Novel use of synthetic oligonucleotide insertion mutants for the study of homologous recombination in mammalian cells.

abstract：:We use age distributions of sea otters (Enhydra lutris) found dead on beaches of western Prince William Sound, Alaska, between 1976 and 1998 in conjunction with time-varying demographic models to test for lingering effects from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Our results show that sea otters in this area had decrease...

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

authors： Monson DH,Doak DF,Ballachey BE,Johnson A,Bodkin JL

更新日期：2000-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Although most experimental and theoretical studies of protein folding involve proteins in vitro, the effects of spatial confinement may complicate protein folding in vivo. In this study, we examine the folding dynamics of villin (a small fast folding protein) with explicit solvent confined to an inert nanopore. We hav...

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

authors： Lucent D,Vishal V,Pande VS

更新日期：2007-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:p53, the most commonly mutated gene in human tumors, is believed to play a crucial role in the prevention of cancer by protecting cells from mutation, a theory commonly known as the "Guardian of the Genome" hypothesis. There are two hypotheses as to how this can occur. In the first, p53 protects the genome by retardin...

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

authors： Bielas JH,Heddle JA

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the state of the art in applications of voice-processing technologies. In the first part, technologies concerning the implementation of speech recognition and synthesis algorithms are described. Hardware technologies such as microprocessors and DSPs (digital signal processors) are discussed. Softw...

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

authors： Nakatsu R,Suzuki Y

更新日期：1995-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the scientific community, much attention has focused on improving communications between scientists, policy makers, and the public. To date, efforts have centered on improving the content, accessibility, and delivery of scientific communications. Here we argue that in the current political and media environment...

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

authors： Iyengar S,Massey DS

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical evidence is presented for the disintegration of the lens fiber plasma membrane in human cataracts. The intrinsic membrane proteins are found in both the water-soluble and water-insoluble nonmembrane fractions of the cataract lens but not in the normal tissue. Furthermore, in contrast to the normal lens, no...

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

authors： Garner MH,Roy D,Rosenfeld L,Garner WH,Spector A

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic cells require mechanisms to establish the proportion of cellular volume devoted to particular organelles. These mechanisms are poorly understood. From a screen for plastid-to-nucleus signaling mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana, we cloned a mutant allele of a gene that encodes a protein of unknown function tha...

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

authors： Larkin RM,Stefano G,Ruckle ME,Stavoe AK,Sinkler CA,Brandizzi F,Malmstrom CM,Osteryoung KW

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The temperature coefficient of equilibrium isotope fractionation in the heavy elements is shown to be larger at high temperatures than that expected from the well-studied vibrational isotope effects. The difference in the isotopic behavior of the heavy elements as compared with the light elements is due to the large n...

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

authors： Bigeleisen J

更新日期：1996-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of chemical exchange in 2D IR heterodyne echo spectroscopy is characterized through the hydrogen-bond exchange between CH3OH and the CN of CH3CN. The exchange dynamics on the hydrogen-bond potential surfaces associated with different quantum states of the high-frequency CN stretching mode contributes t...

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

authors： Kim YS,Hochstrasser RM

更新日期：2005-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of human purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) stops growth of activated T-cells and the formation of 6-oxypurine bases, making it a target for leukemia, autoimmune disorders, and gout. Four generations of ribocation transition-state mimics bound to PNP are structurally characterized. Immucillin-H (K*i(1/4)...

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

authors： Ho MC,Shi W,Rinaldo-Matthis A,Tyler PC,Evans GB,Clinch K,Almo SC,Schramm VL

更新日期：2010-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:During goal-directed movements, primates are able to rapidly and accurately control an online trajectory despite substantial delay times incurred in the sensorimotor control loop. To address the problem of large delays, it has been proposed that the brain uses an internal forward model of the arm to estimate current a...

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

authors： Mulliken GH,Musallam S,Andersen RA

更新日期：2008-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The severe cooling and the expansion of the ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), 27,000-19,000 y ago (27-19 ky ago) had a major impact on plant and animal populations, including humans. Changes in human population size and range have affected our genetic evolution, and recent modeling efforts have reaffir...

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

authors： Tallavaara M,Luoto M,Korhonen N,Järvinen H,Seppä H

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletion of 5 residues (Delta5) from the central cytoplasmic loop of the lactose permease of Escherichia coli has no significant effect on expression or activity, whereas Delta12 leads to increased rates of permease turnover after membrane insertion and decreased transport activity, and Delta20 abolishes insertion and...

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

authors： Weinglass AB,Kaback HR

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase Cε (PLCε) has been characterized as a direct effector of Ras in vitro and in cellular systems; however, the role of PLCε in tumorigenesis and its link to Ras in this context remain unclear. To assess the role of PLCε in Ras-driven cancers, we generated two new mouse strains: one carrying a targeted delet...

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

authors： Martins M,McCarthy A,Baxendale R,Guichard S,Magno L,Kessaris N,El-Bahrawy M,Yu P,Katan M

更新日期：2014-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Integration sites for many retrotransposons and retroviruses are determined by interactions between retroelement-encoded integrases and specific DNA-bound proteins. The Saccharomyces retrotransposon Ty5 preferentially integrates into heterochromatin because of interactions between Ty5 integrase and the heterochromatin...

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

authors： Baller JA,Gao J,Voytas DF

更新日期：2011-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:When the dog kidney Na+/K+-transporting ATPase (EC 3.6.1.37, formerly EC 3.6.1.3) was labeled with an ATP analogue, 5'-(p-fluorosulfonyl)benzoyladenosine (FSBA), there was a concomitant loss of ATPase activity. The presence of ATP protected the enzyme from both labeling and inactivation. The ATP-sensitive incorporatio...

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

authors： Ohta T,Nagano K,Yoshida M

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe an active polymer network in which processive molecular motors control network elasticity. This system consists of actin filaments cross-linked by filamin A (FLNa) and contracted by bipolar filaments of muscle myosin II. The myosin motors stiffen the network by more than two orders of magnitude by pulling ...

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

authors： Koenderink GH,Dogic Z,Nakamura F,Bendix PM,MacKintosh FC,Hartwig JH,Stossel TP,Weitz DA

更新日期：2009-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The multifunctional DNA-binding protein (DBP) encoded by human adenovirus binds RNA. The association of purified DBP with RNA in vitro was demonstrated by using either a gel filtration or a filter binding assay. This association is sensitive to ionic strength and exhibits no apparent sequence specificity. DBP also int...

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

authors： Cleghon VG,Klessig DF

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IFN-alpha/beta plays an essential role in innate immunity against viral and bacterial infection. Among the proteins induced by IFN-alpha/beta are the ubiquitin-like ISG15 protein and its E1- (Ube1L) and E2- (UbcH8) conjugating enzymes, leading to the conjugation of ISG15 to cellular proteins. It is likely that ISG15 c...

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

authors： Zhao C,Denison C,Huibregtse JM,Gygi S,Krug RM

更新日期：2005-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugative DNA transfer of the self-transmissible broad-host-range plasmid RP4 is initiated by strand- and site-specific cleavage at the nick site (nic) of the transfer origin (oriT). Cleavage results in covalent attachment of the plasmid-encoded relaxase (TraI) to the 5'-terminal 2'-deoxycytidine residue at nic. We ...

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

authors： Pansegrau W,Schröder W,Lanka E

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein E (apoE) secreted by macrophages in the artery wall exerts an important protective effect against the development of atherosclerosis, presumably through its ability to promote lipid efflux. Previous studies have shown that increases in cellular free cholesterol levels stimulate apoE transcription in mac...

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

authors： Laffitte BA,Repa JJ,Joseph SB,Wilpitz DC,Kast HR,Mangelsdorf DJ,Tontonoz P

更新日期：2001-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Disulfide bonds have only rarely been found in intracellular proteins. That pattern is consistent with the chemically reducing environment inside the cells of well-studied organisms. However, recent experiments and new calculations based on genomic data of archaea provide striking contradictions to this pattern. Our r...

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

authors： Mallick P,Boutz DR,Eisenberg D,Yeates TO

更新日期：2002-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral glycoproteins mediate entry of enveloped viruses into cells and thus play crucial roles in infection. In herpesviruses, a complex of two viral glycoproteins, gH and gL (gH/gL), regulates membrane fusion events and influences virion cell tropism. Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) gH/gL can be incorporated into two dif...

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

authors： Li G,Nguyen CC,Ryckman BJ,Britt WJ,Kamil JP

更新日期：2015-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertebrae are derived from the sclerotomal moities of the somites. Sclerotomal cells migrate ventrally to surround the notochord, where they form the vertebral body, and dorsolaterally to form the neural arch, which is dorsally closed by the spinous process. Precursor cells of the spinous process as well as superficia...

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

authors： Monsoro-Burq AH,Bontoux M,Teillet MA,Le Douarin NM

更新日期：1994-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A principal goal of cancer nanomedicine is to deliver therapeutics effectively to cancer cells within solid tumors. However, there are a series of biological barriers that impede nanomedicine from reaching target cells. Here, we report a stimuli-responsive clustered nanoparticle to systematically overcome these multip...

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

authors： Li HJ,Du JZ,Du XJ,Xu CF,Sun CY,Wang HX,Cao ZT,Yang XZ,Zhu YH,Nie S,Wang J

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular communities in living tissues act in concert to establish intricate microenvironments, with complexity difficult to recapitulate in vitro. We report a method for docking numerous cellularized hydrogel shapes (100-1,000 µm in size) into hydrogel templates to construct 3D cellular microenvironments. Each shape ...

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

authors： Eng G,Lee BW,Parsa H,Chin CD,Schneider J,Linkov G,Sia SK,Vunjak-Novakovic G

更新日期：2013-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful treatment in allergic, autoimmune, and infectious diseases often requires altering the nature of a detrimental immune response mediated by a particular CD4+ T helper (Th) cell subset. While several factors contribute to the development of CD4+ Th1 and Th2 cells, the requirements for switching an established...

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

authors： Nabors GS,Afonso LC,Farrell JP,Scott P

更新日期：1995-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II contains two subunits, alpha (Mr 50,000) and beta (Mr 60,000/58,000), both of which undergo Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent autophosphorylation. In the present study, we have studied the mechanism of this autophosphorylation reaction and its effect on the activity of the enzyme. B...

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

authors： Lai Y,Nairn AC,Greengard P

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Refinement of neural circuits in the mammalian cerebral cortex shapes brain function during development and in the adult. However, the signaling mechanisms underlying the synapse-specific shrinkage and loss of spiny synapses when neural circuits are remodeled remain poorly defined. Here, we show that low-frequency glu...

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

authors： Oh WC,Hill TC,Zito K

更新日期：2013-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The measurement of any nonchromosomal genetic contribution to the heritability of a trait is often confounded by the inability to control both the chromosomal and nonchromosomal information in a population. We have designed a unique system in yeast where we can control both sources of information so that the phenotype...

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

authors： Edwards MD,Symbor-Nagrabska A,Dollard L,Gifford DK,Fink GR

更新日期：2014-05-27 00:00:00