Plant mating system transitions drive the macroevolution of defense strategies.

abstract：:Tooth decay (dental caries) is a widespread human disease caused by microbial biofilms. Streptococcus mutans, a biofilm-former, has been consistently associated with severe childhood caries; however, how this bacterium is spatially organized with other microorganisms in the oral cavity to promote disease remains unkno...

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

authors： Kim D,Barraza JP,Arthur RA,Hara A,Lewis K,Liu Y,Scisci EL,Hajishengallis E,Whiteley M,Koo H

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence-specific gene silencing by short hairpin (sh) RNAs has recently emerged as an indispensable tool for understanding gene function and a promising avenue for drug discovery. However, a wider biomedical use of this approach is hindered by the lack of straightforward methods for achieving uniform expression of sh...

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

authors： Khandelia P,Yap K,Makeyev EV

更新日期：2011-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is now more than two decades since it was first reported that the imidazobenzodiazepine Ro15-4513 reverses behavioral alcohol effects, the molecular target(s) of Ro15-4513 and the mechanism of alcohol antagonism remain elusive. Here, we show that Ro15-4513 blocks the alcohol enhancement on recombinant "ext...

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

authors： Wallner M,Hanchar HJ,Olsen RW

更新日期：2006-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular targeting of the two receptor interaction domains of the epigenetic repressor silencing mediator of retinoid and thyroid hormone receptors (SMRT(mRID)) produced a transplantable skeletal syndrome that reduced radial bone growth, increased numbers of bone-resorbing periosteal osteoclasts, and increased bone f...

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

authors： Hong SH,Dvorak-Ewell M,Stevens HY,Barish GD,Castro GL,Nofsinger R,Frangos JA,Shoback D,Evans RM

更新日期：2013-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Split GFPs have been widely applied for monitoring protein-protein interactions by expressing GFPs as two or more constituent parts linked to separate proteins that only fluoresce on complementing with one another. Although this complementation is typically irreversible, it has been shown previously that light acceler...

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

authors： Lin CY,Both J,Do K,Boxer SG

更新日期：2017-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The four-helical bundle soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive fusion protein (NSF) attachment protein receptor (SNARE) complex that mediates intracellular membrane fusion events contains a highly conserved ionic layer at the center of an otherwise hydrophobic core. This layer has an undetermined function; it consists of ...

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

authors： Scales SJ,Yoo BY,Scheller RH

更新日期：2001-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide-protein interactions are important mediators of cellular-signaling events. Consensus binding motifs (also known as short linear motifs) within these contacts underpin molecular recognition, yet have poor pharmacological properties as discrete species. Here, we present methods to transform intact peptides into ...

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

authors： Lawson KV,Rose TE,Harran PG

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the ribosome is a very general catalyst, it cannot synthesize all protein sequences equally well. For example, ribosomes stall on the secretion monitor (SecM) leader peptide to regulate expression of a downstream gene. Using a genetic selection in Escherichia coli, we identified additional nascent peptide mot...

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

authors： Woolstenhulme CJ,Parajuli S,Healey DW,Valverde DP,Petersen EN,Starosta AL,Guydosh NR,Johnson WE,Wilson DN,Buskirk AR

更新日期：2013-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Two major problems have to be solved in studies of genes near breakpoints of chromosome abnormalities and in large-scale genomic mapping projects: (i) the identification of genes within the large amount on nontranscribed DNA and (ii) the determination of the tissues in which the identified genes are transcribed. In si...

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

authors： Boehm T,Gonzalez-Sarmiento R,Kennedy M,Rabbitts TH

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional recovery after stroke has been associated with brain plasticity; however, the exact relationship is unknown. We performed behavioral tests, functional MRI, and histology in a rat stroke model to assess the correlation between temporal changes in sensorimotor function, brain activation patterns, cerebral isc...

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

authors： Dijkhuizen RM,Ren J,Mandeville JB,Wu O,Ozdag FM,Moskowitz MA,Rosen BR,Finklestein SP

更新日期：2001-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The vaccinia virus early transcription factor (VETF), a heterodimeric protein composed of 82- and 70-kDa subunits, interacts with viral early promoters at both a sequence-specific core region upstream and a sequence-independent region downstream of the RNA start site. To determine the VETF subunit-promoter interaction...

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

authors： Cassetti MA,Moss B

更新日期：1996-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Computational and biochemical studies implicate the blue-light sensor cryptochrome (CRY) as an endogenous light-dependent magnetosensor enabling migratory birds to navigate using the Earth's magnetic field. Validation of such a mechanism has been hampered by the absence of structures of vertebrate CRYs that have funct...

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

authors： Zoltowski BD,Chelliah Y,Wickramaratne A,Jarocha L,Karki N,Xu W,Mouritsen H,Hore PJ,Hibbs RE,Green CB,Takahashi JS

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-rings of ATP synthases consist of individual c-subunits, all of which harbor a conserved motif of repetitive glycine residues (GxGxGxG) important for tight transmembrane α-helix packing. The c-ring stoichiometry determines the number of ions transferred during enzyme operation and has a direct impact on the ion-...

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

authors： Preiss L,Klyszejko AL,Hicks DB,Liu J,Fackelmayer OJ,Yildiz Ö,Krulwich TA,Meier T

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-mitochondria encounter structure (ERMES) comprises mitochondrial distribution and morphology 12 (Mdm12), maintenance of mitochondrial morphology 1 (Mmm1), Mdm34, and Mdm10 and mediates physical membrane contact sites and nonvesicular lipid trafficking between the ER and mitochondria in y...

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

authors： Jeong H,Park J,Jun Y,Lee C

更新日期：2017-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the role of APP and PSEN genes in genetic Alzheimer's disease (AD) cases is well established, fairly little is known about the molecular mechanisms affecting Abeta generation in sporadic AD. Deficiency in Abeta clearance is certainly a possibility, but increased expression of proteins like APP or BACE1/beta-s...

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

authors： Hébert SS,Horré K,Nicolaï L,Papadopoulou AS,Mandemakers W,Silahtaroglu AN,Kauppinen S,Delacourte A,De Strooper B

更新日期：2008-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired regulatory T-cell function results in a severe chronic autoimmune disease affecting multiple organs in Scurfy mice and humans with the immune dysregulation, polyendocrinopathy, enteropathy, X-linked (IPEX) syndrome. Previous studies have shown that T helper cells but not cytotoxic T cells are critical for the...

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

authors： Aschermann S,Lehmann CH,Mihai S,Schett G,Dudziak D,Nimmerjahn F

更新日期：2013-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here direct evidence for the preservation of a transcriptional initiation sequence in a eukaryotic rRNA precursor: the 5'-end group for precursor to 17S rRNA (p17S RNA) from Dictyostelium discoideum is identified as the triphosphate residue pppA-. We also show that mature 5S RNA form Dictyostelium bears a d...

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

authors： Batts-Young B,Lodish HF

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although malignant astrocytomas are a leading cause of cancer-related death in children, rational therapeutic strategies are lacking. We previously identified activating mutations of v-raf murine sarcoma viral oncogene homolog B1 (BRAF) (BRAF(T1799A) encoding BRAF(V600E)) in association with homozygous cyclin-dependen...

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

authors： Huillard E,Hashizume R,Phillips JJ,Griveau A,Ihrie RA,Aoki Y,Nicolaides T,Perry A,Waldman T,McMahon M,Weiss WA,Petritsch C,James CD,Rowitch DH

更新日期：2012-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Liddle syndrome is a mendelian form of hypertension characterized by constitutively elevated renal Na reabsorption that can result from activating mutations in the beta or gamma subunit of the epithelial Na channel. All reported mutations have deleted the last 45-76 normal amino acids from the cytoplasmic C terminus o...

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

authors： Hansson JH,Schild L,Lu Y,Wilson TA,Gautschi I,Shimkets R,Nelson-Williams C,Rossier BC,Lifton RP

更新日期：1995-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that DNA methyltransferase (Dnmt) 1 is required for maintenance of bulk DNA methylation and is essential for mouse development. However, somatic disruption of DNMT1 in the human cancer cell line HCT116 was not lethal and caused only minor decreases in methylation. Here, we report the identi...

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

authors： Egger G,Jeong S,Escobar SG,Cortez CC,Li TW,Saito Y,Yoo CB,Jones PA,Liang G

更新日期：2006-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNA-34a (miR-34a) is the most highly elevated hepatic miR in obese mice and is also substantially elevated in patients who have steatosis, but its role in obesity and metabolic dysfunction remains unclear. After a meal, FGF19 is secreted from the ileum; binds to a hepatic membrane receptor complex, FGF19 receptor...

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

authors： Fu T,Choi SE,Kim DH,Seok S,Suino-Powell KM,Xu HE,Kemper JK

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) family has recently expanded by the identification and cloning of three additional members, namely VEGF-B, VEGF-C, and VEGF-D. In this study we demonstrate that VEGF-B binds selectively to VEGF receptor-1/Flt-1. This binding can be blocked by excess VEGF, indicating that t...

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

authors： Olofsson B,Korpelainen E,Pepper MS,Mandriota SJ,Aase K,Kumar V,Gunji Y,Jeltsch MM,Shibuya M,Alitalo K,Eriksson U

更新日期：1998-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous attempts to express functional DNA cytosine methyltransferase (EC 2.1.1.37) in cells transfected with the available Dnmt cDNAs have met with little or no success. We show that the published Dnmt sequence encodes an amino terminal-truncated protein that is tolerated only at very low levels when stably expresse...

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

authors： Tucker KL,Talbot D,Lee MA,Leonhardt H,Jaenisch R

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Double immunofluorescent labeling experiments for lysosomes and either microtubules or vimentin intermediate filaments in cultured well-spread fibroblasts show a remarkable degree of superposition of the lysosomes and the microtubules. Under two different sets of conditions where the microtubules and intermediate fila...

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

authors： Collot M,Louvard D,Singer SJ

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diverse motivations for preserving nature both inspire and hinder its conservation. Optimal conservation strategies may differ radically depending on the objective. For example, creating nature reserves may prevent extinctions through protecting severely threatened species, whereas incentivizing farmland hedgerows may...

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

authors： Karp DS,Mendenhall CD,Callaway E,Frishkoff LO,Kareiva PM,Ehrlich PR,Daily GC

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scleroderma is a chronic systemic disease that leads to fibrosis of affected organs. Transforming growth factor (TGF) beta has been implicated in the pathogenesis of scleroderma. Smad proteins are signaling transducers downstream from TGF-beta receptors. Three families of Smads have been identified: (i) receptor-regul...

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

authors： Dong C,Zhu S,Wang T,Yoon W,Li Z,Alvarez RJ,ten Dijke P,White B,Wigley FM,Goldschmidt-Clermont PJ

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual development is thought to be completed at an early age. We suggest that the maturation of the visual brain is not homogeneous: functions with greater need for early availability, such as visuomotor control, mature earlier, and the development of other visual functions may extend well into childhood. We found si...

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

authors： Kovács I,Kozma P,Fehér A,Benedek G

更新日期：1999-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblasts can be reprogrammed to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) by application of transcription factors octamer-binding protein 4 (Oct4), SRY-box containing gene 2 (Sox2), Kruppel-like factor 4 (Klf4), and c-Myelocytomatosis oncogene (c-Myc) (OSKM), but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we repo...

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

authors： Wang G,Guo X,Hong W,Liu Q,Wei T,Lu C,Gao L,Ye D,Zhou Y,Chen J,Wang J,Wu M,Liu H,Kang J

更新日期：2013-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A single intravenous (i.v.) injection of the water-soluble mammary carcinogen N-nitroso-N-methylurea (NMU; 35 mg/kg of body weight) elicited cancer of the breast in young female rats of two strains in the following incidence: Long-Evans strain, 4%; Sprague-Dawley strain, 70%. In sisters of these rats, a set of 5 i.v. ...

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

authors： Huggins CB,Ueda N,Wiessler M

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selection of aptamers from nucleic acid libraries by in vitro evolution represents a powerful method of identifying high-affinity ligands for a broad range of molecular targets. Nevertheless, a sizeable fraction of proteins remain difficult targets due to inherently limited chemical diversity of nucleic acids. We have...

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

authors： Davies DR,Gelinas AD,Zhang C,Rohloff JC,Carter JD,O'Connell D,Waugh SM,Wolk SK,Mayfield WS,Burgin AB,Edwards TE,Stewart LJ,Gold L,Janjic N,Jarvis TC

更新日期：2012-12-04 00:00:00