Circadian rise in maternal glucocorticoid prevents pulmonary dysplasia in fetal mice with adrenal insufficiency.

abstract：:While the concept of intercellular mechanical communication has been revealed, the mechanistic insights have been poorly evidenced in the context of myofibroblast-fibroblast interaction during fibrosis expansion. Here we report and systematically investigate the mechanical force-mediated myofibroblast-fibroblast cross...

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

authors： Liu L,Yu H,Zhao H,Wu Z,Long Y,Zhang J,Yan X,You Z,Zhou L,Xia T,Shi Y,Xiao B,Wang Y,Huang C,Du Y

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodicities in the polar/apolar character of the amino acid sequence of a protein can be examined by assigning to each residue a numerical hydrophobicity and searching for periodicity in the resulting one-dimensional function. The strength of each periodic component is the quantity that has been termed the hydrophob...

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

authors： Eisenberg D,Weiss RM,Terwilliger TC

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative disorders are associated with the cytoplasmic aggregation of microtubule-associated protein tau. Recent evidence supports transcellular transfer of tau misfolding (seeding) as the mechanism of spread within an affected brain, a process reminiscent of viral infection...

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

authors： McEwan WA,Falcon B,Vaysburd M,Clift D,Oblak AL,Ghetti B,Goedert M,James LC

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulation by isoproterenol causes large increases in the activity of rat pineal N-acetyltransferase (arylamine acetyltransferase or acetyl-CoA:arylamine N-acetyltransferase, EC 2.3.1.5) after a variable lag period. Lengthening periods of exposure to light cause rapid increases in the sensitivity of pineal N-acetyltr...

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

authors： Romero JA,Axelrod J

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leaf-cutting ants combine large-scale herbivory with fungus farming to sustain advanced societies. Their stratified colonies are major evolutionary achievements and serious agricultural pests, but the crucial adaptations that allowed this mutualism to become the prime herbivorous component of neotropical ecosystems ha...

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

authors： De Fine Licht HH,Schiøtt M,Rogowska-Wrzesinska A,Nygaard S,Roepstorff P,Boomsma JJ

更新日期：2013-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a recessive disease caused by mutations in the CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene. The most common symptoms include progressive lung disease and chronic digestive conditions. CF is the first human genetic disease to benefit from having five different species of animal models. De...

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

authors： Kim K,Lane EA,Saftien A,Wang H,Xu Y,Wirtz-Peitz F,Perrimon N

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently several attempts to identify oxygen-derived radicals in whole cells by spin trapping and electron spin resonance have been reported by using 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline-N-oxide as the spin trap. In the present study, the feasibility of this method is examined. Chinese hamster V79 cells and human erythrocytes ser...

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

authors： Samuni A,Carmichael AJ,Russo A,Mitchell JB,Riesz P

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are interested in tracking changes in large-scale data by periodically creating an agglomerative clustering and examining the evolution of clusters (communities) over time. We examine a large real-world data set: the NEC CiteSeer database, a linked network of >250,000 papers. Tracking changes over time requires a c...

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

authors： Hopcroft J,Khan O,Kulis B,Selman B

更新日期：2004-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25-(OH)2vitamin D3] analog KH1060 exerts very potent effects on cell proliferation and cell differentiation via the vitamin D receptor (VDR). However, the activities of KH1060 are not associated with an increased affinity for the VDR. We now show that increased stabilization of the VDR-...

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

authors： van den Bemd GC,Pols HA,Birkenhäger JC,van Leeuwen JP

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional unit molecular size of the intestinal brush border membrane-bound Na+/glucose cotransporter was determined by radiation inactivation. Purified brush border membrane vesicles preserved in cryoprotectant buffer were irradiated (-135 degrees C) with high-energy electrons from a 13-MeV (1 eV = 1.602 x 10(-1...

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

authors： Stevens BR,Fernandez A,Hirayama B,Wright EM,Kempner ES

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A central tenet of evolutionary social science holds that behaviors, such as those associated with social dominance, produce fitness effects that are subject to cultural selection. However, evidence for such selection is inconclusive because it is based on short-term statistical associations between behavior and ferti...

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

authors： Lansing JS,Watkins JC,Hallmark B,Cox MP,Karafet TM,Sudoyo H,Hammer MF

更新日期：2008-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial pathogen Vibrio parahaemolyticus utilizes a type III secretion system to cause death of host cells within hours of infection. We report that cell death is completely independent of apoptosis and occurs by a mechanism in which injection of multiple type III effectors causes induction of autophagy, cell ro...

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

authors： Burdette DL,Yarbrough ML,Orvedahl A,Gilpin CJ,Orth K

更新日期：2008-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication through damaged sites in DNA requires in Escherichia coli the SOS stress-inducible DNA polymerase V (UmuC), which is specialized for lesion bypass. Homologs of the umuC gene were found on native conjugative plasmids, which often carry multiple antibiotic-resistant genes. MucB is a UmuC homolog present on p...

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

authors： Goldsmith M,Sarov-Blat L,Livneh Z

更新日期：2000-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature lability of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGP; glucose-1-phosphate adenylyltransferase; ADP: alpha-D-glucose-1-phosphate adenylyltransferase, EC 2.7.7.27), a key starch biosynthetic enzyme, may play a significant role in the heat-induced loss in maize seed weight and yield. Here we report the isolation an...

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

authors： Greene TW,Hannah LC

更新日期：1998-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A loss-of-function mutation in the APC gene initiates colorectal carcinogenesis. Although the molecular mechanism of tumor initiation is complex, several modifier genes have been identified using mouse models, including the ApcMin mouse. Among the familial adenomatous polyposis mouse lines carrying a truncation mutati...

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

authors： Shibata H,Takano H,Ito M,Shioya H,Hirota M,Matsumoto H,Kakudo Y,Ishioka C,Akiyama T,Kanegae Y,Saito I,Noda T

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytosine methylation is an epigenetic mark that promotes gene silencing and plays important roles in development and genome defense against transposons. Methylation patterns are established and maintained by DNA methyltransferases that catalyze transfer of a methyl group from S-adenosyl-L-methionine to cytosine bases ...

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

authors： Morales-Ruiz T,Ortega-Galisteo AP,Ponferrada-Marín MI,Martínez-Macías MI,Ariza RR,Roldán-Arjona T

更新日期：2006-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Femtosecond and subfemtosecond time scales typically rule electron dynamics at metal surfaces. Recent advance in experimental techniques permits now remarkable precision in the description of these processes. In particular, shorter time scales, smaller system sizes, and spin-dependent effects are current targets of in...

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

authors： Muiño RD,Sánchez-Portal D,Silkin VM,Chulkov EV,Echenique PM

更新日期：2011-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenic sites of horse and rat cytochromes c in the major antigenic region were compared using a panel of variant cytochromes c and a large number of BALB/c mouse monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) in competitive ELISAs. The major antigenic region of cytochrome c is located on the surface opposite of that containing t...

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

authors： Jemmerson R,Johnson JG

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This report provides direct evidence that strigolactone (SL) positively regulates drought and high salinity responses in Arabidopsis. Both SL-deficient and SL-response [more axillary growth (max)] mutants exhibited hypersensitivity to drought and salt stress, which was associated with shoot- rather than root-related t...

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

authors： Ha CV,Leyva-González MA,Osakabe Y,Tran UT,Nishiyama R,Watanabe Y,Tanaka M,Seki M,Yamaguchi S,Dong NV,Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K,Shinozaki K,Herrera-Estrella L,Tran LS

更新日期：2014-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations at position 187 in secreted gelsolin enable aberrant proteolysis at the 172-173 and 243-244 amide bonds, affording the 71-residue amyloidogenic peptide deposited in Familial Amyloidosis of Finnish Type (FAF). Thermodynamic comparisons of two different domain 2 constructs were carried out to study possible ef...

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

authors： Ratnaswamy G,Huff ME,Su AI,Rion S,Kelly JW

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent functional imaging studies have revealed coactivation in a distributed network of cortical regions that characterizes the resting state, or default mode, of the human brain. Among the brain regions implicated in this network, several, including the posterior cingulate cortex and inferior parietal lobes, have al...

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

authors： Greicius MD,Srivastava G,Reiss AL,Menon V

更新日期：2004-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Infants' sensitivity to contingent reactivity as an indicator of intentional agency has been demonstrated by numerous referential gaze-following studies. Here we propose that variability of signal sequences in a turn-taking exchange provides an informative cue for infants to recognize interactions that may involve com...

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

authors： Tauzin T,Gergely G

更新日期：2019-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified and purified a cell surface glycoprotein from retina and brain, called neural cell adhesion molecule or N-CAM, that appears to be involved in neural cell--cell adhesion, the fasciculation of neurites, and the formation of normal tissue patterns in the retina. The present studies reveal th...

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

authors： Rutishauser U,Hoffman S,Edelman GM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Historical scenarios of evolution of avian plumage coloration have been called into question with the discoveries that most birds can see UV light (which normal humans cannot), and that UV-reflecting plumages are widespread in birds. Several examples of sexual dichromatism not detectable with human visual capabilities...

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

authors： Eaton MD

更新日期：2005-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine mammary tumor virus (MMTV) expression is analyzed in a T-lymphoid cell line (T1M1) sensitive to the killing effect of glucocorticoids and in two of its variants, one resistant (T1M1r) and one supersensitive (T1M1ss) to glucocorticoid-induced lymphocytolysis. In the T1M1 line, MMTV is expressed and induced appro...

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

authors： Mermod JJ,Bourgeois S,Defer N,Crépin M

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：:Translation initiation of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA genome occurs through an internal ribosome entry site in a cap-independent manner. Here, we have examined the interaction between La antigen and the HCV 5' noncoding region (5'NCR). In this analysis, competitor RNAs derived from HCV 5'NCR carrying deletions and...

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

authors： Ali N,Siddiqui A

更新日期：1997-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The mode of action of "allogeneic supernatant" (the culture supernatant of a 24-hr mixedlymphocyte reaction), has been studied. This factor stimulates the response of spleen cell cultures depleted in thymus-derived lymphoid cells (T-cells) to antigens that elicit a thymus-dependent response. We used a limiting dilutio...

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

authors： Hunter P,Kettman JR

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization in plants leads to transinteractions between the parental genomes and epigenomes that can result in changes to both 24 nt siRNA and cytosine methylation ((m)C) levels in the hybrid. In Arabidopsis the principle processes altering the hybrid methylome are Trans Chromosomal Methylation (TCM) and Trans Chro...

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

authors： Greaves IK,Groszmann M,Wang A,Peacock WJ,Dennis ES

更新日期：2014-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In the antennal lobe of Drosophila, information about odors is transferred from olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) to projection neurons (PNs), which then send axons to neurons in the lateral horn of the protocerebrum (LHNs) and to Kenyon cells (KCs) in the mushroom body. The transformation from ORN to PN responses can...

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

authors： Luo SX,Axel R,Abbott LF

更新日期：2010-06-08 00:00:00