Resolving vesicle fusion from lysis to monitor calcium-triggered lysosomal exocytosis in astrocytes.

abstract：:The completion of the human genome project and the development of high-throughput approaches herald a dramatic acceleration in the pace of biological research. One of the most compelling next steps will be learning the functional roles of all proteins. Achievement of this goal depends in part on the rapid expression a...

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

authors： Braun P,Hu Y,Shen B,Halleck A,Koundinya M,Harlow E,LaBaer J

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A chimeric transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) molecule has been synthesized to map the amino acids responsible for the substantially greater activity of TGF-beta 1 than TGF-beta 2 on growth and migration of endothelial cells. This chimera consists of a dimer of a monomeric unit composed of amino acids 1-39 of ...

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

authors： Qian SW,Burmester JK,Merwin JR,Madri JA,Sporn MB,Roberts AB

更新日期：1992-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have shown that individuals from invasive populations of many different plant species grow larger than individuals from native populations and that this difference has a genetic basis. This increased vigor in invasive populations is thought to be due to life history tradeoffs, in which selection favors th...

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

authors： Feng YL,Lei YB,Wang RF,Callaway RM,Valiente-Banuet A,Inderjit,Li YP,Zheng YL

更新日期：2009-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A whole genome cattle-hamster radiation hybrid cell panel was used to construct a map of 54 markers located on bovine chromosome 5 (BTA5). Of the 54 markers, 34 are microsatellites selected from the cattle linkage map and 20 are genes. Among the 20 mapped genes, 10 are new assignments that were made by using the compa...

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

authors： Ozawa A,Band MR,Larson JH,Donovan J,Green CA,Womack JE,Lewin HA

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA chip technology enables simultaneous examination of how approximately 6,200 Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene transcript levels, representing the entire genome, respond to environmental change. By using chips bearing oligonucleotide arrays, we show that, after exposure to the alkylating agent methyl methanesulfonate, ...

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

authors： Jelinsky SA,Samson LD

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The uterine epithelium of mice and humans undergoes cyclical waves of cell proliferation and differentiation under the regulation of estradiol-17β (E2) and progesterone (P4). These epithelial cells respond to E2 with increased protein and DNA synthesis, whereas P4 inhibits only the E2-induced DNA synthetic response. H...

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

authors： Wang Y,Zhu L,Kuokkanen S,Pollard JW

更新日期：2015-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The current model to explain the organization of the mammalian nervous system is based on studies of anatomy, embryology, and evolution. To further investigate the molecular organization of the adult mammalian brain, we have built a gene expression-based brain map. We measured gene expression patterns for 24 neural ti...

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

authors： Zapala MA,Hovatta I,Ellison JA,Wodicka L,Del Rio JA,Tennant R,Tynan W,Broide RS,Helton R,Stoveken BS,Winrow C,Lockhart DJ,Reilly JF,Young WG,Bloom FE,Lockhart DJ,Barlow C

更新日期：2005-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Spin-polarized charge currents induce magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) switching by virtue of spin-transfer torque (STT). Recently, by taking advantage of the spin-dependent thermoelectric properties of magnetic materials, novel means of generating spin currents from temperature gradients, and their associated thermal-s...

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

authors： Pushp A,Phung T,Rettner C,Hughes BP,Yang SH,Parkin SS

更新日期：2015-05-26 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：:Bioluminescence-based imaging of living cells has become an important tool in biological and medical research. However, many bioluminescence imaging applications are limited by the requirement of an externally provided luciferin substrate and the low bioluminescence signal which restricts the sensitivity and spatiotem...

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

authors： Gregor C,Pape JK,Gwosch KC,Gilat T,Sahl SJ,Hell SW

更新日期：2019-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies to electrolectin, a lectin endogenous to embryonic skeletal muscle, have been used to study the distribution of electrolectin during myogenesis in L6 cells and rat primary muscle cultures. Antibody binding is highest to mononucleated cells and is low to myotubes in both systems. Binding is much lower to fib...

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

authors： Podleski TR,Greenberg I

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The circadian clock modulates expression of a large fraction of the Arabidopsis genome and affects many aspects of plant growth and development. We have discovered one way in which the circadian system regulates hormone signaling, identifying a node that links the clock and auxin networks. Auxin plays key roles in dev...

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

authors： Rawat R,Schwartz J,Jones MA,Sairanen I,Cheng Y,Andersson CR,Zhao Y,Ljung K,Harmer SL

更新日期：2009-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic crops producing Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxins kill some key insect pests and thus can reduce reliance on insecticides. Widespread planting of such Bt crops increased concerns that their usefulness would be cut short by rapid evolution of resistance to Bt toxins by pests. Pink bollworm (Pectinophora gos...

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

authors： Tabashnik BE,Dennehy TJ,Carrière Y

更新日期：2005-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal studies have shown that the brain is an insulin-responsive organ and that central nervous insulin resistance induces obesity and disturbances in glucose metabolism. In humans, insulin effects in the brain are poorly characterized. We used a magnetoencephalography approach during a two-step hyperinsulinemic eugl...

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

authors： Tschritter O,Preissl H,Hennige AM,Stumvoll M,Porubska K,Frost R,Marx H,Klösel B,Lutzenberger W,Birbaumer N,Häring HU,Fritsche A

更新日期：2006-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic subunit of DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PKcs) is a classical nonhomologous end-joining (cNHEJ) factor. Loss of DNA-PKcs diminished mature B cell class switch recombination (CSR) to other isotypes, but not IgG1. Here, we show that expression of the kinase-dead DNA-PKcs (DNA-PKcsKD/KD ) severely compr...

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

authors： Crowe JL,Shao Z,Wang XS,Wei PC,Jiang W,Lee BJ,Estes VM,Alt FW,Zha S

更新日期：2018-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Engraftment and maintenance of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPC) depend on their ability to respond to extracellular signals from the bone marrow microenvironment, but the critical intracellular pathways integrating these signals remain poorly understood. Furthermore, recent studies provide contradictory ...

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

authors： Sanchez-Aguilera A,Lee YJ,Lo Celso C,Ferraro F,Brumme K,Mondal S,Kim C,Dorrance A,Luo HR,Scadden DT,Williams DA

更新日期：2011-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant pathogens reinforces the need for structures of antibiotic-ribosome complexes that are accurate enough to enable the rational design of novel ribosome-targeting therapeutics. Structures of many antibiotics in complex with both archaeal and eubacterial ribosomes have be...

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

authors： Bulkley D,Innis CA,Blaha G,Steitz TA

更新日期：2010-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that 3-nitropropionate, an isoelectronic analogue of succinate, is a suicide inactivator of succinate dehydrogenase [succinate:(acceptor) oxidoreductase, EC 1.3.99.1] as follows. (i) When rat liver mitochondria oxidize succinate in the presence of 3-nitropropionate carbanion, the rate of O(2) consumption...

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

authors： Alston TA,Mela L,Bright HJ

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four 12-O-tetradecanoyl-13-O-acetylphorbol-type tumor promoters--teleocidin, phorbol ester, aplysiatoxin, and ingenol ester--are superposed in an attempt to understand their common biological activity on the assumption that they may bind to the same receptor site. A method using three-dimensional computer graphics was...

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

authors： Itai A,Kato Y,Tomioka N,Iitaka Y,Endo Y,Hasegawa M,Shudo K,Fujiki H,Sakai S

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Use-dependent long-term changes of neuronal response properties must be gated to prevent irrelevant activity from inducing inappropriate modifications. Here we test the hypothesis that local network dynamics contribute to such gating. As synaptic modifications depend on temporal contiguity between presynaptic and post...

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

authors： Galuske RAW,Munk MHJ,Singer W

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Although much is known about the underlying mechanisms of p53 activity and regulation, the factors that influence the diversity and duration of p53 responses are not well understood. Here we describe a unique mode of p53 regulation involving alternative splicing of the TP53 gene. We found that the use of an alternativ...

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

authors： Senturk S,Yao Z,Camiolo M,Stiles B,Rathod T,Walsh AM,Nemajerova A,Lazzara MJ,Altorki NK,Krainer A,Moll UM,Lowe SW,Cartegni L,Sordella R

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:R. A. Fisher's 1930 "reproductive value" is defined as the contribution made by a population's initial age elements to its asymptotically dominating exponential growth mode. For the Leslie discrete-time model, it is the characteristic row vector of the Leslie matrix, and for the integral-equation model of Lotka the si...

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

authors： Samuelson PA

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three naturally occurring dermorphin-like peptides from the skin of the frog Phyllomedusa bicolor, the related carboxyl-terminal amides, and some substituted analogs were synthesized, their binding profiles to opioid receptors were determined, and their biological activities were studied in isolated organ preparations...

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

authors： Negri L,Erspamer GF,Severini C,Potenza RL,Melchiorri P,Erspamer V

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kelp forests (Order Laminariales) form key biogenic habitats in coastal regions of temperate and Arctic seas worldwide, providing ecosystem services valued in the range of billions of dollars annually. Although local evidence suggests that kelp forests are increasingly threatened by a variety of stressors, no comprehe...

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

authors： Krumhansl KA,Okamoto DK,Rassweiler A,Novak M,Bolton JJ,Cavanaugh KC,Connell SD,Johnson CR,Konar B,Ling SD,Micheli F,Norderhaug KM,Pérez-Matus A,Sousa-Pinto I,Reed DC,Salomon AK,Shears NT,Wernberg T,Anderson RJ,Barre

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven morphologically nontransformed (flat) revertants with reduced tumorigenicity in vivo have been isolated from populations of Kirsten sarcoma virus-transformed NIH 3T3 cells transfected with a cDNA expression library of normal human fibroblasts. Each revertant harbors 1-10 recombinant plasmids per cell and retains...

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

authors： Noda M,Kitayama H,Matsuzaki T,Sugimoto Y,Okayama H,Bassin RH,Ikawa Y

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the success statistical physics has enjoyed at predicting the properties of materials for given parameters, the inverse problem, identifying which material parameters produce given, desired properties, is only beginning to be addressed. Recently, several methods have emerged across disciplines that draw upon o...

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

authors： Miskin MZ,Khaira G,de Pablo JJ,Jaeger HM

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the development of infectious cDNA clones of viral RNA genomes and the means of delivery of the in vitro-synthesized RNA into cells, alphaviruses have become an attractive system for expression of heterologous genetic information. Alphaviruses replicate exclusively in the cytoplasm, and their genetic material ca...

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

authors： Kim DY,Atasheva S,McAuley AJ,Plante JA,Frolova EI,Beasley DW,Frolov I

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of natural killer (NK) cell function in vivo have been challenging primarily due to the lack of animal models in which NK cells are genetically and selectively deficient. Here, we describe a transgenic mouse with defective natural killing and selective deficiency in NK1.1(+) CD3(-) cells. Despite functionally ...

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

authors： Kim S,Iizuka K,Aguila HL,Weissman IL,Yokoyama WM

更新日期：2000-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) are produced by the mammalian host defense to kill invading bacteria and limit bacterial colonization. One main in vivo target of ROS is the thiol group of proteins. We have developed a quantitative thiol trapping technique termed OxICAT to identify physiologically...

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

authors： Leichert LI,Gehrke F,Gudiseva HV,Blackwell T,Ilbert M,Walker AK,Strahler JR,Andrews PC,Jakob U

更新日期：2008-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigenic markers associated with the major internal protein of RNA tumor viruses of the C-type have proven extremely useful in natural history studies of these viruses. This protein possesses species-specific antigenic determinants, and, in the case of mammalian C-type viruses, the protein possesses crossreactive det...

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

authors： Gilden RV,Oroszlan S

更新日期：1972-04-01 00:00:00