Molecular and structural architecture of polyQ aggregates in yeast.

abstract：:Tropical cyclones have massive economic, social, and ecological impacts, and models of their occurrence influence many planning activities from setting insurance premiums to conservation planning. Most impact models allow for geographically varying cyclone rates but assume that individual storm events occur randomly w...

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

authors： Mumby PJ,Vitolo R,Stephenson DB

更新日期：2011-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated two genes, Hox-2.8 and Hox-2.9, from the mouse homeobox cluster Hox-2, located on chromosome 11. A 120-kilobase yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) containing a large region of the murine Hox-2 cluster, including 45 kilobases of sequence upstream of the most 5' gene, was cloned. The DNA sequence of the ...

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

authors： Rubock MJ,Larin Z,Cook M,Papalopulu N,Krumlauf R,Lehrach H

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Splice variants (SVs) of receptors for growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) have been found in primary human prostate cancers and diverse human cancer cell lines. GHRH antagonists inhibit growth of various experimental human cancers, including pancreatic and colorectal, xenografted into nude mice or cultured in vit...

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

authors： Busto R,Schally AV,Varga JL,Garcia-Fernandez MO,Groot K,Armatis P,Szepeshazi K

更新日期：2002-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The his4 region of yeast contains the information necessary for the catalysis of three steps in the histidine biosynthetic pathway. The three activities specified by this region remain physically associated during gel filtration and ultracentrifugation and after extensive purification. Nonsense mutations in the "opera...

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

authors： Shaffer B,Rytka J,Fink GR

更新日期：1969-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations induced by (+/-)trans-benzo-[a]pyrene-7,8-dihydrodiol-9,10-epoxide (BaP-diol epoxide-1) were selected by using a recombinant plasmid vector system designed for the study of transcription termination signals. The plasmid contains a transcription terminator positioned between a promotor signal and the Escheric...

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

authors： Mizusawa H,Lee CH,Kakefuda T,McKenney K,Shimatake H,Rosenberg M

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is the most common genetic cause of renal failure in humans. Several proteins that are encoded by genes associated with PKD have recently been identified in primary cilia in renal tubular epithelia. These findings have suggested that abnormalities in cilia formation and function may pla...

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

authors： Lin F,Hiesberger T,Cordes K,Sinclair AM,Goldstein LS,Somlo S,Igarashi P

更新日期：2003-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:What are the forces that shape the structure of prokaryotic genomes: the order of genes, their proximity, and their orientation? Coregulation and coordinated horizontal gene transfer are believed to promote the proximity of functionally related genes and the formation of operons. However, forces that influence the str...

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

authors： Kolesov G,Wunderlich Z,Laikova ON,Gelfand MS,Mirny LA

更新日期：2007-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein phosphatase calcineurin stimulates cardiac hypertrophy in response to numerous stimuli. Calcineurin activity is suppressed by association with modulatory calcineurin-interacting protein (MCIP)1DSCR1, which is up-regulated by calcineurin signaling and has been proposed to functi...

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

authors： Vega RB,Rothermel BA,Weinheimer CJ,Kovacs A,Naseem RH,Bassel-Duby R,Williams RS,Olson EN

更新日期：2003-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep is recognized as a physiological state associated with learning, with studies showing that knowledge acquisition improves with naps. Little work has examined sleep-dependent learning in people with developmental disorders, for whom sleep quality is often impaired. We examined the effect of natural, in-home naps ...

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

authors： Spanò G,Gómez RL,Demara BI,Alt M,Cowen SL,Edgin JO

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The drought of progress in clinical brain tumor therapy provides an impetus for developing new treatments as well as methods for testing therapeutics in animal models. The inability of traditional assays to simultaneously measure tumor size, location, growth kinetics, and cell kill achieved by a treatment complicates ...

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

authors： Ross BD,Zhao YJ,Neal ER,Stegman LD,Ercolani M,Ben-Yoseph O,Chenevert TL

更新日期：1998-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrobacterium is a unique model system as well as a major biotechnological tool for genetic manipulation of plant cells. It is still unknown, however, whether host cellular factors exist that are limiting for infection, and whether their overexpression in plant cells can increase the efficiency of the infection. Here,...

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

authors： Tzfira T,Vaidya M,Citovsky V

更新日期：2002-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A 3- to 5-year cycle of vole abundances is a characteristic phenomenon in the ecology of northern regions, and their explanation stands as a central theoretical challenge in population ecology. Although many species of voles usually coexist and are in severe competition for food and breeding space, the role of intersp...

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

authors： Hansen TF,Stenseth NC,Henttonen H,Tast J

更新日期：1999-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms of estrogen-induced tumorigenesis in the target organ are not well understood. It has been suggested that oxidative stress resulting from metabolic activation of carcinogenic estrogens plays a critical role in estrogen-induced carcinogenesis. We tested this hypothesis by using an estrogen-induced hamster re...

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

authors： Bhat HK,Calaf G,Hei TK,Loya T,Vadgama JV

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The foundation of marine coral reef ecosystems is calcium carbonate accumulated primarily by the action of hard corals (Coelenterata: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Colonial hard coral polyps cover the surface of the reef and deposit calcium carbonate as the aragonite polymorph, stabilized into a continuous calcareous skele...

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

authors： Domart-Coulon IJ,Elbert DC,Scully EP,Calimlim PS,Ostrander GK

更新日期：2001-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic polymorphism in the H-2:Qa:Tla region of chromosome 17 is associated with constitutive variation of bodily odor phenotypes which permit individual olfactory recognition among mice. To determine whether known genes in the H-2:Qa:Tla complex are concerned in the constitution of odor phenotypes, mice were tested ...

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

authors： Yamazaki K,Beauchamp GK,Egorov IK,Bard J,Thomas L,Boyse EA

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitotic recombination between homologous chromosomes is a genetic technique for mosaic analysis in model organisms. The general application of this technique in the mouse depends on establishment of effective recombination systems for individual chromosomes and reliable and sensitive methods for detection of recombina...

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

authors： Sun L,Wu X,Han M,Xu T,Zhuang Y

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Let Lambda=SL(2)(Z) be the modular group and let c(n)(Lambda) be the number of congruence subgroups of Lambda of index at most n. We prove that lim(n--> infinity )(log c(n)(Lambda)/((log n)(2)/log log n))=(3-2(sqrt)2)/4. The proof is based on the Bombieri-Vinogradov "Riemann hypothesis on the average" and on the solut...

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

authors： Goldfeld D,Lubotzky A,Nikolov N,Pyber L

更新日期：2004-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic mRNA degradation proceeds through two main pathways, both involving mRNA cap breakdown. In the 3'-5' mRNA decay pathway, mRNA body degradation generates free m7GpppN that is hydrolyzed by DcpS generating m7GMP. In the 5'-3' pathway, the recently identified human Dcp2 decapping enzyme cleaves the cap of dead...

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

authors： van Dijk E,Le Hir H,Séraphin B

更新日期：2003-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A typical molecular ion mass spectrum consists of a sum of signals from species of various possible isotopic compositions. Only the monoisotopic peak (e.g., all carbons are 12C; all nitrogens are 14N, etc.) has a unique elemental composition. Every other isotope peak at approximately integer multiples of approximately...

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

authors： Shi SD,Hendrickson CL,Marshall AG

更新日期：1998-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) introduces single-strand breaks (SSBs) to initiate class switch recombination (CSR), gene conversion (GC), and somatic hypermutation (SHM). CSR is mediated by double-strand breaks (DSBs) at donor and acceptor switch (S) regions, followed by pairing of DSB ends in two S regio...

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

authors： Sabouri S,Kobayashi M,Begum NA,Xu J,Hirota K,Honjo T

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of cardiac contraction by neurotransmitters and hormones is often correlated with regulation of the L-type Ca2(+)-channel current (ICa) through the opposite actions of two second messengers, cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP. While cyclic AMP stimulation of ICa is mediated by the activation of cyclic AMP-dependent ...

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

authors： Méry PF,Lohmann SM,Walter U,Fischmeister R

更新日期：1991-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Unconventional mRNA splicing on the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane is the sole conserved mechanism in eukaryotes to transmit information regarding misfolded protein accumulation to the nucleus to activate the stress response. In metazoans, the unspliced form of X-box-binding protein 1 (XBP1u) mRNA is recruited to...

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

authors： Kanda S,Yanagitani K,Yokota Y,Esaki Y,Kohno K

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A leading hypothesis explaining Phanerozoic mass extinctions and associated carbon isotopic anomalies is the emission of greenhouse, other gases, and aerosols caused by eruptions of continental flood basalt provinces. However, the necessary serial relationship between these eruptions, isotopic excursions, and extincti...

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

authors： Whiteside JH,Olsen PE,Eglinton T,Brookfield ME,Sambrotto RN

更新日期：2010-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolation and chromatography of collagen from chick cartilage revealed an excess of alpha1 relative to alpha2-chains. Characterization of the cyanogen bromide peptides from the alpha1 fraction indicated the presence of two homologous forms of alpha1. The results suggest that cartilage contains two collagens, one ident...

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

authors： Miller EJ,Matukas VJ

更新日期：1969-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In yeast meiosis, crossing-over between homologues is dependent upon double-strand breaks. We demonstrate that the occurrence of these breaks is independent of pairing between homologues by showing that they occur with normal frequency, timing, and position in the absence of a homologue. This observation supports mode...

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

authors： Gilbertson LA,Stahl FW

更新日期：1994-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Tripeptidyl peptidase II (TPPII) is a eukaryotic protease acting downstream of the 26S proteasome; it removes tripeptides from the degradation products released by the proteasome. Structural studies in vitro have revealed the basic architecture of TPPII, a two-stranded linear polymer that assembles to form a spindle-s...

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

authors： Fukuda Y,Beck F,Plitzko JM,Baumeister W

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Ring-shaped hexameric helicases and translocases support essential DNA-, RNA-, and protein-dependent transactions in all cells and many viruses. How such systems coordinate ATPase activity between multiple subunits to power conformational changes that drive the engagement and movement of client substrates is a fundame...

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

authors： Thomsen ND,Lawson MR,Witkowsky LB,Qu S,Berger JM

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquired immunity to Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) has long been assumed to depend on the presence of anticapsular antibodies. We found, however, that colonization with live pneumococci of serotypes 6B, 7F, or 14 protected mice against recolonization by any of the serotypes and that protection from acquisiti...

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

authors： Malley R,Trzcinski K,Srivastava A,Thompson CM,Anderson PW,Lipsitch M

更新日期：2005-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The infection of human cells by laboratory strains of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) can be blocked readily in vitro by recombinant soluble CD4 and CD4-immunoglobulin hybrid molecules. In contrast, infection by primary isolates of HIV-1 is much less sensitive to blocking in vitro by soluble CD4-based mole...

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

authors： Ashkenazi A,Smith DH,Marsters SA,Riddle L,Gregory TJ,Ho DD,Capon DJ

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here that during a permanent cardiac arrest, rodent brain tissue is "physiologically" preserved in situ in a particular quiescent state. This state is characterized by the absence of electrical activity and by a critical period of 5-6 hr during which brain tissue can be reactivated upon restoration of a simp...

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

authors： Charpak S,Audinat E

更新日期：1998-04-14 00:00:00