Membrane domains and flagellar pocket boundaries are influenced by the cytoskeleton in African trypanosomes.

abstract：:Two Chinese hamster cell lines, G1+-1 and CHO, have been grown in the presence of low concentrations of hydroxyurea to determine how a slowing DNA synthesis (i.e., a lengthening of the S period) affects the length of the G1 period. Hydroxyurea concentrations of approximately 10 microM do not alter the generation times...

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

authors： Stancel GM,Prescott DM,Liskay RM

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sustained activation of N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) -type glutamate receptors leads to excitotoxic neuronal death in stroke, brain trauma, and neurodegenerative disorders. Superoxide production by NADPH oxidase is a requisite event in the process leading from NMDA receptor activation to excitotoxic death. NADPH oxidas...

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

authors： Lam TI,Brennan-Minnella AM,Won SJ,Shen Y,Hefner C,Shi Y,Sun D,Swanson RA

更新日期：2013-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposition of the genetically related insertion elements gamma delta and Tn3 is thought to involve two steps. In the case of transposition from one replicon to another, the first step is fusion of the parent and target replicons with the element appearing in direct orientation at the two junctions. In a subsequent ...

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

authors： Reed RR

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kainate receptor (KAR), a subtype of glutamate receptor, mediates excitatory synaptic responses at a subset of glutamatergic synapses. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the trafficking of its different subunits are poorly understood. Here we use the CA1 hippocampal pyramidal cell, which lacks KAR-mediat...

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

authors： Sheng N,Shi YS,Nicoll RA

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we describe the use of nuclease-resistant molecular beacons (MBs) for the real-time detection of coxsackievirus B6 replication in living Buffalo green monkey kidney (BGMK) cells via Tat peptide delivery. A nuclease-resistant MB containing 2'-O-methyl RNA bases with phosphorothioate internucleotide linka...

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

authors： Yeh HY,Yates MV,Mulchandani A,Chen W

更新日期：2008-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) is a DNA mimic that has shown considerable promise as a lead compound for developing gene therapeutic drugs. We report that PNAs targeted to functional and accessible sites in ribosomal RNA can inhibit translation in an Escherichia coli cell-free transcription/translation system, with 50% re...

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

authors： Good L,Nielsen PE

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-barrier hydrogen bonds (LBHBs) have been proposed to play roles in protein functions, including enzymatic catalysis and proton transfer. Transient formation of LBHBs is expected to stabilize specific reaction intermediates. However, based on experimental results and theoretical considerations, arguments against th...

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

authors： Yamaguchi S,Kamikubo H,Kurihara K,Kuroki R,Niimura N,Shimizu N,Yamazaki Y,Kataoka M

更新日期：2009-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress induced in live HeLa cells by menadione (2-methyl-1,4-napthaquinone) was studied in real time by scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM). The hydrophobic molecule menadione diffuses through a living cell membrane where it is toxic to the cell. However, in the cell it is conjugated with glutathione ...

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

authors： Koley D,Bard AJ

更新日期：2012-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigenic markers associated with the major internal protein of RNA tumor viruses of the C-type have proven extremely useful in natural history studies of these viruses. This protein possesses species-specific antigenic determinants, and, in the case of mammalian C-type viruses, the protein possesses crossreactive det...

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

authors： Gilden RV,Oroszlan S

更新日期：1972-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eradication of an invasive species can provide significant environmental, economic, and social benefits, but eradication programs often fail. Constant and careful monitoring improves the chance of success, but an invasion may seem to be in decline even when it is expanding in abundance or spatial extent. Determining w...

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

authors： Keith JM,Spring D

更新日期：2013-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary thinking can be applied to both cultural microevolution and macroevolution. However, much of the current literature focuses on cultural microevolution. In this article, we argue that the growing availability of large cross-cultural datasets facilitates the use of computational methods derived from evoluti...

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

authors： Gray RD,Watts J

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of ornithine decarboxylase (OrnDCase, EC 4.1.1.17) and of the polyamines [putrescine (Put), spermidine (Spd), and spermine (Spm)] in mouse skin tumor promotion was investigated by the use of alpha-difluoromethylornithine (CHF2-Orn), an enzyme-activated irreversible inhibitor of OrnDCase. 12-O-Tetradecanoylpho...

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

authors： Weeks CE,Herrmann AL,Nelson FR,Slaga TJ

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence photobleaching recovery was used to measure the lateral diffusion coefficient and mobile fraction of surface immunoglobulin (sIg), Thy-1 antigen, and a lipid probe in the plasma membrane of mouse lymphocytes. The lipid probe (3,3'-dioctadecylindocarbocyanine) had a mean (+/-SD) diffusion coefficient of (1...

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

authors： Dragsten P,Henkart P,Blumenthal R,Weinstein J,Schlessinger J

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of studies have noted that nucleotide substitution rates at the chloroplast-encoded rbcL locus violate the molecular clock principle. Substitution rate variation at this plastid gene is particularly pronounced between palms and grasses; for example, a previous study estimated that substitution rates in rbcL s...

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

authors： Gaut BS,Morton BR,McCaig BC,Clegg MT

更新日期：1996-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Human X chromosome DNA was partially purified from a mouse-human hybrid cell line containing a single human chromosome, the X. Enrichment of such DNA was accomplished by two sequential reassociations of radiolabeled hybrid cell DNA with large excesses of mouse DNA. Unreassociated hybrid cell DNA was used as a probe fo...

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

authors： Schmeckpeper BJ,Smith KD,Dorman BP,Ruddle FH,Talbot CC Jr

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular clocks have been used to date the divergence of humans and chimpanzees for nearly four decades. Nonetheless, this date and its confidence interval remain to be firmly established. In an effort to generate a genomic view of the human-chimpanzee divergence, we have analyzed 167 nuclear protein-coding genes and...

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

authors： Kumar S,Filipski A,Swarna V,Walker A,Hedges SB

更新日期：2005-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In Arabidopsis thaliana, biosynthesis of the essential thiol antioxidant, glutathione (GSH), is plastid-regulated, but many GSH functions, including heavy metal detoxification and plant defense activation, depend on cytosolic GSH. This finding suggests that plastid and cytosol thiol pools are closely integrated and we...

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

authors： Maughan SC,Pasternak M,Cairns N,Kiddle G,Brach T,Jarvis R,Haas F,Nieuwland J,Lim B,Müller C,Salcedo-Sora E,Kruse C,Orsel M,Hell R,Miller AJ,Bray P,Foyer CH,Murray JA,Meyer AJ,Cobbett CS

更新日期：2010-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria, caused by Plasmodium sp, results in almost one million deaths and over 200 million new infections annually. The World Health Organization has recommended that artemisinin-based combination therapies be used for treatment of malaria. Artemisinin is a sesquiterpene lactone isolated from the plant Artemisia annu...

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

authors： Westfall PJ,Pitera DJ,Lenihan JR,Eng D,Woolard FX,Regentin R,Horning T,Tsuruta H,Melis DJ,Owens A,Fickes S,Diola D,Benjamin KR,Keasling JD,Leavell MD,McPhee DJ,Renninger NS,Newman JD,Paddon CJ

更新日期：2012-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracisternal A-particles were isolated from three different myeloma lines in BALB/c mice and from cultured neuroblastoma cells of A/J origin. All preparations contained a major structural protein with an apparent molecular weight near 70,000 as estimated by electrophoretic mobility in sodium dodecyl sulfate-containi...

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

authors： Kuff EL,Leuders KK,Ozer HL,Wivel NA

更新日期：1972-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A human peripheral T-cell cDNA library was screened with two labeled synthetic oligonucleotides encoding regions of a human placenta protein-tyrosine-phosphatase (protein-tyrosine-phosphate phosphohydrolase, EC 3.1.3.48). One positive clone was isolated and the nucleotide sequence was determined. It contained 1305 bas...

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

authors： Cool DE,Tonks NK,Charbonneau H,Walsh KA,Fischer EH,Krebs EG

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osmotic homeostasis in the brain involves movement of water through aquaporin-4 (AQP4) membrane channels. Perivascular astrocyte end-feet contain distinctive orthogonal lattices (square arrays) assembled from 4- to 6-nm intramembrane particles (IMPs) corresponding to individual AQP4 tetramers. Two isoforms of AQP4 res...

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

authors： Furman CS,Gorelick-Feldman DA,Davidson KG,Yasumura T,Neely JD,Agre P,Rash JE

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the cloning, expression, and characterization of a dual-substrate, cAMP and cGMP, cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (PDE) from mouse. This PDE contains the consensus sequence for a PDE catalytic domain, but shares <50% sequence identity with the catalytic domains of all other known PDEs and, therefore...

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

authors： Soderling SH,Bayuga SJ,Beavo JA

更新日期：1999-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical forces have a profound effect on growth, morphology, locomotion, and survival of organisms. At the level of individual cells, the role of mechanical forces is well recognized in eukaryotic physiology, but much less is known about prokaryotic organisms. Recent findings suggest an effect of physical forces on b...

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

authors： Genova LA,Roberts MF,Wong YC,Harper CE,Santiago AG,Fu B,Srivastava A,Jung W,Wang LM,Krzemiński Ł,Mao X,Sun X,Hui CY,Chen P,Hernandez CJ

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated and analyzed a cDNA from the central nervous system of the mollusc Lymnaea stagnalis encoding a putative receptor, which might be a natural hybrid between two different classes of receptor proteins. Preceded by a signal peptide, two types of repeated sequences are present in the N-terminal part of the...

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

authors： Tensen CP,Van Kesteren ER,Planta RJ,Cox KJ,Burke JF,van Heerikhuizen H,Vreugdenhil E

更新日期：1994-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A solid-phase immunoadsorbent capable of binding mouse interferon has been prepared. Starting from crude tissue-culture material, interferon could be purified 1990 times in a single step of affinity chromatography. Overall recovery ranged from 55 to 103% with tissue culture and mouse-brain interferon; however, only 5%...

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

authors： Sipe JD,de Maeyer-Guignard J,Fauconnier B,de Maeyer E

更新日期：1973-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid-mediated signaling events regulate many cellular processes. Investigations of the complex underlying mechanisms are difficult because several different methods need to be used under varying conditions. Here we introduce multifunctional lipid derivatives to study lipid metabolism, lipid-protein interactions, and ...

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

authors： Höglinger D,Nadler A,Haberkant P,Kirkpatrick J,Schifferer M,Stein F,Hauke S,Porter FD,Schultz C

更新日期：2017-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal CD103(-) dendritic cells (DCs) are pathogenic for colitis. Unveiling molecular mechanisms that render these cells proinflammatory is important for the design of specific immunotherapies. In this report, we demonstrated that mesenteric lymph node CD103(-) DCs express, among other proinflammatory cytokines, h...

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

authors： Kourepini E,Aggelakopoulou M,Alissafi T,Paschalidis N,Simoes DC,Panoutsakopoulou V

更新日期：2014-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting whether and how populations will adapt to rapid climate change is a critical goal for evolutionary biology. To examine the genetic basis of fitness and predict adaptive evolution in novel climates with seasonal variation, we grew a diverse panel of the annual plant Arabidopsis thaliana (multiparent advanced...

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

authors： Fournier-Level A,Perry EO,Wang JA,Braun PT,Migneault A,Cooper MD,Metcalf CJ,Schmitt J

更新日期：2016-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A polypeptide was purified from rat hypothalamic extracts on the basis of its high intrinsic activity to release corticotropin (ACTH) from cultured rat anterior pituitary cells and its immunoactivity in a radioimmunoassay directed against the NH2 terminus (residues 4-20) of ovine hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing f...

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

authors： Rivier J,Spiess J,Vale W

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosine phosphorylation of insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1) by the insulin receptor permits this docking protein to interact with signaling proteins that promote insulin action. Serine phosphorylation uncouples IRS-1 from the insulin receptor, thereby inhibiting its tyrosine phosphorylation and insulin signaling....

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

authors： Ozes ON,Akca H,Mayo LD,Gustin JA,Maehama T,Dixon JE,Donner DB

更新日期：2001-04-10 00:00:00