Conserved microRNA targeting in Drosophila is as widespread in coding regions as in 3'UTRs.

abstract：:It is generally thought that an effective vaccine to prevent HIV-1 infection should elicit both strong neutralizing antibody and cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses. We recently demonstrated that potent, boostable, long-lived HIV-1 envelope (Env)-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses can be elicited in rhesus monkeys...

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

authors： Letvin NL,Montefiori DC,Yasutomi Y,Perry HC,Davies ME,Lekutis C,Alroy M,Freed DC,Lord CI,Handt LK,Liu MA,Shiver JW

更新日期：1997-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We quantitatively analyzed, using laser scanning confocal microscopy, the three-dimensional structure of individual senile plaques in Alzheimer disease. We carried out the quantitative analysis using statistical methods to gain insights about the processes that govern Abeta peptide deposition. Our results show that pl...

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

authors： Cruz L,Urbanc B,Buldyrev SV,Christie R,Gómez-Isla T,Havlin S,McNamara M,Stanley HE,Hyman BT

更新日期：1997-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin resistance drives the development of type 2 diabetes (T2D). In liver, diacylglycerol (DAG) is a key mediator of lipid-induced insulin resistance. DAG activates protein kinase C ε (PKCε), which phosphorylates and inhibits the insulin receptor. In rats, a 3-day high-fat diet produces hepatic insulin resistance t...

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

authors： Gassaway BM,Petersen MC,Surovtseva YV,Barber KW,Sheetz JB,Aerni HR,Merkel JS,Samuel VT,Shulman GI,Rinehart J

更新日期：2018-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we reported that bilateral excitotoxic lesions of the basolateral nucleus of the amygdala (BLA) block the enhancing effects of posttraining systemic or intrahippocampal glucocorticoid administration on memory for inhibitory avoidance training. The present study further examined the basis of this permissive...

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

authors： Roozendaal B,Nguyen BT,Power AE,McGaugh JL

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic beta-galactoside transport in whole cells and membrane vesicles from E. coli ML 308-225 is coupled to the oxidation of alpha-glycerol-P or D-lactate with fumarate as an electron acceptor. Alternatively, anaerobic beta-galactoside transport may be coupled to the oxidation of formate utilizing nitrate as elect...

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

authors： Konings WN,Kaback HR

更新日期：1973-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism (XDP) is a neurodegenerative disease associated with an antisense insertion of a SINE-VNTR-Alu (SVA)-type retrotransposon within an intron of TAF1 This unique insertion coincides with six additional noncoding sequence changes in TAF1, the gene that encodes TATA-binding protein-associated...

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

authors： Bragg DC,Mangkalaphiban K,Vaine CA,Kulkarni NJ,Shin D,Yadav R,Dhakal J,Ton ML,Cheng A,Russo CT,Ang M,Acuña P,Go C,Franceour TN,Multhaupt-Buell T,Ito N,Müller U,Hendriks WT,Breakefield XO,Sharma N,Ozelius LJ

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have produced a soluble form of a mouse alpha beta T-cell antigen receptor (TCR) by shuffling its variable (V) and constant (C) domains to the C region of an immunoglobulin kappa light chain. These chimeric molecules composed of V alpha C alpha C kappa and V beta C beta C kappa chains were efficiently secreted (up ...

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

authors： Grégoire C,Rebaï N,Schweisguth F,Necker A,Mazza G,Auphan N,Millward A,Schmitt-Verhulst AM,Malissen B

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated several lines of rat embryo cells transformed by simian virus 40. All these lines are fully transformed with regard to saturation density and serum sensitivity, but they differ greatly in their anchorage dependence, as assayed by efficiency of plating in methyl cellulose suspension. This set of lines ...

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

authors： Pollack R,Risser R,Conlon S,Rifkin D

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth inhibition assays indicated that the IC50 values for methotrexate (MTX) and 5-fluorodeoxyuridine (FdUrd) in HS-18, a liposarcoma cell line lacking retinoblastoma protein (pRB), and SaOS-2, an osteosarcoma cell line with a truncated and nonfunctional pRB, were 10- to 12-fold and 4- to 11-fold higher, respectivel...

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

authors： Li W,Fan J,Hochhauser D,Banerjee D,Zielinski Z,Almasan A,Yin Y,Kelly R,Wahl GM,Bertino JR

更新日期：1995-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have been used to treat malignancies in humans with varying degrees of success. Progress has been hindered by the lack of suitable animal models, which would ideally consist of immunocompetent animals that are tolerant to tumor-associated antigens. Suitable models would allow the study and...

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

authors： Wilkinson RW,Ross EL,Poulsom R,Ilyas M,Straub J,Snary D,Bodmer WF,Mather SJ

更新日期：2001-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription initiation site of the human ribosomal RNA gene (rDNA) was located by using the single-strand specific nuclease protection method and by determining the first nucleotide of the in vitro capped 45S preribosomal RNA. The sequence of 1,211 nucleotides surrounding the initiation site was determined. The ...

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

authors： Financsek I,Mizumoto K,Mishima Y,Muramatsu M

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-negative bacteria deliver a cadre of virulence factors directly into the cytoplasm of eukaryotic host cells to promote pathogenesis and/or commensalism. Recently, families of virulence proteins have been recognized that function as E3 Ubiquitin-ligases. How these bacterial ligases integrate into the ubiquitin (Ub...

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

authors： Levin I,Eakin C,Blanc MP,Klevit RE,Miller SI,Brzovic PS

更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate the application of molecular rotational spectroscopy to measure the conformation isomerization rate of vibrationally excited pent-1-en-4-yne (pentenyne). The rotational spectra of single quantum states of pentenyne are acquired by using a combination of IR-Fourier transform microwave double-resonance sp...

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

authors： Dian BC,Brown GG,Douglass KO,Rees FS,Johns JE,Nair P,Suenram RD,Pate BH

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine viruses are the most abundant biological entities in the oceans shaping community structure and nutrient cycling. The interaction between the bloom-forming alga Emiliania huxleyi and its specific large dsDNA virus (EhV) is a major factor determining the fate of carbon in the ocean, thus serving as a key host-pa...

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

authors： Ziv C,Malitsky S,Othman A,Ben-Dor S,Wei Y,Zheng S,Aharoni A,Hornemann T,Vardi A

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal growth factor (EGF), transforming growth factor alpha (TGF-alpha), and amphiregulin are structurally and functionally related growth regulatory proteins. These secreted polypeptides all bind to the 170-kDa cell-surface EGF receptor, activating its intrinsic kinase activity. However, amphiregulin exhibits dif...

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

authors： Plowman GD,Whitney GS,Neubauer MG,Green JM,McDonald VL,Todaro GJ,Shoyab M

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The controlled self-assembly of complex molecules into well defined hierarchical structures is a promising route for fabricating nanostructures. These nanoscale structures can be realized by naturally occurring proteins such as tobacco mosaic virus, capsid proteins, tubulin, actin, etc. Here, we report a simple altern...

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

authors： Valéry C,Paternostre M,Robert B,Gulik-Krzywicki T,Narayanan T,Dedieu JC,Keller G,Torres ML,Cherif-Cheikh R,Calvo P,Artzner F

更新日期：2003-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The photoaffinity herbicide azidoatrazine (2-azido-4-ethylamino-6-isopropylamino-s-triazine) selectively labels the L subunit of the reaction center of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. Herbicide-resistant mutants retain the L subunit and have altered binding properties for methylthio- and chl...

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

authors： Brown AE,Gilbert CW,Guy R,Arntzen CJ

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We develop a potential landscape approach to quantitatively describe experimental data from a fibroblast cell line that exhibits a wide range of GFP expression levels under the control of the promoter for tenascin-C. Time-lapse live-cell microscopy provides data about short-term fluctuations in promoter activity, and ...

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

authors： Sisan DR,Halter M,Hubbard JB,Plant AL

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenously encoded small noncoding RNAs, derived by processing of short RNA hairpins, that can inhibit the translation of mRNAs bearing partially complementary target sequences. In contrast, small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), which are derived by processing of long double-stranded RNAs and are o...

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

authors： Zeng Y,Yi R,Cullen BR

更新日期：2003-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracy of the 3'-end processing by cleavage and polyadenylation is essential for mRNA biogenesis and transcription termination. In yeast, two poorly conserved neighboring elements upstream of cleavage sites are important for accuracy and efficiency of this process. These two RNA sequences are recognized by the R...

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

authors： Barnwal RP,Lee SD,Moore C,Varani G

更新日期：2012-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:At the onset of apoptosis, the peroxidation of cardiolipin at the inner mitochondrial membrane by cytochrome c requires an open coordination site on the heme. We report a 1.45-Å resolution structure of yeast iso-1-cytochrome c with the Met80 heme ligand swung out of the heme crevice and replaced by a water molecule. T...

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

authors： McClelland LJ,Mou TC,Jeakins-Cooley ME,Sprang SR,Bowler BE

更新日期：2014-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite immense variability across languages, people can learn to understand any human language, spoken or signed. What neural mechanisms allow people to comprehend language across sensory modalities? When people listen to speech, electrophysiological oscillations in auditory cortex entrain to slow ([Formula: see text...

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

authors： Brookshire G,Lu J,Nusbaum HC,Goldin-Meadow S,Casasanto D

更新日期：2017-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Human embryonic zeta-globin chains are alpha-globin-like chains that are normally present during the first three months of gestation. In this investigation, zeta-globin chains measured by a specific and sensitive radioimmunoassay and by an electrophoretic technique were found to be present in all 7 patients studied wi...

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

authors： Chung SW,Wong SC,Clarke BJ,Patterson M,Walker WH,Chui DH

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce the concept of hybridization chain reaction (HCR), in which stable DNA monomers assemble only upon exposure to a target DNA fragment. In the simplest version of this process, two stable species of DNA hairpins coexist in solution until the introduction of initiator strands triggers a cascade of hybridizat...

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

authors： Dirks RM,Pierce NA

更新日期：2004-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Traits that enable species to persist in ecological environments are often maintained over time, a phenomenon known as niche conservatism. Here we argue that ecological niches function at levels above species, notably at the level of genus for mammals, and that niche conservatism is also evident above the species leve...

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

authors： Hadly EA,Spaeth PA,Li C

更新日期：2009-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonization of land by plants was a major transition on Earth, but the developmental and genetic innovations required for this transition remain unknown. Physiological studies and the fossil record strongly suggest that the ability of the first land plants to form symbiotic associations with beneficial fungi was one ...

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

authors： Delaux PM,Radhakrishnan GV,Jayaraman D,Cheema J,Malbreil M,Volkening JD,Sekimoto H,Nishiyama T,Melkonian M,Pokorny L,Rothfels CJ,Sederoff HW,Stevenson DW,Surek B,Zhang Y,Sussman MR,Dunand C,Morris RJ,Roux C,Wong GK

更新日期：2015-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Proper regulation of neurotransmission requires that ligand-activated ion channels remain closed until agonist binds. How channels then open remains poorly understood. Glycine receptor (GlyR) gating is initiated by agonist binding at interfaces between adjacent subunits in the extracellular domain. Aspartate-97, locat...

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

authors： Todorovic J,Welsh BT,Bertaccini EJ,Trudell JR,Mihic SJ

更新日期：2010-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The localized maternal RNA Vg1 resides in the cortical region of the vegetal pole of fully grown Xenopus oocytes and is inherited by only a subset of blastomeres in the early embryo [Weeks, D. L. & Melton, D. A. (1987) Cell 51, 861-867]. Because RNA-cytoskeletal interactions may play a role in RNA localization, we hav...

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

authors： Pondel MD,King ML

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM)-dependent O-methyltransferases (OMTs) catalyze the methylation of hydroxycinnamic acid derivatives for the synthesis of methylated plant polyphenolics, including lignin. The distinction in the extent of methylation of lignins in angiosperms and gymnosperms, mediated by substrate-specific ...

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

authors： Li L,Popko JL,Zhang XH,Osakabe K,Tsai CJ,Joshi CP,Chiang VL

更新日期：1997-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-myc oncogene has been implicated in a wide spectrum of B-cell neoplasias. In normal cells, the level of expression of the c-myc gene correlates with growth status. In the present study, we examined the effect of receptor-mediated inhibition of growth on c-myc expression in a B-cell lymphoma. The murine lymphoma ...

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

authors： McCormack JE,Pepe VH,Kent RB,Dean M,Marshak-Rothstein A,Sonenshein GE

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00