Vesicle association and exocytosis at ribbon and extraribbon sites in retinal bipolar cell presynaptic terminals.

abstract：:Cleavage of the group-specific antigen (Gag) polyprotein by HIV-1 protease represents the critical first step in the conversion of immature noninfectious viral particles to mature infectious virions. Selective pressure exerted by HIV-1 protease inhibitors, a mainstay of current anti-HIV-1 therapies, results in the acc...

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

authors： Deshmukh L,Louis JM,Ghirlando R,Clore GM

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferroelectricity and antiferroelectricity are widely seen in various types of condensed matter and are of technological significance not only due to their electrical switchability but also due to intriguing cross-coupling effects such as electro-mechanical and electro-caloric effects. The control of the two types of d...

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

authors： Takae K,Tanaka H

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Guamanian amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS-G) and parkinsonism dementia (PD-G) have been epidemiologically linked to an environment severely deficient in calcium (Ca2+) and magnesium (Mg2+). Transient receptor potential melastatin 7 (TRPM7) is a bifunctional protein containing both channel and kinase domains that ha...

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

authors： Hermosura MC,Nayakanti H,Dorovkov MV,Calderon FR,Ryazanov AG,Haymer DS,Garruto RM

更新日期：2005-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured quantitatively the binding affinities of purified Cro repressor to the chemically synthesized wild-type and mutant OR1 operators, consisting of all three possible base-pair substitutions and of thymine to uracil substitutions at each base-pair position of the 17-base-pair operator sequence. The sequence-sp...

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

authors： Takeda Y,Sarai A,Rivera VM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[3H]Thymidine-labeled progeny DNA was isolated after infection of Escherichia coli with two different bacteriophage T4 mutants. These strands were isolated shortly after the initiation of DNA replication and hybridized to 15 different (EcoRI) T4 restriction fragments cloned in plasmid vectors. Uniformly labeled T4 [32...

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

authors： Halpern ME,Mattson T,Kozinski AW

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the minimum extent of DNA sequence required for the attachment site of bacteriophage lambda to function in integrative recombination. A DNA fragment carrying the phage attachment site (attP) of bacteriophage lambda was trimmed, recloned, and tested for recombination proficiency. In order to recomb...

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

authors： Mizuuchi M,Mizuuchi K

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass spectrometry (MS)-based quantitative interaction proteomics has successfully elucidated specific protein-protein, DNA-protein, and small molecule-protein interactions. Here, we developed a gel-free, sensitive, and scalable technology that addresses the important area of RNA-protein interactions. Using aptamer-tag...

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

authors： Butter F,Scheibe M,Mörl M,Mann M

更新日期：2009-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse granulocyte-macrophage progenitor cells were stimulated to divide by the granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF). The two daughter cells were separated; one daughter was transferred to medium containing a high concentration of GM-CSF, the other to medium containing a low concentration. Daughter...

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

authors： Metcalf D

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How did human cooperation evolve? Recent evidence shows that many people are willing to engage in altruistic punishment, voluntarily paying a cost to punish noncooperators. Although this behavior helps to explain how cooperation can persist, it creates an important puzzle. If altruistic punishment provides benefits to...

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

authors： Fowler JH

更新日期：2005-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The technique of self-sustained sequence replication allows isothermal amplification of DNA and RNA molecules in vitro. This method relies on the activities of a reverse transcriptase and a DNA-dependent RNA polymerase to amplify specific nucleic acid sequences. We have modified this protocol to allow selective amplif...

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

authors： Breaker RR,Joyce GF

更新日期：1994-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In translation, elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) molecules deliver aminoacyl-tRNAs to the mRNA-programmed ribosome. The GTPase activity of EF-Tu is triggered by ribosome-induced conformational changes of the factor that play a pivotal role in the selection of the cognate aminoacyl-tRNAs. We present a 6.7-A cryo-electron m...

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

authors： Villa E,Sengupta J,Trabuco LG,LeBarron J,Baxter WT,Shaikh TR,Grassucci RA,Nissen P,Ehrenberg M,Schulten K,Frank J

更新日期：2009-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron collisions with atoms, ions, molecules, and surfaces are critically important to the understanding and modeling of low-temperature plasmas (LTPs), and so in the development of technologies based on LTPs. Recent progress in obtaining experimental benchmark data and the development of highly sophisticated compu...

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

authors： Bartschat K,Kushner MJ

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Helping and sharing among humans is often motivated by empathy and accompanied by a sense of satisfaction. To determine whether similar self-rewarding mechanisms may underpin assistance among nonhuman primates, eight female brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) underwent testing in a simple choice paradigm. Paired wit...

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

authors： de Waal FB,Leimgruber K,Greenberg AR

更新日期：2008-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Construction of deletion derivative plasmids and cloning of restriction fragments from plasmids containing the Salmonella typhimurium origin of replication (ori) were used to locate the functional origin to within a DNA fragment of 296 base pairs between the genes uncB and asn. The nucleotide sequence of the S. typhim...

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

authors： Zyskind JW,Smith DW

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin is a pivotal regulator of energy and glucose homeostasis, and defects in leptin signaling result in obesity and diabetes. The ATP-sensitive potassium (K(ATP)) channels couple glucose metabolism to insulin secretion in pancreatic β-cells. In this study, we provide evidence that leptin modulates pancreatic β-cell...

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

authors： Park SH,Ryu SY,Yu WJ,Han YE,Ji YS,Oh K,Sohn JW,Lim A,Jeon JP,Lee H,Lee KH,Lee SH,Berggren PO,Jeon JH,Ho WK

更新日期：2013-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is presented for detection of lysosomal hydrolase activity in situ in colonies of Chinese hamster ovary cells. This method was used to screen for mutants deficient in lysosomal alpha-mannosidase. Mutagenized cells were replicated onto filter papers [Esko, J. D. & Raetz, C. R. H. (1978) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. ...

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

authors： Robbins AR

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psoralens linked to triplex-forming oligonucleotides (psoTFOs) have been used in conjunction with laser-induced two-photon excitation (TPE) to damage a specific DNA target sequence. To demonstrate that TPE can initiate photochemistry resulting in psoralen-DNA photoadducts, target DNA sequences were incubated with psoT...

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

authors： Oh DH,King BA,Boxer SG,Hanawalt PC

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) plays a critical role in the maintenance of the outer retina. RPE cell death or dysfunction drives the pathophysiology of many retinal diseases, but the physiological response of the retina to RPE cell loss is poorly understood, mainly because of the absence of suitable experimenta...

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

authors： Longbottom R,Fruttiger M,Douglas RH,Martinez-Barbera JP,Greenwood J,Moss SE

更新日期：2009-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferating 3T3 mouse fibroblasts contain higher levels of the lectin carbohydrate-binding protein 35 (CBP35) than do quiescent cultures of the same cells. An immunofluorescence study was carried out with a rabbit antiserum directed against CBP35 to map the cellular fluorescence distribution in a large population of...

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

authors： Moutsatsos IK,Wade M,Schindler M,Wang JL

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapamycin is an immunosuppressive immunophilin ligand reported as having neurotrophic activity. We show that modification of rapamycin at the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) binding region yields immunophilin ligands, WYE-592 and ILS-920, with potent neurotrophic activities in cortical neuronal cultures, efficacy...

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

authors： Ruan B,Pong K,Jow F,Bowlby M,Crozier RA,Liu D,Liang S,Chen Y,Mercado ML,Feng X,Bennett F,von Schack D,McDonald L,Zaleska MM,Wood A,Reinhart PH,Magolda RL,Skotnicki J,Pangalos MN,Koehn FE,Carter GT,Abou-Gharbia M

更新日期：2008-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein framework alterations in heritable Cu, Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD) mutants cause misassembly and aggregation in cells affected by the motor neuron disease ALS. However, the mechanistic relationship between superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) mutations and human disease is controversial, with many hypotheses postul...

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

authors： Pratt AJ,Shin DS,Merz GE,Rambo RP,Lancaster WA,Dyer KN,Borbat PP,Poole FL 2nd,Adams MW,Freed JH,Crane BR,Tainer JA,Getzoff ED

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A genetic analysis is necessary to gain a greater understanding of the complex developmental processes in mammals. Toward this end, an insertional transgenic mouse mutant has been isolated that results in abnormal germ-cell development. This recessive mutation manifests as infertility in both males and females and is ...

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

authors： Pellas TC,Ramachandran B,Duncan M,Pan SS,Marone M,Chada K

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have suggested that most papillomaviruses enter the host cell via clathrin-dependent receptor-mediated endocytosis but have not addressed later steps in viral entry. To examine these events, we followed the localization of L2 and packaged DNA after entry of infectious virions or L1/L2 pseudovirions. C...

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

authors： Day PM,Baker CC,Lowy DR,Schiller JT

更新日期：2004-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Two formal models of clonal attenuation [Kirkwood, T. B. L. & Holliday, R. (1975) J. Theor. Biol. 53, 481-496; Shall, S. & Stein, W. D. (1979) J. Theor. Biol. 76, 219-231] are considered in the light of recent data on the changing distribution of replicative potential among individual cultured fibroblasts on subclonin...

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

authors： Prothero J,Gallant JA

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of computers to simulate the functions of complex biological macromolecules is essential to achieve a microscopic description of biological processes and to model and interpret experimental data. Here we apply theoretical computational approaches to investigate the fidelity of T7 DNA polymerase, divided into d...

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

authors： Florián J,Goodman MF,Warshel A

更新日期：2005-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Antagonists of growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) inhibit the proliferation of various human cancers in vitro and in vivo by mechanisms that include apparent direct effects through specific binding sites expressed on tumors and that differ from pituitary human GHRH (hGHRH) receptors. In this study, GHRH antagonis...

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

authors： Halmos G,Schally AV,Varga JL,Plonowski A,Rekasi Z,Czompoly T

更新日期：2000-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We explore the interactions of CYT-19, a DExD/H-box protein that functions in folding of group I RNAs, with a well characterized misfolded species of the Tetrahymena ribozyme. Consistent with its function, CYT-19 accelerates refolding of the misfolded RNA to its native state. Unexpectedly, CYT-19 performs another reac...

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

authors： Tijerina P,Bhaskaran H,Russell R

更新日期：2006-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-promoting phorbol esters affect the ability of mouse hematopoietic progenitor cells to form morphologically recognizable colonies in culture. They induce myeloid progenitor cells to form colonies of the monocyte/macrophage type in the absence of exogenous granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor. Convers...

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

authors： Sieber F,Stuart RK,Spivak JL

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extinction of a species is inevitably preceded by the extirpation of a series of local populations. Ecological theory predicts that vulnerability to extirpation varies between populations and is ultimately linked to environmental heterogeneity. If populations of a species are present in multiple regions separated ...

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

authors： Yackulic CB,Sanderson EW,Uriarte M

更新日期：2011-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The size of virus-specific RNA synthesized in cultured mouse kidney cells infected with polyoma virus was estimated by electrophoresis and sedimentation analysis of RNA extracts from whole cells. Newly synthesized "late" polyoma-specific RNA appears as "giant" molecules of heterogeneous size, up to several times large...

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

authors： Acheson NH,Buetti E,Scherrer K,Weil R

更新日期：1971-09-01 00:00:00