Characterization of the steroid-metabolizing capacity of the hepatic cytochrome P450IIC5 expressed in COS-1 cells: 3 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase/delta 5----4 isomerase type activity.

abstract：:Let X = Omega/Gamma be a compact quotient of an irreducible bounded symmetric domain Omega of rank >/=2 by a discrete group omega of automorphisms without fixed points. It is well known that the Kähler-Einstein metric g on X carries seminegative curvature (in the sense of Griffiths). I show that any Hermitian metric h...

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

authors： Mok N

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 16S rRNA genes of Pyrobaculum aerophilum and Pyrobaculum islandicum were amplified by the polymerase chain reaction, and the resulting products were sequenced directly. The two organisms are closely related by this measure (over 98% similar). However, they differ in that the (lone) 16S rRNA gene of Pyrobaculum aer...

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

authors： Burggraf S,Larsen N,Woese CR,Stetter KO

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial adaptive immune system CRISPR-Cas9 has been appropriated as a versatile tool for editing genomes, controlling gene expression, and visualizing genetic loci. To analyze Cas9's ability to bind DNA rapidly and specifically, we generated multiple libraries of potential binding partners for measuring the kine...

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

authors： Boyle EA,Andreasson JOL,Chircus LM,Sternberg SH,Wu MJ,Guegler CK,Doudna JA,Greenleaf WJ

更新日期：2017-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing loss is the main limitation of radiation therapy for vestibular schwannoma (VS), and identifying treatment options that minimize hearing loss are urgently needed. Treatment with bevacizumab is associated with tumor control and hearing improvement in neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) patients; however, its effect ...

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

authors： Gao X,Zhao Y,Stemmer-Rachamimov AO,Liu H,Huang P,Chin S,Selig MK,Plotkin SR,Jain RK,Xu L

更新日期：2015-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a computational model for color coding that provides a functional explanation of how humans perceive colors in a homogeneous color space. Beginning with known properties of human cone photoreceptors, the model estimates the locations of the reflectance spectra of Munsell color chips in perceptual c...

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

authors： Romney AK,Chiao CC

更新日期：2009-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the complete sequence of an extreme halophile, Halobacterium sp. NRC-1, harboring a dynamic 2,571,010-bp genome containing 91 insertion sequences representing 12 families and organized into a large chromosome and 2 related minichromosomes. The Halobacterium NRC-1 genome codes for 2,630 predicted proteins, 36...

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

authors： Ng WV,Kennedy SP,Mahairas GG,Berquist B,Pan M,Shukla HD,Lasky SR,Baliga NS,Thorsson V,Sbrogna J,Swartzell S,Weir D,Hall J,Dahl TA,Welti R,Goo YA,Leithauser B,Keller K,Cruz R,Danson MJ,Hough DW,Maddocks DG,Jabl

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Turkey erythrocyte membranes showed specific binding of [(3)H]epinephrine. The concentration of hormone required for half-maximal binding (30 muM) was the same as that required for half-maximal activation of the adenylate cyclase located in the same membrane preparation. The binding reaction at 37 degrees C reached co...

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

authors： Schramm M,Feinstein H,Naim E,Lang E,Lasser M

更新日期：1972-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major cell surface glycoconjugate of Leishmania major, a putative parasite receptor for macrophages, is a lipophosphoglycan containing 81.6% (wt/wt) carbohydrate, 17.0% (wt/wt) phosphate, and 1.4% (wt/wt) lipid. It has been purified to homogeneity by hydrophobic chromatography and consists of a polydisperse family...

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

authors： McConville MJ,Bacic A,Mitchell GF,Handman E

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila is the cause of Legionnaires' disease, which is a form of potentially fatal pneumonia. To identify genes required for virulence of the bacterium, a library of 1,386 L. pneumophila signature tagged transposon mutants was studied for guinea pig virulence. The mutants were screened in pools of 96 e...

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

authors： Edelstein PH,Edelstein MA,Higa F,Falkow S

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional reconstitution of membrane proteins within lipid bilayers is crucial for understanding their biological function in living cells. While this strategy has been extensively used with liposomes, reconstitution of membrane proteins in lipidic cubic mesophases presents significant challenges related to the struc...

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

authors： Speziale C,Salvati Manni L,Manatschal C,Landau EM,Mezzenga R

更新日期：2016-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannan-binding protein (MBP), a Ca2+-dependent mammalian lectin specific for mannose and N-acetylglucosamine, is an important serum component associated with innate immunity. MBP activates complement and functions as a direct opsonin on binding to mannooligosaccharide-bearing pathogens. We have found that MBP recogniz...

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

authors： Ma Y,Uemura K,Oka S,Kozutsumi Y,Kawasaki N,Kawasaki T

更新日期：1999-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Mobilization of the T-cell response against cancer has the potential to achieve long-lasting cures. However, it is not known how to harness antigen-presenting cells optimally to achieve an effective antitumor T-cell response. In this study, we show that anti-CD47 antibody-mediated phagocytosis of cancer by macrophages...

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

authors： Tseng D,Volkmer JP,Willingham SB,Contreras-Trujillo H,Fathman JW,Fernhoff NB,Seita J,Inlay MA,Weiskopf K,Miyanishi M,Weissman IL

更新日期：2013-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The uni1 mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii lacks one of the paired flagella seen in wild-type cells. The missing flagellum is cis to the eye spot and at this site the basal body is incomplete, lacking a transition zone. Together with nine other loci affecting flagellar assembly and two loci affecting flagellar funct...

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

authors： Ramanis Z,Luck DJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Closed and pH-tight membrane vesicles prepared from hypocotyls of 5-day-old dark-grown seedlings of Cucurbita pepo accumulate the plant growth hormone indole-3-acetic acid along an imposed proton gradient (pH low outside, high inside). The use of electron paramagnetic spin probes permitted quantitation both of apparen...

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

authors： Lomax TL,Mehlhorn RJ,Briggs WR

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular imbalance in the levels of antioxidants and reactive oxygen species resulting in apoptosis is directly associated with a number of parasitic infections, aging, and several genetic and multifactorial diseases. The baculovirus AcNPV-encoded antiapoptotic p35 gene prevents apoptosis induced by a variety of apopt...

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

authors： Sah NK,Taneja TK,Pathak N,Begum R,Athar M,Hasnain SE

更新日期：1999-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolution of new enzymatic activities is believed to require a period of gene sharing in which a single enzyme must serve both its original function and a new function that has become advantageous to the organism. Subsequent gene duplication allows one copy to maintain the original function, while the other diverges t...

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

authors： McLoughlin SY,Copley SD

更新日期：2008-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:To prevent the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), some types of public spaces have been shut down while others remain open. These decisions constitute a judgment about the relative danger and benefits of those locations. Using mobility data from a large sample of smartphones, nationally representative cons...

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

authors： Benzell SG,Collis A,Nicolaides C

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on label-free imaging, detection, and mass/size measurement of single viral particles in solution by high-resolution surface plasmon resonance microscopy. Diffraction of propagating plasmon waves along a metal surface by the viral particles creates images of the individual particles, which allow us to detect...

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

authors： Wang S,Shan X,Patel U,Huang X,Lu J,Li J,Tao N

更新日期：2010-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Are animals conscious? If so, when did consciousness evolve? We address these long-standing and essential questions using a modern neuroscientific approach that draws on diverse fields such as consciousness studies, evolutionary neurobiology, animal psychology, and anesthesiology. We propose that the stepwise emergenc...

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

authors： Mashour GA,Alkire MT

更新日期：2013-06-18 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：:Sleep is recognized as a physiological state associated with learning, with studies showing that knowledge acquisition improves with naps. Little work has examined sleep-dependent learning in people with developmental disorders, for whom sleep quality is often impaired. We examined the effect of natural, in-home naps ...

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

authors： Spanò G,Gómez RL,Demara BI,Alt M,Cowen SL,Edgin JO

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Although sunlight provides the energy necessary for plants to survive and grow, light can also damage reaction centers of photosystem II (PSII) and reduce photochemical efficiency. To prevent damage, plants possess photoprotective mechanisms that dissipate excess excitation. A subset of these mechanisms is collectivel...

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

authors： Leonelli L,Brooks MD,Niyogi KK

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we reported that proteasome inhibitors were able to overcome Bcl-2-mediated protection from apoptosis. Here we show that inhibition of the proteasome activity in Bcl-2-overexpressing cells accumulates the proapoptotic Bax protein to mitochondria/cytoplasm, where it interacts to Bcl-2 protein. This event was...

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

authors： Li B,Dou QP

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 3 (IL-3) is a hematopoietic growth factor that supports the proliferation and differentiation of early hematopoietic-lineage progenitors. By using growth factor-dependent cell lines, IL-3 has been shown to induce the appearance of several phosphotyrosine-containing proteins, including a 140-kDa cell surfac...

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

authors： Isfort RJ,Stevens D,May WS,Ihle JN

更新日期：1988-11-01 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：:Questions that still surround the origin and early dispersals of maize (Zea mays L.) result in large part from the absence of information on its early history from the Balsas River Valley of tropical southwestern Mexico, where its wild ancestor is native. We report starch grain and phytolith data from the Xihuatoxtla ...

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

authors： Piperno DR,Ranere AJ,Holst I,Iriarte J,Dickau R

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The matrix-2 (M2) protein from influenza A virus is a tetrameric, integral transmembrane (TM) protein that plays a vital role in viral replication by proton flux into the virus. The His37 tetrad is a pH sensor in the center of the M2 TM helix that activates the channel in response to the low endosomal pH. M2 consists ...

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

authors： Torabifard H,Panahi A,Brooks CL 3rd

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The functions of individual basal transcription factors during the formation of an initiation complex by RNA polymerase II remain largely unknown. Transcription factor IIE (TFIIE) has recently been shown to bind to multiple targets in the initiation complex. To assess the role of zinc binding in basal transcription, w...

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

authors： Maxon ME,Tjian R

更新日期：1994-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Absorbance changes of C-550 and cytochrome b(559), and fluorescence-yield changes were measured during irradiation of chloroplasts at -196 degrees . The photo-reduction of C-550 proceeded more rapidly than the photo-oxidation of cytochrome b(559), and the fluorescence-yield change had similar kinetics to the cytochrom...

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

authors： Butler WL

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A key feature of immune evasion for African trypanosomes is the functional specialization of their surface membrane in an invagination known as the flagellar pocket (FP), the cell's sole site of endocytosis and exocytosis. The FP membrane is biochemically distinct yet continuous with those of the cell body and the fla...

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

authors： Gadelha C,Rothery S,Morphew M,McIntosh JR,Severs NJ,Gull K

更新日期：2009-10-13 00:00:00