Widespread establishment and regulatory impact of Alu exons in human genes.

abstract：:Porcine aortic endothelial cells were isolated and maintained in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DME medium)/10% citrate-treated human plasma. They were stimulated by DME medium/10% human serum to grow from a density of 10,100 +/- 500 per well to a final density of 83,000 +/- 1,800 per well over a 9-day period. On...

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

authors： Clemmons DR,Isley WL,Brown MT

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EWS (Ewing sarcoma) encodes an RNA/ssDNA binding protein that is frequently rearranged in a number of different cancers by chromosomal translocations. Physiologically, EWS has diverse and essential roles in various organ development and cellular processes. In this study, we uncovered a new role of EWS in mitochondrial...

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

authors： Park JH,Kang HJ,Lee YK,Kang H,Kim J,Chung JH,Chang JS,McPherron AC,Lee SB

更新日期：2015-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We explore the interactions of CYT-19, a DExD/H-box protein that functions in folding of group I RNAs, with a well characterized misfolded species of the Tetrahymena ribozyme. Consistent with its function, CYT-19 accelerates refolding of the misfolded RNA to its native state. Unexpectedly, CYT-19 performs another reac...

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

authors： Tijerina P,Bhaskaran H,Russell R

更新日期：2006-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of G-quadruplex (G4) DNA structures in key regulatory regions in the genome has emerged as a secondary structure-based epigenetic mechanism for regulating multiple biological processes including transcription, replication, and telomere maintenance. G4 formation (folding), stabilization, and unfolding must be...

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

authors： Roychoudhury S,Pramanik S,Harris HL,Tarpley M,Sarkar A,Spagnol G,Sorgen PL,Chowdhury D,Band V,Klinkebiel D,Bhakat KK

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Painful peripheral neuropathies are precipitated by nerve injury from disease or trauma. All such injuries will be accompanied by an inflammatory reaction, a neuritis, that will mobilize the immune system. The role of the inflammation itself is difficult to determine in the presence of structural damage to the nerve. ...

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

authors： Bennett GJ

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiotic recombination in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is initiated by programmed double-strand breaks at selected sites throughout the genome (hotspots). alpha-Hotspots are binding sites for transcription factors. Double-strand breaks at alpha-hotspots require binding of transcription factor but not high levels ...

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

authors： Abdullah MF,Borts RH

更新日期：2001-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Lentiviruses, including HIV-1, have transmembrane envelope (Env) glycoproteins with cytoplasmic tails that are quite long compared with those of other retroviruses. However, mainly because of the lack of biochemical studies performed in cell types that are targets for HIV-1 infection, no clear consensus exists regardi...

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

authors： Murakami T,Freed EO

更新日期：2000-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change is increasing fire activity in the western United States, which has the potential to accelerate climate-induced shifts in vegetation communities. Wildfire can catalyze vegetation change by killing adult trees that could otherwise persist in climate conditions no longer suitable for seedling establishmen...

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

authors： Davis KT,Dobrowski SZ,Higuera PE,Holden ZA,Veblen TT,Rother MT,Parks SA,Sala A,Maneta MP

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Arrestins are regulatory molecules for G-protein coupled receptor function. In visual rhodopsin, selective binding of arrestin to the cytoplasmic side of light-activated, phosphorylated rhodopsin (P-Rh*) terminates signaling via the G-protein transducin. While the "phosphate-sensor" of arrestin for the recognition of ...

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

authors： Kirchberg K,Kim TY,Möller M,Skegro D,Dasara Raju G,Granzin J,Büldt G,Schlesinger R,Alexiev U

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant Mentzelia pumila (family Loasaceae) has leaves and stems densely covered with tiny hooked trichomes. The structures entrap and kill insects and therefore are most probably protective. But they are also maladaptive in that they incapacitate a coccinellid beetle (Hippodamia convergens) that preys upon an aphid...

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

authors： Eisner T,Eisner M,Hoebeke ER

更新日期：1998-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The vacuolated lens (vl) mouse mutant causes congenital cataracts and neural tube defects (NTDs), with the NTDs being caused by abnormal neural fold apposition and fusion. Our positional cloning of vl indicates these phenotypes result from a deletion mutation in an uncharacterized orphan G protein-coupled receptor (GP...

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

authors： Matteson PG,Desai J,Korstanje R,Lazar G,Borsuk TE,Rollins J,Kadambi S,Joseph J,Rahman T,Wink J,Benayed R,Paigen B,Millonig JH

更新日期：2008-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Arc repressor forms a homodimer in which the subunits intertwine to create a single globular domain. To obtain Arc sequences that fold preferentially as heterodimers, variants with surface patches of excess positive or negative charge were designed. Several but not all oppositely charged sequence pairs showed preferen...

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

authors： Nohaile MJ,Hendsch ZS,Tidor B,Sauer RT

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA in chromatin of isolated thymus nuclei, and in two different preparations of deoxyribonucleoprotein extracted from chromatin, has been digested with DNase. By variation of the time of reaction and the concentration of enzyme, and by comparison of the action of the enzyme on (protein-free) DNA with its action o...

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

authors： Mirsky AE

更新日期：1971-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of DNA molecules tethered to the surface of a microarray may significantly affect the efficiency of hybridization. Although a number of methods have been applied to determine the structure of the DNA layer, they are not very sensitive to variations in the shape of DNA molecules. Here we describe the a...

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

authors： Moiseev L,Unlü MS,Swan AK,Goldberg BB,Cantor CR

更新日期：2006-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Midbrain dopamine neurons play central roles in reward processing. It is widely assumed that all dopamine neurons encode the same information. Some evidence, however, suggests functional differences between subgroups of dopamine neurons, particularly with respect to processing nonrewarding, aversive stimuli. To direct...

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

authors： Brischoux F,Chakraborty S,Brierley DI,Ungless MA

更新日期：2009-03-24 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：:Intermolecular electronic coupling dictates the optical properties of molecular aggregate systems. Of particular interest are photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes that absorb sunlight then efficiently direct energy toward the photosynthetic reaction center. Two-dimensional (2D) ultrafast spectroscopy has been used...

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

authors： Read EL,Engel GS,Calhoun TR,Mancal T,Ahn TK,Blankenship RE,Fleming GR

更新日期：2007-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:During oxygenic photosynthesis in cyanobacteria and chloroplasts of plants and eukaryotic algae, conversion of light energy to biologically useful chemical energy occurs in the specialized thylakoid membranes. Light-induced charge separation at the reaction centers of photosystems I and II, two multisubunit pigment-pr...

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

authors： Zak E,Norling B,Maitra R,Huang F,Andersson B,Pakrasi HB

更新日期：2001-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:An extracellular patch electrode was used to record ionic currents from individual complement-induced channels in the membranes of antibody-coated skeletal muscle. The amplitude of the single-channel currents leads to an estimate of 90 pS for the unit conductance. The kinetics of channel opening and closing show marke...

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

authors： Jackson MB,Stephens CL,Lecar H

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zeolite and zeolite-like molecular sieves are being used in a large number of applications such as adsorption and catalysis. Achievement of the long-standing goal of creating a chiral, polycrystalline molecular sieve with bulk enantioenrichment would enable these materials to perform enantioselective functions. Here, ...

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

authors： Brand SK,Schmidt JE,Deem MW,Daeyaert F,Ma Y,Terasaki O,Orazov M,Davis ME

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodicities in the polar/apolar character of the amino acid sequence of a protein can be examined by assigning to each residue a numerical hydrophobicity and searching for periodicity in the resulting one-dimensional function. The strength of each periodic component is the quantity that has been termed the hydrophob...

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

authors： Eisenberg D,Weiss RM,Terwilliger TC

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmunity often involves the abnormal targeting of self-antigens by antibodies, leading to tissue destruction and other pathologies. This process could potentially be disrupted by small ligands that bind specifically to autoantibodies and inhibit their interaction with the target antigen. Here we report the identif...

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

authors： Doudna JA,Cech TR,Sullenger BA

更新日期：1995-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Given a collection L of n points on a sphere [Formula: see text] of surface area n, a fair allocation is a partition of the sphere into n parts each of area 1, and each is associated with a distinct point of L. We show that, if the n points are chosen uniformly at random and if the partition is defined by a certain "g...

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

authors： Holden N,Peres Y,Zhai A

更新日期：2018-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated whether glycosylation of membrane glycoproteins is a determinant of the site of maturation of enveloped viruses in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells. In MDCK cell monolayers, vesicular stomatitis virus buds exclusively from the basal or lateral plasma membranes and contains a sialylated glyco...

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

authors： Roth MG,Fitzpatrick JP,Compans RW

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the effect of the cholinergic agonist carbachol on the spontaneous release of glutamate in cultured rat hippocampal cells. Spontaneous excitatory postsynaptic currents (sEPSCs) through glutamatergic alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA)-type channels were recorded by means of ...

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

authors： Bouron A,Reuter H

更新日期：1997-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultraviolet (UV)-stimulated nonconservative DNA synthesis has been observed in E. coli rendered permeable to nucleoside triphosphates by exposure to toluene. This synthesis is detected in toluenized cells in which the background of UV-independent DNA synthesis is reduced by use of dnaB mutants temperature-sensitive fo...

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

authors： Masker WE,Hanawalt PC

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used a microfluidic mass sensor to measure the density of single living cells. By weighing each cell in two fluids of different densities, our technique measures the single-cell mass, volume, and density of approximately 500 cells per hour with a density precision of 0.001 g mL(-1). We observe that the intrins...

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

authors： Grover WH,Bryan AK,Diez-Silva M,Suresh S,Higgins JM,Manalis SR

更新日期：2011-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:During the development of a macronucleus from a micronucleus after cell mating in hypotrichs all the genes (approximately 20,000) are excised from micronuclear chromosomes as individual small DNA molecules. Telomeres are added to the ends of each gene-sized molecule and each is amplified, mostly by approximately 1000-...

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

authors： Greslin AF,Prescott DM,Oka Y,Loukin SH,Chappell JC

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The total sequence of 365 amino acid residues in bovine prochymosin is presented. Alignment with the amino acid sequence of porcine pepsinogen shows that 204 amino acid residues are common to the two zymogens. Further comparison and alignment with the amino acid sequence of penicillopepsin shows that 66 residues are l...

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

authors： Foltmann B,Pedersen VB,Jacobsen H,Kauffman D,Wybrandt G

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reexamined the balance between cell birth, cell maturation, and cell death in the thymus by labeling dividing thymocytes and their progeny in vivo with [3H]-thymidine, isolating clearly defined subpopulations by fluorescence-activated cell sorting, and determining the distribution of label by autoradiography. ...

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

authors： Egerton M,Scollay R,Shortman K

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00