High-frequency spontaneous mutation in the bacterio-opsin gene in Halobacterium halobium is mediated by transposable elements.

abstract：:A key energy-saving adaptation to chronic hypoxia that enables cardiomyocytes to withstand severe ischemic insults is hibernation, i.e., a reversible arrest of contractile function. Whereas hibernating cardiomyocytes represent the critical reserve of dysfunctional cells that can be potentially rescued, a lack of a sui...

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

authors： May D,Gilon D,Djonov V,Itin A,Lazarus A,Gordon O,Rosenberger C,Keshet E

更新日期：2008-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulatory photoreceptor phytochrome controls the transcription of its own phy genes in a negative feedback fashion. We have exploited microprojectile-mediated gene transfer to develop a rapid transient expression assay system for the study of DNA sequences involved in the phytochrome-regulated expression of these...

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

authors： Bruce WB,Christensen AH,Klein T,Fromm M,Quail PH

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social separation early in life can lead to the development of impaired interpersonal relationships and profound social disorders. However, the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms involved are largely unknown. Here, we found that isolation of neonatal rats induced glucocorticoid-dependent social dominance ove...

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

authors： Tada H,Miyazaki T,Takemoto K,Takase K,Jitsuki S,Nakajima W,Koide M,Yamamoto N,Komiya K,Suyama K,Sano A,Taguchi A,Takahashi T

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Rod-shaped "ghosts" that are free of murein have been isolated from E. coli. The shape of these "ghosts" is maintained by a unit membrane soluble in sodium dodecyl sulfate. Ghosts consist of about 20-30% phospholipid (almost exclusively phosphatidylethanolamine) and 50-60% protein; a large fraction of the remaining ma...

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

authors： Henning U,Rehn K,Hoehn B

更新日期：1973-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence suggests that subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissues are differentially associated with metabolic disorders. In obesity, subcutaneous adipose tissue is beneficial for metabolic homeostasis because of repressed inflammation. However, the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Here, we demonstrat...

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

authors： Hwang I,Jo K,Shin KC,Kim JI,Ji Y,Park YJ,Park J,Jeon YG,Ka S,Suk S,Noh HL,Choe SS,Alfadda AA,Kim JK,Kim S,Kim JB

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described in which the interference of radiated second-harmonic electric fields generated by a pair of oriented molecules intercalated into double-stranded DNA is controlled and measured. The results show that the relative molecular orientation of the two molecules significantly changes the magnitude of th...

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

authors： Doughty B,Rao Y,Kazer SW,Kwok SJ,Turro NJ,Eisenthal KB

更新日期：2013-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (InsP3) receptor sites in the anterior pituitary were evaluated by binding studies with InsP3 labeled with 32P to high specific radioactivity. Specific binding of Ins[32P]P3 was demonstrable in pituitary membrane preparations and was linearly proportional to the amount of...

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

authors： Guillemette G,Balla T,Baukal AJ,Catt KJ

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary stability of cooperation is a problem of fundamental importance for the biological and social sciences. Different claims have been made about this issue: whereas Axelrod and Hamilton's [Axelrod, R. & Hamilton, W. (1981) Science 211, 1390-1398] widely recognized conclusion is that cooperative rules suc...

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

authors： Bendor J,Swistak P

更新日期：1995-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhythmic, spontaneously pulsating cardiac cells cultured from newborn rats are immediately stimulated to beat faster by addition of a number of tubulin-binding agents but not by their non-tubulin-binding analogues. The tubulin-binding agents tested include vinblastine, vincristine, navelbine, two analogs of vinblastin...

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

authors： Lampidis TJ,Kolonias D,Savaraj N,Rubin RW

更新日期：1992-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The T helper type 2 (Th2) cytokine genes Il4, Il5, and Il13 are contained within a 140-kb region of mouse chromosome 11 and their expression is controlled by a locus control region (LCR) embedded within this locus. The LCR is composed of a number of DNase I-hypersensitive sites (HSs), which are believed to encompass t...

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

authors： Williams A,Lee GR,Spilianakis CG,Hwang SS,Eisenbarth SC,Flavell RA

更新日期：2013-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiostrepton (TSR), an archetypal bimacrocyclic thiopeptide antibiotic that arises from complex posttranslational modifications of a genetically encoded precursor peptide, possesses a quinaldic acid (QA) moiety within the side-ring system of a thiopeptide-characteristic framework. Focusing on selective engineering of ...

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

authors： Zheng Q,Wang S,Duan P,Liao R,Chen D,Liu W

更新日期：2016-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a common allosteric mechanism for control of inflammatory and apoptotic caspases. Highly specific thiol-containing inhibitors of the human inflammatory caspase-1 were identified by using disulfide trapping, a method for site-directed small-molecule discovery. These compounds became trapped by forming a disu...

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

authors： Scheer JM,Romanowski MJ,Wells JA

更新日期：2006-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Natively unfolded proteins play key roles in normal and pathological biochemical processes. Despite their importance for function, this category of proteins remains beyond the reach of classical structural biology because of their inherent conformational heterogeneity. We present a description of the intrinsic conform...

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

authors： Bernadó P,Blanchard L,Timmins P,Marion D,Ruigrok RW,Blackledge M

更新日期：2005-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Energy transfer is enhanced by translational diffusion of the donor and acceptor [Steinberg, I. Z. & Katchalski, E. (1968) J. Chem. Phys. 48, 2404-2410]. The effect of diffusion on energy transfer depends on Dtau(0)/s(2), in which D is the sum of the diffusion coefficients of the donor and acceptor, tau(0) is the life...

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

authors： Thomas DD,Carlsen WF,Stryer L

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that geographic differences in cancer mortalities in Europe are related to (in order of importance): geographic distances (reflecting environmental differences), ethnohistoric distances (encompassing cultural and genetic attributes), and genetic distances of the populations in the areas studie...

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

authors： Sokal RR,Oden NL,Rosenberg MS,Thomson BA

更新日期：2000-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Look-through mutagenesis (LTM) is a multidimensional mutagenesis method that simultaneously assesses and optimizes combinatorial mutations of selected amino acids. The process focuses on a precise distribution within one or more complementarity determining region (CDR) domains and explores the synergistic contribution...

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

authors： Rajpal A,Beyaz N,Haber L,Cappuccilli G,Yee H,Bhatt RR,Takeuchi T,Lerner RA,Crea R

更新日期：2005-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The electron tunnelling distance between redox enzymes is estimated. The energy transfer mechanism between a pair of charges is described. The dielectric degrees of freedom are incorporated into the electron transfer rate formula. ...

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

authors： Kemeny G,Mahanti SD

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the theory that the insulin-induced loss of insulin binding from adipocytes is due to internalization of insulin receptors. Cell-surface receptors were assessed by the binding capacity of intact cells at 16 degrees C. Total (i.e., cell-surface plus intracellular) receptors were assessed by solubil...

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

authors： Green A,Olefsky JM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nitrogen isotopic composition (15N/14N) of forested ecosystems varies systematically worldwide. In tropical forests, which are elevated in 15N relative to temperate biomes, a decrease in ecosystem 15N/14N with increasing rainfall has been reported. This trend is seen in a set of well characterized Hawaiian rainfor...

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

authors： Houlton BZ,Sigman DM,Hedin LO

更新日期：2006-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The super-enhancers (SEs) of lineage-specific genes in B cells are off-target sites of somatic hypermutation. However, the inability to detect sufficient numbers of mutations in normal human B cells has precluded the generation of a high-resolution mutational landscape of SEs. Here we captured and sequenced 12 B cell ...

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

authors： Shen JC,Kamath-Loeb AS,Kohrn BF,Loeb KR,Preston BD,Loeb LA

更新日期：2019-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In this model gravitation results from the emission and absorption of quanta (gravitons) that are scattered a few times in crossing a typical galaxy. Many features of the universe can be explained in terms of this model, although theoretical justification for the scattering of gravitons is lacking. Gravitons follow a ...

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

authors： Britten RJ

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the molecular mechanisms of osmolyte protection in protein stability has proved to be challenging. In particular, little is known about the role of osmolytes in the structure of the unfolding transition state of a protein, the main determinant of its dynamics. We have developed an experimental protocol t...

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

authors： Dougan L,Genchev GZ,Lu H,Fernandez JM

更新日期：2011-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The helicity in water has been determined for several series of alanine-rich peptides that contain single lysine residues and that are N-terminally linked to a helix-inducing and reporting template termed Ac-Hel1. The helix-propagating constant for alanine (sAla value) that best fits the properties of these peptides l...

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

authors： Groebke K,Renold P,Tsang KY,Allen TJ,McClure KF,Kemp DS

更新日期：1996-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant hormone ethylene is involved in many developmental processes, including fruit ripening, abscission, senescence, and leaf epinasty. Tomato contains a family of ethylene receptors, designated LeETR1, LeETR2, NR, LeETR4, and LeETR5, with homology to the Arabidopsis ETR1 ethylene receptor. Transgenic plants with...

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

authors： Tieman DM,Taylor MG,Ciardi JA,Klee HJ

更新日期：2000-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) are ubiquitous growth factors that regulate proliferation in most mammalian tissues including pancreatic islets. To explore the specificity of insulin receptors in compensatory beta-cell growth, we examined two models of insulin resistance. In the first model, we used li...

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

authors： Okada T,Liew CW,Hu J,Hinault C,Michael MD,Krtzfeldt J,Yin C,Holzenberger M,Stoffel M,Kulkarni RN

更新日期：2007-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Strategies to treat cancer have focused primarily on the killing of tumor cells. Here, we describe a differential stress resistance (DSR) method that focuses instead on protecting the organism but not cancer cells against chemotherapy. Short-term starved S. cerevisiae or cells lacking proto-oncogene homologs were up t...

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

authors： Raffaghello L,Lee C,Safdie FM,Wei M,Madia F,Bianchi G,Longo VD

更新日期：2008-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The embryonic neuroepithelium gives rise to the components of the central nervous system in the mature animal. To study the early development of the murine central nervous system we have sought to isolate growth factor receptors from the neuroepithelium of the neural tube of 10-day-old mouse embryos. Because many grow...

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

authors： Reid HH,Wilks AF,Bernard O

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanisms by which transcription is selectively activated and precisely controlled by signal transducer and activator of transcription (Stat) factors represent a central issue in cytokine-mediated cellular responses. Stat6 mediates responses to IL-4 and antagonizes Stat1 activated by IFN-gamma. We have ...

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

authors： Goenka S,Boothby M

更新日期：2006-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Priming of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) by dendritic cells (DCs) is crucial for elimination of pathogens and malignant cells. To activate CTLs, DCs present antigenic peptide-complexed MHC class I molecules (MHC-I) that will be recognized by the CTLs with T cell receptors and CD8 molecules. Here we show that paired I...

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

authors： Endo S,Sakamoto Y,Kobayashi E,Nakamura A,Takai T

更新日期：2008-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiolipin is important for bacterial and mitochondrial stability and function. The final step in cardiolipin biosynthesis is catalyzed by cardiolipin synthase and differs mechanistically between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. To study the importance of cardiolipin synthesis for mitochondrial integrity, membrane protein...

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

authors： Serricchio M,Bütikofer P

更新日期：2012-04-17 00:00:00