Adeno-associated virus (AAV) Rep proteins mediate complex formation between AAV DNA and its integration site in human DNA.

abstract：:The rise of peptides with secondary structures and functions would have been a key step in the chemical evolution which led to life. As with modern biology, amino acid sequence would have been a primary determinant of peptide structure and activity in an origins-of-life scenario. It is a commonly held hypothesis that ...

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

authors： Forsythe JG,Petrov AS,Millar WC,Yu SS,Krishnamurthy R,Grover MA,Hud NV,Fernández FM

更新日期：2017-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Time-resolved optical measurements encompassing the femtoseconds to seconds time scales have been used to investigate Rhodobacter capsulatus reaction centers (RCs) in which the histidine residue at position 200 on the M polypeptide has been changed to a leucine by site-directed mutagenesis. The HisM200----Leu RC, whic...

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

authors： Kirmaier C,Holten D,Bylina EJ,Youvan DC

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve growth factor (NGF) serum levels were measured in 49 patients with asthma and/or rhinoconjunctivitis and/or urticaria-angioedema. Clinical and biochemical parameters, such as bronchial reactivity, total and specific serum IgE levels, and circulating eosinophil cationic protein levels, were evaluated in relation ...

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

authors： Bonini S,Lambiase A,Bonini S,Angelucci F,Magrini L,Manni L,Aloe L

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent archaeological discoveries have revealed that pigment use, beads, engravings, and sophisticated stone and bone tools were already present in southern Africa 75,000 y ago. Many of these artifacts disappeared by 60,000 y ago, suggesting that modern behavior appeared in the past and was subsequently lost before be...

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

authors： d'Errico F,Backwell L,Villa P,Degano I,Lucejko JJ,Bamford MK,Higham TF,Colombini MP,Beaumont PB

更新日期：2012-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Unconventional myosin 15 is a molecular motor expressed in inner ear hair cells that transports protein cargos within developing mechanosensory stereocilia. Mutations of myosin 15 cause profound hearing loss in humans and mice; however, the properties of this motor and its regulation within the stereocilia organelle a...

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

authors： Bird JE,Takagi Y,Billington N,Strub MP,Sellers JR,Friedman TB

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ediacara biota include macroscopic, morphologically complex soft-bodied organisms that appear globally in the late Ediacaran Period (575-542 Ma). The physiology, feeding strategies, and functional morphology of the modular Ediacara organisms (rangeomorphs and erniettomorphs) remain debated but are critical for und...

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

authors： Laflamme M,Xiao S,Kowalewski M

更新日期：2009-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The antitumor effect of doxorubicin (DOX) conjugated to a biodegradable dendrimer was evaluated in mice bearing C-26 colon carcinomas. An asymmetric biodegradable polyester dendrimer containing 8-10 wt % DOX was prepared. The design of the dendrimer carrier optimized blood circulation time through size and molecular a...

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

authors： Lee CC,Gillies ER,Fox ME,Guillaudeu SJ,Fréchet JM,Dy EE,Szoka FC

更新日期：2006-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The chronic use of several drugs, including opiates, results in the stereotypical behaviors characteristic of addiction. Alterations in gene expression have been associated with the use of these addictive drugs. Previous studies, however, have been limited to describing changes in amounts of individual mRNAs from sing...

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

authors： Mackler SA,Eberwine JH

更新日期：1994-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The Japanese firefly squid, Watasenia scintillans, emits intense flashes of light from three tiny luminous organs that are located at the tip of each of a pair of ventral arms. Light is also produced from hundreds of other minute organs that are scattered over the body. The luminescence is due to an ATP-dependent reac...

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

authors： Tsuji FI

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The steroid cholesterol is an essential component of eukaryotic membranes, and it functionally modulates membrane proteins, including G protein-coupled receptors. To reveal insight into how cholesterol modulates G protein-coupled receptors, we have used dynamic single-molecule force spectroscopy to quantify the mechan...

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

authors： Zocher M,Zhang C,Rasmussen SG,Kobilka BK,Müller DJ

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapamycin is a potent immunosuppressant that blocks the G1/S transition in antigen-activated T cells and in yeast. The similar effects of rapamycin in animal cells and yeast suggest that the biochemical steps affected by rapamycin are conserved. Using a two-hybrid system we isolated mammalian clones that interact with...

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

authors： Chiu MI,Katz H,Berlin V

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress is a ubiquitous threat to all aerobic organisms and has been implicated in numerous pathological conditions such as cancer. Here we demonstrate a pivotal role for E2F1, a cell cycle regulatory transcription factor, in cell tolerance of oxidative stress. Cells lacking E2F1 are hypersensitive to oxidati...

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

authors： Graves JD,Lee YJ,Liu K,Li G,Lin FT,Lin WC

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of ion transport in plants is essential for cell function. Abiotic stress unbalances cell ion homeostasis, and plants tend to readjust it, regulating membrane transporters and channels. The plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) and the second messenger Ca(2+) are central in such processes, as they are involved ...

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

authors： Diaz M,Sanchez-Barrena MJ,Gonzalez-Rubio JM,Rodriguez L,Fernandez D,Antoni R,Yunta C,Belda-Palazon B,Gonzalez-Guzman M,Peirats-Llobet M,Menendez M,Boskovic J,Marquez JA,Rodriguez PL,Albert A

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The amounts of mRNAs encoding alpha 1, alpha 6, beta 2, beta 3, gamma 2, and delta subunits of gamma-aminobutyrate type A (GABAA) receptors and the gold immunolabeling density of their translation products were monitored during the growth of neonatal rat granule cells in primary culture. We investigated possible corre...

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

authors： Zheng TM,Zhu WJ,Puia G,Vicini S,Grayson DR,Costa E,Caruncho HJ

更新日期：1994-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Most homeobox genes belonging to the Hox family are sequentially activated in embryonal carcinoma cells upon treatment with retinoic acid. Genes located at the 3' end of each one of the four Hox clusters are activated first, whereas upstream Hox genes are activated progressively later. This activation has been extensi...

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

authors： Faiella A,Zappavigna V,Mavilio F,Boncinelli E

更新日期：1994-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The transforming growth factors beta (TGF-beta s) are important modulators of growth and differentiation. They are intermolecular disulfide-bonded homodimeric molecules. The monomer fold has a conserved cystine knot and lacks a hydrophobic core. The biological specificity of a given member of the family is believed to...

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

authors： Venkataraman G,Sasisekharan V,Cooney CL,Langer R,Sasisekharan R

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized seven murine retinoic acid receptor gamma cDNA isoforms (mRAR-gamma 1 to -gamma 7) generated by alternative splicing of at least seven exons. These isoforms differ from one another in their 5' untranslated region and in two cases (mRAR-gamma 1 and -gamma 2) differ in their N-terminal A region, wh...

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

authors： Kastner P,Krust A,Mendelsohn C,Garnier JM,Zelent A,Leroy P,Staub A,Chambon P

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a recessive disease caused by mutations in the CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene. The most common symptoms include progressive lung disease and chronic digestive conditions. CF is the first human genetic disease to benefit from having five different species of animal models. De...

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

authors： Kim K,Lane EA,Saftien A,Wang H,Xu Y,Wirtz-Peitz F,Perrimon N

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoic acid is a morphogenetic signaling molecule derived from vitamin A and involved in vertebrate development. Two groups of receptors, retinoic acid receptors and retinoid X receptors (RXRs), have been identified. All-trans-retinoic acid is the high-affinity ligand for retinoic acid receptors, and 9-cis-retinoic ...

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

authors： Yang Y,Vacchio MS,Ashwell JD

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The infection of human cells by laboratory strains of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) can be blocked readily in vitro by recombinant soluble CD4 and CD4-immunoglobulin hybrid molecules. In contrast, infection by primary isolates of HIV-1 is much less sensitive to blocking in vitro by soluble CD4-based mole...

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

authors： Ashkenazi A,Smith DH,Marsters SA,Riddle L,Gregory TJ,Ho DD,Capon DJ

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal detoxification is essential for bacteria's survival in adverse environments and their pathogenesis in hosts. Understanding the underlying mechanisms is crucial for devising antibacterial treatments. In the Gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli, membrane-bound sensor CusS and its response regulator CusR togeth...

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

authors： Fu B,Sengupta K,Genova LA,Santiago AG,Jung W,Krzemiński Ł,Chakraborty UK,Zhang W,Chen P

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study has been to determine which Na,K-ATPase isoforms are expressed in red blood cells and whether kinetic differences in the uncoupled sodium efflux mode between the human red blood cell Na,K-ATPase and other preparations can be explained by differences in the underlying subunit composition. To...

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

authors： Stengelin MK,Hoffman JF

更新日期：1997-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposition is a multistep process in which a transposable element DNA sequence moves from its original genetic location to a new site. Early steps in this process include the formation of a transposition complex in which the end sequences of the transposable element are brought together in a structurally precise fa...

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

authors： Goryshin IYu,Kil YV,Reznikoff WS

更新日期：1994-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A scientist may publish tens or hundreds of papers over a career, but these contributions are not evenly spaced in time. Sixty years of studies on career productivity patterns in a variety of fields suggest an intuitive and universal pattern: Productivity tends to rise rapidly to an early peak and then gradually decli...

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

authors： Way SF,Morgan AC,Clauset A,Larremore DB

更新日期：2017-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper identifies all statistically significant dyad symmetry combinations in the Epstein-Barr virus genome. The distribution of long dyad symmetry pairings emphasizes two regions, the 5' third of the 3.1-kilobase-pair (kbp) repeat and the oriP region, the latter essential for Epstein-Barr virus replication during...

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

authors： Karlin S

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:H-NS and Lsr2 are nucleoid-associated proteins from Gram-negative bacteria and Mycobacteria, respectively, that play an important role in the silencing of horizontally acquired foreign DNA that is more AT-rich than the resident genome. Despite the fact that Lsr2 and H-NS proteins are dissimilar in sequence and structu...

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

authors： Gordon BR,Li Y,Cote A,Weirauch MT,Ding P,Hughes TR,Navarre WW,Xia B,Liu J

更新日期：2011-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations in serotonin (5-hydroxytriptamine, 5-HT), norepinephrine, and gamma-aminobutyric acid have been linked to the pathophysiology of anxiety and depression, and medications that modulate these neurotransmitters are widely used to treat mood disorders. Recently, the neuropeptide substance P (SP) and its recepto...

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

authors： Santarelli L,Gobbi G,Debs PC,Sibille ET,Blier P,Hen R,Heath MJ

更新日期：2001-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In a metabolic study of human and mouse preimplantation embryos (preembryos), we measured glucose uptake and phosphorylation with nonradioactive 2-deoxyglucose (DG) as tracer. Initial experiments indicated an active hexose transport capacity, a property thought to be restricted in mammals to intestinal villi and kidne...

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

authors： Chi MM,Manchester JK,Basuray R,Mahendra S,Strickler RC,McDougal DB Jr,Lowry OH

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under natural viewing conditions the input to the retina is a complex spatiotemporal signal that depends on both the scene and the way the observer moves. It is commonly assumed that the retina processes this input signal efficiently by taking into account the statistics of the natural world. It has recently been argu...

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

authors： Segal IY,Giladi C,Gedalin M,Rucci M,Ben-Tov M,Kushinsky Y,Mokeichev A,Segev R

更新日期：2015-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic polymorphism in the H-2:Qa:Tla region of chromosome 17 is associated with constitutive variation of bodily odor phenotypes which permit individual olfactory recognition among mice. To determine whether known genes in the H-2:Qa:Tla complex are concerned in the constitution of odor phenotypes, mice were tested ...

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

authors： Yamazaki K,Beauchamp GK,Egorov IK,Bard J,Thomas L,Boyse EA

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00