Pheromone-induced anisotropy in yeast plasma membrane phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate distribution is required for MAPK signaling.

abstract：:Salivary gland cells in the larvae of the dipteran Chironomus tentans offer unique possibilities to visualize the assembly and nucleocytoplasmic transport of a specific transcription product. Each nucleus harbors four giant polytene chromosomes, whose transcription sites are expanded, or puffed. On chromosome IV, ther...

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

authors： Daneholt B

更新日期：2001-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a comprehensive cartography of selective responses to visual letters and words in the human ventral occipito-temporal cortex (VOTC) with direct neural recordings, clarifying key aspects of the neural basis of reading. Intracerebral recordings were performed in a large group of patients (n = 37) presented wit...

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

authors： Lochy A,Jacques C,Maillard L,Colnat-Coulbois S,Rossion B,Jonas J

更新日期：2018-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate modification of the 3 billion-base-pair human genome requires tools with exceptional sequence specificity. Here, we describe a general strategy for the design of enzymes that target a single site within the genome. We generated chimeric zinc finger recombinases with cooperative DNA-binding and catalytic speci...

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

authors： Gordley RM,Gersbach CA,Barbas CF 3rd

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Two clusters of configurations of the main proteolytic subunit β5 were identified by principal component analysis of crystal structures of the yeast proteasome core particle (yCP). The apo-cluster encompasses unliganded species and complexes with nonpeptidic ligands, and the pep-cluster comprises complexes with peptid...

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

authors： Arciniega M,Beck P,Lange OF,Groll M,Huber R

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fraction of mouse RNA containing messenger RNA coding for mouse interferon was translated with high efficiency in a wheat germ system into a fully active product. This product fulfills the criteria for mouse interferon, namely: (1) it was active against vesicular stomatitis virus and herpes simplex virus in mouse ce...

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

authors： Thang MN,Thang DC,De Maeyer E,Montagnier L

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Africa is the origin of modern humans, the pattern and distribution of genetic variation and correlations with cultural and linguistic diversity in Africa have been understudied. Recent advances in genomic technology, however, have led to genomewide studies of African samples. In this article, we discuss gene...

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

authors： Scheinfeldt LB,Soi S,Tishkoff SA

更新日期：2010-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The fungus, Phycomyces blakesleeanus, shows many well-defined responses to a number of external stimuli. Genetic analysis shows that at least eight genes are involved in Phycomyces sensory transduction. As a first step toward the molecular analysis of these genes and their products, we have developed a transformation ...

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

authors： Revuelta JL,Jayaram M

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diabetogenic agent alloxan exerts a preferential cytotoxic effect on the pancreatic B cell. The determinants of such a tissue specificity were investigated. Alloxan accumulated rapidly in liver and pancreatic islets but much more slowly in muscle. The activity of glutathione peroxidase and the resistance to exogen...

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

authors： Malaisse WJ,Malaisse-Lagae F,Sener A,Pipeleers DG

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell line has been developed from the imaginal wing discs of the lepidopteran insect Trichoplusia ni (Hübner). The cells grow in suspension as fluid-filled, multicellular vesicles. The cell line has been designated IAL-TND1. Two-dimensional electrophoresis (isoelectric focusing and sodium dodecyl sulfate/polyacrylam...

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

authors： Lynn DE,Miller SG,Oberlander H

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sialyl Lewis x (sLe(x)) and sialyl Lewis a (sLe(a)) glycans are expressed on highly metastatic colon cancer cells. They promote extravasation of cancer cells and tumor angiogenesis via interacting with E-selectin on endothelial cells. Recently, epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) has been noted as a critical pheno...

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

authors： Sakuma K,Aoki M,Kannagi R

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Precipitates of hemoglobin, termed Heinz bodies, occur in a fraction of erythrocytes after removal of the spleen and are also observed in aged erythrocytes. This implies that precipitates of hemoglobin might play a particular role in senescent cell recognition. By using immunofluorescence microscopy, evidence is prese...

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

authors： Schlüter K,Drenckhahn D

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cold-water conditions have excluded durophagous (skeleton-breaking) predators from the Antarctic seafloor for millions of years. Rapidly warming seas off the western Antarctic Peninsula could now facilitate their return to the continental shelf, with profound consequences for the endemic fauna. Among the likely first ...

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

authors： Aronson RB,Smith KE,Vos SC,McClintock JB,Amsler MO,Moksnes PO,Ellis DS,Kaeli J,Singh H,Bailey JW,Schiferl JC,van Woesik R,Martin MA,Steffel BV,Deal ME,Lazarus SM,Havenhand JN,Swalethorp R,Kjellerup S,Thatje S

更新日期：2015-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin (IL)-15 and its specific receptor chain, IL-15Rα, support the development of various effector cells, including NK and CD8 T cells via a mechanism called trans-presentation. Whereas the dynamic of trans-presentation has been shown to involve the recycling of IL-15Rα by presenting cells, the way responding c...

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

authors： Tamzalit F,Barbieux I,Plet A,Heim J,Nedellec S,Morisseau S,Jacques Y,Mortier E

更新日期：2014-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A special methionine tRNA (tRNAi) is universally required to initiate translation. Amongst species a tRNAi structural conservation is most apparent in the anticodon and T arms of the molecule but extends into the variable loop and the 3' strand of the D stem. This suggested that they could share a similar ancestral or...

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

authors： Ganoza MC,Marliere P,Kofoid EC,Louis BG

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), a cognate ligand for the tyrosine kinase receptor B (TrkB) receptor, mediates neuronal survival, differentiation, synaptic plasticity, and neurogenesis. However, BDNF has a poor pharmacokinetic profile that limits its therapeutic potential. Here we report the identification of...

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

authors： Jang SW,Liu X,Yepes M,Shepherd KR,Miller GW,Liu Y,Wilson WD,Xiao G,Blanchi B,Sun YE,Ye K

更新日期：2010-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that the pituitary contains a cytotropic factor (CTF) that stimulates the secretion of catecholamines by dopaminergic neurons of the hypothalamus. In the present study, CTF was purified from rat pituitaries and found by means of mass spectrometric analysis to be adenosine. This finding was corroborat...

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

authors： Porter JC,Ijames CF,Wang TC,Markey SP

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Ascidians are hermaphrodites releasing sperm and eggs simultaneously, but many species are self-sterile because of a self/nonself-recognition system in spermegg interaction. Here, we show that a 70-kDa vitelline coat protein, HrVC70, consisting of 12 epidermal growth factor-like repeats, plays a key role in self/nonse...

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

authors： Sawada H,Tanaka E,Ban S,Yamasaki C,Fujino J,Ooura K,Abe Y,Matsumoto K,Yokosawa H

更新日期：2004-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:High-grade neuroendocrine lung malignancies (large-cell neuroendocrine cell carcinoma, LCNEC, and small-cell lung carcinoma, SCLC) are among the most deadly lung cancer conditions with no optimal clinical management. The biological relationships between SCLC and LCNEC are still largely unknown and a current matter of ...

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

authors： Lázaro S,Pérez-Crespo M,Lorz C,Bernardini A,Oteo M,Enguita AB,Romero E,Hernández P,Tomás L,Morcillo MÁ,Paramio JM,Santos M

更新日期：2019-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic liver disorder and is strongly associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes. Currently, there is no approved pharmacological treatment for this disease, but improvement of insulin resistance using peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPARγ) ag...

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

authors： Liu W,Struik D,Nies VJ,Jurdzinski A,Harkema L,de Bruin A,Verkade HJ,Downes M,Evans RM,van Zutphen T,Jonker JW

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:This report establishes that increasing the activity of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase A; PKA) potentiates glucocorticoid-mediated signaling in embryonic day 5.5 (E5.5) chicken retina. Expression of a glutamine synthetase-chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) fusion gene is not induced by treatm...

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

authors： Zhang H,Li YC,Young AP

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perception can be described as a process of inference, integrating bottom-up sensory inputs and top-down expectations. However, it is unclear how this process is neurally implemented. It has been proposed that expectations lead to prestimulus baseline increases in sensory neurons tuned to the expected stimulus, which ...

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

authors： Kok P,Mostert P,de Lange FP

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:DsRed, a brilliantly red fluorescent protein, was recently cloned from Discosoma coral by homology to the green fluorescent protein (GFP) from the jellyfish Aequorea. A core question in the biochemistry of DsRed is the mechanism by which the GFP-like 475-nm excitation and 500-nm emission maxima of immature DsRed are r...

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

authors： Gross LA,Baird GS,Hoffman RC,Baldridge KK,Tsien RY

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Release of formylmethionine from the reticulocyte ribosomal substrate, f[(3)H]Met-tRNA.ribosome, is promoted by reticulocyte release factor (RF). The initial rate of this reaction is stimulated by GTP but inhibited by GDPCP. Formation of an RF.UA[(3)H]A(2).ribosome complex is a measure of the binding of reticulocyte R...

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

authors： Tate WP,Beaudet AL,Caskey CT

更新日期：1973-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian rhythms modulate many aspects of physiology. Knowledge of the molecular basis of these rhythms has exploded in the last 20 years. However, most of these data are from model organisms, and translation to clinical practice has been limited. Here, we present an approach to identify molecular rhythms in humans f...

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

authors： Anafi RC,Francey LJ,Hogenesch JB,Kim J

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A convenient technique for the partial purification of large quantities of functional, poly(adenylic acid)-rich mRNA is described. The method depends upon annealing poly(adenylic acid)-rich mRNA to oligothymidylic acid-cellulose columns and its elution with buffers of low ionic strength. Biologically active rabbit glo...

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

authors： Aviv H,Leder P

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interaction of the estrogen receptor/ligand complex with a DNA estrogen response element is known to regulate gene transcription. In turn, specific conformations of the receptor-ligand complex have been postulated to influence unique subsets of estrogen-responsive genes resulting in differential modulation and, ultima...

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

authors： Grese TA,Sluka JP,Bryant HU,Cullinan GJ,Glasebrook AL,Jones CD,Matsumoto K,Palkowitz AD,Sato M,Termine JD,Winter MA,Yang NN,Dodge JA

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective harvest of large individuals should alter natural adaptive landscapes and drive evolution toward reduced somatic growth and increased reproductive investment. However, few studies have simultaneously considered the relative importance of artificial and natural selection in driving trait changes in wild popul...

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

authors： Edeline E,Carlson SM,Stige LC,Winfield IJ,Fletcher JM,James JB,Haugen TO,Vøllestad LA,Stenseth NC

更新日期：2007-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Inherited single gene defects have been identified in both humans and mice that lead to loss of developmental control over the left-right asymmetry of the heart and viscera. In mice the recessively inherited mutation iv leads to such apparent loss of control over situs: 50% of iv/iv mice exhibit situs inversus and 50%...

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

authors： Brueckner M,D'Eustachio P,Horwich AL

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recruitment and evolutionary optimization of promiscuous enzymes is key to the rapid adaptation of organisms to changing environments. Our understanding of the precise mechanisms underlying enzyme repurposing is, however, limited: What are the active-site features that enable the molecular recognition of multiple ...

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

authors： Miton CM,Jonas S,Fischer G,Duarte F,Mohamed MF,van Loo B,Kintses B,Kamerlin SCL,Tokuriki N,Hyvönen M,Hollfelder F

更新日期：2018-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Nature is rife with networks that are functionally optimized to propagate inputs to perform specific tasks. Whether via genetic evolution or dynamic adaptation, many networks create functionality by locally tuning interactions between nodes. Here we explore this behavior in two contexts: strain propagation in mechanic...

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

authors： Rocks JW,Ronellenfitsch H,Liu AJ,Nagel SR,Katifori E

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00