Serum response factor orchestrates nascent sarcomerogenesis and silences the biomineralization gene program in the heart.

abstract：:Oligomerization plays a critical role in shaping the light-harvesting properties of many photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes, but a detailed understanding of this process at the level of individual pigments is still lacking. To study the effects of oligomerization, we designed a single-molecule approach to probe ...

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

authors： Wang Q,Moerner WE

更新日期：2015-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete amino acid sequences of the variable regions of two human IgM anti-gamma globulins are reported. The two proteins, Sie and Wol, share idiotypic determinants that are distinct from those shared by the two previously sequenced IgM anti-gamma globulins, Lay and Pom [Capra, J. D. & Kehoe, J. M. (1974) Proc. N...

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

authors： Andrews DW,Capra JD

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To some extent, the genetic theory of adaptive evolution in bacteria is a simple extension of that developed for sexually reproducing eukaryotes. In other, fundamental ways, the process of adaptive evolution in bacteria is quantitatively and qualitatively different from that of organisms for which recombination is an ...

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

authors： Levin BR,Bergstrom CT

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The bioluminescent bacterium Vibrio fischeri initiates a specific, persistent symbiosis in the light organ of the squid Euprymna scolopes. During the early stages of colonization, V. fischeri is exposed to host-derived nitric oxide (NO). Although NO can be both an antimicrobial component of innate immunity and a key s...

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

authors： Wang Y,Dufour YS,Carlson HK,Donohue TJ,Marletta MA,Ruby EG

更新日期：2010-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Near infrared diffuse optical spectroscopy and diffuse optical imaging are promising methods that eventually may enhance or replace existing technologies for breast cancer screening and diagnosis. These techniques are based on highly sensitive, quantitative measurements of optical and functional contrast between healt...

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

authors： Shah N,Cerussi A,Eker C,Espinoza J,Butler J,Fishkin J,Hornung R,Tromberg B

更新日期：2001-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A residual sphere is formed by projecting seismic ray travel-time anomalies, relative to a reference Earth model, onto an imaginary sphere around an earthquake. Any dominant slab-like fast band can be determined with spherical harmonic expansion. The technique is useful in detecting trends associated with high-velocit...

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

authors： Zhou HW,Anderson DL

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase-L1 (UCHL1), a neuron-specific de-ubiquitinating enzyme, is one of the most abundant proteins in the brain. We describe three siblings from a consanguineous union with a previously unreported early-onset progressive neurodegenerative syndrome featuring childhood onset blindness, cerebella...

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

authors： Bilguvar K,Tyagi NK,Ozkara C,Tuysuz B,Bakircioglu M,Choi M,Delil S,Caglayan AO,Baranoski JF,Erturk O,Yalcinkaya C,Karacorlu M,Dincer A,Johnson MH,Mane S,Chandra SS,Louvi A,Boggon TJ,Lifton RP,Horwich AL,Gunel M

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies implicate the hypothalamic ventromedial nucleus (VMN) in glycemic control. Here, we report that selective inhibition of the subset of VMN neurons that express the transcription factor steroidogenic-factor 1 (VMN(SF1) neurons) blocks recovery from insulin-induced hypoglycemia whereas, conversely, activ...

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

authors： Meek TH,Nelson JT,Matsen ME,Dorfman MD,Guyenet SJ,Damian V,Allison MB,Scarlett JM,Nguyen HT,Thaler JP,Olson DP,Myers MG Jr,Schwartz MW,Morton GJ

更新日期：2016-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by impaired social interactions and communication. The pathogenesis of ASD is not known, but it involves activation of microglia. We had shown that the peptide neurotensin (NT) is increased in the serum of children with ASD and stimulates cultured adult human microglia t...

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

authors： Tsilioni I,Pantazopoulos H,Conti P,Leeman SE,Theoharides TC

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The present investigation studied the influence of the blastocyst's state of activity on the "window" of implantation in the receptive uterus in the mouse. The receptive state of the uterus is defined as the limited time when the uterine milieu is favorable to blastocyst acceptance and implantation. In the mouse, impl...

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

authors： Paria BC,Huet-Hudson YM,Dey SK

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The class II transactivator (CIITA) is the master integrator of expression of MHC class II genes. It interacts with variety of basal transcription factors to initiate and elongate transcription of these genes. Among others, it recruits positive transcription elongation factor b (P-TEFb) to MHC class II promoters. In c...

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

authors： Kohoutek J,Blazek D,Peterlin BM

更新日期：2006-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Tiazofurin (2-beta-D-ribofuranosyl-4-thiazole-carboxamide; NSC 286193), an antitumor carbon-linked nucleoside that inhibits IMP dehydrogenase (IMP:NAD+ oxidoreductase; EC 1.1.1.205) and depletes guanylate levels, can activate the erythroid differentiation program of K-562 human leukemia cells. Tiazofurin-mediated cell...

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

authors： Olah E,Natsumeda Y,Ikegami T,Kote Z,Horanyi M,Szelenyi J,Paulik E,Kremmer T,Hollan SR,Sugar J

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrastructural immunocytochemical studies of the expression of major histocompatibility complex class I antigens in the placentas of inbred rats were performed using placentas derived from natural matings and from embryo transfers into females made pseudopregnant by mechanical stimulation. The studies utilized the WF...

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

authors： Kanbour-Shakir A,Zhang X,Rouleau A,Armstrong DT,Kunz HW,Macpherson TA,Gill TJ 3rd

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary transitions in individuality (ETIs) underlie the watershed events in the history of life on Earth, including the origins of cells, eukaryotes, plants, animals, and fungi. Each of these events constitutes an increase in the level of complexity, as groups of individuals become individuals in their own right...

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

authors： Herron MD,Hackett JD,Aylward FO,Michod RE

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of phospholipase Cgamma1 (PLCgamma1) by vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2 (VEGFR-2) in endothelial cells in part is responsible for angiogenesis in vivo. The cellular mechanisms exerting negative control over PLCgamma1 activation, however, remain unaddressed. Here by using in vitro and in vivo b...

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

authors： Singh AJ,Meyer RD,Navruzbekov G,Shelke R,Duan L,Band H,Leeman SE,Rahimi N

更新日期：2007-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive in vitro crosslinking technique using a photoactive derivative of the chimeric activator LexA-E2F-1 was used to identify yeast proteins that might influence the response of RNA polymerase II to transcriptional activators. We found that a novel yeast protein, Xtc1p, could be covalently crosslinked to the ac...

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

authors： Emili A,Kobayashi R,Ingles CJ

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ascorbic acid metabolism is associated with a number of mechanisms known to be involved in host resistance to malignant disease. Cancer patients are significantly depleted of ascorbic acid, and in our opinion this demonstrable biochemical characteristic indicates a substantially increased requirement and utilization o...

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

authors： Cameron E,Pauling L

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four polyimidazoles were used in the binding and cleavage studies with poly(U). The two polydisperse polyvinylimidazoles were previously described by others, while the other two new polymers of polyethyleneimines were prepared by cationic polymerization of oxazolines. The latter had imidazole units attached to each ni...

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

authors： Cheng L,Abhilash KG,Breslow R

更新日期：2012-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Two approaches have been explored for the synthesis of double-stranded DNA from single-stranded DNA template complementary to rabbit 9S globin mRNA (cDNA). (i) cDNA was elongated with dCMP or dTMP homopolymeric tracts using terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase (EC 2.7.7.31; nucleosidetriphosphate:DNA deoxynucleotidyle...

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

authors： Rougeon F,Mach B

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidermal growth factor receptor gene has been found to be amplified and rearranged in human glioblastomas in vivo. Here we present the sequence across a splice junction of aberrant epidermal growth factor receptor transcripts derived from corresponding and uniquely rearranged genes that are coamplified and coexpr...

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

authors： Sugawa N,Ekstrand AJ,James CD,Collins VP

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Arabidopsis, the two-dimensional expansion of leaves is regulated via the polarized elongation of cells. The ROTUNDIFOLIA3 (ROT3) protein, a member of the family of cytochromes P450, is involved in this process and regulates leaf length. Transgenic plants that overexpressed a wild-type ROT3 gene had longer leaves t...

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

authors： Kim GT,Tsukaya H,Saito Y,Uchimiya H

更新日期：1999-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrathymic T-cell development requires temporally regulated rearrangement and expression of T-cell receptor (TCR) genes. To assess the role of the TCR beta gene transcriptional enhancer (Ebeta) in this process, mouse strains in which Ebeta is deleted were generated using homologous recombination techniques. We report...

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

authors： Bouvier G,Watrin F,Naspetti M,Verthuy C,Naquet P,Ferrier P

更新日期：1996-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the left and right human cerebral hemispheres differ both functionally and anatomically, little is known about the environmental or genetic factors that govern central nervous system asymmetry. Nevertheless, cerebral asymmetry is strongly correlated with handedness, and handedness does have a significant gene...

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

authors： Geschwind DH,Miller BL,DeCarli C,Carmelli D

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2009 we reported that depletion of Dicer-1, the enzyme that catalyzes the final step of miRNA biosynthesis, prevents metamorphosis in Blattella germanica. However, the precise regulatory roles of miRNAs in the process have remained elusive. In the present work, we have observed that Dicer-1 depletion results in an ...

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

authors： Lozano J,Montañez R,Belles X

更新日期：2015-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Clean water is paramount to human health. In this article, we present a technique for detection of trace amounts of human or animal waste products in water using fluorescence emission cavity-enhanced spectroscopy. The detection of femtomolar concentrations of urobilin, a metabolic byproduct of heme metabolism that is ...

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

authors： Bixler JN,Cone MT,Hokr BH,Mason JD,Figueroa E,Fry ES,Yakovlev VV,Scully MO

更新日期：2014-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical networks that have been found to operate close to a critical point exhibit joint activations of large numbers of neurons. However, in motor cortex of the awake macaque monkey, we observe very different dynamics: massively parallel recordings of 155 single-neuron spiking activities show weak fluctuations on th...

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

authors： Dahmen D,Grün S,Diesmann M,Helias M

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacteria use N-acyl homoserine lactone (AHL) signals to coordinate the behavior of individual cells in a local population. The successful infection of eukaryotic hosts by bacteria seems to depend particularly on such AHL-mediated "quorum-sensing" regulation. We have used proteome analysis to show that a eukaryoti...

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

authors： Mathesius U,Mulders S,Gao M,Teplitski M,Caetano-Anolles G,Rolfe BG,Bauer WD

更新日期：2003-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Selected aspects of the evolutionary process and more specifically of the genetic variation are considered, with an emphasis in studies performed by my group. One key aspect of evolution seems to be the concomitant occurrence of dichotomic, contradictory (dialect) processes. Genetic variation is structured, and the dy...

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

authors： Salzano FM

更新日期：2000-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A pluripotent cell line, C3H10T1/2, is induced to undergo adipogenesis by a mixture of factors that includes a glucocorticoid such as dexamethasone. We found that expression of myostatin (MSTN), a TGF-beta family member extensively studied in muscle, was induced by dexamethasone under those differentiation conditions....

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

authors： Feldman BJ,Streeper RS,Farese RV Jr,Yamamoto KR

更新日期：2006-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Theories of density-dependent natural selection predict that evolution should favor those genotypes with the highest per capita rates of population growth under the current density conditions. These theories are silent about the mechanisms that may give rise to these increases in density-dependent growth rates. We hav...

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

authors： Guo PZ,Mueller LD,Ayala FJ

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00