Identification of an animal omega-3 fatty acid desaturase by heterologous expression in Arabidopsis.

abstract：:Alveolar type II (AT2) cell dysfunction contributes to a number of significant human pathologies including respiratory distress syndrome, lung adenocarcinoma, and debilitating fibrotic diseases, but the critical transcription factors that maintain AT2 cell identity are unknown. Here we show that the E26 transformation...

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

authors： Zhang Z,Newton K,Kummerfeld SK,Webster J,Kirkpatrick DS,Phu L,Eastham-Anderson J,Liu J,Lee WP,Wu J,Li H,Junttila MR,Dixit VM

更新日期：2017-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular weights of the isolated proteins from the 30S and 50S ribosomal subunits of Escherichia coli were determined by two independent methods: polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with sodium dodecylsulphate and equilibrium sedimentation. The values for the molecular weights determined by gel electrophoresis range f...

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

authors： Dzionara M,Kaltschmidt E,Wittmann HG

更新日期：1970-12-01 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：:In order to assess whether DNA rearrangement occurs with equal frequency at each of the several J (joining region) elements in the mouse kappa light chain locus, we set out to determine the relative frequency of usage of J kappa segments in populations of B lymphocytes unperturbed by antigenic selection or cloning. To...

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

authors： Wood DL,Coleclough C

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Mr 35,000 calmodulin-binding protein, which also possesses the ability to interact with a number of cytoskeletal elements, was purified from bovine synaptosomal membranes, using hydroxylapatite and phosphocellulose column chromatography. We call this protein "cytosynalin," which is derived from a combination of the ...

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

authors： Sobue K,Okabe T,Kadowaki K,Itoh K,Tanaka T,Fujio Y

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basic neurophysiological research with monkeys has shown how neurons in the motor cortex have firing rates tuned to movement direction. This original finding would have been difficult to uncover without the use of a behaving primate paradigm in which subjects grasped a handle and moved purposefully to targets in diffe...

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

authors： Kennedy SD,Schwartz AB

更新日期：2019-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer is a genetic disease caused by genomic instability. In many cancers, this instability is manifested by chromosomal reconfigurations and karyotypic complexity. These features are particular hallmarks of the epithelial cancers that are some of the malignancies most resistant to long term control by current chemot...

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

authors： Roschke AV,Lababidi S,Tonon G,Gehlhaus KS,Bussey K,Weinstein JN,Kirsch IR

更新日期：2005-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Ring-shaped hexameric helicases and translocases support essential DNA-, RNA-, and protein-dependent transactions in all cells and many viruses. How such systems coordinate ATPase activity between multiple subunits to power conformational changes that drive the engagement and movement of client substrates is a fundame...

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

authors： Thomsen ND,Lawson MR,Witkowsky LB,Qu S,Berger JM

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus infection in vitro immortalizes primary B cells. EBNA2 is an Epstein-Barr virus-encoded transcriptional transactivator that mimics the effects of activated Notch signaling and is essential for this proliferative response. An assay using Sindbis virus (SV) as a cell death inducer revealed that, like ...

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

authors： Lee JM,Lee KH,Weidner M,Osborne BA,Hayward SD

更新日期：2002-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A hitherto unknown Neoproterozoic orogenic system, the Saharides, is described in North Africa. It formed during the 900-500-Ma interval. The Saharides involved large subduction accretion complexes occupying almost the entire Arabian Shield and much of Egypt and parts of the small Precambrian inliers in the Sahara inc...

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

authors： Şengör AMC,Lom N,Zabcı C,Sunal G,Öner T

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The wetting of microstructured surfaces is studied both experimentally and theoretically. Even relatively simple surface topographies such as grooves with rectangular cross section exhibit a large variety of different wetting morphologies as observed by atomic force microscopy. This polymorphism arises from liquid wed...

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

authors： Seemann R,Brinkmann M,Kramer EJ,Lange FF,Lipowsky R

更新日期：2005-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here on the isolation and characterization of a serotonin (5HT) transporter from Drosophila melanogaster. A 3.1-kb complementary DNA clone (dSERT) was found to encode a protein of 622 amino acid residues with a predicted molecular mass of approximately 69 kDa and a putative transmembrane topology characteris...

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

authors： Demchyshyn LL,Pristupa ZB,Sugamori KS,Barker EL,Blakely RD,Wolfgang WJ,Forte MA,Niznik HB

更新日期：1994-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The maspin protein has tumor suppressor activity in breast and prostate cancers. It inhibits cell motility and invasion in vitro and tumor growth and metastasis in nude mice. Maspin is structurally a member of the serpin (serine protease inhibitors) superfamily but deviates somewhat from classical serpins. We find tha...

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

authors： Sheng S,Truong B,Fredrickson D,Wu R,Pardee AB,Sager R

更新日期：1998-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:For over a century neuroscientists have debated the dynamics by which human cortical language networks allow words to be spoken. Although it is widely accepted that Broca's area in the left inferior frontal gyrus plays an important role in this process, it was not possible, until recently, to detail the timing of its ...

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

authors： Flinker A,Korzeniewska A,Shestyuk AY,Franaszczuk PJ,Dronkers NF,Knight RT,Crone NE

更新日期：2015-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:MinD is a widely conserved ATPase that has been demonstrated to play a pivotal role in selection of the division site in eubacteria and chloroplasts. It is a member of the large ParA superfamily of ATPases that are characterized by a deviant Walker-type ATP-binding motif. MinD localizes to the cytoplasmic face of the ...

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

authors： Szeto TH,Rowland SL,Rothfield LI,King GF

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Finding regions of the genome that are significantly recurrent in noisy data are a common but difficult problem in present day computational biology. Cores of recurrent events (CORE) is a computational approach to solving this problem that is based on a formalized notion by which "core" intervals explain the observed ...

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

authors： Krasnitz A,Sun G,Andrews P,Wigler M

更新日期：2013-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA microarrays comprising approximately 95% of the Bacillus subtilis annotated protein coding ORFs were deployed to generate a series of snapshots of genomewide transcriptional changes that occur when cells are grown under various conditions that are expected to increase or decrease transcription of the trp operon se...

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

authors： Berka RM,Cui X,Yanofsky C

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolation and chromatography of collagen from chick cartilage revealed an excess of alpha1 relative to alpha2-chains. Characterization of the cyanogen bromide peptides from the alpha1 fraction indicated the presence of two homologous forms of alpha1. The results suggest that cartilage contains two collagens, one ident...

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

authors： Miller EJ,Matukas VJ

更新日期：1969-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable effort has been directed toward controlling tuberculosis, which kills almost two million people yearly. High on the research agenda is the discovery of biomarkers of active tuberculosis (TB) for diagnosis and for monitoring treatment outcome. Rational biomarker discovery requires understanding host-pathog...

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

authors： Kunnath-Velayudhan S,Salamon H,Wang HY,Davidow AL,Molina DM,Huynh VT,Cirillo DM,Michel G,Talbot EA,Perkins MD,Felgner PL,Liang X,Gennaro ML

更新日期：2010-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Theories of density-dependent natural selection predict that evolution should favor those genotypes with the highest per capita rates of population growth under the current density conditions. These theories are silent about the mechanisms that may give rise to these increases in density-dependent growth rates. We hav...

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

authors： Guo PZ,Mueller LD,Ayala FJ

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of two closely related species of geese, one, the greylag goose, lives in the Indian plains all year round, while the other, the bar-headed goose, lives at the Tibetan lakes and migrates across the Himalayas to winter in India. Another species, the Andean goose, lives in the High Andes all year round. Possession of a ...

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

authors： Jessen TH,Weber RE,Fermi G,Tame J,Braunitzer G

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ionotropic alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptors (iGluRs) mediate the majority of excitatory synaptic transmission in the CNS and are essential for the induction and maintenance of long-term potentiation and long-term depression, two cellular models of learning and memory. We identi...

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

authors： Wu Y,Arai AC,Rumbaugh G,Srivastava AK,Turner G,Hayashi T,Suzuki E,Jiang Y,Zhang L,Rodriguez J,Boyle J,Tarpey P,Raymond FL,Nevelsteen J,Froyen G,Stratton M,Futreal A,Gecz J,Stevenson R,Schwartz CE,Valle D,Huganir

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms of estrogen-induced tumorigenesis in the target organ are not well understood. It has been suggested that oxidative stress resulting from metabolic activation of carcinogenic estrogens plays a critical role in estrogen-induced carcinogenesis. We tested this hypothesis by using an estrogen-induced hamster re...

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

authors： Bhat HK,Calaf G,Hei TK,Loya T,Vadgama JV

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of Alzheimer disease is unclear. However, immunological aberrations have been suggested to be critical factors in the pathogenesis of this neurodegenerative disease. This study was carried out to investigate if cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from Alzheimer disease patients contains antibodies that recognize sp...

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

authors： McRae-Degueurce A,Booj S,Haglid K,Rosengren L,Karlsson JE,Karlsson I,Wallin A,Svennerholm L,Gottfries CG,Dahlstrom A

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetrodotoxin-sensitive sodium channels are detectable in normal human fibroblasts and in "glia-like" cells at appreciable levels when compared to what is observed in established neuronal cell lines in culture. Two- to 3-fold stimulations of sodium influx are observed in the presence of 0.2 mM veratridine and scorpion ...

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

authors： Munson R Jr,Westermark B,Glaser L

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycoprotein I complex, consisting of two polypeptides of Mr 210,000 and 150,000, was isolated from human platelet membranes by wheat germ lectin affinity chromatography. Glycocalicin, a soluble loosely bound membrane glycoprotein of Mr 150,000 related to the glycoprotein I system, was also purified. The isolated ...

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

authors： Nachman RL,Kinoshita T,Ferris B

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polypeptide chains of 19 previously studied Escherichia coli aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are as large as 951 amino acids and, depending on the enzyme, have quaternary structures of alpha, alpha 2, alpha 2 beta 2, and alpha 4. These enzymes have been organized into two classes which are defined by sequence motifs that a...

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

authors： Hou YM,Shiba K,Mottes C,Schimmel P

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hallmark of the pathology of Alzheimer's disease is the accumulation of the microtubule-associated protein tau into fibrillar aggregates. Recent studies suggest that they accumulate because cytosolic chaperones fail to clear abnormally phosphorylated tau, preserving a pool of toxic tau intermediates within the neuro...

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

authors： Dickey CA,Koren J,Zhang YJ,Xu YF,Jinwal UK,Birnbaum MJ,Monks B,Sun M,Cheng JQ,Patterson C,Bailey RM,Dunmore J,Soresh S,Leon C,Morgan D,Petrucelli L

更新日期：2008-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Land plants have distinct developmental programs in haploid (gametophyte) and diploid (sporophyte) generations. Although usually the two programs strictly alternate at fertilization and meiosis, one program can be induced during the other program. In a process called apogamy, cells of the gametophyte other than the eg...

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

authors： Okano Y,Aono N,Hiwatashi Y,Murata T,Nishiyama T,Ishikawa T,Kubo M,Hasebe M

更新日期：2009-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:When we reach toward objects, we easily avoid potential obstacles located in the workspace. Previous studies suggest that obstacle avoidance relies on mechanisms in the dorsal visual stream in the posterior parietal cortex. One fundamental question that remains unanswered is where the visual inputs to these dorsal-str...

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

authors： Striemer CL,Chapman CS,Goodale MA

更新日期：2009-09-15 00:00:00