Ultrastructure of the first component of human complement: electron microscopy of the crosslinked complex.

abstract：:Fast-atom bombardment mass spectrometry was used to follow the time course of disulfide bond formation during in vitro refolding of recombinant human macrophage-colony-stimulating factor. The content of iodoacetamide-alkylated half-cystines in proteolytic peptides of trapped refolding intermediates collected at 0, 6, ...

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

authors： Glocker MO,Arbogast B,Milley R,Cowgill C,Deinzer ML

更新日期：1994-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian reovirus S1133 penetrates and uncoats in suspension cultures of mouse L cells. The multiple species of viral transcripts are produced in the cytoplasm of the infected cell, but they fail to associate with polysomes, consistent with the absence of viral protein synthesis. The selective block in avian virus mRNA t...

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

authors： Benavente J,Shatkin AJ

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytochromes (phy) are red/far-red-absorbing photoreceptors that regulate the adaption of plant growth and development to changes in ambient light conditions. The nuclear transport of the phytochromes upon light activation is regarded as a key step in phytochrome signaling. Although nuclear import of phyA is regulated...

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

authors： Pfeiffer A,Nagel MK,Popp C,Wüst F,Bindics J,Viczián A,Hiltbrunner A,Nagy F,Kunkel T,Schäfer E

更新日期：2012-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Living organisms detect changes in temperature using thermosensory molecules. However, these molecules and/or their mechanisms for sensing temperature differ among organisms. To identify thermosensory molecules in plants, we investigated chloroplast positioning in response to temperature changes and identified a blue-...

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

authors： Fujii Y,Tanaka H,Konno N,Ogasawara Y,Hamashima N,Tamura S,Hasegawa S,Hayasaki Y,Okajima K,Kodama Y

更新日期：2017-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a genome-wide approach, we asked how many transporter genes contribute to symbiotic phosphate uptake and analyzed their evolutionary conservation. Considering the sequenced rice genome at hand, only the Oryza sativa phosphate transporter (OsPT) gene OsPT11 was specifically induced during the arbuscular mycorrhiz...

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

authors： Paszkowski U,Kroken S,Roux C,Briggs SP

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Construction of deletion derivative plasmids and cloning of restriction fragments from plasmids containing the Salmonella typhimurium origin of replication (ori) were used to locate the functional origin to within a DNA fragment of 296 base pairs between the genes uncB and asn. The nucleotide sequence of the S. typhim...

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

authors： Zyskind JW,Smith DW

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although biological cells are mostly transparent, they are phase objects that differ in shape and refractive index. Any image that is projected through layers of randomly oriented cells will normally be distorted by refraction, reflection, and scattering. Counterintuitively, the retina of the vertebrate eye is inverte...

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

authors： Franze K,Grosche J,Skatchkov SN,Schinkinger S,Foja C,Schild D,Uckermann O,Travis K,Reichenbach A,Guck J

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We estimated the unliganded opening and closing rate constants of neuromuscular acetylcholine receptor-channels (AChRs) having mutations that increased the gating equilibrium constant. For some mutant combinations, spontaneous openings occurred in clusters. For 25 different constructs, the unliganded gating equilibriu...

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

authors： Purohit P,Auerbach A

更新日期：2009-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of 3T3-L2 fibroblasts in medium containing 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine prevents the spontaneous cytodifferentiation of these cells into adipose cells. Treatment of bromodeoxyuridine-suppressed cultures at confluence with 1-methyl-3-isobutylxanthine, a promoter of the adipose conversion, results in differentiation o...

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

authors： Russell TR

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have suggested that introgressed Neandertal DNA was subjected to negative selection in modern humans. A striking observation in support of this is an apparent monotonic decline in Neandertal ancestry observed in modern humans in Europe over the past 45,000 years. Here, we show that this decline is an a...

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

authors： Petr M,Pääbo S,Kelso J,Vernot B

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutaredoxins (GRXs), also known as thioltransferases, use glutathione as a cofactor for reduction of disulfides in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. We demonstrate that the vaccinia virus O2L open reading frame encodes a functional GRX, as predicted by Johnson et al. [Johnson, G. P., Goebel, S. J., Perkus, M. E., Davis, S....

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

authors： Ahn BY,Moss B

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the mechanisms by which compounds discovered using cell-based phenotypic screening strategies might exert their effects would be highly augmented by new approaches exploring their potential interactions with the genome. For example, altered androgen receptor (AR) transcriptional programs, including castr...

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

authors： Jin C,Yang L,Xie M,Lin C,Merkurjev D,Yang JC,Tanasa B,Oh S,Zhang J,Ohgi KA,Zhou H,Li W,Evans CP,Ding S,Rosenfeld MG

更新日期：2014-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammonium sulfate fractionation of crude extracts of E. coli yields a soluble enzyme fraction (about 25-fold purification) that catalyzes the conversion of phiX174 single-stranded DNA to duplex DNA. The reaction is rifampicin-resistant, requires single-stranded DNA, Mg++, deoxynucleoside triphosphates, and ATP, and is ...

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

authors： Schuster H,Mikolajczyk M,Rohrschneider J,Geschke B

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromosomal locations of cellular sequences flanking integrated papillomavirus DNA in four cervical carcinoma cell lines and a primary cervical carcinoma have been determined. The two human papillomavirus (HPV) 16 flanking sequences derived from the tumor were localized to chromosome regions 20pter----20q13 and 3p...

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

authors： Dürst M,Croce CM,Gissmann L,Schwarz E,Huebner K

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The insect gut microbiota plays crucial roles in modulating the interactions between the host and intestinal pathogens. Unlike viruses, bacteria, and parasites, which need to be ingested to cause disease, entomopathogenic fungi infect insects through the cuticle and proliferate in the hemolymph. However, interactions ...

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

authors： Wei G,Lai Y,Wang G,Chen H,Li F,Wang S

更新日期：2017-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:An established line of mouse fibroblasts, C3H/10T1/2 cells, was used for the assessment in vitro of oncogenic transformations caused by single and split doses of x-rays. The shape of the dose-response relationship was determined over the range from 0.1 to 10 Gy. It was found that splitting the x-ray dose into two equa...

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

authors： Miller RC,Hall EJ,Rossi HH

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of the single-stranded DNA genome of geminiviruses occurs via a double-stranded intermediate that is subsequently used as a template for rolling-circle replication of the viral strand. Only one of the proteins encoded by the virus, here referred to as replication initiator protein (Rep protein), is indispe...

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

authors： Laufs J,Traut W,Heyraud F,Matzeit V,Rogers SG,Schell J,Gronenborn B

更新日期：1995-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Langerhans cells are a subset of dendritic cells (DCs) found in the human epidermis with unique morphological and molecular properties that enable their function as "sentinels" of the immune system. DCs are pivotal in the initiation and regulation of primary MHC class I restricted T lymphocyte immune responses and are...

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

authors： MacAry PA,Lindsay M,Scott MA,Craig JI,Luzio JP,Lehner PJ

更新日期：2001-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The calcium-activated K(+) channel KCa3.1 plays an important role in T lymphocyte Ca(2+) signaling by helping to maintain a negative membrane potential, which provides an electrochemical gradient to drive Ca(2+) influx. To assess the role of KCa3.1 channels in lymphocyte activation in vivo, we studied T cell function ...

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

authors： Di L,Srivastava S,Zhdanova O,Ding Y,Li Z,Wulff H,Lafaille M,Skolnik EY

更新日期：2010-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that single interneurons can toggle the output neurons of the cerebellar cortex (the Purkinje cells) between their two states. The firing of Purkinje cells has previously been shown to alternate between an "up" state in which the cell fires spontaneous action potentials and a silent "down" state. We sho...

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

authors： Oldfield CS,Marty A,Stell BM

更新日期：2010-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:WOPR-domain proteins are found throughout the fungal kingdom where they function as master regulators of cell morphology and pathogenesis. Genetic and biochemical experiments previously demonstrated that these proteins bind to specific DNA sequences and thereby regulate transcription. However, their primary sequence s...

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

authors： Lohse MB,Rosenberg OS,Cox JS,Stroud RM,Finer-Moore JS,Johnson AD

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Finding regions of the genome that are significantly recurrent in noisy data are a common but difficult problem in present day computational biology. Cores of recurrent events (CORE) is a computational approach to solving this problem that is based on a formalized notion by which "core" intervals explain the observed ...

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

authors： Krasnitz A,Sun G,Andrews P,Wigler M

更新日期：2013-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The refractoriness of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) with t(11;17)(q23;q21) to all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA)-based therapy concerns clinicians and intrigues basic researchers. By using a murine leukemic model carrying both promyelocytic leukemia zinc finger/retinoic acid receptor-α (PLZF/RARα) and RARα/PLZF fusio...

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

authors： Jiao B,Ren ZH,Liu P,Chen LJ,Shi JY,Dong Y,Ablain J,Shi L,Gao L,Hu JP,Ren RB,de Thé H,Chen Z,Chen SJ

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Worldwide, 90% of HIV-1 infections are transmitted heterosexually. Because the genital mucosa are the sites of initial contact with HIV-1 for most exposed individuals, study of the virus from the genital tract is critical for the development of vaccines and therapeutics. Previous analyses of HIV-1 in various tissues h...

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

authors： Kemal KS,Foley B,Burger H,Anastos K,Minkoff H,Kitchen C,Philpott SM,Gao W,Robison E,Holman S,Dehner C,Beck S,Meyer WA 3rd,Landay A,Kovacs A,Bremer J,Weiser B

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Two forms of lactoferrin, an intact lactoferrin and a "nicked" but apparently intact (i.e., 78-kDa) form, have been isolated from the urine of preterm infants fed human milk. These two forms of lactoferrin, demonstrated to be entirely of maternal origin, were copurified using affinity columns of immobilized single-str...

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

authors： Hutchens TW,Henry JF,Yip TT

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous circadian rhythms have been described in a wide range of organisms from prokaryotes to man. Although basic circadian mechanisms at the molecular level are genetically fixed, certain properties of circadian rhythms at the organismic level can be modified by environmental conditions and subsequently retained ...

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

authors： Brandstätter R,Kumar V,Abraham U,Gwinner E

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein L-1 (APOL1), the trypanolytic factor of human serum, can lyse several African trypanosome species including Trypanosoma brucei brucei, but not the human-infective pathogens T. brucei rhodesiense and T. brucei gambiense, which are resistant to lysis by human serum. Lysis follows the uptake of APOL1 into ...

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

authors： Thomson R,Finkelstein A

更新日期：2015-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody-secreting plasma cells (PCs) arise rapidly during adaptive immunity to control infections. The early PCs are retained within the reactive lymphoid organ where their localization and homeostasis rely on extrinsic factors, presumably produced by local niche cells. While myeloid cells have been proposed to form ...

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

authors： Huang HY,Rivas-Caicedo A,Renevey F,Cannelle H,Peranzoni E,Scarpellino L,Hardie DL,Pommier A,Schaeuble K,Favre S,Vogt TK,Arenzana-Seisdedos F,Schneider P,Buckley CD,Donnadieu E,Luther SA

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) that lack a unique 3D structure and comprise a large fraction of the human proteome play important roles in numerous cellular functions. Prostate-Associated Gene 4 (PAGE4) is an IDP that acts as a potentiator of the Activator Protein-1 (AP-1) transcription factor. Homeodomain-I...

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

authors： Kulkarni P,Jolly MK,Jia D,Mooney SM,Bhargava A,Kagohara LT,Chen Y,Hao P,He Y,Veltri RW,Grishaev A,Weninger K,Levine H,Orban J

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Many paleoredox proxies indicate low-level and dynamic incipient oxygenation of Earth's surface environments during the Neoarchean (2.8-2.5 Ga) before the Great Oxidation Event (GOE) at ∼2.4 Ga. The mode, tempo, and scale of these redox changes are poorly understood, because data from various locations and ages sugges...

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

authors： Koehler MC,Buick R,Kipp MA,Stüeken EE,Zaloumis J

更新日期：2018-07-24 00:00:00