Recombination activities of HsDmc1 protein, the meiotic human homolog of RecA protein.

abstract：:Methane can be converted to triose dihydroxyacetone (DHA) by chemical processes with formaldehyde as an intermediate. Carbon dioxide, a by-product of various industries including ethanol/butanol biorefineries, can also be converted to formaldehyde and then to DHA. DHA, upon entry into a cell and phosphorylation to DHA...

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

authors： Wang L,Chauliac D,Rhee MS,Panneerselvam A,Ingram LO,Shanmugam KT

更新日期：2018-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans respond to foreign antigen by generating plasma Abs and memory B cells (MBCs). The Ab response then declines, sometimes to below the limit of detection. In contrast, MBCs are generally thought to be long-lived. We tested and compared Plasmodium falciparum (Pf)-specific Ab and MBC responses in two populations of...

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

authors： Ndungu FM,Olotu A,Mwacharo J,Nyonda M,Apfeld J,Mramba LK,Fegan GW,Bejon P,Marsh K

更新日期：2012-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress is a ubiquitous threat to all aerobic organisms and has been implicated in numerous pathological conditions such as cancer. Here we demonstrate a pivotal role for E2F1, a cell cycle regulatory transcription factor, in cell tolerance of oxidative stress. Cells lacking E2F1 are hypersensitive to oxidati...

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

authors： Graves JD,Lee YJ,Liu K,Li G,Lin FT,Lin WC

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic translation initiation factor (eIF) 5 is crucial for the assembly of the eukaryotic preinitiation complex. This activity is mediated by the ability of its C-terminal HEAT domain to interact with eIF1, eIF2, and eIF3 in the multifactor complex and with eIF4G in the 48S complex. However, the binding sites for...

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

authors： Yamamoto Y,Singh CR,Marintchev A,Hall NS,Hannig EM,Wagner G,Asano K

更新日期：2005-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of homogeneous preparations of mouse submandibular gland nerve growth factor (NGF) with the classical complement pathway was studied. NGF was found to be capable of carrying out the enzyme activities of the first component (C1-) of the classical complement pathway (i.e., the cleavage of zymogen C4 and ...

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

authors： Boyle MD,Young M

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) plays an essential role in tumor development and progression by regulating genes that are vital for proliferation, glycolysis, angiogenesis, and metastasis. To identify strategies of targeting the HIF-1 pathway, we screened a siRNA library against the entire druggable genome and a sm...

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

authors： Lin X,David CA,Donnelly JB,Michaelides M,Chandel NS,Huang X,Warrior U,Weinberg F,Tormos KV,Fesik SW,Shen Y

更新日期：2008-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A search for potent toxins that inhibit neuronal calcium channels in Drosophila melanogaster has resulted in the identification of a presynaptic neurotoxin from the venom of the hunting spider Hololena curta. Using Drosophila neuromuscular junction as an assay, presynaptic inhibitory activity was purified using gel fi...

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

authors： Bowers CW,Phillips HS,Lee P,Jan YN,Jan LY

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a unique proxy for the reconstruction of variation in precipitation over the Amazon: oxygen isotope ratios in annual rings in tropical cedar (Cedrela odorata). A century-long record from northern Bolivia shows that tree rings preserve the signal of oxygen isotopes in precipitation during the wet season, wit...

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

authors： Brienen RJ,Helle G,Pons TL,Guyot JL,Gloor M

更新日期：2012-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Residues important in the interaction between the 23-residue transmembrane (TM) domains of the integrin alpha(IIb)- and beta(3)-subunits were identified by mutating each non-Leu residue to Leu. Leu substitutions of alpha(IIb) at G972, G976, and T981, and of beta(3) at I693 and G708, increased ligand binding. Substitut...

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

authors： Luo BH,Carman CV,Takagi J,Springer TA

更新日期：2005-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells transferred into severe lymphopenic hosts undergo rapid proliferation known as "endogenous proliferation" that are distinct from conventional homeostatic proliferation. Unlike homeostatic proliferation, cytokines, such as IL-7 are dispensable, yet TCR:MHC interaction is essential for this process to occur. How...

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

authors： Do JS,Min B

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoproteolytic processing of the human protein C (HPC) precursor to its mature form involves cleavage of the propeptide after amino acids Lys-2-Arg-1 and removal of a Lys156-Arg157 dipeptide connecting the light and heavy chains. This processing was inefficient in the mammary gland of transgenic mice and pigs. We hyp...

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

authors： Drews R,Paleyanda RK,Lee TK,Chang RR,Rehemtulla A,Kaufman RJ,Drohan WN,Luboń H

更新日期：1995-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The human major histocompatibility complex includes approximately 14 class II HLA genes within the HLA-D region, most of which exist in multiple allelic forms. One of these genes, the DQ3.2 beta gene, accounts for the well-documented association of HLA-DR4 with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and is the single all...

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

authors： Kwok WW,Lotshaw C,Milner EC,Knitter-Jack N,Nepom GT

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult stem cells represent unique populations of undifferentiated cells with self-renewal capacity. In many tissues, stem cells divide less often than their progeny. It has been widely speculated, but largely untested, that their undifferentiated and quiescent state may make stem cells more efficient as donors for clo...

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

authors： Li J,Greco V,Guasch G,Fuchs E,Mombaerts P

更新日期：2007-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult cardiomyocytes are irreversibly postmitotic but respond to a variety of stimuli by hypertrophic growth, which is associated with an increase in cell size and protein content, organization of sarcomeres, and activation of a fetal gene program. Recently, we described a novel cardiac helicase activated by MEF2 prot...

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

authors： Liu ZP,Olson EN

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A polar lipid containing about 20 per cent of the lipid soluble inositol has been purified from cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This compound labeled with (3)H-inositol, (32)P(i), or (14)C glucose was isolated from aqueous pyridine extracts by means of paper chromatography. Unlabeled compound was obtained by a diff...

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

authors： Steiner S,Smith S,Waechter CJ,Lester RL

更新日期：1969-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a cold-sensitive mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in which there is a deficit of 60S ribosomal subunits. Cold sensitivity and the assembly defect are recessive and cosegregate, defining a single essential gene that we designated DRS1 (deficiency of ribosomal subunits). The wild-type DRS1 gene was cl...

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

authors： Ripmaster TL,Vaughn GP,Woolford JL Jr

更新日期：1992-12-01 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：:Pith parenchyma cells store water in various plant organs. These cells are especially important for producing sugar and ethanol from the sugar juice of grass stems. In many plants, the death of pith parenchyma cells reduces their stem water content. Previous studies proposed that a hypothetical D gene might be respons...

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

authors： Fujimoto M,Sazuka T,Oda Y,Kawahigashi H,Wu J,Takanashi H,Ohnishi T,Yoneda JI,Ishimori M,Kajiya-Kanegae H,Hibara KI,Ishizuna F,Ebine K,Ueda T,Tokunaga T,Iwata H,Matsumoto T,Kasuga S,Yonemaru JI,Tsutsumi N

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The SOS-inducible ruvA and ruvB gene products of Escherichia coli are required for normal levels of genetic recombination and DNA repair. In vitro, RuvA protein interacts specifically with Holliday junctions and, together with RuvB (an ATPase), promotes their movement along DNA. This process, known as branch migration...

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

authors： Tsaneva IR,Müller B,West SC

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The remarkable fidelity of most DNA polymerases depends on a series of early steps in the reaction pathway which allow the selection of the correct nucleotide substrate, while excluding all incorrect ones, before the enzyme is committed to the chemical step of nucleotide incorporation. The conformational transitions t...

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

authors： Santoso Y,Joyce CM,Potapova O,Le Reste L,Hohlbein J,Torella JP,Grindley ND,Kapanidis AN

更新日期：2010-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play essential, conserved roles in diverse developmental processes through association with the miRNA-induced silencing complex (miRISC). Whereas fundamental insights into the mechanistic framework of miRNA biogenesis and target gene silencing have been established, posttranslational modifications t...

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

authors： Alessi AF,Khivansara V,Han T,Freeberg MA,Moresco JJ,Tu PG,Montoye E,Yates JR 3rd,Karp X,Kim JK

更新日期：2015-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro incubation of leukemic bone marrow with the lipophilic fluorescent dye merocyanine 540 and simultaneous exposure to light reduced the concentration of L1210 leukemia cells by about 5 orders of magnitude but spared enough normal pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells to allow hematopoietic reconstitution of leth...

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

authors： Sieber F,Spivak JL,Sutcliffe AM

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A light beam hitting the retina produces an excitatory process; however, around the edge of the light beam, sensory cells are inhibited and lose their sensitivity. This combination of stimulation and inhibition produces a discrepancy between the luminance pattern presented to the eye and the brightness pattern that is...

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

authors： Von Békésy G

更新日期：1972-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To differentiate roles of androgen receptor (AR) in prostate stromal and epithelial cells, we have generated inducible-(ind)ARKO-TRAMP and prostate epithelial-specific ARKO TRAMP (pes-ARKO-TRAMP) mouse models, in which the AR was knocked down in both prostate epithelium and stroma or was knocked out in the prostate ep...

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

authors： Niu Y,Altuwaijri S,Yeh S,Lai KP,Yu S,Chuang KH,Huang SP,Lardy H,Chang C

更新日期：2008-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The phagocyte NADPH oxidase, dormant in resting cells, is activated during phagocytosis to produce superoxide, a precursor of microbicidal oxidants. The activated oxidase is a complex of membrane-integrated cytochrome b558, composed of 91-kDa (gp91phox) and 22-kDa (p22phox) subunits, and two cytosolic factors (p47phox...

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

authors： Sumimoto H,Kage Y,Nunoi H,Sasaki H,Nose T,Fukumaki Y,Ohno M,Minakami S,Takeshige K

更新日期：1994-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The heat shock protein (Hsp)70 family of molecular chaperones interacts with unfolded proteins through a C-terminal substrate-binding domain (SBD) that is controlled by nucleotide binding to the N-terminal domain. The ATPase cycle is regulated by cochaperones, including DnaJ proteins that accelerate ATP hydrolysis to ...

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

authors： Awad W,Estrada I,Shen Y,Hendershot LM

更新日期：2008-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), released from gut endocrine L cells in response to glucose, regulates appetite, insulin secretion, and gut motility. How glucose given orally, but not systemically, induces GLP-1 secretion is unknown. We show that human duodenal L cells express sweet taste receptors, the taste G protei...

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

authors： Jang HJ,Kokrashvili Z,Theodorakis MJ,Carlson OD,Kim BJ,Zhou J,Kim HH,Xu X,Chan SL,Juhaszova M,Bernier M,Mosinger B,Margolskee RF,Egan JM

更新日期：2007-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient degradation of plant cell walls by selected anaerobic bacteria is performed by large extracellular multienzyme complexes termed cellulosomes. The spatial arrangement within the cellulosome is organized by a protein called scaffoldin, which recruits the cellulolytic subunits through interactions between cohes...

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

authors： Barth A,Hendrix J,Fried D,Barak Y,Bayer EA,Lamb DC

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial pathogens with the ability to establish chronic infections have evolved strategies to actively modulate the host immune response. Brucellosis is a disease caused by a Gram-negative intracellular pathogen that if not treated during the initial phase of the infection becomes chronic as the bacteria persist for...

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

authors： Spera JM,Ugalde JE,Mucci J,Comerci DJ,Ugalde RA

更新日期：2006-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cancers have substantial genomic heterogeneity within a given tumor, and to fully understand that diversity requires the ability to perform single cell analysis. We performed targeted sequencing of a panel of single nucleotide variants (SNVs), deletions, and IgH sequences in 1,479 single tumor cells from six acut...

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

authors： Gawad C,Koh W,Quake SR

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00