The HOX11 gene encodes a DNA-binding nuclear transcription factor belonging to a distinct family of homeobox genes.

abstract：:Calpains are Ca(2+)-dependent intracellular proteases. We show here that calpain-generated natural C-terminal fragments of proteins that include G protein-coupled receptors, transmembrane ion channels, transcriptional regulators, apoptosis controllers, kinases, and phosphatases (Phe-GluN2a, Lys-Ica512, Arg-Ankrd2, Tyr...

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

authors： Piatkov KI,Oh JH,Liu Y,Varshavsky A

更新日期：2014-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Williams-Beuren syndrome (also known as Williams syndrome) is caused by a deletion of a 1.55- to 1.84-megabase region from chromosome band 7q11.23. GTF2IRD1 and GTF2I, located within this critical region, encode proteins of the TFII-I family with multiple helix-loop-helix domains known as I repeats. In the present wor...

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

authors： Makeyev AV,Erdenechimeg L,Mungunsukh O,Roth JJ,Enkhmandakh B,Ruddle FH,Bayarsaihan D

更新日期：2004-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The species-area relationship (SAR) gives a quantitative description of the increasing number of species in a community with increasing area of habitat. In conservation, SARs have been used to predict the number of extinctions when the area of habitat is reduced. Such predictions are most needed for landscapes rather ...

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

authors： Hanski I,Zurita GA,Bellocq MI,Rybicki J

更新日期：2013-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA of the human terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase (TdT; "terminal transferase," EC 2.7.7.31) was isolated from a human lymphoblastoid cell cDNA library in lambda gt 11 by using immunological procedures. Four inserts containing 723 to 939 base pairs were recloned in pBR322 for hybridization and preliminary seque...

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

authors： Peterson RC,Cheung LC,Mattaliano RJ,Chang LM,Bollum FJ

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-temperature flash photolysis with IR and visible spectroscopy was used to probe the influence of the distal histidine His-64(E7) of sperm-whale myoglobin (Mb) on the orientation of bound carbon monoxide (CO) and on the kinetics of CO rebinding. The synthesis and high-level expression of a sperm-whale myoglobin gen...

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

authors： Braunstein D,Ansari A,Berendzen J,Cowen BR,Egeberg KD,Frauenfelder H,Hong MK,Ormos P,Sauke TB,Scholl R

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overlapping cDNAs derived from the chicken alpha-fibrinogen mRNA have been sequenced, beginning from within the coding region for the signal peptide of this subunit and terminating within the poly(A) extension. The predicted size of chicken alpha-fibrinogen is 54,187 daltons, which is the smallest of any alpha chain r...

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

authors： Weissbach L,Grieninger G

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) introduces single-strand breaks (SSBs) to initiate class switch recombination (CSR), gene conversion (GC), and somatic hypermutation (SHM). CSR is mediated by double-strand breaks (DSBs) at donor and acceptor switch (S) regions, followed by pairing of DSB ends in two S regio...

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

authors： Sabouri S,Kobayashi M,Begum NA,Xu J,Hirota K,Honjo T

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytosis is a primary defense program orchestrated by monocytes/macrophages. Unregulated phagocytosis can lead to pathological conditions. In the current study we have demonstrated that Wnt5a stimulates phagocytosis through PI3 kinase-Rac1 and lipid-raft-dependent processes. Wnt5a-mediated augmentation in phagocyt...

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

authors： Maiti G,Naskar D,Sen M

更新日期：2012-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The piriform cortex (PCX) is the largest component of the olfactory cortex and is hypothesized to be the locus of odor object formation. The distributed odorant representation found in PCX contrasts sharply with the topographical representation seen in other primary sensory cortices, making it difficult to test this v...

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

authors： Chen CF,Zou DJ,Altomare CG,Xu L,Greer CA,Firestein SJ

更新日期：2014-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:An early and a late histone H2B gene from the sea urchin Stronglyocentrotus purpuratus were linked in a single plasmid and injected into the eggs of the sea urchin Lytechinus pictus. The levels of transcripts of injected early and late genes and of endogenous early genes were monitored during development by a ribonucl...

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

authors： Colin AM,Catlin TL,Kidson SH,Maxson R

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) fruit accumulate the red carotenoid pigment lycopene. The recessive mutation yellow-flesh (locus r) in tomato eliminates fruit carotenoids by disrupting the activity of the fruit-specific phytoene synthase (PSY1), the first committed step in the carotenoid biosynthesis pathway. Fruits of ...

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

authors： Kachanovsky DE,Filler S,Isaacson T,Hirschberg J

更新日期：2012-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional crystal structure of variant-3 toxin from the scorpion Centruroides sculpturatus Ewing has been determined at 3 A resolution. Phases were obtained by use of K2PtCl4 and K2IrCl6 derivatives. The most prominent secondary structural features are two and a half turns of alpha-helix and a three-strand...

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

authors： Fontecilla-Camps JC,Almassy RJ,Suddath FL,Watt DD,Bugg CE

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli strain, ts-rnp5, originally described in 1975 by G. D. Burdick and H. Berger, is shown to possess an RNA polymerase (RNA nucleotidyltransferase) sigma subunit with an activity 4--6 times less thermostable at 45 degrees than sigma from wild-type strains. This defect remains associated with the sigm...

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

authors： Gross C,Hoffman J,Ward C,Hager D,Burdick G,Berger H,Burgess R

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GDP-dissociation inhibitors (GDIs) play a primary role in modulating the activation of GTPases and may also be critical for the cellular compartmentalization of GTPases. RhoGDI and GDI/D4 are two currently known GDIs for the Rho-subfamily of GTPases. Using their cDNAs to screen a human brain cDNA library under low str...

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

authors： Adra CN,Manor D,Ko JL,Zhu S,Horiuchi T,Van Aelst L,Cerione RA,Lim B

更新日期：1997-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cell therapy has emerged as a promising tool for the treatment of a variety of diseases. Previously, we have shown that Akt-modified mesenchymal stem cells mediate tissue repair through paracrine mechanisms. Using a comprehensive functional genomic strategy, we show that secreted frizzled related protein 2 (Sfrp2...

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

authors： Mirotsou M,Zhang Z,Deb A,Zhang L,Gnecchi M,Noiseux N,Mu H,Pachori A,Dzau V

更新日期：2007-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Programmed cell death (apoptosis) is a normal physiological process, which could in principle be manipulated to play an important role in cancer therapy. The key importance of p53 expression in the apoptotic response to DNA-damaging agents has been stressed because mutant or deleted p53 is so common in most kinds of c...

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

authors： Xu C,Meikrantz W,Schlegel R,Sager R

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have transferred the human gene for hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT, EC 2.4.2.8; IMP:pyrophosphate phosphoribosyltransferease) via isolated metaphase chromosomes from human HeLa S3 cells into murine A9 cells which lack functional murine HPRT activity, using the technique of McBride and Ozer (Pr...

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

authors： Willecke K,Ruddle FH

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic spines receive most synaptic inputs in the forebrain. Their morphology, with a spine head isolated from the dendrite by a slender neck, indicates a potential role in isolating inputs. Indeed, biochemical compartmentalization occurs at spine heads because of the diffusional bottleneck created by the spine nec...

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

authors： Araya R,Jiang J,Eisenthal KB,Yuste R

更新日期：2006-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphangiogenesis is an important process that contributes to the spread of cancer. Here we show that insulin-like growth factors 1 (IGF-1) and 2 (IGF-2) induce lymphangiogenesis in vivo. In a mouse cornea assay, IGF-1 and IGF-2 induce lymphangiogenesis as detected with LYVE-1, a specific marker for lymphatic endothel...

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

authors： Björndahl M,Cao R,Nissen LJ,Clasper S,Johnson LA,Xue Y,Zhou Z,Jackson D,Hansen AJ,Cao Y

更新日期：2005-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the Luria-Delbrück fluctuation analysis, we have examined the lung tumor-forming ability of a series of parallel clones derived from the KHT tumor, grown to small defined sizes. From these studies, we conclude that metastatic variants arise spontaneously in the clonal lines during their growth, at an apparent ra...

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

authors： Harris JF,Chambers AF,Hill RP,Ling V

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single cortical neurons in the mammalian brain receive signals arising from multiple sensory input channels. Dendritic integration of these afferent signals is critical in determining the amplitude and time course of the neurons' output signals. As of yet, little is known about the spatial and temporal organization of...

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

authors： Varga Z,Jia H,Sakmann B,Konnerth A

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Human aging is accompanied by dramatic changes in daily sleep-wake behavior: Activity shifts to an earlier phase, and the consolidation of sleep and wake is disturbed. Although this daily circadian rhythm is brain-controlled, its mechanism is encoded by cell-autonomous circadian clocks functioning in nearly every cell...

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

authors： Pagani L,Schmitt K,Meier F,Izakovic J,Roemer K,Viola A,Cajochen C,Wirz-Justice A,Brown SA,Eckert A

更新日期：2011-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Down syndrome (DS) is the most common form of intellectual disability. The cognitive alterations in DS are thought to depend on brain regions critical for learning and memory such as the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and the hippocampus (HPC). Neuroimaging studies suggest that increased brain connectivity correlates with lo...

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

authors： Alemany-González M,Gener T,Nebot P,Vilademunt M,Dierssen M,Puig MV

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of DNA molecules tethered to the surface of a microarray may significantly affect the efficiency of hybridization. Although a number of methods have been applied to determine the structure of the DNA layer, they are not very sensitive to variations in the shape of DNA molecules. Here we describe the a...

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

authors： Moiseev L,Unlü MS,Swan AK,Goldberg BB,Cantor CR

更新日期：2006-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Candidate single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were analyzed for associations to an unselected whole genome pool of tumor mRNA transcripts in 50 unrelated patients with breast cancer. SNPs were selected from 203 candidate genes of the reactive oxygen species pathway. We describe a general statistical framework for t...

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

authors： Kristensen VN,Edvardsen H,Tsalenko A,Nordgard SH,Sørlie T,Sharan R,Vailaya A,Ben-Dor A,Lønning PE,Lien S,Omholt S,Syvänen AC,Yakhini Z,Børresen-Dale AL

更新日期：2006-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that two regular tetrahedra can be combined with a single regular octahedron to tile (complete fill) three-dimensional Euclidean space . This structure was called the "octet truss" by Buckminster Fuller. It was believed that such a tiling, which is the Delaunay tessellation of the face-centered cubic ...

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

authors： Conway JH,Jiao Y,Torquato S

更新日期：2011-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress induced in live HeLa cells by menadione (2-methyl-1,4-napthaquinone) was studied in real time by scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM). The hydrophobic molecule menadione diffuses through a living cell membrane where it is toxic to the cell. However, in the cell it is conjugated with glutathione ...

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

authors： Koley D,Bard AJ

更新日期：2012-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I and type III IFNs bind to different cell-surface receptors but induce identical signal transduction pathways, leading to the expression of antiviral host effector molecules. Despite the fact that type III IFN (IFN-λ) has been shown to predominantly act on mucosal organs, in vivo infection studies have failed to...

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

authors： Pott J,Mahlakõiv T,Mordstein M,Duerr CU,Michiels T,Stockinger S,Staeheli P,Hornef MW

更新日期：2011-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The soil-transmitted helminths or nematodes (hookworms, whipworms, and Ascaris) are roundworms that infect more than 1 billion of the poorest peoples and are leading causes of morbidity worldwide. Few anthelmintics are available for treatment, and only one is commonly used in mass drug administrations. New anthelminti...

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

authors： Hu Y,Platzer EG,Bellier A,Aroian RV

更新日期：2010-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We have evaluated the effect of ligand binding on expression of the receptor for IgE on rat basophilic leukemia (RBL) cells. RBL cells were grown in the presence or absence of 131I-labeled IgE and sometimes were also surface labeled with 125I. We found that cells grown in the presence of IgE continued to accumulate re...

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

authors： Furuichi K,Rivera J,Isersky C

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00