Hsp40 proteins phase separate to chaperone the assembly and maintenance of membraneless organelles.

abstract：:Despite the prevalence of transposable elements in the genomes of higher eukaryotes, what is virtually unknown is how they amplify to very high copy numbers without killing their host. Here, we report the discovery of rice strains where a miniature inverted-repeat transposable element (mPing) has amplified from approx...

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

authors： Naito K,Cho E,Yang G,Campbell MA,Yano K,Okumoto Y,Tanisaka T,Wessler SR

更新日期：2006-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined the social skills of previously institutionalized, 8-y-old Romanian children from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project and the influence of attachment security and brain electrical activity (alpha power) on these skills. Participants included children randomized to an intervention involv...

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

authors： Almas AN,Degnan KA,Radulescu A,Nelson CA 3rd,Zeanah CH,Fox NA

更新日期：2012-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of high levels of new catalytic activities on natural and artificial protein scaffolds is a major goal of enzyme engineering. Here, we used random mutagenesis and selection in vivo to establish a sugar isomerisation reaction on both a natural (beta alpha)(8)-barrel enzyme and a catalytically inert chime...

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

authors： Claren J,Malisi C,Höcker B,Sterner R

更新日期：2009-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal excretion of water and major electrolytes exhibits a significant circadian rhythm. This functional periodicity is believed to result, at least in part, from circadian changes in secretion/reabsorption capacities of the distal nephron and collecting ducts. Here, we studied the molecular mechanisms underlying circ...

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

authors： Zuber AM,Centeno G,Pradervand S,Nikolaeva S,Maquelin L,Cardinaux L,Bonny O,Firsov D

更新日期：2009-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I and type III IFNs bind to different cell-surface receptors but induce identical signal transduction pathways, leading to the expression of antiviral host effector molecules. Despite the fact that type III IFN (IFN-λ) has been shown to predominantly act on mucosal organs, in vivo infection studies have failed to...

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

authors： Pott J,Mahlakõiv T,Mordstein M,Duerr CU,Michiels T,Stockinger S,Staeheli P,Hornef MW

更新日期：2011-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Chick-limb mesodermal cells have been maintained in tissue culture under conditions that permit development of muscle and cartilage. 3-Acetylpyridine, a nicotinamide-antagonized muscle teratogen, potentiates chondrogenic expression in cell cultures, as evidenced by histological and biochemical criteria, including the ...

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

authors： Caplan AI,Stoolmiller AC

更新日期：1973-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conclusive proof that the mouse egg is capable of carrying out repair of genetic lesions present in the male genome was obtained through dominant-lethal studies of chemically treated spermatozoa and spermatids and through cytological analysis of first-cleavage metaphases. The maximum difference in repair capability be...

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

authors： Generoso WM,Cain KT,Krishna M,Huff SW

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hox genes are located in highly conserved clusters. The significance of this organization is unclear, but one possibility is that regulatory regions for individual genes are dispersed throughout the cluster and shared with other Hox genes. This hypothesis is supported by studies on several Hox genes in which even larg...

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

authors： Bradshaw MS,Shashikant CS,Belting HG,Bollekens JA,Ruddle FH

更新日期：1996-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteinase-activated receptor 2 (PAR-2) is a member of a family of G protein-coupled receptors for proteases. Proteases cleave PARs within the extracellular N-terminal domains to expose tethered ligands that bind to and activate the cleaved receptors. PAR-2 is highly expressed in colon in epithelial and neuronal e...

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

authors： Fiorucci S,Mencarelli A,Palazzetti B,Distrutti E,Vergnolle N,Hollenberg MD,Wallace JL,Morelli A,Cirino G

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Both polarities of the satellite RNA of tobacco ringspot virus are sources of self-cleaving sequences. RNA of the less abundant, negative polarity, designated sTobRV-(-)RNA, has cleaving activity that was mapped previously to two noncontiguous regions of the polyribonucleotide chain. Endoribonucleolytic oligoribonucle...

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

authors： Feldstein PA,Buzayan JM,van Tol H,deBear J,Gough GR,Gilham PT,Bruening G

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the pathogenesis that may be induced by human adenovirus type 12 (Ad12), we have generated transgenic mice carrying the Ad12 early region 1 under control of the mouse mammary tumor virus long terminal repeat. Eleven of 11 male founder mice, but only 2 of 12 females, died between 3 to 4 mo of age. Death w...

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

authors： Koike K,Hinrichs SH,Isselbacher KJ,Jay G

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuits are critical for motor control and motor learning. Classically, basal ganglia nuclei are thought to regulate motor behavior by increasing or decreasing cortical firing rates, and basal ganglia diseases are assumed to reflect abnormal overall activity levels. More recent studies s...

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

authors： Kojima S,Kao MH,Doupe AJ

更新日期：2013-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated from vaccinia virus cores an enzyme, 5'-phosphate-polyribonucleotide kinase, that in the presence of ATP and Mg2+ catalyzes the conversion of 5'-phosphate and 5'-diphosphate termini of RNA to the 5'-triphosphate species. With the exception of dATP, other nucleoside triphosphates were inactive as phosp...

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

authors： Spencer E,Loring D,Hurwitz J,Monroy G

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene that codes for Drosophila alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH; alcohol:NAD+ oxidoreductase EC 1.1.1.1) was identified in a bacteriophage lambda library of genomic Drosophila DNA by using ADH cDNA cloned DNA as a probe. The DNA sequence of the protein encoding region was shown to be in agreement with the amino acid seq...

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

authors： Benyajati C,Place AR,Powers DA,Sofer W

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apomixis is a naturally occurring mode of reproduction that results in embryo formation without the involvement of meiosis or fertilization of the egg. Seed-derived progeny of an apomictic plant are genetically identical to the maternal parent. We are studying a form of apomixis called apospory that occurs in the genu...

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

authors： Ozias-Akins P,Roche D,Hanna WW

更新日期：1998-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporal and spatial patterns of floral determination in cultured internode segments of Nicotiana tabacum L. cv. Wisconsin 38 were investigated. Segments from internodes, when cultured on hormone-free medium, either produced some de novo floral shoots or produced only vegetative shoots. Segments that produced some...

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

authors： Singer SR,McDaniel CN

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In typical force spectroscopy experiments, a small biomolecule is attached to a soft polymer linker that is pulled with a relatively large bead or cantilever. At constant force, the total extension stochastically changes between two (or more) values, indicating that the biomolecule undergoes transitions between two (o...

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

authors： Cossio P,Hummer G,Szabo A

更新日期：2015-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Arguably the most foundational principle in perception research is that our experience of the world goes beyond the retinal image; we perceive the distal environment itself, not the proximal stimulation it causes. Shape may be the paradigm case of such "unconscious inference": When a coin is rotated in depth, we infer...

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

authors： Morales J,Bax A,Firestone C

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington disease stems from a mutation of the protein huntingtin and is characterized by selective loss of discrete neuronal populations in the brain. Despite a massive loss of neurons in the corpus striatum, NO-generating neurons are intact. We recently identified a brain-specific protein that associates with hunti...

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

authors： Li XJ,Sharp AH,Li SH,Dawson TM,Snyder SH,Ross CA

更新日期：1996-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Hydroxyanthranilic acid (HAA), a compound generated during tryptophan metabolism initiated by indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase, is known to induce T cell death, but its molecular target is not known. Here we report that HAA inhibits NF-kappaB activation upon T cell antigen receptor engagement by specifically targeting PD...

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

authors： Hayashi T,Mo JH,Gong X,Rossetto C,Jang A,Beck L,Elliott GI,Kufareva I,Abagyan R,Broide DH,Lee J,Raz E

更新日期：2007-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr nuclear antigen 1 (EBNA1) plays a vital role in the maintenance of the viral genome and is the only viral protein expressed in nearly all forms of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) latency and EBV-associated diseases, including numerous cancer types. To our knowledge, no specific agent against EBV genes or protein...

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

authors： Jiang L,Lung HL,Huang T,Lan R,Zha S,Chan LS,Thor W,Tsoi TH,Chau HF,Boreström C,Cobb SL,Tsao SW,Bian ZX,Law GL,Wong WT,Tai WC,Chau WY,Du Y,Tang LHX,Chiang AKS,Middeldorp JM,Lo KW,Mak NK,Long NJ,Wong KL

更新日期：2019-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:An electron density map at 3 angstrom resolution has been calculated for Cu2+, Zn2+ superoxide dismutase from bovine erythrocytes, and the course of the main chain has been traced. The dominant structural feature is an 8-stranded barrel of antiparallel beta-pleated sheet. There is one very short helical section and tw...

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

authors： Richardson J,Thomas KA,Rubin BH,Richardson DC

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic, low grade, sterile inflammation frequently accompanies aging and age-related diseases. Cellular senescence is associated with the production of proinflammatory chemokines, cytokines, and extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling proteases, which comprise the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP). We fo...

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

authors： Xu M,Tchkonia T,Ding H,Ogrodnik M,Lubbers ER,Pirtskhalava T,White TA,Johnson KO,Stout MB,Mezera V,Giorgadze N,Jensen MD,LeBrasseur NK,Kirkland JL

更新日期：2015-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing knowledge of the key molecular components involved in biological processes such as endocytosis, exocytosis, and motility has enabled direct testing of proposed mechanistic models by reconstitution. However, current techniques for building increasingly complex cellular structures and functions from purified com...

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

authors： Richmond DL,Schmid EM,Martens S,Stachowiak JC,Liska N,Fletcher DA

更新日期：2011-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrathymic T-cell development requires temporally regulated rearrangement and expression of T-cell receptor (TCR) genes. To assess the role of the TCR beta gene transcriptional enhancer (Ebeta) in this process, mouse strains in which Ebeta is deleted were generated using homologous recombination techniques. We report...

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

authors： Bouvier G,Watrin F,Naspetti M,Verthuy C,Naquet P,Ferrier P

更新日期：1996-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-induced activation of T cells can be specifically inhibited by antigen analogs that have been termed T-cell receptor peptide antagonists. These antagonists appear to act by inducing the formation of nonstimulatory or partially stimulatory complexes between T-cell receptors and the major histocompatibility comp...

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

authors： Page DM,Alexander J,Snoke K,Appella E,Sette A,Hedrick SM,Grey HM

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Canonical Wnt signaling has been implicated in an AP axis polarizing mechanism in most animals, despite limited evidence from arthropods. In the long-germ insect, Drosophila, Wnt signaling is not required for global AP patterning, but in short-germ insects including Tribolium castaneum, loss of Wnt signaling affects d...

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

authors： Fu J,Posnien N,Bolognesi R,Fischer TD,Rayl P,Oberhofer G,Kitzmann P,Brown SJ,Bucher G

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane-associated and periplasmic proteins of Agrobacterium tumefaciens C-58 were compared with those from avirulent (nontumrigenic) derivative strains by slab and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Two proteins (Per-I and Per-2), with a molecular weight of 37,500 and 37,300, respectively, were detected in the sup...

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

authors： Sonoki S,Kado CI

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last decade a variety of MS measurements, such as HD exchange, collision cross sections, and electron capture dissociation (ECD), have been used to characterize protein folding in the gas phase, in the absence of solvent. To the extensive data already available on ubiquitin, here photofragmentation of its ECD...

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

authors： Oh H,Breuker K,Sze SK,Ge Y,Carpenter BK,McLafferty FW

更新日期：2002-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Three naturally occurring dermorphin-like peptides from the skin of the frog Phyllomedusa bicolor, the related carboxyl-terminal amides, and some substituted analogs were synthesized, their binding profiles to opioid receptors were determined, and their biological activities were studied in isolated organ preparations...

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

authors： Negri L,Erspamer GF,Severini C,Potenza RL,Melchiorri P,Erspamer V

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00