An unusual active hexose transport system in human and mouse preimplantation embryos.

abstract：:The sex pheromone biosynthetic pathways of lepidopterans require the concerted actions of multiple gene products. A number of pheromone gland (PG)-specific genes have been cloned in recent years and, whereas in vitro characterizations have indicated functions consistent with roles in pheromone production, there have b...

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

authors： Ohnishi A,Hull JJ,Matsumoto S

更新日期：2006-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:CSB/ERCC6 belongs to an orphan subfamily of SWI2/SNF2-related chromatin remodelers and plays crucial roles in gene expression, DNA damage repair, and the maintenance of genome integrity. The molecular basis of chromatin remodeling by Cockayne syndrome B protein (CSB) is not well understood. Here we investigate the mol...

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

authors： Wang W,Xu J,Limbo O,Fei J,Kassavetis GA,Chong J,Kadonaga JT,Russell P,Li B,Wang D

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental and physiological responses are regulated by light throughout the entire life cycle of higher plants. To sense changes in the light environment, plants have developed various photoreceptors, including the red/far-red light-absorbing phytochromes and blue light-absorbing cryptochromes. A wide variety of p...

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

authors： Bognár LK,Hall A,Adám E,Thain SC,Nagy F,Millar AJ

更新日期：1999-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of the mouse trigeminal ganglia (TG) is the most commonly used model for the study of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) latency. Its popularity is caused, at least in part, by the perception that latent infection can be studied in this system in the absence of spontaneous viral reactivation. However, this ...

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

authors： Feldman LT,Ellison AR,Voytek CC,Yang L,Krause P,Margolis TP

更新日期：2002-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory destruction of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreatic islets is the hallmark of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, a spontaneous autoimmune disease of non-obese diabetic mice resembling human juvenile (type I) diabetes. Histochemical analysis of diabetic pancreata revealed that mononuclear cells...

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

authors： Weiss L,Slavin S,Reich S,Cohen P,Shuster S,Stern R,Kaganovsky E,Okon E,Rubinstein AM,Naor D

更新日期：2000-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Cubic cage compounds composed of Co-CN-Ru linkages have been prepared which illustrate the following features: (i) new motifs for alkali metal ion complexation (i.e., cationic receptors for cations), (ii) a new family of triaza-metalloligands, and (iii) a double box-like cage. The cages are synthesized by the condensa...

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

authors： Contakes SM,Kuhlman ML,Ramesh M,Wilson SR,Rauchfuss TB

更新日期：2002-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis, by the recovery of specific genetic "markers," of the effects of DNase I, physical shear, and temperature shock on DNA-cell complexes demonstrates that sequential attachment of both ends of bacteriophage SP82G DNA to Bacillus subtilis precedes entry of the DNA molecule into the cell, and that each attachment...

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

authors： Williams GL,Green DM

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An approximately decadal periodicity in surface air temperature is discernable in global observations from A.D. 1855 to 1900 and since A.D. 1945, but with a periodicity of only about 6 years during the intervening period. Changes in solar irradiance related to the sunspot cycle have been proposed to account for the fo...

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

authors： Keeling CD,Whorf TP

更新日期：1997-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the endoplasmic reticulum stress-regulated kinase, PERK, in mammary gland function was assessed through generation of a targeted deletion in mammary epithelium. Characterization revealed that PERK is required for functional maturation of milk-secreting mammary epithelial cells. PERK-dependent signaling con...

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

authors： Bobrovnikova-Marjon E,Hatzivassiliou G,Grigoriadou C,Romero M,Cavener DR,Thompson CB,Diehl JA

更新日期：2008-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) recognize antigens in the context of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I gene products. The T-cell receptor (TCR) that mediates this MHC-restricted antigen recognition recognizes short peptide fragments rather than the intact antigen. Presentation of peptides to the TCR may th...

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

authors： Kievits F,Wijffels J,Lokhorst W,Ivanyi P

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The causes of major and rapid transitions observed in biological macroevolution as well as in the evolution of social systems are a subject of much debate. Here we identify the proximate causes of crashes and recoveries that arise dynamically in a model system in which populations of (molecular) species coevolve with ...

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

authors： Jain S,Krishna S

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The vertical occipital fasciculus (VOF) is the only major fiber bundle connecting dorsolateral and ventrolateral visual cortex. Only a handful of studies have examined the anatomy of the VOF or its role in cognition in the living human brain. Here, we trace the contentious history of the VOF, beginning with its origin...

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

authors： Yeatman JD,Weiner KS,Pestilli F,Rokem A,Mezer A,Wandell BA

更新日期：2014-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the polymerase chain reaction to amplify the entire coding region of canine factor IX from a hemophilia B animal. When the sequence was compared to that which codes for normal canine factor IX, a single missense mutation was identified. This mutation (G----A at nucleotide 1477) results in the substitution...

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

authors： Evans JP,Brinkhous KM,Brayer GD,Reisner HM,High KA

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BRCA1 is a breast and ovarian cancer-specific tumor suppressor that seems to be involved in transcription and DNA repair. Here we report that BRCA1 exhibits a bona fide ubiquitin (Ub) protein ligase (E3) activity, and that cancer-predisposing mutations within the BRCA1 RING domain abolish its Ub ligase activity. Furth...

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

authors： Ruffner H,Joazeiro CA,Hemmati D,Hunter T,Verma IM

更新日期：2001-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have demonstrated that the entire murine N-myc gene and the sequences necessary for its expression in human neuroblastoma cells are contained within a 7.4-kilobase murine genomic clone. The complete nucleotide sequence of this gene reveals a number of striking similarities and differences when compared to the relat...

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

authors： DePinho RA,Legouy E,Feldman LB,Kohl NE,Yancopoulos GD,Alt FW

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer cells are characterized by genetic mutations that deregulate cell proliferation and suppress cell death. To arrest the uncontrolled replication of malignant cells, conventional chemotherapies systemically disrupt cell division, causing diverse and often severe side effects as a result of collateral damage to no...

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

authors： Venkataraman S,Dirks RM,Ueda CT,Pierce NA

更新日期：2010-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We have expressed the recombinant squid kinesin head domain in Escherichia coli and studied its interaction with microtubules. The head is active as a microtubule-stimulated ATPase and binds to microtubules, but it does not support microtubule gliding by itself. The head binds to both microtubules and depolymerized tu...

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

authors： Song YH,Mandelkow E

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) is a cell cycle-regulated E3 ubiquitin ligase that controls the degradation of substrate proteins at mitotic exit and throughout the G1 phase. We have identified an APC/C substrate and cell cycle-regulated protein, KIAA0101/PAF15. PAF15 protein levels peak in the G2/M p...

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

authors： Emanuele MJ,Ciccia A,Elia AE,Elledge SJ

更新日期：2011-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Selection is widely accepted as the principal force shaping phenotypic variation within populations. Its importance in speciation and macroevolution has been questioned, however, because phenotypic differences between species or higher taxa sometimes appear to be nonadaptive. Here, we use the quantitative trait locus ...

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

authors： Rieseberg LH,Widmer A,Arntz AM,Burke JM

更新日期：2002-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A G to T mutation has been observed at the third position of codon 249 of the p53 tumor-suppressor gene in over 50% of the hepatocellular carcinoma cases associated with high exposure to aflatoxin B(1) (AFB(1)). Hypotheses have been put forth that AFB(1), in concert with hepatitis B virus (HBV), may play a role in the...

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

authors： Smela ME,Hamm ML,Henderson PT,Harris CM,Harris TM,Essigmann JM

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Single crystal diamond produced by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) at very high growth rates (up to 150 microm/h) has been successfully annealed without graphitization at temperatures up to 2200 degrees C and pressures <300 torr. Crystals were annealed in a hydrogen environment by using microwave plasma techniques for...

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

authors： Meng YF,Yan CS,Lai J,Krasnicki S,Shu H,Yu T,Liang Q,Mao HK,Hemley RJ

更新日期：2008-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Analyses of amino-acid sequences of the total cell-free products programmed by the mRNA of MOPC-104E gamma light (L)-chain show that over 95% of the products have sequences of a distinct protein that correspond to the L-chain precursor. In this precursor an extra piece is coupled to the NH2-terminus of the mature L-ch...

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

authors： Burstein Y,Kantour F,Schechter I

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three components of differentiated muscle membrane, the acetylcholine receptor, acetylcholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.7; acetylcholine hydrolase), and adenylate cyclase [EC 4.6.1.1; ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing)], appear simultaneously during myogenesis in cultures of embryonic chick muscle, after the main period of ra...

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

authors： Prives JM,Paterson BM

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNA clones encoding a glucose transporter-like protein have been isolated from adult human liver and kidney cDNA libraries by cross-hybridization with the human HepG2/erythrocyte glucose transporter cDNA. Analysis of the sequence of this 524-amino acid glucose transporter-like protein indicates that it has 55.5% iden...

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

authors： Fukumoto H,Seino S,Imura H,Seino Y,Eddy RL,Fukushima Y,Byers MG,Shows TB,Bell GI

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described for the production of hybridoma cell lines secreting antibodies directed against the polyoma virus tumor antigens (T-Ags). Ten cloned lines have been established by this procedure and designated alpha Py Cl and C4, with activities against all three T-Ags; alpha Py LT1, -4 and -7, with activities ...

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

authors： Dilworth SM,Griffin BE

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyketides represent an extremely diverse class of secondary metabolites often explored for their bioactive traits. These molecules are also attractive building blocks for chemical catalysis and polymerization. However, the use of polyketides in larger scale chemistry applications is stymied by limited titers and yie...

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

authors： Markham KA,Palmer CM,Chwatko M,Wagner JM,Murray C,Vazquez S,Swaminathan A,Chakravarty I,Lynd NA,Alper HS

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A goal of regenerative medicine is to identify cardiovascular progenitors from human ES cells (hESCs) that can functionally integrate into the human heart. Previous studies to evaluate the developmental potential of candidate hESC-derived progenitors have delivered these cells into murine and porcine cardiac tissue, w...

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

authors： Ardehali R,Ali SR,Inlay MA,Abilez OJ,Chen MQ,Blauwkamp TA,Yazawa M,Gong Y,Nusse R,Drukker M,Weissman IL

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a cell-free system to study bacteriophage lambda DNA replication. Maximal DNA synthesis in vitro requires the four deoxynucleoside triphosphates, ATP, and exogenous lambda DNA. DNA synthesis requires the products of the phage O and P genes but is not inhibited by lambda repressor. The kinetics of syn...

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

authors： Shizuya H,Richardson CC

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social networks exhibit strikingly systematic patterns across a wide range of human contexts. Although genetic variation accounts for a significant portion of the variation in many complex social behaviors, the heritability of egocentric social network attributes is unknown. Here, we show that 3 of these attributes (i...

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

authors： Fowler JH,Dawes CT,Christakis NA

更新日期：2009-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The trilaminate vascular architecture provides biochemical regulation and mechanical integrity. Yet regulatory control can be regained after injury without recapitulating tertiary structure. Tissue-engineered (TE) endothelium controls repair even when placed in the perivascular space of injured vessels. It remains unc...

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

authors： Zani BG,Kojima K,Vacanti CA,Edelman ER

更新日期：2008-05-13 00:00:00