Unique motifs and hydrophobic interactions shape the binding of modified DNA ligands to protein targets.

abstract：:Cortical networks that have been found to operate close to a critical point exhibit joint activations of large numbers of neurons. However, in motor cortex of the awake macaque monkey, we observe very different dynamics: massively parallel recordings of 155 single-neuron spiking activities show weak fluctuations on th...

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

authors： Dahmen D,Grün S,Diesmann M,Helias M

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Dual inactivation of PTEN and INK4a/ARF tumor suppressor genes is a common feature observed in a broad spectrum of human cancer types. To validate functional collaboration between these genes in tumor suppression, we examined the biological consequences of Pten and/or Ink4a/Arf deficiency in cells and mice. Relative t...

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

authors： You MJ,Castrillon DH,Bastian BC,O'Hagan RC,Bosenberg MW,Parsons R,Chin L,DePinho RA

更新日期：2002-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the biologically active conformation of acetylcholine when bound to the high-affinity state of the receptor from Torpedo californica. The acetylcholine conformation was determined in the free and bound states by proton NMR two-dimensional nuclear Overhauser effects. In agreement with x-ray crystallograp...

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

authors： Behling RW,Yamane T,Navon G,Jelinski LW

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive organisms pose a global threat and are exceptionally difficult to eradicate after they become abundant in their new habitats. We report a successful multitactic strategy for combating the pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella), one of the world's most invasive pests. A coordinated program in the southwester...

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

authors： Tabashnik BE,Liesner LR,Ellsworth PC,Unnithan GC,Fabrick JA,Naranjo SE,Li X,Dennehy TJ,Antilla L,Staten RT,Carrière Y

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Short interfering RNA (siRNA) is widely used for studying gene function and holds great promise as a tool for validating drug targets and treating disease. A critical assumption in these applications is that the effect of siRNA on cells is specific, i.e., limited to the specific knockdown of the target gene. In this a...

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

authors： Semizarov D,Frost L,Sarthy A,Kroeger P,Halbert DN,Fesik SW

更新日期：2003-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal rat kidney cells were nonproductively infected either with CP27, a mutant of Moloney sarcoma virus that is temperature-sensitive for maintenance of transformation, or with the parental wild-type virus. The nonproducer cells were inoculated into the tails of athymic nude mice that were subsequently incubated at ...

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

authors： Klarlund JK,Forchhammer J

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic pluripotency in the mouse is established and maintained by a gene-regulatory network under the control of a core set of transcription factors that include octamer-binding protein 4 (Oct4; official name POU domain, class 5, transcription factor 1, Pou5f1), sex-determining region Y (SRY)-box containing gene 2 ...

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

authors： Fernandez-Tresguerres B,Cañon S,Rayon T,Pernaute B,Crespo M,Torroja C,Manzanares M

更新日期：2010-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental problem in cell biology is to understand how spatial information is recognized and integrated into morphogenetic responses. Budding yeast undergoes differentiation to filamentous growth, which involves changes in cell polarity through mechanisms that remain obscure. Here we define a regulatory input wher...

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

authors： Basu S,Vadaie N,Prabhakar A,Li B,Adhikari H,Pitoniak A,Chow J,Chavel CA,Cullen PJ

更新日期：2016-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin binding to insulin receptors, on skin fibroblasts established in culture from an infant with insulin resistance and clinical features of leprechaunism was markedly decreased in comparison with cultures from an age-matched control. By contrast, the binding of epidermal growth factor, a polypeptide growth factor...

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

authors： Schilling EE,Rechler MM,Grunfeld C,Rosenberg AM

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A culture of mouse A9 cells yielded clones of both high and low malignancy. Confirmation of the differences in malignancy of the clones was obtained after their hybridization with subclones of YACIR a lymphoma induced by Moloney leukemia virus. Low malignant A9 clones suppressed the malignancy of the YACIR partner in ...

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

authors： Clements GB,Fenyö EM,Klein G

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a machine-learning strategy for design of organic structure directing agents (OSDAs) for zeolite beta. We use machine learning to replace a computationally expensive molecular dynamics evaluation of the stabilization energy of the OSDA inside zeolite beta with a neural network prediction. We train the neural...

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

authors： Daeyaert F,Ye F,Deem MW

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Precise spatiotemporal control of mRNA translation machinery is essential to the development of highly complex systems like the neocortex. However, spatiotemporal regulation of translation machinery in the developing neocortex remains poorly understood. Here, we show that an RNA-binding protein, Hu antigen R (HuR), re...

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

authors： Kraushar ML,Thompson K,Wijeratne HR,Viljetic B,Sakers K,Marson JW,Kontoyiannis DL,Buyske S,Hart RP,Rasin MR

更新日期：2014-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The voltage-gated proton channel Hv1 plays a critical role in the fast proton translocation that underlies a wide range of physiological functions, including the phagocytic respiratory burst, sperm motility, apoptosis, and metastatic cancer. Both voltage activation and proton conduction are carried out by a voltage-se...

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

authors： Li Q,Shen R,Treger JS,Wanderling SS,Milewski W,Siwowska K,Bezanilla F,Perozo E

更新日期：2015-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) thymidine kinase is currently used as a suicide agent in the gene therapy of cancer. This therapy is based on the preferential phosphorylation of nucleoside analogs by tumor cells expressing HSV-1 thymidine kinase. However, the use of HSV-1 thymidine kinase is limited in part by the...

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

authors： Black ME,Newcomb TG,Wilson HM,Loeb LA

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The theory of "top-down" ecological regulation predicts that herbivory suppresses plant abundance, biomass, and survival but increases diversity through the disproportionate consumption of dominant species, which inhibits competitive exclusion. To date, these outcomes have been clear in aquatic ecosystems but not on l...

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

authors： Jia S,Wang X,Yuan Z,Lin F,Ye J,Hao Z,Luskin MS

更新日期：2018-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The auditory and motor neural systems are closely intertwined, enabling people to carry out tasks such as playing a musical instrument whose mapping between action and sound is extremely sophisticated. While the dorsal auditory stream has been shown to mediate these audio-motor transformations, little is known about h...

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

authors： Wollman I,Penhune V,Segado M,Carpentier T,Zatorre RJ

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a simple molecular indexing method for quantitative targeted RNA sequencing, in which mRNAs of interest are selectively captured from complex cDNA libraries and sequenced to determine their absolute concentrations. cDNA fragments are individually labeled so that each molecule can be tracked from the origina...

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

authors： Fu GK,Xu W,Wilhelmy J,Mindrinos MN,Davis RW,Xiao W,Fodor SP

更新日期：2014-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:High levels of D-serine occur in mammalian brain, where it appears to be an endogenous ligand of the glycine site of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors. In glial cultures of rat cerebral cortex, D-serine is enriched in type II astrocytes and is released upon stimulation with agonists of non-N-methyl-D-aspartate glutamate ...

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

authors： Wolosker H,Sheth KN,Takahashi M,Mothet JP,Brady RO Jr,Ferris CD,Snyder SH

更新日期：1999-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Arachidonic acid (AA) metabolites derived from both cyclooxygenase (COX) and lipoxygenase (LOX) pathways transduce a variety of signals related to cell growth. Here, we report that the AA LOX pathway also functions as a critical regulator of cell survival and apoptosis. Rat Walker 256 (W256) carcinosarcoma cells expre...

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

authors： Tang DG,Chen YQ,Honn KV

更新日期：1996-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:It has often been suggested that the frequently observed Watson-Crick base-pair compensatory substitutions in RNA helical structures occur mainly through a slightly deleterious G.U intermediate state. We have scored base substitutions in a set of 82 related Drosophila species for the D1 and D2 variable domains of the ...

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

authors： Rousset F,Pélandakis M,Solignac M

更新日期：1991-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracy of computer predictions of RNA secondary structure from sequence data and free energy parameters has been increased to roughly 70%. Performance is judged by comparison with structures known from phylogenetic analysis. The algorithm also generates suboptimal structures. On average, the best structure withi...

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

authors： Jaeger JA,Turner DH,Zuker M

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the first observations of the inhibitory effect of methylation on gene activity were made almost a decade ago, the mechanism by which methyl groups affect transcription is still obscure. Here we use engineered promoters methylated in vitro in transient transfections to study the mechanism by which methylation...

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

authors： Levine A,Cantoni GL,Razin A

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pore-forming peptide amoebapore is considered part of the cytolytic armament of pathogenic Entamoeba histolytica. Amoebapore is composed of 77 amino acid residues arranged in four alpha-helical domains. For structure-function analysis, synthetic peptides were constructed corresponding to these four domains: H1 (re...

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

authors： Leippe M,Andrä J,Müller-Eberhard HJ

更新日期：1994-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the photochemical deposition of Co-based oxygen evolution catalysts on a semiconductor photoanode for use in solar oxygen evolution. In the photodeposition process, electron-hole pairs are generated in a semiconductor upon illumination and the photogenerated holes are used to oxidize Co(2+) ions t...

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

authors： Steinmiller EM,Choi KS

更新日期：2009-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:An increasing number of protein structures are found to encompass multiple folding nuclei, allowing their structures to be formed by several competing pathways. A typical example is the ribosomal protein S6, which comprises two folding nuclei (sigma1 and sigma2) defining two competing pathways in the folding energy la...

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

authors： Haglund E,Lind J,Oman T,Ohman A,Mäler L,Oliveberg M

更新日期：2009-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The signal recognition particle (SRP) is a ribonucleoprotein composed of an Alu domain and an S domain. The S domain contains unique sequence SRP RNA and four SRP proteins: SRP19, SRP54, SRP68, and SRP72. SRP interacts with ribosomes to bring translating membrane and secreted proteins to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)...

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

authors： Politz JC,Yarovoi S,Kilroy SM,Gowda K,Zwieb C,Pederson T

更新日期：2000-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared students' self-reported perception of learning with their actual learning under controlled conditions in large-enrollment introductory college physics courses taught using 1) active instruction (following best practices in the discipline) and 2) passive instruction (lectures by experienced and highly rated...

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

authors： Deslauriers L,McCarty LS,Miller K,Callaghan K,Kestin G

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinogenic 9-anthryloxirane binds covalently to calf thymus DNA and poly(dA-dT). Application of the technique for DNA sequence determination shows that acid cleavage of the modified DNA frees approximately half of the anthryl groups from the DNA. HPLC analysis indicates that an adenine adduct and the glycol derived ...

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

authors： Yang NC,Chang CW

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic resistance in bacteria has emerged as a global challenge over the past 90 years, compromising our ability to effectively treat infections. There has been a dramatic increase in antibiotic resistance-associated determinants in bacterial populations, driven by the mobility and infectious nature of such determ...

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

authors： Klemm EJ,Wong VK,Dougan G

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The human epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a key representative of tyrosine kinase receptors, ubiquitous actors in cell signaling, proliferation, differentiation, and migration. Although the receptor is well-studied, a central issue remains: How does the compositional diversity and functional diversity of th...

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

authors： Coskun Ü,Grzybek M,Drechsel D,Simons K

更新日期：2011-05-31 00:00:00