The Krüppel-associated box-A (KRAB-A) domain of zinc finger proteins mediates transcriptional repression.

abstract：:The excess proton in water, H(+)(aq), plays a fundamental role in aqueous solution chemistry. Its solution thermodynamic properties are essential to molecular descriptions of that chemistry and for validation of dynamical calculations. Within the quasichemical theory of solutions those thermodynamic properties are con...

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

authors： Asthagiri D,Pratt LR,Kress JD

更新日期：2005-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotes engage in a multitude of beneficial and deleterious interactions with bacteria. Hamiltonella defensa, an endosymbiont of aphids and other sap-feeding insects, protects its aphid host from attack by parasitoid wasps. Thus H. defensa is only conditionally beneficial to hosts, unlike ancient nutritional symbio...

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

authors： Degnan PH,Yu Y,Sisneros N,Wing RA,Moran NA

更新日期：2009-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned one of the two human alpha-globin genes and report its complete nucleotide sequence. The gene is 832 base pairs (bp) long from the 5'-cap site to the 3'-polyadenylylation site. The amino acid coding sequences are separated into three segments (exons) by two short (117 and 140 bp) intervening sequences. ...

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

authors： Liebhaber SA,Goossens MJ,Kan YW

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuroactive steroids dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), its sulfate ester DHEA sulfate (DHEAS), and allopregnanolone (Allo), produced by the CNS and the adrenals, appear to exert a protective effect in hippocampal and cortical neuron ischemia- and excitotoxicity-induced injury. We hypothesized that they may also play ...

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

authors： Charalampopoulos I,Tsatsanis C,Dermitzaki E,Alexaki VI,Castanas E,Margioris AN,Gravanis A

更新日期：2004-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual arousal is a dynamical, highly coordinated neurophysiological process that is often induced by visual stimuli. Numerous studies have proposed that the cognitive processing stage of responding to sexual stimuli is the first stage, in which sex differences occur, and the divergence between men and women has been ...

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

authors： Mitricheva E,Kimura R,Logothetis NK,Noori HR

更新日期：2019-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:β-Phosphoglucomutase (βPGM) catalyzes isomerization of β-D-glucose 1-phosphate (βG1P) into D-glucose 6-phosphate (G6P) via sequential phosphoryl transfer steps using a β-D-glucose 1,6-bisphosphate (βG16BP) intermediate. Synthetic fluoromethylenephosphonate and methylenephosphonate analogs of βG1P deliver novel step 1 ...

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

authors： Jin Y,Bhattasali D,Pellegrini E,Forget SM,Baxter NJ,Cliff MJ,Bowler MW,Jakeman DL,Blackburn GM,Waltho JP

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A compact, well-organized, and natural motif, stabilized by three disulfide bonds, is proposed as a basic scaffold for protein engineering. This motif contains 37 amino acids only and is formed by a short helix on one face and an antiparallel triple-stranded beta-sheet on the opposite face. It has been adopted by scor...

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

authors： Vita C,Roumestand C,Toma F,Ménez A

更新日期：1995-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:REPRESSOR OF SILENCING 1 (ROS1) is a DNA demethylation enzyme that was previously identified during a genetic screen for the silencing of both RD29A-LUC and 35S-NPTII transgenes on a T-DNA construct. Here we performed a genetic screen to identify additional mutants in which the 35S-NPTII transgene is silenced. We iden...

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

authors： Li X,Qian W,Zhao Y,Wang C,Shen J,Zhu JK,Gong Z

更新日期：2012-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a physical map of the end of the long arm of the human X chromosome encompassing the region from Xq27.2 to the q telomere, inclusive of the chromosomal band Xq28. This region is of particular interest, since it contains the highest density of genes associated with genetic diseases. The map covers a total o...

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

authors： Poustka A,Dietrich A,Langenstein G,Toniolo D,Warren ST,Lehrach H

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-related hearing loss and noise-induced hearing loss are major causes of human morbidity. Here we used genetics and functional studies to show that a shared cause of these disorders may be loss of function of the ATP-gated P2X(2) receptor (ligand-gated ion channel, purinergic receptor 2) that is expressed in sensor...

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

authors： Yan D,Zhu Y,Walsh T,Xie D,Yuan H,Sirmaci A,Fujikawa T,Wong AC,Loh TL,Du L,Grati M,Vlajkovic SM,Blanton S,Ryan AF,Chen ZY,Thorne PR,Kachar B,Tekin M,Zhao HB,Housley GD,King MC,Liu XZ

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine the quantum confinement in the photoemission ionization energy in air and optical band gap of carbon nanoparticles (CNPs). Premixed, stretched-stabilized ethylene flames are used to generate the CNPs reproducibly over the range of 4-23 nm in volume median diameter. The results reveal that flame-formed CNPs ...

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

authors： Liu C,Singh AV,Saggese C,Tang Q,Chen D,Wan K,Vinciguerra M,Commodo M,De Falco G,Minutolo P,D'Anna A,Wang H

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A method has been developed for de novo peptide sequencing using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry. This method will facilitate biological studies that require rapid determination of peptide or protein sequences, e.g., determination of posttranslational modifications, identification of acti...

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

authors： Keough T,Youngquist RS,Lacey MP

更新日期：1999-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Zea mays plasma membrane intrinsic proteins (ZmPIPs) fall into two groups, ZmPIP1s and ZmPIP2s, that exhibit different water channel activities when expressed in Xenopus oocytes. ZmPIP1s are inactive, whereas ZmPIP2s induce a marked increase in the membrane osmotic water permeability coefficient, P(f). We previously s...

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

authors： Zelazny E,Borst JW,Muylaert M,Batoko H,Hemminga MA,Chaumont F

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Explanations for primate brain expansion and the evolution of human cognition and culture remain contentious despite extensive research. While multiple comparative analyses have investigated variation in brain size across primate species, very few have addressed why primates vary in how much they use social learning. ...

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

authors： Street SE,Navarrete AF,Reader SM,Laland KN

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides, in particular α-defensins expressed by Paneth cells, control microbiota composition and play a key role in intestinal barrier function and homeostasis. Dynamic conditions in the local microenvironment, such as pH and redox potential, significantly affect the antimicrobial spectrum. In contrast ...

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

authors： Ehmann D,Wendler J,Koeninger L,Larsen IS,Klag T,Berger J,Marette A,Schaller M,Stange EF,Malek NP,Jensen BAH,Wehkamp J

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Although inappropriate activation of the Wnt/beta-catenin pathway has been implicated in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the role of this signaling in liver carcinogenesis remains unclear. To investigate this issue, we constructed a mutant mouse strain, Apc(lox/lox), in which exon 14 of the tumor-su...

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

authors： Colnot S,Decaens T,Niwa-Kawakita M,Godard C,Hamard G,Kahn A,Giovannini M,Perret C

更新日期：2004-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The polypeptide chain initiation factor 2 (eIF-2) binds phospholipid (PL) and becomes a potent inhibitor of translation in hemin-supplemented reticulocyte lysates. This binding is markedly reduced by prior treatment of eIF-2 with N-ethylmaleimide. Although PL is probably bound by all three eIF-2 subunits, our results ...

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

authors： de Haro C,de Herreros AG,Ochoa S

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified a cellular transcription factor, ATF, which is involved in the expression of multiple adenovirus E1a-inducible genes. Here we show that ATF also binds to regulatory elements in cellular cAMP-inducible promoters. In these cellular promoters, ATF binds to a consensus sequence that has been ...

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

authors： Lin YS,Green MR

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How do firing patterns in a cortical circuit change when inhibitory neurons are excited? We virally expressed an excitatory designer receptor exclusively activated by a designer drug (Gq-DREADD) in all inhibitory interneuron types of the CA1 region of the hippocampus in the rat. While clozapine N-oxide (CNO) activatio...

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

authors： Rogers S,Rozman PA,Valero M,Doyle WK,Buzsáki G

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Two related oncogenes, TCL-1 and MTCP-1, are overexpressed in T cell prolymphocytic leukemias as a result of chromosomal rearrangements that involve the translocation of one T cell receptor gene to either chromosome 14q32 or Xq28. The crystal structure of human recombinant MTCP-1 protein has been determined at 2.0 A r...

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

authors： Fu ZQ,Du Bois GC,Song SP,Kulikovskaya I,Virgilio L,Rothstein JL,Croce CM,Weber IT,Harrison RW

更新日期：1998-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A potential new approach for gene therapy against human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection is the design of a nonstructural gene-based virion-specific inhibitory molecule that is packaged with virus to destroy its infectivity. We tested this approach for HIV-1 by using Vpx, a virion-associated protein of ...

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

authors： Matsuda Z,Yu X,Yu QC,Lee TH,Essex M

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA of functional cis-regulatory modules displays extensive sequence conservation in comparisons of genomes from modestly distant species. Patches of sequence that are several hundred base pairs in length within these modules are often seen to be 80-95% identical, although the flanking sequence cannot even be alig...

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

authors： Cameron RA,Chow SH,Berney K,Chiu TY,Yuan QA,Krämer A,Helguero A,Ransick A,Yun M,Davidson EH

更新日期：2005-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertension, a remediable risk factor for stroke, cardiovascular disease, and renal failure, affects 50 million individuals in the United States alone. African Americans (blacks) have a higher incidence and prevalence of hypertension and hypertension-associated target organ damage compared with Caucasian Americans (w...

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

authors： Suthanthiran M,Li B,Song JO,Ding R,Sharma VK,Schwartz JE,August P

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEpo) has been used successfully in the treatment of cancer-related anemia. Clinical observations with several patients with multiple-myeloma treated with rHuEpo has shown, in addition to the improved quality of life, a longer survival than expected, considering the poor prognostic ...

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

authors： Mittelman M,Neumann D,Peled A,Kanter P,Haran-Ghera N

更新日期：2001-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Lambdoid phages form clear plaques and show reduced ability to establish immunity in strains of Escherichia coli that lack adenylate cyclase or catabolite activator protein. The absence of the activator protein or cyclic AMP reduces the frequency of lysogenization, but does not prevent steady-state repressor synthesis...

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

authors： Grodzicker T,Arditti RR,Eisen H

更新日期：1972-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of materials to define the architecture and microenvironment experienced by cells provides new opportunities to direct the fate of human pluripotent stem cells (HPSCs) [Robinton DA, Daley GQ (2012) Nature 481(7381):295-305]. However, the conditions required for self-renewal vs. differentiation of HPSCs are...

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

authors： Dixon JE,Shah DA,Rogers C,Hall S,Weston N,Parmenter CD,McNally D,Denning C,Shakesheff KM

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 2 (IL-2) is a potent growth factor for T lymphocytes, playing a crucial role in the immune response. In view of the considerable evidence that the immunoregulatory cytokines (or lymphokines) also play a role in the growth and differentiation of cells in the central nervous system (CNS), we examined the ope...

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

authors： Okamoto Y,Minamoto S,Shimizu K,Mogami H,Taniguchi T

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Na+ channels in chick brain and heart have been directly compared by measuring binding of tritium-labeled saxitoxin ([3H]STX) to the two tissues under identical conditions. Maximum saturable uptake and toxin affinity were considerably less in chick heart than in chick brain, requiring the development of an assay metho...

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

authors： Rogart RB,Regan LJ,Dziekan LC,Galper JB

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete sequences for the intergenic regions of the genome of human respiratory syncytial virus were obtained by dideoxynucleotide sequencing using synthetic oligonucleotides. These experiments established that the 10 respiratory syncytial viral genes are arranged, without additional intervening genes, in the order 3...

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

authors： Collins PL,Dickens LE,Buckler-White A,Olmsted RA,Spriggs MK,Camargo E,Coelingh KV

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Satellite tobacco necrosis virus (STNV) is one of the smallest viruses known. Its genome encodes only its coat protein (CP) subunit, relying on the polymerase of its helper virus TNV for replication. The genome has been shown to contain a cryptic set of dispersed assembly signals in the form of stem-loops that each pr...

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

authors： Patel N,Wroblewski E,Leonov G,Phillips SEV,Tuma R,Twarock R,Stockley PG

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00