Compression of the DNA substrate by a viral packaging motor is supported by removal of intercalating dye during translocation.

abstract：:The complexity and specificity of metazoan transcription are determined by combinatorial control of the composition and activity of regulatory complexes. To investigate the basis of this specificity, we focused on the glucocorticoid receptor (GR), a single regulatory factor that integrates multiple signals to give ris...

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

authors： Chen SH,Masuno K,Cooper SB,Yamamoto KR

更新日期：2013-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The question was addressed whether the risk of cancer of an individual in a heterogeneous population can be predicted on the basis of measurable biochemical and biological variables postulated to be associated with the process of chemical carcinogenesis. Using the skin tumor model with outbred male NMRI mice, the late...

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

authors： Fischer WH,Lutz WK

更新日期：1995-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the importance of the thrombin substrate recognition exosite for fibrinogen binding in the formation of both arterial and venous thrombi, we evaluated the antithrombotic effects of the tyrosine-sulfated dodecapeptide from residues 53-64 of hirudin (H peptide) in a nonhuman primate model. This peptide was ...

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

authors： Cadroy Y,Maraganore JM,Hanson SR,Harker LA

更新日期：1991-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis, has become an attractive new model organism for comparative genomics and evolutionary developmental biology. Over the last few years, many genes have been isolated and their expression patterns studied to gain insight into their function. More recently, functional tools have be...

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

authors： Renfer E,Amon-Hassenzahl A,Steinmetz PR,Technau U

更新日期：2010-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:During neurogenesis of the mammalian neocortex, neural progenitor cells divide to generate daughter cells that either become neurons or remain as progenitor cells. The mouse numb (m-numb) gene encodes a membrane-associated protein that is asymmetrically localized to the apical cell membrane of dividing cortical progen...

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

authors： Zhong W,Jiang MM,Schonemann MD,Meneses JJ,Pedersen RA,Jan LY,Jan YN

更新日期：2000-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The Landau spectrum of bismuth is complex and includes many angle-dependent lines in the extreme quantum limit. The adequacy of single-particle theory to describe this spectrum in detail has been an open issue. Here, we present a study of angle-resolved Nernst effect in bismuth, which maps the angle-resolved Landau sp...

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

authors： Zhu Z,Fauqué B,Malone L,Antunes AB,Fuseya Y,Behnia K

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous work [Levinger, L. & Varshavsky, A. (1982) Cell 28, 375-385] has shown that D1, a 50-kilodalton chromosomal protein of Drosophila melanogaster, is specifically associated with isolated nucleosomes that contain a complex A + T-rich satellite DNA with buoyant density of 1.688 g/ml. We show here that D1 is a...

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

authors： Levinger L,Varshavsky A

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three of the four deoxynucleoside kinases required for growth of Lactobacillus acidophilus R-26 exist as heterodimeric pairs specific for deoxyadenosine (dAK) and deoxycytidine (dCK) or dAK and deoxyguanosine (dGK). However, only two tandem genes, dak/dgk, are found, and are expressed only as dAK/dGK in transformed Es...

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

authors： Ma N,Ikeda S,Guo S,Fieno A,Park I,Grimme S,Ikeda T,Ives DH

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria commonly grow in densely populated surface-bound communities, termed biofilms, where they gain benefits including superior access to nutrients and resistance to environmental insults. The secretion of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), which bind bacterial collectives together, is ubiquitously associat...

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

authors： Nadell CD,Bassler BL

更新日期：2011-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously found that a minor fraction of single-stranded DNA (ss-DNA) isolated from native nuclear DNA of normal chicken embryonic cells and cells of other species hybridized with bulk nuclear DNA or cellular RNA in great excess. At least one-third of ss-DNA belonging to the nonrepetitious part of the cell genome ...

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

authors： Leibovitch SA,Tapiero H,Harel J

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of DNA toroids made of individual DNA molecules of various lengths (3,000 to 55,000 bp) was studied, by using partially filled bacteriophage capsids in conjunction with cryoelectron microscopy. The tetravalent cation spermine was diffused through the capsid to condense the DNA under conditions that were ...

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

authors： Leforestier A,Livolant F

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence indicates that epigenetic alterations contribute to exacerbated activation or deregulation of the mechanisms that maintain tolerance to self-antigens in patients with lupus, a systemic autoimmune disease that can be triggered by medications taken to treat a variety of conditions. Here, we tested ...

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

authors： Mazari L,Ouarzane M,Zouali M

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimation of gene diversity (heterozygosity) at 1442 single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) loci in an ethnically diverse sample of humans revealed consistently reduced gene diversities at SNP loci causing amino acid changes, particularly those causing amino acid changes predicted to be disruptive to protein structure....

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

authors： Hughes AL,Packer B,Welch R,Bergen AW,Chanock SJ,Yeager M

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastasis of solid tumors is a key determinant of cancer patient survival. Targeting micrometastases using nanoparticles could offer a way to stop metastatic tumor growth before it causes excessive patient morbidity. However, nanoparticle delivery to micrometastases is difficult to investigate because micrometastases...

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

authors： Kingston BR,Syed AM,Ngai J,Sindhwani S,Chan WCW

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) are synthases required to build the essential peptidoglycan (PG) cell wall surrounding most bacterial cells. The mechanisms regulating the activity of these enzymes to control PG synthesis remain surprisingly poorly defined given their status as key antibiotic targets. Several years ...

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

authors： Greene NG,Fumeaux C,Bernhardt TG

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The deadly neurotoxin tetrodotoxin (TTX) is found in a variety of animal phyla and, because of its toxicity, is most often assumed to deter predation. On the tropical Pacific island of Guam, we found an undescribed flatworm (planocerid sp. 1) that contains high levels of TTX and its analogs. Through ecological experim...

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

authors： Ritson-Williams R,Yotsu-Yamashita M,Paul VJ

更新日期：2006-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II contains two subunits, alpha (Mr 50,000) and beta (Mr 60,000/58,000), both of which undergo Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent autophosphorylation. In the present study, we have studied the mechanism of this autophosphorylation reaction and its effect on the activity of the enzyme. B...

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

authors： Lai Y,Nairn AC,Greengard P

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distributions of sulfur isotopes in geological samples would provide a record of atmospheric composition if the mechanism producing the isotope effects could be described quantitatively. We determined the UV absorption spectra of 32SO2, 33SO2, and 34SO2 and use them to interpret the geological record. The calculated i...

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

authors： Ueno Y,Johnson MS,Danielache SO,Eskebjerg C,Pandey A,Yoshida N

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to the challenges of cancer chemotherapeutics, including poor physicochemical properties, low tumor targeting, insufficient tumor cell internalization/bioavailability, and side effects, we developed a unique tumor-targeted micellar drug-delivery platform. Using paclitaxel as a model therapeutic, a nanoprep...

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

authors： Zhu L,Wang T,Perche F,Taigind A,Torchilin VP

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that polyelectrolyte complexes and coacervates can form on mixing oppositely charged polyelectrolytes in aqueous solutions, due to mainly electrostatic attraction between the oppositely charged polymers. Here, we report the first (to the best of our knowledge) complexation and coacervation of two posi...

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

authors： Kim S,Huang J,Lee Y,Dutta S,Yoo HY,Jung YM,Jho Y,Zeng H,Hwang DS

更新日期：2016-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The HLA class II-associated invariant chain (Ii)-derived peptide (CLIP) occupies the peptide binding groove during assembly in the endoplasmic reticulum, travels with HLA class II to endosomal compartments, and is subsequently released to allow binding of antigenic peptides. We investigated whether the exchange of CLI...

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

authors： van Bergen J,Schoenberger SP,Verreck F,Amons R,Offringa R,Koning F

更新日期：1997-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of metabolic depletion on the maturation-associated loss of membrane functions has been studied by using sheep reticulocytes incubated in vitro at 37 degrees C for periods up to 41 hr. ATP was either maintained with glucose, adenosine plus inosine, or depleted with 2-deoxyglucose plus arsenate. Two membrane...

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

authors： Weigensberg AM,Blostein R

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription factor TFIID consists of TATA binding protein (TBP) and at least eight TBP-associated factors (TAFs). As TAFs are required for activated but not basal transcription, we have proposed that TAFs act as coactivators to mediate signals between activators and the basal transcription machinery. Here we report ...

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

authors： Klemm RD,Goodrich JA,Zhou S,Tjian R

更新日期：1995-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissues from rhesus monkeys were screened by PCR for the presence of sequences homologous to known adeno-associated virus (AAV) serotypes 1-6. DNA spanning entire rep-cap ORFs from two novel AAVs, called AAV7 and AAV8, were isolated. Sequence comparisons among these and previously described AAVs revealed the greatest ...

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

authors： Gao GP,Alvira MR,Wang L,Calcedo R,Johnston J,Wilson JM

更新日期：2002-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Global change drivers (GCDs) are expected to alter community structure and consequently, the services that ecosystems provide. Yet, few experimental investigations have examined effects of GCDs on plant community structure across multiple ecosystem types, and those that do exist present conflicting patterns. In an unp...

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

authors： Komatsu KJ,Avolio ML,Lemoine NP,Isbell F,Grman E,Houseman GR,Koerner SE,Johnson DS,Wilcox KR,Alatalo JM,Anderson JP,Aerts R,Baer SG,Baldwin AH,Bates J,Beierkuhnlein C,Belote RT,Blair J,Bloor JMG,Bohlen PJ,Bork EW

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The state-to-state transfer of rotational and vibrational energy has been studied for S1 glyoxal (CHOCHO) in collisions with D2, N2, CO and C2H4 using crossed molecular beams. A laser is used to pump glyoxal seeded in He to its S1 zero point level with zero angular momentum about its top axis (K' = 0). The inelastic s...

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

authors： Parmenter CS,Clegg SM,Krajnovich DJ,Lu S

更新日期：1997-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Injection of rat kidney cortex mRNA into Xenopus laevis oocytes leads to a stimulation of Na(+)-dependent SO4(2-) uptake. Based on this information, we have isolated from a corresponding library a cDNA (NaSi-1) that is most likely related to a Na+/SO4(2-) cotransport system. NaSi-1 cRNA leads in a time- and dose-depen...

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

authors： Markovich D,Forgo J,Stange G,Biber J,Murer H

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen plays a critical role in many physiological processes and exerts profound effects on behavior by regulating neuronal excitability. While estrogen has been established to exert effects on dendritic morphology and excitatory neurotransmission its role in regulating neuronal inhibition is poorly understood. Fast...

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

authors： Mukherjee J,Cardarelli RA,Cantaut-Belarif Y,Deeb TZ,Srivastava DP,Tyagarajan SK,Pangalos MN,Triller A,Maguire J,Brandon NJ,Moss SJ

更新日期：2017-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent sequencing efforts have led to estimates of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) genome-wide intrahost diversity that rival those of persistent RNA viruses [Renzette N, Bhattacharjee B, Jensen JD, Gibson L, Kowalik TF (2011) PLoS Pathog 7:e1001344]. Here, we deep sequence HCMV genomes recovered from single and longitud...

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

authors： Cudini J,Roy S,Houldcroft CJ,Bryant JM,Depledge DP,Tutill H,Veys P,Williams R,Worth AJJ,Tamuri AU,Goldstein RA,Breuer J

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomic sequences encoding the human lysosomal acid lipase/cholesteryl esterase (sterol esterase; EC 3.1.1.13) have been isolated and sequenced, and the information has been used to identify mutations in both alleles of the gene from a patient with Wolman disease, an autosomal recessive lysosomal lipid storage dis...

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

authors： Anderson RA,Byrum RS,Coates PM,Sando GN

更新日期：1994-03-29 00:00:00