Isolation and partial characterization of a major inositol-containing lipid in baker's yeast, mannosyl-diinositol, diphosphoryl-ceramide.

abstract：:The mechanisms that are essential for the maintenance of nutrient status in breast milk are unclear. Our data demonstrate that the intestine via hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-2α is an essential regulatory mechanism for maintaining the quality of breast milk. During lactation, intestinal HIF-2α is highly increased, le...

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

authors： Ramakrishnan SK,Anderson ER,Martin A,Centofanti B,Shah YM

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Arylhydrazinopyrimidines inhibit DNA synthesis in Bacillus subtilis by promoting formation of a specific, long-lived ternary complex with DNA polymerase III and the template-primer DNA. DNA polymerase III contains an associated, single-strand-selective exonuclease which generates 5'-mononucleotides. Drug inhibition of...

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

authors： Low RL,Rashbaum SA,Cozzarelli NR

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cycle-controlled human histone genes are coordinately expressed during S phase, and transcriptional regulation involves a series of trans-acting factors (HiNFs). The proliferation-specific factor HiNF-D interacts with multiple recognition motifs in histone H4, H3, and H1 promoters. Using gel shift immunoassays, w...

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

authors： van Wijnen AJ,Aziz F,Graña X,De Luca A,Desai RK,Jaarsveld K,Last TJ,Soprano K,Giordano A,Lian JB

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapidly expanding network of roads into the Amazon is permanently altering the world's largest tropical forest. Most proposed road projects lack rigorous impact assessments or even basic economic justification. This study analyzes the expected environmental, social and economic impacts of 75 road projects, totalin...

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

authors： Vilela T,Malky Harb A,Bruner A,Laísa da Silva Arruda V,Ribeiro V,Auxiliadora Costa Alencar A,Julissa Escobedo Grandez A,Rojas A,Laina A,Botero R

更新日期：2020-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The HLA class II-associated invariant chain (Ii)-derived peptide (CLIP) occupies the peptide binding groove during assembly in the endoplasmic reticulum, travels with HLA class II to endosomal compartments, and is subsequently released to allow binding of antigenic peptides. We investigated whether the exchange of CLI...

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

authors： van Bergen J,Schoenberger SP,Verreck F,Amons R,Offringa R,Koning F

更新日期：1997-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere ("air capture") in an industrial process has been proposed as an option for stabilizing global CO(2) concentrations. Published analyses suggest these air capture systems may cost a few hundred dollars per tonne of CO(2), making it cost competitive with mainstream CO(2) miti...

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

authors： House KZ,Baclig AC,Ranjan M,van Nierop EA,Wilcox J,Herzog HJ

更新日期：2011-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactate racemase is the first enzyme known to possess a metal pincer active site. The enzyme interconverts d- and l-lactic acid, which is important for the assembly of cell walls in many microorganisms. Here, we report a synthetic model of the active site of lactate racemase, which features a pyridinium-based SCS pinc...

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

authors： Xu T,Wodrich MD,Scopelliti R,Corminboeuf C,Hu X

更新日期：2017-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In the T-cell somatic mutant J.CaM1, the T-cell antigen receptor complex is poorly coupled to the inositolphospholipid second messenger system; some antibodies against the invariant CD3 subunit of the receptor retain their agonist function in J.CaM1. Here we show by a combination of complementation assays that the mut...

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

authors： Goldsmith MA,Dazin PF,Weiss A

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many complex systems are organized in the form of a network embedded in space. Important examples include the physical Internet infrastructure, road networks, flight connections, brain functional networks, and social networks. The effect of space on network topology has recently come under the spotlight because of the...

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

authors： Expert P,Evans TS,Blondel VD,Lambiotte R

更新日期：2011-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of spliced leader RNA (SL RNA) in trans-splicing in Caenorhabditis elegans has been studied through a combination of in vitro mutagenesis and in vivo complementation of rrs-1 mutant nematodes, which lack endogenous SL1 RNA. Three classes of mutant SL1 RNAs have been found-those that rescue the lethal phenotyp...

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

authors： Xie H,Hirsh D

更新日期：1998-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Allergies are highly prevalent, and allergic responses can be triggered even in the absence of allergens due to Pavlovian conditioning to a specific cue. Here we show in humans suffering from allergic rhinitis that merely reencountering the environmental context in which an allergen was administered a week earlier is ...

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

authors： Besedovsky L,Benischke M,Fischer J,Yazdi AS,Born J

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Access to robust and information-rich human cardiac tissue models would accelerate drug-based strategies for treating heart disease. Despite significant effort, the generation of high-fidelity adult-like human cardiac tissue analogs remains challenging. We used computational modeling of tissue contraction and assembly...

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

authors： Thavandiran N,Dubois N,Mikryukov A,Massé S,Beca B,Simmons CA,Deshpande VS,McGarry JP,Chen CS,Nanthakumar K,Keller GM,Radisic M,Zandstra PW

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregation of p53 is initiated by first-order processes that generate an aggregation-prone state with parallel pathways of major or partial unfolding. Here, we elaborate the mechanism and explore its consequences, beginning with the core domain and extending to the full-length p53 mutant Y220C. Production of large li...

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

authors： Wang G,Fersht AR

更新日期：2012-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:An acetone extract of chloroplast particles, when layered on an aqueous surface, exhibited light-dependent phosphorylation. Studies with the firefly-tail enzyme assay, as well as with (32)P-labeled inorganic phosphate, show an initial release of adenosine triphosphate (a step that is apparently only light-triggered), ...

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

authors： McPhee J,Brody SS

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cells that suffer mild DNA damage can enter a reversible state of growth arrest known as quiescence. This decision to temporarily exit the cell cycle is essential to prevent the propagation of mutations, and most cancer cells harbor defects in the underlying control system. Here we present a mechanistic mathemat...

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

authors： Heldt FS,Barr AR,Cooper S,Bakal C,Novák B

更新日期：2018-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus johnsonii NCC 533 is a member of the acidophilus group of intestinal lactobacilli that has been extensively studied for their "probiotic" activities that include, pathogen inhibition, epithelial cell attachment, and immunomodulation. To gain insight into its physiology and identify genes potentially invo...

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

authors： Pridmore RD,Berger B,Desiere F,Vilanova D,Barretto C,Pittet AC,Zwahlen MC,Rouvet M,Altermann E,Barrangou R,Mollet B,Mercenier A,Klaenhammer T,Arigoni F,Schell MA

更新日期：2004-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:This note answers some questions on holomorphic curves and their distribution in an algebraic surface of positive index. More specifically, we exploit the existence of natural negatively curved "pseudo-Finsler" metrics on a surface S of general type whose Chern numbers satisfy c(2)1>2c2 to show that a holomorphic map ...

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

authors： Lu SS,Yau ST

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mosquitoes transmit devastating human diseases because they need vertebrate blood for egg development. Metabolism in female mosquitoes is tightly coupled with blood meal-mediated reproduction, which requires an extremely high level of energy consumption. Functional analysis has shown that major genes encoding for enzy...

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

authors： Wang X,Hou Y,Saha TT,Pei G,Raikhel AS,Zou Z

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Shell shape and shell thickness of the intertidal snail Littorina obtusata changed markedly between 1871 and 1984 in northern New England. Shells collected prior to 1900 were high-spired with thin walls, whereas shells collected in 1982-84 were low-spired with thick walls. An intertidal crab (Carcinus maenas) which pr...

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

authors： Seeley RH

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The super-enhancers (SEs) of lineage-specific genes in B cells are off-target sites of somatic hypermutation. However, the inability to detect sufficient numbers of mutations in normal human B cells has precluded the generation of a high-resolution mutational landscape of SEs. Here we captured and sequenced 12 B cell ...

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

authors： Shen JC,Kamath-Loeb AS,Kohrn BF,Loeb KR,Preston BD,Loeb LA

更新日期：2019-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Duplexes constituted by closed or open RNA circles paired to single-stranded oligonucleotides terminating with 3'-CCAOH form resected pseudoknots that are substrates of yeast histidyl-tRNA synthetase. Design of this RNA fold is linked to the mimicry of the pseudoknotted amino acid accepting branch of the tRNA-like dom...

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

authors： Felden B,Giegé R

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizosaccharomyces pombe cells were transformed with an S. pombe expression vector containing a full-length cDNA of the Chlorella hexose transporter. The transformed cells accumulated 3-O-methylglucose up to 10-fold, whereas wild-type S. pombe and control transformants could only equilibrate this sugar analogue. In a...

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

authors： Sauer N,Caspari T,Klebl F,Tanner W

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothalamic arcuate nucleus is involved in the control of energy intake and expenditure and may participate in the pathogenesis of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN). Two systems are of particular interest in this respect, synthesizing alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alp...

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

authors： Fetissov SO,Hallman J,Oreland L,Af Klinteberg B,Grenbäck E,Hulting AL,Hökfelt T

更新日期：2002-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous neuroimaging studies have implicated default mode network (DMN) involvement in both internally driven processes and memory. Nevertheless, it is unclear whether memory operations reflect a particular case of internally driven processing or alternatively involve the DMN in a distinct manner, possibly depending ...

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

authors： Shapira-Lichter I,Oren N,Jacob Y,Gruberger M,Hendler T

更新日期：2013-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria use membrane-integral sensor histidine kinases (HK) to perceive stimuli and transduce signals from the environment to the cytosol. Information on how the signal is transmitted across the membrane by HKs is still scarce. Combining both liquid- and solid-state NMR, we demonstrate that structural rearrangements ...

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

authors： Salvi M,Schomburg B,Giller K,Graf S,Unden G,Becker S,Lange A,Griesinger C

更新日期：2017-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated patterns of genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum associated with its two main African vectors: Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles funestus. We dissected 10,296 wild-caught mosquitoes from three tropical sites, two in Cameroon (Simbock and Tibati, separated by 320 km) and one in Kenya (Rota, >2,000 k...

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

authors： Annan Z,Durand P,Ayala FJ,Arnathau C,Awono-Ambene P,Simard F,Razakandrainibe FG,Koella JC,Fontenille D,Renaud F

更新日期：2007-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA containing 5-azacytosine (azaC) has previously been shown to be a potent inhibitor of DNA-cytosine methyltransferases. In this report, we describe experiments which demonstrate that azaC-DNA forms a covalent complex with Hpa II methylase, a bacterial enzyme that methylates the internal C of C-C-G-G sequences. The ...

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

authors： Santi DV,Norment A,Garrett CE

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overexpression of the receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) erbB2 (also designated neu or HER2) was implicated in causing a variety of human cancers, including mammary and ovarian carcinomas. Ligand-induced receptor dimerization is critical for stimulation of the intrinsic protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) of RTKs. It was theref...

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

authors： Fleishman SJ,Schlessinger J,Ben-Tal N

更新日期：2002-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a water-based prebiotic model of sugar synthesis involving glycolaldehyde self-condensation, we demonstrate that homochiral L-dipeptide catalysts lead to the stereospecific syntheses of tetroses. The asymmetric effect is largest for erythrose, which may reach a D-enantiomeric excess of >80% with L-Val-L-Val cata...

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

authors： Weber AL,Pizzarello S

更新日期：2006-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Less than 100 cis-regulatory DNAs have been characterized in the context of transgenic metazoan embryos. Here we investigate the feasibility of conducting a genome-wide search for tissue-specific enhancers in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis. A total of 138 random genomic DNA fragments with an average size of 1.7 kb we...

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

authors： Harafuji N,Keys DN,Levine M

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00