Liver-targeted disruption of Apc in mice activates beta-catenin signaling and leads to hepatocellular carcinomas.

abstract：:Bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP-2) is a potent inducer of differentiation of osteoblasts both in vivo and in vitro. We examined the action of BMP-2 on expression of a helix-loop-helix-type transcription factor, Id (inhibitor of differentiation), in osteoblast-like cells, as well as in osteoblast-enriched cells and p...

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

authors： Ogata T,Wozney JM,Benezra R,Noda M

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physiological sensing of O(2) tension (partial O(2) pressure, pO(2)) plays an important role in some mammalian cellular systems, but striated muscle generally is not considered to be among them. Here we describe a molecular mechanism in skeletal muscle that acutely couples changes in pO(2) to altered calcium release t...

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

authors： Sun QA,Hess DT,Nogueira L,Yong S,Bowles DE,Eu J,Laurita KR,Meissner G,Stamler JS

更新日期：2011-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been known for more than a century that increases in neuronal activity in the brain are reliably accompanied by changes in local blood flow. More recently it has been appreciated that these blood flow increases are accompanied by increases in glycolysis that are much greater than the increases in oxidative phos...

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

authors： Vlassenko AG,Rundle MM,Raichle ME,Mintun MA

更新日期：2006-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:By commandeering cellular translation initiation factors, or destroying those dispensable for viral mRNA translation, viruses often suppress host protein synthesis. In contrast, cellular protein synthesis proceeds in human cytomegalovirus (HCMV)-infected cells, forcing viral and cellular mRNAs to compete for limiting ...

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

authors： McKinney C,Perez C,Mohr I

更新日期：2012-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Mathematical models have been developed to explore the population dynamics of viral diseases among wildlife. However, assessing the predictions stemming from these models with wildlife databases adequate in size and temporal duration is uncommon. An epizootic of raccoon rabies that began in the mid-Atlantic region of ...

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

authors： Childs JE,Curns AT,Dey ME,Real LA,Feinstein L,Bjørnstad ON,Krebs JW

更新日期：2000-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The replication of simian virus 40 (SV40) DNA is dependent upon a single viral protein [tumor (T) antigen] and multiple cellular proteins. To define the required cellular proteins, we have made use of a cell-free system that supports the replication of plasmid DNA molecules containing the SV40 origin of replication. W...

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

authors： Virshup DM,Kelly TJ

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic pigs were generated that produced human protein C in their milk at up to 1 g/liter. The gene construct was a fusion gene consisting of the cDNA for human protein C inserted into the first exon of the mouse whey acidic protein gene. These results demonstrate that the mouse whey acidic protein gene contains r...

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

authors： Velander WH,Johnson JL,Page RL,Russell CG,Subramanian A,Wilkins TD,Gwazdauskas FC,Pittius C,Drohan WN

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ring-shaped hexameric helicases and translocases support essential DNA-, RNA-, and protein-dependent transactions in all cells and many viruses. How such systems coordinate ATPase activity between multiple subunits to power conformational changes that drive the engagement and movement of client substrates is a fundame...

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

authors： Thomsen ND,Lawson MR,Witkowsky LB,Qu S,Berger JM

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:An explicitly polarizable force field based exclusively on quantum data is applied to calculations of relative binding affinities of ligands to proteins. Five ligands, differing by replacement of an atom or functional group, in complexes with three serine proteases-trypsin, thrombin, and urokinase-type plasminogen act...

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

authors： Khoruzhii O,Donchev AG,Galkin N,Illarionov A,Olevanov M,Ozrin V,Queen C,Tarasov V

更新日期：2008-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Trafficking and turnover of transmitter receptors required to maintain and modify the strength of chemical synapses have been characterized extensively. In contrast, little is known regarding trafficking of gap junction components at electrical synapses. By combining ultrastructural and in vivo physiological analysis ...

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

authors： Flores CE,Nannapaneni S,Davidson KG,Yasumura T,Bennett MV,Rash JE,Pereda AE

更新日期：2012-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The long QT syndrome (LQTS) is a heritable disorder that predisposes to sudden cardiac death. LQTS is caused by mutations in ion channel genes including HERG and KCNE1, but the precise mechanisms remain unclear. To clarify this situation we injected adenoviral vectors expressing wild-type or LQT mutants of HERG and KC...

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

authors： Hoppe UC,Marbán E,Johns DC

更新日期：2001-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceramide, a lipid mediator, has been most closely associated with antiproliferative activities. In this study, we examine the mechanism by which ceramide induces growth suppression and the role of the retinoblastoma gene product (Rb) in this process. Withdrawal of serum from the serum-dependent MOLT-4 cells resulted i...

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

authors： Dbaibo GS,Pushkareva MY,Jayadev S,Schwarz JK,Horowitz JM,Obeid LM,Hannun YA

更新日期：1995-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:TCR-mediated recognition of beta-linked self-glycolipids bound to CD1d is poorly understood. Here, we have characterized the TCR repertoire of a CD1d-restricted type II NKT cell subset reactive to sulfatide involved in the regulation of autoimmunity and antitumor immunity. The sulfatide/CD1d-tetramer(+) cells isolated...

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

authors： Arrenberg P,Halder R,Dai Y,Maricic I,Kumar V

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decade, a number of quantitative epidemiological studies of specific diseases have been done in developing countries that for the first time allow estimation of the total burden of disease (mortality and morbidity) attributable to use of solid fuels in adult women and young children, who jointly receive th...

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

authors： Smith KR

更新日期：2000-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Maleyl bovine plasma albumin competed on an equimolar basis with malondialdehyde low density lipoprotein (LDL) in suppressing the lysosomal hydrolysis of 125I-labeled malondialdehyde LDL mediated by the scavenger receptor of human monocyte macrophages. Maleyl bovine plasma albumin, in which 94% of the amino groups wer...

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

authors： Haberland ME,Fogelman AM

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recessive Stargardt's macular degeneration is a blinding disease of children caused by mutations in the ABCA4 (ABCR) gene. Mice with a knockout mutation in abcr accumulate toxic lipofuscin pigments in ocular tissues, similar to affected humans. The major fluorophore of lipofuscin is the bis-retinoid, N-retinylidene-N-...

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

authors： Radu RA,Mata NL,Bagla A,Travis GH

更新日期：2004-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated an Arabidopsis thaliana gene that codes for a receptor related to antifungal pathogenesis-related (PR) proteins. The PR5K gene codes for a predicted 665-amino acid polypeptide that comprises an extracellular domain related to the PR5 proteins, a central transmembrane-spanning domain, and an intracellu...

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

authors： Wang X,Zafian P,Choudhary M,Lawton M

更新日期：1996-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Compensatory ventilatory responses to increased inspiratory loading are essential for adequate breathing regulation in a number of pulmonary diseases; however, the human brain sites mediating such responses are unknown. Midsagittal and axial images were acquired in 11 healthy volunteers during unloaded and loaded (30 ...

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

authors： Gozal D,Omidvar O,Kirlew KA,Hathout GM,Hamilton R,Lufkin RB,Harper RM

更新日期：1995-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of the retinoblastoma gene (RB gene) is associated with the development of several human malignancies including retinoblastomas, some osteo- and soft tissue sarcomas, small cell lung cancer, and possibly breast and bladder cancers. To our knowledge, this gene has not been evaluated in human germ-cell mali...

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

authors： Strohmeyer T,Reissmann P,Cordon-Cardo C,Hartmann M,Ackermann R,Slamon D

更新日期：1991-08-01 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：:Microtubule-targeting agents (MTAs) are widely used for treatment of cancer and other diseases, and a detailed understanding of the mechanism of their action is important for the development of improved microtubule-directed therapies. Although there is a large body of data on the interactions of different MTAs with pu...

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

authors： Mohan R,Katrukha EA,Doodhi H,Smal I,Meijering E,Kapitein LC,Steinmetz MO,Akhmanova A

更新日期：2013-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:MyoD is a master regulatory gene for myogenesis. Its product, the MyoD protein, appears to act by binding to muscle-specific enhancer sequences. We show that MyoD binds cooperatively to two sites in the muscle-specific creatine kinase enhancer; this is dramatically reflected in dissociation-rate measurements. A deleti...

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

authors： Weintraub H,Davis R,Lockshon D,Lassar A

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked hypophosphatemia is the most prevalent inherited form of rickets. In this disorder, rickets results from hyperphosphaturia and inappropriately normal levels of 1,25(OH)2-vitamin D. Current therapy with oral phosphate and vitamin D improves the rickets, but has significant morbidity and does not significantly ...

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

authors： Baum M,Loleh S,Saini N,Seikaly M,Dwarakanath V,Quigley R

更新日期：2003-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Human skeletal muscle is composed of various muscle fiber types. We hypothesized that differences in metabolism between fiber types could be detected noninvasively with 31P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy during maximal exercise. This assumes that during maximal exercise all fiber types are recruited and all v...

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

authors： Vandenborne K,McCully K,Kakihira H,Prammer M,Bolinger L,Detre JA,De Meirlier K,Walter G,Chance B,Leigh JS

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The voltage-dependent gating of the colicin channel involves a substantial structural rearrangement that results in the transfer of about 35% of the 200 residues in its pore-forming domain across the membrane. This transfer appears to represent an unusual type of protein translocation that does not depend on a large, ...

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

authors： Slatin SL,Nardi A,Jakes KS,Baty D,Duché D

更新日期：2002-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent single-molecule experiments reveal that mechanical tension on DNA can control both the speed and direction of the DNA polymerase motor. We present a theoretical description of this tension-induced "tuning" and "switching." The internal conformational states of the enzyme motor are represented as nodes, and the ...

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

authors： Goel A,Astumian RD,Herschbach D

更新日期：2003-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical recording of membrane potential permits spatially resolved measurement of electrical activity in subcellular regions of single cells, which would be inaccessible to electrodes, and imaging of spatiotemporal patterns of action potential propagation in excitable tissues, such as the brain or heart. However, the ...

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

authors： Yan P,Acker CD,Zhou WL,Lee P,Bollensdorff C,Negrean A,Lotti J,Sacconi L,Antic SD,Kohl P,Mansvelder HD,Pavone FS,Loew LM

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluoride activation of adenylate cyclase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1] is significantly enhanced (2 to 5 times) by a protein factor isolated from rat brain. The fluoride-dependent adenylate cyclase stimulator (FCS) is nondialyzable, trypsin-labile, and stable at 90 degrees C for 10 min. FCS stimula...

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

authors： Rasenick MM,Bitensky MW

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine viruses constitute a major ecological and evolutionary driving force in the marine ecosystems. However, their dispersal mechanisms remain underexplored. Here we follow the dynamics of Emiliania huxleyi viruses (EhV) that infect the ubiquitous, bloom-forming phytoplankton E. huxleyi and show that EhV are emitted...

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

authors： Sharoni S,Trainic M,Schatz D,Lehahn Y,Flores MJ,Bidle KD,Ben-Dor S,Rudich Y,Koren I,Vardi A

更新日期：2015-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Early acquisition of mate preferences or mate-preference learning is associated with signal diversity and speciation in a wide variety of animal species. However, the diversity of mechanisms of mate-preference learning across taxa remains poorly understood. Using the butterfly Bicyclus anynana we uncover a mechanism t...

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

authors： Westerman EL,Hodgins-Davis A,Dinwiddie A,Monteiro A

更新日期：2012-07-03 00:00:00