Deficiency of Aph1B/C-gamma-secretase disturbs Nrg1 cleavage and sensorimotor gating that can be reversed with antipsychotic treatment.

abstract：:Cardiac myosin-binding protein C (cMyBP-C) is an accessory protein of striated muscle sarcomeres that is vital for maintaining regular heart function. Its 4 N-terminal regulatory domains, C0-C1-m-C2 (C0C2), influence actin and myosin interactions, the basic contractile proteins of muscle. Using neutron contrast variat...

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

authors： Whitten AE,Jeffries CM,Harris SP,Trewhella J

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:One way to dissect the antibody response to an invading microorganism is to clone the antibody repertoire from immune donors and subsequently characterize the specific antibodies. Recently, methodological advances have allowed investigations of neutralizing antibodies against hepatitis C virus (HCV) in vitro. We have ...

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

authors： Johansson DX,Voisset C,Tarr AW,Aung M,Ball JK,Dubuisson J,Persson MA

更新日期：2007-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Initiation of adenovirus DNA replication in vitro occurs on a linearized plasmid DNA containing 3,327 base pairs of the adenovirus terminal sequence. Various deletions have been constructed in the plasmid DNA and their template activities examined. Deletions from an internal restriction enzyme cleavage site that retai...

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

authors： Tamanoi F,Stillman BW

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanogenic archaea are major contributors to the global carbon cycle and were long thought to belong exclusively to the euryarchaeal phylum. Discovery of the methanogenesis gene cluster methyl-coenzyme M reductase (Mcr) in the Bathyarchaeota, and thereafter the Verstraetearchaeota, led to a paradigm shift, pushing b...

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

authors： Berghuis BA,Yu FB,Schulz F,Blainey PC,Woyke T,Quake SR

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The sterol regulatory element-binding protein (SREBP) family of transcription factors controls the biosynthesis of cholesterol and other lipids, and lipid synthesis is critical for cell growth and proliferation. We were, therefore, interested in the expression and activity of SREBPs during the cell cycle. We found tha...

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

authors： Bengoechea-Alonso MT,Punga T,Ericsson J

更新日期：2005-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Established T cell dysfunction is a barrier to antitumor responses, and checkpoint blockade presumably reverses this. Many patients fail to respond to treatment and/or develop autoimmune adverse events. The underlying reason for T cell responsiveness remains elusive. Here, we show that susceptibility to checkpoint blo...

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

authors： Nelson CE,Mills LJ,McCurtain JL,Thompson EA,Seelig DM,Bhela S,Quarnstrom CF,Fife BT,Vezys V

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytocannabinoids, such as the principal bioactive component of marijuana, delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol, have been used for thousands of years for medical and recreational purposes. delta9-Tetrahydrocannabinol and endogenous cannabinoids (e.g., anandamide) initiate their agonist properties by stimulating the cannabinoi...

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

authors： Moore SA,Nomikos GG,Dickason-Chesterfield AK,Schober DA,Schaus JM,Ying BP,Xu YC,Phebus L,Simmons RM,Li D,Iyengar S,Felder CC

更新日期：2005-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The charge-stabilization effect associated with alpha-helices in proteins has been reexamined by microscopic calculations without any a priori assumptions about the dielectric constant of the protein. The calculations reproduce the observed charge stabilization effect of a helix in two well-defined test cases: a histi...

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

authors： Aqvist J,Luecke H,Quiocho FA,Warshel A

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial TATAAT -10 region sequence was the first promoter element to be identified, but how it functions is still not clear. Because the duplex element is melted during initiation, the effects of substitutions were studied in both single-and double-strand contexts. Band-shift results were particularly unexpected...

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

authors： Fenton MS,Gralla JD

更新日期：2001-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Orai1 and stromal interaction molecule 1 (STIM1) mediate store-operated Ca(2+) entry (SOCE) in immune cells. STIM1, an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) Ca(2+) sensor, detects store depletion and interacts with plasma membrane (PM)-resident Orai1 channels at the ER-PM junctions. However, the molecular composition of these ju...

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

authors： Woo JS,Srikanth S,Nishi M,Ping P,Takeshima H,Gwack Y

更新日期：2016-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex determination in mammals is governed by antagonistic interactions of two genetic pathways, imbalance in which may lead to disorders/differences of sex development (DSD) in human. Among 46,XX individuals with testicular DSD (TDSD) or ovotesticular DSD (OTDSD), testicular tissue is present in the gonad. Although the...

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

authors： Eozenou C,Gonen N,Touzon MS,Jorgensen A,Yatsenko SA,Fusee L,Kamel AK,Gellen B,Guercio G,Singh P,Witchel S,Berman AJ,Mainpal R,Totonchi M,Mohseni Meybodi A,Askari M,Merel-Chali T,Bignon-Topalovic J,Migale R,Costanzo

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Anatoxin-a, a bicyclic amine isolated from blue-green alga, binds to the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor of Torpedo electric tissue, thereby inducing conformational changes in the postsynaptic receptor--ion channel complex as evidenced by alterations in the binding of radiolabeled ligands to the complex. Anatoxin-a b...

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

authors： Aronstam RS,Witkop B

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the hippocampus, a CA3 pyramidal cell forms excitatory synapses with thousands of other pyramidal cells and inhibitory interneurons. By using sequential paired recordings from three connected cells, we show that the presynaptic properties of CA3 pyramidal cell terminals, belonging to the same axon, differ according...

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

authors： Scanziani M,Gähwiler BH,Charpak S

更新日期：1998-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishing a timeline for the evolution of novelties is a common, unifying goal at the intersection of evolutionary and developmental biology. Analyses of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) provide the ability to understand the underlying genetic and developmental mechanisms responsible for the origin of morphological ...

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

authors： Thompson JR,Erkenbrack EM,Hinman VF,McCauley BS,Petsios E,Bottjer DJ

更新日期：2017-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The poison frogs (family Dendrobatidae) are terrestrial anuran amphibians displaying a wide range of coloration and toxicity. These frogs generally have been considered to be aposematic, but relatively little research has been carried out to test the predictions of this hypothesis. Here we use a comparative approach t...

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

authors： Summers K,Clough ME

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxicological significance of exposures to synthetic chemicals is examined in the context of exposures to naturally occurring chemicals. We calculate that 99.99% (by weight) of the pesticides in the American diet are chemicals that plants produce to defend themselves. Only 52 natural pesticides have been tested in...

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

authors： Ames BN,Profet M,Gold LS

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent theoretical and experimental results point to the existence of small barriers to protein folding. These barriers can even be absent altogether, resulting in a continuous folding transition (i.e., downhill folding). With small barriers, the detailed properties of folding ensembles may become accessible to equili...

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

authors： Muñoz V,Sanchez-Ruiz JM

更新日期：2004-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Visualizing macromolecular complexes by single-particle electron microscopy (EM) entails stringent biochemical purification, specimen preparation, low-dose imaging, and 3D image reconstruction. Here, we introduce the "monolayer purification" method, which employs nickel-nitrilotriacetic acid (Ni-NTA) functionalized li...

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

authors： Kelly DF,Dukovski D,Walz T

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing, catalyzed by ADAR enzymes, is a ubiquitous mechanism that generates transcriptomic diversity. This process is particularly important for proper neuronal function; however, little is known about how RNA editing is dynamically regulated between the many functionally distinct ne...

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

authors： Sapiro AL,Shmueli A,Henry GL,Li Q,Shalit T,Yaron O,Paas Y,Billy Li J,Shohat-Ophir G

更新日期：2019-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that the Myc and Mad1 proteins are implicated in the regulation of the gene encoding the human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT), the catalytic subunit of telomerase. We have analyzed the in vivo interaction between endogenous c-Myc and Mad1 proteins and the hTERT promoter in HL60 cells...

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

authors： Xu D,Popov N,Hou M,Wang Q,Björkholm M,Gruber A,Menkel AR,Henriksson M

更新日期：2001-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial ATP-sensitive K (mitoK(ATP)) channels play a central role in protecting the heart from injury in ischemic preconditioning. In isolated mitochondria exposed to elevated extramitochondrial Ca, P(i), and anoxia to simulate ischemic conditions, the selective mitoK(ATP) channel agonist diazoxide (25-50 microM...

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

authors： Korge P,Honda HM,Weiss JN

更新日期：2002-03-05 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：:Polypeptide chains of 19 previously studied Escherichia coli aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are as large as 951 amino acids and, depending on the enzyme, have quaternary structures of alpha, alpha 2, alpha 2 beta 2, and alpha 4. These enzymes have been organized into two classes which are defined by sequence motifs that a...

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

authors： Hou YM,Shiba K,Mottes C,Schimmel P

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ALOX15 (12/15-lipoxygenase) orthologs have been implicated in maturational degradation of intracellular organelles and in the biosynthesis of antiinflammatory and proresolving eicosanoids. Here we hypothesized that lower mammals (mice, rats, pigs) express 12-lipoxygenating ALOX15 orthologs. In contrast, 15-lipoxygenat...

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

authors： Adel S,Karst F,González-Lafont À,Pekárová M,Saura P,Masgrau L,Lluch JM,Stehling S,Horn T,Kuhn H,Heydeck D

更新日期：2016-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive assay using biotinylated ubiquitin revealed extensive ubiquitination of the large subunit of RNA polymerase II during incubations of transcription reactions in vitro. Phosphorylation of the repetitive carboxyl-terminal domain of the large subunit was a signal for ubiquitination. Specific inhibitors of cycl...

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

authors： Mitsui A,Sharp PA

更新日期：1999-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Two human B-cell differentiation antigens, Bp35 and Bp50, apparently play distinct roles as signal receptors in B-cell activation. Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to either Bp35 or Bp50 deliver positive signals to B cells that stimulate their transition through the cell cycle. mAb to Bp35, like anti-immunoglobulin antibo...

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

authors： Clark EA,Ledbetter JA

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila is the cause of Legionnaires' disease, which is a form of potentially fatal pneumonia. To identify genes required for virulence of the bacterium, a library of 1,386 L. pneumophila signature tagged transposon mutants was studied for guinea pig virulence. The mutants were screened in pools of 96 e...

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

authors： Edelstein PH,Edelstein MA,Higa F,Falkow S

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We have demonstrated that the entire murine N-myc gene and the sequences necessary for its expression in human neuroblastoma cells are contained within a 7.4-kilobase murine genomic clone. The complete nucleotide sequence of this gene reveals a number of striking similarities and differences when compared to the relat...

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

authors： DePinho RA,Legouy E,Feldman LB,Kohl NE,Yancopoulos GD,Alt FW

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Representations of the (infinite) canonical anticommutation relations and the associated operator algebra, the fermion algebra, are studied. A "coupling constant" (in (0,1]) is defined for primary states of "finite type" of that algebra. Primary, faithful states of finite type with arbitrary coupling are constructed a...

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

authors： Kadison RV

更新日期：1998-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray structures of bovine heart cytochrome c oxidase have suggested that the enzyme, which reduces O(2) in a process coupled with a proton pumping process, contains a proton pumping pathway (H-pathway) composed of a hydrogen bond network and a water channel located in tandem across the enzyme. The hydrogen bond netwo...

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

authors： Shimokata K,Katayama Y,Murayama H,Suematsu M,Tsukihara T,Muramoto K,Aoyama H,Yoshikawa S,Shimada H

更新日期：2007-03-06 00:00:00