Yeast GAL11 protein is a distinctive type transcription factor that enhances basal transcription in vitro.

abstract：:We show that a 2-step phospho/dephosphorylation cycle for the alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole proprionic acid receptor (AMPAR), as used in in vivo learning experiments to assess long-term potentiation (LTP) induction and establishment, exhibits bistability for a wide range of parameters, consistent with val...

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

authors： Castellani GC,Bazzani A,Cooper LN

更新日期：2009-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We study static and dynamical properties that distinguish 2D crystals constrained to lie on a curved substrate from their flat-space counterparts. A generic mechanism of dislocation unbinding in the presence of varying Gaussian curvature is presented in the context of a model surface amenable to full analytical treatm...

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

authors： Vitelli V,Lucks JB,Nelson DR

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonsyndromic clefting of the lip and palate in humans has a highly complex etiology, with both multiple genetic loci and exposure to teratogens influencing susceptibility. Previous studies using mouse models have examined only very small portions of the genome. Here we report the findings of a genome-wide search for s...

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

authors： Diehl SR,Erickson RP

更新日期：1997-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites are common DNA lesions that arise from spontaneous depurination or by base excision repair (BER) of modified bases. A biotin-containing aldehyde-reactive probe (ARP) [Kubo, K., Ide, H., Wallace, S. S. & Kow, Y. W. (1992) Biochemistry 31, 3703-3708] is used to measure AP sites in living...

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

authors： Atamna H,Cheung I,Ames BN

更新日期：2000-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The livers of insulin-resistant, diabetic mice manifest selective insulin resistance, suggesting a bifurcation in the insulin signaling pathway: Insulin loses its ability to block glucose production (i.e., it fails to suppress PEPCK and other genes of gluconeogenesis), yet it retains its ability to stimulate fatty aci...

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

authors： Li S,Brown MS,Goldstein JL

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitatory amino acid transporters (EAATs) buffer and remove synaptically released L-glutamate and maintain its concentrations below neurotoxic levels. EAATs also mediate a thermodynamically uncoupled substrate-gated anion conductance that may modulate cell excitability. Here, we demonstrate that modification of a cys...

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

authors： Seal RP,Shigeri Y,Eliasof S,Leighton BH,Amara SG

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Both 2-lysophosphatidylcholine and cis-unsaturated fatty acids were previously shown to intensify agonist-induced cellular responses by enhancing the diacylglycerol-dependent activation of protein kinase C. Consistent with these observations, extracellular, secretory group II phospholipase A2, when added directly to h...

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

authors： Asaoka Y,Yoshida K,Sasaki Y,Nishizuka Y,Murakami M,Kudo I,Inoue K

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A specific high-affinity receptor for leukotriene C4 (LTC4) has been identified on segments of longitudinal smooth muscle from guinea pig ileum, in disrupted cells obtained from the ileal segments, and in subcellular fractions enriched for mitochondrial membranes and plasma membranes, respectively. Specific [3H]LTC4 b...

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

authors： Krilis S,Lewis RA,Corey EJ,Austen KF

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are multidomain proteins responsible for the attachment of specific amino acids to their tRNA substrates. Prolyl-tRNA synthetases (ProRSs) are notable due to their particularly diverse architectures through evolution. For example, Saccharomyces cerevisiae ProRS possesses an N-terminal extens...

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

authors： SternJohn J,Hati S,Siliciano PG,Musier-Forsyth K

更新日期：2007-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:When Sertoli cells of the seminiferous epithelium in the testis were cultured on Matrigel (a reconstituted basement membrane), laminin, or one of the biologically active laminin-derived peptides (YIGSR, SIKVAV, or RGD), they exhibited dramatic changes in morphology accompanied by changes in protein secretion and gene ...

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

authors： Papadopoulos V,Dym M

更新日期：1994-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinesin-1 is a molecular motor protein that transports cargo along microtubules. Inside cells, the vast majority of kinesin-1 is regulated to conserve ATP and to ensure its proper intracellular distribution and coordination with other molecular motors. Regulated kinesin-1 folds in half at a hinge in its coiled-coil st...

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

authors： Dietrich KA,Sindelar CV,Brewer PD,Downing KH,Cremo CR,Rice SE

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein that specifically binds leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) has been isolated from normal mouse serum by using four successive fractionation steps: chromatography on a LIF affinity matrix, anion-exchange chromatography, size-exclusion chromatography, and preparative native gel electrophoresis. The purified LIF-...

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

authors： Layton MJ,Cross BA,Metcalf D,Ward LD,Simpson RJ,Nicola NA

更新日期：1992-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemokine CXC ligand 8 (CXCL8)/IL-8 and related agonists recruit and activate polymorphonuclear cells by binding the CXC chemokine receptor 1 (CXCR1) and CXCR2. Here we characterize the unique mode of action of a small-molecule inhibitor (Repertaxin) of CXCR1 and CXCR2. Structural and biochemical data are consiste...

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

authors： Bertini R,Allegretti M,Bizzarri C,Moriconi A,Locati M,Zampella G,Cervellera MN,Di Cioccio V,Cesta MC,Galliera E,Martinez FO,Di Bitondo R,Troiani G,Sabbatini V,D'Anniballe G,Anacardio R,Cutrin JC,Cavalieri B,Mainiero F

更新日期：2004-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice carrying mutations in either the dominant white-spotting (W) or Steel (Sl) loci exhibit deficits in melanogenesis, gametogenesis, and hematopoiesis. W encodes the Kit receptor tyrosine kinase, while Sl encodes the Kit ligand, Steel factor, and the receptor-ligand pair are contiguously expressed at anatomical site...

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

authors： Motro B,Wojtowicz JM,Bernstein A,van der Kooy D

更新日期：1996-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A special methionine tRNA (tRNAi) is universally required to initiate translation. Amongst species a tRNAi structural conservation is most apparent in the anticodon and T arms of the molecule but extends into the variable loop and the 3' strand of the D stem. This suggested that they could share a similar ancestral or...

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

authors： Ganoza MC,Marliere P,Kofoid EC,Louis BG

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysregulation of signaling pathways in multiple sclerosis (MS) can be analyzed by phosphoproteomics in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). We performed in vitro kinetic assays on PBMCs in 195 MS patients and 60 matched controls and quantified the phosphorylation of 17 kinases using xMAP assays. Phosphoprotein ...

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

authors： Kotelnikova E,Kiani NA,Messinis D,Pertsovskaya I,Pliaka V,Bernardo-Faura M,Rinas M,Vila G,Zubizarreta I,Pulido-Valdeolivas I,Sakellaropoulos T,Faigle W,Silberberg G,Masso M,Stridh P,Behrens J,Olsson T,Martin R,Paul F

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogens control many physiological and behavioral processes, some of which are connected to reproduction. These include sexual and other social behaviors. Here we implicate four gene products in a micronet required for mammalian social recognition, through which an individual learns to recognize other individuals. F...

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

authors： Choleris E,Gustafsson JA,Korach KS,Muglia LJ,Pfaff DW,Ogawa S

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocyte-elevated gene-1 (AEG-1) expression is increased in multiple cancers and plays a central role in Ha-ras-mediated oncogenesis through the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt signaling pathway. Additionally, overexpression of AEG-1 protects primary and transformed human and rat cells from serum starvation-...

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

authors： Emdad L,Lee SG,Su ZZ,Jeon HY,Boukerche H,Sarkar D,Fisher PB

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The fact that animal introns are not spliced out in plants suggests that recognition of pre-mRNA splice sites differs between the two kingdoms. In plants, little is known about proteins required for splicing, as no plant in vitro splicing system is available. Several essential splicing factors from animals, such as SF...

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

authors： Lopato S,Mayeda A,Krainer AR,Barta A

更新日期：1996-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Different experimental structures of the same protein or of proteins with high sequence similarity contain many small variations. Here we construct ensembles of "high-sequence similarity Protein Data Bank" (HSP) structures and consider the extent to which such ensembles represent the structural heterogeneity of the na...

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

authors： Best RB,Lindorff-Larsen K,DePristo MA,Vendruscolo M

更新日期：2006-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfactory transduction is thought to take place in the outer dendritic membrane of insect olfactory receptor neurons. Here we show that the outer dendritic plasma membrane of silkmoth olfactory receptor neurons seems to be exclusively equipped with a specific ion channel activated by low concentrations of the species-...

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

authors： Zufall F,Hatt H

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We described previously a mutation in maize, hcf106, caused by the insertion of a Mu1 transposon. When the Mu transposon system is in an active phase, hcf106 conditions a nonphotosynthetic, pale green phenotype. However, when the Mu system is inactive (a state correlated with hypermethylation of Mu elements), the plan...

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

authors： Barkan A,Martienssen RA

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive potentials of carcinomas greatly contribute to their metastasis, which is a major threat in most cancers. We have recently shown that Arf6 plays a pivotal role in breast cancer invasive activities and identified AMAP1 as an effector of GTP-Arf6 in invasion. Expression of AMAP1 correlates well with invasive ph...

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

authors： Hashimoto S,Hirose M,Hashimoto A,Morishige M,Yamada A,Hosaka H,Akagi K,Ogawa E,Oneyama C,Agatsuma T,Okada M,Kobayashi H,Wada H,Nakano H,Ikegami T,Nakagawa A,Sabe H

更新日期：2006-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor XI (plasma thromboplastin antecedent) deficiency is a blood coagulation abnormality occurring in high frequency in Ashkenazi Jews. Three independent point mutations that result in a blood coagulation abnormality have been identified in the factor XI gene of six unrelated Ashkenazi patients. These mutations eith...

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

authors： Asakai R,Chung DW,Ratnoff OD,Davie EW

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoprecipitation followed by mass spectrometry (IP/MS) has recently emerged as a preferred method in the analysis of protein complex components and cellular protein networks. Targeting endogenous protein complexes of higher eukaryotes, particularly in large-scale efforts, has been challenging due to cellular hetero...

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

authors： Malovannaya A,Li Y,Bulynko Y,Jung SY,Wang Y,Lanz RB,O'Malley BW,Qin J

更新日期：2010-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Although melanomas with mutant v-Raf murine sarcoma viral oncogene homolog B1 (BRAF) can now be effectively targeted, there is no molecular target for most melanomas expressing wild-type BRAF. Here, we show that the activation of Pleckstrin homology domain-interacting protein (PHIP), promotes melanoma metastasis, can ...

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

authors： De Semir D,Nosrati M,Bezrookove V,Dar AA,Federman S,Bienvenu G,Venna S,Rangel J,Climent J,Meyer Tamgüney TM,Thummala S,Tong S,Leong SP,Haqq C,Billings P,Miller JR 3rd,Sagebiel RW,Debs R,Kashani-Sabet M

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During response of budding yeast to peptide mating pheromone, the cell becomes markedly polarized and MAPK scaffold protein Ste5 localizes to the resulting projection (shmoo tip). We demonstrated before that this recruitment is essential for sustained MAPK signaling and requires interaction of a pleckstrin homology (P...

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

authors： Garrenton LS,Stefan CJ,McMurray MA,Emr SD,Thorner J

更新日期：2010-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine endothelial cells are readily transformed in a single step by the polyomavirus oncogene encoding middle-sized tumor antigen. These cells (bEND.3) form tumors (hemangiomas) in mice which are lethal in newborn animals. The bEND.3 cells rapidly proliferate in culture and express little or no thrombospondin 1 (TS1)...

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

authors： Sheibani N,Frazier WA

更新日期：1995-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Dense granules of platelets contain a high content of diadenosine 5',5'''-P1,P4-tetraphosphate (Ap4A). We have previously demonstrated an antithrombotic effect of this compound in a live rabbit model. In the present study we find that certain synthetic Ap4A analogues are superior to Ap4A in inhibiting ADP-induced aggr...

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

authors： Zamecnik PC,Kim B,Gao MJ,Taylor G,Blackburn GM

更新日期：1992-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In a coupled system consisting of RNA polymerase and DNA polymerase I of Escherichia coli, the four deoxyribo- and the four ribonucleoside triphosphates, and DNA of bacteriophage f1 as template, DNA synthesis depends on the concomitant synthesis of RNA. Over a wide range of concentrations of the two polymerases, RNA s...

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

authors： Karkas JD

更新日期：1972-08-01 00:00:00