Construction of a recombinant human parvovirus B19: adeno-associated virus 2 (AAV) DNA inverted terminal repeats are functional in an AAV-B19 hybrid virus.

abstract：:Sequence-specific gene silencing by short hairpin (sh) RNAs has recently emerged as an indispensable tool for understanding gene function and a promising avenue for drug discovery. However, a wider biomedical use of this approach is hindered by the lack of straightforward methods for achieving uniform expression of sh...

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

authors： Khandelia P,Yap K,Makeyev EV

更新日期：2011-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Prophenoloxidases (PPOs) are key enzymes of the melanization reaction, which is a prominent defense mechanism of arthropods. The mosquito Aedes aegypti has ten PPO genes in the genome, four of which (PPO1, PPO3, PPO5, and PPO8) were expressed in response to microbial infection. Cactus depletion resulted in transcripti...

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

authors： Zou Z,Shin SW,Alvarez KS,Bian G,Kokoza V,Raikhel AS

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the cloning and expression of a cDNA encoding human sterol carrier protein 2 (SCP2). The 1.3-kilobase (kb) cDNA contains an open reading frame which encompasses a 143-amino acid sequence which is 89% identical to the rat SCP2 amino acid sequence. The deduced amino acid sequence of the polypeptide reveals a 2...

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

authors： Yamamoto R,Kallen CB,Babalola GO,Rennert H,Billheimer JT,Strauss JF 3rd

更新日期：1991-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1) is one of the most abundant and enigmatic enzymes of the CNS. Based on existing UCH-L1 knockout models, UCH-L1 is thought to be required for the maintenance of axonal integrity, but not for neuronal development despite its high expression in neurons. Several lines of evidence...

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

authors： Reinicke AT,Laban K,Sachs M,Kraus V,Walden M,Damme M,Sachs W,Reichelt J,Schweizer M,Janiesch PC,Duncan KE,Saftig P,Rinschen MM,Morellini F,Meyer-Schwesinger C

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In human financial and social systems, exchanges of information among individuals cause speculative bubbles, behavioral cascades, and other correlated actions that profoundly influence system-level function. Exchanges of information are also widespread in ecological systems, but their effects on ecosystem-level proces...

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

authors： Gil MA,Hein AM

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of pyrophosphate on RNA binding and ATPase activities of Escherichia coli transcription termination factor rho have been studied. Mutant rho-115 protein has a temperature-sensitive RNA-dependent ATPase activity due to the thermolability of binding to RNA [Kent, R.B. & Guterman, S.K. (1981) Fed. Proc. Fed. ...

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

authors： Kent RB,Guterman SK

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When two phases of water are at equilibrium, the ratio of hydrogen isotopes in each is slightly altered because of their different phase affinities. This isotopic fractionation process can be utilized to analyze water's movement in the world's climate. Here we show that equilibrium fractionation ratios, an entirely qu...

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

authors： Markland TE,Berne BJ

更新日期：2012-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum thymic factor (FTS) utilized in its synthetic or natural form loses its biological activity in a rosette assay after treatment with a metal ion-chelating agent, Chelex 100. This activity is restored by the addition of Zn salts and, to a lesser extent, certain other metal salts. FTS activation is secondary to...

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

authors： Dardenne M,Pléau JM,Nabarra B,Lefrancier P,Derrien M,Choay J,Bach JF

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasitic plants share a common anatomical feature, the haustorium. Haustoria enable both infection and nutrient transfer, which often leads to growth penalties for host plants and yield reduction in crop species. Haustoria also reciprocally transfer substances, such as RNA and proteins, from parasite to host, but the...

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

authors： Spallek T,Melnyk CW,Wakatake T,Zhang J,Sakamoto Y,Kiba T,Yoshida S,Matsunaga S,Sakakibara H,Shirasu K

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:State transition in photosynthesis is a short-term balancing mechanism of energy distribution between photosystem I (PSI) and photosystem II (PSII). When PSII is preferentially excited (state 2), a pool of mobile light-harvesting complex II (LHCII) antenna proteins is thought to migrate from PSII to PSI, but biochemic...

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

authors： Takahashi H,Iwai M,Takahashi Y,Minagawa J

更新日期：2006-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The mid-winter development of refractoriness to melatonin (Mel) triggers recrudescence of the atrophied reproductive apparatus of rodents. As a consequence, over-wintering animals become reproductively competent just before the onset of spring conditions favorable for breeding. The neural target tissues that cease to ...

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

authors： Freeman DA,Zucker I

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The inference of the evolutionary history of a set of languages is a complex problem. Although some languages are known to be related through descent from common ancestral languages, for other languages determining whether such a relationship holds is itself a difficult problem. In this paper we report on new methods,...

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

authors： Warnow T

更新日期：1997-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies have identified noncoding variants near TBX3 that are associated with PR interval and QRS duration, suggesting that subtle changes in TBX3 expression affect atrioventricular conduction system function. To explore whether and to what extent the atrioventricular conduction system is affec...

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

authors： Mohan RA,Bosada FM,van Weerd JH,van Duijvenboden K,Wang J,Mommersteeg MTM,Hooijkaas IB,Wakker V,de Gier-de Vries C,Coronel R,Boink GJJ,Bakkers J,Barnett P,Boukens BJ,Christoffels VM

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Immediately after focal retinal lesions, receptive fields (RFs) in primary visual cortex expand considerably, even when the retinal damage is limited to the photoreceptor layer. The time course of these changes suggests that mere lack of stimulation in the vicinity of the RF accompanied by stimulation in the surroundi...

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

authors： Pettet MW,Gilbert CD

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clones of embryonic chick chondrocytes have been isolated and collagen biosynthesis has been followed as the clones grow and eventually lose division capacity. Analysis of collagen type at each successive subculture until the time of cellular senescence has shown that a change in synthesis occurs from the cartilage-sp...

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

authors： Mayne R,Vail MS,Mayne PM,Miller EJ

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 600-base-pair region essential for ColE1 and pMBl plasmid replication contains two promoters responsible for the synthesis of two RNA molecules central to copy number control. One promoter directs synthesis of the primer RNA precursor. The second promoter directs the synthesis of a small RNA molecule, RNAl, which ac...

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

authors： Cesareni G,Muesing MA,Polisky B

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of small peptides corresponding to the amino termini of the fibrin alpha- and beta-chains has been synthesized. The peptides glycyl-L-prolyl-L-arginyl-L-proline and glycyl-L-prolyl-L-arginylsarcosine are potent inhibitors of fibrin polymerization. Moreover, these peptides have a natural stability stemming fro...

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

authors： Laudano AP,Doolittle RF

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoplasmic dynein is a microtubule-based motor protein complex that plays important roles in a wide range of fundamental cellular processes, including vesicular transport, mitosis, and cell migration. A single major form of cytoplasmic dynein associates with membranous organelles, mitotic kinetochores, the mitotic an...

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

authors： Williams JC,Roulhac PL,Roy AG,Vallee RB,Fitzgerald MC,Hendrickson WA

更新日期：2007-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factor cAMP response element (CRE)-binding protein (CREB) has been shown to regulate neural plasticity. Drugs of abuse activate CREB in the nucleus accumbens, an important part of the brain's reward pathways, and local manipulations of CREB activity have been shown to affect cocaine reward, suggestin...

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

authors： Barrot M,Olivier JD,Perrotti LI,DiLeone RJ,Berton O,Eisch AJ,Impey S,Storm DR,Neve RL,Yin JC,Zachariou V,Nestler EJ

更新日期：2002-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hawaiian honeycreepers (Drepanidae) represent a superb illustration of evolutionary radiation, with a single colonization event giving rise to 19 extant and at least 10 extinct species [Curnutt, J. & Pimm, S. (2001) Stud. Avian Biol. 22, 15-30]. They also represent a dramatic example of anthropogenic extinction. C...

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

authors： Benning TL,LaPointe D,Atkinson CT,Vitousek PM

更新日期：2002-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed conformational analysis of the known crystal structures of vitamin A, carotenoid, and xanthenoid derivatives has been made. These studies suggest that the visual chromophore 11-cis retinal and its isomers may each occur in several different conformational states, which would be expected to have different li...

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

authors： Sundaralingam M,Beddell C

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the DAX-1 [dosage-sensitive sex reversal-adrenal hypoplasia congenita (AHC) critical region on the X chromosome; NR0B1] gene cause X-linked AHC associated with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. DAX-1 encodes an unusual orphan member of the nuclear hormone receptor superfamily, acting as a transcriptional rep...

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

authors： Lehmann SG,Lalli E,Sassone-Corsi P

更新日期：2002-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In a patient with a severe attack of acute intermittent porphyria, hematin given intravenously caused marked diminution of serum delta-aminolevulinic acid and porphobilinogen. The decline of aminolevulinate was more rapid than that of porphobilinoge. After 2 days of hematin administration, about 5 days were required f...

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

authors： Bonkowsky HL,Tschudy DP,Collins A,Doherty J,Bossenmaier I,Cardinal R,Watson CJ

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model of the photochemical apparatus of photosynthesis, presented previously in a tripartite format, is used in a bipartite format to analyze energy transfer between photosystem II units. The model is used to develop analytical expressions for the photochemical properties of chloroplasts that include a term for the ...

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

authors： Butler WL

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A central event in the eukaryotic cell cycle is the decision to commence DNA replication (S phase). Strict controls normally operate to prevent repeated rounds of DNA replication without intervening mitoses ("endoreplication") or initiation of mitosis before DNA is fully replicated ("mitotic catastrophe"). Some of the...

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

authors： Novak B,Tyson JJ

更新日期：1997-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzymic activity of crystalline mitochondrial aspartate aminotransferase (L-aspartate:2-oxoglutarate aminotransferase, EC 2.6.1.1) was determined in suspensions of noncrosslinked microcrystals in 30% (wt/vol) polyethylene glycol. The crystals (average dimensions, 22 x 5 x 0.8 micron) were small enough to preclude ...

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

authors： Kirsten H,Gehring H,Christen P

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intact squid axons were injected with aequorin and bathed in 3 mM Ca seawater (a concentration close to that of squid blood). Sodium and potassium currents were pharmacologically blocked and repetitive voltage-clamp pulses of a duration of 1.5 ms were applied (to simulate the duration of an action potential) at amplit...

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

authors： Mullins LJ,Requena J,Whittembury J

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein ubiquitination plays an important role in ATP-dependent protein turnover, and it also may regulate other cellular events. Covalent attachment of ubiquitin to other proteins is catalyzed by three different enzymes, E1, E2, and E3. We have previously shown that protein ubiquitination can be regulated by phosphor...

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

authors： Kong SK,Chock PB

更新日期：1994-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The MARCKS protein is a widely distributed cellular substrate for protein kinase C. It is a myristoylprotein that binds calmodulin and actin in a manner reversible by protein kinase C-dependent phosphorylation. It is also highly expressed in nervous tissue, particularly during development. To evaluate a possible devel...

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

authors： Stumpo DJ,Bock CB,Tuttle JS,Blackshear PJ

更新日期：1995-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:CD31 is an Ig-like molecule expressed by leukocytes and endothelial cells with an established role in the regulation of leukocyte trafficking. Despite genetic deletion of CD31 being associated with exacerbation of T cell-mediated autoimmunity, the contribution of this molecule to T-cell responses is largely unknown. H...

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

authors： Ma L,Mauro C,Cornish GH,Chai JG,Coe D,Fu H,Patton D,Okkenhaug K,Franzoso G,Dyson J,Nourshargh S,Marelli-Berg FM

更新日期：2010-11-09 00:00:00