BMP-SMAD-ID promotes reprogramming to pluripotency by inhibiting p16/INK4A-dependent senescence.

abstract：:We have isolated and analyzed a cDNA from the central nervous system of the mollusc Lymnaea stagnalis encoding a putative receptor, which might be a natural hybrid between two different classes of receptor proteins. Preceded by a signal peptide, two types of repeated sequences are present in the N-terminal part of the...

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

authors： Tensen CP,Van Kesteren ER,Planta RJ,Cox KJ,Burke JF,van Heerikhuizen H,Vreugdenhil E

更新日期：1994-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro biological activities of several rabies virus-neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) were compared with their ability to prevent a lethal rabies virus encephalomyelitis. The protective activity of a particular mAb in vivo did not correlate with its virus-neutralizing activity in vitro; rather it was re...

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

authors： Dietzschold B,Kao M,Zheng YM,Chen ZY,Maul G,Fu ZF,Rupprecht CE,Koprowski H

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the molecular cloning of various DNA segments generated by partial EcoRI endonuclease digestion of the sex factor F. These segments have been analyzed by agarose gel electrophoresis of EcoRI digests and were arranged in a series of overlapping fragments using the EcoRI fragment map of F established by H. O...

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

authors： Skurray RA,Nagaishi H,Clark AJ

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts of insect cells infected with baculoviruses recombinant for the herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1)-encoded enzymes that are required for its replication can promote the rolling circle replication of circular plasmid templates. Replication is independent of a HSV-1 origin of replication (oris) or the HSV-1 origin ...

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

authors： Skaliter R,Lehman IR

更新日期：1994-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid, simple, and quantitative filter-binding assay using glass fiber filters has been developed to detect the convalent adenovirus DNA-terminal protein complex. The assay is unusually sensitive because binding of protein-free DNA generally is less than 0.1%. Binding of the adenovirus complex to filters is mediated...

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

authors： Coombs DH,Pearson GD

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defining the links between cell division and DNA replication is essential for understanding normal cell cycle progression and tumorigenesis. In this report we explore the effect of phosphorylation of cell division cycle 6 (Cdc6), a DNA replication initiation factor, by polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) on the regulation of ch...

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

authors： Yim H,Erikson RL

更新日期：2010-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Distinguishing tumor from normal glandular breast tissue is an important step in breast-conserving surgery. Because this distinction can be challenging in the operative setting, up to 40% of patients require an additional operation when traditional approaches are used. Here, we present a proof-of-concept study to dete...

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

authors： Calligaris D,Caragacianu D,Liu X,Norton I,Thompson CJ,Richardson AL,Golshan M,Easterling ML,Santagata S,Dillon DA,Jolesz FA,Agar NY

更新日期：2014-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Human and murine MHC nonclassical class Ib-restricted invariant T (iT) cell subsets, such as invariant natural killer T cells (iNKT) and mucosal-associated invariant T cells, have specialized functions early in immune responses, especially in modulating subsequent adaptive immune responses. Here, we characterize a pro...

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

authors： Edholm ES,Albertorio Saez LM,Gill AL,Gill SR,Grayfer L,Haynes N,Myers JR,Robert J

更新日期：2013-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental hemoglobin switching involves sequential globin gene activations and repressions that are incompletely understood. Earlier observations, described herein, led us to hypothesize that nuclear ferritin is a repressor of the adult beta-globin gene in embryonic erythroid cells. Our data show that a ferritin-f...

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

authors： Broyles RH,Belegu V,DeWitt CR,Shah SN,Stewart CA,Pye QN,Floyd RA

更新日期：2001-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The transforming protein of avian sarcoma virus UR2, p68v-ros, has an associated tyrosine-specific protein kinase activity similar to that of p60v-src and several other oncogene products. However, this activity has not been linked unequivocally to transformation, and the physiological action of these proteins remains ...

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

authors： Macara IG,Marinetti GV,Balduzzi PC

更新日期：1984-05-01 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：:Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by impaired social interactions and communication. The pathogenesis of ASD is not known, but it involves activation of microglia. We had shown that the peptide neurotensin (NT) is increased in the serum of children with ASD and stimulates cultured adult human microglia t...

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

authors： Tsilioni I,Pantazopoulos H,Conti P,Leeman SE,Theoharides TC

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The sudden appearance of calcified skeletons among many different invertebrate taxa at the Precambrian-Cambrian transition may have required minor reorganization of preexisting secretory functions. In particular, features of the skeletal organic matrix responsible for regulating crystal growth by inhibition may be der...

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

authors： Marin F,Smith M,Isa Y,Muyzer G,Westbroek P

更新日期：1996-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Column chromatography on (dT)(12-18)-cellulose was used to detect and isolate a novel DNA polymerase activity from human breast tumor cell line HBT-3. The new enzyme is similar to those of mammalian RNA tumor viruses in its molecular size, preference for poly(A).(dT)(12-18) as compared to either poly(dA).(dT)(12-18) o...

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

authors： Gerwin BI,Bassin RH

更新日期：1973-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the use of our recently described multiple-loci polymorphic DNA markers ("alumorphs") for linkage mapping of the human genome. By using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with an Alu-specific primer we could reveal, in a single experiment, up to 20 genomic polymorphisms seen as the presence or absence of a...

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

authors： Zietkiewicz E,Labuda M,Sinnett D,Glorieux FH,Labuda D

更新日期：1992-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Aire is a transcriptional regulator that induces expression of peripheral tissue antigens (PTA) in thymic medullary epithelial cells (MECs), driving immunological self-tolerance in differentiating T cells. To elucidate its mechanistic pathways, we examined its transcriptional impact in MECs in vivo by microarray analy...

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

authors： Giraud M,Yoshida H,Abramson J,Rahl PB,Young RA,Mathis D,Benoist C

更新日期：2012-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Executing gene circuits by cell-free transcription-translation into cell-sized compartments, such as liposomes, is one of the major bottom-up approaches to building minimal cells. The dynamic synthesis and proper self-assembly of macromolecular structures inside liposomes, the cytoskeleton in particular, stands as a c...

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

authors： Garenne D,Libchaber A,Noireaux V

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The monoclonal antibodies (mAb) DA6.147, DA6.164, and HIG.48 against human Ia antigens, but not the W6/32 mAb against human class I major histocompatibility complex antigens or the anti-monocyte OKM1 and 63D3 mAb, stimulated monocytes to secrete interleukin 1 (IL-1). IL-1 was measured by its property of promoting the ...

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

authors： Palacios R

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans exhibits behavioral responses to many volatile odorants. Chemotaxis toward one such odorant, diacetyl (butanedione), requires the function of a seven-transmembrane receptor protein encoded by the odr-10 gene. To determine directly whether ODR-10 protein is an odorant receptor, it is...

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

authors： Zhang Y,Chou JH,Bradley J,Bargmann CI,Zinn K

更新日期：1997-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary transcripts made in vitro on bacteriophage T4 DNA by RNA polymerase isolated from normal or T4-infected Escherichia coli were compared by gel electrophoresis. Bacteriophage-modified RNA polymerase fails to initiate transcription at certain promoters recognized by unmodified enzyme. In the T4tRNA gene region, o...

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

authors： Goldfarb A

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forkhead box g1 (Foxg1) is a nuclear-cytosolic transcription factor essential for the forebrain development and involved in neurodevelopmental and cancer pathologies. Despite the importance of this protein, little is known about the modalities by which it exerts such a large number of cellular functions. Here we show ...

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

authors： Pancrazi L,Di Benedetto G,Colombaioni L,Della Sala G,Testa G,Olimpico F,Reyes A,Zeviani M,Pozzan T,Costa M

更新日期：2015-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumococcal peptidoglycan amidase (N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidase, EC 3.5.1.28) and phage CPL1 lysozyme degrade a common substrate (choline-containing pneumococcal cell walls); the former hydrolyzes the bond between muramic acid and alanine, whereas the latter breaks down the linkage between muramic acid and gluc...

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

authors： Díaz E,López R,García JL

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic evolution of altruism (i.e., a behavior resulting in a net reduction of the survival and/or reproduction of an actor to benefit a recipient) once perplexed biologists because it seemed paradoxical in a Darwinian world. More than half a century ago, W. D. Hamilton explained that when interacting individuals...

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

authors： Kay T,Keller L,Lehmann L

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Presented analysis of human and fly life tables proves that with the specified accuracy their entire survival and mortality curves are uniquely determined by a single point (e.g., by the birth mortality q(0)), according to the law, which is universal for species as remote as humans and flies. Mortality at any age decr...

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

authors： Azbel' MY

更新日期：1999-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major human pathogen. In addition to its importance in human health, there is growing interest in adapting HBV and other viruses for drug delivery and other nanotechnological applications. In both contexts, precise biophysical characterization of these large macromolecular particles is fun...

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

authors： Uetrecht C,Versluis C,Watts NR,Roos WH,Wuite GJ,Wingfield PT,Steven AC,Heck AJ

更新日期：2008-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of G-quadruplex (G4) DNA structures in key regulatory regions in the genome has emerged as a secondary structure-based epigenetic mechanism for regulating multiple biological processes including transcription, replication, and telomere maintenance. G4 formation (folding), stabilization, and unfolding must be...

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

authors： Roychoudhury S,Pramanik S,Harris HL,Tarpley M,Sarkar A,Spagnol G,Sorgen PL,Chowdhury D,Band V,Klinkebiel D,Bhakat KK

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans, spontaneous movements are often preceded by early brain signals. One such signal is the readiness potential (RP) that gradually arises within the last second preceding a movement. An important question is whether people are able to cancel movements after the elicitation of such RPs, and if so until which po...

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

authors： Schultze-Kraft M,Birman D,Rusconi M,Allefeld C,Görgen K,Dähne S,Blankertz B,Haynes JD

更新日期：2016-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of biotic remains of polar ice caps have been limited to morphological identification of plant pollen and spores. By using sensitive molecular techniques, we now demonstrate a much greater range of detectable organisms; from 2000- and 4000-year-old ice-core samples, we obtained and characterized 120 clones tha...

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

authors： Willerslev E,Hansen AJ,Christensen B,Steffensen JP,Arctander P

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Two factors that contribute to the progression of Parkinson disease are a brain defect in mitochondrial respiration and the generation of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) by monoamine oxidase (MAO). Here we show that the two are linked. Metabolism of the neurotransmitter dopamine, or other monoamines (benzylamine, tyramine), ...

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

authors： Cohen G,Farooqui R,Kesler N

更新日期：1997-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:When an unusually high frequency of an allele is encountered in a population, "founder effect" is often invoked as an explanation. As usually used, the term implies the disproportionate increase through chance (rather than selection) of an allele contributed to the population by a particular ancestor. While genetic th...

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

authors： Thompson EA,Neel JV

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00