Molecular cloning of the human cholecystokinin gene by use of a synthetic probe containing deoxyinosine.

abstract：:The vulval development of Caenorhabditis elegans provides an opportunity to investigate genetic networks that control gene expression during organogenesis. During the fourth larval stage (L4), seven vulval cell types are produced, each of which executes a distinct gene expression program. We analyze how the expression...

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

authors： Inoue T,Wang M,Ririe TO,Fernandes JS,Sternberg PW

更新日期：2005-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Variable regions of Ig chains provide the antigen recognition portion of B-cell receptors and derivative antibodies. Ig heavy-chain variable region exons are assembled developmentally from V, D, J gene segments. Each variable region contains three antigen-contacting complementarity-determining regions (CDRs), with CDR...

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

authors： Hwang JK,Wang C,Du Z,Meyers RM,Kepler TB,Neuberg D,Kwong PD,Mascola JR,Joyce MG,Bonsignori M,Haynes BF,Yeap LS,Alt FW

更新日期：2017-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated two cDNA clones, NaPi-2 and NaPi-3, by screening rat kidney cortex and human kidney cortex cDNA libraries, respectively, for expression of sodium-dependent phosphate transport in Xenopus laevis oocytes. Substrate specificity and a detailed kinetic analysis (Na, Pi, H+ concentrations) suggested that ex...

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

authors： Magagnin S,Werner A,Markovich D,Sorribas V,Stange G,Biber J,Murer H

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) signaling in vascular cells can have antiatherogenic consequences, but the mechanisms are poorly understood. TNFalpha is released by free cholesterol-loaded apoptotic macrophages, and the clearance of these cells by phagocytic macrophages may help to...

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

authors： Gerbod-Giannone MC,Li Y,Holleboom A,Han S,Hsu LC,Tabas I,Tall AR

更新日期：2006-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Reproductive success is widely used as a measure of fitness. However, offspring quantity may not reflect the genetic contribution to subsequent generations if there is nonrandom variation in offspring quality. Offspring quality is likely to be an important component of human fitness, and tradeoffs between offspring qu...

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

authors： Zietsch BP,Kuja-Halkola R,Walum H,Verweij KJ

更新日期：2014-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Stable structures of icosahedral symmetry can serve numerous functional roles, including chemical microencapsulation and delivery of drugs and biomolecules, epitope presentation to allow for an efficient immunization process, synthesis of nanoparticles of uniform size, observation of encapsulated reactive intermediate...

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

authors： Olson AJ,Hu YH,Keinan E

更新日期：2007-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-dependent potassium channels (Kv) are homotetramers composed of four voltage sensors and one pore domain. Because of high-level structural flexibility, the first mammalian Kv structure, Kv1.2 at 2.9 A, has about 37% molecular mass of the transmembrane portion not resolved. In this study, by applying a novel no...

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

authors： Chen X,Wang Q,Ni F,Ma J

更新日期：2010-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is a nonreceptor tyrosine kinase involved in development and human disease, including cancer. It is currently thought that the four-point one, ezrin, radixin, moesin (FERM)-kinase domain linker, which contains autophosphorylation site tyrosine (Y) 397, is not required for in vivo FAK functi...

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

authors： Heim JB,Squirewell EJ,Neu A,Zocher G,Sominidi-Damodaran S,Wyles SP,Nikolova E,Behrendt N,Saunte DM,Lock-Andersen J,Gaonkar KS,Yan H,Sarkaria JN,Krendel M,van Deursen J,Sprangers R,Stehle T,Böttcher RT,Lee JH,Ordog T

更新日期：2017-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In yeast meiosis, crossing-over between homologues is dependent upon double-strand breaks. We demonstrate that the occurrence of these breaks is independent of pairing between homologues by showing that they occur with normal frequency, timing, and position in the absence of a homologue. This observation supports mode...

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

authors： Gilbertson LA,Stahl FW

更新日期：1994-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Life-long protection from disease through immunization can be accomplished through individual or community protection. Individual protection is the goal for vaccination against diseases that have inanimate or animal reservoirs or that pose risks for certain populations. Community protection is the goal for vaccination...

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

authors： Dowdle WR,Orenstein WA

更新日期：1994-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Standard economic and evolutionary models assume that humans are fundamentally selfish. On this view, any acts of prosociality--such as cooperation, giving, and other forms of altruism--result from covert attempts to avoid social injunctions against selfishness. However, even in the absence of social pressure, individ...

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

authors： Zaki J,Mitchell JP

更新日期：2011-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:I describe some recent observations of large-scale structure in the galaxy distribution. The best constraints come from two-dimensional galaxy surveys and studies of angular correlation functions. Results from galaxy redshift surveys are much less precise but are consistent with the angular correlations, provided the ...

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

authors： Efstathiou G

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Syringomycin, a peptide toxin and a virulence factor produced by the bacterial phytopathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae, stimulated the phosphorylation of several plasma membrane polypeptides of red beet storage tissue. Among these was a 100-kDa polypeptide, which corresponds in size to the proton pump ATPase. ...

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

authors： Bidwai AP,Takemoto JY

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the order Nidovirales express their structural protein ORFs from a nested set of 3' subgenomic mRNAs (sg mRNAs), and for most of these ORFs, a single genomic transcription regulatory sequence (TRS) was identified. Nine TRSs were previously reported for the arterivirus Simian hemorrhagic fever virus (SHFV). ...

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

authors： Di H,Madden JC Jr,Morantz EK,Tang HY,Graham RL,Baric RS,Brinton MA

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently evolved Hawaiian species Drosophila silvestris has a subdivided population structure and shows great spatial heterogeneity in chromosome inversion distributions and frequencies within its extremely limited geographic range. Pattern analysis of the 11 chromosomal polymorphisms in the context of the recentl...

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

authors： Craddock EM,Carson HL

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carrying premature termination codons in 1 allele of the ABCA7 gene is associated with an increased risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD). While the primary function of ABCA7 is to regulate the transport of phospholipids and cholesterol, ABCA7 is also involved in maintaining homeostasis of the immune system. Since inflamm...

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

authors： Aikawa T,Ren Y,Yamazaki Y,Tachibana M,Johnson MR,Anderson CT,Martens YA,Holm ML,Asmann YW,Saito T,Saido TC,Fitzgerald ML,Bu G,Kanekiyo T

更新日期：2019-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal foraging and competition are defined by the partitioning of three primary niche axes: space, time, and resources. Human disturbance is rapidly altering the spatial and temporal niches of animals, but the impact of humans on resource consumption and partitioning-arguably the most important niche axis-is poorly u...

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

authors： Manlick PJ,Pauli JN

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyr-SV40E transgenic mice are susceptible to melanoma due to simian virus 40 oncogenic sequences specifically expressed in pigment cells. Skin melanomas form relatively late. Therefore, melanocyte cell lines have been established from very young transgenic animals, when they showed no skin lesions, so that the spontan...

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

authors： Larue L,Dougherty N,Mintz B

更新日期：1992-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Macropinocytosis is a highly conserved endocytic process by which extracellular fluid and solutes are internalized into cells. Macropinocytosis starts with the formation of membrane ruffles at the plasma membrane and ends with their closure. The transient and sequential emergence of phosphoinositides PI(3,4,5)P3 and P...

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

authors： Maekawa M,Terasaka S,Mochizuki Y,Kawai K,Ikeda Y,Araki N,Skolnik EY,Taguchi T,Arai H

更新日期：2014-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The maturation of 5S RNA in Escherichia coli is poorly understood. Although it is known that large precursors of 5S RNA accumulate in mutant cells lacking the endoribonuclease-RNase E, almost nothing is known about how the mature 5' and 3' termini of these molecules are generated. We have examined 5S RNA maturation in...

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

authors： Li Z,Deutscher MP

更新日期：1995-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of cell surface immunoglobulin in helper T-cell-dependent B-cell activation was analyzed using a B-cell lymphoma, CH12, with known antigen specificity and activation properties similar to those of a resting B cell. Two sources of helper T cells were used, both selected such that they interact with H-2-encoded...

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

authors： LoCascio NJ,Haughton G,Arnold LW,Corley RB

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional activation of the HIV type 1 (HIV-1) long terminal repeat (LTR) promoter element by the viral Tat protein is an essential step in the HIV-1 life cycle. Tat function is mediated by the TAR RNA target element encoded within the LTR and is known to require the recruitment of a complex consisting of Tat an...

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

authors： Bieniasz PD,Grdina TA,Bogerd HP,Cullen BR

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficiently regenerated single colonies from mixed multiply auxotrophic Bacillus subtilis protoplasts, fused with polyethylene glycol, reveal colonies carrying each of the parent types (biparentals) and recombinant colonies. The latter appear in high yields (up to 1% of certain recombinant classes); the yield of bipar...

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

authors： Hotchkiss RD,Gabor MH

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic crossing over in flies heterozygous for a dominant Minute mutant may result in two cells, homozygous for wild type and Minute, respectively. If both cells took part in development, a twin spot of two genotypes, different from the rest of the body, would result. Two-hundred wild type spots were found, none of w...

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

authors： Stern C,Tokunaga C

更新日期：1971-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a comparative study of calorimetrically derived thermodynamic profiles for the binding of a series of drugs with selected DNA host duplexes. We use these data to demonstrate that comparisons between complete thermodynamic profiles (delta G zero, delta H zero, delta S zero, delta Cp) are required before drug...

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

authors： Breslauer KJ,Remeta DP,Chou WY,Ferrante R,Curry J,Zaunczkowski D,Snyder JG,Marky LA

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 1 (IL-1) is a two-member family of proteins (IL-1 alpha and IL-1 beta) that mediates a diverse series of immune and inflammatory responses. These two proteins have only 26% amino acid homology yet bind to the same receptor. It is of importance to define the active sites of these molecules in order to under...

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

authors： Mosley B,Dower SK,Gillis S,Cosman D

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2fTGH is a human cell line containing the selectable marker guanine phosphoribosyltransferase regulated by alpha interferon (IFN-alpha). Two IFN-alpha-unresponsive mutants were isolated previously at a low frequency (ca. 10(-8)) by selecting mutagenized 2fTGH cells in selective medium containing 6-thioguanine and IFN-...

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

authors： McKendry R,John J,Flavell D,Müller M,Kerr IM,Stark GR

更新日期：1991-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the polymerase chain reaction to amplify the entire coding region of canine factor IX from a hemophilia B animal. When the sequence was compared to that which codes for normal canine factor IX, a single missense mutation was identified. This mutation (G----A at nucleotide 1477) results in the substitution...

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

authors： Evans JP,Brinkhous KM,Brayer GD,Reisner HM,High KA

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identities between homogeneous expressions in rank 1 vectors and rank n - 1 covectors in a Grassmann-Cayley algebra of rank n, in which one set occurs multilinearly, are shown to represent a set of dimension-independent identities. The theorem yields an infinite set of nontrivial geometric identities from a given ...

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

authors： Hawrylycz M

更新日期：1995-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein 4.1R (4.1R) is a multifunctional component of the red cell membrane. It forms a ternary complex with actin and spectrin, which defines the nodal junctions of the membrane-skeletal network, and its attachment to the transmembrane protein glycophorin C creates a bridge between the protein network and the membran...

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

authors： Salomao M,Zhang X,Yang Y,Lee S,Hartwig JH,Chasis JA,Mohandas N,An X

更新日期：2008-06-10 00:00:00