One-megadalton metalloenzyme complex in Geobacter metallireducens involved in benzene ring reduction beyond the biological redox window.

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：:Mutational inactivation of the retinoblastoma (RB) gene has been implicated in the genesis of retinoblastoma, osteosarcoma, and other human tumors. Our strategy has been to characterize naturally occurring mutants from tumor cells to pinpoint potential domains of RB protein crucial for tumor suppression. We show here ...

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

authors： Shew JY,Lin BT,Chen PL,Tseng BY,Yang-Feng TL,Lee WH

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An array of photoreceptors including cryptochromes, phototropin, and phytochromes regulates various light responses in plants. Among these photoreceptors, phytochromes perceive red and far-red light by switching between two interconvertible spectral forms (Pr and Pfr). The Pfr form promotes light responses partly by d...

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

authors： Paik I,Yang S,Choi G

更新日期：2012-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite extensive efforts to understand the monogenic contributions to perturbed glucose homeostasis, the complexity of genetic events that fractionally contribute to the spectrum of this pathology remain poorly understood. Proper maintenance of glucose homeostasis is the central feature of a constellation of comorbid...

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

authors： Fleet T,Zhang B,Lin F,Zhu B,Dasgupta S,Stashi E,Tackett B,Thevananther S,Rajapakshe KI,Gonzales N,Dean A,Mao J,Timchenko N,Malovannaya A,Qin J,Coarfa C,DeMayo F,Dacso CC,Foulds CE,O'Malley BW,York B

更新日期：2015-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In Drosophila, Pumilio (Pum) is important for neuronal homeostasis as well as learning and memory. We have recently characterized a mammalian homolog of Pum, Pum2, which is found in discrete RNA-containing particles in the somatodendritic compartment of polarized neurons. In this study, we investigated the role of Pum...

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

authors： Vessey JP,Schoderboeck L,Gingl E,Luzi E,Riefler J,Di Leva F,Karra D,Thomas S,Kiebler MA,Macchi P

更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The initiator RNAs of mammalian Okazaki fragments are thought to be removed by RNase HI and the 5'-3' flap endonuclease (FEN1). Earlier evidence indicated that the cleavage site of RNase HI is 5' of the last ribonucleotide at the RNA-DNA junction on an Okazaki substrate. In current work, highly purified calf RNase HI ...

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

authors： Murante RS,Henricksen LA,Bambara RA

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) involves fetal overgrowth and predisposition to a wide variety of embryonal tumors of childhood. We have previously found that BWS is genetically linked to 11p15 and that this same band shows loss of heterozygosity in the types of tumors to which children with BWS are susceptible. How...

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

authors： Hoovers JM,Kalikin LM,Johnson LA,Alders M,Redeker B,Law DJ,Bliek J,Steenman M,Benedict M,Wiegant J,Lengauer C,Taillon-Miller P,Schlessinger D,Edwards MC,Elledge SJ,Ivens A,Westerveld A,Little P,Mannens M,Feinberg AP

更新日期：1995-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A rat model of hereditary renal carcinoma (RC) was found in a rat colony of the Sprague-Dawley strain in Japan and named the "Nihon" rat. In heterozygotes, RCs, predominantly the clear cell type, develop from early preneoplastic lesions, which began to appear as early as 3 weeks of age, to adenocarcinomas by the age o...

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

authors： Okimoto K,Sakurai J,Kobayashi T,Mitani H,Hirayama Y,Nickerson ML,Warren MB,Zbar B,Schmidt LS,Hino O

更新日期：2004-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The influenza virus genes that confer efficient transmission of epidemic and pandemic strains in humans have not been identified. The rapid spread and severe disease caused by the 1918 influenza pandemic virus makes it an ideal virus to study the transmissibility of potentially pandemic influenza strains. Here, we use...

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

authors： Van Hoeven N,Pappas C,Belser JA,Maines TR,Zeng H,García-Sastre A,Sasisekharan R,Katz JM,Tumpey TM

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence based on a study of alanine-resistant (Alar), constitutive mutants of CHO-K1 cells and the conditions that favor stimulation of the A system of amino acid activity supports the model that the A system of amino acid transport in these cells is repressible and under negative control of regulatory gene R1. In th...

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

authors： Moffett J,Périer F,Jones M,Englesberg E

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We extend and apply theories of filled foam elasticity and failure to recently available data on foods. The predictions of elastic modulus and failure mode dependence on internal pressure and on wall integrity are borne out by photographic evidence of distortion and failure under compressive loading and under the loca...

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

authors： Warner M,Thiel BL,Donald AM

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase kinase is an enzyme that activates the growth factor-regulated MAP kinase in vitro by a mechanism that involves direct phosphorylation of MAP kinase on tyrosine and threonine residues. MAP kinase kinase is stimulated by growth factor treatment of cells and has been shown to be in...

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

authors： Ahn NG,Campbell JS,Seger R,Jensen AL,Graves LM,Krebs EG

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquired resistance to androgen receptor (AR)-targeted therapies compels the development of novel treatment strategies for castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Here, we report a profound effect of endostatin on prostate cancer cells by efficient intracellular trafficking, direct interaction with AR, reduction ...

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

authors： Lee JH,Isayeva T,Larson MR,Sawant A,Cha HR,Chanda D,Chesnokov IN,Ponnazhagan S

更新日期：2015-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinogenic 9-anthryloxirane binds covalently to calf thymus DNA and poly(dA-dT). Application of the technique for DNA sequence determination shows that acid cleavage of the modified DNA frees approximately half of the anthryl groups from the DNA. HPLC analysis indicates that an adenine adduct and the glycol derived ...

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

authors： Yang NC,Chang CW

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first step in the replication of the adenovirus genome is the covalent attachment of the 5'-terminal nucleotide, dCMP, to the virus-encoded terminal protein precursor (pTP). This reaction can be observed in vitro and has been previously shown to be dependent upon either viral DNA or linearized plasmid DNA containi...

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

authors： Challberg MD,Rawlins DR

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 2 (IL-2) occupies a central position in the cascade of events involved in the immune response. We were interested in determining whether IL-2 could function as an adjuvant to vaccination, to increase the immune response to vaccine immunogens. Using the National Institutes of Health test for rabies vaccine ...

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

authors： Nunberg JH,Doyle MV,York SM,York CJ

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of transformation by Rous sarcoma virus on the neural cell adhesion molecule N-CAM was assessed by immunoblotting, immunofluorescence staining, and an in vitro cell-cell aggregation assay using highly specific antibodies to the adhesion molecule. Expression of N-CAM was found to be temperature dependent in ...

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

authors： Greenberg ME,Brackenbury R,Edelman GM

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the binding change mechanism of rotary catalysis by which F1-ATPase hydrolyzes ATP has been supported by equilibrium, kinetic, and structural observations, many questions concerning the function remain unanswered. Because of the importance of this enzyme, the search for a full understanding of its mechanism i...

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

authors： Gao YQ,Yang W,Marcus RA,Karplus M

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The autophagic ubiquitin-like protein (ublp) autophagy-related (ATG)12 is a component of the ATG12∼ATG5-ATG16L1 E3 complex that promotes lipid conjugation of members of the LC3 ublp family. A role of ATG12 in the E3 complex is to recruit the E2 enzyme ATG3. Here we report the identification of the ATG12 binding sequen...

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

authors： Metlagel Z,Otomo C,Takaesu G,Otomo T

更新日期：2013-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal dynamics display a complex spatiotemporal structure involving the precise, context-dependent coordination of activation patterns across a large number of spatially distributed regions. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has played a central role in demonstrating the nontrivial spatial and topologica...

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

authors： Zalesky A,Fornito A,Cocchi L,Gollo LL,Breakspear M

更新日期：2014-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress-induced impairments in extinction learning are believed to sustain posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Noradrenergic signaling may contribute to extinction impairments by modulating medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) circuits involved in fear regulation. Here we demonstrate that aversive fear conditioning rapidl...

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

authors： Fitzgerald PJ,Giustino TF,Seemann JR,Maren S

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamic responses of the hearing organ to acoustic overstimulation were investigated using the guinea pig isolated temporal bone preparation. The organ was loaded with the fluorescent Ca2+ indicator Fluo-3, and the cochlear electric responses to low-level tones were recorded through a microelectrode in the scala m...

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

authors： Fridberger A,Flock A,Ulfendahl M,Flock B

更新日期：1998-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:By applying atomic force microscope (AFM)-based force spectroscopy together with computational modeling in the form of molecular force-field simulations, we have determined quantitatively the actuation energetics of a synthetic motor-molecule. This multidisciplinary approach was performed on specifically designed, bis...

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

authors： Brough B,Northrop BH,Schmidt JJ,Tseng HR,Houk KN,Stoddart JF,Ho CM

更新日期：2006-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major public health concern, being responsible for more than 1.5 million deaths annually through pneumonia, meningitis, and septicemia. Available vaccines target only a subset of serotypes, so vaccination is often accompanied by a rise in the frequency of nonvaccine...

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

authors： Obolski U,Lourenço J,Thompson C,Thompson R,Gori A,Gupta S

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The Black Death, originating in Asia, arrived in the Mediterranean harbors of Europe in 1347 CE, via the land and sea trade routes of the ancient Silk Road system. This epidemic marked the start of the second plague pandemic, which lasted in Europe until the early 19th century. This pandemic is generally understood as...

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

authors： Schmid BV,Büntgen U,Easterday WR,Ginzler C,Walløe L,Bramanti B,Stenseth NC

更新日期：2015-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Organelles in the axoplasm from the squid giant axon move along exogenous actin filaments toward their barbed ends. An approximately 235-kDa protein, the only band recognized by a pan-myosin antibody in Western blots of isolated axoplasmic organelles, has been previously proposed to be a motor for these movements. Her...

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

authors： Bearer EL,DeGiorgis JA,Jaffe H,Medeiros NA,Reese TS

更新日期：1996-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Many infectious viruses coevolved with the vertebrate immune system. During the assembly of enveloped viruses, lipid ordered domains of the host cell plasma membrane, called lipid rafts, frequently function as a natural meeting point for viral proteins. The role of lipid rafts in the organization of complex combinatio...

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

authors： Derdak SV,Kueng HJ,Leb VM,Neunkirchner A,Schmetterer KG,Bielek E,Majdic O,Knapp W,Seed B,Pickl WF

更新日期：2006-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonates are highly susceptible to infectious diseases and, in general, respond poorly to conventional vaccines due to immaturity of the immune system. In the present study, we hypothesized that the anti-tetanus toxoid (TT) vaccine response of neonatal mice could be enhanced by retinoic acid (RA), a bioactive retinoid...

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

authors： Ma Y,Ross AC

更新日期：2005-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Volcanic eruptions caused major weather and climatic changes on timescales ranging from hours to centuries in the past. Volcanic particles are injected in the atmosphere both as primary particles rapidly deposited due to their large sizes on time scales of minutes to a few weeks in the troposphere, and secondary parti...

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

authors： Boulon J,Sellegri K,Hervo M,Laj P

更新日期：2011-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolism of [3-13C]alanine in the presence and absence of beta-hydroxybutyrate or ethanol has been followed at 25 degrees C by 13C NMR at 90.5 MHz in primary hepatocytes from untreated rats and rats treated with triiodothyronine and not allowed to eat for 24 hr. The phosphoenolpyruvate/pyruvate futile cycle was foll...

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

authors： Cohen SM,Glynn P,Shulman RG

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00