GATA4 is essential for formation of the proepicardium and regulates cardiogenesis.

abstract：:Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS) defines a group of autosomal recessive disorders characterized by deficiencies in lysosome-related organelles such as melanosomes and platelet-dense granules. Several HPS genes encode proteins of unknown function including HPS1, HPS3, and HPS4. Here we have identified and characterized ...

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

authors： Nazarian R,Falcón-Pérez JM,Dell'Angelica EC

更新日期：2003-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:GSTs catalyze the conjugation of glutathione with a wide variety of hydrophobic compounds, generally resulting in nontoxic products that can be readily eliminated. In contrast to many other organisms, the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum possesses only one GST isoenzyme (PfGST). This GST is highly abundant in t...

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

authors： Fritz-Wolf K,Becker A,Rahlfs S,Harwaldt P,Schirmer RH,Kabsch W,Becker K

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:An expression in the exterior algebra of a Peano space yielding Pappus' theorem was originally given by Doubilet, Rota, and Stein [Doubilet, P., Rota, G.-C. & Stein, J. (1974) Stud. Appl. Math. 8, 185-216]. Motivated by an identity of Rota, I give an identity in a Grassmann-Cayley algebra of step 3, involving joins an...

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

authors： Hawrylycz M

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic mAbs must not only bind to their target but must also be free from "developability issues" such as poor stability or high levels of aggregation. While small-molecule drug discovery benefits from Lipinski's rule of five to guide the selection of molecules with appropriate biophysical properties, there is cu...

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

authors： Raybould MIJ,Marks C,Krawczyk K,Taddese B,Nowak J,Lewis AP,Bujotzek A,Shi J,Deane CM

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft corals of the family Xeniidae exhibit a unique, rhythmic pulsation of their tentacles (Movie S1), first noted by Lamarck nearly 200 y ago. However, the adaptive benefit of this perpetual, energetically costly motion is poorly understood. Using in situ underwater particle image velocimetry, we found that the pulsa...

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

authors： Kremien M,Shavit U,Mass T,Genin A

更新日期：2013-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In all photosynthetic organisms, light energy is used to drive electrons from a donor chlorophyll species via a series of acceptors across a biological membrane. These light-induced electron-transfer processes display a remarkably high quantum efficiency, indicating a near-complete inhibition of unproductive charge re...

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

authors： Makita H,Hastings G

更新日期：2017-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Parinaric acid (9,11,13,15-octadecatetraenoic acid), a conjugated tetraene fatty acid, undergoes a second-order photochemical reaction in phospholipid bilayers. The reaction results in the loss of the characteristic absorption of this chromophore and the development of new absorption demonstrating the presence of a tr...

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

authors： Morgan CG,Hudson B,Wolber PK

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite its popularity, chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-seq) remains a tedious (>2 d), manually intensive, low-sensitivity and low-throughput approach. Here, we combine principles of microengineering, surface chemistry, and molecular biology to address the major limitations of standard ChIP-...

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

authors： Dainese R,Gardeux V,Llimos G,Alpern D,Jiang JY,Meireles-Filho ACA,Deplancke B

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain disturbances that place a person at risk for developing depression are unknown. We imaged the brains of 131 individuals, ages 6 to 54 years, who were biological descendants (children or grandchildren) of individuals identified as having either moderate to severe, recurrent, and functionally debilitating depr...

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

authors： Peterson BS,Warner V,Bansal R,Zhu H,Hao X,Liu J,Durkin K,Adams PB,Wickramaratne P,Weissman MM

更新日期：2009-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term depression (LTD) is held relevant to memory and learning. Its induction is known to require postsynaptic calcium increases. However, the source of these calcium increases remains unclear. In visual cortex slices, LTD was induced by tetanization after blockade of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) and non-NMDA ionot...

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

authors： Kato N

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The protease encoded by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) processes the viral gag and gag-pol protein precursor by posttranslational cleavage. In this study we have demonstrated by site-specific mutagenesis (Asp----Thr) and by pepstatin A inhibition that the recombinant HIV protease is an aspartic-type protease. ...

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

authors： Seelmeier S,Schmidt H,Turk V,von der Helm K

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allostery, the coupling between ligand binding and protein conformational change, is the heart of biological network and it has often been explained by two representative models, the induced-fit and the population-shift models. Here, we clarified for what systems one model fits better than the other by performing mole...

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

authors： Okazaki K,Takada S

更新日期：2008-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress is known to cause tumorigenesis through induction of DNA and lipid damage. It also promotes cancer progression through a largely unknown mechanism. Sulfiredoxin (Srx) is a novel oxidative stress-induced antioxidant protein whose function in tumorigenesis and cancer progression has not been well studie...

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

authors： Wei Q,Jiang H,Xiao Z,Baker A,Young MR,Veenstra TD,Colburn NH

更新日期：2011-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Signaling lymphocytic activation molecule family 3 (SLAMF3/Ly9) is a coregulatory molecule implicated in T-cell activation and differentiation. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is characterized by aberrant T-cell activation and compromised IL-2 production, leading to abnormal regulatory T-cell (Treg) development/fun...

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

authors： Comte D,Karampetsou MP,Kis-Toth K,Yoshida N,Bradley SJ,Mizui M,Kono M,Solomon JR,Kyttaris VC,Tsokos GC

更新日期：2016-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant kingdom contains vastly untapped natural product chemistry, which has been traditionally explored through the activity-guided approach. Here, we describe a gene-guided approach to discover and engineer a class of plant ribosomal peptides, the branched cyclic lyciumins. Initially isolated from the Chinese wol...

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

authors： Kersten RD,Weng JK

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer beta/A4 amyloid precursor protein (APP) has been suggested to play a central role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease. We have measured the content of different species of APP holoprotein and carboxyl-terminal fragments in human brains from young individuals, nondemented aged individuals, and aged indiv...

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

authors： Nordstedt C,Gandy SE,Alafuzoff I,Caporaso GL,Iverfeldt K,Grebb JA,Winblad B,Greengard P

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Most new genes are thought to evolve from preexisting genes but duplications of entire genes or shuffling of preexisting exons provides only a limited repertoire of new sequences that can be presented to a cell. Only pieces that previously existed can be used in the construction and any further divergence depends on t...

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

authors： Golding GB,Tsao N,Pearlman RE

更新日期：1994-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Long interspersed nuclear elements 1 (L1) are active retrotransposons that reside in many species, including humans and rodents. L1 elements produce an RNA intermediate that is reverse transcribed to DNA and inserted in a new genomic location. We have tagged an active human L1 element (L1(RP)) with a gene encoding enh...

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

authors： Prak ET,Dodson AW,Farkash EA,Kazazian HH Jr

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertebrate hematopoietic stem cells are derived from vental mesoderm, which is postulated to migrate to both extra- and intraembryonic positions during gastrula and neurula stages. Extraembryonic migration has previously been documented, but the origin and migration of intraembryonic hematopoietic cells have not been ...

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

authors： Detrich HW 3rd,Kieran MW,Chan FY,Barone LM,Yee K,Rundstadler JA,Pratt S,Ransom D,Zon LI

更新日期：1995-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral hepatitis is a disease of antiquity, but evidence for more than one etiologic agent has been recognized only since the 1940s, when two viruses (hepatitis A virus and hepatitis B virus) were thought to account for all disease. In the past 20 years, three additional hepatitis agents (hepatitis C virus, hepatitis D...

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

authors： Purcell RH

更新日期：1994-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we compared the transport of newly synthesized cholesterol with that of influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA) from the endoplasmic reticulum to the plasma membrane. The arrival of cholesterol on the cell surface was monitored by cyclodextrin removal, and HA transport was monitored by surface trypsinization...

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

authors： Heino S,Lusa S,Somerharju P,Ehnholm C,Olkkonen VM,Ikonen E

更新日期：2000-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinal prosthetics offer hope for patients with retinal degenerative diseases. There are 20-25 million people worldwide who are blind or facing blindness due to these diseases, and they have few treatment options. Drug therapies are able to help a small fraction of the population, but for the vast majority, their bes...

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

authors： Nirenberg S,Pandarinath C

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Colloquium talks at prestigious universities both create and reflect academic researchers' reputations. Gender disparities in colloquium talks can arise through a variety of mechanisms. The current study examines gender differences in colloquium speakers at 50 prestigious US colleges and universities in 2013-2014. Usi...

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

authors： Nittrouer CL,Hebl MR,Ashburn-Nardo L,Trump-Steele RCE,Lane DM,Valian V

更新日期：2018-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Living organisms detect changes in temperature using thermosensory molecules. However, these molecules and/or their mechanisms for sensing temperature differ among organisms. To identify thermosensory molecules in plants, we investigated chloroplast positioning in response to temperature changes and identified a blue-...

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

authors： Fujii Y,Tanaka H,Konno N,Ogasawara Y,Hamashima N,Tamura S,Hasegawa S,Hayasaki Y,Okajima K,Kodama Y

更新日期：2017-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a synthetic adaptation of the fibrillar adhesion surfaces found in nature. The structure consists of protruding fibrils topped by a thin plate and shows an experimentally measured enhancement in adhesion energy of up to a factor of 9 over a flat control. Additionally, this structure solves the robustness pr...

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

authors： Glassmaker NJ,Jagota A,Hui CY,Noderer WL,Chaudhury MK

更新日期：2007-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged incubation of NIH 3T3 cells under the growth constraint of confluence results in the death of some cells in a manner suggestive of apoptosis. Successive rounds of prolonged incubation at confluence of the surviving cells produce increasing neoplastic transformation in the form of increments in saturation den...

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

authors： Rubin H,Yao A,Chow M

更新日期：1995-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The interference of microtubular disruptors with the uptake of amino acids and other low molecular weight substrates has been studied in Morris hepatomas, host liver, and regenerating liver. Colchicine inhibits amino acid transport (alpha-aminoisobutyric acid, L-methionine, and L-leucine) in hepatomas by 59-98% wherea...

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

authors： Tauber R,Reutter W

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mosquito midgut plays a central role in the sporogonic development of malaria parasites. We have found that polyclonal sera, produced against mosquito midguts, blocked the passage of Plasmodium falciparum ookinetes across the midgut, leading to a significant reduction of infections in mosquitoes. Anti-midgut mAbs ...

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

authors： Lal AA,Patterson PS,Sacci JB,Vaughan JA,Paul C,Collins WE,Wirtz RA,Azad AF

更新日期：2001-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence-specific DNA-binding small molecules that can permeate human cells potentially could regulate transcription of specific genes. Multiple cellular DNA-binding transcription factors are required by HIV type 1 for RNA synthesis. Two pyrrole-imidazole polyamides were designed to bind DNA sequences immediately adja...

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

authors： Dickinson LA,Gulizia RJ,Trauger JW,Baird EE,Mosier DE,Gottesfeld JM,Dervan PB

更新日期：1998-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial passage of simian virus 40 (SV40) at high multiplicity of infection leads to the emergence of variants with deleted, substituted, and/or duplicated DNA. Individual variants have been cloned by selective complementation with temperature sensitive SV40 mutants, or nonselectively by coinfection of cells with wild-...

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

authors： Brockman WW,Nathans D

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00