A DNA-mediated transformation system for Dictyostelium discoideum.

abstract：:An integral mitochondrial membrane protein (p32) of yeast has previously been molecularly cloned and sequenced and suggested to function as a mitochondrial import receptor. However, this protein has also been proposed to function as phosphate translocator [Guérin, B., Bukusoglu, C., Rakotomanana, F. & Wohlrab, H. (199...

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

authors： Murakami H,Blobel G,Pain D

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular wound healing or the repair of plasma membrane/cell wall damage (plasma membrane damage) occurs frequently in nature. Although various cellular perturbations, such as DNA damage, spindle misalignment, and impaired daughter cell formation, are monitored by cell cycle checkpoint mechanisms in budding yeast, whe...

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

authors： Kono K,Al-Zain A,Schroeder L,Nakanishi M,Ikui AE

更新日期：2016-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic inflammation results in increased nitrogen monoxide (.NO) formation and the accumulation of nitrite (NO(2-)). Neutrophils stimulated by various inflammatory mediators release myeloperoxidase to produce the cytotoxic agent hypochlorous acid (HOCl). Exposure of chondrocytic SW1353 cells to HOCl resulted in a con...

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

authors： Whiteman M,Hooper DC,Scott GS,Koprowski H,Halliwell B

更新日期：2002-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The twin-arginine transport (Tat) system is a protein-targeting pathway of prokaryotes and chloroplasts. Most Escherichia coli Tat substrates are complex metalloenzymes that must be correctly folded and assembled before transport, and a preexport chaperone-mediated "proofreading" process is therefore in operation. The...

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

authors： Hatzixanthis K,Clarke TA,Oubrie A,Richardson DJ,Turner RJ,Sargent F

更新日期：2005-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection by certain human papillomavirus types is regarded as the major risk factor in the development of cervical cancer, one of the most common cancers of women worldwide. Analysis of the immunogenic and structural features of papillomavirus virions has been hampered by the inability to efficiently propagate the vi...

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

authors： Kirnbauer R,Booy F,Cheng N,Lowy DR,Schiller JT

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The pattern of antibody specificities in sera from patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) was determined by the ability of monoclonal antibodies against defined determinants on the acetylcholine receptor molecule to inhibit binding of the serum antibodies to receptor from human muscle. We found that MG patients produce ...

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

authors： Tzartos SJ,Seybold ME,Lindstrom JM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glutathione S-transferases (GST) (glutathione transferase; EC 2.5.1.18) are a family of enzymes responsible for the metabolism of a broad range of xenobiotics and carcinogens. A cDNA clone containing the entire amino acid coding sequence of a human GST-2 subunit has been isolated using a lambda gt11 expression lib...

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

authors： Board PG,Webb GC

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The torI gene has been identified by using a genetic multicopy approach as a negative regulator of the torCAD operon that encodes the trimethylamine N-oxide reductase respiratory system in Escherichia coli. The negative effect was due to a previously unidentified small ORF (66 aa) of phage origin that we called torI f...

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

authors： Ansaldi M,Théraulaz L,Méjean V

更新日期：2004-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:α-Dystroglycan (α-DG) is a highly glycosylated basement membrane receptor that is cleaved by the proprotein convertase furin, which releases its N-terminal domain (α-DGN). Before cleavage, α-DGN interacts with the glycosyltransferase LARGE1 and initiates functional O-glycosylation of the mucin-like domain of α-DG. Not...

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

authors： de Greef JC,Slütter B,Anderson ME,Hamlyn R,O'Campo Landa R,McNutt EJ,Hara Y,Pewe LL,Venzke D,Matsumura K,Saito F,Harty JT,Campbell KP

更新日期：2019-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Contemporary climate change is characterized both by increasing mean temperature and increasing climate variability such as heat waves, storms, and floods. How populations and communities cope with such climatic extremes is a question central to contemporary ecology and biodiversity conservation. Previous work has sho...

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

authors： Reusch TB,Ehlers A,Hämmerli A,Worm B

更新日期：2005-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified and isolated a presumptive leukemogenic provirus from myeloblasts of a chicken in which leukemia had been induced by avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV). Leukemic myeloblasts isolated from peripheral blood or from converted yolk sac cultures of various strains of chickens, regardless of the endogenous ...

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

authors： Souza LM,Komaromy MC,Baluda MA

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A plasmid construct expressing the p66 version of the human immunodeficiency virus reverse transcriptase as a bacterial fusion protein was subjected to in vitro mutagenesis, and the resulting variant proteins were assayed to define the locations of the two major enzymatic activities. The DNA polymerase activity was lo...

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

authors： Prasad VR,Goff SP

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose differential principal component analysis (dPCA) for analyzing multiple ChIP-sequencing datasets to identify differential protein-DNA interactions between two biological conditions. dPCA integrates unsupervised pattern discovery, dimension reduction, and statistical inference into a single framework. It use...

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

authors： Ji H,Li X,Wang QF,Ning Y

更新日期：2013-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of normal human cardiac excitation stems from isolated heart or intraoperative mapping studies under nonphysiological conditions. Here, we use a noninvasive imaging modality (electrocardiographic imaging) to study normal activation and repolarization in intact unanesthetized healthy adults under complete phy...

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

authors： Ramanathan C,Jia P,Ghanem R,Ryu K,Rudy Y

更新日期：2006-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoproteins are emulsion particles that consist of lipids and apolipoproteins. Their natural function is to transport lipids and/or cholesterol to different tissues. We have taken advantage of the hydrophobic interior of these natural emulsions to solubilize DNA. Negatively charged DNA was first complexed with cation...

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

authors： Hara T,Tan Y,Huang L

更新日期：1997-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A vestigial, nonphotosynthetic plastid has been identified recently in protozoan parasites of the phylum Apicomplexa. The apicomplexan plastid, or "apicoplast," is indispensable, but the complete sequence of both the Plasmodium falciparum and Toxoplasma gondii apicoplast genomes has offered no clue as to what essentia...

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

authors： Waller RF,Keeling PJ,Donald RG,Striepen B,Handman E,Lang-Unnasch N,Cowman AF,Besra GS,Roos DS,McFadden GI

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Division of labor among the workers of insect societies is a conspicuous feature of their biology. Social tasks are commonly shared among age groups but not between larvae and adults with completely different morphologies, as in bees, wasps, ants, and beetles (i.e., Holometabola). A unique yet hardly studied holometab...

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

authors： Biedermann PH,Taborsky M

更新日期：2011-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Signaling in the nervous system requires matching of neurotransmitter receptors with cognate neurotransmitters at synapses. The vertebrate neuromuscular junction is the best studied cholinergic synapse, but the mechanisms by which acetylcholine is matched with acetylcholine receptors are not fully understood. Because ...

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

authors： Borodinsky LN,Spitzer NC

更新日期：2007-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Engraftment and maintenance of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPC) depend on their ability to respond to extracellular signals from the bone marrow microenvironment, but the critical intracellular pathways integrating these signals remain poorly understood. Furthermore, recent studies provide contradictory ...

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

authors： Sanchez-Aguilera A,Lee YJ,Lo Celso C,Ferraro F,Brumme K,Mondal S,Kim C,Dorrance A,Luo HR,Scadden DT,Williams DA

更新日期：2011-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing autoreactive B cells edit their B cell antigen receptor (BCR) in the bone marrow and are clonally deleted when they fail to reexpress an innocent BCR. Here, inducible Cre-loxP-mediated gene inversion is used to change the specificity of the BCR on mature IgM+ IgD+ B cells in vivo to address the fate of lymp...

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

authors： Lam KP,Rajewsky K

更新日期：1998-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:An inwardly rectifying, ATP-regulated K+ channel with a distinctive molecular architecture, ROMK1, was recently cloned from rat kidney. Using patch clamp techniques, we have investigated the regulation of ROMK1 with particular emphasis on phosphorylation/dephosphorylation processes. Spontaneous channel rundown occurre...

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

authors： McNicholas CM,Wang W,Ho K,Hebert SC,Giebisch G

更新日期：1994-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Mononegaviruses are promising tools as oncolytic vectors and transgene delivery vectors for gene therapy and regenerative medicine. By using the Magnet proteins, which reversibly heterodimerize upon blue light illumination, photocontrollable mononegaviruses (measles and rabies viruses) were generated. The Magnet prote...

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

authors： Tahara M,Takishima Y,Miyamoto S,Nakatsu Y,Someya K,Sato M,Tani K,Takeda M

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunophilin-immunosuppressant complexes cyclophilin-cyclosporin A (CsA) and FKBP12-FK506 inhibit the phosphatase calcineurin to block T-cell activation. Although cyclophilin A, FKBP12, and calcineurin are highly conserved from yeast to man, none had previously been shown to be essential for viability. We find tha...

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

authors： Breuder T,Hemenway CS,Movva NR,Cardenas ME,Heitman J

更新日期：1994-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Synapsin I is a neuron-specific phosphoprotein associated with the membranes of small synaptic vesicles. Its function is not entirely clear, but evidence points to a possible role in the regulation of neurotransmitter release. Its biosynthesis is under developmental control. Assignment of the human synapsin I gene to ...

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

authors： Yang-Feng TL,DeGennaro LJ,Francke U

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The photosystem II (PSII) subunit S (PsbS) plays a key role in nonphotochemical quenching, a photoprotective mechanism for dissipation of excess excitation energy in plants. The precise function of PsbS in nonphotochemical quenching is unknown. By reconstituting PsbS together with the major light-harvesting complex of...

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

authors： Wilk L,Grunwald M,Liao PN,Walla PJ,Kühlbrandt W

更新日期：2013-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Although(,) vascular remodeling is a hallmark of many chronic inflammatory disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and psoriasis, anti-vascular strategies to treat these conditions have received little attention to date. We investigated the anti-inflammatory activity of systemic blockade of...

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

authors： Schonthaler HB,Huggenberger R,Wculek SK,Detmar M,Wagner EF

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-temperature flash photolysis with IR and visible spectroscopy was used to probe the influence of the distal histidine His-64(E7) of sperm-whale myoglobin (Mb) on the orientation of bound carbon monoxide (CO) and on the kinetics of CO rebinding. The synthesis and high-level expression of a sperm-whale myoglobin gen...

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

authors： Braunstein D,Ansari A,Berendzen J,Cowen BR,Egeberg KD,Frauenfelder H,Hong MK,Ormos P,Sauke TB,Scholl R

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diversity in 39 HLA-A, -B, and -C molecules is derived from 20 amino acid positions of high variability and 71 positions of low variability. Variation in the structurally homologous alpha 1 and alpha 2 domains is distinct and may correlate with partial segregation of peptide and T-cell receptor binding functions. Comp...

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

authors： Parham P,Lomen CE,Lawlor DA,Ways JP,Holmes N,Coppin HL,Salter RD,Wan AM,Ennis PD

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusions with the bacterial gene for chloramphenicol acetyltransferase followed by P-element-mediated germ-line transformation in Drosophila have permitted localization of the DNA sequence that confers a high degree of developmental specificity on a pair of silkmoth eggshell (chorion) genes. The short, 272-base-pair, 5...

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

authors： Mitsialis SA,Spoerel N,Leviten M,Kafatos FC

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:STAT1 is an essential transcription factor for macrophage activation by IFN-gamma and requires phosphorylation of the C-terminal Ser727 for transcriptional activity. In macrophages, Ser727 phosphorylation in response to bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), UV irradiation, or TNF-alpha occurred through a signaling path ...

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

authors： Kovarik P,Stoiber D,Eyers PA,Menghini R,Neininger A,Gaestel M,Cohen P,Decker T

更新日期：1999-11-23 00:00:00