The roles of specific xanthophylls in photoprotection.

abstract：:Transcriptional activation by steroid hormones is often associated with the appearance of a DNase I hypersensitive site resulting from a local alteration of the nucleoprotein structure of the promoter. For the mouse mammary tumor virus long terminal repeat, a viral promoter under glucocorticoid control, a model has be...

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

authors： Carr KD,Richard-Foy H

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, using further optimized 3D culture that allows highly selective induction and long-term growth of human ES cell (hESC)-derived cortical neuroepithelium, we demonstrate unique aspects of self-organization in human neocorticogenesis. Self-organized cortical tissue spontaneously forms a polarity along the dorsocaud...

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

authors： Kadoshima T,Sakaguchi H,Nakano T,Soen M,Ando S,Eiraku M,Sasai Y

更新日期：2013-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector delivery of an Apaf-1-dominant negative inhibitor was tested for its antiapoptotic effect on degenerating nigrostriatal neurons in a 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) model of Parkinson's disease. The wild-type caspase recruitment domain of Apaf-1 was used as a dom...

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

authors： Mochizuki H,Hayakawa H,Migita M,Shibata M,Tanaka R,Suzuki A,Shimo-Nakanishi Y,Urabe T,Yamada M,Tamayose K,Shimada T,Miura M,Mizuno Y

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Solution at 2.5-A resolution of the three-dimensional structure of H-2Ld with a single nine-residue peptide provides a structural basis for understanding its unique interaction with beta-2 microglobulin (beta2m) and peptide. Consistent with the biological data that show an unusually weak association of Ld with beta2m,...

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

authors： Balendiran GK,Solheim JC,Young AC,Hansen TH,Nathenson SG,Sacchettini JC

更新日期：1997-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies with fibroblasts have shown that peptidylhydroxyproline formation begins toward the end of the log phase of growth and is an expression of the activity of the enzyme, collagen proline hydroxylase, which increase in late log-phase cells. This communication reports a two- to fivefold increase in hydroxyla...

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

authors： Comstock JP,Udenfriend S

更新日期：1970-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquired resistance against antimalarial drugs has further increased the need for an effective malaria vaccine. The current leading candidate, RTS,S, is a recombinant circumsporozoite protein (CSP)-based vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum that contains 19 NANP repeats followed by a thrombospondin repeat domain. Alt...

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

authors： Oyen D,Torres JL,Wille-Reece U,Ockenhouse CF,Emerling D,Glanville J,Volkmuth W,Flores-Garcia Y,Zavala F,Ward AB,King CR,Wilson IA

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence photobleaching recovery was used to measure the lateral diffusion coefficient and mobile fraction of surface immunoglobulin (sIg), Thy-1 antigen, and a lipid probe in the plasma membrane of mouse lymphocytes. The lipid probe (3,3'-dioctadecylindocarbocyanine) had a mean (+/-SD) diffusion coefficient of (1...

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

authors： Dragsten P,Henkart P,Blumenthal R,Weinstein J,Schlessinger J

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of protein function through ligand-induced conformational changes is crucial for many signal transduction processes. The binding of a ligand alters the delicate energy balance within the protein structure, eventually leading to such conformational changes. In this study, we elucidate the energetic and m...

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

authors： Bauer D,Merz DR,Pelz B,Theisen KE,Yacyshyn G,Mokranjac D,Dima RI,Rief M,Žoldák G

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We use sequential large-scale crawl data to empirically investigate and validate the dynamics that underlie the evolution of the structure of the web. We find that the overall structure of the web is defined by an intricate interplay between experience or entitlement of the pages (as measured by the number of inbound ...

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

authors： Kong JS,Sarshar N,Roychowdhury VP

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer vaccines genetically engineered to produce interleukin 2 have been investigated intensively in a series of animal models and are at the point of entering into clinical trials. In this study we demonstrate a strong correlation between the rate of interleukin 2 production and the protection efficiency of murine S...

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

authors： Schmidt W,Schweighoffer T,Herbst E,Maass G,Berger M,Schilcher F,Schaffner G,Birnstiel ML

更新日期：1995-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of development has relied primarily on the isolation of mutations in genes with specific functions in development and on the comparison of their expression patterns in normal and mutant phenotypes. Comparative evolutionary analyses can complement these approaches. Phylogenetic analyses of Sonic hedgehog (Shh...

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

authors： Zardoya R,Abouheif E,Meyer A

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Maleyl bovine plasma albumin competed on an equimolar basis with malondialdehyde low density lipoprotein (LDL) in suppressing the lysosomal hydrolysis of 125I-labeled malondialdehyde LDL mediated by the scavenger receptor of human monocyte macrophages. Maleyl bovine plasma albumin, in which 94% of the amino groups wer...

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

authors： Haberland ME,Fogelman AM

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding interactions between membranes requires measurements on well-controlled systems close to natural conditions, in which fluctuations play an important role. We have determined, by grazing incidence X-ray scattering, the interaction potential between two lipid bilayers, one adsorbed on a solid surface and t...

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

authors： Hemmerle A,Malaquin L,Charitat T,Lecuyer S,Fragneto G,Daillant J

更新日期：2012-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The computation of motion plays a central role in visual orientation. The fly has been successfully used as a model system for analyzing the mechanisms underlying motion detection. Thereby, much attention has been paid to a neuronal circuit of individually identifiable neurons in the third visual ganglion that extract...

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

authors： Borst A,Egelhaaf M

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translocation of proteins across the mitochondrial inner membrane is an essential process requiring an import motor having mitochondrial Hsp70 (mtHsp70) at its core. The J protein partner of mtHsp70, Pam18, is an integral part of this motor, serving to stimulate the ATPase activity of mtHsp70. Pam16, an essential prot...

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

authors： D'Silva PR,Schilke B,Walter W,Craig EA

更新日期：2005-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Two high molecular weight heat shock proteins, HSP90 (Mr, 90,000) and HSP100 (Mr, 100,000), were separately purified from extracts of cultured cells of a mouse lymphoma cell line, L5178Y. Both of the HSPs exist in homodimeric form under physiological conditions. Their physicochemical properties are quite similar to ea...

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

authors： Koyasu S,Nishida E,Kadowaki T,Matsuzaki F,Iida K,Harada F,Kasuga M,Sakai H,Yahara I

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Competing interpretations of human origins and evolution have recently proliferated despite the accelerated pace of fossil discovery. These controversies parallel those involving other vertebrate families and result from the difficulty of studying evolution among closely related species. Recent advances in development...

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

authors： Hlusko LJ

更新日期：2004-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:DBA/2 mice immunized with poly(A).poly(U) complexed with methylated bovine serum albumin and emulsified in Freund's complete adjuvant were protected against challenge with Friend leukemia virus. There was no correlation between the level of antibody to the immunogen in the prechallenge serum and induced resistance to ...

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

authors： Nahon-Merlin E,Lacour F,Friend C,Revoltella R

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila Numb is a membrane associated protein of 557 amino acids (aa) that localizes asymmetrically into a cortical crescent in mitotic neural precursor cells and segregates into one of the daughter cells, where it is required for correct cell fate specification. We demonstrate here that asymmetric localization but...

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

authors： Knoblich JA,Jan LY,Jan YN

更新日期：1997-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the process by which small groups of pigmented germinal cells transplanted orthotopically from stage 30-38 donor embryos into stage 28-38 albino hosts contribute new postmitotic cells to the pigmented retinal epithelium of the growing larval eye in Xenopus. In the great majority of chimeric eyes, the ...

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

authors： Hunt RK,Cohen JS,Mason BJ

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutants of Escherichia coli sensitive to phage T4 gene 2 mutants were obtained following ethyl methanesulfonate mutagenesis. By mapping and complementation analysis, the mutations in each of the six mutants are in recB and recC. By both in vivo and in vitro analyses, the nuclease activity of RecBC enzyme is undetectab...

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

authors： Chaudhury AM,Smith GR

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a physical and molecular genetic characterization of Drosophila melanogaster TFIIE (dTFIIE), a component of the basal RNA polymerase II transcription apparatus. We have purified dTFIIE to near homogeneity from nuclear extracts of Drosophila embryos and found that it is composed of two subunits with apparent...

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

authors： Wang X,Hansen SK,Ratts R,Zhou S,Snook AJ,Zehring W

更新日期：1997-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitation of HbCO by a single 6-psec 530-nm pulse results in photodissociation with a first-order constant of 0.89 X 10(11) sec-1. The kinetics of photodissociation, monitored by following absorbance changes in the Soret band at 440 nm, are interpreted as corresponding to predissociation followed by a corssing into a...

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

authors： Noe LJ,Eisert WG,Rentzepis PM

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 23-kilobase-pair segment of DNA containing the entire mouse serum albumin gene as well as 2.2 kilobase pairs of 5' and 4.3 kilobase pairs of 3' flanking sequences has been introduced into pSV2dhfr, a plasmid in which expression of the mouse dihydrofolate reductase cDNA is under the control of simian virus 40 sequenc...

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

authors： Deschatrette J,Fougere-Deschatrette C,Corcos L,Schimke RT

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two precursors to Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) melanin-concentrating hormone, an important factor in teleosts involved in the control of skin pigmentation and stress responsiveness, have been identified from DNA sequence analysis. Both precursors encode proteins of 132 amino acids and they share 107/132 a...

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

authors： Minth CD,Qiu H,Akil H,Watson SJ,Dixon JE

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic basis for virulence in influenza virus is largely unknown. To explore the mutational basis for increased virulence in the lung, the H3N2 prototype clinical isolate, A/HK/1/68, was adapted to the mouse. Genomic sequencing provided the first demonstration, to our knowledge, that a group of 11 mutations can c...

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

authors： Brown EG,Liu H,Kit LC,Baird S,Nesrallah M

更新日期：2001-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A human peripheral T-cell cDNA library was screened with two labeled synthetic oligonucleotides encoding regions of a human placenta protein-tyrosine-phosphatase (protein-tyrosine-phosphate phosphohydrolase, EC 3.1.3.48). One positive clone was isolated and the nucleotide sequence was determined. It contained 1305 bas...

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

authors： Cool DE,Tonks NK,Charbonneau H,Walsh KA,Fischer EH,Krebs EG

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells transformed by the oncogenic virus SV40 are known to contain viral DNA integrated into cellular DNA and to produce virus-specific RNA. It has been shown that nuclear molecules containing virus-specific sequences are considerably longer than presumed virus-specific mRNA molecules from cytoplasmic polyribosomes. T...

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

authors： Lindberg U,Darnell JE

更新日期：1970-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a multinanosecond molecular dynamics study of a bio-nano complex formed by a carbon nanoparticle, a buckyball C(60), and a biological molecule, an antibody, with high binding affinity and specificity. In the simulation, the ball is completely desolvated by the binding site of the antibody by means of a nearly ...

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

authors： Noon WH,Kong Y,Ma J

更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Dictyostelium myosin II is activated by phosphorylation of its regulatory light chain by myosin light chain kinase A (MLCK-A), an unconventional MLCK that is not regulated by Ca2+/calmodulin. MLCK-A is activated by autophosphorylation of threonine-289 outside of the catalytic domain and by phosphorylation of threonine...

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

authors： Silveira LA,Smith JL,Tan JL,Spudich JA

更新日期：1998-10-27 00:00:00