Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD)-regulated DNA methylation alters CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF)/cohesin binding and transcription at the BDNF locus.

abstract：:The spleen from a patient with adult Gaucher's disease was shown to be deficient in a beta-glucosidase (EC 3.2.1.21) isoenzyme that has optimal activity at pH 4.0-4.3, and is stimulated by 0.02% Triton X-100. A mixture of spleen homogenates from a control and from the patient contained beta-glucosidase activity equiva...

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

authors： Ho MW,O'Brien JS

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mahler proved the following quantitative result supplementing the Lindemann-Weierstrass theorem: Sigma(i=0) (n)C(i)e(ri) > H(-n-epsilon) for any distinct rational numbers r(0),r(1),..., r(n) and rational integers C(0),C(1),...,C(n) with H = max(0

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

authors： Chudnovsky GV

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Completely parthenogenetic Trichogramma wasps can be rendered permanently bisexual by treatment with three different antibiotics or high temperatures. The evidence strongly suggests that maternally inherited microorganisms cause parthenogenesis in these wasps. Theories predict female-biased sex ratio in offspring unde...

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

authors： Stouthamer R,Luck RF,Hamilton WD

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Split GFPs have been widely applied for monitoring protein-protein interactions by expressing GFPs as two or more constituent parts linked to separate proteins that only fluoresce on complementing with one another. Although this complementation is typically irreversible, it has been shown previously that light acceler...

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

authors： Lin CY,Both J,Do K,Boxer SG

更新日期：2017-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In flowering plants, extensive male-female interactions are required for successful fertilization in which various signaling cascades are involved. Prevacuolar compartments (PVC) and vacuoles are two types of subcellular compartments that terminate signal transduction by sequestrating signaling molecules in yeast and ...

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

authors： Hao L,Liu J,Zhong S,Gu H,Qu LJ

更新日期：2016-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We obtain a general connection between a large quantum advantage in communication complexity and Bell nonlocality. We show that given any protocol offering a sufficiently large quantum advantage in communication complexity, there exists a way of obtaining measurement statistics that violate some Bell inequality. Our m...

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

authors： Buhrman H,Czekaj Ł,Grudka A,Horodecki M,Horodecki P,Markiewicz M,Speelman F,Strelchuk S

更新日期：2016-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:There are at least three short-range gap repressors in the precellular Drosophila embryo: Krüppel, Knirps, and Giant. Krüppel and Knirps contain related repression motifs, PxDLSxH and PxDLSxK, respectively, which mediate interactions with the dCtBP corepressor protein. Here, we present evidence that Giant might also i...

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

authors： Nibu Y,Levine MS

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Measured by ultra-slow scanning calorimetry and isothermal circular dichroism, human lung collagen monomers denature at 37 degrees C within a couple of days. Their unfolding rate decreases exponentially at lower temperature, but complete unfolding is observed even below 36 degrees C. Refolding of full-length, native c...

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

authors： Leikina E,Mertts MV,Kuznetsova N,Leikin S

更新日期：2002-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Fertilization and certain later stages in mammalian embryonic development require fusion between membranes of individual cells. The mechanism of eukaryotic cell-cell fusion is unknown, and no surface molecules required for this process have been unequivocally identified. The role of the sperm surface protein fertilin ...

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

authors： Myles DG,Kimmel LH,Blobel CP,White JM,Primakoff P

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Cosuppression results in the degradation of RNA from host genes and homologous transgenes after transcription in the nucleus. By using grafting experiments, we have shown previously that a systemic signal mediates the propagation of cosuppression of Nia host genes and 35S-Nia2 transgenes from silenced 35S-Nia2 transge...

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

authors： Palauqui JC,Vaucheret H

更新日期：1998-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing global temperature and sea-level rise have led to concern about expansions in the distribution and prevalence of complex-lifecycle parasites (CLPs). Indeed, numerous environmental variables can influence the infectivity and reproductive output of many pathogens. Digenean trematodes are CLPs with intermediat...

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

authors： Huntley JW,Fürsich FT,Alberti M,Hethke M,Liu C

更新日期：2014-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Two photochromic activators of the electrogenic membrane of the electroplax of Electrophorus electricus are described. Trans-3,3'-bis[alpha-(trimethylammonium)methyl]azobenzene dibromide (Bis-Q), one of the most potent ever reported, is active at concentrations of less than 10(-7) M. Its cis isomer, which is obtained ...

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

authors： Bartels E,Wassermann NH,Erlanger BF

更新日期：1971-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protective effects of estrogen in the cardiovascular system result from both systemic effects and direct actions of the hormone on the vasculature. Two estrogen receptors have been identified, ERalpha and ERbeta. We demonstrated previously that estrogen inhibits the response to vascular injury in both wild-type an...

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

authors： Karas RH,Hodgin JB,Kwoun M,Krege JH,Aronovitz M,Mackey W,Gustafsson JA,Korach KS,Smithies O,Mendelsohn ME

更新日期：1999-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoactivation of the retinal photoreceptor rhodopsin proceeds through a cascade of intermediates, resulting in protein-protein interactions catalyzing the activation of the G-protein transducin (Gt). Using stabilization and photoregeneration of the receptor's signaling state and Gt activation assays, we provide evid...

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

authors： Kisselev OG,Meyer CK,Heck M,Ernst OP,Hofmann KP

更新日期：1999-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccinia virus encodes a multisubunit DNA-dependent RNA polymerase (EC 2.7.7.6) that is packaged in the infectious virus particle. This polymerase was found to contain a submolar polypeptide of approximately 85 kDa in addition to the core subunits, which consist of two larger and several smaller polypeptides. The poly...

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

authors： Ahn BY,Moss B

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian myelocytomatosis virus (MC29), a defective acute leukemia virus, has a broad oncogenic spectrum in vivo and transforms fibroblasts and hematopoietic target cells in vitro. We have used recombinant DNA technology to isolate and to characterize the sequences that are essential in the transformation process. Integr...

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

authors： Lautenberger JA,Schulz RA,Garon CF,Tsichlis PN,Papas TS

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitylation of histone H2B at lysine 120 (H2B-Ub) plays a critical role in transcriptional elongation, chromatin conformation, as well as the regulation of specific histone H3 methylations. Herein, we report a strategy for the site-specific chemical attachment of ubiquitin to preassembled nucleosomes. This allowed ...

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

authors： Holt MT,David Y,Pollock S,Tang Z,Jeon J,Kim J,Roeder RG,Muir TW

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the crystal structure of the RuvB motor protein from Thermus thermophilus HB8, which drives branch migration of the Holliday junction during homologous recombination. RuvB has a crescent-like architecture consisting of three consecutive domains, the first two of which are involved in ATP binding and hyd...

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

authors： Yamada K,Kunishima N,Mayanagi K,Ohnishi T,Nishino T,Iwasaki H,Shinagawa H,Morikawa K

更新日期：2001-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The five alpha genes of herpes simplex virus 1 are the first set of genes to be expressed after infection. Previous studies have shown that alpha genes resident in eukaryotic cells are induced by infection with herpes simplex virus 1 or 2 but not by other herpesviruses and indicate that the alpha trans-inducing factor...

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

authors： Pellett PE,McKnight JL,Jenkins FJ,Roizman B

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanism of growth hormone release by synthetic somatocrinin was investigated on purified hog anterior pituitary secretory granules; the granules were found to contain a cAMP-dependent protein kinase that catalyzed [gamma-32P]-ATP histone phosphorylation with maximal rates ranging from 1 to 5 nmol of Pi...

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

authors： Lewin MJ,Reyl-Desmars F,Ling N

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After exposure to low density lipoprotein (LDL) that had been minimally modified by oxidation (MM-LDL), human endothelial cells (EC) and smooth muscle cells (SMC) cultured separately or together produced 2- to 3-fold more monocyte chemotactic activity than did control cells or cells exposed to freshly isolated LDL. Th...

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

authors： Cushing SD,Berliner JA,Valente AJ,Territo MC,Navab M,Parhami F,Gerrity R,Schwartz CJ,Fogelman AM

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of the fluorescence polarization of 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene in membranes of normal, transformed, and revertant 3T3 cells allowed estimation of microviscosities (eta) of the lipid bilayers of these cells. Fluorescence polarization values observed with normal cells were significantly lower than those obser...

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

authors： Fuchs P,Parola A,Robbins PW,Blout ER

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dihydropteridine reductase (EC 1.6.99.7) is a member of the recently identified family of proteins known as short-chain dehydrogenases. When the x-ray structure of dihydropteridine reductase is correlated with conserved amino acid sequences characteristic of this enzyme class, two important common structural regions c...

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

authors： Varughese KI,Xuong NH,Kiefer PM,Matthews DA,Whiteley JM

更新日期：1994-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral and neural evidence reveal a prospective goal-directed decision process that relies on mental simulation of the environment, and a retrospective habitual process that caches returns previously garnered from available choices. Artificial systems combine the two by simulating the environment up to some depth ...

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

authors： Keramati M,Smittenaar P,Dolan RJ,Dayan P

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is a major public health problem and is often associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, and metabolic syndrome. Leptin is the crucial adipostatic hormone that controls food intake and body weight through the activation of specific leptin receptors (OB-R) in the hypothalamic arcuate nucl...

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

authors： Couturier C,Sarkis C,Séron K,Belouzard S,Chen P,Lenain A,Corset L,Dam J,Vauthier V,Dubart A,Mallet J,Froguel P,Rouillé Y,Jockers R

更新日期：2007-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmons, the collective oscillations of interacting electrons, possess emergent properties that dramatically alter the optical response of metals. We predict the existence of a new class of plasmons-chiral Berry plasmons (CBPs)-for a wide range of 2D metallic systems including gapped Dirac materials. As we show, in t...

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

authors： Song JC,Rudner MS

更新日期：2016-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrinsic horizontal axon collaterals in the striate cortex of adult cats specifically link columns having the same preferred orientation; consequently, retrograde tracer injections result in intrinsic labeling that is sharply clustered. We have previously shown that the normal development of this circuitry involves t...

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

authors： Callaway EM,Katz LC

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely accepted that modern humans originated in sub-Saharan Africa approximately 150-200 thousand years ago (ka), but their route of dispersal across the currently hyperarid Sahara remains controversial. Given that the first modern humans north of the Sahara are found in the Levant approximately 120-90 ka, nort...

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

authors： Osborne AH,Vance D,Rohling EJ,Barton N,Rogerson M,Fello N

更新日期：2008-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Imaging membranes in live cells with nanometer-scale resolution promises to reveal ultrastructural dynamics of organelles that are essential for cellular functions. In this work, we identified photoswitchable membrane probes and obtained super-resolution fluorescence images of cellular membranes. We demonstrated the p...

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

authors： Shim SH,Xia C,Zhong G,Babcock HP,Vaughan JC,Huang B,Wang X,Xu C,Bi GQ,Zhuang X

更新日期：2012-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Two deletion-substitution mutations of phage lambda, spi-113 and spi-274, are shown to remove about half of the rightward operator OR. Physiological studies show that spi-113 is still repressible. Thus, the 50 or so nucleotides of OR deleted in this mutant are not absolutely essential for repression. prm-116, which in...

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

authors： Smith GR,Eisen H,Reichardt L,Hedgepeth J

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00