Tension responses to rapid pressure release in glycerinated rabbit muscle fibers.

abstract：:Of all the myosin filaments in muscle, the most important in terms of human health, and so far the least studied, are those in the human heart. Here we report a 3D single-particle analysis of electron micrograph images of negatively stained myosin filaments isolated from human cardiac muscle in the normal (undiseased)...

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

authors： Al-Khayat HA,Kensler RW,Squire JM,Marston SB,Morris EP

更新日期：2013-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomere syndromes have their most common manifestation in lung disease that is recognized as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema. In both conditions, there is loss of alveolar integrity, but the underlying mechanisms are not known. We tested the capacity of alveolar epithelial and stromal cells from mice with...

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

authors： Alder JK,Barkauskas CE,Limjunyawong N,Stanley SE,Kembou F,Tuder RM,Hogan BL,Mitzner W,Armanios M

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:For most intracellular structures with larger than molecular dimensions, little is known about the connection between underlying molecular activities and higher order organization such as size and shape. Here, we show that both the size and shape of the amphibian oocyte nucleolus ultimately arise because nucleoli beha...

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

authors： Brangwynne CP,Mitchison TJ,Hyman AA

更新日期：2011-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteonectin is a prominent noncollagenous protein of developing bone. A 2150-base-pair cDNA coding for osteonectin, isolated from a bovine bone cell lambda gt11 expression library, was sequenced and identified by comparison with protein sequence data. The nucleotide sequence predicts that osteonectin contains 304 amin...

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

authors： Bolander ME,Young MF,Fisher LW,Yamada Y,Termine JD

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythroid Krüppel-like factor (EKLF), which binds to the CACCC box in the beta-globin promoter, is required for the expression of the beta-globin gene in adult erythroid cells. It was recently demonstrated that EKLF is also required for the activity of the beta-globin locus control region (LCR) 5'HS3. Some evidence su...

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

authors： Lee JS,Lee CH,Chung JH

更新日期：1999-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple-choice examinations play a critical role in university admissions across the world. A key question is whether imposing penalties for wrong answers on these examinations deters guessing from women more than men, disadvantaging female test-takers. We consider data from a large-scale, high-stakes policy change t...

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

authors： Coffman KB,Klinowski D

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Accounting for enzyme-mediated active sliding, disassembly, and sequence-dependent positioning of nucleosomes, we simulate nucleosome occupancy over cell-cycle-scale times using a stochastic kinetic model. We show that ATP-dependent active nucleosome sliding and nucleosome removal processes are essential to obtain in ...

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

authors： Padinhateeri R,Marko JF

更新日期：2011-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypercholesterolemia, high serum cholesterol in the form of LDL, is a major risk factor for atherosclerosis. LDL is mostly degraded in the liver after its cellular internalization with the LDL receptor (LDLR). This clathrin-mediated endocytosis depends on the protein autosomal recessive hypercholesterolemia (ARH), whi...

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

authors： Dvir H,Shah M,Girardi E,Guo L,Farquhar MG,Zajonc DM

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play key roles in detecting pathogens and initiating inflammatory responses that, subsequently, prime specific adaptive responses. Several mechanisms control TLR activity to avoid excessive inflammation and consequent immunopathology, including the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10. Recently,...

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

authors： Curtale G,Mirolo M,Renzi TA,Rossato M,Bazzoni F,Locati M

更新日期：2013-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A four-factor cross between two strains of Phycomyces involving two auxotrophic, one color, and the mating type marker is described. Samples of 40 germspores from 84 individual fertile germsporangia were characterized. The results show: (i) The germspores of a germsporangium are derived from one meiosis in approximate...

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

authors： Eslava AP,Alvarez MI,Delbrück M

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell migration and spreading involve the coordination of membrane trafficking, actomyosin contraction, and modifications to plasma membrane tension and area. The biochemical or biophysical basis for this coordination is however unknown. In this study, we show that during cell spreading, lamellipodia protrusion flatten...

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

authors： Gauthier NC,Fardin MA,Roca-Cusachs P,Sheetz MP

更新日期：2011-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated developing plastids from greening cucumber cotyledons or from photoperiodically grown pea seedlings incorporated (14)C-labeled 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) into chlorophyll (Chl). Incorporation was light dependent, enhanced by S-adenosylmethionine, and linear for 1 hr. The in vitro rate of Chl synthesis from A...

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

authors： Bhaya D,Castelfranco PA

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycosyltransferases of the mammalian Golgi complex must recycle between the stacked cisternae of that organelle to maintain their proper steady-state localization. This trafficking is mediated by COPI-coated vesicles, but how the glycosyltransferases are incorporated into these transport vesicles is poorly unders...

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

authors： Liu L,Doray B,Kornfeld S

更新日期：2018-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Using previously isolated Bacillus brevis strains that secrete large amounts of proteins but little protease into the medium, we have developed a host-vector system for very efficient synthesis and secretion of heterologous proteins. The multiple promoters and the signal-peptide-coding region of the MWP gene, a struct...

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

authors： Yamagata H,Nakahama K,Suzuki Y,Kakinuma A,Tsukagoshi N,Udaka S

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BACE1 is the rate-limiting enzyme for amyloid-β peptides (Aβ) generation, a key event in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). By an unknown mechanism, levels of BACE1 and a BACE1 mRNA-stabilizing antisense RNA (BACE1-AS) are elevated in the brains of AD patients, implicating that dysregulation of BACE1 expres...

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

authors： Bahn G,Park JS,Yun UJ,Lee YJ,Choi Y,Park JS,Baek SH,Choi BY,Cho YS,Kim HK,Han J,Sul JH,Baik SH,Lim J,Wakabayashi N,Bae SH,Han JW,Arumugam TV,Mattson MP,Jo DG

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemics, flame propagation, and cardiac rhythms are classic examples of reaction-diffusion waves that describe a switch from one alternative state to another. Only two types of waves are known: pulled, driven by the leading edge, and pushed, driven by the bulk of the wave. Here, we report a distinct class of semipus...

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

authors： Birzu G,Hallatschek O,Korolev KS

更新日期：2018-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cdc7 is an essential kinase required for the initiation of eukaryotic DNA replication. Previous studies in many species showed that the minichromosome maintenance complex is a major physiological target of this kinase. In this study, we have mapped the sites in human Mcm2 protein that are phosphorylated by Cdc7. The i...

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

authors： Cho WH,Lee YJ,Kong SI,Hurwitz J,Lee JK

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane contact sites (MCSs) in eukaryotic cells are hotspots for lipid exchange, which is essential for many biological functions, including regulation of membrane properties and protein trafficking. Lipid transfer proteins anchored at membrane contact sites (LAMs) contain sterol-specific lipid transfer domains [StA...

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

authors： Tong J,Manik MK,Im YJ

更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytokine IFN-γ is a critical regulator of immune system development and function. Almost all leukocytes express the receptor for IFN-γ, yet each cell type elicits a different response to this cytokine. Cell type-specific effects of IFN-γ make it difficult to predict the outcomes of the systemic IFN-γ blockade and ...

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

authors： Krummel MF,Mahale JN,Uhl LFK,Hardison EA,Mujal AM,Mazet JM,Weber RJ,Gartner ZJ,Gérard A

更新日期：2018-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:After prolonged exposure to ascorbate, collagen synthesis in cultured human skin fibroblasts increased approximately 8-fold with no significant change in synthesis of noncollagen protein. This effect of ascorbate appears to be unrelated to its cofactor function in collagen hydroxylation. The collagenous protein secret...

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

authors： Murad S,Grove D,Lindberg KA,Reynolds G,Sivarajah A,Pinnell SR

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pure water in a highly (1)H spin-polarized state is proposed as a contrast-agent-free contrast agent to visualize its macroscopic evolution in aqueous media by MRI. Remotely enhanced liquids for image contrast (RELIC) utilizes a (1)H signal of water that is enhanced outside the sample in continuous-flow mode and immed...

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

authors： McCarney ER,Armstrong BD,Lingwood MD,Han S

更新日期：2007-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Explants of human endometrium were cultured to study the release of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). Analysis of conditioned media by zymography revealed latent and active forms of collagenase (MMP-1, EC 3.4.24.7), 72-kDa gelatinase A (MMP-2, EC 3.4.24.24), and 92-kDa gelatinase B (MMP-9, EC 3.4.24.35). These protein...

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

authors： Marbaix E,Donnez J,Courtoy PJ,Eeckhout Y

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An established line of mouse fibroblasts, C3H/10T1/2 cells, was used for the assessment in vitro of oncogenic transformations caused by single and split doses of x-rays. The shape of the dose-response relationship was determined over the range from 0.1 to 10 Gy. It was found that splitting the x-ray dose into two equa...

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

authors： Miller RC,Hall EJ,Rossi HH

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes carried by EcoRI endonuclease-generated fragments of Staphylococcus plasmid DNA have been covalently joined to the E. coli antibiotic-resistance plasmid pSC101, and the resulting hybrid molecules have been introduced into E. coli by transformation. The newly constructed plasmids replicate as biologically functio...

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

authors： Chang AC,Cohen SN

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Size-selective mortality inevitably leads to a decrease in population density and exerts a direct negative effect on targeted size classes. But density and population size structure are also shaped by food-dependent processes, such as individual growth, maturation, and reproduction. Mortality relaxes competition and t...

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

authors： Schröder A,Persson L,de Roos AM

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Chorismate mutase acts at the first branch-point of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis and catalyzes the conversion of chorismate to prephenate. The results of molecular dynamics simulations of the substrate in solution and in the active site of chorismate mutase are reported. Two nonreactive conformers of chorismate ar...

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

authors： Guo H,Cui Q,Lipscomb WN,Karplus M

更新日期：2001-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We have produced a soluble form of a mouse alpha beta T-cell antigen receptor (TCR) by shuffling its variable (V) and constant (C) domains to the C region of an immunoglobulin kappa light chain. These chimeric molecules composed of V alpha C alpha C kappa and V beta C beta C kappa chains were efficiently secreted (up ...

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

authors： Grégoire C,Rebaï N,Schweisguth F,Necker A,Mazza G,Auphan N,Millward A,Schmitt-Verhulst AM,Malissen B

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Rifamycin antibiotics, which inhibit RNA-directed DNA polymerase of Rauscher leuckemia virus, prevent the leukemogenic activity of the virus, and the effect of leukemogenesis correlates with the magnitude of inhibition of the purified enzyme. This inhibition of enzyme activity by rifamycin SV derivatives is due to a r...

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

authors： Wu AM,Ting RC,Gallo RC

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the transcription factor FOXC2 is induced and necessary for successful epithelial-mesenchymal transition, a developmental program that when activated in cancer endows cells with metastatic potential and the properties of stem cells. As such, identifying agents that inhibit the growth of FOXC2-transformed...

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

authors： Bollong MJ,Pietilä M,Pearson AD,Sarkar TR,Ahmad I,Soundararajan R,Lyssiotis CA,Mani SA,Schultz PG,Lairson LL

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Double fertilization is a key innovation for the evolutionary success of angiosperms by which the two fertilized female gametes, the egg cell and central cell, generate the embryo and endosperm, respectively. The female gametophyte (embryo sac) enclosed in the sporophyte is derived from a one-celled haploid cell linea...

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

authors： Zhang MX,Zhu SS,Xu YC,Guo YL,Yang WC,Li HJ

更新日期：2020-03-17 00:00:00