Lipid-lowering effects of anti-angiopoietin-like 4 antibody recapitulate the lipid phenotype found in angiopoietin-like 4 knockout mice.

abstract：:It is well-established morphologically that bipolar cells, the second-order neurons in the vertebrate retina, make reciprocal synapses with amacrine cells in the inner plexiform layer. However, neither the property nor the physiological function of the feedback synapse is understood. Autoradiographic and immunohistoch...

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

authors： Tachibana M,Kaneko A

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an approach for the detection of magnetic resonance imaging without superconducting magnets and cryogenics: optical atomic magnetometry. This technique possesses a high sensitivity independent of the strength of the static magnetic field, extending the applicability of magnetic resonance imaging to low magne...

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

authors： Xu S,Yashchuk VV,Donaldson MH,Rochester SM,Budker D,Pines A

更新日期：2006-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription is a central step in gene expression, in which the DNA template is processively read by RNA polymerase II (Pol II), synthesizing a complementary messenger RNA transcript. At each cycle, Pol II moves exactly one register along the DNA, a process known as translocation. Although X-ray crystal structures ha...

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

authors： Silva DA,Weiss DR,Pardo Avila F,Da LT,Levitt M,Wang D,Huang X

更新日期：2014-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Two striking differences between humans and our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and gorillas, are the size of our brains (larger by a factor of three or four) and our life span (longer by a factor of about two). Our thesis is that these two distinctive features of humans are products of coevolutionary selection....

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

authors： Kaplan HS,Robson AJ

更新日期：2002-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The RNA-directed DNA polymerase (deoxynucleosidetriphosphate:DNA deoxynucleotidyltransferase EC 2.7.7.7) of avian oncornavirus requires a tryptophan tRNA (tRNATrp) primer molecule located close to the 5' end of the viral RNA genome for the initiation of DNA synthesis in vitro. In this communication we demonstrate that...

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

authors： Collett MS,Faras AJ

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How pathogenic cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4) T cells in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) develop remains poorly understood. We used Nur77-a marker of T cell antigen receptor (TCR) signaling-to identify antigen-activated CD4 T cells in the SKG mouse model of autoimmune arthritis and in patients with RA. Using a fluoresce...

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

authors： Ashouri JF,Hsu LY,Yu S,Rychkov D,Chen Y,Cheng DA,Sirota M,Hansen E,Lattanza L,Zikherman J,Weiss A

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of proteins to locate specific targets among a vast excess of nonspecific DNA is a fundamental theme in biology. Basic principles governing these search mechanisms remain poorly understood, and no study has provided direct visualization of single proteins searching for and engaging target sites. Here we us...

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

authors： Gorman J,Wang F,Redding S,Plys AJ,Fazio T,Wind S,Alani EE,Greene EC

更新日期：2012-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the binding of 125I-labeled alpha-inhibin-92 (a 92-residue peptide) to human pituitary membrane preparations. Unlabeled alpha-inhibin-92 competed effectively with the labeled peptide for binding to the membranes. Binding was also inhibited by both alpha-inhibin-52 and alpha-inhibin-31, but less effecti...

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

authors： Ramasharma K,Li CH

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A system is described for assembling infectious bacteriophage phi 6 nucleocapsids in vitro. Procapsids encoded by cDNA copies of genomic segment L in Escherichia coli were used to package and replicate viral RNA segments. The resulting filled particles were shown to be capable of infecting host cell spheroplasts after...

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

authors： Olkkonen VM,Gottlieb P,Strassman J,Qiao XY,Bamford DH,Mindich L

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterotrimeric G proteins function as molecular relays that mediate signal transduction from heptahelical receptors in the cell membrane to intracellular effector proteins. Crystallographic studies have demonstrated that guanine nucleotide exchange on the Galpha subunit causes specific conformational changes in three ...

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

authors： Oldham WM,Van Eps N,Preininger AM,Hubbell WL,Hamm HE

更新日期：2007-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron-sulfur clusters function as cofactors of a wide range of proteins, with diverse molecular roles in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. Dedicated machineries assemble the clusters and deliver them to the final acceptor molecules in a tightly regulated process. In the prototypical Gram-negative bacterium Escheri...

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

authors： Santos JA,Alonso-García N,Macedo-Ribeiro S,Pereira PJ

更新日期：2014-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of contrast enhancement of tumors using magnetic resonance imaging was investigated in MCF7 human breast cancer implanted in nude mice. Dynamic contrast-enhanced images recorded at high spatial resolution were analyzed by an image analysis method based on a physiological model, which included the blood c...

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

authors： Furman-Haran E,Margalit R,Grobgeld D,Degani H

更新日期：1996-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes is preceded by the development of insulin resistance, in which the action of insulin is impaired, largely in skeletal muscles. Caveolin-3 (Cav3) is a muscle-specific subtype of caveolin, an example of a scaffolding protein found within membranes. Cav is also known as growth signal inhibitor, although i...

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

authors： Oshikawa J,Otsu K,Toya Y,Tsunematsu T,Hankins R,Kawabe J,Minamisawa S,Umemura S,Hagiwara Y,Ishikawa Y

更新日期：2004-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic cells irradiated with high doses of UV exhibit cell-cycle responses referred to as G(1)/S, intraS, and G(2)/M checkpoints. After a moderate UV dose that approximates sunlight exposure and is lethal to fission yeast checkpoint mutants, we found unexpectedly that these cell-cycle responses do not occur. Inste...

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

authors： Callegari AJ,Kelly TJ

更新日期：2006-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Tridymite, a low-pressure, high-temperature (>870 °C) SiO2 polymorph, was detected in a drill sample of laminated mudstone (Buckskin) at Marias Pass in Gale crater, Mars, by the Chemistry and Mineralogy X-ray diffraction instrument onboard the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity The tridymitic mudstone has ∼40 wt....

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

authors： Morris RV,Vaniman DT,Blake DF,Gellert R,Chipera SJ,Rampe EB,Ming DW,Morrison SM,Downs RT,Treiman AH,Yen AS,Grotzinger JP,Achilles CN,Bristow TF,Crisp JA,Des Marais DJ,Farmer JD,Fendrich KV,Frydenvang J,Graff TG,Mo

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptide B (NPB) and neuropeptide W (NPW) are endogenous neuropeptide ligands for the G protein-coupled receptors NPBWR1 and NPBWR2. Here we report that the majority of NPW neurons in the mesolimbic region possess tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity, indicating that a small subset of dopaminergic neurons coexpre...

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

authors： Motoike T,Long JM,Tanaka H,Sinton CM,Skach A,Williams SC,Hammer RE,Sakurai T,Yanagisawa M

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Mounting effective T cell responses is critical for eliciting long-lasting immunity following viral infection and vaccination. A multitude of inhibitory and stimulatory factors are induced following infection, and it is the compilation of these signals that quantitatively and qualitatively program the ensuing effector...

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

authors： Brooks DG,Walsh KB,Elsaesser H,Oldstone MB

更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual information is conveyed from the eye to the brain by distinct types of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). It is largely unknown how RGCs acquire their defining morphological and physiological features and connect to upstream and downstream synaptic partners. The three Brn3/Pou4f transcription factors (TFs) particip...

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

authors： Sajgo S,Ghinia MG,Brooks M,Kretschmer F,Chuang K,Hiriyanna S,Wu Z,Popescu O,Badea TC

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used expression cloning in Xenopus oocytes to isolate two different cDNAs encoding functional N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor subunits. The two receptors (NMDA-R1A and -R1B) display different pharmacologic properties as a consequence of alternative exon addition within the putative ligand-binding domain. ...

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

authors： Nakanishi N,Axel R,Shneider NA

更新日期：1992-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid induction of type I IFN is a central event of the innate defense against viral infections and is tightly regulated by a number of cellular molecules. Viral components induce strong type I IFN responses through the activation of toll-like receptors (TLRs) and intracellular cytoplasmic receptors such as an RNA...

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

authors： Arimoto K,Funami K,Saeki Y,Tanaka K,Okawa K,Takeuchi O,Akira S,Murakami Y,Shimotohno K

更新日期：2010-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:neurogenin2 (ngn2) encodes a basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor and plays an important role in neurogenesis from migratory neural crest cells. Its role in retinal development is poorly understood. We observed that in the developing chick retina, ngn2 was expressed in a subpopulation of proliferating progenito...

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

authors： Yan RT,Ma WX,Wang SZ

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Some dinosaurs reached masses that were approximately 8 times those of the largest, ecologically equivalent terrestrial mammals. The factors most responsible for setting the maximal body size of vertebrates are resource quality and quantity, as modified by the mobility of the consumer, and the vertebrate's rate of ene...

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

authors： McNab BK

更新日期：2009-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The "apoptotic ring" is characterized by the phosphorylation of histone H2AX at serine 139 (γ-H2AX) by DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK). The γ-H2AX apoptotic ring differs from the nuclear foci patterns observed in response to DNA-damaging agents. It contains phosphorylated DNA damage response proteins including a...

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

authors： Solier S,Kohn KW,Scroggins B,Xu W,Trepel J,Neckers L,Pommier Y

更新日期：2012-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of epinephrine (as low as 0.1 muM) on guanosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP) and adenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) in isolated fat cells were examined. Epinephrine increased both cGMP and cAMP levels, with the elevation of cAMP preceding the rise of cGMP. Maximal elevation was obtained with ...

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

authors： Asakawa T,Ruiz J,Ho RJ

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mineralogical processes taking place close to equilibrium, or with very slow kinetics, are difficult to quantify precisely. The determination of ultraslow dissolution/precipitation rates would reveal characteristic timing associated with these processes that are important at geological scale. We have designed an advan...

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

authors： Van Driessche AE,García-Ruíz JM,Tsukamoto K,Patiño-Lopez LD,Satoh H

更新日期：2011-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The endbrain (telencephalon) is at the rostral end of the central nervous system and is primarily responsible for supporting cognition and affect. Structurally, it consists of right and left cerebral hemispheres, each parceled into multiple cortical and nuclear gray matter regions. The global network organization of a...

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

authors： Swanson LW,Hahn JD,Jeub LGS,Fortunato S,Sporns O

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:An immature state of cellular differentiation--characterized by stem cell-like tendencies and impaired differentiation--is a hallmark of cancer. Using glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) as a model system, we sought to determine whether molecular determinants that drive cells toward terminal differentiation are also genetic...

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

authors： Hu J,Ho AL,Yuan L,Hu B,Hua S,Hwang SS,Zhang J,Hu T,Zheng H,Gan B,Wu G,Wang YA,Chin L,DePinho RA

更新日期：2013-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulated human monocytes release several proteins thought to play a role in inflammation, including interleukin 1, tumor necrosis factor, and plasminogen activator. We have purified another proinflammatory protein that is chemotactic for human neutrophils from conditioned medium of lipopolysaccharide-stimulated mono...

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

authors： Yoshimura T,Matsushima K,Tanaka S,Robinson EA,Appella E,Oppenheim JJ,Leonard EJ

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen receptor alpha (ERalpha) plays a major role in the regulation of neuroendocrine functions and behaviors by estrogens. Although the generation of ERalpha knockout mice advanced our knowledge of ERalpha functions, gene deletion using this method is global and potentially confounded by developmental consequences...

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

authors： Musatov S,Chen W,Pfaff DW,Kaplitt MG,Ogawa S

更新日期：2006-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten eleven translocation (TET) enzymes (TET1/TET2/TET3) and thymine DNA glycosylase (TDG) play crucial roles in early embryonic and germ cell development by mediating DNA demethylation. However, the molecular mechanisms that regulate TETs/TDG expression and their role in cellular differentiation, including that of the...

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

authors： Fu X,Jin L,Wang X,Luo A,Hu J,Zheng X,Tsark WM,Riggs AD,Ku HT,Huang W

更新日期：2013-10-29 00:00:00