Enzymes processing somatostatin precursors: an Arg-Lys esteropeptidase from the rat brain cortex converting somatostatin-28 into somatostatin-14.

abstract：:Histone methylation has an important role in transcriptional regulation. However, unlike H3K4 and H3K9 methylation, the role of H4K20 monomethylation (H4K20me-1) in transcriptional regulation remains unclear. Here, we show that Wnt3a specifically stimulates H4K20 monomethylation at the T cell factor (TCF)-binding elem...

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

authors： Li Z,Nie F,Wang S,Li L

更新日期：2011-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of T1ST2, the IL-33R, by Th2 cells requires GATA3. Resting Th2 cells express little GATA3, which is increased by IL-33 and a STAT5 activator, in turn increasing T1ST2 from its low-level expression on resting Th2 cells. Th2 cells that have upregulated T1ST2 produce IL-13, but not IL-4, in response to IL-33 p...

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

authors： Guo L,Wei G,Zhu J,Liao W,Leonard WJ,Zhao K,Paul W

更新日期：2009-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosystem I (PSI) reaction centers (RCs) of the thermophilic cyanobacterium Mastigocladus laminosus were purified and characterized. The PSI RC was obtained in two forms, monomeric and trimeric. The two forms contained the same number of pigments per P700 and displayed similar photochemical activities. The two forms...

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

authors： Almog O,Shoham G,Michaeli D,Nechushtai R

更新日期：1991-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The hallmark of the menstrual cycle is extensive steroid-dependent tissue turnover. Estrogen mediates endometrial cell growth and structural remodeling, whereas progesterone suppresses estrogen-dependent proliferation and promotes cellular differentiation. In nonfertile cycles, tissue degradation and menstruation occu...

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

authors： Osteen KG,Rodgers WH,Gaire M,Hargrove JT,Gorstein F,Matrisian LM

更新日期：1994-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The protease encoded by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) processes the viral gag and gag-pol protein precursor by posttranslational cleavage. In this study we have demonstrated by site-specific mutagenesis (Asp----Thr) and by pepstatin A inhibition that the recombinant HIV protease is an aspartic-type protease. ...

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

authors： Seelmeier S,Schmidt H,Turk V,von der Helm K

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After the emergence of pandemic influenza viruses in 1957, 1968, and 2009, existing seasonal viruses were observed to be replaced in the human population by the novel pandemic strains. We have previously hypothesized that the replacement of seasonal strains was mediated, in part, by a population-scale boost in antibod...

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

authors： Pica N,Hai R,Krammer F,Wang TT,Maamary J,Eggink D,Tan GS,Krause JC,Moran T,Stein CR,Banach D,Wrammert J,Belshe RB,García-Sastre A,Palese P

更新日期：2012-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate transport by the excitatory amino acid carrier EAAC1 is known to be reversible. Thus, glutamate can either be taken up into cells, or it can be released from cells through reverse transport, depending on the electrochemical gradient of the co- and countertransported ions. However, it is unknown how fast and ...

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

authors： Zhang Z,Tao Z,Gameiro A,Barcelona S,Braams S,Rauen T,Grewer C

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro and in vivo triplet state electron paramagnetic resonance (epr) spectra of bacteriochlorophylls (Bchls) show important differences in (a) electron spin polarization (esp), and (b) zero field splitting (ZFS) parameters. The unusual esp and ZFS properties of the observed in vivo triplet state are best interpret...

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

authors： Thurnauer MC,Katz JJ,Norris JR

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many of the world's around 6,000 languages are in danger of disappearing as people give up use of a minority language in favor of the majority language in a process called language shift. Language shift can be monitored on a large scale through the use of mathematical models by way of differential equations, for examp...

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

authors： Prochazka K,Vogl G

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-containing protein 2 (NOD2) agonist muramyl dipeptide (MDP), a peptidoglycan motif common to all bacteria, supports leucine-rich repeat-containing G protein-coupled receptor 5 (LGR5)+ intestinal stem cell (ISC) survival through NOD2 activation upon an otherwise lethal oxid...

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

authors： Levy A,Stedman A,Deutsch E,Donnadieu F,Virgin HW,Sansonetti PJ,Nigro G

更新日期：2020-01-28 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：:Break-induced replication (BIR) refers to recombination-dependent DNA synthesis initiated from one end of a DNA double-strand break and can extend for more than 100 kb. BIR initiates by Rad51-catalyzed strand invasion, but the mechanism for DNA synthesis is not known. Here, we used BrdU incorporation to track DNA synt...

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

authors： Donnianni RA,Symington LS

更新日期：2013-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Dust grains of organic matter were the main reservoir of C and N in the forming Solar System and are thus considered to be an essential ingredient for the emergence of life. However, the physical environment and the chemical mechanisms at the origin of these organic grains are still highly debated. In this study, we r...

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

authors： Tartèse R,Chaussidon M,Gurenko A,Delarue F,Robert F

更新日期：2018-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:To reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, Indonesia instituted a nationwide moratorium on new license areas ("concessions") for oil palm plantations, timber plantations, and logging activity on primary forests and peat lands after May 2011. Here we indirectly evaluate the effectiveness of this policy usin...

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

authors： Busch J,Ferretti-Gallon K,Engelmann J,Wright M,Austin KG,Stolle F,Turubanova S,Potapov PV,Margono B,Hansen MC,Baccini A

更新日期：2015-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to environmental changes, the connections ("arrows") in gene regulatory networks determine which genes modulate their expression, but the quantitative parameters of the network ("the numbers on the arrows") are equally important in determining the resulting phenotype. What are the objectives and constraint...

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

authors： Chubukov V,Zuleta IA,Li H

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms modify rates and mechanisms of chemical and physical weathering and clay growth, thus playing fundamental roles in soil and sediment formation. Because processes in soils are inherently complex and difficult to study, we employ a model based on the lichen-mineral system to identify the fundamental inter...

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

authors： Banfield JF,Barker WW,Welch SA,Taunton A

更新日期：1999-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Explaining the variation between human languages and the constraints on that variation is a core goal of linguistics. In the last 20 y, it has been claimed that many striking universals of cross-linguistic variation follow from a hypothetical principle that dependency length--the distance between syntactically related...

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

authors： Futrell R,Mahowald K,Gibson E

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of a charge density wave (CDW) permeates much of condensed matter physics and chemistry. CDWs have their origin rooted in the instability of a one-dimensional system described by Peierls. The extension of this concept to reduced dimensional systems has led to the concept of Fermi surface nesting (FSN), whi...

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

authors： Zhu X,Cao Y,Zhang J,Plummer EW,Guo J

更新日期：2015-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Phage phi 29 terminal protein, p3, essentially pure, was isolated in a denatured form from viral particles, and anti-p3 antiserum was obtained. A radioimmunoassay to detect and quantitate protein p3 was developed. By using this assay, native protein p3 was highly purified from Escherichia coli cells harboring a gene 3...

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

authors： Prieto I,Lázaro JM,García JA,Hermoso JM,Salas M

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies by x-ray crystallography, NMR, and molecular simulations have suggested that monovalent counterions can penetrate deeply into the minor groove of B form DNA. Such groove-bound ions potentially could play an important role in AT-tract bending and groove narrowing, thereby modulating DNA function in vivo....

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

authors： Denisov VP,Halle B

更新日期：2000-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify proteins that regulate the transcriptional activity of c-Jun, we have used the yeast two-hybrid screen to detect mammalian polypeptides that might interact functionally with the N-terminal segment of c-Jun, a known regulatory region. Among the proteins identified is a short form of Stat3 (designated Stat3 ...

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

authors： Schaefer TS,Sanders LK,Nathans D

更新日期：1995-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide excision repair proteins have been implicated in genetic recombination by experiments in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Drosophila melanogaster, but their role, if any, in mammalian cells is undefined. To investigate the role of the nucleotide excision repair gene ERCC1, the hamster homologue to the S. cerevi...

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

authors： Sargent RG,Rolig RL,Kilburn AE,Adair GM,Wilson JH,Nairn RS

更新日期：1997-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic imprinting results in the differential expression of genes, depending on which allele is inherited from the mother and which from the father. The effects of such differential gene expression are reflected in phenotypic differences between the reciprocal heterozygotes (Aa vs. aA). Although many imprinted genes ...

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

authors： Cheverud JM,Hager R,Roseman C,Fawcett G,Wang B,Wolf JB

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The central nervous system both influences and is influenced by the gastrointestinal system. Most research on this gut-brain connection has focused on how ascending signals from the gut and its microbiome alter brain function. Less attention has focused on how descending signals from the central nervous system alter g...

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

authors： Levinthal DJ,Strick PL

更新日期：2020-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of DNA bound in nucleosomes depends on the DNA sequence. Questions such as how nucleosomes are positioned and how they potentially bind sequence-dependent nuclear factors require near-atomic resolution structures of the nucleosome core containing different DNA sequences; despite this, only the DNA for...

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

authors： Frouws TD,Duda SC,Richmond TJ

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviruses evolved from long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons by acquisition of envelope functions, and subsequently reinvaded host genomes. Together, endogenous retroviruses and LTR retrotransposons represent major components of animal, plant, and fungal genomes. Sequences from these elements have been exapte...

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

authors： Dodonova SO,Prinz S,Bilanchone V,Sandmeyer S,Briggs JAG

更新日期：2019-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The eukaryotic small ribosomal subunit carries only four ribosomal (r) RNA methylated bases, all close to important functional sites. N(7)-methylguanosine (m(7)G) introduced at position 1575 on 18S rRNA by Bud23-Trm112 is at a ridge forming a steric block between P- and E-site tRNAs. Here we report atomic resolution s...

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

authors： Létoquart J,Huvelle E,Wacheul L,Bourgeois G,Zorbas C,Graille M,Heurgué-Hamard V,Lafontaine DL

更新日期：2014-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A new ribonuclease, RNase BN, has been identified and partially purified from a strain of Escherichia coli lacking RNase II and RNase D by using the artificial tRNA precursor tRNA-C-[14C]U as substrate. This enzyme is present in E. coli B but absent from the tRNA processing mutant strain BN which is unable to process ...

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

authors： Asha PK,Blouin RT,Zaniewski R,Deutscher MP

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entamoeba histolytica is a single cell eukaryote that is the etiologic agent of amoebic colitis. Core promoter elements of E. histolytica protein encoding genes include a TATA-like sequence (GTATTTAAAG/C) at -30, a novel element designated GAAC (GAACT) that has a variable location between TATA and the site of transcri...

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

authors： Singh U,Rogers JB,Mann BJ,Petri WA Jr

更新日期：1997-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss or reduction in function of tumor suppressor genes contributes to tumorigenesis. Here, by allelic DNA copy number analysis using single-nucleotide polymorphism genotyping array and mass spectrometry, we report homozygous deletion in glioblastoma multiformes at chromosome 13q21, where DACH1 gene is located. We fou...

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

authors： Watanabe A,Ogiwara H,Ehata S,Mukasa A,Ishikawa S,Maeda D,Ueki K,Ino Y,Todo T,Yamada Y,Fukayama M,Saito N,Miyazono K,Aburatani H

更新日期：2011-07-26 00:00:00