Arabidopsis cryptochrome 2 (CRY2) functions by the photoactivation mechanism distinct from the tryptophan (trp) triad-dependent photoreduction.

abstract：:We identified cell surface markers associated with repression of p16(INK4a)/cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2A(CDKN2A), a critical determinant in the acquisition of a plastic state. These cell surface markers allowed direct isolation of rare cells from healthy human breast tissue that exhibit extensive lineage plast...

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

authors： Roy S,Gascard P,Dumont N,Zhao J,Pan D,Petrie S,Margeta M,Tlsty TD

更新日期：2013-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescent vital dye rhodamine 123 (Rh-123), which preferentially accumulates in mitochondrial membranes, can be used as a probe to indicate mitochondrial and hence cellular activity. In this study, mouse bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells were subdivided into Rh-123lo, Rh-123med, and Rh-123hi populations. The ...

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

authors： Spangrude GJ,Johnson GR

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA-directed DNA polymerase (reverse transcriptase) from leukocytes of individual leukemic patients can be grouped by velocity gradient analyses into two distinct classes, a low-molecular-weight (LMW) class of approximately 70,000 and a high-molecular-weight (HMW) class of 130,000 to 140,000. The reverse transcriptase...

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

authors： Mondal H,Gallagher RE,Gallo RC

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A glycoprotein, termed amphiregulin (AR), inhibits growth of several human carcinoma cells in culture and stimulates proliferation of human fibroblasts and certain other tumor cells. It has been purified to apparent homogeneity from serum-free conditioned medium of MCF-7 human breast carcinoma cells that had been trea...

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

authors： Shoyab M,McDonald VL,Bradley JG,Todaro GJ

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many materials phenomena are governed by the interaction between chemistry and mechanics. However, it was only in the second half of the 20th century that the theory of open system elasticity by Francis Larché and John W. Cahn concatenated the fields of solid mechanics and alloy chemistry. As the theory's central mate...

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

authors： Shi S,Markmann J,Weissmüller J

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector delivery of an Apaf-1-dominant negative inhibitor was tested for its antiapoptotic effect on degenerating nigrostriatal neurons in a 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) model of Parkinson's disease. The wild-type caspase recruitment domain of Apaf-1 was used as a dom...

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

authors： Mochizuki H,Hayakawa H,Migita M,Shibata M,Tanaka R,Suzuki A,Shimo-Nakanishi Y,Urabe T,Yamada M,Tamayose K,Shimada T,Miura M,Mizuno Y

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial barrier disruption is a major cause of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD); however, the cellular and molecular regulation of intestinal epithelial homeostasis remains largely undefined. Here, we show that the C-type lectin receptor LSECtin (Clec4g) on macrophages is required for protection against dextran sul...

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

authors： Yang Z,Li Q,Wang X,Jiang X,Zhao D,Lin X,He F,Tang L

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the apoptotic role of caspases has been largely understood, accumulating evidence in Drosophila suggests that caspases also control other processes than apoptotic cell death. However, how caspases contribute to the development of the mammalian nervous system remains obscure. Here, we provide unique evidence t...

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

authors： Ohsawa S,Hamada S,Kuida K,Yoshida H,Igaki T,Miura M

更新日期：2010-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviral entry into cells depends on envelope glycoproteins, whereby receptor binding to the surface-exposed subunit triggers membrane fusion by the transmembrane protein (TM) subunit. We determined the crystal structure at 2.5-A resolution of the ectodomain of gp21, the TM from human T cell leukemia virus type 1. T...

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

authors： Kobe B,Center RJ,Kemp BE,Poumbourios P

更新日期：1999-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Because it is able to produce desalinated water directly using solar energy with minimum carbon footprint, solar steam generation and desalination is considered one of the most important technologies to address the increasingly pressing global water scarcity. Despite tremendous progress in the past few years, efficien...

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

authors： Li X,Xu W,Tang M,Zhou L,Zhu B,Zhu S,Zhu J

更新日期：2016-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Radioimmunoassays specific for the N and C termini of human prothymosin alpha and the N terminus of human parathymosin alpha were employed for the measurement of the levels of alpha-thymosins in human thymus, spleen, and liver during normal growth and intestine and breast in malignant growth. A differential expression...

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

authors： Tsitsiloni OE,Stiakakis J,Koutselinis A,Gogas J,Markopoulos C,Yialouris P,Bekris S,Panoussopoulos D,Kiortsis V,Voelter W

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Poliovirus RNA polymerase requires a host factor to initiate RNA synthesis in vitro. The host factor was previously purified to near homogeneity from HeLa cells but was not assigned an enzymatic activity. This report describes the purification of a terminal uridylyltransferase that can act as host factor. By all crite...

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

authors： Andrews NC,Baltimore D

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the reaction dynamics for HgI(2) in methanol by using time-resolved x-ray diffraction (TRXD). Although numerous time-resolved spectroscopic studies have provided ample information about the early dynamics of HgI(2), a comprehensive reaction mechanism in the solution phase spanning from picoseconds up t...

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

authors： Kim TK,Lorenc M,Lee JH,Lo Russo M,Kim J,Cammarata M,Kong Q,Noel S,Plech A,Wulff M,Ihee H

更新日期：2006-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizosaccharomyces pombe cells were transformed with an S. pombe expression vector containing a full-length cDNA of the Chlorella hexose transporter. The transformed cells accumulated 3-O-methylglucose up to 10-fold, whereas wild-type S. pombe and control transformants could only equilibrate this sugar analogue. In a...

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

authors： Sauer N,Caspari T,Klebl F,Tanner W

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome 14 was transferred into tumorigenic nasopharyngeal carcinoma and esophageal carcinoma cell lines by a microcell-mediated chromosome transfer approach. Functional complementation of defects present in the cancer cells suppressed tumor formation. A candidate tumor-suppressor gene, cysteine-rich intestinal pro...

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

authors： Cheung AK,Ko JM,Lung HL,Chan KW,Stanbridge EJ,Zabarovsky E,Tokino T,Kashima L,Suzuki T,Kwong DL,Chua D,Tsao SW,Lung ML

更新日期：2011-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:P/Q Ca(2+) channel activity is inhibited by G protein-coupled receptor activation. Channel inhibition requires a direct Gbetagamma binding onto the pore-forming subunit, Ca(v)2.1. It is characterized by biophysical changes, including current amplitude reduction, activation kinetic slowing, and an I-V curve shift, whic...

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

authors： Sandoz G,Lopez-Gonzalez I,Grunwald D,Bichet D,Altafaj X,Weiss N,Ronjat M,Dupuis A,De Waard M

更新日期：2004-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The probability of choosing an alternative in a long sequence of repeated choices is proportional to the total reward derived from that alternative, a phenomenon known as Herrnstein's matching law. This behavior is remarkably conserved across species and experimental conditions, but its underlying neural mechanisms st...

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

authors： Loewenstein Y,Seung HS

更新日期：2006-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of protein kinase C (PKC) by phorbol ester facilitates hormonal secretion and transmitter release, and phorbol ester-induced synaptic potentiation (PESP) is a model for presynaptic facilitation. A variety of PKC isoforms are expressed in the central nervous system, but the isoform involved in the PESP has n...

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

authors： Saitoh N,Hori T,Takahashi T

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbachol, an activator of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors of NG108-15 hybrid cells, inhibits adenylate cyclase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1] rapidly and reversibly and slowly evokes a 200-300% increase in adenylate cyclase activity over a period of 24-30 hr. Both the inhibition of adenylate cyc...

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

authors： Nathanson NM,Klein WL,Nirenberg M

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone morphogenetic protein 4 (BMP-4) induces ventral mesoderm but represses dorsal mesoderm formation in Xenopus embryos. We show that BMP-4 inhibits two signaling pathways regulating dorsal mesoderm formation, the induction of dorsal mesoderm (Spemann organizer) and the dorsalization of ventral mesoderm. Ectopic expr...

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

authors： Re'em-Kalma Y,Lamb T,Frank D

更新日期：1995-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between the ribosomal-stalk protein L7/12 (L12) and initiation factor 2 (IF2) is essential for rapid subunit association, but the underlying mechanism is unknown. Here, we have characterized the L12-IF2 interaction on Escherichia coli ribosomes using site-directed mutagenesis, fast kinetics, and molecu...

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

authors： Ge X,Mandava CS,Lind C,Åqvist J,Sanyal S

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dominant mutations in the maize homeobox gene knotted1 (kn1) act nonautonomously during maize leaf development, indicating that Kn1 is involved in the generation or transmission of a developmental signal that passes from the inner layers of the leaf to epidermal cells. We previously found that this nonautonomous activ...

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

authors： Kim JY,Yuan Z,Cilia M,Khalfan-Jagani Z,Jackson D

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural information about rat enteroglucagon, intestinal peptides containing the pancreatic glucagon sequence, has been based previously on cDNA, immunologic, and chromatographic data. Our interests in testing the physiological actions of synthetic enteroglucagon peptides in rats required that we identify precisely...

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

authors： Collie NL,Walsh JH,Wong HC,Shively JE,Davis MT,Lee TD,Reeve JR Jr

更新日期：1994-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Exchange proteins directly activated by cAMP (Epac1 and Epac2) have been recently recognized as key players in β-adrenergic-dependent cardiac arrhythmias. Whereas Epac1 overexpression can lead to cardiac hypertrophy and Epac2 activation can be arrhythmogenic, it is unknown whether distinct subcellular distribution of ...

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

authors： Pereira L,Rehmann H,Lao DH,Erickson JR,Bossuyt J,Chen J,Bers DM

更新日期：2015-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic imprinting results in the differential expression of genes, depending on which allele is inherited from the mother and which from the father. The effects of such differential gene expression are reflected in phenotypic differences between the reciprocal heterozygotes (Aa vs. aA). Although many imprinted genes ...

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

authors： Cheverud JM,Hager R,Roseman C,Fawcett G,Wang B,Wolf JB

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:During vertebrate cytokinesis it is thought that contractile ring constriction is driven by nonmuscle myosin II (NM II) translocation of antiparallel actin filaments. Here we report in situ, in vitro, and in vivo observations that challenge this hypothesis. Graded knockdown of NM II in cultured COS-7 cells reveals tha...

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

authors： Ma X,Kovács M,Conti MA,Wang A,Zhang Y,Sellers JR,Adelstein RS

更新日期：2012-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythropoietin, the hormone that is the primary regulator of erythrocyte production, has been purified from anemic-sheep plasma, with a purification factor of more than 1 million. Gel electrophoresis shows that the major contaminant is desialated erythropoietin. ...

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

authors： Goldwasser E,Kung CK

更新日期：1971-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the completion of genome sequences of major model organisms, increasingly sophisticated genetic tools are necessary for investigating the complex and coordinated functions of genes. Here we describe a genetic manipulation system termed "genomic engineering" in Drosophila. Genomic engineering is a 2-step process t...

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

authors： Huang J,Zhou W,Dong W,Watson AM,Hong Y

更新日期：2009-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The cationic conductances of purified bovine retinal rod membranes were studied by incorporation of vesicles into planar lipid bilayers. When the membranes were stripped of all peripheral proteins [guanine nucleotide-binding protein (G protein) and cGMP phosphodiesterase (3',5'-cyclic-GMP 5'-nucleotidohydrolase), EC 3...

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

authors： Bennett N,Ildefonse M,Crouzy S,Chapron Y,Clerc A

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mitochondrial gene from Saccharomyces cerevisiae encoding a hydrophobic membrane protein, subunit 8 of the F0/F1-type mitochondrial ATPase complex, has been functionally replaced by an artificial nuclear gene specifying an imported version of this protein. The experiments reported here utilized a multicopy expressio...

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

authors： Nagley P,Farrell LB,Gearing DP,Nero D,Meltzer S,Devenish RJ

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00