Steroid hormones mediate reversible phenotypic transition between transformed and untransformed states in mouse fibroblasts.

abstract：:Euplotes raikovi of the wild-type strain 13 was found to be heterozygous (mat-1/mat-2) for the genetic locus mat, which is supposed to control the mating-type specificity of freely released mating pheromones ("euplomones"), and capable of yielding the two types of corresponding homozygotes (mat-1/mat-1, mat-2/mat-2). ...

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

authors： Luporini P,Raffioni S,Concetti A,Miceli C

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work has demonstrated that Web search volume can "predict the present," meaning that it can be used to accurately track outcomes such as unemployment levels, auto and home sales, and disease prevalence in near real time. Here we show that what consumers are searching for online can also predict their collective...

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

authors： Goel S,Hofman JM,Lahaie S,Pennock DM,Watts DJ

更新日期：2010-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic mice expressing the sequences coding for the envelope proteins of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) in the liver have been used as a model of the HBV chronic carrier state. We evaluated the possibility of inducing a specific immune response to the viral envelope antigens and thus potentially controlling chronic H...

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

authors： Mancini M,Hadchouel M,Davis HL,Whalen RG,Tiollais P,Michel ML

更新日期：1996-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the 15 extracellular domains of the mannose 6-phosphate/insulin-like growth factor-2 receptor (M6P/IGF2R), domain 11 has evolved a binding site for IGF2 to negatively regulate ligand bioavailability and mammalian growth. Despite the highly evolved structural loops of the IGF2:domain 11 binding site, affinity-enh...

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

authors： Frago S,Nicholls RD,Strickland M,Hughes J,Williams C,Garner L,Surakhy M,Maclean R,Rezgui D,Prince SN,Zaccheo OJ,Ebner D,Sanegre S,Yu S,Buffa FM,Crump MP,Hassan AB

更新日期：2016-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse transcriptase of murine retroviruses is a monomeric protein of approximately 80,000 daltons, which is encoded by the central portion of the viral pol gene. To prepare large quantities of the enzyme, we have constructed gene fusions between the trpE gene and portions of the pol gene of Moloney murine leukemia v...

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

authors： Tanese N,Roth M,Goff SP

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rev-Erbβ is a nuclear receptor that couples circadian rhythm, metabolism, and inflammation. Heme binding to the protein modulates its function as a repressor, its stability, its ability to bind other proteins, and its activity in gas sensing. Rev-Erbβ binds Fe3+-heme more tightly than Fe2+-heme, suggesting its activit...

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

authors： Sarkar A,Carter EL,Harland JB,Speelman AL,Lehnert N,Ragsdale SW

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In isogamous species of Chlamydomonas, such as Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Chlamydomonas eugametos, the sexual process involves the use of flagella agglutinins by which the gametes of compatible strains adhere through chance encounter and ultimately pair and fuse to form zygotes. In a newly described heterogamous sp...

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

authors： Starr RC,Marner FJ,Jaenicke L

更新日期：1995-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A remarkable property of tetrapod bone is its ability to detect and remodel areas where damage has accumulated through prolonged use. This process, believed vital to the long-term health of bone, is considered to be initiated and orchestrated by osteocytes, cells within the bone matrix. It is therefore surprising that...

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

authors： Atkins A,Dean MN,Habegger ML,Motta PJ,Ofer L,Repp F,Shipov A,Weiner S,Currey JD,Shahar R

更新日期：2014-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, originating in the Tropical Pacific, is the strongest natural interannual climate signal and has widespread effects on the global climate system and the ecology of the Tropical Pacific. Any strong change in ENSO statistics will therefore have serious climatic and eco...

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

authors： Latif M,Keenlyside NS

更新日期：2009-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Fossil glycoproteins of the soluble organic matrix are present in an 80-million-year-old mollusk shell from the Late Cretaceous Period. Discrete molecular weight components, as determined by gel electrophoresis, are preserved. The fossil organic matrix was compared with the organic matrix of a living representative sp...

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

authors： Weiner S,Lowenstam HA,Hood L

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In earlier studies with the acetylcholine receptor (AcChoR) of Electrophorus electricus the rate and equilibrium constants for a model that relates the ligand binding to ion translocation were determined, and the dependence of these constants on the concentrations of carbamoylcholine and acetylcholine, over a 200- and...

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

authors： Hess GP,Pasquale EB,Walker JW,McNamee MG

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Construction of deletion derivative plasmids and cloning of restriction fragments from plasmids containing the Salmonella typhimurium origin of replication (ori) were used to locate the functional origin to within a DNA fragment of 296 base pairs between the genes uncB and asn. The nucleotide sequence of the S. typhim...

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

authors： Zyskind JW,Smith DW

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dihydrofolate reductase (EC 1.5.1.3; 5,6,7,8-tetrahydrofolate:NADP(+) oxidoreductase) from antifolate-resistant Lactobacillus casei has been isolated in pure form and examined in solution by high resolution proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The 220 MHz proton magnetic resonance spectrum of this small enzyme (abo...

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

authors： Pastore EJ,Kisliuk RL,Plante LT,Wright JM,Kaplan NO

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic alterations induced by the cytokinin 6-benzylaminopurine in cell suspensions of Nicotiana plumbaginifolia were studied at the level of the NH(2)-terminal sequence of the constituent proteins. Total protein extracts were separated by classical two-dimensional PAGE, and the proteins were recovered by electrob...

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

authors： Bauw G,De Loose M,Inzé D,Van Montagu M,Vandekerckhove J

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection during the neonatal period commonly induces apnea episodes, and the proinflammatory cytokine IL-1beta may serve as a critical mediator between these events. To determine the mechanism by which IL-1beta depresses respiration, we examined a prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2))-dependent pathway in newborn mice and huma...

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

authors： Hofstetter AO,Saha S,Siljehav V,Jakobsson PJ,Herlenius E

更新日期：2007-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:During the periimplantation period of pregnancy, pig blastocysts undergo morphological changes and differentiation requiring secretion and transport of nutrients (histotroph) into the uterine lumen. Of these nutrients, glucose is converted to fructose, an isomer of glucose, by conceptus trophectoderm. Although glucose...

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

authors： Kim J,Song G,Wu G,Bazer FW

更新日期：2012-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce a coarse-grained model for atomic glass formers. Its elements are physically motivated local microscopic dynamical rules parameterized by observables. Results of the model are established and used to interpret the measured behaviors of supercooled fluids approaching glass transitions. The model predicts t...

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

authors： Garrahan JP,Chandler D

更新日期：2003-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been widely reported that intrinsic brain activity, in a variety of animals including humans, is spatiotemporally structured. Specifically, propagated slow activity has been repeatedly demonstrated in animals. In human resting-state fMRI, spontaneous activity has been understood predominantly in terms of zero-l...

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

authors： Mitra A,Snyder AZ,Blazey T,Raichle ME

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The massive forests of central Amazonia are often considered relatively resilient against climatic variation, but this view is challenged by the wildfires invoked by recent droughts. The impact of such fires that spread from pervasive sources of ignition may reveal where forests are less likely to persist in a drier f...

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

authors： Flores BM,Holmgren M,Xu C,van Nes EH,Jakovac CC,Mesquita RCG,Scheffer M

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Transferrin, a nonheme iron-binding protein, is polymorphic in most vertebrate species that have been examined. In pigeons, it is controlled by an autosomal gene, with two known codominant alleles, Tf(A) and Tf(B). The two alleles are found in nearly equal frequencies and the three genotypes are at Hardy-Weinberg equi...

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

authors： Frelinger JA

更新日期：1972-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using [3H]quinuclidinyl benzilate as a specific cholinergic muscarinic ligand, it has been demonstrated that lymphocytes have muscarinic binding sites. There are approximately 200 sites per cell and the dissociation constant for quinuclidinyl benzilate is approximately 1 X 10(-9) M. Quinuclidinyl benzilate receptor bi...

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

authors： Gordon MA,Cohen JJ,Wilson IB

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the amount, intensity, and timing of precipitation are increasing hydrologic variability in many regions, but we have little understanding of how these changes are affecting freshwater species. Stream-breeding amphibians-a diverse group in North America-may be particularly sensitive to hydrologic variabilit...

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

authors： Lowe WH,Swartz LK,Addis BR,Likens GE

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The sense of body ownership represents a fundamental aspect of our self-awareness, but is disrupted in many neurological, psychiatric, and psychological conditions that are also characterized by disruption of skin temperature regulation, sometimes in a single limb. We hypothesized that skin temperature in a specific l...

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

authors： Moseley GL,Olthof N,Venema A,Don S,Wijers M,Gallace A,Spence C

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The central structural feature of natural proteins is a tightly packed and highly ordered hydrophobic core. If some measure of exquisite, native-like core packing is necessary for enzymatic function, this would constitute a significant obstacle to the development of novel enzymes, either by design or by natural or exp...

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

authors： Axe DD,Foster NW,Fersht AR

更新日期：1996-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Bicistronic cassettes under control of a single promoter have recently been suggested as useful tools for coordinate expression of two different foreign proteins in mammalian cells. Using the long 5' untranslated region of encephalomyocarditis virus as translational enhancer of the second gene, a bicistronic unit comp...

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

authors： Aran JM,Gottesman MM,Pastan I

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A species of Rhodopseudomonas that grows under strict anaerobic conditions in the dark and requires CO was isolated from lake and pond sediments. Although anaerobic growth in the dark occurs in a chemically defined mineral medium with CO as the only carbon and energy source, growth is stimulated by adding trypticase. ...

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

authors： Uffen RL

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterotrimeric G proteins relay extracellular cues from heptahelical transmembrane receptors to downstream effector molecules. Composed of an alpha subunit with intrinsic GTPase activity and a betagamma heterodimer, the trimeric complex dissociates upon receptor-mediated nucleotide exchange on the alpha subunit, enabl...

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

authors： Slep KC,Kercher MA,Wieland T,Chen CK,Simon MI,Sigler PB

更新日期：2008-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) are a class of cell surface receptors that, upon ligand binding, stimulate a variety of critical cellular functions. The orphan receptor anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) is one of very few RTKs that remain without a firmly established protein ligand. Here we present a novel cytokine, F...

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

authors： Reshetnyak AV,Murray PB,Shi X,Mo ES,Mohanty J,Tome F,Bai H,Gunel M,Lax I,Schlessinger J

更新日期：2015-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcoholism causes serious neurologic disease that may be due, in part, to the ability of ethanol to interact with neural cell membranes and change neuronal function. Adenosine receptors are membrane-bound proteins that appear to mediate some of the effects of ethanol in the brain. Human lymphocytes also have adenosine...

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

authors： Diamond I,Wrubel B,Estrin W,Gordon A

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoic acid receptor beta (RAR beta), which codes for a nuclear receptor for retinoic acid, is localized in a chromosomal region frequently deleted in lung cancer cells. The gene is expressed in normal lung tissue and in the majority of the cell lines derived from lung tumors but not in most of the lines derived fro...

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

authors： Houle B,Rochette-Egly C,Bradley WE

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00