Passage of phenotypes of chemically transformed cells via transfection of DNA and chromatin.

abstract：:The extent to which stratospheric intrusions on synoptic scales influence the tropospheric ozone (O3) levels remains poorly understood, because quantitative detection of stratospheric air has been challenging. Cosmogenic 35S mainly produced in the stratosphere has the potential to identify stratospheric air masses at ...

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

authors： Lin M,Su L,Shaheen R,Fung JC,Thiemens MH

更新日期：2016-10-04 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：:Bacteriorhodopsin from Halobacterium halobium has been solubilized in the nonionic detergent Triton X-100. The circular dichroic spectrum and hydrodynamic properties indicate that the structure of this protein in the detergent is not significantly altered from that of the native membrane-bound form. Bacteriorhodopsin ...

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

authors： Reyenolds JA,Stoeckenius W

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We use age distributions of sea otters (Enhydra lutris) found dead on beaches of western Prince William Sound, Alaska, between 1976 and 1998 in conjunction with time-varying demographic models to test for lingering effects from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Our results show that sea otters in this area had decrease...

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

authors： Monson DH,Doak DF,Ballachey BE,Johnson A,Bodkin JL

更新日期：2000-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Foraminifera are unicellular organisms that inhabit the oceans in various ecosystems. The majority of the foraminifera precipitate calcitic shells and are among the major CaCO(3) producers in the oceans. They comprise an important component of the global carbon cycle and also provide valuable paleoceanographic informa...

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

authors： Bentov S,Brownlee C,Erez J

更新日期：2009-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen receptor gene assembly is regulated by transcriptional promoters and enhancers, which control the accessibility of gene segments to a lymphocyte-specific V(D)J recombinase. However, it remained unclear whether accessibility depends on the process of transcription itself or chromatin modifications that accompan...

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

authors： Sikes ML,Meade A,Tripathi R,Krangel MS,Oltz EM

更新日期：2002-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:With high-dimensional data, variable-by-variable statistical testing is often used to select variables whose behavior differs across conditions. Such an approach requires adjustment for multiple testing, which can result in low statistical power. A two-stage approach that first filters variables by a criterion indepen...

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

authors： Bourgon R,Gentleman R,Huber W

更新日期：2010-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-directed spin labeling EPR (SDSL-EPR) was used to determine the structure of the inhibitory region of TnI in the intact cardiac troponin ternary complex. Maeda and collaborators have modeled the inhibitory region of TnI (skeletal 96-112: the structural motif that communicates the Ca(2+) signal to actin) as a kink...

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

authors： Brown LJ,Sale KL,Hills R,Rouviere C,Song L,Zhang X,Fajer PG

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both treatment of disease and basic studies of complex tissues can benefit from directing viral vector infection to specific cell types. We have used a unique cell targeting method to direct viral vector transduction to cerebral cortical neurons expressing the neuregulin (NRG) receptor ErbB4; both NRG and ErbB4 have b...

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

authors： Choi J,Young JA,Callaway EM

更新日期：2010-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A human lambdaV (Mcg) and a human lambdaII (Vil) myeloma protein have identical sequences in their first hypervariable segments although they differ at 21 positions throughout the variable region. If a different structural gene is responsible for each subgroup, the findings favor insertion of information for the hyper...

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

authors： Wu TT,Kabat EA,Bilofsky H

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the mRNA capping apparatus of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum illuminates an evolutionary connection to fungi rather than metazoans. We show that P. falciparum encodes separate RNA guanylyltransferase (Pgt1) and RNA triphosphatase (Prt1) enzymes and that the triphosphatase component is a member ...

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

authors： Ho CK,Shuman S

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of the decapeptide Boc-Aib-Glu(OBzl)-Leu-Aib-Ala-Leu-Aib-Ala-Lys(Z)-Aib-OMe (where Aib is alpha-aminoisobutyryl, Boc is t-butoxycarbonyl, OBzl is benzyl ester, and Z is benzyloxycarbonyl) illustrates a parallel zipper arrangement of interacting helical peptide columns. Head-to-tail NH...OC hydrog...

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

authors： Karle IL,Flippen-Anderson JL,Uma K,Balaram P

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper homeostasis is essential for bacterial pathogen fitness and infection, and has been the focus of a number of recent studies. In Salmonella, envelope protection against copper overload and macrophage survival depends on CueP, a major copper-binding protein in the periplasm. This protein is also required to deliv...

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

authors： Pezza A,Pontel LB,López C,Soncini FC

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Theory predicts that double-core-hole (DCH) spectroscopy can provide a new powerful means of differentiating between similar chemical systems with a sensitivity not hitherto possible. Although DCH ionization on a single site in molecules was recently measured with double- and single-photon absorption, double-core hole...

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

authors： Berrah N,Fang L,Murphy B,Osipov T,Ueda K,Kukk E,Feifel R,van der Meulen P,Salen P,Schmidt HT,Thomas RD,Larsson M,Richter R,Prince KC,Bozek JD,Bostedt C,Wada S,Piancastelli MN,Tashiro M,Ehara M

更新日期：2011-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:To evade their predators, animals must quickly detect potential threats, gauge risk, and mount a response. Putative neural circuits responsible for these tasks have been isolated in laboratory studies. However, it is unclear whether and how these circuits combine to generate the flexible, dynamic sequences of evasion ...

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

authors： Hein AM,Gil MA,Twomey CR,Couzin ID,Levin SA

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase enriched in cerebellar granule cells (CaM kinase Gr) is a neuronal calmodulin-dependent protein kinase whose purification and partial cloning from rat brain has been described. A combination of the polymerase chain reaction and cDNA library screening was used to determine the D...

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

authors： Ohmstede CA,Bland MM,Merrill BM,Sahyoun N

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA)-modulin is a brain protein of Mr 16,500 that down-regulates the high-affinity binding site for GABA which is located in crude synaptic membranes. This protein can be phosphorylated in vitro by the catalytic subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase and by a partially purified preparation ...

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

authors： Wise BC,Guidotti A,Costa E

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Criegee intermediates are thought to play a role in atmospheric chemistry, in particular, the oxidation of SO2, which produces SO3 and subsequently H2SO4, an important constituent of aerosols and acid rain. However, the impact of such oxidation reactions is affected by the reactions of Criegee intermediates with water...

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

authors： Huang HL,Chao W,Lin JJ

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defining the molecules that regulate tumor cell survival is an essential prerequisite for the development of targeted approaches to cancer treatment. Whereas many studies aimed at identifying such targets use human tumor cells grown in vitro or as s.c. xenografts, it is unclear whether such experimental models replica...

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

authors： Camphausen K,Purow B,Sproull M,Scott T,Ozawa T,Deen DF,Tofilon PJ

更新日期：2005-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical robustness of the cell under different modes of stress and deformation is essential to its survival and function. Under tension, mechanical rigidity is provided by the cytoskeletal network; with increasing stress, this network stiffens, providing increased resistance to deformation. However, a cell must als...

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

authors： Zhou EH,Trepat X,Park CY,Lenormand G,Oliver MN,Mijailovich SM,Hardin C,Weitz DA,Butler JP,Fredberg JJ

更新日期：2009-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Small molecules of biological origin continue to yield the most promising leads for drug design, but systematic approaches for exploring nature's cache of structural diversity are lacking. Here, we demonstrate the use of 2D NMR spectroscopy to screen a library of biorationally selected insect metabolite samples for pa...

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

authors： Deyrup ST,Eckman LE,McCarthy PH,Smedley SR,Meinwald J,Schroeder FC

更新日期：2011-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In Drosophila, heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1) suppresses the expression of euchromatic genes that are artificially translocated adjacent to heterochromatin by expanding heterochromatin structure into neighboring euchromatin. The purpose of this study was to determine whether HP1 functions as a transcriptional repress...

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

authors： Hwang KK,Eissenberg JC,Worman HJ

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired wound closure is a growing medical problem associated with metabolic diseases and aging. Immune cells play important roles in wound healing by following instructions from the microenvironment. Here, we developed a technology to bioengineer the wound microenvironment and enhance healing abilities of the immune...

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

authors： Vågesjö E,Öhnstedt E,Mortier A,Lofton H,Huss F,Proost P,Roos S,Phillipson M

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonresolving chronic inflammation at the neoplastic site is consistently associated with promoting tumor progression and poor patient outcomes. However, many aspects behind the mechanisms that establish this tumor-promoting inflammatory microenvironment remain undefined. Using bladder cancer (BC) as a model, we found ...

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

authors： Cheah MT,Chen JY,Sahoo D,Contreras-Trujillo H,Volkmer AK,Scheeren FA,Volkmer JP,Weissman IL

更新日期：2015-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Amputation of the zebrafish caudal fin stimulates regeneration of the dermal skeleton and reexpression of sonic hedgehog (shh)-signaling pathway genes. Expression patterns suggest a role for shh signaling in the secretion and patterning of the regenerating dermal bone, but a direct role has not been demonstrated. We e...

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

authors： Quint E,Smith A,Avaron F,Laforest L,Miles J,Gaffield W,Akimenko MA

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Oreopithecus bambolii (8.3-6.7 million years old) is the latest known hominoid from Europe, dating to approximately the divergence time of the Pan-hominin lineages. Despite being the most complete nonhominin hominoid in the fossil record, the O. bambolii skeleton IGF 11778 has been, for decades, at the center of inten...

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

authors： Hammond AS,Rook L,Anaya AD,Cioppi E,Costeur L,Moyà-Solà S,Almécija S

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) is an important cellular effector whose functions include the regulation of ion channels and membrane trafficking. Aberrant PIP2 metabolism has also been implicated in a variety of human disease states, e.g., cancer and diabetes. Here we report that familial Alzheimer's dis...

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

authors： Landman N,Jeong SY,Shin SY,Voronov SV,Serban G,Kang MS,Park MK,Di Paolo G,Chung S,Kim TW

更新日期：2006-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Resequencing or reference-based assemblies reveal large parts of the small-scale sequence variation. However, they typically fail to separate such local variation into colinear and rearranged variation, because they usually do not recover the complement of large-scale rearrangements, including transpositions and inver...

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

authors： Zapata L,Ding J,Willing EM,Hartwig B,Bezdan D,Jiao WB,Patel V,Velikkakam James G,Koornneef M,Ossowski S,Schneeberger K

更新日期：2016-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly pathogenic avian influenza A viruses of subtypes H5 and H7 are the causative agents of fowl plague in poultry. Influenza A viruses of subtype H5N1 also caused severe respiratory disease in humans in Hong Kong in 1997 and 2003, including at least seven fatal cases, posing a serious human pandemic threat. Between...

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

authors： Fouchier RA,Schneeberger PM,Rozendaal FW,Broekman JM,Kemink SA,Munster V,Kuiken T,Rimmelzwaan GF,Schutten M,Van Doornum GJ,Koch G,Bosman A,Koopmans M,Osterhaus AD

更新日期：2004-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we report an example of the engineered expression of tetrameric β-galactosidase (β-gal) containing varying numbers of active monomers. Specifically, by combining wild-type and single-nucleotide polymorphism plasmids at varying ratios, tetrameric β-gal was expressed in vitro with one to four active monom...

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

authors： Li X,Jiang Y,Chong S,Walt DR

更新日期：2018-08-14 00:00:00