Exopolysaccharide protects Vibrio cholerae from exogenous attacks by the type 6 secretion system.

abstract：:The archaeological record shows that typically human cultural traits emerged at different times, in different parts of the world, and among different hominin taxa. This pattern suggests that their emergence is the outcome of complex and nonlinear evolutionary trajectories, influenced by environmental, demographic, and...

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

authors： d'Errico F,Banks WE,Warren DL,Sgubin G,van Niekerk K,Henshilwood C,Daniau AL,Sánchez Goñi MF

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Competing interpretations of human origins and evolution have recently proliferated despite the accelerated pace of fossil discovery. These controversies parallel those involving other vertebrate families and result from the difficulty of studying evolution among closely related species. Recent advances in development...

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

authors： Hlusko LJ

更新日期：2004-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Although much of the brain's functional organization is genetically predetermined, it appears that some noninnate functions can come to depend on dedicated and segregated neural tissue. In this paper, we describe a series of experiments that have investigated the neural development and organization of one such noninna...

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

authors： Polk TA,Farah MJ

更新日期：1998-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated expression of the marORAB multiple antibiotic-resistance operon enhances the resistance of Escherichia coli to various medically significant antibiotics. Transcription of the operon is repressed in vivo by the marR-encoded protein, MarR, and derepressed by salicylate and certain antibiotics. The possibility t...

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

authors： Martin RG,Rosner JL

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have been used to treat malignancies in humans with varying degrees of success. Progress has been hindered by the lack of suitable animal models, which would ideally consist of immunocompetent animals that are tolerant to tumor-associated antigens. Suitable models would allow the study and...

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

authors： Wilkinson RW,Ross EL,Poulsom R,Ilyas M,Straub J,Snary D,Bodmer WF,Mather SJ

更新日期：2001-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:This communication reports an analysis of Tn5/IS50 target site selection by using an extensive collection of Tn5 and IS50 insertions in two relatively small regions of DNA (less than 1 kb each). For both regions data were collected resulting from in vitro and in vivo transposition events. Since the data sets are consi...

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

authors： Goryshin IY,Miller JA,Kil YV,Lanzov VA,Reznikoff WS

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyclic enzymatic function of a cytochrome P450, as it catalyzes the oxygen-dependent metabolism of many organic chemicals, requires the delivery of two electrons to the hemeprotein. In general these electrons are transferred from NADPH to the P450 via an FMN- and FAD-containing flavoprotein (NADPH-P450 reductase)....

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

authors： Faulkner KM,Shet MS,Fisher CW,Estabrook RW

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hippo pathway is an evolutionarily conserved regulator of organ growth and tumorigenesis. In Drosophila, oncogenic RasV12 cooperates with loss-of-cell polarity to promote Hippo pathway-dependent tumor growth. To identify additional factors that modulate this signaling, we performed a genetic screen utilizing the D...

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

authors： Guo X,Sun Y,Azad T,Janse van Rensburg HJ,Luo J,Yang S,Liu P,Lv Z,Zhan M,Lu L,Zhou Y,Ma X,Zhang X,Yang X,Xue L

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type I collagenopathies are a group of heterogeneous connective tissue disorders, that are caused by mutations in the genes encoding type I collagen and include specific forms of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) and the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS). These disorders present with a broad disease spectrum and large clini...

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

authors： Gistelinck C,Kwon RY,Malfait F,Symoens S,Harris MP,Henke K,Hawkins MB,Fisher S,Sips P,Guillemyn B,Bek JW,Vermassen P,De Saffel H,Witten PE,Weis M,De Paepe A,Eyre DR,Willaert A,Coucke PJ

更新日期：2018-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Employing a cell-free chromatin transcription system that recapitulates progesterone receptor (PR)-mediated transcription in vivo, we have investigated further the coactivator functions of steroid receptor coactivator-1 (SRC-1) in terms of its functional domains as well as cooperation with other coactivators in PR tra...

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

authors： Liu Z,Wong J,Tsai SY,Tsai MJ,O'Malley BW

更新日期：2001-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are common vascular malformations, which may result in hemorrhagic strokes and neurological deficits. Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) and Notch signaling are both involved in the development of cerebral AVMs, but the cross-talk between the two signaling pathways is poorly u...

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

authors： Yao Y,Yao J,Radparvar M,Blazquez-Medela AM,Guihard PJ,Jumabay M,Boström KI

更新日期：2013-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposition is a multistep process in which a transposable element DNA sequence moves from its original genetic location to a new site. Early steps in this process include the formation of a transposition complex in which the end sequences of the transposable element are brought together in a structurally precise fa...

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

authors： Goryshin IYu,Kil YV,Reznikoff WS

更新日期：1994-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Tomato plants overexpressing a prosystemin gene that encodes the precursor of a mobile wound signal called systemin have been shown previously to constitutively synthesize extraordinarily high levels of two defensive proteinase inhibitor proteins in leaves in the absence of wounding. We herein report that leaves of th...

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

authors： Constabel CP,Bergey DR,Ryan CA

更新日期：1995-01-17 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 importance of proper ion channel trafficking is underpinned by a number of channel-linked genetic diseases whose defect is associated with failure to reach the cell surface. Conceptually, it is reasonable to suggest that the function of ion channels depends critically on the precise subcellular localization and th...

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

authors： Lu L,Timofeyev V,Li N,Rafizadeh S,Singapuri A,Harris TR,Chiamvimonvat N

更新日期：2009-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:All available complete mitochondrial genomes (21 species) are evaluated for dinucleotide over- and under-representation. The CpG dinucleotide is pervasively under-represented in all animal mitochondria, but it is of variable relative abundance in fungal, protist, and plant mitochondrial genomes. Interpretations and hy...

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

authors： Cardon LR,Burge C,Clayton DA,Karlin S

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The patch-clamp technique allows currents to be recorded through single ion channels in patches of cell membrane in the tips of glass pipettes. When recording, voltage is typically applied across the membrane patch to drive ions through open channels and to probe the voltage-sensitivity of channel activity. In this st...

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

authors： Gil Z,Silberberg SD,Magleby KL

更新日期：1999-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence suggests cancer cells exhibit a dependency on metabolic pathways regulated by nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+). Nevertheless, how the regulation of this metabolic cofactor interfaces with signal transduction networks remains poorly understood in glioblastoma. Here, we report nicotinamide ...

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

authors： Gujar AD,Le S,Mao DD,Dadey DY,Turski A,Sasaki Y,Aum D,Luo J,Dahiya S,Yuan L,Rich KM,Milbrandt J,Hallahan DE,Yano H,Tran DD,Kim AH

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven antigenic variants obtained from a single field isolate of foot-and-mouth disease virus, serotype A12, differ only at residues 148 and 153 in the immunodominant loop of viral protein VP1. Synthetic peptides corresponding to the region 141-160 are highly immunogenic. UV circular dichroism shows that (i) in aqueou...

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

authors： France LL,Piatti PG,Newman JF,Toth I,Gibbons WA,Brown F

更新日期：1994-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of dystrophin and its associated proteins in normal muscle function is now well established. Many of these proteins are expressed in nonmuscle tissues, particularly the brain. Here we describe the characterization of beta-dystrobrevin, a dystrophin-related protein that is abundantly expressed in brain a...

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

authors： Blake DJ,Nawrotzki R,Loh NY,Górecki DC,Davies KE

更新日期：1998-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The basic helix-loop-helix transcriptional repressor Hairy-related transcription factor 2 (Hrt2) is expressed in ventricular, but not atrial, cardiomyocytes, and in endothelial and vascular smooth muscle cells. Mice homozygous for a null mutation of Hrt2 die perinatally from a spectrum of cardiac abnormalities, raisin...

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

authors： Xin M,Small EM,van Rooij E,Qi X,Richardson JA,Srivastava D,Nakagawa O,Olson EN

更新日期：2007-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of MECP2 (Methyl-CpG Binding Protein 2) cause Rett syndrome. As a chromatin-associated multifunctional protein, how MeCP2 integrates external signals and regulates neuronal function remain unclear. Although neuronal activity-induced phosphorylation of MeCP2 at serine 421 (S421) has been reported, the full sp...

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

authors： Tao J,Hu K,Chang Q,Wu H,Sherman NE,Martinowich K,Klose RJ,Schanen C,Jaenisch R,Wang W,Sun YE

更新日期：2009-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:An effective plant alkaloid chemical defense requires a variety of transport processes, but few alkaloid transporters have been characterized at the molecular level. Previously, a gene fragment encoding a putative plasma membrane proton symporter was isolated, because it was coordinately regulated with several nicotin...

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

authors： Hildreth SB,Gehman EA,Yang H,Lu RH,Ritesh KC,Harich KC,Yu S,Lin J,Sandoe JL,Okumoto S,Murphy AS,Jelesko JG

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type p53 protein is a growth modulator whose inactivation has been found to be a key event in malignant transformation. Reconstitution of wild-type p53 in the p53-nonproducer, Abelson murine leukemia virus-transformed pre-B-cell line L12 gave rise to stably growing clones. Wild-type p53-producer derived cell line...

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

authors： Shaulsky G,Goldfinger N,Peled A,Rotter V

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The human brain relies upon the dynamic formation and dissolution of a hierarchy of functional networks to support ongoing cognition. However, how functional connectivities underlying such networks are supported by cortical microstructure remains poorly understood. Recent animal work has demonstrated that electrical a...

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

authors： Hunt BA,Tewarie PK,Mougin OE,Geades N,Jones DK,Singh KD,Morris PG,Gowland PA,Brookes MJ

更新日期：2016-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:To enter host cells, vaccinia virus, a prototype poxvirus, can induce transient macropinocytosis followed by endocytic internalization and penetration through the limiting membrane of pinosomes by membrane fusion. Although mature virions (MVs) of the Western reserve (WR) strain do this in HeLa cells by activating tran...

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

authors： Mercer J,Knébel S,Schmidt FI,Crouse J,Burkard C,Helenius A

更新日期：2010-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the most striking aspects of the movement of many animal groups are their sudden coherent changes in direction. Recent observations of locusts and starlings have shown that this directional switching is an intrinsic property of their motion. Similar direction switches are seen in self-propelled particle and othe...

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

authors： Yates CA,Erban R,Escudero C,Couzin ID,Buhl J,Kevrekidis IG,Maini PK,Sumpter DJ

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Type IV pili of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the Gram-negative etiologic agent of gonorrhea, facilitate colonization of the human host. Gonococcal PilT, a protein belonging to a large family of molecules sharing a highly conserved nucleotide binding domain motif, has been shown to be dispensable for organelle biogenesis but...

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

authors： Wolfgang M,Park HS,Hayes SF,van Putten JP,Koomey M

更新日期：1998-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of differentiation and apoptosis in cancer cells through ligands of nuclear hormone receptors (NHRs) is a novel and promising approach to cancer therapy. All-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA), an RA receptor-specific NHR ligand, is now used for selective cancers. The NHR, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor ...

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

authors： Elstner E,Müller C,Koshizuka K,Williamson EA,Park D,Asou H,Shintaku P,Said JW,Heber D,Koeffler HP

更新日期：1998-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals often use sex pheromones for mate choice and reproduction. As for other signals, the genetic control of the emission and perception of sex pheromones must be tightly coadapted, and yet we still have no worked-out example of how these two aspects interact. Most models suggest that emission and perception rely o...

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

authors： Bousquet F,Nojima T,Houot B,Chauvel I,Chaudy S,Dupas S,Yamamoto D,Ferveur JF

更新日期：2012-01-03 00:00:00