Frequent fusion and fission of plant mitochondria with unequal nucleoid distribution.

abstract：:Converging TGF-beta and insulin-like neuroendocrine signaling pathways regulate whether Caenorhabditis elegans develops reproductively or arrests at the dauer larval stage. We examined whether neurotransmitters act in the dauer entry or recovery pathways. Muscarinic agonists promote recovery from dauer arrest induced ...

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

authors： Tissenbaum HA,Hawdon J,Perregaux M,Hotez P,Guarente L,Ruvkun G

更新日期：2000-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated RNA ligands with low-nanomolar affinity and high specificity to basic fibroblast growth factor from a pool of 10(14) molecules containing 30 randomized positions by the systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX) procedure. High-affinity ligands could be classified into two famil...

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

authors： Jellinek D,Lynott CK,Rifkin DB,Janjić N

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious diseases of domesticated animals impact human well-being via food insecurity, loss of livelihoods, and human infections. While much research has focused on parasites that infect single host species, most parasites of domesticated mammals infect multiple species. The impact of multihost parasites varies acro...

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

authors： Farrell MJ,Davies TJ

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We created a high-throughput modality of photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM) that enables automated 3D PALM imaging of hundreds of synchronized bacteria during all stages of the cell cycle. We used high-throughput PALM to investigate the nanoscale organization of the bacterial cell division protein FtsZ in l...

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

authors： Holden SJ,Pengo T,Meibom KL,Fernandez Fernandez C,Collier J,Manley S

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted ablation of the surfactant protein D (SP-D) gene caused chronic inflammation, emphysema, and fibrosis in the lungs of SP-D (-/-) mice. Although lung morphology was unperturbed during the first 2 weeks of life, airspace enlargement was observed by 3 weeks and progressed with advancing age. Inflammation consist...

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

authors： Wert SE,Yoshida M,LeVine AM,Ikegami M,Jones T,Ross GF,Fisher JH,Korfhagen TR,Whitsett JA

更新日期：2000-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular basis of short-day-induced growth cessation and dormancy in the meristems of perennial plants (e.g., forest trees growing in temperate and high-latitude regions) is poorly understood. Using global transcript profiling, we show distinct stage-specific alterations in auxin responsiveness of the transcripto...

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

authors： Baba K,Karlberg A,Schmidt J,Schrader J,Hvidsten TR,Bako L,Bhalerao RP

更新日期：2011-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant transcription of the pericentromeric human satellite II (HSATII) repeat is present in a wide variety of epithelial cancers. In deriving experimental systems to study its deregulation, we observed that HSATII expression is induced in colon cancer cells cultured as xenografts or under nonadherent conditions in ...

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

authors： Bersani F,Lee E,Kharchenko PV,Xu AW,Liu M,Xega K,MacKenzie OC,Brannigan BW,Wittner BS,Jung H,Ramaswamy S,Park PJ,Maheswaran S,Ting DT,Haber DA

更新日期：2015-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Tibetans have adapted to the chronic hypoxia of high altitude and display a distinctive suite of physiologic adaptations, including augmented hypoxic ventilatory response and resistance to pulmonary hypertension. Genome-wide studies have consistently identified compelling genetic signatures of natural selection in two...

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

authors： Song D,Navalsky BE,Guan W,Ingersoll C,Wang T,Loro E,Eeles L,Matchett KB,Percy MJ,Walsby-Tickle J,McCullagh JSO,Medina RJ,Khurana TS,Bigham AW,Lappin TR,Lee FS

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:TGF-beta-activated kinase-1 (TAK1), also known as MAPKK kinase-7 (MAP3K7), is a candidate effector of multiple circuits in cardiac biology and disease. Here, we show that inhibition of TAK1 in mice by a cardiac-specific dominant-negative mutation evokes electrophysiological and biochemical properties reminiscent of hu...

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

authors： Xie M,Zhang D,Dyck JR,Li Y,Zhang H,Morishima M,Mann DL,Taffet GE,Baldini A,Khoury DS,Schneider MD

更新日期：2006-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:ALOX15 (12/15-lipoxygenase) orthologs have been implicated in maturational degradation of intracellular organelles and in the biosynthesis of antiinflammatory and proresolving eicosanoids. Here we hypothesized that lower mammals (mice, rats, pigs) express 12-lipoxygenating ALOX15 orthologs. In contrast, 15-lipoxygenat...

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

authors： Adel S,Karst F,González-Lafont À,Pekárová M,Saura P,Masgrau L,Lluch JM,Stehling S,Horn T,Kuhn H,Heydeck D

更新日期：2016-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:This distance between a base next to the anticodon of tRNA and the 3' CpCpA terminus of the molecule has been estimated by singlet-singlet energy transfer experiments. The energy donor was the Y base of unknown structure found in yeast tRNA(phe). Three different energy acceptors were used: acriflavine, proflavinyl ace...

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

authors： Beardsley K,Cantor CR

更新日期：1970-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In diabetes, the death of insulin-producing beta-cells by apoptosis leads to insulin deficiency. The lower prevalence of diabetes in females suggests that female sex steroids protect from beta-cell injury. Consistent with this hypothesis, 17beta-estradiol (estradiol) manifests antidiabetic actions in humans and rodent...

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

authors： Le May C,Chu K,Hu M,Ortega CS,Simpson ER,Korach KS,Tsai MJ,Mauvais-Jarvis F

更新日期：2006-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The his4 region of yeast contains the information necessary for the catalysis of three steps in the histidine biosynthetic pathway. The three activities specified by this region remain physically associated during gel filtration and ultracentrifugation and after extensive purification. Nonsense mutations in the "opera...

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

authors： Shaffer B,Rytka J,Fink GR

更新日期：1969-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytes are a critical component of the innate immune response in humans and eliminate invading microorganisms through a process known as phagocytosis. Two distinct receptor-linked phagocytic pathways, one with Ab receptors (FcRs; FcR, Fc receptor) and the other complement receptors (CRs), mediate binding and inges...

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

authors： Kobayashi SD,Voyich JM,Buhl CL,Stahl RM,DeLeo FR

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven antigenic variants obtained from a single field isolate of foot-and-mouth disease virus, serotype A12, differ only at residues 148 and 153 in the immunodominant loop of viral protein VP1. Synthetic peptides corresponding to the region 141-160 are highly immunogenic. UV circular dichroism shows that (i) in aqueou...

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

authors： France LL,Piatti PG,Newman JF,Toth I,Gibbons WA,Brown F

更新日期：1994-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosystem I (PSI) reaction centers (RCs) of the thermophilic cyanobacterium Mastigocladus laminosus were purified and characterized. The PSI RC was obtained in two forms, monomeric and trimeric. The two forms contained the same number of pigments per P700 and displayed similar photochemical activities. The two forms...

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

authors： Almog O,Shoham G,Michaeli D,Nechushtai R

更新日期：1991-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:L-type Ca(2+) currents conducted by CaV1.2 channels initiate excitation-contraction coupling in the heart. Their activity is increased by β-adrenergic/cAMP signaling via phosphorylation by PKA in the fight-or-flight response, but the sites of regulation are unknown. We describe the functional role of phosphorylation o...

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

authors： Fu Y,Westenbroek RE,Scheuer T,Catterall WA

更新日期：2013-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice with a targeted mutation of the gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP) receptor gene (GIPR) were generated to determine the role of GIP as a mediator of signals from the gut to pancreatic beta cells. GIPR-/- mice have higher blood glucose levels with impaired initial insulin response after oral glucose load. Althou...

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

authors： Miyawaki K,Yamada Y,Yano H,Niwa H,Ban N,Ihara Y,Kubota A,Fujimoto S,Kajikawa M,Kuroe A,Tsuda K,Hashimoto H,Yamashita T,Jomori T,Tashiro F,Miyazaki J,Seino Y

更新日期：1999-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotic cells, RAD52 protein plays a central role in genetic recombination and DNA repair by (i) promoting the annealing of complementary single-stranded DNA and (ii) stimulation of the RAD51 recombinase. The single-strand annealing domain resides in the N-terminal region of the protein and is highly conserved, ...

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

authors： Singleton MR,Wentzell LM,Liu Y,West SC,Wigley DB

更新日期：2002-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:There are certain genes on the sex chromosome of Drosophila for which the female contains twice as many copies as the male. Some of the genes in this group produce the same phenotype in each sex despite the dosage difference and are said, therefore, to manifest dosage compensation. The structural genes for glucose-6-p...

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

authors： Seecof RL,Kaplan WD,Futch DG

更新日期：1969-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic evidence indicates that the PrlA (SecY) protein of Escherichia coli functions as a membrane integrated signal sequence receptor in protein "export"--i.e., in protein translocation across (or integration into) the plasma membrane. We have raised antibodies in rabbits against two synthetic peptides representing ...

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

authors： Watanabe M,Blobel G

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different splice variants of the proinflammatory cytokine IL-32 are found in various tissues; their putative differences in biological function remain unknown. In the present study, we report that IL-32γ is the most active isoform of the cytokine. Splicing to one less active IL-32β appears to be a salvage mechanism to...

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

authors： Heinhuis B,Koenders MI,van de Loo FA,Netea MG,van den Berg WB,Joosten LA

更新日期：2011-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli mutS gene product is involved in mismatch correction in this organism. We have purified a biologically active form of the 97,000 Mr protein to near homogeneity from an overproducing strain. Enzymatic and chemical protection ("footprinting") experiments have demonstrated that mutS-encoded protein s...

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

authors： Su SS,Modrich P

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central structural feature of natural proteins is a tightly packed and highly ordered hydrophobic core. If some measure of exquisite, native-like core packing is necessary for enzymatic function, this would constitute a significant obstacle to the development of novel enzymes, either by design or by natural or exp...

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

authors： Axe DD,Foster NW,Fersht AR

更新日期：1996-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Two mutants of Balb/c 3T3 cells defective in adhesiveness to substratum have been isolated. After exposure to a mutagen a cell population was treated with prostaglandin E1 and methylisobutylxanthine to elevate the cells 3':5'-cyclic AMP levels and adhesion to the substratum; then, loosley adherent cells were harvested...

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

authors： Pouysségur JM,Pastan I

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChR) in the embryonic chicken heart undergo agonist-induced internalization and a subsequent decrease in receptor number (downregulation). Cloning studies have identified two subtypes of mAChR expressed in the embryonic chicken heart, the cm2 and cm4 receptors. We report here that...

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

authors： Habecker BA,Nathanson NM

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A physical map of the 9.2-Mbp Myxococcus xanthus DK1622 chromosome at a resolution of 25 kbp was constructed by using a strategy that is applicable to virtually all microorganisms. Segments of the chromosome were used as hybridization probes to subdivide a yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) library into groups of linke...

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

authors： He Q,Chen H,Kuspa A,Cheng Y,Kaiser D,Shimkets LJ

更新日期：1994-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the detailed mechanism of the activation of voltage-gated ion channels has been a problem of great current interest. Reliable molecular simulations of voltage effects present a major challenge because meaningful converging microscopic simulations are not yet available and macroscopic treatments involve m...

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

authors： Dryga A,Chakrabarty S,Vicatos S,Warshel A

更新日期：2012-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Repetitive sequences are hotspots of evolution at multiple levels. However, due to difficulties involved in their assembly and analysis, the role of repeats in tumor evolution is poorly understood. We developed a rigorous motif-based methodology to quantify variations in the repeat content, beyond microsatellites, in ...

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

authors： Persi E,Prandi D,Wolf YI,Pozniak Y,Barnabas GD,Levanon K,Barshack I,Barbieri C,Gasperini P,Beltran H,Faltas BM,Rubin MA,Geiger T,Koonin EV,Demichelis F,Horn D

更新日期：2019-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The apparent failure of infants to understand "object permanence" by reaching for hidden objects is perhaps the most striking and debated phenomenon in cognitive development. Of particular interest is the extent to which infants perceive and remember objects in a similar way to that of adults. Here we report two findi...

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

authors： Kaufman J,Csibra G,Johnson MH

更新日期：2005-10-18 00:00:00