Nitrogen regulator GlnR controls uptake and utilization of non-phosphotransferase-system carbon sources in actinomycetes.

abstract：:Depressed contractile function plays a primary role in the pathophysiology of acute myocardial ischemia. Intracellular acidification is an important factor underlying the inhibition of force production in the ischemic myocardium. The effect of acidosis to depress contractility is markedly greater in cardiac as compare...

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

authors： Metzger JM,Parmacek MS,Barr E,Pasyk K,Lin WI,Cochrane KL,Field LJ,Leiden JM

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli, AK I- HDH I and AK II- HDH II are two bifunctional proteins, derived from a common ancestor, that catalyze the first and third reactions of the common pathway leading to threonine and methionine. An extensive amino acid sequence comparison of both molecules reveals two main features on each of the...

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

authors： Ferrara P,Duchange N,Zakin MM,Cohen GN

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone H3 phosphorylation is a critical step that couples signal transduction pathways to gene regulation. To specifically assess the transcriptional regulatory functions of H3 phosphorylation, we developed an in vivo targeting approach and found that the H3 kinase MSK1 is a direct and potent transcriptional activato...

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

authors： Lau PN,Cheung P

更新日期：2011-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:English and Russian color terms divide the color spectrum differently. Unlike English, Russian makes an obligatory distinction between lighter blues ("goluboy") and darker blues ("siniy"). We investigated whether this linguistic difference leads to differences in color discrimination. We tested English and Russian spe...

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

authors： Winawer J,Witthoft N,Frank MC,Wu L,Wade AR,Boroditsky L

更新日期：2007-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The likelihood with which an action potential elicits neurotransmitter release, the release probability (p(r)), is an important component of synaptic strength. Regulatory mechanisms controlling several steps of synaptic vesicle (SV) exocytosis may affect p(r), yet their relative importance in determining p(r) and elic...

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

authors： Matz J,Gilyan A,Kolar A,McCarvill T,Krueger SR

更新日期：2010-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the reconstitution of a pathway that leads to the apoptotic changes in nuclei by using recombinant DNA fragmentation factor (DFF), a heterodimeric protein of 40 and 45 kDa. Coexpression of DFF40 and DFF45 is required to generate recombinant DFF, which becomes activated when DFF45 is cleaved by caspase-3...

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

authors： Liu X,Li P,Widlak P,Zou H,Luo X,Garrard WT,Wang X

更新日期：1998-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity affects over 2 billion people worldwide and is accompanied by peripheral neuropathy (PN) and an associated poorer quality of life. Despite high prevalence, the molecular mechanisms underlying the painful manifestations of PN are poorly understood, and therapies are restricted to use of painkillers or other dru...

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

authors： Bonomo RR,Cook TM,Gavini CK,White CR,Jones JR,Bovo E,Zima AV,Brown IA,Dugas LR,Zakharian E,Aubert G,Alonzo F 3rd,Calcutt NA,Mansuy-Aubert V

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ritz upper bound to eigenvalues of Hermitian operators is essential for many applications in science. It is a staple of quantum chemistry and physics computations. The lower bound devised by Temple in 1928 [G. Temple, Proc. R. Soc. A Math. Phys. Eng. Sci. 119, 276-293 (1928)] is not, since it converges too slowly....

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

authors： Martinazzo R,Pollak E

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:25-Hydroxycholesterol is produced in mammalian tissues. The function of this oxysterol is unknown. Here we describe a central role for 25-hydroxycholesterol in regulating the immune system. In initial experiments, we found that stimulation of macrophage Toll-like receptors (TLR) induced expression of cholesterol 25-hy...

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

authors： Bauman DR,Bitmansour AD,McDonald JG,Thompson BM,Liang G,Russell DW

更新日期：2009-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Three preparations of purified papain-solublized HL-A antigens have been radiolabeled by reductive methylation using formaldehyde and potassium boro[3H]hydride, and their reaction with specific HL-A antisera has been investigated. Greater than 99 percent of the radioactivity in the [3H]HL-A2 preparation could be compl...

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

authors： Parham P,Terhorst C,Herrmann H,Humphreys RE,Waterfield MD,Strominger JL

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of the p53 pathway represents the most common molecular defect of human cancer. But in the setting of melanoma, a highly aggressive and invariably fatal malignancy in its advanced disseminated form, mutation/deletion of p53 is relatively rare, whereas its positive regulator ARF is often lost. Here, we sho...

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

authors： Ha L,Ichikawa T,Anver M,Dickins R,Lowe S,Sharpless NE,Krimpenfort P,Depinho RA,Bennett DC,Sviderskaya EV,Merlino G

更新日期：2007-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and related species have been suggested to play a key role in the astrochemical evolution of the interstellar medium, but the formation mechanism of even their simplest building block--the aromatic benzene molecule--has remained elusive for decades. Here we demonstrate in crossed molec...

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

authors： Jones BM,Zhang F,Kaiser RI,Jamal A,Mebel AM,Cordiner MA,Charnley SB

更新日期：2011-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Gap junctions are specialized membrane regions that seem to mediate intercellular communication. They appear to contain closely packed arrays of equally sized particles all of which, upon freeze-cleaving, remain attached to one membrane leaflet and not to the other. One gap junction cleavage face, therefore, always ex...

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

authors： Staehelin LA

更新日期：1972-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Array technologies have made it straightforward to monitor simultaneously the expression pattern of thousands of genes. The challenge now is to interpret such massive data sets. The first step is to extract the fundamental patterns of gene expression inherent in the data. This paper describes the application of self-o...

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

authors： Tamayo P,Slonim D,Mesirov J,Zhu Q,Kitareewan S,Dmitrovsky E,Lander ES,Golub TR

更新日期：1999-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Two endocytic receptors, the low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor (LDLR) and the LDLR-related protein (LRP), are thought to act in concert in the hepatic uptake of partially metabolized dietary lipoproteins, the chylomicron remnants. We have evaluated the role of these two receptors in the hepatic metabolism of chyl...

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

authors： Herz J,Qiu SQ,Oesterle A,DeSilva HV,Shafi S,Havel RJ

更新日期：1995-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic transmission depends on the continued availability of neurotransmitter-filled synaptic vesicles (SVs) for triggered release from presynaptic boutons. Surprisingly, small boutons in the brain, that already contain comparatively few SVs, are thought to retain the majority of these SVs in a "reserve" pool that i...

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

authors： Ikeda K,Bekkers JM

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Infected cell protein 0 (ICP0) is a 775-residue multifunctional herpes simplex virus protein associated with numerous functions related to transactivation of gene expression and repression of host defenses to infection. We report that an uncharted domain of ICP0 located between residues 245 and 510 contains multiple S...

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

authors： Liang Y,Kurakin A,Roizman B

更新日期：2005-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the left and right human cerebral hemispheres differ both functionally and anatomically, little is known about the environmental or genetic factors that govern central nervous system asymmetry. Nevertheless, cerebral asymmetry is strongly correlated with handedness, and handedness does have a significant gene...

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

authors： Geschwind DH,Miller BL,DeCarli C,Carmelli D

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously found that a minor fraction of single-stranded DNA (ss-DNA) isolated from native nuclear DNA of normal chicken embryonic cells and cells of other species hybridized with bulk nuclear DNA or cellular RNA in great excess. At least one-third of ss-DNA belonging to the nonrepetitious part of the cell genome ...

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

authors： Leibovitch SA,Tapiero H,Harel J

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Daytime sleepiness impairs cognitive ability, but recent evidence suggests it is also an important driver of human motivation and behavior. We aimed to investigate the relationship between sleepiness and a behavior strongly associated with better health: social activity. We additionally aimed to investigate whether a ...

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

authors： Holding BC,Sundelin T,Schiller H,Åkerstedt T,Kecklund G,Axelsson J

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have expressed a male-specific, pheromone-sensitive odorant receptor (OR), BmorOR1, from the silkworm moth Bombyx mori in an "empty neuron" housed in the ab3 sensilla of a Drosophila Deltahalo mutant. Single-sensillum recordings showed that the BmorOR1-expressing neurons in the transgenic flies responded to the B. ...

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

authors： Syed Z,Ishida Y,Taylor K,Kimbrell DA,Leal WS

更新日期：2006-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The neighbor-exclusion principle is one of the most general and interesting rules describing intercalative DNA binding by small molecules. It suggests that such binding can only occur at every other base-pair site, reflecting a very large negative cooperativity in the binding process. We have carried out molecular mec...

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

authors： Rao SN,Kollman PA

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cartilage collagen fibrils, which are characterized by their thin, uniform diameters, are formed of a multicomponent system of three collagen types (II, IX, and XI) and interacting proteoglycans. We have used a genetic approach to test whether the proper assembly of this multiprotein structure was altered by overexpre...

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

authors： Garofalo S,Metsäranta M,Ellard J,Smith C,Horton W,Vuorio E,de Crombrugghe B

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effective management of marine fisheries is an ongoing challenge at the intersection of biology, economics, and policy. One way in which fish stocks-and their habitats-can be protected is through the establishment of marine reserves, areas that are closed to fishing. Although the potential economic benefits of suc...

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

authors： Herrera GE,Moeller HV,Neubert MG

更新日期：2016-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We synthesized a series of octapeptide analogs of somatostatin, containing N-terminal tryptophan or another amino acid followed by the hexapeptide sequences Cys-Phe-D-Trp-Lys-Thr-Cys or Cys-Tyr-D-Trp-Lys-Val-Cys and a C-terminal threoninamide or tryptophanamide. After purification by HPLC, the inhibitory activities of...

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

authors： Cai RZ,Karashima T,Guoth J,Szoke B,Olsen D,Schally AV

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase [GAPDH; D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate:NAD+ oxidoreductase (phosphorylating), EC 1.2.1.12] mRNA levels are induced by physiologic concentrations of insulin in cultured 3T3-F442A adipocyte and H35 hepatoma cell lines. To examine the mechanism by which insulin regulates GAPDH mRNA ...

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

authors： Alexander MC,Lomanto M,Nasrin N,Ramaika C

更新日期：1988-07-01 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：:Regional cerebral blood flow was measured with positron-emission tomography during two encoding and two retrieval tasks that were designed to compare memory for object features with memory for object locations. Bilateral increases in regional cerebral blood flow were observed in both anterior and posterior regions of ...

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

authors： Owen AM,Milner B,Petrides M,Evans AC

更新日期：1996-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that the receptor binding moiety of Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin (EtxB) can completely prevent autoimmune disease in a murine model of arthritis. Injection of male DBA/1 mice at the base of the tail with type II collagen in the presence of complete Freund's adjuvant normally leads to arthrit...

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

authors： Williams NA,Stasiuk LM,Nashar TO,Richards CM,Lang AK,Day MJ,Hirst TR

更新日期：1997-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogen exit is a key stage in the spread and propagation of infectious disease, with the fecal-oral route being a common mode of disease transmission. However, it is poorly understood which molecular pathways provide the major modes for intracellular pathogen exit and fecal-oral transmission in vivo. Here, we use th...

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

authors： Szumowski SC,Botts MR,Popovich JJ,Smelkinson MG,Troemel ER

更新日期：2014-06-03 00:00:00