Positively charged retinoids are potent and selective inhibitors of the trans-cis isomerization in the retinoid (visual) cycle.

abstract：:Delayed implantation (embryonic diapause) occurs when the embryo at the blastocyst stage achieves a state of suspended animation. During this period, blastocyst growth is very slow, with minimal or no cell division. Nearly 100 mammals in seven different orders undergo delayed implantation, but the underlying molecular...

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

authors： Hamatani T,Daikoku T,Wang H,Matsumoto H,Carter MG,Ko MS,Dey SK

更新日期：2004-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The selective alteration of the cellular genome by laser microbeam irradiation has been extensively applied in cell biology. We report here the use of the third harmonic (355 nm) of an yttrium-aluminum garnet laser to facilitate the direct transfer of the neo gene into cultured human HT1080-6TG cells. The resultant tr...

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

authors： Tao W,Wilkinson J,Stanbridge EJ,Berns MW

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacteria use N-acyl homoserine lactone (AHL) signals to coordinate the behavior of individual cells in a local population. The successful infection of eukaryotic hosts by bacteria seems to depend particularly on such AHL-mediated "quorum-sensing" regulation. We have used proteome analysis to show that a eukaryoti...

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

authors： Mathesius U,Mulders S,Gao M,Teplitski M,Caetano-Anolles G,Rolfe BG,Bauer WD

更新日期：2003-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocean acidification represents a key threat to coral reefs by reducing the calcification rate of framework builders. In addition, acidification is likely to affect the relationship between corals and their symbiotic dinoflagellates and the productivity of this association. However, little is known about how acidificat...

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

authors： Anthony KR,Kline DI,Diaz-Pulido G,Dove S,Hoegh-Guldberg O

更新日期：2008-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X syndrome (FXS) results in intellectual disability (ID) most often caused by silencing of the fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) gene. The resulting absence of fragile X mental retardation protein 1 (FMRP) leads to both pre- and postsynaptic defects, yet whether the pre- and postsynaptic functions of FMRP ...

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

authors： Myrick LK,Deng PY,Hashimoto H,Oh YM,Cho Y,Poidevin MJ,Suhl JA,Visootsak J,Cavalli V,Jin P,Cheng X,Warren ST,Klyachko VA

更新日期：2015-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In the absence of adaptive immunity displayed by animals, plants respond locally to biotic challenge via inducible basal defense networks activated through recognition and response to conserved pathogen-associated molecular patterns. In addition, immunity can be induced in tissues remote from infection sites by system...

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

authors： Truman W,Bennett MH,Kubigsteltig I,Turnbull C,Grant M

更新日期：2007-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Vanilloid receptor subunit 1 (VR1) appears to play a critical role in the transduction of noxious chemical and thermal stimuli by sensory nerve endings in peripheral tissues. Thus, VR1 antagonists are useful compounds to unravel the contribution of this receptor to pain perception, as well as to induce analgesia. We h...

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

authors： García-Martinez C,Humet M,Planells-Cases R,Gomis A,Caprini M,Viana F,De La Pena E,Sanchez-Baeza F,Carbonell T,De Felipe C,Pérez-Paya E,Belmonte C,Messeguer A,Ferrer-Montiel A

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:When various wild strains of Penicillium lanosum and Aspergillus niger were placed in the same mild laboratory environment, their frequencies of new spontaneous mutations were clearly related to whether they had been isolated from a region of high or low microclimatic stress. In the mild environment, the total frequen...

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

authors： Lamb BC,Mandaokar S,Bahsoun B,Grishkan I,Nevo E

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The diphtheria tox repressor (DtxR) of Corynebacterium diphtheriae plays a critical role in the regulation of diphtheria toxin expression and the control of other iron-sensitive genes. The crystal structures of apo-DtxR and of the metal ion-activated form of the repressor have been solved and used to identify motifs i...

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

authors： Schiering N,Tao X,Zeng H,Murphy JR,Petsko GA,Ringe D

更新日期：1995-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We have noted consistent structural similarities among unrelated proteases. In comparison with other proteins of similar size, proteases have smaller than average surface areas, smaller radii of gyration, and higher C(alpha) densities. These findings imply that proteases are, as a group, more tightly packed than other...

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

authors： Stawiski EW,Baucom AE,Lohr SC,Gregoret LM

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein misfolding and aggregation cause serious degenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson, and prion diseases. Damage to membranes is thought to be one of the mechanisms underlying cellular toxicity of a range of amyloid assemblies. Previous studies have indicated that amyloid fibrils can cause membrane ...

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

authors： Milanesi L,Sheynis T,Xue WF,Orlova EV,Hellewell AL,Jelinek R,Hewitt EW,Radford SE,Saibil HR

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 (SCA7) is characterized by cone-rod dystrophy retinal degeneration and is caused by a polyglutamine [poly(Q)] expansion within ataxin-7, a protein of previously unknown function. Here, we report that ataxin-7 is an integral component of the mammalian STAGA (SPT3-TAF9-ADA-GCN5 acetyltransf...

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

authors： Palhan VB,Chen S,Peng GH,Tjernberg A,Gamper AM,Fan Y,Chait BT,La Spada AR,Roeder RG

更新日期：2005-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfonated gallium(III) corroles are intensely fluorescent macrocyclic compounds that spontaneously assemble with carrier proteins to undergo cell entry. We report in vivo imaging and therapeutic efficacy of a tumor-targeted corrole noncovalently assembled with a heregulin-modified protein directed at the human epider...

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

authors： Agadjanian H,Ma J,Rentsendorj A,Valluripalli V,Hwang JY,Mahammed A,Farkas DL,Gray HB,Gross Z,Medina-Kauwe LK

更新日期：2009-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Arf family GTP-binding proteins are best characterized as regulators of membrane traffic, but recent studies indicate an additional role in cytoskeletal organization. An Arf GTPase-activating protein of the centaurin beta family, ASAP1 (also known as centaurin beta4), binds Arf and two other known regulators of the ac...

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

authors： Randazzo PA,Andrade J,Miura K,Brown MT,Long YQ,Stauffer S,Roller P,Cooper JA

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosins are molecular motors that power diverse cellular processes, such as rapid organelle transport, muscle contraction, and tension-sensitive anchoring. The structural adaptations in the motor that allow for this functional diversity are not known, due, in part, to the lack of high-resolution structures of highly t...

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

authors： Shuman H,Greenberg MJ,Zwolak A,Lin T,Sindelar CV,Dominguez R,Ostap EM

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin (5-HT) plays a key role in early brain development, and manipulation of 5-HT levels during this period can have lasting neurobiological and behavioral consequences. It is unclear how perinatal exposure to drugs, such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), impacts cortical neural network function...

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

authors： Simpson KL,Weaver KJ,de Villers-Sidani E,Lu JY,Cai Z,Pang Y,Rodriguez-Porcel F,Paul IA,Merzenich M,Lin RC

更新日期：2011-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cosuppression results in the degradation of RNA from host genes and homologous transgenes after transcription in the nucleus. By using grafting experiments, we have shown previously that a systemic signal mediates the propagation of cosuppression of Nia host genes and 35S-Nia2 transgenes from silenced 35S-Nia2 transge...

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

authors： Palauqui JC,Vaucheret H

更新日期：1998-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The post-translational proteolytic conversion of somatostatin-14 precursors was studied to characterize the enzyme system responsible for the production of the tetradecapeptide either from its 15-kDa precursor protein or from its COOH-terminal fragment, somatostatin-28. A synthetic undecapeptide Pro-Arg-Glu-Arg-Lys-Al...

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

authors： Gluschankof P,Morel A,Gomez S,Nicolas P,Fahy C,Cohen P

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of mouse metallothionein (MT)-I and MT-II is transcriptionally induced by the synthetic glucocorticoid, dexamethasone (DEX) or both in vivo as well as in numerous cell lines. However, the location(s) of a glucocorticoid response element (GRE) has not been described. The observation that a marked MT-I gene, a...

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

authors： Kelly EJ,Sandgren EP,Brinster RL,Palmiter RD

更新日期：1997-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared folding properties of designed protein Top7 and natural protein S6 by using coarse-grained chain models with a mainly native-centric construct that accounted also for nonnative hydrophobic interactions and desolvation barriers. Top7 and S6 have similar secondary structure elements and are approximately equ...

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

authors： Zhang Z,Chan HS

更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants produce a wide range of allelochemicals to defend against herbivore attack, and generalist herbivores have evolved mechanisms to avoid, sequester, or detoxify a broad spectrum of natural defense compounds. Successful arthropod pests have also developed resistance to diverse classes of pesticides and this adapta...

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

authors： Dermauw W,Wybouw N,Rombauts S,Menten B,Vontas J,Grbic M,Clark RM,Feyereisen R,Van Leeuwen T

更新日期：2013-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A primary muscle cell culture derived from newborn rabbit muscle and growing on microcarriers in suspension was established. When cultured for several weeks, the myotubes in this model develop the completely adult pattern of fast myosin light and heavy chains. When Ca2+ ionophore is added to the culture medium on day ...

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

authors： Kubis HP,Haller EA,Wetzel P,Gros G

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrointestinal infections often induce epithelial damage that must be repaired for optimal gut function. While intestinal stem cells are critical for this regeneration process [R. C. van der Wath, B. S. Gardiner, A. W. Burgess, D. W. Smith, PLoS One 8, e73204 (2013); S. Kozar et al., Cell Stem Cell 13, 626-633 (2013...

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

authors： Mileto SJ,Jardé T,Childress KO,Jensen JL,Rogers AP,Kerr G,Hutton ML,Sheedlo MJ,Bloch SC,Shupe JA,Horvay K,Flores T,Engel R,Wilkins S,McMurrick PJ,Lacy DB,Abud HE,Lyras D

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a method for predicting the structure of alpha beta class proteins in the absence of information from homologous structures. The method is based on an associative memory model for short to intermediate range in sequence contacts and a contact potential for long range in sequence contacts. The coefficients ...

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

authors： Hardin C,Eastwood MP,Prentiss MC,Luthey-Schulten Z,Wolynes PG

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157:H7, a toxin-producing food and waterborne bacterial pathogen, has been linked to large outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness for more than two decades. E. coli O157 causes a wide range of clinical illness that varies by outbreak, although factors that contribute to variation in disease severity a...

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

authors： Manning SD,Motiwala AS,Springman AC,Qi W,Lacher DW,Ouellette LM,Mladonicky JM,Somsel P,Rudrik JT,Dietrich SE,Zhang W,Swaminathan B,Alland D,Whittam TS

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence for hydrogen bonding between 5'-ribonucleotides in water has been obtained from a 220-MHz proton magnetic resonance study of nitrogenous protons. The amino groups of GMP, AMP, and CMP exhibit proton resonance lines which are somewhat broadened by proton exchange with the solvent at 0 degrees ; their downfield...

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

authors： Raszka M,Kaplan NO

更新日期：1972-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation and remodeling of the skeleton relies on precise temporal and spatial regulation of genes expressed in cartilage and bone cells. Debilitating diseases of the skeletal system occur when mutations arise that disrupt these intricate genetic regulatory programs. Here, we report that mice bearing parallel null mu...

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

authors： Jones DC,Schweitzer MN,Wein M,Sigrist K,Takagi T,Ishii S,Glimcher LH

更新日期：2010-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Millions of individuals routinely remain awake for more than 18 h daily, which causes performance decrements. It is unknown if these functional impairments are the result of that extended wakefulness or from the associated shortened sleep durations. We therefore examined changes in objective reaction time performance ...

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

authors： McHill AW,Hull JT,Wang W,Czeisler CA,Klerman EB

更新日期：2018-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:IFNs are a family of cytokines that are essential for the antiviral response in vertebrates. Not surprisingly, viruses have adapted to encode virulence factors to cope with the IFN response. Intriguingly, we show here that all three types of interferons, IFN-α, IFN-γ, and IFN-λ, efficiently promote infection by a huma...

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

authors： Zhao X,Guo F,Liu F,Cuconati A,Chang J,Block TM,Guo JT

更新日期：2014-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms that regulate the ubiquitin (Ub)-proteasome system's own components, although critically important, are largely unknown. Ub, a principal component of the system, must be maintained at adequate levels to support cellular homeostasis under basal and stressed conditions. It was suggested that Ub is degrade...

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

authors： Shabek N,Herman-Bachinsky Y,Ciechanover A

更新日期：2009-07-21 00:00:00