Transcription initiation is controlled by three core promoter elements in the hgl5 gene of the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica.

abstract：:The genomic concentrations of certain middle repetitive DNA sequences vary considerably among closely related species of Drosophila. In fact, the chromosomes of D. melanogaster appear to carry approximately 3 times as much middle repetitive DNA as those of the sibling species D. simulans. Although most of the middle r...

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

authors： Dowsett AP,Young MW

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoplasmic dynein is a microtubule-based motor protein complex that plays important roles in a wide range of fundamental cellular processes, including vesicular transport, mitosis, and cell migration. A single major form of cytoplasmic dynein associates with membranous organelles, mitotic kinetochores, the mitotic an...

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

authors： Williams JC,Roulhac PL,Roy AG,Vallee RB,Fitzgerald MC,Hendrickson WA

更新日期：2007-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoic acid is a morphogenetic signaling molecule derived from vitamin A and involved in vertebrate development. Two groups of receptors, retinoic acid receptors and retinoid X receptors (RXRs), have been identified. All-trans-retinoic acid is the high-affinity ligand for retinoic acid receptors, and 9-cis-retinoic ...

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

authors： Yang Y,Vacchio MS,Ashwell JD

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocyte-elevated gene-1 (AEG-1) expression is increased in multiple cancers and plays a central role in Ha-ras-mediated oncogenesis through the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt signaling pathway. Additionally, overexpression of AEG-1 protects primary and transformed human and rat cells from serum starvation-...

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

authors： Emdad L,Lee SG,Su ZZ,Jeon HY,Boukerche H,Sarkar D,Fisher PB

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual arousal is a dynamical, highly coordinated neurophysiological process that is often induced by visual stimuli. Numerous studies have proposed that the cognitive processing stage of responding to sexual stimuli is the first stage, in which sex differences occur, and the divergence between men and women has been ...

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

authors： Mitricheva E,Kimura R,Logothetis NK,Noori HR

更新日期：2019-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The F9 teratocarcinoma cell line differentiates in vitro after treatment with retinoic acid and cAMP and has been a widely used model system for the study of the molecular events that are responsible for cellular commitment and differentiation during early development. Previous experiments have suggested intriguing pa...

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

authors： Weigel RJ,Devoto SH,Nevins JR

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional imaging of the human brain is an increasingly important technique for clinical and cognitive neuroscience research, with functional MRI (fMRI) of the blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) response and electroencephalography or magnetoencephalography (MEG) recordings of neural oscillations being 2 of the most ...

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

authors： Muthukumaraswamy SD,Edden RA,Jones DK,Swettenham JB,Singh KD

更新日期：2009-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term, localized delivery of small molecules from a biodegradable thin film is challenging owing to their low molecular weight and poor charge density. Accomplishing highly extended controlled release can facilitate high therapeutic levels in specific regions of the body while significantly reducing the toxicity t...

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

authors： Hsu BB,Park MH,Hagerman SR,Hammond PT

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Most human cancers are aneuploid and have chromosomal instability, which contrasts to the inability of human cells to normally tolerate aneuploidy. Noting that aneuploidy in human breast cancer correlates with increased expression levels of the Mps1 checkpoint gene, we investigated whether these high levels of Mps1 co...

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

authors： Daniel J,Coulter J,Woo JH,Wilsbach K,Gabrielson E

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Prompted by the increasing interest in networks in many fields, we present an attempt at unifying points of view and analyses of these objects coming from the social sciences, statistics, probability and physics communities. We apply our approach to the Newman-Girvan modularity, widely used for "community" detection, ...

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

authors： Bickel PJ,Chen A

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The F(1)F(0) ATP synthase is the smallest motor enzyme known. Previous studies had established that the central stalk, made of the gamma and epsilon subunits in the F(1) part and c subunit ring in the F(0) part, rotates relative to a stator composed of alpha(3)beta(3)deltaab(2) during ATP hydrolysis and synthesis. How...

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

authors： Tsunoda SP,Rodgers AJ,Aggeler R,Wilce MC,Yoshida M,Capaldi RA

更新日期：2001-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:An antiserum was prepared in rabbits against an antigen obtained by density gradient sedimentation of centrifuged medium from monolayer cultures of spleens involved by Hodgkin's disease. The antiserum was tested by isotopic antibody techniques with cells from each of eight cultures derived from spleens involved by Hod...

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

authors： Long JC,Aisenberg AC,Zamecnik PC

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes encoded by mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) exist in large numbers per cell but can be selected very rapidly as a result of unequal partitioning of mtDNA between germ cells during embryogenesis. However, empirical studies of this "bottlenecking" effect are rare because of the apparent scarcity of heteroplasmic individu...

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

authors： Van Leeuwen T,Vanholme B,Van Pottelberge S,Van Nieuwenhuyse P,Nauen R,Tirry L,Denholm I

更新日期：2008-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Ventilator-induced diaphragmatic dysfunction (VIDD) refers to the diaphragm muscle weakness that occurs following prolonged controlled mechanical ventilation (MV). The presence of VIDD impedes recovery from respiratory failure. However, the pathophysiological mechanisms accounting for VIDD are still not fully understo...

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

authors： Matecki S,Dridi H,Jung B,Saint N,Reiken SR,Scheuermann V,Mrozek S,Santulli G,Umanskaya A,Petrof BJ,Jaber S,Marks AR,Lacampagne A

更新日期：2016-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate constants for CO binding to the five-coordinate ferrous iron complexes of 5,10,15,20-[pyromellitoyl(tetrakis-o-oxyoxyphenyl)]porphyrin and 5,10,15,20-[pyromellitoyl(tetrakis-o-oxypropoxyphenyl)]porphyrin have been measured and compared with the corresponding rate constants for other hemes and hemoproteins. Th...

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

authors： Rose EJ,Venkatasubramanian PN,Swartz JC,Jones RD,Basolo F,Hoffman BM

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resonance Raman and optical absorption spectra of ligand-free (deoxy) myoglobin and CO-bound myoglobin (MbCO) at pH 2.6 have been measured by using continuous-flow/rapid-mixing techniques. The spectra of deoxy myoglobin at low pH within 6 ms of the pH drop demonstrate that the iron-histidine bond has been ruptured but...

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

authors： Han S,Rousseau DL,Giacometti G,Brunori M

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease in which genetic risk has been mapped to HLA, but precise allelic associations have been difficult to infer due to limitations in genotyping methodology. Mapping PD risk at highest possible resolution, we performed sequencing of 11 HLA genes in 1,597 PD cases and...

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

authors： Hollenbach JA,Norman PJ,Creary LE,Damotte V,Montero-Martin G,Caillier S,Anderson KM,Misra MK,Nemat-Gorgani N,Osoegawa K,Santaniello A,Renschen A,Marin WM,Dandekar R,Parham P,Tanner CM,Hauser SL,Fernandez-Viña M,Oksenb

更新日期：2019-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of Drosophila organ discs can be arrested by culturing them in adult male flies. These aged discs lose some of their differentiation competence and form incomplete imaginal structures. The more advanced the aging, the greater the loss of competence. Discs made to differentiate prematurely show deficien...

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

authors： Schweizer P,Bodenstein D

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorpromazine (3 x 10(-4)M) prevents the stimulation of adenyl cyclase activity in thyroid membranes produced by thyrotropin and prostaglandin, ACTH stimulation of adenyl cyclase in adrenal tissue, and glucagon- and epinephrine-stimulation of adenyl cyclase activity in liver. Baseline activity is unaffected. Parathyr...

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

authors： Wolff J,Jones AB

更新日期：1970-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The principal sequence feature responsible for intrinsic DNA curvature is generally assumed to be runs of adenines. However, according to the wedge model of DNA curvature, each dinucleotide step is associated with a characteristic deflection of the local helix axis. Thus, an important test of a more general view of se...

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

authors： Bolshoy A,McNamara P,Harrington RE,Trifonov EN

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The supernatant fluid (conditioned medium) of cultured human vascular endothelial cells inhibits activation of Hageman factor (factor XII), whether by ellagic acid, bovine brain sulfatides, or bismuth subgallate; inhibition appears to be a property of one or more proteins in the culture supernates. This phenomenon may...

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

authors： Ratnoff OD,Everson B,Embury P,Ziats NP,Anderson JM,Emanuelson MM,Malemud CJ

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae is an ideal host from which to obtain high levels of posttranslationally modified eukaryotic proteins for x-ray crystallography. However, extensive replacement of methionine by selenomethionine for anomalous dispersion phasing has proven intractable in yeast. We report a general method to inco...

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

authors： Malkowski MG,Quartley E,Friedman AE,Babulski J,Kon Y,Wolfley J,Said M,Luft JR,Phizicky EM,DeTitta GT,Grayhack EJ

更新日期：2007-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Precipitation extreme changes are often assumed to scale with, or are constrained by, the change in atmospheric moisture content. Studies have generally confirmed the scaling based on moisture content for the midlatitudes but identified deviations for the tropics. In fact half of the twelve selected Intergovernmental ...

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

authors： Sugiyama M,Shiogama H,Emori S

更新日期：2010-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics investigation of the guanidinoacetate methyltransferase catalyzed reaction, which shows that proton transfer from guanidinoacetate (GAA) to Asp-134 and methyl transfer from S-adenosyl-L-methionine (AdoMet) to GAA are concerted. By self-consistent-charge density funct...

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

authors： Zhang X,Bruice TC

更新日期：2006-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cultures of Catharanthus roseus were supplied with [2-13C, 3-2H]-deoxyxylulose or [2-13C,4-2H]1-deoxyxylulose. Lutein and chlorophylls were isolated from the cell mass, and hydrolysis of the chlorophyll mixtures afforded phytol. Isotope labeling patterns of phytol and lutein were determined by 2H NMR and 1H,2H-de...

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

authors： Arigoni D,Eisenreich W,Latzel C,Sagner S,Radykewicz T,Zenk MH,Bacher A

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to their roles in desensitization and signaling of seven-membrane-spanning receptors, beta-arrestins have been more recently implicated in regulating non-seven-membrane-spanning receptor pathways. By using a yeast two-hybrid screen, we identified the inhibitor of NF-kappaB, IkappaBalpha, as a binding partn...

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

authors： Witherow DS,Garrison TR,Miller WE,Lefkowitz RJ

更新日期：2004-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Secretion of extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs) by growing bacteria is an integral part of forming biofilm-like structures. In such dense systems, mechanical interactions among the structural components can be expected to significantly contribute to morphological properties. Here, we use a particle-based modeli...

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

authors： Ghosh P,Mondal J,Ben-Jacob E,Levine H

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:At what range can a mammalian cell sense the presence of another cell and through what medium? To approach these questions, the formation of aggregates of a 3T3 cell variant (3T3x cells) grown on solid substrates was studied. Each of the aggregates consisted of cells that, at the time of their seeding, were single and...

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

authors： Albrecht-Buehler G

更新日期：2005-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon cytosolic viral DNA stimulation, cGMP-AMP synthase (cGAS) catalyzes synthesis of 2'3'cGMP-AMP (cGAMP), which binds to the adaptor protein MITA (mediator of IRF3 activation, also called STING, stimulator of IFN genes) and induces innate antiviral response. How the activity of MITA/STING is regulated to avoid exces...

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

authors： Xia T,Yi XM,Wu X,Shang J,Shu HB

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We predict by first principles a phase transition in alumina at approximately 3.7 Mbar and room temperature from the CaIrO(3)-type polymorph to another with the U(2)S(3)-type structure. Because alumina is used as window material in shock-wave experiments, this transformation should be important for the analysis of sho...

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

authors： Umemoto K,Wentzcovitch RM

更新日期：2008-05-06 00:00:00