On the mechanism of recombination hotspot scanning during double-stranded DNA break resection.

abstract：:Inflammation is a hallmark of many diseases, such as atherosclerosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, arthritis, infectious diseases, and cancer. Although steroids and cyclooxygenase inhibitors are effective antiinflammatory therapeutical agents, they may cause serious side effects. Therefore, developing unique...

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

authors： Jeon KI,Xu X,Aizawa T,Lim JH,Jono H,Kwon DS,Abe J,Berk BC,Li JD,Yan C

更新日期：2010-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of amino acid biosynthesis genes in bacteria is often repressed when abundant supplies of the cognate amino acid are available. Repression of the Bacillus subtilis lysC gene by lysine was previously shown to occur at the level of premature termination of transcription. In this study we show that lysine dire...

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

authors： Grundy FJ,Lehman SC,Henkin TM

更新日期：2003-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic evidence indicates that the PrlA (SecY) protein of Escherichia coli functions as a membrane integrated signal sequence receptor in protein "export"--i.e., in protein translocation across (or integration into) the plasma membrane. We have raised antibodies in rabbits against two synthetic peptides representing ...

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

authors： Watanabe M,Blobel G

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the basis for the template specificities of the bacteriophage T3 and T7 RNA polymerases (EC 2.7.7.6), we determined the nucleotide sequences of six promoters recognized by the T3 RNA polymerase and compared them with the previously determined promoter sequences recognized by the bacteriophage T7 RNA polymer...

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

authors： Bailey JN,Klement JF,McAllister WT

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the proximal and distal elements of wire-frame cubes are conflated, observers perceive illusory structures that no longer behave veridically. These phenomena suggest that what we normally see depends on visual associations generated by experience. The necessity of such learning may explain why the mammalian visua...

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

authors： Purves D,Andrews TJ

更新日期：1997-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin-binding growth factor type 1 (HBGF-1; sometimes termed acidic fibroblast growth factor) is potentially an important factor in liver regeneration. HBGF-1 alone (half-maximal effect at 60 pM) stimulated hepatocyte DNA synthesis and bound to a high-affinity receptor (Kd = 62 pM; 5000 per cell). Epidermal growth f...

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

authors： Kan M,Huang JS,Mansson PE,Yasumitsu H,Carr B,McKeehan WL

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work shows that arachidonic acid and some other long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids such as docosahexaenoic acid, which is abundant in fish oil, produce a direct open channel block of the major voltage-dependent K+ channel (Kv1.5) cloned in cardiac cells. The inhibitory action of these selected fatty ac...

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

authors： Honoré E,Barhanin J,Attali B,Lesage F,Lazdunski M

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The history of the development of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory is reviewed from a personal perspective. This review is necessarily biased and limited by space because it attempts to cover a time span approaching five decades. ...

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

authors： Weisskopf MC

更新日期：2010-04-20 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

abstract：:Capsaicin is a unique alkaloid of the plant kingdom restricted to the genus Capsicum. Capsaicin is the pungency factor, a bioactive molecule of food and of medicinal importance. Capsaicin is useful as a counterirritant, antiarthritic, analgesic, antioxidant, and anticancer agent. Capsaicin biosynthesis involves conden...

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

authors： Prasad BC,Kumar V,Gururaj HB,Parimalan R,Giridhar P,Ravishankar GA

更新日期：2006-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been known that cholera outbreaks can be initiated when Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera, is present in drinking water in sufficient numbers to constitute an infective dose, if ingested by humans. Outbreaks associated with drinking or bathing in unpurified river or brackish water may dire...

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

authors： Lobitz B,Beck L,Huq A,Wood B,Fuchs G,Faruque AS,Colwell R

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical model is presented that describes the effects of hormone concentration on receptor saturation and biological response in systems dependent upon the generation of a secondary mediator such as cyclic AMP. The analysis makes the following assumptions: (i) the binding of hormone to its receptor is a reversi...

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

authors： Strickland S,Loeb JN

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freshwater planarian flatworms are capable of regenerating complete organisms from tiny fragments of their bodies; the basis for this regenerative prowess is an experimentally accessible stem cell population that is present in the adult planarian. The study of these organisms, classic experimental models for investiga...

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

authors： Newmark PA,Reddien PW,Cebrià F,Sánchez Alvarado A

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was undertaken to elucidate the molecular mechanisms by which glucocorticoids induce cleft palate in mice. It was hypothesized that a compound such as triamcinolone acetonide inhibits mRNA synthesis; that this results later in depressed protein synthesis; and that the latter is ultimately responsible for slowe...

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

authors： Zimmerman EF,Andrew F,Kalter H

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal ablation of the suprachiasmatic nucleus in the rat has two important consequences. First, the direct projection from the retina to the suprachiasmatic nucleus fails to develop and no other retinal projection to any hypothalamic nucleus is formed. Second, circadian rhythms in drinking and spontaneous locomotor...

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

authors： Mosko S,Moore RY

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify genetic factors that interact with social environments to impact human health, we used a bioinformatic strategy that couples expression array-based detection of environmentally responsive transcription factors with in silico discovery of regulatory polymorphisms to predict genetic loci that modulate transc...

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

authors： Cole SW,Arevalo JM,Takahashi R,Sloan EK,Lutgendorf SK,Sood AK,Sheridan JF,Seeman TE

更新日期：2010-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Go is a specific class ("other") of signal-transducing heterotrimeric GTP-binding proteins (G proteins) that is expressed in high levels in mammalian brain. We have cloned two different rat cDNAs encoding the alpha subunit of Go (Go alpha-1 and Go alpha-2) and a human Go alpha chromosomal gene. The human Go alpha gene...

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

authors： Tsukamoto T,Toyama R,Itoh H,Kozasa T,Matsuoka M,Kaziro Y

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster have shown that the circadian clock gene period (Per) can influence behavioral responses to cocaine. Here we show that the mouse homologues of the Drosophila Per gene, mPer1 and mPer2, modulate cocaine sensitization and reward, two phenomena extensively studie...

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

authors： Abarca C,Albrecht U,Spanagel R

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertebrates, from zebra fish to humans, have an innate immune recognition of many bacterial flagellins. This involves a conserved eight-amino acid epitope in flagellin recognized by the Toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5). Several important human pathogens, such as Helicobacter pylori and Campylobacter jejuni, have escaped TL...

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

authors： Kreutzberger MAB,Ewing C,Poly F,Wang F,Egelman EH

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The stability and integrity of mRNAs encoding neurotransmitter receptors and voltage-activated channels in the postmortem rat brain was investigated by isolating poly(A)+ mRNA, injecting it into Xenopus oocytes, and then examining the expression of functional neurotransmitter receptors and voltage-activated channels i...

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

authors： Ragsdale DS,Miledi R

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of extra-pair paternity in socially monogamous bird species varies from 0% to 76% extra-pair offspring. The causes of this remarkable interspecific variation are largely unknown, although intraspecific analyses suggest that females seek extra-pair matings to improve the genetic quality of their offspring. I...

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

authors： Petrie M,Doums C,Moller AP

更新日期：1998-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in understanding the role of neurotrophins on activity-dependent plasticity have provided insight into how behavior can affect specific aspects of neuronal biology. We present evidence that voluntary exercise can prime adult dorsal root ganglion neurons for increased axonal regeneration through a neuro...

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

authors： Molteni R,Zheng JQ,Ying Z,Gómez-Pinilla F,Twiss JL

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that pregnancy early in life reduces the risk of breast cancer in women and that this effect is universal. This phenomenon of parity protection against mammary cancer is also observed in rodents. Earlier studies have demonstrated that short-term administration of estradiol (E) in combination wit...

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

authors： Rajkumar L,Guzman RC,Yang J,Thordarson G,Talamantes F,Nandi S

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombination is unknown in natural populations of Rivulus marmoratus, a selfing hermaphrodite, and genetic variation is likely due to mutation alone. DNA fingerprinting with an array of microsatellite [e.g., (CT)9] and minisatellite (e.g., the 33.15 core sequence) probes reveals very high clonal diversity within samp...

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

authors： Turner BJ,Elder JF Jr,Laughlin TF,Davis WP,Taylor DS

更新日期：1992-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We construct counterexamples to classical calculus facts such as the inverse and implicit function theorems in scale calculus-a generalization of multivariable calculus to infinite-dimensional vector spaces, in which the reparameterization maps relevant to symplectic geometry are smooth. Scale calculus is a corner sto...

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

authors： Filippenko B,Zhou Z,Wehrheim K

更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The 5'-terminal triphosphate of the 35S RNA isolated from Rous sarcoma virus is blocked by 7-methylguanosine in 5' linkage with the penultimate nucleoside which is methylated in the 2'-O-ribose position, a type of endgroup found in all animal mRNAs investigated during the past year. The specific nuclease-resistant ter...

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

authors： Keith J,Fraenkel-Conrat H

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat thoracic aortic smooth muscle cells (line A10, ATCC CRL 1476) display a high density of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) receptors. ANF stimulated the accumulation of cGMP in these cells in a time- and dose-dependent fashion. These cells are known to display a high density of vasopressin receptors of the vascular V...

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

authors： Nambi P,Whitman M,Gessner G,Aiyar N,Crooke ST

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The FKBP12-rapamycin-associated protein (FRAP; also called RAFT1/mTOR) regulates translation initiation and entry into the cell cycle. Depriving cells of amino acids or treating them with the small molecule rapamycin inhibits FRAP and results in rapid dephosphorylation and inactivation of the translational regulators ...

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

authors： Peterson RT,Desai BN,Hardwick JS,Schreiber SL

更新日期：1999-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Near-zero-index (NZI) supercoupling, the transmission of electromagnetic waves inside a waveguide irrespective of its shape, is a counterintuitive wave effect that finds applications in optical interconnects and engineering light-matter interactions. However, there is a limited knowledge on the local properties of the...

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

authors： Liberal I,Lobet M,Li Y,Engheta N

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Gut microbial composition depends on different dietary habits just as health depends on microbial metabolism, but the association of microbiota with different diets in human populations has not yet been shown. In this work, we compared the fecal microbiota of European children (EU) and that of children from a rural Af...

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

authors： De Filippo C,Cavalieri D,Di Paola M,Ramazzotti M,Poullet JB,Massart S,Collini S,Pieraccini G,Lionetti P

更新日期：2010-08-17 00:00:00