Linkage of two human pregnancy-specific beta 1-glycoprotein genes: one is associated with hydatidiform mole.

abstract：:Previous studies have shown changes in membrane properties of neurons in rat deep cerebellar nuclei (DCN) as a function of development, but due to technical difficulties in obtaining viable DCN slices from adult animals, it remains unclear whether there are learning-related alterations in the membrane properties of DC...

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

authors： Wang D,Smith-Bell CA,Burhans LB,O'Dell DE,Bell RW,Schreurs BG

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Tangier disease is a familial disorder characterized by orange tonsils, cholesterol ester deposition in reticuloendothelial cells, abnormal chylomicron remnants, and a marked reduction in high density lipoproteins. Plasma concentrations of the apolipoproteins apo-A-I and apoA-II in patients with Tangier disease are ap...

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

authors： Kay LL,Ronan R,Schaefer EJ,Brewer HB Jr

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hypoxia causes pulmonary hypertension with smooth muscle cell proliferation and matrix deposition in the wall of the pulmonary arterioles. We demonstrate here that hypoxia also induces a pronounced inflammation in the lung before the structural changes of the vessel wall. The proinflammatory action of hypoxia ...

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

authors： Minamino T,Christou H,Hsieh CM,Liu Y,Dhawan V,Abraham NG,Perrella MA,Mitsialis SA,Kourembanas S

更新日期：2001-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants require metals for essential functions ranging from respiration to photosynthesis. These metals also contribute to the nutritional value of plants for both humans and livestock. Additionally, plants have the ability to accumulate nonessential metals such as cadmium and lead, and this ability could be harnessed ...

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

authors： Rogers EE,Eide DJ,Guerinot ML

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication and transcription of viral RNA genomes rely on host-donated proteins. Qbeta virus infects Escherichia coli and replicates and transcribes its own genomic RNA by Qbeta replicase. Qbeta replicase requires the virus-encoded RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (beta-subunit), and the host-donated translational elonga...

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

authors： Takeshita D,Tomita K

更新日期：2010-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic amyloid A (AA) amyloidosis is a serious complication of chronic inflammation. Serum AA protein (SAA), an acute phase plasma protein, is deposited extracellularly as insoluble amyloid fibrils that damage tissue structure and function. Clinical AA amyloidosis is typically preceded by many years of active inflam...

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

authors： Simons JP,Al-Shawi R,Ellmerich S,Speck I,Aslam S,Hutchinson WL,Mangione PP,Disterer P,Gilbertson JA,Hunt T,Millar DJ,Minogue S,Bodin K,Pepys MB,Hawkins PN

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The laccase (benzenediol:oxygen oxidoreductase, EC 1.10.3.2) gene from Neurospora crassa was cloned and part of its nucleotide sequence corresponding to the carboxyl-terminal region of the protein has been determined. The gene was cloned by cDNA synthesis with a laccase-specific synthetic deoxyundecanucleotide as prim...

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

authors： Germann UA,Lerch K

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribozymes are RNAs that possess the dual properties of RNA sequence-specific recognition, analogous to conventional antisense molecules, and RNA substrate destruction via site-specific cleavage. The cleavage reaction is catalytic in that more than one substrate molecule is processed per ribozyme molecule. We have desi...

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

authors： Ojwang JO,Hampel A,Looney DJ,Wong-Staal F,Rappaport J

更新日期：1992-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of the dihydropyridine-sensitive Ca2+ channel was studied in transverse-tubule membranes isolated from rabbit skeletal muscle. Exposure of these membranes to either the cAMP-dependent protein kinase or a Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase resulted in a rapid phosphorylat...

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

authors： Hosey MM,Borsotto M,Lazdunski M

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NADH:quinone oxidoreductase (complex I) plays a pivotal role in cellular energy production. It employs a series of redox cofactors to couple electron transfer to the generation of a proton-motive force across the inner mitochondrial or bacterial cytoplasmic membrane. Complex I contains a noncovalently bound flavin mon...

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

authors： Yakovlev G,Reda T,Hirst J

更新日期：2007-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In the cell, proteins are synthesized from N to C terminus and begin to fold during translation. Cotranslational folding mechanisms are therefore linked to elongation rate, which varies as a function of synonymous codon usage. However, synonymous codon substitutions can affect many distinct cellular processes, which h...

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

authors： Walsh IM,Bowman MA,Soto Santarriaga IF,Rodriguez A,Clark PL

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In isogamous species of Chlamydomonas, such as Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Chlamydomonas eugametos, the sexual process involves the use of flagella agglutinins by which the gametes of compatible strains adhere through chance encounter and ultimately pair and fuse to form zygotes. In a newly described heterogamous sp...

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

authors： Starr RC,Marner FJ,Jaenicke L

更新日期：1995-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:By employing the nuclear DNA of the African rice Oryza glaberrima as a reference genome, the timing, natures, mechanisms, and specificities of recent sequence evolution in the indica and japonica subspecies of Oryza sativa were identified. The data indicate that the genome sizes of both indica and japonica have increa...

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

authors： Ma J,Bennetzen JL

更新日期：2004-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The spontaneous assembly of proteins into amyloid fibrils is a phenomenon central to many increasingly common and currently incurable human disorders, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Oligomeric species form transiently during this process and not only act as essential intermediates in the assembly of n...

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

authors： Dear AJ,Michaels TCT,Meisl G,Klenerman D,Wu S,Perrett S,Linse S,Dobson CM,Knowles TPJ

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymidine kinase-deficient mouse L cells have been transformed with plasmid DNAs carrying 8-base-pair Xho I linker insertion mutations in the coding region of the herpes simplex virus type 1 thymidine kinase gene. When the mutant plasmids are introduced individually into LTK- cells, transformation efficiencies are gre...

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

authors： Shapira G,Stachelek JL,Letsou A,Soodak LK,Liskay RM

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the extent of tyrosine phosphorylation of talin, a component of the cytoskeleton localized in the focal adhesions and, therefore, a potential substrate of p60v-src, the transforming protein of Rous sarcoma virus. p60v-src is a tyrosine kinase that induces high levels of phosphotyrosine and the disorga...

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

authors： Pasquale EB,Maher PA,Singer SJ

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The with-no-lysine (K) (WNK) signaling pathway to STE20/SPS1-related proline- and alanine-rich kinase (SPAK) and oxidative stress-responsive 1 (OSR1) kinase is an important mediator of cell volume and ion transport. SPAK and OSR1 associate with upstream kinases WNK 1-4, substrates, and other proteins through their C-t...

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

authors： Taylor CA 4th,An SW,Kankanamalage SG,Stippec S,Earnest S,Trivedi AT,Yang JZ,Mirzaei H,Huang CL,Cobb MH

更新日期：2018-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic crossing-over was used in heterozygous Drosophila melanogaster to effect clonal homozygosity for three mutants (h, Hw, ac). In these mutants, one type of process, chaetae, replaces another type, trichomes, in specific patterns on the adult fly. Heterozygous individuals were irradiated at different larval or pu...

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

authors： Garcia-Bellido A,Merriam JR

更新日期：1971-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yellow, orange, and red coloration is a fundamental aspect of avian diversity and serves as an important signal in mate choice and aggressive interactions. This coloration is often produced through the deposition of diet-derived carotenoid pigments, yet the mechanisms of carotenoid uptake and transport are not well-un...

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

authors： Toomey MB,Lopes RJ,Araújo PM,Johnson JD,Gazda MA,Afonso S,Mota PG,Koch RE,Hill GE,Corbo JC,Carneiro M

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnitudes of the larger Soviet underground nuclear weapons tests from the start of the Threshold Test Ban Treaty in 1976 through 1982 are determined for short- and long-period seismic waves. Yields are calculated from the surface wave magnitude for those explosions at the eastern Kazakh test site that triggered a sma...

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

authors： Sykes LR,Cifuentes IL

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of many of the uncharacterized open reading frames discovered by genomic sequencing can be determined at the level of expressed gene products, the proteome. However, identifying the cognate gene from minute amounts of protein has been one of the major problems in molecular biology. Using yeast as an examp...

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

authors： Shevchenko A,Jensen ON,Podtelejnikov AV,Sagliocco F,Wilm M,Vorm O,Mortensen P,Shevchenko A,Boucherie H,Mann M

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The human rhodopsin gene is the locus for numerous alleles linked to the neurodegenerative disease retinitis pigmentosa. To facilitate the study of retinal degeneration and to test reagents designed to alter the structure and function of this gene, we have developed strains of mice whose native rhodopsin gene has been...

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

authors： Chan F,Bradley A,Wensel TG,Wilson JH

更新日期：2004-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play key roles in detecting pathogens and initiating inflammatory responses that, subsequently, prime specific adaptive responses. Several mechanisms control TLR activity to avoid excessive inflammation and consequent immunopathology, including the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10. Recently,...

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

authors： Curtale G,Mirolo M,Renzi TA,Rossato M,Bazzoni F,Locati M

更新日期：2013-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The role played by oligodendrocytes (OLs), the myelinating cells of the CNS, during brain development has not been fully explored. We have addressed this question by inducing a temporal and reversible ablation of OLs on postnatal CNS development. OL ablation in newborn mice leads to a profound alteration in the struct...

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

authors： Collin L,Usiello A,Erbs E,Mathis C,Borrelli E

更新日期：2004-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The tissue-specific transcriptional coactivator OCA-B is required for antigen-dependent B cell differentiation events, including germinal center formation. However, the identity of OCA-B target genes involved in this process is unknown. This study has used large-scale cDNA arrays to monitor changes in gene expression ...

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

authors： Kim U,Siegel R,Ren X,Gunther CS,Gaasterland T,Roeder RG

更新日期：2003-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the genomic sequence at the site of insertion in 2,266 unselected P element insertion events. Estimating physical properties of the genomic DNA at these insertion sites-such as base composition, bendability, A-philicity, protein-induced deformability, and B-DNA twist-revealed that they differ significant...

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

authors： Liao GC,Rehm EJ,Rubin GM

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of adult stem cells (SCs) is fundamental for organ maintenance and tissue regeneration. On the body surface, different ectodermal organs exhibit distinctive modes of regeneration and the dynamics of their SC homeostasis remain to be unraveled. A slow cycling characteristic has been used to identify SCs in h...

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

authors： Leung Y,Kandyba E,Chen YB,Ruffins S,Chuong CM,Kobielak K

更新日期：2014-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The avian predentary is a small skeletal structure located rostral to the paired dentaries found only in Mesozoic ornithuromorphs. The evolution and function of this enigmatic element is unknown. Skeletal tissues forming the predentary and the lower jaws in the basal ornithuromorph Yanornis martini are identified usin...

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

authors： Bailleul AM,Li Z,O'Connor J,Zhou Z

更新日期：2019-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) is a potent endogenous activator of the cell death pathway and functions by activating the cell surface death receptors 4 and 5 (DR4 and DR5). TRAIL is nontoxic in vivo and preferentially kills neoplastically transformed cells over normal cells by an unde...

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

authors： Chinnaiyan AM,Prasad U,Shankar S,Hamstra DA,Shanaiah M,Chenevert TL,Ross BD,Rehemtulla A

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:How subduction-the sinking of cold lithospheric plates into the mantle-is initiated is one of the key mysteries in understanding why Earth has plate tectonics. One of the favored locations for subduction triggering is at passive margins, where sea floor abuts continental margins. Such passive margin collapse is proble...

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

authors： Bercovici D,Mulyukova E

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00