Positive and negative feedback loops in the p53 and mRNA 3' processing pathways.

abstract：:The maspin protein has tumor suppressor activity in breast and prostate cancers. It inhibits cell motility and invasion in vitro and tumor growth and metastasis in nude mice. Maspin is structurally a member of the serpin (serine protease inhibitors) superfamily but deviates somewhat from classical serpins. We find tha...

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

authors： Sheng S,Truong B,Fredrickson D,Wu R,Pardee AB,Sager R

更新日期：1998-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The core enzyme of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase acquires essential promoter recognition and transcription initiation activities by binding one of several sigma subunits. To characterize the proximity between sigma70, the major sigma for transcription of the growth-related genes, and the core enzyme subunits (alpha2...

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

authors： Owens JT,Miyake R,Murakami K,Chmura AJ,Fujita N,Ishihama A,Meares CF

更新日期：1998-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Microstructural, δ(13)C isotope and C/N ratio investigations were conducted on excavated material from the black Younger Dryas boundary in Lommel, Belgium, aiming for a characterisation of the carbon content and structures. Cubic diamond nanoparticles are found in large numbers. The larger ones with diameters around o...

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

authors： Tian H,Schryvers D,Claeys P

更新日期：2011-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor-beta (TGFbeta) signaling has been shown to play a role in cardiac development as well as in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease. Prior studies have suggested a relationship between cholesterol metabolism and TGFbeta signaling. Here we demonstrate that induction of the cholesterol meta...

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

authors： Park HJ,Galper JB

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Peace River is one of the few shocked members of the L-chondrites clan that contains both high-pressure polymorphs of olivine, ringwoodite and wadsleyite, in diverse textures and settings in fragments entrained in shock-melt veins. Among these settings are complete olivine porphyritic chondrules. We encountered few sq...

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

authors： Miyahara M,El Goresy A,Ohtani E,Nagase T,Nishijima M,Vashaei Z,Ferroir T,Gillet P,Dubrovinsky L,Simionovici A

更新日期：2008-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:3H-Labeled complementary DNA specific for the envelope glycoprotein (env) gene of avian leukosis-sarcoma viruses was isolated by selective nucleic acid hybridization techniques, and used to analyze the expression of the endogenous provirus. The endogenous provirus in certain cell types termed chicken helper factor pos...

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

authors： Hayward WS,Hanafusa H

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic analyses of patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) have identified significant contribution from mutations affecting cilia genes and chromatin remodeling genes; however, the mechanism(s) connecting chromatin remodeling to CHD is unknown. Histone H2B monoubiquitination (H2Bub1) is catalyzed by the RNF20 c...

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

authors： Robson A,Makova SZ,Barish S,Zaidi S,Mehta S,Drozd J,Jin SC,Gelb BD,Seidman CE,Chung WK,Lifton RP,Khokha MK,Brueckner M

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that the stimulation of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) brought about by tumor necrosis factor alpha and phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate can be inhibited by adding N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC). NAC, which replenishes intracellular glutathione, effectively inhibits the tumor necrosis factor alpha- or phorbol es...

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

authors： Roederer M,Staal FJ,Raju PA,Ela SW,Herzenberg LA,Herzenberg LA

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The topology of the tight junction is probed by introducing dipicrylamine (dpa-), a lipid-soluble anion, into the membranes of hepatocyte pairs in culture. Once partitioned into the membrane, dpa- ions are free to move in the hydrophobic core of the membrane, where their mobile charges greatly increase membrane capaci...

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

authors： Turin L,Béhé P,Plonsky I,Dunina-Barkovskaya A

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sialic acid-containing glycosphingolipids, i.e., gangliosides, constitute a major component of neuronal cells and are thought to be essential for brain function. UDP-glucose:ceramide glucosyltransferase (Ugcg) catalyzes the initial step of glycosphingolipid (GSL) biosynthesis. To gain insight into the role of GSLs in ...

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

authors： Jennemann R,Sandhoff R,Wang S,Kiss E,Gretz N,Zuliani C,Martin-Villalba A,Jäger R,Schorle H,Kenzelmann M,Bonrouhi M,Wiegandt H,Gröne HJ

更新日期：2005-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Microinjection of progesterone dissolved in paraffin oil induces the reinitiation of meiotic maturation in the Xenopus oocyte; 50% maturation is obtained when 50 nl of a 50 microM solution is microinjected into the oocyte. The kinetics of the response to microinjected progesterone are similar to the kinetics of respon...

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

authors： Tso J,Thibier C,Mulner O,Ozon R

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In cultures of spleen cells from normal mice, recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) supported the formation of multipotential blast cell colonies. Serial replating of the blast cell colonies in the presence of G-CSF, however, failed to demonstrate any direct effect of G-CSF on murine multipot...

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

authors： Ikebuchi K,Clark SC,Ihle JN,Souza LM,Ogawa M

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human speech comprehension is remarkable for its immediacy and rapidity. The listener interprets an incrementally delivered auditory input, millisecond by millisecond as it is heard, in terms of complex multilevel representations of relevant linguistic and nonlinguistic knowledge. Central to this process are the neura...

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

authors： Lyu B,Choi HS,Marslen-Wilson WD,Clarke A,Randall B,Tyler LK

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene delivery to skeletal muscle is a promising strategy for the treatment of muscle disorders and for the systemic secretion of therapeutic proteins. However, present DNA delivery technologies have to be improved with regard to both the level of expression and interindividual variability. We report very efficient pla...

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

authors： Mir LM,Bureau MF,Gehl J,Rangara R,Rouy D,Caillaud JM,Delaere P,Branellec D,Schwartz B,Scherman D

更新日期：1999-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Perception and cognition in infants have been traditionally investigated using habituation paradigms, assuming that babies' memories in laboratory contexts are best constructed after numerous repetitions of the very same stimulus in the absence of interference. A crucial, yet open, question regards how babies deal wit...

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

authors： Benavides-Varela S,Siugzdaite R,Gómez DM,Macagno F,Cattarossi L,Mehler J

更新日期：2017-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified, cultured, characterized, and propagated adult pluripotent stem cells (PSC) from a subset of human peripheral blood monocytes. These cells, which in appearance resemble fibroblasts, expand in the presence of macrophage colony-stimulating factor and display monocytic and hematopoietic stem cell marke...

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

authors： Zhao Y,Glesne D,Huberman E

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The ever-increasing global need for potable water requires practical, sustainable approaches for purifying abundant alternative sources such as seawater, high-salinity processed water, or underground reservoirs. Evaporation-based solutions are of particular interest for treating high salinity water, since conventional...

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

authors： Dongare PD,Alabastri A,Neumann O,Nordlander P,Halas NJ

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The posteromedial barrel subfield of the somatosensory cortex of mice was examined histochemically for cytochrome oxidase activity (cytochrome c oxidase; ferrocytochrome c:oxygen oxidoreductase, EC 1.9.3.1). In normal mice a high enzymatic activity was found within the barrel hollows, rather than in the sides and sept...

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

authors： Wong-Riley MT,Welt C

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By selective attachment of a DNA cleavage agent to specific residues in the yeast TATA box binding protein (yTBP), we demonstrate that, in solution, yTBP binds to the TATA boxes of both the adenovirus major late promoter and the yeast CYC1 promoter with only a modest preference in orientation and binds well to several...

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

authors： Cox JM,Hayward MM,Sanchez JF,Gegnas LD,van der Zee S,Dennis JH,Sigler PB,Schepartz A

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the dynamic network of e-mail traffic and find that it develops self-organized coherent structures similar to those appearing in many nonlinear dynamic systems. Such structures are uncovered by a general information theoretic approach to dynamic networks based on the analysis of synchronization among trios of...

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

authors： Eckmann JP,Moses E,Sergi D

更新日期：2004-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB), a hypothesized impact spike at ∼3.9 Ga, is one of the major scientific concepts to emerge from Apollo-era lunar exploration. A significant portion of the evidence for the existence of the LHB comes from histograms of (40)Ar/(39)Ar "plateau" ages (i.e., regions selected on the basis of...

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

authors： Boehnke P,Harrison TM

更新日期：2016-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Neither the structure nor the function of alpha-bungarotoxin (alpha Bgtx) binding molecules in the nervous system have yet been completely defined, although it is known that some of these molecules are related to cation channels and some are not. Using an improved method of affinity chromatography, we have isolated a ...

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

authors： Gotti C,Ogando AE,Hanke W,Schlue R,Moretti M,Clementi F

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Spantide (D-Arg1-Pro2-Lys3-Pro4-Gln5-Gln6-D-Trp7-Phe8-D-Trp9-++ +Leu10-Leu11-NH2) was introduced as a tachykinin antagonist in 1984 and has served as a starting point in the design of new antagonists that have proven to be more effective and have exhibited no neurological side effects. The most remarkable and unpredic...

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

authors： Folkers K,Feng DM,Asano N,Håkanson R,Weisenfeld-Hallin Z,Leander S

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spleen from a patient with adult Gaucher's disease was shown to be deficient in a beta-glucosidase (EC 3.2.1.21) isoenzyme that has optimal activity at pH 4.0-4.3, and is stimulated by 0.02% Triton X-100. A mixture of spleen homogenates from a control and from the patient contained beta-glucosidase activity equiva...

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

authors： Ho MW,O'Brien JS

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligomerization of members of the p53 family of transcription factors (p53, p63, and p73) is essential for their distinct functions in cell-cycle control and development. To elucidate the molecular basis for tetramer formation of the various family members, we solved the crystal structure of the human p73 tetramerizat...

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

authors： Joerger AC,Rajagopalan S,Natan E,Veprintsev DB,Robinson CV,Fersht AR

更新日期：2009-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:All available complete mitochondrial genomes (21 species) are evaluated for dinucleotide over- and under-representation. The CpG dinucleotide is pervasively under-represented in all animal mitochondria, but it is of variable relative abundance in fungal, protist, and plant mitochondrial genomes. Interpretations and hy...

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

authors： Cardon LR,Burge C,Clayton DA,Karlin S

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The traditional morphologically grounded placement of South American guinea pig-like rodents (Caviomorpha) within one of the two rodent suborders, Hystricognathi, has been disputed by recent analysis of protein and nucleic acid sequence data. The Caviomorpha and possibly all Hystricognathi would be considered a separa...

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

authors： Martignetti JA,Brosius J

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial heterogeneity has important implications in health and disease. Molecular markers selectively expressed in the vasculature of different organs and tissues are currently being explored in targeted therapies with promising results in preclinical and clinical studies. Noteworthy is the role that combinatorial...

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

authors： Tang FHF,Staquicini FI,Teixeira AAR,Michaloski JS,Namiyama GM,Taniwaki NN,Setubal JC,da Silva AM,Sidman RL,Pasqualini R,Arap W,Giordano RJ

更新日期：2019-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:dAn.dTn sequences, otherwise known as A tracts, are hotspots for cis-syn thymine dimer formation and deletion mutations induced by UV light. Such A tracts are also known to bend DNA, suggesting that some biological effects of UV light might be related to the distinctive structure and properties of cis-syn dimer-contai...

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

authors： Wang CI,Taylor JS

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon mutagenesis screen is a powerful tool to facilitate the discovery of cancer genes that drive tumorigenesis in mouse models. In this study, we sought to identify genes that functionally cooperate with sonic hedgehog signaling to initiate medulloblastoma (MB), a tumor of the cerebellu...

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

authors： Genovesi LA,Ng CG,Davis MJ,Remke M,Taylor MD,Adams DJ,Rust AG,Ward JM,Ban KH,Jenkins NA,Copeland NG,Wainwright BJ

更新日期：2013-11-12 00:00:00