Chromosomal radiosensitivity during the G2 cell-cycle period of skin fibroblasts from individuals with familial cancer.

abstract：:If excision repair-proficient human cells are allowed time for repair before onset of S phase, the premutagenic lesions formed by (+/-)-7 beta,8 alpha-dihydroxy-9 alpha,10 alpha-epoxy- 7,8,9,10-tetrahydrobenzo[a]pyrene (benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide, BPDE) are lost from the transcribed strand of the hypoxanthine (guanin...

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

authors： Chen RH,Maher VM,Brouwer J,van de Putte P,McCormick JJ

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells play a critical role in controlling malignancies. Susceptibility or resistance to lung cancer, for example, specifically depends on NK cell function. Nevertheless, intrinsic factors that control NK cell-mediated clearance of lung cancer are unknown. Here we report that NK cells exposed to exo...

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

authors： Shi L,Li K,Guo Y,Banerjee A,Wang Q,Lorenz UM,Parlak M,Sullivan LC,Onyema OO,Arefanian S,Stelow EB,Brautigan DL,Bullock TNJ,Brown MG,Krupnick AS

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A subpopulation of phenobarbital-induced cytochrome P-450 in rat liver has been shown to consist of four closely related forms of the enzyme that appeared to be strain-related. In the present study, polypeptides composing this family were analyzed by two-dimensional electrophoresis of hepatic microsomes from 64 indivi...

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

authors： Rampersaud A,Walz FG Jr

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degradation of the plant cell wall by glycoside hydrolases is central to environmentally sustainable industries. The major polysaccharides of the plant cell wall are cellulose and xylan, a highly decorated β-1,4-xylopyranose polymer. Glycoside hydrolases displaying multiple catalytic functions may simplify the enz...

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

authors： McKee LS,Peña MJ,Rogowski A,Jackson A,Lewis RJ,York WS,Krogh KB,Viksø-Nielsen A,Skjøt M,Gilbert HJ,Marles-Wright J

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the newly engineered transposable element Dsg to tag a gene that gives rise to a defective kernel (dek) phenotype. Dsg requires the autonomous element Ac for transposition. Upon excision, it leaves a short DNA footprint that can create in-frame and frameshift insertions in coding sequences. Therefore, we ...

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

authors： Garcia N,Li Y,Dooner HK,Messing J

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The carbohydrate binding specificity of leukoagglutinin (La; Phaseolus vulgaris isolectin L4) was studied by using quantitative precipitation and precipitation-inhibition. A series of purified glycopeptides and synthetic oligosaccharides were used as inhibitors. The minimal structural unit required for La binding was ...

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

authors： Hammarström S,Hammarström ML,Sundblad G,Arnarp J,Lönngren J

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saposin A, a heat-stable 16-kDa glycoprotein, was isolated from Gaucher disease spleen and purified to homogeneity. Chemical sequencing from its amino terminus and of peptides obtained by digestion with protease from Staphylococcus aureus strain V-8 demonstrated that saposin A is derived from proteolytic processing of...

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

authors： Morimoto S,Martin BM,Yamamoto Y,Kretz KA,O'Brien JS,Kishimoto Y

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are serious genomic insults that can lead to chromosomal rearrangements if repaired incorrectly. To gain insight into the nuclear mechanisms contributing to these rearrangements, we developed an assay in yeast to measure cis (same site) vs. trans (different site) repair for the majority...

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

authors： Sunder S,Wilson TE

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The major obstacle to the study of functional/structural interrelationships of spinach chloroplasts by using spin labels has been the rapid loss of the electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) signals upon illumination with visible light. The present study demonstrates that the addition of ferredoxin and NADP+ in the pre...

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

authors： Sun AS,Calvin M

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of cadherins, which are essential for metazoan multicellularity and restricted to metazoans and their closest relatives, has special relevance for understanding metazoan origins. To reconstruct the ancestry and evolution of cadherin gene families, we analyzed the genomes of the choanoflagellate Salpingoe...

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

authors： Nichols SA,Roberts BW,Richter DJ,Fairclough SR,King N

更新日期：2012-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize the region on human IgG1 responsible for its high-affinity interaction with the human Fc gamma receptor class I (Fc gamma RI), we have analyzed the binding properties of a series of genetically engineered chimeric antidinitrophenyl antibodies with identical murine antibody combining sites and hybrid Ig...

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

authors： Chappel MS,Isenman DE,Everett M,Xu YY,Dorrington KJ,Klein MH

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the molecular mechanisms of osmolyte protection in protein stability has proved to be challenging. In particular, little is known about the role of osmolytes in the structure of the unfolding transition state of a protein, the main determinant of its dynamics. We have developed an experimental protocol t...

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

authors： Dougan L,Genchev GZ,Lu H,Fernandez JM

更新日期：2011-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene V protein of bacteriophage f1 is a single-stranded DNA and RNA-binding protein composed of two identical subunits. We have constructed single-chain variants of the protein using short peptide linkers of five or six amino acids to connect the carboxyl terminus of one monomer to the amino terminus of the second...

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

authors： Liang H,Sandberg WS,Terwilliger TC

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than a thousand proteins are thought to contribute to mammalian chromatin and its regulation, but our understanding of the genomic occupancy and function of most of these proteins is limited. Here we describe an approach, which we call "chromatin proteomic profiling," to identify proteins associated with genomic ...

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

authors： Ji X,Dadon DB,Abraham BJ,Lee TI,Jaenisch R,Bradner JE,Young RA

更新日期：2015-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:After the start of transcription, the 5' ends of eukaryotic mRNA molecules are modified by the addition of a guanylyl residue to form a cap structure, G(5')ppp(5')N. The guanylyltransferase (GTP:mRNA guanylyltransferase, EC 2.7.7.50) reaction responsible for cap formation usually proceeds via a covalent enzyme-GMP int...

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

authors： Ahola T,Kääriäinen L

更新日期：1995-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological basis underlying differentiation of naive (NAI) T cells into effector (EFFE) and memory (MEM) cells is incompletely understood. Furthermore, whether NAI T cells serially differentiate into EFFE and then MEM cells (linear differentiation) or whether they concurrently differentiate into either EFFE or MEM...

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

authors： Holmes S,He M,Xu T,Lee PP

更新日期：2005-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Sterigmatocystin (ST), a potent hepatocarcinogen, was covalently bound to calf thymus DNA by incubation in the presence of phenobarbital-induced rat liver microsomes. Acid hydrolysis of ST-modified DNA liberated a major guanine-containing adduct, present in DNA at an estimated level of 1 ST residue per 100-150 nucleot...

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

authors： Essigmann JM,Barker LJ,Fowler KW,Francisco MA,Reinhold VN,Wogan GN

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypothesis that the nonrandom organization of the contents of interphase nuclei represents a compartmentalization of function, we examined the relative, spatial relationship of small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) and of DNase I hypersensitive chromatin (DHC) in rat pheochromocytoma cells. In controls...

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

authors： Park PC,De Boni U

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Trimeric class I virus fusion proteins undergo a series of conformational rearrangements that leads to the association of C- and N-terminal heptad repeat domains in a "trimer-of-hairpins" structure, facilitating the apposition of viral and cellular membranes during fusion. This final fusion hairpin structure is sustai...

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

authors： Cianci C,Langley DR,Dischino DD,Sun Y,Yu KL,Stanley A,Roach J,Li Z,Dalterio R,Colonno R,Meanwell NA,Krystal M

更新日期：2004-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Paleoanthropologists and vertebrate paleontologists have for decades debated the etiology of tooth wear and its implications for understanding the diets of human ancestors and other extinct mammals. The debate has recently taken a twist, calling into question the efficacy of dental microwear to reveal diet. Some argue...

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

authors： Xia J,Zheng J,Huang D,Tian ZR,Chen L,Zhou Z,Ungar PS,Qian L

更新日期：2015-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between DNA polymerases and sliding clamp proteins confers processivity in DNA synthesis. This interaction is critical for most DNA replication machines from viruses and prokaryotes to higher eukaryotes. The clamp proteins also participate in a variety of dynamic and competing protein-protein interacti...

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

authors： Dalrymple BP,Kongsuwan K,Wijffels G,Dixon NE,Jennings PA

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Inbred Lewis (LEW/N) female rats develop an arthritis in response to group A streptococcal cell wall peptidoglycan polysaccharide (SCW), which mimics human rheumatoid arthritis. Histocompatible Fischer (F344/N) rats do not develop arthritis in response to the same SCW stimulus. To evaluate this difference in inflammat...

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

authors： Sternberg EM,Hill JM,Chrousos GP,Kamilaris T,Listwak SJ,Gold PW,Wilder RL

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA-based identification depends on the probability that two different individuals have the same phenotype, which is given by kinship theory. Together with the large and consistent body of evidence on human population structure, kinship theory provides a sound basis for forensic use of DNA markers. ...

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

authors： Morton NE

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Container-shaped molecules provide structured environments that impart geometric bounds on the motions and conformations of smaller molecular occupants. Moreover, they provide "solvation" that is constrained in time and space. When inwardly directed functional groups are present, they can interact chemically with the ...

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

authors： Purse BW,Rebek J Jr

更新日期：2005-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve growth factor (NGF) serum levels were measured in 49 patients with asthma and/or rhinoconjunctivitis and/or urticaria-angioedema. Clinical and biochemical parameters, such as bronchial reactivity, total and specific serum IgE levels, and circulating eosinophil cationic protein levels, were evaluated in relation ...

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

authors： Bonini S,Lambiase A,Bonini S,Angelucci F,Magrini L,Manni L,Aloe L

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activated form of the third complement protein, C3b, forms a stable complex with components of plasma membranes and particulate entities such as zymosan. The complex resists the action of detergents and protein denaturants as well as extremes of temperature, salt concentration, and pH. It can, however, be broken b...

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

authors： Law SK,Levine RP

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coincidence cloning allows the isolation of sequences held in common by two genomic DNA populations. Human DNA from two human-hamster hybrid cell lines was amplified by Alu-repeat primers (Alu PCR) and the products originating from the shared human chromosomal region were cloned. To achieve this, human sequences were ...

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

authors： Aslanidis C,de Jong PJ

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mature larvae of Sarcophaga argyrostoma fail to form puparia when kept in contact with water, but pupariate after having been subsequently exposed to dryness for 30 hr. They become increasingly more sensitive to injected ecdysone the longer the exposure to dry conditions. A second wet treatment halts the production of...

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

authors： Zdarek J,Fraenkel G

更新日期：1970-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In maturing T lineage cells, the helix-loop-helix protein E47 has been shown to enforce a critical proliferation and developmental checkpoint commonly referred to as beta selection. To examine how E47 regulates cellular expansion and developmental progression, we have used an E2A-deficient lymphoma cell line and DNA m...

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

authors： Schwartz R,Engel I,Fallahi-Sichani M,Petrie HT,Murre C

更新日期：2006-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal medullary cells contain high concentrations of myo-inositol, sorbitol, betaine, and glycerophosphocholine, whose levels vary with urinary osmolality. Accumulation of these "compatible" organic osmolytes is believed to help the cells osmoregulate in response to the high extracellular osmolality that occurs as par...

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

authors： Nakanishi T,Turner RJ,Burg MB

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00