Efficient detection and post-surgical monitoring of colon cancer with a multi-marker DNA methylation liquid biopsy.

abstract：:We have determined the nucleotide sequence of the dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthetase (DHFR-TS) gene of the protozoan parasite Leishmania major (dihydrofolate reductase, EC 1.5.1.3 and thymidylate synthase, EC 2.1.1.45). The DHFR-TS protein is encoded by a single 1560-base-pair open reading frame within gen...

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

authors： Beverley SM,Ellenberger TE,Cordingley JS

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unintended anthropogenic deposition of sulfur (S) to forest ecosystems has a range of negative consequences, identified through decades of research. There has been far less study of purposeful S use in agricultural systems around the world, including the application of elemental sulfur (S(0)) as a quick-reacting fungi...

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

authors： Hinckley EL,Matson PA

更新日期：2011-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A Raleigh, NC, population of Drosophila melanogaster was sampled for the presence of enzyme null alleles at 25 loci. No nulls were found at any of five X-linked loci. Nulls were recovered at 13 of 20 autosomal loci; the weighted mean frequency for all 20 autosomal loci was estimated to be 0.0025. A consideration of th...

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

authors： Voelker RA,Langley CH,Brown AJ,Ohnishi S,Dickson B,Montgomery E,Smith SC

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a fundamental technological advance for multilayer polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microfluidics. Vertical passages (vias), connecting channels located in different layers, are fabricated monolithically, in parallel, by simple and easy means. The resulting 3D connectivity greatly expands the potential complex...

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

authors： Kartalov EP,Walker C,Taylor CR,Anderson WF,Scherer A

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Stearic acid is toxic for T lymphocytes in vitro but has little effect on B lymphocytes. To investigate the molecular basis for this difference, purified murine T and B lymphocytes were compared for their abilities to incorporate and metabolize stearic acid. Unstimulated T and B cells incorporated identical amounts of...

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

authors： Buttke TM,Van Cleave S,Steelman L,McCubrey JA

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon system can integrate foreign sequences of DNA in the genome of mouse somatic cells eliciting long-term expression in vivo. This technology holds great promise for human gene therapy as a nonviral technology to deliver therapeutic genes. SB also provides a means to study the effects ...

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

authors： Carlson CM,Frandsen JL,Kirchhof N,McIvor RS,Largaespada DA

更新日期：2005-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells transferred into severe lymphopenic hosts undergo rapid proliferation known as "endogenous proliferation" that are distinct from conventional homeostatic proliferation. Unlike homeostatic proliferation, cytokines, such as IL-7 are dispensable, yet TCR:MHC interaction is essential for this process to occur. How...

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

authors： Do JS,Min B

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical efficacy of local anesthetic and antiarrhythmic drugs is due to their voltage- and frequency-dependent block of Na+ channels. Quaternary local anesthetic analogs such as QX-314, which are permanently charged and membrane-impermeant, effectively block cardiac Na+ channels when applied from either side of t...

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

authors： Qu Y,Rogers J,Tanada T,Scheuer T,Catterall WA

更新日期：1995-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant of E. coli defective in DNA polymerase II activity was isolated. Extracts had about 0.1% of the normal activity of the DNA polymerase. The effect of the mutation on the ability of cells to replicate DNA of various sources was analyzed. Mutant bacteria grow normally, at 41 degrees as well as at 30 degrees . Al...

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

authors： Hirota Y,Gefter M,Mindich L

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial outer membrane porins have a robust beta-barrel structure and therefore show potential for use as stochastic sensors based on single-molecule detection. The monomeric porin OmpG is especially attractive compared with multisubunit proteins because appropriate modifications of the pore can be easily achieved b...

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

authors： Chen M,Khalid S,Sansom MS,Bayley H

更新日期：2008-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The methyl-CpG dinucleotide containing a symmetrical 5-methylcytosine (mC) is involved in gene regulation and genome stability. We report here that methylation-mediated transcriptional repressor methylated DNA-binding domain 1 (MBD1) interacts with methylpurine-DNA glycosylase (MPG), which excises damaged bases from s...

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

authors： Watanabe S,Ichimura T,Fujita N,Tsuruzoe S,Ohki I,Shirakawa M,Kawasuji M,Nakao M

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is associated with increased risk for developing pancreatic cancer, and it is suggested that insulin resistance provides the missing link. Here we demonstrate that under the context of genetic susceptibility, a high fat diet (HFD) predisposes mice with oncogenic K-ras activation to accelerated pancreatic intra...

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

authors： Khasawneh J,Schulz MD,Walch A,Rozman J,Hrabe de Angelis M,Klingenspor M,Buck A,Schwaiger M,Saur D,Schmid RM,Klöppel G,Sipos B,Greten FR,Arkan MC

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Although normal fatty acids (FAs) are degraded via β-oxidation, unusual FAs such as 2-hydroxy (2-OH) FAs and 3-methyl-branched FAs are degraded via α-oxidation. Phytosphingosine (PHS) is one of the long-chain bases (the sphingolipid components) and exists in specific tissues, including the epidermis and small intestin...

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

authors： Kitamura T,Seki N,Kihara A

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Symbiotic microbes impact the severity of a variety of diseases through regulation of T-cell development. However, little is known regarding the molecular mechanisms by which this is accomplished. Here we report that a secreted factor, Erdr1, is regulated by the microbiota to control T-cell apoptosis. Erdr1 expression...

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

authors： Soto R,Petersen C,Novis CL,Kubinak JL,Bell R,Stephens WZ,Lane TE,Fujinami RS,Bosque A,O'Connell RM,Round JL

更新日期：2017-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphibians are a bellwether for environmental degradation, even in natural ecosystems such as Yellowstone National Park in the western United States, where species have been actively protected longer than anywhere else on Earth. We document that recent climatic warming and resultant wetland desiccation are causing sev...

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

authors： McMenamin SK,Hadly EA,Wright CK

更新日期：2008-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The population genetic consequences of nearest-neighbor pollination in an outcrossing plant species were investigated through computer simulations. The genetic system consisted of two alleles at a single locus in a self-incompatible plant that mates by random pollen transfer from a neighboring individual. Beginning wi...

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

authors： Turner ME,Stephens JC,Anderson WW

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two chlorophyll-protein complexes associated with photosystem II (PSII) of the cyanobacterium Anacystis nidulans R2 have been detected. The larger of the two complexes, CPVI-1, contained a 71-kDa and a 42-kDa protein. The 71-kDa protein was determined to be the anchor protein of the phycobilisomes (the light-harvestin...

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

authors： Pakrasi HB,Riethman HC,Sherman LA

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of the turnover of triglycerides in adipose tissue requires the continuous provision of 3-glycerophosphate, which may be supplied by the metabolism of glucose or by glyceroneogenesis, the de novo synthesis of 3-glycerophosphate from sources other than hexoses or glycerol. The importance of glyceroneogenesis...

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

authors： Olswang Y,Cohen H,Papo O,Cassuto H,Croniger CM,Hakimi P,Tilghman SM,Hanson RW,Reshef L

更新日期：2002-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent data indicate that sustained elevations in plasma insulin suppress the mRNA for IRS-2, a component of the insulin signaling pathway in liver, and that this deficiency contributes to hepatic insulin resistance and inappropriate gluconeogenesis. Here, we use nuclear run-on assays to show that insulin inhibits tra...

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

authors： Zhang J,Ou J,Bashmakov Y,Horton JD,Brown MS,Goldstein JL

更新日期：2001-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Health care is a crucial factor in US economic growth, because growing health care costs have made US corporations less competitive than their counterparts in countries where central governments assume most of those costs. In this paper we illustrate a second, possibly more powerful, effect of health care expenditures...

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

authors： Manton KG,Gu XL,Ullian A,Tolley HD,Headen AE Jr,Lowrimore G

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial protein kinases (mPKs) are molecular switches that down-regulate the oxidation of branched-chain alpha-ketoacids and pyruvate. Elevated levels of these metabolites are implicated in disease states such as insulin-resistant Type II diabetes, branched-chain ketoaciduria, and primary lactic acidosis. We rep...

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

authors： Machius M,Chuang JL,Wynn RM,Tomchick DR,Chuang DT

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure is described for selection of temperature-sensitive mutants affecting fatty-acid synthesis based upon radiation suicide of wild-type organisms by tritiated acetate selectively incorporated into fatty acids. At 37 degrees , two of the mutants extensively incorporate fatty-acid supplements provided in the me...

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

authors： Harder ME,Beacham IR,Cronan JE Jr,Beacham K,Honegger JL,Silbert DF

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a high-efficiency nucleic acid delivery system that uses receptor-mediated endocytosis to carry DNA macromolecules into cells. We accomplished this by conjugating the iron-transport protein transferrin to polycations that bind nucleic acids. Human transferrin, as well as the chicken homologue conalbu...

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

authors： Wagner E,Zenke M,Cotten M,Beug H,Birnstiel ML

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) have been associated with a wide range of adverse health effects. Our case-control study was performed to explore the association between placental levels of selected POPs and risks for neural tube defects (NTDs) in a Chinese population with a high prevalence of NTDs. Cases include...

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

authors： Ren A,Qiu X,Jin L,Ma J,Li Z,Zhang L,Zhu H,Finnell RH,Zhu T

更新日期：2011-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonribosomal peptides and polyketides are a diverse group of natural products with complex chemical structures and enormous pharmaceutical potential. They are synthesized on modular nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) and polyketide synthase (PKS) enzyme complexes by a conserved thiotemplate mechanism. Here, we rep...

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

authors： Wang H,Fewer DP,Holm L,Rouhiainen L,Sivonen K

更新日期：2014-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of large intramembrane particles associated with sites of synaptic vesicle release at the squid giant synapse was determined and compared to the average maximal presynaptic calcium current in order to derive an estimate of the conductance each particle would have if it were a calcium channel. This value, 0....

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

authors： Pumplin DW,Reese TS,Llinás R

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After more than a decade of experiments generating and studying the physics of quantized vortices in atomic gas Bose-Einstein condensates, research is beginning to focus on the roles of vortices in quantum turbulence, as well as other measures of quantum turbulence in atomic condensates. Such research directions have ...

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

authors： White AC,Anderson BP,Bagnato VS

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Unconventional myosin 15 is a molecular motor expressed in inner ear hair cells that transports protein cargos within developing mechanosensory stereocilia. Mutations of myosin 15 cause profound hearing loss in humans and mice; however, the properties of this motor and its regulation within the stereocilia organelle a...

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

authors： Bird JE,Takagi Y,Billington N,Strub MP,Sellers JR,Friedman TB

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:GTP hydrolysis by elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu), a translational GTPase that delivers aminoacyl-tRNAs to the ribosome, plays a crucial role in decoding and translational fidelity. The basic reaction mechanism and the way the ribosome contributes to catalysis are a matter of debate. Here we use mutational analysis in co...

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

authors： Maracci C,Peske F,Dannies E,Pohl C,Rodnina MV

更新日期：2014-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified an adenovirus type 5(Ad5) early gene function located in early region 1 which is required for the production of early cytoplasmic mRNAs corresponding to early regions 2, 3, and 4. Mutant dl312 (lacks the segment between 1.5 and 4.5 map units) grows as well as wild-type virus in 293 cells (Ad5-trans...

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

authors： Jones N,Shenk T

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00