Anomalous interaction of the acetylcholine receptor protein with the nonionic detergent Triton X-114.

abstract：:In clinical trials comparing two treatments, one would often like to control the probability of erroneous decision while minimizing not the total sample size but the number of patients given the inferior treatment. To do this obviously requires that one use a datadependent allocation rule for the two treatments rather...

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

authors： Flehinger BJ,Louis TA,Robbins H,Singer BH

更新日期：1972-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescence decay functions of individual, specifically labeled tRNAPhe molecules exhibit nonexponential character as a result of conformational dynamics occurring during the measurement on a single molecule. tRNAPhe conformational states that interchange much more slowly are evidenced by the distribution of life...

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

authors： Jia Y,Sytnik A,Li L,Vladimirov S,Cooperman BS,Hochstrasser RM

更新日期：1997-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The 24 nucleotides comprising the carbohydrate-recognition domain of Maackia amurensis hemagglutinin (MAH) cDNA were randomly mutated. The mutant lectins were expressed as glutathione-S-transferase fusion proteins in Escherichia coli and 16 clones were randomly chosen. Although all of 16 recombinant lectins reacted st...

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

authors： Yim M,Ono T,Irimura T

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hurler syndrome (alpha-L-iduronidase deficiency disease) is a severe lysosomal storage disorder that is potentially amenable to enzyme-replacement therapy. Availability of a canine model of the disease and a sufficient supply of corrective enzyme have permitted a therapeutic trial lasting 3 mo. Recombinant human a...

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

authors： Shull RM,Kakkis ED,McEntee MF,Kania SA,Jonas AJ,Neufeld EF

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophilic neurite outgrowth-promoting prostaglandin (NEPP) compounds protect neurons from oxidative insults. At least part of the neuroprotective action of NEPPs lies in induction of hemeoxygenase-1 (HO-1), which, along with other phase II enzymes, serve as a defense system against oxidative stress. Here, we found...

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

authors： Satoh T,Okamoto SI,Cui J,Watanabe Y,Furuta K,Suzuki M,Tohyama K,Lipton SA

更新日期：2006-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Contractile forces are essential for many developmental processes involving cell shape change and tissue deformation. Recent experiments on reconstituted actomyosin networks, the major component of the contractile machinery, have shown that active contractility occurs above a threshold motor concentration and within a...

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

authors： Wang S,Wolynes PG

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that defective virus vectors (amplicons) derived from herpes simplex viruses could be efficiently propagated in virus stocks in the presence of trans-acting helper virus functions. The present study established that two separate cis-acting functions--a DNA replication origin and a cleavage/...

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

authors： Spaete RR,Frenkel N

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have asked here how the remarkable variation in maize haplotype structure affects recombination. We compared recombination across a genetic interval of 9S in 2 highly dissimilar heterozygotes that shared 1 parent. The genetic interval in the common haplotype is approximately 100 kb long and contains 6 genes intersp...

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

authors： He L,Dooner HK

更新日期：2009-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Urate oxidase (UOxase; urate:oxygen oxidoreductase, EC 1.7.3.3), which catalyzes the oxidation of uric acid to allantoin, is present in most mammals but is absent in humans and certain primates. A cDNA clone for UOxase containing an insert of 1.3 kilobases (kb) was isolated from a lambda gt11 cDNA library prepared fro...

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

authors： Reddy PG,Nemali MR,Reddy MK,Reddy MN,Yuan PM,Yuen S,Laffler TG,Shiroza T,Kuramitsu HK,Usuda N

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of the iron-storage protein ferritin is thought to be regulated at the translational level by the cytosolic content of chelatable iron. This response to iron is regulated by the iron-modulated binding to ferritin mRNAs of a repressor protein, the iron regulatory element-binding protein. From measurements mad...

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

authors： Eisenstein RS,Garcia-Mayol D,Pettingell W,Munro HN

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria infection triggers vigorous host immune responses; however, the parasite ligands, host receptors, and the signaling pathways responsible for these reactions remain unknown or controversial. Malaria parasites primarily reside within RBCs, thereby hiding themselves from direct contact and recognition by host imm...

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

authors： Wu J,Tian L,Yu X,Pattaradilokrat S,Li J,Wang M,Yu W,Qi Y,Zeituni AE,Nair SC,Crampton SP,Orandle MS,Bolland SM,Qi CF,Long CA,Myers TG,Coligan JE,Wang R,Su XZ

更新日期：2014-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the pathogenic mechanism of dominant mutations affecting the carboxyl terminus of rhodopsin that cause retinitis pigmentosa, we generated five lines of transgenic mice carrying the proline-347 to serine (P347S) mutation. The severity of photoreceptor degeneration correlated with the levels of transgene expr...

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

authors： Li T,Snyder WK,Olsson JE,Dryja TP

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenously encoded small noncoding RNAs, derived by processing of short RNA hairpins, that can inhibit the translation of mRNAs bearing partially complementary target sequences. In contrast, small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), which are derived by processing of long double-stranded RNAs and are o...

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

authors： Zeng Y,Yi R,Cullen BR

更新日期：2003-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The double-stranded RNA (dsRNA)-dependent protein kinase (PKR) is induced as part of the IFN response in mammals and acts to shut down protein synthesis by the phosphorylation of eukaryotic initiation factor 2alpha (eIF2alpha). In fish, a PKR-like kinase activity has been detected, but the enzyme responsible has elude...

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

authors： Rothenburg S,Deigendesch N,Dittmar K,Koch-Nolte F,Haag F,Lowenhaupt K,Rich A

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Promoters whose temporal activity can be directly manipulated in transgenic animals provide a tool for the study of gene functions in vivo. We have evaluated a tetracycline-responsive binary system for its ability to temporally control gene expression in transgenic mice. In this system, a tetracycline-controlled trans...

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

authors： Furth PA,St Onge L,Böger H,Gruss P,Gossen M,Kistner A,Bujard H,Hennighausen L

更新日期：1994-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Small RNAs (sRNAs) are important components of posttranscriptional regulation. These molecules are prevalent in bacterial and eukaryotic organisms, and involved in a variety of responses to environmental stresses. The functional characterization of sRNAs is challenging and requires highly focused and extensive experim...

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

authors： Modi SR,Camacho DM,Kohanski MA,Walker GC,Collins JJ

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Hoxb13 is robustly transcribed in derivatives of posterior endoderm including the colon, rectum, and the prostate gland. Transcriptional activity in the prostate persists unabated under conditions of androgen deprivation and throughout the course of disease progression in a mouse prostate cancer model. To elucidate th...

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

authors： McMullin RP,Dobi A,Mutton LN,Orosz A,Maheshwari S,Shashikant CS,Bieberich CJ

更新日期：2010-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We used integrin alphaLbeta2 heterodimers containing I domains locked open (active) or closed (inactive) with disulfide bonds to investigate regulatory interactions among domains in integrins. mAbs to the alphaL I domain and beta2 I-like domain inhibit adhesion of wild-type alphaLbeta2 to intercellular adhesion molecu...

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

authors： Lu C,Shimaoka M,Zang Q,Takagi J,Springer TA

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Ascorbic acid, at nontoxic concentrations, causes a substantial reduction in the ability of avian tumor viruses to replicate in both primary avian tendon cells and chicken embryo fibroblasts. The virus-infected cultures appear to be less transformed in the presence of ascorbic acid by the criteria of morphology, reduc...

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

authors： Bissell MJ,Hatie C,Farson DA,Schwarz RI,Soo WJ

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Energetics of resting and evoked fMRI signals were related to localized ensemble firing rates (nu) measured by electrophysiology in rats. Two different unstimulated, or baseline, states were established by anesthesia. Halothane and alpha-chloralose established baseline states of high and low energy, respectively, in w...

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

authors： Maandag NJ,Coman D,Sanganahalli BG,Herman P,Smith AJ,Blumenfeld H,Shulman RG,Hyder F

更新日期：2007-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Nannofossils section sign here described are from the middle Proterozoic Paradise Creek Formation, along Paradise Creek in northwestern Queensland, Australia. These fossils, in chert blebs associated with branched stromatolites, comprise cubic colonies analogous to living Eucapsis, a member of the blue-green algal fam...

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

authors： Licari GR,Cloud PE,Smith WD

更新日期：1969-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 92-amino acid polypeptide, alpha-inhibin-92 (alpha-IB-92), has been isolated and characterized from human seminal plasma and found to be active in suppressing follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) release in vitro. In the present in vivo study, intravenous injection of synthetic alpha-IB-92 (4 and 20 micrograms) signif...

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

authors： Yu WH,McCann SM,Li CH

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we examine the effects of chronic anaerobic exposure and subsequent reoxygenation on protein synthesis patterns in Chinese hamster ovary cells. It is observed by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (isoelectric focusing/NaDodSO4/PAGE) that the transition from an atmospheric environment to an anaerobic s...

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

authors： Sciandra JJ,Subjeck JR,Hughes CS

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine which of seven library design algorithms best introduces new protein function without destroying it altogether, seven combinatorial libraries of green fluorescent protein variants were designed and synthesized. Each was evaluated by distributions of emission intensity and color compiled from measurements ...

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

authors： Treynor TP,Vizcarra CL,Nedelcu D,Mayo SL

更新日期：2007-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular dynamics simulations show that the desolvation rates of isotopes of Li(+), K(+), Rb(+), Ca(2+), Sr(2+), and Ba(2+) may have a relatively strong dependence on the metal cation mass. This inference is based on the observation that the exchange rate constant, k(wex), for water molecules in the first hydration s...

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

authors： Hofmann AE,Bourg IC,DePaolo DJ

更新日期：2012-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Most evidence supports the view that ER alpha is responsible for estrogen (ovarian estradiol, E(2))-induced proliferation in the epithelial cells of the mammary gland, but despite this, proliferating epithelial cells do not express ER alpha. We have examined this apparent paradox by studying the role of ER alpha and E...

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

authors： Cheng G,Weihua Z,Warner M,Gustafsson JA

更新日期：2004-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed a phylogenic tree for green plants by comparing 5S rRNA sequences. The tree suggests that the emergence of most of the uni- and multicellular green algae such as Chlamydomonas, Spirogyra, Ulva, and Chlorella occurred in the early stage of green plant evolution. The branching point of Nitella is a l...

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

authors： Hori H,Lim BL,Osawa S

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two photochromic activators of the electrogenic membrane of the electroplax of Electrophorus electricus are described. Trans-3,3'-bis[alpha-(trimethylammonium)methyl]azobenzene dibromide (Bis-Q), one of the most potent ever reported, is active at concentrations of less than 10(-7) M. Its cis isomer, which is obtained ...

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

authors： Bartels E,Wassermann NH,Erlanger BF

更新日期：1971-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular analyses of Na,K-ATPase abundance and alpha-subunit isoform distribution were performed to determine whether pump expression varies at different points through the thickness of the circular layer of colonic smooth muscle. The mRNA and polypeptides of Na,K-ATPase alpha 1 and beta subunits were twice as abunda...

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

authors： Burke EP,Sanders KM,Horowitz B

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mounting effective T cell responses is critical for eliciting long-lasting immunity following viral infection and vaccination. A multitude of inhibitory and stimulatory factors are induced following infection, and it is the compilation of these signals that quantitatively and qualitatively program the ensuing effector...

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

authors： Brooks DG,Walsh KB,Elsaesser H,Oldstone MB

更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00