An archaeal primase functions as a nanoscale caliper to define primer length.

abstract：:Murine monoclonal antibodies that bind selectively to adducts formed on DNA by the antitumor drug cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II), cis-DDP, or to the chemotherapeutically inactive trans isomer trans-DDP were elicited by immunization with calf thymus DNA modified with either cis- or trans-DDP at ratios of bound platin...

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

authors： Sundquist WI,Lippard SJ,Stollar BD

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To initiate transcription from specific promoters, the bacterial RNA polymerase (RNAP) core enzyme must associate with the initiation factor sigma, which contains determinants that allow sequence-specific interactions with promoter DNA. Most bacteria contain several sigma factors, each of which directs recognition of ...

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

authors： Yuan AH,Nickels BE,Hochschild A

更新日期：2009-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:For almost a century the plant hormone auxin has been central to theories on apical dominance, whereby the growing shoot tip suppresses the growth of the axillary buds below. According to the classic model, the auxin indole-3-acetic acid is produced in the shoot tip and transported down the stem, where it inhibits bud...

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

authors： Mason MG,Ross JJ,Babst BA,Wienclaw BN,Beveridge CA

更新日期：2014-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain types of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are etiologically linked to cervical cancer. Their transforming capacity is encoded by a polycistronic premRNA, where alternative splicing leads to the translation of functional distinct proteins such as E6, E6*, and E7. Here we show that splicing of HPV16 E6/E7 ORF casse...

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

authors： Rosenberger S,De-Castro Arce J,Langbein L,Steenbergen RD,Rösl F

更新日期：2010-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular basis for the absence of anthocyanins and proanthocyanidins in four independent sodium azide-induced ant18 mutants of barley was examined by sequencing the gene encoding dihydroflavonol 4-reductase in these mutants. Sodium azide generated 21 base substitutions, which corresponds to 0.17% of the 12,704 nu...

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

authors： Olsen O,Wang X,von Wettstein D

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The appearance of jaws was a turning point in vertebrate evolution because it allowed primitive vertebrates to capture and process large, motile prey. The vertebrate jaw consists of separate dorsal and ventral skeletal elements connected by a joint. How this structure evolved from the unjointed gill bar of a jawless a...

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

authors： Cerny R,Cattell M,Sauka-Spengler T,Bronner-Fraser M,Yu F,Medeiros DM

更新日期：2010-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs are predicted to regulate approximately 30% of all human genes by targeting sequences in their 3' UTR. Polymorphisms in 3' UTR of several genes have been reported to affect gene expression, but the mechanism is not fully understood. Here, we demonstrate that 829C-->T, a naturally occurring SNP, near the miR-...

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

authors： Mishra PJ,Humeniuk R,Mishra PJ,Longo-Sorbello GS,Banerjee D,Bertino JR

更新日期：2007-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Population expansion in space, or range expansion, is widespread in nature and in clinical settings. Space competition among heterogeneous subpopulations during range expansion is essential to population ecology, and it may involve the interplay of multiple factors, primarily growth and motility of individuals. Struct...

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

authors： Zuo W,Wu Y

更新日期：2020-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The land plants and their immediate green algal ancestors, the charophytes, form the Streptophyta. There is evidence that both the chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) underwent substantial changes in their architecture (intron insertions, gene losses, scrambling in gene order, and genome expansion in...

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

authors： Turmel M,Otis C,Lemieux C

更新日期：2002-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoglobulin heavy-chain-associated tetrapeptide, tuftsin (Thr-Lys-Pro-Arg), known for its phagocytosis-stimulating activity, was found to augment the antigen-specific, macrophage-dependent education of T lymphocytes. The investigation of stereospecific characteristics of the tetrapeptide, by use of structural a...

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

authors： Tzehoval E,Segal S,Stabinsky Y,Fridkin M,Spirer Z,Feldman M

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The derivation of germ-line competent avian primordial germ cells establishes a cell-based model system for the investigation of germ cell differentiation and the production of genetically modified animals. Current methods to modify primordial germ cells using DNA or retroviral vectors are inefficient and prone to epi...

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

authors： Macdonald J,Taylor L,Sherman A,Kawakami K,Takahashi Y,Sang HM,McGrew MJ

更新日期：2012-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild bees are highly valuable pollinators. Along with managed honey bees, they provide a critical ecosystem service by ensuring stable pollination to agriculture and wild plant communities. Increasing concern about the welfare of both wild and managed pollinators, however, has prompted recent calls for national evalua...

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

authors： Koh I,Lonsdorf EV,Williams NM,Brittain C,Isaacs R,Gibbs J,Ricketts TH

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+-induced inhibition of alpha1C voltage-gated Ca2+ channels is a physiologically important regulatory mechanism that shortens the mean open time of these otherwise long-lasting high-voltage-activated channels. The mechanism of action of Ca2+ has been a matter of some controversy, as previous studies have proposed t...

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

authors： Qin N,Olcese R,Bransby M,Lin T,Birnbaumer L

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found the two-dimensional electrophoretic technique of O'Farrell to be highly efficient in the detection of charge-change substitutions in a large number of proteins. We have applied this method to determine the level of heterozygosity of the most abundant proteins in Drosophila melanogaster adults from a natu...

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

authors： Brown AJ,Langley CH

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein carboxymethylase, an enzyme capable of methylating proteins and polypeptides, was purified from bovine pituitary. The anterior pituitary hormones, luteinizing hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, growth hormone, thyroid-stimulating hormone, and prolactin, were found to be substra...

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

authors： Diliberto EJ Jr,Axelrod J

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented that suggests that GTP (or 5'-guanylylmethylene diphosphonate) is not essential for either formation of an AUG-directed, initiation factor IF-2-dependent initiation complex on the 30S subunit or for positioning of fMet-tRNA on the peptidyl site. However, recycling of limiting amounts of IF-2 requ...

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

authors： Mazumder R

更新日期：1972-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent cryoEM density maps of Abeta(42) fibrils obtained at low pH revealed two protofilaments winding around a hollow core raising the question if such tubular structures also exist at physiological pH. Based on the cryoEM measurements and on NMR data, we probe amyloid fibril organizations corresponding to the observ...

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

authors： Miller Y,Ma B,Tsai CJ,Nussinov R

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta-1,3-glucan recognition protein (betaGRP)/Gram-negative bacteria-binding protein 3 (GNBP3) is a crucial pattern-recognition receptor that specifically binds beta-1,3-glucan, a component of fungal cell walls. It evokes innate immunity against fungi through activation of the prophenoloxidase (proPO) cascade and ...

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

authors： Takahasi K,Ochiai M,Horiuchi M,Kumeta H,Ogura K,Ashida M,Inagaki F

更新日期：2009-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A key idea in Lashley's formulation of the problem of serial order in behavior is the postulated neural representation of all serial elements before the action begins. We studied this question by recording the activity of individual neurons simultaneously in small ensembles in prefrontal cortex while monkeys copied ge...

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

authors： Averbeck BB,Chafee MV,Crowe DA,Georgopoulos AP

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an expression cloning approach, we have isolated a cDNA encoding GD3 synthase (CMP-NeuAc:NeuAc alpha 2-3Gal beta 1-4Glc beta 1-1'Cer alpha 2,8-sialyltransferase, EC 2.4.99.8), which is a key regulatory enzyme determining the prominence of the ganglioside biosynthesis pathway. The cloned cDNA encodes a 341-amino ...

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

authors： Nara K,Watanabe Y,Maruyama K,Kasahara K,Nagai Y,Sanai Y

更新日期：1994-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Chinese hamster-human somatic cell hybrids were analyzed for the expression of human galactose-1-phosphate uridyltransferase (GALT; UDPglucose:alpha-D-galactose-1-phosphate uridyltransferase, EC 2.7.7.12) by electrophoresis and for the presence of human chromosomes cytogenetically with the aid of Q-banding. Three of t...

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

authors： Mohandas T,Sparkes RS,Sparkes MC,Shulkin JD

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic imprinting results in the differential expression of genes, depending on which allele is inherited from the mother and which from the father. The effects of such differential gene expression are reflected in phenotypic differences between the reciprocal heterozygotes (Aa vs. aA). Although many imprinted genes ...

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

authors： Cheverud JM,Hager R,Roseman C,Fawcett G,Wang B,Wolf JB

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We provide evidence that normal human presenilins can substitute for Caenorhabditis elegans SEL-12 protein in functional assays in vivo. In addition, six familial Alzheimer disease-linked mutant human presenilins were tested and found to have reduced ability to rescue the sel-12 mutant phenotype, suggesting that they ...

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

authors： Levitan D,Doyle TG,Brousseau D,Lee MK,Thinakaran G,Slunt HH,Sisodia SS,Greenwald I

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenylated Rab GTPases regulate intracellular vesicle trafficking in eukaryotic cells by associating with specific membranes and recruiting a multitude of Rab-specific effector proteins. Prenylation, membrane delivery, and recycling of all 60 members of the Rab GTPase family are regulated by two related molecules, Rab...

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

authors： Wu YW,Tan KT,Waldmann H,Goody RS,Alexandrov K

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrochemistry is an old but still flourishing field of research due to the importance of the efficiency and kinetics of electrochemical reactions in industrial processes and (bio-)electrochemical devices. The heterogeneous electron transfer from an electrode to a reactant in the solution has been well studied for m...

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

authors： Wijeratne K,Ail U,Brooke R,Vagin M,Liu X,Fahlman M,Crispin X

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Noncanonical DNA structures that stall DNA replication can cause errors in genomic DNA. Here, we investigated how the noncanonical structures formed by sequences in genes associated with a number of diseases impacted DNA polymerization by the Klenow fragment of DNA polymerase. Replication of a DNA sequence forming an ...

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

authors： Takahashi S,Brazier JA,Sugimoto N

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular oxygen (O(2)) began to accumulate in the atmosphere and surface ocean ca. 2,400 million years ago (Ma), but the persistent oxygenation of water masses throughout the oceans developed much later, perhaps beginning as recently as 580-550 Ma. For much of the intervening interval, moderately oxic surface waters ...

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

authors： Johnston DT,Wolfe-Simon F,Pearson A,Knoll AH

更新日期：2009-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:High ambient ozone (O3) concentrations are a widespread and persistent problem globally. Although studies have documented the role of forests in removing O3 and one of its precursors, nitrogen dioxide (NO2), the cost effectiveness of using peri-urban reforestation for O3 abatement purposes has not been examined. We de...

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

authors： Kroeger T,Escobedo FJ,Hernandez JL,Varela S,Delphin S,Fisher JR,Waldron J

更新日期：2014-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The Xlim-1 gene is activated in the late blastula stage of Xenopus embryogenesis in the mesoderm, and its RNA product becomes concentrated in the Spemann organizer at early gastrula stage. A major regulator of early expression of Xlim-1 is activin or an activin-like signal. We report experiments aiming to identify the...

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

authors： Rebbert ML,Dawid IB

更新日期：1997-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron-sulfur clusters function as cofactors of a wide range of proteins, with diverse molecular roles in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. Dedicated machineries assemble the clusters and deliver them to the final acceptor molecules in a tightly regulated process. In the prototypical Gram-negative bacterium Escheri...

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

authors： Santos JA,Alonso-García N,Macedo-Ribeiro S,Pereira PJ

更新日期：2014-06-03 00:00:00