DNA modification of a maize transposable element correlates with loss of activity.

abstract：:In aqueous solution, aldehydes, and to a lesser extent ketones, hydrate to form geminal diols. We investigate the hydration of methylglyoxal (MG) in the gas phase, a process not previously considered to occur in water-restricted environments. In this study, we spectroscopically identified methylglyoxal diol (MGD) and ...

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

authors： Axson JL,Takahashi K,De Haan DO,Vaida V

更新日期：2010-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms that regulate hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) fate decisions between proliferation and multilineage differentiation are unclear. Members of the Wnt family of ligands that activate the canonical Wnt signaling pathway, which utilizes beta-catenin to relay the signal, have been demonstrated to regulate HSC f...

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

authors： Nemeth MJ,Topol L,Anderson SM,Yang Y,Bodine DM

更新日期：2007-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed an approach for deriving and characterizing antigen-receptor (CD3/Ti) signal-transduction mutants. This strategy combines receptor-mediated growth inhibition and fluorescence-activated cell sorting with the Ca2+-indicator indo-1. Despite the expression of structurally normal CD3/Ti complexes, one suc...

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

authors： Goldsmith MA,Weiss A

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetics regulation plays a critical role in determining cell identity by controlling the accessibility of lineage-specific regulatory regions. In muscle stem cells, epigenetic mechanisms of how chromatin accessibility is modulated during cell fate determination are not fully understood. Here, we identified a long ...

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

authors： Dong A,Preusch CB,So WK,Lin K,Luan S,Yi R,Wong JW,Wu Z,Cheung TH

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:How do regions acquire the knowledge they need to diversify their economic activities? How does the migration of workers among firms and industries contribute to the diffusion of that knowledge? Here we measure the industry-, occupation-, and location-specific knowledge carried by workers from one establishment to the...

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

authors： Jara-Figueroa C,Jun B,Glaeser EL,Hidalgo CA

更新日期：2018-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, this study examined the effects of the Great Recession on maternal harsh parenting. We found that changes in macroeconomic conditions, rather than current conditions, affected harsh parenting, that declines in macroeconomic conditions had a stronger impac...

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

authors： Lee D,Brooks-Gunn J,McLanahan SS,Notterman D,Garfinkel I

更新日期：2013-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent discovery of small molecules targeting the cytochrome bc 1 :aa 3 in Mycobacterium tuberculosis triggered interest in the terminal respiratory oxidases for antituberculosis drug development. The mycobacterial cytochrome...

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

authors： Kalia NP,Hasenoehrl EJ,Ab Rahman NB,Koh VH,Ang MLT,Sajorda DR,Hards K,Grüber G,Alonso S,Cook GM,Berney M,Pethe K

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni is the leading cause of acute bacterial diarrhea worldwide and is implicated in development of Guillain-Barré syndrome. Two major surface features, the outer membrane lipooligosaccharide and flagella, are highly variable and are often targets for modification. Presumably, these modifications provi...

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

authors： Cullen TW,Trent MS

更新日期：2010-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK-3) is implicated in multiple biological processes including metabolism, gene expression, cell fate determination, proliferation, and survival. GSK-3 activity is inhibited through phosphorylation of serine 21 in GSK-3 alpha and serine 9 in GSK-3 beta. These serine residues of GSK-3 have ...

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

authors： Fang X,Yu SX,Lu Y,Bast RC Jr,Woodgett JR,Mills GB

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Extrachromosomal copies of the 1.6-kilobase transposable element Tc1 are present at the level of between 0.1 and 1.0 copy per cell in Caenorhabditis elegans strain Bergerac. Extrachromosomal elements were detected and studied using Southern hybridizations employing a Tc1-specific probe. The amount of extrachromosomal ...

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

authors： Ruan K,Emmons SW

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmons, the collective oscillations of interacting electrons, possess emergent properties that dramatically alter the optical response of metals. We predict the existence of a new class of plasmons-chiral Berry plasmons (CBPs)-for a wide range of 2D metallic systems including gapped Dirac materials. As we show, in t...

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

authors： Song JC,Rudner MS

更新日期：2016-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamatergic synaptic terminals harbor reluctant synaptic vesicles (SVs) that contribute little to synchronous release during action potentials but are release competent when stimulated by sucrose or by direct intracellular application of calcium. It has been noted that the proximity of a release-competent SV to the ...

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

authors： Lee JS,Ho WK,Lee SH

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping methods are necessary to accomplish many current gene discovery goals. A crucial element in large-scale SNP genotyping is the number of individual biochemical reactions that must be performed. An efficient method that can be used to simultaneously amplify a set...

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

authors： Jordan B,Charest A,Dowd JF,Blumenstiel JP,Yeh Rf RF,Osman A,Housman DE,Landers JE

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological soil crusts (biocrusts)—communities of mosses, lichens, cyanobacteria, and heterotrophs living at the soil surface—are fundamental components of drylands worldwide, and destruction of biocrusts dramatically alters biogeochemical processes, hydrology, surface energy balance, and vegetation cover. Although th...

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

authors： Ferrenberg S,Reed SC,Belnap J

更新日期：2015-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttranscriptional regulation is an important step in the regulation of gene expression. In this article, we show an unexpected connection between two proteins that participate in different processes of posttranscriptional regulation that ensures the production of functional mRNA molecules. Specifically, we show that...

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

authors： Agranat L,Raitskin O,Sperling J,Sperling R

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous papers of this series, emphasis has been placed on the steady-state phase transition and critical properties of large lattices of interacting, symmetrical, and identical enzyme molecules. The present paper is concerned with a number of examples of enzyme--enzyme interactions that do not belong to the class...

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

authors： Hill TL

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enormous complexity of biological networks has led to the suggestion that networks are built of modules that perform particular functions and are "reused" in evolution in a manner similar to reusable domains in protein structures or modules of electronic circuits. Analysis of known biological networks has revealed...

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

authors： Spirin V,Gelfand MS,Mironov AA,Mirny LA

更新日期：2006-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Underactivity of the glutamatergic system is an attractive model for the pathophysiology of several major mental illnesses. We previously described a chromosome abnormality disrupting the kainate class ionotropic glutamate receptor gene, GRIK4/KA1, in an individual with schizophrenia and learning disability (mental re...

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

authors： Pickard BS,Knight HM,Hamilton RS,Soares DC,Walker R,Boyd JK,Machell J,Maclean A,McGhee KA,Condie A,Porteous DJ,St Clair D,Davis I,Blackwood DH,Muir WJ

更新日期：2008-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of 3T3-L2 fibroblasts in medium containing 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine prevents the spontaneous cytodifferentiation of these cells into adipose cells. Treatment of bromodeoxyuridine-suppressed cultures at confluence with 1-methyl-3-isobutylxanthine, a promoter of the adipose conversion, results in differentiation o...

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

authors： Russell TR

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant promoter hypermethylation is frequently observed in cancer. The potential for this mechanism to contribute to tumor development depends on whether the genes affected are repressed because of their methylation. Many aberrantly methylated genes play important roles in development and are bivalently marked in ES...

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

authors： Sproul D,Nestor C,Culley J,Dickson JH,Dixon JM,Harrison DJ,Meehan RR,Sims AH,Ramsahoye BH

更新日期：2011-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoprotein Ib is a surface membrane glycoprotein of platelets that functions as a receptor for von Willebrand factor. It is a heterodimer composed of an alpha and a beta chain linked by a disulfide bond(s). A phage lambda gt11 cDNA expression library prepared from mRNA from a human erythroleukemia cell line, HEL, wa...

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

authors： Lopez JA,Chung DW,Fujikawa K,Hagen FS,Papayannopoulou T,Roth GJ

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early passages of NIH 3T3 cells yield about 10 transformed foci for every 10(5) cells seeded after the cells multiply to confluence in a standardized 2-week assay. The question arose whether more cells would give rise to foci if given more time for their development. This question could not be answered simply by exten...

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

authors： Chow M,Yao A,Rubin H

更新日期：1994-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Light microscopy autoradiography has been used to visualize neuroanatomical patterns of brain opiate receptor upregulation in response to chronic naltrexone administration. Slide-mounted brain sections of frozen rat brain were labeled in vitro with dihydro[3H]morphine, a relatively selective mu opioid ligand. The grea...

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

authors： Tempel A,Gardner EL,Zukin RS

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Migrations allow animals to track seasonal changes in resources, find mates, and avoid harsh climates, but these regular, long-distance movements also have implications for parasite dynamics and animal health. Migratory animals have been dubbed "superspreaders" of infection, but migration can also reduce parasite burd...

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

authors： Peacock SJ,Krkošek M,Lewis MA,Molnár PK

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrofurans, a class of antibacterial drugs in extensive use, interferes with gene expression in a highly specific manner. While in the low dose range (0.5-25 mug/ml), 5-nitro-2-furfurylidene-1-aminohydantoin has no effect on transcription, it inhibits specifically the expression of one class of genes in translation. ...

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

authors： Herrlich P,Schweiger M

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Time courses of 13C labeling from alanine and ethanol in perfused mouse livers have been followed by NMR. The enrichment at specific carbons of glucose, glutamate, glutamine, aspartate, acetate, acetoacetate, beta-hydroxybutyrate, and lactate has been measured. The specific labeling of glutamate in the presence of lab...

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

authors： Cohen SM,Shulman RG,McLaughlin AC

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient expression of human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) genes requires both host and viral proteins and is dependent on DNA sequences in the proviral long terminal repeats (LTRs). We have used DNase I-protection assays (footprinting) to construct a map of protein-DNA interactions over a 250-nucleotide regi...

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

authors： Nyborg JK,Dynan WS,Chen IS,Wachsman W

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfated glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) such as heparan sulfate (HS) are heteropolysaccharides implicated in the pathology of protein aggregation diseases including localized and systemic forms of amyloidosis. Among subdomains of sulfated GAGs, highly sulfated domains of HS, called HS S-domains, have been highlighted as be...

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

authors： Iwahashi N,Ikezaki M,Nishikawa T,Namba N,Ohgita T,Saito H,Ihara Y,Shimanouchi T,Ino K,Uchimura K,Nishitsuji K

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorarachniophytes are amoeboid algae with unusual chloroplasts. Instead of the usual two membranes that surround the chloroplasts of plants, green algae, and red algae, the chloroplasts of chlorarachniophytes have four bounding membranes. The extra membranes may reflect an unusual origin of chlorarachniophyte chloro...

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

authors： McFadden GI,Gilson PR,Hofmann CJ,Adcock GJ,Maier UG

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In human adults, learning and memory under acute stress are characterized by an increased use of rigid habitual response strategies at the cost of flexible cognitive strategies. The immediate effects of stress on cognitive functioning early in life are not well understood. Here we show experimentally that acute stress...

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

authors： Seehagen S,Schneider S,Rudolph J,Ernst S,Zmyj N

更新日期：2015-10-13 00:00:00