Reversible single-molecule photoswitching in the GFP-like fluorescent protein Dronpa.

abstract：:Many of the world's around 6,000 languages are in danger of disappearing as people give up use of a minority language in favor of the majority language in a process called language shift. Language shift can be monitored on a large scale through the use of mathematical models by way of differential equations, for examp...

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

authors： Prochazka K,Vogl G

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating disease of unknown cause that afflicts the central nervous system. MS is typified by a highly clonally restricted antigen-driven antibody response that is confined largely to the central nervous system. The major antigenic targets of this response and the...

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

authors： Williamson RA,Burgoon MP,Owens GP,Ghausi O,Leclerc E,Firme L,Carlson S,Corboy J,Parren PW,Sanna PP,Gilden DH,Burton DR

更新日期：2001-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The G protein-coupled free fatty acid receptor-1 (FFA1/GPR40) plays a major role in the regulation of insulin secretion by fatty acids. GPR40 is considered a potential therapeutic target to enhance insulin secretion in type 2 diabetes; however, its mode of regulation is essentially unknown. The aims of this study were...

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

authors： Kebede M,Ferdaoussi M,Mancini A,Alquier T,Kulkarni RN,Walker MD,Poitout V

更新日期：2012-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing knowledge of the key molecular components involved in biological processes such as endocytosis, exocytosis, and motility has enabled direct testing of proposed mechanistic models by reconstitution. However, current techniques for building increasingly complex cellular structures and functions from purified com...

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

authors： Richmond DL,Schmid EM,Martens S,Stachowiak JC,Liska N,Fletcher DA

更新日期：2011-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a helper-dependent adenoviral vector for cystic fibrosis lung gene therapy. The vector expresses cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (Cftr) using control elements from cytokeratin 18. The vector expressed properly localized CFTR in cultured cells and in the airway epithelia of mice. Cftr R...

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

authors： Koehler DR,Sajjan U,Chow YH,Martin B,Kent G,Tanswell AK,McKerlie C,Forstner JF,Hu J

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Extensive utilization of pesticides against insects provides us with a good model for studying the adaptation of a eukaryotic genome to a strong selective pressure. One mechanism of resistance is the alteration of acetylcholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.7), the molecular target for organophosphates and carbamates. Here, we rep...

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

authors： Mutero A,Pralavorio M,Bride JM,Fournier D

更新日期：1994-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli cells lacking the histone-like protein HU form filaments and have an abnormal number of anucleate cells. Furthermore, their phenotype resembles that of rfa mutants, the well-characterized deep-rough phenotype, as they show an enhanced permeability that renders them hypersensitive to chloramphenicol, n...

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

authors： Painbeni E,Caroff M,Rouviere-Yaniv J

更新日期：1997-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteogenin was recently purified and the amino acid sequences of tryptic peptides were determined. Osteogenin in conjunction with insoluble collagenous bone matrix induces cartilage and bone formation in vivo. To understand the mechanism of action of osteogenin, we examined its influence on periosteal cells, osteoblas...

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

authors： Vukicevic S,Luyten FP,Reddi AH

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For disordered proteins, the dimensions of the chain are an important property that is sensitive to environmental conditions. We have used single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer to probe the temperature-induced chain collapse of five unfolded or intrinsically disordered proteins. Because this behavior is se...

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

authors： Wuttke R,Hofmann H,Nettels D,Borgia MB,Mittal J,Best RB,Schuler B

更新日期：2014-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been postulated that, in the adult visual cortex, visual inputs modulate levels of mRNAs coding for neurotransmitter receptors in an activity-dependent manner. To investigate this possibility, we performed a monocular enucleation in adult rabbits and, 15 days later, collected their left and right visual cortice...

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

authors： Nguyen QT,Matute C,Miledi R

更新日期：1998-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison was made of the competence for neoplastic transformation in three different sublines of NIH 3T3 cells and multiple clonal derivatives of each. Over 90% of the neoplastic foci produced by an uncloned transformed (t-SA') subline on a confluent background of nontransformed cells were of the dense, multilayer...

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

authors： Chow M,Rubin H

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:How granzymes gain entry into the cytosol of target cells during killer cell attack has been the subject of several studies in the past, but the effective delivery mechanism during target cell encounter has not been clarified. Here we show that granzyme B (GzmB) mutants lacking binding to negatively charged, essential...

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

authors： Kurschus FC,Fellows E,Stegmann E,Jenne DE

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain is assumed to be hypoactive during cardiac arrest. However, the neurophysiological state of the brain immediately following cardiac arrest has not been systematically investigated. In this study, we performed continuous electroencephalography in rats undergoing experimental cardiac arrest and analyzed change...

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

authors： Borjigin J,Lee U,Liu T,Pal D,Huff S,Klarr D,Sloboda J,Hernandez J,Wang MM,Mashour GA

更新日期：2013-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:I measured the strength of interaction between a marine herbivore and its growing resource over a realistic range of absolute and relative abundances. The herbivores (hermit crabs: Pagurus spp.) have slow and/or weak functional and numerical responses to epiphytic diatoms (Isthmia nervosa), which show logistic growth ...

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

authors： Ruesink JL

更新日期：1998-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Scaling down the size of computing circuits is about to reach the limitations imposed by the discrete atomic structure of matter. Reducing the power requirements and thereby dissipation of integrated circuits is also essential. New paradigms are needed to sustain the rate of progress that society has become used to. S...

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

authors： Mol JA,Verduijn J,Levine RD,Remacle F,Rogge S

更新日期：2011-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Synovial membranes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis as well as other types of chronic destructive inflammatory arthritis contain infiltrates of activated T lymphocytes that probably contribute to the pathogenesis of the disease. In an effort to elucidate the nature of these infiltrates, interleukin 2 (IL-2)-respo...

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

authors： Stamenkovic I,Stegagno M,Wright KA,Krane SM,Amento EP,Colvin RB,Duquesnoy RJ,Kurnick JT

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A common genetic mutation found in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (CC-RCC) is the loss of the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) gene, which results in stabilization of hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs), and contributes to cancer progression and metastasis. CUB-domain-containing protein 1 (CDCP1) was shown to promote metastasis ...

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

authors： Razorenova OV,Finger EC,Colavitti R,Chernikova SB,Boiko AD,Chan CK,Krieg A,Bedogni B,LaGory E,Weissman IL,Broome-Powell M,Giaccia AJ

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a method for studying RNA processing and ribonucleoprotein assembly in vivo, by using RNA synthesized in vitro. SP6-transcribed 32P-labeled U2 small nuclear RNA precursor molecules were introduced into cultured human 293 cells by calcium phosphate-mediated uptake, as in standard DNA transfection experiments...

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

authors： Kleinschmidt AM,Pederson T

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many agronomically important plant genes, only their position on a genetic map is known. In the absence of an efficient transposon tagging system, such genes have to be isolated by map-based cloning. In bread wheat Triticum aestivum, the genome is hexaploid, has a size of 1.6 x 10(10) bp, and contains more than 80...

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

authors： Stein N,Feuillet C,Wicker T,Schlagenhauf E,Keller B

更新日期：2000-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations at position 187 in secreted gelsolin enable aberrant proteolysis at the 172-173 and 243-244 amide bonds, affording the 71-residue amyloidogenic peptide deposited in Familial Amyloidosis of Finnish Type (FAF). Thermodynamic comparisons of two different domain 2 constructs were carried out to study possible ef...

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

authors： Ratnaswamy G,Huff ME,Su AI,Rion S,Kelly JW

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the physical origins of phase contrast in dynamic atomic force microscopy (dAFM) in liquids where low-stiffness microcantilever probes are often used for nanoscale imaging of soft biological samples with gentle forces. Under these conditions, we show that the phase contrast derives primarily from a unique ene...

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

authors： Melcher J,Carrasco C,Xu X,Carrascosa JL,Gómez-Herrero J,José de Pablo P,Raman A

更新日期：2009-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic evolution of altruism (i.e., a behavior resulting in a net reduction of the survival and/or reproduction of an actor to benefit a recipient) once perplexed biologists because it seemed paradoxical in a Darwinian world. More than half a century ago, W. D. Hamilton explained that when interacting individuals...

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

authors： Kay T,Keller L,Lehmann L

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic 67-nt RNA substrate, containing a 32P-labeled cap-1 structure (m7G32pppGm) was specifically cleaved by the influenza virus RNA polymerase (EC 2.7.7.48) to yield a single capped 11-nt fragment capable of directly priming transcription. An analysis of systematic truncations of this RNA substrate demonstrated...

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

authors： Chung TD,Cianci C,Hagen M,Terry B,Matthews JT,Krystal M,Colonno RJ

更新日期：1994-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) is a potent endogenous activator of the cell death pathway and functions by activating the cell surface death receptors 4 and 5 (DR4 and DR5). TRAIL is nontoxic in vivo and preferentially kills neoplastically transformed cells over normal cells by an unde...

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

authors： Chinnaiyan AM,Prasad U,Shankar S,Hamstra DA,Shanaiah M,Chenevert TL,Ross BD,Rehemtulla A

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of toxic oligomers during the aggregation of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide Aβ42 into amyloid fibrils and plaques has emerged as a central feature of the onset and progression of Alzheimer's disease, but the molecular pathways that control pathological aggregation have proved challenging to identify. Here, ...

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

authors： Cohen SI,Linse S,Luheshi LM,Hellstrand E,White DA,Rajah L,Otzen DE,Vendruscolo M,Dobson CM,Knowles TP

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated lentivirus strains that are related to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from African green monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops; AGM). Although immunologically related, these SIVagm are clearly distinct from other simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) isolates, including isolates from Macaca mulatta (S...

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

authors： Kraus G,Werner A,Baier M,Binniger D,Ferdinand FJ,Norley S,Kurth R

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptor-interacting protein kinase 3 (RIPK3)-mediated necroptosis is thought to be the pathophysiologically predominant pathway that leads to regulated necrosis of parenchymal cells in ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI), and loss of either Fas-associated protein with death domain (FADD) or caspase-8 is known to sensit...

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

authors： Linkermann A,Skouta R,Himmerkus N,Mulay SR,Dewitz C,De Zen F,Prokai A,Zuchtriegel G,Krombach F,Welz PS,Weinlich R,Vanden Berghe T,Vandenabeele P,Pasparakis M,Bleich M,Weinberg JM,Reichel CA,Bräsen JH,Kunzendorf U,An

更新日期：2014-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Chick-limb mesodermal cells have been maintained in tissue culture under conditions that permit development of muscle and cartilage. 3-Acetylpyridine, a nicotinamide-antagonized muscle teratogen, potentiates chondrogenic expression in cell cultures, as evidenced by histological and biochemical criteria, including the ...

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

authors： Caplan AI,Stoolmiller AC

更新日期：1973-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amnesia produced by protein synthesis inhibitors such as anisomycin provides major support for the prevalent view that the formation of long-lasting memories requires de novo protein synthesis. However, inhibition of protein synthesis might disrupt other neural functions to interfere with memory formation. Intraamygda...

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

authors： Canal CE,Chang Q,Gold PE

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent laboratory studies have demonstrated that isoprene oxidation products can partition to atmospheric aerosols by reacting with condensed phase sulfuric acid, forming low-volatility organosulfate compounds. We have identified organosulfate compounds in free tropospheric aerosols by single particle mass spectrometr...

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

authors： Froyd KD,Murphy SM,Murphy DM,de Gouw JA,Eddingsaas NC,Wennberg PO

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00