MiR-2 family regulates insect metamorphosis by controlling the juvenile hormone signaling pathway.

abstract：:The hereditary hearing-vision loss disease Usher syndrome (USH) is caused by defects in several proteins, most of which form an integrated protein network called Usher interactome. Harmonin/Ush1C is a master scaffold in the assembly of the Usher protein complexes, because harmonin is known to bind to every protein in ...

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

authors： Pan L,Yan J,Wu L,Zhang M

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological membranes are complex, self-organized structures that define boundaries and compartmentalize space in living matter. Composed of a wide variety of lipid and protein molecules, these responsive surfaces mediate transmembrane signaling and material transport within the cell and with its environment. It is wel...

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

authors： Watkins EB,Miller CE,Majewski J,Kuhl TL

更新日期：2011-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription initiation factor TFIID is a multimeric protein complex that plays a central role in transcriptional regulation by facilitating promoter responses to various activators. cDNAs encoding the 110-kDa subunit of Drosophila TFIID (p110) were isolated with a degenerate oligodeoxynucleotide probe based on an am...

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

authors： Kokubo T,Gong DW,Roeder RG,Horikoshi M,Nakatani Y

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein products of T4 bacteriophage genes 41, 43, 45, 44, and 62 have been purified to near homogeneity using an assay which measures their stimulation of DNA synthesis in a crude lysate of Escherichia coli cells in fected by an appropriate mutant phage. When all of these proteins and T4 gene 32 protein are incub...

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

authors： Morris CF,Sinha NK,Alberts BM

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal dynamics display a complex spatiotemporal structure involving the precise, context-dependent coordination of activation patterns across a large number of spatially distributed regions. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has played a central role in demonstrating the nontrivial spatial and topologica...

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

authors： Zalesky A,Fornito A,Cocchi L,Gollo LL,Breakspear M

更新日期：2014-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of an amino acid other than aspartic acid at position 57 of the HLA-DQ beta chain (non-Asp-57) is highly associated with susceptibility to insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), whereas an aspartic acid at this position (Asp-57) appears to confer resistance to the disease. We hypothesize that the 30-...

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

authors： Dorman JS,LaPorte RE,Stone RA,Trucco M

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the visA gene of Escherichia coli cause the mutant bacteria to die upon illumination with visible light. We confirmed genetically that the visA gene is a structural gene for ferrochelatase (protoheme ferro-lyase, EC 4.99.1.1). Since other mutations in the genes involved in the biosynthesis of heme can cur...

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

authors： Nakahigashi K,Nishimura K,Miyamoto K,Inokuchi H

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently discovered family of natural anion channelrhodopsins (ACRs) have the highest conductance among channelrhodopsins and exhibit exclusive anion selectivity, which make them efficient inhibitory tools for optogenetics. We report analysis of flash-induced absorption changes in purified wild-type and mutant ACRs,...

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

authors： Sineshchekov OA,Li H,Govorunova EG,Spudich JL

更新日期：2016-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The capsids of neurotropic herpesviruses have the remarkable ability to move in specific directions within axons. By modulating bidirectional capsid transport to favor either retrograde (minus-end) or anterograde (plus-end) motion, these viruses travel to sensory ganglia or peripheral tissue at specific stages of infe...

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

authors： Luxton GW,Haverlock S,Coller KE,Antinone SE,Pincetic A,Smith GA

更新日期：2005-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) are produced by the mammalian host defense to kill invading bacteria and limit bacterial colonization. One main in vivo target of ROS is the thiol group of proteins. We have developed a quantitative thiol trapping technique termed OxICAT to identify physiologically...

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

authors： Leichert LI,Gehrke F,Gudiseva HV,Blackwell T,Ilbert M,Walker AK,Strahler JR,Andrews PC,Jakob U

更新日期：2008-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian thalamus is a critical site where early perception of sensorimotor signals is dynamically regulated by acetylcholine in a behavioral state-dependent manner. In this study, we examined how synaptic transmission is modulated by acetylcholine in auditory thalamus where sensory relay neurons form parallel lemnis...

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

authors： Mooney DM,Zhang L,Basile C,Senatorov VV,Ngsee J,Omar A,Hu B

更新日期：2004-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular cholesterol metabolism is regulated primarily through the coordinate expression of two proteins, the low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor and 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase (EC 1.1.1.34). We have used cDNA probes for the human genes encoding these proteins to determine the precise...

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

authors： Lindgren V,Luskey KL,Russell DW,Francke U

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The "protein only" hypothesis states that the infectious agent causing transmissible spongiform encephalopathies is a conformational isomer of PrP, a host protein predominantly expressed in brain, and is strongly supported by many lines of evidence. Prion diseases are so far unique among conformational diseases in tha...

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

authors： Weissmann C,Enari M,Klöhn PC,Rossi D,Flechsig E

更新日期：2002-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the kinetics of the interaction between endodeoxyribonuclease EcoRI (EC 3.1.23.13) and nine linear DNA fragments that range in size between 34 and 6,200 base pairs and contain the EcoRI site of plasmid pBR322 in a central location. The kinetic parameters governing both formation and decay of specific ...

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

authors： Jack WE,Terry BJ,Modrich P

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nit-2 major nitrogen regulatory gene of Neurospora crassa turns on the expression of various unlinked structural genes that specify nitrogen-catabolic enzymes under nitrogen-limitation conditions. The nit-2 gene encodes a protein of 1036 amino acid residues with a single zinc finger and a downstream basic region t...

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

authors： Fu YH,Marzluf GA

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P elements have been cloned and sequenced from Drosophila nebulosa. Their sequences have diverged less than 6% from P elements of Drosophila melanogaster. However D. nebulosa P elements have nucleotide changes that close all four open reading frames found in the D. melanogaster P element. Microinjection experiments sh...

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

authors： Lansman RA,Shade RO,Grigliatti TA,Brock HW

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed model of the G(2) DNA damage checkpoint (G2DDC) system is presented that includes complex regulatory networks of the mitotic kinase Cdc2, phosphatase Cdc25, Wee1 kinase, and damage signal transduction pathways involving Chk1 and p53. Assumptions on the kinetic equations of the G2DDC are made, and computer s...

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

authors： Aguda BD

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinogenic 9-anthryloxirane binds covalently to calf thymus DNA and poly(dA-dT). Application of the technique for DNA sequence determination shows that acid cleavage of the modified DNA frees approximately half of the anthryl groups from the DNA. HPLC analysis indicates that an adenine adduct and the glycol derived ...

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

authors： Yang NC,Chang CW

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured the oxygen concentration in the body water of murine FSa and NFSa fibrosarcomas using a new method for quantitative oxygen concentration determination deep in the tissues of a living animal. The measurement uses unusually low-frequency electron paramagnetic spectroscopy sensitive to substrate 7 cm dee...

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

authors： Halpern HJ,Yu C,Peric M,Barth E,Grdina DJ,Teicher BA

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The blue-light receptor genes (sopII) of sensory rhodopsin (SR) II were cloned from two species, the halophilic bacteria Haloarcula vallismortis (vSR-II) and Natronobacterium pharaonis (pSR-II). Upstream of both sopII gene loci, sequences corresponding to the halobacterial transducer of rhodopsin (Htr) II were recogni...

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

authors： Seidel R,Scharf B,Gautel M,Kleine K,Oesterhelt D,Engelhard M

更新日期：1995-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The 5' flanking sequences and the intron of the mouse Hoxa-7 gene were searched for regulatory elements that can function in Drosophila. Only the intron is able to activate a lacZ fusion gene in various tissues of Drosophila embryos. This enhancer function requires a cluster of three homeodomain binding sites (HB1-ele...

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

authors： Haerry TE,Gehring WJ

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Carney-Stratakis syndrome, an inherited condition predisposing affected individuals to gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) and paraganglioma, is caused by germline mutations in succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) subunits B, C, or D, leading to dysfunction of complex II of the electron transport chain. We evaluated the ro...

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

authors： Janeway KA,Kim SY,Lodish M,Nosé V,Rustin P,Gaal J,Dahia PL,Liegl B,Ball ER,Raygada M,Lai AH,Kelly L,Hornick JL,NIH Pediatric and Wild-Type GIST Clinic.,O'Sullivan M,de Krijger RR,Dinjens WN,Demetri GD,Antonescu CR,F

更新日期：2011-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbohydrate-based vaccines have shown therapeutic efficacy for infectious disease and cancer. The mushroom Ganoderma lucidum (Reishi) containing complex polysaccharides has been used as antitumor supplement, but the mechanism of immune response has rarely been studied. Here, we show that the mice immunized with a l-f...

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

authors： Liao SF,Liang CH,Ho MY,Hsu TL,Tsai TI,Hsieh YS,Tsai CM,Li ST,Cheng YY,Tsao SM,Lin TY,Lin ZY,Yang WB,Ren CT,Lin KI,Khoo KH,Lin CH,Hsu HY,Wu CY,Wong CH

更新日期：2013-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Engagement of high-affinity IgE receptors leads to activation of tyrosine and serine/threonine kinases and the immediate phosphorylation of receptor beta (serine and tyrosine) and gamma (threonine and tyrosine) chains. Receptor disengagement leads to dephosphorylation of beta and gamma chains via the action of undefin...

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

authors： Paolini R,Numerof R,Kinet JP

更新日期：1992-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The broad negative consequences of habitat degradation on biodiversity have been studied, but the complex effects of natural-agricultural landscape matrices remain poorly understood. Here we used stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes to detect changes in mammal resource and habitat use and trophic structure between pres...

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

authors： Magioli M,Moreira MZ,Fonseca RCB,Ribeiro MC,Rodrigues MG,Ferraz KMPMB

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the function of the two nerve growth factor (NGF) receptors, p75NGFR and p140trk, chimeric molecules were constructed of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and NGF receptors. Rat PC12 pheochromocytoma cells transiently transfected with TNF-p140trk chimeras, which contain the extracellular domain of TNF receptor ...

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

authors： Rovelli G,Heller RA,Canossa M,Shooter EM

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:State-of-the-art NMR spectrometers using superconducting magnets have enabled, with their ultrafine spectral resolution, the determination of the structure of large molecules such as proteins, which is one of the most profound applications of modern NMR spectroscopy. Many chemical and biotechnological applications, ho...

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

authors： Ha D,Paulsen J,Sun N,Song YQ,Ham D

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A common challenge in pathogen discovery by deep sequencing approaches is to recognize viral or subviral pathogens in samples of diseased tissue that share no significant homology with a known pathogen. Here we report a homology-independent approach for discovering viroids, a distinct class of free circular RNA subvir...

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

authors： Wu Q,Wang Y,Cao M,Pantaleo V,Burgyan J,Li WX,Ding SW

更新日期：2012-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiverer (shi) is an autosomal recessive mutation in the mouse characterized by an almost total lack of central nervous system myelin. While small amounts of other myelin components are present in the brain of the shi mouse, the four forms of myelin basic protein (MBP) are not detectable. Previous investigations by us...

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

authors： Molineaux SM,Engh H,de Ferra F,Hudson L,Lazzarini RA

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The introduction of foreign genes into early mouse embryos and embryonic stem (ES) cells is invaluable for the analysis of gene function and regulation in the living animal. The use of vectors derived from retroviruses as gene transfer vehicles in this setting has had limited success because of silencing of transgene ...

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

authors： Pfeifer A,Ikawa M,Dayn Y,Verma IM

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00