Alternative splicing generates functionally distinct N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors.

abstract：:Phosphorylation of inositol phospholipids plays a key role in cellular regulation via the generation of intracellular second messengers. In addition, it represents a mechanism to regulate interactions of the lipid bilayer with proteins and protein scaffolds involved in vesicle budding, cytoskeletal organization, and s...

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

authors： Guo J,Wenk MR,Pellegrini L,Onofri F,Benfenati F,De Camilli P

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular imbalance in the levels of antioxidants and reactive oxygen species resulting in apoptosis is directly associated with a number of parasitic infections, aging, and several genetic and multifactorial diseases. The baculovirus AcNPV-encoded antiapoptotic p35 gene prevents apoptosis induced by a variety of apopt...

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

authors： Sah NK,Taneja TK,Pathak N,Begum R,Athar M,Hasnain SE

更新日期：1999-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage T7 encodes an essential inhibitor of the Escherichia coli host RNA polymerase (RNAP), the product of gene 2 (Gp2). We determined a series of X-ray crystal structures of E. coli RNAP holoenzyme with or without Gp2. The results define the structure and location of the RNAP σ(70) subunit domain 1.1(σ(1.1)(7...

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

authors： Bae B,Davis E,Brown D,Campbell EA,Wigneshweraraj S,Darst SA

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play key roles in detecting pathogens and initiating inflammatory responses that, subsequently, prime specific adaptive responses. Several mechanisms control TLR activity to avoid excessive inflammation and consequent immunopathology, including the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10. Recently,...

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

authors： Curtale G,Mirolo M,Renzi TA,Rossato M,Bazzoni F,Locati M

更新日期：2013-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids rapidly and completely inhibit intracellular plasminogen activator activity in rat hepatoma cells, as assayed by the solubilization of 125I-labeled fibrin. Experiments in which extracts of dexamethasone-treated cells are mixed with extracts of control cells demonstrate an inhibitor of protease activity...

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

authors： Seifert SC,Gelehrter TD

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection by Plasmodium, the causative agent of malaria, is associated with hemolysis and therefore with release of hemoglobin from RBC. Under inflammatory conditions, cell-free hemoglobin can be oxidized, releasing its heme prosthetic groups and producing deleterious free heme. Here we demonstrate that survival of a ...

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

authors： Seixas E,Gozzelino R,Chora A,Ferreira A,Silva G,Larsen R,Rebelo S,Penido C,Smith NR,Coutinho A,Soares MP

更新日期：2009-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Many experiments have been done to determine how far and how freely holes can move along the stack of base pairs in DNA. The results of these experiments are usually described in terms of a parameter beta under the assumption that it describes an exponential decay with distance. The reported values range from beta < 0...

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

authors： Conwell EM,Rakhmanova SV

更新日期：2000-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of rising atmospheric CO2 in modulating estuarine carbonate system dynamics remains poorly characterized, likely due to myriad processes driving the complex chemistry in these habitats. We reconstructed the full carbonate system of an estuarine seagrass habitat for a summer period of 2.5 months utilizing a co...

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

authors： Pacella SR,Brown CA,Waldbusser GG,Labiosa RG,Hales B

更新日期：2018-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant subline of V79 Chinese hamster cells resistant to antimycin A (ANT) was obtained by treatment with ethyl methanesulfonate followed by serial selection in ANT-containing medium. Clonal derivatives of the resistant line are less susceptible than parent cells to growth inhibition by ANT in mass populations and s...

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

authors： Harris M

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied hepatic uptake of chylomicron retinyl ester. Chylomicrons were obtained from intestinal lymph of rats that were given retinol in groundnut oil by intraduodenal injection. When lymph was injected intravenously into normal rats, the radioactivity was cleared from blood with t1/2 approximately equal to 10...

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

authors： Blomhoff R,Helgerud P,Rasmussen M,Berg T,Norum KR

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of luminescence in Escherichia coli was recently achieved by cloning genes from the marine bacterium Vibrio fischeri. One DNA fragment on a hybrid plasmid encoded regulatory functions and enzymatic activities necessary for light production. We report the results of a genetic analysis to identify the lumines...

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

authors： Engebrecht J,Silverman M

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Almost all democratic societies evolved socially and politically out of authoritarian and nondemocratic regimes. These changes not only altered the allocation of economic resources in society but also the structure of political power. In this paper, we develop a framework for studying the dynamics of political and soc...

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

authors： Acemoglu D,Egorov G,Sonin K

更新日期：2011-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The murine pre-B leukemic cell line 70Z/3 contains both an unrearranged immunoglobulin kappa-light-chain gene and a functionally rearranged but silent kappa-light-chain gene. Mitogenic stimulation of growing 70Z/3 cells with bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) activates kappa-light-gene transcription and results in a 1...

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

authors： Wall R,Briskin M,Carter C,Govan H,Taylor A,Kincade P

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) requires open, flexible chromatin domains. The NuA4-Tip60 complex creates these flexible chromatin structures by exchanging histone H2A.Z onto nucleosomes and promoting acetylation of histone H4. Here, we demonstrate that the accumulation of H2A.Z on nucleosomes at DSBs is...

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

authors： Gursoy-Yuzugullu O,Ayrapetov MK,Price BD

更新日期：2015-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed the level of intraindividual sequence variability (heteroplasmy) of mtDNA in human brain by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and sequencing. Single base substitutions, as well as insertions or deletions of single bases, were numerous in the noncoding control region (D-loop), and 35-45% of the m...

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

authors： Jazin EE,Cavelier L,Eriksson I,Oreland L,Gyllensten U

更新日期：1996-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian SWI/SNF [also called BAF (Brg/Brahma-associated factors)] ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complexes are essential for formation of the totipotent and pluripotent cells of the early embryo. In addition, subunits of this complex have been recovered in screens for genes required for nuclear reprogramming in ...

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

authors： Ho L,Ronan JL,Wu J,Staahl BT,Chen L,Kuo A,Lessard J,Nesvizhskii AI,Ranish J,Crabtree GR

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The insulin signaling pathway is of pivotal importance in metabolic diseases, such as diabetes, and in cellular processes, such as aging. Insulin activates a tyrosine phosphorylation cascade that branches to create a complex network affecting multiple biological processes. To understand the full spectrum of the tyrosi...

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

authors： Krüger M,Kratchmarova I,Blagoev B,Tseng YH,Kahn CR,Mann M

更新日期：2008-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificially aminoacylated suppressor tRNAs were used to introduce photoreactive amino acids into model mitochondrial precursor proteins to probe the environment along the protein import pathway. Amino acids with benzophenone side chains of various lengths [DL-2-amino-3-(p-benzoylphenyl)propanoic acid (1) and DL-2-ami...

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

authors： Kanamori T,Nishikawa S,Shin I,Schultz PG,Endo T

更新日期：1997-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacteria use acyl homoserine lactone signals to monitor cell density in a type of gene regulation termed quorum sensing and response. Synthesis of these signals is directed by homologs of the luxi gene of Vibrio fischeri. This communication resolves two critical issues concerning the synthesis of the V. fischeri ...

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

authors： Schaefer AL,Val DL,Hanzelka BL,Cronan JE Jr,Greenberg EP

更新日期：1996-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The skeletal remains of a diminutive small-brained hominin found in Late Pleistocene cave deposits on the island of Flores, Indonesia were assigned to a new species, Homo floresiensis [Brown P, et al. (2004) A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia. Nature 431: 1055-1061]. A dramatical...

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

authors： Gordon AD,Nevell L,Wood B

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative genomics of closely related bacterial isolates is a powerful method for uncovering virulence and other important genome elements. We determined draft sequences (8-fold coverage) of the genomes of strains JD1 and N40 of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, the causative agent of Lyme disease, and we compared...

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

authors： Qiu WG,Schutzer SE,Bruno JF,Attie O,Xu Y,Dunn JJ,Fraser CM,Casjens SR,Luft BJ

更新日期：2004-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutational inactivation of the retinoblastoma (RB) gene has been implicated in the genesis of retinoblastoma, osteosarcoma, and other human tumors. Our strategy has been to characterize naturally occurring mutants from tumor cells to pinpoint potential domains of RB protein crucial for tumor suppression. We show here ...

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

authors： Shew JY,Lin BT,Chen PL,Tseng BY,Yang-Feng TL,Lee WH

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the serum proteolytic system plasminogen/plasminogen activator as a biochemical tool used by the glia or neurons, or both, for maintaining their temporary and flexible cellular interactions during histogenesis of the nervous system is under study. The present report identifies a glia cell type, the Schwann...

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

authors： Kalderon N

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetyl-CoA synthase from Clostridium thermoaceticum (ACS(Ct)) is an alpha(2)beta(2) tetramer containing two novel Ni-X-Fe(4)S(4) active sites (the A and C clusters) and a standard Fe(4)S(4) cluster (the B cluster). The acsA and acsB genes encoding the enzyme were cloned into Escherichia coli strain JM109 and overexpre...

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

authors： Loke HK,Bennett GN,Lindahl PA

更新日期：2000-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:To permit rapid optical control of brain activity, we have engineered multiple lines of transgenic mice that express the light-activated cation channel Channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2) in subsets of neurons. Illumination of ChR2-positive neurons in brain slices produced photocurrents that generated action potentials within m...

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

authors： Wang H,Peca J,Matsuzaki M,Matsuzaki K,Noguchi J,Qiu L,Wang D,Zhang F,Boyden E,Deisseroth K,Kasai H,Hall WC,Feng G,Augustine GJ

更新日期：2007-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier Monte Carlo studies on a single-helix model of the GTP cap at the end of a microtubule are extended here to a more realistic five-start helix model of the microtubule end. As in the earlier work, phase changes occur at the microtubule end: the end is either capped with GTP and growing slowly or uncapped and sh...

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

authors： Chen YD,Hill TL

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibronectins isolated from the conditioned medium produced by cultures of undifferentiated (monolayer) and differentiated (nodular) swine vascular smooth muscle cells are similar but not identical. In general, the nodular-cell fibronectin has a smaller molecular mass than monolayer-cell fibronectin and appears to lack...

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

authors： Millis AJ,Hoyle M,Mann DM,Brennan MJ

更新日期：1985-05-01 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：:To define the gene content of the HLA class I region, cDNA selection was applied to three overlapping yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs) that spanned 1 megabase (Mb) of this region of the human major histocompatibility complex. These YACs extended from the region centromeric to HLA-E to the region telomeric to HLA-F....

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

authors： Wei H,Fan WF,Xu H,Parimoo S,Shukla H,Chaplin DD,Weissman SM

更新日期：1993-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological processes such as circadian rhythms, cell division, metabolism, and development occur as ordered sequences of events. The synchronization of these coordinated events is essential for proper cell function, and hence the determination of critical time points in biological processes is an important component o...

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

authors： Ramakrishnan N,Tadepalli S,Watson LT,Helm RF,Antoniotti M,Mishra B

更新日期：2010-07-13 00:00:00