RNAs that bind and change the permeability of phospholipid membranes.

abstract：:The neural pathway that governs an escape response of Drosophila to sudden changes in light intensity can be artificially induced by electrical stimulation of the brain and monitored by electrical recording from the effector muscles. We have refined previous work in this system to permit reliable ascertainment of two ...

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

authors： Lin M,Nash HA

更新日期：1996-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In the primary visual cortex (V1) of many mammalian species, neurons are spatially organized according to their preferred orientation into a highly ordered map. However, whether and how the various presynaptic inputs to V1 neurons are organized relative to the neuronal orientation map remain unclear. To address this i...

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

authors： Zhang QF,Li H,Chen M,Guo A,Wen Y,Poo MM

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Invading organisms may spread through local movements (giving rise to a diffusion-like process) and by long-distance jumps, which are often human-mediated. The local spread of invading organisms has been fit with varying success to models that couple local population growth with diffusive spread, but to date no quanti...

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

authors： Suarez AV,Holway DA,Case TJ

更新日期：2001-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We applied the directional tag PCR subtractive hybridization method to construct a rat hypothalamic cDNA library from which cerebellar and hippocampal sequences had been depleted, enriching 20-30-fold for sequences expressed selectively in the hypothalamus. We studied a sample of 94 clones selected for enrichment in t...

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

authors： Gautvik KM,de Lecea L,Gautvik VT,Danielson PE,Tranque P,Dopazo A,Bloom FE,Sutcliffe JG

更新日期：1996-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We have screened a human DNA library using as probe a chimpanzee sequence that contains homology to the polymerase gene of the endogenous baboon virus. One set of overlapping clones spans about 20 kilobases and contains regions of DNA sequence homology to the gag p30, gag p15, and polymerase genes of Moloney murine le...

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

authors： Bonner TI,O'Connell C,Cohen M

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA movements and localization pervade biology, from embryonic development to disease. To identify RNAs at specific locations, we developed a strategy in which a uridine-adding enzyme is anchored to subcellular sites, where it directly marks RNAs with 3' terminal uridines. This localized RNA recording approach yields ...

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

authors： Medina-Munoz HC,Lapointe CP,Porter DF,Wickens M

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic genes for human insulin A and B chains were cloned separately in plasmid pBR322. The cloned synthetic genes were then fused to an Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase gene to provide efficient transcription and translation and a stable precursor protein. The insulin peptides were cleaved from beta-galactosida...

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

authors： Goeddel DV,Kleid DG,Bolivar F,Heyneker HL,Yansura DG,Crea R,Hirose T,Kraszewski A,Itakura K,Riggs AD

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformational change in amyloid beta (Abeta) peptide from its monomeric form to aggregates is crucial in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). In the healthy brain, some unidentified chaperones appear to prevent the aggregation of Abeta. Here we reported that lipocalin-type prostaglandin D synthase (L-PGD...

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

authors： Kanekiyo T,Ban T,Aritake K,Huang ZL,Qu WM,Okazaki I,Mohri I,Murayama S,Ozono K,Taniike M,Goto Y,Urade Y

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Juvenile hormone III (JH) plays a key role in regulating the reproduction of female mosquitoes. Microarray time-course analysis revealed dynamic changes in gene expression during posteclosion (PE) development in the fat body of female Aedes aegypti. Hierarchical clustering identified three major gene clusters: 1,843 e...

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

authors： Zou Z,Saha TT,Roy S,Shin SW,Backman TW,Girke T,White KP,Raikhel AS

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most long-lived models in plant science is the belief that the long-distance transport and ratio of two plant hormones, auxin and cytokinin, at the site of action control major developmental events such as apical dominance. We have used in vivo deuterium labeling and mass spectrometry to investigate the dyn...

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

authors： Nordström A,Tarkowski P,Tarkowska D,Norbaek R,Astot C,Dolezal K,Sandberg G

更新日期：2004-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Ventriculo-cisternal perfusion of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) in the mouse brain has demonstrated that a brain-blood barrier exists at the microvascular endothelium in brain parenchyma but not in the median eminence of the hypothalamus. The brain-blood barrier is similar to the blood-brain barrier in that: tight junc...

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

authors： Broadwell RD,Balin BJ,Salcman M,Kaplan RS

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chromosomal locus required for copper resistance and competitive fitness was cloned from a strain of Pseudomonas fluorescens isolated from copper-contaminated agricultural soil. Sequence analysis of this locus revealed six open reading frames with homology to genes involved in cytochrome c biogenesis in other bacter...

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

authors： Yang CH,Azad HR,Cooksey DA

更新日期：1996-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Biologists regularly search databases of DNA or protein sequences for evolutionary or functional relationships to a given query sequence. We describe a ranking algorithm that exploits the entire network structure of similarity relationships among proteins in a sequence database by performing a diffusion operation on a...

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

authors： Weston J,Elisseeff A,Zhou D,Leslie CS,Noble WS

更新日期：2004-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzyme cytochemistry has been used, at the light and electron microscope levels, to "mark" cytoplasmic organelles of mammalian cells. Catalase cytochemistry permitted identification of microperoxisomes, apparently ubiquitous organelles that are attached by numerous slender connections to the endoplasmic reticulum. Thi...

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

authors： Novikoff AB

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:KcsA is a prokaryotic pH-dependent potassium (K) channel. Its activation, by a decrease in the intracellular pH, is coupled with its subsequent inactivation, but the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. Here, we have investigated the conformational changes and equilibrium of KcsA by using solution NMR spectroscopy. C...

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

authors： Imai S,Osawa M,Takeuchi K,Shimada I

更新日期：2010-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Polysomes (S-20) from homogenates of guinea pig liver synthesized serum albumin and a precursor of the fourth component of guinea pig complement (C4) in vitro. The C4 precursor (pro-C4) accounted for approximately 0.2% and albumin 4% of the radiolabeled protein precipitable by trichloroacetic acid and not bound to pol...

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

authors： Hall RE,Colten HR

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 33-amino-acid ankyrin motif comprises a beta-turn followed by two anti-parallel alpha-helices and a loop and tandem arrays of the motif pack in a linear fashion to produce elongated structures characterized by short-range interactions. In this article we use site-directed mutagenesis to investigate the kinetic unf...

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

authors： Werbeck ND,Rowling PJ,Chellamuthu VR,Itzhaki LS

更新日期：2008-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of bacteria in the natural environment live within the confines of a biofilm. The Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis forms biofilms that exhibit a characteristic wrinkled morphology and a highly hydrophobic surface. A critical component in generating these properties is the protein BslA, which form...

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

authors： Bromley KM,Morris RJ,Hobley L,Brandani G,Gillespie RM,McCluskey M,Zachariae U,Marenduzzo D,Stanley-Wall NR,MacPhee CE

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Inelastic electron tunneling spectra of nucleosides and nucleotides are presented which show that detailed information on the vibrational spectra of these molecules can be obtained from a few micrograms of material. A series of studies on adenine derivatives demonstrates that unambiguous identification of a large numb...

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

authors： Clark JM,Coleman RV

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:αβ T-cell repertoire selection is mediated by peptide-MHC complexes presented by thymic epithelial or myeloid cells, and by lipid-CD1 complexes expressed by thymocytes. γδ T-cell repertoire selection, by contrast, is largely unresolved. Mice mutant for Skint-1, a unique Ig superfamily gene, do not develop canonical Vγ...

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

authors： Barbee SD,Woodward MJ,Turchinovich G,Mention JJ,Lewis JM,Boyden LM,Lifton RP,Tigelaar R,Hayday AC

更新日期：2011-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear factor-erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) is a key transcriptional regulator for antioxidant and anti-inflammation enzymes that binds to its endogenous inhibitor protein, Kelch-like ECH (erythroid cell-derived protein with CNC homology)-associated protein 1, in the cytoplasm under normal conditions. Various e...

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

authors： Kim SB,Pandita RK,Eskiocak U,Ly P,Kaisani A,Kumar R,Cornelius C,Wright WE,Pandita TK,Shay JW

更新日期：2012-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the glycolytic enzyme triose-phosphate isomerase (TPI; EC 5.3.1.1) has been central to the long-standing controversy on the origin and evolutionary significance of spliceosomal introns by virtue of its pivotal support for the introns-early view, or exon theory of genes. Putative correlations between ...

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

authors： Logsdon JM Jr,Tyshenko MG,Dixon C,D-Jafari J,Walker VK,Palmer JD

更新日期：1995-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Fisheries-induced evolution and its impact on the productivity of exploited fish stocks remains a highly contested research topic in applied fish evolution and fisheries science. Although many quantitative models assume that larger, more fecund fish are preferentially removed by fishing, there is no empirical evidence...

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

authors： Sutter DA,Suski CD,Philipp DP,Klefoth T,Wahl DH,Kersten P,Cooke SJ,Arlinghaus R

更新日期：2012-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The MARCKS protein is a widely distributed cellular substrate for protein kinase C. It is a myristoylprotein that binds calmodulin and actin in a manner reversible by protein kinase C-dependent phosphorylation. It is also highly expressed in nervous tissue, particularly during development. To evaluate a possible devel...

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

authors： Stumpo DJ,Bock CB,Tuttle JS,Blackshear PJ

更新日期：1995-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A search for potent toxins that inhibit neuronal calcium channels in Drosophila melanogaster has resulted in the identification of a presynaptic neurotoxin from the venom of the hunting spider Hololena curta. Using Drosophila neuromuscular junction as an assay, presynaptic inhibitory activity was purified using gel fi...

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

authors： Bowers CW,Phillips HS,Lee P,Jan YN,Jan LY

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene networks underlying closure of the optic fissure during vertebrate eye development are poorly understood. Here, we profile global gene expression during optic fissure closure using laser capture microdissected (LCM) tissue from the margins of the fissure. From these data, we identify a unique role for the C(2...

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

authors： Brown JD,Dutta S,Bharti K,Bonner RF,Munson PJ,Dawid IB,Akhtar AL,Onojafe IF,Alur RP,Gross JM,Hejtmancik JF,Jiao X,Chan WY,Brooks BP

更新日期：2009-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasopressin's action in renal cells to regulate water transport depends on protein phosphorylation. Here we used mass spectrometry-based quantitative phosphoproteomics to identify signaling pathways involved in the short-term V2-receptor-mediated response in cultured collecting duct cells (mpkCCD) from mouse. Using St...

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

authors： Rinschen MM,Yu MJ,Wang G,Boja ES,Hoffert JD,Pisitkun T,Knepper MA

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence suggests that cholinergic input to the hippocampus plays an important role in learning and memory and that degeneration of cholinergic terminals in the hippocampus may contribute to the memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease. One of the more prominent effects of cholinergic agonists on hippocampal ph...

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

authors： Marino MJ,Rouse ST,Levey AI,Potter LT,Conn PJ

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium abscessus (Mabs) is a rapidly growing Mycobacterium and an emerging pathogen in humans. Transitioning from a smooth (S) high-glycopeptidolipid (GPL) producer to a rough (R) low-GPL producer is associated with increased virulence in zebrafish, which involves the formation of massive serpentine cords, absc...

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

authors： Halloum I,Carrère-Kremer S,Blaise M,Viljoen A,Bernut A,Le Moigne V,Vilchèze C,Guérardel Y,Lutfalla G,Herrmann JL,Jacobs WR Jr,Kremer L

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins that recognize the core sequence GATA are important regulators of hematopoietic-specific gene transcription. We have characterized cDNAs encoding the Xenopus laevis homologues of three related transcription factors, designated GATA-1, -2, and -3. Comparative sequence analysis reveals strong conservation of th...

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

authors： Zon LI,Mather C,Burgess S,Bolce ME,Harland RM,Orkin SH

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00