Epstein-Barr virus latent membrane protein 1 is essential for B-lymphocyte growth transformation.

abstract：:The yeast fatty acid synthase (M(r) = 2.5 x 10(6)) is organized in an alpha 6 beta 6 complex. In these studies, the synthase structure has been examined by negative-stain and cryo-electron microscopy. Side and end views of the structure indicate that the molecule, shaped similar to a prolate ellipsoid, has a high-dens...

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

authors： Stoops JK,Kolodziej SJ,Schroeter JP,Bretaudiere JP,Wakil SJ

更新日期：1992-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The human rhodopsin gene is the locus for numerous alleles linked to the neurodegenerative disease retinitis pigmentosa. To facilitate the study of retinal degeneration and to test reagents designed to alter the structure and function of this gene, we have developed strains of mice whose native rhodopsin gene has been...

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

authors： Chan F,Bradley A,Wensel TG,Wilson JH

更新日期：2004-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous investigations have focused on DNA damage induced by ionizing radiation; however, photoionization threshold energies of nucleic acid components in aqueous solution are not known. Herein, data from gas-phase photoelectron experiments have been combined with results from self-consistent field and post-self-cons...

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

authors： Fernando H,Papadantonakis GA,Kim NS,LeBreton PR

更新日期：1998-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:There is no effective treatment for the cardiomyopathy of the most common autosomal recessive ataxia, Friedreich's ataxia (FA). The identification of potentially toxic mitochondrial (MIT) iron (Fe) deposits in FA suggests that Fe plays a role in its pathogenesis. This study used the muscle creatine kinase conditional ...

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

authors： Whitnall M,Suryo Rahmanto Y,Sutak R,Xu X,Becker EM,Mikhael MR,Ponka P,Richardson DR

更新日期：2008-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared private and social decision making to investigate the neural underpinnings of the effect of social comparison on risky choices. We measured brain activity using functional MRI while participants chose between two lotteries: in the private condition, they observed the outcome of the unchosen lottery, and in...

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

authors： Bault N,Joffily M,Rustichini A,Coricelli G

更新日期：2011-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The tissue-specific transcriptional coactivator OCA-B is required for antigen-dependent B cell differentiation events, including germinal center formation. However, the identity of OCA-B target genes involved in this process is unknown. This study has used large-scale cDNA arrays to monitor changes in gene expression ...

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

authors： Kim U,Siegel R,Ren X,Gunther CS,Gaasterland T,Roeder RG

更新日期：2003-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Antischizophrenic neuroleptic drugs of the diphenylbutylpiperidine class, which includes pimozide, fluspirilene, penfluridol, and clopimozide, inhibit [3H]nitrendipine binding with IC50 values of 13-30 nM. This inhibition involves receptors for the verapamil/prenylamine class of calcium channel antagonists. These diph...

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

authors： Gould RJ,Murphy KM,Reynolds IJ,Snyder SH

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of the murine leukemia viruses is strongly suppressed in mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells. Proviral DNAs are formed normally but are then silenced by a large complex bound to DNA by the ES cell-specific zinc-finger protein ZFP809. We show here that ZFP809 expression is not regulated by transcription but rat...

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

authors： Wang C,Goff SP

更新日期：2017-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The bottom-up design of protein-based signaling networks is a key goal of synthetic biology; yet, it remains elusive due to our inability to tailor-make signal transducers and receptors that can be readily compiled into defined signaling networks. Here, we report a generic approach for the construction of protein-base...

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

authors： Stein V,Alexandrov K

更新日期：2014-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Human plasma has been shown to contain an apolipoprotein that mediates the transport of cholesteryl ester from high density lipoprotein (HDL) to very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) or low density lipoprotein (LDL). This activity, confined to the density greater than 1.063 g/ml interval, has been isolated from HDL and ...

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

authors： Chajek T,Fielding CJ

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a form of amnesia, which we have called visual memory-deficit amnesia, that is caused by damage to areas of the visual system that store visual information. Because it is caused by a deficit in access to stored visual material and not by an impaired ability to encode or retrieve new material, it has the ot...

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

authors： Rubin DC,Greenberg DL

更新日期：1998-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Melittin messenger RNA from queen bee venom glands has been translated in a cell-free system from wheat germ. A product larger than promelittin is formed which has the carboxy-terminal sequence-Gln-Gln-GlyCOOH. Melittin and promelittin from venom glands terminate in -Gln-GlnCONH2. The possible role of the extra glycin...

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

authors： Suchanek G,Kreil G

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Puf proteins bind RNA sequence specifically and regulate translation and stability of target mRNAs. A "code" for RNA recognition has been deduced from crystal structures of the Puf protein, human Pumilio1, where each of eight repeats binds an RNA base via a combination of three side chains at conserved positions. Here...

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

authors： Cheong CG,Hall TM

更新日期：2006-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The long QT syndrome (LQTS) is a heritable disorder that predisposes to sudden cardiac death. LQTS is caused by mutations in ion channel genes including HERG and KCNE1, but the precise mechanisms remain unclear. To clarify this situation we injected adenoviral vectors expressing wild-type or LQT mutants of HERG and KC...

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

authors： Hoppe UC,Marbán E,Johns DC

更新日期：2001-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington disease stems from a mutation of the protein huntingtin and is characterized by selective loss of discrete neuronal populations in the brain. Despite a massive loss of neurons in the corpus striatum, NO-generating neurons are intact. We recently identified a brain-specific protein that associates with hunti...

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

authors： Li XJ,Sharp AH,Li SH,Dawson TM,Snyder SH,Ross CA

更新日期：1996-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Quinate:NAD(+) 3-oxidoreductase (EC 1.1.1.24) from carrot cell suspension cultures has previously been shown to be activated by phosphorylation and inactivated by dephosphorylation. Here it is shown that the reactivation of the inactivated quinate:NAD(+) oxidoreductase is an enzyme-mediated process that requires ATP a...

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

authors： Ranjeva R,Refeno G,Boudet AM,Marmé D

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The labeled inorganic phosphate formed by enzymatic hydrolysis of [gamma-18O]ATP in normal water was derivatized to trimethyl phosphate and analyzed for the proportions of [18O3]Pi, [18O2]Pi, [18O1]Pi, and [18O0]Pi. The proportions observed were correlated with the kinetics of intermediate exchange by using a kinetic ...

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

authors： Midelfort CF

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is a nonreceptor tyrosine kinase involved in development and human disease, including cancer. It is currently thought that the four-point one, ezrin, radixin, moesin (FERM)-kinase domain linker, which contains autophosphorylation site tyrosine (Y) 397, is not required for in vivo FAK functi...

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

authors： Heim JB,Squirewell EJ,Neu A,Zocher G,Sominidi-Damodaran S,Wyles SP,Nikolova E,Behrendt N,Saunte DM,Lock-Andersen J,Gaonkar KS,Yan H,Sarkaria JN,Krendel M,van Deursen J,Sprangers R,Stehle T,Böttcher RT,Lee JH,Ordog T

更新日期：2017-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Habituation is a form of simple memory that suppresses neural activity in response to repeated, neutral stimuli. This process is critical in helping organisms guide attention toward the most salient and novel features in the environment. Here, we follow known circuit mechanisms in the fruit fly olfactory system to der...

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

authors： Shen Y,Dasgupta S,Navlakha S

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Priming of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) by dendritic cells (DCs) is crucial for elimination of pathogens and malignant cells. To activate CTLs, DCs present antigenic peptide-complexed MHC class I molecules (MHC-I) that will be recognized by the CTLs with T cell receptors and CD8 molecules. Here we show that paired I...

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

authors： Endo S,Sakamoto Y,Kobayashi E,Nakamura A,Takai T

更新日期：2008-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:PKC eta is expressed predominantly in the epithelial tissues; however, its role in the regulation of epithelial tight junctions (TJs) is unknown. We present evidence that PKC eta phosphorylates occludin on threonine residues (T403 and T404) and plays a crucial role in the assembly and/or maintenance of TJs in Caco-2 a...

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

authors： Suzuki T,Elias BC,Seth A,Shen L,Turner JR,Giorgianni F,Desiderio D,Guntaka R,Rao R

更新日期：2009-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:An effective vaccine that can protect against HIV infection does not exist. A major reason why a vaccine is not available is the high mutability of the virus, which enables it to evolve mutations that can evade human immune responses. This challenge is exacerbated by the ability of the virus to evolve compensatory mut...

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

authors： Murakowski DK,Barton JP,Peter L,Chandrashekar A,Bondzie E,Gao A,Barouch DH,Chakraborty AK

更新日期：2021-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal as well as Rous sarcoma virus-infected chicken pectoral and chicken embryo fibroblasts proliferate actively in a plasma containing medium of physiological ion concentrations (Ca2+, 1.2 mM; Mg2+, 0.7 mM). Reduction of medium calcium and magnesium concentrations is necessary to achieve selective quiescence of nor...

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

authors： Balk SD

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A volcanic catastrophe even more devastating than the famous anno Domini 79 Pompeii eruption occurred during the Old Bronze Age at Vesuvius. The 3780-yr-B.P. Avellino plinian eruption produced an early violent pumice fallout and a late pyroclastic surge sequence that covered the volcano surroundings as far as 25 km aw...

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

authors： Mastrolorenzo G,Petrone P,Pappalardo L,Sheridan MF

更新日期：2006-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We have selected from a mixture of random polynucleotides an RNA that is able to replicate in the presence of the DNA-dependent RNA polymerase of Escherichia coli, provided the medium contains Mn(2+) and ITP, in addition to ATP, CTP, and UTP. The RNA consists of a chain of about 125 (+/-25) nucleotides and appears to ...

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

authors： Biebricher CK,Orgel LE

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The delta-subspecies of protein kinase C (delta PKC) was purified to near homogeneity from the Triton X-100 extract of the rat brain particulate fraction by successive chromatographies on S-Sepharose fast flow, phenyl 5PW, heparin 5PW, hydroxyapatite, and Mono Q columns. The purified enzyme was a doublet with molecula...

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

authors： Ogita K,Miyamoto S,Yamaguchi K,Koide H,Fujisawa N,Kikkawa U,Sahara S,Fukami Y,Nishizuka Y

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linear growth delay (stunting) affects roughly 155 million children under the age of 5 years worldwide. Treatment has been limited by a lack of understanding of the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms. Stunting is most likely associated with changes in the microbial community of the small intestine, a compartment...

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

authors： Vonaesch P,Morien E,Andrianonimiadana L,Sanke H,Mbecko JR,Huus KE,Naharimanananirina T,Gondje BP,Nigatoloum SN,Vondo SS,Kaleb Kandou JE,Randremanana R,Rakotondrainipiana M,Mazel F,Djorie SG,Gody JC,Finlay BB,Rubbo PA,

更新日期：2018-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of the p53 pathway represents the most common molecular defect of human cancer. But in the setting of melanoma, a highly aggressive and invariably fatal malignancy in its advanced disseminated form, mutation/deletion of p53 is relatively rare, whereas its positive regulator ARF is often lost. Here, we sho...

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

authors： Ha L,Ichikawa T,Anver M,Dickins R,Lowe S,Sharpless NE,Krimpenfort P,Depinho RA,Bennett DC,Sviderskaya EV,Merlino G

更新日期：2007-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Many methods have been developed to search for homologous members of a protein family in databases, and the reliability of results and conclusions may be compromised if only one method is used, neglecting the others. Here we introduce a general scheme for combining such methods. Based on this scheme, we implemented a ...

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

authors： Alam I,Dress A,Rehmsmeier M,Fuellen G

更新日期：2004-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The clonal rat pituitary cell line GH4C1 expresses the genes for several voltage-dependent potassium channels including Kv1.5 and Kv1.4. Dexamethasone, a glucocorticoid agonist, induces a slowly inactivating potassium current in these cells but does not alter the amplitude of a rapidly inactivating component of potass...

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

authors： Chung S,Saal DB,Kaczmarek LK

更新日期：1995-06-20 00:00:00