LRP6 transduces a canonical Wnt signal independently of Axin degradation by inhibiting GSK3's phosphorylation of beta-catenin.

abstract：:Recent research has emphasized the importance of the metabolic cluster, which includes glucose intolerance, dyslipidemia, and high blood pressure, as a strong predictor of the obesity-related morbidities and premature mortality. Fundamental to this association, commonly referred to as the metabolic syndrome, is the cl...

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

authors： Kissebah AH,Sonnenberg GE,Myklebust J,Goldstein M,Broman K,James RG,Marks JA,Krakower GR,Jacob HJ,Weber J,Martin L,Blangero J,Comuzzie AG

更新日期：2000-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The total sequence of 365 amino acid residues in bovine prochymosin is presented. Alignment with the amino acid sequence of porcine pepsinogen shows that 204 amino acid residues are common to the two zymogens. Further comparison and alignment with the amino acid sequence of penicillopepsin shows that 66 residues are l...

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

authors： Foltmann B,Pedersen VB,Jacobsen H,Kauffman D,Wybrandt G

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is great interest in understanding the mechanisms of expression underlying long-term potentiation (LTP). They are agreed to involve an increase in synaptic efficacy, which is described by three multiplicative parameters: p, the probability of neurotransmitter release; n, the number of active release sites; and q...

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

authors： Schulz PE

更新日期：1997-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Transplantation of pancreatic islets for treating type 1 diabetes is restricted to patients with critical metabolic lability resulting from the need for immunosuppression and the shortage of donor organs. To overcome these barriers, we developed a strategy to macroencapsulate islets from different sources that allow t...

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

authors： Ludwig B,Ludwig S,Steffen A,Knauf Y,Zimerman B,Heinke S,Lehmann S,Schubert U,Schmid J,Bleyer M,Schönmann U,Colton CK,Bonifacio E,Solimena M,Reichel A,Schally AV,Rotem A,Barkai U,Grinberg-Rashi H,Kaup FJ,Avni Y,J

更新日期：2017-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized seven murine retinoic acid receptor gamma cDNA isoforms (mRAR-gamma 1 to -gamma 7) generated by alternative splicing of at least seven exons. These isoforms differ from one another in their 5' untranslated region and in two cases (mRAR-gamma 1 and -gamma 2) differ in their N-terminal A region, wh...

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

authors： Kastner P,Krust A,Mendelsohn C,Garnier JM,Zelent A,Leroy P,Staub A,Chambon P

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We obtain a classification of the irreducible (nonunitary) representations of a connected semisimple Lie group G, in terms of their restriction to a maximal compact subgroup K of G. (A classification in terms of analytic properties of the representations has been given by R. P. Langlands [(1973), mimeographed notes, I...

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

authors： Vogan DA

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Probasin, a rat prostatic protein, is statistically related to members of a protein family that includes serum, cellular, and nuclear proteins. In vivo, probasin appears both in the secretions and in the nucleus of prostatic epithelial cells. Using primer extension and S1 nuclease protection assays we detected only on...

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

authors： Spence AM,Sheppard PC,Davie JR,Matuo Y,Nishi N,McKeehan WL,Dodd JG,Matusik RJ

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of the human embryonic stem (hES) cell line H9, when cultured in the form of embryoid bodies, give rise to cells with markers of the keratinocyte of stratified squamous epithelia. Keratinocytes also form in nodules produced in scid mice by injected H9 cells; the hES-derived keratinocytes could be recovered in cu...

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

authors： Iuchi S,Dabelsteen S,Easley K,Rheinwald JG,Green H

更新日期：2006-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical method is developed which enables us to treat exactly the process of coincidental evolution under mutation, unequal intrachromosomal crossing-over as well as ordinary crossing-over between homologous chromosomes in a finite population of the effective size N. It makes use of finite difference equations ...

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

authors： Kimura M,Ohta T

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray diffraction studies have produced a low resolution image and also located the iron atoms of a monomeric hemerythrin from muscles of a sipunculan worm. These results reveal the course of the polypeptide chain and some details of the active center. ...

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

authors： Hendrickson WA,Klippenstein GL,Ward KB

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By analogy with receptor-mediated endocytosis, clathrin-coated membrane segments at locations other than at the plasma membrane have been implicated in intracellular membrane transport/sorting. The crucial role of the Golgi apparatus in these processes prompted us to study the distribution at this level of clathrin-im...

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

authors： Orci L,Ravazzola M,Amherdt M,Louvard D,Perrelet A

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetyl-CoA carboxylase 1 (ACC1) catalyzes the formation of malonyl-CoA, the C2 donor for de novo synthesis of long-chain fatty acids. We have identified 64 exons, including 7 alternatively spliced minor exons (1A, 1B, 1C, 3, 5A', 5A, and 5B) in human ACC1 gene ( approximately 330 kb). The gene is regulated by three pr...

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

authors： Mao J,Chirala SS,Wakil SJ

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1, the cause of AIDS, is composed of four phylogenetic lineages, groups M, N, O, and P, each of which resulted from an independent cross-species transmission event of simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) infecting African apes. Although groups M and N have been traced to geographically distinct chimpanzee commun...

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

authors： D'arc M,Ayouba A,Esteban A,Learn GH,Boué V,Liegeois F,Etienne L,Tagg N,Leendertz FH,Boesch C,Madinda NF,Robbins MM,Gray M,Cournil A,Ooms M,Letko M,Simon VA,Sharp PM,Hahn BH,Delaporte E,Mpoudi Ngole E,Peeters M

更新日期：2015-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The central administration of the fatty acid synthase (FAS) inhibitor, C75, rapidly suppresses the expression of orexigenic neuropeptides [neuropeptide Y (NPY) and agouti-related protein (AgRP)] and activates expression of anorexigenic neuropeptides [proopiomelanocortin (POMC) and cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated tr...

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

authors： Hu Z,Cha SH,van Haasteren G,Wang J,Lane MD

更新日期：2005-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The planarity of peptide bonds is an assumption that underlies decades of theoretical modeling of proteins. Peptide bonds strongly deviating from planarity are considered very rare features of protein structure that occur for functional reasons. Here, empirical analyses of atomic-resolution protein structures reveal t...

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

authors： Berkholz DS,Driggers CM,Shapovalov MV,Dunbrack RL Jr,Karplus PA

更新日期：2012-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryote cell division features a chromosome compaction-decompaction cycle that is synchronized with their physical and topological segregation. It has been proposed that lengthwise compaction of chromatin into mitotic chromosomes via loop extrusion underlies the compaction-segregation/resolution process. We analyze ...

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

authors： Brahmachari S,Marko JF

更新日期：2019-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown that initiation of translation involves several steps. (i) Binding of fMet-tRNA(fMet) to the bacterial 30S ribosomal subunit in the absence of messenger RNA, yielding a 34S complex. This binding is rapid and dependent on initiation factor 2 but not on initiation factor 3. (ii) Binding of messenger RNA to t...

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

authors： Jay G,Kaempfer R

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PdxB (erythronate 4-phosphate dehydrogenase) is expected to be required for synthesis of the essential cofactor pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) in Escherichia coli Surprisingly, incubation of the ∆pdxB strain in medium containing glucose as a sole carbon source for 10 d resulted in visible turbidity, suggesting that PLP ...

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

authors： Kim J,Flood JJ,Kristofich MR,Gidfar C,Morgenthaler AB,Fuhrer T,Sauer U,Snyder D,Cooper VS,Ebmeier CC,Old WM,Copley SD

更新日期：2019-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary HIV-1 isolates were evaluated for their sensitivity to inhibition by beta-chemokines RANTES (regulated upon activation, normal T-cell expressed and secreted), macrophage inflammatory protein 1 alpha (MIP-1 alpha), and MIP-1 beta. Virus isolates of both nonsyncytium-inducing (NSI) and syncytium-inducing (SI) bi...

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

authors： Jansson M,Popovic M,Karlsson A,Cocchi F,Rossi P,Albert J,Wigzell H

更新日期：1996-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Several hypolipidemic drugs and certain industrial plasticizers induce proliferation of peroxisomes, enhance the activity of peroxisome-associated beta-oxidation of fatty acids, and produce hepatocellular carcinomas in the livers of rodents. Because these chemicals themselves are not mutagens and do not covalently mod...

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

authors： Fahl WE,Lalwani ND,Watanabe T,Goel SK,Reddy JK

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strength and other mechanical properties of cement and concrete rely upon the formation of calcium-silicate-hydrates (C-S-H) during cement hydration. Controlling structure and properties of the C-S-H phase is a challenge, due to the complexity of this hydration product and of the mechanisms that drive its precipitatio...

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

authors： Ioannidou K,Krakowiak KJ,Bauchy M,Hoover CG,Masoero E,Yip S,Ulm FJ,Levitz P,Pellenq RJ,Del Gado E

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The proboscis is an important head appendage in insects that has primarily been thought to process gustatory information during food intake. Indeed, in Drosophila and other insects in which they have been identified, most gustatory receptors are expressed in proboscis neurons. Our previous characterization of the expr...

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

authors： Kwon HW,Lu T,Rützler M,Zwiebel LJ

更新日期：2006-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:How much free energy is irreversibly lost during a thermodynamic process? For deterministic protocols, lower bounds on energy dissipation arise from the thermodynamic friction associated with pushing a system out of equilibrium in finite time. Recent work has also bounded the cost of precisely moving a single degree o...

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

authors： Bryant SJ,Machta BB

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared with understanding of biological shape and form, knowledge is sparse regarding what regulates growth and body size of a species. For example, the genetic and physiological causes of heterosis (hybrid vigor) have remained elusive for nearly a century. Here, we investigate gene-expression patterns underlying gr...

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

authors： Hedgecock D,Lin JZ,DeCola S,Haudenschild CD,Meyer E,Manahan DT,Bowen B

更新日期：2007-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutation partially suppressing the UV sensitivity caused by recF143 in a uvrA6 background was located at codon 37 of recA where GTG (valine) became ATG (methionine). This mutation, originally named srf-803, was renamed recA803. Little if any suppression of the recF143 defect in UV induction of a lexA regulon promote...

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

authors： Madiraju MV,Templin A,Clark AJ

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report 10 heterozygous mutations in the human insulin gene in 16 probands with neonatal diabetes. A combination of linkage and a candidate gene approach in a family with four diabetic members led to the identification of the initial INS gene mutation. The mutations are inherited in an autosomal dominant manner in t...

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

authors： Støy J,Edghill EL,Flanagan SE,Ye H,Paz VP,Pluzhnikov A,Below JE,Hayes MG,Cox NJ,Lipkind GM,Lipton RB,Greeley SA,Patch AM,Ellard S,Steiner DF,Hattersley AT,Philipson LH,Bell GI,Neonatal Diabetes International Collabora

更新日期：2007-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1950, Barbara McClintock published a Classic PNAS article, "The origin and behavior of mutable loci in maize," which summarized the evidence leading to her discovery of transposition. The article described a number of genome alterations revealed through her studies of the Dissociation locus, the first mobile geneti...

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

authors： Fedoroff NV

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) viral DNA synthesis in quiescent and activated peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) was studied. Incomplete viral DNA (previously demonstrated to be associated with HIV-1 virions) is carried by HIV-1 virions into quiescent and activated PBLs, contributing to the formation of ...

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

authors： Gao WY,Cara A,Gallo RC,Lori F

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chick calvaria labeled in vitro contain a triple-stranded collagen precursor that contains two pro alpha1 and one pro alpha2 chains. All chains contain cystine and are linked by S-S bonds. Ultracentrifugal analysis was used to measure the relative size of the disulfide-linked units. It is proposed that the S-S links h...

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

authors： Fessler LI,Burgeson RE,Morris NP,Fessler JH

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although malignant astrocytomas are a leading cause of cancer-related death in children, rational therapeutic strategies are lacking. We previously identified activating mutations of v-raf murine sarcoma viral oncogene homolog B1 (BRAF) (BRAF(T1799A) encoding BRAF(V600E)) in association with homozygous cyclin-dependen...

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

authors： Huillard E,Hashizume R,Phillips JJ,Griveau A,Ihrie RA,Aoki Y,Nicolaides T,Perry A,Waldman T,McMahon M,Weiss WA,Petritsch C,James CD,Rowitch DH

更新日期：2012-05-29 00:00:00