Identification, purification, and characterization of a zyxin-related protein that binds the focal adhesion and microfilament protein VASP (vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein).

abstract：:Seed germination is regulated by endogenous hormonal cues and external environmental stimuli such as water, low temperature, and light. After germination, the young seedling must rapidly establish its root system and the photoautotrophic capability appropriate to its surrounding environment. Light and the phytohormone...

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

authors： Chen H,Zhang J,Neff MM,Hong SW,Zhang H,Deng XW,Xiong L

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In autotrophically grown Chlorella cells, glucose induces a hexose transport system but, at the same time, the synthesis of two amino acid transport systems is also induced. Thus, the rates of uptake of glycine, L-alanine, L-proline, and L-serine, all of which compete with each other for entry into the cells, increase...

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

authors： Cho BH,Sauer N,Komor E,Tanner W

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of a partial proteolytic digest by V8 enzyme of the yeast site-specific recombinase Flp to its target site gives rise to DNA-protein complexes that are smaller than those produced by the full-sized protein. The smallest of these complexes (occupancy of one peptide monomer per site) contains either one of two p...

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

authors： Chen JW,Evans BR,Yang SH,Teplow DB,Jayaram M

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Aotus monkeys, which are generally killed when infected with the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, have been identified and grouped by karyotype. These animals were immunized with parasite material obtained from P. falciparum cultivated in vitro which had been maintained in culture for over a year. When su...

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

authors： Reese RT,Trager W,Jensen JB,Miller DA,Tantravahi R

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial memory enhances an organism's navigational ability. Memory typically resides within the brain, but what if an organism has no brain? We show that the brainless slime mold Physarum polycephalum constructs a form of spatial memory by avoiding areas it has previously explored. This mechanism allows the slime mold...

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

authors： Reid CR,Latty T,Dussutour A,Beekman M

更新日期：2012-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat insulin-like growth factor II gene, encoding a fetal somatomedin, expresses a multitranscript family in embryonic/fetal tissues and in the adult brain and spinal cord. By performing in situ hybridization on tissue sections of adult brain and spinal cord, we have found that these transcripts are not expressed i...

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

authors： Stylianopoulou F,Herbert J,Soares MB,Efstratiadis A

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crithidia fasciculata cells were treated with a plasmid (pDK96) containing pBR322 sequences, a Leishmania tarentolae maxicircle autonomously replicating sequence, and the bacterial gene for aminoglycoside 3' phosphotransferase I inserted between the yeast alcohol dehydrogenase 1 promotor and terminator sequences. Resi...

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

authors： Hughes DE,Simpson L

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of highly magnetized white dwarfs has remained a mystery since their initial discovery. Recent observations indicate that the formation of high-field magnetic white dwarfs is intimately related to strong binary interactions during post-main-sequence phases of stellar evolution. If a low-mass companion, such...

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

authors： Nordhaus J,Wellons S,Spiegel DS,Metzger BD,Blackman EG

更新日期：2011-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Mild oxidation of human serum low-density lipoprotein (LDL) converts the apoprotein from a nearly homogeneous component of high apparent molecular weight to a mixture of apparently lower molecular weight polypeptide components, as characterized by sodium dodecyl sulfate/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. This protein...

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

authors： Schuh J,Fairclough GF Jr,Haschemeyer RH

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arguably the most foundational principle in perception research is that our experience of the world goes beyond the retinal image; we perceive the distal environment itself, not the proximal stimulation it causes. Shape may be the paradigm case of such "unconscious inference": When a coin is rotated in depth, we infer...

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

authors： Morales J,Bax A,Firestone C

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Zeatin is the most active and ubiquitous of the naturally occurring cytokinins. The O-glucoside of zeatin, found in all plants examined, is considered to be important in cytokinin transport, storage, and protection against cytokinin oxidases. The enzyme UDPglucose:zeatin O-glucosyltransferase (EC 2.4.1.203) was previo...

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

authors： Martin RC,Mok MC,Mok DW

更新日期：1999-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerization of individual RecA-DNA filaments, containing either single-stranded or double-stranded DNA, was followed in real time, and their mechanical properties were characterized with force-measuring laser tweezers. It was found that the stretch modulus of a filament is dominated by its (central) DNA compone...

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

authors： Hegner M,Smith SB,Bustamante C

更新日期：1999-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The stereospecificity of the beta-adrenergic receptor of turkey erythrocyte ghosts was studied. Binding of the specific beta-adrenergic antagonist, propranolol, was found to occur exclusively with the l-stereoisomer. The stereospecificity of catecholamine binding was determined by assaying the ability of the catechola...

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

authors： Atlas D,Steer ML,Levitzki A

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian nervous system function involves billions of neurons which are interconnected in a multitude of neural circuits. Here we describe a genetic approach to chart neural circuits. By using an olfactory-specific promoter, we selectively expressed barley lectin in sensory neurons in the olfactory epithelium and vom...

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

authors： Horowitz LF,Montmayeur JP,Echelard Y,Buck LB

更新日期：1999-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfection of cells with the H-2Kk gene lacking the transmembrane and cytoplasmic segments resulted in secretion of the H-2Kk protein, as determined by immunoprecipitation with monoclonal anti-H-2Kk antibodies. Transgenic (H-2b X H-2d)F1 mice were established carrying integrated copies of the modified H-2Kk gene. Ex...

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

authors： Arnold B,Dill O,Küblbeck G,Jatsch L,Simon MM,Tucker J,Hämmerling GJ

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular fatty acid incorporation into the phospholipids of Staphylococcus aureus occurs via fatty acid phosphorylation. We show that fatty acid kinase (Fak) is composed of two dissociable protein subunits encoded by separate genes. FakA provides the ATP binding domain and interacts with two distinct FakB protein...

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

authors： Parsons JB,Broussard TC,Bose JL,Rosch JW,Jackson P,Subramanian C,Rock CO

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study details efficient lesion-free cutaneous vaccination via vaccine delivery into an array of micropores in the skin, instead of bolus injection at a single site. Such delivery effectively segregated vaccine-induced inflammation, resulting in rapid resolution of the inflammation, provided that distances ...

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

authors： Wang J,Li B,Wu MX

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The thylakoid compartments of plant chloroplasts are a vital destination for copper. Copper is needed to form holo-plastocyanin, which must shuttle electrons between photosystems to convert light into biologically useful chemical energy. Copper can bind tightly to proteins, so it has been hypothesized that copper part...

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

authors： Banci L,Bertini I,Ciofi-Baffoni S,Kandias NG,Robinson NJ,Spyroulias GA,Su XC,Tottey S,Vanarotti M

更新日期：2006-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate warming is expected to mobilize northern permafrost and peat organic carbon (PP-C), yet magnitudes and system specifics of even current releases are poorly constrained. While part of the PP-C will degrade at point of thaw to CO2 and CH4 to directly amplify global warming, another part will enter the fluvial ne...

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

authors： Wild B,Andersson A,Bröder L,Vonk J,Hugelius G,McClelland JW,Song W,Raymond PA,Gustafsson Ö

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptors for platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) have previously only been found on cells of mesenchymal and glial origin. This study shows PDGF receptors on an anaplastic thyroid carcinoma cell line, C 643, that was found to express thyroglobulin mRNA, confirming its origin from thyroid epithelium. Northern blot a...

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

authors： Heldin NE,Gustavsson B,Claesson-Welsh L,Hammacher A,Mark J,Heldin CH,Westermark B

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropathic pain afflicts millions of individuals and represents a major health problem for which there is limited effective and safe therapy. Emerging literature links altered sphingolipid metabolism to nociceptive processing. However, the neuropharmacology of sphingolipid signaling in the central nervous system in t...

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

authors： Chen Z,Doyle TM,Luongo L,Largent-Milnes TM,Giancotti LA,Kolar G,Squillace S,Boccella S,Walker JK,Pendleton A,Spiegel S,Neumann WL,Vanderah TW,Salvemini D

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The endometrial epithelium of the uterus regenerates periodically. The cellular source of newly regenerated endometrial epithelia during a mouse estrous cycle or a human menstrual cycle is presently unknown. Here, I have used single-cell lineage tracing in the whole mouse uterus to demonstrate that epithelial stem cel...

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

authors： Jin S

更新日期：2019-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental temperature impacts the physical activity and ecology of ectothermic animals through its effects on muscle contractile physiology. Sprinting, swimming, and jumping performance of ectotherms decreases by at least 33% over a 10 degrees C drop, accompanied by a similar decline in muscle power. We propose th...

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

authors： Anderson CV,Deban SM

更新日期：2010-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the mechanisms of anterior-posterior axis formation are well understood in Drosophila, both embryological and molecular studies suggest significant variation in the mechanisms generating this axis within the Insecta class as a whole. ...

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

authors： Patel NH

更新日期：2000-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The human rhodopsin gene is the locus for numerous alleles linked to the neurodegenerative disease retinitis pigmentosa. To facilitate the study of retinal degeneration and to test reagents designed to alter the structure and function of this gene, we have developed strains of mice whose native rhodopsin gene has been...

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

authors： Chan F,Bradley A,Wensel TG,Wilson JH

更新日期：2004-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Several natural isolate E. coli strains highly resistant to sulfonamides and antibiotics are shown to contain a sulfonamide-resistant dihydropteroate synthase (2-amino-4-hydroxy-6-hydroxymethyl-7,8-dihydropteridine-diphosphate:4-aminobenzoate 2-amino-4-hydroxydihydropteridine-6-methenyltransferase, EC 2.5.1.15) in add...

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

authors： Wise EM Jr,Abou-Donia MM

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the discovery of a small molecule inhibitor of pestivirus replication. The compound, designated VP32947, inhibits the replication of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) in cell culture at a 50% inhibitory concentration of approximately 20 nM. VP32947 inhibits both cytopathic and noncytopathic pestiviruse...

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

authors： Baginski SG,Pevear DC,Seipel M,Sun SC,Benetatos CA,Chunduru SK,Rice CM,Collett MS

更新日期：2000-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the biochemical basis for negative regulation of interleukin 2 receptor alpha-chain (IL-2R alpha) gene expression. Transient transfection studies employing internally deleted forms of the IL-2R alpha promoter localized a negative regulatory element (NRE) between nucleotides -400 and -368 relative ...

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

authors： Smith MR,Greene WC

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile, a causative agent of antibiotic-associated diarrhea and its potentially lethal form, pseudomembranous colitis, produces two large protein toxins that are responsible for the cellular damage associated with the disease. The level of toxin production appears to be critical for determining the seve...

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

authors： Mani N,Dupuy B

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Children whose parents divorce tend to have worse educational outcomes than children whose parents stay married. However, not all children respond identically to their parents divorcing. We focus on how the impact of parental divorce on children's education varies by how likely or unlikely divorce was for those parent...

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

authors： Brand JE,Moore R,Song X,Xie Y

更新日期：2019-04-09 00:00:00