A pair of adjacent glucocorticoid response elements regulate expression of two mouse metallothionein genes.

abstract：:A 600-base-pair region essential for ColE1 and pMBl plasmid replication contains two promoters responsible for the synthesis of two RNA molecules central to copy number control. One promoter directs synthesis of the primer RNA precursor. The second promoter directs the synthesis of a small RNA molecule, RNAl, which ac...

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

authors： Cesareni G,Muesing MA,Polisky B

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane attack complex of complement is a fusion product of five complement proteins: C5b, C6, C7, C8, and C9. The complex causes complement-dependent cell membrane damage. It is assembled following complement activation both on the target cell surface and in the fluid phase. The isolated soluble complex, which h...

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

authors： Kolb WP,Müller-Eberhard HJ

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The improvement of motor behavior, based on experience, is a form of learning that is critically dependent on the cerebellum. A well studied example of cerebellar motor learning is short-term saccadic adaptation (STSA). In STSA, information on saccadic errors is used to improve future saccades. The information optimiz...

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

authors： Catz N,Dicke PW,Thier P

更新日期：2008-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Benthic foraminifers inhabit a wide range of aquatic environments including open marine, brackish, and freshwater environments. Here we show that several different and diverse foraminiferal groups (miliolids, rotaliids, textulariids) and Gromia, another taxon also belonging to Rhizaria, accumulate and respire nitrates...

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

authors： Piña-Ochoa E,Høgslund S,Geslin E,Cedhagen T,Revsbech NP,Nielsen LP,Schweizer M,Jorissen F,Rysgaard S,Risgaard-Petersen N

更新日期：2010-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A cyclic hexapeptide, cyclo(Pro-Gly-Pro-Gly-Pro-Gly), has been synthesized; its solution conformations were examined by 220-MHz nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The solution structures have been deduced, and shown to vary as a function of solvent polarity. In addition, it has been found that this cyclic peptid...

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

authors： Deber CM,Torchia DA,Wong SC,Blout ER

更新日期：1972-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a heterogeneous degenerative motor neuron disease linked to numerous genetic mutations in apparently unrelated proteins. These proteins, including SOD1, TDP-43, and FUS, are highly aggregation-prone and form a variety of intracellular inclusion bodies that are characteristic of d...

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

authors： Ciryam P,Lambert-Smith IA,Bean DM,Freer R,Cid F,Tartaglia GG,Saunders DN,Wilson MR,Oliver SG,Morimoto RI,Dobson CM,Vendruscolo M,Favrin G,Yerbury JJ

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe retroviral expression vectors containing cDNAs encoding part of fibronectin preceded by the signal and "pro" sequences of parathyroid hormone. The recombinant retroviruses were used to generate NIH 3T3 cell lines stably producing functionally active fragments of fibronectin. The recombinant fibronectins (d...

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

authors： Schwarzbauer JE,Mulligan RC,Hynes RO

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent theoretical and experimental results point to the existence of small barriers to protein folding. These barriers can even be absent altogether, resulting in a continuous folding transition (i.e., downhill folding). With small barriers, the detailed properties of folding ensembles may become accessible to equili...

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

authors： Muñoz V,Sanchez-Ruiz JM

更新日期：2004-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The free energy difference between complexes of the restriction nuclease EcoRI with nonspecific DNA and with the enzyme's recognition sequence is linearly dependent on the water chemical potential of the solution, set using several very different solutes, ranging from glycine and glycerol to triethylene glycol and suc...

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

authors： Sidorova NY,Rau DC

更新日期：1996-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) RNA was encapsulated in large, unilamellar phospholipid vesicles (liposomes), and the encapsulated TMV RNA was shown to be infectious when incubated with tobacco protoplasts under appropriate conditions. Maximal virus production in protoplasts was observed after their incubation with TMV RNA...

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

authors： Fraley RT,Dellaporta SL,Papahadjopoulos D

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is becoming clear that steroids can be synthesized de novo by the brain and other nervous systems. Such steroids are called neurosteroids, and de novo neurosteroidogenesis from cholesterol is a conserved property of vertebrate brains. In this study, we show that the newt brain actively produces 7alpha-hydroxypregne...

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

authors： Matsunaga M,Ukena K,Baulieu EE,Tsutsui K

更新日期：2004-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytosis is a primary defense program orchestrated by monocytes/macrophages. Unregulated phagocytosis can lead to pathological conditions. In the current study we have demonstrated that Wnt5a stimulates phagocytosis through PI3 kinase-Rac1 and lipid-raft-dependent processes. Wnt5a-mediated augmentation in phagocyt...

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

authors： Maiti G,Naskar D,Sen M

更新日期：2012-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutualisms between fungi and fungus-growing animals are model systems for studying coevolution and complex interactions between species. Fungal growing behavior has enabled cultivating animals to rise to major ecological importance, but evolution of farming symbioses is thought to be restricted to three terrestrial in...

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

authors： Silliman BR,Newell SY

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza virus neuraminidase (NA; EC 3.2.1.18) possesses a signal-anchor hydrophobic domain at the amino terminus. To characterize the nature of this signal-anchor domain we have introduced single amino acid changes in this domain by oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis. Three mutant NA proteins that were synthesized...

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

authors： Sivasubramanian N,Nayak DP

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sessile marine organisms are prolific sources of biologically active natural products. However, these compounds are often found in highly variable amounts, with the abiotic and biotic factors governing their production remaining poorly understood. We present an approach that permits monitoring of in vivo natural produ...

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

authors： Esquenazi E,Jones AC,Byrum T,Dorrestein PC,Gerwick WH

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Curved DNA molecules and unusually small circles have been obtained by ligation of synthetic 21-base precursors: (sequence in text). The ligation resulted in the formation of double-stranded oligo-(precursor)s possessing a strong 10.5-base-pair (bp) periodicity of the runs of adenines. Two-dimensional polyacrylamide g...

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

authors： Ulanovsky L,Bodner M,Trifonov EN,Choder M

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CD4-8- thymocyte subset contains immature precursors for phenotypically and functionally mature CD4+8- and CD4-8+ thymocytes and peripheral T cells, as well as nonmature CD4+8+ thymocytes, most of which die in situ. The intrathymic death of most thymocytes is probably related to selective influences that ensure th...

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

authors： Guidos CJ,Weissman IL,Adkins B

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human workers ensure the functioning of governments around the world. The efficacy of human workers, in turn, is linked to the climatic conditions they face. Here we show that the same weather that amplifies human health hazards also reduces street-level government workers' oversight of these hazards. To do so, we emp...

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

authors： Obradovich N,Tingley D,Rahwan I

更新日期：2018-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type newborn mice are characterized by the ability of certain liver-specific genes encoding various enzymes and mapping on different chromosomes to respond to glucocorticoid induction. Newborn mice homozygous for deletions at and around the albino locus on chromosome 7 fail to develop this competence for hormone-...

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

authors： DeFranco D,Bali D,Torres R,DePinho RA,Erickson RP,Gluecksohn-Waelsch S

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial mutants have been isolated, called groN, that block phage development by interference with the action of the product of the phage N gene. lambdatrp phages, which depend on the N product for the synthesis of tryptophan enzymes, do not make these enzymes in groN bacteria. Two type of phage mutants have been is...

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

authors： Georgopoulos CP

更新日期：1971-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrullinemia is an inborn error of metabolism due to deficiency of the urea cycle enzyme, argininosuccinate synthetase [L-citrulline:L-aspartate ligase (AMP-forming), EC 6.3.4.5]. The disease was first described in humans but was recently reported in dairy cattle in Australia. Here we report the nucleotide sequence o...

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

authors： Dennis JA,Healy PJ,Beaudet AL,O'Brien WE

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colon carcinoma is one of the leading causes of death from cancer and is characterized by a heterogenic pool of cells with distinct differentiation patterns. Recently, it was reported that a population of undifferentiated cells from a primary tumor, so-called cancer stem cells (CSC), can reconstitute the original tumo...

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

authors： Vermeulen L,Todaro M,de Sousa Mello F,Sprick MR,Kemper K,Perez Alea M,Richel DJ,Stassi G,Medema JP

更新日期：2008-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor can be transferred in a biologically active orientation from donor hepatic membranes to recipient receptorless fibroblast cells. The recipient cells (NR-6) normally lack EGF receptors and are biologically unresponsive to EGF. The transfer of receptors from donor plas...

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

authors： Bishayee S,Feinman J,Pittenger M,Michael H,Das M

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of cultured Hodgkin disease (HD) cells with neuraminidase results in decreased reactivity of monoclonal antibody VIM-D5 with its antigen, the X hapten, a fucosyl-N-acetyllactosamine. The other feature characteristic of HD cells is the expression of high levels of ectosialyltransferase activity. We present ev...

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

authors： Paietta E,Stockert RJ,Morell AG,Diehl V,Wiernik PH

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipid flippases (P4-ATPases) utilize ATP to translocate specific phospholipids from the exoplasmic leaflet to the cytoplasmic leaflet of biological membranes, thus generating and maintaining transmembrane lipid asymmetry essential for a variety of cellular processes. P4-ATPases belong to the P-type ATPase prote...

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

authors： Tadini-Buoninsegni F,Mikkelsen SA,Mogensen LS,Molday RS,Andersen JP

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The infectious reovirus RNA system was used to construct a mutant with two temperature-sensitive (ts) lesions in genome segments M2 and S2, respectively. The double mutant is about 300 times more ts than either of its parents, which are about 1,500 and 170 times more ts than their wild-type parent reovirus ST3 strain ...

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

authors： Roner MR,Nepliouev I,Sherry B,Joklik WK

更新日期：1997-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells within a genetically identical population exhibit phenotypic variation that in some cases can persist across multiple generations. However, information about the temporal variation and familial dependence of protein levels remains hidden when studying the population as an ensemble. To correlate phenotypes with t...

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

authors： Rowat AC,Bird JC,Agresti JJ,Rando OJ,Weitz DA

更新日期：2009-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:By analogy with receptor-mediated endocytosis, clathrin-coated membrane segments at locations other than at the plasma membrane have been implicated in intracellular membrane transport/sorting. The crucial role of the Golgi apparatus in these processes prompted us to study the distribution at this level of clathrin-im...

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

authors： Orci L,Ravazzola M,Amherdt M,Louvard D,Perrelet A

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uni1 mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii lacks one of the paired flagella seen in wild-type cells. The missing flagellum is cis to the eye spot and at this site the basal body is incomplete, lacking a transition zone. Together with nine other loci affecting flagellar assembly and two loci affecting flagellar funct...

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

authors： Ramanis Z,Luck DJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A central problem in understanding enzyme regulation is to define the conformational states that account for allosteric changes in catalytic activity. For Escherichia coli aspartate transcarbamoylase (ATCase; EC) the active, relaxed (R state) holoenzyme is generally assumed to be represented by the crystal structure o...

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

authors： Endrizzi JA,Beernink PT,Alber T,Schachman HK

更新日期：2000-05-09 00:00:00