A long-range regulatory element of Hoxc8 identified by using the pClasper vector.

abstract：:In nearly all eukaryotes, at least some individuals inherit mitochondrial and chloroplast genes from only one parent. There is no single mechanism of uniparental inheritance: organelle gene inheritance is blocked by a variety of mechanisms and at different stages of reproduction in different species. Frequent changes ...

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

authors： Birky CW Jr

更新日期：1995-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The thymidine analog fialuridine deoxy-2-fluoro-beta-D-arabinofuranosyl)-5-iodouracil (FIAU) was toxic in trials for chronic hepatitis B infection. One mechanism postulated that defective mtDNA replication was mediated through inhibition of DNA polymerase-gamma (DNA pol-gamma), by FIAU triphosphate (FIALTP) or by trip...

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

authors： Lewis W,Levine ES,Griniuviene B,Tankersley KO,Colacino JM,Sommadossi JP,Watanabe KA,Perrino FW

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The estrogen receptor-alpha (ERalpha) is a critical transcription factor that regulates epithelial cell proliferation and ductal morphogenesis during postnatal mammary gland development. Tissue recombination and transplantation studies using the first generation of ERalpha knockout (ERKO) mice suggested that this ster...

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

authors： Feng Y,Manka D,Wagner KU,Khan SA

更新日期：2007-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Synchronized beating of cilia on multiciliated cells (MCCs) generates a directional flow of mucus across epithelia. This motility requires a "9 + 2" microtubule (MT) configuration in axonemes and the unidirectional array of basal bodies of cilia on the MCCs. However, it is not fully understood what components are need...

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

authors： Robinson AM,Takahashi S,Brotslaw EJ,Ahmad A,Ferrer E,Procissi D,Richter CP,Cheatham MA,Mitchell BJ,Zheng J

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of natural killer (NK) cell function in vivo have been challenging primarily due to the lack of animal models in which NK cells are genetically and selectively deficient. Here, we describe a transgenic mouse with defective natural killing and selective deficiency in NK1.1(+) CD3(-) cells. Despite functionally ...

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

authors： Kim S,Iizuka K,Aguila HL,Weissman IL,Yokoyama WM

更新日期：2000-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:After each round of protein biosynthesis, the posttermination complex (PoTC) consisting of a ribosome, mRNA, and tRNA must be disassembled into its components for a new round of translation. Here, we show that a Saccharomyces cerevisiae model PoTC was disassembled by ATP and eukaryotic elongation factor 3 (eEF3). GTP ...

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

authors： Kurata S,Nielsen KH,Mitchell SF,Lorsch JR,Kaji A,Kaji H

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokines such as interleukin 4 (IL-4) play a key role in the regulation of immune responses, but little is known about how their multiple activities are regulated in vivo. In this report, we demonstrated that an IL-4-binding protein (IL-4BP) is constitutively present in the biological fluids of mice (serum, ascites, ...

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

authors： Fernandez-Botran R,Vitetta ES

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explore the interactions of CYT-19, a DExD/H-box protein that functions in folding of group I RNAs, with a well characterized misfolded species of the Tetrahymena ribozyme. Consistent with its function, CYT-19 accelerates refolding of the misfolded RNA to its native state. Unexpectedly, CYT-19 performs another reac...

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

authors： Tijerina P,Bhaskaran H,Russell R

更新日期：2006-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenocortical carcinomas (ACCs) are rare and highly malignant cancers associated with poor survival of patients. Currently, mitotane, a nonspecific derivative of the pesticide DDT (1,1-(dichlorobiphenyl)-2,2-dichloroethane), is used as the standard treatment, but its mechanism of action in ACCs remains elusive. Here ...

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

authors： Belavgeni A,Bornstein SR,von Mässenhausen A,Tonnus W,Stumpf J,Meyer C,Othmar E,Latk M,Kanczkowski W,Kroiss M,Hantel C,Hugo C,Fassnacht M,Ziegler CG,Schally AV,Krone NP,Linkermann A

更新日期：2019-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Sands from various geographic locations reduce N(2) from the air to NH(3) and traces of N(2)H(4) on exposure to sunlight. This N(2) photofixation occurs under sterile conditions on the surface of finely dispersed titanium minerals such as rutile, utilizing reducing equivalents generated through the photolysis of chemi...

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

authors： Schrauzer GN,Strampach N,Hui LN,Palmer MR,Salehi J

更新日期：1983-06-01 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：:PIK3CA mutations are reported to be present in approximately 25% of breast cancer (BC), particularly the estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) and HER2-overexpressing (HER2+) subtypes, making them one of the most common genetic aberrations in BC. In experimental models, these mutations have been shown to activate AKT and i...

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

authors： Loi S,Haibe-Kains B,Majjaj S,Lallemand F,Durbecq V,Larsimont D,Gonzalez-Angulo AM,Pusztai L,Symmans WF,Bardelli A,Ellis P,Tutt AN,Gillett CE,Hennessy BT,Mills GB,Phillips WA,Piccart MJ,Speed TP,McArthur GA,Sotiriou

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global climate change is expected to have broad ecological consequences for species and communities. Attempts to forecast these consequences usually assume that changes in air or water temperature will translate into equivalent changes in a species' organismal body temperature. This simple change is unlikely because a...

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

authors： Gilman SE,Wethey DS,Helmuth B

更新日期：2006-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A calix[4]arene was designed to reversibly dimerize and form an egg-shaped enclosure. Adhesive interactions in the assembly were provided by four self-associating ureas, which form a cyclic array containing 16 hydrogen bonds. The synthesis was completed in four steps from the previously described O,O',O",O"'-tetrabenz...

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

authors： Shimizu KD,Rebek J Jr

更新日期：1995-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Tau is a highly soluble protein, yet it aggregates abnormally in Alzheimer's disease. Here, we address the question of proteolytic processing of tau and the nucleation of aggregates by tau fragments. We show in neuronal cell models that fragments of the repeat domain of tau containing mutations of FTDP17 (frontotempor...

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

authors： Wang YP,Biernat J,Pickhardt M,Mandelkow E,Mandelkow EM

更新日期：2007-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood vessels and nerves often follow parallel trajectories, suggesting that distal targets use common cues that induce vascularization and innervation. Netrins are secreted by the floor plate and attract commissural axons toward the midline of the neural tube. Here, we show that Netrin-1 is also a potent vascular mit...

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

authors： Park KW,Crouse D,Lee M,Karnik SK,Sorensen LK,Murphy KJ,Kuo CJ,Li DY

更新日期：2004-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence of oligonucleotides produced by the action of bleomycin and ferrous ion on double- and single-stranded DNA has been determined. In the presence of ferrous ion, bleomycin promotes cleavage at G-T and G-C sequences, while high concentrations of ferrous ion alone result in strand scission that is not base sp...

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

authors： Takeshita M,Grollman AP,Ohtsubo E,Ohtsubo H

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the nucleotide sequences of the Klebsiella pneumoniae nifL (regulation of N2 fixation genes) and the Escherichia coli glnA (glutamine synthetase) promoters. We compared these sequences with the published sequences of three other promoters that, like the nifL and glnA promoters, are activated by the ...

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

authors： Ow DW,Sundaresan V,Rothstein DM,Brown SE,Ausubel FM

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To efficiently represent all of the possible rewards in the world, dopaminergic midbrain neurons dynamically adapt their coding range to the momentarily available rewards. Specifically, these neurons increase their activity for an outcome that is better than expected and decrease it for an outcome worse than expected,...

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

authors： Park SQ,Kahnt T,Talmi D,Rieskamp J,Dolan RJ,Heekeren HR

更新日期：2012-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Small RNAs (sRNAs) are hypothesized to contribute to hybrid vigor because they maintain genome integrity, contribute to genetic diversity, and control gene expression. We used Illumina sequencing to assess how sRNA populations vary between two maize inbred lines (B73 and Mo17) and their hybrid. We sampled sRNAs from t...

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

authors： Barber WT,Zhang W,Win H,Varala KK,Dorweiler JE,Hudson ME,Moose SP

更新日期：2012-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a ubiquitous bacterium that survives in many environments, including as an acute and chronic pathogen in humans. Substantial evidence shows that P. aeruginosa behavior is affected by its motility, and appendages known as flagella and type IV pili (TFP) are known to confer such motility. The r...

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

authors： Anyan ME,Amiri A,Harvey CW,Tierra G,Morales-Soto N,Driscoll CM,Alber MS,Shrout JD

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for assessing genomic similarity based on relative abundances of short oligonucleotides in large DNA samples is introduced. The method requires neither homologous sequences nor prior sequence alignments. The analysis centers on (i) dinucleotide (and tri- and tetra-) relative abundance extremes in genomic sequ...

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

authors： Karlin S,Ladunga I

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We explore the question of what are the best ligands for macromolecular targets. A survey of experimental data on a large number of the strongest-binding ligands indicates that the free energy of binding increases with the number of nonhydrogen atoms with an initial slope of approximately -1.5 kcal/mol (1 cal = 4.18 J...

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

authors： Kuntz ID,Chen K,Sharp KA,Kollman PA

更新日期：1999-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrin is a basal lamina molecule that directs key events in postsynaptic differentiation, most notably the aggregation of acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) on the muscle cell surface. Agrin's AChR clustering activity is regulated by alternative mRNA splicing. Agrin splice forms having inserts at two sites (y and z) in t...

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

authors： O'Toole JJ,Deyst KA,Bowe MA,Nastuk MA,McKechnie BA,Fallon JR

更新日期：1996-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4) methylation is catalyzed by the highly evolutionarily conserved multiprotein complex known as Set1/COMPASS or MLL/COMPASS-like complexes from yeast to human, respectively. Here we have reconstituted fully functional yeast Set1/COMPASS and human MLL/COMPASS-like complex in vitro and have iden...

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

authors： Takahashi YH,Westfield GH,Oleskie AN,Trievel RC,Shilatifard A,Skiniotis G

更新日期：2011-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of thyroid hormone to the thyroid hormone receptor (TR) mediates important physiological effects. However, the transcriptional effects of TR mediated by the thyroid response element (TRE) cannot explain many actions of thyroid hormone. We postulate that TR can initiate rapid, non-TRE-mediated effects in th...

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

authors： Hiroi Y,Kim HH,Ying H,Furuya F,Huang Z,Simoncini T,Noma K,Ueki K,Nguyen NH,Scanlan TS,Moskowitz MA,Cheng SY,Liao JK

更新日期：2006-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Bves is an integral membrane protein with no determined function and no homology to proteins outside of the Popdc family. It is widely expressed throughout development in myriad organisms. Here, we demonstrate an interaction between Bves and guanine nucleotide exchange factor T (GEFT), a GEF for Rho-family GTPases. Th...

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

authors： Smith TK,Hager HA,Francis R,Kilkenny DM,Lo CW,Bader DM

更新日期：2008-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty percent of the 189 tumors studied to date express DNA polymerase beta variants. One of these variants was identified in a prostate carcinoma and is altered from isoleucine to methionine at position 260, within the hydrophobic hinge region of the protein. Another variant was identified in a colon carcinoma and i...

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

authors： Sweasy JB,Lang T,Starcevic D,Sun KW,Lai CC,Dimaio D,Dalal S

更新日期：2005-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Activated transcription of the bacteriophage T4 late genes, which is coupled to concurrent DNA replication, is accomplished by an initiation complex containing the host RNA polymerase associated with two phage-encoded proteins, gp55 (the basal promoter specificity factor) and gp33 (the coactivator), as well as the DNA...

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

authors： Twist KA,Campbell EA,Deighan P,Nechaev S,Jain V,Geiduschek EP,Hochschild A,Darst SA

更新日期：2011-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A unified structure theory of icosahedral quasicrystals, combining the twinned-cubic-crystal theory and the Penrose-tiling-six-dimensional-projection theory, is described. Values of the primitive-cubic lattice constant for several quasicrystals are evaluated from x-ray and neutron diffraction data. The fact that the l...

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

authors： Pauling L

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00