An HD-domain phosphodiesterase mediates cooperative hydrolysis of c-di-AMP to affect bacterial growth and virulence.

abstract：:Light chains were obtained from IgG rabbit antibodies to the group-specific carbohydrates of groups A and C streptococci. An analysis of the amino acid alternatives which exist at the first three positions of the N-terminus in both light-chain preparations shows a marked restriction in amino acid sequence heterogeneit...

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

authors： Hood L,Lackland H,Eichman K,Kindt TJ,Braun DG,Krause RM

更新日期：1969-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that the genes of the gibberellin (GA) biosynthesis pathway in the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi are organized in a cluster of at least seven genes. P450-1 is one of four cytochrome P450 monooxygenase genes in this cluster. Disruption of the P450-1 gene in the GA-producing wild-type strain IMI ...

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

authors： Rojas MC,Hedden P,Gaskin P,Tudzynski B

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Oscillatory activity is widespread in dynamic neuronal networks. The main paradigm for the origin of periodicity consists of specialized pacemaking elements that synchronize and drive the rest of the network; however, other models exist. Here, we studied the spontaneous emergence of synchronized periodic bursting in a...

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

authors： Penn Y,Segal M,Moses E

更新日期：2016-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamyl-tRNA (Glu-tRNA), formed by Glu-tRNA synthetase (GluRS), is a substrate for protein biosynthesis and tetrapyrrole formation by the C(5) pathway. In this route Glu-tRNA is transformed to delta-aminolevulinic acid, the universal precursor of tetrapyrroles (e.g., heme and chlorophyll) by the action of Glu-tRNA re...

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

authors： Levicán G,Katz A,de Armas M,Núñez H,Orellana O

更新日期：2007-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Four major neutralizing regions of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein were identified and characterized with a panel of 80 HIV-1 antibody-positive human sera. Levels of neutralizing antibodies against the HIV-1 strains IIIB, SF2, and RF were compared with reactivity in ELISAs against...

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

authors： Broliden PA,von Gegerfelt A,Clapham P,Rosen J,Fenyö EM,Wahren B,Broliden K

更新日期：1992-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In yeast meiosis, crossing-over between homologues is dependent upon double-strand breaks. We demonstrate that the occurrence of these breaks is independent of pairing between homologues by showing that they occur with normal frequency, timing, and position in the absence of a homologue. This observation supports mode...

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

authors： Gilbertson LA,Stahl FW

更新日期：1994-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The location of renin (EC 3.4.99.19) in rat pituitary was determined by the peroxidase-antiperoxidase immunohistochemical technique. By using antisera prepared with purified rat renal renin, an immunoreactive substance was localized within ovoid cells scattered throughout the anterior pituitary. These cells were shown...

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

authors： Naruse K,Takii Y,Inagami T

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With decreasing temperature, liquids generally freeze into a solid state, losing entropy in the process. However, exceptions to this trend exist, such as quantum liquids, which may remain unfrozen down to absolute zero owing to strong quantum entanglement effects that stabilize a disordered state with zero entropy. Ex...

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

authors： Katayama N,Kimura K,Han Y,Nasu J,Drichko N,Nakanishi Y,Halim M,Ishiguro Y,Satake R,Nishibori E,Yoshizawa M,Nakano T,Nozue Y,Wakabayashi Y,Ishihara S,Hagiwara M,Sawa H,Nakatsuji S

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from 11 individuals which were classified as Lp(a-) by direct gel diffusion and by absorption tests showed the presence of Lp(a) lipoprotein when the sera were concentrated 120-fold. This Lp(a) antigen was demonstrated by gel diffusion to be indistinguishable from Lp-lipoprotein isolated from known Lp(a+) sera. T...

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

authors： Harvie NR,Schultz JS

更新日期：1970-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Walker-256 carcinosarcoma cells grown in tissue culture medium containing inhibitory DNA prepared from the tumor are shown to have an unaltered growth in vitro, but a diminished capacity to produce malignant tumors on injection into the rat. Coincident with this change in virulence is the induction of tRNA methylase i...

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

authors： Halpern BC,Halpern RM,Chaney SQ,Smith RA

更新日期：1970-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 5' flanking regions of the mouse renin genes (Ren1d and Ren2d) contain putative negative control and cAMP responsive elements. Sequence analysis shows additionally that these putative control elements in the Ren2d gene are interrupted by a 160-base-pair insertion. To document the functions of these elements, we is...

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

authors： Nakamura N,Burt DW,Paul M,Dzau VJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhythmic, spontaneously pulsating cardiac cells cultured from newborn rats are immediately stimulated to beat faster by addition of a number of tubulin-binding agents but not by their non-tubulin-binding analogues. The tubulin-binding agents tested include vinblastine, vincristine, navelbine, two analogs of vinblastin...

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

authors： Lampidis TJ,Kolonias D,Savaraj N,Rubin RW

更新日期：1992-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now well established that glasses feature quasilocalized nonphononic excitations-coined "soft spots"-, which follow a universal [Formula: see text] density of states in the limit of low frequencies ω. All glass-specific properties, such as the dependence on the preparation protocol or composition, are encapsulat...

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

authors： Rainone C,Bouchbinder E,Lerner E

更新日期：2020-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of probes to genes (IG and TCRB) encoding immunoglobulins (IG) and the beta chain of the T-cell antigen receptor (TCRB), respectively, have become a sensitive means to assess clonality and lineage in lymphoid malignancies. It has become apparent that some individual cases show rearrangements of both IG and TCR...

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

authors： Davey MP,Bongiovanni KF,Kaulfersch W,Quertermous T,Seidman JG,Hershfield MS,Kurtzberg J,Haynes BF,Davis MM,Waldmann TA

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allostery, the coupling between ligand binding and protein conformational change, is the heart of biological network and it has often been explained by two representative models, the induced-fit and the population-shift models. Here, we clarified for what systems one model fits better than the other by performing mole...

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

authors： Okazaki K,Takada S

更新日期：2008-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferroelectricity and antiferroelectricity are widely seen in various types of condensed matter and are of technological significance not only due to their electrical switchability but also due to intriguing cross-coupling effects such as electro-mechanical and electro-caloric effects. The control of the two types of d...

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

authors： Takae K,Tanaka H

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Economic experiments are often used to study if humans altruistically value the welfare of others. A canonical result from public-good games is that humans vary in how they value the welfare of others, dividing into fair-minded conditional cooperators, who match the cooperation of others, and selfish noncooperators. H...

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

authors： Burton-Chellew MN,El Mouden C,West SA

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP-sensitive potassium channels (K(ATP)) are involved in a diverse array of physiologic functions including protection of tissue against ischemic insult, regulation of vascular tone, and modulation of insulin secretion. To improve our understanding of the role of K(ATP) in these processes, we used a gene-targeting st...

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

authors： Chutkow WA,Samuel V,Hansen PA,Pu J,Valdivia CR,Makielski JC,Burant CF

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemosmotic model provides a framework for visualizing energy-coupled reactions (vectorial reaction sequences, membrane-dependent gradient formation, and charge separation of reacting species) and a mechanism for energy coupling (indirect coupling between the driving and driven reaction sequences mediated by a mem...

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

authors： Green DE

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective culling in populations of most organisms is rank-order: individuals of low rank on a scale of potential fitnesses tend to be eliminated during early development, whereas surviving adults (whose number reflects the carrying capacity of the environment) are generally drawn from the distribution's upper end. Ha...

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

authors： Wallace B

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central nervous system both influences and is influenced by the gastrointestinal system. Most research on this gut-brain connection has focused on how ascending signals from the gut and its microbiome alter brain function. Less attention has focused on how descending signals from the central nervous system alter g...

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

authors： Levinthal DJ,Strick PL

更新日期：2020-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:By use of the indirect peroxidase-antiperoxidase complex immunocytochemical technique, antibody to purified human renal renin was applied to formalin-fixed paraffin sections of human cadaver brain. Immune reaction products were observed in most nerve cells in all areas of the brain examined; staining was limited to th...

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

authors： Slater EE,Defendini R,Zimmerman EA

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast auxiliary transcription factor GAL11, a candidate for the coactivator, was partially purified from yeast cells, and its function was characterized in a cell-free transcription system. The partially purified GAL11 protein stimulated basal transcription from the CYC1 core promoter by a factor of 4-5 at the ste...

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

authors： Sakurai H,Hiraoka Y,Fukasawa T

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleocharis vivipara Link, a freshwater amphibious leafless plant belonging to the Cyperaceae can grow in both terrestrial and submersed aquatic conditions. Two forms of E. vivipara obtained from these contrasting environments were examined for the characteristics associated with C(4) and C(3) photosynthesis. In the te...

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

authors： Ueno O,Samejima M,Muto S,Miyachi S

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the SLC4 bicarbonate transporter family are involved in solute transport and pH homeostasis. Here we report that disrupting the Slc4a10 gene, which encodes the Na(+)-coupled Cl(-)-HCO(3)(-) exchanger Slc4a10 (NCBE), drastically reduces brain ventricle volume and protects against fatal epileptic seizures in ...

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

authors： Jacobs S,Ruusuvuori E,Sipilä ST,Haapanen A,Damkier HH,Kurth I,Hentschke M,Schweizer M,Rudhard Y,Laatikainen LM,Tyynelä J,Praetorius J,Voipio J,Hübner CA

更新日期：2008-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:neurogenin2 (ngn2) encodes a basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor and plays an important role in neurogenesis from migratory neural crest cells. Its role in retinal development is poorly understood. We observed that in the developing chick retina, ngn2 was expressed in a subpopulation of proliferating progenito...

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

authors： Yan RT,Ma WX,Wang SZ

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:An oligoribonucleotide (a 27-mer) that mimics the sarcin/ricin (S/R) domain of Escherichia coli 23S rRNA binds elongation factor EF-G; the Kd is 6.9 microM, whereas for binding to ribosomes it is 0.7 microM. Binding saturates when EF-G and the S/R RNA are equimolar; at saturation 70% of the input RNA is in complexes w...

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

authors： Munishkin A,Wool IG

更新日期：1997-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The Caulobacter crescentus flagellum is formed at a specific time in the cell cycle and its assembly requires the ordered expression of a large number of genes. These genes are controlled in a positive trans-acting hierarchy that reflects the order of assembly of the flagellum. Using plasmids carrying transcriptional ...

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

authors： Xu H,Dingwall A,Shapiro L

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:U2 snRNP auxiliary factor 65 kDa (U2AF(65)) is a general splicing factor that contacts polypyrimidine (Py) tract and promotes prespliceosome assembly. In this report, we show that U2AF(65) stimulates alternative exon skipping in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)-related survival motor neuron (SMN) pre-mRNA. A stronger 5' ...

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

authors： Cho S,Moon H,Loh TJ,Jang HN,Liu Y,Zhou J,Ohn T,Zheng X,Shen H

更新日期：2015-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The timing of neocortical regional specification was examined using a monoclonal antibody, designated PC3.1, that binds a 29-kDa polypeptide and recognizes a neuronal subpopulation located in the lateral but not dorsomedial neocortex in the rat. When lateral cortical tissue fragments at embryonic days 12 and 16 were m...

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

authors： Arimatsu Y,Miyamoto M,Nihonmatsu I,Hirata K,Uratani Y,Hatanaka Y,Takiguchi-Hayashi K

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00