Spatial and morphological reorganization of endosymbiosis during metamorphosis accommodates adult metabolic requirements in a weevil.

abstract：:An interpretation is given of recent experiments by Brunori et al. on the binding of carbon monoxide by hemoglobin under photodissociating conditions. It is shown that their results follow directly from scalable models for hemoglobin in which the protein-modulated interactions are separable from the ligand binding. ...

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

authors： Szabo A,Karplus M

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitination regulates, via different modes of modifications, a variety of biological processes, and aberrations in the process have been implicated in the pathogenesis of several neurodegenerative diseases. However, our ability to dissect the pathophysiological relevance of the ubiquitination code has been hampered...

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

authors： Haj-Yahya M,Fauvet B,Herman-Bachinsky Y,Hejjaoui M,Bavikar SN,Karthikeyan SV,Ciechanover A,Lashuel HA,Brik A

更新日期：2013-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The L-A double-stranded RNA virus of Saccharomyces cerevisiae makes a gag-pol fusion protein by a -1 ribosomal frameshift. The pol amino acid sequence includes consensus patterns typical of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerases (EC 2.7.7.48) of (+) strand and double-stranded RNA viruses of animals and plants. We have carr...

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

authors： Ribas JC,Wickner RB

更新日期：1992-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary transitions in individuality (ETIs) underlie the watershed events in the history of life on Earth, including the origins of cells, eukaryotes, plants, animals, and fungi. Each of these events constitutes an increase in the level of complexity, as groups of individuals become individuals in their own right...

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

authors： Herron MD,Hackett JD,Aylward FO,Michod RE

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked hypophosphatemia is the most prevalent inherited form of rickets. In this disorder, rickets results from hyperphosphaturia and inappropriately normal levels of 1,25(OH)2-vitamin D. Current therapy with oral phosphate and vitamin D improves the rickets, but has significant morbidity and does not significantly ...

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

authors： Baum M,Loleh S,Saini N,Seikaly M,Dwarakanath V,Quigley R

更新日期：2003-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Two functional human dUTP pyrophosphatase (dUTPase; EC 3.6.1.23) cDNAs were isolated from a cDNA expression library by genetic complementation in Escherichia coli. These cDNAs differed in size but exhibited a common overlapping DNA sequence. Contained within this sequence was a single long open reading frame sufficien...

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

authors： McIntosh EM,Ager DD,Gadsden MH,Haynes RH

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shewanella species are renowned for their respiratory versatility, including their ability to respire poorly soluble substrates by using enzymatic machinery that is localized to the outside of the cell. The ability to engage in "extracellular respiration" to date has focused primarily on respiration of minerals. Here,...

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

authors： Gralnick JA,Vali H,Lies DP,Newman DK

更新日期：2006-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms that control the levels and activities of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in normal human mammary cells are poorly understood. We show that purified normal human basal mammary epithelial cells maintain low levels of ROS primarily by a glutathione-dependent but inefficient antioxidant mechanism that uses mitoc...

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

authors： Kannan N,Nguyen LV,Makarem M,Dong Y,Shih K,Eirew P,Raouf A,Emerman JT,Eaves CJ

更新日期：2014-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiology of systemic inflammation and sepsis involves peripheral organs, causing gastrointestinal, renal, and cardiovascular alterations, as well as the central nervous system (CNS), affecting sleep, temperature regulation, behavior, and neuroendocrine function. The molecular basis of the CNS effects of sys...

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

authors： Wong ML,Bongiorno PB,Rettori V,McCann SM,Licinio J

更新日期：1997-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Photonic materials with positionally ordered structure can interact strongly with light to produce brilliant structural colors. Here, we found that the nonperiodic nematic liquid crystals of nanoplates can also display structural color with only significant orientational order. Owing to the loose stacking of the nemat...

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

authors： Zeng M,King D,Huang D,Do C,Wang L,Chen M,Lei S,Lin P,Chen Y,Cheng Z

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Although aquaporin 5 (AQP5) is the major water channel expressed in alveolar type I cells in the lung, its actual role in the lung is a matter of considerable speculation. By using immunohistochemical staining, we show that AQP5 expression in mouse lung is not restricted to type I cells, but is also detected in alveol...

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

authors： Krane CM,Fortner CN,Hand AR,McGraw DW,Lorenz JN,Wert SE,Towne JE,Paul RJ,Whitsett JA,Menon AG

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanisms by which transcription is selectively activated and precisely controlled by signal transducer and activator of transcription (Stat) factors represent a central issue in cytokine-mediated cellular responses. Stat6 mediates responses to IL-4 and antagonizes Stat1 activated by IFN-gamma. We have ...

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

authors： Goenka S,Boothby M

更新日期：2006-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Alu elements are a family of interspersed repeats that have mobilized throughout primate genomes by retroposition from a few "master" genes. Among the 500,000 Alu elements in the human genome are members of the human-specific subfamily that are not fixed in the human species; that is, not all chromosomes carry an Alu ...

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

authors： Batzer MA,Stoneking M,Alegria-Hartman M,Bazan H,Kass DH,Shaikh TH,Novick GE,Ioannou PA,Scheer WD,Herrera RJ

更新日期：1994-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:High-quality protein crystals meant for structural analysis by X-ray diffraction have been grown by various methods. The observation of dynamical diffraction in protein crystals is an interesting topic because dynamical diffraction generally occurs in perfect crystals such as Si crystals. However, to our knowledge, th...

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

authors： Suzuki R,Koizumi H,Hirano K,Kumasaka T,Kojima K,Tachibana M

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the influence of a photothrombotic lesion in somatosensory cortex on plasticity in the mouse visual system and the efficacy of anti-inflammatory treatment to rescue compromised learning. To challenge plasticity mechanisms, we induced monocular deprivation (MD) in 3-mo-old mice. In control animals, MD induced...

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

authors： Greifzu F,Schmidt S,Schmidt KF,Kreikemeier K,Witte OW,Löwel S

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:An expression in the exterior algebra of a Peano space yielding Pappus' theorem was originally given by Doubilet, Rota, and Stein [Doubilet, P., Rota, G.-C. & Stein, J. (1974) Stud. Appl. Math. 8, 185-216]. Motivated by an identity of Rota, I give an identity in a Grassmann-Cayley algebra of step 3, involving joins an...

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

authors： Hawrylycz M

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In normal vision, shifts of attention are usually followed by saccadic eye movements. Neurons in extrastriate area V4 are modulated by focal attention when eye movements are withheld, but they also respond in advance of visually guided saccadic eye movements. We have examined the visual selectivity of saccade-related ...

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

authors： Moore T,Tolias AS,Schiller PH

更新日期：1998-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Flow separation and vortex shedding are some of the most common phenomena experienced by bluff bodies under relative motion with the surrounding medium. They often result in a recirculation bubble in regions with adverse pressure gradient, which typically reduces efficiency in vehicles and increases loading on structu...

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

authors： Bocanegra Evans H,Hamed AM,Gorumlu S,Doosttalab A,Aksak B,Chamorro LP,Castillo L

更新日期：2018-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Most cells in the well-known pre-B-lymphocyte line 18-81 have correctly assembled genes for both alleles at the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus. Only one allele is "active"; the other, "silent" allele contains an amber termination codon. The rate of reversion of this amber codon was determined to be 0.3-1 X 10(-4) pe...

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

authors： Wabl M,Burrows PD,von Gabain A,Steinberg C

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) glutamate receptor (NMDAR), long implicated in developmental plasticity, shows decay time kinetics that shorten postnatally as NR2A subunits are added to the receptor. Neither the mechanism nor immediate effect of this change is known. We studied developing NMDAR currents by using visua...

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

authors： Townsend M,Yoshii A,Mishina M,Constantine-Paton M

更新日期：2003-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein kinase Chk2, the mammalian homolog of the budding yeast Rad53 and fission yeast Cds1 checkpoint kinases, is phosphorylated and activated in response to DNA damage by ionizing radiation (IR), UV irradiation, and replication blocks by hydroxyurea (HU). Phosphorylation and activation of Chk2 are ataxia telang...

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

authors： Matsuoka S,Rotman G,Ogawa A,Shiloh Y,Tamai K,Elledge SJ

更新日期：2000-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), an oncogenic herpesvirus, encodes two small RNAs (EBERs) that are expressed at high levels during latent transformation of human B lymphocytes. Here we report that a 15-kDa cellular protein called EAP (for EBER associated protein), previously shown to bind EBER1, is in fact the ribosomal prot...

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

authors： Toczyski DP,Matera AG,Ward DC,Steitz JA

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the rice transcription factor, REB (rice endosperm bZIP) was cloned from a bacterial artificial chromosome library of rice. The cloned 6,227-bp-long Reb gene is composed of six exons and five introns and is flanked by a 1.2-kb 5' promoter and a 1.2-kb 3' terminator region. The function of the Reb gen...

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

authors： Yang D,Wu L,Hwang YS,Chen L,Huang N

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Pbx-regulating protein-1 (Prep1) is a tumor suppressor, whereas myeloid ecotropic viral integration site-1 (Meis1) is an oncogene. We show that, to perform these activities in mouse embryonic fibroblasts, both proteins competitively heterodimerize with pre-B-cell leukemia homeobox-1 (Pbx1). Meis1 alone transforms Prep...

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

authors： Dardaei L,Longobardi E,Blasi F

更新日期：2014-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of scrapie, a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy caused by an unconventional agent, a normal cellular protein is converted to an abnormal form that copurifies with infectivity and aggregates to form deposits of amyloid. We have used immunocytochemistry and methods that enhance detection of amyloidog...

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

authors： Diedrich JF,Bendheim PE,Kim YS,Carp RI,Haase AT

更新日期：1991-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factor retinoic acid receptor beta(2) (RARbeta(2)) is a potent inhibitor of breast cancer cells in vitro, and studies suggest that RARbeta expression is lost in primary breast cancer. Although RARbeta(2) is selectively down-regulated at the mRNA level in breast tumor cells, we show that expression of...

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

authors： Sommer KM,Chen LI,Treuting PM,Smith LT,Swisshelm K

更新日期：1999-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Half-cystine peptic peptides representing the intrachain disulfide bonds of the light chain from an apparently homogeneous rabbit anti-p-azobenzoate antibody were isolated in good yields after reduction and alkylation with [(14)C]iodoacetate, and their sequences were determined. The sequence of the first 21 amino-term...

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

authors： Appella E,Chersi A,Roholt OA,Pressman D

更新日期：1971-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two subjects, of 11,000 healthy individuals screened, were found to be missing three and four immunoglobulin isotypes, respectively (IgA1, IgG2, and IgG4; IgA1, IgG2, IgG4, and IgE), and have been analyzed at the DNA level by means of Southern blotting and Ig heavy-chain-specific probes. A broad deletion within the he...

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

authors： Migone N,Oliviero S,de Lange G,Delacroix DL,Boschis D,Altruda F,Silengo L,DeMarchi M,Carbonara AO

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs), the most potent toxins known, disrupt neurotransmission through proteolysis of proteins involved in neuroexocytosis. The light chains of BoNTs are unique zinc proteases that have stringent substrate specificity and require exceptionally long substrates. We have determined the...

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

authors： Segelke B,Knapp M,Kadkhodayan S,Balhorn R,Rupp B

更新日期：2004-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:dAn.dTn sequences, otherwise known as A tracts, are hotspots for cis-syn thymine dimer formation and deletion mutations induced by UV light. Such A tracts are also known to bend DNA, suggesting that some biological effects of UV light might be related to the distinctive structure and properties of cis-syn dimer-contai...

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

authors： Wang CI,Taylor JS

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00