Ferulate-5-hydroxylase from Arabidopsis thaliana defines a new family of cytochrome P450-dependent monooxygenases.

abstract：:Apoptosis has been shown to be a significant form of cell loss in many diseases. Detachment of photoreceptors from the retinal pigment epithelium, as seen in various retinal disorders, causes photoreceptor loss and subsequent vision decline. Although caspase-dependent apoptotic pathways are activated after retinal det...

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

authors： Trichonas G,Murakami Y,Thanos A,Morizane Y,Kayama M,Debouck CM,Hisatomi T,Miller JW,Vavvas DG

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:During brain maturation, the occurrence of the extracellular matrix (ECM) terminates juvenile plasticity by mediating structural stability. Interestingly, enzymatic removal of the ECM restores juvenile forms of plasticity, as for instance demonstrated by topographical reconnectivity in sensory pathways. However, to wh...

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

authors： Happel MF,Niekisch H,Castiblanco Rivera LL,Ohl FW,Deliano M,Frischknecht R

更新日期：2014-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-cell interactions organize lens fiber cells into highly ordered structures to maintain transparency. However, signals regulating such interactions have not been well characterized. We report here that ephrin-A5, a ligand of the Eph receptor tyrosine kinases, plays a key role in lens fiber cell shape and cell-cell...

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

authors： Cooper MA,Son AI,Komlos D,Sun Y,Kleiman NJ,Zhou R

更新日期：2008-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Of all the myosin filaments in muscle, the most important in terms of human health, and so far the least studied, are those in the human heart. Here we report a 3D single-particle analysis of electron micrograph images of negatively stained myosin filaments isolated from human cardiac muscle in the normal (undiseased)...

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

authors： Al-Khayat HA,Kensler RW,Squire JM,Marston SB,Morris EP

更新日期：2013-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Two high molecular weight heat shock proteins, HSP90 (Mr, 90,000) and HSP100 (Mr, 100,000), were separately purified from extracts of cultured cells of a mouse lymphoma cell line, L5178Y. Both of the HSPs exist in homodimeric form under physiological conditions. Their physicochemical properties are quite similar to ea...

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

authors： Koyasu S,Nishida E,Kadowaki T,Matsuzaki F,Iida K,Harada F,Kasuga M,Sakai H,Yahara I

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Messenger RNA from rat liver was partially purified by chromatography on cellulose on the basis of its poly(A) content. Microgram amounts of this RNA stimulate protein synthesis manyfold in a heterologous cell-free system, derived from Krebs ascites cells supplemented with reticulocyte initiation factors. The messenge...

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

authors： Schutz G,Beato M,Feigelson P

更新日期：1973-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freshwater planarian flatworms are capable of regenerating complete organisms from tiny fragments of their bodies; the basis for this regenerative prowess is an experimentally accessible stem cell population that is present in the adult planarian. The study of these organisms, classic experimental models for investiga...

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

authors： Newmark PA,Reddien PW,Cebrià F,Sánchez Alvarado A

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Brief visual experience causes rapid physiological changes in the visual cortex during early postnatal development. A possible mediator of these effects is the immediate early genes whose protein products are involved in the rapid response of neurons to transsynaptic stimulation. Here we report evidence that the level...

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

authors： Rosen KM,McCormack MA,Villa-Komaroff L,Mower GD

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant hormones abscisic acid (ABA) and gibberellic acid (GA) are important regulators of the dormancy and germination of seeds. In cereals, GA enhances the synthesis and secretion of enzymes (principally alpha-amylases) in the aleurone cells of the endosperm, which then mobilize the storage reserves that fuel germ...

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

authors： Ritchie S,Gilroy S

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Although peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma) agonists such as thiazolidinediones (TZDs) are widely used to treat type 2 diabetes, how its activation in individual tissues contributes to TZD's therapeutic action remains controversial. As TZDs are known to have receptor-independent effects, we s...

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

authors： Sugii S,Olson P,Sears DD,Saberi M,Atkins AR,Barish GD,Hong SH,Castro GL,Yin YQ,Nelson MC,Hsiao G,Greaves DR,Downes M,Yu RT,Olefsky JM,Evans RM

更新日期：2009-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The M2 protein of influenza A virus forms a transmembrane proton channel important for viral infection and replication. Amantadine blocks this channel, thus inhibiting viral replication. Elucidating the high-resolution structure of the M2 protein and its change upon amantadine binding is crucial for designing antivira...

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

authors： Cady SD,Hong M

更新日期：2008-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Sterigmatocystin (ST), a potent hepatocarcinogen, was covalently bound to calf thymus DNA by incubation in the presence of phenobarbital-induced rat liver microsomes. Acid hydrolysis of ST-modified DNA liberated a major guanine-containing adduct, present in DNA at an estimated level of 1 ST residue per 100-150 nucleot...

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

authors： Essigmann JM,Barker LJ,Fowler KW,Francisco MA,Reinhold VN,Wogan GN

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer patients and tumor-bearing mice possess serum antibodies that recognize antigens expressed by cancer cells at the time of diagnosis. After diagnosis, cancers progress to more aggressive stages, most often by acquiring new genetic changes that can give rise to new proteins, some of which are antigenic. However, ...

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

authors： Spiotto MT,Reth MA,Schreiber H

更新日期：2003-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Eradication of an invasive species can provide significant environmental, economic, and social benefits, but eradication programs often fail. Constant and careful monitoring improves the chance of success, but an invasion may seem to be in decline even when it is expanding in abundance or spatial extent. Determining w...

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

authors： Keith JM,Spring D

更新日期：2013-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The tau and gamma subunits of DNA polymerase III holoenzyme are both products of the dnaX gene. Since tau and gamma are required as stoichiometric components of the replicative complex, a mechanism must exist for the cell to coordinate their synthesis and ensure that both subunits are present in an adequate quantity a...

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

authors： Flower AM,McHenry CS

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The release of urine, or micturition, serves a fundamental physiological function and, in many species, is critical for social communication. In mice, the pattern of urine release is modulated by external and internal factors and transmitted to the spinal cord via the pontine micturition center (PMC). Here, we exploit...

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

authors： Hyun M,Taranda J,Radeljic G,Miner L,Wang W,Ochandarena N,Huang KW,Osten P,Sabatini BL

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrovirus containing the entire human platelet-derived growth factor B-chain (PDGF-B) gene was constructed in order to investigate the in vivo biological activity of its encoded growth factor. When this virus was introduced into newborn mice, it reproducibly generated fibrosarcomas at the site of inoculation. Provi...

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

authors： Pech M,Gazit A,Arnstein P,Aaronson SA

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently shown that the expression of nestin, the neural stem cell marker protein, is expressed in bulge-area stem cells of the hair follicle. We used transgenic mice with GFP expression driven by the nestin regulatory element [nestin-driven GFP (ND-GFP)]. The ND-GFP stem cells give rise to the outer-root shea...

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

authors： Amoh Y,Li L,Katsuoka K,Penman S,Hoffman RM

更新日期：2005-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Social networks exhibit strikingly systematic patterns across a wide range of human contexts. Although genetic variation accounts for a significant portion of the variation in many complex social behaviors, the heritability of egocentric social network attributes is unknown. Here, we show that 3 of these attributes (i...

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

authors： Fowler JH,Dawes CT,Christakis NA

更新日期：2009-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The nerve growth factor protein was purified over 100-fold from adult mouse salivary glands. The first step was a gel filtration on Sephadex G-100 at pH 7.5 of the aqueous gland extract. After gel filtration, most of the NGF activity was eluted in the 80,000-90,000-molecular-weight region (G-100 pool). The G-100 pool ...

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

authors： Bocchini V,Angeletti PU

更新日期：1969-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current chemotherapeutic approaches for cancer are in part limited by the inability of drugs to destroy neoplastic cells within poorly vascularized compartments of tumors. We have here systematically assessed anaerobic bacteria for their capacity to grow expansively within avascular compartments of transplanted tumors...

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

authors： Dang LH,Bettegowda C,Huso DL,Kinzler KW,Vogelstein B

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:To optimize the use of modified adenoviruses as vectors for gene delivery to the myocardium, we have characterized infection of cultured fetal and adult rat cardiac myocytes in vitro and of adult cardiac myocytes in vivo by using a replication-defective adenovirus carrying the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) r...

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

authors： Kass-Eisler A,Falck-Pedersen E,Alvira M,Rivera J,Buttrick PM,Wittenberg BA,Cipriani L,Leinwand LA

更新日期：1993-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although some important advances in the modeling of sorption and hygrothermal deformations of nanoporous materials such as hydrated cement paste, shale, coal, and some other rocks and soils have already been made, a comprehensive nanoporomechanics theory remains elusive. Here we strive to formulate it based on Gibb's ...

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

authors： Nguyen H,Rahimi-Aghdam S,Bažant ZP

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Different experimental structures of the same protein or of proteins with high sequence similarity contain many small variations. Here we construct ensembles of "high-sequence similarity Protein Data Bank" (HSP) structures and consider the extent to which such ensembles represent the structural heterogeneity of the na...

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

authors： Best RB,Lindorff-Larsen K,DePristo MA,Vendruscolo M

更新日期：2006-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:C-1027 is an enediyne antitumor antibiotic composed of four distinct moieties: an enediyne core, a deoxy aminosugar, a beta-amino acid, and a benzoxazolinate moiety. We now show that the benzoxazolinate moiety is derived from chorismate by the sequential action of two enzymes-SgcD, a 2-amino-2-deoxyisochorismate (ADIC...

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

authors： Van Lanen SG,Lin S,Shen B

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:By using titin as a model system, we have demonstrated that fluorescence quenching can be used to study protein folding at the single molecule level. The unfolded titin molecules with multiple dye molecules attached are able to fold to the native state. In the native folded state, the fluorescence from dye molecules i...

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

authors： Zhuang X,Ha T,Kim HD,Centner T,Labeit S,Chu S

更新日期：2000-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The past two decades have seen an enormous growth in the field of human brain mapping. Investigators have extensively exploited techniques such as positron emission tomography and MRI to map patterns of brain activity based on changes in cerebral hemodynamics. However, until recently, most studies have investigated eq...

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

authors： Rosen BR,Buckner RL,Dale AM

更新日期：1998-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:There is now abundant evidence to substantiate an important role of hepatitis C virus (HCV) core protein in cellular gene expression as well as in the viral cycle. Thus the subcellular localization of this protein has important implications. However, several studies have shown controversial results: the HCV core has b...

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

authors： Barba G,Harper F,Harada T,Kohara M,Goulinet S,Matsuura Y,Eder G,Schaff Z,Chapman MJ,Miyamura T,Bréchot C

更新日期：1997-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the genomic sequence at the site of insertion in 2,266 unselected P element insertion events. Estimating physical properties of the genomic DNA at these insertion sites-such as base composition, bendability, A-philicity, protein-induced deformability, and B-DNA twist-revealed that they differ significant...

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

authors： Liao GC,Rehm EJ,Rubin GM

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils are important effector cells in immunity to microorganisms, particularly bacteria. Here, we show that the process of neutrophil apoptosis is delayed in several inflammatory diseases, suggesting that this phenomenon may represent a general feature contributing to the development of neutrophilia, and, theref...

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

authors： Dibbert B,Weber M,Nikolaizik WH,Vogt P,Schöni MH,Blaser K,Simon HU

更新日期：1999-11-09 00:00:00