Mechanism of integrating foreign DNA during transformation of Bacillus subtilis.

abstract：:We developed a helper-dependent adenoviral vector for cystic fibrosis lung gene therapy. The vector expresses cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (Cftr) using control elements from cytokeratin 18. The vector expressed properly localized CFTR in cultured cells and in the airway epithelia of mice. Cftr R...

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

authors： Koehler DR,Sajjan U,Chow YH,Martin B,Kent G,Tanswell AK,McKerlie C,Forstner JF,Hu J

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisense RNA to the 27/32-kDa rat liver gap junction (GJ) protein was used to explore the role of GJs in preimplantation embryos. When all blastomeres of two- and four-cell embryos were injected with GJ antisense RNA, the percentage of embryos compacted at 60 hr of development was reduced to less than 20%, while 90% ...

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

authors： Bevilacqua A,Loch-Caruso R,Erickson RP

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To complete the set of synthetic analogs of the three recognized types of active sites in iron-sulfur redox proteins, the compound (Et4N)[Fe((SCH2)2C6H4)2], derived from o-xylyl-alpha,alpha'-dithiol, has been prepared and its structure has been determined by x-ray diffraction. The bischelate anion contains a near-tetr...

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

authors： Lane RW,Ibers JA,Frankel RB,Holm RH

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the human ether-a-go-go-related gene 1, hERG1, are associated with cardiac arrhythmias. The Kv11.1 channels encoded by hERG1 are also essential for rhythmic excitability of the pituitary, where they are regulated by thyroid hormone through a signal transduction cascade involvi...

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

authors： Gentile S,Martin N,Scappini E,Williams J,Erxleben C,Armstrong DL

更新日期：2008-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila melanogaster CRYPTOCHROME (CRY) mediates behavioral and electrophysiological responses to blue light coded by circadian and arousal neurons. However, spectroscopic and biochemical assays of heterologously expressed CRY suggest that CRY may mediate functional responses to UV-A (ultraviolet A) light as well. ...

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

authors： Baik LS,Fogle KJ,Roberts L,Galschiodt AM,Chevez JA,Recinos Y,Nguy V,Holmes TC

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential scanning microcalorimetry provides a noninvasive method for studying heat evolution in living cells. We used this technique to measure the heat evolved by thioglycollate broth-elicited mouse macrophages, and the effects of NaF, KCN, cycloheximide, and cytochalasins B and D on this parameter. The total hea...

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

authors： Loike JD,Silverstein SC,Sturtevant JM

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed model of the G(2) DNA damage checkpoint (G2DDC) system is presented that includes complex regulatory networks of the mitotic kinase Cdc2, phosphatase Cdc25, Wee1 kinase, and damage signal transduction pathways involving Chk1 and p53. Assumptions on the kinetic equations of the G2DDC are made, and computer s...

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

authors： Aguda BD

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in fluorescence microscopy provided tools for the investigation and the analysis of the viral replication steps in the cellular context. In the HIV field, the current visualization systems successfully achieve the fluorescent labeling of the viral envelope and proteins, but not the genome. Here, we dev...

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

authors： Di Primio C,Quercioli V,Allouch A,Gijsbers R,Christ F,Debyser Z,Arosio D,Cereseto A

更新日期：2013-04-02 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：:Primary cultures of differentiated liver cells from fetal rats respond to serum from partially hepatectomized rats by an increased uptake of [(3)H]thymidine and [(3)H]leucine as compared with cultures incubated with normal rat serum. These findings are discussed in relation to the mechanism of induction of DNA synthes...

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

authors： Paul D,Leffert H,Sato G,Holley RW

更新日期：1972-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paracoccidioidomycosis, a disease caused by Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, which is endemic to Latin America, is much more common in men than women, suggesting a role for hormonal factors. We recently showed that two other yeasts possess steroid binding proteins and postulated that these receptor-like molecules repres...

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

authors： Loose DS,Stover EP,Restrepo A,Stevens DA,Feldman D

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmission electron microscopy studies have been used to argue that magnetite crystals in carbonate from Martian meteorite ALH84001 have a composition and morphology indistinguishable from that of magnetotactic bacteria. It has even been claimed from scanning electron microscopy imaging that some ALH84001 magnetite ...

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

authors： Weiss BP,Kim SS,Kirschvink JL,Kopp RE,Sankaran M,Kobayashi A,Komeili A

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiosis-specific homologs of RecA protein have been identified in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and higher eukaryotes including mammals, but their enzymatic activities have not been described. We have purified the human protein HsDmc1 produced in Escherichia coli from a cloned copy of the cDNA. The recombinant enzyme had D...

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

authors： Li Z,Golub EI,Gupta R,Radding CM

更新日期：1997-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmentally regulated genes in Drosophila, which are conserved through evolution, are potential candidates for key functions in biological processes such as cell cycle, programmed cell death, and cancer. We report cloning and characterization of the human homologue of the Drosophila seven in absentia gene (HUMSIAH...

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

authors： Nemani M,Linares-Cruz G,Bruzzoni-Giovanelli H,Roperch JP,Tuynder M,Bougueleret L,Cherif D,Medhioub M,Pasturaud P,Alvaro V,der Sarkissan H,Cazes L,Le Paslier D,Le Gall I,Israeli D,Dausset J,Sigaux F,Chumakov I,Oren M,

更新日期：1996-08-20 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：:Atmospheric models generally assume that aerosol particles are in equilibrium with the surrounding gas phase. However, recent observations that secondary organic aerosols can exist in a glassy state have highlighted the need to more fully understand the kinetic limitations that may control water partitioning in ambien...

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

authors： Bones DL,Reid JP,Lienhard DM,Krieger UK

更新日期：2012-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Nannofossils section sign here described are from the middle Proterozoic Paradise Creek Formation, along Paradise Creek in northwestern Queensland, Australia. These fossils, in chert blebs associated with branched stromatolites, comprise cubic colonies analogous to living Eucapsis, a member of the blue-green algal fam...

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

authors： Licari GR,Cloud PE,Smith WD

更新日期：1969-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation plays an important role in pathological angiogenesis. Receptor-interacting protein 1 (RIP1) is highly expressed in inflammatory cells and is known to play an important role in the regulation of apoptosis, necroptosis, and inflammation; however, a comprehensive description of its role in angiogenesis remai...

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

authors： Ueta T,Ishihara K,Notomi S,Lee JJ,Maidana DE,Efstathiou NE,Murakami Y,Hasegawa E,Azuma K,Toyono T,Paschalis EI,Aihara M,Miller JW,Vavvas DG

更新日期：2019-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Although melanomas with mutant v-Raf murine sarcoma viral oncogene homolog B1 (BRAF) can now be effectively targeted, there is no molecular target for most melanomas expressing wild-type BRAF. Here, we show that the activation of Pleckstrin homology domain-interacting protein (PHIP), promotes melanoma metastasis, can ...

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

authors： De Semir D,Nosrati M,Bezrookove V,Dar AA,Federman S,Bienvenu G,Venna S,Rangel J,Climent J,Meyer Tamgüney TM,Thummala S,Tong S,Leong SP,Haqq C,Billings P,Miller JR 3rd,Sagebiel RW,Debs R,Kashani-Sabet M

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sympatric speciation has been controversial since it was first proposed as a mode of speciation. Subterranean blind mole rats (Spalacidae) are considered to speciate allopatrically or peripatrically. Here, we report a possible incipient sympatric adaptive ecological speciation in Spalax galili (2n = 52). The study mic...

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

authors： Hadid Y,Tzur S,Pavlícek T,Šumbera R,Šklíba J,Lövy M,Fragman-Sapir O,Beiles A,Arieli R,Raz S,Nevo E

更新日期：2013-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracisternal A-particles were isolated from three different myeloma lines in BALB/c mice and from cultured neuroblastoma cells of A/J origin. All preparations contained a major structural protein with an apparent molecular weight near 70,000 as estimated by electrophoretic mobility in sodium dodecyl sulfate-containi...

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

authors： Kuff EL,Leuders KK,Ozer HL,Wivel NA

更新日期：1972-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylcholine (PC) is the major glycerophospholipid in eukaryotic cells and is an essential component in all cellular membranes. The biochemistry of de novo PC synthesis by the Kennedy pathway is well established, but less is known about the physiological functions of PC. We identified two unrelated patients wit...

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

authors： Payne F,Lim K,Girousse A,Brown RJ,Kory N,Robbins A,Xue Y,Sleigh A,Cochran E,Adams C,Dev Borman A,Russel-Jones D,Gorden P,Semple RK,Saudek V,O'Rahilly S,Walther TC,Barroso I,Savage DB

更新日期：2014-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The human eosinophil differentiation factor (EDF) gene was cloned from a genomic library in lambda phage EMBL3A by using a murine EDF cDNA clone as a probe. The DNA sequence of a 3.2-kilobase BamHI fragment spanning the gene was determined. The gene contains three introns. The predicted amino acid sequence of 134 amin...

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

authors： Campbell HD,Tucker WQ,Hort Y,Martinson ME,Mayo G,Clutterbuck EJ,Sanderson CJ,Young IG

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells play a critical role in controlling malignancies. Susceptibility or resistance to lung cancer, for example, specifically depends on NK cell function. Nevertheless, intrinsic factors that control NK cell-mediated clearance of lung cancer are unknown. Here we report that NK cells exposed to exo...

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

authors： Shi L,Li K,Guo Y,Banerjee A,Wang Q,Lorenz UM,Parlak M,Sullivan LC,Onyema OO,Arefanian S,Stelow EB,Brautigan DL,Bullock TNJ,Brown MG,Krupnick AS

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex I functions as a redox-linked proton pump in the respiratory chains of mitochondria and bacteria, driven by the reduction of quinone (Q) by NADH. Remarkably, the distance between the Q reduction site and the most distant proton channels extends nearly 200 Å. To elucidate the molecular origin of this long-range...

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

authors： Sharma V,Belevich G,Gamiz-Hernandez AP,Róg T,Vattulainen I,Verkhovskaya ML,Wikström M,Hummer G,Kaila VR

更新日期：2015-09-15 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：:In 2005 four outstanding multiple burials were discovered near Eulau, Germany. The 4,600-year-old graves contained groups of adults and children buried facing each other. Skeletal and artifactual evidence and the simultaneous interment of the individuals suggest the supposed families fell victim to a violent event. In...

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

authors： Haak W,Brandt G,de Jong HN,Meyer C,Ganslmeier R,Heyd V,Hawkesworth C,Pike AW,Meller H,Alt KW

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrogenesis is repressed in the early embryonic period and occurs in the late embryonic period. A variety of external and internal signals contribute to the sequential differentiation of neural stem cells. Here, we discovered that immune-related CD93 plays a critical negative role in the regulation of astrogenesis in...

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

authors： Liang Q,Su L,Zhang D,Jiao J

更新日期：2020-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The COVID-19 pandemic is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and has spread worldwide, with millions of cases and more than 1 million deaths to date. The gravity of the situation mandates accelerated efforts to identify safe and effective vaccines. Here, we generated measles virus (M...

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

authors： Hörner C,Schürmann C,Auste A,Ebenig A,Muraleedharan S,Dinnon KH 3rd,Scholz T,Herrmann M,Schnierle BS,Baric RS,Mühlebach MD

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Natively unfolded proteins play key roles in normal and pathological biochemical processes. Despite their importance for function, this category of proteins remains beyond the reach of classical structural biology because of their inherent conformational heterogeneity. We present a description of the intrinsic conform...

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

authors： Bernadó P,Blanchard L,Timmins P,Marion D,Ruigrok RW,Blackledge M

更新日期：2005-11-22 00:00:00