Stopping the circadian pacemaker with inhibitors of protein synthesis.

abstract：:The vegetative development of the maize shoot can be divided into juvenile and adult phases based on the types of leaves produced at different times in shoot development. Models for the regulation of phase change make explicit predictions about when the identity of these types of leaves is determined. To test these mo...

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

authors： Orkwiszewski JA,Poethig RS

更新日期：2000-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein complex formed by the Ca2+ sensor neuronal calcium sensor 1 (NCS-1) and the guanine exchange factor protein Ric8a coregulates synapse number and probability of neurotransmitter release, emerging as a potential therapeutic target for diseases affecting synapses, such as fragile X syndrome (FXS), the most co...

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

authors： Mansilla A,Chaves-Sanjuan A,Campillo NE,Semelidou O,Martínez-González L,Infantes L,González-Rubio JM,Gil C,Conde S,Skoulakis EM,Ferrús A,Martínez A,Sánchez-Barrena MJ

更新日期：2017-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals are associated with a microbiome that can affect their reproductive success. It is, therefore, important to understand how a host and its microbiome coevolve. According to the hologenome concept, hosts and their microbiome form an integrated evolutionary entity, a holobiont, on which selection can potentially ...

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

authors： van Vliet S,Doebeli M

更新日期：2019-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Many higher level avian clades are restricted to Earth's lower latitudes, leading to historical biogeographic reconstructions favoring a Gondwanan origin of crown birds and numerous deep subclades. However, several such "tropical-restricted" clades (TRCs) are represented by stem-lineage fossils well outside the ranges...

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

authors： Saupe EE,Farnsworth A,Lunt DJ,Sagoo N,Pham KV,Field DJ

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The high-potential iron-sulfur center associated with the g = 1.89-1.90 electron paramagnetic resonance signal in spinach chloroplasts is fully reduced in the dark. It is photooxidized in the presence of 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea and reduced after illumination with red actinic light in the absence of inh...

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

authors： Whitmarsh J,Cramer WA

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addition of acetylcholine to growing cultures of mouse neuroblastoma cells induced a 37-fold increase in the specific activity of acetylcholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.7). Morphological changes, consisting of neurite-extensions, were also observed during the logarithmic phase of growth of cells stimulated with acetylcholine....

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

authors： Harkins J,Arsenault M,Schlesinger K,Kates J

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The covalent attachment of heme to apocytochrome c, and therefore the import of cytochrome c into mitochondria, is dependent on both NADH plus a cytosolic cofactor that has been identified to be FMN or FAD. NADH in concert with flavin nucleotides mediates the reduction of heme. Heme in the reduced state is a prerequis...

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

authors： Nicholson DW,Neupert W

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular transport is based on molecular motors that pull cargos along cytoskeletal filaments. One motor species always moves in one direction, e.g., conventional kinesin moves to the microtubule plus end, whereas cytoplasmic dynein moves to the microtubule minus end. However, many cellular cargoes are observed t...

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

authors： Müller MJ,Klumpp S,Lipowsky R

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitory interneurons regulate the responses of cortical circuits. In auditory cortical areas, inhibition from these neurons narrows spectral tuning and shapes response dynamics. Acute disruptions of inhibition expand spectral receptive fields. However, the effects of long-term perturbations of inhibitory circuitry ...

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

authors： Seybold BA,Stanco A,Cho KK,Potter GB,Kim C,Sohal VS,Rubenstein JL,Schreiner CE

更新日期：2012-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a tumor suppressor syndrome characterized by benign tumors in multiple organs, including the brain and kidney. TSC-associated tumors exhibit hyperactivation of mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1), a direct inhibitor of autophagy. Autophagy can either promote or inhibit ...

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

authors： Parkhitko A,Myachina F,Morrison TA,Hindi KM,Auricchio N,Karbowniczek M,Wu JJ,Finkel T,Kwiatkowski DJ,Yu JJ,Henske EP

更新日期：2011-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The prefrontal cortex plays a fundamental role in the working memory functions of the cerebral cortex and is also the site of dysfunction in several neurological and psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia. Prefrontal neurons are distinguished by their capacity for sustained activity during the time a stimulus ...

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

authors： Gao WJ,Krimer LS,Goldman-Rakic PS

更新日期：2001-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In Xenopus oocytes injected with rat brain mRNA, as in neurons, glycine greatly potentiated responses of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) type of excitatory amino acid receptor. Injected oocytes generated a partially desensitizing inward current in response to NMDA with 30 nM added glycine. As the added glycine concent...

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

authors： Lerma J,Zukin RS,Bennett MV

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We obtain a classification of the irreducible (nonunitary) representations of a connected semisimple Lie group G, in terms of their restriction to a maximal compact subgroup K of G. (A classification in terms of analytic properties of the representations has been given by R. P. Langlands [(1973), mimeographed notes, I...

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

authors： Vogan DA

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transformation of murine thymocytes by radiation leukemia virus is associated with reduced expression of the class I antigens encoded in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and increased methylation and altered restriction enzyme patterns of MHC DNA. These changes may play a role in host susceptibility to virus...

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

authors： Meruelo D,Kornreich R,Rossomando A,Pampeno C,Boral A,Silver JL,Buxbaum J,Weiss EH,Devlin JJ,Mellor AL

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Green fluorescent protein (GFP) is widely used as a reporter gene in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. However, the fluorescence levels of wild-type GFP (wtGFP) are not bright enough for fluorescence-activated cell sorting or flow cytometry. Several GFP variants were generated that are brighter or have altered excitati...

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

authors： Anderson MT,Tjioe IM,Lorincz MC,Parks DR,Herzenberg LA,Nolan GP,Herzenberg LA

更新日期：1996-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:For decades, scientists have debated whether supercooled liquids stop flowing below a glass transition temperature [Formula: see text] or whether motion continues to slow gradually down to zero temperature. Answering this question is challenging because human time scales set a limit on the largest measurable viscosity...

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

authors： Jadhao V,Robbins MO

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In movies or on TV, a wheel can seem to rotate backwards, due to the temporal subsampling inherent in the recording process (the wagon wheel illusion). Surprisingly, this effect has also been reported under continuous light, suggesting that our visual system, too, might sample motion in discrete "snapshots." Recently,...

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

authors： VanRullen R,Reddy L,Koch C

更新日期：2005-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), the master circadian clock in mammals, sends major output signals to the subparaventricular zone (SPZ) and further to the paraventricular nucleus (PVN), the neural mechanism of which is largely unknown. In this study, the intracellular calcium levels were measured continuously in cul...

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

authors： Wu YE,Enoki R,Oda Y,Huang ZL,Honma KI,Honma S

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Several hypolipidemic drugs and certain industrial plasticizers induce proliferation of peroxisomes, enhance the activity of peroxisome-associated beta-oxidation of fatty acids, and produce hepatocellular carcinomas in the livers of rodents. Because these chemicals themselves are not mutagens and do not covalently mod...

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

authors： Fahl WE,Lalwani ND,Watanabe T,Goel SK,Reddy JK

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By indirect immunofluorescence techniques, microtubules and mitochondria were localized in normal rat kidney cells, human WI38 fibroblasts, mouse peritoneal macrophages, and a putative smooth muscle rat cell line, in monolayer culture. The mitochondria were found to be arranged along the cytoplasmic microtubules in ea...

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

authors： Heggeness MH,Simon M,Singer SJ

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focally evoked calcium waves in astrocyte cultures have been thought to propagate by gap-junction-mediated intercellular passage of chemical signal(s). In contrast to this mechanism we observed isolated astrocytes, which had no physical contact with other astrocytes in the culture, participating in a calcium wave. Thi...

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

authors： Hassinger TD,Guthrie PB,Atkinson PB,Bennett MV,Kater SB

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase C (PKC) phosphorylation stimulates the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) channel and enhances its activation by protein kinase A (PKA) through mechanisms that remain poorly understood. We have examined the effects of mutating consensus sequences for PKC phosphorylation and repor...

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

authors： Chappe V,Hinkson DA,Howell LD,Evagelidis A,Liao J,Chang XB,Riordan JR,Hanrahan JW

更新日期：2004-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial chemotaxis receptors can detect a small concentration gradient of attractants and repellents in the environment over a wide range of background concentration. The clustering of these receptors to form patches observed in vivo and in vitro has been suspected as a reason for the high sensitivity, and such wide...

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

authors： Kim SH,Wang W,Kim KK

更新日期：2002-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-induced activation of T cells can be specifically inhibited by antigen analogs that have been termed T-cell receptor peptide antagonists. These antagonists appear to act by inducing the formation of nonstimulatory or partially stimulatory complexes between T-cell receptors and the major histocompatibility comp...

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

authors： Page DM,Alexander J,Snoke K,Appella E,Sette A,Hedrick SM,Grey HM

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen tumor-containing specimens were obtained directly from patients with small cell carcinoma of the lung and tested for their ability to grow in serum-supplemented medium and in serum-free medium supplemented with hydrocortisone, insulin, transferrin, estrogen, and selenium (HITES). The tumor cells replicated in ...

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

authors： Carney DN,Bunn PA Jr,Gazdar AF,Pagan JA,Minna JD

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Choroideremia is an X-linked hereditary retinal degeneration resulting from mutations in the Rab escort protein-1 (REP1). The Rep1 protein facilitates posttranslational modification of Rab proteins, which regulate intracellular trafficking in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and photoreceptors and are likely invol...

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

authors： Krock BL,Bilotta J,Perkins BD

更新日期：2007-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular DNA and RNA were simultaneously quantitated in individual cells of cycling and quiescent populations by flow cytometry. Based on differences in RNA content, two distinct subcompartments, G1A and G1B, were recognized in the G1 phase of exponentially growing cells. After mitosis, cells reside in the low-RNA, G1...

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

authors： Darzynkiewicz Z,Sharpless T,Staiano-Coico L,Melamed MR

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a high-efficiency nucleic acid delivery system that uses receptor-mediated endocytosis to carry DNA macromolecules into cells. We accomplished this by conjugating the iron-transport protein transferrin to polycations that bind nucleic acids. Human transferrin, as well as the chicken homologue conalbu...

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

authors： Wagner E,Zenke M,Cotten M,Beug H,Birnstiel ML

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally accepted that healthy cells degrade their own mitochondria. Here, we report that retinal ganglion cell axons of WT mice shed mitochondria at the optic nerve head (ONH), and that these mitochondria are internalized and degraded by adjacent astrocytes. EM demonstrates that mitochondria are shed through f...

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

authors： Davis CH,Kim KY,Bushong EA,Mills EA,Boassa D,Shih T,Kinebuchi M,Phan S,Zhou Y,Bihlmeyer NA,Nguyen JV,Jin Y,Ellisman MH,Marsh-Armstrong N

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent climate change has increased arctic soil temperatures and thawed large areas of permafrost, allowing for microbial respiration of previously frozen C. Furthermore, soil destabilization from melting ice has caused an increase in thermokarst failures that expose buried C and release dissolved organic C (DOC) to s...

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

authors： Cory RM,Crump BC,Dobkowski JA,Kling GW

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00