Mutations affecting the signal sequence alter synthesis and secretion of yeast invertase.

abstract：:Understanding plant metabolism as an integrated system is essential for metabolic engineering aimed at the effective production of compounds useful to human life and the global environment. The "omics" approach integrates transcriptome and metabolome data into a single data set and can lead to the identification of un...

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

authors： Hirai MY,Sugiyama K,Sawada Y,Tohge T,Obayashi T,Suzuki A,Araki R,Sakurai N,Suzuki H,Aoki K,Goda H,Nishizawa OI,Shibata D,Saito K

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Salicylic acid (SA) plays an important role in activating various plant defense responses, including expression of the pathogenesis-related (PR) genes and systemic acquired resistance. A critical positive regulator of the SA signaling pathway in Arabidopsis is encoded by the NPR1 gene. However, there is growing eviden...

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

authors： Kachroo P,Shanklin J,Shah J,Whittle EJ,Klessig DF

更新日期：2001-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The X gene product encoded by the hepatitis B virus, termed pX, is a promiscuous transactivator of a variety of viral and cellular genes under the control of diverse cis-acting elements. Although pX does not appear to directly bind DNA, pX-responsive elements include the NF-kappa B, AP-1, and CRE (cAMP response elemen...

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

authors： Williams JS,Andrisani OM

更新日期：1995-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyze Niels Bohr's proposed two-slit interference experiment with highly charged particles which argues that the consistency of elementary quantum mechanics requires that the electromagnetic field must be quantized. In the experiment a particle's path through the slits is determined by measuring the Coulomb field...

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

authors： Baym G,Ozawa T

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis encodes a proteasome that carries out regulated degradation of bacterial proteins. It has been proposed that the proteasome contributes to nitrogen metabolism in M. tuberculosis, although this hypothesis had not been tested. Upon assessing M. tuberculosis growth in several...

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

authors： Becker SH,Jastrab JB,Dhabaria A,Chaton CT,Rush JS,Korotkov KV,Ueberheide B,Darwin KH

更新日期：2019-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the mRNA capping apparatus of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum illuminates an evolutionary connection to fungi rather than metazoans. We show that P. falciparum encodes separate RNA guanylyltransferase (Pgt1) and RNA triphosphatase (Prt1) enzymes and that the triphosphatase component is a member ...

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

authors： Ho CK,Shuman S

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals capable of regenerating multiple tissue types, organs, and appendages after injury are common yet sporadic and include some sponge, hydra, planarian, and salamander (i.e., newt and axolotl) species, but notably such regenerative capacity is rare in mammals. The adult MRL mouse strain is a rare exception to the...

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

authors： Bedelbaeva K,Snyder A,Gourevitch D,Clark L,Zhang XM,Leferovich J,Cheverud JM,Lieberman P,Heber-Katz E

更新日期：2010-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of a number of proteins is regulated by self-processing reactions. Elegant examples are the cleavage of the prokaryotic LexA and lambdaCI transcriptional repressors and the UmuD-like mutagenesis proteins. Various studies support the hypothesis that LexA and lambdaCI cleavage reactions are predominantly in...

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

authors： McDonald JP,Frank EG,Levine AS,Woodgate R

更新日期：1998-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the functional consequences of mutations present in defective alleles of the retinoblastoma susceptibility gene (RB1) isolated from two spontaneously arising tumors. Unlike cDNA clones expressing the wild-type protein p110Rb, those encoding the two mutant proteins failed to induce the appearance of se...

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

authors： Templeton DJ,Park SH,Lanier L,Weinberg RA

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung adenocarcinomas harboring activating mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) represent a common molecular subset of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cases. EGFR mutations predict sensitivity to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) and thus represent a dependency in NSCLCs harboring these alte...

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

authors： Sharifnia T,Rusu V,Piccioni F,Bagul M,Imielinski M,Cherniack AD,Pedamallu CS,Wong B,Wilson FH,Garraway LA,Altshuler D,Golub TR,Root DE,Subramanian A,Meyerson M

更新日期：2014-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We have synthesized pulmonary surfactant apoprotein SP-B peptides by solid-phase chemistry and demonstrated their ability to enhance the surface-active properties of synthetic lipid mixtures. The synthetic peptides were reactive with antiserum generated against the native bovine surfactant peptide. Both peptides confe...

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

authors： Sarin VK,Gupta S,Leung TK,Taylor VE,Ohning BL,Whitsett JA,Fox JL

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role played by oligodendrocytes (OLs), the myelinating cells of the CNS, during brain development has not been fully explored. We have addressed this question by inducing a temporal and reversible ablation of OLs on postnatal CNS development. OL ablation in newborn mice leads to a profound alteration in the struct...

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

authors： Collin L,Usiello A,Erbs E,Mathis C,Borrelli E

更新日期：2004-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Linear porphyrin arrays self-assembled by either hydrogen bonding or metal ion coordination self-organize into lipid bilayer membranes. The length of the transmembrane assemblies is determined both by the thermodynamics of the intermolecular interactions in the supermolecule and by the dimension and physical chemical ...

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

authors： Drain CM

更新日期：2002-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Opportunistic infections are often polymicrobial. Two of the most important bacterial opportunistic pathogens of humans, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus, frequently are coisolated from infections of catheters, endotracheal tubes, skin, eyes, and the respiratory tract, including the airways of people w...

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

authors： Hoffman LR,Déziel E,D'Argenio DA,Lépine F,Emerson J,McNamara S,Gibson RL,Ramsey BW,Miller SI

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro incubation of leukemic bone marrow with the lipophilic fluorescent dye merocyanine 540 and simultaneous exposure to light reduced the concentration of L1210 leukemia cells by about 5 orders of magnitude but spared enough normal pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells to allow hematopoietic reconstitution of leth...

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

authors： Sieber F,Spivak JL,Sutcliffe AM

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cisplatin is a chemotherapeutic drug used to treat a variety of cancers. Both intrinsic and acquired resistance to cisplatin, as well as toxicity, limit its effectiveness. Molecular mechanisms that underlie cisplatin resistance are poorly understood. Here we demonstrate that deletion of the yeast CTR1 gene, which enco...

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

authors： Ishida S,Lee J,Thiele DJ,Herskowitz I

更新日期：2002-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is classically characterized as a movement disorder, however cognitive impairments precede the motor symptoms by ∼15 y. Based on proteomic and bioinformatic data linking the Huntingtin protein (Htt) and KCC2, which is required for hyperpolarizing GABAergic inhibition, and the important role o...

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

authors： Dargaei Z,Bang JY,Mahadevan V,Khademullah CS,Bedard S,Parfitt GM,Kim JC,Woodin MA

更新日期：2018-02-13 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：:Of the microsomal P450 cytochromes, the ethanol-inducible isoform, P450 2E1, is believed to be predominant in leading to oxidative damage, including the generation of radical species that contribute to lipid peroxidation, and in the reductive beta-scission of lipid hydroperoxides to give hydrocarbons and aldehydes. In...

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

authors： Bestervelt LL,Vaz AD,Coon MJ

更新日期：1995-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncouplers are molecules with protonophoric and ionophoric capabilities that mediate coupled cyclical transport of cations--a transport that takes precedence over all other coupled processes. Uncouplers form cation-containing complexes with electrogenic ionophores that potentiate cyclical transport of cations. The mol...

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

authors： Kessler RJ,Vande Zande H,Tyson CA,Blondin GA,Fairfield J,Glasser P,Green DE

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The "WD40" domain is a widespread recognition module for linking partner proteins in intracellular networks of signaling and sorting. The clathrin amino-terminal domain, which directs incorporation of cargo into coated pits, is a beta-propeller closely related in structure to WD40 modules. The crystallographically det...

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

authors： ter Haar E,Harrison SC,Kirchhausen T

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian dysfunction is a common attribute of many neurodegenerative diseases, most of which are associated with neuroinflammation. Circadian rhythm dysfunction has been associated with inflammation in the periphery, but the role of the core clock in neuroinflammation remains poorly understood. Here we demonstrate th...

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

authors： Griffin P,Dimitry JM,Sheehan PW,Lananna BV,Guo C,Robinette ML,Hayes ME,Cedeño MR,Nadarajah CJ,Ezerskiy LA,Colonna M,Zhang J,Bauer AQ,Burris TP,Musiek ES

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the receptor for hyaluronan-mediated motility (RHAMM) is overexpressed in many human cancers. However, it is unclear whether RHAMM plays a causal role in tumor initiation or progression. Using somatic gene transfer in a mouse model of islet cell tumorigenesis, we demonstrate that RHAMM isoform B (RHA...

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

authors： Du YC,Chou CK,Klimstra DS,Varmus H

更新日期：2011-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Organelles in the axoplasm from the squid giant axon move along exogenous actin filaments toward their barbed ends. An approximately 235-kDa protein, the only band recognized by a pan-myosin antibody in Western blots of isolated axoplasmic organelles, has been previously proposed to be a motor for these movements. Her...

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

authors： Bearer EL,DeGiorgis JA,Jaffe H,Medeiros NA,Reese TS

更新日期：1996-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used in vitro selection techniques to characterize DNA sequences that are ligated efficiently by T4 RNA ligase. We find that the ensemble of selected sequences ligated about 10 times as efficiently as the random mixture of sequences used as the input for selection. Surprisingly, the majority of the selected se...

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

authors： Harada K,Orgel LE

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 2 (IL-2) occupies a central position in the cascade of events involved in the immune response. We were interested in determining whether IL-2 could function as an adjuvant to vaccination, to increase the immune response to vaccine immunogens. Using the National Institutes of Health test for rabies vaccine ...

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

authors： Nunberg JH,Doyle MV,York SM,York CJ

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction method with precise control of hydrostatic conditions, typically with helium or neon as the pressure-transmitting medium, has significantly changed our view on what happens with low-density silica phases under pressure. Coesite is a prototype material for pressure-induced...

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

authors： Liu W,Wu X,Liang Y,Liu C,Miranda CR,Scandolo S

更新日期：2017-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Established T cell dysfunction is a barrier to antitumor responses, and checkpoint blockade presumably reverses this. Many patients fail to respond to treatment and/or develop autoimmune adverse events. The underlying reason for T cell responsiveness remains elusive. Here, we show that susceptibility to checkpoint blo...

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

authors： Nelson CE,Mills LJ,McCurtain JL,Thompson EA,Seelig DM,Bhela S,Quarnstrom CF,Fife BT,Vezys V

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein synthesis has an overall error rate of approximately 10(-4) for each mRNA codon translated. The fidelity of translation is mainly determined by two events: synthesis of cognate amino acid:tRNA pairs by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRSs) and accurate selection of aminoacyl-tRNAs (aa-tRNAs) by the ribosome. To e...

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

authors： Reynolds NM,Ling J,Roy H,Banerjee R,Repasky SE,Hamel P,Ibba M

更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:An emergent viral pathogen termed severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) is responsible for thousands of clinical cases and associated fatalities in China, Japan, and South Korea. Akin to other phleboviruses, SFTSV relies on a viral glycoprotein, Gc, to catalyze the merger of endosomal host and vira...

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

authors： Halldorsson S,Behrens AJ,Harlos K,Huiskonen JT,Elliott RM,Crispin M,Brennan B,Bowden TA

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00