Pattern of gp120 sequence divergence linked to a lack of clinical progression in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection.

abstract：:The transport of moisture in the tropics is a critical process for the global energy budget and on geologic timescales, has markedly influenced continental landscapes, migratory pathways, and biological evolution. Here we present a continuous, first-of-its-kind 1.3-My record of continental hydroclimate and lake-level ...

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

authors： Lyons RP,Scholz CA,Cohen AS,King JW,Brown ET,Ivory SJ,Johnson TC,Deino AL,Reinthal PN,McGlue MM,Blome MW

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of amyloid-beta (Aβ), which is associated with Alzheimer's disease, can be caused by excess production or insufficient clearance. Because of its β-sheet structure, fibrillar Aβ is resistant to proteolysis, which would contribute to slow degradation of Aβ plaques in vivo. Fibrillar Aβ can be internalized b...

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

authors： Solé-Domènech S,Rojas AV,Maisuradze GG,Scheraga HA,Lobel P,Maxfield FR

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The heart of the H+ conductance mechanism in the homotetrameric M2 H+ channel from influenza A is a set of four histidine side chains. Here, we show that protonation of the third of these imidazoles coincides with acid activation of this transmembrane channel and that, at physiological pH, the channel is closed by two...

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

authors： Hu J,Fu R,Nishimura K,Zhang L,Zhou HX,Busath DD,Vijayvergiya V,Cross TA

更新日期：2006-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:CCAAT displacement protein (CDP), a nuclear protein of 180-190 kDa, contains a triplicated motif, the cut domain, similar (80-90% conserved) to three repeats of 60-65 amino acids first identified in Drosophila cut, a homeo-domain protein involved in cell-fate decisions in development. Cut repeats bind DNA and exhibit ...

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

authors： Aufiero B,Neufeld EJ,Orkin SH

更新日期：1994-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultraviolet (UV)-stimulated nonconservative DNA synthesis has been observed in E. coli rendered permeable to nucleoside triphosphates by exposure to toluene. This synthesis is detected in toluenized cells in which the background of UV-independent DNA synthesis is reduced by use of dnaB mutants temperature-sensitive fo...

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

authors： Masker WE,Hanawalt PC

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction method with precise control of hydrostatic conditions, typically with helium or neon as the pressure-transmitting medium, has significantly changed our view on what happens with low-density silica phases under pressure. Coesite is a prototype material for pressure-induced...

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

authors： Liu W,Wu X,Liang Y,Liu C,Miranda CR,Scandolo S

更新日期：2017-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquitin ligase Siah2 has been shown to regulate prolyl hydroxylase 3 (PHD3) stability with concomitant effect on HIF-1alpha availability. Because HIF-1alpha is implicated in tumorigenesis and metastasis, we used SW1 mouse melanoma cells, which develop primary tumors with a propensity to metastasize, in a syngene...

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

authors： Qi J,Nakayama K,Gaitonde S,Goydos JS,Krajewski S,Eroshkin A,Bar-Sagi D,Bowtell D,Ronai Z

更新日期：2008-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared with understanding of biological shape and form, knowledge is sparse regarding what regulates growth and body size of a species. For example, the genetic and physiological causes of heterosis (hybrid vigor) have remained elusive for nearly a century. Here, we investigate gene-expression patterns underlying gr...

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

authors： Hedgecock D,Lin JZ,DeCola S,Haudenschild CD,Meyer E,Manahan DT,Bowen B

更新日期：2007-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The posterodorsal part of the medial nucleus of the amygdala (MeAp) receives its major sensory input from the accessory olfactory bulb and projects massively to the medial preoptic nucleus and other sexually dimorphic hypothalamic nuclei thought to play key roles in mediating steroid-sensitive reproductive functions. ...

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

authors： Simerly RB,Young BJ,Capozza MA,Swanson LW

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although rigorous measures of similarity for sequence and structure are now well established, the problem of defining functional relationships has been particularly daunting. Here, we present several manifold embedding techniques to compute distances between Gene Ontology (GO) functional annotations and consequently e...

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

authors： Lerman G,Shakhnovich BE

更新日期：2007-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Snakes are limbless predators, and many species use venom to help overpower relatively large, agile prey. Snake venoms are complex protein mixtures encoded by several multilocus gene families that function synergistically to cause incapacitation. To examine venom evolution, we sequenced and interrogated the genome of ...

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

authors： Vonk FJ,Casewell NR,Henkel CV,Heimberg AM,Jansen HJ,McCleary RJ,Kerkkamp HM,Vos RA,Guerreiro I,Calvete JJ,Wüster W,Woods AE,Logan JM,Harrison RA,Castoe TA,de Koning AP,Pollock DD,Yandell M,Calderon D,Renjifo C,Cur

更新日期：2013-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence that interstitial telomere (TTAGGG)n-like sequences at chromosome 2 fragile sites play an important role in the somatic events that characterize the earliest phases of radiation-induced acute myeloid leukemia in the CBA/H mouse. Here we show that the highly inbred CBA/H colony unexpectedly contains f...

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

authors： Silver A,Cox R

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity-regulated cytoskeleton-associated protein (Arc) gene is a neural immediate early gene that is involved in synaptic downscaling and is robustly induced by prolonged wakefulness in rodent brains. Converging evidence has led to the hypothesis that wakefulness potentiates, and sleep reduces, synaptic strength...

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

authors： Suzuki A,Yanagisawa M,Greene RW

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Tunas are migratory fishes in offshore habitats and top predators with unique features. Despite their ecological importance and high market values, the open-ocean lifestyle of tuna, in which effective sensing systems such as color vision are required for capture of prey, has been poorly understood. To elucidate the ge...

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

authors： Nakamura Y,Mori K,Saitoh K,Oshima K,Mekuchi M,Sugaya T,Shigenobu Y,Ojima N,Muta S,Fujiwara A,Yasuike M,Oohara I,Hirakawa H,Chowdhury VS,Kobayashi T,Nakajima K,Sano M,Wada T,Tashiro K,Ikeo K,Hattori M,Kuhara S,

更新日期：2013-07-02 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：:From what viruses the human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs) originated is an extremely controversial question. To address this question, we have analyzed nucleotide sequences of simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) and HIVs by using the techniques for understanding molecular evolution. In particular, we compared the...

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

authors： Gojobori T,Moriyama EN,Ina Y,Ikeo K,Miura T,Tsujimoto H,Hayami M,Yokoyama S

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant DNA molecule of phage lambda formed in Escherichia coli in the presence of chloramphenicol and/or rifampin can be assayed by their biological activity. recA- cells were found to be capable of forming recombinant lambda phage DNA in the presence of chloramphenicol. The relatively high recA-independent recom...

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

authors： Ikeda H,Kobayashi I

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A library of Photobacterium phosphoreum DNA was screened in lambda 2001 for the lumazine protein gene, using two degenerate 17-mer oligonucleotide probes that were deduced from a partial protein primary sequence. The lumazine protein gene was localized to a 3.4-kilobase BamHI/EcoRI fragment in one clone. The fragment ...

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

authors： O'Kane DJ,Woodward B,Lee J,Prasher DC

更新日期：1991-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although infection by primary HIV type 1 (HIV-1) isolates normally requires the functional interaction of the viral envelope protein with both CD4 and the CCR-5 coreceptor, a subset of such isolates also are able to use the distinct CCR-3 receptor. By analyzing the ability of a series of wild-type and chimeric HIV-1 e...

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

authors： Ross TM,Cullen BR

更新日期：1998-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentrations and isotopic compositions of ethane and propane in cold, deeply buried sediments from the southeastern Pacific are best explained by microbial production of these gases in situ. Reduction of acetate to ethane provides one feasible mechanism. Propane is enriched in (13)C relative to ethane. The amount is...

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

authors： Hinrichs KU,Hayes JM,Bach W,Spivack AJ,Hmelo LR,Holm NG,Johnson CG,Sylva SP

更新日期：2006-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A discussion of the range of applicability of Forster long-range energy transfer in the determination of macromolecular dimensions and conformational dynamics is given. Emphasis is laid on the effect of restrictions in the orientational freedom of donor and acceptor and on the importance of the orientational averaging...

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

authors： Dale RE,Eisinger J

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nanoscale distributions of electron density and electric fields in GaAs semiconductor devices are displayed with NMR experiments. The spectra are sensitive to the changes to the nuclear-spin Hamiltonian that are induced by perturbations delivered in synchrony with a line-narrowing pulse sequence. This POWER (pertu...

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

authors： Kempf JG,Miller MA,Weitekamp DP

更新日期：2008-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Green fluorescent protein (GFP) is widely used as a reporter gene in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. However, the fluorescence levels of wild-type GFP (wtGFP) are not bright enough for fluorescence-activated cell sorting or flow cytometry. Several GFP variants were generated that are brighter or have altered excitati...

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

authors： Anderson MT,Tjioe IM,Lorincz MC,Parks DR,Herzenberg LA,Nolan GP,Herzenberg LA

更新日期：1996-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The principal sequence feature responsible for intrinsic DNA curvature is generally assumed to be runs of adenines. However, according to the wedge model of DNA curvature, each dinucleotide step is associated with a characteristic deflection of the local helix axis. Thus, an important test of a more general view of se...

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

authors： Bolshoy A,McNamara P,Harrington RE,Trifonov EN

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta plays a pivotal role in regulation of progression of cancer through effects on tumor microenvironment as well as on cancer cells. TGF-beta inhibitors have recently been shown to prevent the growth and metastasis of certain cancers. However, there may be adverse effects caused by T...

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

authors： Kano MR,Bae Y,Iwata C,Morishita Y,Yashiro M,Oka M,Fujii T,Komuro A,Kiyono K,Kaminishi M,Hirakawa K,Ouchi Y,Nishiyama N,Kataoka K,Miyazono K

更新日期：2007-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The AAA-ATPase thyroid hormone receptor interacting protein 13 (TRIP13), jointly with the Mad2-binding protein p31(comet), promotes the inactivation of the mitotic (spindle assembly) checkpoint by disassembling the mitotic checkpoint complex (MCC). This checkpoint system ensures the accuracy of chromosome segregation ...

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

authors： Miniowitz-Shemtov S,Eytan E,Kaisari S,Sitry-Shevah D,Hershko A

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin-binding protein (OBP) from herpes simplex virus 1 is a member of the SF2 helicase superfamily and is required for the initiation of DNA synthesis from a viral origin of DNA replication (oriS). The high-affinity binding sites for OBP in oriS, boxes I and II, are separated by an A+T-rich spacer. We used the g...

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

authors： Gustafsson CM,Hammarsten O,Falkenberg M,Elias P

更新日期：1994-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the molecular basis of the voltage sensor that triggers excitation-contraction (EC) coupling, the four-domain pore subunit of the dihydropyridine receptor (DHPR) was cut in the cytoplasmic linker between domains II and III. cDNAs for the I-II domain (alpha1S 1-670) and the III-IV domain (alpha1S 701-187...

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

authors： Ahern CA,Arikkath J,Vallejo P,Gurnett CA,Powers PA,Campbell KP,Coronado R

更新日期：2001-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:High-resolution physical maps of the genomes of three Rhodobacter capsulatus strains, derived from ordered cosmid libraries, were aligned. The 1.2-Mb segment of the SB1003 genome studied here is adjacent to a 1-Mb region analyzed previously [Fonstein, M., Nikolskaya, T. & Haselkorn, H. (1995) J. Bacteriol. 177, 2368-2...

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

authors： Nikolskaya T,Fonstein M,Haselkorn R

更新日期：1995-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylinositol (3,4,5)-triphosphate (PtdInsP(3)) mediates intracellular signaling for directional sensing and pseudopod extension at the leading edge of migrating cells during chemotaxis. How this PtdInsP(3) signal is translated into remodeling of the actin cytoskeleton is poorly understood. Here, using a proteo...

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

authors： Zhang P,Wang Y,Sesaki H,Iijima M

更新日期：2010-06-29 00:00:00