Identification of functional domains and evolution of Tc1-like transposable elements.

abstract：:Peptides from the three type I repeats of human endothelial cell thrombospondin, containing the consensus sequence-Trp-Ser-Xaa-Trp-, bind to sulfated glycoconjugates including heparin and sulfatide. The peptides are potent inhibitors for the binding of thrombospondin, laminin, or apolipoprotein E to these ligands. The...

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

authors： Guo NH,Krutzsch HC,Nègre E,Vogel T,Blake DA,Roberts DD

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological significance of DNA amplification in cancer is thought to be due to the selection of increased expression of a single or few important genes. However, systematic surveys of the copy number and expression of all genes within an amplified region of the genome have not been performed. Here we have used a c...

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

authors： Monni O,Barlund M,Mousses S,Kononen J,Sauter G,Heiskanen M,Paavola P,Avela K,Chen Y,Bittner ML,Kallioniemi A

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Necessary conditions are derived for a spherical vortex in a perfect fluid to be stationary in the case when the velocities depend on a single surface harmonic. The motion is indeterminate unless an additional condition is imposed. In the case when this condition is incompressibility, the equations are solved, yieldin...

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

authors： Pekeris CL

更新日期：1972-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultured skin fibroblasts from patients with Menkes disease, an X-linked disorder involving a defect in copper metabolism, were analyzed for copper concentration by means of atomic absorption spectrophotometry. These cultures consistently exhibited elevated copper concentrations (mean = 335.5 ng of copper per mg of pr...

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

authors： Goka TJ,Stevenson RE,Hefferan PM,Howell RR

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes a unique function of taurocholate in bile canalicular formation involving signaling through a cAMP-Epac-MEK-Rap1-LKB1-AMPK pathway. In rat hepatocyte sandwich cultures, polarization was manifested by sequential progression of bile canaliculi from small structures to a fully branched network. Tauro...

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

authors： Fu D,Wakabayashi Y,Lippincott-Schwartz J,Arias IM

更新日期：2011-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultraviolet photosensitivity of the single-stranded forms of poly(A) and poly(dA) is compared. In contrast to poly(A), poly(dA) is rather sensitive to ultraviolet irradiation. Relatively low doses of ultraviolet light lead to characteristic changes of the ultraviolet and circular dichroism spectra of poly(dA), suggest...

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

authors： Pörschke D

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heymann nephritis is an experimental autoimmune disease model for human membranous nephropathy. We have recently identified a pathogenic epitope, clone 14 (C14), responsible for formation and deposition of glomerular immune complexes that is contained within the small subunit of the Heymann nephritis antigenic complex...

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

authors： Kerjaschki D,Ullrich R,Diem K,Pietromonaco S,Orlando RA,Farquhar MG

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factor NFAT5/TonEBP, a member of the NFAT/Rel family of transcription factors, has been implicated in diverse cellular responses, including the response to osmotic stress, integrin-dependent cell migration, T cell activation, and the Ras pathway in Drosophila. To clarify the in vivo role of NFAT5, we...

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

authors： López-Rodríguez C,Antos CL,Shelton JM,Richardson JA,Lin F,Novobrantseva TI,Bronson RT,Igarashi P,Rao A,Olson EN

更新日期：2004-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that poly(dA-dT) can adopt two conformations in solution, with the relative proportions dependent on the nature and concentration of the counter ion and cationic ligands. The synthetic DNA exhibits a dinucleotide repeat conformation on addition of CsF and Me4NCl at molar concentrations, with the NMR spe...

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

authors： Patel DJ,Kozlowski SA,Suggs JW,Cox SD

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell signaling systems sense and respond to ligands that bind cell surface receptors. These systems often respond to changes in the concentration of extracellular ligand more rapidly than the ligand equilibrates with its receptor. We demonstrate, by modeling and experiment, a general "systems level" mechanism cells us...

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

authors： Ventura AC,Bush A,Vasen G,Goldín MA,Burkinshaw B,Bhattacharjee N,Folch A,Brent R,Chernomoretz A,Colman-Lerner A

更新日期：2014-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryogenesis requires the timely and coordinated activation of developmental regulators. It has been suggested that the recently discovered class of histone demethylases (UTX and JMJD3) that specifically target the repressive H3K27me3 modification play an important role in the activation of "bivalent" genes in respon...

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

authors： Welstead GG,Creyghton MP,Bilodeau S,Cheng AW,Markoulaki S,Young RA,Jaenisch R

更新日期：2012-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Four major neutralizing regions of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein were identified and characterized with a panel of 80 HIV-1 antibody-positive human sera. Levels of neutralizing antibodies against the HIV-1 strains IIIB, SF2, and RF were compared with reactivity in ELISAs against...

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

authors： Broliden PA,von Gegerfelt A,Clapham P,Rosen J,Fenyö EM,Wahren B,Broliden K

更新日期：1992-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In sexual populations, selection operates neither on the whole genome, which is repeatedly taken apart and reassembled by recombination, nor on individual alleles that are tightly linked to the chromosomal neighborhood. The resulting interference between linked alleles reduces the efficiency of selection and distorts ...

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

authors： Neher RA,Kessinger TA,Shraiman BI

更新日期：2013-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that 3-nitropropionate, an isoelectronic analogue of succinate, is a suicide inactivator of succinate dehydrogenase [succinate:(acceptor) oxidoreductase, EC 1.3.99.1] as follows. (i) When rat liver mitochondria oxidize succinate in the presence of 3-nitropropionate carbanion, the rate of O(2) consumption...

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

authors： Alston TA,Mela L,Bright HJ

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obligate intracellular pathogens such as Leishmania specifically target host phagocytes for survival and replication. Phosphoinositide 3-kinase γ (PI3Kγ), a member of the class I PI3Ks that is highly expressed by leukocytes, controls cell migration by initiating actin polymerization and cytoskeletal reorganization, wh...

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

authors： Cummings HE,Barbi J,Reville P,Oghumu S,Zorko N,Sarkar A,Keiser TL,Lu B,Rückle T,Varikuti S,Lezama-Davila C,Wewers MD,Whitacre C,Radzioch D,Rommel C,Seveau S,Satoskar AR

更新日期：2012-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous paper we described the induction by x-irradiation or radiation-induced leukemia virus-inoculation of two classes of lymphoid T-cell neoplasms: The first class, designated T-cell lymphoblastoma (TCLB), consists of growth-factor-dependent eudiploid cells that home to the spleen and give rise to splenic tum...

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

authors： Haas M,Altman A,Rothenberg E,Bogart MH,Jones OW

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe retroviral expression vectors containing cDNAs encoding part of fibronectin preceded by the signal and "pro" sequences of parathyroid hormone. The recombinant retroviruses were used to generate NIH 3T3 cell lines stably producing functionally active fragments of fibronectin. The recombinant fibronectins (d...

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

authors： Schwarzbauer JE,Mulligan RC,Hynes RO

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosyl phosphates are shown to be activated to stereospecific nucleophilic substitution reactions by precisely tailored bis-thiourea catalysts. Enhanced reactivity and scope is observed with phosphate relative to chloride leaving groups. Stronger binding (Km) to the H-bond donor and enhanced reactivity of the comple...

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

authors： Levi SM,Li Q,Rötheli AR,Jacobsen EN

更新日期：2019-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Arginine methylation has emerged as a widespread and reversible protein modification with the potential to regulate a multitude of cellular processes, but its function is poorly understood. Endolysosomes play an important role in Wnt signaling, in which glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK3) becomes sequestered inside mult...

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

authors： Albrecht LV,Ploper D,Tejeda-Muñoz N,De Robertis EM

更新日期：2018-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteasomes are the multi-subunit protease thought to play a key role in the generation of peptides presented by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules. When cells are stimulated with interferon gamma, two MHC-encoded subunits, low molecular mass polypeptide (LMP) 2 and LMP7, and the MECL1 subunit en...

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

authors： Kasahara M,Hayashi M,Tanaka K,Inoko H,Sugaya K,Ikemura T,Ishibashi T

更新日期：1996-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiostrepton (TSR), an archetypal bimacrocyclic thiopeptide antibiotic that arises from complex posttranslational modifications of a genetically encoded precursor peptide, possesses a quinaldic acid (QA) moiety within the side-ring system of a thiopeptide-characteristic framework. Focusing on selective engineering of ...

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

authors： Zheng Q,Wang S,Duan P,Liao R,Chen D,Liu W

更新日期：2016-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased understanding of the precise molecular mechanisms involved in cell survival and cell death signaling pathways offers the promise of harnessing these molecules to eliminate cancer cells without damaging normal cells. Tyrosine kinase oncoproteins promote the genesis of leukemias through both increased cell pro...

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

authors： Kurokawa M,Ito T,Yang CS,Zhao C,Macintyre AN,Rizzieri DA,Rathmell JC,Deininger MW,Reya T,Kornbluth S

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribavirin is a nucleotide analog that can be incorporated by viral polymerases, causing mutations by allowing base mismatches. It is currently used therapeutically as an antiviral drug during hepatitis C virus infections. During the amplification of poliovirus genomic RNA or hepatitis C replicons, error frequency is k...

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

authors： Pfeiffer JK,Kirkegaard K

更新日期：2003-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this study was to characterize and classify pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors based on array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH). Using aCGH, we performed karyotype analysis of 33 small cell lung cancer (SCLC) tumors, 13 SCLC cell lines, 19 bronchial carcinoids, and 9 gastrointestinal carcinoids. In con...

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

authors： Voortman J,Lee JH,Killian JK,Suuriniemi M,Wang Y,Lucchi M,Smith WI Jr,Meltzer P,Wang Y,Giaccone G

更新日期：2010-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic fluxes of s-block metals like potassium, sodium, and calcium are of broad importance in cell signaling. In contrast, the concept of mobile transition metals triggered by cell activation remains insufficiently explored, in large part because metals like copper and iron are typically studied as static cellular n...

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

authors： Dodani SC,Domaille DW,Nam CI,Miller EW,Finney LA,Vogt S,Chang CJ

更新日期：2011-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypercholesterolemia, high serum cholesterol in the form of LDL, is a major risk factor for atherosclerosis. LDL is mostly degraded in the liver after its cellular internalization with the LDL receptor (LDLR). This clathrin-mediated endocytosis depends on the protein autosomal recessive hypercholesterolemia (ARH), whi...

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

authors： Dvir H,Shah M,Girardi E,Guo L,Farquhar MG,Zajonc DM

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine the IFN-alpha/beta-independent activation of cellular transcription that constitutes an early antiviral response of cells against influenza A and B viruses, which cause widespread epidemics in humans. We show that influenza B virus induces the synthesis in human cells of several mature mRNAs encoded by gene...

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

authors： Kim MJ,Latham AG,Krug RM

更新日期：2002-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecules of keystone significance are relatively rare, yet mediate a variety of interactions between organisms. They influence the distribution and abundance of species, the transfer of energy across multiple trophic levels, and thus they play significant roles in structuring ecosystems. Despite their potential impor...

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

authors： Kicklighter CE,Kamio M,Nguyen L,Germann MW,Derby CD

更新日期：2011-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:During organogenesis, the final size of mature cell populations depends on their rates of differentiation and expansion. Because transient expression of Neurogenin3 (Neurog3) in progenitor cells in the developing pancreas initiates their differentiation to mature islet cells, we examined the role of Neurog3 in cell cy...

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

authors： Miyatsuka T,Kosaka Y,Kim H,German MS

更新日期：2011-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Short oxygen-halogen interactions have been known in organic chemistry since the 1950s and recently have been exploited in the design of supramolecular assemblies. The present survey of protein and nucleic acid structures reveals similar halogen bonds as potentially stabilizing inter- and intramolecular interactions t...

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

authors： Auffinger P,Hays FA,Westhof E,Ho PS

更新日期：2004-11-30 00:00:00