UDP-Glc:glycoprotein glucosyltransferase glucosylates N-glycans of misfolded proteins, which ar...

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

authors： Banerjee S,Vishwanath P,Cui J,Kelleher DJ,Gilmore R,Robbins PW,Samuelson J

更新日期：2007-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The free and membrane-bound ribosomes of hepatic cells were isolated and used to program protein synthesis in cell-free extracts. Immuno-electrophoretic and radioautographic analysis of the products showed that the membrane-bound ribosomes synthesized serum proteins, whereas ribosomes free of endoplasmic reticulum syn...

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

authors： Ganoza MC,Williams CA

更新日期：1969-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excited electronic states created by UV excitation of the diribonucleoside monophosphates ApA, ApG, ApC, ApU, and CpG were studied by the femtosecond transient-absorption technique. Bleach recovery signals recorded at 252 nm show that long-lived excited states are formed in all five dinucleosides. The lifetimes of the...

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

authors： Takaya T,Su C,de La Harpe K,Crespo-Hernández CE,Kohler B

更新日期：2008-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental, yet underexplored, materials system is the interface between biological molecules and inorganic surfaces. In an elemental approach to this problem, we have systematically examined the adhesion of amino acids to a series of inorganic surfaces including metals, insulators, and semiconductors. Significant ...

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

authors： Willett RL,Baldwin KW,West KW,Pfeiffer LN

更新日期：2005-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV buds from lipid rafts and requires cholesterol for its egress from and entry into cells. Viral accessory protein Nef plays a major role in this process. In this study, it not only increased the biosynthesis of lipid rafts and viral particles with newly synthesized cholesterol, but also enriched them. Furthermore, ...

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

authors： Zheng YH,Plemenitas A,Fielding CJ,Peterlin BM

更新日期：2003-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Pertussis toxin (PT), a protein produced by Bordetella pertussis, was studied for its effect on lipolysis in isolated rat epididymal adipocytes. Exposure of adipocytes to pertussis toxin resulted in a significant increase in cyclic AMP levels and lipolysis after a lag of 1-2 hr. Both the maximal rate of lipolysis and ...

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

authors： Olansky L,Myers GA,Pohl SL,Hewlett EL

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucagon and insulin are first detectable at the onset of rat pancreas organogenesis. Initially, the specific activity of glucagon is approximately 100-fold higher than that of insulin. At this early stage, endocrine storage granules, similar to alpha granules, are identifiable in electron micrographs. The granule cha...

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

authors： Rall LB,Pictet RL,Williams RH,Rutter WJ

更新日期：1973-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical cyclones have massive economic, social, and ecological impacts, and models of their occurrence influence many planning activities from setting insurance premiums to conservation planning. Most impact models allow for geographically varying cyclone rates but assume that individual storm events occur randomly w...

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

authors： Mumby PJ,Vitolo R,Stephenson DB

更新日期：2011-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Basic neurophysiological research with monkeys has shown how neurons in the motor cortex have firing rates tuned to movement direction. This original finding would have been difficult to uncover without the use of a behaving primate paradigm in which subjects grasped a handle and moved purposefully to targets in diffe...

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

authors： Kennedy SD,Schwartz AB

更新日期：2019-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Quinacrine's ability to reduce levels of pathogenic prion protein (PrP(Sc)) in mouse cells infected with experimentally adapted prions led to several unsuccessful clinical studies in patients with prion diseases, a 10-y investment to understand its mechanism of action, and the production of related compounds with expe...

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

authors： Bian J,Kang HE,Telling GC

更新日期：2014-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Yawn contagion in humans has been proposed to be related to our capacity for empathy. It is presently unclear whether this capacity is uniquely human or shared with other primates, especially monkeys. Here, we show that in gelada baboons (Theropithecus gelada) yawning is contagious between individuals, especially thos...

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

authors： Palagi E,Leone A,Mancini G,Ferrari PF

更新日期：2009-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytolytic pore-forming toxins are important for the virulence of many disease-causing bacteria. How target cells molecularly respond to these toxins and whether or not they can mount a defense are poorly understood. By using microarrays, we demonstrate that the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans responds robustly to Cry5...

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

authors： Huffman DL,Abrami L,Sasik R,Corbeil J,van der Goot FG,Aroian RV

更新日期：2004-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In MtrF, an outer-membrane multiheme cytochrome, the 10 heme groups are arranged in heme binding domains II and IV along the pseudo-C2 axis, forming the electron transfer (ET) pathways. Previous reports based on molecular dynamics simulations showed that the redox potential (Em) values for the heme pairs located in sy...

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

authors： Watanabe HC,Yamashita Y,Ishikita H

更新日期：2017-03-14 00:00:00