A theory of allelic and isotypic exclusion for immunoglobulin genes.

abstract：:Protein acetylation, especially histone acetylation, is the subject of both research and clinical investigation. At least four small-molecule histone deacetylase inhibitors are currently in clinical trials for the treatment of cancer. These and other inhibitors also affect microtubule acetylation. A multidimensional, ...

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

authors： Haggarty SJ,Koeller KM,Wong JC,Grozinger CM,Schreiber SL

更新日期：2003-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of small peptides corresponding to the amino termini of the fibrin alpha- and beta-chains has been synthesized. The peptides glycyl-L-prolyl-L-arginyl-L-proline and glycyl-L-prolyl-L-arginylsarcosine are potent inhibitors of fibrin polymerization. Moreover, these peptides have a natural stability stemming fro...

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

authors： Laudano AP,Doolittle RF

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:p19ARF has been implicated as a key regulator of p53 stability and activation. While numerous stresses activate the p53 growth arrest pathway, those requiring p19ARF remain to be elucidated. We used p19ARF knockout mouse embryo fibroblasts to show that DNA damage and microtubule disruption require p19ARF to induce p53...

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

authors： Khan SH,Moritsugu J,Wahl GM

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In everyday listening, sound reaches our ears directly from a source as well as indirectly via reflections known as reverberation. Reverberation profoundly distorts the sound from a source, yet humans can both identify sound sources and distinguish environments from the resulting sound, via mechanisms that remain uncl...

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

authors： Traer J,McDermott JH

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetics regulation plays a critical role in determining cell identity by controlling the accessibility of lineage-specific regulatory regions. In muscle stem cells, epigenetic mechanisms of how chromatin accessibility is modulated during cell fate determination are not fully understood. Here, we identified a long ...

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

authors： Dong A,Preusch CB,So WK,Lin K,Luan S,Yi R,Wong JW,Wu Z,Cheung TH

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage T3-induced RNA polymerase, upon copying its specific template, native T3 DNA, initiates RNA chains only with GTP. Denaturation of the DNA results in loss of template specificity for the polymerase. With denatured T3 DNA as template, T3 polymerase initiates RNA chains with both ATP and GTP, and the averag...

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

authors： Maitra U,Huang HH

更新日期：1972-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the principles that has emerged from experimental evolutionary studies of microorganisms is that polymorphic alleles or new mutations can sometimes possess a latent potential to respond to selection in different environments, although the alleles may be functionally equivalent or disfavored under typical condit...

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

authors： Stebbins GL,Hartl DL

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiazides and related diuretics inhibit NaCl reabsorption in the distal tubule through an unknown mechanism. We report here that [3H]metolazone, a diuretic with a thiazide-like mechanism of action, labels a site in rat kidney membranes that has characteristics of the thiazide-sensitive ion transporter. [3H]Metolazone ...

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

authors： Beaumont K,Vaughn DA,Fanestil DD

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The apoprotein corresponding to the mammalian photoreceptor rhodopsin has been expressed by using suspension cultures of HEK293S cells in defined media that contained 6-15N-lysine and 2-13C-glycine. Typical yields were 1.5-1.8 mg/liter. Incorporation of 6-15N-lysine was quantitative, whereas that of 2-13C-glycine was ...

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

authors： Eilers M,Reeves PJ,Ying W,Khorana HG,Smith SO

更新日期：1999-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytochrome A (phyA) is the only plant photoreceptor that perceives far-red light and then mediates various responses to this signal. Phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of oat phyA have been extensively studied, and it was shown that phosphorylation of a serine residue in the hinge region of oat phyA could regulate...

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

authors： Zhou Y,Yang L,Duan J,Cheng J,Shen Y,Wang X,Han R,Li H,Li Z,Wang L,Terzaghi W,Zhu D,Chen H,Deng XW,Li J

更新日期：2018-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila melanogaster urate oxidase (UO)-encoding gene is expressed in the third-instar larva and adult. In contrast, the Drosophila pseudoobscura UO gene is only expressed in the adult, whereas the Drosophila virilis UO gene is expressed only in the third-instar larva. UO activity in these three Drosophila spec...

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

authors： Wallrath LL,Friedman TB

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species-specific colors and patterns on animal body surfaces are determined primarily by neural-crest-derived pigment cells in the skin (chromatophores). However, even closely related species display widely differing patterns. These contrasting aspects of chromatophores (i.e., the fixed developmental control within sp...

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

authors： Fukamachi S,Sugimoto M,Mitani H,Shima A

更新日期：2004-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We construct counterexamples to classical calculus facts such as the inverse and implicit function theorems in scale calculus-a generalization of multivariable calculus to infinite-dimensional vector spaces, in which the reparameterization maps relevant to symplectic geometry are smooth. Scale calculus is a corner sto...

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

authors： Filippenko B,Zhou Z,Wehrheim K

更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The heart has not been regarded as a major target organ of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) toxicity notwithstanding that lethal cardiac dysfunction can occur in the absence of histopathological changes. To assess possible TCDD cardiotoxicity, we studied the effect of TCDD five days after treatment (10 micro...

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

authors： Canga L,Levi R,Rifkind AB

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells are activated physiologically by triggering the T-cell receptor-CD3 complex. There is evidence that invariant accessory molecules on the T-cell membrane (CD8 and CD4) are involved in the major histocompatibility complex-restricted recognition process. Moreover, binding and crosslinking of these accessory molec...

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

authors： Samstag Y,Emmrich F,Staehelin T

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of gene family members has been aided by the isolation of related genes on the basis of DNA homology. We have adapted the polymerase chain reaction to screen animal genomes very rapidly and reliably for likely gene family members. Using conserved amino acid sequences to design degenerate oligonucleotide prim...

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

authors： Kamb A,Weir M,Rudy B,Varmus H,Kenyon C

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both activated and resting CD4(+) T cells in mucosal tissues play important roles in the earliest phases of infection after sexual transmission of HIV-1, a process that is inefficient. HIV-1 gp120 binds to integrin alpha(4)beta(7) (alpha(4)beta(7)), the gut mucosal homing receptor. We find that alpha(4)beta(7)(high) C...

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

authors： Cicala C,Martinelli E,McNally JP,Goode DJ,Gopaul R,Hiatt J,Jelicic K,Kottilil S,Macleod K,O'Shea A,Patel N,Van Ryk D,Wei D,Pascuccio M,Yi L,McKinnon L,Izulla P,Kimani J,Kaul R,Fauci AS,Arthos J

更新日期：2009-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiomyopathy (CM) is a primary degenerative disease of myocardium and is traditionally categorized into hypertrophic and dilated CMs (HCM and DCM) according to its gross appearance. Cardiomyopathic hamster (CM hamster), a representative model of human hereditary CM, has HCM and DCM inbred sublines, both of which des...

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

authors： Sakamoto A,Ono K,Abe M,Jasmin G,Eki T,Murakami Y,Masaki T,Toyo-oka T,Hanaoka F

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Indirect reciprocity is a mechanism for cooperation based on shared moral systems and individual reputations. It assumes that members of a community routinely observe and assess each other and that they use this information to decide who is good or bad, and who deserves cooperation. When information is transmitted pub...

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

authors： Hilbe C,Schmid L,Tkadlec J,Chatterjee K,Nowak MA

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspirin (ASA) triggers a switch in the biosynthesis of lipid mediators, inhibiting prostanoid production and initiating 15-epi-lipoxin generation through the acetylation of cyclooxygenase II. These aspirin-triggered lipoxins (ATL) may mediate some of ASA's beneficial actions and therefore are of interest in the search...

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

authors： Clish CB,O'Brien JA,Gronert K,Stahl GL,Petasis NA,Serhan CN

更新日期：1999-07-06 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

abstract：:The X gene product encoded by the hepatitis B virus, termed pX, is a promiscuous transactivator of a variety of viral and cellular genes under the control of diverse cis-acting elements. Although pX does not appear to directly bind DNA, pX-responsive elements include the NF-kappa B, AP-1, and CRE (cAMP response elemen...

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

authors： Williams JS,Andrisani OM

更新日期：1995-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription initiation is a dynamic process in which RNA polymerase (RNAP) and promoter DNA act as partners, changing in response to one another, to produce a polymerase/promoter open complex (RPo) competent for transcription. In Escherichia coli RNAP, region 1.1, the N-terminal 100 residues of sigma(70), is thought...

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

authors： Hook-Barnard IG,Hinton DM

更新日期：2009-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA origami method permits folding of long single-stranded DNA into complex 3D structures with subnanometer precision. Transmission electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and recently cryo-EM tomography have been used to characterize the properties of such DNA origami objects, however their microscopic stru...

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

authors： Yoo J,Aksimentiev A

更新日期：2013-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Schiff bases of the diamines 1,3-diaminopropane, putrescine, and cadaverine and the polyamines spermidine and spermine with pyridoxal or pyridoxal phosphate occur in human urine, as shown by gas chromatographic/mass spectrometric selected ion-monitoring techniques. By use of synthetic standards, procedures were devise...

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

authors： Aigner-Held R,Campbell RA,Daves GD Jr

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of plant chemical ecology generally dates to the late 1950s, when evolutionary entomologists recognized the essential role of plant secondary metabolites in plant-insect interactions and suggested that plant chemical diversity evolved under the selection pressure of herbivory. However, similar ideas had alr...

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

authors： Hartmann T

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the surface delivery pathways followed by newly synthesized plasma membrane proteins in intestinal cells. To this end, we developed an assay and characterized an epithelial cell line (SK-CO-15) derived from human colon adenocarcinoma. Polarized confluent monolayers (2000 omega.cm2), grown on polycarbonate f...

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

authors： Le Bivic A,Real FX,Rodriguez-Boulan E

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ler, a homolog of H-NS in enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC), plays a critical role in the expression of virulence genes encoded by the pathogenic island, locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE). Although Ler acts as an antisilencer of multiple LEE operons by alleviating H-NS-mediated silencing, it represses its ow...

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

authors： Bhat A,Shin M,Jeong JH,Kim HJ,Lim HJ,Rhee JH,Paik SY,Takeyasu K,Tobe T,Yen H,Lee G,Choy HE

更新日期：2014-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a comparative study of calorimetrically derived thermodynamic profiles for the binding of a series of drugs with selected DNA host duplexes. We use these data to demonstrate that comparisons between complete thermodynamic profiles (delta G zero, delta H zero, delta S zero, delta Cp) are required before drug...

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

authors： Breslauer KJ,Remeta DP,Chou WY,Ferrante R,Curry J,Zaunczkowski D,Snyder JG,Marky LA

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA of functional cis-regulatory modules displays extensive sequence conservation in comparisons of genomes from modestly distant species. Patches of sequence that are several hundred base pairs in length within these modules are often seen to be 80-95% identical, although the flanking sequence cannot even be alig...

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

authors： Cameron RA,Chow SH,Berney K,Chiu TY,Yuan QA,Krämer A,Helguero A,Ransick A,Yun M,Davidson EH

更新日期：2005-08-16 00:00:00