Fighting fruit flies: a model system for the study of aggression.

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by mutations in the gene encoding the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) anion channel. Airway disease is the major source of morbidity and mortality. Successful implementation of gene- and cell-based therapies for CF airway disease requires knowledge of relations...

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

authors： Shah VS,Ernst S,Tang XX,Karp PH,Parker CP,Ostedgaard LS,Welsh MJ

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulinomas are pancreatic islet tumors that inappropriately secrete insulin, producing hypoglycemia. Exome and targeted sequencing revealed that 14 of 43 insulinomas harbored the identical somatic mutation in the DNA-binding zinc finger of the transcription factor Yin Yang 1 (YY1). Chromatin immunoprecipitation seque...

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

authors： Cromer MK,Choi M,Nelson-Williams C,Fonseca AL,Kunstman JW,Korah RM,Overton JD,Mane S,Kenney B,Malchoff CD,Stalberg P,Akerström G,Westin G,Hellman P,Carling T,Björklund P,Lifton RP

更新日期：2015-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychostimulant use is an ever-increasing socioeconomic burden, including a dramatic rise during pregnancy. Nevertheless, brain-wide effects of psychostimulant exposure are incompletely understood. Here, we performed Fos-CreERT2-based activity mapping, correlated for pregnant mouse dams and their fetuses with amphetam...

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

authors： Fuzik J,Rehman S,Girach F,Miklosi AG,Korchynska S,Arque G,Romanov RA,Hanics J,Wagner L,Meletis K,Yanagawa Y,Kovacs GG,Alpár A,Hökfelt TGM,Harkany T

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of physiological concentrations of 125I-labeled insulin with liver membranes in the presence of anti-insulin IgG results in a 7- to 15-fold increase in the specific binding of the hormone. The low-affinity/high-capacity binding sites are replaced by an apparently homogeneous class of high-affinity sites, an...

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

authors： Shechter Y,Chang KJ,Jacobs S,Cuatrecasas P

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cocaine exposure in utero causes severe alterations in the development of the central nervous system. To study the basis of these teratogenic effects in vitro, we have used cocultures of neurons and glial cells from mouse embryonic brain. Cocaine selectively affected embryonic neuronal cells, causing first a dramatic ...

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

authors： Nassogne MC,Evrard P,Courtoy PJ

更新日期：1995-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The Notch signaling pathway defines an evolutionarily conserved cell-cell interaction mechanism that throughout development controls the ability of precursor cells to respond to developmental signals. Here we show that Notch signaling regulates the expression of the master control genes eyeless, vestigial, and Distal-...

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

authors： Kurata S,Go MJ,Artavanis-Tsakonas S,Gehring WJ

更新日期：2000-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Statistically significant declines in chronic disability prevalence rates were observed in the elderly United States population between the 1982 and 1989 National Long Term Care Surveys (NLTCS). The 1994 NLTCS was used to investigate whether disability rate declines continued to 1994. The 1982, 1984, 1989, and 1994 NL...

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

authors： Manton KG,Corder L,Stallard E

更新日期：1997-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cycle-controlled human histone genes are coordinately expressed during S phase, and transcriptional regulation involves a series of trans-acting factors (HiNFs). The proliferation-specific factor HiNF-D interacts with multiple recognition motifs in histone H4, H3, and H1 promoters. Using gel shift immunoassays, w...

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

authors： van Wijnen AJ,Aziz F,Graña X,De Luca A,Desai RK,Jaarsveld K,Last TJ,Soprano K,Giordano A,Lian JB

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Insights into the pathogenesis of migraine with aura may be gained from a study of human Ca(V)2.1 channels containing mutations linked to familial hemiplegic migraine (FHM). Here, we extend the previous single-channel analysis to human Ca(V)2.1 channels containing mutation V1457L. This mutation increased the channel o...

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

authors： Tottene A,Fellin T,Pagnutti S,Luvisetto S,Striessnig J,Fletcher C,Pietrobon D

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a simple yet powerful technique for delineating the morphological events of tumor-induced angiogenesis and other tumor-induced host processes with dual-color fluorescence. The method clearly images implanted tumors and adjacent stroma, distinguishing unambiguously the host and tumor-specific componen...

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

authors： Yang M,Li L,Jiang P,Moossa AR,Penman S,Hoffman RM

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcicludine (CaC) is a 60-amino acid polypeptide from the venom of Dendroaspis angusticeps. It is structurally homologous to the Kunitz-type protease inhibitor, to dendrotoxins, which block K+ channels, and to the protease inhibitor domain of the amyloid beta protein that accumulates in Alzheimer disease. Voltage-cla...

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

authors： Schweitz H,Heurteaux C,Bois P,Moinier D,Romey G,Lazdunski M

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attachment of chondrocytes to collagen substrates is stimulated by serum but not by fibronectin. The active material in serum was partially purified and was shown to be a protein by its sensitivity to trypsin and heat and its chromatographic properties. This factor, which we have named chondronectin, is distinct f...

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

authors： Hewitt AT,Kleinman HK,Pennypacker JP,Martin GR

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Historically, rate constants were determined in vitro and it was unknown whether they were valid for in vivo biological processes. Here, we bridge this gap by measuring binding dynamics between a pair of proteins in living HeLa cells. Binding of a β-lactamase to its protein inhibitor was initiated by microinjection an...

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

authors： Phillip Y,Kiss V,Schreiber G

更新日期：2012-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally believed that the old quantum theory, as presented by Niels Bohr in 1913, fails when applied to few electron systems, such as the H(2) molecule. Here, we find previously undescribed solutions within the Bohr theory that describe the potential energy curve for the lowest singlet and triplet states of H(...

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

authors： Svidzinsky AA,Scully MO,Herschbach DR

更新日期：2005-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid beta (Aβ) is a major pathological marker in Alzheimer's disease (AD), which is principally regulated by the rate-limiting β-secretase (i.e., BACE1) cleavage of amyloid precursor protein (APP). However, how BACE1 activity is posttranslationally regulated remains incompletely understood. Here, we show that BACE1...

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

authors： Bao J,Qin M,Mahaman YAR,Zhang B,Huang F,Zeng K,Xia Y,Ke D,Wang Q,Liu R,Wang JZ,Ye K,Wang X

更新日期：2018-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:For 2 < k [abstract: see text] we define lifts of cuspidal Poincaré series in S(k)(Gamma(0)(N)) to weight 2 - k harmonic weak Maass forms. This construction answers a question of Dyson by providing the general framework "explaining" Ramanujan's mock theta functions. As an application, we show that the number of partit...

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

authors： Bringmann K,Ono K

更新日期：2007-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of copper/zinc-containing superoxide dismutase (cSOD; superoxide:superoxide oxidoreductase, EC 1.15.1.1) in metabolic defense against O2 toxicity in Drosophila is examined through the properties of a mutant strain carrying a cSOD-null mutation, cSODn108. Homozygotes are viable as larvae, which indicates that ...

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

authors： Phillips JP,Campbell SD,Michaud D,Charbonneau M,Hilliker AJ

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the main differences between bacteria and archaea concerns their membrane composition. Whereas bacterial membranes are made up of glycerol-3-phosphate ester lipids, archaeal membranes are composed of glycerol-1-phosphate ether lipids. Here, we report the construction of a stable hybrid heterochiral membrane thr...

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

authors： Caforio A,Siliakus MF,Exterkate M,Jain S,Jumde VR,Andringa RLH,Kengen SWM,Minnaard AJ,Driessen AJM,van der Oost J

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The E3 ubiquitin ligase X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis (XIAP) acts as a molecular rheostat for the immune deficiency (IMD) pathway of the tick Ixodes scapularis How XIAP activates the IMD pathway in response to microbial infection remains ill defined. Here, we identified the XIAP enzymatic substrate p47 as a positive...

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

authors： McClure Carroll EE,Wang X,Shaw DK,O'Neal AJ,Oliva Chávez AS,Brown LJ,Boradia VM,Hammond HL,Pedra JHF

更新日期：2019-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Nearly 500 alkaloids have been detected in skin extracts from frogs of the family Dendrobatidae. All seem to have been sequestered unchanged into skin glands from alkaloid-containing arthropods. Ants, beetles, and millipedes seem to be the source of decahydroquinolines, certain izidines, coccinellines, and spiropyrrol...

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

authors： Daly JW,Kaneko T,Wilham J,Garraffo HM,Spande TF,Espinosa A,Donnelly MA

更新日期：2002-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies implicate the hypothalamic ventromedial nucleus (VMN) in glycemic control. Here, we report that selective inhibition of the subset of VMN neurons that express the transcription factor steroidogenic-factor 1 (VMN(SF1) neurons) blocks recovery from insulin-induced hypoglycemia whereas, conversely, activ...

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

authors： Meek TH,Nelson JT,Matsen ME,Dorfman MD,Guyenet SJ,Damian V,Allison MB,Scarlett JM,Nguyen HT,Thaler JP,Olson DP,Myers MG Jr,Schwartz MW,Morton GJ

更新日期：2016-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In myocardial ischemia, adrenergic nerves release excessive amounts of norepinephrine (NE), causing dysfunction and arrhythmias. With anoxia and the concomitant ATP depletion, vesicular storage of NE is impaired, resulting in accumulation of free NE in the axoplasm of sympathetic nerves. Intraneuronal acidosis activat...

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

authors： Silver RB,Mackins CJ,Smith NC,Koritchneva IL,Lefkowitz K,Lovenberg TW,Levi R

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD), which degrades transcripts harboring a premature termination codon (PTC), depends on the helicase up-frameshift 1 (UPF1). However, mRNAs that are not NMD targets also bind UPF1. What governs the timing, position, and function of UPF1 binding to mRNAs remains unclear. We provide evid...

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

authors： Kurosaki T,Maquat LE

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is associated with dysregulation of both lipid and glucose metabolism. As well as contributing to viral replication, these perturbations influence the pathogenesis associated with the virus, including steatosis, insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes. AMP-activated protein kinase (AM...

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

authors： Mankouri J,Tedbury PR,Gretton S,Hughes ME,Griffin SD,Dallas ML,Green KA,Hardie DG,Peers C,Harris M

更新日期：2010-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a simple molecular indexing method for quantitative targeted RNA sequencing, in which mRNAs of interest are selectively captured from complex cDNA libraries and sequenced to determine their absolute concentrations. cDNA fragments are individually labeled so that each molecule can be tracked from the origina...

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

authors： Fu GK,Xu W,Wilhelmy J,Mindrinos MN,Davis RW,Xiao W,Fodor SP

更新日期：2014-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysfunction of gap junctions (GJs) caused by mutations in connexin26 (Cx26) and Cx30 accounts for nearly half of all cases of hereditary nonsyndromic deafness cases. Although it is widely held that GJs connecting supporting cells in the organ of Corti mainly provide ionic pathways for rapid removal of K+ around the ba...

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

authors： Zhang Y,Tang W,Ahmad S,Sipp JA,Chen P,Lin X

更新日期：2005-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We and other groups have recently reported the potentiation by ribonucleotide reductase inhibitors such as hydroxyurea of the anti-human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) activity of purine and pyrimidine 2',3'-dideoxynucleosides in both resting and phytohemagglutinin-stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells....

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

authors： Gao WY,Johns DG,Chokekuchai S,Mitsuya H

更新日期：1995-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) biology has focused on the tightly regulated enzymatic mechanism that transforms L-arginine into a family of molecules, which serve both signaling and defense functions. However, very little is known of the pathways that metabolize these molecules or turn off the signals. The paradigm is well exempli...

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

authors： Hausladen A,Gow AJ,Stamler JS

更新日期：1998-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell surface receptor membrane localization is strongly dependent on protein-protein interactions often involving regulation by phosphorylation/dephosphorylation of the intracellular domains of membrane proteins. The present study was carried out to identify metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) 3 regulatory binding...

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

authors： Flajolet M,Rakhilin S,Wang H,Starkova N,Nuangchamnong N,Nairn AC,Greengard P

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody has been developed that recognizes a mouse lymphocyte antigen, Ly-23, that is controlled by an H-3 histocompatibility complex-linked gene on the second chromosome. Competitive binding experiments demonstrate that this antigen is distinct from the polymorphic beta 2-microglobulin antigen, which al...

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

authors： Gasser DL,Ziebur J,Matsumoto K

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00