Control of cell membrane tension by myosin-I.

abstract：:By using a mixture of synthetic oligodeoxyribonucleotides as a probe, cloned cDNA sequences specific for low molecular weight (LMW) kininogen have been isolated from a cDNA library of bovine liver mRNA sequences. Nucleotide sequence analyses of cloned cDNA inserts have revealed that bovine liver LMW kininogens are enc...

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

authors： Nawa H,Kitamura N,Hirose T,Asai M,Inayama S,Nakanishi S

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We visualized synchronous dynamic brain networks by using prewhitened (stationary) magnetoencephalography signals. Data were acquired from 248 axial gradiometers while 10 subjects fixated on a spot of light for 45 s. After fitting an autoregressive integrative moving average model and taking the residuals, all pairwis...

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

authors： Langheim FJ,Leuthold AC,Georgopoulos AP

更新日期：2006-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional topological insulators (3D TIs) represent states of quantum matters in which surface states are protected by time-reversal symmetry and an inversion occurs between bulk conduction and valence bands. However, the bulk-band inversion, which is intimately tied to the topologically nontrivial nature of 3...

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

authors： Chen ZG,Chen RY,Zhong RD,Schneeloch J,Zhang C,Huang Y,Qu F,Yu R,Li Q,Gu GD,Wang NL

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional asymmetric PCR is inefficient and difficult to optimize because limiting the concentration of one primer lowers its melting temperature below the reaction annealing temperature. Linear-After-The-Exponential (LATE)-PCR describes a new paradigm for primer design that renders assays as efficient as symmetric...

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

authors： Sanchez JA,Pierce KE,Rice JE,Wangh LJ

更新日期：2004-02-17 00:00:00

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：:Whether the mate sampling and choice performed by females in nature influences offspring performance is a controversial issue in theory and an open empirical question. Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) females engage in an obvious and energetically expensive mate sampling process to identify vigorous males. Although i...

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

authors： Byers JA,Waits L

更新日期：2006-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The self-organization of multicomponent tetrarosette assemblies into ordered nanostructures on graphite surfaces has been studied by atomic force microscopy (AFM). Real-space information on the level of individual molecules allowed us to analyze the underlying structure in unprecedented detail. In highly ordered nanor...

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

authors： Schönherr H,Paraschiv V,Zapotoczny S,Crego-Calama M,Timmerman P,Frank CW,Vancso GJ,Reinhoudt DN

更新日期：2002-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans reason about the mental states of others; this capacity is called Theory of Mind (ToM). In typically developing adults, ToM is supported by a consistent group of brain regions: the bilateral temporoparietal junction (TPJ), medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC), precuneus (PC), and anterior temporal sulci (aSTS). How ...

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

authors： Bedny M,Pascual-Leone A,Saxe RR

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Proper regulation of the intracellular ion concentration is essential to maintain life and is achieved by ion transporters that transport their substrates across the membrane in a strictly regulated manner. MgtE is a Mg(2+) transporter that may function in the homeostasis of the intracellular Mg(2+) concentration. A r...

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

authors： Ishitani R,Sugita Y,Dohmae N,Furuya N,Hattori M,Nureki O

更新日期：2008-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-17A is a therapeutic target in many autoimmune diseases. Most nonhematopoietic cells express IL-17A receptors and respond to extracellular IL-17A by inducing proinflammatory cytokines. The IL-17A signal transduction triggers two broad, TRAF6- and TRAF5-dependent, intracellular signaling pathways to produce represen...

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

authors： McGowan J,Peter C,Kim J,Popli S,Veerman B,Saul-McBeth J,Conti H,Pruett-Miller SM,Chattopadhyay S,Chakravarti R

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the strategies used by organisms to adapt to life under conditions of short energy supply is to use the by-product pyrophosphate to support cation gradients in membranes. Transport reactions are catalyzed by membrane-integral pyrophosphatases (PPases), which are classified into two homologous subfamilies: H(+)-...

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

authors： Luoto HH,Baykov AA,Lahti R,Malinen AM

更新日期：2013-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Energy relaxation in light-harvesting complexes has been extensively studied by various ultrafast spectroscopic techniques, the fastest processes being in the sub-100-fs range. At the same time, much slower dynamics have been observed in individual complexes by single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy (SMS). In this ...

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

authors： Malý P,Gruber JM,Cogdell RJ,Mančal T,van Grondelle R

更新日期：2016-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The guanosine hydrazide 1 yields a stable supramolecular hydrogel based on the formation of a guanine quartet (G-quartet) in presence of metal cations. The effect of various parameters (concentration, nature of metal ion, and temperature) on the properties of this gel has been studied. Proton NMR spectroscopy is shown...

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

authors： Sreenivasachary N,Lehn JM

更新日期：2005-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein L-1 (APOL1), the trypanolytic factor of human serum, can lyse several African trypanosome species including Trypanosoma brucei brucei, but not the human-infective pathogens T. brucei rhodesiense and T. brucei gambiense, which are resistant to lysis by human serum. Lysis follows the uptake of APOL1 into ...

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

authors： Thomson R,Finkelstein A

更新日期：2015-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The largest known DNA viruses infect Acanthamoeba and belong to two markedly different families. The Megaviridae exhibit pseudo-icosahedral virions up to 0.7 μm in diameter and adenine-thymine (AT)-rich genomes of up to 1.25 Mb encoding a thousand proteins. Like their Mimivirus prototype discovered 10 y ago, they enti...

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

authors： Legendre M,Bartoli J,Shmakova L,Jeudy S,Labadie K,Adrait A,Lescot M,Poirot O,Bertaux L,Bruley C,Couté Y,Rivkina E,Abergel C,Claverie JM

更新日期：2014-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Insects have diversified through more than 450 million y of Earth's changeable climate, yet rapidly shifting patterns of temperature and precipitation now pose novel challenges as they combine with decades of other anthropogenic stressors including the conversion and degradation of land. Here, we consider how insects ...

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

authors： Halsch CA,Shapiro AM,Fordyce JA,Nice CC,Thorne JH,Waetjen DP,Forister ML

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The deadly neurotoxin tetrodotoxin (TTX) is found in a variety of animal phyla and, because of its toxicity, is most often assumed to deter predation. On the tropical Pacific island of Guam, we found an undescribed flatworm (planocerid sp. 1) that contains high levels of TTX and its analogs. Through ecological experim...

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

authors： Ritson-Williams R,Yotsu-Yamashita M,Paul VJ

更新日期：2006-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet-derived growth factors (PDGFs) and their receptors (PDGFRs) are prototypic growth factors and receptor tyrosine kinases which have critical functions in development. We show that PDGFs share a conserved region in their prodomain sequences which can remain noncovalently associated with the mature cystine-knot ...

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

authors： Shim AH,Liu H,Focia PJ,Chen X,Lin PC,He X

更新日期：2010-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of proper ion channel trafficking is underpinned by a number of channel-linked genetic diseases whose defect is associated with failure to reach the cell surface. Conceptually, it is reasonable to suggest that the function of ion channels depends critically on the precise subcellular localization and th...

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

authors： Lu L,Timofeyev V,Li N,Rafizadeh S,Singapuri A,Harris TR,Chiamvimonvat N

更新日期：2009-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen receptors on the T-cell surface are noncovalently associated with at least four invariant polypeptide chains, CD3-gamma, -delta, -epsilon, and -zeta. The mouse CD3-gamma gene, consisting of seven exons, was found to be highly homologous to the CD3-delta gene described earlier. Both the high level of sequence h...

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

authors： Saito H,Koyama T,Georgopoulos K,Clevers H,Haser WG,LeBien T,Tonegawa S,Terhorst C

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differentiation of the female gamete into a developmentally competent oocyte relies on the protected environment of the ovarian follicle. The oocyte plays a key role in establishing this microenvironment by releasing paracrine factors that control the functions of surrounding somatic cells. Growth differentiation ...

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

authors： Cakmak H,Franciosi F,Zamah AM,Cedars MI,Conti M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The F-box protein Skp2 (S-phase kinase-associated protein 2) positively regulates the G(1)-S transition by controlling the stability of several G(1) regulators, such as the cell cycle inhibitor p27. We show here that Skp2 expression correlates directly with grade of malignancy and inversely with p27 levels in human ly...

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

authors： Latres E,Chiarle R,Schulman BA,Pavletich NP,Pellicer A,Inghirami G,Pagano M

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In some countries across the globe, tropical forest cover is increasing. The national-scale reforestation of Vietnam since 1992 is assumed to contribute to this recovery. It is achieved, however, by the displacement of forest extraction to other countries on the order of 49 (34-70) M m(3), or approximately 39% of the ...

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

authors： Meyfroidt P,Lambin EF

更新日期：2009-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasponia, a woody member of the elm family, is the only nonlegume genus whose members are known to form an effective nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with a Rhizobium species. The bacterial strain RP501 is a slow-growing strain of Rhizobium isolated from Parasponia nodules. Strain RP501 also nodulates the legumes siratro (...

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

authors： Marvel DJ,Kuldau G,Hirsch A,Richards E,Torrey JG,Ausubel FM

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rpoN gene encoding the transcription factor sigma54 in Myxococcus xanthus has been cloned using a heterologous rpoN probe. The sequence of the cross-hybridizing DNA confirmed the existence of an ORF 1518 bp long that encodes a well conserved member of the sigma54 family of sigma factors. Low- as well as high-strin...

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

authors： Keseler IM,Kaiser D

更新日期：1997-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A hybrid bacteriophage, P420, was constructed in vitro; it contains part of bacteriophage P4 and a 3.6-kilobase derivative of plasmid ColE1. In Escherichia coli, the plasmid-phage hybrid can exist as a stable plasmid or can be packaged into infective bacteriophage particles. Replication of P420, directed by the ColE1 ...

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

authors： Kahn M,Helinski DR

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a method for predicting the structure of alpha beta class proteins in the absence of information from homologous structures. The method is based on an associative memory model for short to intermediate range in sequence contacts and a contact potential for long range in sequence contacts. The coefficients ...

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

authors： Hardin C,Eastwood MP,Prentiss MC,Luthey-Schulten Z,Wolynes PG

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The human beta-globin locus control region (LCR) consists of four erythroid-specific DNaseI hypersensitive sites (HSs) at the 5' end of the beta-globin cluster. The LCR functions over a long distance on chromosome 11 to regulate transcription and replication of the beta-globin genes. To determine whether the HSs funct...

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

authors： Bresnick EH,Tze L

更新日期：1997-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Antarctic ozone depletion is associated with enhanced chlorine from anthropogenic chlorofluorocarbons and heterogeneous chemistry under cold conditions. The deep Antarctic "hole" contrasts with the generally weaker depletions observed in the warmer Arctic. An unusually cold Arctic stratospheric season occurred in 2011...

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

authors： Solomon S,Haskins J,Ivy DJ,Min F

更新日期：2014-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:During tRNA biosynthesis the 5'-leader sequences in precursor tRNAs are removed by the ribonucleoprotein RNase P, an enzyme whose RNA moiety is required for activity. To clarify some aspects of the enzyme mechanism, we examined substrate binding and product formation with mutant precursor tRNAs. Mutations G-1----A or ...

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

authors： Nichols M,Söll D,Willis I

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00