Streamlined platform for short hairpin RNA interference and transgenesis in cultured mammalian cells.

abstract：:By using single-molecule multiparameter fluorescence detection, fluorescence resonance energy transfer experiments, and newly developed data analysis methods, this study demonstrates directly the existence of three structurally distinct forms of reverse transcriptase (RT):nucleic acid complexes in solution. Single-mol...

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

authors： Rothwell PJ,Berger S,Kensch O,Felekyan S,Antonik M,Wöhrl BM,Restle T,Goody RS,Seidel CA

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Under conditions (0.2% CO2; 1% O2) that allow high rates of photosynthesis, chlorophyll fluorescence was measured simultaneously with carbon assimilation at various light intensities in spinach (Spinacia oleracea) leaves. Using a stoichiometry of 3 ATP/CO2 and the known relationship between ATP synthesis rate and driv...

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

authors： Schönknecht G,Neimanis S,Katona E,Gerst U,Heber U

更新日期：1995-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Researchers have documented many cases in which individuals rationalize their regrettable actions. Four experiments examine situations in which people go beyond merely explaining away their misconduct to actively deceiving themselves. We find that those who exploit opportunities to cheat on tests are likely to engage ...

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

authors： Chance Z,Norton MI,Gino F,Ariely D

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostaglandin (PG) D2 has been shown to be transformed by human 11-ketoreductase to 9 alpha,11 beta-PGF2, a biologically active metabolite that is produced in vivo. During the course of developing a mass spectrometric assay for 9 alpha,11 beta-PGF2, several compounds with characteristics similar to PGF2 were detected ...

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

authors： Wendelborn DF,Seibert K,Roberts LJ 2nd

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change and resource exploitation have been shown to modify the importance of bottom-up and top-down forces in ecosystems. However, the resulting pattern of trophic control in complex food webs is an emergent property of the system and thus unintuitive. We develop a statistical nondeterministic model, capable o...

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

authors： Lynam CP,Llope M,Möllmann C,Helaouët P,Bayliss-Brown GA,Stenseth NC

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:von Willebrand factor (vWF) is a multimeric glycoprotein that mediates the adhesion of platelets to the subendothelium by binding to platelet glycoprotein Ib. For human vWF, this interaction can be induced in vitro by the antibiotic ristocetin or the snake venom protein botrocetin. A missense mutation, Gly-561-->Ser, ...

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

authors： Rabinowitz I,Tuley EA,Mancuso DJ,Randi AM,Firkin BG,Howard MA,Sadler JE

更新日期：1992-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans routinely formulate plans in domains so complex that even the most powerful computers are taxed. To do so, they seem to avail themselves of many strategies and heuristics that efficiently simplify, approximate, and hierarchically decompose hard tasks into simpler subtasks. Theoretical and cognitive research has...

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

authors： Huys QJ,Lally N,Faulkner P,Eshel N,Seifritz E,Gershman SJ,Dayan P,Roiser JP

更新日期：2015-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene therapy of the brain is hindered by the presence of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), which prevents the brain uptake of bloodborne gene formulations. Exogenous genes have been expressed in the brain after invasive routes of administration, such as craniotomy or intracarotid arterial infusion of noxious agents causi...

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

authors： Shi N,Pardridge WM

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracy of the 3'-end processing by cleavage and polyadenylation is essential for mRNA biogenesis and transcription termination. In yeast, two poorly conserved neighboring elements upstream of cleavage sites are important for accuracy and efficiency of this process. These two RNA sequences are recognized by the R...

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

authors： Barnwal RP,Lee SD,Moore C,Varani G

更新日期：2012-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudohypoaldosteronism type II is a salt-sensitive form of hypertension with hyperkalemia in humans caused by mutations in the with-no-lysine kinase 4 (WNK4). Several studies have shown that WNK4 modulates the activity of the renal Na(+)Cl(-) cotransporter, NCC. Because the renal consequences of WNK4 carrying pseudoa...

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

authors： Castañeda-Bueno M,Cervantes-Pérez LG,Vázquez N,Uribe N,Kantesaria S,Morla L,Bobadilla NA,Doucet A,Alessi DR,Gamba G

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Gating currents of the cloned delayed-rectifier K+ channel DRK1 expressed in Xenopus oocytes were measured with the open-oocyte Vaseline-gap voltage-clamp technique. DRK1 gating charge had the following salient properties: (i) gating-charge amplitude correlated positively with size of the expressed ionic K+ currents; ...

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

authors： Taglialatela M,Stefani E

更新日期：1993-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The his4 region of yeast contains the information necessary for the catalysis of three steps in the histidine biosynthetic pathway. The three activities specified by this region remain physically associated during gel filtration and ultracentrifugation and after extensive purification. Nonsense mutations in the "opera...

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

authors： Shaffer B,Rytka J,Fink GR

更新日期：1969-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How do firing patterns in a cortical circuit change when inhibitory neurons are excited? We virally expressed an excitatory designer receptor exclusively activated by a designer drug (Gq-DREADD) in all inhibitory interneuron types of the CA1 region of the hippocampus in the rat. While clozapine N-oxide (CNO) activatio...

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

authors： Rogers S,Rozman PA,Valero M,Doyle WK,Buzsáki G

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapamycin is an immunosuppressive immunophilin ligand reported as having neurotrophic activity. We show that modification of rapamycin at the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) binding region yields immunophilin ligands, WYE-592 and ILS-920, with potent neurotrophic activities in cortical neuronal cultures, efficacy...

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

authors： Ruan B,Pong K,Jow F,Bowlby M,Crozier RA,Liu D,Liang S,Chen Y,Mercado ML,Feng X,Bennett F,von Schack D,McDonald L,Zaleska MM,Wood A,Reinhart PH,Magolda RL,Skotnicki J,Pangalos MN,Koehn FE,Carter GT,Abou-Gharbia M

更新日期：2008-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:XMAP215/Dis1 family proteins positively regulate microtubule growth. Repeats at their N termini, called TOG domains, are important for this function. While TOG domains directly bind tubulin dimers, it is unclear how this interaction translates to polymerase activity. Understanding the functional roles of TOG domains i...

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

authors： Widlund PO,Stear JH,Pozniakovsky A,Zanic M,Reber S,Brouhard GJ,Hyman AA,Howard J

更新日期：2011-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-Jun NH(2)-terminal kinase (JNK) is activated when cells are exposed to environmental stress, including UV radiation. Gene disruption studies demonstrate that JNK is essential for UV-stimulated apoptosis mediated by the mitochondrial pathway by a Bax/Bak-dependent mechanism. Here, we demonstrate that JNK phosphor...

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

authors： Lei K,Davis RJ

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the molecular basis for the tissue-specific expression of the human CD2 gene, its chromatin configuration was assessed by determining DNase I hypersensitivity and the degree of methylation during T-cell lineage commitment and development. Tissue-specific DNase I-hypersensitive sites were found within th...

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

authors： Wotton D,Flanagan BF,Owen MJ

更新日期：1989-06-01 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：:We have identified an adenovirus type 5(Ad5) early gene function located in early region 1 which is required for the production of early cytoplasmic mRNAs corresponding to early regions 2, 3, and 4. Mutant dl312 (lacks the segment between 1.5 and 4.5 map units) grows as well as wild-type virus in 293 cells (Ad5-trans...

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

authors： Jones N,Shenk T

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription initiation is a dynamic process in which RNA polymerase (RNAP) and promoter DNA act as partners, changing in response to one another, to produce a polymerase/promoter open complex (RPo) competent for transcription. In Escherichia coli RNAP, region 1.1, the N-terminal 100 residues of sigma(70), is thought...

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

authors： Hook-Barnard IG,Hinton DM

更新日期：2009-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Observations from human microbiome studies are often conflicting or inconclusive. Many factors likely contribute to these issues including small cohort sizes, sample collection, and handling and processing differences. The field of microbiome research is moving from 16S rDNA gene sequencing to a more comprehensive gen...

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

authors： Jones MB,Highlander SK,Anderson EL,Li W,Dayrit M,Klitgord N,Fabani MM,Seguritan V,Green J,Pride DT,Yooseph S,Biggs W,Nelson KE,Venter JC

更新日期：2015-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In animals, successful production of the visual chromophore (11-cis-retinal or derivatives thereof such as 11-cis-3-hydroxy-retinal) is essential for photoreceptor cell function and survival. These carotenoid-derived compounds must combine with a protein moiety (the opsin) to establish functional visual pigments. Evid...

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

authors： Oberhauser V,Voolstra O,Bangert A,von Lintig J,Vogt K

更新日期：2008-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a lethal weapon used by many bacteria to kill eukaryotic predators or prokaryotic competitors. Killing by the T6SS results from repetitive delivery of toxic effectors. Despite their importance in dictating bacterial fitness, systematic prediction of T6SS effectors remains challen...

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

authors： Liang X,Moore R,Wilton M,Wong MJ,Lam L,Dong TG

更新日期：2015-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:An expression is produced for the Casimir energy of a dielectric medium with a spherically symmetrical dielectric discontinuity. Tests based on dielectric and geometrical limits are successful. ...

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

authors： Schwinger J

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C1q-like genes (C1ql1-C1ql4) encode small, secreted proteins that are expressed in differential patterns in the brain but whose receptors and functions remain unknown. BAI3 protein, in contrast, is a member of the cell-adhesion class of G protein-coupled receptors that are expressed at high levels in the brain but who...

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

authors： Bolliger MF,Martinelli DC,Südhof TC

更新日期：2011-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:At high altitude (HA), carbohydrate (CHO) is thought to be the preferred fuel because of its higher yield of ATP per mole of O2. We used indirect calorimetry and D-[6-3H]glucose infusions to determine total CHO and circulatory glucose utilization during exercise in HA-acclimated and sea level (SL) rats. We hypothesize...

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

authors： McClelland GB,Hochachka PW,Weber JM

更新日期：1998-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The triphenylmethane derivative aurintricarboxylic acid (ATA), but not aurin, selectively prevented the binding of OKT4A/Leu-3a monoclonal antibody (mAb) and, to a lesser extent, OKT4 mAb to the CD4 cell receptor for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). The effect was seen within 1 min at an ATA concentration ...

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

authors： Schols D,Baba M,Pauwels R,Desmyter J,De Clercq E

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzyme cytochemistry has been used, at the light and electron microscope levels, to "mark" cytoplasmic organelles of mammalian cells. Catalase cytochemistry permitted identification of microperoxisomes, apparently ubiquitous organelles that are attached by numerous slender connections to the endoplasmic reticulum. Thi...

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

authors： Novikoff AB

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motifs of neural circuitry seem surprisingly conserved over different areas of neocortex or of paleocortex, while performing quite different sensory processing tasks. This apparent paradox may be resolved by the fact that seemingly different problems in sensory information processing are related by transformations (ch...

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

authors： Hopfield JJ

更新日期：1996-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Population expansion in space, or range expansion, is widespread in nature and in clinical settings. Space competition among heterogeneous subpopulations during range expansion is essential to population ecology, and it may involve the interplay of multiple factors, primarily growth and motility of individuals. Struct...

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

authors： Zuo W,Wu Y

更新日期：2020-03-03 00:00:00