Expression of a flower-specific Myb protein in leaf cells using a viral vector causes ectopic activation of a target promoter.

abstract：:Aberrant transcription of the pericentromeric human satellite II (HSATII) repeat is present in a wide variety of epithelial cancers. In deriving experimental systems to study its deregulation, we observed that HSATII expression is induced in colon cancer cells cultured as xenografts or under nonadherent conditions in ...

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

authors： Bersani F,Lee E,Kharchenko PV,Xu AW,Liu M,Xega K,MacKenzie OC,Brannigan BW,Wittner BS,Jung H,Ramaswamy S,Park PJ,Maheswaran S,Ting DT,Haber DA

更新日期：2015-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a combined thermodynamic and structural characterization of a DNA tetraplex. Using spectroscopic and calorimetric techniques, we demonstrate that d(TG3T) and d(TG3T2G3T), in the presence of K+, form stable tetramolecular complexes. From differential scanning calorimetry measurements, we obtain the following ...

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

authors： Jin R,Gaffney BL,Wang C,Jones RA,Breslauer KJ

更新日期：1992-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Clones of embryonic chick chondrocytes have been isolated and collagen biosynthesis has been followed as the clones grow and eventually lose division capacity. Analysis of collagen type at each successive subculture until the time of cellular senescence has shown that a change in synthesis occurs from the cartilage-sp...

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

authors： Mayne R,Vail MS,Mayne PM,Miller EJ

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the core features of human speech is that words cause listeners to retrieve corresponding visual mental images. However, whether vocalizations similarly evoke mental images in animal communication systems is surprisingly unknown. Japanese tits (Parus minor) produce specific alarm calls when and only when encoun...

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

authors： Suzuki TN

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Obese fat pads are frequently undervascularized and hypoxic, leading to increased fibrosis, inflammation, and ultimately insulin resistance. We hypothesized that VEGF-A-induced stimulation of angiogenesis enables sustained and sufficient oxygen and nutrient exchange during fat mass expansion, thereby improving adipose...

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

authors： Sun K,Wernstedt Asterholm I,Kusminski CM,Bueno AC,Wang ZV,Pollard JW,Brekken RA,Scherer PE

更新日期：2012-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetically engineered mice with targeted disruption of the neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) gene established the inhibitory role of nitric oxide (NO) in male impulsive aggressive behavior. This was later confirmed by using selective nNOS inhibitors in male wild-type mice. The molecular mechanisms accounting for ...

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

authors： Chiavegatto S,Dawson VL,Mamounas LA,Koliatsos VE,Dawson TM,Nelson RJ

更新日期：2001-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodic fluctuations in past biodiversity, speciation, and extinction have been proposed, with extremely long periods ranging from 26 to 62 million years, although forcing mechanisms remain speculative. In contrast, well-understood periodic Milankovitch climate forcing represents a viable driver for macroevolutionary...

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

authors： Crampton JS,Meyers SR,Cooper RA,Sadler PM,Foote M,Harte D

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The embryonic sites in which progenitors of the hematopoietic lineages first emerge are ideal regions to characterize both the cells and environment needed to initiate blood cell development. For a number of years both the murine yolk sac and embryo have been recognized to contain progenitors of B lymphocytes. However...

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

authors： Cumano A,Furlonger C,Paige CJ

更新日期：1993-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro assembly of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) from its constituent RNA and protein occurs in two steps: formation of the initial complex by interaction of the 5'-end of TMV-RNA with 20S protein aggregate, and growth of the helical rod by sequential addition of protein subunits.Such a process was also observed in the...

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

authors： Ono T,Inoue H,Okada Y

更新日期：1972-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of speech production on speech perception is well established in adults. However, because adults have a long history of both perceiving and producing speech, the extent to which the perception-production linkage is due to experience is unknown. We addressed this issue by asking whether articulatory confi...

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

authors： Bruderer AG,Danielson DK,Kandhadai P,Werker JF

更新日期：2015-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Mus poschiavinus x M. musculus hybrids, which had seven metacentric chromosomes derived from the poschiavinus complement, were repeatedly backcrossed to M. musculus and selected for the chromosome carrying the H-2 complex. A line called T1/Klj was established which had one metacentric chromosome. It was shown by linka...

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

authors： Klein J

更新日期：1971-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone methylation has an important role in transcriptional regulation. However, unlike H3K4 and H3K9 methylation, the role of H4K20 monomethylation (H4K20me-1) in transcriptional regulation remains unclear. Here, we show that Wnt3a specifically stimulates H4K20 monomethylation at the T cell factor (TCF)-binding elem...

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

authors： Li Z,Nie F,Wang S,Li L

更新日期：2011-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional structure of alpha-cobra-toxin, the "long" neurotoxin from the venom of Naja naja siamensis, has been determined at 2.8-A resolution. Crystals grown as hexagonal needles have space group P6522 with unit cell parameters a = b = 74.59 A, c = 42.89 A; one molecule per asymmetric unit. Phases were de...

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

authors： Walkinshaw MD,Saenger W,Maelicke A

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic DNA based on the known amino acid sequence of the brain/gut peptide cholecystokinin (CCK) was synthesized. This DNA contained deoxyinosines at ambiguous codon positions and was used as a probe to isolate the CCK gene directly from a human genomic library. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the isolated gene r...

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

authors： Takahashi Y,Kato K,Hayashizaki Y,Wakabayashi T,Ohtsuka E,Matsuki S,Ikehara M,Matsubara K

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various biological processes exhibit characteristics that vary dramatically in response to different input conditions or changes in the history of the process itself. One of the examples studied here, the Ras-PKC-mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) bistable pathway, follows two distinct dynamics (modes) depending ...

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

authors： Barbano PE,Spivak M,Feng J,Antoniotti M,Mishra B

更新日期：2005-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The human epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a key representative of tyrosine kinase receptors, ubiquitous actors in cell signaling, proliferation, differentiation, and migration. Although the receptor is well-studied, a central issue remains: How does the compositional diversity and functional diversity of th...

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

authors： Coskun Ü,Grzybek M,Drechsel D,Simons K

更新日期：2011-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Several mouse models have already proved valuable for investigating hypertrophic responses to cardiac stress. Here, we characterize one caused by a well defined single copy transgene, RenTgMK, that genetically clamps plasma renin and thence angiotensin II at high levels. All of the transgenic males develop concentric ...

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

authors： Caron KM,James LR,Kim HS,Knowles J,Uhlir R,Mao L,Hagaman JR,Cascio W,Rockman H,Smithies O

更新日期：2004-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Many fatal neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson, the prion-related diseases, and non-neurodegenerative disorders such as type II diabetes are characterized by abnormal amyloid fiber aggregates, suggesting a common mechanism of pathogenesis. We have discovered that a class of systematically designe...

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

authors： Hauser CA,Deng R,Mishra A,Loo Y,Khoe U,Zhuang F,Cheong DW,Accardo A,Sullivan MB,Riekel C,Ying JY,Hauser UA

更新日期：2011-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified dihydropyridine-sensitive calcium channels from rabbit skeletal muscle were reconstituted into phosphatidylcholine vesicles to evaluate the effect of phosphorylation by cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (PK-A) on their function. Both the rate and extent of 45Ca2+ uptake into vesicles containing reconstitute...

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

authors： Nunoki K,Florio V,Catterall WA

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper I review the ways in which the glassy state is obtained both in nature and in materials science and highlight a "new twist"--the recent recognition of polymorphism within the glassy state. The formation of glass by continuous cooling (viscous slowdown) is then examined, the strong/fragile liquids classif...

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

authors： Angell CA

更新日期：1995-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNAs representing the alpha subunit of polyomavirus enhancer binding protein 2 (PEBP2; also called PEA2) were isolated. The products of the cDNAs are highly homologous to that of Drosophila segmentation gene runt (run) for an N-proximal 128-amino acid region showing 66% identity. The run homology region encompasses t...

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

authors： Ogawa E,Maruyama M,Kagoshima H,Inuzuka M,Lu J,Satake M,Shigesada K,Ito Y

更新日期：1993-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the hypothesis that features of the molecular program of normal wound healing might play an important role in cancer metastasis, we previously identified consistent features in the transcriptional response of normal fibroblasts to serum, and used this "wound-response signature" to reveal links between wound h...

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

authors： Chang HY,Nuyten DS,Sneddon JB,Hastie T,Tibshirani R,Sørlie T,Dai H,He YD,van't Veer LJ,Bartelink H,van de Rijn M,Brown PO,van de Vijver MJ

更新日期：2005-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the left and right human cerebral hemispheres differ both functionally and anatomically, little is known about the environmental or genetic factors that govern central nervous system asymmetry. Nevertheless, cerebral asymmetry is strongly correlated with handedness, and handedness does have a significant gene...

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

authors： Geschwind DH,Miller BL,DeCarli C,Carmelli D

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear receptors LXRalpha and LXRbeta have been implicated in the control of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism in multiple cell types. Activation of these receptors stimulates cholesterol efflux in macrophages, promotes bile acid synthesis in liver, and inhibits intestinal cholesterol absorption, actions that...

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

authors： Joseph SB,McKilligin E,Pei L,Watson MA,Collins AR,Laffitte BA,Chen M,Noh G,Goodman J,Hagger GN,Tran J,Tippin TK,Wang X,Lusis AJ,Hsueh WA,Law RE,Collins JL,Willson TM,Tontonoz P

更新日期：2002-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Current evidence suggests that the length of poly(A) tails of bacterial mRNAs result from a competition between poly(A) polymerase and exoribonucleases that attack the 3' ends of RNAs. Here, we show that host factor Hfq is also involved in poly(A) tail metabolism. Inactivation of the hfq gene reduces the length of pol...

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

authors： Hajnsdorf E,Régnier P

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinases (PI 3-kinases) have been implicated in membrane trafficking in the secretory and endocytic pathways of yeast and mammalian cells, but the molecular mechanisms by which these lipid kinases operate are not known. Here we identify a protein of 170 kDa that is rapidly released from cell memb...

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

authors： Patki V,Virbasius J,Lane WS,Toh BH,Shpetner HS,Corvera S

更新日期：1997-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine reserve theory suggests that where large, productive populations are protected within no-take marine reserves, fished areas outside reserves will benefit through the spillover of larvae produced in the reserves. However, empirical evidence for larval export has been sparse. Here we use a simple idealized coastl...

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

authors： Pelc RA,Warner RR,Gaines SD,Paris CB

更新日期：2010-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies on proteins whose N and C termini are in close proximity have demonstrated that folding of polypeptide chains and assembly of oligomers can be accomplished with circularly permuted chains. As yet no methodical study has been conducted to determine how extensively new termini can be introduced and where ...

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

authors： Graf R,Schachman HK

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrinogen binding to receptors on stimulated platelets is a prerequisite for platelet aggregation. To gain further insight into the role of fibrinogen in platelet aggregation and to identify the platelet fibrinogen receptor, we developed a monoclonal anti-platelet antibody that inhibited platelet aggregation. The pur...

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

authors： Bennett JS,Hoxie JA,Leitman SF,Vilaire G,Cines DB

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+ is a powerful inhibitor (Ki is congruent to 16 muM) of basal and prostaglandin E1 (PGE1)-stimulated adenylate cyclase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing); EC 4.6.1.1] activity in membranes obtained from homogenized human platelets. Ca2+ (but not the ionophore A23,187) decreased V(max) of the reaction without an ...

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

authors： Rodan GA,Feinstein MB

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00