Worker caste polymorphism has a genetic basis in Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants.

abstract：:Mechanical stability in many biological materials is provided by the crosslinking of large structural proteins with gamma-glutamyl-epsilon-lysyl amide bonds. The three-dimensional structure of human recombinant factor XIII (EC 2.3.2.13 zymogen; protein-glutamine:amine gamma-glutamyltransferase a chain), a transglutami...

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

authors： Yee VC,Pedersen LC,Le Trong I,Bishop PD,Stenkamp RE,Teller DC

更新日期：1994-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated, cloned, and expressed a male antennae-specific pheromone-degrading enzyme (PDE) [Antheraea polyphemus PDE (ApolPDE), formerly known as Sensillar Esterase] from the wild silkmoth, A. polyphemus, which seems essential for the rapid inactivation of pheromone during flight. The onset of enzymatic activit...

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

authors： Ishida Y,Leal WS

更新日期：2005-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:As an alternative pathway of controlled cell death, necroptosis can be triggered by tumor necrosis factor via the kinases RIPK1/RIPK3 and the effector protein mixed-lineage kinase domain-like protein (MLKL). Upon activation, MLKL oligomerizes and integrates into the plasma membrane via its executioner domain. Here, we...

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

authors： Rübbelke M,Fiegen D,Bauer M,Binder F,Hamilton J,King J,Thamm S,Nar H,Zeeb M

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluoride activation of adenylate cyclase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1] is significantly enhanced (2 to 5 times) by a protein factor isolated from rat brain. The fluoride-dependent adenylate cyclase stimulator (FCS) is nondialyzable, trypsin-labile, and stable at 90 degrees C for 10 min. FCS stimula...

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

authors： Rasenick MM,Bitensky MW

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA templates containing immediate early (IE) genes of human cytomegalovirus (CMV) were transcribed in vitro by using a HeLa cell extract. When IE region 1, 2, and 3 were used, transcription was detected qualitatively only from IE region 1. Transcription was detected with DNA representing IE region 2 when the IE r...

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

authors： Thomsen DR,Stenberg RM,Goins WF,Stinski MF

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Layer 5 pyramidal neurons process information from multiple cortical layers to provide a major output of cortex. Because of technical limitations it has remained unclear how these cells integrate widespread synaptic inputs located in distantly separated basal and tuft dendrites. Here, we obtained in vivo two-photon ca...

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

authors： Hill DN,Varga Z,Jia H,Sakmann B,Konnerth A

更新日期：2013-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Do negative feelings in general trigger addictive behavior, or do specific emotions play a stronger role? Testing these alternative accounts of emotion and decision making, we drew on the Appraisal Tendency Framework to predict that sadness, specifically, rather than negative mood, generally, would 1) increase craving...

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

authors： Dorison CA,Wang K,Rees VW,Kawachi I,Ericson KMM,Lerner JS

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP) is a 27-amino acid neuroendocrine hormone that may play a role in the pathophysiology of small cell lung carcinoma. GRP and bombesin, a structurally related peptide, stimulate the growth of some cultured cell types. C-terminal GRP peptide analogs were developed that inhibited 6 nM bombe...

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

authors： Leban JJ,Kull FC Jr,Landavazo A,Stockstill B,McDermed JD

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past several decades, numerous reports from disparate geographical areas have documented an increased frequency of "bleaching" in reef-forming corals. The phenomenon, triggered by increased sea surface temperatures, occurs when the cnidarian hosts digest and/or expel their intracellular, photosynthetic dino...

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

authors： Tchernov D,Kvitt H,Haramaty L,Bibby TS,Gorbunov MY,Rosenfeld H,Falkowski PG

更新日期：2011-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial dysfunction is implicated in the pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease (PD), a common age-associated neurodegenerative disease characterized by intraneuronal inclusions (Lewy bodies) and progressive degeneration of the nigrostriatal dopamine (DA) system. It has recently been demonstrated that midbrain D...

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

authors： Ekstrand MI,Terzioglu M,Galter D,Zhu S,Hofstetter C,Lindqvist E,Thams S,Bergstrand A,Hansson FS,Trifunovic A,Hoffer B,Cullheim S,Mohammed AH,Olson L,Larsson NG

更新日期：2007-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The core enzyme of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase acquires essential promoter recognition and transcription initiation activities by binding one of several sigma subunits. To characterize the proximity between sigma70, the major sigma for transcription of the growth-related genes, and the core enzyme subunits (alpha2...

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

authors： Owens JT,Miyake R,Murakami K,Chmura AJ,Fujita N,Ishihama A,Meares CF

更新日期：1998-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity-dependent means of altering calcium (Ca(2)(+)) influx are assumed to be of great physiological consequence, although definitive tests of this assumption have only begun to emerge. Facilitation and inactivation offer two opposing, activity-dependent means of altering Ca(2+) influx via cardiac Ca(v)1.2 calcium ...

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

authors： Blaich A,Welling A,Fischer S,Wegener JW,Köstner K,Hofmann F,Moosmang S

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide-releasing compounds were shown to activate an ADP-ribosyltransferase activity in the cytosol of Dictyostelium discoideum. The enzyme ADP-ribosylated a cytosolic protein of approximately 41 kDa, p41. Neither cGMP nor GTP and its analogues affected this ADP-ribosylation. p41 differs from other substrates AD...

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

authors： Tao Y,Howlett A,Klein C

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is pronounced seasonal plasticity in the morphology of the neural circuits that regulate song behavior in adult songbirds, primarily in response to changes in plasma testosterone (T) levels. Most song nuclei have androgen receptors. Afferent input from the telencephalic nucleus HVc (also known as the "high vocal...

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

authors： Brenowitz EA,Lent K

更新日期：2002-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We have noted consistent structural similarities among unrelated proteases. In comparison with other proteins of similar size, proteases have smaller than average surface areas, smaller radii of gyration, and higher C(alpha) densities. These findings imply that proteases are, as a group, more tightly packed than other...

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

authors： Stawiski EW,Baucom AE,Lohr SC,Gregoret LM

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Most homeobox genes belonging to the Hox family are sequentially activated in embryonal carcinoma cells upon treatment with retinoic acid. Genes located at the 3' end of each one of the four Hox clusters are activated first, whereas upstream Hox genes are activated progressively later. This activation has been extensi...

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

authors： Faiella A,Zappavigna V,Mavilio F,Boncinelli E

更新日期：1994-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A brilliant, coarsely granular nuclear antigen was detected by anti-complement immunofluorescence in the nuclei of acute myeloid leukemia myeloblasts. Designated as LANA (leukemia-associated nuclear antigen), the reactivity differs from that of the Epstein-Barr-virus-determined nuclear antigen (EBNA) in immunological ...

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

authors： Klein G,Steiner M,Wiener F,Klein E

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite intense investigation over the past century, the molecular mechanisms that regulate maintenance and adaptation of the heart during postnatal development are poorly understood. Myocardin is a remarkably potent transcriptional coactivator expressed exclusively in cardiac myocytes and smooth muscle cells during p...

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

authors： Huang J,Min Lu M,Cheng L,Yuan LJ,Zhu X,Stout AL,Chen M,Li J,Parmacek MS

更新日期：2009-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The subcellular localization of Ocrl, the inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatase that is mutated in Lowe syndrome, was investigated by fluorescence microscopy. Ocrl was localized to endosomes and Golgi membranes along with clathrin, giantin, the mannose 6-phosphate receptor, transferrin, and the early endosomal antigen ...

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

authors： Ungewickell A,Ward ME,Ungewickell E,Majerus PW

更新日期：2004-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:By the use of a rat kidney cell line infected with a temperature-sensitive Rous sarcoma virus, we have shown that, at permissive temperatures where the cells are transformed, concanavalin A induces a clustering of its cell membrane receptors into patches, and the intracellular smooth muscle myosin-like protein is in a...

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

authors： Ash JF,Vogt PK,Singer SJ

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetic mechanisms are involved in the pathophysiology of depressive disorders and are unique potential targets for therapeutic intervention. The acetylating agent L-acetylcarnitine (LAC), a well-tolerated drug, behaves as an antidepressant by the epigenetic regulation of type 2 metabotropic glutamate (mGlu2) recep...

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

authors： Nasca C,Xenos D,Barone Y,Caruso A,Scaccianoce S,Matrisciano F,Battaglia G,Mathé AA,Pittaluga A,Lionetto L,Simmaco M,Nicoletti F

更新日期：2013-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:FAP48 was identified and cloned thanks to its interaction with FK506-binding proteins (FKBPs) such as FKBP52 and FKBP12, which belong to the large family of immunophilins that bind the macrolide immunosuppressant drugs FK506 and rapamycin. We have previously shown that FAP48-FKBP complexes are dissociated by FK506 and...

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

authors： Krummrei U,Baulieu EE,Chambraud B

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here a simple and easily manipulatable Escherichia coli-based genetic system that permits us to identify bacterial gene products that modulate the sensitivity of bacteria to tumoricidal agents, such as DMP 840, a bisnaphthalimide drug. To the extent that the action of these agents is conserved, these studi...

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

authors： Chatterjee PK,Sternberg NL

更新日期：1995-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic cysteine of the typical 2-Cys Prx subfamily of peroxiredoxins is occasionally hyperoxidized to cysteine sulfinic acid during the peroxidase catalytic cycle. Sulfinic Prx (Prx-SO2H) is reduced back to the active form of the enzyme by sulfiredoxin. The abundance of Prx-SO2H was recently shown to oscillate ...

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

authors： Cho CS,Yoon HJ,Kim JY,Woo HA,Rhee SG

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The innate immune system detects viral nucleic acids and induces type I interferon (IFN) responses. The RNA- and DNA-sensing pathways converge on the protein kinase TANK-binding kinase 1 (TBK1) and the transcription factor IFN-regulatory factor 3 (IRF3). Activation of the IFN signaling pathway is known to trigger the ...

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

authors： Seo M,Lee SO,Kim JH,Hong Y,Kim S,Kim Y,Min DH,Kong YY,Shin J,Ahn K

更新日期：2016-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The exquisite selectivity and catalytic activity of enzymes have been shaped by the effects of positive and negative selection pressure during the course of evolution. In contrast, enzyme variants engineered by using in vitro screening techniques to accept novel substrates typically display a higher degree of catalyti...

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

authors： Varadarajan N,Gam J,Olsen MJ,Georgiou G,Iverson BL

更新日期：2005-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Rare nucleated fetal cells circulate within maternal blood. Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis by isolation and genetic analysis of these cells is currently being undertaken. We sought to determine if genetic evidence existed for persistent circulation of fetal cells from prior pregnancies. Venous blood samples were obtai...

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

authors： Bianchi DW,Zickwolf GK,Weil GJ,Sylvester S,DeMaria MA

更新日期：1996-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The CRR1 (Copper Response Regulator) locus, required for both activating and repressing target genes of a copper- and hypoxia-sensing pathway in Chlamydomonas, encodes a 1,232-residue candidate transcription factor with a plant-specific DNA-binding domain named SBP, ankyrin repeats, and a C-terminal Cys-rich region, w...

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

authors： Kropat J,Tottey S,Birkenbihl RP,Depège N,Huijser P,Merchant S

更新日期：2005-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study determined the effect of [Sar(1)-Ile(8)]-angiotensin II on steroidogenesis and induced aldosterone synthesis by the octapeptide angiotensin II, the heptapeptide des-Asp(1)-angiotensin II, and adrenocorticotropic hormone. Rabbit adrenal cells were suspended by incubation of the capsular cortical tissu...

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

authors： Chiu AT,Peach MJ

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total chemical synthesis was used to prepare the mirror image (D-protein) form of the angiogenic protein vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF-A). Phage display against D-VEGF-A was used to screen designed libraries based on a unique small protein scaffold in order to identify a high affinity ligand. Chemically syn...

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

authors： Mandal K,Uppalapati M,Ault-Riché D,Kenney J,Lowitz J,Sidhu SS,Kent SB

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00