Auxin transport inhibitors impair vesicle motility and actin cytoskeleton dynamics in diverse eukaryotes.

abstract：:Cultured fibroblast cells derived from a skin biopsy sample taken from normal human adult were exposed to a potent carcinogen, 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide. Alterations of cell growth pattern such as higher density and piling up of cells were noticed in some fractions of cultures that were successively subcultured after n...

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

authors： Kakunaga T

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent demonstration of K+ channel dysfunction in fibroblasts from Alzheimer disease (AD) patients and past observations of Ca(2+)-mediated K+ channel modulation during memory storage suggested that AD, which is characterized by memory loss and other cognitive deficits, might also involve dysfunction of intracellu...

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

authors： Ito E,Oka K,Etcheberrigaray R,Nelson TJ,McPhie DL,Tofel-Grehl B,Gibson GE,Alkon DL

更新日期：1994-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin (IL)-2 is a type I four-alpha-helical bundle cytokine that plays vital roles in antigen-mediated proliferation of peripheral blood T cells and also is critical for activation-induced cell death. We now demonstrate that IL-2 potently decreases expression of IL-7 receptor alpha chain (IL-7Ralpha) mRNA and pr...

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

authors： Xue HH,Kovanen PE,Pise-Masison CA,Berg M,Radovich MF,Brady JN,Leonard WJ

更新日期：2002-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an FK506 affinity column to identify mammalian immunosuppressant-binding proteins, we identified an immunophilin with an apparent M(r) approximately 55,000, which we have named FKBP52. We used chemically determined peptide sequence and a computerized algorithm to search GenPept, the translated GenBank data base,...

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

authors： Peattie DA,Harding MW,Fleming MA,DeCenzo MT,Lippke JA,Livingston DJ,Benasutti M

更新日期：1992-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a high-efficiency nucleic acid delivery system that uses receptor-mediated endocytosis to carry DNA macromolecules into cells. We accomplished this by conjugating the iron-transport protein transferrin to polycations that bind nucleic acids. Human transferrin, as well as the chicken homologue conalbu...

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

authors： Wagner E,Zenke M,Cotten M,Beug H,Birnstiel ML

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

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：:Fibrocytes are collagen-type-I-producing cells that arise at low frequency from hematopoietic cells. We have analyzed in mice which leukocyte subsets are required for generation of fibrocytes and show that murine fibrocytes develop from the subpopulation of CD11b(+) CD115(+) Gr1(+) monocytes under the control of CD4(+...

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

authors： Niedermeier M,Reich B,Rodriguez Gomez M,Denzel A,Schmidbauer K,Göbel N,Talke Y,Schweda F,Mack M

更新日期：2009-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the packing efficiency at the protein-water interface by calculating the volumes of atoms on the protein surface and nearby water molecules in 22 crystal structures. We find that an atom on the protein surface occupies, on average, a volume approximately 7% larger than an atom of equivalent chemical...

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

authors： Gerstein M,Chothia C

更新日期：1996-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The exocytosis of AMPA receptors is a key step in long-term potentiation (LTP), yet the timing and location of exocytosis and the signaling pathways involved in exocytosis during synaptic plasticity are not fully understood. Here we combine two-photon uncaging with two-photon imaging of a fluorescent label of surface ...

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

authors： Patterson MA,Szatmari EM,Yasuda R

更新日期：2010-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell type in Saccharomyces yeasts is regulated by two transposable blocks of DNA, the a and alpha cassettes. There are three loci where either cassette can exist. At the HML and HMR loci the cassettes are not expressed. The cassette at the MAT locus is expressed and controls the cell type. Changes of cell type involve...

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

authors： Strathern JN,Spatola E,McGill C,Hicks JB

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prions are mammalian proteins (PrPs) with a unique pathogenic property: a nonendogenous isoform PrP(Sc) can catalyze conversion of the endogenous PrP(C) isoform into additional PrP(Sc). In this work, we demonstrate that PrP(C) helix 1 has certain properties (hydrophilicity, charge distribution) that make it unique amo...

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

authors： Morrissey MP,Shakhnovich EI

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Many distributed collective decision-making processes must balance diverse individual preferences with a desire for collective unity. We report here on an extensive session of behavioral experiments on biased voting in networks of individuals. In each of 81 experiments, 36 human subjects arranged in a virtual network ...

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

authors： Kearns M,Judd S,Tan J,Wortman J

更新日期：2009-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Archaea of the phylum Thaumarchaeota are among the most abundant prokaryotes on Earth and are widely distributed in marine, terrestrial, and geothermal environments. All studied Thaumarchaeota couple the oxidation of ammonia at extremely low concentrations with carbon fixation. As the predominant nitrifiers in the oce...

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

authors： Könneke M,Schubert DM,Brown PC,Hügler M,Standfest S,Schwander T,Schada von Borzyskowski L,Erb TJ,Stahl DA,Berg IA

更新日期：2014-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccine efficacy is determined largely by cellular and humoral immunity as well as long-lasting immunological memory. IL-2 and IL-15 were evaluated in vaccinia vectors expressing HIV gp160 for the establishment of an effective vaccine strategy. Both IL-2 and IL-15 in the vaccinia vector induced strong and long-lasting...

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

authors： Oh S,Berzofsky JA,Burke DS,Waldmann TA,Perera LP

更新日期：2003-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms of estrogen-induced tumorigenesis in the target organ are not well understood. It has been suggested that oxidative stress resulting from metabolic activation of carcinogenic estrogens plays a critical role in estrogen-induced carcinogenesis. We tested this hypothesis by using an estrogen-induced hamster re...

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

authors： Bhat HK,Calaf G,Hei TK,Loya T,Vadgama JV

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary--i.e., nonsyndromal-postlingual deafness is inherited as an autosomal dominant phenotype in a large kindred in Costa Rica. Genetically susceptible individuals begin to lose hearing at low frequencies at about age 10 years, after language and speaking are learned. Deafness inevitably progresses by age 30 years ...

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

authors： Leon PE,Raventos H,Lynch E,Morrow J,King MC

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttranslational modifications (PTMs) of α-synuclein (α-syn), e.g., phosphorylation, play an important role in modulating α-syn pathology in Parkinson's disease (PD) and α-synucleinopathies. Accumulation of phosphorylated α-syn fibrils in Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites is the histological hallmark of these diseases. H...

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

authors： Zhao K,Lim YJ,Liu Z,Long H,Sun Y,Hu JJ,Zhao C,Tao Y,Zhang X,Li D,Li YM,Liu C

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic cell hybrids have been prepared at high frequency between the rat muscle cell line L6 and human fetal muscle cells. The hybrid cells express several human gene products including an antigen, 12E7, controlled by the human X chromosome, Thy-1, and several human isoenzymes. In addition, one clone (37-11) expresse...

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

authors： Quinn CA,Goodfellow PN,Povey S,Walsh FS

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertically transmitted symbionts that protect their hosts against parasites and pathogens are well known from insects, yet the underlying mechanisms of symbiont-mediated defense are largely unclear. A striking example of an ecologically important defensive symbiosis involves the woodland fly Drosophila neotestacea, wh...

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

authors： Hamilton PT,Peng F,Boulanger MJ,Perlman SJ

更新日期：2016-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by a progressive dysfunction of central neurons. Recent experimental evidence indicates that in the cortex, in addition to the silencing of a fraction of neurons, other neurons are hyperactive in amyloid-β (Aβ) plaque-enriched regions. However, it has remained unknown what com...

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

authors： Busche MA,Chen X,Henning HA,Reichwald J,Staufenbiel M,Sakmann B,Konnerth A

更新日期：2012-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Lithium is the most commonly used drug for the treatment of manic depressive illness. The precise mechanisms underlying its clinical efficacy remain unknown. We found that long-term exposure to lithium chloride dramatically protects cultured rat cerebellar, cerebral cortical, and hippocampal neurons against glutamate-...

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

authors： Nonaka S,Hough CJ,Chuang DM

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:High-affinity nuclear binding sites for 17 beta-estradiol (17 beta E2) were recently found in bone cells; however, the mechanism by which estrogen exerts its effect on bone in vivo is still unknown. To study if estrogen acts on bone directly, we used an experimental model in which test substances are infused locally i...

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

authors： Takano-Yamamoto T,Rodan GA

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper is an essential micronutrient that plays a central role for a broad range of biological processes. Although there is compelling evidence that the intracellular milieu does not contain any free copper ions, the rapid kinetics of copper uptake and release suggests the presence of a labile intracellular copper poo...

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

authors： Yang L,McRae R,Henary MM,Patel R,Lai B,Vogt S,Fahrni CJ

更新日期：2005-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:8-Oxoguanine (8OG) is efficiently bypassed by RNA polymerases in vitro and in bacterial cells in vivo, leading to mutant transcripts by directing incorporation of an incorrect nucleotide during transcription. Such transcriptional mutagenesis (TM) may produce a pool of mutant proteins. In contrast, transcription-couple...

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

authors： Saxowsky TT,Meadows KL,Klungland A,Doetsch PW

更新日期：2008-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:If X(1), X(2),... are independent random variables with zero expectation and finite variances, the cumulative sums S(n) are, on the average, of the order of magnitude S(n), where S(n) (2) = E(S(n) (2)). The occasional maxima of the ratios S(n)/S(n) are surprisingly large and the problem is to estimate the extent of th...

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

authors： Feller W

更新日期：1969-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin-binding protein C (MyBP-C) is an accessory protein of striated muscle thick filaments and a modulator of cardiac muscle contraction. Defects in the cardiac isoform, cMyBP-C, cause heart disease. cMyBP-C includes 11 Ig- and fibronectin-like domains and a cMyBP-C-specific motif. In vitro studies show that in addi...

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

authors： Mun JY,Previs MJ,Yu HY,Gulick J,Tobacman LS,Beck Previs S,Robbins J,Warshaw DM,Craig R

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The principal axes of inertia are eigenvectors that can be calculated for any rigid body. We report studies of the position of the principal axes in crystallographically solved protein molecules. We find with high frequency that at least one principal axis penetrates the surface of the respective protein in a region u...

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

authors： Foote J,Raman A

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1) has been implicated in Parkinson's disease (PD) and is present in neurofibrillary tangles or Lewy bodies. However, the molecular basis for UCH-L1s involvement in proteinacious fibril formation is still elusive, especially in regard to the pathogenicity of the I93M muta...

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

authors： Koharudin LM,Liu H,Di Maio R,Kodali RB,Graham SH,Gronenborn AM

更新日期：2010-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cointegrate DNA molecules containing two copies of a transposable element appear to be intermediates in the transposition process. These structures are resolved by site-specific recombination to yield the normal end products of transposition. The transposable element gamma delta (Tn1000) synthesizes a product intercha...

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

authors： Kitts P,Symington L,Burke M,Reed R,Sherratt D

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant genetic engineering led to the production of plant-derived mAb (mAbP), which provides a safe and economically feasible alternative to the current methods of antibody production in animal systems. In this study, the heavy and light chains of human anti-rabies mAb were expressed and assembled in planta under the c...

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

authors： Ko K,Tekoah Y,Rudd PM,Harvey DJ,Dwek RA,Spitsin S,Hanlon CA,Rupprecht C,Dietzschold B,Golovkin M,Koprowski H

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00