KAR3-encoded kinesin is a minus-end-directed motor that functions with centromere binding proteins (CBF3) on an in vitro yeast kinetochore.

abstract：:The recently characterized corticosteroid receptor on amphibian neuronal membranes appears to mediate rapid, stress-induced changes in male reproductive behaviors. Because the transduction mechanisms associated with this receptor are unknown, we performed radioligand binding studies to determine whether this steroid r...

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

authors： Orchinik M,Murray TF,Franklin PH,Moore FL

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human workers ensure the functioning of governments around the world. The efficacy of human workers, in turn, is linked to the climatic conditions they face. Here we show that the same weather that amplifies human health hazards also reduces street-level government workers' oversight of these hazards. To do so, we emp...

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

authors： Obradovich N,Tingley D,Rahwan I

更新日期：2018-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Base excision repair (BER) removes at least 20,000 DNA lesions per human cell per day and is critical for the maintenance of genomic stability. We hypothesize that aberrant BER, resulting from mutations in BER genes, can lead to genomic instability and cancer. The first step in BER is catalyzed by DNA N-glycosylases. ...

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

authors： Galick HA,Kathe S,Liu M,Robey-Bond S,Kidane D,Wallace SS,Sweasy JB

更新日期：2013-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies previously used for immunofluorescence localization of a myosin heavy chain-like polypeptide to the nuclear envelope in higher eukaryotic cells crossreact with both muscle and nonmuscle isoforms of Drosophila myosin heavy chain. Analyses of Drosophila tissue culture cells and premyogenic embryos suggest tha...

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

authors： Berrios M,Fisher PA,Matz EC

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently the definition of the metazoan RNA polymerase II and archaeal core promoters has been expanded to include a region immediately upstream of the TATA box called the B recognition element (BRE), so named because eukaryal transcription factor TFIIB and its archaeal orthologue TFB interact with the element in a se...

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

authors： Littlefield O,Korkhin Y,Sigler PB

更新日期：1999-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:High-throughput gene expression data are one of the primary resources for exploring complex intracellular dynamics in modern biology. The integration of large amounts of public data may allow us to examine general dynamical relationships between regulators and target genes. However, obstacles for such analyses are stu...

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

authors： Vandenbon A,Dinh VH,Mikami N,Kitagawa Y,Teraguchi S,Ohkura N,Sakaguchi S

更新日期：2016-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Larger brains have an increasingly folded cerebral cortex whose white matter scales up faster than the gray matter. Here we analyze the cellular composition of the subcortical white matter in 11 primate species, including humans, and one Scandentia, and show that the mass of the white matter scales linearly across spe...

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

authors： Herculano-Houzel S,Mota B,Wong P,Kaas JH

更新日期：2010-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Ski8p is implicated in degradation of non-poly(A) and double-stranded RNA, and in meiotic DNA recombination. We have identified the Sordaria macrospora SKI8 gene. Ski8p is cytoplasmically localized in all vegetative and sexual cycle cells, and is nuclear localized, specifically in early-mid-meiotic prophase, in tempor...

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

authors： Tessé S,Storlazzi A,Kleckner N,Gargano S,Zickler D

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertebrate embryogenesis and organogenesis are driven by cell biological processes, ranging from mitosis and migration to changes in cell size and polarity, but their control and causal relationships are not fully defined. Here, we use the developing limb skeleton to better define the relationships between mitosis and...

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

authors： Li Y,Junge JA,Arnesano C,Gross GG,Miner JH,Moats R,Roberts RW,Arnold DB,Fraser SE

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the in vivo signaling mechanisms involved in nociceptin/orphanin FQ (Noci)-induced pain responses by using a flexor-reflex paradigm. Noci was 10,000 times more potent than substance P (SP) in eliciting flexor responses after intraplantar injection into the hind limb of mice, but the action of Noci seem...

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

authors： Inoue M,Kobayashi M,Kozaki S,Zimmer A,Ueda H

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of induction of an adult rabbit cytochrome P-450, prostaglandin (PG) omega-hydroxylase (P-450PG-omega), during pregnancy has been investigated. This P-450 isozyme regiospecifically hydroxylates PGE1, PGA1, and PGF2 alpha at carbon-20 (the omega position). The specific activity of this enzyme is induced f...

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

authors： Muerhoff AS,Williams DE,Leithauser MT,Jackson VE,Waterman MR,Masters BS

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The androgen receptor (AR) binds to androgen response elements and regulates target genes via a mechanism involving coregulators. Here we demonstrate that the AR can interact with the testicular orphan receptor-4 (TR4) and function as a repressor to down-regulate the TR4 target genes by preventing the TR4 binding to i...

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

authors： Lee YF,Shyr CR,Thin TH,Lin WJ,Chang C

更新日期：1999-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Nodules harboring nitrogen-fixing rhizobia are a well-known trait of legumes, but nodules also occur in other plant lineages, with rhizobia or the actinomycete Frankia as microsymbiont. It is generally assumed that nodulation evolved independently multiple times. However, molecular-genetic support for this hypothesis ...

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

authors： van Velzen R,Holmer R,Bu F,Rutten L,van Zeijl A,Liu W,Santuari L,Cao Q,Sharma T,Shen D,Roswanjaya Y,Wardhani TAK,Kalhor MS,Jansen J,van den Hoogen J,Güngör B,Hartog M,Hontelez J,Verver J,Yang WC,Schijlen E,Repin

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Inwardly rectifying potassium (K(+)) channels gated by G proteins (Kir3.x family) are widely distributed in neuronal, atrial, and endocrine tissues and play key roles in generating late inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, slowing the heart rate and modulating hormone release. They are directly activated by G(betagamma...

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

authors： Leaney JL,Tinker A

更新日期：2000-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Superhard metals are of interest as possible replacements with enhanced properties over the metal carbides commonly used in cutting, drilling, and wear-resistant tooling. Of the superhard metals, the highest boride of tungsten--often referred to as WB4 and sometimes as W(1-x)B3--is one of the most promising candidates...

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

authors： Lech AT,Turner CL,Mohammadi R,Tolbert SH,Kaner RB

更新日期：2015-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:CrAs was observed to possess the bulk superconductivity under high-pressure conditions. To understand the superconducting mechanism and explore the correlation between the structure and superconductivity, the high-pressure structural evolution of CrAs was investigated using the angle-dispersive X-ray diffraction (XRD)...

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

authors： Yu Z,Wu W,Hu Q,Zhao J,Li C,Yang K,Cheng J,Luo J,Wang L,Mao HK

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We purified microtubules from a mammalian mitotic extract and obtained an amino acid sequence from each microtubule-associated protein by using mass spectrometry. Most of these proteins are known spindle-associated components with essential functional roles in spindle organization. We generated antibodies against a pr...

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

authors： Mack GJ,Compton DA

更新日期：2001-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretical considerations predict that amplification of expressed gene transcripts by reverse transcription-PCR using arbitrarily chosen primers will result in the preferential amplification of the central portion of the transcript. Systematic, high-throughput sequencing of such products would result in an expressed ...

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

authors： Dias Neto E,Correa RG,Verjovski-Almeida S,Briones MR,Nagai MA,da Silva W Jr,Zago MA,Bordin S,Costa FF,Goldman GH,Carvalho AF,Matsukuma A,Baia GS,Simpson DH,Brunstein A,de Oliveira PS,Bucher P,Jongeneel CV,O'Hare MJ,

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A numerical algorithm is applied to the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2) dust record from Greenland to remove the abrupt changes in dust flux associated with the Dansgaard-Oeschger (D-O) oscillations of the last glacial period. The procedure is based on the assumption that the rapid changes in dust are associated...

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

authors： Barker S,Knorr G

更新日期：2007-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of auditory sensitivity in terms of the cochlear potentials were made in young specimens of three species of crocodilians, Caiman crocodilus and Alligator mississipiensis of the subfamily Alligatorinae and Crocodylus acutus of the subfamily Crocodylinae. These species show considerable similarity in their...

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

authors： Wever EG

更新日期：1971-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated two genes, Hox-2.8 and Hox-2.9, from the mouse homeobox cluster Hox-2, located on chromosome 11. A 120-kilobase yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) containing a large region of the murine Hox-2 cluster, including 45 kilobases of sequence upstream of the most 5' gene, was cloned. The DNA sequence of the ...

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

authors： Rubock MJ,Larin Z,Cook M,Papalopulu N,Krumlauf R,Lehrach H

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crosses between closely related animal species often result in male hybrids that are sterile, and the molecular and functional basis of genetic factors for hybrid male sterility is of great interest. Here, we report a molecular and functional analysis of HMS1, a region of 9.2 kb in chromosome 3 of Drosophila mauritian...

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

authors： Liénard MA,Araripe LO,Hartl DL

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The class II transactivator (CIITA) is the master integrator of expression of MHC class II genes. It interacts with variety of basal transcription factors to initiate and elongate transcription of these genes. Among others, it recruits positive transcription elongation factor b (P-TEFb) to MHC class II promoters. In c...

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

authors： Kohoutek J,Blazek D,Peterlin BM

更新日期：2006-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase subunit PIK3CA is frequently mutated in human cancers. Here we used gene targeting to "knock in" PIK3CA mutations into human breast epithelial cells to identify new therapeutic targets associated with oncogenic PIK3CA. Mutant PIK3CA knockin cells were capable of epidermal growth facto...

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

authors： Gustin JP,Karakas B,Weiss MB,Abukhdeir AM,Lauring J,Garay JP,Cosgrove D,Tamaki A,Konishi H,Konishi Y,Mohseni M,Wang G,Rosen DM,Denmeade SR,Higgins MJ,Vitolo MI,Bachman KE,Park BH

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The neighbor-exclusion principle is one of the most general and interesting rules describing intercalative DNA binding by small molecules. It suggests that such binding can only occur at every other base-pair site, reflecting a very large negative cooperativity in the binding process. We have carried out molecular mec...

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

authors： Rao SN,Kollman PA

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The global demand for food could double in another 40 y owing to growth in the population and food consumption per capita. To meet the world's future food and sustainability needs for biofuels and renewable materials, the production of starch-rich cereals and cellulose-rich bioenergy plants must grow substantially whi...

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

authors： You C,Chen H,Myung S,Sathitsuksanoh N,Ma H,Zhang XZ,Li J,Zhang YH

更新日期：2013-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We develop a potential landscape approach to quantitatively describe experimental data from a fibroblast cell line that exhibits a wide range of GFP expression levels under the control of the promoter for tenascin-C. Time-lapse live-cell microscopy provides data about short-term fluctuations in promoter activity, and ...

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

authors： Sisan DR,Halter M,Hubbard JB,Plant AL

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The tongue is a critical element of the feeding system in tetrapod animals for their successful adaptation to terrestrial life. Whereas the oral part of the mammalian tongue contains soft tissues only, the avian tongue has an internal skeleton extending to the anterior tip. The mechanisms underlying the evolutionary d...

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

authors： Liu H,Lan Y,Xu J,Chang CF,Brugmann SA,Jiang R

更新日期：2013-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a homologous in vitro transcription system that requires (i) 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (called TCDD or dioxin), (ii) the Ah receptor, and (iii) a dioxin-responsive enhancer for activity. Unfractionated nuclear extracts from mouse hepatoma cells contain an inhibitor and fail to direct transc...

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

authors： Wen LP,Koeiman N,Whitlock JP Jr

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotes, transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are transcribed in the nucleus yet function in the cytoplasm; thus, tRNA movement within the cell was believed to be unidirectional--from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. It is now known that mature tRNAs also move in a retrograde direction from the cytoplasm to the nucleus via retrog...

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

authors： Kramer EB,Hopper AK

更新日期：2013-12-24 00:00:00