Substrate free radicals are intermediates in ligninase catalysis.

abstract：:Dyskeratosis congenita is a premature aging syndrome characterized by muco-cutaneous features and a range of other abnormalities, including early greying, dental loss, osteoporosis, and malignancy. Dyskeratosis congenita cells age prematurely and have very short telomeres. Patients have mutations in genes that encode ...

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

authors： Vulliamy T,Beswick R,Kirwan M,Marrone A,Digweed M,Walne A,Dokal I

更新日期：2008-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:FtsEX is a bacterial ABC transporter that regulates the activity of periplasmic peptidoglycan amidases via its interaction with the murein hydrolase activator, EnvC. In Escherichia coli, FtsEX is required to separate daughter cells after cell division and for viability in low-osmolarity media. Both the ATPase activity...

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

authors： Cook J,Baverstock TC,McAndrew MBL,Stansfeld PJ,Roper DI,Crow A

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional topological insulators (3D TIs) represent states of quantum matters in which surface states are protected by time-reversal symmetry and an inversion occurs between bulk conduction and valence bands. However, the bulk-band inversion, which is intimately tied to the topologically nontrivial nature of 3...

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

authors： Chen ZG,Chen RY,Zhong RD,Schneeloch J,Zhang C,Huang Y,Qu F,Yu R,Li Q,Gu GD,Wang NL

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal-inducible transcription of metallothionein (MT) genes involves the interaction of metal-responsive trans-acting factors with specific promoter DNA sequence elements. In this report, we present a genetic selection using the baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to clone a gene from Candida glabrata encoding a ...

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

authors： Zhou PB,Thiele DJ

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A type of heritable cellular change, known as habituation, occurs spontaneously in plant tissue and cell culture. This phenomenon is characterized by a newly acquired capacity of plant cells to produce growth regulatory substances. Using cloned lines of tobacco pith parenchyma cells, we demonstrated that a newly acqui...

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

authors： Binns A,Meins F

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using electron microscopy and fitting of crystal structures, we present the 3D reconstruction of ligand-induced dimers of intact receptor tyrosine kinase, KIT. We observe that KIT protomers form close contacts throughout the entire structure of ligand-bound receptor dimers, and that the dimeric receptors adopt multipl...

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

authors： Opatowsky Y,Lax I,Tomé F,Bleichert F,Unger VM,Schlessinger J

更新日期：2014-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonal kidney cell tumors develop in rats given the alkylating agent N-nitroso-N'-methylurea as neonates. These tumors resemble the childhood Wilms tumors in their histopathology. Deletions and mutations in the Wilms tumor suppressor gene, WT1, are present in up to 6% of childhood nephroblastomas. To investigate th...

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

authors： Sharma PM,Bowman M,Yu BF,Sukumar S

更新日期：1994-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorophyll d-producing cyanobacteria are a recently described group of phototrophic bacteria that is a major focus of photosynthesis research, previously known only from marine environments in symbiosis with eukaryotes. We have discovered a free-living member of this group from a eutrophic hypersaline lake. Phylogene...

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

authors： Miller SR,Augustine S,Olson TL,Blankenship RE,Selker J,Wood AM

更新日期：2005-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleistocene residential sites with multiple contemporaneous human burials are extremely rare in the Americas. We report mitochondrial genomic variation in the first multiple mitochondrial genomes from a single prehistoric population: two infant burials (USR1 and USR2) from a common interment at the Upward Sun River Si...

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

authors： Tackney JC,Potter BA,Raff J,Powers M,Watkins WS,Warner D,Reuther JD,Irish JD,O'Rourke DH

更新日期：2015-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Questions that still surround the origin and early dispersals of maize (Zea mays L.) result in large part from the absence of information on its early history from the Balsas River Valley of tropical southwestern Mexico, where its wild ancestor is native. We report starch grain and phytolith data from the Xihuatoxtla ...

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

authors： Piperno DR,Ranere AJ,Holst I,Iriarte J,Dickau R

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A line of nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice expressing the human diabetes-associated HLA-DQ8 transgene in the absence of mouse IAbeta failed to show spontaneous insulitis or diabetes, but rather developed dilated cardiomyopathy, leading to early death from heart failure. Pathology in these animals results from an organ- an...

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

authors： Elliott JF,Liu J,Yuan ZN,Bautista-Lopez N,Wallbank SL,Suzuki K,Rayner D,Nation P,Robertson MA,Liu G,Kavanagh KM

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Complementary DNA clones encoding the entire rat 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 receptor were isolated, and the total 423-amino acid sequence was deduced. The amino acid sequence of the rat receptor is similar but not identical to the reported human receptor sequence. The cysteine-rich DNA-binding domain is completely conse...

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

authors： Burmester JK,Wiese RJ,Maeda N,DeLuca HF

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatostatin (somatotropin release-inhibiting factor; SRIF) is a tetradecapeptide present in brain, pancreas, gastrointestinal tract, and thyroid that inhibits the secretion or action of several hormones in these tissues. We observed that the toad urinary bladder contains concentrations of endogenous somatostatin (8.0...

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

authors： Forrest JN Jr,Reichlin S,Goodman DB

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imaging reporter gene expression in living subjects is a rapidly evolving area of molecular imaging research. Studies have validated the use of reporter genes with positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), MRI, fluorescence with wild-type and mutants of green fluorescent p...

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

authors： Bhaumik S,Gambhir SS

更新日期：2002-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:B7 family proteins provide costimulatory signals that regulate T cell responses. Here we report the third set of B7 family-related T cell inhibitory molecules with the identification of a homolog of the B7 family, B7x. It is expressed in immune cells, nonlymphoid tissues, and some tumor cell lines. B7x inhibits cell-c...

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

authors： Zang X,Loke P,Kim J,Murphy K,Waitz R,Allison JP

更新日期：2003-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) is triggered in eukaryotic organisms by double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), and it destroys any mRNA that has sequence identity with the dsRNA trigger. The RNAi pathway in Anopheles gambiae can be silenced by transfecting cells with dsRNA derived from exon sequence of the A. gambiae Argonaute2 (AgAgo2...

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

authors： Keene KM,Foy BD,Sanchez-Vargas I,Beaty BJ,Blair CD,Olson KE

更新日期：2004-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play important roles in aging, inflammation, and cancer. Mitochondria are an important source of ROS; however, the spatiotemporal ROS events underlying oxidative cellular damage from dysfunctional mitochondria remain unresolved. To this end, we have developed and validated a chemoptogenet...

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

authors： Qian W,Kumar N,Roginskaya V,Fouquerel E,Opresko PL,Shiva S,Watkins SC,Kolodieznyi D,Bruchez MP,Van Houten B

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Two decades after the discovery of the first animal microRNA (miRNA), the number of miRNAs in animal genomes remains a vexing question. Here, we report findings from analyzing 1,323 short RNA sequencing samples (RNA-seq) from 13 different human tissue types. Using stringent thresholding criteria, we identified 3,707 s...

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

authors： Londin E,Loher P,Telonis AG,Quann K,Clark P,Jing Y,Hatzimichael E,Kirino Y,Honda S,Lally M,Ramratnam B,Comstock CE,Knudsen KE,Gomella L,Spaeth GL,Hark L,Katz LJ,Witkiewicz A,Rostami A,Jimenez SA,Hollingsworth MA,

更新日期：2015-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Most cosmologists now believe that we live in an evolving universe that has been expanding and cooling since its origin about 15 billion years ago. Strong evidence for this standard cosmological model comes from studies of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR), the remnant heat from the initial fireball. Th...

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

authors： Wilkinson D

更新日期：1998-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of protein kinase C (PKC) as a mediator of glucose-induced insulin secretion has been a subject of controversy. Glucose-induced translocation of PKC has not been reported, and the relevant PKC isoenzymes in islets have not been identified. To address these issues, we developed specific antibodies to the alpha...

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

authors： Ganesan S,Calle R,Zawalich K,Smallwood JI,Zawalich WS,Rasmussen H

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paracoccidioidomycosis, a disease caused by Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, which is endemic to Latin America, is much more common in men than women, suggesting a role for hormonal factors. We recently showed that two other yeasts possess steroid binding proteins and postulated that these receptor-like molecules repres...

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

authors： Loose DS,Stover EP,Restrepo A,Stevens DA,Feldman D

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2-deoxy-D-glucose method was used to study asymmetries in cerebral metabolic activity in neonatal rats. Left-right asymmetries in 2-deoxy-D-glucose uptake were observed in hippocampus, diencephalon, cortex, and medulla-pons: 2-deoxy-D-glucose incorporation was greater in right hippocampus, right diencephalon, left...

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

authors： Ross DA,Glick SD,Meibach RC

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pH gradient (delta pH) across the membrane of bovine neurohypophysial granules was estimated by using the [14C]methylamine partition technique. The granule membrane showed high permeability to sugars such as sucrose or sorbitol and to cations. Granules suspended in sucrose medium showed an acidic internal delta pH...

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

authors： Scherman D,Nordmann JJ

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural abundance 13C spin-lattice (T1) relaxation time measurements are reported for unilamellar vesicles of 1,2-dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine), in the liquid crystalline phase, at magnetic field strengths of 1.40, 1.87, 2.35, 4.23, 7.05, 8.45, and 11.7 tesla (resonance f...

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

authors： Brown MF,Ribeiro AA,Williams GD

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain src protooncogene is expressed in two forms, one identical to message in other tissues, and one containing an 18-nucleotide insert specific to brain. We have mapped mRNA for the two forms of src in rat brain with selective antisense oligonucleotide probes to the brain (src+) and peripheral (src-) forms. Fetal ra...

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

authors： Ross CA,Wright GE,Resh MD,Pearson RC,Snyder SH

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The circadian hormone melatonin is synthesized predominantly in the pineal gland by the actions of two pineal-specific enzymes: serotonin N-acetyltransferase (NAT) and hydroxyindole-O-methyltransferase (HIOMT). Pineal night-specific ATPase (PINA), another pineal- and night-specific protein we recently identified, is p...

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

authors： Li X,Chen S,Wang Q,Zack DJ,Snyder SH,Borjigin J

更新日期：1998-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:DsRed, a brilliantly red fluorescent protein, was recently cloned from Discosoma coral by homology to the green fluorescent protein (GFP) from the jellyfish Aequorea. A core question in the biochemistry of DsRed is the mechanism by which the GFP-like 475-nm excitation and 500-nm emission maxima of immature DsRed are r...

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

authors： Gross LA,Baird GS,Hoffman RC,Baldridge KK,Tsien RY

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A photoreactive derivative of epidermal growth factor (EGF) has been used to identify and specifically label a membrane receptor for EGF on mouse 3T3 cells. Photoactivable EGF, labeled with 125I, was incubated with 3T3 cells and then photolyzed in situ to generate a nitrene capable of reacting with a wide variety of c...

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

authors： Das M,Miyakawa T,Fox CF,Pruss RM,Aharonov A,Herschman HR

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific binding properties of the tritium-labeled delta opiate receptor agonist [3H][2-D-penicillamine, 5-D-penicillamine]enkephalin [( 3H][D-Pen2, D-Pen5]enkephalin) were characterized in the rat brain and in a mouse neuroblastoma-rat glioma hybrid cell line (NG 108-15). Saturation isotherms of [3H][D-Pen2, D-Pen5]e...

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

authors： Akiyama K,Gee KW,Mosberg HI,Hruby VJ,Yamamura HI

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid beta (Aβ) is a major pathological marker in Alzheimer's disease (AD), which is principally regulated by the rate-limiting β-secretase (i.e., BACE1) cleavage of amyloid precursor protein (APP). However, how BACE1 activity is posttranslationally regulated remains incompletely understood. Here, we show that BACE1...

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

authors： Bao J,Qin M,Mahaman YAR,Zhang B,Huang F,Zeng K,Xia Y,Ke D,Wang Q,Liu R,Wang JZ,Ye K,Wang X

更新日期：2018-04-10 00:00:00