Microbes vs. chemistry in the origin of the anaerobic gut lumen.

abstract：:Classical genetic selection was combined with site-directed mutagenesis to study bacteriophage T4 DNA polymerase 3'----5' exonuclease activity. A mutant DNA polymerase with very little (less than or equal to 1%) 3'----5' exonuclease activity was generated. In vivo, the 3'----5' exonuclease-deficient DNA polymerase pro...

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

authors： Reha-Krantz LJ,Stocki S,Nonay RL,Dimayuga E,Goodrich LD,Konigsberg WH,Spicer EK

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an algorithm to generate complete evolutionary profiles that represent the topology of the molecular phylogenetic tree of the homologous group. The method, based on the multidimensional QR factorization of numerically encoded multiple sequence alignments, removes redundancy from the alignments and orders th...

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

authors： Sethi A,O'Donoghue P,Luthey-Schulten Z

更新日期：2005-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We provide empirical evidence of immigrants' specialization in skill acquisition well before entering the US labor market. Nationally representative datasets enable studying the academic trajectories of immigrant children, with a focus on high-school course-taking patterns and college major choice. Immigrant children ...

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

authors： Rangel MA,Shi Y

更新日期：2019-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1776 and 1920, the US Congress designed more than 200 distinct securities and stated the maximum amount of each that the Treasury could sell. Between 1917 and 1939, Congress gradually delegated all decisions about designing US debt instruments to the Treasury. In 1939, Congress began imposing a limit on the pa...

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

authors： Hall GJ,Sargent TJ

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A two-component transposon system based on the Ac element of maize was used as a mutagen in Arabidopsis thaliana. Transposition of a Ds element marked with a hygromycin-resistance gene was activated from four different locations in the Arabidopsis genome. The progeny of 201 plants carrying independent transposition ev...

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

authors： Long D,Martin M,Sundberg E,Swinburne J,Puangsomlee P,Coupland G

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is now more than two decades since it was first reported that the imidazobenzodiazepine Ro15-4513 reverses behavioral alcohol effects, the molecular target(s) of Ro15-4513 and the mechanism of alcohol antagonism remain elusive. Here, we show that Ro15-4513 blocks the alcohol enhancement on recombinant "ext...

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

authors： Wallner M,Hanchar HJ,Olsen RW

更新日期：2006-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The S10 ribosomal protein operon is regulated autogenously by the product of one of the genes of the operon, the gene encoding ribosomal protein L4. We have used site-directed mutagenesis to isolate leader mutations affecting L4 control. The phenotypes of these mutants demonstrate that L4 regulates both transcription ...

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

authors： Freedman LP,Zengel JM,Archer RH,Lindahl L

更新日期：1987-09-01 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：:We describe here the size and location of nephrin, the first protein to be identified at the glomerular podocyte slit diaphragm. In Western blots, nephrin antibodies generated against the two terminal extracellular Ig domains of recombinant human nephrin recognized a 180-kDa protein in lysates of human glomeruli and a...

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

authors： Ruotsalainen V,Ljungberg P,Wartiovaara J,Lenkkeri U,Kestilä M,Jalanko H,Holmberg C,Tryggvason K

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Feasting is one of humanity's most universal and unique social behaviors. Although evidence for feasting is common in the early agricultural societies of the Neolithic, evidence in pre-Neolithic contexts is more elusive. We found clear evidence for feasting on wild cattle and tortoises at Hilazon Tachtit cave, a Late ...

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

authors： Munro ND,Grosman L

更新日期：2010-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal models of human cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections have not been available to study pathogenesis or to evaluate antiviral drugs. Severe combined immunodeficient mice implanted with human fetal tissues (SCID-hu) were found to support CMV replication and may provide a model for this species-specific virus. When con...

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

authors： Mocarski ES,Bonyhadi M,Salimi S,McCune JM,Kaneshima H

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of the current study was to investigate the role of exogenous and endogenous hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S) on neovascularization and wound healing in vitro and in vivo. Incubation of endothelial cells (ECs) with H(2)S enhanced their angiogenic potential, evidenced by accelerated cell growth, migration, and capilla...

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

authors： Papapetropoulos A,Pyriochou A,Altaany Z,Yang G,Marazioti A,Zhou Z,Jeschke MG,Branski LK,Herndon DN,Wang R,Szabó C

更新日期：2009-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene that codes for Drosophila alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH; alcohol:NAD+ oxidoreductase EC 1.1.1.1) was identified in a bacteriophage lambda library of genomic Drosophila DNA by using ADH cDNA cloned DNA as a probe. The DNA sequence of the protein encoding region was shown to be in agreement with the amino acid seq...

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

authors： Benyajati C,Place AR,Powers DA,Sofer W

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C-1027 is an enediyne antitumor antibiotic composed of four distinct moieties: an enediyne core, a deoxy aminosugar, a beta-amino acid, and a benzoxazolinate moiety. We now show that the benzoxazolinate moiety is derived from chorismate by the sequential action of two enzymes-SgcD, a 2-amino-2-deoxyisochorismate (ADIC...

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

authors： Van Lanen SG,Lin S,Shen B

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfur assimilation is an evolutionarily conserved pathway that plays an essential role in cellular and metabolic processes, including sulfation, amino acid biosynthesis, and organismal development. We report that loss of a key enzymatic component of the pathway, bisphosphate 3'-nucleotidase (Bpnt1), in mice, both who...

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

authors： Hudson BH,Hale AT,Irving RP,Li S,York JD

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammonium sulfate fractionation of crude extracts of E. coli yields a soluble enzyme fraction (about 25-fold purification) that catalyzes the conversion of phiX174 single-stranded DNA to duplex DNA. The reaction is rifampicin-resistant, requires single-stranded DNA, Mg++, deoxynucleoside triphosphates, and ATP, and is ...

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

authors： Schuster H,Mikolajczyk M,Rohrschneider J,Geschke B

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All life on Earth is built of organic molecules, so the primordial sources of reduced carbon remain a major open question in studies of the origin of life. A variant of the alkaline-hydrothermal-vent theory for life's emergence suggests that organics could have been produced by the reduction of CO2 via H2 oxidation, f...

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

authors： Hudson R,de Graaf R,Strandoo Rodin M,Ohno A,Lane N,McGlynn SE,Yamada YMA,Nakamura R,Barge LM,Braun D,Sojo V

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that lymphoblasts alloactivated in vitro acquire the capacity of stimulating the autologous mixed lymphocyte response. This response is anti-idiotypic in nature because lymphocytes so primed display accelerated memory responses only when restimulated by autologous lymphoblasts that have been a...

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

authors： Suciu-Foca N,Reed E,Rohowsky C,Kung P,King DW

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocular dominance (OD) plasticity in mouse primary visual cortex (V1) declines during postnatal development and is absent beyond postnatal day 110 if mice are raised in standard cages (SCs). An enriched environment (EE) promotes OD plasticity in adult rats. Here, we explored cellular mechanisms of EE in mouse V1 and th...

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

authors： Greifzu F,Pielecka-Fortuna J,Kalogeraki E,Krempler K,Favaro PD,Schlüter OM,Löwel S

更新日期：2014-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Probing a wide range of cellular phenotypes in neurodevelopmental disorders using patient-derived neural progenitor cells (NPCs) can be facilitated by 3D assays, as 2D systems cannot entirely recapitulate the arrangement of cells in the brain. Here, we developed a previously unidentified 3D migration and differentiati...

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

authors： Zhang ZN,Freitas BC,Qian H,Lux J,Acab A,Trujillo CA,Herai RH,Nguyen Huu VA,Wen JH,Joshi-Barr S,Karpiak JV,Engler AJ,Fu XD,Muotri AR,Almutairi A

更新日期：2016-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Soluble extracts of adenovirus-infected HeLa cell nuclei support DNA replication on exogenous adenovirus DNA templates. Conditions of synthesis using both wild-type and temperature-sensitive extracts have been defined. Nuclear extracts prepared from cells permissively infected with the adenovirus mutant H5ts125 expres...

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

authors： Kaplan LM,Ariga H,Hurwitz J,Horwitz MS

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results obtained in this study establish that liposome formulations incorporating a synthetic polyethylene glycol-derivatized phospholipid have a pronounced effect on liposome tissue distribution and can produce a large increase in the pharmacological efficacy of encapsulated antitumor drugs. This effect is substa...

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

authors： Papahadjopoulos D,Allen TM,Gabizon A,Mayhew E,Matthay K,Huang SK,Lee KD,Woodle MC,Lasic DD,Redemann C

更新日期：1991-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to intrinsic aggressiveness and lack of effective therapies, prognosis of pancreatic cancer remains dismal. Because the only molecular targeted drug approved for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is a kinase inhibitor specific to the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), and this receptor collaborates with anoth...

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

authors： Maron R,Schechter B,Mancini M,Mahlknecht G,Yarden Y,Sela M

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Small solutes affect protein and nucleic acid processes because of favorable or unfavorable chemical interactions of the solute with the biopolymer surface exposed or buried in the process. Large solutes also exclude volume and affect processes where biopolymer molecularity and/or shape changes. Here, we develop an an...

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

authors： Knowles DB,LaCroix AS,Deines NF,Shkel I,Record MT Jr

更新日期：2011-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate modification of the 3 billion-base-pair human genome requires tools with exceptional sequence specificity. Here, we describe a general strategy for the design of enzymes that target a single site within the genome. We generated chimeric zinc finger recombinases with cooperative DNA-binding and catalytic speci...

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

authors： Gordley RM,Gersbach CA,Barbas CF 3rd

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of heparan sulfate occurs within the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi complex-trans-Golgi network by the concerted action of several glycosyltransferases, an epimerase, and multiple sulfotransferases. In this report, we have examined the location and interaction of tagged forms of five of the bio...

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

authors： Pinhal MA,Smith B,Olson S,Aikawa J,Kimata K,Esko JD

更新日期：2001-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an inducible, inflammatory model of breast cellular transformation, we describe the transcriptional regulatory network mediated by STAT3, NF-κB, and AP-1 factors on a genomic scale. These proinflammatory regulators form transcriptional complexes that directly regulate the expression of hundreds of genes in oncog...

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

authors： Ji Z,He L,Regev A,Struhl K

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemoresistance of cisplatin therapy is related to extensive repair of cisplatin-modified DNA in the nucleus by the nucleotide excision repair (NER). Delivering cisplatin to the mitochondria to attack mitochondrial genome lacking NER machinery can lead to a rationally designed therapy for metastatic, chemoresistant ca...

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

authors： Marrache S,Pathak RK,Dhar S

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzyme cytochemistry has been used, at the light and electron microscope levels, to "mark" cytoplasmic organelles of mammalian cells. Catalase cytochemistry permitted identification of microperoxisomes, apparently ubiquitous organelles that are attached by numerous slender connections to the endoplasmic reticulum. Thi...

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

authors： Novikoff AB

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we identify the specific isozymes of protein kinase C (PKC) that are involved in c-fos and c-jun mRNA accumulation in the rat basophilic leukemia cell line RBL-2H3. These cells could be largely depleted of the endogenous PKC isozymes by chronic treatment with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate followed by ...

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

authors： Razin E,Szallasi Z,Kazanietz MG,Blumberg PM,Rivera J

更新日期：1994-08-02 00:00:00