15-deoxy-delta 12,14-prostaglandin J2 inhibits multiple steps in the NF-kappa B signaling pathway.

abstract：:The mid-winter development of refractoriness to melatonin (Mel) triggers recrudescence of the atrophied reproductive apparatus of rodents. As a consequence, over-wintering animals become reproductively competent just before the onset of spring conditions favorable for breeding. The neural target tissues that cease to ...

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

authors： Freeman DA,Zucker I

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial working memory or short-term place memory is impaired in schizophrenia. The efficiency of antipsychotic drugs, particularly of typical antipsychotics, on cognitive deficit in schizophrenia remains disputable. Inhibition of serotonin (5-HT) 2A/2C receptors is important for cognitive improvement in schizophrenic...

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

authors： Bubenikova-Valesova V,Stuchlik A,Svoboda J,Bures J,Vales K

更新日期：2008-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal unilateral enucleation in mammals causes an extensive anatomical reorganization of visual pathways. The remaining eye innervates the entire extent of visual subcortical and cortical areas. Electrophysiological recordings have shown that the retino-geniculate connections are retinotopically organized and genic...

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

authors： Bisti S,Trimarchi C

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DsRed, a brilliantly red fluorescent protein, was recently cloned from Discosoma coral by homology to the green fluorescent protein (GFP) from the jellyfish Aequorea. A core question in the biochemistry of DsRed is the mechanism by which the GFP-like 475-nm excitation and 500-nm emission maxima of immature DsRed are r...

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

authors： Gross LA,Baird GS,Hoffman RC,Baldridge KK,Tsien RY

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of carbon in Earth's mantle greatly exceeds its modest abundance of approximately 1,000-4,000 ppm. Carbon is a constituent of key terrestrial volatiles (CO, CO(2), CH(4)), it forms diamonds, and it may also contribute to the bulk electrical properties of the silicate Earth. In contrast to that of the ma...

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

authors： Hayden LA,Watson EB

更新日期：2008-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Parathyroid hormone (PTH), the major calcium-regulating hormone, and norepinephrine (NE), the principal neurotransmitter of sympathetic nerves, regulate bone remodeling by activating distinct cell-surface G protein-coupled receptors in osteoblasts: the parathyroid hormone type 1 receptor (PTHR) and the β(2)-adrenergic...

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

authors： Hanyu R,Wehbi VL,Hayata T,Moriya S,Feinstein TN,Ezura Y,Nagao M,Saita Y,Hemmi H,Notomi T,Nakamoto T,Schipani E,Takeda S,Kaneko K,Kurosawa H,Karsenty G,Kronenberg HM,Vilardaga JP,Noda M

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A near-full-length casbene synthase cDNA clone, pCS7, was isolated by using a partial cDNA clone, pCS4, to probe a lambda gt10 library constructed from poly(A)+ RNA from elicited castor bean seedlings. The cDNA insert had a length of 1983 bases with a polyadenylate tail of 19 bases. Translation of the cDNA sequence re...

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

authors： Mau CJ,West CA

更新日期：1994-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The actions of various opioids were examined on calcium action potentials in the cell somata of guinea pig myenteric neurones and on the release of acetylcholine at synapses onto these cells. The opioids morphine, normorphine, and [D-Ala2, MePhe4, Met5(O)]enkephalin-ol caused membrane hyperpolarizations resulting from...

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

authors： Cherubini E,North RA

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeting neuroendocrine tumors expressing somatostatin receptor subtypes (sst) with radiolabeled somatostatin agonists is an established diagnostic and therapeutic approach in oncology. While agonists readily internalize into tumor cells, permitting accumulation of radioactivity, radiolabeled antagonists do not, and ...

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

authors： Ginj M,Zhang H,Waser B,Cescato R,Wild D,Wang X,Erchegyi J,Rivier J,Mäcke HR,Reubi JC

更新日期：2006-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer membrane (OM) of Gram-negative bacteria forms a robust permeability barrier that blocks entry of toxins and antibiotics. Most OM proteins (OMPs) assume a β-barrel fold, and some form aqueous channels for nutrient uptake and efflux of intracellular toxins. The Bam machine catalyzes rapid folding and assembly ...

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

authors： Konovalova A,Grabowicz M,Balibar CJ,Malinverni JC,Painter RE,Riley D,Mann PA,Wang H,Garlisi CG,Sherborne B,Rigel NW,Ricci DP,Black TA,Roemer T,Silhavy TJ,Walker SS

更新日期：2018-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In Paramecium tetraurelia, cyclic nucleotides are important physiological second messengers that could regulate dynein mechanochemistry by phosphorylation. A 29-kDa polypeptide that is phosphorylated in a cAMP- and Ca(2+)-sensitive manner in permeabilized cells and isolated axonemes is the only significant phosphoryla...

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

authors： Hamasaki T,Barkalow K,Richmond J,Satir P

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) may act as regulators of morphogenesis by constraining cell motion, forming borders, and controlling intercellular communications that lead to embryonic induction. This postulated causal role of CAMs in inductive events was tested here in an in vitro system of feather induction. In the d...

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

authors： Gallin WJ,Chuong CM,Finkel LH,Edelman GM

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extinction of a species is inevitably preceded by the extirpation of a series of local populations. Ecological theory predicts that vulnerability to extirpation varies between populations and is ultimately linked to environmental heterogeneity. If populations of a species are present in multiple regions separated ...

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

authors： Yackulic CB,Sanderson EW,Uriarte M

更新日期：2011-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that intracellular Ca2+ is an essential component of the intracellular mechanism of insulin action in the adipocyte was evaluated. Cells were loaded with the Ca2+ chelator quin-2, by preincubating them with quin-2 AM, the tetrakis(acetoxymethyl) ester of quin-2. Quin-2 loading inhibited insulin-stimulat...

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

authors： Pershadsingh HA,Shade DL,Delfert DM,McDonald JM

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed the level of intraindividual sequence variability (heteroplasmy) of mtDNA in human brain by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and sequencing. Single base substitutions, as well as insertions or deletions of single bases, were numerous in the noncoding control region (D-loop), and 35-45% of the m...

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

authors： Jazin EE,Cavelier L,Eriksson I,Oreland L,Gyllensten U

更新日期：1996-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we examine how the introduction of a reference lottery with nonrandom outcomes alters the way in which choices among pairs of lotteries are made, even if it does not alter the choices. We use different domains (some of the lotteries produce gains, other losses) and different contexts (one member of the p...

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

authors： Dickhaut J,McCabe K,Nagode JC,Rustichini A,Smith K,Pardo JV

更新日期：2003-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of gene family members has been aided by the isolation of related genes on the basis of DNA homology. We have adapted the polymerase chain reaction to screen animal genomes very rapidly and reliably for likely gene family members. Using conserved amino acid sequences to design degenerate oligonucleotide prim...

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

authors： Kamb A,Weir M,Rudy B,Varmus H,Kenyon C

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia, reoxygenation, and the tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor pervanadate activate the transcription factor NF-kappaB, involving phosphorylation of its inhibitor IkappaB-alpha on tyrosine 42. This modification does not lead to degradation of IkappaB by the proteasome/ubiquitin pathway, as is seen on stimulation of ce...

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

authors： Béraud C,Henzel WJ,Baeuerle PA

更新日期：1999-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding Hadean (>4 Ga) Earth requires knowledge of its crust. The composition of the crust and volatiles migrating through it directly influence the makeup of the atmosphere, the composition of seawater, and nutrient availability. Despite its importance, there is little known and less agreed upon regarding the n...

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

authors： Boehnke P,Bell EA,Stephan T,Trappitsch R,Keller CB,Pardo OS,Davis AM,Harrison TM,Pellin MJ

更新日期：2018-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) growth pathway detects nutrients through a variety of sensors and regulators that converge on the Rag GTPases, which form heterodimers consisting of RagA or RagB tightly bound to RagC or RagD and control the subcellular localization of mTORC1. The Rag heterodimer ...

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

authors： Shen K,Sabatini DM

更新日期：2018-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Computational and biochemical studies implicate the blue-light sensor cryptochrome (CRY) as an endogenous light-dependent magnetosensor enabling migratory birds to navigate using the Earth's magnetic field. Validation of such a mechanism has been hampered by the absence of structures of vertebrate CRYs that have funct...

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

authors： Zoltowski BD,Chelliah Y,Wickramaratne A,Jarocha L,Karki N,Xu W,Mouritsen H,Hore PJ,Hibbs RE,Green CB,Takahashi JS

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The SKW-3 cell line, which was established from the malignant cells of a patient with T-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia, is characterized by a translocation involving chromosome 8 (band q24) and chromosome 14 (band q11) [t(8;14)(q24;q11)]. To determine the position of the gene encoding the alpha chain of the T-cell ...

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

authors： Shima EA,Le Beau MM,McKeithan TW,Minowada J,Showe LC,Mak TW,Minden MD,Rowley JD,Diaz MO

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuronal nucleus plays a vital role in information processing, but whether it supports computational functions such as paired-pulse facilitation, comparable to synapses, is unclear. Ca(2+)-dependent movement of calmodulin (CaM) to the nucleus is highly responsive to Ca(2+) entry through L-type channels and promote...

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

authors： Mermelstein PG,Deisseroth K,Dasgupta N,Isaksen AL,Tsien RW

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial chemotaxis receptors can detect a small concentration gradient of attractants and repellents in the environment over a wide range of background concentration. The clustering of these receptors to form patches observed in vivo and in vitro has been suspected as a reason for the high sensitivity, and such wide...

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

authors： Kim SH,Wang W,Kim KK

更新日期：2002-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Interstitial telomeric sequences (ITSs) are present in many eukaryotic genomes and are linked to genome instabilities and disease in humans. The mechanisms responsible for ITS-mediated genome instability are not understood in molecular detail. Here, we use a model Saccharomyces cerevisiae system to characterize genome...

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

authors： Aksenova AY,Greenwell PW,Dominska M,Shishkin AA,Kim JC,Petes TD,Mirkin SM

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce a quantitative framework for assessing the generation of crossovers in DNA shuffling experiments. The approach uses free energy calculations and complete sequence information to model the annealing process. Statistics obtained for the annealing events then are combined with a reassembly algorithm to infer...

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

authors： Moore GL,Maranas CD,Lutz S,Benkovic SJ

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene IL-3 encodes interleukin 3, a hematopoietic colony-stimulating factor (CSF) that is capable of supporting the proliferation of a broad range of hematopoietic cell types. By using somatic cell hybrids and in situ chromosomal hybridization, we localized this gene to human chromosome 5 at bands q23-31, a chromos...

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

authors： Le Beau MM,Epstein ND,O'Brien SJ,Nienhuis AW,Yang YC,Clark SC,Rowley JD

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesophyll protoplasts of Lycopersicon esculentum were treated with iodoacetamide to inactivate mitochondria, and protoplasts of Solanum acaule and Solanum tuberosum were irradiated with gamma- or x-rays to inactivate nuclei. Mixtures of protoplasts thus modified were treated with Ca2+ and polyethylene glycol to obtain...

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

authors： Melchers G,Mohri Y,Watanabe K,Wakabayashi S,Harada K

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The araCBAD regulatory region of Escherichia coli contains two divergently oriented promoters and three sites to which AraC, the regulatory protein of the operon, can bind. This paper presents the results of in vivo dimethyl sulfate "footprinting" experiments to monitor occupancy of the three AraC sites and measuremen...

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

authors： Huo L,Martin KJ,Schleif R

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiostrepton (TSR), an archetypal bimacrocyclic thiopeptide antibiotic that arises from complex posttranslational modifications of a genetically encoded precursor peptide, possesses a quinaldic acid (QA) moiety within the side-ring system of a thiopeptide-characteristic framework. Focusing on selective engineering of ...

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

authors： Zheng Q,Wang S,Duan P,Liao R,Chen D,Liu W

更新日期：2016-12-13 00:00:00