Purification and characterization of an alpha-bungarotoxin receptor that forms a functional nicotinic channel.

abstract：:Combinatorial transcription codes generate the myriad of cell types during development and thus likely provide crucial insights into directed differentiation of stem cells to a specific cell type. The LIM complex composed of Isl1 and Lhx3 directs the specification of spinal motor neurons (MNs) in embryos. Here, we rep...

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

authors： Lee S,Cuvillier JM,Lee B,Shen R,Lee JW,Lee SK

更新日期：2012-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:By manufacturing a single-particle system in two particulate forms (i.e., micrometer size and nanometer size), we have designed a bacterial vaccine form that exhibits improved efficacy of immunization. Microstructural properties are adapted to alter dispersive and aerosol properties independently. Dried "nanomicropart...

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

authors： Garcia-Contreras L,Wong YL,Muttil P,Padilla D,Sadoff J,Derousse J,Germishuizen WA,Goonesekera S,Elbert K,Bloom BR,Miller R,Fourie PB,Hickey A,Edwards D

更新日期：2008-03-25 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：:The ability of the radiomimetic anticancer enediyne C-1027 to induce ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM) and ATM and Rad3-related (ATR)-independent damage responses was discovered to reside in its unique ability to concurrently generate robust amounts of double-strand breaks (DSBs) and interstrand cross-links (ICLs) i...

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

authors： Kennedy DR,Ju J,Shen B,Beerman TA

更新日期：2007-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The electron spin resonance spectrum of the triplet excited state of Rhodopseudomonas spheroides R-26 reaction centers has been studied after excitation with the polarized narrow-bandwidth output of a tunable dye laser from 520 to 670 nm. A theory is developed relating experimental observables to the angles between th...

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

authors： Boxer SG,Roelofs MG

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of pharyngeal muscle in nematodes and cardiac muscle in vertebrates and insects involves the related homeobox genes ceh-22, nkx2.5, and tinman, respectively. To determine whether the nematode and vertebrate genes perform similar functions, we examined activity of the zebrafish nkx2.5 gene in transgenic Cae...

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

authors： Haun C,Alexander J,Stainier DY,Okkema PG

更新日期：1998-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The timing of human colonization of East Polynesia, a vast area lying between Hawai'i, Rapa Nui, and New Zealand, is much debated and the underlying causes of this great migration have been enigmatic. Our study generates evidence for human dispersal into eastern Polynesia from islands to the west from around AD 900 an...

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

authors： Sear DA,Allen MS,Hassall JD,Maloney AE,Langdon PG,Morrison AE,Henderson ACG,Mackay H,Croudace IW,Clarke C,Sachs JP,Macdonald G,Chiverrell RC,Leng MJ,Cisneros-Dozal LM,Fonville T,Pearson E

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of graphene materials is typically carried out by oxidizing graphite to graphite oxide followed by a reduction process. Numerous methods exist for both the oxidation and reduction steps, which causes unpredictable contamination from metallic impurities into the final material. These impurities are known ...

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

authors： Wong CH,Sofer Z,Kubešová M,Kučera J,Matějková S,Pumera M

更新日期：2014-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal cerebral ischemia and traumatic brain injury induce an escalating amount of cell death because of harmful mediators diffusing from the original lesion site. Evidence suggests that healthy cells surrounding these lesions attempt to protect themselves by producing endocannabinoids (eCBs) and activating cannabinoid...

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

authors： Witting A,Chen L,Cudaback E,Straiker A,Walter L,Rickman B,Möller T,Brosnan C,Stella N

更新日期：2006-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant factor IX, designated factor IXCambridge, was isolated from a patient with hemophilia B. This protein includes an 18-residue propeptide attached to the NH2 terminus of factor IX. A point mutation at residue -1, from an arginine to a serine, precludes cleavage of the propeptide by a processing protease and int...

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

authors： Diuguid DL,Rabiet MJ,Furie BC,Liebman HA,Furie B

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathway proteomics strategies measure protein expression changes in specific cellular processes that carry out related functions. Using targeted tandem mass tags-based sample multiplexing, hundreds of proteins can be quantified across 10 or more samples simultaneously. To facilitate these highly complex experiments, w...

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

authors： Yu Q,Xiao H,Jedrychowski MP,Schweppe DK,Navarrete-Perea J,Knott J,Rogers J,Chouchani ET,Gygi SP

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the diploid genome sequence of the fungal pathogen Candida albicans. Because C. albicans has no known haploid or homozygous form, sequencing was performed as a whole-genome shotgun of the heterozygous diploid genome in strain SC5314, a clinical isolate that is the parent of strains widely used for molecular...

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

authors： Jones T,Federspiel NA,Chibana H,Dungan J,Kalman S,Magee BB,Newport G,Thorstenson YR,Agabian N,Magee PT,Davis RW,Scherer S

更新日期：2004-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Low passage Fischer rat embryo cultures, which are normally very resistant to transformation by 3-methylcholanthrene but are highly susceptible when chronically infected with the Rauscher murine leukemia virus, were completely protected from transformation by methylcholanthrene when treated with neutralizing antibody ...

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

authors： Price PJ,Bellew TM,King MP,Freeman AE,Gilden RV,Huebner RJ

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional topological insulators (3D TIs) represent states of quantum matters in which surface states are protected by time-reversal symmetry and an inversion occurs between bulk conduction and valence bands. However, the bulk-band inversion, which is intimately tied to the topologically nontrivial nature of 3...

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

authors： Chen ZG,Chen RY,Zhong RD,Schneeloch J,Zhang C,Huang Y,Qu F,Yu R,Li Q,Gu GD,Wang NL

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Gecko and many insects have adopted nanoscale fibrillar structures on their feet as adhesion devices. Here, we consider adhesion between a single fiber and a substrate by van der Waals or electrostatic interactions. For a given contact area A, the theoretical pull-off force of the fiber is sigma(th)A where sigma(th) i...

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

authors： Gao H,Yao H

更新日期：2004-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective gene therapy depends on the efficient transfer of therapeutic genes and their protein products to target cells. Lentiviral vectors appear promising for virus-mediated gene delivery and long-term expression in nondividing cells. The herpes simplex virus type 1 tegument protein VP22 has recently been shown to ...

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

authors： Lai Z,Han I,Zirzow G,Brady RO,Reiser J

更新日期：2000-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of a right-handed double-helical DNA requires a relative rotation of the RNA polymerase and its nascent RNA around the DNA. We describe conditions under which the resistance to the rotational motion of the transcription ensemble around the DNA can be large. In such cases, the advancing polymerase generat...

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

authors： Liu LF,Wang JC

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tremendous pandemic potential of coronaviruses was demonstrated twice in the past few decades by two global outbreaks of deadly pneumonia. The coronavirus spike (S) glycoprotein initiates infection by promoting fusion of the viral and cellular membranes through conformational changes that remain largely uncharacte...

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

authors： Walls AC,Tortorici MA,Snijder J,Xiong X,Bosch BJ,Rey FA,Veesler D

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used in vitro selection techniques to characterize DNA sequences that are ligated efficiently by T4 RNA ligase. We find that the ensemble of selected sequences ligated about 10 times as efficiently as the random mixture of sequences used as the input for selection. Surprisingly, the majority of the selected se...

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

authors： Harada K,Orgel LE

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Human hepatitis B virus genome encodes a protein, termed HBx, that is widely recognized as a transcriptional transactivator. While HBx does not directly bind cis-acting transcriptional control elements, it has been shown to associate with cellular proteins that bind DNA. Because HBx transactivated a large number of vi...

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

authors： Qadri I,Conaway JW,Conaway RC,Schaack J,Siddiqui A

更新日期：1996-10-01 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：:We have determined the general constraints that govern sequence divergence in proteins that retain entirely, or very largely, the same structure and function. To do this we collected data from three different groups of orthologous sequences: those found in humans and mice, in humans and chickens, and in Escherichia co...

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

authors： Sasidharan R,Chothia C

更新日期：2007-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic and adult-onset GM2 gangliosidoses are neurological disorders caused by marked deficiency of the A isoenzyme of beta-hexosaminidase; they occur in the Ashkenazi Jewish population, though less frequently than classic (infantile) Tay-Sachs disease. Earlier biosynthetic studies had identified a defective alpha-su...

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

authors： Paw BH,Kaback MM,Neufeld EF

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular targeting of the two receptor interaction domains of the epigenetic repressor silencing mediator of retinoid and thyroid hormone receptors (SMRT(mRID)) produced a transplantable skeletal syndrome that reduced radial bone growth, increased numbers of bone-resorbing periosteal osteoclasts, and increased bone f...

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

authors： Hong SH,Dvorak-Ewell M,Stevens HY,Barish GD,Castro GL,Nofsinger R,Frangos JA,Shoback D,Evans RM

更新日期：2013-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:High-resolution analyses of a late Holocene core from Kettle Lake in North Dakota reveal coeval fluctuations in loss-on-ignition carbonate content, percentage of grass pollen, and charcoal flux. These oscillations are indicative of climate-fuel-fire cycles that have prevailed on the Northern Great Plains (NGP) for mos...

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

authors： Brown KJ,Clark JS,Grimm EC,Donovan JJ,Mueller PG,Hansen BC,Stefanova I

更新日期：2005-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A crucial step in recent theories of human origins is the emergence of strong pair-bonding between males and females accompanied by a dramatic reduction in the male-to-male conflict over mating and an increased investment in offspring. How such a transition from promiscuity to pair-bonding could be achieved is puzzlin...

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

authors： Gavrilets S

更新日期：2012-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiosis-specific homologs of RecA protein have been identified in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and higher eukaryotes including mammals, but their enzymatic activities have not been described. We have purified the human protein HsDmc1 produced in Escherichia coli from a cloned copy of the cDNA. The recombinant enzyme had D...

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

authors： Li Z,Golub EI,Gupta R,Radding CM

更新日期：1997-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Let T(k) (epsilon)(lambda; t(1),..., t(k)) = rho(X(t) (1))q(epsilon)(X(t) (2) - X(t) (1))... q(epsilon)(X(t(k) ) - X(t(k) )-1), where X(t) is a Brownian motion in R(2), lambda(dx) = rho(x)dx, and q(epsilon) converges to Dirac's delta function as epsilon downward arrow 0. The self-intersection local times of order k ar...

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

authors： Dynkin EB

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the use of engineered ribozymes to shuffle exon cassettes in vitro. Specifically, we have designed derivatives of a group II intron that insert into selected sites in the human tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) mRNA. The insertion reaction links t-PA sequences to the group II intron sequences so that trans...

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

authors： Mikheeva S,Jarrell KA

更新日期：1996-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Hydroxyanthranilic acid (HAA), a compound generated during tryptophan metabolism initiated by indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase, is known to induce T cell death, but its molecular target is not known. Here we report that HAA inhibits NF-kappaB activation upon T cell antigen receptor engagement by specifically targeting PD...

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

authors： Hayashi T,Mo JH,Gong X,Rossetto C,Jang A,Beck L,Elliott GI,Kufareva I,Abagyan R,Broide DH,Lee J,Raz E

更新日期：2007-11-20 00:00:00