Asymmetric orientation of phage M13 coat protein in Escherichia coli cytoplasmic membranes and in synthetic lipid vesicles.

abstract：:We have investigated the interaction of human cytomegalovirus (CMV) with cultured primary granulocyte-macrophage progenitors, a suspected natural site of viral latency, and have established conditions for latent infection and reactivation in this cell population. Progenitor cells from human fetal liver or bone marrow ...

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

authors： Kondo K,Kaneshima H,Mocarski ES

更新日期：1994-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans (CSPGs) represent a major barrier to regenerating axons in the central nervous system (CNS), but the structural diversity of their polysaccharides has hampered efforts to dissect the structure-activity relationships underlying their physiological activity. By taking advantage of our a...

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

authors： Brown JM,Xia J,Zhuang B,Cho KS,Rogers CJ,Gama CI,Rawat M,Tully SE,Uetani N,Mason DE,Tremblay ML,Peters EC,Habuchi O,Chen DF,Hsieh-Wilson LC

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Initiation of adenovirus DNA replication in vitro occurs on a linearized plasmid DNA containing 3,327 base pairs of the adenovirus terminal sequence. Various deletions have been constructed in the plasmid DNA and their template activities examined. Deletions from an internal restriction enzyme cleavage site that retai...

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

authors： Tamanoi F,Stillman BW

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator (ARNT) is a basic helix-loop-helix Period/ARNT/Single-minded (bHLH-PAS) protein that controls various biological pathways as part of dimeric transcriptional regulator complexes with other bHLH-PAS proteins. The two PAS domains within ARNT, PAS-A and PAS-B, are essenti...

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

authors： Evans MR,Card PB,Gardner KH

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pyrococcus furiosus (PF) ornithine carbamoyltransferase (OTCase; EC 2.1.3.3) is an extremely heat-stable enzyme that maintains about 50% of its activity after heat treatment for 60 min at 100 degrees C. To understand the molecular basis of thermostability of this enzyme, we have determined its three-dimensional st...

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

authors： Villeret V,Clantin B,Tricot C,Legrain C,Roovers M,Stalon V,Glansdorff N,Van Beeumen J

更新日期：1998-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of a human beta-globin pre-mRNA in a HeLa cell nuclear extract under conditions permissive for efficient splicing resulted in the assembly of the RNA into ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes. This RNP formation occurred largely within the characteristic lag period that precedes splicing. Two classes of RNP we...

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

authors： Mayrand SH,Pedersen N,Pederson T

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Syringomycin, a peptide toxin and a virulence factor produced by the bacterial phytopathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae, stimulated the phosphorylation of several plasma membrane polypeptides of red beet storage tissue. Among these was a 100-kDa polypeptide, which corresponds in size to the proton pump ATPase. ...

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

authors： Bidwai AP,Takemoto JY

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytohormones have essential roles in coordinately regulating a large array of developmental processes. Studies have revealed that brassinosteroids (BRs) and abscisic acid (ABA) interact to regulate hundreds of expression in genes, governing many biological processes. However, whether their interaction is through modi...

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

authors： Zhang S,Cai Z,Wang X

更新日期：2009-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) plays an important role in the pathogenesis of obesity-driven type 2 diabetes mellitus and associated cardiovascular complications. Here, we show that perturbation of caveolar microdomains leads to insulin resistance and concomitant up-regulation of PAI-1 in 3T3L1 adipocytes. ...

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

authors： Venugopal J,Hanashiro K,Yang ZZ,Nagamine Y

更新日期：2004-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The aspartate receptor involved in chemotaxis is modified by methyl esterification at four distinct glutamate residues during the adaptive response of this receptor. To explain the high degree of specificity of this modification, it has been proposed that the methyltransferase recognizes the sequence Glu-Glu-Xaa-Xaa-A...

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

authors： Terwilliger TC,Wang JY,Koshland DE Jr

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since its discovery in 1907, polyploidy has been recognized as an important phenomenon in vascular plants, and several lines of evidence indicate that most, if not all, plant species ultimately have a polyploid ancestry. However, previous estimates of the frequency of polyploid speciation suggest that the formation an...

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

authors： Wood TE,Takebayashi N,Barker MS,Mayrose I,Greenspoon PB,Rieseberg LH

更新日期：2009-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A search for potent toxins that inhibit neuronal calcium channels in Drosophila melanogaster has resulted in the identification of a presynaptic neurotoxin from the venom of the hunting spider Hololena curta. Using Drosophila neuromuscular junction as an assay, presynaptic inhibitory activity was purified using gel fi...

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

authors： Bowers CW,Phillips HS,Lee P,Jan YN,Jan LY

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly(ADP ribose) polymerase inhibitors (PARPi) have efficacy in triple negative breast (TNBC) and ovarian cancers (OCs) harboring BRCA mutations, generating homologous recombination deficiencies (HRDs). DNA methyltransferase inhibitors (DNMTi) increase PARP trapping and reprogram the DNA damage response to generate HR...

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

authors： McLaughlin LJ,Stojanovic L,Kogan AA,Rutherford JL,Choi EY,Yen RC,Xia L,Zou Y,Lapidus RG,Baylin SB,Topper MJ,Rassool FV

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:An increase in free Ca2+ triggers exocytosis in pituitary nerve terminals leading to an increase in membrane area and membrane capacitance. When Ca2+ is increased by step depolarization, an instantaneous capacitance increase during the first 80 ms is followed by a slow increase extending over several seconds. We measu...

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

authors： Rosenboom H,Lindau M

更新日期：1994-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenocortical carcinomas (ACCs) are rare and highly malignant cancers associated with poor survival of patients. Currently, mitotane, a nonspecific derivative of the pesticide DDT (1,1-(dichlorobiphenyl)-2,2-dichloroethane), is used as the standard treatment, but its mechanism of action in ACCs remains elusive. Here ...

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

authors： Belavgeni A,Bornstein SR,von Mässenhausen A,Tonnus W,Stumpf J,Meyer C,Othmar E,Latk M,Kanczkowski W,Kroiss M,Hantel C,Hugo C,Fassnacht M,Ziegler CG,Schally AV,Krone NP,Linkermann A

更新日期：2019-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants adapt to alterations in light conditions by controlling their gene expression profiles. Expression of light-inducible genes is transcriptionally induced by transcription factors such as HY5. However, few detailed analyses have been carried out on the control of transcription start sites (TSSs). Of the various w...

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

authors： Kurihara Y,Makita Y,Kawashima M,Fujita T,Iwasaki S,Matsui M

更新日期：2018-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro tests for predicting the response of tumors to chemotherapeutic agents might be improved if they were modified to take into account tumor-cell heterogeneity. We have studied the heterogeneity of cellular growth rate and drug response in mouse fibroblast NIH 3T3 cells and in NIH 3T3 cells transformed with the ...

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

authors： Kuczek T,Axelrod DE

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental cues are transmitted to the interior of the cell via a complex network of signaling hubs. Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) and trimeric G proteins are two such major signaling hubs in eukaryotes. Conventionally, canonical signal transduction via trimeric G proteins is thought to be triggered exclusively ...

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

authors： Midde KK,Aznar N,Laederich MB,Ma GS,Kunkel MT,Newton AC,Ghosh P

更新日期：2015-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The Raf-1 serine/threonine kinase is a key protein involved in the transmission of many growth and developmental signals. In this report, we show that autoinhibition mediated by the noncatalytic, N-terminal regulatory region of Raf-1 is an important mechanism regulating Raf-1 function. The inhibition of the regulatory...

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

authors： Cutler RE Jr,Stephens RM,Saracino MR,Morrison DK

更新日期：1998-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoreactive and bioreactive corticotropin (ACTH-like) activities have been detected in the median eminence and remaining medial basal hypothalamus of both normal and hypophysectomized adult male rats: bioreactive ACTH (pg/100 mug of protein) 1028 in median eminence and 1289 in medial basal hypothalamus; immunoreact...

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

authors： Krieger DT,Liotta A,Brownstein MJ

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Signal peptides of membrane proteins are cleaved by endoplasmic reticulum-resident signal peptidase, and thus, are not present on mature membrane proteins. Here, we report that, contrary to the paradigm, the signal peptide of ruminant CD18, the beta-subunit of beta(2)-integrins, is not cleaved. Intriguingly, the intac...

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

authors： Shanthalingam S,Srikumaran S

更新日期：2009-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro recombination of cloned H-2 genes resulted in two allogeneically novel mouse transplantation antigens in which the C2 domains of H-2Ld and H-2Dd were exchanged. These genes were introduced into mouse L cells by DNA-mediated gene transfer. We have used these transformed fibroblast lines, expressing recombinant...

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

authors： Ozato K,Evans GA,Shykind B,Margulies DH,Seidman JG

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the 270 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum and relaxation kinetic behavior of tRNA2Glu (E. coli) in the absence of Mg++, a condition which produces an inactive form of this tRNA. The results show that the denatured form has about five fewer proton resonances in the region from -12 to -15 ppm. Rel...

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

authors： Bina-Stein M,Crothers DM,Hilbers CW,Shulman RG

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The RNA-directed DNA polymerase (deoxynucleosidetriphosphate:DNA deoxynucleotidyltransferase EC 2.7.7.7) of avian oncornavirus requires a tryptophan tRNA (tRNATrp) primer molecule located close to the 5' end of the viral RNA genome for the initiation of DNA synthesis in vitro. In this communication we demonstrate that...

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

authors： Collett MS,Faras AJ

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of behavior and structure indicates that highly eusocial behavior arose twice in the bees--i.e., in the stingless bees (Meliponinae) and in the honeybees (Apinae). Morphological features demonstrate the distinctiveness of these two groups and the relationship of the latter to bumblebees (Bombini) and orchid be...

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

authors： Winston ML,Michener CD

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the bacterial RecA protein in plants stimulates homologous recombination in tobacco. Here we show that RecA plays a direct role in DNA strand exchange in vivo. The number of sister chromatid exchanges (SCEs) was increased 2.4-fold over wild type in transgenic tobacco plants expressing a nuclear-targeted ...

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

authors： Reiss B,Schubert I,Köpchen K,Wendeler E,Schell J,Puchta H

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine how presentations of organ donation cases in the media may affect people's willingness to sign organ donation commitment cards, donate the organs of a deceased relative, support the transition to an "opt-out" policy, or donate a kidney while alive. We found that providing identifying information about the p...

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

authors： Harel I,Kogut T,Pinchas M,Slovic P

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant immunotoxins (RITs) are chimeric proteins composed of an Fv and a protein toxin being developed for cancer treatment. The Fv brings the toxin to the cancer cell, but most of the RITs do not reach the tumor and are removed by other organs. To identify cells responsible for RIT removal, and the pathway by wh...

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

authors： Liu XF,Wei J,Zhou Q,Molitoris BA,Sandoval R,Kobayashi H,Okada R,Nagaya T,Karim B,Butcher D,Pastan I

更新日期：2020-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidation of mechanisms that regulate hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal and differentiation would be facilitated by the identification of defined culture conditions that allow these cells to be amplified. We now demonstrate a significant net increase (3-fold, P < 0.001) in vitro of cells that are individually abl...

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

authors： Miller CL,Eaves CJ

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Micrometeorites with diameter approximately 100-200 microm dominate the flux of extraterrestrial matter on Earth. The vast majority of micrometeorites are chemically, mineralogically, and isotopically related to carbonaceous chondrites, which amount to only 2.5% of meteorite falls. Here, we report the discovery of the...

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

authors： Gounelle M,Chaussidon M,Morbidelli A,Barrat JA,Engrand C,Zolensky ME,McKeegan KD

更新日期：2009-04-28 00:00:00