Comparative mapping of the human 22q11 chromosomal region and the orthologous region in mice reveals complex changes in gene organization.

abstract：:Clostridium botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs), the most potent toxins known, disrupt neurotransmission through proteolysis of proteins involved in neuroexocytosis. The light chains of BoNTs are unique zinc proteases that have stringent substrate specificity and require exceptionally long substrates. We have determined the...

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

authors： Segelke B,Knapp M,Kadkhodayan S,Balhorn R,Rupp B

更新日期：2004-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Axonal guidance is key to the formation of neuronal circuitry. Semaphorin 3A (Sema 3A; previously known as semaphorin III, semaphorin D, and collapsin-1), a secreted subtype of the semaphorin family, is an important axonal guidance molecule in vitro and in vivo. The molecular mechanisms of the repellent activity of se...

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

authors： Behar O,Mizuno K,Badminton M,Woolf CJ

更新日期：1999-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The tissue-specific transcriptional coactivator OCA-B is required for antigen-dependent B cell differentiation events, including germinal center formation. However, the identity of OCA-B target genes involved in this process is unknown. This study has used large-scale cDNA arrays to monitor changes in gene expression ...

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

authors： Kim U,Siegel R,Ren X,Gunther CS,Gaasterland T,Roeder RG

更新日期：2003-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate [3H]phencyclidine ([3H]PCP)as a probe for the ionic channel of the nicotinic receptor, the characteristics of its binding to electric organ membranes od Torpedo ocellata and its effects on frog sartorius muscle were studied. Similar to PCP, [3H]PCP depressed the peak amplitude of endplate current, caused n...

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

authors： Eldefrawi ME,Eldefrawi AT,Aronstam RS,Maleque MA,Warnick JE,Albuquerque EX

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The core structures of many viruses move within cells by association with host cytoskeletal motor proteins; however, the mechanisms by which intracellular viral particles are transported toward sites of replication or the cell periphery at distinct stages of infection remain to be understood. The regulation of herpesv...

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

authors： Smith GA,Pomeranz L,Gross SP,Enquist LW

更新日期：2004-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen signaling occurs through at least two distinct molecular pathways: (i) direct binding of liganded estrogen receptors (ERs) to estrogen-responsive DNA elements (EREs) (the "ER/ERE pathway") and (ii) indirect recruitment of liganded ERs to activating protein-1 (AP-1)-responsive DNA elements via heterodimers of ...

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

authors： Cheung E,Acevedo ML,Cole PA,Kraus WL

更新日期：2005-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus-induced gene 3 (EBI3) is a widely expressed IL-12p40-related protein that associates as a heterodimer with either IL-12p35 or an IL-12p35 homologue, p28, to create a new cytokine (IL-27). To define the function of EBI3 in vivo, we generated knockout mice in which the ebi3 gene was targeted by homolo...

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

authors： Nieuwenhuis EE,Neurath MF,Corazza N,Iijima H,Trgovcich J,Wirtz S,Glickman J,Bailey D,Yoshida M,Galle PR,Kronenberg M,Birkenbach M,Blumberg RS

更新日期：2002-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:HLA-G is the putative natural killer (NK) cell inhibitory ligand expressed on the extravillous cytotrophoblast of the human placenta. Killing of the class I negative human B cell line 721.221 by NK cells is inhibited by the expression of HLA-G. This inhibition is dependent on a high level of HLA-G expression. In the p...

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

authors： Mandelboim O,Pazmany L,Davis DM,Valés-Gómez M,Reyburn HT,Rybalov B,Strominger JL

更新日期：1997-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural environments typically contain multiple sound sources. The sounds from these sources frequently overlap in time and often mask each other. Masking could potentially distort the representation of a sound's spectrum, altering its timbre and impairing object recognition. Here, we report that the auditory system p...

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

authors： McDermott JH,Oxenham AJ

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Phi chi174 DNA structures containing two different parental genomes were detected genetically and examined by electron microscopy. These structures consisted of two monomeric double-stranded DNA molecules linked in a figure 8 configuration. Such DNA structures were observed to be formed preferentially in host recA+ ce...

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

authors： Benbow RM,Zuccarelli AJ,Sinsheimer RL

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a defective herpes simplex virus (HSV) vector system that permits the introduction of virtually any gene into mammalian central nervous system neurons. The prototype vector, pHSVlac, contains a transcription unit that places the Escherichia coli lacZ gene under the control of the HSV-1 immediate earl...

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

authors： Geller AI,Freese A

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The infection of human cells by laboratory strains of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) can be blocked readily in vitro by recombinant soluble CD4 and CD4-immunoglobulin hybrid molecules. In contrast, infection by primary isolates of HIV-1 is much less sensitive to blocking in vitro by soluble CD4-based mole...

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

authors： Ashkenazi A,Smith DH,Marsters SA,Riddle L,Gregory TJ,Ho DD,Capon DJ

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonhomologous integration vectors have been used to demonstrate the feasibility of insertional mutagenesis in haploid tachyzoites of the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Mutant clones resistant to 5-fluorouracil were identified at a frequency of approximately 10(-6) (approximately 2 x 10(-5) of the stable transfo...

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

authors： Donald RG,Roos DS

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:When grafting or wounding disconnects stem tissues, new tissues are generated to restore the lost connection. In this study, the molecular mechanism of such healing was elucidated in injured stems of Arabidopsis. Soon after the inflorescence stems were incised, the pith cells started to divide. This process was strong...

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

authors： Asahina M,Azuma K,Pitaksaringkarn W,Yamazaki T,Mitsuda N,Ohme-Takagi M,Yamaguchi S,Kamiya Y,Okada K,Nishimura T,Koshiba T,Yokota T,Kamada H,Satoh S

更新日期：2011-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoglobulin heavy-chain variable region (VH) locus in a phylogenetically primitive teleost (Elops saurus) has been characterized by a strategy that relied initially on cross-hybridization between genomic VH segments and a murine VH probe. Using a homologous (Elops) VH probe and DNA sequencing, this gene family ...

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

authors： Amemiya CT,Litman GW

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide variations, including SNPs, in the coding regions of disease genes are important targets for RNAi treatment, which is a promising medical treatment for intractable diseases such as triplet repeat diseases. However, the identification of such nucleotide variations and the design of siRNAs conferring disease ...

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

authors： Takahashi M,Watanabe S,Murata M,Furuya H,Kanazawa I,Wada K,Hohjoh H

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, utilization of galactose requires four inducible enzyme activities. Three of these activities (galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase, EC 2.7.7.10; uridine diphosphogalactose 4-epimerase, EC 5.1.3.2; and galactokinase, EC 2.7.1.6) are specified by three tightly linked genes (GAL7, GAL10,...

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

authors： Hopper JE,Broach JR,Rowe LB

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the technical bottlenecks in producing nonhuman primate models is that current assisted reproductive techniques, such as in vitro culture and frozen conservation of multicell-stage embryos, often result in poor embryo quality and subsequently lead to low birth rates. We investigated whether pronuclear embryo tr...

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

authors： Sun Q,Dong J,Yang W,Jin Y,Yang M,Wang Y,Wang PL,Hu Y,Tsien JZ

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple protein subcomplexes of the kinetochore cooperate as a cohesive molecular unit that forms load-bearing microtubule attachments that drive mitotic chromosome movements. There is intriguing evidence suggesting that central kinetochore components influence kinetochore-microtubule attachment, but the mechanism re...

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

authors： Kudalkar EM,Scarborough EA,Umbreit NT,Zelter A,Gestaut DR,Riffle M,Johnson RS,MacCoss MJ,Asbury CL,Davis TN

更新日期：2015-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Myofibril formation was visualized in cultured live cardiomyocytes that were transfected with plasmids expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP) linked to the Z-band protein, alpha-actinin. The expression of this fluorescent protein provided an in vivo label for structures containing alpha-actinin. The GFP-alpha-acti...

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

authors： Dabiri GA,Turnacioglu KK,Sanger JM,Sanger JW

更新日期：1997-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-associated myeloid cells (TAMCs) are key drivers of immunosuppression in the tumor microenvironment, which profoundly impedes the clinical response to immune-dependent and conventional therapeutic modalities. As a hallmark of glioblastoma (GBM), TAMCs are massively recruited to reach up to 50% of the brain tumor...

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

authors： Zhang P,Miska J,Lee-Chang C,Rashidi A,Panek WK,An S,Zannikou M,Lopez-Rosas A,Han Y,Xiao T,Pituch KC,Kanojia D,Balyasnikova IV,Lesniak MS

更新日期：2019-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:New Zealand Black (NZB) mice develop after 16 weeks of age an autoimmune and lymphoproliferative disease which is a model for systemic lupus erythematosus and lymphoid malignancy in humans. At this age, the mice manifest a progressive decline in T lymphocyte (thymus-derived lymphocyte) functions and serum thymosin lev...

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

authors： Dauphinee MJ,Talal N,Goldstein AL,White A

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The T-box transcription factor TBX5 plays essential roles in cardiac and limb development. Various mutations in the TBX5 gene have been identified in patients with Holt-Oram syndrome, which is characterized by congenital defects in the heart and upper extremities. In this study, we identified a WW-domain-containing tr...

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

authors： Murakami M,Nakagawa M,Olson EN,Nakagawa O

更新日期：2005-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A library of amphiphilic Janus dendrimers including two that are fluorescent and one glycodendrimer presenting lactose were used to construct giant dendrimersomes and glycodendrimersomes. Coassembly with the components of bacterial membrane vesicles by a dehydration-rehydration process generated giant cell-like hybrid...

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

authors： Xiao Q,Yadavalli SS,Zhang S,Sherman SE,Fiorin E,da Silva L,Wilson DA,Hammer DA,André S,Gabius HJ,Klein ML,Goulian M,Percec V

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A definitive assay for microbiological and biochemical research on the biodegradation of lignin was developed using radioactive synthetic lignins specifically labeled in the side chains, aromatic rings or in the methoxyl groups. The [14C]lignins were prepared by oxidative polymerization with peroxidase and H2O2 Of spe...

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

authors： Kirk TK,Connors WJ,Bleam RD,Hackett WF,Zeikus JG

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike normal cells, malignant rat and two simian virus 40-transformed human cell lines can neither grow nor survive in B12-and folate-supplemented media in which methionine is replaced by homocysteine. Yet three lines of evidence indicate that the malignant and transformed cells synthesize large amounts of methionine...

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

authors： Hoffman RM,Erbe RW

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Xlim-1 gene is activated in the late blastula stage of Xenopus embryogenesis in the mesoderm, and its RNA product becomes concentrated in the Spemann organizer at early gastrula stage. A major regulator of early expression of Xlim-1 is activin or an activin-like signal. We report experiments aiming to identify the...

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

authors： Rebbert ML,Dawid IB

更新日期：1997-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Activator-dependent recruitment of TFIID initiates formation of the transcriptional preinitiation complex. TFIID binds core promoter DNA elements and directs the assembly of other general transcription factors, leading to binding of RNA polymerase II and activation of RNA synthesis. How TATA box-binding protein (TBP) ...

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

authors： Wright KJ,Marr MT 2nd,Tjian R

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Deciphering the electron transfer reactivity characteristics of amyloid β-peptide copper complexes is an important task in connection with the role they are assumed to play in Alzheimer's disease. A systematic analysis of this question with the example of the amyloid β-peptide copper complex by means of its electroche...

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

authors： Balland V,Hureau C,Savéant JM

更新日期：2010-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATM (ataxia telangiectasia mutated) protein plays a central role in sensing and responding to DNA double-strand breaks. Lymphoid cells are unique in undergoing physiologic double-strand breaks in the processes of Ig class switch recombination and T or B cell receptor V(D)J recombination, and a role for ATM in thes...

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

authors： Vacchio MS,Olaru A,Livak F,Hodes RJ

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00