The genetic basis for PRC1 complex diversity emerged early in animal evolution.

abstract：:The N,N'-diacetyllactosediamine (lacdiNAc) pathway of complex-type oligosaccharide synthesis is controlled by a UDP-GalNAc:GlcNAc beta-R beta 1-->4-N-acetylgalac-tesaminyltransferase (beta 4-GalNAcT) that acts analogously to the common UDP-Gal:GlcNAc beta-R beta 1-->4-galactosyltransferase (beta 4-GalT). LacdiNAc-base...

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

authors： Neeleman AP,van de Eijnden DH

更新日期：1996-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate [3H]phencyclidine ([3H]PCP)as a probe for the ionic channel of the nicotinic receptor, the characteristics of its binding to electric organ membranes od Torpedo ocellata and its effects on frog sartorius muscle were studied. Similar to PCP, [3H]PCP depressed the peak amplitude of endplate current, caused n...

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

authors： Eldefrawi ME,Eldefrawi AT,Aronstam RS,Maleque MA,Warnick JE,Albuquerque EX

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decision-makers increasingly seek scientific guidance on investing in nature, but biodiversity remains difficult to estimate across diverse landscapes. Here, we develop empirically based models for quantifying biodiversity across space. We focus on agricultural lands in the tropical forest biome, wherein lies the grea...

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

authors： Mendenhall CD,Shields-Estrada A,Krishnaswami AJ,Daily GC

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis to make a specific change in the beta-lactamase (EC 3.5.2.6) (ampicillin resistance) gene of the plasmid pBR322. Evidence suggests that the active site for this enzyme may include a serine-threonine dyad (residues 70 and 71). By priming in vitro DNA synthesis with a ch...

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

authors： Dalbadie-McFarland G,Cohen LW,Riggs AD,Morin C,Itakura K,Richards JH

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential scanning microcalorimetry provides a noninvasive method for studying heat evolution in living cells. We used this technique to measure the heat evolved by thioglycollate broth-elicited mouse macrophages, and the effects of NaF, KCN, cycloheximide, and cytochalasins B and D on this parameter. The total hea...

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

authors： Loike JD,Silverstein SC,Sturtevant JM

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile, a causative agent of antibiotic-associated diarrhea and its potentially lethal form, pseudomembranous colitis, produces two large protein toxins that are responsible for the cellular damage associated with the disease. The level of toxin production appears to be critical for determining the seve...

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

authors： Mani N,Dupuy B

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The Dbf4Cdc7 kinase acts at the level of individual origins to promote the initiation of DNA replication. We demonstrate through both immunoprecipitation and two-hybrid assays that a domain comprising the first 296 aa of Dbf4p interacts with Orc2p and Orc3p subunits of the origin recognition complex (ORC). Given that ...

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

authors： Duncker BP,Shimada K,Tsai-Pflugfelder M,Pasero P,Gasser SM

更新日期：2002-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is a highly successful protozoan parasite that infects all warm-blooded animals and causes severe disease in immunocompromised and immune-naïve humans. It has an unusual global population structure: In North America and Europe, isolated strains fall predominantly into four largely clonal lineages, bu...

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

authors： Minot S,Melo MB,Li F,Lu D,Niedelman W,Levine SS,Saeij JP

更新日期：2012-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-17A is a therapeutic target in many autoimmune diseases. Most nonhematopoietic cells express IL-17A receptors and respond to extracellular IL-17A by inducing proinflammatory cytokines. The IL-17A signal transduction triggers two broad, TRAF6- and TRAF5-dependent, intracellular signaling pathways to produce represen...

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

authors： McGowan J,Peter C,Kim J,Popli S,Veerman B,Saul-McBeth J,Conti H,Pruett-Miller SM,Chattopadhyay S,Chakravarti R

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell walls of Mycobacterium leprae, prepared by differential solvent extraction, were shown to contain arabinogalactan, mycolates, and peptidoglycan. In addition, amino acid analysis revealed the unexpected presence of large amounts of protein that retained potent immunological reactivity. Purified cell walls stimulat...

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

authors： Melancon-Kaplan J,Hunter SW,McNeil M,Stewart C,Modlin RL,Rea TH,Convit J,Salgame P,Mehra V,Bloom BR

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutation of the p53 gene is one of the most frequent genetic changes found in human cancers. Recent experiments indicated that p53 might contain a transcription-activating domain, which functions when directed to a promoter. This study shows that wild-type p53 suppresses transcription of the retinoblastoma (Rb) gene. ...

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

authors： Shiio Y,Yamamoto T,Yamaguchi N

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Excited states of proteins may play important roles in function, yet are difficult to study spectroscopically because of their sparse population. High hydrostatic pressure increases the equilibrium population of excited states, enabling their characterization [Akasaka K (2003) Biochemistry 42:10875-85]. High-pressure ...

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

authors： Lerch MT,Horwitz J,McCoy J,Hubbell WL

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) has been implicated as a pathogenic mediator in a variety of central nervous system (CNS) disease states, including the animal model of multiple sclerosis (MS) and experimental allergic encephalomyelitis. We have examined post-mortem brain tissues collected from patients previously diagnosed with MS,...

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

authors： Bagasra O,Michaels FH,Zheng YM,Bobroski LE,Spitsin SV,Fu ZF,Tawadros R,Koprowski H

更新日期：1995-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The unprecedented scale of the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa (2014-2015) has prompted an explosion of efforts to understand the transmission dynamics of the virus and to analyze the performance of possible containment strategies. Models have focused primarily on the reproductive numbers of the disease that represen...

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

authors： Lau MS,Dalziel BD,Funk S,McClelland A,Tiffany A,Riley S,Metcalf CJ,Grenfell BT

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted gene disruption in the murine TOP3beta gene-encoding DNA topoisomerase IIIbeta was carried out. In contrast to the embryonic lethality of mutant mice lacking DNA topoisomerase IIIalpha, top3beta(-/-) nulls are viable and grow to maturity with no apparent defects. Mice lacking DNA topoisomerase IIIbeta have a ...

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

authors： Kwan KY,Wang JC

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:ExoU is a type III-secreted cytotoxin expressing A2 phospholipase activity when injected into eukaryotic target cells by the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa The enzymatic activity of ExoU is undetectable in vitro unless ubiquitin, a required cofactor, is added to the reaction. The role of ubiquitin in facilitating Ex...

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

authors： Tessmer MH,Anderson DM,Pickrum AM,Riegert MO,Moretti R,Meiler J,Feix JB,Frank DW

更新日期：2018-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional molecular aggregate (2DMA), a thin sheet of strongly interacting dipole molecules self-assembled at close distance on an ordered lattice, is a fascinating fluorescent material. It is distinctively different from the conventional (single or colloidal) dye molecules and quantum dots. In this paper, we ve...

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

authors： Hu Q,Jin D,Xiao J,Nam SH,Liu X,Liu Y,Zhang X,Fang NX

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis restores blood flow to healing tissues, a process that is inhibited by high doses of glucocorticoids. However, the role of endogenous glucocorticoids and the potential for antiglucocorticoid therapy to enhance angiogenesis is unknown. Using in vitro and in vivo models of angiogenesis in mice, we examined ...

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

authors： Small GR,Hadoke PW,Sharif I,Dover AR,Armour D,Kenyon CJ,Gray GA,Walker BR

更新日期：2005-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of mice with sporozoites of Plasmodium berghei or Plasmodium yoelii has been used extensively to evaluate liver-stage protection by candidate preerythrocytic malaria vaccines. Unfortunately, repeated success of such vaccines in mice has not translated readily to effective malaria vaccines in humans. Thus, mi...

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

authors： Schmidt NW,Podyminogin RL,Butler NS,Badovinac VP,Tucker BJ,Bahjat KS,Lauer P,Reyes-Sandoval A,Hutchings CL,Moore AC,Gilbert SC,Hill AV,Bartholomay LC,Harty JT

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of protein subunit vaccines to combat some of the world's deadliest pathogens such as a malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, is stalled, due in part to the inability to induce and sustain high-titer antibody responses. Here, we show the induction of persistent, high-titer antibody responses to reco...

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

authors： Wu Y,Przysiecki C,Flanagan E,Bello-Irizarry SN,Ionescu R,Muratova O,Dobrescu G,Lambert L,Keister D,Rippeon Y,Long CA,Shi L,Caulfield M,Shaw A,Saul A,Shiver J,Miller LH

更新日期：2006-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Several Bradyrhizobium species nodulate the leguminous plant Aeschynomene indica in a type III secretion system-dependent manner, independently of Nod factors. To date, the underlying molecular determinants involved in this symbiotic process remain unknown. To identify the rhizobial effectors involved in nodulation, w...

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

authors： Teulet A,Busset N,Fardoux J,Gully D,Chaintreuil C,Cartieaux F,Jauneau A,Comorge V,Okazaki S,Kaneko T,Gressent F,Nouwen N,Arrighi JF,Koebnik R,Mergaert P,Deslandes L,Giraud E

更新日期：2019-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Double-strand breaks (DSBs) in DNA are lethal unless repaired. Faithful repair requires processing of the DSB ends and interaction with intact homologous DNA, which can produce genetic recombinants. To determine the role of nucleases in DSB end-processing and joint molecule resolution, we studied recombination at the ...

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

authors： Farah JA,Cromie GA,Smith GR

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV protease inhibitors are a key component of anti-retroviral therapy, but their susceptibility to cytochrome P(450) metabolism reduces their systemic availability and necessitates repetitive dosing. Importantly, failure to maintain adequate inhibitor levels is believed to provide an opportunity for resistance to eme...

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

authors： Marinec PS,Chen L,Barr KJ,Mutz MW,Crabtree GR,Gestwicki JE

更新日期：2009-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In Caenorhabditis elegans, the small nuclear ribonucleoprotein (snRNP)-associated proteins U1A and U2B'' are approximately 50% identical to each other, and neither bears signature characteristics of mammalian U1A or U2B'' or the single Drosophila homolog, SNF. We show here that the genes that encode these proteins (rn...

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

authors： Saldi T,Wilusz C,MacMorris M,Blumenthal T

更新日期：2007-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein biosynthesis, the translation of the genetic code into polypeptides, occurs on ribonucleoprotein particles called ribosomes. Although X-ray structures of bacterial ribosomes are available, high-resolution structures of eukaryotic 80S ribosomes are lacking. Using cryoelectron microscopy and single-particle reco...

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

authors： Armache JP,Jarasch A,Anger AM,Villa E,Becker T,Bhushan S,Jossinet F,Habeck M,Dindar G,Franckenberg S,Marquez V,Mielke T,Thomm M,Berninghausen O,Beatrix B,Söding J,Westhof E,Wilson DN,Beckmann R

更新日期：2010-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Proinflammatory macrophages are key mediators in several pathologies; thus, controlling their activation is necessary. The endocannabinoid system is implicated in various inflammatory processes. Here we show that in macrophages, the newly characterized enzyme α/β-hydrolase domain 6 (ABHD6) controls 2-arachidonoylglyce...

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

authors： Alhouayek M,Masquelier J,Cani PD,Lambert DM,Muccioli GG

更新日期：2013-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Four polyimidazoles were used in the binding and cleavage studies with poly(U). The two polydisperse polyvinylimidazoles were previously described by others, while the other two new polymers of polyethyleneimines were prepared by cationic polymerization of oxazolines. The latter had imidazole units attached to each ni...

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

authors： Cheng L,Abhilash KG,Breslow R

更新日期：2012-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Endangered species recovery programs seek to restore populations to self-sustaining levels. Nonetheless, many recovering species require continuing management to compensate for persistent threats in their environment. Judging true recovery in the face of this management is often difficult, impeding thorough analysis o...

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

authors： Finkelstein ME,Doak DF,George D,Burnett J,Brandt J,Church M,Grantham J,Smith DR

更新日期：2012-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium parasites must complete development in the mosquito vector for transmission to occur. The mosquito innate immune response is remarkably efficient in limiting parasite numbers. Previous work has identified a LPS-induced TNFα transcription factor (LITAF)-like transcription factor, LITAF-like 3 (LL3), which si...

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

authors： Smith RC,Barillas-Mury C,Jacobs-Lorena M

更新日期：2015-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies against the porcine 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 receptor were immobilized on Sepharose CL-4B and used to obtain a highly purified 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 receptor fraction with a 45% recovery of the 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 binding capacity. The porcine receptor was purified to homogeneity by prepa...

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

authors： Brown TA,Prahl JM,DeLuca HF

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00