Presenilin mutations linked to familial Alzheimer's disease cause an imbalance in phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate metabolism.

abstract：:The CuAAC reaction (click chemistry) has been used in conjunction with solid-phase synthesis to produce catalytically active hairpin ribozymes around 100 nucleotides in length. Cross-strand ligation through neighboring nucleobases was successful in covalently linking presynthesized RNA strands with high efficiency (tr...

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

authors： El-Sagheer AH,Brown T

更新日期：2010-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against purified human placental insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) receptors were prepared and characterized. Three IgG mAbs were specific for the human IGF-I receptor and displayed negligible crossreactivity with the human insulin receptor. They stimulated 125I-labeled IGF-I (125I-IGF-...

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

authors： Xiong L,Kasuya J,Li SL,Kato J,Fujita-Yamaguchi Y

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:For >1,000 years, Chinese officials have recorded the annual abundance of the oriental migratory locust Locusta migratoria manilensis, with the ultimate aim of predicting locust outbreaks. Linking these records with temperature and precipitation reconstructions for the period 957-1956, we show that decadal mean locust...

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

authors： Stige LC,Chan KS,Zhang Z,Frank D,Stenseth NC

更新日期：2007-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated cold-sensitive mutations in two genes of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, BIN2 and BIN3, that cause aberrant chromosome segregation in vivo. BIN2 and BIN3 encode essential proteins that are similar to each other and to TCP-1. TCP-1 and TCP-1-like proteins are components of the eukaryotic cytoplasmi...

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

authors： Chen X,Sullivan DS,Huffaker TC

更新日期：1994-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin becomes reorganized during mitosis each cell cycle. To identify genes potentially involved in these supramolecular events, we have used a colony-color assay to screen temperature-sensitive mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. When a sequence that mediates attachment to the nuclear matrix in vitro was inserte...

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

authors： Fishel BR,Sperry AO,Garrard WT

更新日期：1993-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Human gene MAGE-1 encodes tumor-specific antigens that are recognized on melanoma cells by autologous cytolytic T lymphocytes. This gene is expressed in a significant proportion of tumors of various histological types, but not in normal tissues except male germ-line cells. We reported previously that reporter genes dr...

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

authors： De Smet C,De Backer O,Faraoni I,Lurquin C,Brasseur F,Boon T

更新日期：1996-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Addition of Na+ to Na+-depleted Swiss 3T3 cells causes a rapid and dramatic increase in intracellular pH, as monitored by uptake of the weak acid 5,5-dimethyloxazolidine-2,4-dione. The effect of Na+ is concentration dependent (half-maximal effect at 38 mM); this cation can be replaced by Li+ but not by K+ or the choli...

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

authors： Schuldiner S,Rozengurt E

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-assembling dendrimers have facilitated the discovery of periodic and quasiperiodic arrays of supramolecular architectures and the diverse functions derived from them. Examples are liquid quasicrystals and their approximants plus helical columns and spheres, including some that disregard chirality. The same period...

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

authors： Rodriguez-Emmenegger C,Xiao Q,Kostina NY,Sherman SE,Rahimi K,Partridge BE,Li S,Sahoo D,Reveron Perez AM,Buzzacchera I,Han H,Kerzner M,Malhotra I,Möller M,Wilson CJ,Good MC,Goulian M,Baumgart T,Klein ML,Percec V

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The cycles of carbon and oxygen at the Earth surface are intimately linked, where the burial of organic carbon into sediments represents a source of oxygen to the surface environment. This coupling is typically quantified through the isotope records of organic and inorganic carbon. Yet, the late Neoproterozoic Eon, th...

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

authors： Bjerrum CJ,Canfield DE

更新日期：2011-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane proteins of peripheral light-harvesting complexes (LHCs) bind chlorophylls and carotenoids and transfer energy to the reaction centers for photosynthesis. LHCs of chlorophytes, chromophytes, dinophytes, and rhodophytes are similar in that they have three transmembrane regions and several highly conserved ...

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

authors： Grabowski B,Cunningham FX Jr,Gantt E

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypothesis directed proteomics offers higher throughput over global analyses. We show that immunoprecipitation (IP)-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) in H929 multiple myeloma (MM) cancer cells led to the discovery of a rare and unexpected BCR-ABL fusion, informing a therapeutic intervention using imatinib (Gleevec)....

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

authors： Breitkopf SB,Yuan M,Pihan GA,Asara JM

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A human lambdaV (Mcg) and a human lambdaII (Vil) myeloma protein have identical sequences in their first hypervariable segments although they differ at 21 positions throughout the variable region. If a different structural gene is responsible for each subgroup, the findings favor insertion of information for the hyper...

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

authors： Wu TT,Kabat EA,Bilofsky H

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin activates sterol regulatory element-binding protein-1c (SREBP-1c) in liver, thereby increasing fatty acid and triglyceride synthesis. We created a line of transgenic rats that produce epitope-tagged human SREBP-1c in liver under control of the constitutive apolipoprotein E promoter/enhancer. This system allows...

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

authors： Owen JL,Zhang Y,Bae SH,Farooqi MS,Liang G,Hammer RE,Goldstein JL,Brown MS

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment strategies for severe cases of pandemic influenza have focused on antiviral therapies. In contrast, passive immunotherapy with convalescent blood products has received limited attention. We consider the hypothesis that a passive-immunotherapy program that collects plasma from a small percentage of recovered ...

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

authors： Wu JT,Lee CK,Cowling BJ,Yuen KY

更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A likely mechanism of chromosomal rearrangement formation involves joining the ends from two different chromosomal double-strand breaks (DSBs). These events could potentially be mediated by either of two end-joining (EJ) repair pathways [canonical nonhomologous end joining (C-NHEJ) or alternative end joining (ALT-EJ)]...

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

authors： Bhargava R,Carson CR,Lee G,Stark JM

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins need to be tightly regulated as they control biological processes in most normal cellular functions. The precise mechanisms of regulation are rarely completely understood but can involve binding of endogenous ligands and/or partner proteins at specific locations on a protein that can modulate function. Often,...

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

authors： Ludlow RF,Verdonk ML,Saini HK,Tickle IJ,Jhoti H

更新日期：2015-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical stimulation of the cervical vagus nerve in anesthetized guinea pigs induced a rapid increase in respiratory insufflation pressure, suggesting increased airway resistance. After intravenous administration of a substance P (SP) antagonist, [D-Arg(1),D-Pro(2),D-Trp(7,9),Leu(11)]SP, the insufflation pressure re...

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

authors： Lundberg JM,Saria A,Brodin E,Rosell S,Folkers K

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lon is an ATPase associated with cellular activities (AAA+) protease that controls cell division in response to stress and also degrades misfolded and damaged proteins. Subunits of Lon are known to assemble into ring-shaped homohexamers that enclose an internal degradation chamber. Here, we demonstrate that hexamers o...

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

authors： Vieux EF,Wohlever ML,Chen JZ,Sauer RT,Baker TA

更新日期：2013-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin-binding protein C (MyBP-C) is a thick filament protein playing an essential role in muscle contraction, and MyBP-C mutations cause heart and skeletal muscle disease in millions worldwide. Despite its discovery 40 y ago, the mechanism of MyBP-C function remains unknown. In vitro studies suggest that MyBP-C could...

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

authors： Luther PK,Winkler H,Taylor K,Zoghbi ME,Craig R,Padrón R,Squire JM,Liu J

更新日期：2011-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The S1-nuclease analysis was used to investigate the pattern of inhibin expression in the rat. In a first series of experiments, expression of the alpha, beta A, and beta B subunits of inhibin were monitored in various tissues from male and female rats. Two observations emerge from these studies. First, expression of ...

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

authors： Meunier H,Rivier C,Evans RM,Vale W

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mice, recent thymic emigrants (RTEs) make up a large part of the naïve T cell pool and have been suggested to be a distinct short-lived pool. In humans, however, the life span and number of RTEs are unknown. Although (2)H(2)O labeling in young mice showed high thymic-dependent daily naïve T cell production, long te...

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

authors： Vrisekoop N,den Braber I,de Boer AB,Ruiter AF,Ackermans MT,van der Crabben SN,Schrijver EH,Spierenburg G,Sauerwein HP,Hazenberg MD,de Boer RJ,Miedema F,Borghans JA,Tesselaar K

更新日期：2008-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Fine finger and hand movements in humans, monkeys, and rats are under the direct control of the corticospinal tract (CST). CST lesions lead to severe, long-term deficits of precision movements. We transected completely both CSTs in adult rats and treated the animals for 2 weeks with an antibody that neutralized the ce...

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

authors： Raineteau O,Fouad K,Noth P,Thallmair M,Schwab ME

更新日期：2001-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of graphene materials is typically carried out by oxidizing graphite to graphite oxide followed by a reduction process. Numerous methods exist for both the oxidation and reduction steps, which causes unpredictable contamination from metallic impurities into the final material. These impurities are known ...

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

authors： Wong CH,Sofer Z,Kubešová M,Kučera J,Matějková S,Pumera M

更新日期：2014-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In the cell, proteins are synthesized from N to C terminus and begin to fold during translation. Cotranslational folding mechanisms are therefore linked to elongation rate, which varies as a function of synonymous codon usage. However, synonymous codon substitutions can affect many distinct cellular processes, which h...

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

authors： Walsh IM,Bowman MA,Soto Santarriaga IF,Rodriguez A,Clark PL

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr nuclear antigen 1 (EBNA1) plays a vital role in the maintenance of the viral genome and is the only viral protein expressed in nearly all forms of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) latency and EBV-associated diseases, including numerous cancer types. To our knowledge, no specific agent against EBV genes or protein...

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

authors： Jiang L,Lung HL,Huang T,Lan R,Zha S,Chan LS,Thor W,Tsoi TH,Chau HF,Boreström C,Cobb SL,Tsao SW,Bian ZX,Law GL,Wong WT,Tai WC,Chau WY,Du Y,Tang LHX,Chiang AKS,Middeldorp JM,Lo KW,Mak NK,Long NJ,Wong KL

更新日期：2019-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Histidine biosynthesis is an essential process in plants and microorganisms, making it an attractive target for the development of herbicides and antibacterial agents. Imidazoleglycerol-phosphate dehydratase (IGPD), a key enzyme within this pathway, has been biochemically characterized in both Saccharomyces cerevisiae...

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

authors： Rawson S,Bisson C,Hurdiss DL,Fazal A,McPhillie MJ,Sedelnikova SE,Baker PJ,Rice DW,Muench SP

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We have generated transgenic mice harboring a glycine-to-cysteine mutation in residue 85 of the triple helical domain of mouse type II collagen. The offspring of different founders displayed a phenotype of severe chondrodysplasia characterized by short limbs and trunk, cranio-facial deformities, and cleft palate. The ...

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

authors： Garofalo S,Vuorio E,Metsaranta M,Rosati R,Toman D,Vaughan J,Lozano G,Mayne R,Ellard J,Horton W

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the physical dimensions of climate change are now routinely assessed through multimodel intercomparisons, projected impacts on the global ocean ecosystem generally rely on individual models with a specific set of assumptions. To address these single-model limitations, we present standardized ensemble projections...

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

authors： Lotze HK,Tittensor DP,Bryndum-Buchholz A,Eddy TD,Cheung WWL,Galbraith ED,Barange M,Barrier N,Bianchi D,Blanchard JL,Bopp L,Büchner M,Bulman CM,Carozza DA,Christensen V,Coll M,Dunne JP,Fulton EA,Jennings S,Jones MC,

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Two strains that overproduce endonuclease III were found in a colony bank containing hybrid ColE1-Escherichia coli plasmids. The enzyme was identified in crude extracts by the degradation of partially depyrimidinated DNA in the presence of EDTA, by its sedimentation velocity, and by its associated thymine glycol-DNA g...

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

authors： Cunningham RP,Weiss B

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We perform a generalized-ensemble simulation of a small peptide taking the interactions among all atoms into account. From this simulation we obtain thermodynamic quantities over a wide range of temperatures. In particular, we show that the folding of a small peptide is a multistage process associated with two charact...

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

authors： Hansmann UH,Masuya M,Okamoto Y

更新日期：1997-09-30 00:00:00