Rapid solution assays for retroviral integration reactions and their use in kinetic analyses of wild-type and mutant Rous sarcoma virus integrases.

abstract：:The thin layer of airway surface liquid (ASL) contains antimicrobial substances that kill the small numbers of bacteria that are constantly being deposited in the lungs. An increase in ASL salt concentration inhibits the activity of airway antimicrobial factors and may partially explain the pathogenesis of cystic fibr...

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

authors： Zabner J,Seiler MP,Launspach JL,Karp PH,Kearney WR,Look DC,Smith JJ,Welsh MJ

更新日期：2000-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:T4 polynucleotide ligase efficiently catalyzes the head-to-tail joining of the ribo-oligoadenylates, r-(pA)(8) and r-(pA)(10), in the presence of high molecular weight deoxypolythymidylate. The enzyme also catalyzes the joining of deoxy-oligothymidylates, e.g., d-(pT)(10), in the presence of ribopolyadenylate. The enz...

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

authors： Kleppe K,Van de Sande JH,Khorana HG

更新日期：1970-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinal dopaminergic amacrine neurons (DA neurons) play a central role in reconfiguring retinal function according to prevailing illumination conditions, yet the mechanisms by which light regulates their activity are poorly understood. We investigated the means by which sustained light responses are evoked in DA neuro...

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

authors： Zhang DQ,Wong KY,Sollars PJ,Berson DM,Pickard GE,McMahon DG

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence that interstitial telomere (TTAGGG)n-like sequences at chromosome 2 fragile sites play an important role in the somatic events that characterize the earliest phases of radiation-induced acute myeloid leukemia in the CBA/H mouse. Here we show that the highly inbred CBA/H colony unexpectedly contains f...

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

authors： Silver A,Cox R

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The CD4-8- thymocyte subset contains immature precursors for phenotypically and functionally mature CD4+8- and CD4-8+ thymocytes and peripheral T cells, as well as nonmature CD4+8+ thymocytes, most of which die in situ. The intrathymic death of most thymocytes is probably related to selective influences that ensure th...

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

authors： Guidos CJ,Weissman IL,Adkins B

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:αβ T-cell repertoire selection is mediated by peptide-MHC complexes presented by thymic epithelial or myeloid cells, and by lipid-CD1 complexes expressed by thymocytes. γδ T-cell repertoire selection, by contrast, is largely unresolved. Mice mutant for Skint-1, a unique Ig superfamily gene, do not develop canonical Vγ...

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

authors： Barbee SD,Woodward MJ,Turchinovich G,Mention JJ,Lewis JM,Boyden LM,Lifton RP,Tigelaar R,Hayday AC

更新日期：2011-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The GTPase-activating protein (GAP) has been postulated to function either as a negative regulator or as a possible target protein of Ras in mammalian cells and Xenopus oocytes. Ras must be localized in the plasma membrane of vertebrate cells to function, but GAP is localized in the cytosol. To test whether Ras functi...

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

authors： Gibbs JB,Schaber MD,Schofield TL,Scolnick EM,Sigal IS

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrointestinal infections often induce epithelial damage that must be repaired for optimal gut function. While intestinal stem cells are critical for this regeneration process [R. C. van der Wath, B. S. Gardiner, A. W. Burgess, D. W. Smith, PLoS One 8, e73204 (2013); S. Kozar et al., Cell Stem Cell 13, 626-633 (2013...

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

authors： Mileto SJ,Jardé T,Childress KO,Jensen JL,Rogers AP,Kerr G,Hutton ML,Sheedlo MJ,Bloch SC,Shupe JA,Horvay K,Flores T,Engel R,Wilkins S,McMurrick PJ,Lacy DB,Abud HE,Lyras D

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we report an example of the engineered expression of tetrameric β-galactosidase (β-gal) containing varying numbers of active monomers. Specifically, by combining wild-type and single-nucleotide polymorphism plasmids at varying ratios, tetrameric β-gal was expressed in vitro with one to four active monom...

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

authors： Li X,Jiang Y,Chong S,Walt DR

更新日期：2018-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoantibodies to glutamate decarboxylase 65 (GAD65Ab) are commonly believed to be a major characteristic for type 1 diabetes (T1D). We investigated the presence of GAD65Ab in healthy individuals (n = 238) and first-degree relatives (FDRs) of T1D patients (n = 27) who tested negative for GAD65Ab in conventional RIAs. ...

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

authors： Oak S,Gilliam LK,Landin-Olsson M,Törn C,Kockum I,Pennington CR,Rowley MJ,Christie MR,Banga JP,Hampe CS

更新日期：2008-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of epigenetic alterations in mediating effects of estrogens on memory is unknown. The present study determined whether histone acetylation and DNA methylation are critical for the potent estrogen 17beta-estradiol (E(2)) to enhance object recognition memory. We show that dorsal hippocampal E(2) infusion...

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

authors： Zhao Z,Fan L,Frick KM

更新日期：2010-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of actin stress fibers in normal and regenerating (after endothelial denudation by means of a balloon catheter) rabbit aortic endothelial cells has been studied by means of immunofluorescence with human actin autoantibodies on en face endothelial cell preparations. Our results show that: (i) under nor...

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

authors： Gabbiani G,Gabbiani F,Lombardi D,Schwartz SM

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Innervation of skeletal muscle by motor neurons occurs through the neuromuscular junction, a cholinergic synapse essential for normal muscle growth and function. Defects in nerve-muscle signaling cause a variety of neuromuscular disorders with features of ataxia, paralysis, skeletal muscle wasting, and degeneration. H...

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

authors： Anderson DM,Cannavino J,Li H,Anderson KM,Nelson BR,McAnally J,Bezprozvannaya S,Liu Y,Lin W,Liu N,Bassel-Duby R,Olson EN

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 2 (IL-2) occupies a central position in the cascade of events involved in the immune response. We were interested in determining whether IL-2 could function as an adjuvant to vaccination, to increase the immune response to vaccine immunogens. Using the National Institutes of Health test for rabies vaccine ...

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

authors： Nunberg JH,Doyle MV,York SM,York CJ

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When yeast from the early stages of meiosis are transferred from sporulation to growth medium, they can reenter the mitotic cell cycle directly. In contrast, cells from later stages of meiosis (after the initiation of the first nuclear division) will complete meiosis and sporulation despite the shift to growth medium,...

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

authors： Honigberg SM,Esposito RE

更新日期：1994-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The leading terms in the energy of a general substituted ethane are derived in explicit form as a function of the torsional angle theta, the substituent electronegativities, and their mutual overlaps. The energy is found to be the sum of all four overlaps between pairs of asymmetry orbitals, and satisfies the requisit...

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

authors： Salem L,Hoffmann R,Otto P

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A specific fraction of chromosomal DNA from both yeast and a wide variety of other eukaryotes, but not from Escherichia coli, promotes high-frequency transformation in yeast. The plasmids containing these sequences are maintained as extra-chromosomal molecules in transformed cells. These results suggest that similar o...

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

authors： Zakian VA

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used X-ray diffraction on the rhombohedral phospholipid phase to reconstruct stalk structures in different pure lipids and lipid mixtures with unprecedented resolution, enabling a quantitative analysis of geometry, as well as curvature and hydration energies. Electron density isosurfaces are used to study shap...

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

authors： Aeffner S,Reusch T,Weinhausen B,Salditt T

更新日期：2012-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A stable complex between pentaammineruthenium(III) and histidine-33 in horse heart ferricytochrome c is formed in the reaction between aquopentaammineruthenium(II) and the protein at pH 7. HPLC of the tryptic hydrolysate of the modified protein was employed to identify the pentaammineruthenium binding site. Spectrosco...

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

authors： Yocom KM,Shelton JB,Shelton JR,Schroeder WA,Worosila G,Isied SS,Bordignon E,Gray HB

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal vision requires the precise control of vascular growth to maintain corneal transparency. Here we provide evidence for a unique mechanism by which the Forkhead box transcription factor FoxC1 regulates corneal vascular development. Murine Foxc1 is essential for development of the ocular anterior segment, and in h...

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

authors： Seo S,Singh HP,Lacal PM,Sasman A,Fatima A,Liu T,Schultz KM,Losordo DW,Lehmann OJ,Kume T

更新日期：2012-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic mice have been used to address the issue of the oncogenic potential of mutant guanine nucleotide stimulatory factor (Gs) alpha subunit in the thyroid gland. The expression of the mutant Arg-201-->His Gs alpha subunit transgene has been directed to murine thyroid epithelial cells by bovine thyroglobulin prom...

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

authors： Michiels FM,Caillou B,Talbot M,Dessarps-Freichey F,Maunoury MT,Schlumberger M,Mercken L,Monier R,Feunteun J

更新日期：1994-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The Belgrade (b) rat has an autosomal recessively inherited, microcytic, hypochromic anemia associated with abnormal reticulocyte iron uptake and gastrointestinal iron absorption. The b reticulocyte defect appears to be failure of iron transport out of endosomes within the transferrin cycle. Aspects of this phenotype ...

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

authors： Fleming MD,Romano MA,Su MA,Garrick LM,Garrick MD,Andrews NC

更新日期：1998-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we sought to better understand the role of the glycoprotein quality control machinery in the assembly of MHC class I molecules with high-affinity peptides. The lectin-like chaperone calreticulin (CRT) and the thiol oxidoreductase ERp57 participate in the final step of this process as part of the peptide-...

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

authors： Wearsch PA,Peaper DR,Cresswell P

更新日期：2011-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat hepatoma cells infected with mouse mammary tumor virus contain multiple forms of unintegrated viral DNA when grown in the presence of glucocorticoids. Using the DNA transfer procedure of Southern, we have prepared restriction endonuclease fragment maps of these forms of viral DNA. The maps indicate that: (i) the m...

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

authors： Shank PR,Cohen JC,Varmus HE,Yamamoto KR,Ringold GM

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a new computer program, trilogy, for the automated discovery of sequence-structure patterns in proteins. trilogy implements a pattern discovery algorithm that begins with an exhaustive analysis of flexible three-residue patterns; a subset of these patterns are selected as seeds for an extension process in ...

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

authors： Bradley P,Kim PS,Berger B

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Solvent additives (cosolvents, osmolytes) modulate biochemical reactions if, during the course of the reaction, there is a change in preferential interactions of solvent components with the reacting system. Preferential interactions can be expressed in terms of preferential binding of the cosolvent or its preferential...

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

authors： Timasheff SN

更新日期：2002-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A 165-kilodalton (kDal) surface glycoprotein encoded by human chromosome 7 (SA-7) had been characterized by using antisera raised against human chromosome 7-containing somatic cell hybrids. We now present evidence that SA-7 is the human receptor for epidermal growth factor (EGF) and that these antisera recognize human...

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

authors： Carlin CR,Knowles BB

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the development of a macronucleus from a micronucleus after cell mating in hypotrichs all the genes (approximately 20,000) are excised from micronuclear chromosomes as individual small DNA molecules. Telomeres are added to the ends of each gene-sized molecule and each is amplified, mostly by approximately 1000-...

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

authors： Greslin AF,Prescott DM,Oka Y,Loukin SH,Chappell JC

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiangiogenic agent fumagillin (Fg) and its analog TNP-470 bind to intracellular metalloprotease methionine aminopeptidase-2 (MetAP-2) and inhibit endothelial cell growth in a p53-dependent manner. To confirm the role of MetAP-2 in endothelial cell proliferation and to validate it as a physiological target for th...

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

authors： Yeh JJ,Ju R,Brdlik CM,Zhang W,Zhang Y,Matyskiela ME,Shotwell JD,Crews CM

更新日期：2006-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection during the neonatal period commonly induces apnea episodes, and the proinflammatory cytokine IL-1beta may serve as a critical mediator between these events. To determine the mechanism by which IL-1beta depresses respiration, we examined a prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2))-dependent pathway in newborn mice and huma...

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

authors： Hofstetter AO,Saha S,Siljehav V,Jakobsson PJ,Herlenius E

更新日期：2007-06-05 00:00:00