Alignment of a 1.2-Mb chromosomal region from three strains of Rhodobacter capsulatus reveals a significantly mosaic structure.

abstract：:A cDNA for parafusin, an evolutionarily conserved phosphoglycoprotein involved in exocytosis, has been cloned and sequenced from a unicellular eukaryote, Paramecium tetraurelia. A Paramecium cDNA library was screened with an oligonucleotide probe synthesized to an internal amino acid sequence of isolated parafusin. Th...

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

authors： Subramanian SV,Wyroba E,Andersen AP,Satir BH

更新日期：1994-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Several models have been proposed for the infectious agents that cause human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and sheep scrapie. Purified proteins and extracted nucleic acids are not infectious. To further identify the critical molecular components of the CJD agent, 120S infectious material with reduced prion protein (...

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

authors： Manuelidis L,Sklaviadis T,Akowitz A,Fritch W

更新日期：1995-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In a search for a model cell system that might allow studies of the function of the Rho-related GTPase CDC42Hs in human cells, we measured the content and distribution of CDC42Hs in monocytes that were differentiating into macrophages. The total content of this protein increased 5- to 6-fold in phorbol ester-treated h...

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

authors： Aepfelbacher M,Vauti F,Weber PC,Glomset JA

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe five individuals who have constitutional deletions of the short arm of one chromosome 11, including all or part of the band p13. All of these individuals suffer from aniridia; two have had a Wilms tumor removed. We have established lymphoblastoid cell lines from these and in three cases constructed somatic...

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

authors： van Heyningen V,Boyd PA,Seawright A,Fletcher JM,Fantes JA,Buckton KE,Spowart G,Porteous DJ,Hill RE,Newton MS

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using GFP to mark recent thymic emigrants (RTEs) in mice carrying a GFP transgene driven by the recombination-activating gene 2 promoter, we demonstrate that RTEs are readily detectable even in 2-year-old mice, despite the fact that the proportion of the peripheral T cell pool comprised of RTEs declines with age. Alth...

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

authors： Hale JS,Boursalian TE,Turk GL,Fink PJ

更新日期：2006-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The chloride permeability of airway and sweat ductal epithelium of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients is decreased. This abnormality could represent an intrinsic characteristic of the epithelial cell or the response to a tonic extrinsic stimulus, in vivo. We cultured airway epithelial cells derived from CF and non-CF indiv...

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

authors： Stutts MJ,Cotton CU,Yankaskas JR,Cheng E,Knowles MR,Gatzy JT,Boucher RC

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outer membrane protein (OMP) biogenesis is critical to bacterial physiology because the cellular envelope is vital to bacterial pathogenesis and antibiotic resistance. The process of OMP biogenesis has been studied in vivo, and each of its components has been studied in isolation in vitro. This work integrates paramet...

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

authors： Costello SM,Plummer AM,Fleming PJ,Fleming KG

更新日期：2016-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous intravenous infusion of heparin suppresses smooth muscle cell proliferation in rats after endothelial injury but may lead to hemorrhage and other complications. The anticoagulant property has been removed from chemically modified heparin without loss of antiproliferative effect but use of such compounds is ...

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

authors： Edelman ER,Adams DH,Karnovsky MJ

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heme-copper oxygen reductases are redox-driven proton pumps. In the current work, the effects of mutations in a proposed exit pathway for pumped protons are examined in the ba(3)-type oxygen reductase from Thermus thermophilus, leading from the propionates of heme a(3) to the interface between subunits I and II. R...

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

authors： Chang HY,Choi SK,Vakkasoglu AS,Chen Y,Hemp J,Fee JA,Gennis RB

更新日期：2012-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosine phosphorylation of insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1) by the insulin receptor permits this docking protein to interact with signaling proteins that promote insulin action. Serine phosphorylation uncouples IRS-1 from the insulin receptor, thereby inhibiting its tyrosine phosphorylation and insulin signaling....

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

authors： Ozes ON,Akca H,Mayo LD,Gustin JA,Maehama T,Dixon JE,Donner DB

更新日期：2001-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 289,868 locus tests, based on 28 different protein phenotypes and using one-dimensional electrophoresis to detect variant proteins, has yielded one probable mutation in the offspring of "proximally exposed" parents, who received an estimated average gonadal exposure of 31 to 39 rem in the atomic bombings of...

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

authors： Neel JV,Satoh C,Hamilton HB,Otake M,Goriki K,Kageoka T,Fujita M,Neriishi S,Asakawa J

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perception can be described as a process of inference, integrating bottom-up sensory inputs and top-down expectations. However, it is unclear how this process is neurally implemented. It has been proposed that expectations lead to prestimulus baseline increases in sensory neurons tuned to the expected stimulus, which ...

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

authors： Kok P,Mostert P,de Lange FP

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins synthesized in the cell can begin to fold during translation before the entire polypeptide has been produced, which may be particularly relevant to the folding of multidomain proteins. Here, we study the cotranslational folding of adjacent domains from the cytoskeletal protein α-spectrin using force profile a...

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

authors： Kemp G,Nilsson OB,Tian P,Best RB,von Heijne G

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotes engage in a multitude of beneficial and deleterious interactions with bacteria. Hamiltonella defensa, an endosymbiont of aphids and other sap-feeding insects, protects its aphid host from attack by parasitoid wasps. Thus H. defensa is only conditionally beneficial to hosts, unlike ancient nutritional symbio...

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

authors： Degnan PH,Yu Y,Sisneros N,Wing RA,Moran NA

更新日期：2009-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Selection is widely accepted as the principal force shaping phenotypic variation within populations. Its importance in speciation and macroevolution has been questioned, however, because phenotypic differences between species or higher taxa sometimes appear to be nonadaptive. Here, we use the quantitative trait locus ...

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

authors： Rieseberg LH,Widmer A,Arntz AM,Burke JM

更新日期：2002-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of pediatric adrenal cortical carcinoma (ACC) in southern Brazil is 10-15 times higher than that of pediatric ACC worldwide. Because childhood ACC is associated with Li-Fraumeni syndrome, we examined the cancer history and p53 status of 36 Brazilian patients and their families. Remarkably, 35 of 36 patie...

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

authors： Ribeiro RC,Sandrini F,Figueiredo B,Zambetti GP,Michalkiewicz E,Lafferty AR,DeLacerda L,Rabin M,Cadwell C,Sampaio G,Cat I,Stratakis CA,Sandrini R

更新日期：2001-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in the masticatory behavior of hunter-gatherer and agricultural populations is hypothesized to be one of the major forces affecting the form of the human mandible. However, this has yet to be analyzed at a global level. Here, the relationship between global mandibular shape variation and subsistence economy ...

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

authors： von Cramon-Taubadel N

更新日期：2011-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatostatin (somatotropin release-inhibiting factor; SRIF) is a tetradecapeptide present in brain, pancreas, gastrointestinal tract, and thyroid that inhibits the secretion or action of several hormones in these tissues. We observed that the toad urinary bladder contains concentrations of endogenous somatostatin (8.0...

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

authors： Forrest JN Jr,Reichlin S,Goodman DB

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This presentation reviews Chandra's major contribution to the understanding of nearby galaxies. After a brief summary on significant advances in characterizing various types of discrete x-ray sources, the presentation focuses on the global hot gas in and around galaxies, especially normal ones like our own. The hot ga...

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

authors： Wang QD

更新日期：2010-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Children who are treated for congenital cataracts later exhibit impairments in configural face analysis. This has been explained in terms of a critical period for the acquisition of normal face processing. Here, we consider a more parsimonious account according to which deficits in configural analysis result from the ...

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

authors： Vogelsang L,Gilad-Gutnick S,Ehrenberg E,Yonas A,Diamond S,Held R,Sinha P

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of development has relied primarily on the isolation of mutations in genes with specific functions in development and on the comparison of their expression patterns in normal and mutant phenotypes. Comparative evolutionary analyses can complement these approaches. Phylogenetic analyses of Sonic hedgehog (Shh...

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

authors： Zardoya R,Abouheif E,Meyer A

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli RuvA and RuvB protein complex promotes branch migration of Holliday junctions during recombinational repair and homologous recombination and at stalled replication forks. The RuvB protein belongs to the AAA(+) (ATPase associated with various cellular activities) ATPase family and forms a hexameric...

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

authors： Hishida T,Han YW,Fujimoto S,Iwasaki H,Shinagawa H

更新日期：2004-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is the most common genetic cause of renal failure in humans. Several proteins that are encoded by genes associated with PKD have recently been identified in primary cilia in renal tubular epithelia. These findings have suggested that abnormalities in cilia formation and function may pla...

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

authors： Lin F,Hiesberger T,Cordes K,Sinclair AM,Goldstein LS,Somlo S,Igarashi P

更新日期：2003-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA containing 5-azacytosine (azaC) has previously been shown to be a potent inhibitor of DNA-cytosine methyltransferases. In this report, we describe experiments which demonstrate that azaC-DNA forms a covalent complex with Hpa II methylase, a bacterial enzyme that methylates the internal C of C-C-G-G sequences. The ...

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

authors： Santi DV,Norment A,Garrett CE

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonal kidney cell tumors develop in rats given the alkylating agent N-nitroso-N'-methylurea as neonates. These tumors resemble the childhood Wilms tumors in their histopathology. Deletions and mutations in the Wilms tumor suppressor gene, WT1, are present in up to 6% of childhood nephroblastomas. To investigate th...

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

authors： Sharma PM,Bowman M,Yu BF,Sukumar S

更新日期：1994-10-11 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：:When a sensory stimulus repeats, neuronal firing rate and functional MRI blood oxygen level-dependent responses typically decline, yet perception and behavioral performance either stay constant or improve. An additional aspect of neuronal activity is neuronal synchronization, which can enhance the impact of neurons on...

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

authors： Brunet NM,Bosman CA,Vinck M,Roberts M,Oostenveld R,Desimone R,De Weerd P,Fries P

更新日期：2014-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms ensuring balanced growth remain a critical question in developmental biology. In plants, this balance relies on spatiotemporal integration of hormonal signaling pathways, but the understanding of the precise contribution of each hormone is just beginning to take form. Brassinosteroid (BR) hormone is sho...

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

authors： Vragović K,Sela A,Friedlander-Shani L,Fridman Y,Hacham Y,Holland N,Bartom E,Mockler TC,Savaldi-Goldstein S

更新日期：2015-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) regulates cytokines in arthritis and is, in turn, regulated by MAPK kinase (MKK) 3 and MKK6. To modulate p38 function but potentially minimize toxicity, we evaluated the utility of targeting MKK3 by using MKK3(-/-) mice. These studies showed that TNF-alpha increased phosphor...

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

authors： Inoue T,Boyle DL,Corr M,Hammaker D,Davis RJ,Flavell RA,Firestein GS

更新日期：2006-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The ever-increasing global need for potable water requires practical, sustainable approaches for purifying abundant alternative sources such as seawater, high-salinity processed water, or underground reservoirs. Evaporation-based solutions are of particular interest for treating high salinity water, since conventional...

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

authors： Dongare PD,Alabastri A,Neumann O,Nordlander P,Halas NJ

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00