Probing the relative orientation of molecules bound to DNA through controlled interference using second-harmonic generation.

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila, the causal agent of Legionnaires' disease, is an intracellular parasite and invades and proliferates within different eukaryotic cells, including human alveolar macrophages. After several 100-fold multiplication within host cells, the pathogens are released for new invasion by induction of apop...

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

authors： Belyi Y,Niggeweg R,Opitz B,Vogelsgesang M,Hippenstiel S,Wilm M,Aktories K

更新日期：2006-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:An antigen histochemically localized in the nuclei and cytoplasmic granules of normal and leukemic human myeloid cells has been identified as myeloperoxidase (MPO; EC 1.11.1.7). The localization and amount of the enzyme was determined by using a murine monoclonal antibody designated H-43-5 raised against nuclear prote...

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

authors： Murao S,Stevens FJ,Ito A,Huberman E

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gal operon of Escherichia coli is negatively regulated by repressor binding to bipartite operators separated by 11 helical turns of DNA. Synergistic binding of repressor to separate sites on DNA results in looping, with the intervening DNA as a topologically closed domain containing the two promoters. A closed DNA...

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

authors： Choy HE,Park SW,Parrack P,Adhya S

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proper initiation of transcription by RNA polymerase II requires the TATA-consensus-binding transcription factor TFIID. A cDNA clone encoding the Drosophila TFIID protein has been isolated and characterized. The deduced amino acid sequence reveals an open reading frame of 353 residues. The carboxyl-terminal 180 amino ...

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

authors： Muhich ML,Iida CT,Horikoshi M,Roeder RG,Parker CS

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controversy remains over whether the cancer stem cell (CSC) theory applies to all tumors. To determine whether cells within a highly aggressive solid tumor are stochastically or hierarchically organized, we combined a reporter system where the nucleostemin (NS) promoter drives GFP expression (termed NS-GFP) with a mou...

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

authors： Tamase A,Muraguchi T,Naka K,Tanaka S,Kinoshita M,Hoshii T,Ohmura M,Shugo H,Ooshio T,Nakada M,Sawamoto K,Onodera M,Matsumoto K,Oshima M,Asano M,Saya H,Okano H,Suda T,Hamada J,Hirao A

更新日期：2009-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is an inherited neurodegenerative disease, in which the death of mutant rod photoreceptors leads secondarily to the non-cell autonomous death of cone photoreceptors. Gene therapy is a promising treatment strategy. Unfortunately, current methods of gene delivery treat only a fraction of diseas...

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

authors： Koch SF,Duong JK,Hsu CW,Tsai YT,Lin CS,Wahl-Schott CA,Tsang SH

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of computers to simulate the functions of complex biological macromolecules is essential to achieve a microscopic description of biological processes and to model and interpret experimental data. Here we apply theoretical computational approaches to investigate the fidelity of T7 DNA polymerase, divided into d...

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

authors： Florián J,Goodman MF,Warshel A

更新日期：2005-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The hormone gibberellin (GA) is a key regulator of plant growth. Many of the components of the gibberellin signal transduction [e.g., GIBBERELLIN INSENSITIVE DWARF 1 (GID1) and DELLA], biosynthesis [e.g., GA 20-oxidase (GA20ox) and GA3ox], and deactivation pathways have been identified. Gibberellin binds its receptor,...

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

authors： Middleton AM,Úbeda-Tomás S,Griffiths J,Holman T,Hedden P,Thomas SG,Phillips AL,Holdsworth MJ,Bennett MJ,King JR,Owen MR

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The configuration of the heme-carbonyl group upon binding of carbon monoxide to sperm whale myoglobin (Mb) in crystals is evaluated on the basis of infrared spectroscopic methods. Multiplets of the totally symmetric C-O stretching mode are observed for the heme-bound ligand near 1933, 1944, and 1967 cm-1, correspondin...

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

authors： Makinen MW,Houtchens RA,Caughey WS

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Very-long-baseline interferometry images of the nuclear region of the radio galaxy Cygnus A reveal a pronounced "core" and a knotty jet and counterjet. The knots are moving away from the core at apparent speeds which are subluminal for h = 1 [h = H0/100 km.s-1.Mpc-1;1 parsec (pc) = 3.09 x 10(16)m] and about c for h = ...

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

authors： Bartel N,Sorathia B,Bietenholz MF,Carilli CL,Diamond P

更新日期：1995-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:CD2 (T11, sheep erythrocyte receptor) is a surface antigen of the human T-lymphocyte lineage. cDNA clones encoding CD2 have been isolated by using the purified, denatured CD2 to raise a rat antiserum. Positive clones were recognized in a phage lambda gt11 expression library prepared from the human leukemia T-cell line...

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

authors： Sewell WA,Brown MH,Dunne J,Owen MJ,Crumpton MJ

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We quantitatively analyzed, using laser scanning confocal microscopy, the three-dimensional structure of individual senile plaques in Alzheimer disease. We carried out the quantitative analysis using statistical methods to gain insights about the processes that govern Abeta peptide deposition. Our results show that pl...

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

authors： Cruz L,Urbanc B,Buldyrev SV,Christie R,Gómez-Isla T,Havlin S,McNamara M,Stanley HE,Hyman BT

更新日期：1997-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past several decades, numerous reports from disparate geographical areas have documented an increased frequency of "bleaching" in reef-forming corals. The phenomenon, triggered by increased sea surface temperatures, occurs when the cnidarian hosts digest and/or expel their intracellular, photosynthetic dino...

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

authors： Tchernov D,Kvitt H,Haramaty L,Bibby TS,Gorbunov MY,Rosenfeld H,Falkowski PG

更新日期：2011-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a major integral membrane protein from Golgi-derived coatomer-coated vesicles. This 24-kDa protein, p24, defines a family of integral membrane proteins with homologs present in yeast and humans. In addition to sequence similarity, all p24 family members contain a motif with the characteristic heptad r...

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

authors： Stamnes MA,Craighead MW,Hoe MH,Lampen N,Geromanos S,Tempst P,Rothman JE

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I multimer technology has become an indispensable immunological assay system to dissect antigen-specific cytotoxic CD8(+) T cell responses by flow cytometry. However, the development of high-throughput assay systems, in which T cell responses against a multitude of epitopes...

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

authors： Bakker AH,Hoppes R,Linnemann C,Toebes M,Rodenko B,Berkers CR,Hadrup SR,van Esch WJ,Heemskerk MH,Ovaa H,Schumacher TN

更新日期：2008-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A special methionine tRNA (tRNAi) is universally required to initiate translation. Amongst species a tRNAi structural conservation is most apparent in the anticodon and T arms of the molecule but extends into the variable loop and the 3' strand of the D stem. This suggested that they could share a similar ancestral or...

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

authors： Ganoza MC,Marliere P,Kofoid EC,Louis BG

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic studies of the white locus have shown that it has a distal region where structural mutations occur and a proximal region where regulatory mutations occur. To better understand the molecular basis of this genetic organization we have analyzed white locus transcription. A 2.7-kilobase transcript comprising 0.000...

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

authors： O'hare K,Levis R,Rubin GM

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms that cause aging are not well understood. The oxidative stress hypothesis proposes that the changes associated with aging are a consequence of random oxidative damage to biomolecules. We hypothesized that oxidation of specific proteins is critical in controlling the rate of the aging process. Utilizing ...

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

authors： Yan LJ,Levine RL,Sohal RS

更新日期：1997-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The avian neuroretina (NR) is part of the central nervous system and is composed of photoreceptors, neuronal cells, and Müller (glial) cells. These cells are derived from proliferating neuroectodermal precursors that differentiate after terminal mitosis and become organized in cell strata. Genes that are specifically ...

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

authors： Guermah M,Crisanti P,Laugier D,Dezelee P,Bidou L,Pessac B,Calothy G

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the United States, blood donors are being screened for infection with human T cell lymphotropic viruses I and II (HTLV-I/II) by serologic means, which detect antibodies to the structural proteins of these viruses. Because patients with mycosis fungoides (MF) usually do not have such antibodies even though their cel...

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

authors： Zucker-Franklin D,Pancake BA,Marmor M,Legler PM

更新日期：1997-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropomyosin is a key component of the contractile systems found in muscle and nonmuscle cells of higher eukaryotes. Based on properties common to all tropomyosins, we have purified a protein from Saccharomyces cerevisiae that resembles tropomyosins from higher cells. The yeast protein remains soluble after heat treatm...

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

authors： Liu HP,Bretscher A

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), etiologically associated with Kaposi's sarcoma, uses integrins (α3β1, αVβ3, and αVβ5) and associated signaling to enter human dermal microvascular endothelial cells (HMVEC-d), an in vivo target of infection. KSHV infection activated c-Cbl, which induced the selective tra...

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

authors： Chakraborty S,Veettil MV,Bottero V,Chandran B

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:New World tetraploid cottons (Gossypium spp.) originated through hybridization of ancestral diploid species that presently have allopatric ranges in Asia-Africa (the A genome) and the New World tropics and subtropics (the D genome). Despite intensive study, the identity of the parental diploids and the antiquity of po...

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

authors： Wendel JF

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferating 3T3 mouse fibroblasts contain higher levels of the lectin carbohydrate-binding protein 35 (CBP35) than do quiescent cultures of the same cells. An immunofluorescence study was carried out with a rabbit antiserum directed against CBP35 to map the cellular fluorescence distribution in a large population of...

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

authors： Moutsatsos IK,Wade M,Schindler M,Wang JL

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse transcriptase (RNA-directed DNA polymerase, EC 2.7.7.49) of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 has been examined with respect to the steady-state kinetics of polymerization of dNTPs into product DNA. With dNTPs as variable substrate, the kinetics of polymerization deviated from standard Michaelis-Menten kinet...

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

authors： West AB,Roberts TM,Kolodner RD

更新日期：1992-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The prefrontal cortex plays a fundamental role in the working memory functions of the cerebral cortex and is also the site of dysfunction in several neurological and psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia. Prefrontal neurons are distinguished by their capacity for sustained activity during the time a stimulus ...

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

authors： Gao WJ,Krimer LS,Goldman-Rakic PS

更新日期：2001-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cDNAs encoding two human receptors for retinoic acid (RA), RAR-alpha and RAR-beta, have been characterized recently. Synthetic peptides corresponding to the cDNA-deduced amino acid sequences unique to RAR-alpha and RAR-beta were used to generate anti-RAR-alpha antiserum (SP171) and anti-RAR-beta antisera (SP172 an...

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

authors： Gaub MP,Lutz Y,Ruberte E,Petkovich M,Brand N,Chambon P

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strength and other mechanical properties of cement and concrete rely upon the formation of calcium-silicate-hydrates (C-S-H) during cement hydration. Controlling structure and properties of the C-S-H phase is a challenge, due to the complexity of this hydration product and of the mechanisms that drive its precipitatio...

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

authors： Ioannidou K,Krakowiak KJ,Bauchy M,Hoover CG,Masoero E,Yip S,Ulm FJ,Levitz P,Pellenq RJ,Del Gado E

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:This presentation reviews Chandra's major contribution to the understanding of nearby galaxies. After a brief summary on significant advances in characterizing various types of discrete x-ray sources, the presentation focuses on the global hot gas in and around galaxies, especially normal ones like our own. The hot ga...

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

authors： Wang QD

更新日期：2010-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinylidene chromophore mutant (Y185F) of bacteriorhodopsin, in which Tyr-185 is substituted by phenylalanine, is examined and compared with wild-type bacteriorhodopsin expressed in Escherichia coli; both were reinstituted similarly in vesicles. The Y185F mutant shows (at least) two distinct spectra at neutral pH...

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

authors： Jang DJ,el-Sayed MA,Stern LJ,Mogi T,Khorana HG

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00