Successful rescue of microsurgically produced homozygous uniparental mouse embryos via production of aggregation chimeras.

abstract：:We report the direct measurement of thermodynamic properties of colloidal hard spheres by optical microscopy. By using confocal microscopy, we obtain three-dimensional snapshots of a colloidal hard-sphere suspension over a wide range of densities. From these snapshots, the available volume to insert an additional sphe...

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

authors： Dullens RP,Aarts DG,Kegel WK

更新日期：2006-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic field fluctuations arising from fundamental spins are ubiquitous in nanoscale biology, and are a rich source of information about the processes that generate them. However, the ability to detect the few spins involved without averaging over large ensembles has remained elusive. Here, we demonstrate the detect...

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

authors： Kaufmann S,Simpson DA,Hall LT,Perunicic V,Senn P,Steinert S,McGuinness LP,Johnson BC,Ohshima T,Caruso F,Wrachtrup J,Scholten RE,Mulvaney P,Hollenberg L

更新日期：2013-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) obtained from human melanomas can specifically lyse autologous tumor in vitro and mediate tumor regression in vivo. To develop more effective therapeutic reagents and to further understand the T-cell response to tumors, the diversity of T-cell receptors (TCRs) involved in melanoma ...

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

authors： Shilyansky J,Nishimura MI,Yannelli JR,Kawakami Y,Jacknin LS,Charmley P,Rosenberg SA

更新日期：1994-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitation-evoked Ca(2+) influx is the fastest and most ubiquitous chemical trigger for cellular processes, including neurotransmitter release, muscle contraction, and gene expression. The voltage dependence and timing of Ca(2+) entry are thought to be functions of voltage-gated calcium (CaV) channels composed of a ce...

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

authors： Pantazis A,Savalli N,Sigg D,Neely A,Olcese R

更新日期：2014-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Repeat proteins have recently been of great interest as potential alternatives to immunoglobulin antibodies due to their unique structural and biophysical features. We here present the development of a binding scaffold based on variable lymphocyte receptors, which are nonimmunoglobulin antibodies composed of Leucine-r...

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

authors： Lee SC,Park K,Han J,Lee JJ,Kim HJ,Hong S,Heu W,Kim YJ,Ha JS,Lee SG,Cheong HK,Jeon YH,Kim D,Kim HS

更新日期：2012-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA library prepared from human liver has been screened for factor IX (Christmas factor), a clotting factor that participates in the middle phase of blood coagulation. The library was screened with a single-stranded DNA prepared from enriched mRNA for baboon factor IX and a synthetic oligonucleotide mixture. A plas...

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

authors： Kurachi K,Davie EW

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the complete primary structure of human hemopexin, a plasma beta-glycoprotein that specifically binds one heme with high affinity and transports it to hepatocytes for salvage of the iron. Human hemopexin (Mr approximately equal to 63,000) consists of a single polypeptide chain containing 439 amino a...

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

authors： Takahashi N,Takahashi Y,Putnam FW

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence both for and against Na(+)- and Cl(-)-dependent neurotransmitter transporters forming oligomers. We found that cross-linking the human dopamine transporter (DAT), which is heterologously expressed in human embryonic kidney 293 cells, either with copper phenanthroline (CuP) or the bifunctional reagent...

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

authors： Hastrup H,Karlin A,Javitch JA

更新日期：2001-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in fluorescence microscopy provided tools for the investigation and the analysis of the viral replication steps in the cellular context. In the HIV field, the current visualization systems successfully achieve the fluorescent labeling of the viral envelope and proteins, but not the genome. Here, we dev...

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

authors： Di Primio C,Quercioli V,Allouch A,Gijsbers R,Christ F,Debyser Z,Arosio D,Cereseto A

更新日期：2013-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon stimulation with anti-CD3, suppressor T-cell (Ts) hybridomas and homologous transfectants of T-cell receptor a (TCRalpha) cDNA in the T-cell hybridoma formed a 55-kDa TCRalpha chain derivative that bound both the monoclonal anti-TCRalpha chain and polyclonal antibodies against glycosylation inhibiting factor (GIF...

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

authors： Ishii Y,Nakano T,Ishizaka K

更新日期：1996-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A common challenge in pathogen discovery by deep sequencing approaches is to recognize viral or subviral pathogens in samples of diseased tissue that share no significant homology with a known pathogen. Here we report a homology-independent approach for discovering viroids, a distinct class of free circular RNA subvir...

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

authors： Wu Q,Wang Y,Cao M,Pantaleo V,Burgyan J,Li WX,Ding SW

更新日期：2012-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Hebb proposed that neuronal cell assemblies are critical for effective perception, cognition, and action. However, evidence for brain mechanisms that coordinate multiple coactive assemblies remains lacking. Neuronal oscillations have been suggested as one possible mechanism for cell assembly coordination. Prior studie...

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

authors： Canolty RT,Ganguly K,Kennerley SW,Cadieu CF,Koepsell K,Wallis JD,Carmena JM

更新日期：2010-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Defining the processes of autoimmune attack of tissues is important for inhibiting continued tissue destruction. In type 1 diabetes, it is not known how cytotoxic effector T cell responses evolve over time in the pancreatic islets targeted for destruction. We used two-photon microscopy of live, intact, individual isle...

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

authors： Friedman RS,Lindsay RS,Lilly JK,Nguyen V,Sorensen CM,Jacobelli J,Krummel MF

更新日期：2014-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblasts can condense a hydrated collagen lattice to a tissue-like structure 1/28th the area of the starting gel in 24 hr. The rate of the process can be regulated by varying the protein content of the lattice, the cell number, or the concentration of an inhibitor such as Colcemid. Fibroblasts of high population do...

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

authors： Bell E,Ivarsson B,Merrill C

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sodium/iodide symporter (NIS) mediates active I(-) transport in the thyroid-the first step in thyroid hormone biosynthesis-with a 2 Na(+): 1 I(-) stoichiometry. The two Na(+) binding sites (Na1 and Na2) and the I(-) binding site interact allosterically: when Na(+) binds to a Na(+) site, the affinity of NIS for the...

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

authors： Ferrandino G,Nicola JP,Sánchez YE,Echeverria I,Liu Y,Amzel LM,Carrasco N

更新日期：2016-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factor SRY (sex-determining region)-box 2 (SOX2) is an important functional marker of neural precursor cells (NPCs) and plays a critical role in self-renewal and neuronal differentiation; however, the molecular mechanisms underlying its functions are poorly understood. Using human embryonic stem cell...

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

authors： Cimadamore F,Amador-Arjona A,Chen C,Huang CT,Terskikh AV

更新日期：2013-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Methyl groups placed on varphiXsB1 replicative form DNA by the Escherichia coli B modification enzyme are located in the overlap between fragments Mbo II-3 and Alu I-2, a 61-base-pair DNA segment. Mutations that led to loss of susceptibility to restriction by E. coli B occurred within this segment at three positions s...

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

authors： Lautenberger JA,Kan NC,Lackey D,Linn S,Edgell MH,Hutchison CA 3rd

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is becoming common practice to partition glass-forming liquids into two classes based on the dependence of the shear viscosity η on temperature T. In an Arrhenius plot, ln η vs 1/T, a strong liquid shows linear behavior whereas a fragile liquid exhibits an upward curvature [super-Arrhenius (SA) behavior], a situati...

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

authors： Mallamace F,Branca C,Corsaro C,Leone N,Spooren J,Chen SH,Stanley HE

更新日期：2010-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase is an RNA-directed DNA polymerase, composed of RNA and protein subunits, that replicates the telomere ends of linear eukaryotic chromosomes. Using a genetic strategy described here, we identify the product of the EST2 gene, Est2p, as a subunit of telomerase in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Est2p is re...

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

authors： Counter CM,Meyerson M,Eaton EN,Weinberg RA

更新日期：1997-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta-adrenergic receptor kinase (beta ARK) phosphorylates its membrane-associated receptor substrates, such as the beta-adrenergic receptor, triggering events leading to receptor desensitization. beta ARK activity is markedly stimulated by the isoprenylated beta gamma subunit complex of heterotrimeric guanine nucl...

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

authors： Inglese J,Luttrell LM,Iñiguez-Lluhi JA,Touhara K,Koch WJ,Lefkowitz RJ

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-tyrosine kinases (PTKs) are critical enzymes for receptor-mediated signaling in lymphocytes. Because natural killer (NK) cells are large granular lymphocytes with specialized effector function, we set out to identify PTKs preferentially expressed in these cells. One such PTK was identified and molecularly clon...

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

authors： Kawamura M,McVicar DW,Johnston JA,Blake TB,Chen YQ,Lal BK,Lloyd AR,Kelvin DJ,Staples JE,Ortaldo JR

更新日期：1994-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant viruses alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV) and brome mosaic virus (BMV) each divide their genetic information among three RNAs while tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) contains a single genomic RNA. Amino acid sequence comparisons suggest that the single proteins encoded by AMV RNA 1 and BMV RNA 1 and by AMV RNA 2 and BMV R...

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

authors： Haseloff J,Goelet P,Zimmern D,Ahlquist P,Dasgupta R,Kaesberg P

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete inactivation of the human retinoblastoma gene (RB) is believed to be an essential step in tumorigenesis of several different cancers. To provide a framework for understanding inactivation mechanisms, the structure of RB was delineated. The RB transcript is encoded in 27 exons dispersed over about 200 kilobase...

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

authors： Hong FD,Huang HJ,To H,Young LJ,Oro A,Bookstein R,Lee EY,Lee WH

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously described an antigen-specific I-Ad-restricted T-cell hybridoma, A1.1, that constitutively releases an antigen-specific immunoregulatory activity into supernatants. Using retrovirally mediated gene transfer, we have found that transfer of the T-cell receptor alpha chain (TCR alpha) gene from A1.1 to ...

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

authors： Green DR,Bissonnette R,Zheng HG,Onda T,Echeverri F,Mogil RJ,Steele JK,Voralia M,Fotedar A

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding enhancement by tertiary interactions is a strategy that takes advantage of the higher order folding of functionally important RNAs to bind short nucleic acid-based compounds tightly and more specifically than possible by simple base pairing. For example, tertiary interactions enhance binding of specific hexame...

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

authors： Testa SM,Gryaznov SM,Turner DH

更新日期：1999-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Two objects with homologous landmarks are said to be of the same shape if the configuration of landmarks of one object can be exactly matched with that of the other by translation, rotation/reflection, and scaling. In an earlier paper, the authors proposed statistical analysis of shape by considering logarithmic diffe...

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

authors： Rao CR,Suryawanshi S

更新日期：1998-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Two continuous-suspension lymphocyte lines were isolated from the spleen and fibrosarcoma of a New Zealand Black female mouse. A C-type virus with a density of 1.16 g x cm(-3), 70S RNA, and RNA-directed DNA polymerase activity was isolated. The virus was infectious for NRK, NZB, (NZB x NZW)F(1), and (NZW x NZW)F(1) em...

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

authors： Lerner RA,Jensen F,Kennel SJ,Dixon FJ,Des Roches G,Francke U

更新日期：1972-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prove that the property of excision in algebraic K-theory is for a Q-algebra A equivalent to the H-unitality of the latter. Our excision theorem, in particular, implies Karoubi's conjecture on the equality of algebraic and topological K-theory groups of stable C*-algebras. It also allows us to identify the algebrai...

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

authors： Suslin AA,Wodzicki M

更新日期：1990-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent to which stratospheric intrusions on synoptic scales influence the tropospheric ozone (O3) levels remains poorly understood, because quantitative detection of stratospheric air has been challenging. Cosmogenic 35S mainly produced in the stratosphere has the potential to identify stratospheric air masses at ...

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

authors： Lin M,Su L,Shaheen R,Fung JC,Thiemens MH

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The carbon budget and dynamics of the Earth's interior, including the core, are currently very poorly understood. Diamond-bearing, mantle-derived rocks show a very well defined peak at δ(13)C ≈ -5 ± 3‰ with a very broad distribution to lower values (∼-40‰). The processes that have produced the wide δ(13)C distribution...

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

authors： Horita J,Polyakov VB

更新日期：2015-01-06 00:00:00