Specific mutations in the ligand binding domain selectively abolish the silencing function of human thyroid hormone receptor beta.

abstract：:Calpains are Ca(2+)-dependent intracellular proteases. We show here that calpain-generated natural C-terminal fragments of proteins that include G protein-coupled receptors, transmembrane ion channels, transcriptional regulators, apoptosis controllers, kinases, and phosphatases (Phe-GluN2a, Lys-Ica512, Arg-Ankrd2, Tyr...

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

authors： Piatkov KI,Oh JH,Liu Y,Varshavsky A

更新日期：2014-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The reactions catalyzed by Mo enzymes each find the product differing from the substrate by two electrons and two protons (or some multiple thereof). The coordination chemistry of Mo suggests that there is a distinct relationship between acid-base and redox properties of Mo complexes, and that a coupled electron-proto...

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

authors： Stiefel EI

更新日期：1973-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein encoded by the GAL4 gene of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae binds to DNA upstream of several genes and activates transcription. To try to understand these processes, we have undertaken a genetic analysis of GAL4. Here we report that nearly all missense mutations in GAL4, selected in vivo to lack functio...

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

authors： Johnston M,Dover J

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High molecular weight RNA (35S) isolated from avian myeloblastosis virus directs the cell-free synthesis of two prominent polypeptides of 180,000 and 76,000 molecular weight. The latter polypeptide has previously been identified as the precursor to the group-specific antigens of the virus ("gag" proteins) [Vogt, V. M....

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

authors： Paterson BM,Marciani DJ,Papas TS

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), an oncogenic herpesvirus, encodes two small RNAs (EBERs) that are expressed at high levels during latent transformation of human B lymphocytes. Here we report that a 15-kDa cellular protein called EAP (for EBER associated protein), previously shown to bind EBER1, is in fact the ribosomal prot...

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

authors： Toczyski DP,Matera AG,Ward DC,Steitz JA

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiplex assays, involving the simultaneous use of multiple circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) markers, can improve the performance of liquid biopsies so that they are highly predictive of cancer recurrence. We have developed a single-tube methylation-specific quantitative PCR assay (mqMSP) that uses 10 different methylat...

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

authors： Jin S,Zhu D,Shao F,Chen S,Guo Y,Li K,Wang Y,Ding R,Gao L,Ma W,Lu T,Li D,Zhang Z,Cai S,Liang X,Song H,Ji L,Li J,Zheng Z,Jiang F,Wu X,Luan J,Zhang H,Yang Z,Cantor CR,Xu C,Ding C

更新日期：2021-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse skeletal muscle acetylcholine receptor is regulated, at least in part, by transcriptional mechanisms. As a first step toward defining the cis- and trans-acting factors involved in acetylcholine receptor transcriptional regulation, we examined mouse muscle and fibroblast cells for the presence of DNase I-hype...

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

authors： Crowder CM,Merlie JP

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Litter size and mammary number in the mammalian order Rodentia show a significant positive correlation. Mean litter size is typically one-half the number of available mammaries, while maximum litter size approximates mammary number. Similar relationships are found in the families Muridae, Cricetidae, and Sciuridae. Th...

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

authors： Gilbert AN

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic mice have provided invaluable information about gene function and regulation. However, because of marked differences between rodents and primates, some areas of human biology such as early embryonic development, aging, and maternal-fetal interactions would be best studied in a nonhuman primate model. Here, ...

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

authors： Wolfgang MJ,Eisele SG,Browne MA,Schotzko ML,Garthwaite MA,Durning M,Ramezani A,Hawley RG,Thomson JA,Golos TG

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a physical map of the end of the long arm of the human X chromosome encompassing the region from Xq27.2 to the q telomere, inclusive of the chromosomal band Xq28. This region is of particular interest, since it contains the highest density of genes associated with genetic diseases. The map covers a total o...

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

authors： Poustka A,Dietrich A,Langenstein G,Toniolo D,Warren ST,Lehrach H

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The T-box transcription factor TBX5 plays essential roles in cardiac and limb development. Various mutations in the TBX5 gene have been identified in patients with Holt-Oram syndrome, which is characterized by congenital defects in the heart and upper extremities. In this study, we identified a WW-domain-containing tr...

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

authors： Murakami M,Nakagawa M,Olson EN,Nakagawa O

更新日期：2005-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Two deletion-substitution mutations of phage lambda, spi-113 and spi-274, are shown to remove about half of the rightward operator OR. Physiological studies show that spi-113 is still repressible. Thus, the 50 or so nucleotides of OR deleted in this mutant are not absolutely essential for repression. prm-116, which in...

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

authors： Smith GR,Eisen H,Reichardt L,Hedgepeth J

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent theory suggests that animals should switch facultatively among canonical movement modes as a complex function of internal state, landscape characteristics, motion capacity, and navigational capacity. We tested the generality of this paradigm for free-ranging elk (Cervus elaphus) over 5 orders of magnitude in ti...

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

authors： Fryxell JM,Hazell M,Börger L,Dalziel BD,Haydon DT,Morales JM,McIntosh T,Rosatte RC

更新日期：2008-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hippo pathway is an evolutionarily conserved regulator of organ growth and tumorigenesis. In Drosophila, oncogenic RasV12 cooperates with loss-of-cell polarity to promote Hippo pathway-dependent tumor growth. To identify additional factors that modulate this signaling, we performed a genetic screen utilizing the D...

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

authors： Guo X,Sun Y,Azad T,Janse van Rensburg HJ,Luo J,Yang S,Liu P,Lv Z,Zhan M,Lu L,Zhou Y,Ma X,Zhang X,Yang X,Xue L

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work explores the concept that differential wave function overlap between excited states can be engineered within a molecular chromophore. The aim is to control excited state wave function symmetries, so that symmetry matches or mismatches result in differential orbital overlap and define low-energy trajectories ...

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

authors： Oviedo PS,Baraldo LM,Cadranel A

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Although much of the brain's functional organization is genetically predetermined, it appears that some noninnate functions can come to depend on dedicated and segregated neural tissue. In this paper, we describe a series of experiments that have investigated the neural development and organization of one such noninna...

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

authors： Polk TA,Farah MJ

更新日期：1998-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins have evolved to be foldable, and yet determinants of foldability may be inapparent once the native state is reached. Insight has emerged from studies of diseases of protein misfolding, exemplified by monogenic diabetes mellitus due to mutations in proinsulin leading to endoplasmic reticulum stress and β-cell ...

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

authors： Rege NK,Liu M,Yang Y,Dhayalan B,Wickramasinghe NP,Chen YS,Rahimi L,Guo H,Haataja L,Sun J,Ismail-Beigi F,Phillips NB,Arvan P,Weiss MA

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Radioimmunoassays specific for the N and C termini of human prothymosin alpha and the N terminus of human parathymosin alpha were employed for the measurement of the levels of alpha-thymosins in human thymus, spleen, and liver during normal growth and intestine and breast in malignant growth. A differential expression...

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

authors： Tsitsiloni OE,Stiakakis J,Koutselinis A,Gogas J,Markopoulos C,Yialouris P,Bekris S,Panoussopoulos D,Kiortsis V,Voelter W

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to be synchronized by light-dark cycles is a fundamental property of circadian clocks. Although there are indications that circadian clocks are extremely light-sensitive and that they can be set by the low irradiances that occur at dawn and dusk, this has not been shown on the cellular level. Here, we demo...

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

authors： Bachleitner W,Kempinger L,Wülbeck C,Rieger D,Helfrich-Förster C

更新日期：2007-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Destruction of mitotic cyclins by ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis is required for cells to complete mitosis and enter interphase of the next cell cycle. In clam eggs, this process is catalyzed by a cyclin-selective ubiquitin carrier protein, E2-C, and the cyclosome/anaphase promoting complex (APC), a 20S particle cont...

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

authors： Townsley FM,Aristarkhov A,Beck S,Hershko A,Ruderman JV

更新日期：1997-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The BCL2 protooncogene encodes an inner mitochondrial membrane protein that blocks programmed cell death. BCL2 was isolated from the chromosomal breakpoint of follicular B-cell lymphoma. Transgenic mice that overexpress BCL2 display extended survival of resting B cells. In this study we use a monospecific anti-human B...

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

authors： Hockenbery DM,Zutter M,Hickey W,Nahm M,Korsmeyer SJ

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Three of the four deoxynucleoside kinases required for growth of Lactobacillus acidophilus R-26 exist as heterodimeric pairs specific for deoxyadenosine (dAK) and deoxycytidine (dCK) or dAK and deoxyguanosine (dGK). However, only two tandem genes, dak/dgk, are found, and are expressed only as dAK/dGK in transformed Es...

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

authors： Ma N,Ikeda S,Guo S,Fieno A,Park I,Grimme S,Ikeda T,Ives DH

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Coordinated near-threshold depolarized states in cortical and striatal neurons may contribute to form functionally segregated channels of information processing. Recent anatomical studies have identified pathways that could support spiraling interactions across corticostriatal channels, but a functional outcome of suc...

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

authors： Kasanetz F,Riquelme LA,Della-Maggiore V,O'Donnell P,Murer MG

更新日期：2008-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptically released glutamate has been identified as a signal coupling excitatory neuronal activity to increased glucose utilization. The proposed mechanism of this coupling involves glutamate uptake into astrocytes resulting in increased intracellular Na+ (Nai+) and activation of the Na+/K+-ATPase. Increased metabo...

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

authors： Chatton JY,Pellerin L,Magistretti PJ

更新日期：2003-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:To address the significance of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) replication in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), we have used reverse transcriptase-initiated PCR to measure HIV-1 mRNA expression in PBMC specimens collected from a cohort of HIV-infected individuals during a long-term prospective study. We f...

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

authors： Saksela K,Stevens C,Rubinstein P,Baltimore D

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported the hemochromatosis-like phenotype observed in our Usf2 knockout mice. In these mice, as in murine models of hemochromatosis and patients with hereditary hemochromatosis, iron accumulates in parenchymal cells (in particular, liver and pancreas), whereas the reticuloendothelial system is spared fro...

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

authors： Nicolas G,Bennoun M,Porteu A,Mativet S,Beaumont C,Grandchamp B,Sirito M,Sawadogo M,Kahn A,Vaulont S

更新日期：2002-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a simplified method for culturing fetal central nervous system cells predominantly inducing neurons that grow, differentiate, and live in vitro for as long as 10 weeks. These central nervous system cells form a confluent cell culture in which about 80% of the cells are fully differentiated neurons producing ...

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

authors： Sotelo J,Gibbs CJ Jr,Gajdusek DC,Toh BH,Wurth M

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under conditions (0.2% CO2; 1% O2) that allow high rates of photosynthesis, chlorophyll fluorescence was measured simultaneously with carbon assimilation at various light intensities in spinach (Spinacia oleracea) leaves. Using a stoichiometry of 3 ATP/CO2 and the known relationship between ATP synthesis rate and driv...

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

authors： Schönknecht G,Neimanis S,Katona E,Gerst U,Heber U

更新日期：1995-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Covalently cross-linked pilus polymers displayed on the cell surface of Gram-positive bacteria are assembled by class C sortase enzymes. These pilus-specific transpeptidases located on the bacterial membrane catalyze a two-step protein ligation reaction, first cleaving the LPXTG motif of one pilin protomer to form an ...

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

authors： Chang C,Amer BR,Osipiuk J,McConnell SA,Huang IH,Hsieh V,Fu J,Nguyen HH,Muroski J,Flores E,Ogorzalek Loo RR,Loo JA,Putkey JA,Joachimiak A,Das A,Clubb RT,Ton-That H

更新日期：2018-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The maintenance of robust blood flow to the brain is crucial to the health of brain tissue. We examined the pial network of the middle cerebral artery, which distributes blood from the cerebral arteries to the penetrating arterioles that source neocortical microvasculature, to characterize how vascular topology may su...

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

authors： Blinder P,Shih AY,Rafie C,Kleinfeld D

更新日期：2010-07-13 00:00:00