Deoxycytidine kinase and deoxyguanosine kinase of Lactobacillus acidophilus R-26 are colinear products of a single gene.

abstract：:The human T cell leukemia virus I basic leucine zipper protein (HTLV-1 HBZ) maintains chronic viral infection and promotes leukemogenesis through poorly understood mechanisms involving interactions with the KIX domain of the transcriptional coactivator CBP and its paralog p300. The KIX domain binds regulatory proteins...

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

authors： Yang K,Stanfield RL,Martinez-Yamout MA,Dyson HJ,Wilson IA,Wright PE

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A genomic clone containing two linked human pregnancy-specific beta 1-glycoprotein (PS beta G) genes has been isolated and characterized. The two genes are arranged in the same 5'----3' orientation; the 3' region (including the A2 and B-C exons) of the upstream gene, PSGGA, is linked to the 5' region (including the 5'...

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

authors： Leslie KK,Watanabe S,Lei KJ,Chou DY,Plouzek CA,Deng HC,Torres J,Chou JY

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The utilization of the isoaccepting species of leucyl-tRNA in protein synthesis has been examined in E. coli. Two minor leucyl-tRNA species, isoacceptors tRNA3Leu and tRNA4Leu, are the predominant species found bound to ribosomes during exponential growth in minimal medium. In rich medium, an increased proportion of t...

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

authors： Holmes WM,Goldman E,Miner TA,Hatfield GW

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells are essential for immune defenses against pathogens, such that viability of naïve T cells before antigen encounter is critical to preserve a polyclonal repertoire and prevent immunodeficiencies. The viability of naïve T cells before antigen recognition is ensured by IL-7, which drives expression of the prosurv...

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

authors： Miller ML,Mashayekhi M,Chen L,Zhou P,Liu X,Michelotti M,Tramontini Gunn N,Powers S,Zhu X,Evaristo C,Alegre ML,Molinero LL

更新日期：2014-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza is a lipid-enveloped, pleomorphic virus. We combine electron cryotomography and analysis of images of frozen-hydrated virions to determine the structural organization of filamentous influenza A virus. Influenza A/Udorn/72 virions are capsule-shaped or filamentous particles of highly uniform diameter. We show...

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

authors： Calder LJ,Wasilewski S,Berriman JA,Rosenthal PB

更新日期：2010-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Three enzyme reactions have been reported to catalyze the synthesis of phosphoribosylamine in eukaryotic cells. These activities are glutamine phosphoribosylpyrophosphate (P-Rib-P-P) amidotransferase [amidophosphoribosyl-transferase; 5-phosphoribosylamine: pyrophosphate phosphoribosyltransferase (glutamate-amidating) ...

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

authors： Holmes EW,King GL,Leyva A,Singer SC

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of ATP accompanying accumulation of dATP has recently been reported to occur in the erythrocytes and lymphoblasts of patients with T lymphocytic leukemia during treatment with deoxycoformycin, an inhibitor of adenosine deaminase (adenosine aminohydrolase, EC 3.5.4.4) that causes the accumulation of deoxyadenosine...

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

authors： Bagnara AS,Hershfield MS

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photonic materials with positionally ordered structure can interact strongly with light to produce brilliant structural colors. Here, we found that the nonperiodic nematic liquid crystals of nanoplates can also display structural color with only significant orientational order. Owing to the loose stacking of the nemat...

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

authors： Zeng M,King D,Huang D,Do C,Wang L,Chen M,Lei S,Lin P,Chen Y,Cheng Z

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient expression of human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) genes requires both host and viral proteins and is dependent on DNA sequences in the proviral long terminal repeats (LTRs). We have used DNase I-protection assays (footprinting) to construct a map of protein-DNA interactions over a 250-nucleotide regi...

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

authors： Nyborg JK,Dynan WS,Chen IS,Wachsman W

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Once-abundant aerial insectivores, such as the Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor), have declined steadily in the past several decades, making it imperative to understand all aspects of their ecology. Aerial insectivores forage on a mixture of aquatic and terrestrial insects that differ in fatty acid composition, speci...

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

authors： Twining CW,Brenna JT,Lawrence P,Shipley JR,Tollefson TN,Winkler DW

更新日期：2016-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Break-induced replication (BIR) refers to recombination-dependent DNA synthesis initiated from one end of a DNA double-strand break and can extend for more than 100 kb. BIR initiates by Rad51-catalyzed strand invasion, but the mechanism for DNA synthesis is not known. Here, we used BrdU incorporation to track DNA synt...

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

authors： Donnianni RA,Symington LS

更新日期：2013-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In the retina, dopamine plays a central role in neural adaptation to light. Progress in the study of dopaminergic amacrine (DA) cells has been limited because they are very few (450 in each mouse retina, 0.005% of retinal neurons). Here, we applied transgenic technology, single-cell global mRNA amplification, and cDNA...

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

authors： Gustincich S,Contini M,Gariboldi M,Puopolo M,Kadota K,Bono H,LeMieux J,Walsh P,Carninci P,Hayashizaki Y,Okazaki Y,Raviola E

更新日期：2004-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the catalytic mechanism of the recently discovered ThyX family of flavin-dependent thymidylate synthases that are required for thymidylate (deoxythymidine 5'-monophosphate) synthesis in a large number of microbial species. Using a combination of site-directed mutagenesis and biochemical measureme...

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

authors： Leduc D,Graziani S,Lipowski G,Marchand C,Le Maréchal P,Liebl U,Myllykallio H

更新日期：2004-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The human tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) gene encodes a cytokine whose activities have been implicated in many immunopathological processes, including the activation and differentiation of lymphocytes. Originally identified as a monocyte factor, our studies and those of others have demonstrated that B and T l...

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

authors： Goldfeld AE,Flemington EK,Boussiotis VA,Theodos CM,Titus RG,Strominger JL,Speck SH

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 16 (IL-16) is a chemotactic cytokine that binds to the CD4 receptor and affects the activation of T cells and replication of HIV. It is expressed as a large 67-kDa precursor protein (pro-IL-16) in lymphocytes, macrophages, and mast cells, as well as in airway epithelial cells from asthmatics after challeng...

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

authors： Bannert N,Avots A,Baier M,Serfling E,Kurth R

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Procedures are described for the isolation of conditional lethal mutants of mouse L-60T cells. The mutant lines were temperature sensitive by the following criteria: (a) colony-forming ability, (b) growth in suspension culture, and (c) rate of uptake of tritiated-thymidine. ...

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

authors： Thompson LH,Mankovitz R,Baker RM,Till JE,Siminovitch L,Whitmore GF

更新日期：1970-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In suspension cultures of mouse spleen cells, the addition of small amounts (1-100 ng) of a heterologous antigen to which the donor mice had been primed significantly increased the number of anti-sheep erythrocyte plaques appearing after stimulation with sheep erythrocytes. A similar addition to identical cultures fro...

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

authors： Rubin AS,Coons AH

更新日期：1971-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the results of a large-scale field experiment designed to test the hypothesis that group membership can increase participation and prosocial lending for an online crowdlending community, Kiva. The experiment uses variations on a simple email manipulation to encourage Kiva members to join a lending t...

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

authors： Ai W,Chen R,Chen Y,Mei Q,Phillips W

更新日期：2016-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Glaucoma is a common cause of vision loss or blindness and reduction of intraocular pressure (IOP) has been proven beneficial in a large fraction of glaucoma patients. The IOP is maintained by the trabecular meshwork (TM) and the elevation of IOP in open-angle glaucoma is associated with dysfunction and loss of the po...

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

authors： Zhu W,Gramlich OW,Laboissonniere L,Jain A,Sheffield VC,Trimarchi JM,Tucker BA,Kuehn MH

更新日期：2016-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:White matter stroke is a distinct stroke subtype, accounting for up to 25% of stroke and constituting the second leading cause of dementia. The biology of possible tissue repair after white matter stroke has not been determined. In a mouse stroke model, white matter ischemia causes focal damage and adjacent areas of a...

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

authors： Sozmen EG,Rosenzweig S,Llorente IL,DiTullio DJ,Machnicki M,Vinters HV,Havton LA,Giger RJ,Hinman JD,Carmichael ST

更新日期：2016-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative immunohistochemical analysis of the sphenopalatine ganglion in normal cats revealed that virtually all ganglion cells (98.5%) were immunoreactive to vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP). After surgical removal of this ganglion, the content of both VIP and choline acetyltransferase (acetyl-CoA:choline O...

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

authors： Lundberg JM,Anggård A,Emson P,Fahrenkrug J,Hökfelt T

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A constitutively active form of mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase (MEK1) was synthesized under control of a zinc-inducible promoter in NIH 3T3 fibroblasts. Zinc treatment of serum-starved cells activated extracellular signal-regulated protein kinases (ERKs) and induced expression of cyclin D1. Newly synthesized ...

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

authors： Cheng M,Sexl V,Sherr CJ,Roussel MF

更新日期：1998-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Domestic animals can be cloned using techniques such as embryo splitting and nuclear transfer to produce genetically identical individuals. Although embryo splitting is limited to the production of only a few identical individuals, nuclear transfer of donor nuclei into recipient oocytes, whose own nuclear DNA has been...

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

authors： Keefer CL

更新日期：2015-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A plasmid containing the rat preproinsulin I gene was entrapped in large liposomes and intravenously administered to rats. Four hours after inoculation, the livers were processed for the isolation of hepatocytes. Kupffer cells, and endothelial cells, DNA was purified, and the exogenous DNA was detected in the differen...

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

authors： Soriano P,Dijkstra J,Legrand A,Spanjer H,Londos-Gagliardi D,Roerdink F,Scherphof G,Nicolau C

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selective alteration of the cellular genome by laser microbeam irradiation has been extensively applied in cell biology. We report here the use of the third harmonic (355 nm) of an yttrium-aluminum garnet laser to facilitate the direct transfer of the neo gene into cultured human HT1080-6TG cells. The resultant tr...

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

authors： Tao W,Wilkinson J,Stanbridge EJ,Berns MW

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ca(2+) channel alpha(1A)-subunit is a voltage-gated, pore-forming membrane protein positioned at the intersection of two important lines of research: one exploring the diversity of Ca(2+) channels and their physiological roles, and the other pursuing mechanisms of ataxia, dystonia, epilepsy, and migraine. alpha(1A...

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

authors： Jun K,Piedras-Rentería ES,Smith SM,Wheeler DB,Lee SB,Lee TG,Chin H,Adams ME,Scheller RH,Tsien RW,Shin HS

更新日期：1999-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports differ as to whether reconstitution of telomerase activity alone is sufficient for immortalization of different types of human somatic cells or whether additional activities encoded by other "immortalizing" genes are also required. Here we show that ectopic expression of either the catalytic subunit of human t...

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

authors： O'Hare MJ,Bond J,Clarke C,Takeuchi Y,Atherton AJ,Berry C,Moody J,Silver AR,Davies DC,Alsop AE,Neville AM,Jat PS

更新日期：2001-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Most higher plants develop severe toxicity symptoms when grown on ammonium (NH(4)(+)) as the sole nitrogen source. Recently, NH(4)(+) toxicity has been implicated as a cause of forest decline and even species extinction. Although mechanisms underlying NH(4)(+) toxicity have been extensively sought, the primary events ...

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

authors： Britto DT,Siddiqi MY,Glass AD,Kronzucker HJ

更新日期：2001-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The gamma-aminobutyrate-synthesizing enzyme glutamate decarboxylase (GAD; L-glutamate 1-carboxy-lyase, EC 4.1.1.15) is a major target of autoantibodies associated with both early and late stages of pancreatic beta-cell destruction and development of type 1 diabetes. We have used five monoclonal anti-islet-cell antibod...

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

authors： Richter W,Shi Y,Baekkeskov S

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial barrier disruption is a major cause of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD); however, the mechanism through which epigenetic regulation modulates intestinal epithelial integrity remains largely undefined. Here we show that EZH2, the catalytic subunit of polycomb repressive complex (PRC2), is indispensable for m...

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

authors： Liu Y,Peng J,Sun T,Li N,Zhang L,Ren J,Yuan H,Kan S,Pan Q,Li X,Ding Y,Jiang M,Cong X,Tan M,Ma Y,Fu D,Cai S,Xiao Y,Wang X,Qin J

更新日期：2017-05-09 00:00:00