Extranuclear estrogen receptor-alpha stimulates NeuroD1 binding to the insulin promoter and favors insulin synthesis.

abstract：:An implicit assumption of speciation biology is that population differentiation is an important stage of evolutionary diversification, but its significance as a rate-limiting control on phylogenetic speciation dynamics remains largely untested. If population differentiation within a species is related to its speciatio...

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

authors： Harvey MG,Seeholzer GF,Smith BT,Rabosky DL,Cuervo AM,Brumfield RT

更新日期：2017-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of amyloid-like aggregates by expanded polyglutamine (polyGln) sequences is suspected to play a critical role in the neuropathology of Huntington's disease and other expanded CAG-repeat diseases. To probe the folding of the polyGln sequence in the aggregate, we replaced Gln-Gln pairs at different sequenc...

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

authors： Thakur AK,Wetzel R

更新日期：2002-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:p53 is a master regulatory, sequence-specific transcription factor that directly controls expression of over 100 genes in response to various stress signals. Transactivation is generally considered to occur through p53 binding to a consensus response element (RE) composed of two 5'-RRRCWWGYYY-3' decamers. Recently, st...

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

authors： Menendez D,Inga A,Resnick MA

更新日期：2010-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrothermal vents are a well-known source of energy that powers chemosynthesis in the deep sea. Recent work suggests that microbial chemosynthesis is also surprisingly pervasive throughout the dark oceans, serving as a significant CO(2) sink even at sites far removed from vents. Ammonia and sulfur have been identifie...

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

authors： Anantharaman K,Breier JA,Sheik CS,Dick GJ

更新日期：2013-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the 270 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum and relaxation kinetic behavior of tRNA2Glu (E. coli) in the absence of Mg++, a condition which produces an inactive form of this tRNA. The results show that the denatured form has about five fewer proton resonances in the region from -12 to -15 ppm. Rel...

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

authors： Bina-Stein M,Crothers DM,Hilbers CW,Shulman RG

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential involvement of ceramide-related signaling processes in the induction of apoptosis by tumor necrosis factor alpha was assessed by multiple biochemical strategies in the human leukemic cell lines HL-60 and U937 and the murine fibrosarcoma cell lines L929/LM and WEHI 164/13. Exposure of these cells to tumor...

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

authors： Jarvis WD,Kolesnick RN,Fornari FA,Traylor RS,Gewirtz DA,Grant S

更新日期：1994-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported that the posttraumatic spread of degeneration in the damaged optic nerve can be attenuated by the adoptive transfer of autoimmune T cells specific to myelin basic protein. However, it would be desirable to obtain immune neuroprotection free of any possible autoimmune disease. In an attempt to obta...

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

authors： Kipnis J,Yoles E,Porat Z,Cohen A,Mor F,Sela M,Cohen IR,Schwartz M

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is associated with epithelial and lymphoid malignancies, establishes latent infection in memory B cells, and intermittently produces infectious virions through lytic replication. Released virions play a key role in latent reservoir maintenance and transmission. Lytic EBV transcription differs ...

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

authors： Verma D,Church TM,Swaminathan S

更新日期：2020-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of gene expression by steroid hormones is mediated by receptor proteins that associate with regulatory elements of responsive genes upon binding the hormone ligand. The finding that two glucocorticoid responsive elements act cooperatively to stimulate transcription of the tyrosine aminotransferase gene prom...

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

authors： Ankenbauer W,Strähle U,Schütz G

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emotions are often felt in the body, and somatosensory feedback has been proposed to trigger conscious emotional experiences. Here we reveal maps of bodily sensations associated with different emotions using a unique topographical self-report method. In five experiments, participants (n = 701) were shown two silhouett...

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

authors： Nummenmaa L,Glerean E,Hari R,Hietanen JK

更新日期：2014-01-14 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：:Saccharopolyspora erythraea makes erythromycin, an antibiotic commonly used in human medicine. Unusually, the erythromycin biosynthetic (ery) cluster lacks a pathway-specific regulatory gene. We isolated a transcriptional regulator of the ery biosynthetic genes from S. erythraea and found that this protein appears to ...

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

authors： Chng C,Lum AM,Vroom JA,Kao CM

更新日期：2008-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The structures of the major folding intermediate, the transition state for folding, and the folded state of barnase have been previously characterized. We now add a further step toward a complete picture of the folding of barnase by reporting the backbone 15N, 13C, and 1H NMR assignments for barnase unfolded at pH 1.8...

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

authors： Arcus VL,Vuilleumier S,Freund SM,Bycroft M,Fersht AR

更新日期：1994-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven clones encoding interferon response element binding factors have been isolated from a mouse fibroblast lambda gt11 cDNA library by using a 32P end-labeled tandem trimer of the mouse (2'-5')oligoadenylate synthetase gene interferon response element as a probe. Clone 16 shares strong similarity (95%) at both DNA a...

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

authors： Yan C,Tamm I

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single animal group can display different types of collective motion at different times. For a one-dimensional individual-based model of self-organizing group formation, we show that repeated switching between distinct ordered collective states can occur entirely because of stochastic effects. We introduce a framewo...

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

authors： Kolpas A,Moehlis J,Kevrekidis IG

更新日期：2007-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterotrimeric G proteins relay extracellular cues from heptahelical transmembrane receptors to downstream effector molecules. Composed of an alpha subunit with intrinsic GTPase activity and a betagamma heterodimer, the trimeric complex dissociates upon receptor-mediated nucleotide exchange on the alpha subunit, enabl...

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

authors： Slep KC,Kercher MA,Wieland T,Chen CK,Simon MI,Sigler PB

更新日期：2008-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature lability of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGP; glucose-1-phosphate adenylyltransferase; ADP: alpha-D-glucose-1-phosphate adenylyltransferase, EC 2.7.7.27), a key starch biosynthetic enzyme, may play a significant role in the heat-induced loss in maize seed weight and yield. Here we report the isolation an...

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

authors： Greene TW,Hannah LC

更新日期：1998-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:India's northward flight and collision with Asia was a major driver of global tectonics in the Cenozoic and, we argue, of atmospheric CO(2) concentration (pCO(2)) and thus global climate. Subduction of Tethyan oceanic crust with a carpet of carbonate-rich pelagic sediments deposited during transit beneath the high-pro...

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

authors： Kent DV,Muttoni G

更新日期：2008-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-surface labeling with fluorescamine indicates that the fluorescence of Balb 3T3 A31 cells in considerably decreased after both viral and chemical transformation. This phenomenon, coupled with the technique of flow microfluorometry, enabled nontransformed and transformed cells to be distinguished. A second fluroes...

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

authors： Hawkes SP,Bartholomew JC

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seasonal changes of daylength (photoperiod) affect the expression of hormonal and behavioral circadian rhythms in a variety of organisms. In mammals, such effects might reflect photoperiodic changes in the circadian pace-making system [located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the hypothalamus] that governs thes...

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

authors： Sumová A,Trávnícková Z,Peters R,Schwartz WJ,Illnerová H

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Banded iron formations (BIFs) record a time of extensive Fe deposition in the Precambrian oceans, but the sources and pathways for metals in BIFs remain controversial. Here, we present Fe- and Nd-isotope data that indicate two sources of Fe for the large BIF units deposited 2.5 billion y ago. High-εNd and -δ(56)Fe sig...

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

authors： Li W,Beard BL,Johnson CM

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Ig class-switch recombination (CSR) is a region-specific process that exchanges the constant Ig heavy-chain region and thus modifies an antibody's effector function. DNA lesions in switch (S) regions are induced by activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) and uracil-DNA glycosylase 2 (UNG2), subsequently processed ...

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

authors： Kracker S,Imai K,Gardès P,Ochs HD,Fischer A,Durandy AH

更新日期：2010-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancers frequently arise as a result of an acquired genomic instability and the subsequent clonal evolution of neoplastic cells with variable patterns of genetic aberrations. Thus, the presence and behaviors of distinct clonal populations in each patient's tumor may underlie multiple clinical phenotypes in cancers. We...

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

authors： Ruiz C,Lenkiewicz E,Evers L,Holley T,Robeson A,Kiefer J,Demeure MJ,Hollingsworth MA,Shen M,Prunkard D,Rabinovitch PS,Zellweger T,Mousses S,Trent JM,Carpten JD,Bubendorf L,Von Hoff D,Barrett MT

更新日期：2011-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed the cell cycle regulation of human cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2), a protein closely related to the cell cycle-regulatory protein kinase CDC2. We find that CDK2 activity, like that of CDC2, oscillates during the cell cycle in cultured mammalian fibroblasts. Unlike CDC2 activity (which peaks during m...

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

authors： Rosenblatt J,Gu Y,Morgan DO

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mature optic nerve cannot regenerate when injured, leaving victims of traumatic nerve damage or diseases such as glaucoma with irreversible visual losses. Recent studies have identified ways to stimulate retinal ganglion cells to regenerate axons part-way through the optic nerve, but it remains unknown whether mat...

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

authors： de Lima S,Koriyama Y,Kurimoto T,Oliveira JT,Yin Y,Li Y,Gilbert HY,Fagiolini M,Martinez AM,Benowitz L

更新日期：2012-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA fragment homologous to U6 small nuclear RNA was isolated from a human genomic library and sequenced. The immediate 5'-flanking region of the U6 DNA clone had significant homology with a potential mouse U6 gene, including a "TATA box" at a position 26-29 nucleotides upstream from the transcription start site. Alt...

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

authors： Kunkel GR,Maser RL,Calvet JP,Pederson T

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the role of an anchoring pocket in allele-specific peptide presentation by a major histocompatibility complex class I molecule, we "transplanted" a B pocket from HLA-A*0201 into HLA-B*2705 by site-directed mutagenesis. The resulting protein, designated B27.A2B, binds a different set of endogenous peptid...

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

authors： Colbert RA,Rowland-Jones SL,McMichael AJ,Frelinger JA

更新日期：1993-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Arachidonic acid (AA) metabolites derived from both cyclooxygenase (COX) and lipoxygenase (LOX) pathways transduce a variety of signals related to cell growth. Here, we report that the AA LOX pathway also functions as a critical regulator of cell survival and apoptosis. Rat Walker 256 (W256) carcinosarcoma cells expre...

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

authors： Tang DG,Chen YQ,Honn KV

更新日期：1996-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression and integration of membrane proteins into vesicle membranes is a critical step in the design of cell-mimetic biosensors, bioreactors, and artificial cells. While membrane proteins have been integrated into a variety of nonnatural membranes, the effects of the chemical and physical properties of these ve...

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

authors： Jacobs ML,Boyd MA,Kamat NP

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The virB operon of the Agrobacterium tume-faciens pTiA6NC plasmid likely plays a role in directing T-DNA transfer events at the bacterial membrane, as determined previously by mutagenesis and cellular fractionation studies and by DNA sequence analysis of the approximately 12-kilobase-pair operon. The DNA sequence anal...

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

authors： Christie PJ,Ward JE Jr,Gordon MP,Nester EW

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00