Direct activation of cGMP-dependent channels of retinal rods by the cGMP phosphodiesterase.

abstract：:A protein that specifically binds leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) has been isolated from normal mouse serum by using four successive fractionation steps: chromatography on a LIF affinity matrix, anion-exchange chromatography, size-exclusion chromatography, and preparative native gel electrophoresis. The purified LIF-...

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

authors： Layton MJ,Cross BA,Metcalf D,Ward LD,Simpson RJ,Nicola NA

更新日期：1992-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusions with the bacterial gene for chloramphenicol acetyltransferase followed by P-element-mediated germ-line transformation in Drosophila have permitted localization of the DNA sequence that confers a high degree of developmental specificity on a pair of silkmoth eggshell (chorion) genes. The short, 272-base-pair, 5...

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

authors： Mitsialis SA,Spoerel N,Leviten M,Kafatos FC

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the cloning, expression, and characterization of a dual-substrate, cAMP and cGMP, cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (PDE) from mouse. This PDE contains the consensus sequence for a PDE catalytic domain, but shares <50% sequence identity with the catalytic domains of all other known PDEs and, therefore...

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

authors： Soderling SH,Bayuga SJ,Beavo JA

更新日期：1999-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical evidence is presented for the disintegration of the lens fiber plasma membrane in human cataracts. The intrinsic membrane proteins are found in both the water-soluble and water-insoluble nonmembrane fractions of the cataract lens but not in the normal tissue. Furthermore, in contrast to the normal lens, no...

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

authors： Garner MH,Roy D,Rosenfeld L,Garner WH,Spector A

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The E6 oncoprotein of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) that are associated with cervical cancer utilizes the cellular ubiquitin-protein ligase E6-AP to target the tumor suppressor p53 for degradation. In normal cells (i.e., in the absence of E6), p53 is also a target of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. Under these condi...

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

authors： Hengstermann A,Linares LK,Ciechanover A,Whitaker NJ,Scheffner M

更新日期：2001-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:How do regions acquire the knowledge they need to diversify their economic activities? How does the migration of workers among firms and industries contribute to the diffusion of that knowledge? Here we measure the industry-, occupation-, and location-specific knowledge carried by workers from one establishment to the...

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

authors： Jara-Figueroa C,Jun B,Glaeser EL,Hidalgo CA

更新日期：2018-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The p2b domain of Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) Gag and the p6 domain of HIV-1 Gag contain late assembly (L) domains that engage the ESCRT membrane fission machinery and are essential for virus release. We now show that the PPXY-type RSV L domain specifically recruits the BAR domain protein PACSIN2 into virus-like particle...

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

authors： Popov S,Popova E,Inoue M,Wu Y,Göttlinger H

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here the 1.7-A resolution structure of a single-chain antibody variable domain (scFv) molecule, based on the carbohydrate-binding antibody Se155-4, complexed with the trisaccharide ligand alpha-D-Gal(1-->2)[alpha-D-Abe(1-->3)]alpha-D-Manp1-->OMe, where Abe is abequose. The scFv expressed in Escherichia col...

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

authors： Zdanov A,Li Y,Bundle DR,Deng SJ,MacKenzie CR,Narang SA,Young NM,Cygler M

更新日期：1994-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic clones of the human non-N-methyl-D-aspartate (non-NMDA) glutamate receptor subunit GluR5 were isolated by high-stringency screening of a cosmid library using the rat cDNA as a probe. The chromosomal localization of the human GluR5 gene has been established. Southern hybridization of DNA isolated from mapping p...

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

authors： Eubanks JH,Puranam RS,Kleckner NW,Bettler B,Heinemann SF,McNamara JO

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP) and dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMAPP) represent the two central intermediates in the biosynthesis of isoprenoids. The recently discovered deoxyxylulose 5-phosphate pathway generates a mixture of IPP and DMAPP in its final step by reductive dehydroxylation of 1-hydroxy-2-methyl-2-butenyl 4...

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

authors： Gräwert T,Span I,Eisenreich W,Rohdich F,Eppinger J,Bacher A,Groll M

更新日期：2010-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Three lines of evidence indicate that RNA-dependent RNA synthesis occurs in mouse erythroleukemia cells. The first involves labeling studies with [3H]uridine and shows a greater initial labeling rate of globin RNA in the cytoplasm than in the nucleus. Labeled globin RNA found in the cytoplasm after a very short pulse ...

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

authors： Volloch V

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-term viability of a forest industry in the Amazon region of Brazil depends on the maintenance of adequate timber volume and growth in healthy forests. Using extensive high-resolution satellite analyses, we studied the forest damage caused by recent logging operations and the likelihood that logged forests wou...

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

authors： Asner GP,Broadbent EN,Oliveira PJ,Keller M,Knapp DE,Silva JN

更新日期：2006-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in direct radiocarbon dating of Neanderthal and anatomically modern human (AMH) fossils and the development of archaeostratigraphic chronologies now allow refined regional models for Neanderthal-AMH coexistence. In addition, they allow us to explore the issue of late Neanderthal survival in regions of Western...

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

authors： Pinhasi R,Higham TF,Golovanova LV,Doronichev VB

更新日期：2011-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In the usual Darwinian case in which struggle for existence leads to density limitations on the environment's carrying capacity, R. A. Fisher's reproductive-value concept reduces to zero for every initial age group. To salvage some meaning for Fisher's notion, two variant reproductive-value concepts are defined here: ...

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

authors： Samuelson PA

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared the efficiency of transformation by linear DNA fragments in yeast strains carrying different numbers of homologous targets for recombination. In strains carrying dispersed copies of a target and in strains carrying tandem arrays, the frequency of transformation is proportional to the number of targets...

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

authors： Wilson JH,Leung WY,Bosco G,Dieu D,Haber JE

更新日期：1994-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The structurally diverse peroxisome proliferators ciprofibrate, clofibrate, and bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate [(EtHx)2 greater than Pht] increase the activities of hepatic catalase and peroxisomal fatty acid beta-oxidation enzymes in conjunction with profound proliferation of peroxisomes in hepatocytes. In order to deli...

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

authors： Reddy JK,Goel SK,Nemali MR,Carrino JJ,Laffler TG,Reddy MK,Sperbeck SJ,Osumi T,Hashimoto T,Lalwani ND

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA was prepared from 15 different mouse and rat cell lines transformed by chemical carcinogens in vitro and in vivo. These DNAs were applied to NIH3T3 mouse fibroblast cultures by using the calcium phosphate transfection technique. DNAs of five donor lines were able to induce foci on the recipient monolayers. Ten oth...

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

authors： Shih C,Shilo BZ,Goldfarb MP,Dannenberg A,Weinberg RA

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AB-type toxins, like other bacterial toxins, are notably opportunistic molecules. They rely on target cell receptors to reach the appropriate location within the target cell where translocation of their enzymatic subunits occurs. The anthrax toxin, however, times its own uptake, suggesting that toxin binding triggers ...

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

authors： Abrami L,Kunz B,van der Goot FG

更新日期：2010-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Intron removal from tRNA precursors involves cleavage by a tRNA splicing endonuclease to yield tRNA 3'-halves beginning with a 5'-hydroxyl, and 5'-halves ending in a 2',3'-cyclic phosphate. A tRNA ligase then incorporates this phosphate into the internucleotide bond that joins the two halves. Although this 3'-P RNA sp...

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

authors： Englert M,Sheppard K,Aslanian A,Yates JR 3rd,Söll D

更新日期：2011-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Prochlorococcus is an abundant marine cyanobacterium that grows rapidly in the environment and contributes significantly to global primary production. This cyanobacterium coexists with many cyanophages in the oceans, likely aided by resistance to numerous co-occurring phages. Spontaneous resistance occurs frequently i...

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

authors： Avrani S,Lindell D

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1000 primary gastric carcinomas, 70 (7.0%) contained Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) genomic sequences detected by PCR and Southern blots. The positive tumors comprised 8 of 9 (89%) undifferentiated lymphoepithelioma-like carcinomas, 27 of 476 (5.7%) poorly differentiated adenocarcinomas, and 35 of 515 (6.8%) moderately t...

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

authors： Imai S,Koizumi S,Sugiura M,Tokunaga M,Uemura Y,Yamamoto N,Tanaka S,Sato E,Osato T

更新日期：1994-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Tridecaptin A1 (TriA1) is a nonribosomal lipopeptide with selective antimicrobial activity against Gram-negative bacteria. Here we show that TriA1 exerts its bactericidal effect by binding to the bacterial cell-wall precursor lipid II on the inner membrane, disrupting the proton motive force. Biochemical and biophysic...

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

authors： Cochrane SA,Findlay B,Bakhtiary A,Acedo JZ,Rodriguez-Lopez EM,Mercier P,Vederas JC

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies in Saccharomyces cerevisiae have defined an essential role for the Dbf4-Cdc7 kinase complex in the initiation of DNA replication presumably by phosphorylation of target proteins, such as the minichromosome maintenance (Mcm) complex. We have examined the phosphorylation of the Mcm complex by the Dfp1-H...

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

authors： Lee JK,Seo YS,Hurwitz J

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have suggested that introgressed Neandertal DNA was subjected to negative selection in modern humans. A striking observation in support of this is an apparent monotonic decline in Neandertal ancestry observed in modern humans in Europe over the past 45,000 years. Here, we show that this decline is an a...

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

authors： Petr M,Pääbo S,Kelso J,Vernot B

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The first step in poliovirus replication is binding of virus to a cellular receptor. Mouse L cells, which are resistant to poliovirus infection because they do not bear a poliovirus receptor, were transformed with HeLa cell (human) DNA to poliovirus sensitivity at a frequency of approximately 1 in 50,000 transformants...

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

authors： Mendelsohn C,Johnson B,Lionetti KA,Nobis P,Wimmer E,Racaniello VR

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of osteoclastic cell lines would greatly facilitate analysis of the cellular and molecular biology of bone resorption. Several cell lines have previously been reported to be capable of osteoclastic differentiation. However, such cell lines form at best only occasional excavations, suggesting that osteo...

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

authors： Chambers TJ,Owens JM,Hattersley G,Jat PS,Noble MD

更新日期：1993-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Chorismate mutase acts at the first branch-point of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis and catalyzes the conversion of chorismate to prephenate. The results of molecular dynamics simulations of the substrate in solution and in the active site of chorismate mutase are reported. Two nonreactive conformers of chorismate ar...

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

authors： Guo H,Cui Q,Lipscomb WN,Karplus M

更新日期：2001-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Africa is the origin of modern humans, the pattern and distribution of genetic variation and correlations with cultural and linguistic diversity in Africa have been understudied. Recent advances in genomic technology, however, have led to genomewide studies of African samples. In this article, we discuss gene...

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

authors： Scheinfeldt LB,Soi S,Tishkoff SA

更新日期：2010-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Kabuki syndrome is a Mendelian intellectual disability syndrome caused by mutations in either of two genes (KMT2D and KDM6A) involved in chromatin accessibility. We previously showed that an agent that promotes chromatin opening, the histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACi) AR-42, ameliorates the deficiency of adult neur...

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

authors： Benjamin JS,Pilarowski GO,Carosso GA,Zhang L,Huso DL,Goff LA,Vernon HJ,Hansen KD,Bjornsson HT

更新日期：2017-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The drought of progress in clinical brain tumor therapy provides an impetus for developing new treatments as well as methods for testing therapeutics in animal models. The inability of traditional assays to simultaneously measure tumor size, location, growth kinetics, and cell kill achieved by a treatment complicates ...

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

authors： Ross BD,Zhao YJ,Neal ER,Stegman LD,Ercolani M,Ben-Yoseph O,Chenevert TL

更新日期：1998-06-09 00:00:00