Nonsense mutations affecting the his4 enzyme complex of yeast.

abstract：:A low molecular weight toxin isolated from the venom of the digger wasp Philanthus triangulum, first noted by T. Piek, is a potent antagonist of transmission at quisqualate-sensitive glutamate synapses of locust leg muscle. This philanthotoxin 433 (PTX-433) has been purified, chemically characterized, and subsequently...

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

authors： Eldefrawi AT,Eldefrawi ME,Konno K,Mansour NA,Nakanishi K,Oltz E,Usherwood PN

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously purified a 48-kDa protein (p48) that specifically reacts with an antiserum directed against the 12 carboxyl-terminal amino acids of the c-myc gene product. Using an antiserum directed against the purified p48, we have cloned a cDNA from a human expression library. This cDNA hybrid-selects an mRNA that tr...

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

authors： Giallongo A,Feo S,Moore R,Croce CM,Showe LC

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using data from the North American Breeding Bird Survey, we determined that most neotropical migrant bird species that breed in forests of the eastern United States and Canada have recently (1978-1987) declined in abundance after a period of stable or increasing populations. Most permanent residents and temperate-zone...

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

authors： Robbins CS,Sauer JR,Greenberg RS,Droege S

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have sequenced the mutant beta-actin gene of a tumorigenic human fibroblast cell line (HuT-14T) and found that it carries three mutations that alter the amino acids at positions 36, 83, and 244 as well as a 22-base-pair "insertion" sequence, in the 5' intron, not present in a wild-type gene. The less tumorigenic ce...

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

authors： Lin CS,Ng SY,Gunning P,Kedes L,Leavitt J

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of integrated viral DNA in normal and leukemic chicken cells has been studied by sequential nucleic acid hybridization procedures that localize the viral specific DNA in cellular DNA regions differing in reiteration frequency. First, DNA.DNA reassociation was employed to fractionate cellular DNA sequences a...

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

authors： Evans RM,Baluda MA,Shoyab M

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neotropical Heliconius butterflies are famous examples of Müllerian mimicry, due to the diverse array of shared, brightly colored wing patterns that advertise the butterflies' unpalatability. The parallel geographical variation in these patterns within several widespread species has been invoked to support the con...

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

authors： Brower AV

更新日期：1994-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes carried by EcoRI endonuclease-generated fragments of Staphylococcus plasmid DNA have been covalently joined to the E. coli antibiotic-resistance plasmid pSC101, and the resulting hybrid molecules have been introduced into E. coli by transformation. The newly constructed plasmids replicate as biologically functio...

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

authors： Chang AC,Cohen SN

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-resolution single nucleotide polymorphism genomic microarray (SNP-chip) is a useful tool to define gene dosage levels over the whole genome, allowing precise detection of deletions and duplications/amplifications of chromosomes in cancer cells. We found that this new technology can also identify breakpoints of ch...

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

authors： Kawamata N,Ogawa S,Zimmermann M,Niebuhr B,Stocking C,Sanada M,Hemminki K,Yamatomo G,Nannya Y,Koehler R,Flohr T,Miller CW,Harbott J,Ludwig WD,Stanulla M,Schrappe M,Bartram CR,Koeffler HP

更新日期：2008-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal ablation of the suprachiasmatic nucleus in the rat has two important consequences. First, the direct projection from the retina to the suprachiasmatic nucleus fails to develop and no other retinal projection to any hypothalamic nucleus is formed. Second, circadian rhythms in drinking and spontaneous locomotor...

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

authors： Mosko S,Moore RY

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human-caused environmental changes are creating regional combinations of environmental conditions that, within the next 50 to 100 years, may fall outside the envelope within which many of the terrestrial plants of a region evolved. These environmental modifications might become a greater cause of global species extinc...

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

authors： Tilman D,Lehman C

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:RNase T2 enzymes are conserved in most eukaryotic genomes, and expression patterns and phylogenetic analyses suggest that they may carry out an important housekeeping role. However, the nature of this role has been elusive. Here we show that RNS2, an intracellular RNase T2 from Arabidopsis thaliana, is essential for n...

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

authors： Hillwig MS,Contento AL,Meyer A,Ebany D,Bassham DC,Macintosh GC

更新日期：2011-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we address the problem of modeling generic features of structurally but not textually related DNA motifs, that is, motifs whose consensus sequences are entirely different but nevertheless share "metasequence features" reflecting similarities in the DNA-binding domains of their associated protein recog...

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

authors： Xing EP,Karp RM

更新日期：2004-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha-Isopropylmalate synthase [3-hydroxy-4-methyl-3-carboxyvalerate 2-oxo-3-methylbutyrate-lyase (CoA-acetylating); EC 4.1.3.12], the enzyme catalyzing the first committed step in leucine biosynthesis, and homocitrate synthase [3-hydroxy-3-carboxyadipate 2-oxoglutarate-lyase (CoA-acetylating); EC 4.1.3.21], the first...

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

authors： Tracy JW,Kohlhaw GB

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ionizing radiation has been used to selectively separate the circadian oscillator function of the eye of Aplysia from some of its other functions--synchronous compound action potential (CAP) generation, the light response, synaptic transmission between photoreceptors and output neurons, and the bursting pacemaker mech...

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

authors： Woolum JC,Strumwasser F

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fish in schooling formations navigate complex flow fields replete with mechanical energy in the vortex wakes of their companions. Their schooling behavior has been associated with evolutionary advantages including energy savings, yet the underlying physical mechanisms remain unknown. We show that fish can improve thei...

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

authors： Verma S,Novati G,Koumoutsakos P

更新日期：2018-06-05 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：:DNA heteroduplexes with single unpaired bases of the four different kinds were prepared by annealing separated strands of bacteriophage lambda DNA and used to transfect Escherichia coli. Genetic analysis of the progeny phages obtained from transfected bacteria indicates that the E. coli mismatch repair system can reco...

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

authors： Dohet C,Wagner R,Radman M

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating human disease of upper and lower motoneurons of unknown etiology. In support of the potential role of autoimmunity in ALS, two immune-mediated animal models of motoneuron disease have been developed that resemble ALS with respect to the loss of motoneurons, the pres...

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

authors： Appel SH,Engelhardt JI,García J,Stefani E

更新日期：1991-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular targeting of the two receptor interaction domains of the epigenetic repressor silencing mediator of retinoid and thyroid hormone receptors (SMRT(mRID)) produced a transplantable skeletal syndrome that reduced radial bone growth, increased numbers of bone-resorbing periosteal osteoclasts, and increased bone f...

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

authors： Hong SH,Dvorak-Ewell M,Stevens HY,Barish GD,Castro GL,Nofsinger R,Frangos JA,Shoback D,Evans RM

更新日期：2013-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:ErbB3 (HER3) is a member of the EGF receptor (EGFR) family of receptor tyrosine kinases, which, unlike the other three family members, contains a pseudo kinase in place of a tyrosine kinase domain. In cancer, ErbB3 activation is driven by a ligand-dependent mechanism through the formation of heterodimers with EGFR, Er...

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

authors： Lee S,Greenlee EB,Amick JR,Ligon GF,Lillquist JS,Natoli EJ Jr,Hadari Y,Alvarado D,Schlessinger J

更新日期：2015-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Capsaicin is a unique alkaloid of the plant kingdom restricted to the genus Capsicum. Capsaicin is the pungency factor, a bioactive molecule of food and of medicinal importance. Capsaicin is useful as a counterirritant, antiarthritic, analgesic, antioxidant, and anticancer agent. Capsaicin biosynthesis involves conden...

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

authors： Prasad BC,Kumar V,Gururaj HB,Parimalan R,Giridhar P,Ravishankar GA

更新日期：2006-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The amplitude of the CO(2) seasonal cycle at the Mauna Loa Observatory (MLO) increased from the early 1970s to the early 1990s but decreased thereafter despite continued warming over northern continents. Because of its location relative to the large-scale atmospheric circulation, the MLO receives mainly Eurasian air m...

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

authors： Buermann W,Lintner BR,Koven CD,Angert A,Pinzon JE,Tucker CJ,Fung IY

更新日期：2007-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:To facilitate analysis of plant cell wall polysaccharide structure and composition, we cloned 74 genes encoding polysaccharide-degrading enzymes from Aspergillus nidulans, Aspergillus fumigatus, and Neurospora crassa and expressed the genes as secreted proteins with C-terminal Myc and 6x His tags. Most of the recombin...

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

authors： Bauer S,Vasu P,Persson S,Mort AJ,Somerville CR

更新日期：2006-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Our laboratory has previously developed cell lines derived from mouse NIH 3T3 fibroblasts and C127 mammary tumor cells that stably express mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) long terminal repeat fusion genes in bovine papillomavirus-based episomes. Glucocorticoid hormone strongly activates transcription from episomes an...

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

authors： Bresnick EH,John S,Berard DS,LeFebvre P,Hager GL

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A key functional event in eukaryotic gene activation is the formation of dynamic protein-protein interaction networks between transcriptional activators and transcriptional coactivators. Seemingly incongruent with the tight regulation of transcription, many biochemical and biophysical studies suggest that activators u...

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

authors： Henley MJ,Linhares BM,Morgan BS,Cierpicki T,Fierke CA,Mapp AK

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase activity was identified in extracts from several different mouse cell lines. Addition of telomeric TTAGGG repeats was specific to telomeric oligonucleotide primers and sensitive to pretreatment with RNase A. In contrast to the hundreds of repeats synthesized by the human and Tetrahymena telomerase enzymes i...

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

authors： Prowse KR,Avilion AA,Greider CW

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change is expected to alter the distribution and abundance of many species. Predictions of climate-induced population extinctions are supported by geographic range shifts that correspond to climatic warming, but few extinctions have been linked mechanistically to climate change. Here we show that extinctions o...

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

authors： McLaughlin JF,Hellmann JJ,Boggs CL,Ehrlich PR

更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Biocompatible gold nanoparticles designed to absorb light at wavelengths of high tissue transparency have been of particular interest for biomedical applications. The ability of such nanoparticles to convert absorbed near-infrared light to heat and induce highly localized hyperthermia has been shown to be highly effec...

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

authors： Rastinehad AR,Anastos H,Wajswol E,Winoker JS,Sfakianos JP,Doppalapudi SK,Carrick MR,Knauer CJ,Taouli B,Lewis SC,Tewari AK,Schwartz JA,Canfield SE,George AK,West JL,Halas NJ

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We and other groups have recently reported the potentiation by ribonucleotide reductase inhibitors such as hydroxyurea of the anti-human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) activity of purine and pyrimidine 2',3'-dideoxynucleosides in both resting and phytohemagglutinin-stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells....

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

authors： Gao WY,Johns DG,Chokekuchai S,Mitsuya H

更新日期：1995-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The photoaffinity labeling agent 5-azidoindole-3-acetic acid, an analog of the endogenous plant hormone indole-3-acetic acid (an auxin), was used to identify indole-3-acetic acid-binding proteins in maize. Two peptides with subunit molecular masses of 24 and 22 kilodaltons are specifically labeled in a saturable manne...

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

authors： Jones AM,Venis MA

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00