Single secretory granules of live cells recruit syntaxin-1 and synaptosomal associated protein 25 (SNAP-25) in large copy numbers.

abstract：:Trypanosomosis, or sleeping sickness, is a major disease constraint on livestock productivity in sub-Saharan Africa. To identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) controlling resistance to trypanosomosis in cattle, an experimental cross was made between trypanotolerant African N'Dama (Bos taurus) and trypanosusceptible im...

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

authors： Hanotte O,Ronin Y,Agaba M,Nilsson P,Gelhaus A,Horstmann R,Sugimoto Y,Kemp S,Gibson J,Korol A,Soller M,Teale A

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyomavirus enhancer is composed of multiple DNA sequence elements serving as binding sites for proteins present in mouse nuclear extracts that activate transcription and DNA replication. We have identified three such proteins and their binding sites and correlate them with enhancer function. Mutation of nucleoti...

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

authors： Martin ME,Piette J,Yaniv M,Tang WJ,Folk WR

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been hypothesized that penicillin acts as a structural analog of the acyl-D-alanyl-D-alanine terminus of nascent bacterial cell wall and that it consequently binds to and acylates the active site of the enzyme(s) that crosslinks the cell wall to form an inactive penicilloyl enzyme [Tipper, D.J. & Strominger, J....

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

authors： Yocum RR,Waxman DJ,Rasmussen JR,Strominger JL

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of identifying VEGF-independent pathways in pathological angiogenesis is increasingly recognized as a result of the emerging drug resistance to anti-VEGF therapies. PDGF-CC is the third member of the PDGF family discovered after more than two decades of studies on PDGF-AA and PDGF-BB. The biological fun...

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

authors： Hou X,Kumar A,Lee C,Wang B,Arjunan P,Dong L,Maminishkis A,Tang Z,Li Y,Zhang F,Zhang SZ,Wardega P,Chakrabarty S,Liu B,Wu Z,Colosi P,Fariss RN,Lennartsson J,Nussenblatt R,Gutkind JS,Cao Y,Li X

更新日期：2010-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the pathogenesis that may be induced by human adenovirus type 12 (Ad12), we have generated transgenic mice carrying the Ad12 early region 1 under control of the mouse mammary tumor virus long terminal repeat. Eleven of 11 male founder mice, but only 2 of 12 females, died between 3 to 4 mo of age. Death w...

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

authors： Koike K,Hinrichs SH,Isselbacher KJ,Jay G

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For over 40 y the dominant theory of stomatal behavior has been that plants should open stomates until the carbon gained by an infinitesimal additional opening balances the additional water lost times a water price that is constant at least over short periods. This theory has persisted because of its remarkable succes...

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

authors： Wolf A,Anderegg WR,Pacala SW

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Female mosquitoes feed sequentially on carbohydrates (nectar) and proteins (blood) during each gonadotrophic cycle to become reproductively competent and effective disease vectors. Accordingly, metabolism is synchronized to support this reproductive cyclicity. However, regulatory pathways linking metabolism to reprodu...

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

authors： Ling L,Raikhel AS

更新日期：2021-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here a brief review of direct force measurements between hydrophobic surfaces in aqueous solutions. For almost 70 years, researchers have attempted to understand the hydrophobic effect (the low solubility of hydrophobic solutes in water) and the hydrophobic interaction or force (the unusually strong attract...

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

authors： Meyer EE,Rosenberg KJ,Israelachvili J

更新日期：2006-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins containing a caspase recruitment domain (CARD) play pivotal roles in signal transduction leading to apoptosis and NF-kappaB activation and inflammation. Here we identify and characterize human and mouse CARD protein 6 (CARD6), CARD-containing proteins of unique structure. CARD6 associates with microtubules an...

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

authors： Dufner A,Pownall S,Mak TW

更新日期：2006-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous attempts to express functional DNA cytosine methyltransferase (EC 2.1.1.37) in cells transfected with the available Dnmt cDNAs have met with little or no success. We show that the published Dnmt sequence encodes an amino terminal-truncated protein that is tolerated only at very low levels when stably expresse...

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

authors： Tucker KL,Talbot D,Lee MA,Leonhardt H,Jaenisch R

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent reports on the dystrophic mouse mutant suggest that the prominent extracellular matrix component of peripheral nerve tissues plays an important role in peripheral nerve development. We have examined the disposition of two prominent extracellular matrix components, fibronectin and laminin, both in mature periphe...

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

authors： Cornbrooks CJ,Carey DJ,McDonald JA,Timpl R,Bunge RP

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of Madin-Darby bovine kidney (MDBK) cells with human interferon (IFN)-alpha 2 at 37 degrees C results in a dose-dependent inhibition of cell growth and a reduction of the subsequent binding of 125I-labeled epidermal growth factor (EGF) at 4 degrees C. Human IFN-beta and -gamma, which exhibit little antiviral...

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

authors： Zoon KC,Karasaki Y,zur Nedden DL,Hu RQ,Arnheiter H

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have screened a large number of isolated human genomic clones that hybridize to a cloned HLA cDNA probe for their ability to direct the synthesis of HLA-A, -B, and -C surface antigens on mouse L cells following DNA-mediated gene transfer. The surface expression of human histocompatibility antigens, monitored by ind...

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

authors： Barbosa JA,Kamarck ME,Biro PA,Weissman SM,Ruddle FH

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adult brain exhibits a local increase in cortical blood flow in response to external stimulus. However, broadly varying hemodynamic responses in the brains of newborn and young infants have been reported. Particular controversy exists over whether the "true" neonatal response to stimulation consists of a decrease ...

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

authors： Kozberg MG,Chen BR,DeLeo SE,Bouchard MB,Hillman EM

更新日期：2013-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological invasions contribute to global environmental change, but the dynamics and consequences of most invasions are difficult to assess at regional scales. We deployed an airborne remote sensing system that mapped the location and impacts of five highly invasive plant species across 221,875 ha of Hawaiian ecosyste...

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

authors： Asner GP,Hughes RF,Vitousek PM,Knapp DE,Kennedy-Bowdoin T,Boardman J,Martin RE,Eastwood M,Green RO

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune responses can interfere with the effective use of therapeutic proteins to treat genetic deficiencies and have been challenging to manage. To address this problem, we adapted and studied methods of immune tolerance used in canine organ transplantation research to soluble protein therapeutics. A tolerization regi...

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

authors： Kakkis E,Lester T,Yang R,Tanaka C,Anand V,Lemontt J,Peinovich M,Passage M

更新日期：2004-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The high frequency, recent origin, and geographic distribution of the CCR5-Delta 32 deletion allele together indicate that it has been intensely selected in Europe. Although the allele confers resistance against HIV-1, HIV has not existed in the human population long enough to account for this selective pressure. The ...

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

authors： Galvani AP,Slatkin M

更新日期：2003-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal cation homeostasis is essential for plant nutrition and resistance to toxic heavy metals. Many plant metal transporters remain to be identified at the molecular level. In the present study, we have isolated AtNramp cDNAs from Arabidopsis and show that these genes complement the phenotype of a metal uptake defici...

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

authors： Thomine S,Wang R,Ward JM,Crawford NM,Schroeder JI

更新日期：2000-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A central question in stem cell biology is whether organ homeostasis is maintained in adult organs through undifferentiated stem cells or self-duplication of specialized cell populations. To address this issue in the exocrine pancreas we analyzed the Bmi1-labeled cell lineage of pancreatic acinar cells. Previously, we...

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

authors： Sangiorgi E,Capecchi MR

更新日期：2009-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease is characterized by two primary pathological features: amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. The interconnection between amyloid and tau aggregates is of intense interest, but mouse models have yet to reveal a direct interrelationship. We now show that NO may be a key factor that connects am...

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

authors： Colton CA,Vitek MP,Wink DA,Xu Q,Cantillana V,Previti ML,Van Nostrand WE,Weinberg JB,Dawson H

更新日期：2006-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersed cell cultures were established from 7- to 9-day postnatal mouse cerebellum. The fibrin slice method was used to obtain a localization of plasminogen activator production to specific cells. Fibrinolytically active cells were small (5- to 8-micrometer diameter), round, and occurred singly or in aggregates. Fib...

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

authors： Krystosek A,Seeds NW

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gliogenesis in animal development is spatiotemporally regulated so that correct numbers of glia are present to support various neuronal functions. During Drosophila embryonic development, the glial regulatory gene, glial cell missing/glial cell deficient (gcm/glide), promotes glial cell fate and differentiation. Here ...

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

authors： Ho MS,Chen H,Chen M,Jacques C,Giangrande A,Chien CT

更新日期：2009-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The thyroid hormone and retinoid X receptors form a heterodimer with each other and mediate thyroid hormone (T3)-dependent transcription. Retinoid X receptor, in addition, forms a homodimer and mediates 9-cis-retinoic acid-dependent transcription. Here, recombinant thyroid hormone receptor and recombinant retinoid X r...

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

authors： Lee IJ,Driggers PH,Medin JA,Nikodem VM,Ozato K

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An interpretation is given of recent experiments by Brunori et al. on the binding of carbon monoxide by hemoglobin under photodissociating conditions. It is shown that their results follow directly from scalable models for hemoglobin in which the protein-modulated interactions are separable from the ligand binding. ...

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

authors： Szabo A,Karplus M

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of UV irradiation on the incorporation of [3H]uridine in HeLa (human) cell mRNA, rRNA, heterogeneous nuclear RNA (hnRNA) and early mRNA from adenovirus type 2 have been compared. The UV target size of cell mRNA is at least 3 times larger than the average size of the mRNA itself and larger than the adenovir...

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

authors： Goldberg S,Schwartz H,Darnell JE Jr

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is known to bud from the inner membrane of the nuclear envelope. The structural gene for the glycoprotein gB, which is essential for virus entry and cell fusion induced by HSV type 1, has been cloned in a transient expression vector containing the adenovirus major late promoter, tripartite l...

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

authors： Ali MA,Butcher M,Ghosh HP

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of gene gain through duplication has long been appreciated. In contrast, the importance of gene loss has only recently attracted attention. Indeed, studies in organisms ranging from plants to worms and humans suggest that duplication of some genes might be better tolerated than that of others. Here we h...

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

authors： De Smet R,Adams KL,Vandepoele K,Van Montagu MC,Maere S,Van de Peer Y

更新日期：2013-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:For a distribution F on R(p) and a point x in R(p) the simplicial depth D(x), which is the probability that x be inside a random simplex whose vertices are p + 1 independent observations from F, is introduced. D(x) can be viewed as a measure of depth of the point x relative to F, and its empirical version gives rise t...

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

authors： Liu RY

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiopurine S-methyltransferase (TPMT) catalyzes the S-methylation of thiopurine drugs. TPMT genetic polymorphisms represent a striking example of the potential clinical value of pharmacogenetics. Subjects homozygous for TPMT*3A, the most common variant allele for low activity, an allele that encodes a protein with two...

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

authors： Wang L,Nguyen TV,McLaughlin RW,Sikkink LA,Ramirez-Alvarado M,Weinshilboum RM

更新日期：2005-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A primary muscle cell culture derived from newborn rabbit muscle and growing on microcarriers in suspension was established. When cultured for several weeks, the myotubes in this model develop the completely adult pattern of fast myosin light and heavy chains. When Ca2+ ionophore is added to the culture medium on day ...

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

authors： Kubis HP,Haller EA,Wetzel P,Gros G

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00