p21-activated kinase interacts with Wnt signaling to regulate tissue polarity and gene expression.

abstract：:In 1950, Barbara McClintock published a Classic PNAS article, "The origin and behavior of mutable loci in maize," which summarized the evidence leading to her discovery of transposition. The article described a number of genome alterations revealed through her studies of the Dissociation locus, the first mobile geneti...

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

authors： Fedoroff NV

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The versatility of CRISPR-Cas endonucleases as a tool for biomedical research has led to diverse applications in gene editing, programmable transcriptional control, and nucleic acid detection. Most CRISPR-Cas systems, however, suffer from off-target effects and unpredictable nonspecific binding that negatively impact ...

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

authors： Specht DA,Xu Y,Lambert G

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Outdoor ozone transported indoors initiates oxidative chemistry, forming volatile organic products. The influence of ozone chemistry on indoor air composition has not been directly quantified in normally occupied residences. Here, we explore indoor ozone chemistry in a house in California with two adult inhabitants. W...

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

authors： Liu Y,Misztal PK,Arata C,Weschler CJ,Nazaroff WW,Goldstein AH

更新日期：2021-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) stimulated the phosphorylation of a 28-kDa protein (p28) in the ME-180 line of human cervical carcinoma cells. The effect of TNF-alpha on the phosphorylation state of p28 was rapid (4-fold increase within 15 min) and persistent, remaining above the basal level for at least 2 hr....

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

authors： Marino MW,Pfeffer LM,Guidon PT Jr,Donner DB

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An invariant substructure that forms two interlocked pairs of neighboring beta-strands occurs in essentially all known sandwich-like proteins. Eight conserved positions in these strands were recently shown to act as structural determinants. To test whether the residues at these invariant positions are conserved for me...

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

authors： Wilson CJ,Wittung-Stafshede P

更新日期：2005-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional wisdom regarding mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis holds that pathogens arise by external acquisition of distinct virulence factors, whereas determinants shared by pathogens and commensals are considered to be functionally equivalent and have been ignored as genes that could become adapted specifically...

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

authors： Sokurenko EV,Chesnokova V,Dykhuizen DE,Ofek I,Wu XR,Krogfelt KA,Struve C,Schembri MA,Hasty DL

更新日期：1998-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The monoclonal antibodies (mAb) DA6.147, DA6.164, and HIG.48 against human Ia antigens, but not the W6/32 mAb against human class I major histocompatibility complex antigens or the anti-monocyte OKM1 and 63D3 mAb, stimulated monocytes to secrete interleukin 1 (IL-1). IL-1 was measured by its property of promoting the ...

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

authors： Palacios R

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TP53 (p53) is a tumor suppressor whose functions are lost or altered in most malignancies. p53 homozygous knockout (p53-/-) mice uniformly die of spontaneous malignancy, typically T-cell lymphoma. RALBP1 (RLIP76, Rlip) is a stress-protective, mercapturic acid pathway transporter protein that also functions as a Ral ef...

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

authors： Awasthi S,Tompkins J,Singhal J,Riggs AD,Yadav S,Wu X,Singh S,Warden C,Liu Z,Wang J,Slavin TP,Weitzel JN,Yuan YC,Awasthi M,Srivastava SK,Awasthi YC,Singhal SS

更新日期：2018-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacteria are phototrophic prokaryotes that evolved oxygenic photosynthesis ∼2.7 billion y ago and are presently responsible for ∼10% of total global photosynthetic production. To cope with the evolutionary pressure of dropping ambient CO2 concentrations, they evolved a CO2-concentrating mechanism (CCM) to augment...

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

authors： Selim KA,Haase F,Hartmann MD,Hagemann M,Forchhammer K

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Sufficient conditions are found for a biinvariant operator on a compact Lie group to be bounded on L(p), 1 < p < infinity. The proof uses properties of g-functions on such a group, and an analog to the familiar relationship between differentiation and multiplication under the Fourier transform. ...

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

authors： Weiss NJ

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously proven that human macrophages can phagocytose porcine cells even in the absence of Ab or complement opsonization, indicating that macrophages present a pivotal immunological obstacle to xenotransplantation. A recent report indicates that the signal regulatory protein (SIRP)alpha is a critical immune...

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

authors： Ide K,Wang H,Tahara H,Liu J,Wang X,Asahara T,Sykes M,Yang YG,Ohdan H

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons in the cochlear nuclei of duck embryos become responsive to tonal stimuli in an orderly spatial and temporal sequence. Cells responding to lower frequencies are recorded before those responding to higher frequencies. Auditory neurons are spatially arranged according to their characteristic frequencies, indicat...

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

authors： Konishi M

更新日期：1973-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) is a cell cycle-regulated E3 ubiquitin ligase that controls the degradation of substrate proteins at mitotic exit and throughout the G1 phase. We have identified an APC/C substrate and cell cycle-regulated protein, KIAA0101/PAF15. PAF15 protein levels peak in the G2/M p...

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

authors： Emanuele MJ,Ciccia A,Elia AE,Elledge SJ

更新日期：2011-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes is now the most common cause of progressive kidney failure leading to dialysis or transplantation. The central pathological feature of diabetic nephropathy is accumulation of extracellular matrix within the glomeruli. The factors in the diabetic milieu responsible for extracellular matrix accumulation are not...

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

authors： Yamamoto T,Nakamura T,Noble NA,Ruoslahti E,Border WA

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Generating human single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) is no longer a rate-limiting step for genetic studies of disease. The number of SNPs in public databases already exceeds 200,000, and the total is expected to exceed 1,000,000 within a year. Rather, progress is limited by the inability to genotype large numbers o...

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

authors： Hirschhorn JN,Sklar P,Lindblad-Toh K,Lim YM,Ruiz-Gutierrez M,Bolk S,Langhorst B,Schaffner S,Winchester E,Lander ES

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Signal transduction by two-component systems involves phosphorylation and thereby activation of the response regulator by the cognate histidine kinase. Bifunctional histidine kinases have two opposing activities: depending on the environmental stimuli they either promote phosphorylation or stimulate the rapid dephosph...

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

authors： Kramer G,Weiss V

更新日期：1999-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer membrane (OM) of Gram-negative bacteria forms a robust permeability barrier that blocks entry of toxins and antibiotics. Most OM proteins (OMPs) assume a β-barrel fold, and some form aqueous channels for nutrient uptake and efflux of intracellular toxins. The Bam machine catalyzes rapid folding and assembly ...

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

authors： Konovalova A,Grabowicz M,Balibar CJ,Malinverni JC,Painter RE,Riley D,Mann PA,Wang H,Garlisi CG,Sherborne B,Rigel NW,Ricci DP,Black TA,Roemer T,Silhavy TJ,Walker SS

更新日期：2018-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The rhizobium-legume symbiosis has been widely studied as the model of mutualistic evolution and the essential component of sustainable agriculture. Extensive genetic and recent genomic studies have led to the hypothesis that many distinct strategies, regardless of rhizobial phylogeny, contributed to the varied rhizob...

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

authors： Tian CF,Zhou YJ,Zhang YM,Li QQ,Zhang YZ,Li DF,Wang S,Wang J,Gilbert LB,Li YR,Chen WX

更新日期：2012-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The parathyroid hormone 2 (PTH2) receptor's anatomical distribution suggests that, among other functions, it may be involved in modulation of nociception. We localized PTH2 receptor protein to spinal cord lamina II and showed that it is synthesized by subpopulations of primary sensory neurons and intrinsic spinal cord...

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

authors： Dobolyi A,Ueda H,Uchida H,Palkovits M,Usdin TB

更新日期：2002-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of chicken embryo fibroblasts with mitogenic concentrations of insulin for 24 hr or with the tumor promoter phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate for 6 hr stimulated lactate release and 3-O-methylglucose uptake. Insulin also increased the Vmax of 6-phosphofructo-1-kinase (ATP:D-fructose-6-phosphate 1-phosphotrans...

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

authors： Bosca L,Rousseau GG,Hue L

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK-3) is implicated in multiple biological processes including metabolism, gene expression, cell fate determination, proliferation, and survival. GSK-3 activity is inhibited through phosphorylation of serine 21 in GSK-3 alpha and serine 9 in GSK-3 beta. These serine residues of GSK-3 have ...

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

authors： Fang X,Yu SX,Lu Y,Bast RC Jr,Woodgett JR,Mills GB

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of the critical role of the process of adaptation in evolution, there are few detailed studies of the genotypic and molecular basis of the process. Drosophila melanogaster flies selected for increased tolerance to ethanol exhibited higher levels of alcohol dehydrogenase (alcohol:NAD+ oxidoreductase; EC 1.1.1....

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

authors： McDonald JF,Chambers GK,David J,Ayala FJ

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+-induced inhibition of alpha1C voltage-gated Ca2+ channels is a physiologically important regulatory mechanism that shortens the mean open time of these otherwise long-lasting high-voltage-activated channels. The mechanism of action of Ca2+ has been a matter of some controversy, as previous studies have proposed t...

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

authors： Qin N,Olcese R,Bransby M,Lin T,Birnbaumer L

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Because previous studies showed that polyunsaturated fatty acids can reduce the contraction rate of spontaneously beating heart cells and have antiarrhythmic effects, we examined the effects of the fatty acids on the electrophysiology of the cardiac cycle in isolated neonatal rat cardiac myocytes. Exposure of cardiomy...

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

authors： Kang JX,Xiao YF,Leaf A

更新日期：1995-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen free radicals are highly reactive species generated by many cellular oxidation-reduction processes. These radicals damage cellular constituents and have been causally implicated in the pathogenesis of many human diseases. We report here that oxygen free radicals generated by Fe2+ in aqueous solution are mutagen...

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

authors： Loeb LA,James EA,Waltersdorph AM,Klebanoff SJ

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteomics were used to identify the proteins from the eukaryotic unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii that can be reduced by thioredoxin. These proteins were retained specifically on a thioredoxin affinity column made of a monocysteinic thioredoxin mutant able to form mixed disulfides with its targets. Of...

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

authors： Lemaire SD,Guillon B,Le Maréchal P,Keryer E,Miginiac-Maslow M,Decottignies P

更新日期：2004-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:EcoRI endonuclease-generated DNA fragments carrying replication regions of the F'lac and R6-5 plasmids have been cloned and isolated, using as a selection vehicle a nonreplicating ampicillin-resistance DNA fragment derived from a Staphylococcus aureus plasmid. Heteroduplex analysis of the constructed plasmid chimeras ...

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

authors： Timmis K,Cabello F,Cohen SN

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid-sensing ion channels (ASICs) are trimeric cation-selective ion channels activated by protons in the physiological range. Recent reports have revealed that postsynaptically localized ASICs contribute to the excitatory postsynaptic current by responding to the transient acidification of the synaptic cleft that acco...

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

authors： MacLean DM,Jayaraman V

更新日期：2017-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of androgen receptor (AR) via androgen in muscle cells has been closely linked to their growth and differentiation. Here, we report the cloning and characterization of supervillin (SV), a 205-kDa actin-binding protein, as an AR coregulator from the skeletal muscle cDNA library. Mammalian two-hybrid and glut...

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

authors： Ting HJ,Yeh S,Nishimura K,Chang C

更新日期：2002-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:CCR5 (R5)-tropic, but not CXCR4 (X4)-tropic, HIV-1 is associated with primary HIV-1 infection and transmission. Recent studies have shown that IFN-induced transmembrane (IFITM) proteins, including IFITM1, IFITM2, and IFITM3, restrict a broad range of viruses. Here, we demonstrate that an IFITM2 isoform (Δ20 IFITM2) la...

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

authors： Wu WL,Grotefend CR,Tsai MT,Wang YL,Radic V,Eoh H,Huang IC

更新日期：2017-07-03 00:00:00