CCAAT/enhancer binding protein epsilon is preferentially up-regulated during granulocytic differentiation and its functional versatility is determined by alternative use of promoters and differential splicing.

abstract：:Human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and similar neurodegenerative diseases such as sheep scrapie are caused by a variety of related infectious agents. They are associated with abnormal host prion protein (PrP), which is assessed by limited proteolysis to yield resistant PrP bands (PrP-res). Although PrP-res has been...

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

authors： Arjona A,Simarro L,Islinger F,Nishida N,Manuelidis L

更新日期：2004-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystals of myosin subfragment 1 from avian skeletal muscle have been grown reproducibly. They diffract x-rays to at least 4.5-A resolution. The subfragment 1 crystallizes in space group P2(1)2(1)2(1) where a = 107 A, b = 117 A, and c = 278 A. The cell dimensions and intensity distribution on x-ray diffraction photogr...

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

authors： Rayment I,Winkelmann DA

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local changes in conformation between the calcium-saturated and calcium-free forms of calmodulin were monitored using antisera to four peptides corresponding to three helical regions of the calcium-saturated protein. The N-terminal helix was monitored using antiserum to residues 9-19, calmodulin-(9-19); the C-terminal...

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

authors： Gariépy J,Mietzner TA,Schoolnik GK

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deuterium Fourier-transform nuclear magnetic resonance spectra have been obtained of 1-myristoyl 2-(14,14,14-trideutero)myristoyl phosphatidylcholine bilayers at 34.1 MHz by using the quadrupole echo pulse technique. Thereby, we have investigated the effects upon the deuterated dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine bilayers...

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

authors： Oldfield E,Gilmore R,Glaser M,Gutowsky HS,Hshung JC,Kang SY,King TE,Meadows M,Rice D

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2fTGH is a human cell line containing the selectable marker guanine phosphoribosyltransferase regulated by alpha interferon (IFN-alpha). Two IFN-alpha-unresponsive mutants were isolated previously at a low frequency (ca. 10(-8)) by selecting mutagenized 2fTGH cells in selective medium containing 6-thioguanine and IFN-...

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

authors： McKendry R,John J,Flavell D,Müller M,Kerr IM,Stark GR

更新日期：1991-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although proteins generally fold to their thermodynamically most stable state, some metastable proteins populate higher free energy states. Conformational changes from metastable higher free energy states to lower free energy states with greater stability can then generate the work required to perform physiologically ...

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

authors： Chandrasekhar K,Ke H,Wang N,Goodwin T,Gierasch LM,Gershenson A,Hebert DN

更新日期：2016-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyhedral borane ion [n-B20H18]2- reacts with liquid ammonia in the presence of a suitable base to produce an apical-equatorial (ae) isomer of the [B20H17NH3]3- ion, [1-(2'-B10H9)-2-NH3B10H8]3-. The structure of this product has been confirmed by 11B NMR spectroscopy and x-ray crystallography. This species underg...

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

authors： Feakes DA,Shelly K,Knobler CB,Hawthorne MF

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:B-lymphocyte-specific class switch recombination is known to occur between pairs of 2- to 10-kb switch regions located immediately upstream of the immunoglobulin constant heavy-chain genes. Others have shown that the recombination is temporally correlated with the induction of transcription at the targeted switch regi...

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

authors： Daniels GA,Lieber MR

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:AcrAB is a constitutively expressed, major multidrug efflux system of Escherichia coli. We have purified the cytoplasmic membrane component, AcrB, to near homogeneity, and reconstituted the protein into proteoliposomes. In the presence of DeltapH (outside acid), the protein catalyzed the extrusion of fluorescent phosp...

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

authors： Zgurskaya HI,Nikaido H

更新日期：1999-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the genomic sequence of Nocardia farcinica IFM 10152, a clinical isolate, and revealed the molecular basis of its versatility. The genome consists of a single circular chromosome of 6,021,225 bp with an average G+C content of 70.8% and two plasmids of 184,027 (pNF1) and 87,093 (pNF2) bp with average G+C ...

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

authors： Ishikawa J,Yamashita A,Mikami Y,Hoshino Y,Kurita H,Hotta K,Shiba T,Hattori M

更新日期：2004-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A site that is preferentially cleaved by the single-strand-specific endonuclease from Aspergillus oryzae was located in vitro 180 base pairs upstream from the 5' end of the chicken pro-alpha 2(I) collagen gene. It is found in supercoiled plasmids with a negative superhelical density of -0.024 or more but not in linear...

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

authors： Finer MH,Fodor EJ,Boedtker H,Doty P

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insig-1 and -2 are closely related proteins of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) that block proteolytic activation of sterol regulatory element-binding proteins (SREBPs), transcription factors that activate the synthesis of cholesterol and fatty acids in liver and other organs. When cellular cholesterol levels are high, ...

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

authors： Yabe D,Komuro R,Liang G,Goldstein JL,Brown MS

更新日期：2003-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A role for Notch in the elaboration of existing neural processes is emerging that is distinct from the increasingly well understood function of this gene in binary cell-fate decisions. Several research groups, by using a variety of organisms, have shown that Notch is important in the development of neural ultrastructu...

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

authors： Presente A,Boyles RS,Serway CN,de Belle JS,Andres AJ

更新日期：2004-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is the leading cause of hospital-acquired diarrhea in the United States. The two main virulence factors of C. difficile are the large toxins, TcdA and TcdB, which enter colonic epithelial cells and cause fluid secretion, inflammation, and cell death. Using a gene-trap insertional mutagenesis scre...

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

authors： LaFrance ME,Farrow MA,Chandrasekaran R,Sheng J,Rubin DH,Lacy DB

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Innervation of skeletal muscle by motor neurons occurs through the neuromuscular junction, a cholinergic synapse essential for normal muscle growth and function. Defects in nerve-muscle signaling cause a variety of neuromuscular disorders with features of ataxia, paralysis, skeletal muscle wasting, and degeneration. H...

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

authors： Anderson DM,Cannavino J,Li H,Anderson KM,Nelson BR,McAnally J,Bezprozvannaya S,Liu Y,Lin W,Liu N,Bassel-Duby R,Olson EN

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Earth's water cycle enables the incorporation of water (hydration) in mantle minerals that can influence the physical properties of the mantle. Lattice thermal conductivity of mantle minerals is critical for controlling the temperature profile and dynamics of the mantle and subducting slabs. However, the effect of hyd...

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

authors： Chang YY,Hsieh WP,Tan E,Chen J

更新日期：2017-04-18 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：:Charge transport (CT) through the DNA base pairs provides a means to promote redox reactions at a remote site and potentially to effect signaling between molecules bound to DNA. Here we describe the oxidation of a cell-cycle regulatory protein, p53, from a distance through DNA-mediated CT. A consensus p53 binding site...

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

authors： Augustyn KE,Merino EJ,Barton JK

更新日期：2007-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Society makes substantial investments in biomedical research, searching for ways to better human health. The product of this research is principally information published in scientific journals. Continued investment in science relies on society's confidence in the accuracy, honesty, and utility of research results. A ...

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

authors： Bowen A,Casadevall A

更新日期：2015-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Four different human cell lines transformed by simian virus 40 (SV40) were tested for their tumorigenicity in athymic nude mice. Two of these lines, W18Va2 and GM52VA, were found to be tumorigenic when inoculated at a concentration of 1 x 10(7) cells per mouse. The other two cell lines, LN-SV and GM54VA, were found to...

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

authors： Koprowski H,Croce CM

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat liver glutamine synthetase (s(20,w) 15.0 S; MW about 352,000) resembles ovine brain glutamine synthetase in that it (a) has 8 subunits, (b) acts on both L- and D-glutamate and certain glutamate analogs (e.g., beta-glutamate, cis-cycloglutamate, and alpha-methyl-L-glutamate), and (c) is irreversibly inhibited by L-...

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

authors： Tate SS,Meister A

更新日期：1971-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer is a leading cause of cancer death in men over 50 years of age, and there is a characteristic marked decrease in Zn content in the malignant prostate cells. The cause and consequences of this loss have thus far been unknown. We found that in middle-aged rats a Zn-deficient diet reduces prostatic Zn lev...

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

authors： Fong LY,Jing R,Smalley KJ,Wang ZX,Taccioli C,Fan S,Chen H,Alder H,Huebner K,Farber JL,Fiehn O,Croce CM

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoblastoma-related (RBR) genes inhibit the cell cycle primarily by repressing adenovirus E2 promoter binding factor (E2F) transcription factors, which drive the expression of numerous genes required for DNA synthesis and cell cycle progression. The RBR-E2F pathway is conserved in plants, but cereals such as maize ...

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

authors： Sabelli PA,Hoerster G,Lizarraga LE,Brown SW,Gordon-Kamm WJ,Larkins BA

更新日期：2009-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein 2.1 is a 210-kilodalton protein that connects erythrocyte spectrin to the NH2-terminal cytoplasmic domain of band 3 and thereby functions as the essential linkage between the membrane skeleton and the bilayer. We cleaved this protein into specific chemical domains by limited digestion with trypsin and alpha-ch...

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

authors： Wallin R,Culp EN,Coleman DB,Goodman SR

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously observed the spontaneous, pH-dependent insertion of a water-soluble peptide to form a helix across lipid bilayers [Hunt, J. F., Rath, P., Rothschild, K. J. & Engelman, D. M. (1997) Biochemistry 36, 15177-15192]. We now use a related peptide, pH (low) insertion peptide, to translocate cargo molecules...

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

authors： Reshetnyak YK,Andreev OA,Lehnert U,Engelman DM

更新日期：2006-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A hybrid bacteriophage, P420, was constructed in vitro; it contains part of bacteriophage P4 and a 3.6-kilobase derivative of plasmid ColE1. In Escherichia coli, the plasmid-phage hybrid can exist as a stable plasmid or can be packaged into infective bacteriophage particles. Replication of P420, directed by the ColE1 ...

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

authors： Kahn M,Helinski DR

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian cells typically contain thousands of copies of mitochondrial DNA assembled into hundreds of nucleoids. Here we analyzed the dynamic features of nucleoids in terms of mitochondrial membrane dynamics involving balanced fusion and fission. In mitochondrial fission GTPase dynamin-related protein (Drp1)-deficient...

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

authors： Ban-Ishihara R,Ishihara T,Sasaki N,Mihara K,Ishihara N

更新日期：2013-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence suggests that amyloid polymorphism gives rise to different strains of amyloids with distinct toxicities and pathology-spreading properties. Validating this hypothesis is challenging due to a lack of tools and methods that allow for the direct characterization of amyloid polymorphism in hydrated and...

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

authors： Cendrowska U,Silva PJ,Ait-Bouziad N,Müller M,Guven ZP,Vieweg S,Chiki A,Radamaker L,Kumar ST,Fändrich M,Tavanti F,Menziani MC,Alexander-Katz A,Stellacci F,Lashuel HA

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:When assembled into 13--19S particles, the reovirus nonstructural protein sigma-NS selectively binds single-stranded RNAs. Sedimentation analyses combined with binding to nitrocellulose membrane filters showed that 1--2 pmol of reovirus mRNAs from the large, medium, or small size classes saturated in vitro the binding...

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

authors： Stamatos NM,Gomatos PJ

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germinal centers (GCs) are specialized microenvironments in secondary lymphoid organs where high-affinity antibody-producing B cells are selected based on B-cell antigen receptor (BCR) signal strength. BCR signaling required for normal GC selection is uncertain. We have found that protein kinase N1 (PKN1, also known a...

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

authors： Yasui T,Sakakibara-Yada K,Nishimura T,Morita K,Tada S,Mosialos G,Kieff E,Kikutani H

更新日期：2012-12-18 00:00:00