Effect of uncouplers on radiosensitivity and mutagenicity in x-irradiated mammalian cells.

abstract：:Phylogenetic analysis of Plasmodium parasites has indicated that their modern-day distribution is a result of a series of human-mediated dispersals involving transport between Africa, Europe, America, and Asia. A major outstanding question is the phylogenetic affinity of the malaria causing parasites Plasmodium vivax ...

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

authors： Gelabert P,Sandoval-Velasco M,Olalde I,Fregel R,Rieux A,Escosa R,Aranda C,Paaijmans K,Mueller I,Gilbert MT,Lalueza-Fox C

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A common design principle of heteromeric signaling proteins is the use of shared subunits. This allows encoding of complex messages while maintaining evolutionary flexibility. How cells regulate and control assembly of such composite signaling proteins remains an important open question. An example of particular compl...

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

authors： Müller SI,Friedl A,Aschenbrenner I,Esser-von Bieren J,Zacharias M,Devergne O,Feige MJ

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an adaptation of the hydroxyl radical DNA "footprinting" technique that permits high-resolution mapping of protected regions of RNA. Hydroxyl radical cleaves RNA independently of base sequence and secondary structure of the RNAs examined and allows resolution of protected regions at the single nucleotide le...

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

authors： Wang XD,Padgett RA

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoprecipitation followed by mass spectrometry (IP/MS) has recently emerged as a preferred method in the analysis of protein complex components and cellular protein networks. Targeting endogenous protein complexes of higher eukaryotes, particularly in large-scale efforts, has been challenging due to cellular hetero...

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

authors： Malovannaya A,Li Y,Bulynko Y,Jung SY,Wang Y,Lanz RB,O'Malley BW,Qin J

更新日期：2010-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Although genetic analysis has demonstrated that members of the winged helix, or forkhead, family of transcription factors play pivotal roles in the regulation of cellular differentiation and proliferation, both during development and in the adult, little is known of the mechanisms underlying their regulation. Here we ...

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

authors： Biggs WH 3rd,Meisenhelder J,Hunter T,Cavenee WK,Arden KC

更新日期：1999-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic imaging of the relative amounts of reduced NADH and FAD and the microenvironment of these metabolic electron carriers can be used to noninvasively monitor changes in metabolism, which is one of the hallmarks of carcinogenesis. This study combines cellular redox ratio, NADH and FAD lifetime, and subcellular m...

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

authors： Skala MC,Riching KM,Gendron-Fitzpatrick A,Eickhoff J,Eliceiri KW,White JG,Ramanujam N

更新日期：2007-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparan sulfate regulates diverse cell-surface signaling events, and its roles in the development of the nervous system recently have been increasingly uncovered by studies using genetic models carrying mutations of genes encoding enzymes for its synthesis. On the other hand, the role of heparan sulfate in the physiol...

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

authors： Irie F,Badie-Mahdavi H,Yamaguchi Y

更新日期：2012-03-27 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：:Tramadol, previously only known as a synthetic analgesic, has now been found in the bark and wood of roots of the African medicinal tree Nauclea latifolia. At present, no direct evidence is available as to the biosynthetic pathway of its unusual skeleton. To provide guidance as to possible biosynthetic precursors, we ...

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

authors： Romek KM,Nun P,Remaud GS,Silvestre V,Taïwe GS,Lecerf-Schmidt F,Boumendjel A,De Waard M,Robins RJ

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoprotein E (gE) of HSV plays a key role in cell-to-cell spread and virus-induced cell fusion. Here, we report that this function of gE requires the cooperation of tegument proteins UL11, UL16, and UL21. We found that the four proteins come together with very high efficiency to form a complex in transfected cells a...

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

authors： Han J,Chadha P,Starkey JL,Wills JW

更新日期：2012-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In a medium without Na+, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) binds at 0 degrees to freshly prepared crude synaptic membranes from rat cerebral cortex with an apparent dissociation constant of 218 nM. An endogenous inhibitor of the Na+-independent GABA binding was removed from these membranes by freezing and thawing and by ...

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

authors： Toffano G,Guidotti A,Costa E

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The leading terms in the energy of a general substituted ethane are derived in explicit form as a function of the torsional angle theta, the substituent electronegativities, and their mutual overlaps. The energy is found to be the sum of all four overlaps between pairs of asymmetry orbitals, and satisfies the requisit...

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

authors： Salem L,Hoffmann R,Otto P

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secondary (i.e., heterotrophic or animal) production is a main pathway of energy flow through an ecosystem as it makes energy available to consumers, including humans. Its estimation can play a valuable role in the examination of linkages between ecosystem functions and services. We found that oil and gas platforms of...

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

authors： Claisse JT,Pondella DJ 2nd,Love M,Zahn LA,Williams CM,Williams JP,Bull AS

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation is the raw material for natural selection, but the factors shaping variation are still poorly understood. Genetic and developmental interactions can direct variation, but there has been little synthesis of these effects with the extrinsic factors that can shape biodiversity over large scales. The study of ph...

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

authors： Goswami A,Binder WJ,Meachen J,O'Keefe FR

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the mouse tumor necrosis factor (TNF) promoter, 5' untranslated region (UTR), and 3' UTR in TNF gene expression has been examined in three nonmacrophage cell lines (HeLa, NIH 3T3, and L-929). The TNF promoter is not macrophage-specific. On the contrary, it constitutively drives reporter gene expression in ...

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

authors： Kruys V,Kemmer K,Shakhov A,Jongeneel V,Beutler B

更新日期：1992-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factors (TNF) alpha and beta are structurally related cytokines that mediate a wide range of immunological, inflammatory, and cytotoxic effects. During bacterial infection of the bloodstream (sepsis), TNF-alpha induction by bacterial endotoxin is thought to be a major factor contributing to the cardiova...

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

authors： Ashkenazi A,Marsters SA,Capon DJ,Chamow SM,Figari IS,Pennica D,Goeddel DV,Palladino MA,Smith DH

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells contain numerous enzymes that use molecular oxygen for their reactions. Often, their active sites are buried deeply inside the protein, which raises the question whether there are specific access channels guiding oxygen to the site of catalysis. Choosing 12/15-lipoxygenase as a typical example for such oxygen-de...

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

authors： Saam J,Ivanov I,Walther M,Holzhütter HG,Kuhn H

更新日期：2007-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma brucei parasites successfully evade the host immune system by periodically switching the dense coat of variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) at the cell surface. Each parasite expresses VSGs in a monoallelic fashion that is tightly regulated. The consequences of exposing multiple VSGs during an infection, in ...

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

authors： Aresta-Branco F,Sanches-Vaz M,Bento F,Rodrigues JA,Figueiredo LM

更新日期：2019-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used DNase I as a probe to examine the chromatin structure of mouse immunoglobulin kappa light chain genes in rearranged and unrearranged chromosomes--i.e., in nuclei from myeloma cells and from brain and liver cells. Tissue-specific DNase I-hypersensitive sites are observed 0.7 and 1.7 kilobases upstream from...

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

authors： Chung SY,Folsom V,Wooley J

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sporulation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in the presence of [2-13C]acetate was studied by 13C NMR spectroscopy. The fate of 13C label was analyzed in vivo and in cell extracts. During the first 4 hr of sporulation the major metabolite produced from [2-13C]acetate utilization was glutamate. From the labeling pattern...

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

authors： Dickinson JR,Dawes IW,Boyd AS,Baxter RL

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The internal promoter of the Xenopus laevis oocyte-type 5S RNA gene is preferentially cleaved by S1 and Bal-31 nucleases in plasmid DNA. S1 nuclease sensitivity is largely dependent on supercoiling; however, Bal-31 cleaves within the 5S RNA gene in linear as well as in supercoiled DNA. The S1 nuclease-hypersensitive s...

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

authors： Reynolds WF,Gottesfeld JM

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) induces differentiation of M1 murine myeloid leukemia cells into mature granulocytes/macrophages and also causes accumulation of the cells in the G1 phase of the cell cycle. We examined, therefore, whether synchronization of M1 cells in the G1 phase could affect G-CSF-indu...

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

authors： Tsuda H,Neckers LM,Pluznik DH

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of wealth in the United States and countries around the world is highly skewed. How does visible economic inequality affect well-off individuals' support for redistribution? Using a placebo-controlled field experiment, I randomize the presence of poverty-stricken people in public spaces frequented by ...

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

authors： Sands ML

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Ionizing radiation (IR) induces a variety of DNA lesions among which DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are the biologically most significant. It is currently unclear if DSB repair is equally efficient after low and high doses. Here, we use gamma-H2AX, phospho-ATM (pATM), and 53BP1 foci analysis to monitor DSB repair. We...

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

authors： Grudzenski S,Raths A,Conrad S,Rübe CE,Löbrich M

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:There are certain genes on the sex chromosome of Drosophila for which the female contains twice as many copies as the male. Some of the genes in this group produce the same phenotype in each sex despite the dosage difference and are said, therefore, to manifest dosage compensation. The structural genes for glucose-6-p...

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

authors： Seecof RL,Kaplan WD,Futch DG

更新日期：1969-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the RET (rearranged during transfection) receptor by glial cell-line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) has been identified as an important differentiation and survival factor for dopaminergic neurons of the midbrain in preclinical experiments. These encouraging results have led to clinical trials of GDN...

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

authors： Kowsky S,Pöppelmeyer C,Kramer ER,Falkenburger BH,Kruse A,Klein R,Schulz JB

更新日期：2007-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Purine nucleoside analogs modified by replacement of the nitrogen atom at the 3 position by a CH group give a characteristic circular dichroism curve that is not substantially modified by chemical substitution at the 8 position. Since it is rather well established that 8-substituted purine nucleosides are predominantl...

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

authors： Miles DW,Townsend LB,Redington P,Eyring H

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:COVID-19 has emerged as one of the deadliest and most disruptive events in recent human history. Drawing from political science and psychological theories, we examine the effects of daily confirmed cases in a country on citizens' support for the political leader through the first 120 d of 2020. Using three unique data...

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

authors： Yam KC,Jackson JC,Barnes CM,Lau J,Qin X,Lee HY

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose and test a theoretical perspective in which a universal hallmark of successful literacy acquisition is the convergence of the speech and orthographic processing systems onto a common network of neural structures, regardless of how spoken words are represented orthographically in a writing system. During fun...

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

authors： Rueckl JG,Paz-Alonso PM,Molfese PJ,Kuo WJ,Bick A,Frost SJ,Hancock R,Wu DH,Mencl WE,Duñabeitia JA,Lee JR,Oliver M,Zevin JD,Hoeft F,Carreiras M,Tzeng OJ,Pugh KR,Frost R

更新日期：2015-12-15 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