Interactions of the chaperone Hsp104 with yeast Sup35 and mammalian PrP.

abstract：:A four-factor cross between two strains of Phycomyces involving two auxotrophic, one color, and the mating type marker is described. Samples of 40 germspores from 84 individual fertile germsporangia were characterized. The results show: (i) The germspores of a germsporangium are derived from one meiosis in approximate...

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

authors： Eslava AP,Alvarez MI,Delbrück M

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify mannosyl (Man)-containing intermediates of the human glycoinositol phospholipid (GPI) anchor pathway and examine their expression in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), mannolipid products deriving from in vitro guanosine diphosphate [3H]Man labeling of HeLa cell microsomes were characterized. The d...

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

authors： Hirose S,Ravi L,Prince GM,Rosenfeld MG,Silber R,Andresen SW,Hazra SV,Medof ME

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question was addressed whether the risk of cancer of an individual in a heterogeneous population can be predicted on the basis of measurable biochemical and biological variables postulated to be associated with the process of chemical carcinogenesis. Using the skin tumor model with outbred male NMRI mice, the late...

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

authors： Fischer WH,Lutz WK

更新日期：1995-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial DNAs were prepared from maize lines with normal cytoplasm and with the T, C, S, and EP sources of male-sterile cytoplasms. Agarose gel electrophoresis of these preparations revealed a main high-molecular-weight DNA band. In addition, the S cytoplasm was characterized by the presence of two faster migrati...

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

authors： Pring DR,Levings CS,Hu WW,Timothy DH

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Promoter-proximal stalling, a general phenomenon observed during the expression of many RNA polymerase II transcribed genes, is dependent on transcription factor IIH (TFIIH). Reactions lacking TFIIH initiated transcription, but the transcription complex encountered a block to elongation proximal to the promoter. The a...

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

authors： Kumar KP,Akoulitchev S,Reinberg D

更新日期：1998-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Substantial proportions of mammalian genomes comprise repetitive elements including endogenous retrotransposons. Although these play diverse roles during development, their appropriate silencing is critically important in maintaining genomic integrity in the host cells. The major mechanism for retrotransposon silencin...

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

authors： Hatanaka Y,Inoue K,Oikawa M,Kamimura S,Ogonuki N,Kodama EN,Ohkawa Y,Tsukada Y,Ogura A

更新日期：2015-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) ligand family are known to play important roles in wound healing and fibrotic disease. We show that both transient and stable expression of PDGF-C results in the development of liver fibrosis consisting of the deposition of collagen in a pericellular and perivenular...

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

authors： Campbell JS,Hughes SD,Gilbertson DG,Palmer TE,Holdren MS,Haran AC,Odell MM,Bauer RL,Ren HP,Haugen HS,Yeh MM,Fausto N

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ras CAAX (C = cysteine, A = aliphatic amino acid, and X = any amino acid) peptidomimetic inhibitors of farnesyl protein transferase suppress Ras-dependent cell transformation by preventing farnesylation of the Ras oncoprotein. These compounds are potential anticancer agents for tumors associated with Ras mutations. Th...

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

authors： Kauffmann RC,Qian Y,Vogt A,Sebti SM,Hamilton AD,Carthew RW

更新日期：1995-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We model experience-dependent plasticity in the cortical representation of whiskers (the barrel cortex) in normal adult rats, and in adult rats that were prenatally exposed to alcohol. Prenatal exposure to alcohol (PAE) caused marked deficits in experience-dependent plasticity in a cortical barrel-column. Cortical pla...

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

authors： Benusková L,Rema V,Armstrong-James M,Ebner FF

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcine aortic endothelial cells were isolated and maintained in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DME medium)/10% citrate-treated human plasma. They were stimulated by DME medium/10% human serum to grow from a density of 10,100 +/- 500 per well to a final density of 83,000 +/- 1,800 per well over a 9-day period. On...

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

authors： Clemmons DR,Isley WL,Brown MT

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microinjection of progesterone dissolved in paraffin oil induces the reinitiation of meiotic maturation in the Xenopus oocyte; 50% maturation is obtained when 50 nl of a 50 microM solution is microinjected into the oocyte. The kinetics of the response to microinjected progesterone are similar to the kinetics of respon...

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

authors： Tso J,Thibier C,Mulner O,Ozon R

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four major neutralizing regions of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein were identified and characterized with a panel of 80 HIV-1 antibody-positive human sera. Levels of neutralizing antibodies against the HIV-1 strains IIIB, SF2, and RF were compared with reactivity in ELISAs against...

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

authors： Broliden PA,von Gegerfelt A,Clapham P,Rosen J,Fenyö EM,Wahren B,Broliden K

更新日期：1992-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribozyme activity in vivo depends on achieving high-level expression, intracellular stability, target colocalization, and cleavage site access. At present, target site selection is problematic because of unforeseeable secondary and tertiary RNA structures that prevent cleavage. To overcome this design obstacle, we wis...

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

authors： Warashina M,Kuwabara T,Kato Y,Sano M,Taira K

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A well-known indication that a nucleotide has bound to myosin is the enhancement of the fluorescence of a specific tryptophan in the "subfragment 1" segment of the protein. Empirically the effect has been enormously useful in myosin enzymology. But beyond an early suggestion that it arises from a purine-tryptophan cha...

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

authors： Bivin DB,Kubota S,Pearlstein R,Morales MF

更新日期：1993-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The release of urine, or micturition, serves a fundamental physiological function and, in many species, is critical for social communication. In mice, the pattern of urine release is modulated by external and internal factors and transmitted to the spinal cord via the pontine micturition center (PMC). Here, we exploit...

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

authors： Hyun M,Taranda J,Radeljic G,Miner L,Wang W,Ochandarena N,Huang KW,Osten P,Sabatini BL

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-17-producing CD27(-) γδ cells (γδ(27-) cells) are widely viewed as innate immune cells that make critical contributions to host protection and autoimmunity. However, factors that promote them over IFN-γ-producing γδ(27+) cells are poorly elucidated. Moreover, although human IL-17-producing γδ cells are commonly imp...

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

authors： Michel ML,Pang DJ,Haque SF,Potocnik AJ,Pennington DJ,Hayday AC

更新日期：2012-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Policy folklists present a set of alleged historical facts seen as relevant to some social issue. Although the validity of these folklists is dubious, leaders and writers circulate them in the media, variants arise, and the lists continue on, sometimes for decades. Folklists are repeated because their messages are app...

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

authors： O'Neill B

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) mediates several biological actions, including relaxation of blood vessels, cytotoxicity of activated macrophages, and formation of cGMP by activation of glutamate receptors in cerebellar slices. Nitric oxide synthase (EC 1.14.23.-) immunoreactivity is colocalized with nicotinamide adenine di-nucleot...

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

authors： Dawson VL,Dawson TM,London ED,Bredt DS,Snyder SH

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the occurrence of epistasis and pleiotropy is widely accepted at the molecular level, its effect on the adaptive value of fitness-related genes is rarely investigated in plants. Knowledge of these features of a gene is critical to understand the molecular basis of adaptive evolution. Here we investigate the i...

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

authors： Scarcelli N,Cheverud JM,Schaal BA,Kover PX

更新日期：2007-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In a primitive chordate model of natural chimerism, one chimeric partner is often eliminated in a process of allogeneic resorption. Here, we identify the cellular framework underlying loss of tolerance to one partner within a natural Botryllus schlosseri chimera. We show that the principal cell type mediating chimeric...

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

authors： Corey DM,Rosental B,Kowarsky M,Sinha R,Ishizuka KJ,Palmeri KJ,Quake SR,Voskoboynik A,Weissman IL

更新日期：2016-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisomes are eukaryotic organelles critical for plant and human development because they house essential metabolic functions, such as fatty acid β-oxidation. The interacting ATPases PEX1 and PEX6 contribute to peroxisome function by recycling PEX5, a cytosolic receptor needed to import proteins targeted to the pero...

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

authors： Gonzalez KL,Ratzel SE,Burks KH,Danan CH,Wages JM,Zolman BK,Bartel B

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Canavan's disease (CD) is a fatal, hereditary disorder of CNS development that has been linked to mutations in the gene for the enzyme aspartoacylase (ASPA) (EC 3.5.1.15). ASPA acts to hydrolyze N-acetylaspartate (NAA) into l-aspartate and acetate, but the connection between ASPA deficiency and the failure of proper C...

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

authors： Madhavarao CN,Arun P,Moffett JR,Szucs S,Surendran S,Matalon R,Garbern J,Hristova D,Johnson A,Jiang W,Namboodiri MA

更新日期：2005-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants, the AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR (ARF) transcription factor family regulates gene expression in response to auxin. In the absence of auxin, ARF transcription factors are repressed by interaction with AUXIN/INDOLE 3-ACETIC ACID (Aux/IAA) proteins. Although the C termini of ARF and Aux/IAA proteins facilitate their ...

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

authors： Korasick DA,Westfall CS,Lee SG,Nanao MH,Dumas R,Hagen G,Guilfoyle TJ,Jez JM,Strader LC

更新日期：2014-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Notwithstanding important advances in the context of single-variant pathogenicity identification, novel breakthroughs in discerning the origins of many rare diseases require methods able to identify more complex genetic models. We present here the Variant Combinations Pathogenicity Predictor (VarCoPP), a machine-learn...

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

authors： Papadimitriou S,Gazzo A,Versbraegen N,Nachtegael C,Aerts J,Moreau Y,Van Dooren S,Nowé A,Smits G,Lenaerts T

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Bright, photostable, and nontoxic fluorescent contrast agents are critical for biological imaging. "Self-healing" dyes, in which triplet states are intramolecularly quenched, enable fluorescence imaging by increasing fluorophore brightness and longevity, while simultaneously reducing the generation of reactive oxygen ...

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

authors： Pati AK,El Bakouri O,Jockusch S,Zhou Z,Altman RB,Fitzgerald GA,Asher WB,Terry DS,Borgia A,Holsey MD,Batchelder JE,Abeywickrama C,Huddle B,Rufa D,Javitch JA,Ottosson H,Blanchard SC

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of a recently synthesized photolabile chelator for divalent cations are described, the affinity of which for Ca2+ changes by some 5 orders of magnitude on illumination. The compound 1-(2-nitro-4,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-N,N,N',N'-tetrakis[(oxycarbonyl)me thyl]-1,2-ethanediamine (DM-nitrophen) binds Ca2+ (Kd a...

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

authors： Kaplan JH,Ellis-Davies GC

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of gene expression by steroid hormones is mediated by receptor proteins that associate with regulatory elements of responsive genes upon binding the hormone ligand. The finding that two glucocorticoid responsive elements act cooperatively to stimulate transcription of the tyrosine aminotransferase gene prom...

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

authors： Ankenbauer W,Strähle U,Schütz G

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to environmental changes, the connections ("arrows") in gene regulatory networks determine which genes modulate their expression, but the quantitative parameters of the network ("the numbers on the arrows") are equally important in determining the resulting phenotype. What are the objectives and constraint...

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

authors： Chubukov V,Zuleta IA,Li H

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews food (especially cereal) production trends and prospects for the world and its main regions. Despite fears to the contrary, in recent years we have seen continued progress toward better methods of feeding humanity. Sub-Saharan Africa is the sole major exception. Looking to the future, this paper arg...

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

authors： Dyson T

更新日期：1999-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical genetic selection was combined with site-directed mutagenesis to study bacteriophage T4 DNA polymerase 3'----5' exonuclease activity. A mutant DNA polymerase with very little (less than or equal to 1%) 3'----5' exonuclease activity was generated. In vivo, the 3'----5' exonuclease-deficient DNA polymerase pro...

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

authors： Reha-Krantz LJ,Stocki S,Nonay RL,Dimayuga E,Goodrich LD,Konigsberg WH,Spicer EK

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00