Transmission of prions.

abstract：:Circumnutation and winding in plants are universal growth movements that allow plants to survive despite their sessile nature. However, the detailed molecular mechanisms controlling these phenomena remain unclear. We previously found that a gravitropic mutant of Japanese morning glory (Pharbitis nil or Ipomoea nil), S...

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

authors： Kitazawa D,Hatakeda Y,Kamada M,Fujii N,Miyazawa Y,Hoshino A,Iida S,Fukaki H,Morita MT,Tasaka M,Suge H,Takahashi H

更新日期：2005-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins synthesized in the cell can begin to fold during translation before the entire polypeptide has been produced, which may be particularly relevant to the folding of multidomain proteins. Here, we study the cotranslational folding of adjacent domains from the cytoskeletal protein α-spectrin using force profile a...

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

authors： Kemp G,Nilsson OB,Tian P,Best RB,von Heijne G

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Explanations for biogeographic disjunctions involving South America and Africa typically invoke vicariance of western Gondwanan biotas or long distance dispersal. These hypotheses are problematical because many groups originated and diversified well after the last known connection between Africa and South America (app...

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

authors： Davis CC,Bell CD,Mathews S,Donoghue MJ

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:When long polymers such as DNA are in a highly concentrated state they may become entangled, leading to restricted self-diffusion. Here, we investigate the effect of molecular topology on diffusion in concentrated DNA solutions and find surprisingly large effects, even with molecules of modest length and concentration...

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

authors： Robertson RM,Smith DE

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme p-cresol methylhydroxylase [4-cresol: (acceptor) oxidoreductase (methyl-hydroxylating), EC 1.17.99.1] contains two subunits: a cytochrome c (electron transfer) subunit (cytochrome cpc) and a flavin (catalytic) subunit. When these subunits are separated by isoelectric focusing, a stable cytochrome subunit is...

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

authors： McLendon GL,Bagby S,Charman JA,Driscoll PC,McIntire WS,Mathews FS,Hill HA

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mus poschiavinus x M. musculus hybrids, which had seven metacentric chromosomes derived from the poschiavinus complement, were repeatedly backcrossed to M. musculus and selected for the chromosome carrying the H-2 complex. A line called T1/Klj was established which had one metacentric chromosome. It was shown by linka...

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

authors： Klein J

更新日期：1971-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prophenoloxidases (PPOs) are key enzymes of the melanization reaction, which is a prominent defense mechanism of arthropods. The mosquito Aedes aegypti has ten PPO genes in the genome, four of which (PPO1, PPO3, PPO5, and PPO8) were expressed in response to microbial infection. Cactus depletion resulted in transcripti...

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

authors： Zou Z,Shin SW,Alvarez KS,Bian G,Kokoza V,Raikhel AS

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical forces have key roles in regulating activation of T cells and coordination of the adaptive immune response. A recent example is the ability of T cells to sense the rigidity of an underlying substrate through the T-cell receptor (TCR) coreceptor CD3 and CD28, a costimulation signal essential for cell activat...

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

authors： Bashour KT,Gondarenko A,Chen H,Shen K,Liu X,Huse M,Hone JC,Kam LC

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Abelson murine leukemia virus (A-MuLV) is derived from the thymotropic Moloney leukemia virus. However, injection of mice with A-MuLV by conventional routes results in rapidly arising peripheral and bone marrow lymphomas, not thymomas or T cell tumors. In this study thymomas have been induced by intrathymic injection ...

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

authors： Cook WD

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Underacetylation of histone H4 is thought to be involved in the molecular mechanism of mammalian X chromosome inactivation, which is an important model system for large-scale genetic control in eukaryotes. However, it has not been established whether histone underacetylation plays a critical role in the multistep inac...

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

authors： Wakefield MJ,Keohane AM,Turner BM,Graves JA

更新日期：1997-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic studies in mice suggest that Wnt4 signaling antagonizes expression of male hormones and effectively blocks male development in the female embryo. We recently identified an XY intersex patient carrying a chromosomal duplication of the WNT4 locus and proposed that this patient's feminization arises from an incre...

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

authors： Jordan BK,Shen JH,Olaso R,Ingraham HA,Vilain E

更新日期：2003-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:mRNA coding for mouse major transplantation antigens of the d haplotype was partially purified, copied into double-stranded cDNA, and cloned in Escherichia coli. Clones were selected by their ability to hybridize specifically with mRNA coding for H-2K, D, or L antigens. One of these clones, pH-2d-1, carries a 1200-bas...

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

authors： Kvist S,Bregegere F,Rask L,Cami B,Garoff H,Daniel F,Wiman K,Larhammar D,Abastado JP,Gachelin G,Peterson PA,Dobberstein B,Kourilsky P

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified a protein present only in erythroid cells that binds to two adjacent sites within an enhancer region of the chicken beta-globin locus. Mutation of the sites, so that binding by the factor can no longer be detected in vitro, leads to a loss of enhancing ability, assayed by transient expression in pri...

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

authors： Evans T,Reitman M,Felsenfeld G

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanical properties of engineering structures continuously weaken during service life because of material fatigue or degradation. By contrast, living organisms are able to strengthen their mechanical properties by regenerating parts of their structures. For example, plants strengthen their cell structures by tra...

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

authors： Yu K,Feng Z,Du H,Xin A,Lee KH,Li K,Su Y,Wang Q,Fang NX,Daraio C

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomass burning drives changes in greenhouse gases, climate-forcing aerosols, and global atmospheric chemistry. There is controversy about the magnitude and timing of changes in biomass burning emissions on millennial time scales from preindustrial to present and about the relative importance of climate change and hum...

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

authors： Nicewonger MR,Aydin M,Prather MJ,Saltzman ES

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Sr-bearing marine barite [(Ba x , Sr1-x )SO4] cycling has been widely used to reconstruct geochemical evolutions of paleoenvironments. However, an understanding of barite precipitation in the ocean, which is globally undersaturated with respect to barite, is missing. Moreo...

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

authors： Deng N,Stack AG,Weber J,Cao B,De Yoreo JJ,Hu Y

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of opiate receptor antagonists on centrally mediated cardiovascular responses to clonidine and beta-endorphin were studied in urethane-anesthetized spontaneously hypertensive Okamoto-Aoki rats (SHR), normotensive Sprague-Dawley rats, and Sprague-Dawley rats made hypertensive with deoxycorticosterone pivalate/s...

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

authors： Mosqueda-Garcia R,Kunos G

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), released from gut endocrine L cells in response to glucose, regulates appetite, insulin secretion, and gut motility. How glucose given orally, but not systemically, induces GLP-1 secretion is unknown. We show that human duodenal L cells express sweet taste receptors, the taste G protei...

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

authors： Jang HJ,Kokrashvili Z,Theodorakis MJ,Carlson OD,Kim BJ,Zhou J,Kim HH,Xu X,Chan SL,Juhaszova M,Bernier M,Mosinger B,Margolskee RF,Egan JM

更新日期：2007-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase A (PKA) is activated during sympathetic stimulation of the heart and phosphorylates key proteins involved in cardiac Ca(2+) handling, including the L-type Ca(2+) channel (Ca(V)1.2) and phospholamban (PLN). This results in acceleration and amplification of the beat-to-beat changes in cytosolic Ca(2+) in ...

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

authors： Jones BW,Brunet S,Gilbert ML,Nichols CB,Su T,Westenbroek RE,Scott JD,Catterall WA,McKnight GS

更新日期：2012-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A low molecular weight toxin isolated from the venom of the digger wasp Philanthus triangulum, first noted by T. Piek, is a potent antagonist of transmission at quisqualate-sensitive glutamate synapses of locust leg muscle. This philanthotoxin 433 (PTX-433) has been purified, chemically characterized, and subsequently...

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

authors： Eldefrawi AT,Eldefrawi ME,Konno K,Mansour NA,Nakanishi K,Oltz E,Usherwood PN

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several publications have attested to the ability of herpes simplex viruses to protect cells against apoptosis. We investigated the ability of the virus to protect cells in continuous cultivation from apoptosis induced by the virus itself, and by other known inducers such as exposure to the tumor necrosis factor alpha...

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

authors： Galvan V,Roizman B

更新日期：1998-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The release of catecholamines from adrenal chromaffin cells is known to be blocked by dihydropyridines, such as nitrendipine, and enhanced by others, such as BAY K8644. On the other hand, release from sympathetic neurons is predominantly insensitive to these agents. Release of [3H]norepinephrine from undifferentiated ...

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

authors： Kongsamut S,Miller RJ

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2-deoxy-D-glucose method was used to study asymmetries in cerebral metabolic activity in neonatal rats. Left-right asymmetries in 2-deoxy-D-glucose uptake were observed in hippocampus, diencephalon, cortex, and medulla-pons: 2-deoxy-D-glucose incorporation was greater in right hippocampus, right diencephalon, left...

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

authors： Ross DA,Glick SD,Meibach RC

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Across phyla, the ribosomes-the central molecular machines for translation of genetic information-exhibit an overall preserved architecture and a conserved functional core. The natural heterogeneity of the ribosome periodically phases a debate on their functional specialization and the tissue-specific variations of th...

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

authors： Amirbeigiarab S,Kiani P,Velazquez Sanchez A,Krisp C,Kazantsev A,Fester L,Schlüter H,Ignatova Z

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In all but the poorest countries of South Asia and Africa, the supply and quality of food will rise to meet the demand. Biotechnology, accelerated by genomics, will create wealth for both producers and consumers by reducing the cost and increasing the quality of food. Famine and malnutrition in the poorest countries m...

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

authors： Briggs SP

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription factor TFIID consists of TATA binding protein (TBP) and at least eight TBP-associated factors (TAFs). As TAFs are required for activated but not basal transcription, we have proposed that TAFs act as coactivators to mediate signals between activators and the basal transcription machinery. Here we report ...

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

authors： Klemm RD,Goodrich JA,Zhou S,Tjian R

更新日期：1995-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of rapid climate change on contemporary human populations is of global concern. To contextualize our understanding of human responses to rapid climate change it is necessary to examine the archeological record during past climate transitions. One episode of abrupt climate change has been correlated with soc...

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

authors： Armit I,Swindles GT,Becker K,Plunkett G,Blaauw M

更新日期：2014-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Groundwater-dependent species are among the least-known components of global biodiversity, as well as some of the most vulnerable because of rapid groundwater depletion at regional and global scales. The karstic Edwards-Trinity aquifer system of west-central Texas is one of the most species-rich groundwater systems in...

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

authors： Devitt TJ,Wright AM,Cannatella DC,Hillis DM

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of pharyngeal muscle in nematodes and cardiac muscle in vertebrates and insects involves the related homeobox genes ceh-22, nkx2.5, and tinman, respectively. To determine whether the nematode and vertebrate genes perform similar functions, we examined activity of the zebrafish nkx2.5 gene in transgenic Cae...

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

authors： Haun C,Alexander J,Stainier DY,Okkema PG

更新日期：1998-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Although gamma frequency oscillations are common in the brain, their functional contributions to neural computation are not understood. Here we report in vitro electrophysiological recordings to evaluate how noisy gamma frequency oscillatory input interacts with the overall activation level of a neuron to determine th...

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

authors： Markowitz DA,Collman F,Brody CD,Hopfield JJ,Tank DW

更新日期：2008-06-17 00:00:00