Surveying the sequence diversity of model prebiotic peptides by mass spectrometry.

abstract：:The Escherichia coli AlkB protein protects against the cytotoxicity of methylating agents by repair of the DNA lesions 1-methyladenine and 3-methylcytosine, which are generated in single-stranded stretches of DNA. AlkB is an alpha-ketoglutarate- and Fe(II)-dependent dioxygenase that oxidizes the relevant methyl groups...

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

authors： Duncan T,Trewick SC,Koivisto P,Bates PA,Lindahl T,Sedgwick B

更新日期：2002-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Electromyographic recordings from individual identified ankle muscles of the 7-day chick embryo (stage 31) were used to determine the organization of motor output at a developmental stage shortly after the onset of spontaneous motility in the leg. During spontaneous motility of the embryo, the electromyographic record...

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

authors： Bekoff A,Stein PS,Hamburger V

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) is important in reproduction, although the mechanism of central hypogonadism in humans remains unclear. Because the GnRH neuron originates from the olfactory placode and migrates to the hypothalamus during development, central hypogonadism in humans could be caused by failure in n...

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

authors： Radovick S,Wray S,Lee E,Nicols DK,Nakayama Y,Weintraub BD,Westphal H,Cutler GB Jr,Wondisford FE

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic mice have been used to address the issue of the oncogenic potential of mutant guanine nucleotide stimulatory factor (Gs) alpha subunit in the thyroid gland. The expression of the mutant Arg-201-->His Gs alpha subunit transgene has been directed to murine thyroid epithelial cells by bovine thyroglobulin prom...

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

authors： Michiels FM,Caillou B,Talbot M,Dessarps-Freichey F,Maunoury MT,Schlumberger M,Mercken L,Monier R,Feunteun J

更新日期：1994-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are the remnants of ancient retroviral infections of germ cells and have been maintained in whole or part as heritable genomic elements. The last known endogenization events occurred several million years ago, and therefore stepwise analysis of retroviral endogenization has not been poss...

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

authors： Oliveira NM,Satija H,Kouwenhoven IA,Eiden MV

更新日期：2007-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Node characteristics and behaviors are often correlated with the structure of social networks over time. While evidence of this type of assortative mixing and temporal clustering of behaviors among linked nodes is used to support claims of peer influence and social contagion in networks, homophily may also explain suc...

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

authors： Aral S,Muchnik L,Sundararajan A

更新日期：2009-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:This study quantifies sex differences in the diurnal and circadian variation of sleep and waking while controlling for menstrual cycle phase and hormonal contraceptive use. We compared the diurnal and circadian variation of sleep and alertness of 8 women studied during two phases of the menstrual cycle and 3 women stu...

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

authors： Boivin DB,Shechter A,Boudreau P,Begum EA,Ng Ying-Kin NM

更新日期：2016-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary pathologies including adult respiratory distress syndrome are characterized by disruption of pulmonary integrity and edema compromising respiratory function. Sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) is a lipid mediator synthesized and/or stored in mast cells, platelets, and epithelial cells, with production up-regulate...

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

authors： Gon Y,Wood MR,Kiosses WB,Jo E,Sanna MG,Chun J,Rosen H

更新日期：2005-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Awareness that our planet is a self-supporting biosphere with sunlight as its major source of energy for life has resulted in a long-term historical fascination with the workings of self-supporting ecological systems. However, the studies of such systems have never entered the canon of ecological or evolutionary tools...

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

authors： Rillig MC,Antonovics J

更新日期：2019-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Sessile marine organisms are prolific sources of biologically active natural products. However, these compounds are often found in highly variable amounts, with the abiotic and biotic factors governing their production remaining poorly understood. We present an approach that permits monitoring of in vivo natural produ...

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

authors： Esquenazi E,Jones AC,Byrum T,Dorrestein PC,Gerwick WH

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is a multifactorial illness and genetic factors play a role in its etiology. The understanding of its physiopathology relies on the availability of experimental models potentially mimicking the disease. Here we describe a model built up by selective breeding of mice with strikingly different responses in th...

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

authors： El Yacoubi M,Bouali S,Popa D,Naudon L,Leroux-Nicollet I,Hamon M,Costentin J,Adrien J,Vaugeois JM

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is a common genetic disorder characterized by excess absorption of dietary iron and progressive iron deposition in several tissues, particularly liver. The vast majority of individuals with HH are homozygous for mutations in the HFE gene. Recently a second transferrin receptor (TFR2) wa...

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

authors： Fleming RE,Ahmann JR,Migas MC,Waheed A,Koeffler HP,Kawabata H,Britton RS,Bacon BR,Sly WS

更新日期：2002-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of rebeccamycin, an antitumor compound, involves the remarkable eight-electron oxidation of chlorinated chromopyrrolic acid. Although one rebeccamycin biosynthetic enzyme is capable of generating low levels of the eight-electron oxidation product on its own, a second protein, RebC, is required to acce...

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

authors： Ryan KS,Howard-Jones AR,Hamill MJ,Elliott SJ,Walsh CT,Drennan CL

更新日期：2007-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous international bodies have advocated the development of strategies to achieve the sustainability of marine environments. Typically, such strategies are based on information from expert groups about causes of degradation and policy options to address them, but these strategies rarely take into account assessed ...

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

authors： Gelcich S,Buckley P,Pinnegar JK,Chilvers J,Lorenzoni I,Terry G,Guerrero M,Castilla JC,Valdebenito A,Duarte CM

更新日期：2014-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepiapterin reductase (7,8-dihydrobiopterin: NADP+ oxidoreductase, EC 1.1.1.153) catalyzes the terminal step in the biosynthetic pathway for tetrahydrobiopterin, the cofactor necessary for aromatic amino acid hydroxylation. We report here the isolation of a cDNA clone for rat liver sepiapterin reductase. The cDNA has ...

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

authors： Citron BA,Milstien S,Gutierrez JC,Levine RA,Yanak BL,Kaufman S

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine mucopolysaccharidosis type VII is a heritable disease caused by a spontaneous mutation, gus(mps), closely linked to the beta-glucuronidase structural gene on chromosome 5. Mice homozygous for the mutation have a > 200-fold decrease in beta-glucuronidase mRNA levels and virtually no enzyme activity detectable by...

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

authors： Sands MS,Birkenmeier EH

更新日期：1993-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cycle checkpoints appear to contribute to an increase in cell survival and a decrease in abnormal heritable genetic changes following exposure to DNA damaging agents. Though several radiation-sensitive yeast mutants have been identified, little is known about the genes that control these responses in mammalian ce...

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

authors： Kuerbitz SJ,Plunkett BS,Walsh WV,Kastan MB

更新日期：1992-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptors for platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) have previously only been found on cells of mesenchymal and glial origin. This study shows PDGF receptors on an anaplastic thyroid carcinoma cell line, C 643, that was found to express thyroglobulin mRNA, confirming its origin from thyroid epithelium. Northern blot a...

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

authors： Heldin NE,Gustavsson B,Claesson-Welsh L,Hammacher A,Mark J,Heldin CH,Westermark B

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the contribution to immunoglobulin heavy chain diversity made by recombination between variable region (VH) genes and joining region (JH) genes, we have determined the sequence of about 2000 nucleotides spanning the rearranged JH gene cluster associated with the VH gene expressed in plasmacytoma HPC76. The a...

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

authors： Gough NM,Bernard O

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously described an antigen-specific I-Ad-restricted T-cell hybridoma, A1.1, that constitutively releases an antigen-specific immunoregulatory activity into supernatants. Using retrovirally mediated gene transfer, we have found that transfer of the T-cell receptor alpha chain (TCR alpha) gene from A1.1 to ...

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

authors： Green DR,Bissonnette R,Zheng HG,Onda T,Echeverri F,Mogil RJ,Steele JK,Voralia M,Fotedar A

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat, but not human, erythrocytes undergo fusion promoted by the membrane-mobility agent 2-(2-methoxyethoxy)-ethyl cis-8-(2-octylcyclopropyl)octanoate (A2C). The difference in behavior is correlated with rat erythrocyte membrane protein degradation caused by Ca2+-activated proteases. The human erythrocyte is deficient ...

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

authors： Kosower NS,Glaser T,Kosower EM

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants can recognize and resist invading pathogens by signaling the induction of rapid defense responses. Often these responses are mediated by single dominant resistance genes (R genes). The products of R genes have been postulated to recognize the pathogen and trigger rapid host defense responses. Here we describe i...

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

authors： Dinesh-Kumar SP,Whitham S,Choi D,Hehl R,Corr C,Baker B

更新日期：1995-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage lambda integrates into the chromosome of its Escherichia coli host by means of a site-specific recombination between a locus on the phage chromosome (phage att site) and a locus on the bacterial chromosome (bacterial att site). The nucleotide sequence of four lambda att sites altered in site-specific rec...

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

authors： Hoess RH,Landy A

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colloidal particles with directional interactions are key in the realization of new colloidal materials with possibly unconventional phase behaviors. Here we exploit DNA self-assembly to produce bulk quantities of "DNA stars" with three or four sticky terminals, mimicking molecules with controlled limited valence. Sol...

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

authors： Biffi S,Cerbino R,Bomboi F,Paraboschi EM,Asselta R,Sciortino F,Bellini T

更新日期：2013-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison was made of the competence for neoplastic transformation in three different sublines of NIH 3T3 cells and multiple clonal derivatives of each. Over 90% of the neoplastic foci produced by an uncloned transformed (t-SA') subline on a confluent background of nontransformed cells were of the dense, multilayer...

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

authors： Chow M,Rubin H

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells in the brain act as components of extended networks. Therefore, to understand neurobiological processes in a physiological context, it is essential to study them in vivo. Super-resolution microscopy has spatial resolution beyond the diffraction limit, thus promising to provide structural and functional insights ...

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

authors： Turcotte R,Liang Y,Tanimoto M,Zhang Q,Li Z,Koyama M,Betzig E,Ji N

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria control is threatened by a limited pipeline of effective pharmaceuticals against drug-resistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum Components of the mitochondrial electron transport chain (ETC) are attractive targets for drug development, owing to exploitable differences between the parasite and human ETC. Disru...

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

authors： Lane KD,Mu J,Lu J,Windle ST,Liu A,Sun PD,Wellems TE

更新日期：2018-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Electronic nematicity, a correlated state that spontaneously breaks rotational symmetry, is observed in several layered quantum materials. In contrast to their liquid-crystal counterparts, the nematic director cannot usually point in an arbitrary direction (XY nematics), but is locked by the crystal to discrete direct...

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

authors： Ishida K,Tsujii M,Hosoi S,Mizukami Y,Ishida S,Iyo A,Eisaki H,Wolf T,Grube K,V Löhneysen H,Fernandes RM,Shibauchi T

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid hormone (TH) metabolism, mediated by deiodinase types 1, 2, and 3 (D1, D2, and D3) is profoundly affected by acute illness. We examined the role of TH metabolism during ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) in mice. Mice exposed to VILI recapitulated the serum TH findings of acute illness, namely a decrease in...

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

authors： Barca-Mayo O,Liao XH,DiCosmo C,Dumitrescu A,Moreno-Vinasco L,Wade MS,Sammani S,Mirzapoiazova T,Garcia JG,Refetoff S,Weiss RE

更新日期：2011-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Techniques of fluorescence and ion microscopies were combined to study the free [Ca2+] and total Ca in NIH 3T3 fibroblast and L6 rat myoblast cells. Free Ca2+ measurements with the Ca2+ indicator fura-2 and digital imaging reveal an inhomogeneous distribution of free cytoplasmic Ca2+ in both cell lines. Fura-2 also re...

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

authors： Chandra S,Gross D,Ling YC,Morrison GH

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00