Delivery of antisense oligodeoxyribonucleotides against the human epidermal growth factor receptor into cultured KB cells with liposomes conjugated to folate via polyethylene glycol.

abstract：:Recent experiments have shown that mouse primary visual cortex (V1) is very different from that of cat or monkey, including response properties-one of which is that contrast invariance in the orientation selectivity (OS) of the neurons' firing rates is replaced in mouse with contrast-dependent sharpening (broadening) ...

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

authors： Dai WP,Zhou D,McLaughlin DW,Cai D

更新日期：2018-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate [3H]phencyclidine ([3H]PCP)as a probe for the ionic channel of the nicotinic receptor, the characteristics of its binding to electric organ membranes od Torpedo ocellata and its effects on frog sartorius muscle were studied. Similar to PCP, [3H]PCP depressed the peak amplitude of endplate current, caused n...

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

authors： Eldefrawi ME,Eldefrawi AT,Aronstam RS,Maleque MA,Warnick JE,Albuquerque EX

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the complete nucleotide sequence of an infectious proviral molecular clone (FIV-14) of the feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV). FIV-14 has a genome organization similar in complexity to other lentiviruses. In addition to three large open reading frames representing the gag, pol, and env genes, at least f...

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

authors： Olmsted RA,Hirsch VM,Purcell RH,Johnson PR

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple studies have established that microRNAs (miRNAs) are involved in the initiation and progression of cancer. Notably, miR-155 is one of the most overexpressed miRNAs in several solid and hematological malignancies. Ectopic miR-155 expression in mice B cells (Eμ-miR-155 transgenic mice) has been shown to induce ...

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

authors： Sandhu SK,Volinia S,Costinean S,Galasso M,Neinast R,Santhanam R,Parthun MR,Perrotti D,Marcucci G,Garzon R,Croce CM

更新日期：2012-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that glycolate oxidation in unicellular green algae is linked to mitochondrial electron transport, rather than to peroxisomal metabolism as in higher plants and animals, was studied in a mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (dk97) deficient in cytochrome oxidase. This mutant had normal rates of dark res...

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

authors： Husic DW,Tolbert NE

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immature state of cellular differentiation--characterized by stem cell-like tendencies and impaired differentiation--is a hallmark of cancer. Using glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) as a model system, we sought to determine whether molecular determinants that drive cells toward terminal differentiation are also genetic...

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

authors： Hu J,Ho AL,Yuan L,Hu B,Hua S,Hwang SS,Zhang J,Hu T,Zheng H,Gan B,Wu G,Wang YA,Chin L,DePinho RA

更新日期：2013-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in experimental animals and humans have stressed the role of the cerebellum in motor skill learning. Yet, the relative importance of the cerebellar cortex and deep nuclei, as well as the nature of the dynamic functional changes occurring between these and other motor-related structures during learning, remains...

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

authors： Doyon J,Song AW,Karni A,Lalonde F,Adams MM,Ungerleider LG

更新日期：2002-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:HU, the major DNA binding protein of Escherichia coli, exists in solution as a heterodimer composed of two highly homologous subunits: HU1, encoded by hupB; HU2, encoded by hupA. The purification of the HU protein from hupA- or hupB- bacteria showed that the hupB mutant strains synthesize normal amounts of the HU2 sub...

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

authors： Bonnefoy E,Almeida A,Rouviere-Yaniv J

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the fundamental events in metamorphosis in insects is the replacement of larval tissues by imaginal tissues. Shortly after pupariation the imaginal discs evaginate to assume their positions at the surface of the prepupal animal. This is a very precise process that is only beginning to be understood. In Drosophi...

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

authors： Martin-Blanco E,Pastor-Pareja JC,Garcia-Bellido A

更新日期：2000-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Sonic hedgehog (Shh) plays an integral role in both the anterior-posterior (A-P) patterning and expansion of developing vertebrate limbs through a feedback loop involving Fgfs, Bmps, and Gremlin. In bat limbs A-P patterning and the size of the digital field are unique. The posterior digits of the forelimb are elongate...

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

authors： Hockman D,Cretekos CJ,Mason MK,Behringer RR,Jacobs DS,Illing N

更新日期：2008-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutants of Escherichia coli sensitive to phage T4 gene 2 mutants were obtained following ethyl methanesulfonate mutagenesis. By mapping and complementation analysis, the mutations in each of the six mutants are in recB and recC. By both in vivo and in vitro analyses, the nuclease activity of RecBC enzyme is undetectab...

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

authors： Chaudhury AM,Smith GR

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Na(+)/I(-) symporter (NIS) is a key plasma membrane protein that mediates active I(-) uptake in the thyroid, lactating breast, and other tissues with an electrogenic stoichiometry of 2 Na(+) per I(-). In the thyroid, NIS-mediated I(-) uptake is the first step in the biosynthesis of the iodine-containing thyroid ho...

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

authors： Dohán O,Portulano C,Basquin C,Reyna-Neyra A,Amzel LM,Carrasco N

更新日期：2007-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylmalonyl-CoA mutase (EC 5.4.99.2) is a mitochondrial matrix enzyme whose activity is deficient in the inherited disorder methylmalonic acidemia. Previous studies on primary fibroblast cell lines from patients with methylmalonic acidemia have delineated a variety of biochemical phenotypes underlying this disorder....

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

authors： Ledley FD,Jansen R,Nham SU,Fenton WA,Rosenberg LE

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction endonucleases such as EcoRI bind and cleave DNA with great specificity and represent a paradigm for protein-DNA interactions and molecular recognition. Using osmotic pressure to induce water release, we demonstrate the participation of bound waters in the sequence discrimination of substrate DNA by EcoRI. ...

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

authors： Robinson CR,Sligar SG

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Y chromosomes are different from other chromosomes because of a lack of recombination. Until now, complete sequence information of Y chromosomes has been available only for some primates, although considerable information is available for other organisms, e.g., several species of Drosophila. Here, we report the gene o...

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

authors： Yamato KT,Ishizaki K,Fujisawa M,Okada S,Nakayama S,Fujishita M,Bando H,Yodoya K,Hayashi K,Bando T,Hasumi A,Nishio T,Sakata R,Yamamoto M,Yamaki A,Kajikawa M,Yamano T,Nishide T,Choi SH,Shimizu-Ueda Y,Hanajiri T,Sa

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological character displacement describes a pattern where morphological differences between sympatric species are enhanced through interspecific competition. Although widely considered a pervasive force in evolutionary ecology, few clear-cut examples have been documented. Here we report a case of ecological characte...

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

authors： Adams DC,Rohlf FJ

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant kingdom contains vastly untapped natural product chemistry, which has been traditionally explored through the activity-guided approach. Here, we describe a gene-guided approach to discover and engineer a class of plant ribosomal peptides, the branched cyclic lyciumins. Initially isolated from the Chinese wol...

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

authors： Kersten RD,Weng JK

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The theory of "top-down" ecological regulation predicts that herbivory suppresses plant abundance, biomass, and survival but increases diversity through the disproportionate consumption of dominant species, which inhibits competitive exclusion. To date, these outcomes have been clear in aquatic ecosystems but not on l...

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

authors： Jia S,Wang X,Yuan Z,Lin F,Ye J,Hao Z,Luskin MS

更新日期：2018-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is a fatal, genetic, neurological disorder resulting from a trinucleotide repeat expansion in the gene that encodes for the protein huntingtin. These excessive repeats confer a toxic gain of function on huntingtin, which leads to the degeneration of striatal and cortical neurons and a devasta...

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

authors： McBride JL,Ramaswamy S,Gasmi M,Bartus RT,Herzog CD,Brandon EP,Zhou L,Pitzer MR,Berry-Kravis EM,Kordower JH

更新日期：2006-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Bipolar-cell axon terminals receive direct synaptic input from amacrine-cell processes, suggesting a possible pathway for modulation of transmitter release. In retinal slices, bath-applied baclofen, a gamma-aminobutyrate type B (GABAB) receptor agonist, reduced a patch-clamp-recorded L-type calcium channel current in ...

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

authors： Maguire G,Maple B,Lukasiewicz P,Werblin F

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Performance on the visual paired-comparison task depends on the integrity of the hippocampal formation in humans, monkeys, and, for an analogous task, in rats. The present study sought additional evidence in healthy volunteers concerning the nature of this task. We found that performance on the visual paired-compariso...

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

authors： Manns JR,Stark CE,Squire LR

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae cause considerable morbidity and mortality, with persistent neurological sequelae, particularly in young children and the elderly. It is widely assumed that carriage occurs through direct mucosal colonization from the environment whereas meningitis results from invasion from the blood. However...

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

authors： van Ginkel FW,McGhee JR,Watt JM,Campos-Torres A,Parish LA,Briles DE

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is about an algorithm, FlexTree, for general supervised learning. It extends the binary tree-structured approach (Classification and Regression Trees, CART) although it differs greatly in its selection and combination of predictors. It is particularly applicable to assessing interactions: gene by gene and g...

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

authors： Huang J,Lin A,Narasimhan B,Quertermous T,Hsiung CA,Ho LT,Grove JS,Olivier M,Ranade K,Risch NJ,Olshen RA

更新日期：2004-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular injury during hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection has been postulated to result from a human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-restricted T-lymphocyte host immune response against HBV antigens. Although HLA expression is enhanced in the presence of hepatic inflammation, whether HBV itself can induce HLA expression ...

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

authors： Hu KQ,Vierling JM,Siddiqui A

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human aging is accompanied by dramatic changes in daily sleep-wake behavior: Activity shifts to an earlier phase, and the consolidation of sleep and wake is disturbed. Although this daily circadian rhythm is brain-controlled, its mechanism is encoded by cell-autonomous circadian clocks functioning in nearly every cell...

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

authors： Pagani L,Schmitt K,Meier F,Izakovic J,Roemer K,Viola A,Cajochen C,Wirz-Justice A,Brown SA,Eckert A

更新日期：2011-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty years after their discovery, knots in proteins are now quite well understood. They are believed to be functionally advantageous and provide extra stability to protein chains. In this work, we go one step further and search for links-entangled structures, more complex than knots, which consist of several compone...

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

authors： Dabrowski-Tumanski P,Sulkowska JI

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:More than a thousand proteins are thought to contribute to mammalian chromatin and its regulation, but our understanding of the genomic occupancy and function of most of these proteins is limited. Here we describe an approach, which we call "chromatin proteomic profiling," to identify proteins associated with genomic ...

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

authors： Ji X,Dadon DB,Abraham BJ,Lee TI,Jaenisch R,Bradner JE,Young RA

更新日期：2015-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA topoisomerase I (top1) is the target of potent anticancer agents, including camptothecins and DNA intercalators, which reversibly stabilize (trap) top1 catalytic intermediates (cleavage complexes). The aim of the present study was to define the structural relationship between the site(s) of covalently bound interc...

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

authors： Pommier Y,Laco GS,Kohlhagen G,Sayer JM,Kroth H,Jerina DM

更新日期：2000-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrofurans, a class of antibacterial drugs in extensive use, interferes with gene expression in a highly specific manner. While in the low dose range (0.5-25 mug/ml), 5-nitro-2-furfurylidene-1-aminohydantoin has no effect on transcription, it inhibits specifically the expression of one class of genes in translation. ...

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

authors： Herrlich P,Schweiger M

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription is an intrinsically dynamic process and requires the coordinated interplay of RNA polymerases (RNAPs) with nucleic acids and transcription factors. Classical structural biology techniques have revealed detailed snapshots of a subset of conformational states of the RNAP as they exist in crystals. A detail...

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

authors： Schulz S,Gietl A,Smollett K,Tinnefeld P,Werner F,Grohmann D

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00