Synthesis, bacterial expression, and mutagenesis of the gene coding for mammalian cytochrome b5.

abstract：:Cysteine site-directed mutagenesis was used to create variants of Escherichia coli ribosomal protein L7/L12 that have single cysteine substitutions, at residues 63 or 89, located in different exposed loops in the structure of the globular C-terminal domain indicated by the crystallographic structure. That structure sh...

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

authors： Oleinikov AV,Jokhadze GG,Traut RR

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the most striking aspects of the movement of many animal groups are their sudden coherent changes in direction. Recent observations of locusts and starlings have shown that this directional switching is an intrinsic property of their motion. Similar direction switches are seen in self-propelled particle and othe...

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

authors： Yates CA,Erban R,Escudero C,Couzin ID,Buhl J,Kevrekidis IG,Maini PK,Sumpter DJ

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A small proportion of the RNAs of mouse reticulocytes consists of beta major-globin mRNA sequences linked to sequences transcribed from the 5'-flanking region of the beta major-globin gene. These upstream RNAs are polyadenylylated and contain 700-800 nucleotides, and their 5' regions are heterogeneous. RNAs with simil...

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

authors： Carlson DP,Ross J

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed the spectra of UV-induced mutations in the lacI gene of a wild-type and an mfd strain of Escherichia coli. mfd strains have been recently proposed to be deficient in a factor coupling DNA repair and transcription. Analysis of UV-induced mutations occurring at adjacent pyrimidines showed that mutations...

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

authors： Oller AR,Fijalkowska IJ,Dunn RL,Schaaper RM

更新日期：1992-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The ten-eleven translocation (TET) family of methylcytosine dioxygenases initiates demethylation of DNA and is associated with tumorigenesis in many cancers; however, the mechanism is mostly unknown. Here we identify upstream activators and downstream effectors of TET1 in breast cancer using human breast cancer cells ...

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

authors： Sun M,Song CX,Huang H,Frankenberger CA,Sankarasharma D,Gomes S,Chen P,Chen J,Chada KK,He C,Rosner MR

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A pluripotent cell line, C3H10T1/2, is induced to undergo adipogenesis by a mixture of factors that includes a glucocorticoid such as dexamethasone. We found that expression of myostatin (MSTN), a TGF-beta family member extensively studied in muscle, was induced by dexamethasone under those differentiation conditions....

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

authors： Feldman BJ,Streeper RS,Farese RV Jr,Yamamoto KR

更新日期：2006-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Most cells in the well-known pre-B-lymphocyte line 18-81 have correctly assembled genes for both alleles at the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus. Only one allele is "active"; the other, "silent" allele contains an amber termination codon. The rate of reversion of this amber codon was determined to be 0.3-1 X 10(-4) pe...

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

authors： Wabl M,Burrows PD,von Gabain A,Steinberg C

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the cascade of proteolytic caspases has been identified as the final common pathway of apoptosis in diverse biological systems. We have isolated a gene, termed MRIT, that possesses overall sequence homology to FLICE (MACH), a large prodomain caspase that links the aggregated complex of the death domain r...

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

authors： Han DK,Chaudhary PM,Wright ME,Friedman C,Trask BJ,Riedel RT,Baskin DG,Schwartz SM,Hood L

更新日期：1997-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The human fungal pathogen Candida albicans shows a significant lag in growth when diluted into fresh minimal medium. This lag is abolished by the addition of conditioned medium from a high-density culture. The active component of conditioned medium is tyrosol, which is released into the medium continuously during grow...

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

authors： Chen H,Fujita M,Feng Q,Clardy J,Fink GR

更新日期：2004-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Although NMDA receptor (NMDAR)-dependent long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD) of glutamatergic transmission are candidate mechanisms for long-term spatial memory, the precise contributions of LTP and LTD remain poorly understood. Here, we report that LTP and LTD in the hippocampal CA1 region of ...

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

authors： Ge Y,Dong Z,Bagot RC,Howland JG,Phillips AG,Wong TP,Wang YT

更新日期：2010-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Prochlorococcus is an abundant marine cyanobacterium that grows rapidly in the environment and contributes significantly to global primary production. This cyanobacterium coexists with many cyanophages in the oceans, likely aided by resistance to numerous co-occurring phages. Spontaneous resistance occurs frequently i...

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

authors： Avrani S,Lindell D

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Given their relatively small area, mangroves and their organic sediments are of disproportionate importance to global carbon sequestration and carbon storage. Peat deposition and preservation allows some mangroves to accrete vertically and keep pace with sea-level rise by growing on their own root remains. In this stu...

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

authors： Ezcurra P,Ezcurra E,Garcillán PP,Costa MT,Aburto-Oropeza O

更新日期：2016-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The C-terminal 179-aa region of yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) TATA-binding protein (TBP), phylogenetically conserved and sufficient for many functions, formed crystals diffracting to 1.7-A resolution. The structure of the protein, determined by molecular replacement with coordinates from Arabidopsis TBP and refined...

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

authors： Chasman DI,Flaherty KM,Sharp PA,Kornberg RD

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report measurements of the geometrical structure and temporal evolution of metastable helical intermediates in the pathway for cholesterol crystallization in native and model biles. We find that the lecithin component in the bile can dramatically affect the kinetics along this pathway. We also present a theoretical...

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

authors： Chung DS,Benedek GB,Konikoff FM,Donovan JM

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For more than a century we have understood that our brain's left hemisphere is the primary site for processing language, yet why this is so has remained more elusive. Using positron emission tomography, we report cerebral blood flow activity in profoundly deaf signers processing specific aspects of sign language in ke...

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

authors： Petitto LA,Zatorre RJ,Gauna K,Nikelski EJ,Dostie D,Evans AC

更新日期：2000-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In a medium without Na+, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) binds at 0 degrees to freshly prepared crude synaptic membranes from rat cerebral cortex with an apparent dissociation constant of 218 nM. An endogenous inhibitor of the Na+-independent GABA binding was removed from these membranes by freezing and thawing and by ...

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

authors： Toffano G,Guidotti A,Costa E

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unprecedented, spontaneous, and complete cleavage of the triple bond of N2 in the thermal reaction of 15N2 with Ta214N+ was observed experimentally by Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry; mechanistic aspects of the degenerate ligand exchange were addressed by high-level quantum chemical calc...

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

authors： Geng C,Li J,Weiske T,Schwarz H

更新日期：2019-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblasts can be reprogrammed to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) by application of transcription factors octamer-binding protein 4 (Oct4), SRY-box containing gene 2 (Sox2), Kruppel-like factor 4 (Klf4), and c-Myelocytomatosis oncogene (c-Myc) (OSKM), but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we repo...

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

authors： Wang G,Guo X,Hong W,Liu Q,Wei T,Lu C,Gao L,Ye D,Zhou Y,Chen J,Wang J,Wu M,Liu H,Kang J

更新日期：2013-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The trilaminate vascular architecture provides biochemical regulation and mechanical integrity. Yet regulatory control can be regained after injury without recapitulating tertiary structure. Tissue-engineered (TE) endothelium controls repair even when placed in the perivascular space of injured vessels. It remains unc...

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

authors： Zani BG,Kojima K,Vacanti CA,Edelman ER

更新日期：2008-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The paucity of knowledge about cardiomyocyte maturation is a major bottleneck in cardiac regenerative medicine. In development, cardiomyocyte maturation is characterized by orchestrated structural, transcriptional, and functional specializations that occur mainly at the perinatal stage. Sarcomeres are the key cytoskel...

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

authors： Guo Y,Cao Y,Jardin BD,Sethi I,Ma Q,Moghadaszadeh B,Troiano EC,Mazumdar N,Trembley MA,Small EM,Yuan GC,Beggs AH,Pu WT

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A central paradox in type 2 diabetes is the apparent selective nature of hepatic insulin resistance--wherein insulin fails to suppress hepatic glucose production yet continues to stimulate lipogenesis, resulting in hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, and hepatic steatosis. Although efforts to explain this have focused on f...

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

authors： Vatner DF,Majumdar SK,Kumashiro N,Petersen MC,Rahimi Y,Gattu AK,Bears M,Camporez JP,Cline GW,Jurczak MJ,Samuel VT,Shulman GI

更新日期：2015-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Time series data on arthropod populations are critical for understanding the magnitude, direction, and drivers of change. However, most arthropod monitoring programs are short-lived and restricted in taxonomic resolution. Monitoring data from the Arctic are especially underrepresented, yet critical to uncovering and u...

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

authors： Høye TT,Loboda S,Koltz AM,Gillespie MAK,Bowden JJ,Schmidt NM

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-directed spin labeling EPR (SDSL-EPR) was used to determine the structure of the inhibitory region of TnI in the intact cardiac troponin ternary complex. Maeda and collaborators have modeled the inhibitory region of TnI (skeletal 96-112: the structural motif that communicates the Ca(2+) signal to actin) as a kink...

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

authors： Brown LJ,Sale KL,Hills R,Rouviere C,Song L,Zhang X,Fajer PG

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic bradykinin, a nonapeptide formed from alpha-2 globulin in plasma, injected intra-arterially or intraperitoneally in cats in doses of 10-50 mug, evoked activity in the central nervous system in pathways associated with the signaling of pain. Similar injections of bradykinin in intact normal cats and dogs evok...

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

authors： Lim RK,Krauthamer G,Guzman F,Fulp RR

更新日期：1969-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In classical knot theory and the theory of quantum invariants substantial effort was directed toward the search for unknotting moves on links. We solve, in this article, several classical problems concerning unknotting moves. Our approach uses a concept, Burnside groups of links, that establishes an unexpected relatio...

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

authors： Dabkowski MK,Przytycki JH

更新日期：2004-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Y chromosomes are different from other chromosomes because of a lack of recombination. Until now, complete sequence information of Y chromosomes has been available only for some primates, although considerable information is available for other organisms, e.g., several species of Drosophila. Here, we report the gene o...

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

authors： Yamato KT,Ishizaki K,Fujisawa M,Okada S,Nakayama S,Fujishita M,Bando H,Yodoya K,Hayashi K,Bando T,Hasumi A,Nishio T,Sakata R,Yamamoto M,Yamaki A,Kajikawa M,Yamano T,Nishide T,Choi SH,Shimizu-Ueda Y,Hanajiri T,Sa

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Hormones and nutrients often induce genetic programs via signaling pathways that interface with gene-specific activators. Activation of the cAMP pathway, for example, stimulates cellular gene expression by means of the PKA-mediated phosphorylation of cAMP-response element binding protein (CREB) at Ser-133. Here, we us...

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

authors： Zhang X,Odom DT,Koo SH,Conkright MD,Canettieri G,Best J,Chen H,Jenner R,Herbolsheimer E,Jacobsen E,Kadam S,Ecker JR,Emerson B,Hogenesch JB,Unterman T,Young RA,Montminy M

更新日期：2005-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In confluent fibroblast monolayers, an increase in the selective uptake of free cholesterol (FC) from plasma low density lipoprotein (LDL) was accompanied by an increase in FC efflux. The rate of FC efflux was proportional to the FC content of the cell surface caveolae and to mRNA levels of caveolin, an FC-binding pro...

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

authors： Fielding CJ,Bist A,Fielding PE

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:One approach to understanding common human diseases is to determine the genetic defects responsible for similar diseases in animal models and place those defective genes in their corresponding biochemical pathways. Our laboratory is working with an animal model for human rheumatoid arthritis called collagen-induced ar...

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

authors： McIndoe RA,Bohlman B,Chi E,Schuster E,Lindhardt M,Hood L

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient Receptor Potential Melastatin-8 (TRPM8), a recently identified member of the transient receptor potential (TRP) family of ion channels, is activated by mild cooling and by chemical compounds such as the supercooling agent, icilin. Since cooling, possibly involving TRPM8 stimulation, diminishes injury-induced...

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

authors： Ramachandran R,Hyun E,Zhao L,Lapointe TK,Chapman K,Hirota CL,Ghosh S,McKemy DD,Vergnolle N,Beck PL,Altier C,Hollenberg MD

更新日期：2013-04-30 00:00:00