Rapid generation of a mouse model for Middle East respiratory syndrome.

abstract：:Double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) recently has been shown to give rise to genetic interference in Caenorhabditis elegans and also is likely to be the basis for phenotypic cosuppression in plants in certain instances. While constructing a plasmid vector for transfection of trypanosome cells, we serendipitously discovered tha...

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

authors： Ngô H,Tschudi C,Gull K,Ullu E

更新日期：1998-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), antiapoptotic, proliferative, and inflammatory diatheses converge to create an obstructive vasculopathy. A selective down-regulation of the Kv channel Kv1.5 has been described in human and animal PAH. The resultant increase in intracellular free Ca(2+) ([Ca(2+)](i)) and K(+) (...

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

authors： Bonnet S,Rochefort G,Sutendra G,Archer SL,Haromy A,Webster L,Hashimoto K,Bonnet SN,Michelakis ED

更新日期：2007-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The proinflammatory cytokine interleukin 1 (IL-1) activates the transcription of many genes encoding acute phase and proinflammatory proteins, a function mediated primarily by the transcription factor NF-kappaB. An early IL-1 signaling event is the recruitment of the Ser/Thr kinase IRAK to the type I IL-1 receptor (IL...

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

authors： Huang J,Gao X,Li S,Cao Z

更新日期：1997-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite decades of declining crime rates, longstanding tensions between police and the public continue to frustrate the formation of cooperative relationships necessary for the function of the police and the provision of public safety. In response, policy makers continue to promote community-oriented policing (COP) an...

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

authors： Peyton K,Sierra-Arévalo M,Rand DG

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts of wheat chloroplasts contain a poly(A) polymerase which can polymerize AMP residues from ATP onto an RNA primer. Whole extracts of wheat leaves also contain another poly(A) polymerase which is present in much larger amount and is probably derived from the nuclei. Both polymerases can utilize as primer poly(A...

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

authors： Burkard G,Keller EB

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the genetic interactions between mutant alleles in 12 genes, designated PER1-PER12, which are essential for peroxisome biogenesis in the yeast Hansenula polymorpha. Recessive mutations in any of these genes determined three different morphological phenotypes: (i) complete absence of peroxisomes (Per-);...

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

authors： Titorenko VI,Waterham HR,Cregg JM,Harder W,Veenhuis M

更新日期：1993-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of endocytosis in the control of EGF receptor (EGFR) activation and cell signaling was explored by using mouse fibroblasts in which dynamin was conditionally depleted. Dynamin is a GTPase shown to play an important role in the control clathrin mediated endocytosis of EGFR and other cell surface receptors. In ...

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

authors： Sousa LP,Lax I,Shen H,Ferguson SM,De Camilli P,Schlessinger J

更新日期：2012-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperate-zone species have responded to warming temperatures by shifting their distributions poleward and upslope. Thermal tolerance data suggests that tropical species may respond to warming temperatures even more strongly than temperate-zone species, but this prediction has yet to be tested. We addressed this data ...

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

authors： Freeman BG,Class Freeman AM

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from 30 patients with astrocytoma were tested for antibody reacting with cell surface antigens of cultured autologous astrocytoma cells. Ten percent of the patients had antibody detectable by mixed hemadsorption assays, approximately 50% by immune adherence and protein A assays, and 100% by anti-C3-mixed hemadsor...

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

authors： Pfreundschuh M,Shiku H,Takahashi T,Ueda R,Ransohoff J,Oettgen HF,Old LJ

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine (DA) promotes wakefulness, and DA transporter inhibitors such as dextroamphetamine and methylphenidate are effective for increasing arousal and inducing reanimation, or active emergence from general anesthesia. DA neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) are involved in reward processing, motivation, emoti...

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

authors： Taylor NE,Van Dort CJ,Kenny JD,Pei J,Guidera JA,Vlasov KY,Lee JT,Boyden ES,Brown EN,Solt K

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A recombinant plasmid containing sequences complementary to human pro-alpha l(I) collagen mRNA was used for the chromosomal assignment of the pro-alpha l(I) collagen gene. Restriction endonuclease analysis of DNA from mouse-human and Chinese hamster-human somatic cell hybrids revealed cosegregation with human chromoso...

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

authors： Huerre C,Junien C,Weil D,Chu ML,Morabito M,Van Cong N,Myers JC,Foubert C,Gross MS,Prockop DJ,Boué A,Kaplan JC,de la Chapelle A,Ramirez F

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past decade of scientific ocean drilling has revealed seemingly ubiquitous, slow-growing microbial life within a range of deep biosphere habitats. Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 337 expanded these studies by successfully coring Miocene-aged coal beds 2 km below the seafloor hypothesized to be "hot sp...

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

authors： Trembath-Reichert E,Morono Y,Ijiri A,Hoshino T,Dawson KS,Inagaki F,Orphan VJ

更新日期：2017-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the myriad complications involved in the current food crisis, the relationship between agriculture and the rest of nature is one of the most important yet remains only incompletely analyzed. Particularly in tropical areas, agriculture is frequently seen as the antithesis of the natural world, where the problem i...

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

authors： Perfecto I,Vandermeer J

更新日期：2010-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicases are molecular motor enzymes that unwind and translocate nucleic acids. One of the central questions regarding helicase activity is whether the process of coupling ATP hydrolysis to DNA unwinding requires an oligomeric form of the enzyme. We have applied a pre-steady-state kinetics approach to address this qu...

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

authors： Nanduri B,Byrd AK,Eoff RL,Tackett AJ,Raney KD

更新日期：2002-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:RNase T2 enzymes are conserved in most eukaryotic genomes, and expression patterns and phylogenetic analyses suggest that they may carry out an important housekeeping role. However, the nature of this role has been elusive. Here we show that RNS2, an intracellular RNase T2 from Arabidopsis thaliana, is essential for n...

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

authors： Hillwig MS,Contento AL,Meyer A,Ebany D,Bassham DC,Macintosh GC

更新日期：2011-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A robust body of evidence supports the concept that phosphodiesterase 10A (PDE10A) activity in the basal ganglia orchestrates the control of coordinated movement in human subjects. Although human mutations in the PDE10A gene manifest in hyperkinetic movement disorders that phenocopy many features of early Huntington's...

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

authors： Tejeda GS,Whiteley EL,Deeb TZ,Bürli RW,Moss SJ,Sheridan E,Brandon NJ,Baillie GS

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified two species of the low-affinity human Fc receptor for IgE, Fc epsilon RIIa and Fc epsilon RIIb, which differ only in a short stretch of amino acids at the N-terminal cytoplasmic end. Their differential expressions on B cells and monocytes suggest that Fc epsilon RIIa and Fc epsilon RIIb a...

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

authors： Yokota A,Yukawa K,Yamamoto A,Sugiyama K,Suemura M,Tashiro Y,Kishimoto T,Kikutani H

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The technique of self-sustained sequence replication allows isothermal amplification of DNA and RNA molecules in vitro. This method relies on the activities of a reverse transcriptase and a DNA-dependent RNA polymerase to amplify specific nucleic acid sequences. We have modified this protocol to allow selective amplif...

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

authors： Breaker RR,Joyce GF

更新日期：1994-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial DNA from several mammalian species has been digested with a site-specific restriction endonuclease (HaeIII) from Haemophilus aegyptius. A quantitative analysis of the resulting specific fragments indicates that the mtDNA of any individual mammal is predominantly a single molecular clone. Gel analysis of ...

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

authors： Potter SS,Newbold JE,Hutchison CA 3rd,Edgell MH

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modified bovine leukemia virus (BLV) glycoproteins were expressed by using vaccinia virus recombinants, and their fusogenic capacities were examined by a syncytia-formation assay. This analysis indicates that (i) both BLV envelope glycoproteins gp51 and gp30 are necessary for cell fusion; (ii) insertion of the N-termi...

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

authors： Vonèche V,Portetelle D,Kettmann R,Willems L,Limbach K,Paoletti E,Ruysschaert JM,Burny A,Brasseur R

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As root symbionts of cycad trees, cyanobacteria of the genus Nostoc produce beta-methylamino-l-alanine (BMAA), a neurotoxic nonprotein amino acid. The biomagnification of BMAA through the Guam ecosystem fits a classic triangle of increasing concentrations of toxic compounds up the food chain. However, because BMAA is ...

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

authors： Murch SJ,Cox PA,Banack SA

更新日期：2004-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated rat brain cDNA clones encoding AE2, a homologue of the erythrocyte anion exchanger, band 3 (AE1). Immunocytochemistry and in situ hybridization reveal that, in brain, AE2 expression is restricted to the basolateral membrane of the choroid plexus epithelium. Expression of a full-length mouse AE2 cDNA i...

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

authors： Lindsey AE,Schneider K,Simmons DM,Baron R,Lee BS,Kopito RR

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MCF10A mammary epithelial cells form growth-arrested structures when cultured in three-dimensional basement membrane gels. Activation of the receptor tyrosine kinase ErbB2 induces formation of proliferative structures that share properties with noninvasive early stage lesions. We conducted a genetic screen to identify...

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

authors： Seton-Rogers SE,Lu Y,Hines LM,Koundinya M,LaBaer J,Muthuswamy SK,Brugge JS

更新日期：2004-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce a family of fast ordered upwind methods for approximating solutions to a wide class of static Hamilton-Jacobi equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Standard techniques often rely on iteration to converge to the solution of a discretized version of the partial differential equation. Our fast method...

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

authors： Sethian JA,Vladimirsky A

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular clocks have been used to date the divergence of humans and chimpanzees for nearly four decades. Nonetheless, this date and its confidence interval remain to be firmly established. In an effort to generate a genomic view of the human-chimpanzee divergence, we have analyzed 167 nuclear protein-coding genes and...

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

authors： Kumar S,Filipski A,Swarna V,Walker A,Hedges SB

更新日期：2005-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Naive CD4 T cells differentiate into several effector lineages, which generate a stronger and more rapid response to previously encountered immunological challenges. Although effector function is a key feature of adaptive immunity, the molecular basis of this process is poorly understood. Here, we investigated the spa...

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

authors： Zorca CE,Kim LK,Kim YJ,Krause MR,Zenklusen D,Spilianakis CG,Flavell RA

更新日期：2015-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite high structural homology between NO reductases (NORs) and heme-copper oxidases (HCOs), factors governing their reaction specificity remain to be understood. Using a myoglobin-based model of NOR (FeBMb) and tuning its heme redox potentials (E°') to cover the native NOR range, through manipulating hydrogen bondi...

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

authors： Bhagi-Damodaran A,Reed JH,Zhu Q,Shi Y,Hosseinzadeh P,Sandoval BA,Harnden KA,Wang S,Sponholtz MR,Mirts EN,Dwaraknath S,Zhang Y,Moënne-Loccoz P,Lu Y

更新日期：2018-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenotropic and polytropic murine leukemia viruses (X-MLVs and P-MLVs) cross-interfere to various extents in non-mouse species and in wild Asian mice, suggesting that they might use a common receptor for infection. Consistent with this hypothesis, the susceptibility of some wild mice to X-MLVs has been mapped to the P-...

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

authors： Tailor CS,Nouri A,Lee CG,Kozak C,Kabat D

更新日期：1999-02-02 00:00:00

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 heart of the H+ conductance mechanism in the homotetrameric M2 H+ channel from influenza A is a set of four histidine side chains. Here, we show that protonation of the third of these imidazoles coincides with acid activation of this transmembrane channel and that, at physiological pH, the channel is closed by two...

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

authors： Hu J,Fu R,Nishimura K,Zhang L,Zhou HX,Busath DD,Vijayvergiya V,Cross TA

更新日期：2006-05-02 00:00:00