A pathway for the biosynthesis of straight and branched, odd- and even-length, medium-chain fatty acids in plants.

abstract：:The role of the Ca2+/phospholipid-dependent, diacylglycerol-activated enzyme protein kinase C (PKC) in rabbit eyelid conditioning was examined. PKC was partially purified from the CA1 region of hippocampal slices from naive, pseudoconditioned, and conditioned rabbits 24 hr after the rabbits were well conditioned. Crud...

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

authors： Bank B,DeWeer A,Kuzirian AM,Rasmussen H,Alkon DL

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies to electrolectin, a lectin endogenous to embryonic skeletal muscle, have been used to study the distribution of electrolectin during myogenesis in L6 cells and rat primary muscle cultures. Antibody binding is highest to mononucleated cells and is low to myotubes in both systems. Binding is much lower to fib...

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

authors： Podleski TR,Greenberg I

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of osteoclastic cell lines would greatly facilitate analysis of the cellular and molecular biology of bone resorption. Several cell lines have previously been reported to be capable of osteoclastic differentiation. However, such cell lines form at best only occasional excavations, suggesting that osteo...

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

authors： Chambers TJ,Owens JM,Hattersley G,Jat PS,Noble MD

更新日期：1993-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Most simian-human immunodeficiency viruses (SHIVs) bearing envelope (Env) glycoproteins from primary HIV-1 strains fail to infect rhesus macaques (RMs). We hypothesized that inefficient Env binding to rhesus CD4 (rhCD4) limits virus entry and replication and could be enhanced by substituting naturally occurring simian...

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

authors： Li H,Wang S,Kong R,Ding W,Lee FH,Parker Z,Kim E,Learn GH,Hahn P,Policicchio B,Brocca-Cofano E,Deleage C,Hao X,Chuang GY,Gorman J,Gardner M,Lewis MG,Hatziioannou T,Santra S,Apetrei C,Pandrea I,Alam SM,Liao HX,

更新日期：2016-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface distributions of three different membrane integral proteins, beta2-microglobulin (part of the histocompatibility antigen complex), aminopeptidase (alpha-aminoacyl-peptide hydrolase; EC 3.4.11.2), and the Na+,K+-ATPase (ATP phosphohydrolase; EC 3.6.1.3) on human fibroblasts grown in monolayer culture have b...

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

authors： Ash JF,Louvard D,Singer SJ

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF-4E plays a central role in the recognition of the 7-methylguanosine-containing cap structure of mRNA and the formation of initiation complexes during protein synthesis. eIF-4E exists in both phosphorylated and nonphosphorylated forms, and the primary site of phosphorylation...

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

authors： Minich WB,Balasta ML,Goss DJ,Rhoads RE

更新日期：1994-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular stimuli regulate neuronal differentiation and subtype specification during brain development, although the intracellular signaling pathways that mediate these processes remain largely unclear. We now show that the PDK1-Akt pathway regulates differentiation of telencephalic neural precursor cells (NPCs). ...

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

authors： Oishi K,Watatani K,Itoh Y,Okano H,Guillemot F,Nakajima K,Gotoh Y

更新日期：2009-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:As the most prototypical G protein-coupled receptor, beta-adrenergic receptor (betaAR) regulates the pace and strength of heart beating by enhancing and synchronizing L-type channel (LCC) Ca(2+) influx, which in turn elicits greater sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca(2+) release flux via ryanodine receptors (RyRs). Howeve...

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

authors： Zhou P,Zhao YT,Guo YB,Xu SM,Bai SH,Lakatta EG,Cheng H,Hao XM,Wang SQ

更新日期：2009-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A vestigial, nonphotosynthetic plastid has been identified recently in protozoan parasites of the phylum Apicomplexa. The apicomplexan plastid, or "apicoplast," is indispensable, but the complete sequence of both the Plasmodium falciparum and Toxoplasma gondii apicoplast genomes has offered no clue as to what essentia...

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

authors： Waller RF,Keeling PJ,Donald RG,Striepen B,Handman E,Lang-Unnasch N,Cowman AF,Besra GS,Roos DS,McFadden GI

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:To improve the efficiency of liposome-mediated DNA transfer as a tool for gene therapy, we have developed a fusigenic liposome vector based on principles of viral cell fusion. The fusion proteins of hemagglutinating virus of Japan (HVJ; also Sendai virus) are complexed with liposomes that encapsulate oligodeoxynucleot...

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

authors： Dzau VJ,Mann MJ,Morishita R,Kaneda Y

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations in the activity/levels of the extralarge G protein α-subunit (XLαs) are implicated in various human disorders, such as perinatal growth retardation. Encoded by GNAS, XLαs is partly identical to the α-subunit of the stimulatory G protein (Gsα), but the cellular actions of XLαs remain poorly defined. Followi...

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

authors： He Q,Bouley R,Liu Z,Wein MN,Zhu Y,Spatz JM,Wang CY,Divieti Pajevic P,Plagge A,Babitt JL,Bastepe M

更新日期：2017-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Curcumin (Cur) is a naturally occurring anticancer drug isolated from the Curcuma longa plant. It is known to exhibit anticancer properties via inhibiting the STAT3 phosphorylation process. However, its poor water solubility and low bioavailability impede its clinical application. Herein, we used organoplatinum(II) ← ...

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

authors： Datta S,Misra SK,Saha ML,Lahiri N,Louie J,Pan D,Stang PJ

更新日期：2018-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an antiserum raised against a synthetic C-terminal peptide of porcine pancreastatin, we detected pancreastatin-like immunoreactivity (PLI) in human pancreatic islets, adrenal medulla, and endocrine tumors. From a carcinoid liver metastasis, human PLI was extracted and purified by HPLC. Two C-terminally amidated ...

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

authors： Schmidt WE,Siegel EG,Kratzin H,Creutzfeldt W

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to environmental stresses, the mammalian serine threonine kinases PERK, GCN2, HRI, and PKR phosphorylate the regulatory serine 51 of the eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2α (eIF2α) to inhibit global protein synthesis. Plasmodium, the protozoan that causes malaria, expresses three eIF2α kinases: IK1...

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

authors： Zhang M,Mishra S,Sakthivel R,Rojas M,Ranjan R,Sullivan WJ Jr,Fontoura BM,Ménard R,Dever TE,Nussenzweig V

更新日期：2012-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:FtsEX is a bacterial ABC transporter that regulates the activity of periplasmic peptidoglycan amidases via its interaction with the murein hydrolase activator, EnvC. In Escherichia coli, FtsEX is required to separate daughter cells after cell division and for viability in low-osmolarity media. Both the ATPase activity...

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

authors： Cook J,Baverstock TC,McAndrew MBL,Stansfeld PJ,Roper DI,Crow A

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The baculovirus Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus (AcMNPV, which is representative of the MNPV subtype in which the virions may contain many nucleocapsids within a single viral envelope) encodes a protein, v-ubi, that has 76% identity with the eukaryotic protein ubiquitin. Transcriptional mapping indic...

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

authors： Guarino LA

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the issues currently being debated in the ongoing discussion of the pros and cons of today's globalization concerns the effects of greater world trade as well as of the changes in technology on a country's internal distribution of income, especially on skilled versus unskilled wage rates. In this article, I att...

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

authors： Jones RW

更新日期：2003-09-16 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：:In contrast to mechanisms mediating uptake of intracellular bacterial pathogens, bacterial egress and cell-to-cell transmission are poorly understood. Previously, we showed that the transmission of pathogenic mycobacteria between phagocytic cells also depends on nonlytic ejection through an F-actin based structure, ca...

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

authors： Gerstenmaier L,Pilla R,Herrmann L,Herrmann H,Prado M,Villafano GJ,Kolonko M,Reimer R,Soldati T,King JS,Hagedorn M

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms have mechanisms to sense their environment and rapidly adapt to survive changes in conditions. In Streptomyces albus, various transcriptional repressors mediate the induction of heat shock genes. The RheA repressor regulates the synthesis of HSP18, a small heat shock protein, which plays a role in therm...

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

authors： Servant P,Grandvalet C,Mazodier P

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent climate change has increased arctic soil temperatures and thawed large areas of permafrost, allowing for microbial respiration of previously frozen C. Furthermore, soil destabilization from melting ice has caused an increase in thermokarst failures that expose buried C and release dissolved organic C (DOC) to s...

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

authors： Cory RM,Crump BC,Dobkowski JA,Kling GW

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The ribonucleotide reductase system of Escherichia coli B participates in the biosynthesis of DNA by reducing ribonucleoside diphosphates to the corresponding deoxyribonucleotides. The enzyme is regulated in a complicated way by allosteric modifiers. We now find that infection of E. coli with the bacteriophage T4 resu...

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

authors： Berglund O,Karlström O,Reichard P

更新日期：1969-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the transforming growth factor-β superfamily play essential roles in various aspects of embryonic development and physiological organ function. Among them, bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) 9 and BMP10 regulate embryonic vascular development by activating their endothelial receptor ALK1 (activin receptor-lik...

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

authors： Somekawa S,Imagawa K,Hayashi H,Sakabe M,Ioka T,Sato GE,Inada K,Iwamoto T,Mori T,Uemura S,Nakagawa O,Saito Y

更新日期：2012-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid and convenient method has been devised to determine the binding sites for proteins on RNA. The procedure is an adaptation of one used to map DNA-protein complexes by protection against nuclease digestion. The method uses the cytotoxic ribonuclease alpha-sarcin, which hydrolyzes purines in both single- and doub...

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

authors： Huber PW,Wool IG

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for assessing genomic similarity based on relative abundances of short oligonucleotides in large DNA samples is introduced. The method requires neither homologous sequences nor prior sequence alignments. The analysis centers on (i) dinucleotide (and tri- and tetra-) relative abundance extremes in genomic sequ...

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

authors： Karlin S,Ladunga I

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The lac operon of Escherichia coli spans approximately 5300 base pairs and includes the lacZ, lacY, and lacA genes in addition to the operator, promoter, and transcription termination regions. We report here the sequence of the lacA gene and the region distal to it, confirming the sequence of thiogalactoside transacet...

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

authors： Hediger MA,Johnson DF,Nierlich DP,Zabin I

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitory interneurons regulate the responses of cortical circuits. In auditory cortical areas, inhibition from these neurons narrows spectral tuning and shapes response dynamics. Acute disruptions of inhibition expand spectral receptive fields. However, the effects of long-term perturbations of inhibitory circuitry ...

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

authors： Seybold BA,Stanco A,Cho KK,Potter GB,Kim C,Sohal VS,Rubenstein JL,Schreiner CE

更新日期：2012-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosins play countless critical roles in the cell, each requiring it to be activated at a specific location and time. To control myosin VI with this specificity, we created an optogenetic tool for activating myosin VI by fusing the light-sensitive Avena sativa phototropin1 LOV2 domain to a peptide from Dab2 (LOVDab), ...

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

authors： French AR,Sosnick TR,Rock RS

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Island biogeography theory posits that species richness increases with island size and decreases with isolation. This logic underpins much conservation policy and regulation, with preference given to conserving large, highly connected areas, and relative ambivalence shown toward protecting small, isolated habitat patc...

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

authors： Wintle BA,Kujala H,Whitehead A,Cameron A,Veloz S,Kukkala A,Moilanen A,Gordon A,Lentini PE,Cadenhead NCR,Bekessy SA

更新日期：2019-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Our purpose is to investigate the feasibility of imaging tumor metabolism in breast cancer patients using 13C magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) of hyperpolarized 13C label exchange between injected [1-13C]pyruvate and the endogenous tumor lactate pool. Treatment-naïve breast cancer patients were recruite...

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

authors： Gallagher FA,Woitek R,McLean MA,Gill AB,Manzano Garcia R,Provenzano E,Riemer F,Kaggie J,Chhabra A,Ursprung S,Grist JT,Daniels CJ,Zaccagna F,Laurent MC,Locke M,Hilborne S,Frary A,Torheim T,Boursnell C,Schiller A,Pa

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00