Cardiac myosin-binding protein C decorates F-actin: implications for cardiac function.

abstract：:Hendra virus (HeV) and Nipah virus (NiV) belong to the genus Henipavirus of the family Paramyxoviridae and are unique in that they exhibit a broad species tropism and cause fatal disease in both animals and humans. They infect cells through a pH-independent membrane fusion process mediated by their fusion and attachme...

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

authors： Bonaparte MI,Dimitrov AS,Bossart KN,Crameri G,Mungall BA,Bishop KA,Choudhry V,Dimitrov DS,Wang LF,Eaton BT,Broder CC

更新日期：2005-07-26 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：:It has been controversial whether the cytochrome oxidase (CO)-dense blobs in primate primary visual cortex (V1) and CO-dense thin stripes in visual area 2 (V2) are parts of a cortical color-processing stream that is segregated from other functional streams. One of the key pieces of evidence for the segregated color st...

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

authors： Xiao Y,Felleman DJ

更新日期：2004-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain cognitive functions differ in men and women, although the anatomical and functional substrates underlying these differences remain unknown. Because neocortical activity is directly related with higher brain function, numerous studies have focused on the cerebral cortex when searching for possible structural co...

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

authors： Alonso-Nanclares L,Gonzalez-Soriano J,Rodriguez JR,DeFelipe J

更新日期：2008-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have utilized a recombinant vector system designed to study gene control elements by fusing them to the Escherichia coli galactokinase gene (galK) to examine the effects of gene expression that result from introducing changes into the 5' noncoding leader region of the galK transcription unit. We varied the length o...

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

authors： Johansen H,Schümperli D,Rosenberg M

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of specific gangliosides to function as host cell receptors for Sendai virus was investigated by using Madin-Darby bovine kidney cells which become resistant to infection upon treatment with Vibrio cholerae sialidase. Sialidase-treated cells were incubated for 20 min at 37 degrees C with individual, highly...

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

authors： Markwell MA,Svennerholm L,Paulson JC

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the discovery in Lake Cuitzeo in central Mexico of a black, carbon-rich, lacustrine layer, containing nanodiamonds, microspherules, and other unusual materials that date to the early Younger Dryas and are interpreted to result from an extraterrestrial impact. These proxies were found in a 27-m-long core as p...

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

authors： Israde-Alcántara I,Bischoff JL,Domínguez-Vázquez G,Li HC,DeCarli PS,Bunch TE,Wittke JH,Weaver JC,Firestone RB,West A,Kennett JP,Mercer C,Xie S,Richman EK,Kinzie CR,Wolbach WS

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphatidylinositol phosphate kinase (PIPK) family of enzymes is primarily responsible for converting singly phosphorylated phosphatidylinositol derivatives to phosphatidylinositol bisphosphates. As such, these kinases are central to many signaling and membrane trafficking processes in the eukaryotic cell. The th...

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

authors： Muftuoglu Y,Xue Y,Gao X,Wu D,Ha Y

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonlinear nature of integration among cortical brain areas renders the effective connectivity between them inherently dynamic and context-sensitive. One emerging architectural principle of functional brain organization, which rests explicitly on these nonlinear interactions, is that neuronal responses expressed at...

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

authors： Friston KJ,Büchel C

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:K+ channels, which have been linked to regulation of electrogenic solute transport as well as Ca2+ influx, represent a locus in hepatocytes for the concerted actions of hormones that employ Ca2+ and cAMP as intracellular messengers. Despite considerable study, the single-channel basis for synergistic effects of Ca2+ a...

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

authors： Lidofsky SD

更新日期：1995-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerization of individual RecA-DNA filaments, containing either single-stranded or double-stranded DNA, was followed in real time, and their mechanical properties were characterized with force-measuring laser tweezers. It was found that the stretch modulus of a filament is dominated by its (central) DNA compone...

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

authors： Hegner M,Smith SB,Bustamante C

更新日期：1999-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We have devised a class of isothermal reactions for amplifying DNA. These homogeneous reactions rapidly synthesize short oligonucleotides (8-16 bases) specified by the sequence of an amplification template. Versions of the reactions can proceed in either a linear or an exponential amplification mode. Both of these rea...

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

authors： Van Ness J,Van Ness LK,Galas DJ

更新日期：2003-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of toxic oligomers during the aggregation of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide Aβ42 into amyloid fibrils and plaques has emerged as a central feature of the onset and progression of Alzheimer's disease, but the molecular pathways that control pathological aggregation have proved challenging to identify. Here, ...

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

authors： Cohen SI,Linse S,Luheshi LM,Hellstrand E,White DA,Rajah L,Otzen DE,Vendruscolo M,Dobson CM,Knowles TP

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe retroviral expression vectors containing cDNAs encoding part of fibronectin preceded by the signal and "pro" sequences of parathyroid hormone. The recombinant retroviruses were used to generate NIH 3T3 cell lines stably producing functionally active fragments of fibronectin. The recombinant fibronectins (d...

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

authors： Schwarzbauer JE,Mulligan RC,Hynes RO

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substance P prohormones were identified in the caudate nucleus, hypothalamus, and substantia nigra of human brain. A polypeptide fraction of acidic brain extracts was fractionated on Sephadex G-50. The lyophilized fractions were sequentially treated with trypsin and a substance P-degrading enzyme with strong preferenc...

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

authors： Nyberg F,le Grevés P,Terenius L

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been recognized since ancient times that malaria fever is highly periodic but the mechanism has been poorly understood. Malaria fever is related to the parasite growth cycle in erythrocytes. After a fixed period of replication, a mature parasite (schizont) causes the infected erythrocyte to rupture, releasing p...

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

authors： Kwiatkowski D,Nowak M

更新日期：1991-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Given a collection L of n points on a sphere [Formula: see text] of surface area n, a fair allocation is a partition of the sphere into n parts each of area 1, and each is associated with a distinct point of L. We show that, if the n points are chosen uniformly at random and if the partition is defined by a certain "g...

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

authors： Holden N,Peres Y,Zhai A

更新日期：2018-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the origins and functional evolution of the Shaker and KCNQ families of voltage-gated K(+) channels to better understand how neuronal excitability evolved. In bilaterians, the Shaker family consists of four functionally distinct gene families (Shaker, Shab, Shal, and Shaw) that share a subunit structure co...

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

authors： Li X,Liu H,Chu Luo J,Rhodes SA,Trigg LM,van Rossum DB,Anishkin A,Diatta FH,Sassic JK,Simmons DK,Kamel B,Medina M,Martindale MQ,Jegla T

更新日期：2015-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrobacterium tumefaciens is the causal agent of crown gall disease. The bacterium is capable of transferring a segment of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) into recipient cells during the transformation process, and it has been widely used as a genetic modification tool for plants and nonplant organisms. Transferred DNA (T...

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

authors： Li X,Yang Q,Peng L,Tu H,Lee LY,Gelvin SB,Pan SQ

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a cDNA clone from a human fibroblast cDNA library that contains the entire protein-coding region of a 1.1-kilobase mRNA. This mRNA encodes a 284-amino acid tropomyosin, the primary structure of which most closely resembles smooth muscle tropomyosin. Thus, the expression of both 284-amino acid muscle-t...

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

authors： MacLeod AR,Houlker C,Reinach FC,Smillie LB,Talbot K,Modi G,Walsh FS

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translational stop codon readthrough occurs in organisms ranging from viruses to mammals and is especially prevalent in decoding Drosophila and viral mRNAs. Recoding of UGA, UAG, or UAA to specify an amino acid allows a proportion of the protein encoded by a single gene to be C-terminally extended. The extended produc...

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

authors： Hudson AM,Szabo NL,Loughran G,Wills NM,Atkins JF,Cooley L

更新日期：2021-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Low phosphate (Pi) availability is one of the major constraints for plant productivity in natural and agricultural ecosystems. Plants have evolved a myriad of developmental and biochemical mechanisms to increase internal Pi uptake and utilization efficiency. One important biochemical pathway leading to an increase in ...

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

authors： Cruz-Ramírez A,Oropeza-Aburto A,Razo-Hernández F,Ramírez-Chávez E,Herrera-Estrella L

更新日期：2006-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the behavior of hematopoietic stem cells in vivo, we transplanted glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) heterozygous (female Safari) cats with small amounts of autologous marrow. The G6PD phenotypes of erythroid burst-forming units and granulocyte/macrophage colony-forming units were repeatedly assayed for...

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

authors： Abkowitz JL,Persik MT,Shelton GH,Ott RL,Kiklevich JV,Catlin SN,Guttorp P

更新日期：1995-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemoresistance of cisplatin therapy is related to extensive repair of cisplatin-modified DNA in the nucleus by the nucleotide excision repair (NER). Delivering cisplatin to the mitochondria to attack mitochondrial genome lacking NER machinery can lead to a rationally designed therapy for metastatic, chemoresistant ca...

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

authors： Marrache S,Pathak RK,Dhar S

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the discovery of a small molecule inhibitor of pestivirus replication. The compound, designated VP32947, inhibits the replication of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) in cell culture at a 50% inhibitory concentration of approximately 20 nM. VP32947 inhibits both cytopathic and noncytopathic pestiviruse...

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

authors： Baginski SG,Pevear DC,Seipel M,Sun SC,Benetatos CA,Chunduru SK,Rice CM,Collett MS

更新日期：2000-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of T7 DNA by T7 RNA polymerase in vitro gives rise to six major size classes of RNAs comprising seven major T7 RNA species. These RNAs are all read from the r-strand of T7 DNA and are not derived from the early (leftmost on the conventional genetic map) region of the molecule. When artifically shortened ...

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

authors： Golomb M,Chamberlin M

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that perceived pain intensity can influence placebo analgesia was tested. One hundred and seven subjects rated their pain from from 0 to 10 on a visual analog scale after a standard wisdom tooth extraction. The expected course of such postoperative pain in the absence of therapy or placebo is a steady i...

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

authors： Levine JD,Gordon NC,Bornstein JC,Fields HL

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants have evolved adaptive strategies that involve transcriptional networks to cope with and survive environmental challenges. Key transcriptional regulators that mediate responses to environmental fluctuations in nitrate have been identified; however, little is known about how these regulators interact to orchestra...

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

authors： Guan P,Ripoll JJ,Wang R,Vuong L,Bailey-Steinitz LJ,Ye D,Crawford NM

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthetic, biologically active, [Phe4Val6] analog of natural antamanide has been crystallized from a solution containing calcium nitrate, acetone, and acetonitrile. The crystal does not contain any Ca2+ ions but does contain 12 water molecules per peptide molecule. The conformation of this dodecahydrate is identic...

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

authors： Karle IL,Duesler E

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary x-ray diffraction data from single crystals of the MoFe proteins of nitrogenase from Clostridium pasteurianum and Azotobacter vinelandii have been obtained. Both protein crystals belong to the P2(1) space group. The MoFe protein crystals from C. pasteurianum and A. vinelandii diffract to angles correspondi...

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

authors： Weininger MS,Mortenson LE

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00