Strong effects of molecular topology on diffusion of entangled DNA molecules.

abstract：:The association between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) dysfunction and cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been widely exploited for its therapeutic potential. The effects of chronic nicotine exposure on Abeta accumulation have been studied in both humans and animal models, but its therapeutic ...

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

authors： Oddo S,Caccamo A,Green KN,Liang K,Tran L,Chen Y,Leslie FM,LaFerla FM

更新日期：2005-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Androgen independence is responsible for most prostate cancer lethality, yet currently there are no effective clinical treatments. We have been investigating the mechanisms underlying androgen-independent prostate cancer in Nkx3.1;Pten mutant mice, which display salient features of the disease, including a requirement...

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

authors： Gao H,Ouyang X,Banach-Petrosky WA,Gerald WL,Shen MM,Abate-Shen C

更新日期：2006-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The HER2 gene encodes a cell-surface glycoprotein with extensive homology to the epidermal growth factor receptor. Recently it was found to be amplified in about 30% of primary human breast malignancies. In experiments designed to assess the role of the HER2 gene in oncogenesis, we found that overexpression of unalter...

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

authors： Hudziak RM,Schlessinger J,Ullrich A

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin acts as a potent inhibitory factor against obesity by regulating energy expenditure, food intake, and adiposity. The obese diabetic db/db mouse, which has defects in leptin receptor, displays enhanced neural responses and elevated behavioral preference to sweet stimuli. Here, we show the effects of leptin on th...

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

authors： Kawai K,Sugimoto K,Nakashima K,Miura H,Ninomiya Y

更新日期：2000-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The affinity of the Escherichia coli phage 434 operator for phage 434 repressor is affected by changes in the sequence of the noncontacted base pairs near the operator's center. The results presented here show that base composition near the center of the operator affects the operator's affinity for repressor by alteri...

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

authors： Koudelka GB,Harbury P,Harrison SC,Ptashne M

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Androgen receptor (AR) target genes direct development and survival of the prostate epithelial lineage, including prostate cancer (PCa). Thus, endocrine therapies that inhibit the AR ligand-binding domain (LBD) are effective in treating PCa. AR transcriptional reactivation is central to resistance, as evidenced by the...

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

authors： Nyquist MD,Li Y,Hwang TH,Manlove LS,Vessella RL,Silverstein KA,Voytas DF,Dehm SM

更新日期：2013-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild and managed bees are well documented as effective pollinators of global crops of economic importance. However, the contributions by pollinators other than bees have been little explored despite their potential to contribute to crop production and stability in the face of environmental change. Non-bee pollinators ...

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

authors： Rader R,Bartomeus I,Garibaldi LA,Garratt MP,Howlett BG,Winfree R,Cunningham SA,Mayfield MM,Arthur AD,Andersson GK,Bommarco R,Brittain C,Carvalheiro LG,Chacoff NP,Entling MH,Foully B,Freitas BM,Gemmill-Herren B,Ghazoul

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune cells take residence in metabolic tissues, providing a framework for direct regulation of nutrient metabolism. Despite conservation of this anatomic relationship through evolution, the signals and mechanisms by which the immune system regulates nutrient homeostasis and insulin action remain poorly understood. H...

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

authors： Ricardo-Gonzalez RR,Red Eagle A,Odegaard JI,Jouihan H,Morel CR,Heredia JE,Mukundan L,Wu D,Locksley RM,Chawla A

更新日期：2010-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Athymic mice grafted at birth with allogeneic thymic epithelium (TE) from day 10 embryos before hematopoietic cell colonization reconstitute normal numbers of T cells and exhibit full life-long tolerance to skin grafts of the TE haplotype. Intravenous transfers of splenic cells, from these animals to adult syngeneic a...

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

authors： Modigliani Y,Thomas-Vaslin V,Bandeira A,Coltey M,Le Douarin NM,Coutinho A,Salaün J

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental and computational simulations revealed that boron clusters, which favor planar (2D) structures up to 18 atoms, prefer 3D structures beginning at 20 atoms. Using global optimization methods, we found that the B20 neutral cluster has a double-ring tubular structure with a diameter of 5.2 A. For the B(-)20 a...

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

authors： Kiran B,Bulusu S,Zhai HJ,Yoo S,Zeng XC,Wang LS

更新日期：2005-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2012-2015 drought has left California with severely reduced snowpack, soil moisture, ground water, and reservoir stocks, but the impact of this estimated millennial-scale event on forest health is unknown. We used airborne laser-guided spectroscopy and satellite-based models to assess losses in canopy water conten...

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

authors： Asner GP,Brodrick PG,Anderson CB,Vaughn N,Knapp DE,Martin RE

更新日期：2016-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The Dbf4Cdc7 kinase acts at the level of individual origins to promote the initiation of DNA replication. We demonstrate through both immunoprecipitation and two-hybrid assays that a domain comprising the first 296 aa of Dbf4p interacts with Orc2p and Orc3p subunits of the origin recognition complex (ORC). Given that ...

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

authors： Duncker BP,Shimada K,Tsai-Pflugfelder M,Pasero P,Gasser SM

更新日期：2002-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection by certain human papillomavirus types is regarded as the major risk factor in the development of cervical cancer, one of the most common cancers of women worldwide. Analysis of the immunogenic and structural features of papillomavirus virions has been hampered by the inability to efficiently propagate the vi...

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

authors： Kirnbauer R,Booy F,Cheng N,Lowy DR,Schiller JT

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the presence of N(alpha),N(epsilon)-diacetyl-L-Lys-D-Ala-D-Ala as donor, and either D-[(14)C]alanine, [(14)C]-glycine, or meso-[(3)H]diaminopimelic acid as acceptor, the DD carboxypeptidases from Streptomyces R61 and R39 catalyze a transpeptidation reaction with the release of terminal D-alanine from the donor and ...

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

authors： Pollock JJ,Ghuysen JM,Linder R,Salton MR,Perkins HR,Nieto M,Leyh-Bouille M,Frere JM,Johnson K

更新日期：1972-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukotrienes (LTs) are signaling molecules derived from arachidonic acid that initiate and amplify innate and adaptive immunity. In turn, how their synthesis is organized on the nuclear envelope of myeloid cells in response to extracellular signals is not understood. We define the supramolecular architecture of LT syn...

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

authors： Mandal AK,Jones PB,Bair AM,Christmas P,Miller D,Yamin TT,Wisniewski D,Menke J,Evans JF,Hyman BT,Bacskai B,Chen M,Lee DM,Nikolic B,Soberman RJ

更新日期：2008-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of a photosensitive blocking group for the carboxyl function of neurotransmitters, in this case glycine, is reported. The compound, 2-methoxy-5-nitrophenyl glycine ester (caged glycine), is photolyzed by a laser pulse at 308 or 337 nm within 3 microseconds and with a product quantum yield of 0.2. The com...

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

authors： Ramesh D,Wieboldt R,Niu L,Carpenter BK,Hess GP

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer is a landmark agreement that has successfully reduced the global production, consumption, and emissions of ozone-depleting substances (ODSs). ODSs are also greenhouse gases that contribute to the radiative forcing of climate change. Using historical...

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

authors： Velders GJ,Andersen SO,Daniel JS,Fahey DW,McFarland M

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonlinear nature of integration among cortical brain areas renders the effective connectivity between them inherently dynamic and context-sensitive. One emerging architectural principle of functional brain organization, which rests explicitly on these nonlinear interactions, is that neuronal responses expressed at...

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

authors： Friston KJ,Büchel C

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement system has evolved to annul pathogens, but its improper regulation is linked with diseases. Efficient regulation of the system is primarily provided by a family of proteins termed regulators of complement activation (RCA). The knowledge of precise structural determinants of RCA proteins critical for imp...

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

authors： Gautam AK,Panse Y,Ghosh P,Reza MJ,Mullick J,Sahu A

更新日期：2015-10-13 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：:Cytochrome c peroxidase reacts with peroxide to form compound I, which contains an oxyferryl heme and an indolyl radical at Trp-191. The indolyl free radical has a half-life of several hours at room temperature, and this remarkable stability is essential for the catalytic function of cytochrome c peroxidase. To probe ...

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

authors： Miller MA,Han GW,Kraut J

更新日期：1994-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The four core histones (H2A, H2B, H3, and H4) and DNA were assembled into nucleosome-like particles at physiological ionic strengths either by an extract of chromatin rich in nicking-closing activity or by the purified nicking-closing enzyme itself. When histone-DNA complexes were assembled in vitro from relaxed circu...

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

authors： Germond JE,Rouvière-Yaniv J,Yaniv M,Brutlag D

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether mitotic structures like the centrosome can self-organize from the regulated mobility of their dynamic protein components remains unclear. Here, we combine fluorescence spectroscopy and chemical genetics to study in living cells the diffusion of polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1), an enzyme critical for centrosome matur...

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

authors： Mahen R,Jeyasekharan AD,Barry NP,Venkitaraman AR

更新日期：2011-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein misfolding is the molecular basis for several human diseases. How the primary amino acid sequence triggers misfolding and determines the benign or toxic character of the misfolded protein remains largely obscure. Among proteins that misfold, polyglutamine (polyQ) expansion proteins provide an interesting case:...

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

authors： Duennwald ML,Jagadish S,Muchowski PJ,Lindquist S

更新日期：2006-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Before secretory vesicles undergo exocytosis, they must recruit the proteins syntaxin-1 and synaptosomal associated protein 25 (SNAP-25) in the plasma membrane. GFP-labeled versions of both proteins cluster at sites where secretory granules have docked. Single-particle tracking shows that minority populations of both ...

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

authors： Knowles MK,Barg S,Wan L,Midorikawa M,Chen X,Almers W

更新日期：2010-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Pro-Leu-Gly-NH2 (MIF) and several structural analogues, all injected in 50-microgram doses daily in mice receiving morphine chronically, were found to prevent development of physical dependence as measured by changes in body temperature associated with naloxone-induced withdrawal. Dose-response studies, using again a ...

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

authors： Walter R,Ritzmann RF,Bhargava HN,Flexner LB

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homozygous uniparental mouse embryos, produced by microsurgical removal of the male pronucleus from fertilized eggs and diploidization of the female pronucleus with cytochalasin, were surrounded with blastomeres from normal embryos to produce chimeric embryos. A few of these chimeras developed into viable adults, and ...

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

authors： Anderegg C,Markert CL

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic analysis of Parkinson disease (PD) has identified several genes whose mutation causes inherited parkinsonism, as well as risk loci for sporadic PD. PTEN-induced kinase 1 (PINK1) and parkin, linked to autosomal recessive PD, act in a common genetic pathway regulating the autophagic degradation of mitochondria, ...

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

authors： Ivatt RM,Sanchez-Martinez A,Godena VK,Brown S,Ziviani E,Whitworth AJ

更新日期：2014-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiapoptotic Bcl-2 family members interact with inositol trisphosphate receptor (InsP3R) Ca(2+)release channels in the endoplasmic reticulum to modulate Ca(2+)signals that affect cell viability. However, the molecular details and consequences of their interactions are unclear. Here, we found that Bcl-xL activates sin...

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

authors： Yang J,Vais H,Gu W,Foskett JK

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-promoting phorbol esters affect the ability of mouse hematopoietic progenitor cells to form morphologically recognizable colonies in culture. They induce myeloid progenitor cells to form colonies of the monocyte/macrophage type in the absence of exogenous granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor. Convers...

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

authors： Sieber F,Stuart RK,Spivak JL

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00