Rate of spontaneous mutation at human loci encoding protein structure.

abstract：:Growing knowledge of the key molecular components involved in biological processes such as endocytosis, exocytosis, and motility has enabled direct testing of proposed mechanistic models by reconstitution. However, current techniques for building increasingly complex cellular structures and functions from purified com...

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

authors： Richmond DL,Schmid EM,Martens S,Stachowiak JC,Liska N,Fletcher DA

更新日期：2011-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The tissue-specific expression of the chicken liver cell adhesion molecule (L-CAM) was studied by generating transgenic mice. The rat insulin II promoter was fused to a chicken L-CAM cDNA or to chicken genomic L-CAM sequences. Mice carrying the cDNA showed no expression of L-CAM. Mice carrying L-CAM genomic sequences ...

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

authors： Begemann M,Tan SS,Cunningham BA,Edelman GM

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cl- channels in the apical membranes of salt-secreting epithelia are activated by both cAMP and Ca2+ second-messenger systems, and dysfunctions in their hormonal regulation have been demonstrated in patients with cystic fibrosis. We have transfected the epithelial cell line T84 with an expression vector containing a m...

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

authors： Rogers KV,Goldman PS,Frizzell RA,McKnight GS

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoproteolytic processing of the human protein C (HPC) precursor to its mature form involves cleavage of the propeptide after amino acids Lys-2-Arg-1 and removal of a Lys156-Arg157 dipeptide connecting the light and heavy chains. This processing was inefficient in the mammary gland of transgenic mice and pigs. We hyp...

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

authors： Drews R,Paleyanda RK,Lee TK,Chang RR,Rehemtulla A,Kaufman RJ,Drohan WN,Luboń H

更新日期：1995-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptide B (NPB) and neuropeptide W (NPW) have been recently identified as ligands for the G protein-coupled receptor (GPR) 7 and GPR8. The precise in vivo role of this neuropeptide-receptor pathway has not been fully demonstrated. In this paper, we report that NPB-deficient mice manifest a mild adult-onset obesit...

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

authors： Kelly MA,Beuckmann CT,Williams SC,Sinton CM,Motoike T,Richardson JA,Hammer RE,Garry MG,Yanagisawa M

更新日期：2005-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:This article emphasizes the role played by a remarkable pointwise inequality satisfied by fractionary derivatives in order to obtain maximum principles and Lp-decay of solutions of several interesting partial differential equations. In particular, there are applications to quasigeostrophic flows, in two space variable...

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

authors： Cordoba A,Cordoba D

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A high-pressure investigation of the Xe*H(2)O chemical system was conducted by using diamond-anvil cell techniques combined with in situ Raman spectroscopy, synchrotron x-ray diffraction, and laser heating. Structure I xenon clathrate was observed to be stable up to 1.8 GPa, at which pressure it transforms to a new Xe...

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

authors： Sanloup C,Mao Hk HK,Hemley RJ

更新日期：2002-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder of uncertain pathogenesis characterized by a loss of substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) dopaminergic (DA) neurons, and can be modeled by the neurotoxin 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP). Both inflammatory processes and oxidative stress may c...

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

authors： Wu DC,Teismann P,Tieu K,Vila M,Jackson-Lewis V,Ischiropoulos H,Przedborski S

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used a soluble in vitro RNA polymerase II transcription system to define the site of initiation of Moloney murine leukemia viral RNA synthesis. Molecularly cloned integrated and unintegrated Moloney murine leukemia virus DNAs were used as templates. The 5' ends of in vitro transcripts and virion RNA of Moloney...

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

authors： Fuhrman SA,Van Beveren C,Verma IM

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the in vivo signaling mechanisms involved in nociceptin/orphanin FQ (Noci)-induced pain responses by using a flexor-reflex paradigm. Noci was 10,000 times more potent than substance P (SP) in eliciting flexor responses after intraplantar injection into the hind limb of mice, but the action of Noci seem...

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

authors： Inoue M,Kobayashi M,Kozaki S,Zimmer A,Ueda H

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ankyrin-G (AnkG), a highly enriched scaffold protein in the axon initial segment (AIS) of neurons, functions to maintain axonal polarity and the integrity of the AIS. At the AIS, AnkG regulates selective intracellular cargo trafficking between soma and axons via interaction with the dynein regulator protein Ndel1, but...

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

authors： Ye J,Li J,Ye F,Zhang Y,Zhang M,Wang C

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Improving global yields of important agricultural crops is a complex challenge. Enhancing yield and resource use by engineering improvements to photosynthetic carbon assimilation is one potential solution. During the last 40 million years C(4) photosynthesis has evolved multiple times, enabling plants to evade the cat...

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

authors： Whitney SM,Sharwood RE,Orr D,White SJ,Alonso H,Galmés J

更新日期：2011-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteolytic cleavage of sterol regulatory element-binding proteins (SREBPs) is regulated by SREBP cleavage-activating protein (SCAP), which forms complexes with SREBPs in membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). In sterol-depleted cells, SCAP facilitates cleavage of SREBPs by Site-1 protease, thereby initiatin...

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

authors： Nohturfft A,DeBose-Boyd RA,Scheek S,Goldstein JL,Brown MS

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe and test a Markov chain model of microsatellite evolution that can explain the different distributions of microsatellite lengths across different organisms and repeat motifs. Two key features of this model are the dependence of mutation rates on microsatellite length and a mutation process that includes bo...

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

authors： Kruglyak S,Durrett RT,Schug MD,Aquadro CF

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The NOVH protein belongs to the emerging CCN [Connective tissue growth factor (CTGF), Cyr61/Cef10, nephroblastoma overexpressed gene] family of growth regulators sharing a strikingly conserved multimodular organization but exhibiting distinctive functional features. Two members of the family (CYR61 and CTGF) are posit...

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

authors： Perbal B,Martinerie C,Sainson R,Werner M,He B,Roizman B

更新日期：1999-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A potential human footprint on Western Central African rainforests before the Common Era has become the focus of an ongoing controversy. Between 3,000 y ago and 2,000 y ago, regional pollen sequences indicate a replacement of mature rainforests by a forest-savannah mosaic including pioneer trees. Although some studies...

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

authors： Garcin Y,Deschamps P,Ménot G,de Saulieu G,Schefuß E,Sebag D,Dupont LM,Oslisly R,Brademann B,Mbusnum KG,Onana JM,Ako AA,Epp LS,Tjallingii R,Strecker MR,Brauer A,Sachse D

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:State transition in photosynthesis is a short-term balancing mechanism of energy distribution between photosystem I (PSI) and photosystem II (PSII). When PSII is preferentially excited (state 2), a pool of mobile light-harvesting complex II (LHCII) antenna proteins is thought to migrate from PSII to PSI, but biochemic...

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

authors： Takahashi H,Iwai M,Takahashi Y,Minagawa J

更新日期：2006-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse insulin-like growth factor 2 (Igf2) locus is a complex genomic region that produces multiple transcripts from alternative promoters. Expression at this locus is regulated by parental imprinting. However, despite the existence of putative imprinting control elements in the Igf2 upstream region, imprinted tran...

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

authors： Moore T,Constancia M,Zubair M,Bailleul B,Feil R,Sasaki H,Reik W

更新日期：1997-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological function of Glu-181 in the photoactivation process of rhodopsin is explored through spectroscopic studies of site-specific mutants. Preresonance Raman vibrational spectra of the unphotolyzed E181Q mutant are nearly identical to spectra of the native pigment, supporting the view that Glu-181 is uncharged...

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

authors： Yan EC,Kazmi MA,Ganim Z,Hou JM,Pan D,Chang BS,Sakmar TP,Mathies RA

更新日期：2003-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Microinjection of progesterone dissolved in paraffin oil induces the reinitiation of meiotic maturation in the Xenopus oocyte; 50% maturation is obtained when 50 nl of a 50 microM solution is microinjected into the oocyte. The kinetics of the response to microinjected progesterone are similar to the kinetics of respon...

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

authors： Tso J,Thibier C,Mulner O,Ozon R

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The total amounts of type I and type II cytoplasmic cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase activities were measured in various tissues of intact rats and rats subjected to castration, hypophysectomy, or adrenalectomy. After castration, the total amount of type I activity decreased rapidly in classifically steroid-respons...

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

authors： Fuller DJ,Byus CV,Russell DH

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endodermis acts as a "second skin" in plant roots by providing the cellular control necessary for the selective entry of water and solutes into the vascular system. To enable such control, Casparian strips span the cell wall of adjacent endodermal cells to form a tight junction that blocks extracellular diffusion ...

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

authors： Hosmani PS,Kamiya T,Danku J,Naseer S,Geldner N,Guerinot ML,Salt DE

更新日期：2013-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging and some pathological conditions are associated with the accumulation of altered (inactive or less active) forms of enzymes. It was suggested that these age-related alterations reflect spontaneous changes in protein conformation and/or posttranslational modifications (e.g., oxidation). Because changes in protein...

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

authors： Chao CC,Ma YS,Stadtman ER

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopaminergic and glutamatergic neurotransmissions in the striatum play an essential role in motor- and reward-related behaviors. Dysfunction of these neurotransmitter systems has been found in Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, and drug addiction. Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (CDK5) negatively regulates postsynaptic sig...

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

authors： Chergui K,Svenningsson P,Greengard P

更新日期：2004-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoprotein Ib is a surface membrane glycoprotein of platelets that functions as a receptor for von Willebrand factor. It is a heterodimer composed of an alpha and a beta chain linked by a disulfide bond(s). A phage lambda gt11 cDNA expression library prepared from mRNA from a human erythroleukemia cell line, HEL, wa...

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

authors： Lopez JA,Chung DW,Fujikawa K,Hagen FS,Papayannopoulou T,Roth GJ

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The size of an organism reflects its metabolic rate, growth rate, mortality, and other important characteristics; therefore, the distribution of body size is a major determinant of ecosystem structure and function. Body-size distributions often are multimodal, with several peaks of abundant sizes, and previous studies...

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

authors： Lampert A,Tlusty T

更新日期：2013-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Under fasting conditions, increases in circulating glucagon maintain glucose balance by promoting hepatic gluconeogenesis. Triggering of the cAMP pathway stimulates gluconeogenic gene expression through the PKA-mediated phosphorylation of the cAMP response element binding (CREB) protein and via the dephosphorylation o...

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

authors： Tsai WW,Niessen S,Goebel N,Yates JR 3rd,Guccione E,Montminy M

更新日期：2013-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubc13 is a ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme responsible for noncanonical ubiquitination of TNF receptor-associated factor (TRAF)-family adapter proteins involved in Toll-like receptor and TNF-family cytokine receptor signaling, which are regulators of innate immunity. Gene ablation was used to study the function of Ubc13 ...

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

authors： Fukushima T,Matsuzawa S,Kress CL,Bruey JM,Krajewska M,Lefebvre S,Zapata JM,Ronai Z,Reed JC

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The assembly of tiny magnetic particles in external magnetic fields is important for many applications ranging from data storage to medical technologies. The development of ever smaller magnetic structures is restricted by a size limit, where the particles are just barely magnetic. For such particles we report the dis...

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

authors： Mehdizadeh Taheri S,Michaelis M,Friedrich T,Förster B,Drechsler M,Römer FM,Bösecke P,Narayanan T,Weber B,Rehberg I,Rosenfeldt S,Förster S

更新日期：2015-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of eukaryotic viruses have evolved mechanisms to downregulate activity of the interferon-induced, double-stranded RNA-activated protein kinase (referred to as P68 based on its Mr of 68,000 in human cells). This control is essential because once activated, the P68 kinase phosphorylates its natural substrate, t...

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

authors： Lee TG,Tomita J,Hovanessian AG,Katze MG

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00