A germ-line insertion in the Birt-Hogg-Dubé (BHD) gene gives rise to the Nihon rat model of inherited renal cancer.

abstract：:We are designing simple peptide ion channels as model systems for the study of the physical principles controlling conduction through ion-channel proteins. Here we report on an uncharged peptide, Ac-(Leu-Ser-Ser-Leu-Leu-Ser-Leu)3-CONH2, designed to form an aggregate of parallel, amphiphilic, membrane-spanning alpha-he...

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

authors： Kienker PK,DeGrado WF,Lear JD

更新日期：1994-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:With every pair of bounded self-adjoint operators {U,V} on Hilbert space such that VU - UV = (1/pii)C, where C is trace class, there is associated a certain function of two complex variables called the determining function of the pair. It was previously shown how the determining function can be obtained as the solutio...

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

authors： Pincus JD

更新日期：1971-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropilin-1 (NRP1) is a 130-kDa transmembrane receptor for semaphorins, mediators of neuronal guidance, and for vascular endothelial growth factor 165 (VEGF(165)), an angiogenesis factor. A 2.2-kb truncated NRP1 cDNA was cloned that encodes a 644-aa soluble NRP1 (sNRP1) isoform containing just the a/CUB and b/coagula...

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

authors： Gagnon ML,Bielenberg DR,Gechtman Z,Miao HQ,Takashima S,Soker S,Klagsbrun M

更新日期：2000-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We image macroscopic transient pores in mechanically stretched giant vesicles. Holes open above a critical radius r(c1), grow up to a radius r(c2), and close. We interpret the upper limit r(c2) by a relaxation of the membrane tension as the holes expand. The closing of the holes is caused by a further relaxation of th...

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

authors： Sandre O,Moreaux L,Brochard-Wyart F

更新日期：1999-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of neural circuits depends on stable contacts between neuronal processes, mediated by interaction of cell adhesion molecules, including N-cadherin. In the present study, we found that activity-dependent dendrite arborization specifically requires N-cadherin-mediated extracellular neuron-neuron interaction, b...

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

authors： Tan ZJ,Peng Y,Song HL,Zheng JJ,Yu X

更新日期：2010-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The explosive growth in our knowledge of genomes, proteomes, and metabolomes is driving ever-increasing fundamental understanding of the biochemistry of life, enabling qualitatively new studies of complex biological systems and their evolution. This knowledge also drives modern biotechnologies, such as molecular engin...

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

authors： Agresti JJ,Antipov E,Abate AR,Ahn K,Rowat AC,Baret JC,Marquez M,Klibanov AM,Griffiths AD,Weitz DA

更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The fractionation of cells of a parsley suspension culture [Petroselinum crispum (Mill.) A. Hill] by protoplasting and subsequent removal of the vacuoles led to physiologically intact evacuolated protoplasts retaining light inducibility of chalcone synthase expression. Lysis of the evacuolated protoplasts permitted th...

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

authors： Harter K,Frohnmeyer H,Kircher S,Kunkel T,Mühlbauer S,Schäfer E

更新日期：1994-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the crystal structure of the Escherichia coli nucleoid-associated HUalphabeta protein by x-ray diffraction and observed that the heterodimers form multimers with octameric units in three potential arrangements, which may serve specialized roles in different DNA transaction reactions. It is of special imp...

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

authors： Guo F,Adhya S

更新日期：2007-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:One of sleep's putative functions is mediation of adaptation to waking experiences. Chronic stress is a common waking experience; however, which specific aspect of sleep is most responsive, and how sleep changes relate to behavioral disturbances and molecular correlates remain unknown. We quantified sleep, physical, e...

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

authors： Nollet M,Hicks H,McCarthy AP,Wu H,Möller-Levet CS,Laing EE,Malki K,Lawless N,Wafford KA,Dijk DJ,Winsky-Sommerer R

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A method using PCR amplification and primer extension with fluorescent oligonucleotides was developed to analyze T-cell repertoires. The sizes of the hypervariable CDR3-like regions of the murine T-cell antigen receptor beta chains were measured for all possible V beta-J beta combinations. This analysis shows that bet...

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

authors： Pannetier C,Cochet M,Darche S,Casrouge A,Zöller M,Kourilsky P

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fish stocks experiencing high fishing mortality show a tendency to mature earlier and at a smaller size, which may have a genetic component and therefore long-lasting economic and biological effects. To date, the economic effects of such ecoevolutionary dynamics have not been empirically investigated. Using 70 y of da...

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

authors： Eikeset AM,Richter A,Dunlop ES,Dieckmann U,Stenseth NC

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of methylation in the chemosensory response of bacteria to many attractants has been clearly established by studies in several laboratories. It has been assumed that adaptation of Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli to all attractants involves methylation of a transmembrane methyl-accepting che...

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

authors： Niwano M,Taylor BL

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) was investigated for the presence of well-known endoplasmic reticulum (ER) markers: the lumenal protein BiP and a group of membrane proteins recognized by an antibody raised against ER membrane vesicles. Western blots of SR fractions revealed the presence of BiP in fast-...

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

authors： Volpe P,Villa A,Podini P,Martini A,Nori A,Panzeri MC,Meldolesi J

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T-cell-derived soluble factors that inhibit both X4 and R5 HIV are recognized as important in controlling HIV. Whereas three β chemokines, regulated-on-activation normal T-cell expressed and secreted (RANTES), macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-1α, and MIP-1β, account for the suppression of R5 HIV by blockade of HI...

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

authors： Cocchi F,DeVico AL,Lu W,Popovic M,Latinovic O,Sajadi MM,Redfield RR,Lafferty MK,Galli M,Garzino-Demo A,Gallo RC

更新日期：2012-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:When assembled into 13--19S particles, the reovirus nonstructural protein sigma-NS selectively binds single-stranded RNAs. Sedimentation analyses combined with binding to nitrocellulose membrane filters showed that 1--2 pmol of reovirus mRNAs from the large, medium, or small size classes saturated in vitro the binding...

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

authors： Stamatos NM,Gomatos PJ

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by impaired social interactions and communication. The pathogenesis of ASD is not known, but it involves activation of microglia. We had shown that the peptide neurotensin (NT) is increased in the serum of children with ASD and stimulates cultured adult human microglia t...

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

authors： Tsilioni I,Pantazopoulos H,Conti P,Leeman SE,Theoharides TC

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent anatomical tracing studies have yielded substantial amounts of data on the areal connectivity underlying distributed processing in cortex, yet the fundamental principles that govern the large-scale organization of cortex remain unknown. Here we show that functional similarity between areas as defined by the pat...

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

authors： Song HF,Kennedy H,Wang XJ

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The acid-sensing ion channel 1a (ASIC1a) is abundantly expressed in the amygdala complex and other brain regions associated with fear. Studies of mice with a disrupted ASIC1 gene suggested that ASIC1a may contribute to learned fear. To test this hypothesis, we generated mice overexpressing human ASIC1a by using the pa...

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

authors： Wemmie JA,Coryell MW,Askwith CC,Lamani E,Leonard AS,Sigmund CD,Welsh MJ

更新日期：2004-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly purified globin mRNA from ducks was copied with RNA-directed DNA polymerase from avian myeloblastosis virus into anti-messenger DNA. With excess RNA, more than 90% of this DNA annealed back to its template with a C(o)t/2 value of 7.5 x 10(-4) mol.sec. liter(-1); the melting temperature of the hybrid was 86 degr...

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

authors： Imaizumi T,Diggelmann H,Scherrer K

更新日期：1973-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the vertebrate embryo, the cephalic neural crest cells (CNCCs) produce cells belonging to two main lineages: the neural [including neurons, glial cells of the peripheral nervous system (PNS), and melanocytes] and the mesenchymal (chondrocytes, osteoblasts, smooth muscle cells, and connective tissue cells), whereas ...

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

authors： Calloni GW,Glavieux-Pardanaud C,Le Douarin NM,Dupin E

更新日期：2007-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Osmotically shocked Escherichia coli and membrane vesicle ghosts from E. coli cells have lost the ability to accumulate potassium by active transport. The addition of valinomycin to the membrane ghosts restores the capacity to accumulate radioactive (42)K and (86)Rb by a temperature- and energy-dependent process. Memb...

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

authors： Bhattacharyya P,Epstein W,Silver S

更新日期：1971-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local tissue stem cells have been described in airways of the lung but their contribution to normal epithelial maintenance is currently unknown. We therefore developed aggregation chimera mice and a whole-lung imaging method to determine the relative contributions of progenitor (Clara) and bronchiolar stem cells to ep...

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

authors： Giangreco A,Arwert EN,Rosewell IR,Snyder J,Watt FM,Stripp BR

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of genomic regions that control tissue-specific gene expression is currently problematic. ChIP and high-throughput sequencing (ChIP-seq) of enhancer-associated proteins such as p300 identifies some but not all enhancers active in a tissue. Here we show that co-occupancy of a chromatin region by multiple...

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

authors： He A,Kong SW,Ma Q,Pu WT

更新日期：2011-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular transformation by the BCR/ABL oncogene depends on the ABL-encoded tyrosine kinase activity. To block BCR/ABL function, we created a unique tyrosine phosphatase by fusing the catalytic domain of SHP1 (SHP1c) to the ABL binding domain (ABD) of RIN1, an established binding partner and substrate for c-ABL and BCR...

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

authors： Lim YM,Wong S,Lau G,Witte ON,Colicelli J

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned and identified a DNA sequence complementary to the mRNA of creatine kinase (CK) isozyme M, although the mRNA is a minor species of the total mRNA in developing myoblasts. Poly(A)+RNA from breast and thigh muscle of 5-week-old chicks was enriched for CK mRNA by a novel procedure of sucrose gradient centr...

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

authors： Schweinfest CW,Kwiatkowski RW,Dottin RP

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viruses are obligatory intracellular parasites that suffer strong evolutionary pressure from the host immune system. Rapidly evolving viral genomes can adapt to this pressure by acquiring genes that counteract host defense mechanisms. For example, many vertebrate DNA viruses have hijacked cellular genes encoding cytok...

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

authors： Lamiable O,Kellenberger C,Kemp C,Troxler L,Pelte N,Boutros M,Marques JT,Daeffler L,Hoffmann JA,Roussel A,Imler JL

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of quiescent cultures of mouse embryo-derived AKR-2B cells with transforming growth factor beta resulted in an early induction of c-sis mRNA. The increase in c-sis mRNA was followed by a corresponding increase in protein similar to platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) in the culture medium. In addition, PDG...

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

authors： Leof EB,Proper JA,Goustin AS,Shipley GD,DiCorleto PE,Moses HL

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The species-area relationship (SAR) gives a quantitative description of the increasing number of species in a community with increasing area of habitat. In conservation, SARs have been used to predict the number of extinctions when the area of habitat is reduced. Such predictions are most needed for landscapes rather ...

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

authors： Hanski I,Zurita GA,Bellocq MI,Rybicki J

更新日期：2013-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The steroid cholesterol is an essential component of eukaryotic membranes, and it functionally modulates membrane proteins, including G protein-coupled receptors. To reveal insight into how cholesterol modulates G protein-coupled receptors, we have used dynamic single-molecule force spectroscopy to quantify the mechan...

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

authors： Zocher M,Zhang C,Rasmussen SG,Kobilka BK,Müller DJ

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA polymerase pausing represents an important mechanism of transcriptional regulation. In this study, we use a single-molecule transcription assay to investigate the effect of template base-pair composition on pausing by RNA polymerase II and the evolutionarily distinct mitochondrial polymerase Rpo41. For both enzyme...

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

authors： Zamft B,Bintu L,Ishibashi T,Bustamante C

更新日期：2012-06-05 00:00:00