Ocular cicatricial pemphigoid antigen: partial sequence and biochemical characterization.

abstract：:The second structure of a eukaryotic RNA polymerase II so far determined, that of the enzyme from the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, is reported here. Comparison with the previous structure of the enzyme from the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveals differences in regions implicated in start site s...

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

authors： Spåhr H,Calero G,Bushnell DA,Kornberg RD

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutant forms of the BRCA2 gene contribute significantly to hereditary breast cancer. Isolation of the normal and mutant forms of the BRCA2 gene with its natural promoter would greatly facilitate analysis of the gene and its contribution to breast cancer. We have accomplished the direct isolation of the 90-kb gene from...

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

authors： Larionov V,Kouprina N,Solomon G,Barrett JC,Resnick MA

更新日期：1997-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/AKT signaling pathway is a frequent occurrence in human cancers and a major promoter of chemotherapeutic resistance. Inhibition of one downstream target in this pathway, mTORC1, has shown potential to improve chemosensitivity. However, the mechanisms and genetic m...

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

authors： Mills JR,Hippo Y,Robert F,Chen SM,Malina A,Lin CJ,Trojahn U,Wendel HG,Charest A,Bronson RT,Kogan SC,Nadon R,Housman DE,Lowe SW,Pelletier J

更新日期：2008-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis R2c is the prototype for a recently discovered group of ribonucleotide reductase R2 proteins that use a heterodinuclear Mn/Fe redox cofactor for radical generation and storage. Here, we show that the Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein Rv0233, an R2 homologue and a potential virulence factor, cont...

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

authors： Andersson CS,Högbom M

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-gated Na(+) channels are composed of pore-forming alpha and auxiliary beta subunits. The majority of Na(+) channels in the heart contain tetrodotoxin (TTX)-insensitive Na(v)1.5 alpha subunits, but TTX-sensitive brain-type Na(+) channel alpha subunits are present and functionally important in the transverse tub...

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

authors： Maier SK,Westenbroek RE,Yamanushi TT,Dobrzynski H,Boyett MR,Catterall WA,Scheuer T

更新日期：2003-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The myocardin family proteins (myocardin, MRTF-A, and MRTF-B) are serum response factor (SRF) cofactors and potent transcription activators. Gene-ablation studies have indicated important developmental functions for myocardin family proteins primarily in regulation of cardiac and smooth muscle development. Using Xenop...

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

authors： Meadows SM,Warkman AS,Salanga MC,Small EM,Krieg PA

更新日期：2008-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing tools for investigating the cellular activity of glycans will help to delineate the molecular basis for aberrant glycosylation in pathological processes such as cancer. Metabolic oligosaccharide engineering, which inserts sugar-reporting groups into cellular glycoconjugates, represents a powerful method for...

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

authors： Hsu TL,Hanson SR,Kishikawa K,Wang SK,Sawa M,Wong CH

更新日期：2007-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Our recent demonstration that many eukaryotic mRNAs contain sequences complementary to rRNA led to the hypothesis that these sequences might mediate specific interactions between mRNAs and ribosomes and thereby affect translation. In the present experiments, the ability of complementary sequences to bind to rRNA was i...

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

authors： Tranque P,Hu MC,Edelman GM,Mauro VP

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) is produced in response to abiotic stresses and mediates stomatal closure in response to drought via recently identified ABA receptors (pyrabactin resistance/regulatory component of ABA receptor; PYR/RCAR). SLAC1 encodes a central guard cell S-type anion channel that mediates ABA-...

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

authors： Brandt B,Brodsky DE,Xue S,Negi J,Iba K,Kangasjärvi J,Ghassemian M,Stephan AB,Hu H,Schroeder JI

更新日期：2012-06-26 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：:Prenatal unilateral enucleation in mammals causes an extensive anatomical reorganization of visual pathways. The remaining eye innervates the entire extent of visual subcortical and cortical areas. Electrophysiological recordings have shown that the retino-geniculate connections are retinotopically organized and genic...

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

authors： Bisti S,Trimarchi C

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The actin cytoskeleton is an essential intracellular filamentous structure that underpins cellular transport and cytoplasmic streaming in plant cells. However, the system-level properties of actin-based cellular trafficking remain tenuous, largely due to the inability to quantify key features of the actin cytoskeleton...

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

authors： Breuer D,Nowak J,Ivakov A,Somssich M,Persson S,Nikoloski Z

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical genetic selection was combined with site-directed mutagenesis to study bacteriophage T4 DNA polymerase 3'----5' exonuclease activity. A mutant DNA polymerase with very little (less than or equal to 1%) 3'----5' exonuclease activity was generated. In vivo, the 3'----5' exonuclease-deficient DNA polymerase pro...

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

authors： Reha-Krantz LJ,Stocki S,Nonay RL,Dimayuga E,Goodrich LD,Konigsberg WH,Spicer EK

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic code in a eukaryotic system has been expanded by the engineering of Escherichia coli tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase (TyrRS) with the Y37V and Q195C mutations (37V195C), which specifically recognize 3-iodo-L-tyrosine rather than L-tyrosine. In the present study, we determined the 3-iodo-L-tyrosine- and L-tyrosine-...

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

authors： Kobayashi T,Sakamoto K,Takimura T,Sekine R,Kelly VP,Kamata K,Nishimura S,Yokoyama S

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reported effects of anti-CD154 treatment on autoimmunity, alloreactivity, and inflammatory events mediated by macrophages and endothelial cells indicated that it might be an ideal agent for the prevention of intrahepatic islet allograft failure. This hypothesis was tested in MHC-mismatched rhesus monkeys. Transplantat...

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

authors： Kenyon NS,Chatzipetrou M,Masetti M,Ranuncoli A,Oliveira M,Wagner JL,Kirk AD,Harlan DM,Burkly LC,Ricordi C

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The scaling of respiratory metabolism with body mass is one of the most pervasive phenomena in biology. Using a single allometric equation to characterize empirical scaling relationships and to evaluate alternative hypotheses about mechanisms has been controversial. We developed a method to directly measure respiratio...

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

authors： Mori S,Yamaji K,Ishida A,Prokushkin SG,Masyagina OV,Hagihara A,Hoque AT,Suwa R,Osawa A,Nishizono T,Ueda T,Kinjo M,Miyagi T,Kajimoto T,Koike T,Matsuura Y,Toma T,Zyryanova OA,Abaimov AP,Awaya Y,Araki MG,Kawasaki T

更新日期：2010-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The high susceptibility of human immunoglobulin D to proteolytic degradation affects its biological function, metabolism, and immunoassay. High-pressure liquid chromatography was used to investigate the mechanism and rate of limited proteolytic cleavage of IgD and also to identify, isolate, and quantify the reaction p...

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

authors： Ishioka N,Takahashi N,Putnam FW

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of GATA4 during the earliest stages of cardiogenesis has not been defined because Gata4 knockout embryos suffer an early developmental arrest caused by deficiencies in extraembryonic visceral endoderm function. We have used tetraploid embryo complementation to rescue these defects and generated clonal embryon...

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

authors： Watt AJ,Battle MA,Li J,Duncan SA

更新日期：2004-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last two decades, the number of gene/protein sequences gleaned from sequencing projects of individual genomes and environmental DNA has grown exponentially. Only a tiny fraction of these predicted proteins has been experimentally characterized, and the function of most proteins remains hypothetical or only pr...

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

authors： Helbert W,Poulet L,Drouillard S,Mathieu S,Loiodice M,Couturier M,Lombard V,Terrapon N,Turchetto J,Vincentelli R,Henrissat B

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization in plants leads to transinteractions between the parental genomes and epigenomes that can result in changes to both 24 nt siRNA and cytosine methylation ((m)C) levels in the hybrid. In Arabidopsis the principle processes altering the hybrid methylome are Trans Chromosomal Methylation (TCM) and Trans Chro...

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

authors： Greaves IK,Groszmann M,Wang A,Peacock WJ,Dennis ES

更新日期：2014-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Noniridescent coloration by the spongy keratin in parrot feather barbs has fascinated scientists. Nonetheless, its ultimate origin remains as yet unanswered, and a quantitative structural and optical description is still lacking. Here we report on structural and optical characterizations and numerical simulations of t...

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

authors： Yin H,Dong B,Liu X,Zhan T,Shi L,Zi J,Yablonovitch E

更新日期：2012-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The kidney develops through reciprocal interactions between two precursor tissues: the metanephric mesenchyme and the ureteric bud. We previously demonstrated that the zinc finger protein Sall1 is essential for ureteric bud attraction toward the mesenchyme. Here, we show that Kif26b, a kinesin family gene, is a downst...

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

authors： Uchiyama Y,Sakaguchi M,Terabayashi T,Inenaga T,Inoue S,Kobayashi C,Oshima N,Kiyonari H,Nakagata N,Sato Y,Sekiguchi K,Miki H,Araki E,Fujimura S,Tanaka SS,Nishinakamura R

更新日期：2010-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA synthesis by the paramyxovirus respiratory syncytial virus, a ubiquitous human pathogen, was found to be more complex than previously appreciated for the nonsegmented negative-strand RNA viruses. Intracellular RNA replication of a plasmid-encoded "minigenome" analog of viral genomic RNA was directed by coexpressio...

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

authors： Collins PL,Hill MG,Cristina J,Grosfeld H

更新日期：1996-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we compared the transport of newly synthesized cholesterol with that of influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA) from the endoplasmic reticulum to the plasma membrane. The arrival of cholesterol on the cell surface was monitored by cyclodextrin removal, and HA transport was monitored by surface trypsinization...

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

authors： Heino S,Lusa S,Somerharju P,Ehnholm C,Olkkonen VM,Ikonen E

更新日期：2000-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian ferritin from horse spleen undergoes an electrochemical or chemical reduction reaction in which each iron atom present is reduced by one electron (2300 electrons per ferritin molecule containing 2300 Fe3+ ions). Midpoint potentials of -190 mV, -310 mV, and -416 mV were determined at pH 7.0, 8.0, and 9.0. Thi...

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

authors： Watt GD,Frankel RB,Papaefthymiou GC

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A critical step in neuronal development is the formation of axon/dendrite polarity, a process involving symmetry breaking in the newborn neuron. Local self-amplifying processes could enhance and stabilize the initial asymmetry in the distribution of axon/dendrite determinants, but the identity of these processes remai...

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

authors： Cheng PL,Song AH,Wong YH,Wang S,Zhang X,Poo MM

更新日期：2011-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The peroxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids leads to numerous products, including 4-hydroxynonenal (HNE). That 4-hydroxy-2-alkenal compounds react with sulfhydryl groups of proteins to form thioether adducts possessing a carbonyl function has been established [Schauenstein, E. & Esterbauer, H. (1979) Ciba Found. S...

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

authors： Uchida K,Stadtman ER

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A general and efficient method has been developed to generate large numbers of single-base substitution mutations simply and rapidly. A unique f1 phage recombinant DNA cloning vector is described, which contains the phi X174 origin of viral strand DNA synthesis and allows one to direct mutagenesis to any specific segm...

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

authors： Abarzúa P,Marians KJ

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal cells, potentially usable for prenatal diagnosis, were sorted from maternal blood samples taken as early as 15 weeks of gestation. Immunogenetic and cytogenic criteria established the fetal origin of the observed cells: Y-chromatin-containing (male) cells were detected in the sorted sample if and only if the new...

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

authors： Herzenberg LA,Bianchi DW,Schröder J,Cann HM,Iverson GM

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiomyopathy (CM) is a primary degenerative disease of myocardium and is traditionally categorized into hypertrophic and dilated CMs (HCM and DCM) according to its gross appearance. Cardiomyopathic hamster (CM hamster), a representative model of human hereditary CM, has HCM and DCM inbred sublines, both of which des...

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

authors： Sakamoto A,Ono K,Abe M,Jasmin G,Eki T,Murakami Y,Masaki T,Toyo-oka T,Hanaoka F

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00