Anisotropy of cell adhesive microenvironment governs cell internal organization and orientation of polarity.

abstract：:The human rhodopsin gene is the locus for numerous alleles linked to the neurodegenerative disease retinitis pigmentosa. To facilitate the study of retinal degeneration and to test reagents designed to alter the structure and function of this gene, we have developed strains of mice whose native rhodopsin gene has been...

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

authors： Chan F,Bradley A,Wensel TG,Wilson JH

更新日期：2004-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual transduction in Drosophila is a G protein-coupled phospholipase C-mediated process that leads to depolarization via activation of the transient receptor potential (TRP) calcium channel. Inactivation-no-afterpotential D (INAD) is an adaptor protein containing PDZ domains known to interact with TRP. Immunoprecipi...

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

authors： Shieh BH,Zhu MY,Lee JK,Kelly IM,Bahiraei F

更新日期：1997-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether electromagnetic precursors to earthquakes (EQs) exist is an important question not only for EQ prediction but also for understanding the physical processes of EQ generation. Slow transient geoelectric potential changes have been observed before several recent EQs in Japan. In most cases, they appeared 1-19 day...

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

authors： Uyeda S,Nagao T,Orihara Y,Yamaguchi T,Takahashi I

更新日期：2000-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In suspension cultures of mouse spleen cells, the addition of small amounts (1-100 ng) of a heterologous antigen to which the donor mice had been primed significantly increased the number of anti-sheep erythrocyte plaques appearing after stimulation with sheep erythrocytes. A similar addition to identical cultures fro...

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

authors： Rubin AS,Coons AH

更新日期：1971-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental observations of unexpected shear rigidity in confined liquids, on very low frequency scales on the order of 0.01 to 0.1 Hz, call into question our basic understanding of the elasticity of liquids and have posed a challenge to theoretical models of the liquid state ever since. Here we combine the nonaffine...

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

authors： Zaccone A,Trachenko K

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Branching morphogenesis in the mammary gland is achieved by the migration of epithelial cells through a microenvironment consisting of stromal cells and extracellular matrix (ECM). Here we show that galectin-1 (Gal-1), an endogenous lectin that recognizes glycans bearing N-acetyllactosamine (LacNAc) epitopes, induces ...

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

authors： Bhat R,Belardi B,Mori H,Kuo P,Tam A,Hines WC,Le QT,Bertozzi CR,Bissell MJ

更新日期：2016-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of pharyngeal muscle in nematodes and cardiac muscle in vertebrates and insects involves the related homeobox genes ceh-22, nkx2.5, and tinman, respectively. To determine whether the nematode and vertebrate genes perform similar functions, we examined activity of the zebrafish nkx2.5 gene in transgenic Cae...

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

authors： Haun C,Alexander J,Stainier DY,Okkema PG

更新日期：1998-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Activator 1 (A1; also called replication factor C), in conjunction with proliferating-cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), is essential for the elongation of primed DNA templates by DNA polymerases delta and epsilon. A1 contains five distinct subunits of 145, 40, 38, 37, and 36.5 kDa. Here we describe the isolation, sequence,...

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

authors： Chen M,Pan ZQ,Hurwitz J

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proper synaptic function requires the spatial and temporal compartmentalization of RNA metabolism via transacting RNA-binding proteins (RBPs). Loss of RBP activity leads to abnormal posttranscriptional regulation and results in diverse neurological disorders with underlying deficits in synaptic morphology and transmis...

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

authors： Klein ME,Younts TJ,Castillo PE,Jordan BA

更新日期：2013-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyruvate ferredoxin oxidoreductase (POR) has been previously purified from the hyperthermophilic archaeon, Pyrococcus furiosus, an organism that grows optimally at 100 degrees C by fermenting carbohydrates and peptides. The enzyme contains thiamine pyrophosphate and catalyzes the oxidative decarboxylation of pyruvate ...

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

authors： Ma K,Hutchins A,Sung SJ,Adams MW

更新日期：1997-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:For the design of potent subunit vaccines, it is of paramount importance to identify all antigens immunologically recognized by a patient population infected with a pathogen. We have developed a rapid and efficient procedure to identify such commonly recognized antigens, and here we provide a comprehensive in vivo ant...

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

authors： Etz H,Minh DB,Henics T,Dryla A,Winkler B,Triska C,Boyd AP,Söllner J,Schmidt W,von Ahsen U,Buschle M,Gill SR,Kolonay J,Khalak H,Fraser CM,von Gabain A,Nagy E,Meinke A

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Double-positive (DP) thymocytes respond to intrathymic T-cell receptor (TCR) signals by undergoing positive selection and lineage differentiation into single-positive (SP) mature cells. Concomitant with these well-characterized events is the acquisition of a mature T-cell gene expression program characterized by the i...

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

authors： Shi LZ,Saravia J,Zeng H,Kalupahana NS,Guy CS,Neale G,Chi H

更新日期：2017-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The dramatic loss of Kilimanjaro's ice cover has attracted global attention. The three remaining ice fields on the plateau and the slopes are both shrinking laterally and rapidly thinning. Summit ice cover (areal extent) decreased approximately 1% per year from 1912 to 1953 and approximately 2.5% per year from 1989 to...

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

authors： Thompson LG,Brecher HH,Mosley-Thompson E,Hardy DR,Mark BG

更新日期：2009-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A general theory of the structure of complexes of the transition metals is developed on the basis of the enneacovalence of the metals and the requirements of the electroneutrality principle. An extra orbital may be provided through the small but not negligible amount of f and g character of spd bond orbitals, and an e...

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

authors： Pauling L

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclophilins are a family of ubiquitous proteins that are the intracellular target of the immunosuppressant drug cyclosporin A. Although cyclophilins catalyze peptidylprolyl cis-trans isomerization in vitro, it has remained open whether they also perform this function in vivo. Here we show that Cpr3p, a cyclophilin in...

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

authors： Matouschek A,Rospert S,Schmid K,Glick BS,Schatz G

更新日期：1995-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli, AK I- HDH I and AK II- HDH II are two bifunctional proteins, derived from a common ancestor, that catalyze the first and third reactions of the common pathway leading to threonine and methionine. An extensive amino acid sequence comparison of both molecules reveals two main features on each of the...

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

authors： Ferrara P,Duchange N,Zakin MM,Cohen GN

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the rate and magnitude of climate change accelerate, understanding the consequences becomes increasingly important. Species distribution models (SDMs) based on current ecological niche constraints are used to project future species distributions. These models contain assumptions that add to the uncertainty in model...

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

authors： Wiens JA,Stralberg D,Jongsomjit D,Howell CA,Snyder MA

更新日期：2009-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of cyclin-dependent kinases (cdks) has been implicated in apoptosis induced by various stimuli. We find that the Fas-induced activation of cdc2 and cdk2 in Jurkat cells is not dependent on protein synthesis, which is shut down very early during apoptosis before caspase-3 activation. Instead, activation ...

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

authors： Zhou BB,Li H,Yuan J,Kirschner MW

更新日期：1998-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In many plant species only a small proportion of buds yield branches. Both the timing and extent of bud activation are tightly regulated to produce specific branching architectures. For example, the primary shoot apex can inhibit the activation of lateral buds. This process is termed apical dominance and is dependent ...

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

authors： Prusinkiewicz P,Crawford S,Smith RS,Ljung K,Bennett T,Ongaro V,Leyser O

更新日期：2009-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant photoreceptor phytochrome plays an important role in the nucleus as a regulator of transcription. Numerous studies imply, however, that phytochromes in both higher and lower plants mediate physiological reactions within the cytoplasm. In particular, the tip cells of moss protonemal filaments use phytochrome ...

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

authors： Mittmann F,Brücker G,Zeidler M,Repp A,Abts T,Hartmann E,Hughes J

更新日期：2004-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Historical scenarios of evolution of avian plumage coloration have been called into question with the discoveries that most birds can see UV light (which normal humans cannot), and that UV-reflecting plumages are widespread in birds. Several examples of sexual dichromatism not detectable with human visual capabilities...

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

authors： Eaton MD

更新日期：2005-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposing primary cultures of cerebellar granule neurons to 100 nM phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) for 24 hr decreases the Ca2+/phosphatidylserine/diolein-dependent protein kinase C (PKC; ATP:protein phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.37) by approximately 90% in the 100,000 x g supernatant and pellet fractions of neuro...

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

authors： Favaron M,Manev H,Siman R,Bertolino M,Szekely AM,DeErausquin G,Guidotti A,Costa E

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three fluorescein-labeled lectins have been shown to exhibit specificity for the surface of cells in different layers of the epidermis in the newborn rat. An isolectin from seeds of Bandeiraea simplicifolia with specificity for alpha-D-galactosyl end groups labeled the basal and lower spinous cells; a lectin from Ulex...

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

authors： Brabec RK,Peters BP,Bernstein IA,Gray RH,Goldstein IJ

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared intron-exon structures in 1,560 human-mouse orthologs and 360 mouse-rat orthologs. The origin of differences in intron positions between species was inferred by comparison with an outgroup, Fugu for human-mouse and human for mouse-rat. Among 10,020 intron positions in the human-mouse comparison, we found u...

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

authors： Roy SW,Fedorov A,Gilbert W

更新日期：2003-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory information from the external world is inherently ambiguous, necessitating prior experience as a constraint on perception. Prolonged experience (adaptation) induces perception of ambiguous morph faces as a category different from the adapted category, suggesting sensitivity in underlying neural codes to differ...

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

authors： Furl N,van Rijsbergen NJ,Treves A,Friston KJ,Dolan RJ

更新日期：2007-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon monoxide (CO) synthesized by heme oxygenase 2 (HO2) and nitric oxide (NO) produced by neuronal NO synthase (nNOS) mediate nonadrenergic/noncholinergic (NANC) intestinal relaxation. In many areas of the gastrointestinal tract, NO and CO function as coneurotransmitters. In the internal anal sphincter (IAS), NANC ...

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

authors： Watkins CC,Boehning D,Kaplin AI,Rao M,Ferris CD,Snyder SH

更新日期：2004-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A nongenetic, transgenerational effect of parental age on offspring fitness has been described in many taxa in the laboratory. Such a transgenerational fitness effect will have important influences on population dynamics, population age structure, and the evolution of aging and lifespan. However, effects of parental a...

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

authors： Schroeder J,Nakagawa S,Rees M,Mannarelli ME,Burke T

更新日期：2015-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex biomechanical events associated with embryo development are investigated in vivo, by using femtosecond laser pulse-induced ablation combined with multimodal nonlinear microscopy. We demonstrate controlled intravital ablations preserving local cytoskeleton dynamics and resulting in the modulation of specifi...

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

authors： Supatto W,Débarre D,Moulia B,Brouzés E,Martin JL,Farge E,Beaurepaire E

更新日期：2005-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Coherent oscillations in the theta-to-gamma frequency range have been proposed as a mechanism that coordinates neural activity in large-scale cortical networks in sensory, motor, and cognitive tasks. Whether this mechanism also involves coherent oscillations at delta frequencies (1-4 Hz) is not known. Rather, delta os...

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

authors： Nácher V,Ledberg A,Deco G,Romo R

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00

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