A single polypeptide catalyzing the conversion of phytoene to zeta-carotene is transcriptionally regulated during tomato fruit ripening.

abstract：:Recent experiments have shown that spreading epithelial sheets exhibit a long-range coordination of motility forces that leads to a buildup of tension in the tissue, which may enhance cell division and the speed of wound healing. Furthermore, the edges of these epithelial sheets commonly show finger-like protrusions w...

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

authors： Basan M,Elgeti J,Hannezo E,Rappel WJ,Levine H

更新日期：2013-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We have assayed carbonic anhydrase activity (carbonate dehydratase, carbonate hydro-lyase, EC 4.2.1.1) and bicarbonate permeability in suspensions of broken and intact guinea pig mitochondria by monitoring the disappearance of C16O18O. We found significant activity in preparations from liver and skeletal muscle, but n...

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

authors： Dodgson SJ,Forster RE 2nd,Storey BT,Mela L

更新日期：1980-09-01 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：:Helper T (Th) cells are classified as Th1 or Th2 cells by virtue of cytokine secretion and function as mediators of cellular or humoral immunity, respectively. Cytokines also regulate the differentiation of Th cells. For example, interleukin (IL)-12 promotes Th1 and suppresses Th2 cell development, suggesting that IL-...

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

authors： Milich DR,Wolf SF,Hughes JL,Jones JE

更新日期：1995-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical imaging of individual vesicle exocytosis is providing new insights into the mechanism and regulation of secretion by cells. To study calcium-triggered secretion from astrocytes, we used acridine orange (AO) to label vesicles. Although AO is often used for imaging exocytosis, we found that imaging vesicles labe...

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

authors： Jaiswal JK,Fix M,Takano T,Nedergaard M,Simon SM

更新日期：2007-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteritis caused by Clostridium difficile toxin (Tx) is a nosocomial disease of increasing clinical concern, but the local mediators of C. difficile TxA inflammation are unknown. The potent vasodilator calcitonin gene-related peptide mediates neurogenic inflammation via the calcitonin receptor-like receptor (CLR). Her...

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

authors： Bhargava A,Clifton MS,Mhaske P,Liao M,Pothoulakis C,Leeman SE,Grady EF

更新日期：2013-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The LSD1-CoREST histone demethylase complex is required to repress neuronal genes in nonneuronal tissues. Here we show that sumoylation of Braf35, one of the subunits of the complex, is required to maintain full repression of neuron-specific genes and for occupancy of the LSD1-CoREST complex at its gene targets. Inter...

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

authors： Ceballos-Chávez M,Rivero S,García-Gutiérrez P,Rodríguez-Paredes M,García-Domínguez M,Bhattacharya S,Reyes JC

更新日期：2012-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of a fracture network is a key process for many geophysical and industrial practices from energy resource recovery to induced seismic management. We focus on the initial stage of a fracture network formation using experiments on the symmetric coalescence of two equal coplanar, fluid-driven, penny-shaped ...

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

authors： O'Keeffe NJ,Zheng Z,Huppert HE,Linden PF

更新日期：2018-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Spantide (D-Arg1-Pro2-Lys3-Pro4-Gln5-Gln6-D-Trp7-Phe8-D-Trp9-++ +Leu10-Leu11-NH2) was introduced as a tachykinin antagonist in 1984 and has served as a starting point in the design of new antagonists that have proven to be more effective and have exhibited no neurological side effects. The most remarkable and unpredic...

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

authors： Folkers K,Feng DM,Asano N,Håkanson R,Weisenfeld-Hallin Z,Leander S

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ah receptor (AHR) is a basic helix-loop-helix protein that mediates the effects of 2,3,7,8-tetrachloro-dibenzo-p-dioxin. In this report, we describe a rabbit reticulocyte system that allows functional expression of both the AHR and its dimeric partner, the AHR nuclear translocator protein (ARNT). By using this in ...

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

authors： Dolwick KM,Swanson HI,Bradfield CA

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of studies have noted that nucleotide substitution rates at the chloroplast-encoded rbcL locus violate the molecular clock principle. Substitution rate variation at this plastid gene is particularly pronounced between palms and grasses; for example, a previous study estimated that substitution rates in rbcL s...

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

authors： Gaut BS,Morton BR,McCaig BC,Clegg MT

更新日期：1996-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:When the Mn(2+) and Ca(2+) ions normally present in concanavalin A are removed, the protein becomes incapable of binding saccharides. To explore the structural differences between the native and demetallized forms and their effects on the saccharide-binding properties of the protein, we have refined and compared the c...

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

authors： Reeke GN Jr,Becker JW,Edelman GM

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of harmful species, including invasive species, pests, parasites, and diseases, is a major global challenge. Harmful species cause severe damage to ecosystems, biodiversity, agriculture, and human health. In particular, managing harmful species often requires cooperation among multiple agents, such as l...

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

authors： Lampert A

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The chronic use of several drugs, including opiates, results in the stereotypical behaviors characteristic of addiction. Alterations in gene expression have been associated with the use of these addictive drugs. Previous studies, however, have been limited to describing changes in amounts of individual mRNAs from sing...

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

authors： Mackler SA,Eberwine JH

更新日期：1994-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Ouabain-sensitive uncoupled Na+ efflux has been studied in human, pig, and rat red cells and in vesicles containing reconstituted kidney Na+/K+ pumps obtained from these same species. The red cells from the different species gave qualitatively similar results; the uncoupled Na+ efflux was 15-30% of the Na+/K+ exchange...

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

authors： Martin WH,Richards DE,Marín R,Jack-Hays M,Hoffman JF

更新日期：1994-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) receptor is a cell surface receptor that mediates the actions of LIF and other IL-6 type cytokines through the formation of high-affinity signaling complexes with gp130. Here we present the crystal structure of a complex of mouse LIF receptor with human LIF at 4.0 A resolution. The str...

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

authors： Huyton T,Zhang JG,Luo CS,Lou MZ,Hilton DJ,Nicola NA,Garrett TP

更新日期：2007-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:With current concerns of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and biodefense, it has become important to rapidly identify infectious bacteria. Traditional technologies involving isolation and amplification of the pathogenic bacteria are time-consuming. We report a rapid and simple method that combines in vivo biotinylation o...

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

authors： Edgar R,McKinstry M,Hwang J,Oppenheim AB,Fekete RA,Giulian G,Merril C,Nagashima K,Adhya S

更新日期：2006-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual information is conveyed from the eye to the brain by distinct types of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). It is largely unknown how RGCs acquire their defining morphological and physiological features and connect to upstream and downstream synaptic partners. The three Brn3/Pou4f transcription factors (TFs) particip...

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

authors： Sajgo S,Ghinia MG,Brooks M,Kretschmer F,Chuang K,Hiriyanna S,Wu Z,Popescu O,Badea TC

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Several yeast activators are phosphorylated by SRB10, a cyclin-dependent kinase associated with the transcriptional machinery. Sites of phosphorylation are found outside the activating region in each case, and the modification has different physiological consequences in different cases. We show here that certain acidi...

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

authors： Ansari AZ,Koh SS,Zaman Z,Bongards C,Lehming N,Young RA,Ptashne M

更新日期：2002-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In early phases of human T-cell lymphotrophic virus I-induced adult T-cell leukemia (ATL), the malignant cell proliferation is associated with an autocrine process involving coordinate expression of interleukin (IL) 2 and its receptor. However, during late-phase ATL, leukemic cells no longer produce IL-2 yet continue ...

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

authors： Burton JD,Bamford RN,Peters C,Grant AJ,Kurys G,Goldman CK,Brennan J,Roessler E,Waldmann TA

更新日期：1994-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-directed mutagenesis of selected residues of mammalian protein phosphatase 1 (PP-1) has been carried out to further define the mechanism of catalysis, activation by divalent cations, and inhibition by toxins and inhibitory proteins. Mutation of active site residues predicted to bind metals (N124D and H248N) resul...

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

authors： Huang HB,Horiuchi A,Goldberg J,Greengard P,Nairn AC

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Four new members of the fibroblast growth factor (FGF) family, referred to as fibroblast growth factor homologous factors (FHFs), have been identified by a combination of random cDNA sequencing, data base searches, and degenerate PCR. Pairwise comparisons between the four FHFs show between 58% and 71% amino acid seque...

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

authors： Smallwood PM,Munoz-Sanjuan I,Tong P,Macke JP,Hendry SH,Gilbert DJ,Copeland NG,Jenkins NA,Nathans J

更新日期：1996-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A genetic defect in a CC-chemokine receptor (CCR)-5, the principal coreceptor for the macrophage-tropic HIV type 1 (HIV-1), recently was found to naturally protect CCR-5-defective, but healthy, individuals from HIV-1 infection. In this study, we mimic the natural resistance of the CCR-5-defective individuals by design...

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

authors： Yang AG,Bai X,Huang XF,Yao C,Chen S

更新日期：1997-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptor for granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is composed of an alpha and beta subunit, which together form the high-affinity receptor. The alpha subunit by itself binds ligand at low affinity, whereas the isolated beta subunit does not bind GM-CSF. It is generally believed that the high-a...

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

authors： Ding DX,Rivas CI,Heaney ML,Raines MA,Vera JC,Golde DW

更新日期：1994-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A family of proteins involved in cell cycle progression, DNA recombination, and the detection of DNA damage has been recently identified. One of the members of this family, human ATM, is defective in the cells of patients with ataxia telangiectasia and is involved in detection and response of cells to damaged DNA. Oth...

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

authors： Cimprich KA,Shin TB,Keith CT,Schreiber SL

更新日期：1996-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy (FECD) is a leading cause of corneal endothelial (CE) degeneration resulting in impaired visual acuity. It is a genetically complex and age-related disorder, with higher incidence in females. In this study, we established a nongenetic FECD animal model based on the physiologic outco...

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

authors： Liu C,Miyajima T,Melangath G,Miyai T,Vasanth S,Deshpande N,Kumar V,Ong Tone S,Gupta R,Zhu S,Vojnovic D,Chen Y,Rogan EG,Mondal B,Zahid M,Jurkunas UV

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hurler syndrome (alpha-L-iduronidase deficiency disease) is a severe lysosomal storage disorder that is potentially amenable to enzyme-replacement therapy. Availability of a canine model of the disease and a sufficient supply of corrective enzyme have permitted a therapeutic trial lasting 3 mo. Recombinant human a...

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

authors： Shull RM,Kakkis ED,McEntee MF,Kania SA,Jonas AJ,Neufeld EF

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the technical bottlenecks in producing nonhuman primate models is that current assisted reproductive techniques, such as in vitro culture and frozen conservation of multicell-stage embryos, often result in poor embryo quality and subsequently lead to low birth rates. We investigated whether pronuclear embryo tr...

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

authors： Sun Q,Dong J,Yang W,Jin Y,Yang M,Wang Y,Wang PL,Hu Y,Tsien JZ

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Both ghrelin and somatostatin (SST) inhibit glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) from pancreatic β-cells, but how these independent actions are regulated has been unclear. The mechanism must accommodate noncanonical ghrelin receptor (GHS-R1a)-G-protein coupling to Gα(i/o) instead of Gα(q11) and dependence on en...

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

authors： Park S,Jiang H,Zhang H,Smith RG

更新日期：2012-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Time series data on arthropod populations are critical for understanding the magnitude, direction, and drivers of change. However, most arthropod monitoring programs are short-lived and restricted in taxonomic resolution. Monitoring data from the Arctic are especially underrepresented, yet critical to uncovering and u...

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

authors： Høye TT,Loboda S,Koltz AM,Gillespie MAK,Bowden JJ,Schmidt NM

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00