Sulfatase-activated fluorophores for rapid discrimination of mycobacterial species and strains.

abstract：:Variation is the raw material for natural selection, but the factors shaping variation are still poorly understood. Genetic and developmental interactions can direct variation, but there has been little synthesis of these effects with the extrinsic factors that can shape biodiversity over large scales. The study of ph...

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

authors： Goswami A,Binder WJ,Meachen J,O'Keefe FR

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Autonomously replicating sequence (ARS) elements of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe contain multiple imperfect copies of the consensus sequence reported by Maundrell et al. [Maundrell K., Hutchison, A. & Shall, S. (1988) EMBO J. 7, 2203-2209]. When cell free extracts of S. pombe were incubated with a dimer...

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

authors： Murakami Y,Huberman JA,Hurwitz J

更新日期：1996-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has uncovered the existence of an Escherichia coli locus, groE, that is essential for bacterial growth, lambda phage and T4 phage head morphogenesis, and T5 phage tail assembly. Our genetic and biochemical analyses of lambda groE+ transducing phages and their deletion and point mutant derivatives show th...

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

authors： Tilly K,Murialdo H,Georgopoulos C

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many substances in the plant kingdom and in man's diet occur as glycosides. Recent studies have indicated that many glycosides that are not mutagenic in tests such as the Salmonella test become mutagenic upon hydrolysis of the glycosidic linkages. The Salmonella test utilizes a liver homogenate to approximate mammalia...

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

authors： Tamura G,Gold C,Ferro-Luzzi A,Ames BN

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptor for acetylcholine was partially purified by affinity chromatography of an extract in Triton X-100 of membrane fragments from electric tissue. The receptor was assayed, after its reduction with dithiothreitol, by reaction with the affinity-alkylating agent, [methyl-(3)H]4-(N-maleimido)-benzyltrimethylammon...

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

authors： Karlin A,Cowburn D

更新日期：1973-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear bodies are RNA and protein-rich, membraneless organelles that play important roles in gene regulation. The largest and most well-known nuclear body is the nucleolus, an organelle whose primary function in ribosome biogenesis makes it key for cell growth and size homeostasis. The nucleolus and other nuclear bod...

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

authors： Berry J,Weber SC,Vaidya N,Haataja M,Brangwynne CP

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The anti-hapten responses to the dinitrophenyl (Dnp) conjugate of the random linear terpolymers poly(L-Glu,LLys,LPhe), GLphi, or poly(LGlu,LLys,LAla), GLA, are of highly restricted heterogeneity. Thus, individual mice of most responder strains express an average of two to four anti-Dnp clones to Dnp-GLphi or Dnp-GLA, ...

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

authors： Kipps TJ,Benacerraf B,Dorf ME

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-cell interactions organize lens fiber cells into highly ordered structures to maintain transparency. However, signals regulating such interactions have not been well characterized. We report here that ephrin-A5, a ligand of the Eph receptor tyrosine kinases, plays a key role in lens fiber cell shape and cell-cell...

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

authors： Cooper MA,Son AI,Komlos D,Sun Y,Kleiman NJ,Zhou R

更新日期：2008-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Tactoids are nuclei of an orientationally ordered nematic phase that emerge upon cooling the isotropic phase. In addition to providing a natural setting for exploring chromonics under confinement, we show that tactoids can also serve as optical probes to delineate the role of temperature and concentration in the aggre...

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

authors： Nayani K,Fu J,Chang R,Park JO,Srinivasarao M

更新日期：2017-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of biological molecules and their interactions is a significant component of modern biomedical research. In current biosensor technologies, simultaneous detection is limited to a small number of analytes by the spectral overlap of their signals. We have developed an NMR-based xenon biosensor that capital...

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

authors： Spence MM,Rubin SM,Dimitrov IE,Ruiz EJ,Wemmer DE,Pines A,Yao SQ,Tian F,Schultz PG

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted ablation of the surfactant protein D (SP-D) gene caused chronic inflammation, emphysema, and fibrosis in the lungs of SP-D (-/-) mice. Although lung morphology was unperturbed during the first 2 weeks of life, airspace enlargement was observed by 3 weeks and progressed with advancing age. Inflammation consist...

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

authors： Wert SE,Yoshida M,LeVine AM,Ikegami M,Jones T,Ross GF,Fisher JH,Korfhagen TR,Whitsett JA

更新日期：2000-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The primitive neurohypophyseal nonapeptide oxytocin (OXT) has established functions in parturition, lactation, appetite, and social behavior. We have shown that OXT has direct actions on the mammalian skeleton, stimulating bone formation by osteoblasts and modulating the genesis and function of bone-resorbing osteocla...

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

authors： Sun L,Lizneva D,Ji Y,Colaianni G,Hadelia E,Gumerova A,Ievleva K,Kuo TC,Korkmaz F,Ryu V,Rahimova A,Gera S,Taneja C,Khan A,Ahmad N,Tamma R,Bian Z,Zallone A,Kim SM,New MI,Iqbal J,Yuen T,Zaidi M

更新日期：2019-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A temperature-sensitive (ts) mutant, GA 907/7, was isolated after mutagen treatment of avian myeloblastosis virus. When bone marrow cells or secondary yolk sac macrophages were infected with GA 907/7, the expression of transformation was greatly reduced at 41 degrees C. The results of temperature-shift experiments sug...

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

authors： Moscovici MG,Moscovici C

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kss1, a yeast mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), in its unphosphorylated (unactivated) state binds directly to and represses Ste12, a transcription factor necessary for expression of genes whose promoters contain filamentous response elements (FREs) and genes whose promoters contain pheromone response elements (...

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

authors： Bardwell L,Cook JG,Zhu-Shimoni JX,Voora D,Thorner J

更新日期：1998-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The basic biochemical mechanisms underlying many heritable human polycystic diseases are unknown despite evidence that most cases are caused by mutations in members of several protein families, the most prominent being the polycystin gene family, whose products are found on the primary cilia, or due to mutations in po...

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

authors： Condac E,Silasi-Mansat R,Kosanke S,Schoeb T,Towner R,Lupu F,Cummings RD,Hinsdale ME

更新日期：2007-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the protein structure-function relationship, we propose a method to efficiently create three-dimensional maps of structure space using a very large dataset of > 30,000 Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) domains. In our maps, each domain is represented by a point, and the distance between any two poi...

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

authors： Osadchy M,Kolodny R

更新日期：2011-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Small RNAs (sRNAs) are hypothesized to contribute to hybrid vigor because they maintain genome integrity, contribute to genetic diversity, and control gene expression. We used Illumina sequencing to assess how sRNA populations vary between two maize inbred lines (B73 and Mo17) and their hybrid. We sampled sRNAs from t...

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

authors： Barber WT,Zhang W,Win H,Varala KK,Dorweiler JE,Hudson ME,Moose SP

更新日期：2012-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Most human cancers are of monoclonal origin and display many genetic alterations. In an effort to determine whether clonal expansion itself could account for the large number of genetic alterations, we compared spontaneous transformation in cloned and uncloned populations of NIH 3T3 cells. We have reported that progre...

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

authors： Chow M,Rubin H

更新日期：2000-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The baculovirus Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus (AcMNPV, which is representative of the MNPV subtype in which the virions may contain many nucleocapsids within a single viral envelope) encodes a protein, v-ubi, that has 76% identity with the eukaryotic protein ubiquitin. Transcriptional mapping indic...

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

authors： Guarino LA

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular transport is based on molecular motors that pull cargos along cytoskeletal filaments. One motor species always moves in one direction, e.g., conventional kinesin moves to the microtubule plus end, whereas cytoplasmic dynein moves to the microtubule minus end. However, many cellular cargoes are observed t...

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

authors： Müller MJ,Klumpp S,Lipowsky R

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) recognize antigens in the context of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I gene products. The T-cell receptor (TCR) that mediates this MHC-restricted antigen recognition recognizes short peptide fragments rather than the intact antigen. Presentation of peptides to the TCR may th...

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

authors： Kievits F,Wijffels J,Lokhorst W,Ivanyi P

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a search for a model cell system that might allow studies of the function of the Rho-related GTPase CDC42Hs in human cells, we measured the content and distribution of CDC42Hs in monocytes that were differentiating into macrophages. The total content of this protein increased 5- to 6-fold in phorbol ester-treated h...

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

authors： Aepfelbacher M,Vauti F,Weber PC,Glomset JA

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of additional promoter sites by production of an alternative sigma subunit for RNA polymerase is a common strategy for the coordinate regulation of gene expression. Many alternative sigma factors control genes for specialized, and often narrowly distributed, functions. For example, most of the alternati...

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

authors： Chen YF,Helmann JD

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human X chromosome DNA was partially purified from a mouse-human hybrid cell line containing a single human chromosome, the X. Enrichment of such DNA was accomplished by two sequential reassociations of radiolabeled hybrid cell DNA with large excesses of mouse DNA. Unreassociated hybrid cell DNA was used as a probe fo...

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

authors： Schmeckpeper BJ,Smith KD,Dorman BP,Ruddle FH,Talbot CC Jr

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feasting is one of humanity's most universal and unique social behaviors. Although evidence for feasting is common in the early agricultural societies of the Neolithic, evidence in pre-Neolithic contexts is more elusive. We found clear evidence for feasting on wild cattle and tortoises at Hilazon Tachtit cave, a Late ...

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

authors： Munro ND,Grosman L

更新日期：2010-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Seasonal epidemics and periodic worldwide pandemics caused by influenza A viruses are of continuous concern. The viral nonstructural (NS1) protein is a multifunctional virulence factor that antagonizes several host innate immune defenses during infection. NS1 also directly stimulates class IA phosphoinositide 3-kinase...

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

authors： Hale BG,Kerry PS,Jackson D,Precious BL,Gray A,Killip MJ,Randall RE,Russell RJ

更新日期：2010-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli, AK I- HDH I and AK II- HDH II are two bifunctional proteins, derived from a common ancestor, that catalyze the first and third reactions of the common pathway leading to threonine and methionine. An extensive amino acid sequence comparison of both molecules reveals two main features on each of the...

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

authors： Ferrara P,Duchange N,Zakin MM,Cohen GN

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelin basic proteins (MBP) are major constituents of the myelin sheath of oligodendrocytes and Schwann cells in the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system, respectively. We previously showed that MBP-related transcripts are present in the bone marrow and the immune system. These mRNAs are transcribe...

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

authors： Marty MC,Alliot F,Rutin J,Fritz R,Trisler D,Pessac B

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental temperature impacts the physical activity and ecology of ectothermic animals through its effects on muscle contractile physiology. Sprinting, swimming, and jumping performance of ectotherms decreases by at least 33% over a 10 degrees C drop, accompanied by a similar decline in muscle power. We propose th...

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

authors： Anderson CV,Deban SM

更新日期：2010-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Tsetse-transmitted African trypanosomes must develop into mammalian-infectious metacyclic cells in the fly's salivary glands (SGs) before transmission to a new host. The molecular mechanisms that underlie this developmental process, known as metacyclogenesis, are poorly understood. Blocking the few metacyclic parasite...

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

authors： Vigneron A,O'Neill MB,Weiss BL,Savage AF,Campbell OC,Kamhawi S,Valenzuela JG,Aksoy S

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00