In vitro conversion of estradiol-receptor protein to its nuclear form: dependence on hormone and DNA.

abstract：:To repurpose compounds for diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL), we screened a library of drugs and other targeted compounds approved by the US Food and Drug Administration on 9 cell lines and validated the results on a panel of 32 genetically characterized DLBCL cell lines. Dasatinib, a multikinase inhibitor, was ef...

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

authors： Scuoppo C,Wang J,Persaud M,Mittan SK,Basso K,Pasqualucci L,Rabadan R,Inghirami G,Grandori C,Bosch F,Dalla-Favera R

更新日期：2019-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Superhard metals are of interest as possible replacements with enhanced properties over the metal carbides commonly used in cutting, drilling, and wear-resistant tooling. Of the superhard metals, the highest boride of tungsten--often referred to as WB4 and sometimes as W(1-x)B3--is one of the most promising candidates...

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

authors： Lech AT,Turner CL,Mohammadi R,Tolbert SH,Kaner RB

更新日期：2015-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A major virulence factor of Plasmodium falciparum is the adherence of parasitized erythrocytes to the wall of postcapillary venules via a specific interaction between parasite-derived erythrocyte surface ligands and receptors on endothelial cells. To study this phenomenon in vitro, we selected a parasite population th...

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

authors： Chaiyaroj SC,Coppel RL,Novakovic S,Brown GV

更新日期：1994-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural selection does not necessarily favor maximal reproduction because reproduction imposes fitness costs, reducing parental survival, and offspring quality. Here, we show that parents in a preindustrial population in North America incurred fitness costs from reproduction, and women incurred greater costs than men....

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

authors： Penn DJ,Smith KR

更新日期：2007-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholinesterase of intact red blood cell membranes and the acetylcholine receptor at the neuromuscular junction of whole-frog sartorius muscle have been irreversibly inactivated by photo-affinity labeling with two quaternary ammonium aryl azides. The inactivation requires that the azides, at the time of their pho...

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

authors： Kiefer H,Lindstrom J,Lennox ES,Singer SJ

更新日期：1970-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amnesia produced by protein synthesis inhibitors such as anisomycin provides major support for the prevalent view that the formation of long-lasting memories requires de novo protein synthesis. However, inhibition of protein synthesis might disrupt other neural functions to interfere with memory formation. Intraamygda...

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

authors： Canal CE,Chang Q,Gold PE

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioluminescence-based imaging of living cells has become an important tool in biological and medical research. However, many bioluminescence imaging applications are limited by the requirement of an externally provided luciferin substrate and the low bioluminescence signal which restricts the sensitivity and spatiotem...

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

authors： Gregor C,Pape JK,Gwosch KC,Gilat T,Sahl SJ,Hell SW

更新日期：2019-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ediacara biota include macroscopic, morphologically complex soft-bodied organisms that appear globally in the late Ediacaran Period (575-542 Ma). The physiology, feeding strategies, and functional morphology of the modular Ediacara organisms (rangeomorphs and erniettomorphs) remain debated but are critical for und...

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

authors： Laflamme M,Xiao S,Kowalewski M

更新日期：2009-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:An effective plant alkaloid chemical defense requires a variety of transport processes, but few alkaloid transporters have been characterized at the molecular level. Previously, a gene fragment encoding a putative plasma membrane proton symporter was isolated, because it was coordinately regulated with several nicotin...

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

authors： Hildreth SB,Gehman EA,Yang H,Lu RH,Ritesh KC,Harich KC,Yu S,Lin J,Sandoe JL,Okumoto S,Murphy AS,Jelesko JG

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:cGMP is a second messenger that mediates numerous metabolic events; in the present work a role in myeloid cell differentiation was demonstrated. Nitroprusside and NaNO2, which activate cytosolic guanylate cyclase and increase the intracellular cGMP concentration, induced granulocytic differentiation of the human promy...

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

authors： Boss GR

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-specific activation of T lymphocytes, via stimulation of the T-cell antigen receptor (TCR) complex, is marked by a rapid and sustained increase in the concentration of cytoplasmic free Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i). It has been suggested that the second messenger inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) produced after TCR stimulat...

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

authors： Jayaraman T,Ondriasová E,Ondrias K,Harnick DJ,Marks AR

更新日期：1995-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Yields of beta-hydroxynitrates, dihydroxynitrates, and trihydroxynitrates, in particles formed from OH radical-initiated reactions of C(9)-C(15) 2-methyl-1-alkenes in the presence of NO(x) were measured by using a thermal desorption particle beam mass spectrometer coupled to a high-performance liquid chromatograph wit...

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

authors： Matsunaga A,Ziemann PJ

更新日期：2010-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:HetR is an essential regulator of heterocyst development in cyanobacteria. Many mutations in HetR render Anabaena incapable of nitrogen fixation. The protein binds to a DNA palindrome upstream of hetP and other genes. We have determined the crystal structures of HetR complexed with palindromic DNA targets, 21, 23, and...

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

authors： Kim Y,Ye Z,Joachimiak G,Videau P,Young J,Hurd K,Callahan SM,Gornicki P,Zhao J,Haselkorn R,Joachimiak A

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome c (cyt c) is a stable protein that functions in a monomeric state as an electron donor for cytochrome c oxidase. It is also released to the cytosol when permeabilization of the mitochondrial outer membrane occurs at the early stage of apoptosis. For nearly half a century, it has been known that cyt c forms ...

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

authors： Hirota S,Hattori Y,Nagao S,Taketa M,Komori H,Kamikubo H,Wang Z,Takahashi I,Negi S,Sugiura Y,Kataoka M,Higuchi Y

更新日期：2010-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:T-cell anergy is a state of T cells that is hyporesponsive to stimulation via the T-cell receptor and costimulatory molecules and is thought to be important for self-tolerance. How T-cell anergy is regulated is still poorly understood. We report here that tuberous sclerosis (TSC)1 is critical for T-cell anergy. Defici...

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

authors： Xie DL,Wu J,Lou YL,Zhong XP

更新日期：2012-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:W. D. Hamilton's celebrated formula for the age-specific force of natural selection furnishes predictions for senescent mortality due to mutation accumulation, at the price of reliance on a linear approximation. Applying to Hamilton's setting the full nonlinear demographic model for mutation accumulation recently deve...

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

authors： Wachter KW,Evans SN,Steinsaltz D

更新日期：2013-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:All vertebrate cells have been shown to contain a gene, sarc, that has some homology with the transforming gene of Rous sarcoma virus, src. We have compared the polypeptide products of the sarc gene, p60(sarc), of human, mouse, and chicken cells with the polymorphic polypeptide product of the src gene, p60(src), of se...

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

authors： Sefton BM,Hunter T,Beemon K

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse bone marrow-derived Lin(-)-Sca-1(+) endothelial progenitor cell (EPC) has pluripotent abilities such as supporting neovascularization. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptor 1 (VEGFR1) (Flt1) recognizes various VEGF isoforms and is critically implicated in a wide range of physiological and pathologic...

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

authors： Qi JW,Qin TT,Xu LX,Zhang K,Yang GL,Li J,Xiao HY,Zhang ZS,Li LY

更新日期：2013-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of dopamine-containing processes in the striatum of fetal and neonatal cats was studied by immunohistochemical and glyoxylic acid histofluorescence methods and compared to the distribution of acetylcholinesterase (acetylcholine acetylhydrolase, EC 3.1.1.7) observed by thiocholine histochemistry in the...

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

authors： Graybiel AM,Pickel VM,Joh TH,Reis DJ,Ragsdale CW Jr

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared chicken erythrocyte linker histones H1 and H5 binding to a synthetic four-way DNA junction. Each histone binds to form a single complex, with an affinity which permits competition against a large excess of linear duplex DNA. The affinity of H5 is higher than that of H1. The globular domain from either...

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

authors： Varga-Weisz P,Zlatanova J,Leuba SH,Schroth GP,van Holde K

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Most, if not all, peptide- and protein-based hydrogels formed by self-assembly can be characterized as kinetically trapped 3D networks of fibrils. The propensity of disease-associated amyloid-forming peptides and proteins to assemble into polymorphic fibrils suggests that cross-β fibrils comprising hydrogels may also ...

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

authors： Nagy-Smith K,Moore E,Schneider J,Tycko R

更新日期：2015-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytochrome bc1 and related complexes are essential energy-conserving components of mitochondrial and bacterial electron transport chains. They orchestrate a complex sequence of electron and proton transfer reactions resulting in the oxidation of quinol, the reduction of a mobile electron carrier, and the transloca...

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

authors： Cape JL,Bowman MK,Kramer DM

更新日期：2007-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein aggregation is a hallmark of many diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), where aggregation of Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) is implicated in causing neurodegeneration. Recent studies have suggested that destabilization and aggregation of the most immature form of SOD1, the disulfide-reduc...

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

authors： Vassall KA,Stubbs HR,Primmer HA,Tong MS,Sullivan SM,Sobering R,Srinivasan S,Briere LA,Dunn SD,Colón W,Meiering EM

更新日期：2011-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis is the major causative agent of periodontitis, and it may also be involved in the development of systemic diseases (atherosclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis). P. gingivalis is found on and within oral and gingival epithelial cells following binding to surface components of host cells, which serve...

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

authors： Boisvert H,Lorand L,Duncan MJ

更新日期：2014-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Some trypanosomatid protozoa (order Kinetoplastida) are well known to harbor bacterial endosymbionts. Their phylogenetic positions and evolutionary relationships with the hosts were deduced by comparing the rRNA gene sequences. Earlier, we observed that these symbionts from three Crithidia spp. are identical and are c...

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

authors： Du Y,Maslov DA,Chang KP

更新日期：1994-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-stranded DNA oligonucleotides can achieve targeted base-pair substitution with modest efficiency but high precision. We show that "oligo targeting" can be used effectively to study missense mutations in DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes. Inherited inactivating mutations in DNA MMR genes are causative for the canc...

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

authors： Houlleberghs H,Dekker M,Lantermans H,Kleinendorst R,Dubbink HJ,Hofstra RM,Verhoef S,Te Riele H

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:After exposure of segments of rabbit taenia coli to the nonionic detergent Triton X-100, tension could be induced by increasing the [Ca2+] in the micromolar range. In the presence of a saturating [Ca2+], this preparation developed nearly 100% of the control tetanus tension recorded from the intact muscle prior to the ...

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

authors： Gordon AR

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using both heterologous rabbit antisera and mouse monoclonal antibody to RNA.DNA hybrids, we have mapped the in situ hybridization locus of the 18/28S ribosomal RNA fraction to a single large band on polytene autosome 3 in Drosophila heteroneura and Drosophila silvestris. This portion of the chromosome is not physical...

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

authors： Stuart WD,Bishop JG,Carson HL,Frank MB

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptide B (NPB) and neuropeptide W (NPW) have been recently identified as ligands for the G protein-coupled receptor (GPR) 7 and GPR8. The precise in vivo role of this neuropeptide-receptor pathway has not been fully demonstrated. In this paper, we report that NPB-deficient mice manifest a mild adult-onset obesit...

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

authors： Kelly MA,Beuckmann CT,Williams SC,Sinton CM,Motoike T,Richardson JA,Hammer RE,Garry MG,Yanagisawa M

更新日期：2005-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic spines receive most synaptic inputs in the forebrain. Their morphology, with a spine head isolated from the dendrite by a slender neck, indicates a potential role in isolating inputs. Indeed, biochemical compartmentalization occurs at spine heads because of the diffusional bottleneck created by the spine nec...

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

authors： Araya R,Jiang J,Eisenthal KB,Yuste R

更新日期：2006-11-21 00:00:00