A small-molecule therapeutic lead for Huntington's disease: preclinical pharmacology and efficacy of C2-8 in the R6/2 transgenic mouse.

abstract：:Mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase kinase is an enzyme that activates the growth factor-regulated MAP kinase in vitro by a mechanism that involves direct phosphorylation of MAP kinase on tyrosine and threonine residues. MAP kinase kinase is stimulated by growth factor treatment of cells and has been shown to be in...

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

authors： Ahn NG,Campbell JS,Seger R,Jensen AL,Graves LM,Krebs EG

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central questions of bacterial ecology and evolution require a method to consistently demarcate, from the vast and diverse set of bacterial cells within a natural community, the groups playing ecologically distinct roles (ecotypes). Because of a lack of theory-based guidelines, current methods in bacterial systema...

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

authors： Koeppel A,Perry EB,Sikorski J,Krizanc D,Warner A,Ward DM,Rooney AP,Brambilla E,Connor N,Ratcliff RM,Nevo E,Cohan FM

更新日期：2008-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:An extracellular matrix protein, cytotactin, with widespread tissue distribution has been identified, isolated, and partially characterized. Cytotactin mediates glia-neuron adhesion in vitro, but unlike Ng-CAM, the neuron-glia cell-adhesion molecule, it is absent from neurons. Cytotactin was isolated from 14-day embry...

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

authors： Grumet M,Hoffman S,Crossin KL,Edelman GM

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila clock genes period (per) and timeless (tim) have been studied behaviorally and biochemically, but to date there has been no viable culture system for studying the cell biology of the Drosophila clock. We have cultured pupal ring glands attached to the central nervous system and observed rhythms of perio...

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

authors： Emery IF,Noveral JM,Jamison CF,Siwicki KK

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike parasitic protist groups that are defined by the absence of mitochondria, the Pelobiontida is composed mostly of free-living species. Because of the presence of ultrastructural and cellular features that set them apart from all other eukaryotic organisms, it has been suggested that pelobionts are primitively am...

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

authors： Stiller JW,Duffield EC,Hall BD

更新日期：1998-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA end-joining protein Ku70 is one of several proteins that inhibit apoptosis by sequestering the proapoptotic factor Bax from the mitochondria. However, the molecular mechanism underlying Ku70-dependent inhibition of Bax is not fully understood. Here, we show that the absence of Ku70 results in the accumulation ...

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

authors： Amsel AD,Rathaus M,Kronman N,Cohen HY

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple resistance and pH adaptation (Mrp) complexes are sophisticated cation/proton exchangers found in a vast variety of alkaliphilic and/or halophilic microorganisms, and are critical for their survival in highly challenging environments. This family of antiporters is likely to represent the ancestor of cation pum...

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

authors： Li B,Zhang K,Nie Y,Wang X,Zhao Y,Zhang XC,Wu XL

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are common vascular malformations, which may result in hemorrhagic strokes and neurological deficits. Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) and Notch signaling are both involved in the development of cerebral AVMs, but the cross-talk between the two signaling pathways is poorly u...

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

authors： Yao Y,Yao J,Radparvar M,Blazquez-Medela AM,Guihard PJ,Jumabay M,Boström KI

更新日期：2013-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:O-GlcNAc is an intracellular posttranslational modification that governs myriad cell biological processes and is dysregulated in human diseases. Despite this broad pathophysiological significance, the biochemical effects of most O-GlcNAcylation events remain uncharacterized. One prevalent hypothesis is that O-GlcNAc m...

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

authors： Toleman CA,Schumacher MA,Yu SH,Zeng W,Cox NJ,Smith TJ,Soderblom EJ,Wands AM,Kohler JJ,Boyce M

更新日期：2018-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Titania, which exhibits superwetting under light illumination, has been widely used as an ideal material for environmental solution such as self-cleaning, water-air purification, and antifogging. There have been various studies to understand such superhydrophilic conversion. The origin of superwetting has not been cla...

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

authors： Lee K,Kim Q,An S,An J,Kim J,Kim B,Jhe W

更新日期：2014-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersed cell cultures were established from 7- to 9-day postnatal mouse cerebellum. The fibrin slice method was used to obtain a localization of plasminogen activator production to specific cells. Fibrinolytically active cells were small (5- to 8-micrometer diameter), round, and occurred singly or in aggregates. Fib...

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

authors： Krystosek A,Seeds NW

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assess the significance of high-frequency variability of environmental parameters (sunlight, precipitation, temperature) for the structure and function of terrestrial ecosystems under current and future climate. We examine the influence of hourly, daily, and monthly variance using the Ecosystem Demography model ver...

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

authors： Medvigy D,Wofsy SC,Munger JW,Moorcroft PR

更新日期：2010-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:TGF-beta-activated kinase-1 (TAK1), also known as MAPKK kinase-7 (MAP3K7), is a candidate effector of multiple circuits in cardiac biology and disease. Here, we show that inhibition of TAK1 in mice by a cardiac-specific dominant-negative mutation evokes electrophysiological and biochemical properties reminiscent of hu...

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

authors： Xie M,Zhang D,Dyck JR,Li Y,Zhang H,Morishima M,Mann DL,Taffet GE,Baldini A,Khoury DS,Schneider MD

更新日期：2006-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the binding change mechanism of rotary catalysis by which F1-ATPase hydrolyzes ATP has been supported by equilibrium, kinetic, and structural observations, many questions concerning the function remain unanswered. Because of the importance of this enzyme, the search for a full understanding of its mechanism i...

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

authors： Gao YQ,Yang W,Marcus RA,Karplus M

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:H-2(q) mice (DBA/1) do not make an antibody response to a synthetic aminoacid polymer, (Glu, Ala,Tyr(10)), after an immunizing regimen that produces a good antibody response in mouse strains with other H-2 alleles. Their thymocytes, however, show evidence of recognizing this antigen since they synthesize DNA when they...

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

authors： Gershon RK,Maurer PH,Merryman CF

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maximum likelihood analysis for linkage between autosomal dominant aniridia and 12 biochemical and serological markers in a single large family showed a probable linkage between autosomal dominant aniridia and the enzyme acid phosphatase-1. The presence of an autosomal dominant aniridia gene linked to acid phosphatase...

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

authors： Ferrell RE,Chakravarti A,Hittner HM,Riccardi VM

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An acetone extract of chloroplast particles, when layered on an aqueous surface, exhibited light-dependent phosphorylation. Studies with the firefly-tail enzyme assay, as well as with (32)P-labeled inorganic phosphate, show an initial release of adenosine triphosphate (a step that is apparently only light-triggered), ...

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

authors： McPhee J,Brody SS

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper investigates quantitatively the characteristics of the local folding code. The overlapping four-residue fragments which make up the amino acid sequences of 114 proteins are divided into classes on the basis of the physical properties of their constituent amino acids. The distribution of structural types ass...

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

authors： Rackovsky S

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The basal ganglia are critical for selecting actions and evaluating their outcome. Although the circuitry for selection is well understood, how these nuclei evaluate the outcome of actions is unknown. Here, we show in lamprey that a separate evaluation circuit, which regulates the habenula-projecting globus pallidus (...

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

authors： Stephenson-Jones M,Kardamakis AA,Robertson B,Grillner S

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) are ubiquitous growth factors that regulate proliferation in most mammalian tissues including pancreatic islets. To explore the specificity of insulin receptors in compensatory beta-cell growth, we examined two models of insulin resistance. In the first model, we used li...

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

authors： Okada T,Liew CW,Hu J,Hinault C,Michael MD,Krtzfeldt J,Yin C,Holzenberger M,Stoffel M,Kulkarni RN

更新日期：2007-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Combined intracellular and microfluorometric recording techniques were used to evaluate whether the inhibition by cholinergic or adrenergic transmitters of the Ca2(+)-activated potassium current (IAHP) in hippocampal CA3 pyramidal cells was mediated by an alteration of depolarization-induced change in cytosolic free C...

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

authors： Knöpfel T,Vranesic I,Gähwiler BH,Brown DA

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-negative bacteria possess a characteristic outer membrane, of which the lipid A constituent elicits a strong host immune response through the Toll-like receptor 4 complex, and acts as a component of the permeability barrier to prevent uptake of bactericidal compounds. Lipid A species comprise the bulk of the oute...

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

authors： Dovala D,Rath CM,Hu Q,Sawyer WS,Shia S,Elling RA,Knapp MS,Metzger LE 4th

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of leukotriene A4 (LTA4) synthase in crude human leukocyte homogenates was found to have a similar requirement for Ca2+ and ATP as had been noted previously for 5-lipoxygenase activity. Purification of the 5-lipoxygenase using ammonium sulfate fractionation, AcA 44 gel-filtration chromatography, and HPLC ...

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

authors： Rouzer CA,Matsumoto T,Samuelsson B

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine the quantum confinement in the photoemission ionization energy in air and optical band gap of carbon nanoparticles (CNPs). Premixed, stretched-stabilized ethylene flames are used to generate the CNPs reproducibly over the range of 4-23 nm in volume median diameter. The results reveal that flame-formed CNPs ...

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

authors： Liu C,Singh AV,Saggese C,Tang Q,Chen D,Wan K,Vinciguerra M,Commodo M,De Falco G,Minutolo P,D'Anna A,Wang H

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Human languages show a remarkable degree of variation in the area they cover. However, the factors governing the distribution of human cultural groups such as languages are not well understood. While previous studies have examined the role of a number of environmental variables the importance of cultural factors has n...

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

authors： Currie TE,Mace R

更新日期：2009-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:With the collapse of fisheries in many parts of the world causing widespread economic harm, attention is focused on a possible cause and remedy of fishery collapse. Economic theory for managing a renewable resource, such as a fishery, leads to an ecologically unstable equilibrium as difficult to maintain as balancing ...

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

authors： Roughgarden J,Smith F

更新日期：1996-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:All but two genes involved in the ergosterol biosynthetic pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae have been cloned, and their corresponding mutants have been described. The remaining genes encode the C-3 sterol dehydrogenase (C-4 decarboxylase) and the 3-keto sterol reductase and in concert with the C-4 sterol methyloxida...

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

authors： Gachotte D,Barbuch R,Gaylor J,Nickel E,Bard M

更新日期：1998-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:When two phases of water are at equilibrium, the ratio of hydrogen isotopes in each is slightly altered because of their different phase affinities. This isotopic fractionation process can be utilized to analyze water's movement in the world's climate. Here we show that equilibrium fractionation ratios, an entirely qu...

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

authors： Markland TE,Berne BJ

更新日期：2012-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Unconventional myosin 15 is a molecular motor expressed in inner ear hair cells that transports protein cargos within developing mechanosensory stereocilia. Mutations of myosin 15 cause profound hearing loss in humans and mice; however, the properties of this motor and its regulation within the stereocilia organelle a...

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

authors： Bird JE,Takagi Y,Billington N,Strub MP,Sellers JR,Friedman TB

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical diversity has generally exceeded temperate diversity in the present and at points in the past, but whether measured differences have remained relatively constant through time has been unknown. Here we examine tropical vs. temperate diversities from the Neogene to Recent using the within-habitat diversity meas...

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

authors： Buzas MA,Collins LS,Culver SJ

更新日期：2002-06-11 00:00:00