Galphai generates multiple Pins activation states to link cortical polarity and spindle orientation in Drosophila neuroblasts.

abstract：:A major virulence factor of Plasmodium falciparum is the adherence of parasitized erythrocytes to the wall of postcapillary venules via a specific interaction between parasite-derived erythrocyte surface ligands and receptors on endothelial cells. To study this phenomenon in vitro, we selected a parasite population th...

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

authors： Chaiyaroj SC,Coppel RL,Novakovic S,Brown GV

更新日期：1994-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I multimer technology has become an indispensable immunological assay system to dissect antigen-specific cytotoxic CD8(+) T cell responses by flow cytometry. However, the development of high-throughput assay systems, in which T cell responses against a multitude of epitopes...

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

authors： Bakker AH,Hoppes R,Linnemann C,Toebes M,Rodenko B,Berkers CR,Hadrup SR,van Esch WJ,Heemskerk MH,Ovaa H,Schumacher TN

更新日期：2008-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the thymic polypeptide thymopoietin (Tpo) on the properties of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AcChoR) were investigated by patch clamp techniques on mouse C2 myotubes and by biochemical assays on AcChoR-rich membrane fragments purified from the Torpedo marmorata electric organ. At high concentrat...

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

authors： Revah F,Mulle C,Pinset C,Audhya T,Goldstein G,Changeux JP

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the contributions of the human pulvinar to goal directed selection of visual targets in 3 patients with chronic, unilateral lesions involving topographic maps in the ventral pulvinar. Observers completed 2 psychophysical tasks in which they discriminated the orientation of a lateralized target grating in t...

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

authors： Snow JC,Allen HA,Rafal RD,Humphreys GW

更新日期：2009-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:MinD is a widely conserved ATPase that has been demonstrated to play a pivotal role in selection of the division site in eubacteria and chloroplasts. It is a member of the large ParA superfamily of ATPases that are characterized by a deviant Walker-type ATP-binding motif. MinD localizes to the cytoplasmic face of the ...

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

authors： Szeto TH,Rowland SL,Rothfield LI,King GF

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Arsenic, a curative agent for acute promyelocytic leukemia, induces cell apoptosis and degradation of BCR-ABL in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). We demonstrated that ubiquitination and degradation of BCR-ABL was mediated by c-CBL, a RING-type E3 ligase that was also shown to be involved in ubiquitination for many ...

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

authors： Mao JH,Sun XY,Liu JX,Zhang QY,Liu P,Huang QH,Li KK,Chen Q,Chen Z,Chen SJ

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequences of large insert clones containing genomic DNA that is orthologous to the maize adh1 region were obtained for sorghum, rice, and the adh1-homoeologous region of maize, a remnant of the tetraploid history of the Zea lineage. By using all four genomes, it was possible to describe the nature, timing, and lin...

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

authors： Ilic K,SanMiguel PJ,Bennetzen JL

更新日期：2003-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivating mutations in chromodomain helicase DNA binding protein 7 (CHD7) cause CHARGE syndrome, a severe multiorgan system disorder of which Isolated gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) deficiency (IGD) is a minor feature. Recent reports have described predominantly missense CHD7 alleles in IGD patients, but it ...

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

authors： Balasubramanian R,Choi JH,Francescatto L,Willer J,Horton ER,Asimacopoulos EP,Stankovic KM,Plummer L,Buck CL,Quinton R,Nebesio TD,Mericq V,Merino PM,Meyer BF,Monies D,Gusella JF,Al Tassan N,Katsanis N,Crowley WF Jr

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Mapping biological pathways across microbial genomes is a highly important technique in functional studies of biological systems. Existing methods mainly rely on sequence-based orthologous gene mapping, which often leads to suboptimal mapping results because sequence-similarity information alone does not contain suffi...

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

authors： Mao F,Su Z,Olman V,Dam P,Liu Z,Xu Y

更新日期：2006-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive amyloid deposition in senile plaques and cortical blood vessels may play a central role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease. We have used x-ray diffraction and electron microscopy to study the molecular organization and morphology of macromolecular assemblies formed by three synthetic peptides homolog...

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

authors： Kirschner DA,Inouye H,Duffy LK,Sinclair A,Lind M,Selkoe DJ

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-resolution mapping of cofactor-specific photochemistry in photosynthetic reaction centers (RCs) from Rhodobacter sphaeroides was achieved by polarization selective ultrafast spectroscopy in single crystals at cryogenic temperature. By exploiting the fixed orientation of cofactors within crystals, we isolated a si...

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

authors： Huang L,Ponomarenko N,Wiederrecht GP,Tiede DM

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite high structural homology between NO reductases (NORs) and heme-copper oxidases (HCOs), factors governing their reaction specificity remain to be understood. Using a myoglobin-based model of NOR (FeBMb) and tuning its heme redox potentials (E°') to cover the native NOR range, through manipulating hydrogen bondi...

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

authors： Bhagi-Damodaran A,Reed JH,Zhu Q,Shi Y,Hosseinzadeh P,Sandoval BA,Harnden KA,Wang S,Sponholtz MR,Mirts EN,Dwaraknath S,Zhang Y,Moënne-Loccoz P,Lu Y

更新日期：2018-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We posit that feasible reversal of the growth of atmospheric CH(4) and other trace gases would provide a vital contribution toward averting dangerous anthropogenic interference with global climate. Such trace gas reductions may allow stabilization of atmospheric CO(2) at an achievable level of anthropogenic CO(2) emis...

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

authors： Hansen J,Sato M

更新日期：2004-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Macropinocytosis is a highly conserved endocytic process by which extracellular fluid and solutes are internalized into cells. Macropinocytosis starts with the formation of membrane ruffles at the plasma membrane and ends with their closure. The transient and sequential emergence of phosphoinositides PI(3,4,5)P3 and P...

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

authors： Maekawa M,Terasaka S,Mochizuki Y,Kawai K,Ikeda Y,Araki N,Skolnik EY,Taguchi T,Arai H

更新日期：2014-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:An essential element in the web-trap architecture, the capture silk spun by ecribellate orb spiders consists of glue droplets sitting astride a silk filament. Mechanically this thread presents a mixed solid-liquid behavior unknown to date. Under extension, capture silk behaves as a particularly stretchy solid, owing t...

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

authors： Elettro H,Neukirch S,Vollrath F,Antkowiak A

更新日期：2016-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The enormous complexity of biological networks has led to the suggestion that networks are built of modules that perform particular functions and are "reused" in evolution in a manner similar to reusable domains in protein structures or modules of electronic circuits. Analysis of known biological networks has revealed...

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

authors： Spirin V,Gelfand MS,Mironov AA,Mirny LA

更新日期：2006-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Responses of tethered cells of Escherichia coli to impulse, step, exponential-ramp or exponentiated sine-wave stimuli are internally consistent, provided that allowance is made for the nonlinear effect of thresholds. This result confirms that wild-type cells exposed to stimuli in the physiological range make short-ter...

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

authors： Segall JE,Block SM,Berg HC

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A great deal is known about the export of spliced mRNAs, but little is known about the export of mRNAs encoded by human cellular genes that naturally lack introns. Here, we investigated the requirements for export of three naturally intronless mRNAs (HSPB3, IFN-α1, and IFN-β1). Significantly, we found that all three m...

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

authors： Lei H,Dias AP,Reed R

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein aggregation plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, and the mechanism of its progression is poorly understood. Here, we examine the structural and dynamic characteristics of transiently evolving protein aggregates under ambient conditions by directly probing protein surface wat...

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

authors： Pavlova A,Cheng CY,Kinnebrew M,Lew J,Dahlquist FW,Han S

更新日期：2016-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenocortical carcinomas (ACCs) are rare and highly malignant cancers associated with poor survival of patients. Currently, mitotane, a nonspecific derivative of the pesticide DDT (1,1-(dichlorobiphenyl)-2,2-dichloroethane), is used as the standard treatment, but its mechanism of action in ACCs remains elusive. Here ...

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

authors： Belavgeni A,Bornstein SR,von Mässenhausen A,Tonnus W,Stumpf J,Meyer C,Othmar E,Latk M,Kanczkowski W,Kroiss M,Hantel C,Hugo C,Fassnacht M,Ziegler CG,Schally AV,Krone NP,Linkermann A

更新日期：2019-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Osedax is a recently discovered group of siboglinid annelids that consume bones on the seafloor and whose evolutionary origins have been linked with Cretaceous marine reptiles or to the post-Cretaceous rise of whales. Here we present whale bones from early Oligocene bathyal sediments exposed in Washington State, which...

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

authors： Kiel S,Goedert JL,Kahl WA,Rouse GW

更新日期：2010-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We present data that demonstrate that three MR elements isolated from wild populations of Drosophila melanogaster on two continents can cause large deletions of the X chromosome in males. The deleted chromosomes, termed mini-X chromosomes, are induced at a frequency of approximately 1:4000 in chromosomes that are init...

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

authors： Green MM,Yamamoto MT,Miklos GL

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perceptual decisions are better when they take uncertainty into account. Uncertainty arises not only from the properties of sensory input but also from cognitive sources, such as different levels of attention. However, it is unknown whether humans appropriately adjust for such cognitive sources of uncertainty during p...

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

authors： Denison RN,Adler WT,Carrasco M,Ma WJ

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have combined standard micrococcal nuclease (MNase) digestion of nuclei with a modified protocol for constructing paired-end DNA sequencing libraries to map both nucleosomes and subnucleosome-sized particles at single base-pair resolution throughout the budding yeast genome. We found that partially unwrapped nucleo...

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

authors： Henikoff JG,Belsky JA,Krassovsky K,MacAlpine DM,Henikoff S

更新日期：2011-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose that protein translocation across membranes is driven by biased random thermal motion. This "Brownian ratchet" mechanism depends on chemical asymmetries between the cis and trans sides of the membrane. Several mechanisms could contribute to rectifying the thermal motion of the protein, such as binding and d...

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

authors： Simon SM,Peskin CS,Oster GF

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although malignant astrocytomas are a leading cause of cancer-related death in children, rational therapeutic strategies are lacking. We previously identified activating mutations of v-raf murine sarcoma viral oncogene homolog B1 (BRAF) (BRAF(T1799A) encoding BRAF(V600E)) in association with homozygous cyclin-dependen...

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

authors： Huillard E,Hashizume R,Phillips JJ,Griveau A,Ihrie RA,Aoki Y,Nicolaides T,Perry A,Waldman T,McMahon M,Weiss WA,Petritsch C,James CD,Rowitch DH

更新日期：2012-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:IFN-alpha/beta plays an essential role in innate immunity against viral and bacterial infection. Among the proteins induced by IFN-alpha/beta are the ubiquitin-like ISG15 protein and its E1- (Ube1L) and E2- (UbcH8) conjugating enzymes, leading to the conjugation of ISG15 to cellular proteins. It is likely that ISG15 c...

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

authors： Zhao C,Denison C,Huibregtse JM,Gygi S,Krug RM

更新日期：2005-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has demonstrated a role for the E2F1 gene product in signaling apoptosis, both as a result of the deregulation of the Rb/E2F pathway as well as in response to DNA damage. We now show that the ability of cells to suppress the apoptotic potential of E2F1, as might occur during the course of normal cellular...

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

authors： Hallstrom TC,Nevins JR

更新日期：2003-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Noninvasive prenatal testing using fetal DNA in maternal plasma is an actively researched area. The current generation of tests using massively parallel sequencing is based on counting plasma DNA sequences originating from different genomic regions. In this study, we explored a different approach that is based on the ...

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

authors： Yu SC,Chan KC,Zheng YW,Jiang P,Liao GJ,Sun H,Akolekar R,Leung TY,Go AT,van Vugt JM,Minekawa R,Oudejans CB,Nicolaides KH,Chiu RW,Lo YM

更新日期：2014-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:[3H]Puromycin and N-(ethyl-2-diazomalonyl)[3H]puromycin are incorporated into E. coli ribosomes on irradiation at 253.7 nm. Both compounds incorporate into both protein and nucleic acid. Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of ribosomal protein shows that L23 is the major protein labeled by puromycin. Although incorpor...

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

authors： Cooperman BS,Jaynes EN,Brunswick DJ,Luddy MA

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00