Mg2+ mediates interaction between the voltage sensor and cytosolic domain to activate BK channels.

abstract：:Within the mammalian testis, specialized tight junctions between somatic Sertoli cells create basal and apical polarity within the cells, restrict movement of molecules between cells, and separate the seminiferous epithelium into basal and adluminal compartments. These tight junctions form the basis of the blood-testi...

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

authors： Meng J,Holdcraft RW,Shima JE,Griswold MD,Braun RE

更新日期：2005-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants have intercellular channels, plasmodesmata (PD), that span the cell wall to enable cell-to-cell transport of micro- and macromolecules. We identified an Arabidopsis thaliana embryo lethal mutant increased size exclusion limit 1 (ise1) that results in increased PD-mediated transport of fluorescent tracers. The i...

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

authors： Stonebloom S,Burch-Smith T,Kim I,Meinke D,Mindrinos M,Zambryski P

更新日期：2009-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphism may play an important role in speciation because new species could originate from the distinctive morphs observed in polymorphic populations. However, much remains to be understood about the process by which morphs found new species. To detail the steps of this mode of speciation, we studied the geographi...

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

authors： Corl A,Davis AR,Kuchta SR,Sinervo B

更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus groups A and B cause serious infections, including early onset sepsis and meningitis in newborns. Rib domain-containing surface proteins are found associated with invasive strains and elicit protective immunity in animal models. Yet, despite their apparent importance in infection, the structure of the Ri...

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

authors： Whelan F,Lafita A,Griffiths SC,Cooper REM,Whittingham JL,Turkenburg JP,Manfield IW,St John AN,Paci E,Bateman A,Potts JR

更新日期：2019-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of misfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) triggers the unfolded protein response (UPR), an intracellular signaling pathway that adjusts the protein folding capacity of the ER according to need. If homeostasis in the ER protein folding environment cannot be reestablished, cells commit to apop...

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

authors： Li H,Korennykh AV,Behrman SL,Walter P

更新日期：2010-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Livers of a natural population of winter flounder from a contaminated site in Boston Harbor were examined for the presence of oncogenes by transfection of DNA into NIH 3T3 mouse fibroblasts. Tissues analyzed contained histopathologic lesions including abnormal vacuolation, biliary proliferation, and, in many cases, he...

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

authors： McMahon G,Huber LJ,Moore MJ,Stegeman JJ,Wogan GN

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strong, short-ranged positional correlations involving counterions can induce a net attractive force between negatively charged strands of DNA and lead to the formation of ion pairs in dilute ionic solutions. However, the long range of the Coulomb interactions impedes the development of a simple local picture. We addr...

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

authors： Chen YG,Weeks JD

更新日期：2006-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In isogamous species of Chlamydomonas, such as Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Chlamydomonas eugametos, the sexual process involves the use of flagella agglutinins by which the gametes of compatible strains adhere through chance encounter and ultimately pair and fuse to form zygotes. In a newly described heterogamous sp...

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

authors： Starr RC,Marner FJ,Jaenicke L

更新日期：1995-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:After prolonged visual adaptation of Drosophila, dramatic long-term changes of in vitro phosphorylation of a 50-kDa brain protein that is identical to the Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (EC 2.7.1.37) can be measured in isolated heads. By selective receptor cell desensitization in blue light, subcellular dist...

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

authors： Willmund R,Mitschulat H,Schneider K

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleus accumbens is a brain region in which limbic and motor inputs converge. How these information modalities shape accumbens output is not clearly understood. Here, we report that synaptic inputs from the prefrontal cortex and limbic structures interact differently depending on their timing. Coincident inputs m...

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

authors： Goto Y,O'Donnell P

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estradiol-17beta administration to young (10- to 12-week-old) rabbits to produce the "estrogen-dominated" uterus increased the uterine contractile response to both oxytocin and methacholine in vitro. In "progesterone-dominated" uteri, obtained from rabbits that received progesterone for 4 days after estrogen pretreatm...

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

authors： Nissenson R,Fluoret G,Hechter O

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelinated fibers can be demonstrated in thin unstained brain sections of freshly killed uninjected animals. With this method myelinated fibers stand out as clearly as in stained Weigert sections from formalin-fixed brains. Unstained unfixed sections can be viewed under ordinary light within minutes after death of the...

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

authors： Richter CP,Warner CL

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have earlier proposed a molecular mechanism for the translocation of hydrophilic proteins across membranes that accounts for the experimental facts and meets the restrictions that we stipulate for such a mechanism. In particular, the restrictions are that translocation occurs by successive segments of the polypepti...

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

authors： Singer SJ,Maher PA,Yaffe MP

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-target residence time (t = 1/k(off), where k(off) is the dissociation rate constant) has become an important index in discovering better- or best-in-class drugs. However, little effort has been dedicated to developing computational methods that can accurately predict this kinetic parameter or related parameters, ...

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

authors： Bai F,Xu Y,Chen J,Liu Q,Gu J,Wang X,Ma J,Li H,Onuchic JN,Jiang H

更新日期：2013-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular growth and differentiation factors induce changes in gene expression in the nucleus by initiating a series of protein associations that alter the subcellular localization of intracellular signaling proteins. Initial events involve receptor homo- or heterodimerization and subsequent recruitment of cytosol...

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

authors： Belshaw PJ,Ho SN,Crabtree GR,Schreiber SL

更新日期：1996-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Pith parenchyma cells store water in various plant organs. These cells are especially important for producing sugar and ethanol from the sugar juice of grass stems. In many plants, the death of pith parenchyma cells reduces their stem water content. Previous studies proposed that a hypothetical D gene might be respons...

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

authors： Fujimoto M,Sazuka T,Oda Y,Kawahigashi H,Wu J,Takanashi H,Ohnishi T,Yoneda JI,Ishimori M,Kajiya-Kanegae H,Hibara KI,Ishizuna F,Ebine K,Ueda T,Tokunaga T,Iwata H,Matsumoto T,Kasuga S,Yonemaru JI,Tsutsumi N

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the chemical relationships between rat liver lysosomal and microsomal beta-D-glucuronidases (EC 3.2.1.31), which are essentially identical catalytically and in reactivity with antibody and similar in molecular weight, the two enzymes were isolated by procedures in which modifications of the proteins wer...

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

authors： Tulsiani DR,Six H,Touster O

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing human and ecological costs due to increasing wildfire are an urgent concern in policy and management, particularly given projections of worsening fire conditions under climate change. Thus, understanding the relationship between climatic variation and fire activity is a critically important scientific question...

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

authors： Syphard AD,Keeley JE,Pfaff AH,Ferschweiler K

更新日期：2017-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor, a subtype of excitatory amino acid receptor, mediates synaptic responses in many regions of the central nervous system. This receptor plays a critical role in the mechanisms of both synaptic plasticity and excitotoxicity. Although these receptors were generally thought to be a...

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

authors： Monaghan DT,Olverman HJ,Nguyen L,Watkins JC,Cotman CW

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid beta (Aβ) is a major pathological marker in Alzheimer's disease (AD), which is principally regulated by the rate-limiting β-secretase (i.e., BACE1) cleavage of amyloid precursor protein (APP). However, how BACE1 activity is posttranslationally regulated remains incompletely understood. Here, we show that BACE1...

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

authors： Bao J,Qin M,Mahaman YAR,Zhang B,Huang F,Zeng K,Xia Y,Ke D,Wang Q,Liu R,Wang JZ,Ye K,Wang X

更新日期：2018-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-specific molecules are needed across diverse areas of oncology for use in early detection, diagnosis, prognosis and therapy. Large and growing public databases of transcriptome sequencing data (RNA-seq) derived from tumors and normal tissues hold the potential of yielding tumor-specific molecules, but because th...

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

authors： Barrett CL,DeBoever C,Jepsen K,Saenz CC,Carson DA,Frazer KA

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We have devised a simple and efficient cDNA cloning strategy that overcomes many of the difficulties encountered in obtaining full-length cDNA clones of low-abundance mRNAs. In essence, cDNAs are generated by using the DNA polymerase chain reaction technique to amplify copies of the region between a single point in th...

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

authors： Frohman MA,Dush MK,Martin GR

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantum computer (QC) can operate in parallel on all its possible inputs at once, but the amount of information that can be extracted from the result is limited by the phenomenon of wave function collapse. We present a new computational model, which differs from a QC only in that the result of a measurement is the e...

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

authors： Cory DG,Fahmy AF,Havel TF

更新日期：1997-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a form of amnesia, which we have called visual memory-deficit amnesia, that is caused by damage to areas of the visual system that store visual information. Because it is caused by a deficit in access to stored visual material and not by an impaired ability to encode or retrieve new material, it has the ot...

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

authors： Rubin DC,Greenberg DL

更新日期：1998-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that surfactant protein A (SP-A) mediates in vitro killing of mycoplasmas by alveolar macrophages (AMs) from resistant C57BL/6 mice through a nitric oxide (.NO)-dependent mechanism. Herein, SP-A-deficient [SP-A(-/-)] and inducible.NO synthase-deficient [iNOS(-/-)] mice were infected intranasal...

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

authors： Hickman-Davis J,Gibbs-Erwin J,Lindsey JR,Matalon S

更新日期：1999-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultural processes occur in a wide variety of animal taxa, from insects to cetaceans. The songs of humpback whales are one of the most striking examples of the transmission of a cultural trait and social learning in any nonhuman animal. To understand how songs are learned, we investigate rare cases of song hybridizati...

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

authors： Garland EC,Rendell L,Lamoni L,Poole MM,Noad MJ

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channel Kv1.5 mediates the I(Kur) repolarizing current in human atrial myocytes and regulates vascular tone in multiple peripheral vascular beds. Understanding the complex regulation of Kv1.5 function is of substantial interest because it represents a promising pharmacological target f...

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

authors： Benson MD,Li QJ,Kieckhafer K,Dudek D,Whorton MR,Sunahara RK,Iñiguez-Lluhí JA,Martens JR

更新日期：2007-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Excited electronic states created by UV excitation of the diribonucleoside monophosphates ApA, ApG, ApC, ApU, and CpG were studied by the femtosecond transient-absorption technique. Bleach recovery signals recorded at 252 nm show that long-lived excited states are formed in all five dinucleosides. The lifetimes of the...

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

authors： Takaya T,Su C,de La Harpe K,Crespo-Hernández CE,Kohler B

更新日期：2008-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:How do firing patterns in a cortical circuit change when inhibitory neurons are excited? We virally expressed an excitatory designer receptor exclusively activated by a designer drug (Gq-DREADD) in all inhibitory interneuron types of the CA1 region of the hippocampus in the rat. While clozapine N-oxide (CNO) activatio...

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

authors： Rogers S,Rozman PA,Valero M,Doyle WK,Buzsáki G

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV type 1 (HIV-1) specifically uses host cell tRNALys-3 as a primer for reverse transcription. The 3' 18 nucleotides of this tRNA are complementary to a region on the HIV RNA genome known as the primer binding site (PBS). HIV-1 has a strong preference for maintaining a lysine-specific PBS in vivo, and viral genomes w...

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

authors： Chan B,Musier-Forsyth K

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00