Long-term transformation of an inhibitory into an excitatory GABAergic synaptic response.

abstract：:Arginine methylation has emerged as a widespread and reversible protein modification with the potential to regulate a multitude of cellular processes, but its function is poorly understood. Endolysosomes play an important role in Wnt signaling, in which glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK3) becomes sequestered inside mult...

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

authors： Albrecht LV,Ploper D,Tejeda-Muñoz N,De Robertis EM

更新日期：2018-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A model of protein-ligand binding kinetics, in which slow solvent dynamics results from hydrophobic drying transitions, is investigated. Molecular dynamics simulations show that solvent in the receptor pocket can fluctuate between wet and dry states with lifetimes in each state that are long enough for the extraction ...

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

authors： Mondal J,Morrone JA,Berne BJ

更新日期：2013-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoglobulin heavy-chain-associated tetrapeptide, tuftsin (Thr-Lys-Pro-Arg), known for its phagocytosis-stimulating activity, was found to augment the antigen-specific, macrophage-dependent education of T lymphocytes. The investigation of stereospecific characteristics of the tetrapeptide, by use of structural a...

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

authors： Tzehoval E,Segal S,Stabinsky Y,Fridkin M,Spirer Z,Feldman M

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accounting for enzyme-mediated active sliding, disassembly, and sequence-dependent positioning of nucleosomes, we simulate nucleosome occupancy over cell-cycle-scale times using a stochastic kinetic model. We show that ATP-dependent active nucleosome sliding and nucleosome removal processes are essential to obtain in ...

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

authors： Padinhateeri R,Marko JF

更新日期：2011-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular dynamics simulations of the response to oscillating electric field elicited from an altitudinal dipolar molecular rotor mounted on the Au(111) surface and previously studied experimentally in static fields show unidirectional rotation in one of the three pairs of conformational enantiomers. The simulations a...

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

authors： Horinek D,Michl J

更新日期：2005-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In polymicrobial infections, microbes can interact with both the host immune system and one another through direct contact or the secretion of metabolites, affecting disease progression and treatment options. The thick mucus in the lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis is highly susceptible to polymicrobial infection...

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

authors： Moree WJ,Phelan VV,Wu CH,Bandeira N,Cornett DS,Duggan BM,Dorrestein PC

更新日期：2012-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Column chromatography on (dT)(12-18)-cellulose was used to detect and isolate a novel DNA polymerase activity from human breast tumor cell line HBT-3. The new enzyme is similar to those of mammalian RNA tumor viruses in its molecular size, preference for poly(A).(dT)(12-18) as compared to either poly(dA).(dT)(12-18) o...

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

authors： Gerwin BI,Bassin RH

更新日期：1973-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-five years ago this month, Thomas Gold published a seminal manuscript suggesting the presence of a "deep, hot biosphere" in the Earth's crust. Since this publication, a considerable amount of attention has been given to the study of deep biospheres, their role in geochemical cycles, and their potential to infor...

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

authors： Colman DR,Poudel S,Stamps BW,Boyd ES,Spear JR

更新日期：2017-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:L-Gulono-gamma-lactone oxidase (L-gulono-gamma-lactone:oxygen 2-oxidoreductase, EC 1.1.3.8) is the enzyme that catalyzes the terminal step of L-ascorbic acid biosynthesis in mammalian liver. The absence of the oxidase activity in primates and guinea pigs is the reason why these animals are subject to scurvy, which mus...

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

authors： Nishikimi M,Udenfriend S

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium signaling pathways control a variety of cellular events such as gene transcription, protein phosphorylation, nucleotide metabolism, and ion transport. These pathways often involve a large number of calcium-binding proteins collectively known as the calmodulin or EF-hand protein superfamily. Many EF-hand protei...

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

authors： Ikura M,Ames JB

更新日期：2006-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The actions of various opioids were examined on calcium action potentials in the cell somata of guinea pig myenteric neurones and on the release of acetylcholine at synapses onto these cells. The opioids morphine, normorphine, and [D-Ala2, MePhe4, Met5(O)]enkephalin-ol caused membrane hyperpolarizations resulting from...

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

authors： Cherubini E,North RA

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central limit theorem is applied to group foraging to show an automatic and universal benefit to group living. This may explain the paradoxical inverse correlation between group size and per capita brood production in primitively eusocial insects and why only one of the five major lineages of social insects contai...

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

authors： Wenzel JW,Pickering J

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three lines of evidence for abrupt tropical climate change, both past and present, are presented. First, annually and decadally averaged delta(18)O and net mass-balance histories for the last 400 and 2,000 yr, respectively, demonstrate that the current warming at high elevations in the mid- to low latitudes is unprece...

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

authors： Thompson LG,Mosley-Thompson E,Brecher H,Davis M,León B,Les D,Lin PN,Mashiotta T,Mountain K

更新日期：2006-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that phytoliths are softer than dental enamel but still act as abrasive agents. Thus, phytolith content should be reflected in dental wear. Because native phytoliths show lower indentation hardness than phytoliths extracted by dry ashing, we propose that the hydration state of plant tissue wi...

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

authors： Winkler DE,Schulz-Kornas E,Kaiser TM,De Cuyper A,Clauss M,Tütken T

更新日期：2019-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The mode of binding of the competitive inhibitor 2-benzyl-3-formylpropanoic acid to the active site of carboxypeptidase A has been studied by x-ray diffraction methods to a resolution of 1.7 A. The actual species bound to the enzyme was determined to be the gem-diol resulting from covalent hydration at the aldehyde ca...

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

authors： Christianson DW,Lipscomb WN

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence suggests that cholinergic input to the hippocampus plays an important role in learning and memory and that degeneration of cholinergic terminals in the hippocampus may contribute to the memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease. One of the more prominent effects of cholinergic agonists on hippocampal ph...

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

authors： Marino MJ,Rouse ST,Levey AI,Potter LT,Conn PJ

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously it was shown that yeast ADA2 protein is necessary for the full activity of some activation domains, such as VP16 and GCN4, in vivo and in vitro. These results suggest that ADA2 protein functions as a transcriptional coactivator or adaptor that bridges the interaction between certain acidic activation domain...

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

authors： Silverman N,Agapite J,Guarente L

更新日期：1994-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a high-titer recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vector to express WT or mutant human alpha-synuclein in the substantia nigra of adult marmosets. The alpha-synuclein protein was expressed in 90-95% of all nigral dopamine neurons and distributed by anterograde transport throughout their axonal and dendrit...

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

authors： Kirik D,Annett LE,Burger C,Muzyczka N,Mandel RJ,Björklund A

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitory gamma-aminobutyric acid-mediated synaptic currents were studied in dissociated primary cultures of neonatal rat cortex with the whole-cell patch-clamp technique. Immunocytochemical staining of the cultures showed the presence of a large number of glutamic acid decarboxylase-containing neurons, and electrica...

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

authors： Vicini S,Alho H,Costa E,Mienville JM,Santi MR,Vaccarino FM

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The WWOX gene is a recently cloned tumor suppressor gene that spans the FRA16D fragile region. Wwox protein contains two WW domains that are generally known to mediate protein-protein interaction. Here we show that Wwox physically interacts via its first WW domain with the p53 homolog, p73. The tyrosine kinase, Src, p...

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

authors： Aqeilan RI,Pekarsky Y,Herrero JJ,Palamarchuk A,Letofsky J,Druck T,Trapasso F,Han SY,Melino G,Huebner K,Croce CM

更新日期：2004-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Interindividual differences in hepatic metabolism, which are mainly due to genetic polymorphism in its gene, have a large influence on individual drug efficacy and adverse reaction. Hepatocyte-like cells (HLCs) differentiated from human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells have the potential to predict interindividual...

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

authors： Takayama K,Morisaki Y,Kuno S,Nagamoto Y,Harada K,Furukawa N,Ohtaka M,Nishimura K,Imagawa K,Sakurai F,Tachibana M,Sumazaki R,Noguchi E,Nakanishi M,Hirata K,Kawabata K,Mizuguchi H

更新日期：2014-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Efforts to delineate the advent of many enzymes essential to protein translation are often limited by the fact that the modern genetic code evolved before divergence of the tree of life. Glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase (GlnRS) is one noteworthy exception to the universality of the translation apparatus. In eukaryotes and s...

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

authors： Skouloubris S,Ribas de Pouplana L,De Reuse H,Hendrickson TL

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Reproductive success is widely used as a measure of fitness. However, offspring quantity may not reflect the genetic contribution to subsequent generations if there is nonrandom variation in offspring quality. Offspring quality is likely to be an important component of human fitness, and tradeoffs between offspring qu...

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

authors： Zietsch BP,Kuja-Halkola R,Walum H,Verweij KJ

更新日期：2014-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Lupus nephritis (LN) is an autoimmune disease that occurs when autoantibodies complex with self-antigen and form immune complexes that accumulate in the glomeruli. These immune complexes initiate an inflammatory response resulting in glomerular injury. LN often concomitantly affects the tubulointerstitial compartment ...

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

authors： Hao W,Rovin BH,Friedman A

更新日期：2014-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A biomimetic hydrogel platform was designed to signal encapsulated cells using immobilized cell-cell communication cues, with a focus on enhancing the survival and function of encapsulated pancreatic β-cells to treat type 1 diabetes. When MIN6 cells, a pancreatic β-cell line, were encapsulated in poly(ethylene glycol)...

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

authors： Lin CC,Anseth KS

更新日期：2011-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have established that humans and monkeys with damage to striate cortex are able to detect and localize bright targets within the resultant scotoma. Electrophysiological evidence in monkeys suggests that residual vision also might include sensitivity to direction of visual motion. We tested whether mac...

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

authors： Moore T,Rodman HR,Gross CG

更新日期：2001-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:At high altitude (HA), carbohydrate (CHO) is thought to be the preferred fuel because of its higher yield of ATP per mole of O2. We used indirect calorimetry and D-[6-3H]glucose infusions to determine total CHO and circulatory glucose utilization during exercise in HA-acclimated and sea level (SL) rats. We hypothesize...

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

authors： McClelland GB,Hochachka PW,Weber JM

更新日期：1998-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Models of the Fv portion (containing the variable regions of the heavy and light chains) of two monoclonal anti-alpha (1----6)dextran antibodies, W3129 and 19.1.2, were constructed from amino acid sequences and the known three-dimensional structures of the Fv portions of McPC603 and J539. The modeled combining site of...

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

authors： Padlan EA,Kabat EA

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In RBL-2H3 rat tumor mast cells, cross-linking the high-affinity IgE receptor Fc epsilon RI causes tyrosine phosphorylation of multiple proteins. These phosphoproteins include phospholipase C gamma 1, the beta and gamma subunits of the Fc epsilon RI, the Src family protein-tyrosine kinase Lyn, and a 72-kDa protein tha...

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

authors： Hutchcroft JE,Geahlen RL,Deanin GG,Oliver JM

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mature gag and pol proteins of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and all retroviruses derive from large gag and gag-pol polyprotein precursors by posttranslational cleavage. A highly specific, virally encoded protease is required for this essential proteolytic processing. In this study, the HIV protease gene prod...

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

authors： Debouck C,Gorniak JG,Strickler JE,Meek TD,Metcalf BW,Rosenberg M

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00