DNA recognition code of transcription factors in the helix-turn-helix, probe helix, hormone receptor, and zinc finger families.

abstract：:Several of the best-studied sex differences in the mammalian brain are ascribed to the hormonal control of cell death. This conclusion is based primarily on correlations between pyknotic cell counts in development and counts of mature neurons in adulthood; the molecular mechanisms of hormone-regulated, sexually dimorp...

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

authors： Forger NG,Rosen GJ,Waters EM,Jacob D,Simerly RB,de Vries GJ

更新日期：2004-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:KcsA is a prokaryotic pH-dependent potassium (K) channel. Its activation, by a decrease in the intracellular pH, is coupled with its subsequent inactivation, but the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. Here, we have investigated the conformational changes and equilibrium of KcsA by using solution NMR spectroscopy. C...

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

authors： Imai S,Osawa M,Takeuchi K,Shimada I

更新日期：2010-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural crest stem cells can be isolated from differentiated cultures of human pluripotent stem cells, but the process is inefficient and requires cell sorting to obtain a highly enriched population. No specific method for directed differentiation of human pluripotent cells toward neural crest stem cells has yet been r...

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

authors： Menendez L,Yatskievych TA,Antin PB,Dalton S

更新日期：2011-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of the sterol-synthesizing mevalonate pathway occurs in part through feedback-regulated endoplasmic reticulum degradation of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase (HMG-R). In yeast, the Hmg2p isozyme of HMG-R is regulated in this manner. We have tested the involvement of ubiquitination in the regulated d...

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

authors： Hampton RY,Bhakta H

更新日期：1997-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell line has been developed from the imaginal wing discs of the lepidopteran insect Trichoplusia ni (Hübner). The cells grow in suspension as fluid-filled, multicellular vesicles. The cell line has been designated IAL-TND1. Two-dimensional electrophoresis (isoelectric focusing and sodium dodecyl sulfate/polyacrylam...

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

authors： Lynn DE,Miller SG,Oberlander H

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two instances of selective accumulation of herpes simplex 1 RNA transcripts in different compartments of infected HEp-2 cells. In the first, transcripts derived from about 50% of the viral DNA accumulated in the nuclei of cells 8 hr after infection. However, only 40-42% of the DNA was represented in transcri...

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

authors： Kozak M,Roizman B

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In isogamous species of Chlamydomonas, such as Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Chlamydomonas eugametos, the sexual process involves the use of flagella agglutinins by which the gametes of compatible strains adhere through chance encounter and ultimately pair and fuse to form zygotes. In a newly described heterogamous sp...

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

authors： Starr RC,Marner FJ,Jaenicke L

更新日期：1995-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Juvenile hormone III (JH) plays a key role in regulating the reproduction of female mosquitoes. Microarray time-course analysis revealed dynamic changes in gene expression during posteclosion (PE) development in the fat body of female Aedes aegypti. Hierarchical clustering identified three major gene clusters: 1,843 e...

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

authors： Zou Z,Saha TT,Roy S,Shin SW,Backman TW,Girke T,White KP,Raikhel AS

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We have carried out free energy perturbation calculations on DNA double-stranded hexanucleotides. The sequence d(CGCGCG)2 has been "mutated" into d(CGTGCG).d(CGCACG) with the oligonucleotide in the A, B, and Z structural forms, both in vacuo and in aqueous solution. In addition, model free energy calculations have bee...

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

authors： Dang LX,Pearlman DA,Kollman PA

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protooncogene src encodes two proteins, designated pp60c-src+ and pp60c-src.pp60c-src+ is expressed only in neurons, whereas pp60c-src is expressed in neuronal and nonneuronal cells. pp60c-src+ differs from pp60c-src in that it contains an insert of 6 amino acids. To study the evolutionary conservation of the 6-am...

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

authors： Yang XM,Martinez R,Le Beau J,Wiestler O,Walter G

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Awareness that our planet is a self-supporting biosphere with sunlight as its major source of energy for life has resulted in a long-term historical fascination with the workings of self-supporting ecological systems. However, the studies of such systems have never entered the canon of ecological or evolutionary tools...

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

authors： Rillig MC,Antonovics J

更新日期：2019-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Microinjection of plasmids encoding human tau (htau) protein into identified lamprey reticulospinal neurons (anterior bulbar cells, or ABCs) in situ induces chronic htau expression. htau protein is transported to both the axon and dendrites of expressing ABCs by mechanisms that require the C-terminal domain of htau pr...

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

authors： Hall GF,Yao J,Lee G

更新日期：1997-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The exemplary search capabilities of flying insects have established them as one of the most diverse taxa on Earth. However, we still lack the fundamental ability to quantify, represent, and predict trajectories under natural contexts to understand search and its applications. For example, flying insects have evolved ...

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

authors： Kaushik PK,Renz M,Olsson SB

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ca(2+)-binding protein calbindin D28k (CB) is vital for the normal function of the central nervous system but its specific functional role is largely unclear. CB is typically described as a mobile Ca(2+)buffer that shapes the spatiotemporal extent of cellular Ca(2+)signals. Recent biochemical data, however, indica...

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

authors： Schmidt H,Schwaller B,Eilers J

更新日期：2005-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) tumor-suppressor protein Merlin is a member of the ERM family of proteins that links the cytoskeleton to the plasma membrane. In humans, mutations in the NF2 gene cause neurofibromatosis type-2 (NF2), a cancer syndrome characterized by the development of tumors of the nervous system....

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

authors： Benseñor LB,Barlan K,Rice SE,Fehon RG,Gelfand VI

更新日期：2010-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:All of the heme-degrading enzymes that have been characterized to date require molecular oxygen as a cosubstrate. Escherichia coli O157:H7 has been shown to express heme uptake and transport proteins, as well as use heme as an iron source. This enteric pathogen colonizes the anaerobic space of the lower intestine in m...

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

authors： LaMattina JW,Nix DB,Lanzilotta WN

更新日期：2016-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor growth requires neoangiogenesis. VEGF is the most potent proangiogenic factor. Dysregulation of hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) or cytokine stimuli such as those involving the chemokine receptor 4/stromal-derived cell factor 1 (CXCR4/SDF-1) axis are the major cause of ectopic overexpression of VEGF in tumors. Alt...

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

authors： de Nigris F,Crudele V,Giovane A,Casamassimi A,Giordano A,Garban HJ,Cacciatore F,Pentimalli F,Marquez-Garban DC,Petrillo A,Cito L,Sommese L,Fiore A,Petrillo M,Siani A,Barbieri A,Arra C,Rengo F,Hayashi T,Al-Omran M,

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Viruses have been implicated in the development of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and multiple sclerosis. Human herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) is a neurotropic virus that has been associated with a wide variety of neurologic disorders, including encephalitis, mesial temporal lobe epilepsy, and mu...

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

authors： Harberts E,Yao K,Wohler JE,Maric D,Ohayon J,Henkin R,Jacobson S

更新日期：2011-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are seven-transmembrane proteins that transmit diverse extracellular signals across a membrane. Herpesvirus genomes encode multiple GPCRs implicated in viral pathogenesis. Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus GPCR (kGPCR) activates proliferative pathways and, when expressed in endo...

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

authors： Wang Y,Lu X,Zhu L,Shen Y,Chengedza S,Feng H,Wang L,Jung JU,Gutkind JS,Feng P

更新日期：2013-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Hatchlings of the painted turtle (Chrysemys picta marginata) are unique as the only reptile and highest vertebrate life form known to tolerate the natural freezing of extracellular body fluids during winter hibernation. Turtles survived frequent exposures to temperatures as low as -6 degrees C to -8 degrees C in their...

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

authors： Storey KB,Storey JM,Brooks SP,Churchill TA,Brooks RJ

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic fungal hyphae are generally assumed to elongate at steady linear rates when grown under constant environmental conditions with ample nutrients. However, patterns of pulsed hyphal elongation were detected during apparent steady growth of hyphal tips in fungi from several major taxonomic groups (Oomycetes, Pythi...

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

authors： López-Franco R,Bartnicki-Garcia S,Bracker CE

更新日期：1994-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitory postsynaptic currents occurring spontaneously in the teleost Mauthner cell were analyzed with the single-electrode voltage-clamp technique. They were collected during depolarizing steps and were outward-going; this procedure allowed them to be isolated from possible excitatory currents flowing in the opposi...

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

authors： Korn H,Burnod Y,Faber DS

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of nerve-muscle junctions in monolayer cultures of embryonic muscle and spinal cord cells is described. Muscle-forming cells (myoblasts) from leg muscles of 12-day chick embryos were separated with trypsin and cultured on a collagen substrate for two days. Suspensions of ventral spinal cord cells from si...

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

authors： Shimada Y,Fischman DA,Moscona AA

更新日期：1969-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the dependence of the variance in the rotation rate of tethered cells of Escherichia coli on the mean rotation rate over a regime in which the motor generates constant torque. This dependence was compared with that of broken motors. In either case, motor torque was augmented with externally applied torque....

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

authors： Samuel AD,Berg HC

更新日期：1995-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work with prion diseases and synucleinopathies indicates that accurate diagnostic methods for protein-folding diseases can be based on the ultrasensitive, amplified measurement of pathological aggregates in biospecimens. A better understanding of the physicochemical factors that control the seeded polymerizatio...

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

authors： Metrick MA 2nd,do Carmo Ferreira N,Saijo E,Hughson AG,Kraus A,Orrú C,Miller MW,Zanusso G,Ghetti B,Vendruscolo M,Caughey B

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms regulating clonal expansion and contraction of T cells in response to immunization remain to be identified. A recent study established that there was a log-linear relation between CD4 T-cell precursor number (PN) and factor of expansion (FE), with a slope of ∼-0.5 over a range of 3-30,000 precursors per...

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

authors： Bocharov G,Quiel J,Luzyanina T,Alon H,Chiglintsev E,Chereshnev V,Meier-Schellersheim M,Paul WE,Grossman Z

更新日期：2011-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an algorithm to generate complete evolutionary profiles that represent the topology of the molecular phylogenetic tree of the homologous group. The method, based on the multidimensional QR factorization of numerically encoded multiple sequence alignments, removes redundancy from the alignments and orders th...

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

authors： Sethi A,O'Donoghue P,Luthey-Schulten Z

更新日期：2005-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The human chaperonin Hsp60 is thought to play a role in the progression of Alzheimer's disease by mitigating against intracellular β-amyloid stress. Here, we show that the bacterial homolog GroEL (51% sequence identity) reduces the neurotoxic effects of amyloid-β(1-42) (Aβ42) on human neural stem cell-derived neuronal...

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

authors： Wälti MA,Steiner J,Meng F,Chung HS,Louis JM,Ghirlando R,Tugarinov V,Nath A,Clore GM

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrotic diseases are not well-understood. They represent a number of different diseases that are characterized by the development of severe organ fibrosis without any obvious cause, such as the devastating diseases idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and scleroderma. These diseases have a poor prognosis comparable wi...

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

authors： Wernig G,Chen SY,Cui L,Van Neste C,Tsai JM,Kambham N,Vogel H,Natkunam Y,Gilliland DG,Nolan G,Weissman IL

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:High-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) has revolutionized the oil and gas industry worldwide but has been accompanied by highly controversial incidents of reported water contamination. For example, groundwater contamination by stray natural gas and spillage of brine and other gas drilling-related fluids is known to o...

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

authors： Llewellyn GT,Dorman F,Westland JL,Yoxtheimer D,Grieve P,Sowers T,Humston-Fulmer E,Brantley SL

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00