Possible role for calmodulin and the Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II in postsynaptic neurotransmission.

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：:Pentameric ligand-gated ion channels (pLGICs), which mediate chemo-electric signal transduction in animals, have been recently found in bacteria. Despite clear sequence and 3D structure homology, the phylogenetic distance between prokaryotic and eukaryotic homologs suggests significant structural divergences, especial...

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

authors： Duret G,Van Renterghem C,Weng Y,Prevost M,Moraga-Cid G,Huon C,Sonner JM,Corringer PJ

更新日期：2011-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 2 (IL-2) occupies a central position in the cascade of events involved in the immune response. We were interested in determining whether IL-2 could function as an adjuvant to vaccination, to increase the immune response to vaccine immunogens. Using the National Institutes of Health test for rabies vaccine ...

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

authors： Nunberg JH,Doyle MV,York SM,York CJ

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The circular dichroism data on 17 adenine nucleosides show that the 260- and 207-mmu absorption systems of the adenine chromophore each contain at least two electronic transitions. The CD maxima are commonly found at around 260, 220, and 200 mmu, and occasionally at 240 mmu. Solvent studies suggest that these CD bands...

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

authors： Miles DW,Robins MJ,Robins RK,Eyring H

更新日期：1969-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helminthosporoside is a host-specific toxin produced by Helminthosporium sacchari, both in culture and in infected sugarcane tissue. The susceptibility of any given clone of sugarcane to disease is invariably associated with the presence of a toxin-binding protein. This report presents evidence for the presence of the...

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

authors： Strobel GA,Hess WM

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peer review is the main institution responsible for the evaluation and gestation of scientific research. Although peer review is widely seen as vital to scientific evaluation, anecdotal evidence abounds of gatekeeping mistakes in leading journals, such as rejecting seminal contributions or accepting mediocre submissio...

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

authors： Siler K,Lee K,Bero L

更新日期：2015-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Ancient DNA (aDNA) analysis provides a powerful means of investigating human migration, social organization, and a plethora of other crucial questions about humanity's past. Recently, specialists have suggested that the ideal research design involving aDNA would include multiple independent lines of evidence. In this ...

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

authors： Bongers JL,Nakatsuka N,O'Shea C,Harper TK,Tantaleán H,Stanish C,Fehren-Schmitz L

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic copy number variations (CNVs) exist in the brain, but their genesis, prevalence, forms, and biological impact remain unclear, even within experimentally tractable animal models. We combined a transposase-based amplification (TbA) methodology for single-cell whole-genome sequencing with a bioinformatic approach...

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

authors： Rohrback S,April C,Kaper F,Rivera RR,Liu CS,Siddoway B,Chun J

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of in vitro resistance to HN2 (also called mustargen or mechlorethamine hydrochloride), N,N'-bis(2-chloroethyl)-N-nitrosourea (BCNU), and cisplatin [cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II)] was achieved in two human cell lines, the Raji/Burkitt lymphoma and a squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue. A 10- to 20-fol...

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

authors： Frei E 3rd,Cucchi CA,Rosowsky A,Tantravahi R,Bernal S,Ervin TJ,Ruprecht RM,Haseltine WA

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult rat arterial smooth muscle cells (SMC) in primary culture modulate from contractile to synthetic phenotype. This process includes partial loss of myofilaments and formation of an extensive rough endoplasmic reticulum and a large Golgi complex. It gives the cells the ability to initiate DNA synthesis and actively...

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

authors： Nilsson J,Sjölund M,Palmberg L,Thyberg J,Heldin CH

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional structure of alpha-cobra-toxin, the "long" neurotoxin from the venom of Naja naja siamensis, has been determined at 2.8-A resolution. Crystals grown as hexagonal needles have space group P6522 with unit cell parameters a = b = 74.59 A, c = 42.89 A; one molecule per asymmetric unit. Phases were de...

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

authors： Walkinshaw MD,Saenger W,Maelicke A

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lignocellulosic plant biomass is an attractive feedstock for the production of sustainable biofuels, but the commercialization of such products is hampered by the high costs of processing this material into fermentable sugars (saccharification). One approach to lowering these costs is to produce crops with cell walls ...

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

authors： Marriott PE,Sibout R,Lapierre C,Fangel JU,Willats WG,Hofte H,Gómez LD,McQueen-Mason SJ

更新日期：2014-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have assessed whether retinoic acid (RA) comes from local sources or is available widely to activate gene expression in embryos. We used an RA-responsive indicator cell line, L-C2A5, to localize RA sources. In these cells, an RA-sensitive promoter/lacZ reporter construct used previously by us to produce indicator t...

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

authors： Colbert MC,Linney E,LaMantia AS

更新日期：1993-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase A (PKA) is activated during sympathetic stimulation of the heart and phosphorylates key proteins involved in cardiac Ca(2+) handling, including the L-type Ca(2+) channel (Ca(V)1.2) and phospholamban (PLN). This results in acceleration and amplification of the beat-to-beat changes in cytosolic Ca(2+) in ...

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

authors： Jones BW,Brunet S,Gilbert ML,Nichols CB,Su T,Westenbroek RE,Scott JD,Catterall WA,McKnight GS

更新日期：2012-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The eukaryotic microorganism Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains 50-100 copies per cell of a circular plasmid called 2-micrometer DNA. The intracellular structure of these molecules, which represent about 4% of the total DNA, was examined by digestion of total cellular chromatin with micrococcal nuclease (nucleate 3'-ol...

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

authors： Nelson RG,Fangman WL

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant liquid-structure theory has been used to calculate the transport properties of the alkali metals. Unlike previous calculations, the volume and temperature dependence of the solid-like structure has been taken into consideration. Equations for the potential energy as a function of volume of the alkali metal...

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

authors： Hsu CC,Eyring H

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphine is one of the most prescribed and effective drugs used for the treatment of acute and chronic pain conditions. In addition to its central effects, morphine can also produce peripheral analgesia. However, the mechanisms underlying this peripheral action of morphine have not yet been fully elucidated. Here, we ...

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

authors： Cunha TM,Roman-Campos D,Lotufo CM,Duarte HL,Souza GR,Verri WA Jr,Funez MI,Dias QM,Schivo IR,Domingues AC,Sachs D,Chiavegatto S,Teixeira MM,Hothersall JS,Cruz JS,Cunha FQ,Ferreira SH

更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:McKay et al. [(1996) Science 273, 924-930] suggested that carbonate globules in the meteorite ALH84001 contained the fossil remains of Martian microbes. We have characterized a subpopulation of magnetite (Fe(3)O(4)) crystals present in abundance within the Fe-rich rims of these carbonate globules. We find these Martia...

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

authors： Thomas-Keprta KL,Clemett SJ,Bazylinski DA,Kirschvink JL,McKay DS,Wentworth SJ,Vali H,Gibson EK Jr,McKay MF,Romanek CS

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane currents of chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEFs) transformed by Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) were compared with the currents of their nontransformed counterparts by using the whole-cell patch-clamp technique. In nontransformed CEFs, the main membrane current is a delayed outward K+ current that is sensitive to t...

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

authors： Repp H,Draheim H,Ruland J,Seidel G,Beise J,Presek P,Dreyer F

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this era of unprecedented biodiversity loss and increased zoonotic disease emergence, it is imperative to understand the effects of biodiversity on zoonotic pathogen dynamics in wildlife. Whether increasing biodiversity should lead to a decrease or increase in infection prevalence, termed the dilution and amplifica...

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

authors： Luis AD,Kuenzi AJ,Mills JN

更新日期：2018-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:By using differential display PCR, we have identified 98 cDNA fragments from the rat dorsal hippocampus that are expressed differentially between the fast learners and slow learners in the water maze learning task. One of these cDNA fragments encodes the rat serum- and glucocorticoid-inducible kinase (sgk) gene. North...

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

authors： Tsai KJ,Chen SK,Ma YL,Hsu WL,Lee EH

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:To process plant-based renewable biofuels, pretreatment of plant feedstock with ionic liquids has significant advantages over current methods for deconstruction of lignocellulosic feedstocks. However, ionic liquids are often toxic to the microorganisms used subsequently for biomass saccharification and fermentation. W...

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

authors： Khudyakov JI,D'haeseleer P,Borglin SE,Deangelis KM,Woo H,Lindquist EA,Hazen TC,Simmons BA,Thelen MP

更新日期：2012-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last few years, data from experiments employing transgenic models of autoimmune disease have strengthened a particular concept of autoimmunity: disease results not so much from cracks in tolerance induction systems, leading to the generation of anti-self repertoire, as from the breakdown of secondary systems th...

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

authors： André I,Gonzalez A,Wang B,Katz J,Benoist C,Mathis D

更新日期：1996-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:L203 and L227 are mouse monoclonal antibodies specific for human HLA-DR antigens. Their reactivity with multiple, structurally different, HLA-DR antigens was examined by using radioiodinated human lymphoblastoid cells and cell lines, heterozygous or homozygous at the HLA-D locus. Antibody L203 precipitates DR antigens...

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

authors： Finn OJ,Levy R

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rpoN gene encoding the transcription factor sigma54 in Myxococcus xanthus has been cloned using a heterologous rpoN probe. The sequence of the cross-hybridizing DNA confirmed the existence of an ORF 1518 bp long that encodes a well conserved member of the sigma54 family of sigma factors. Low- as well as high-strin...

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

authors： Keseler IM,Kaiser D

更新日期：1997-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Duplication of the genome during the S phase of the cell cycle does not occur simultaneously; rather, different sequences are replicated at different times. The replication timing of specific sequences can change during development; however, the determinants of this dynamic process are poorly understood. To gain insig...

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

authors： White EJ,Emanuelsson O,Scalzo D,Royce T,Kosak S,Oakeley EJ,Weissman S,Gerstein M,Groudine M,Snyder M,Schübeler D

更新日期：2004-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The derivation of germ-line competent avian primordial germ cells establishes a cell-based model system for the investigation of germ cell differentiation and the production of genetically modified animals. Current methods to modify primordial germ cells using DNA or retroviral vectors are inefficient and prone to epi...

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

authors： Macdonald J,Taylor L,Sherman A,Kawakami K,Takahashi Y,Sang HM,McGrew MJ

更新日期：2012-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, tRNA aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase pairs have been evolved that allow one to genetically encode a large array of unnatural amino acids in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. We have determined the crystal structures of two substrate-bound Methanococcus jannaschii tyrosyl aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases that ch...

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

authors： Turner JM,Graziano J,Spraggon G,Schultz PG

更新日期：2006-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Among yeasts that underwent whole-genome duplication (WGD), Kluyveromyces polysporus represents the lineage most distant from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. By sequencing the K. polysporus genome and comparing it with the S. cerevisiae genome using a likelihood model of gene loss, we show that these species diverged very s...

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

authors： Scannell DR,Frank AC,Conant GC,Byrne KP,Woolfit M,Wolfe KH

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A three-plasmid system for heterologous expression of 6-deoxyerythronolide B synthase (DEBS) has been developed to facilitate combinatorial biosynthesis of polyketides made by type I modular polyketide synthases (PKSs). The eryA PKS genes encoding the three DEBS subunits were individually cloned into three compatible ...

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

authors： Xue Q,Ashley G,Hutchinson CR,Santi DV

更新日期：1999-10-12 00:00:00