Crystal structure and sequence-dependent conformation of the A.G mispaired oligonucleotide d(CGCAAGCTGGCG).

abstract：:The technique of single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) was used to screen a series of 37 established colorectal cell lines, 22 fresh tumor samples, and 22 normal DNA samples for mutations in the beta 2-microglobulin gene. Exon 1 (including the leader peptide sequence) and exon 2 were screened separately. Six ...

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

authors： Bicknell DC,Rowan A,Bodmer WF

更新日期：1994-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of heat shock proteins in three species of Leishmania, L. tropica, L. enrietti, and L. donovani is reported. When cultures of promastigotes are shifted from 26 degrees C to 37 degrees C or 40 degrees C, the synthesis of proteins with apparent molecular weights of 88,000, 74,000, and 54,000 is stimulated....

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

authors： Lawrence F,Robert-Gero M

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ancient societies are often used to illustrate the potential problems stemming from unsustainable land-use practices because the past seems rife with examples of sociopolitical "collapse" associated with the exhaustion of finite resources. Just as frequently, and typically in response to such presentations, archaeolog...

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

authors： Wills WH,Drake BL,Dorshow WB

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Cartilage collagen fibrils, which are characterized by their thin, uniform diameters, are formed of a multicomponent system of three collagen types (II, IX, and XI) and interacting proteoglycans. We have used a genetic approach to test whether the proper assembly of this multiprotein structure was altered by overexpre...

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

authors： Garofalo S,Metsäranta M,Ellard J,Smith C,Horton W,Vuorio E,de Crombrugghe B

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of the 31-amino acid, inner membrane protein MgtS (formerly denoted YneM) is induced by very low Mg2+ in a PhoPQ-dependent manner in Escherichia coli Here we report that MgtS acts to increase intracellular Mg2+ levels and maintain cell integrity upon Mg2+ depletion. Upon development of a functional tagged de...

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

authors： Wang H,Yin X,Wu Orr M,Dambach M,Curtis R,Storz G

更新日期：2017-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein kinase Chk2, the mammalian homolog of the budding yeast Rad53 and fission yeast Cds1 checkpoint kinases, is phosphorylated and activated in response to DNA damage by ionizing radiation (IR), UV irradiation, and replication blocks by hydroxyurea (HU). Phosphorylation and activation of Chk2 are ataxia telang...

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

authors： Matsuoka S,Rotman G,Ogawa A,Shiloh Y,Tamai K,Elledge SJ

更新日期：2000-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomes of hyperthermophilic Archaea encode dozens of methylation guide, C/D box small RNAs that guide 2'-O-methylation of ribose to specific sites in rRNA and various tRNAs. The genes encoding the Sulfolobus homologues of eukaryotic proteins that are known to be present in C/D box small nucleolar ribonucleoprotei...

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

authors： Omer AD,Ziesche S,Ebhardt H,Dennis PP

更新日期：2002-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosome crystal structures have revealed that two small subunit proteins, S9 and S13, have C-terminal tails, which, together with several features of 16S rRNA, contact the anticodon stem-loop of P-site tRNA. To test the functional importance of these protein tails, we created genomic deletions of the C-terminal regio...

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

authors： Hoang L,Fredrick K,Noller HF

更新日期：2004-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple drug resistance of tumor cells is a common problem in cancer therapy. We have demonstrated that membrane vesicles from highly multidrug-resistant human KB carcinoma cell lines exhibit increased specific and saturable binding of vinblastine. To identify the molecules that bind vinblastine, membrane vesicles fr...

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

authors： Cornwell MM,Safa AR,Felsted RL,Gottesman MM,Pastan I

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans respond to foreign antigen by generating plasma Abs and memory B cells (MBCs). The Ab response then declines, sometimes to below the limit of detection. In contrast, MBCs are generally thought to be long-lived. We tested and compared Plasmodium falciparum (Pf)-specific Ab and MBC responses in two populations of...

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

authors： Ndungu FM,Olotu A,Mwacharo J,Nyonda M,Apfeld J,Mramba LK,Fegan GW,Bejon P,Marsh K

更新日期：2012-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA restriction fragments of the genes encoding HLA class II-beta antigens were compared in 34 patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and 34 HLA-DR-matched healthy individuals. Ninety-three fragments, determined by six restriction enzymes (EcoRI, EcoRV, HindIII, BamHI, Pvu II, and Taq I), were analyzed: (i)...

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

authors： Cohen-Haguenauer O,Robbins E,Massart C,Busson M,Deschamps I,Hors J,Lalouel JM,Dausset J,Cohen D

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fish stocks experiencing high fishing mortality show a tendency to mature earlier and at a smaller size, which may have a genetic component and therefore long-lasting economic and biological effects. To date, the economic effects of such ecoevolutionary dynamics have not been empirically investigated. Using 70 y of da...

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

authors： Eikeset AM,Richter A,Dunlop ES,Dieckmann U,Stenseth NC

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Participation of two medial temporal lobe structures, the hippocampal region and the amygdala, in long-term declarative memory encoding was examined by using positron emission tomography of regional cerebral glucose. Positron emission tomography scanning was performed in eight healthy subjects listening passively to a...

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

authors： Alkire MT,Haier RJ,Fallon JH,Cahill L

更新日期：1998-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase (NQOR; EC 1.6.99.2) is a homodimeric enzyme which catalyzes the reduction of quinones, azo dyes, and other electron acceptors by NADPH or NADH. To pursue subunit functional studies, we expressed a wild-type/mutant heterodimer of NQOR in Escherichia coli. The wild-type subunit of the hete...

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

authors： Cui K,Lu AY,Yang CS

更新日期：1995-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Misalignment between internal circadian rhythmicity and externally imposed behavioral schedules, such as occurs in shift workers, has been implicated in elevated risk of metabolic disorders. To determine underlying mechanisms, it is essential to assess whether and how peripheral clocks are disturbed during shift work ...

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

authors： Skene DJ,Skornyakov E,Chowdhury NR,Gajula RP,Middleton B,Satterfield BC,Porter KI,Van Dongen HPA,Gaddameedhi S

更新日期：2018-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional methods of determining the coupling factor alpha(2)(omega)F(omega) for the newly discovered high transition temperature (T(c)) cuprate superconductors by using tunneling and infrared measurements have thus far failed to show the cause of the very high T(c) of these compounds. This is due in part to diffic...

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

authors： Little WA,Collman JP

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant techniques allow one to engineer an antibody molecule and, in this way, manipulate its properties and functions. We engineered a chimeric human/mouse antibody to the tumor-associated antigen ganglioside GD2, with the aim of decreasing its serum half-life, maintaining its full antigen-binding capacity, and ...

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

authors： Mueller BM,Reisfeld RA,Gillies SD

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lines containing two third-chromosome inversions (Arrowhead and Pikes Peak) of Drosophila pseudoobscura selected for fast and slow mating speed were crossed to a multichromosomal, dominant marker inversion stock, and strains with various combinations of chromosomal derivation were tested for their mating activity. Whe...

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

authors： Sherwin RN,Spiess EB

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated whether glycosylation of membrane glycoproteins is a determinant of the site of maturation of enveloped viruses in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells. In MDCK cell monolayers, vesicular stomatitis virus buds exclusively from the basal or lateral plasma membranes and contains a sialylated glyco...

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

authors： Roth MG,Fitzpatrick JP,Compans RW

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant steroid hormones, brassinosteroids (BRs), are of great importance for plant growth and development. BRs signal through a cell surface receptor kinase, BRI1, and a GSK3-like kinase, BIN2, to regulate the BES1/BZR1 family of transcription factors, which directly bind to target gene promoters to activate or repress...

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

authors： Yu X,Li L,Li L,Guo M,Chory J,Yin Y

更新日期：2008-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Rad51 is a highly conserved eukaryotic homolog of the prokaryotic recombination protein RecA, which has been shown to function in both recombinational repair of DNA damage and meiotic recombination in yeast. In primary murine B cells cultured with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to stimulate heavy chain class switch recombin...

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

authors： Li MJ,Peakman MC,Golub EI,Reddy G,Ward DC,Radding CM,Maizels N

更新日期：1996-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the preparation and structural analysis of ordered tubular arrays of the actin-DNase I complex. These structures consist of helically stacked rings; each ring is 73 A thick, has a 240 A outer and a 120 A inner diameter, and has 7-fold rotational symmetry. The actin-DNase I complex forms tubes under conditi...

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

authors： Fowler WE,Buhle EL,Aebi U

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive, labor-saving, and easily automatable nonradioactive procedure named APEX-FCS (amplified probe extension detected by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy) has been established to detect specific in vitro amplification of pathogen genomic sequences. As an example, Mycobacterium tuberculosis genomic DNA was...

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

authors： Walter NG,Schwille P,Eigen M

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The sense of body ownership represents a fundamental aspect of our self-awareness, but is disrupted in many neurological, psychiatric, and psychological conditions that are also characterized by disruption of skin temperature regulation, sometimes in a single limb. We hypothesized that skin temperature in a specific l...

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

authors： Moseley GL,Olthof N,Venema A,Don S,Wijers M,Gallace A,Spence C

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to regulate gene expression through transcription initiation underlies the adaptability and survival of all bacteria. Recent work has revealed that the transcription machinery in many bacteria diverges from the paradigm that has been established in Escherichia coliMycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) encodes t...

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

authors： Zhu DX,Garner AL,Galburt EA,Stallings CL

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttranscriptional regulation is an important step in the regulation of gene expression. In this article, we show an unexpected connection between two proteins that participate in different processes of posttranscriptional regulation that ensures the production of functional mRNA molecules. Specifically, we show that...

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

authors： Agranat L,Raitskin O,Sperling J,Sperling R

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is accepted that regulatory T cells (T regs) contribute to cancer progression, most studies in the field consider nonantigen-specific suppression. Here, we show the presence of tumor antigen-specific CD4(+) T regs in the blood of patients with metastatic melanoma. These CD4(+) T regs recognize a broad rang...

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

authors： Vence L,Palucka AK,Fay JW,Ito T,Liu YJ,Banchereau J,Ueno H

更新日期：2007-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuronal nucleus plays a vital role in information processing, but whether it supports computational functions such as paired-pulse facilitation, comparable to synapses, is unclear. Ca(2+)-dependent movement of calmodulin (CaM) to the nucleus is highly responsive to Ca(2+) entry through L-type channels and promote...

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

authors： Mermelstein PG,Deisseroth K,Dasgupta N,Isaksen AL,Tsien RW

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Pax-6 in vertebrates and its homolog eyeless in Drosophila are known to be essential for eye development. Here we investigate the role of Pax-6 in eye development in another major systematic group, molluscs. We demonstrate that alternatively spliced RNAs derived from a single Pax-6 gene in the squid (Loligo opalescens...

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

authors： Tomarev SI,Callaerts P,Kos L,Zinovieva R,Halder G,Gehring W,Piatigorsky J

更新日期：1997-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The proboscis is an important head appendage in insects that has primarily been thought to process gustatory information during food intake. Indeed, in Drosophila and other insects in which they have been identified, most gustatory receptors are expressed in proboscis neurons. Our previous characterization of the expr...

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

authors： Kwon HW,Lu T,Rützler M,Zwiebel LJ

更新日期：2006-09-05 00:00:00