Left-handed Z-DNA in bands of acid-fixed polytene chromosomes.

abstract：:Pith parenchyma cells store water in various plant organs. These cells are especially important for producing sugar and ethanol from the sugar juice of grass stems. In many plants, the death of pith parenchyma cells reduces their stem water content. Previous studies proposed that a hypothetical D gene might be respons...

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

authors： Fujimoto M,Sazuka T,Oda Y,Kawahigashi H,Wu J,Takanashi H,Ohnishi T,Yoneda JI,Ishimori M,Kajiya-Kanegae H,Hibara KI,Ishizuna F,Ebine K,Ueda T,Tokunaga T,Iwata H,Matsumoto T,Kasuga S,Yonemaru JI,Tsutsumi N

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of specific gangliosides to function as host cell receptors for Sendai virus was investigated by using Madin-Darby bovine kidney cells which become resistant to infection upon treatment with Vibrio cholerae sialidase. Sialidase-treated cells were incubated for 20 min at 37 degrees C with individual, highly...

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

authors： Markwell MA,Svennerholm L,Paulson JC

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that chronic activation of mitogenic signaling induced by over-expression of c-myc and transforming growth factor-alpha (TGFalpha) transgenes in mouse liver induces a state of oxidative stress. We therefore proposed that increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation might be responsible f...

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

authors： Factor VM,Laskowska D,Jensen MR,Woitach JT,Popescu NC,Thorgeirsson SS

更新日期：2000-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells are dynamical systems of biomolecular interactions that process information from their environment to mount diverse yet specific responses. A key property of many self-organized systems is that of criticality: a state of a system in which, on average, perturbations are neither dampened nor amplified, but are pro...

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

authors： Nykter M,Price ND,Aldana M,Ramsey SA,Kauffman SA,Hood LE,Yli-Harja O,Shmulevich I

更新日期：2008-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Striatal inhibition plays an important role in models of cortex-basal ganglia function and is altered in many basal ganglia diseases. The gamma-aminobutyric acid ergic spiny projection neuron comprises >95% of striatal neurons, but despite strong anatomical evidence, the electrophysiological properties and functions o...

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

authors： Czubayko U,Plenz D

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Superoxide dismutase from chicken-liver mitochondria (manganese enzyme) and the two dismutases from Escherichia coli (manganese and iron enzymes) were analyzed through 29 cycles of automated Edman degradations. The high degree of homology among the amino-terminal sequences of these three dismutases corroborates their ...

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

authors： Steinman HM,Hill RL

更新日期：1973-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized seven murine retinoic acid receptor gamma cDNA isoforms (mRAR-gamma 1 to -gamma 7) generated by alternative splicing of at least seven exons. These isoforms differ from one another in their 5' untranslated region and in two cases (mRAR-gamma 1 and -gamma 2) differ in their N-terminal A region, wh...

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

authors： Kastner P,Krust A,Mendelsohn C,Garnier JM,Zelent A,Leroy P,Staub A,Chambon P

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants can sense the direction of gravity and change the growth orientation of their organs. The molecular mechanisms of gravity sensing and signal transduction during gravitropism are not well known. We have isolated several shoot gravitropism (sgr) mutants of Arabidopsis. The sgr3-1 mutant exhibits a reduced gravitr...

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

authors： Yano D,Sato M,Saito C,Sato MH,Morita MT,Tasaka M

更新日期：2003-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) is important in reproduction, although the mechanism of central hypogonadism in humans remains unclear. Because the GnRH neuron originates from the olfactory placode and migrates to the hypothalamus during development, central hypogonadism in humans could be caused by failure in n...

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

authors： Radovick S,Wray S,Lee E,Nicols DK,Nakayama Y,Weintraub BD,Westphal H,Cutler GB Jr,Wondisford FE

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutants of Arabidopsis that contain reduced levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids showed growth characteristics at 22 degrees C that were very similar to wild type. By contrast, at 12 degrees C, the mutants failed to undergo stem elongation during reproductive growth although they produced normal flowers and fertile s...

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

authors： Miquel M,James D Jr,Dooner H,Browse J

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When Drosophila melanogaster embryos were ligated at very early stages of nuclear multiplication (45-60 min after egg deposition) for the entire period of embryogenesis, egg fragments of variable sizes were able to continue development up to the hatching stage. These ligated embryos differentiated larval structures; a...

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

authors： Schubiger G,Moseley RC,Wood WJ

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural information about rat enteroglucagon, intestinal peptides containing the pancreatic glucagon sequence, has been based previously on cDNA, immunologic, and chromatographic data. Our interests in testing the physiological actions of synthetic enteroglucagon peptides in rats required that we identify precisely...

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

authors： Collie NL,Walsh JH,Wong HC,Shively JE,Davis MT,Lee TD,Reeve JR Jr

更新日期：1994-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA damage response is an essential process for the survival of living cells. In a subset of stress-responsive genes in humans, Elongin controls transcription in response to multiple stimuli, such as DNA damage, oxidative stress, and heat shock. Yeast Elongin (Ela1-Elc1), along with Def1, is known to facilitate ub...

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

authors： Damodaren N,Van Eeuwen T,Zamel J,Lin-Shiao E,Kalisman N,Murakami K

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A weakly nonlinear oscillator of natural frequency omega(0) and damping ratio delta is driven by an amplitude-modulated force of dimensionless amplitude epsilon, carrier frequency omega, and modulation frequency omega(1). Each of (omega - omega(0))/omega(0), omega(1)/omega(0), and delta is O(epsilon(2/3)) as epsilon -...

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

authors： Miles J

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterizing the entropy of a system is a crucial, and often computationally costly, step in understanding its thermodynamics. It plays a key role in the study of phase transitions, pattern formation, protein folding, and more. Current methods for entropy estimation suffer from a high computational cost, lack of gen...

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

authors： Nir A,Sela E,Beck R,Bar-Sinai Y

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current structural genomics projects are yielding structures for proteins whose functions are unknown. Accordingly, there is a pressing requirement for computational methods for function prediction. Here we present PHUNCTIONER, an automatic method for structure-based function prediction using automatically extracted f...

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

authors： Pazos F,Sternberg MJ

更新日期：2004-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Any isospectral family of two-dimensional Euclidean domains is shown to be compact in the C(infinity) topology. Previously Melrose, using heat invariants, was able to establish the C(infinity) compactness of the curvature of the boundary curves. The additional ingredient used in this paper to obtain the compactness of...

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

authors： Osgood B,Phillips R,Sarnak P

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structures of the rearranged c-myc gene products derived from a rcp T(12;15) have been investigated in the MPC-11 (IgG2b kappa) plasmacytoma. The rcp T(12;15) in MPC-11 is a reciprocal exchange between the c-myc gene on chromosome 15 and the immunoglobulin gamma 2a switch region (S gamma 2a) on chromosome 12. The ...

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

authors： Stanton LW,Yang JQ,Eckhardt LA,Harris LJ,Birshtein BK,Marcu KB

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently described experimental system for analyzing the mode of action of a morphogen gradient involves the in situ hybridization of sectioned tissue constructs. In these constructs, a source of activin signaling induces the transcription of several mesodermal genes in blastula animal caps, according to the positio...

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

authors： Gurdon JB,Mitchell A,Ryan K

更新日期：1996-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The likelihood with which an action potential elicits neurotransmitter release, the release probability (p(r)), is an important component of synaptic strength. Regulatory mechanisms controlling several steps of synaptic vesicle (SV) exocytosis may affect p(r), yet their relative importance in determining p(r) and elic...

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

authors： Matz J,Gilyan A,Kolar A,McCarvill T,Krueger SR

更新日期：2010-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Green fluorescent protein (GFP) is widely used as a reporter gene in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. However, the fluorescence levels of wild-type GFP (wtGFP) are not bright enough for fluorescence-activated cell sorting or flow cytometry. Several GFP variants were generated that are brighter or have altered excitati...

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

authors： Anderson MT,Tjioe IM,Lorincz MC,Parks DR,Herzenberg LA,Nolan GP,Herzenberg LA

更新日期：1996-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Brn-4 is a member of the POU transcription factor family and is expressed in the central nervous system. In this study, we addressed whether Brn-4 regulates expression of the D1A dopamine receptor gene. We found a functional Brn-4 responsive element in the intron of this gene by means of cotransfection chloramphenical...

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

authors： Okazawa H,Imafuku I,Minowa MT,Kanazawa I,Hamada H,Mouradian MM

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of anti-human placental uracil DNA glycosylase monoclonal antibodies was used to screen a human placental cDNA library in phage lambda gt11. Twenty-seven immunopositive plaques were detected and purified. One clone containing a 1.2-kilobase (kb) human cDNA insert was chosen for further study by insertion into...

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

authors： Vollberg TM,Siegler KM,Cool BL,Sirover MA

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A decade ago it was discovered that mature birds are able to regenerate hair cells, the receptors for auditory perception. This surprising finding generated hope in the field of auditory neuroscience that new hair cells someday may be coaxed to form in another class of warm-blooded vertebrates, mammals. We have made c...

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

authors： Stone JS,Rubel EW

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic screening is the most powerful method through which to uncover gene function. It has been applied very successfully in lower organisms but seldom attempted in mammalian species because of their long generation time. In this study, we exploit RNA interference (RNAi) for its potential use in genetic screening in...

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

authors： Peng S,York JP,Zhang P

更新日期：2006-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein aggregation is a complex physiological process, primarily determined by stress-related factors revealing the hidden aggregation propensity of proteins that otherwise are fully soluble. Here we report a mechanism by which glycolytic glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase of Arabidopsis thaliana (AtGAPC1) is p...

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

authors： Zaffagnini M,Marchand CH,Malferrari M,Murail S,Bonacchi S,Genovese D,Montalti M,Venturoli G,Falini G,Baaden M,Lemaire SD,Fermani S,Trost P

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified two species of the low-affinity human Fc receptor for IgE, Fc epsilon RIIa and Fc epsilon RIIb, which differ only in a short stretch of amino acids at the N-terminal cytoplasmic end. Their differential expressions on B cells and monocytes suggest that Fc epsilon RIIa and Fc epsilon RIIb a...

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

authors： Yokota A,Yukawa K,Yamamoto A,Sugiyama K,Suemura M,Tashiro Y,Kishimoto T,Kikutani H

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the factors required for the antiviral activity of the synthetic nucleoside, ribavirin (1-beta-D-ribofuranosyl-1,2,4-triazole-3-carboxamide), is the ability of the molecule to adopt the substrate conformation specified by the enzyme for which it is a competitive inhibitor, inosine 5'-phosphate dehydrogenase (IM...

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

authors： Miles DL,Miles DW,Redington P,Eyring H

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomes exhibit diverse patterns of species-specific GC content, GC and AT skews, codon bias, and mutation bias. Despite intensive investigations and the rapid accumulation of sequence data, the causes of these a priori different genome biases have not been agreed on and seem multifactorial and idiosyncratic. We show ...

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

authors： Vetsigian K,Goldenfeld N

更新日期：2009-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania and the Atlantic Forest of Brazil are two of the most fragmented biodiversity hotspots. Species-area relationships predict that their habitat fragments will experience a substantial loss of species. Most of these extinctions will occur over an extended time, and therefore, reconne...

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

authors： Newmark WD,Jenkins CN,Pimm SL,McNeally PB,Halley JM

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00