The Caenorhabditis elegans seven-transmembrane protein ODR-10 functions as an odorant receptor in mammalian cells.

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is known to bud from the inner membrane of the nuclear envelope. The structural gene for the glycoprotein gB, which is essential for virus entry and cell fusion induced by HSV type 1, has been cloned in a transient expression vector containing the adenovirus major late promoter, tripartite l...

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

authors： Ali MA,Butcher M,Ghosh HP

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial cells (ECs) at arterial branches and curvatures experience disturbed blood flow and induce a quiescent-to-activated phenotypic transition of the adjacent smooth muscle cells (SMCs) and a subsequent smooth muscle hyperplasia. However, the mechanism underlying the flow pattern-specific initiation of...

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

authors： Zhu JJ,Liu YF,Zhang YP,Zhao CR,Yao WJ,Li YS,Wang KC,Huang TS,Pang W,Wang XF,Wang X,Chien S,Zhou J

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeriolysin O (LLO) is a cholesterol-dependent cytolysin that is an essential virulence factor of Listeria monocytogenes. LLO pore-forming activity is pH-dependent; it is active at acidic pH (<6), but not at neutral pH. In contrast to other pH-dependent toxins, we have determined that LLO pore-forming activity is co...

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

authors： Schuerch DW,Wilson-Kubalek EM,Tweten RK

更新日期：2005-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we report on studies of the nature of the dynamics and hydrophobic binding in cyclodextrins and human serum albumin protein complexes with orange II. With femtosecond time resolution, we examined the proton-transfer and trans-cis isomerization reactions of the ligand in these nanocavities and in pure sol...

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

authors： Douhal A,Sanz M,Tormo L

更新日期：2005-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Human PC4 and the yeast ortholog Sub1 have multiple functions in RNA polymerase II transcription. Genome-wide mapping revealed that Sub1 is present on Pol III-transcribed genes. Sub1 was found to interact with components of the Pol III transcription system and to stimulate the initiation and reinitiation steps in a sy...

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

authors： Tavenet A,Suleau A,Dubreuil G,Ferrari R,Ducrot C,Michaut M,Aude JC,Dieci G,Lefebvre O,Conesa C,Acker J

更新日期：2009-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A tetramer of the Mu transposase (MuA) pairs the recombination sites, cleaves the donor DNA, and joins these ends to a target DNA by strand transfer. Juxtaposition of the recombination sites is accomplished by the assembly of a stable synaptic complex of MuA protein and Mu DNA. This initial critical step is facilitate...

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

authors： Clubb RT,Mizuuchi M,Huth JR,Omichinski JG,Savilahti H,Mizuuchi K,Clore GM,Gronenborn AM

更新日期：1996-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) maintains a displacement loop (D loop) at the heavy strand origin of replication. These D loops represent sharply limited synthesis of heavy strands and provide a unique opportunity to examine the termination of DNA synthesis. Direct sizing at the nucleotide level indicates that the 3'...

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

authors： Doda JN,Wright CT,Clayton DA

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently showed that the mammalian genome encodes >1,000 large intergenic noncoding (linc)RNAs that are clearly conserved across mammals and, thus, functional. Gene expression patterns have implicated these lincRNAs in diverse biological processes, including cell-cycle regulation, immune surveillance, and embryonic...

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

authors： Khalil AM,Guttman M,Huarte M,Garber M,Raj A,Rivea Morales D,Thomas K,Presser A,Bernstein BE,van Oudenaarden A,Regev A,Lander ES,Rinn JL

更新日期：2009-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of biological molecules and their interactions is a significant component of modern biomedical research. In current biosensor technologies, simultaneous detection is limited to a small number of analytes by the spectral overlap of their signals. We have developed an NMR-based xenon biosensor that capital...

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

authors： Spence MM,Rubin SM,Dimitrov IE,Ruiz EJ,Wemmer DE,Pines A,Yao SQ,Tian F,Schultz PG

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:3-(4'-Benzoylphenyl)propionyl[3H] Phe-tRNA bound to the peptidyl site of the ribosome is photo-crosslinked exclusively to 23S RNA on irradiation at 320 nm. The site of reaction has been identified both by hybridization and primer-extension experiments as uridine-2584 and uridine-2585, located within the central loop o...

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

authors： Barta A,Steiner G,Brosius J,Noller HF,Kuechler E

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a HeLa cell line stably transfected with the tat gene from human immunodeficiency virus type 1, we have found that the expression of the regulatory Tat protein suppresses the expression of cellular Mn-containing superoxide dismutase (Mn-SOD). This enzyme is one of the cell's primary defenses against oxygen-deriv...

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

authors： Flores SC,Marecki JC,Harper KP,Bose SK,Nelson SK,McCord JM

更新日期：1993-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An integral mitochondrial membrane protein (p32) of yeast has previously been molecularly cloned and sequenced and suggested to function as a mitochondrial import receptor. However, this protein has also been proposed to function as phosphate translocator [Guérin, B., Bukusoglu, C., Rakotomanana, F. & Wohlrab, H. (199...

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

authors： Murakami H,Blobel G,Pain D

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mineralogical processes taking place close to equilibrium, or with very slow kinetics, are difficult to quantify precisely. The determination of ultraslow dissolution/precipitation rates would reveal characteristic timing associated with these processes that are important at geological scale. We have designed an advan...

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

authors： Van Driessche AE,García-Ruíz JM,Tsukamoto K,Patiño-Lopez LD,Satoh H

更新日期：2011-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase is a special reverse transcriptase that extends one strand of the telomere repeat by using a template embedded in an RNA subunit. Like other polymerases, telomerase is believed to use a pair of divalent metal ions (coordinated by a triad of aspartic acid residues) for catalyzing nucleotide addition. Here we...

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

authors： Lue NF,Bosoy D,Moriarty TJ,Autexier C,Altman B,Leng S

更新日期：2005-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have been used to treat malignancies in humans with varying degrees of success. Progress has been hindered by the lack of suitable animal models, which would ideally consist of immunocompetent animals that are tolerant to tumor-associated antigens. Suitable models would allow the study and...

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

authors： Wilkinson RW,Ross EL,Poulsom R,Ilyas M,Straub J,Snary D,Bodmer WF,Mather SJ

更新日期：2001-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies are created and refined by somatic evolution in B cell populations, which endows the human immune system with the ability to recognize and eliminate diverse pathogens. However, the evolutionary processes that sculpt antibody repertoires remain poorly understood. Here, using an unbiased repertoire-scale appr...

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

authors： Horns F,Vollmers C,Dekker CL,Quake SR

更新日期：2019-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The effective management of marine fisheries is an ongoing challenge at the intersection of biology, economics, and policy. One way in which fish stocks-and their habitats-can be protected is through the establishment of marine reserves, areas that are closed to fishing. Although the potential economic benefits of suc...

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

authors： Herrera GE,Moeller HV,Neubert MG

更新日期：2016-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The economic and ecological costs of wildfire in the United States have risen substantially in recent decades. Although climate change has likely enabled a portion of the increase in wildfire activity, the direct role of people in increasing wildfire activity has been largely overlooked. We evaluate over 1.5 million g...

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

authors： Balch JK,Bradley BA,Abatzoglou JT,Nagy RC,Fusco EJ,Mahood AL

更新日期：2017-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetrodotoxin was infused into the suprachiasmatic nuclei of unanesthetized and unrestrained rats continuously for 14 days. The internal timekeeping mechanism of the circadian pacemaker in the nuclei continued to oscillate unaffected by this treatment, although the toxin reversibly blocked function of both the input pa...

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

authors： Schwartz WJ,Gross RA,Morton MT

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proton NMR method is described for determining the orientation of a porphyrin within the heme pocket of a hemoprotein. The pattern of the hyperfine-shifted heme methyl resonances in low-spin ferric model compounds is demonstrated to characteristically reflect the position of a localized low-symmetry perturbation on ...

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

authors： La Mar GN,Budd DL,Viscio DB,Smith KM,Langry KC

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanocyte stimulating hormone coupled to Sepharose effects an increase in tryosinase (EC 1.14.18.1; monophenol monoxygenase) activity of cultivated mouse melanoma cells. Synchronized cells are found to respond to melanocyte stimulating hormone only in the G2 phase of the cell cycle, although their response to cyclic ...

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

authors： Varga JM,Dipasquale A,Pawelek J,McGuire JS,Lerner AB

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interpretation of empirical results based on a taxa's lifetime distribution shows apparently conflicting results. Species' lifetime is reported to be exponentially distributed, whereas higher-order taxa, such as families or genera, follow a broader distribution, compatible with power-law decay. We show that both forms...

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

authors： Pigolotti S,Flammini A,Marsili M,Maritan A

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transformation of new experiences into lasting memories is thought to be mediated by postencoding reactivation or the reexpression of activity patterns that characterize prior encoding experiences during subsequent offline periods. Although hippocampal reactivation has been well-described in the rodent, evidence f...

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

authors： Tambini A,Davachi L

更新日期：2013-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious RNA transcripts were generated from full-length cDNA clones of the tobacco etch potyvirus genome containing an insertion of the bacterial beta-glucuronidase (GUS) gene between the polyprotein-coding sequences for the N-terminal 35-kDa proteinase and the helper component-proteinase. The recombinant virus was...

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

authors： Dolja VV,McBride HJ,Carrington JC

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV type 1 (HIV-1) uses the chemokine receptors CCR5 and CXCR4 as coreceptors for entry into target cells. Here we show that the HIV-1 envelope gp120 (Env) activates multiple ionic signaling responses in primary human macrophages, which are important targets for HIV-1 in vivo. Env from both CCR5-dependent JRFL (R5) an...

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

authors： Liu QH,Williams DA,McManus C,Baribaud F,Doms RW,Schols D,De Clercq E,Kotlikoff MI,Collman RG,Freedman BD

更新日期：2000-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The sloppy paired (slp) locus consists of two genes, slp1 and slp2, both of which encode proteins containing a forkhead domain (a DNA-binding motif). Previous work has shown that a severe segmentation phenotype is obtained only when both slp genes are deleted. Here we examine the functional redundancy of the locus in ...

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

authors： Cadigan KM,Grossniklaus U,Gehring WJ

更新日期：1994-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is a retrovirus that causes malignant and inflammatory diseases in ∼10% of infected people. A typical host has between 10(4) and 10(5) clones of HTLV-1-infected T lymphocytes, each clone distinguished by the genomic integration site of the single-copy HTLV-1 provirus. The HTL...

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

authors： Satou Y,Miyazato P,Ishihara K,Yaguchi H,Melamed A,Miura M,Fukuda A,Nosaka K,Watanabe T,Rowan AG,Nakao M,Bangham CR

更新日期：2016-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been recognized that a suite of proteins exists in coral skeletons that is critical for the oriented precipitation of calcium carbonate crystals, yet these proteins remain poorly characterized. Using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis of proteins extracted from the cell-free skeleton o...

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

authors： Drake JL,Mass T,Haramaty L,Zelzion E,Bhattacharya D,Falkowski PG

更新日期：2013-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The metal-binding motif in the sequence of leukotriene A4 (LTA4) (EC 3.3.2.6), a bifunctional zinc metalloenzyme, contains a glutamic acid that is conserved in several zinc hydrolases. To study its role for the two catalytic activities, Glu-296 in mouse leukotriene A4 hydrolase was replaced by a glutamine or alanine r...

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

authors： Wetterholm A,Medina JF,Rådmark O,Shapiro R,Haeggström JZ,Vallee BL,Samuelsson B

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social and emotional skills are tightly interlinked in human development, and both are negatively impacted by disrupted social development. The same interplay between social and emotional skills, including expressions of empathy, has received scant attention in other primates however, despite the growing interest in c...

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

authors： Clay Z,de Waal FB

更新日期：2013-11-05 00:00:00