Both ovarian hormones estrogen and progesterone are necessary for hormonal mammary carcinogenesis in ovariectomized ACI rats.

abstract：:Ion channels in excitable cells function in macromolecular complexes in which auxiliary proteins modulate the biophysical properties of the pore-forming subunits. Hyperpolarization-activated, cyclic nucleotide-sensitive HCN4 channels are critical determinants of membrane excitability in cells throughout the body, incl...

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

authors： Peters CH,Myers ME,Juchno J,Haimbaugh C,Bichraoui H,Du Y,Bankston JR,Walker LA,Proenza C

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA in chromatin of isolated thymus nuclei, and in two different preparations of deoxyribonucleoprotein extracted from chromatin, has been digested with DNase. By variation of the time of reaction and the concentration of enzyme, and by comparison of the action of the enzyme on (protein-free) DNA with its action o...

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

authors： Mirsky AE

更新日期：1971-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We construct a class of global exact solutions of the Einstein equations that extend the Oppeheimer-Snyder model to the case of nonzero pressure, inside the black hole, by incorporating a shock wave at the leading edge of the expansion of the galaxies, arbitrarily far beyond the Hubble length in the Friedmann-Robertso...

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

authors： Smoller J,Temple B

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The murine mast cell line PB-3c is dependent on interleukin 3 (IL-3) with respect to survival and proliferation. These cells also require IL-3 to display antigen-mediated serotonin release, which is coupled to a transient increase of cytosolic free calcium ([Ca2+]i). The antigen-mediated exocytosis is inhibited by pho...

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

authors： Mazurek N,Regazzi R,Borner C,Wyss R,Conscience JF,Erne P,Eppenberger U,Fabbro D

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypothesis that the nonrandom organization of the contents of interphase nuclei represents a compartmentalization of function, we examined the relative, spatial relationship of small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) and of DNase I hypersensitive chromatin (DHC) in rat pheochromocytoma cells. In controls...

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

authors： Park PC,De Boni U

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Astronomers and physicists noticed centuries ago that visual spatial resolution is higher for dark than light stimuli, but the neuronal mechanisms for this perceptual asymmetry remain unknown. Here we demonstrate that the asymmetry is caused by a neuronal nonlinearity in the early visual pathway. We show that neurons ...

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

authors： Kremkow J,Jin J,Komban SJ,Wang Y,Lashgari R,Li X,Jansen M,Zaidi Q,Alonso JM

更新日期：2014-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The tissue-specific pattern of mRNA expression can indicate important clues about gene function. High-density oligonucleotide arrays offer the opportunity to examine patterns of gene expression on a genome scale. Toward this end, we have designed custom arrays that interrogate the expression of the vast majority of pr...

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

authors： Su AI,Wiltshire T,Batalov S,Lapp H,Ching KA,Block D,Zhang J,Soden R,Hayakawa M,Kreiman G,Cooke MP,Walker JR,Hogenesch JB

更新日期：2004-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Injection of rat kidney cortex mRNA into Xenopus laevis oocytes leads to a stimulation of Na(+)-dependent SO4(2-) uptake. Based on this information, we have isolated from a corresponding library a cDNA (NaSi-1) that is most likely related to a Na+/SO4(2-) cotransport system. NaSi-1 cRNA leads in a time- and dose-depen...

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

authors： Markovich D,Forgo J,Stange G,Biber J,Murer H

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe burn trauma is generally followed by a catabolic response that leads to muscle wasting and weakness affecting skeletal musculature. Here, we perform whole-genome expression and in vivo NMR spectroscopy studies to define respectively the full set of burn-induced changes in skeletal muscle gene expression and the...

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

authors： Padfield KE,Astrakas LG,Zhang Q,Gopalan S,Dai G,Mindrinos MN,Tompkins RG,Rahme LG,Tzika AA

更新日期：2005-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that genes involved in oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) exhibit reduced expression in skeletal muscle of diabetic and prediabetic humans. Moreover, these changes may be mediated by the transcriptional coactivator peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator-1alpha (PGC-1alph...

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

authors： Mootha VK,Handschin C,Arlow D,Xie X,St Pierre J,Sihag S,Yang W,Altshuler D,Puigserver P,Patterson N,Willy PJ,Schulman IG,Heyman RA,Lander ES,Spiegelman BM

更新日期：2004-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian rhythms modulate many aspects of physiology. Knowledge of the molecular basis of these rhythms has exploded in the last 20 years. However, most of these data are from model organisms, and translation to clinical practice has been limited. Here, we present an approach to identify molecular rhythms in humans f...

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

authors： Anafi RC,Francey LJ,Hogenesch JB,Kim J

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that the nonlinear mechanical response of networks formed from un-cross-linked fibrin or collagen type I continually changes in response to repeated large-strain loading. We demonstrate that this dynamic evolution of the mechanical response arises from a shift of a characteristic nonlinear stress-strain relati...

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

authors： Münster S,Jawerth LM,Leslie BA,Weitz JI,Fabry B,Weitz DA

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Early acquisition of mate preferences or mate-preference learning is associated with signal diversity and speciation in a wide variety of animal species. However, the diversity of mechanisms of mate-preference learning across taxa remains poorly understood. Using the butterfly Bicyclus anynana we uncover a mechanism t...

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

authors： Westerman EL,Hodgins-Davis A,Dinwiddie A,Monteiro A

更新日期：2012-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Reversible biological electron transfer usually occurs between redox couples at standard redox potentials ranging from +0.8 to -0.5 V. Dearomatizing benzoyl-CoA reductases (BCRs), key enzymes of the globally relevant microbial degradation of aromatic compounds at anoxic sites, catalyze a biological Birch reduction bey...

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

authors： Huwiler SG,Löffler C,Anselmann SEL,Stärk HJ,von Bergen M,Flechsler J,Rachel R,Boll M

更新日期：2019-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The degradation of the plant cell wall by glycoside hydrolases is central to environmentally sustainable industries. The major polysaccharides of the plant cell wall are cellulose and xylan, a highly decorated β-1,4-xylopyranose polymer. Glycoside hydrolases displaying multiple catalytic functions may simplify the enz...

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

authors： McKee LS,Peña MJ,Rogowski A,Jackson A,Lewis RJ,York WS,Krogh KB,Viksø-Nielsen A,Skjøt M,Gilbert HJ,Marles-Wright J

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:"Evolution behaves like a tinkerer" (François Jacob, Science, 1977). Software systems provide a singular opportunity to understand biological processes using concepts from network theory. The Debian GNU/Linux operating system allows us to explore the evolution of a complex network in a unique way. The modular design d...

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

authors： Fortuna MA,Bonachela JA,Levin SA

更新日期：2011-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Human liver alkaline phosphatase [ortho-phosphoric monoester phosphohydrolase (alkaline optimum), EC 3.1.3.1] was purified, and some of its physical and chemical properties were examined and compared to those of human placental alkaline phosphatase. The results indicated a different peptide structure for each, based u...

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

authors： Badger KS,Sussman HH

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic loss is the cardinal feature linking neuropathology to cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, the mechanism of synaptic damage remains incompletely understood. Here, using FRET-based glutamate sensor imaging, we show that amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) engages α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors to ...

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

authors： Talantova M,Sanz-Blasco S,Zhang X,Xia P,Akhtar MW,Okamoto S,Dziewczapolski G,Nakamura T,Cao G,Pratt AE,Kang YJ,Tu S,Molokanova E,McKercher SR,Hires SA,Sason H,Stouffer DG,Buczynski MW,Solomon JP,Michael S,Powers E

更新日期：2013-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinach chloroplasts were found to contain three forms of cytochrome b(559) that have the same alpha-peak at 559 nm, but are distinguished from one another by their oxidation-reduction potentials. The high-potential (H) form (E(m) about 330-350 mV) is reducible by hydroquinone, the middle-potential (M) form (E(m) abou...

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

authors： Wada K,Arnon DI

更新日期：1971-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid-mediated signaling events regulate many cellular processes. Investigations of the complex underlying mechanisms are difficult because several different methods need to be used under varying conditions. Here we introduce multifunctional lipid derivatives to study lipid metabolism, lipid-protein interactions, and ...

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

authors： Höglinger D,Nadler A,Haberkant P,Kirkpatrick J,Schifferer M,Stein F,Hauke S,Porter FD,Schultz C

更新日期：2017-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent excavations at Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) WF16 in southern Jordan have revealed remarkable evidence of architectural developments in the early Neolithic. This sheds light on both special purpose structures and "domestic" settlement, allowing fresh insights into the development of increasingly sedentary comm...

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

authors： Finlayson B,Mithen SJ,Najjar M,Smith S,Maričević D,Pankhurst N,Yeomans L

更新日期：2011-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of initiation of DNA replication is crucial to ensure that the genome is replicated only once per cell cycle. In the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis, the function of the YabA protein in initiation control was assigned based on its interaction with the DnaA initiator and the DnaN sliding clamp ...

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

authors： Noirot-Gros MF,Velten M,Yoshimura M,McGovern S,Morimoto T,Ehrlich SD,Ogasawara N,Polard P,Noirot P

更新日期：2006-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose that retroviruses exploit a cell-encoded pathway of intercellular vesicle traffic, exosome exchange, for both the biogenesis of retroviral particles and a low-efficiency but mechanistically important mode of infection. This Trojan exosome hypothesis reconciles current paradigms of retrovirus-directed transm...

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

authors： Gould SJ,Booth AM,Hildreth JE

更新日期：2003-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent analysis of complete eukaryotic genome sequences has revealed that gene duplication has been rampant. Moreover, next to a continuous mode of gene duplication, in many eukaryotic organisms the complete genome has been duplicated in their evolutionary past. Such large-scale gene duplication events have been assoc...

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

authors： Maere S,De Bodt S,Raes J,Casneuf T,Van Montagu M,Kuiper M,Van de Peer Y

更新日期：2005-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Atomic level characterization of proteins and other macromolecules in the living cell is challenging. Recent advances in NMR instrumentation and methods, however, have enabled in-cell studies with prospects for multidimensional spectral characterization of individual macromolecular components. We present NMR data on t...

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

authors： Augustus AM,Reardon PN,Spicer LD

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We study a simple antiplane fault of finite length embedded in a homogeneous isotropic elastic solid to understand the origin of seismic source heterogeneity in the presence of nonlinear rate- and state-dependent friction. All the mechanical properties of the medium and friction are assumed homogeneous. Friction inclu...

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

authors： Madariaga R,Cochard A

更新日期：1996-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A comprehensive nonredundant database of 475 cocrystallized protein-protein complexes was used to study low-resolution recognition, which was reported in earlier docking experiments with a small number of proteins. The docking program GRAMM was used to delete the atom-size structural details and systematically dock th...

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

authors： Vakser IA,Matar OG,Lam CF

更新日期：1999-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle plasminogen activators (PAs), such as urokinase-like PA and, to a lesser extent, tissue PA, increase dramatically after denervation induced by axotomy. The PA/plasmin system has also been implicated in degradation of specific components of the muscle fiber basement membrane after local activation of plasminogen...

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

authors： Hantaï D,Rao JS,Festoff BW

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the earliest and most important stages during tumorigenesis is the activation of the angiogenic process, an event that is termed the "switch to the angiogenic phenotype." We have developed an in vivo system that can reliably recapitulate the stages in tumor development that represent this transition. Using this ...

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

authors： Fang J,Shing Y,Wiederschain D,Yan L,Butterfield C,Jackson G,Harper J,Tamvakopoulos G,Moses MA

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuronal nucleus plays a vital role in information processing, but whether it supports computational functions such as paired-pulse facilitation, comparable to synapses, is unclear. Ca(2+)-dependent movement of calmodulin (CaM) to the nucleus is highly responsive to Ca(2+) entry through L-type channels and promote...

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

authors： Mermelstein PG,Deisseroth K,Dasgupta N,Isaksen AL,Tsien RW

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00