Pack-Mutator-like transposable elements (Pack-MULEs) induce directional modification of genes through biased insertion and DNA acquisition.

abstract：:To investigate how cell population density influences the intracellular concentration of cyclic AMP we have measured adenylate cyclase and cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase activities and cyclic AMP levels at various stages of cell density in normal rat-kidney (NRK) cells, which exhibit contact-inhibition of growth, and in...

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

authors： Anderson WB,Russell TR,Carchman RA,Pastan I

更新日期：1973-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic differences in acetylcholine receptors from skeletal neuromuscular synapses of various species of snakes and lizards have been investigated, using the snake venom alpha-neurotoxins alpha-atratoxin (cobrotoxin) and alpha-bungarotoxin. The acetylcholine receptors of the phylogenetically primitive lizards, l...

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

authors： Burden SJ,Hartzell HC,Yoshikami D

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study has been to determine which Na,K-ATPase isoforms are expressed in red blood cells and whether kinetic differences in the uncoupled sodium efflux mode between the human red blood cell Na,K-ATPase and other preparations can be explained by differences in the underlying subunit composition. To...

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

authors： Stengelin MK,Hoffman JF

更新日期：1997-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A unique neuronal system was detected in the rat central nervous system by immunohistochemistry and radioimmunoassay with antibodies to salmon melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH). MCH-like immunoreactive (MCH-LI) cell bodies were confined to the hypothalamus. MCH-LI fibers were found throughout the brain but were most...

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

authors： Zamir N,Skofitsch G,Bannon MJ,Jacobowitz DM

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research links diet-induced obesity (DIO) with impaired immunity, although the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We find that the induction of inducible NO synthase (iNOS) and cytokines is suppressed in mice with DIO and in bone marrow macrophages (BMMPhi) from mice with DIO exposed to an oral pathogen, Por...

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

authors： Zhou Q,Leeman SE,Amar S

更新日期：2009-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferroelectricity has long been speculated to have important biological functions, although its very existence in biology has never been firmly established. Here, we present compelling evidence that elastin, the key ECM protein found in connective tissues, is ferroelectric, and we elucidate the molecular mechanism of i...

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

authors： Liu Y,Cai HL,Zelisko M,Wang Y,Sun J,Yan F,Ma F,Wang P,Chen QN,Zheng H,Meng X,Sharma P,Zhang Y,Li J

更新日期：2014-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Parathyroid hormone (PTH), the major calcium-regulating hormone, and norepinephrine (NE), the principal neurotransmitter of sympathetic nerves, regulate bone remodeling by activating distinct cell-surface G protein-coupled receptors in osteoblasts: the parathyroid hormone type 1 receptor (PTHR) and the β(2)-adrenergic...

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

authors： Hanyu R,Wehbi VL,Hayata T,Moriya S,Feinstein TN,Ezura Y,Nagao M,Saita Y,Hemmi H,Notomi T,Nakamoto T,Schipani E,Takeda S,Kaneko K,Kurosawa H,Karsenty G,Kronenberg HM,Vilardaga JP,Noda M

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:There are approximately 350 non-odorant G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) encoded by the human genome, many of which are predicted to be potential therapeutic targets, but there are only two structures available to represent the whole of the family. We hypothesized that improving the detergent stability of these rec...

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

authors： Serrano-Vega MJ,Magnani F,Shibata Y,Tate CG

更新日期：2008-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:When the human cDNA, isolated on the basis of homology to the murine carbonic anhydrase (CA) "Y" was expressed in COS cells, the human CA was targeted to and processed in mitochondria, as expected for CA-V. However, tissue distribution reported for the corresponding mouse CA Y mRNA was much more limited than that repo...

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

authors： Nagao Y,Srinivasan M,Platero JS,Svendrowski M,Waheed A,Sly WS

更新日期：1994-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer immunotherapy has emerged as a promising therapeutic intervention. However, complete and durable responses are only seen in a fraction of patients who have cancer. A key factor that limits therapeutic success is the infiltration of tumors by cells of the myeloid lineage. The inhibitory receptor signal regulator...

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

authors： Ring NG,Herndler-Brandstetter D,Weiskopf K,Shan L,Volkmer JP,George BM,Lietzenmayer M,McKenna KM,Naik TJ,McCarty A,Zheng Y,Ring AM,Flavell RA,Weissman IL

更新日期：2017-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the relationship between genetic variation and phenotypic variation for quantitative traits is necessary for predicting responses to natural and artificial selection and disease risk in human populations, but is challenging because of large sample sizes required to detect and validate loci with small eff...

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

authors： Swarup S,Huang W,Mackay TF,Anholt RR

更新日期：2013-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of high levels of new catalytic activities on natural and artificial protein scaffolds is a major goal of enzyme engineering. Here, we used random mutagenesis and selection in vivo to establish a sugar isomerisation reaction on both a natural (beta alpha)(8)-barrel enzyme and a catalytically inert chime...

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

authors： Claren J,Malisi C,Höcker B,Sterner R

更新日期：2009-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:MAP kinase-interacting kinase 1 and 2 (Mnk1 and Mnk2) are protein-serine/threonine kinases that are activated by ERK or p38 and phosphorylate eIF4E, which is involved in cap-dependent translation initiation. However, Mnk1/2 double knockout (Mnk-DKO) mice show normal cell growth and development despite an absence of eI...

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

authors： Ueda T,Sasaki M,Elia AJ,Chio II,Hamada K,Fukunaga R,Mak TW

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The marine nitrogen fixing microorganisms (diazotrophs) are a major source of nitrogen to open ocean ecosystems and are predicted to be limited by iron in most marine environments. Here we use global and targeted proteomic analyses on a key unicellular marine diazotroph Crocosphaera watsonii to reveal large scale diel...

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

authors： Saito MA,Bertrand EM,Dutkiewicz S,Bulygin VV,Moran DM,Monteiro FM,Follows MJ,Valois FW,Waterbury JB

更新日期：2011-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral shells are self-assembled protein nanocontainers with remarkable material properties. They combine simplicity of construction with toughness and complex functionality. These properties make them interesting for bionanotechnology. To date we know little about how virus structure determines assembly pathways and s...

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

authors： Ivanovska IL,Miranda R,Carrascosa JL,Wuite GJ,Schmidt CF

更新日期：2011-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A promoterless trp-lac fusion fragment was inserted near one end of the bacterial transposon Tn5 in the correct orientation to fuse lacZ gene expression to promoters outside Tn5. The resulting transposon, Tn5 lac, retains the kanamycin-resistance gene of Tn5 and transposes in Escherichia coli at 6% the frequency of Tn...

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

authors： Kroos L,Kaiser D

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism, chromosome 17 type (FTDP-17) is caused by mutations in the tau gene, and the signature lesions of FTDP-17 are filamentous tau inclusions. Tau mutations may be pathogenic either by altering protein function or gene regulation. Here we show that missense, silent, and intronic t...

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

authors： D'Souza I,Poorkaj P,Hong M,Nochlin D,Lee VM,Bird TD,Schellenberg GD

更新日期：1999-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Both polarities of the satellite RNA of tobacco ringspot virus are sources of self-cleaving sequences. RNA of the less abundant, negative polarity, designated sTobRV-(-)RNA, has cleaving activity that was mapped previously to two noncontiguous regions of the polyribonucleotide chain. Endoribonucleolytic oligoribonucle...

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

authors： Feldstein PA,Buzayan JM,van Tol H,deBear J,Gough GR,Gilham PT,Bruening G

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infected-cell protein 4 (ICP4), the major regulatory protein specified by herpes simplex virus 1 in infected cells, binds to homologs of the sequence ATCGTCnnnnYCGRC (A sites, where n is any nucleotide, Y is a pyrimidine, and R is a purine) and to unrelated sequences for which no consensus sequence has been derived (B...

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

authors： Michael N,Roizman B

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated rat brain cDNA clones encoding AE2, a homologue of the erythrocyte anion exchanger, band 3 (AE1). Immunocytochemistry and in situ hybridization reveal that, in brain, AE2 expression is restricted to the basolateral membrane of the choroid plexus epithelium. Expression of a full-length mouse AE2 cDNA i...

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

authors： Lindsey AE,Schneider K,Simmons DM,Baron R,Lee BS,Kopito RR

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The integrity of cell membranes is maintained by a balance between the amount of cholesterol and the amounts of unsaturated and saturated fatty acids in phospholipids. This balance is maintained by membrane-bound transcription factors called sterol regulatory element-binding proteins (SREBPs) that activate genes encod...

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

authors： Brown MS,Goldstein JL

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Reptiles and fish have robust regenerative powers for tooth renewal. However, extant mammals can either renew their teeth one time (diphyodont dentition) or not at all (monophyodont dentition). Humans replace their milk teeth with permanent teeth and then lose their ability for tooth renewal. Here, we study tooth rene...

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

authors： Wu P,Wu X,Jiang TX,Elsey RM,Temple BL,Divers SJ,Glenn TC,Yuan K,Chen MH,Widelitz RB,Chuong CM

更新日期：2013-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Constitutive cyclooxygenase (COX-1; prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthase, EC 1.14.99.1) is present in cells under physiological conditions, whereas COX-2 is induced by some cytokines, mitogens, and endotoxin presumably in pathological conditions, such as inflammation. Therefore, we have assessed the relative inhibitory...

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

authors： Mitchell JA,Akarasereenont P,Thiemermann C,Flower RJ,Vane JR

更新日期：1993-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca(V)1 channels initiate excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal and cardiac muscle. During the fight-or-flight response, epinephrine released by the adrenal medulla and norepinephrine released from sympathetic nerves increase muscle contractility by activation of the β-adrenergic receptor/cAMP-dependent protein k...

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

authors： Emrick MA,Sadilek M,Konoki K,Catterall WA

更新日期：2010-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously observed the spontaneous, pH-dependent insertion of a water-soluble peptide to form a helix across lipid bilayers [Hunt, J. F., Rath, P., Rothschild, K. J. & Engelman, D. M. (1997) Biochemistry 36, 15177-15192]. We now use a related peptide, pH (low) insertion peptide, to translocate cargo molecules...

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

authors： Reshetnyak YK,Andreev OA,Lehnert U,Engelman DM

更新日期：2006-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We document male-biased sex ratios among U.S.-born children of Chinese, Korean, and Asian Indian parents in the 2000 U.S. Census. This male bias is particularly evident for third children: If there was no previous son, sons outnumbered daughters by 50%. By contrast, the sex ratios of eldest and younger children with a...

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

authors： Almond D,Edlund L

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of miR-15/16 is the most common genetic lesion in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), promoting overexpression of BCL2, which factors in leukemia pathogenesis. Indeed, an inhibitor of Bcl2, venetoclcax, is highly active in the treatment of patients with CLL. However, single-agent venetoclcax fails to eradicate mi...

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

authors： Rassenti LZ,Balatti V,Ghia EM,Palamarchuk A,Tomasello L,Fadda P,Pekarsky Y,Widhopf GF 2nd,Kipps TJ,Croce CM

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutation that confers resistance to the drug paromomycin is shown to be in the structural gene that codes for the ribosomal RNA in Tetrahymena. This observation was made by exploiting a variant of the ribosomal DNA that distorts amplification of this locus when a new somatic nucleus develops during conjugation. Beca...

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

authors： Bruns PJ,Katzen AL,Martin L,Blackburn EH

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyze the effects of an externally applied electric field on thermal fluctuations for a binary electrolyte fluid. We show that the fluctuating Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations for charged multispecies diffusion coupled with the fluctuating fluid momentum equation result in enhanced charge transport via a mec...

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

authors： Péraud JP,Nonaka AJ,Bell JB,Donev A,Garcia AL

更新日期：2017-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment with neuraminidase (NA) plus galactose oxidase (GalOxase) does not cause stimulation of human thymocytes. However, stimulation can be achieved by addition of exogenous interleukin 2 (IL-2). The IL-2-induced stimulation was inhibited with anti-Tac antibody, indicating that NA/GalOxase-oxidized cells can serve...

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

authors： Roffman E,Sredni B,Smolinsky A,Wilchek M

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00