Mutations disrupting the Kennedy phosphatidylcholine pathway in humans with congenital lipodystrophy and fatty liver disease.

abstract：:Superresolution fluorescence microscopy overcomes the diffraction resolution barrier and allows the molecular intricacies of life to be revealed with greatly enhanced detail. However, many current superresolution techniques still face limitations and their implementation is typically associated with a steep learning c...

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

authors： Dedecker P,Mo GC,Dertinger T,Zhang J

更新日期：2012-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We present two methods to probe the energy landscape and motions of proteins in the context of molecular dynamics simulations of the helix-forming S-peptide of RNase A and the RNase A-3'-UMP enzyme-product complex. The first method uses the generalized ergodic measure to compute the rate of conformational space sampli...

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

authors： Straub JE,Thirumalai D

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Permanent transfer of genetic information from chromosomes isolated from human diploid cells to recipient cells has been demonstrated. Human metaphase chromosomes were incubated with mouse A9 fibroblasts deficient in hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase (IMP:pyrophosphate phosphoribosyltransferase, EC 2.4.2.8) and a...

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

authors： Burch JW,McBride OW

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) and pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) are two mediators synthesized by immune cells, specially under inflammatory and antigen stimulation conditions. Reports have shown that neuropeptides attenuate the deleterious consequences of septic shock both by down-re...

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

authors： Martinez C,Abad C,Delgado M,Arranz A,Juarranz MG,Rodriguez-Henche N,Brabet P,Leceta J,Gomariz RP

更新日期：2002-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:An inversion loop seen in heteroduplex mapping of the DNA of mature Mu phage induced from a lysogen is observed also in defective lambda phage carrying one end of Mu. 14% of the DNA of Mu, including this region, designated the G loop, is shown to be to the right of all known genes in the prophage map. The inhomogeneou...

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

authors： Daniell E,Boram W,Abelson J

更新日期：1973-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication-defective human adenovirus (Ad) group C transducing vectors, most of which have the E1A, E1B, and E3 genes deleted, are highly inflammatory despite the fact that the parental viruses typically cause subclinical or mild infections. To investigate this paradox, the roles that the E1A, E1B, and E3 genes play ...

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

authors： Schaack J,Bennett ML,Colbert JD,Torres AV,Clayton GH,Ornelles D,Moorhead J

更新日期：2004-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms for controlling symbiont populations are critical for maintaining the associations that exist between a host and its microbial partners. We describe here the transcriptional, metabolic, and ultrastructural characteristics of a diel rhythm that occurs in the symbiosis between the squid Euprymna scolopes and ...

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

authors： Wier AM,Nyholm SV,Mandel MJ,Massengo-Tiassé RP,Schaefer AL,Koroleva I,Splinter-Bondurant S,Brown B,Manzella L,Snir E,Almabrazi H,Scheetz TE,Bonaldo Mde F,Casavant TL,Soares MB,Cronan JE,Reed JL,Ruby EG,McFall-Ngai MJ

更新日期：2010-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Initiation of DNA replication has been observed in vitro with a DNA-membrane complex extracted from Bacillus subtilis. Antibiotics known to interfere with various aspects of initiation inhibited DNA synthesis significantly in vitro, whereas a mutant resistant to one inhibitor failed to respond to its presence. The inh...

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

authors： Benjamin P,Firshein W

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is known to bud from the inner membrane of the nuclear envelope. The structural gene for the glycoprotein gB, which is essential for virus entry and cell fusion induced by HSV type 1, has been cloned in a transient expression vector containing the adenovirus major late promoter, tripartite l...

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

authors： Ali MA,Butcher M,Ghosh HP

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histidine biosynthesis is an essential process in plants and microorganisms, making it an attractive target for the development of herbicides and antibacterial agents. Imidazoleglycerol-phosphate dehydratase (IGPD), a key enzyme within this pathway, has been biochemically characterized in both Saccharomyces cerevisiae...

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

authors： Rawson S,Bisson C,Hurdiss DL,Fazal A,McPhillie MJ,Sedelnikova SE,Baker PJ,Rice DW,Muench SP

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis, by the recovery of specific genetic "markers," of the effects of DNase I, physical shear, and temperature shock on DNA-cell complexes demonstrates that sequential attachment of both ends of bacteriophage SP82G DNA to Bacillus subtilis precedes entry of the DNA molecule into the cell, and that each attachment...

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

authors： Williams GL,Green DM

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defending cellular integrity against disturbances in intracellular concentrations of ATP ([ATP](i)) is predicated on coordinating the selection of substrates and their flux through metabolic pathways (metabolic signaling), ATP transfer from sites of production to utilization (energetic signaling), and the regulation o...

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

authors： Ruiz-Stewart I,Tiyyagura SR,Lin JE,Kazerounian S,Pitari GM,Schulz S,Martin E,Murad F,Waldman SA

更新日期：2004-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviruses undergo a high frequency of genetic alterations during the process of copying their RNA genomes. However, little is known about the replication fidelity of other elements that transpose via reverse transcription of an RNA intermediate. The complete sequence of 29 independently integrated copies of the yea...

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

authors： Gabriel A,Willems M,Mules EH,Boeke JD

更新日期：1996-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerobic respiration is a fundamental energy-generating process; however, there is cost associated with living in an oxygen-rich environment, because partially reduced oxygen species can damage cellular components. Organisms evolved enzymes that alleviate this damage and protect the intracellular milieu, most notably t...

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

authors： Kaya A,Gerashchenko MV,Seim I,Labarre J,Toledano MB,Gladyshev VN

更新日期：2015-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple independent mutations in neuroligin genes were identified in patients with familial autism, including the R451C substitution in neuroligin-3 (NL3). Previous studies showed that NL3(R451C) knock-in mice exhibited modestly impaired social behaviors, enhanced water maze learning abilities, and increased synaptic...

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

authors： Etherton M,Földy C,Sharma M,Tabuchi K,Liu X,Shamloo M,Malenka RC,Südhof TC

更新日期：2011-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutant I1A cells, lacking IL-1 receptor-associated kinase (IRAK) mRNA and protein, have been used to study the involvement of IRAK in NFkappaB and c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) activation. A series of IRAK deletion constructs were expressed in I1A cells, which were then tested for their ability to respond to IL-1. Bot...

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

authors： Li X,Commane M,Jiang Z,Stark GR

更新日期：2001-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Tangier disease is a familial disorder characterized by orange tonsils, cholesterol ester deposition in reticuloendothelial cells, abnormal chylomicron remnants, and a marked reduction in high density lipoproteins. Plasma concentrations of the apolipoproteins apo-A-I and apoA-II in patients with Tangier disease are ap...

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

authors： Kay LL,Ronan R,Schaefer EJ,Brewer HB Jr

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroidogenic factor-1 (SF-1) and liver receptor homologue-1 (LRH-1) belong to the fushi tarazu factor 1 subfamily of nuclear receptors. SF-1 is an essential factor for sex determination during development and regulates adrenal and gonadal steroidogenesis in the adult, whereas LRH-1 is a critical factor for developmen...

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

authors： Wang W,Zhang C,Marimuthu A,Krupka HI,Tabrizizad M,Shelloe R,Mehra U,Eng K,Nguyen H,Settachatgul C,Powell B,Milburn MV,West BL

更新日期：2005-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Male (NZW x BXSB)F1 (W/BF1) mice develop systemic autoimmunity involving autoantibodies, thrombocytopenia, lupus nephritis, and coronary vascular disease (CVD) with myocardial infarction. To determine whether this murine lupus-associated CVD can be prevented by the reduction of dietary calories, male W/BF1 mice were s...

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

authors： Mizutani H,Engelman RW,Kinjoh K,Kurata Y,Ikehara S,Matsuzawa Y,Good RA

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of the kinetoplast DNA (kDNA) minicircle of trypanosomatids initiates at a conserved 12-nt sequence, 5'-GGGGTTGGTGTA-3', termed the universal minicircle sequence (UMS). A sequence-specific single-stranded DNA-binding protein from Crithidia fasciculata binds the heavy strand of the 12-mer UMS. Whereas this ...

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

authors： Avrahami D,Tzfati Y,Shlomai J

更新日期：1995-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We present evidence of rapid and reliable associative learning by the terrestrial mollusc, Limax maximus. Slugs were exposed once to a pairing of a highly attractive food odor (potato or carrot) and a saturated solution of quinidine sulfate, a bitter-tasting plant substance. In comparison with control slugs, the expos...

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

authors： Sahley C,Gelperin A,Rudy JW

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutaredoxins (Grxs) have been identified across taxa as important mediators in various physiological functions. A chloroplastic monothiol glutaredoxin, AtGRXS16 from Arabidopsis thaliana, comprises two distinct functional domains, an N-terminal domain (NTD) with GlyIleTyr-TyrIleGly (GIY-YIG) endonuclease motif and a ...

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

authors： Liu X,Liu S,Feng Y,Liu JZ,Chen Y,Pham K,Deng H,Hirschi KD,Wang X,Cheng N

更新日期：2013-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphism in materials often leads to significantly different physical properties--the rutile and anatase polymorphs of TiO2 are a prime example. Polytypism is a special type of polymorphism, occurring in layered materials when the geometry of a repeating structural layer is maintained but the layer-stacking sequen...

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

authors： Luo H,Xie W,Tao J,Inoue H,Gyenis A,Krizan JW,Yazdani A,Zhu Y,Cava RJ

更新日期：2015-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the order Nidovirales express their structural protein ORFs from a nested set of 3' subgenomic mRNAs (sg mRNAs), and for most of these ORFs, a single genomic transcription regulatory sequence (TRS) was identified. Nine TRSs were previously reported for the arterivirus Simian hemorrhagic fever virus (SHFV). ...

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

authors： Di H,Madden JC Jr,Morantz EK,Tang HY,Graham RL,Baric RS,Brinton MA

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA polymerase II lacking a C-terminal domain (CTD) was active in transcription with purified proteins from yeast but failed to support transcription in a yeast extract. CTD dependence could be reconstituted in the purified system by addition of two fractions from the extract. An inhibitory fraction abolished transcri...

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

authors： Li Y,Kornberg RD

更新日期：1994-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Preclinical studies indicate that (2R,6R)-hydroxynorketamine (HNK) is a putative fast-acting antidepressant candidate. Although inhibition of NMDA-type glutamate receptors (NMDARs) is one mechanism proposed to underlie ketamine's antidepressant and adverse effects, the potency of (2R,6R)-HNK to inhibit NMDARs has not ...

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

authors： Lumsden EW,Troppoli TA,Myers SJ,Zanos P,Aracava Y,Kehr J,Lovett J,Kim S,Wang FH,Schmidt S,Jenne CE,Yuan P,Morris PJ,Thomas CJ,Zarate CA Jr,Moaddel R,Traynelis SF,Pereira EFR,Thompson SM,Albuquerque EX,Gould TD

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of previous strength training can be long-lived, even after prolonged subsequent inactivity, and retraining is facilitated by a previous training episode. Traditionally, such "muscle memory" has been attributed to neural factors in the absence of any identified local memory mechanism in the muscle tissue. We h...

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

authors： Bruusgaard JC,Johansen IB,Egner IM,Rana ZA,Gundersen K

更新日期：2010-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in climate during the 20th century differ from region to region across the United States. We provide strong evidence that spatial variations in US temperature trends are linked to the hydrologic cycle, and we also present unique information on the seasonal and latitudinal structure of the linkage. We show that...

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

authors： Portmann RW,Solomon S,Hegerl GC

更新日期：2009-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:An array of photoreceptors including cryptochromes, phototropin, and phytochromes regulates various light responses in plants. Among these photoreceptors, phytochromes perceive red and far-red light by switching between two interconvertible spectral forms (Pr and Pfr). The Pfr form promotes light responses partly by d...

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

authors： Paik I,Yang S,Choi G

更新日期：2012-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) have been associated with a wide range of adverse health effects. Our case-control study was performed to explore the association between placental levels of selected POPs and risks for neural tube defects (NTDs) in a Chinese population with a high prevalence of NTDs. Cases include...

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

authors： Ren A,Qiu X,Jin L,Ma J,Li Z,Zhang L,Zhu H,Finnell RH,Zhu T

更新日期：2011-08-02 00:00:00