A CACGTG motif of the Antirrhinum majus chalcone synthase promoter is recognized by an evolutionarily conserved nuclear protein.

abstract：:Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) RNA was encapsulated in large, unilamellar phospholipid vesicles (liposomes), and the encapsulated TMV RNA was shown to be infectious when incubated with tobacco protoplasts under appropriate conditions. Maximal virus production in protoplasts was observed after their incubation with TMV RNA...

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

authors： Fraley RT,Dellaporta SL,Papahadjopoulos D

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improving global yields of important agricultural crops is a complex challenge. Enhancing yield and resource use by engineering improvements to photosynthetic carbon assimilation is one potential solution. During the last 40 million years C(4) photosynthesis has evolved multiple times, enabling plants to evade the cat...

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

authors： Whitney SM,Sharwood RE,Orr D,White SJ,Alonso H,Galmés J

更新日期：2011-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic code in a eukaryotic system has been expanded by the engineering of Escherichia coli tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase (TyrRS) with the Y37V and Q195C mutations (37V195C), which specifically recognize 3-iodo-L-tyrosine rather than L-tyrosine. In the present study, we determined the 3-iodo-L-tyrosine- and L-tyrosine-...

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

authors： Kobayashi T,Sakamoto K,Takimura T,Sekine R,Kelly VP,Kamata K,Nishimura S,Yokoyama S

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms formed by nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) are central to the chronicity, recurrence, and resistance to treatment of multiple human respiratory tract diseases including otitis media, chronic rhinosinusitis, and exacerbations of both cystic fibrosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Extracell...

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

authors： Jurcisek JA,Brockman KL,Novotny LA,Goodman SD,Bakaletz LO

更新日期：2017-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal mucosa exists in dynamic balance with trillions of luminal microbes. Disruption of the intestinal epithelial barrier, commonly observed in mucosal inflammation and diseases such as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), is often associated with dysbiosis, particularly decreases in species producing short-c...

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

authors： Wang RX,Lee JS,Campbell EL,Colgan SP

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental stress often leads to an increased production of reactive oxygen species that are involved in plastid-to-nucleus retrograde signaling. Soon after the release of singlet oxygen ((1)O(2)) in chloroplasts of the flu mutant of Arabidopsis, reprogramming of nuclear gene expression reveals a rapid transfer of ...

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

authors： Simková K,Moreau F,Pawlak P,Vriet C,Baruah A,Alexandre C,Hennig L,Apel K,Laloi C

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrobacterium tumefaciens is routinely used to engineer desirable genes into dicotyledonous plants. However, the economically important graminaceous plant maize is refractory to tumor induction by inoculation with virulent strains of A. tumefaciens. Currently, the only clearcut evidence for transferred DNA (T-DNA) tra...

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

authors： Shen WH,Escudero J,Schläppi M,Ramos C,Hohn B,Koukolíková-Nicola Z

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have purified a protein from Necturus maculosus gallbladder cells that forms chloride channels in an artificial membrane. The same protein apparently can form channels that are highly selective for chloride but can have conductances varying from 9 to about 150 pS. The high-conductance channels are blocked by the mo...

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

authors： Finn AL,Dillard M,Gaido M

更新日期：1993-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:West Nile virus, which is transmitted by Culex mosquitoes while feeding on birds and humans, has emerged as the dominant vector borne disease in North America. We have identified natural compounds from humans and birds, which are detected with extreme sensitivity by olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) on the antennae of...

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

authors： Syed Z,Leal WS

更新日期：2009-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Like all aliphatic amines, the polyamines spermine and spermidine are physical quenchers of singlet molecular oxygen (1O2*). The rate constants of these processes were determined in vitro with photochemically generated 1O2* and the hydrocarbon rubrene as substrate, in pyridine. At millimolar concentration, spermine an...

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

authors： Khan AU,Mei YH,Wilson T

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the discovery of mammalian tribosphenic teeth from the basal Cenomanian of southwestern France that we refer to a new primitive marsupial-like form identified as a basal taxon of Marsupialiformes, a new clade recognized here to include the crown group Marsupialia and primitive stem lineages more closely rela...

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

authors： Vullo R,Gheerbrant E,de Muizon C,Néraudeau D

更新日期：2009-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacteria, the first two steps of gene expression-transcription and translation-are spatially and temporally coupled. Uncoupling may lead to the arrest of transcription through RNA polymerase backtracking, which interferes with replication forks, leading to DNA double-stranded breaks and genomic instability. How tra...

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

authors： Stevenson-Jones F,Woodgate J,Castro-Roa D,Zenkin N

更新日期：2020-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have tested the effect of increased ribosomal fidelity on a modified version of the programmed release factor 2 (RF2) translational frameshift. In the constructs tested, the original UGA codon at the site of the shift was replaced by either of two sense codons, UGG (tryptophan), which allows a frameshift of approxi...

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

authors： Sipley J,Goldman E

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-17-producing CD27(-) γδ cells (γδ(27-) cells) are widely viewed as innate immune cells that make critical contributions to host protection and autoimmunity. However, factors that promote them over IFN-γ-producing γδ(27+) cells are poorly elucidated. Moreover, although human IL-17-producing γδ cells are commonly imp...

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

authors： Michel ML,Pang DJ,Haque SF,Potocnik AJ,Pennington DJ,Hayday AC

更新日期：2012-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Frame-shift mutations at microsatellites occur as a time-dependent function of polymerase errors followed by failure of postreplicational mismatch repair. A cell-culture system was developed that allows identification of intermediate mutant cells that carry the mutation on a single DNA strand after the initial DNA pol...

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

authors： Gasche C,Chang CL,Natarajan L,Goel A,Rhees J,Young DJ,Arnold CN,Boland CR

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The exquisite selectivity and catalytic activity of enzymes have been shaped by the effects of positive and negative selection pressure during the course of evolution. In contrast, enzyme variants engineered by using in vitro screening techniques to accept novel substrates typically display a higher degree of catalyti...

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

authors： Varadarajan N,Gam J,Olsen MJ,Georgiou G,Iverson BL

更新日期：2005-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki produces a proteinaceous crystalline inclusion that is toxic for lepidopteran larvae. There are several size classes of plasmids in this organism and the presence of one or more has been correlated with production of this protein, defined as a protoxin. DNA fragments of B. thurin...

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

authors： Held GA,Bulla LA Jr,Ferrari E,Hoch J,Aronson AI,Minnich SA

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smooth muscle cells (SMCs) have been shown to migrate in response to insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I). However, the mechanism mediating this response has not been determined. The migration rates of porcine and human vascular SMCs were assessed in a monolayer wounding assay. IGF-I and IGF-II induced increases of 14...

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

authors： Jones JI,Prevette T,Gockerman A,Clemmons DR

更新日期：1996-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Most variation in behavior has a genetic basis, but the processes determining the level of diversity at behavioral loci are largely unknown for natural populations. Expression of arginine vasopressin receptor 1a (Avpr1a) and oxytocin receptor (Oxtr) in specific regions of the brain regulates diverse social and reprodu...

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

authors： Lonn E,Koskela E,Mappes T,Mokkonen M,Sims AM,Watts PC

更新日期：2017-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretical and experimental optical, redox, and paramagnetic results are presented for models of siroheme, the iron isobacteriochlorin prosthetic group of nitrite and sulfite reductases, and of sirohydrochlorin, the metal-free siroheme that is an intermediate in the biosynthetic pathway to vitamin B(12). The facile o...

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

authors： Chang CK,Hanson LK,Richardson PF,Young R,Fajer J

更新日期：1981-05-01 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：:Fluctuations in resting-state functional connectivity occur but their behavioral significance remains unclear, largely because correlating behavioral state with dynamic functional connectivity states (DCS) engages probes that disrupt the very behavioral state we seek to observe. Observing spontaneous eyelid closures f...

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

authors： Wang C,Ong JL,Patanaik A,Zhou J,Chee MW

更新日期：2016-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The degeneracy of the genetic code allows nucleic acids to encode amino acid identity as well as noncoding information for gene regulation and genome maintenance. The rare arginine codons AGA and AGG (AGR) present a case study in codon choice, with AGRs encoding important transcriptional and translational properties d...

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

authors： Napolitano MG,Landon M,Gregg CJ,Lajoie MJ,Govindarajan L,Mosberg JA,Kuznetsov G,Goodman DB,Vargas-Rodriguez O,Isaacs FJ,Söll D,Church GM

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian gastrointestinal tract harbors thousands of bacterial species that include symbionts as well as potential pathogens. The immune responses that limit access of these bacteria to underlying tissue remain poorly defined. Here we show that γδ intraepithelial lymphocytes (γδ IEL) of the small intestine produc...

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

authors： Ismail AS,Severson KM,Vaishnava S,Behrendt CL,Yu X,Benjamin JL,Ruhn KA,Hou B,DeFranco AL,Yarovinsky F,Hooper LV

更新日期：2011-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The blanket resistance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to all beta-lactam antibiotics--which had such a devastating impact on chemotherapy of staphylococcal infections--is related to the properties of the key component of this resistance mechanism: the "acquired" penicillin-binding protein (PBP)-2A, whi...

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

authors： Pinho MG,de Lencastre H,Tomasz A

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of distressing trends, including a decline in the share of key research grants going to younger scientists, as well as a steady rise in the age at which investigators receive their first funding, are now a decades-long feature of the US biomedical research workforce. Working committees have proposed recommend...

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

authors： Daniels RJ

更新日期：2015-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:An inversion loop seen in heteroduplex mapping of the DNA of mature Mu phage induced from a lysogen is observed also in defective lambda phage carrying one end of Mu. 14% of the DNA of Mu, including this region, designated the G loop, is shown to be to the right of all known genes in the prophage map. The inhomogeneou...

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

authors： Daniell E,Boram W,Abelson J

更新日期：1973-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeostasis is indispensable to counteract the destabilizing effects of Hebbian plasticity. Although it is commonly assumed that homeostasis modulates synaptic strength, membrane excitability, and firing rates, its role at the neural circuit and network level is unknown. Here, we identify changes in higher-order netwo...

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

authors： Wu YK,Hengen KB,Turrigiano GG,Gjorgjieva J

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that in four transcription factor families the DNA-recognition rules can be described as (i) chemical rules, which list possible pairings between the 20 amino acid residues and the four DNA bases, and (ii) stereochemical rules, which describe the base and amino acid positions in contact. We...

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

authors： Suzuki M,Yagi N

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertension, a remediable risk factor for stroke, cardiovascular disease, and renal failure, affects 50 million individuals in the United States alone. African Americans (blacks) have a higher incidence and prevalence of hypertension and hypertension-associated target organ damage compared with Caucasian Americans (w...

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

authors： Suthanthiran M,Li B,Song JO,Ding R,Sharma VK,Schwartz JE,August P

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00