A functional peptide encoded in the Escherichia coli 23S rRNA.

abstract：:The alternative adaptive immune system of jawless vertebrates is based on different isotypes of variable lymphocyte receptors (VLRs) that are composed of leucine-rich repeats (LRRs) and expressed by distinct B- and T-like lymphocyte lineages. VLRB is expressed by B-like cells, whereas VLRA and VLRC are expressed by tw...

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

authors： Holland SJ,Gao M,Hirano M,Iyer LM,Luo M,Schorpp M,Cooper MD,Aravind L,Mariuzza RA,Boehm T

更新日期：2014-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian rhythms modulate many aspects of physiology. Knowledge of the molecular basis of these rhythms has exploded in the last 20 years. However, most of these data are from model organisms, and translation to clinical practice has been limited. Here, we present an approach to identify molecular rhythms in humans f...

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

authors： Anafi RC,Francey LJ,Hogenesch JB,Kim J

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the influence of interferon gamma (IFN-gamma) on tumorigenicity, we established constitutively IFN-gamma-producing cell lines from a malignant mouse neuroblastoma, C1300, by retroviral transfer of a mouse IFN-gamma cDNA. The gene-transferred cells generally showed an enhanced high-level expression of the ma...

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

authors： Watanabe Y,Kuribayashi K,Miyatake S,Nishihara K,Nakayama E,Taniyama T,Sakata T

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of the decanucleotide d(CGCAATTGCG)2 has been solved by a combination of molecular replacement and heavy-atom procedures and has been refined to an R factor of 20.2% at 2.7 A. It is not a fully base-paired duplex but has a central core of eight Watson-Crick base pairs flanked by unpaired terminal...

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

authors： Spink N,Nunn CM,Vojtechovsky J,Berman HM,Neidle S

更新日期：1995-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified oat phytochrome was labeled with (125)I without altering the photoreversibility or absorbance properties of the pigment. The radiolabeled phytochrome was used in experiments in vitro to quantitate the binding of the pigment to both crude and purified membrane preparations from oat tissue. After the membranes ...

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

authors： Georgevich G,Cedel TE,Roux SJ

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with chronic ulcerative colitis (UC) are at high risk for developing colorectal cancer. In this study, archival formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded colonic tissue from patients with UC who developed carcinoma (CA) or high-grade dysplasia (HGD) was examined for changes in expression of the proinflammatory and mit...

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

authors： Gillespie E,Leeman SE,Watts LA,Coukos JA,O'Brien MJ,Cerda SR,Farraye FA,Stucchi AF,Becker JM

更新日期：2011-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of oxidation state on the pH dependence of the dissolution of the Fe(4)S(4) clusters of Chromatium vinosum ferredoxin and high-potential iron protein (HIPIP) has been studied. The first-order rate constants (k(obs)) for dissolution of both the Fe(4)S(4)(S-Cys)(4) (2-) and Fe(4)S(4)(S-Cys)(4) (3-) cluster...

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

authors： Maskiewicz R,Bruice TC

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-resolution analyses of a late Holocene core from Kettle Lake in North Dakota reveal coeval fluctuations in loss-on-ignition carbonate content, percentage of grass pollen, and charcoal flux. These oscillations are indicative of climate-fuel-fire cycles that have prevailed on the Northern Great Plains (NGP) for mos...

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

authors： Brown KJ,Clark JS,Grimm EC,Donovan JJ,Mueller PG,Hansen BC,Stefanova I

更新日期：2005-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Among flowering plants, females often have little control over the genetic relatedness of pollen deposited on stigmas. Thus, postpollination processes are of primary importance for mate discrimination. The ability to screen and select among male gametes during pollen tube growth within the female tissues of the stigma...

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

authors： Williams JH Jr,Friedman WE,Arnold ML

更新日期：1999-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The retrosplenial cortex (RSC) is part of a network of interconnected cortical, hippocampal, and thalamic structures harboring spatially modulated neurons. The RSC contains head direction cells and connects to the parahippocampal region and anterior thalamus. Manipulations of the RSC can affect spatial and contextual ...

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

authors： Czajkowski R,Jayaprakash B,Wiltgen B,Rogerson T,Guzman-Karlsson MC,Barth AL,Trachtenberg JT,Silva AJ

更新日期：2014-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The L-A double-stranded RNA virus of Saccharomyces cerevisiae makes a gag-pol fusion protein by a -1 ribosomal frameshift. The pol amino acid sequence includes consensus patterns typical of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerases (EC 2.7.7.48) of (+) strand and double-stranded RNA viruses of animals and plants. We have carr...

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

authors： Ribas JC,Wickner RB

更新日期：1992-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A system is described for assembling infectious bacteriophage phi 6 nucleocapsids in vitro. Procapsids encoded by cDNA copies of genomic segment L in Escherichia coli were used to package and replicate viral RNA segments. The resulting filled particles were shown to be capable of infecting host cell spheroplasts after...

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

authors： Olkkonen VM,Gottlieb P,Strassman J,Qiao XY,Bamford DH,Mindich L

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) genetic determinant(s) responsible for tropism in human T cells or macrophages are not well defined. We studied the role of the HIV type 2 (HIV-2) nef and vpr genes in viral tropism. HIV-2 mutants, lacking either vpr or nef genes, or both vpr and nef, were obtained by site-specif...

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

authors： Hattori N,Michaels F,Fargnoli K,Marcon L,Gallo RC,Franchini G

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines and their receptors direct leukocyte migration among blood, lymph and tissues. Evidence has recently accumulated that, besides their chemotactic functions, chemokine receptors are highly versatile players that fine tune immune responses. During human T cell activation by antigen-presenting cells, the chemok...

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

authors： Contento RL,Molon B,Boularan C,Pozzan T,Manes S,Marullo S,Viola A

更新日期：2008-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of duplex DNA from varphiX174 single-stranded DNA by extracts of E. coli was previously shown to require the gene product of dna B. Using as an assay the stimulation of varphiX174 DNA-dependent synthesis in inactivated extracts of dna B temperature-sensitive cells, we purified the dna B gene product from wil...

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

authors： Wright M,Wickner S,Hurwitz J

更新日期：1973-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell fate determination depends in part on the establishment of specific transcriptional programs of gene expression. These programs result from the interpretation of the genomic cis-regulatory information by sequence-specific factors. Decoding this information in sequenced genomes is an important issue. Here, we deve...

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

authors： Rouault H,Mazouni K,Couturier L,Hakim V,Schweisguth F

更新日期：2010-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling plays a major role in dorsoventral patterning in vertebrates and in Drosophila. Remarkably, in Tribolium, a beetle with an ancestral type of insect development, early BMP/dpp exhibits differential expression along the anteroposterior axis. However, the BMP/Dpp inhibitor Sog/c...

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

authors： van der Zee M,Stockhammer O,von Levetzow C,Nunes da Fonseca R,Roth S

更新日期：2006-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-7 functions as a trophic factor during T lymphocyte development by a mechanism that is partly based on the induction of Bcl-2, which protects cells from apoptosis. Here we report a mechanism by which cytokine withdrawal activates the prodeath protein Bax. On loss of IL-7 in a dependent cell line, Bax protein transl...

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

authors： Khaled AR,Kim K,Hofmeister R,Muegge K,Durum SK

更新日期：1999-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain Escherichia coli mutants defective in phosphatidylglycerol biosynthesis accumulate two novel glycolipids, designated X and Y. Lipid X is a diacylglucosamine 1-phosphate bearing beta-hydroxymyristoyl groups at positions 2 and 3, and lipid Y has the same structure as X, except for the additional presence of a pa...

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

authors： Nishijima M,Amano F,Akamatsu Y,Akagawa K,Tokunaga T,Raetz CR

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P/Q Ca(2+) channel activity is inhibited by G protein-coupled receptor activation. Channel inhibition requires a direct Gbetagamma binding onto the pore-forming subunit, Ca(v)2.1. It is characterized by biophysical changes, including current amplitude reduction, activation kinetic slowing, and an I-V curve shift, whic...

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

authors： Sandoz G,Lopez-Gonzalez I,Grunwald D,Bichet D,Altafaj X,Weiss N,Ronjat M,Dupuis A,De Waard M

更新日期：2004-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the proclamation of Lowenstam and Weiner that crustaceans are the "champions of mineral mobilization and deposition of the animal kingdom," relatively few proteins from the two main calcification sites in these animals, i.e., the exoskeleton and the transient calcium storage organs, have been identified, seque...

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

authors： Shechter A,Glazer L,Cheled S,Mor E,Weil S,Berman A,Bentov S,Aflalo ED,Khalaila I,Sagi A

更新日期：2008-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the frequency of p53 mutations in B- and T-cell human lymphoid malignancies, including acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the major subtypes of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. p53 exons 5-9 were studied by using genomic DNA from 197 primary tumors and 27 cell lines by single-str...

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

authors： Gaidano G,Ballerini P,Gong JZ,Inghirami G,Neri A,Newcomb EW,Magrath IT,Knowles DM,Dalla-Favera R

更新日期：1991-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The high-affinity (K(m) = 3 x 10(-8) M) transport system for histidine in Salmonella typhimurium has been resolved into three components: J, K, and P. J, which is a histidine-binding protein released by osmotic shock, is specified by the hisJ gene: hisJ mutants lack the binding protein and are defective in histidine t...

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

authors： Ames GF,Lever J

更新日期：1970-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a microarray-based gene profiling analysis of Müller glia-derived retinal stem cells in light-damaged retinas from adult zebrafish, we found that 2 genes required for regeneration of fin and heart tissues in zebrafish, hspd1 (heat shock 60-kDa protein 1) and mps1 (monopolar spindle 1), were up-regulated. Expression...

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

authors： Qin Z,Barthel LK,Raymond PA

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We have tested the effect of increased ribosomal fidelity on a modified version of the programmed release factor 2 (RF2) translational frameshift. In the constructs tested, the original UGA codon at the site of the shift was replaced by either of two sense codons, UGG (tryptophan), which allows a frameshift of approxi...

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

authors： Sipley J,Goldman E

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have generated a transgenic mouse line by microinjection of a chimeric DNA fragment (KER-CAT) containing a hair-specific, murine ultra-high-sulfur keratin promoter (KER) fused to the coding region of the bacterial chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) gene. A 671-base pair (bp) stretch of the 5' promoter region w...

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

authors： McNab AR,Andrus P,Wagner TE,Buhl AE,Waldon DJ,Kawabe TT,Rea TJ,Groppi V,Vogeli G

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacteriophage T4-encoded RegB endoribonuclease is produced during the early stage of phage development and targets mostly (but not exclusively) the Shine-Dalgarno sequences of early genes. In this work, we show that the degradation of RegB-cleaved mRNAs depends on a functional T4 polynucleotide kinase/phosphatase ...

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

authors： Durand S,Richard G,Bontems F,Uzan M

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty acid compositions of phospholipids of heart, liver, kidney, aorta, and serum from rats having streptozotocin-induced diabetes were determined and compared with those of nondiabetic controls. Linoleic and dihomo-gamma-linolenic acids were increased whereas arachidonic acid was decreased in most tissues, suggestin...

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

authors： Holman RT,Johnson SB,Gerrard JM,Mauer SM,Kupcho-Sandberg S,Brown DM

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae has a complex system for switching the mating type of haploid cells, requiring the genome to have three mating-type (MAT)-like loci and a mechanism for silencing two of them. How this system originated is unknown, because the three-locus system is present throughout the family Saccharomycetace...

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

authors： Hanson SJ,Byrne KP,Wolfe KH

更新日期：2014-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recently discovered class of oncogenes, GTPase-inhibiting mutations constitutively activate alpha subunits of signal-transducing guanine nucleotide-binding proteins (G proteins). Somatic mutations in a subclass of endocrine tumors are found in the arginine-179 codon of the alpha subunit of Gi2 (alpha i2), creatin...

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

authors： Pace AM,Wong YH,Bourne HR

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00