The insect neuropeptide prothoracicotropic hormone is released with a daily rhythm: re-evaluation of its role in development.

abstract：:A 10-aa motif in transmembrane helix 1 of diphtheria toxin that is conserved in anthrax edema factor, anthrax lethal factor, and botulinum neurotoxin serotypes A, C, and D was identified by blast, clustal w, and meme computational analysis. Using the diphtheria toxin-related fusion protein toxin DAB(389)IL-2, we demon...

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

authors： Ratts R,Trujillo C,Bharti A,vanderSpek J,Harrison R,Murphy JR

更新日期：2005-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth hormone receptor (GHR) has been demonstrated to be nuclear localized both in vivo and in vitro, but the significance of this observation has remained elusive. Here we show that nuclear GHR is strongly correlated with proliferative status in vivo by using a liver regeneration model. In vitro, nuclear translocati...

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

authors： Conway-Campbell BL,Wooh JW,Brooks AJ,Gordon D,Brown RJ,Lichanska AM,Chin HS,Barton CL,Boyle GM,Parsons PG,Jans DA,Waters MJ

更新日期：2007-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of the craniofacial skeleton are derived from a common mesenchymal progenitor. The regulatory factors that control their differentiation into various cell lineages are unknown. To investigate the biological function of dentin matrix protein 1 (DMP1), an extracellular matrix gene involved in calcified tissue form...

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

authors： Narayanan K,Srinivas R,Ramachandran A,Hao J,Quinn B,George A

更新日期：2001-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrophysiological basis for higher brain activity during rest and internally directed cognition within the human default mode network (DMN) remains largely unknown. Here we use intracranial recordings in the human posteromedial cortex (PMC), a core node within the DMN, during conditions of cued rest, autobiogra...

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

authors： Dastjerdi M,Foster BL,Nasrullah S,Rauschecker AM,Dougherty RF,Townsend JD,Chang C,Greicius MD,Menon V,Kennedy DP,Parvizi J

更新日期：2011-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Old Italian violins are routinely credited with playing qualities supposedly unobtainable in new instruments. These qualities include the ability to project their sound more effectively in a concert hall-despite seeming relatively quiet under the ear of the player-compared with new violins. Although researchers have l...

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

authors： Fritz C,Curtin J,Poitevineau J,Tao FC

更新日期：2017-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A pure population of mast cells was obtained after 14 days of culturing mouse bone marrow cells in the presence of medium derived from concanavalin A-stimulated mouse spleen cells. The cells were characterized as mast cells by their morphologic appearance and histologic staining, by their histamine content (450 ng per...

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

authors： Razin E,Cordon-Cardo C,Good RA

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium oscillations suppress mitochondrial movements along the microtubules to support on-demand distribution of mitochondria. To activate this mechanism, Ca(2+) targets a yet unidentified cytoplasmic factor that does not seem to be a microtubular motor or a kinase/phosphatase. Here, we have studied the dependence of...

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

authors： Saotome M,Safiulina D,Szabadkai G,Das S,Fransson A,Aspenstrom P,Rizzuto R,Hajnóczky G

更新日期：2008-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A four-factor cross between two strains of Phycomyces involving two auxotrophic, one color, and the mating type marker is described. Samples of 40 germspores from 84 individual fertile germsporangia were characterized. The results show: (i) The germspores of a germsporangium are derived from one meiosis in approximate...

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

authors： Eslava AP,Alvarez MI,Delbrück M

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is the leading cause of hospital-acquired diarrhea in the United States. The two main virulence factors of C. difficile are the large toxins, TcdA and TcdB, which enter colonic epithelial cells and cause fluid secretion, inflammation, and cell death. Using a gene-trap insertional mutagenesis scre...

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

authors： LaFrance ME,Farrow MA,Chandrasekaran R,Sheng J,Rubin DH,Lacy DB

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal flowering time is critical to the success of modern agriculture. Sorghum is a short-day tropical species that exhibits substantial photoperiod sensitivity and delayed flowering in long days. Genotypes with reduced photoperiod sensitivity enabled sorghum's utilization as a grain crop in temperate zones worldwid...

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

authors： Murphy RL,Klein RR,Morishige DT,Brady JA,Rooney WL,Miller FR,Dugas DV,Klein PE,Mullet JE

更新日期：2011-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse transcriptase of murine retroviruses is a monomeric protein of approximately 80,000 daltons, which is encoded by the central portion of the viral pol gene. To prepare large quantities of the enzyme, we have constructed gene fusions between the trpE gene and portions of the pol gene of Moloney murine leukemia v...

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

authors： Tanese N,Roth M,Goff SP

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lymphoma-inducing potential of Ig heavy-chain enhancer- and promoter-regulated Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) nuclear antigen 1 (EBNA1) was evaluated in three transgenic FVB mouse lineages. EBNA1 was expressed at a higher level in transgenic B220(+) splenocytes than in EBV-infected lymphoblastoid cell lines. EBNA1 was a...

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

authors： Kang MS,Lu H,Yasui T,Sharpe A,Warren H,Cahir-McFarland E,Bronson R,Hung SC,Kieff E

更新日期：2005-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a gap between how many scientists communicate and how most people understand and interpret messages. This article argues that the extensive science communications literature needs to be joined by the health literacy literature and anthropological work on cultural variations in hearing and understanding messag...

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

authors： Scrimshaw SC

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylionsitol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP(2)), a substrate of phospholipase C, has recently been recognized to regulate membrane-associated proteins and act as a signal molecule in phospholipase C-linked Gq-coupled receptor (GqPCR) pathways. However, it is not known whether PIP(2) depletion induced by GqPCRs can act ...

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

authors： Cho H,Lee D,Lee SH,Ho WK

更新日期：2005-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Signal peptides of membrane proteins are cleaved by endoplasmic reticulum-resident signal peptidase, and thus, are not present on mature membrane proteins. Here, we report that, contrary to the paradigm, the signal peptide of ruminant CD18, the beta-subunit of beta(2)-integrins, is not cleaved. Intriguingly, the intac...

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

authors： Shanthalingam S,Srikumaran S

更新日期：2009-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the principal energy-transfer pathways responsible for allosteric communication in biomolecules remains challenging, partially due to the intrinsic complexity of the systems and the lack of effective characterization methods. In this work, we introduce the eigenvector centrality metric based on mutual info...

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

authors： Negre CFA,Morzan UN,Hendrickson HP,Pal R,Lisi GP,Loria JP,Rivalta I,Ho J,Batista VS

更新日期：2018-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Purine nucleoside analogs modified by replacement of the nitrogen atom at the 3 position by a CH group give a characteristic circular dichroism curve that is not substantially modified by chemical substitution at the 8 position. Since it is rather well established that 8-substituted purine nucleosides are predominantl...

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

authors： Miles DW,Townsend LB,Redington P,Eyring H

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:mtDNA mutations occur in a wide variety of degenerative diseases and cancer. mtDNA seems to be more susceptible to DNA damage and consequently sustains higher rates of mutation than does nuclear DNA (nDNA). Many of the somatic mtDNA mutations in human cancers are located in the displacement loop (D-loop) and in partic...

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

authors： Mambo E,Gao X,Cohen Y,Guo Z,Talalay P,Sidransky D

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The RNA virus, hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the most or second-most important cause of acute clinical hepatitis in adults throughout much of Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. In these regions it is an important cause of acute liver failure, especially in pregnant women who have a mortality rate of 20-30%. Until recentl...

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

authors： Shukla P,Nguyen HT,Torian U,Engle RE,Faulk K,Dalton HR,Bendall RP,Keane FE,Purcell RH,Emerson SU

更新日期：2011-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We established stable COS-7 cell lines overexpressing recombinant PTPMEG and an inactive mutant form in which the active site cysteine is mutated to serine (PTPMEGCS). We found that both endogenous and recombinant enzyme were primarily located in the membrane and cytoskeletal fractions of COS-7 cells. Endogenous PTPME...

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

authors： Gu M,Meng K,Majerus PW

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissues from rhesus monkeys were screened by PCR for the presence of sequences homologous to known adeno-associated virus (AAV) serotypes 1-6. DNA spanning entire rep-cap ORFs from two novel AAVs, called AAV7 and AAV8, were isolated. Sequence comparisons among these and previously described AAVs revealed the greatest ...

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

authors： Gao GP,Alvira MR,Wang L,Calcedo R,Johnston J,Wilson JM

更新日期：2002-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis has been shown to be a significant form of cell loss in many diseases. Detachment of photoreceptors from the retinal pigment epithelium, as seen in various retinal disorders, causes photoreceptor loss and subsequent vision decline. Although caspase-dependent apoptotic pathways are activated after retinal det...

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

authors： Trichonas G,Murakami Y,Thanos A,Morizane Y,Kayama M,Debouck CM,Hisatomi T,Miller JW,Vavvas DG

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In enteric bacteria, the cellular response to oxidative stress is activated by oxidation of the iron-sulfur clusters in SoxR, which then induces transcription of soxS, turning on a battery of defense genes. Here we demonstrate both in vitro and in cells that activation of SoxR can occur in a DNA-mediated reaction with...

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

authors： Lee PE,Demple B,Barton JK

更新日期：2009-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertebrates can modulate the sound levels entering their inner ears in the face of intense external sound or during their own vocalizations. Middle ear muscle contractions restrain the motion of the middle ear ossicles, attenuating the transmission of low-frequency sound and thereby protecting the hair cells in the in...

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

authors： Gridi-Papp M,Feng AS,Shen JX,Yu ZL,Rosowski JJ,Narins PM

更新日期：2008-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A 32-base-pair (bp) DNA duplex with deletions in one strand, and thus extra bases in the opposing strand, was ligated head-to-tail to produce linear and circular multimers. The electrophoretic mobility of the linear multimers was analyzed in polyacrylamide gels and the size of the circular DNA was determined by electr...

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

authors： Hsieh CH,Griffith JD

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sustained activity of mammalian methionine synthase (MS) requires MS reductase (MSR), but there have been few studies of the interactions between these two proteins. In this study, recombinant human MS (hMS) and MSR (hMSR) were expressed in baculovirus-infected insect cells and purified to homogeneity. hMSR maintained...

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

authors： Yamada K,Gravel RA,Toraya T,Matthews RG

更新日期：2006-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The Met mutant of Drosophila melanogaster is highly resistant to juvenile hormone III (JH III) or its chemical analog, methoprene, an insect growth regulator. Five major mechanisms of insecticide resistance were examined in Met and susceptible Met+ flies. These two strains showed only minor differences when penetratio...

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

authors： Shemshedini L,Wilson TG

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Is the pathway of protein folding determined by the relative stability of folding intermediates, or by the relative height of the activation barriers leading to these intermediates? This is a fundamental question for resolving the Levinthal paradox, which stated that protein folding by a random search mechanism would ...

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

authors： Su ZD,Arooz MT,Chen HM,Gross CJ,Tsong TY

更新日期：1996-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Transport affects climate directly and indirectly through mechanisms that cause both warming and cooling of climate, and the effects operate on very different timescales. We calculate climate responses in terms of global mean temperature and find large differences between the transport sectors with respect to the size...

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

authors： Berntsen T,Fuglestvedt J

更新日期：2008-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Tau is a highly soluble protein, yet it aggregates abnormally in Alzheimer's disease. Here, we address the question of proteolytic processing of tau and the nucleation of aggregates by tau fragments. We show in neuronal cell models that fragments of the repeat domain of tau containing mutations of FTDP17 (frontotempor...

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

authors： Wang YP,Biernat J,Pickhardt M,Mandelkow E,Mandelkow EM

更新日期：2007-06-12 00:00:00