Origin and functional properties of the major gene product of the Snyder-Theilen strain of feline sarcoma virus.

abstract：:Acetylcholine is the main neurotransmitter at the mammalian neuromuscular junction (NMJ) where nicotinic acetylcholine receptors mediate the signaling between nerve terminals and muscle fibers. We show that under glutamatergic transmission, rat NMJ switches from cholinergic type synapse to glutamatergic synapse. Conne...

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

authors： Brunelli G,Spano P,Barlati S,Guarneri B,Barbon A,Bresciani R,Pizzi M

更新日期：2005-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In an earlier report, evidence was presented that the down-regulation of beta-actin mRNA during myogenesis was controlled by a region 3' to the promoter of the gene. In this paper we report the location of this regulatory sequence, determined by deletion analysis and the use of chimeric genes, transfected stably into ...

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

authors： DePonti-Zilli L,Seiler-Tuyns A,Paterson BM

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examination of the structural basis for antiviral activity, oral pharmacokinetics, and hepatic metabolism among a series of symmetry-based inhibitors of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) protease led to the discovery of ABT-538, a promising experimental drug for the therapeutic intervention in acquired immunodefi...

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

authors： Kempf DJ,Marsh KC,Denissen JF,McDonald E,Vasavanonda S,Flentge CA,Green BE,Fino L,Park CH,Kong XP

更新日期：1995-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A synchronized heart beat is controlled by pacemaking impulses conducted through Purkinje fibers. In chicks, these impulse-conducting cells are recruited during embryogenesis from myocytes in direct association with developing coronary arteries. In culture, the vascular cytokine endothelin converts embryonic myocytes ...

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

authors： Hyer J,Johansen M,Prasad A,Wessels A,Kirby ML,Gourdie RG,Mikawa T

更新日期：1999-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Pollen tubes are highly polarized plant cells specialized in delivering sperm for fertilization. Pollen tube growth is rapid, occurs exclusively at the tip, and can reach distances thousands of times the diameter of the pollen grain without cell division, thus representing an excellent model system for studying asymme...

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

authors： Cheung AY,Niroomand S,Zou Y,Wu HM

更新日期：2010-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cells express hundreds of metalloenzymes, the mechanisms by which apoenzymes receive their metal cofactors are largely unknown. Poly(rC)-binding proteins PCBP1 and PCBP2 are multifunctional adaptor proteins that bind iron and deliver it to ferritin for storage or to prolyl and asparagyl hydroxylases to metall...

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

authors： Frey AG,Nandal A,Park JH,Smith PM,Yabe T,Ryu MS,Ghosh MC,Lee J,Rouault TA,Park MH,Philpott CC

更新日期：2014-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta subunits of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels are encoded in four genes and display additional molecular diversity because of alternative splicing. At the functional level, all forms are very similar except for beta2a, which differs in that it does not support prepulse facilitation of alpha1C Ca2+ channels, inhibits vo...

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

authors： Qin N,Platano D,Olcese R,Costantin JL,Stefani E,Birnbaumer L

更新日期：1998-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza A virus (IAV) has a segmented genome, which (i) allows for exchange of gene segments in coinfected cells, termed reassortment, and (ii) necessitates a selective packaging mechanism to ensure incorporation of a complete set of segments into virus particles. Packaging signals serve as segment identifiers and e...

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

authors： White MC,Tao H,Steel J,Lowen AC

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole human blood was examined by (31)P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Individual phosphates (alpha,beta,gamma) of ATP were identifiable, and two microenvironments appeared to be present for this molecule. When sequential recordings of freshly collected blood were made, 2,3-diphosphoglycerate was observed to...

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

authors： Henderson TO,Costello AJ,Omachi A

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When either the homologous RNA (avian myeloblastosis virus RNA) or a heterologous RNA (poliovirus RNA) was used as a template, the anticomplementary DNA synthesized in vitro by avian myeloblastosis virus reverse transcriptase (RNA-directed DNA nucleotidyltransferase, EC 2.7.7.7) was primed by fragments of the original...

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

authors： Myers JC,Dobkin C,Spiegelman S

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular imbalance in the levels of antioxidants and reactive oxygen species resulting in apoptosis is directly associated with a number of parasitic infections, aging, and several genetic and multifactorial diseases. The baculovirus AcNPV-encoded antiapoptotic p35 gene prevents apoptosis induced by a variety of apopt...

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

authors： Sah NK,Taneja TK,Pathak N,Begum R,Athar M,Hasnain SE

更新日期：1999-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated from vaccinia virus cores an enzyme, 5'-phosphate-polyribonucleotide kinase, that in the presence of ATP and Mg2+ catalyzes the conversion of 5'-phosphate and 5'-diphosphate termini of RNA to the 5'-triphosphate species. With the exception of dATP, other nucleoside triphosphates were inactive as phosp...

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

authors： Spencer E,Loring D,Hurwitz J,Monroy G

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent theory and field observations suggest that a systematically varying weathering zone, that can be tens of meters thick, commonly develops in the bedrock underlying hillslopes. Weathering turns otherwise poorly conductive bedrock into a dynamic water storage reservoir. Infiltrating precipitation typically will pa...

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

authors： Rempe DM,Dietrich WE

更新日期：2018-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic, infectious, and tumor cell-intrinsic noxae can all evoke the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response in tumor cells, which is critical for tumor cell growth and cancer progression. Evidence exists that the ER stress response can drive a proinflammatory program in tumor cells and macrophages but, to our k...

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

authors： Mahadevan NR,Rodvold J,Sepulveda H,Rossi S,Drew AF,Zanetti M

更新日期：2011-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse beta-globin in encoded in a discontinuous structural gene interrupted by a 550-base pair intervening sequence of DNA. Correspondingly, the mature beta-globin mRNA appears to be synthesized via a 15S precursor, the length of which roughly equals the total length of the coding and intervening sequences of the beta...

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

authors： Tilghman SM,Curtis PJ,Tiemeier DC,Leder P,Weissmann C

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental and physiological responses are regulated by light throughout the entire life cycle of higher plants. To sense changes in the light environment, plants have developed various photoreceptors, including the red/far-red light-absorbing phytochromes and blue light-absorbing cryptochromes. A wide variety of p...

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

authors： Bognár LK,Hall A,Adám E,Thain SC,Nagy F,Millar AJ

更新日期：1999-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms regulating clonal expansion and contraction of T cells in response to immunization remain to be identified. A recent study established that there was a log-linear relation between CD4 T-cell precursor number (PN) and factor of expansion (FE), with a slope of ∼-0.5 over a range of 3-30,000 precursors per...

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

authors： Bocharov G,Quiel J,Luzyanina T,Alon H,Chiglintsev E,Chereshnev V,Meier-Schellersheim M,Paul WE,Grossman Z

更新日期：2011-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria control is threatened by a limited pipeline of effective pharmaceuticals against drug-resistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum Components of the mitochondrial electron transport chain (ETC) are attractive targets for drug development, owing to exploitable differences between the parasite and human ETC. Disru...

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

authors： Lane KD,Mu J,Lu J,Windle ST,Liu A,Sun PD,Wellems TE

更新日期：2018-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of scrapie, a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy caused by an unconventional agent, a normal cellular protein is converted to an abnormal form that copurifies with infectivity and aggregates to form deposits of amyloid. We have used immunocytochemistry and methods that enhance detection of amyloidog...

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

authors： Diedrich JF,Bendheim PE,Kim YS,Carp RI,Haase AT

更新日期：1991-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluid mixing in active suspensions of microorganisms is important to ecological phenomena and presents a fascinating stochastic process. We investigate the mixing produced by swimming unicellular algal cells (Chlamydomonas) in quasi-two-dimensional liquid films by simultaneously tracking the motion of the cells and th...

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

authors： Kurtuldu H,Guasto JS,Johnson KA,Gollub JP

更新日期：2011-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The female germ cell stage of primary importance in radiation genetic hazards is the immature, arrested oocyte. In the mouse, this stage has a near zero or zero sensitivity to mutation induction by radiation. However, the application of these mouse results to women has been questioned on the ground that the mouse arre...

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

authors： Russell WL

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contractile forces are essential for many developmental processes involving cell shape change and tissue deformation. Recent experiments on reconstituted actomyosin networks, the major component of the contractile machinery, have shown that active contractility occurs above a threshold motor concentration and within a...

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

authors： Wang S,Wolynes PG

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:beta1,4-Galactosyltransferase (beta4GalT-I) participates in both glycoconjugate biosynthesis (ubiquitous activity) and lactose biosynthesis (mammary gland-specific activity). In somatic tissues, transcription of the mammalian beta4GalT-I gene results in a 4.1-kb mRNA and a 3.9-kb mRNA as a consequence of initiation at...

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

authors： Charron M,Shaper JH,Shaper NL

更新日期：1998-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Clones of Friend erythroleukemia cells, characterized by the presence of 40-70% benzidine-positive cells synthesizing hemoglobin in the absence of inducing drugs, were treated with several phorbol diesters with a known range of tumor-promoting activity on mouse skin. Good correlation was found between the reported tum...

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

authors： Rovera G,O'Brien TG,Diamond L

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New neurons are continuously generated in restricted regions of the adult mammalian brain. Although these adult-born neurons have been shown to receive synaptic inputs, little is known about their synaptic outputs. Using retrovirus-mediated birth-dating and labeling in combination with serial section electron microsco...

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

authors： Faulkner RL,Jang MH,Liu XB,Duan X,Sailor KA,Kim JY,Ge S,Jones EG,Ming GL,Song H,Cheng HJ

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed variability in outer surface protein B (OspB) from Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), the causative agent of Lyme disease, to determine how Bb escapes immune destruction. We have shown that vaccination with OspB from Bb strain B31 protected mice from infection with Bb B31 but not against Bb N40. The present study ...

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

authors： Fikrig E,Tao H,Kantor FS,Barthold SW,Flavell RA

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoglycoside ototoxicity has been related to a surprisingly large number of cellular structures and metabolic pathways. The finding that patients with mutations in mitochondrial rRNA are hypersusceptible to aminoglycoside-induced hearing loss has indicated a possible role for mitochondrial protein synthesis. To stud...

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

authors： Hobbie SN,Akshay S,Kalapala SK,Bruell CM,Shcherbakov D,Böttger EC

更新日期：2008-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNA clones encoding a glucose transporter-like protein have been isolated from adult human liver and kidney cDNA libraries by cross-hybridization with the human HepG2/erythrocyte glucose transporter cDNA. Analysis of the sequence of this 524-amino acid glucose transporter-like protein indicates that it has 55.5% iden...

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

authors： Fukumoto H,Seino S,Imura H,Seino Y,Eddy RL,Fukushima Y,Byers MG,Shows TB,Bell GI

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli flagellar motor senses the intracellular concentration of the response regulator CheY-P and responds by varying the bias between its counterclockwise (CCW) and clockwise (CW) rotational states. The response is ultrasensitive with a large Hill coefficient (approximately 10). Recently, the detailed ...

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

authors： Tu Y

更新日期：2008-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cancer cells with a mutated p53 tumor-suppressor gene have a selective growth advantage and may exhibit resistance to ionizing radiation and certain chemotherapeutic agents. To examine the prognostic value of mutations in the p53 gene, a cohort of 90 Midwestern Caucasian breast cancer patients were analyzed with...

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

authors： Kovach JS,Hartmann A,Blaszyk H,Cunningham J,Schaid D,Sommer SS

更新日期：1996-02-06 00:00:00