Binding and transcriptional activation of the promoter for the neural cell adhesion molecule by HoxC6 (Hox-3.3).

abstract：:The planarity of peptide bonds is an assumption that underlies decades of theoretical modeling of proteins. Peptide bonds strongly deviating from planarity are considered very rare features of protein structure that occur for functional reasons. Here, empirical analyses of atomic-resolution protein structures reveal t...

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

authors： Berkholz DS,Driggers CM,Shapovalov MV,Dunbrack RL Jr,Karplus PA

更新日期：2012-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the permanency of response to selection for a quantitative character in finite populations and the nature of the genetic effects that contribute to this response, we have used the covariance between ancestors and descendents within populations. Effects and variances are defined for an initial equilibrium rand...

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

authors： Cockerham CC,Tachida H

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the rice transcription factor, REB (rice endosperm bZIP) was cloned from a bacterial artificial chromosome library of rice. The cloned 6,227-bp-long Reb gene is composed of six exons and five introns and is flanked by a 1.2-kb 5' promoter and a 1.2-kb 3' terminator region. The function of the Reb gen...

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

authors： Yang D,Wu L,Hwang YS,Chen L,Huang N

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We suggested to 228 subjects in two experiments that, as children, they had had negative experiences with a fattening food. An additional 107 subjects received no such suggestion and served as controls. In Experiment 1, a minority of subjects came to believe that they had felt ill after eating strawberry ice cream as ...

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

authors： Bernstein DM,Laney C,Morris EK,Loftus EF

更新日期：2005-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymidine dinucleotide (pTpT) stimulates melanogenesis in mammalian pigment cells and intact skin, mimicking the effects of UV irradiation and UV-mimetic DNA damage. Here it is shown that, in addition to tanning, pTpT induces a second photoprotective response, enhanced repair of UV-induced DNA damage. This enhanced re...

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

authors： Eller MS,Maeda T,Magnoni C,Atwal D,Gilchrest BA

更新日期：1997-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptors (TLRs) have been shown to participate in the recognition of pathogens by the innate immune system, but it is not clear how a restricted family of receptors has the capacity to recognize the wide spectrum of TLR stimuli known to exist. We report here that two members of the TLR family, TLR2 and TLR6...

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

authors： Ozinsky A,Underhill DM,Fontenot JD,Hajjar AM,Smith KD,Wilson CB,Schroeder L,Aderem A

更新日期：2000-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A molecular model of poorly understood hydrophobic effects is heuristically developed using the methods of information theory. Because primitive hydrophobic effects can be tied to the probability of observing a molecular-sized cavity in the solvent, the probability distribution of the number of solvent centers in a ca...

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

authors： Hummer G,Garde S,García AE,Pohorille A,Pratt LR

更新日期：1996-08-20 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：:Corticosteroid hormones are critical for controlling metabolism, hydromineral balance, and the stress response in vertebrates. Although corticosteroid hormones have been well characterized in most vertebrate groups, the identity of the earliest vertebrate corticosteroid hormone has remained elusive. Here we provide ev...

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

authors： Close DA,Yun SS,McCormick SD,Wildbill AJ,Li W

更新日期：2010-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A proton NMR method is described for determining the orientation of a porphyrin within the heme pocket of a hemoprotein. The pattern of the hyperfine-shifted heme methyl resonances in low-spin ferric model compounds is demonstrated to characteristically reflect the position of a localized low-symmetry perturbation on ...

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

authors： La Mar GN,Budd DL,Viscio DB,Smith KM,Langry KC

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine viruses are the most abundant biological entities in the oceans shaping community structure and nutrient cycling. The interaction between the bloom-forming alga Emiliania huxleyi and its specific large dsDNA virus (EhV) is a major factor determining the fate of carbon in the ocean, thus serving as a key host-pa...

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

authors： Ziv C,Malitsky S,Othman A,Ben-Dor S,Wei Y,Zheng S,Aharoni A,Hornemann T,Vardi A

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The restriction endonuclease, HindIII, gives rise to three fragments in each of the three mitochondrial DNAs isolated from the established mammalian cell lines LA9 (mouse), HeLa (human), and BSC-1 (African green monkey). The restriction endonuclease, EcoRI, gives rise to three fragments in mitochondrial DNA from HeLa ...

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

authors： Brown WM,Vinograd J

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All cell functions that involve membrane deformation or a change in cell shape (e.g., endocytosis, exocytosis, cell motility, and cytokinesis) are regulated by membrane tension. While molecular contacts between the plasma membrane and the underlying actin cytoskeleton are known to make significant contributions to mem...

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

authors： Nambiar R,McConnell RE,Tyska MJ

更新日期：2009-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosomosis, or sleeping sickness, is a major disease constraint on livestock productivity in sub-Saharan Africa. To identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) controlling resistance to trypanosomosis in cattle, an experimental cross was made between trypanotolerant African N'Dama (Bos taurus) and trypanosusceptible im...

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

authors： Hanotte O,Ronin Y,Agaba M,Nilsson P,Gelhaus A,Horstmann R,Sugimoto Y,Kemp S,Gibson J,Korol A,Soller M,Teale A

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Standard economic and evolutionary models assume that humans are fundamentally selfish. On this view, any acts of prosociality--such as cooperation, giving, and other forms of altruism--result from covert attempts to avoid social injunctions against selfishness. However, even in the absence of social pressure, individ...

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

authors： Zaki J,Mitchell JP

更新日期：2011-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence had been provided that a disulfide-linked [125I]iodotyramine/poly(D-lysine) conjugate was reductively cleaved when bound nonspecifically to the surface of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells and that this cleavage was abolished by membrane-impermeant sulfhydryl blockers. The same blockers were subsequently foun...

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

authors： Mandel R,Ryser HJ,Ghani F,Wu M,Peak D

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely accepted that modern humans originated in sub-Saharan Africa approximately 150-200 thousand years ago (ka), but their route of dispersal across the currently hyperarid Sahara remains controversial. Given that the first modern humans north of the Sahara are found in the Levant approximately 120-90 ka, nort...

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

authors： Osborne AH,Vance D,Rohling EJ,Barton N,Rogerson M,Fello N

更新日期：2008-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythropoietin regulates the proliferation and differentiation of erythroid precursor cells. Its effect is mediated by the erythropoietin receptor (EPOR), a member of a large family of cytokine receptors. The EPOR gene has recently been cloned, sequenced, and characterized. As shown experimentally, its intracellular C...

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

authors： de la Chapelle A,Träskelin AL,Juvonen E

更新日期：1993-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have employed a combination of temperature-dependent UV absorption spectroscopy, circular dichroism, and batch calorimetry to characterize the binding of actinomycin D to a series of oligomeric DNA duplexes. We find the duplex [d(CGTCGACG)]2 to be unique in its ability to bind actinomycin D strongly despite the abs...

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

authors： Snyder JG,Hartman NG,D'Estantoit BL,Kennard O,Remeta DP,Breslauer KJ

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to a current "RNA first" model for the origin of life, RNA emerged in some form on early Earth to become the first biopolymer to support Darwinism here. Threose nucleic acid (TNA) and other polyelectrolytes are also considered as the possible first Darwinian biopolymer(s). This model is being developed by re...

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

authors： Kim HJ,Benner SA

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Syncytins are envelope genes of retroviral origin that have been co-opted for a role in placentation and likely contribute to the remarkable diversity of placental structures. Independent capture events have been identified in primates, rodents, lagomorphs, and carnivores, where they are involved in the formation of a...

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

authors： Cornelis G,Heidmann O,Degrelle SA,Vernochet C,Lavialle C,Letzelter C,Bernard-Stoecklin S,Hassanin A,Mulot B,Guillomot M,Hue I,Heidmann T,Dupressoir A

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The ciliary epithelium in the eye consists of pigmented epithelial cells that express the α1β1 isoform of Na,K-ATPase and nonpigmented epithelial cells that express mainly the α2β3 isoform. In principle, a Na,K-ATPase inhibitor with selectivity for α2β3 that penetrates the cornea could effectively reduce intraocular p...

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

authors： Katz A,Tal DM,Heller D,Habeck M,Ben Zeev E,Rabah B,Bar Kana Y,Marcovich AL,Karlish SJ

更新日期：2015-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological function of Glu-181 in the photoactivation process of rhodopsin is explored through spectroscopic studies of site-specific mutants. Preresonance Raman vibrational spectra of the unphotolyzed E181Q mutant are nearly identical to spectra of the native pigment, supporting the view that Glu-181 is uncharged...

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

authors： Yan EC,Kazmi MA,Ganim Z,Hou JM,Pan D,Chang BS,Sakmar TP,Mathies RA

更新日期：2003-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Throughout most of pregnancy, uterine quiescence is maintained by increased progesterone receptor (PR) transcriptional activity, whereas spontaneous labor is initiated/facilitated by a concerted series of biochemical events that activate inflammatory pathways and have a negative impact on PR function. In this study, w...

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

authors： Renthal NE,Chen CC,Williams KC,Gerard RD,Prange-Kiel J,Mendelson CR

更新日期：2010-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Prions are infectious agents which cause rapidly lethal neurodegenerative diseases in humans and animals following long, clinically silent incubation periods. They are composed of multichain assemblies of misfolded cellular prion protein. While it has long been assumed that prions are themselves neurotoxic, recent dev...

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

authors： Benilova I,Reilly M,Terry C,Wenborn A,Schmidt C,Marinho AT,Risse E,Al-Doujaily H,Wiggins De Oliveira M,Sandberg MK,Wadsworth JDF,Jat PS,Collinge J

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Although much evidence suggests that the plasma membrane of eukaryotic cells is not homogenous, the precise architecture of this important structure has not been clear. Here we use transmission electron microscopy of plasma membrane sheets and specific probes to show that most or all plasma membrane-associated protein...

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

authors： Lillemeier BF,Pfeiffer JR,Surviladze Z,Wilson BS,Davis MM

更新日期：2006-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian homologues of mammalian gamma delta and alpha beta T-cell antigen receptors, TCR1 and TCR2, have been identified with monoclonal antibodies. These TCR isotypes are associated with the avian CD3 proteins on the T-cell surface. During chick development, T-cell subpopulations bearing CD3/TCR1 or CD3/TCR2 receptor c...

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

authors： Chen CH,Sowder JT,Lahti JM,Cihak J,Lösch U,Cooper MD

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hybrid bacteriophage, P420, was constructed in vitro; it contains part of bacteriophage P4 and a 3.6-kilobase derivative of plasmid ColE1. In Escherichia coli, the plasmid-phage hybrid can exist as a stable plasmid or can be packaged into infective bacteriophage particles. Replication of P420, directed by the ColE1 ...

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

authors： Kahn M,Helinski DR

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce a quantitative framework for assessing the generation of crossovers in DNA shuffling experiments. The approach uses free energy calculations and complete sequence information to model the annealing process. Statistics obtained for the annealing events then are combined with a reassembly algorithm to infer...

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

authors： Moore GL,Maranas CD,Lutz S,Benkovic SJ

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25-(OH)2vitamin D3] analog KH1060 exerts very potent effects on cell proliferation and cell differentiation via the vitamin D receptor (VDR). However, the activities of KH1060 are not associated with an increased affinity for the VDR. We now show that increased stabilization of the VDR-...

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

authors： van den Bemd GC,Pols HA,Birkenhäger JC,van Leeuwen JP

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00