Effect of Ca2+ on weak cross-bridge interaction with actin in the presence of adenosine 5'-[gamma-thio]triphosphate).

abstract：:Idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (IIPs) have a progressive and often fatal course, and their enigmatic etiology has complicated approaches to effective therapies. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is the most common of IIPs and shares with IIPs an increased incidence with age and unexplained scarring in the lung. ...

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

authors： Alder JK,Chen JJ,Lancaster L,Danoff S,Su SC,Cogan JD,Vulto I,Xie M,Qi X,Tuder RM,Phillips JA 3rd,Lansdorp PM,Loyd JE,Armanios MY

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The timing of human colonization of East Polynesia, a vast area lying between Hawai'i, Rapa Nui, and New Zealand, is much debated and the underlying causes of this great migration have been enigmatic. Our study generates evidence for human dispersal into eastern Polynesia from islands to the west from around AD 900 an...

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

authors： Sear DA,Allen MS,Hassall JD,Maloney AE,Langdon PG,Morrison AE,Henderson ACG,Mackay H,Croudace IW,Clarke C,Sachs JP,Macdonald G,Chiverrell RC,Leng MJ,Cisneros-Dozal LM,Fonville T,Pearson E

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A lost navigator must identify its current location and recover its facing direction to restore its bearings. We tested the idea that these two tasks--place recognition and heading retrieval--might be mediated by distinct cognitive systems in mice. Previous work has shown that numerous species, including young childre...

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

authors： Julian JB,Keinath AT,Muzzio IA,Epstein RA

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Early forms of the genetic code likely generated "statistical" proteins, with similar side chains occupying the same sequence positions at different ratios. In this scenario, groups of related side chains were treated by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases as a single molecular species until a discrimination mechanism develope...

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

authors： Yang XL,Otero FJ,Skene RJ,McRee DE,Schimmel P,Ribas de Pouplana L

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The first step in the replication of the adenovirus genome is the covalent attachment of the 5'-terminal nucleotide, dCMP, to the virus-encoded terminal protein precursor (pTP). This reaction can be observed in vitro and has been previously shown to be dependent upon either viral DNA or linearized plasmid DNA containi...

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

authors： Challberg MD,Rawlins DR

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species-specific colors and patterns on animal body surfaces are determined primarily by neural-crest-derived pigment cells in the skin (chromatophores). However, even closely related species display widely differing patterns. These contrasting aspects of chromatophores (i.e., the fixed developmental control within sp...

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

authors： Fukamachi S,Sugimoto M,Mitani H,Shima A

更新日期：2004-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of leucine incorporation into a specific estrogen-induced protein of immature rat isolated by gel electrophoresis declines rapidly between 2-4 hr after estrogen stimulation in vivo followed by incubation in vitro. Actinomycin D present during the in vitro phase prevents this decline, and elicits a "superinduc...

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

authors： DeAngelo AB,Fujimoto GI

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subdivision of all the experimental days of the Whitetop project into two approximately equal groups, group W with predominantly westerly winds aloft and group E with frequent easterly winds, shows a remarkable difference in the apparent effect of seeding. On W days there was no detectable effect of seeding on rai...

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

authors： Lovasich JL,Neyman J,Scott EL,Smith JA

更新日期：1969-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Is the pathway of protein folding determined by the relative stability of folding intermediates, or by the relative height of the activation barriers leading to these intermediates? This is a fundamental question for resolving the Levinthal paradox, which stated that protein folding by a random search mechanism would ...

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

authors： Su ZD,Arooz MT,Chen HM,Gross CJ,Tsong TY

更新日期：1996-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:AK032317 is the GenBank accession no. of a full-length RIKEN mouse cDNA. It encodes a putative variant of the C3-type TRPC (transient receptor potential channel) that differs from the previously cloned murine TRPC3 cDNA in that it has a 5' extension stemming from inclusion of an additional exon (exon 0). The extended ...

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

authors： Yildirim E,Kawasaki BT,Birnbaumer L

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue- and cell-specific deletion of the Aqp4 gene is required to differentiate between the numerous pools of aquaporin-4 (AQP4) water channels. A glial-conditional Aqp4 knockout mouse line was generated to resolve whether astroglial AQP4 controls water exchange across the blood-brain interface. The conditional knock...

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

authors： Haj-Yasein NN,Vindedal GF,Eilert-Olsen M,Gundersen GA,Skare Ø,Laake P,Klungland A,Thorén AE,Burkhardt JM,Ottersen OP,Nagelhus EA

更新日期：2011-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Domain walls, commonly occurring at the interface of different phases in solid-state materials, have recently been harnessed at the structural scale to enable additional modes of functionality. Here, we combine experimental, numerical, and theoretical tools to investigate the domain walls emerging upon uniaxial compre...

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

authors： Deng B,Yu S,Forte AE,Tournat V,Bertoldi K

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A target protein for nalidixic and oxolinic acids in Escherichia coli, the nalA gene product (Pnal), was purified to homogeneity as judged by gel electrophoresis, using an in vitro complementation assay. It is a dimer of identical 110,000-dalton subunits. A polypeptide of this molecular weight is uniquely induced by a...

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

authors： Sugino A,Peebles CL,Kreuzer KN,Cozzarelli NR

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using data from the North American Breeding Bird Survey, we determined that most neotropical migrant bird species that breed in forests of the eastern United States and Canada have recently (1978-1987) declined in abundance after a period of stable or increasing populations. Most permanent residents and temperate-zone...

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

authors： Robbins CS,Sauer JR,Greenberg RS,Droege S

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reaction networks displaying bistability provide a chemical mechanism for long-term memory storage in cells, as exemplified by many epigenetic switches. These biological systems are not only bistable but switchable, in the sense that they can be flipped from one state to the other by application of specific molecular ...

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

authors： Padirac A,Fujii T,Rondelez Y

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent excavations at Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) WF16 in southern Jordan have revealed remarkable evidence of architectural developments in the early Neolithic. This sheds light on both special purpose structures and "domestic" settlement, allowing fresh insights into the development of increasingly sedentary comm...

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

authors： Finlayson B,Mithen SJ,Najjar M,Smith S,Maričević D,Pankhurst N,Yeomans L

更新日期：2011-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic mice expressing the sequences coding for the envelope proteins of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) in the liver have been used as a model of the HBV chronic carrier state. We evaluated the possibility of inducing a specific immune response to the viral envelope antigens and thus potentially controlling chronic H...

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

authors： Mancini M,Hadchouel M,Davis HL,Whalen RG,Tiollais P,Michel ML

更新日期：1996-10-29 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：:Fast neurotransmission requires that docked synaptic vesicles be located near the presynaptic N-type or P/Q-type calcium channels. Specific protein-protein interactions between a synaptic protein interaction (synprint) site on N-type and P/Q-type channels and the presynaptic SNARE proteins syntaxin, SNAP-25, and synap...

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

authors： Kim DK,Catterall WA

更新日期：1997-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have tested the effect of increased ribosomal fidelity on a modified version of the programmed release factor 2 (RF2) translational frameshift. In the constructs tested, the original UGA codon at the site of the shift was replaced by either of two sense codons, UGG (tryptophan), which allows a frameshift of approxi...

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

authors： Sipley J,Goldman E

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The multidimensional free energy surface for a small fast folding helical protein is explored based on first-principle calculations. The model represents the 46-residue segment from fragment B of staphylococcal protein A. The relationship between collapse and tertiary structure formation, and the order of collapse and...

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

authors： Guo Z,Brooks CL 3rd,Boczko EM

更新日期：1997-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Pore-forming toxins (PFTs) are a class of proteins implicated in a wide range of virulent bacterial infections and diseases. These toxins bind to target membranes and subsequently oligomerize to form functional pores that eventually lead to cell lysis. While the protein undergoes large conformational changes on the bi...

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

authors： Ponmalar II,Cheerla R,Ayappa KG,Basu JK

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Opportunistic infections are often polymicrobial. Two of the most important bacterial opportunistic pathogens of humans, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus, frequently are coisolated from infections of catheters, endotracheal tubes, skin, eyes, and the respiratory tract, including the airways of people w...

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

authors： Hoffman LR,Déziel E,D'Argenio DA,Lépine F,Emerson J,McNamara S,Gibson RL,Ramsey BW,Miller SI

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A major goal for developmental biologists is to define the behaviors and molecular contents of differentiating cells. We have devised a strategy for isolating cells from diverse embryonic regions and stages in the zebrafish, using computer-guided laser photoconversion of injected Kaede protein and flow cytometry. This...

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

authors： Brown JL,Snir M,Noushmehr H,Kirby M,Hong SK,Elkahloun AG,Feldman B

更新日期：2008-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:There are many occasions in which humans and other animals must inhibit the production of some behavior or inhibit the processing of some internal representation. Success in inhibitory processing under normal circumstances can be revealed by the fact that certain brain pathologies render inhibitory processing ineffect...

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

authors： Jonides J,Smith EE,Marshuetz C,Koeppe RA,Reuter-Lorenz PA

更新日期：1998-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of gene expression through translational control is a fundamental mechanism implicated in many biological processes ranging from memory formation to innate immunity and whose dysregulation contributes to human diseases. Genome wide analyses of translational control strive to identify differential translatio...

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

authors： Larsson O,Sonenberg N,Nadon R

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid, simple, and quantitative filter-binding assay using glass fiber filters has been developed to detect the convalent adenovirus DNA-terminal protein complex. The assay is unusually sensitive because binding of protein-free DNA generally is less than 0.1%. Binding of the adenovirus complex to filters is mediated...

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

authors： Coombs DH,Pearson GD

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Betidamino acids (a contraction of "beta" position and "amide") are N'-monoacylated (optionally, N'-monoacylated and N-mono- or N,N'-dialkylated) aminoglycine derivatives in which each N'acyl/alkyl group may mimic naturally occurring amino acid side chains or introduce novel functionalities. Betidamino acids are most ...

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

authors： Rivier JE,Jiang G,Koerber SC,Porter J,Simon L,Craig AG,Hoeger CA

更新日期：1996-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence highlights a role for the immune system in the pathogenesis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), as immune dysregulation is observed in the brain, periphery, and gastrointestinal tract of ASD individuals. Furthermore, maternal infection (maternal immune activation, MIA) is a risk factor for ASD. Mode...

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

authors： Hsiao EY,McBride SW,Chow J,Mazmanian SK,Patterson PH

更新日期：2012-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) causes varicella and establishes latency in sensory ganglia. VZV reactivation results in herpes zoster. We developed a model using human dorsal root ganglion (DRG) xenografts in severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice to investigate VZV infection of differentiated neurons and satellite...

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

authors： Zerboni L,Ku CC,Jones CD,Zehnder JL,Arvin AM

更新日期：2005-05-03 00:00:00