Histone deacetylase inhibitor treatment dramatically reduces cholesterol accumulation in Niemann-Pick type C1 mutant human fibroblasts.

abstract：:We address the stability of multicharged finite systems driven by Coulomb forces beyond the Rayleigh instability limit. Our exploration of the nuclear dynamics of heavily charged Morse clusters enabled us to vary the range of the pair potential and of the fissibility parameter, which results in distinct fragmentation ...

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

authors： Last I,Levy Y,Jortner J

更新日期：2002-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Hox genes encode transcription factors that control spatial patterning during embryogenesis. To date, downstream targets of Hox genes have proven difficult to identify. Here, we describe studies designed to identify target genes under the control of the murine transcription factor Hoxc8. We used a mouse 16,463 gene ol...

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

authors： Lei H,Wang H,Juan AH,Ruddle FH

更新日期：2005-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:For many agronomically important plant genes, only their position on a genetic map is known. In the absence of an efficient transposon tagging system, such genes have to be isolated by map-based cloning. In bread wheat Triticum aestivum, the genome is hexaploid, has a size of 1.6 x 10(10) bp, and contains more than 80...

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

authors： Stein N,Feuillet C,Wicker T,Schlagenhauf E,Keller B

更新日期：2000-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Container-shaped molecules provide structured environments that impart geometric bounds on the motions and conformations of smaller molecular occupants. Moreover, they provide "solvation" that is constrained in time and space. When inwardly directed functional groups are present, they can interact chemically with the ...

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

authors： Purse BW,Rebek J Jr

更新日期：2005-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In layered materials, a common mode of deformation involves buckling of the layers under tensile deformation in the direction perpendicular to the layers. The instability mechanism, which operates in elastic materials from geological to nanometer scales, involves the elastic contrast between different layers. In a reg...

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

authors： Makke A,Perez M,Lame O,Barrat JL

更新日期：2012-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the enormous theoretical attention given to the evolutionary consequences of sexual reproduction, the validity of the key assumptions on which the theory depends rarely has been evaluated. It is often argued that a reduced ability to purge deleterious mutations condemns asexual lineages to an early extinction....

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

authors： Omilian AR,Cristescu ME,Dudycha JL,Lynch M

更新日期：2006-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive myoclonus epilepsy of Univerricht-Lundborg type is a clinically defined entity among the progressive myoclonus epilepsies. It is an autosomal recessive disorder. The underlying biochemical defect is unknown. We used linkage analysis to localize the gene in 12 families with the aid of polymorphic DNA marker...

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

authors： Lehesjoki AE,Koskiniemi M,Sistonen P,Miao J,Hästbacka J,Norio R,de la Chapelle A

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-33, a cytokine of the IL-1 family, is closely associated with type II T cell responses. Here, we report an unexpected proinflammatory role of IL-33 in inflammatory arthritis. IL-33 was expressed in synovial fibroblasts from patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Expression was markedly elevated in vitro by inflam...

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

authors： Xu D,Jiang HR,Kewin P,Li Y,Mu R,Fraser AR,Pitman N,Kurowska-Stolarska M,McKenzie AN,McInnes IB,Liew FY

更新日期：2008-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of the single-stranded DNA genome of geminiviruses occurs via a double-stranded intermediate that is subsequently used as a template for rolling-circle replication of the viral strand. Only one of the proteins encoded by the virus, here referred to as replication initiator protein (Rep protein), is indispe...

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

authors： Laufs J,Traut W,Heyraud F,Matzeit V,Rogers SG,Schell J,Gronenborn B

更新日期：1995-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary innovations often arise from complex genetic and ecological interactions, which can make it challenging to understand retrospectively how a novel trait arose. In a long-term experiment, Escherichia coli gained the ability to use abundant citrate (Cit(+)) in the growth medium after ∼31,500 generations of e...

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

authors： Quandt EM,Deatherage DE,Ellington AD,Georgiou G,Barrick JE

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The balance between cell survival and cell death is critical for normal lymphoid development. This balance is maintained by signals through lymphocyte antigen receptors and death receptors such as CD95/Fas. In some cells, ligating the B cell antigen receptor can protect the cell from apoptosis induced by CD95. Here we...

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

authors： Yankee TM,Draves KE,Ewings MK,Clark EA,Graves JD

更新日期：2001-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The present studies were conducted to determine whether prostaglandin F2 alpha (PGF2 alpha) stimulates the production of "second messengers" derived from inositol phospholipid hydrolysis and increases intracellular free Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i) in isolated bovine luteal cells. PGF2 alpha provoked rapid (10 sec) and sustained (u...

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

authors： Davis JS,Weakland LL,Weiland DA,Farese RV,West LA

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The female germ cell stage of primary importance in radiation genetic hazards is the immature, arrested oocyte. In the mouse, this stage has a near zero or zero sensitivity to mutation induction by radiation. However, the application of these mouse results to women has been questioned on the ground that the mouse arre...

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

authors： Russell WL

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is a retrovirus that causes malignant and inflammatory diseases in ∼10% of infected people. A typical host has between 10(4) and 10(5) clones of HTLV-1-infected T lymphocytes, each clone distinguished by the genomic integration site of the single-copy HTLV-1 provirus. The HTL...

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

authors： Satou Y,Miyazato P,Ishihara K,Yaguchi H,Melamed A,Miura M,Fukuda A,Nosaka K,Watanabe T,Rowan AG,Nakao M,Bangham CR

更新日期：2016-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Many first-line cancer drugs are natural products or are derived from them by chemical modification. The trioxacarcins are an emerging class of molecules of microbial origin with potent antiproliferative effects, which may derive from their ability to covalently modify duplex DNA. All trioxacarcins appear to be deriva...

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

authors： Švenda J,Hill N,Myers AG

更新日期：2011-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:An isoform of the mammalian renal type II Na/Pi-cotransporter is described. Homology of this isoform to described mammalian and nonmammalian type II cotransporters is between 57 and 75%. Based on major diversities at the C terminus, the new isoform is designed as type IIb Na/Pi-cotransporter. Na/Pi-cotransport mediate...

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

authors： Hilfiker H,Hattenhauer O,Traebert M,Forster I,Murer H,Biber J

更新日期：1998-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of basic/leucine zipper transcription factors to form homo- and heterodimers potentially increases the diversity of signaling pathways that can impinge upon a single genetic element. The capacity of these proteins to dimerize in various combinations complicates the analysis of their functional properties, ...

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

authors： Loriaux MM,Rehfuss RP,Brennan RG,Goodman RH

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration of urea in renal medullary cells is high enough to affect enzymes seriously by reducing Vmax or raising Km, yet the cells survive and function. The usual explanation is that the methylamines found in the renal medulla, namely glycerophosphocholine and betaine, have actions opposite to those of urea a...

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

authors： Burg MB,Peters EM,Bohren KM,Gabbay KH

更新日期：1999-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Life history events, such as traumatic stress, illness, or starvation, can influence us through molecular changes that are recorded in a pattern of characteristic chromatin modifications. These modifications are often associated with adaptive adjustments in gene expression that can persist throughout the lifetime of t...

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

authors： Demoinet E,Li S,Roy R

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A major function of innate immune receptors is to recognize pathogen-associated molecular patterns and then evoke immune responses appropriate to the nature of the invading pathogen(s). Because innate immune cells express various types of these receptors, distinct combinations of signaling pathways are activated in re...

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

authors： Negishi H,Matsuki K,Endo N,Sarashina H,Miki S,Matsuda A,Fukazawa K,Taguchi-Atarashi N,Ikushima H,Yanai H,Nishio J,Honda K,Fujioka Y,Ohba Y,Noda T,Taniguchi S,Nishida E,Zhang Y,Chi H,Flavell RA,Taniguchi T

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluoride activation of adenylate cyclase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1] is significantly enhanced (2 to 5 times) by a protein factor isolated from rat brain. The fluoride-dependent adenylate cyclase stimulator (FCS) is nondialyzable, trypsin-labile, and stable at 90 degrees C for 10 min. FCS stimula...

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

authors： Rasenick MM,Bitensky MW

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A likely mechanism of chromosomal rearrangement formation involves joining the ends from two different chromosomal double-strand breaks (DSBs). These events could potentially be mediated by either of two end-joining (EJ) repair pathways [canonical nonhomologous end joining (C-NHEJ) or alternative end joining (ALT-EJ)]...

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

authors： Bhargava R,Carson CR,Lee G,Stark JM

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The six individual catalytic polypeptide chains within the two catalytic trimers of Escherichia coli aspartate transcarbamoylase (ATCase; EC 2.1.3.2) are folded into two discrete structural domains interconnected in part by helix 12, which comprises residues 285-305 and is located near the carboxyl terminus of the cha...

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

authors： Peterson CB,Schachman HK

更新日期：1991-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanylate cyclase [GTP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.2] activity of human platelet homogenates was stimulated by the addition of phospholipase A2 or unsaturated fatty acids such as oleic, vaccenic, linoleic, linolenic, eicosenoic, eicosadienoic, and arachidonic acids. The addition of lipoxidase potentiated...

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

authors： Hidaka H,Asano T

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Larval fishes suffer prodigious mortality rates, eliminating 99% of the brood within a few days after first feeding. Hjort (1914) famously attributed this "critical period" of low survival to the larvae's inability to obtain sufficient food [Hjort (1914) Rapp P-v Réun Cons Int Explor Mer 20:1-228]. However, the cause ...

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

authors： China V,Holzman R

更新日期：2014-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a simple molecular indexing method for quantitative targeted RNA sequencing, in which mRNAs of interest are selectively captured from complex cDNA libraries and sequenced to determine their absolute concentrations. cDNA fragments are individually labeled so that each molecule can be tracked from the origina...

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

authors： Fu GK,Xu W,Wilhelmy J,Mindrinos MN,Davis RW,Xiao W,Fodor SP

更新日期：2014-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A hallmark of rheumatoid arthritis is the formation of an aggressive, tumor-like structure called pannus that erodes the joint. A major cellular component of the pannus is the fibroblast-like synoviocyte (FLS), whose morphology strikingly resembles that of a transformed cell, but underlying mechanisms of this "transfo...

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

authors： Li X,Makarov SS

更新日期：2006-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to control the placement of individual protein molecules on surfaces could enable advances in a wide range of areas, from the development of nanoscale biomolecular devices to fundamental studies in cell biology. Such control, however, remains a challenge in nanobiotechnology due to the limitations of curre...

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

authors： Chai J,Wong LS,Giam L,Mirkin CA

更新日期：2011-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that the receptor binding moiety of Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin (EtxB) can completely prevent autoimmune disease in a murine model of arthritis. Injection of male DBA/1 mice at the base of the tail with type II collagen in the presence of complete Freund's adjuvant normally leads to arthrit...

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

authors： Williams NA,Stasiuk LM,Nashar TO,Richards CM,Lang AK,Day MJ,Hirst TR

更新日期：1997-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The adenovirus (Ad) early region 3 (E3) genes code for at least four proteins that inhibit the host immune responses mediated by cytotoxic T lymphocytes and tumor necrosis factor alpha. To evaluate the potential use of these immunoregulatory viral functions in facilitating allogeneic cell transplantation, the Ad E3 ge...

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

authors： Efrat S,Fejer G,Brownlee M,Horwitz MS

更新日期：1995-07-18 00:00:00