Regulation of adenylate cyclase activity mediated by muscarinic acetylcholine receptors.

abstract：:We have established a transformation system for Dictyostelium discoideum. The transformation vector contains the protein coding region of the Tn5 neomycin resistance gene fused to the proposed promoter of the Dictyostelium actin 8 gene; the vector also contains a sequence that acts as an autonomously replicating seque...

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

authors： Hirth KP,Edwards CA,Firtel RA

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza hemagglutinin (HA) glycoprotein is the primary surface antigen targeted by the host immune response and a focus for development of novel vaccines, broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs), and therapeutics. HA enables viral entry into host cells via receptor binding and membrane fusion and is a validated targ...

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

authors： Yao Y,Kadam RU,Lee CD,Woehl JL,Wu NC,Zhu X,Kitamura S,Wilson IA,Wolan DW

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Explaining the variation between human languages and the constraints on that variation is a core goal of linguistics. In the last 20 y, it has been claimed that many striking universals of cross-linguistic variation follow from a hypothetical principle that dependency length--the distance between syntactically related...

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

authors： Futrell R,Mahowald K,Gibson E

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen signaling occurs through at least two distinct molecular pathways: (i) direct binding of liganded estrogen receptors (ERs) to estrogen-responsive DNA elements (EREs) (the "ER/ERE pathway") and (ii) indirect recruitment of liganded ERs to activating protein-1 (AP-1)-responsive DNA elements via heterodimers of ...

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

authors： Cheung E,Acevedo ML,Cole PA,Kraus WL

更新日期：2005-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A general procedure is described for the production of human monoclonal antibodies from peripheral blood lymphocytes immunized in vitro against T-cell-dependent antigens. These lymphocytes immunized in culture were used to produce human-human or human-mouse hybridomas secreting monoclonal antibodies specific for digox...

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

authors： Borrebaeck CA,Danielsson L,Möller SA

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymersomes, which are stable and robust vesicles made of block copolymer amphiphiles, are good candidates for drug carriers or micro/nanoreactors. Polymer chemistry enables almost unlimited molecular design of responsive polymersomes whose degradation upon environmental changes has been used for the slow release of ...

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

authors： Mabrouk E,Cuvelier D,Brochard-Wyart F,Nassoy P,Li MH

更新日期：2009-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological interactions shape adaptations through coevolution not only between pairs of species but also through entire multispecies assemblages. Local coevolution can then be further altered through spatial processes that have been formally partitioned in the geographic mosaic theory of coevolution. A major current c...

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

authors： Medeiros LP,Garcia G,Thompson JN,Guimarães PR Jr

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Pin1 is a modular enzyme that accelerates the cis-trans isomerization of phosphorylated-Ser/Thr-Pro (pS/T-P) motifs found in numerous signaling proteins regulating cell growth and neuronal survival. We have used NMR to investigate the interaction of Pin1 with three related ligands that include a pS-P substrate peptide...

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

authors： Namanja AT,Wang XJ,Xu B,Mercedes-Camacho AY,Wilson KA,Etzkorn FA,Peng JW

更新日期：2011-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy, a conserved pathway that delivers intracellular materials into lysosomes for degradation, is involved in development, aging, and a variety of diseases. Accumulating evidence demonstrates that autophagy plays a protective role against infectious diseases by diminishing intracellular pathogens, including bact...

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

authors： Zou CG,Ma YC,Dai LL,Zhang KQ

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes encoded by mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) exist in large numbers per cell but can be selected very rapidly as a result of unequal partitioning of mtDNA between germ cells during embryogenesis. However, empirical studies of this "bottlenecking" effect are rare because of the apparent scarcity of heteroplasmic individu...

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

authors： Van Leeuwen T,Vanholme B,Van Pottelberge S,Van Nieuwenhuyse P,Nauen R,Tirry L,Denholm I

更新日期：2008-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Single molecule fluorescence polarization techniques have been used for three-dimensional (3D) orientation measurements to observe the dynamic properties of single molecules. However, only few techniques can simultaneously measure 3D orientation and position. Furthermore, these techniques often require complex equipme...

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

authors： Ohmachi M,Komori Y,Iwane AH,Fujii F,Jin T,Yanagida T

更新日期：2012-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Sands from various geographic locations reduce N(2) from the air to NH(3) and traces of N(2)H(4) on exposure to sunlight. This N(2) photofixation occurs under sterile conditions on the surface of finely dispersed titanium minerals such as rutile, utilizing reducing equivalents generated through the photolysis of chemi...

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

authors： Schrauzer GN,Strampach N,Hui LN,Palmer MR,Salehi J

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrointestinal infections often induce epithelial damage that must be repaired for optimal gut function. While intestinal stem cells are critical for this regeneration process [R. C. van der Wath, B. S. Gardiner, A. W. Burgess, D. W. Smith, PLoS One 8, e73204 (2013); S. Kozar et al., Cell Stem Cell 13, 626-633 (2013...

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

authors： Mileto SJ,Jardé T,Childress KO,Jensen JL,Rogers AP,Kerr G,Hutton ML,Sheedlo MJ,Bloch SC,Shupe JA,Horvay K,Flores T,Engel R,Wilkins S,McMurrick PJ,Lacy DB,Abud HE,Lyras D

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons in the cochlear nuclei of duck embryos become responsive to tonal stimuli in an orderly spatial and temporal sequence. Cells responding to lower frequencies are recorded before those responding to higher frequencies. Auditory neurons are spatially arranged according to their characteristic frequencies, indicat...

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

authors： Konishi M

更新日期：1973-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative vertebrate genome sequencing offers a powerful method for detecting conserved regulatory sequences. We propose that the compact genome of the teleost Fugu rubripes is well suited for this purpose. The evolutionary distance of teleosts from other vertebrates offers the maximum stringency for such evolutiona...

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

authors： Aparicio S,Morrison A,Gould A,Gilthorpe J,Chaudhuri C,Rigby P,Krumlauf R,Brenner S

更新日期：1995-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical model is presented that describes the effects of hormone concentration on receptor saturation and biological response in systems dependent upon the generation of a secondary mediator such as cyclic AMP. The analysis makes the following assumptions: (i) the binding of hormone to its receptor is a reversi...

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

authors： Strickland S,Loeb JN

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The drug resistance factor RP4, originally isolated in Pseudomonas, was transferred to Rhizobium meliloti. In that strain, RP4 promotes conjugational transfer of chromosomal markers to form haploid recombinants. This mating system has been used to construct a linkage map of R. meliloti. ...

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

authors： Meade HM,Signer ER

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of the staphylococcal exotoxin toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (TSST-1) by Staphylococcus aureus has been associated with essentially all cases of menstruation-associated toxic shock syndrome (TSS). In this work, we show that the human vaginal isolate Lactobacillus reuteri RC-14 produces small signaling mo...

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

authors： Li J,Wang W,Xu SX,Magarvey NA,McCormick JK

更新日期：2011-02-22 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：:The thylakoid compartments of plant chloroplasts are a vital destination for copper. Copper is needed to form holo-plastocyanin, which must shuttle electrons between photosystems to convert light into biologically useful chemical energy. Copper can bind tightly to proteins, so it has been hypothesized that copper part...

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

authors： Banci L,Bertini I,Ciofi-Baffoni S,Kandias NG,Robinson NJ,Spyroulias GA,Su XC,Tottey S,Vanarotti M

更新日期：2006-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Proper synaptic function requires the spatial and temporal compartmentalization of RNA metabolism via transacting RNA-binding proteins (RBPs). Loss of RBP activity leads to abnormal posttranscriptional regulation and results in diverse neurological disorders with underlying deficits in synaptic morphology and transmis...

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

authors： Klein ME,Younts TJ,Castillo PE,Jordan BA

更新日期：2013-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine erythroleukemia cells (MELC) are transformed cells that can be induced to differentiate by a variety of agents, such as hexamethylenebisacetamide (HMBA) and dimethyl sulfoxide. Dexamethasone suppresses HMBA-mediated MELC differentiation, but MELC retain a memory for their exposure to HMBA since, on transfer fro...

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

authors： Murate T,Kaneda T,Rifkind RA,Marks PA

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cDNA clones encoding a structure-specific recognition protein, SSRP1, that binds specifically to DNA modified with cisplatin have been isolated and characterized. The SSRP1 gene maps to human chromosome 11q12. The cDNA clones, obtained by using partial-length cDNAs described previously, predict an 81-kDa protein...

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

authors： Bruhn SL,Pil PM,Essigmann JM,Housman DE,Lippard SJ

更新日期：1992-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi can colonize the gallbladder and persist in an asymptomatic carrier state that is frequently associated with the presence of gallstones. We have shown that salmonellae form bile-mediated biofilms on human gallstones and cholesterol-coated surfaces in vitro. Here, we test the hypothesi...

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

authors： Crawford RW,Rosales-Reyes R,Ramírez-Aguilar Mde L,Chapa-Azuela O,Alpuche-Aranda C,Gunn JS

更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydra interstitial stem cells continuously give rise to daughter stem cells as well as precursors for nerve and nematocyte differentiation. Growth of the stem cell population is controlled by the self-renewal probability (Ps): Ps is the fraction of stem cell daughters that remain stem cells in each generation. We have...

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

authors： David CN,MacWilliams H

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphocholine (PC) is an abundant primary form of organic phosphate that is transported in plant xylem sap. Addition of PC to the perfusate of compressed Pi-starved sycamore cells monitored by 31P NMR spectroscopy resulted in an accumulation of PC and all the other phosphate esters in the cytoplasmic compartment. Add...

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

authors： Gout E,Bligny R,Roby C,Douce R

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) has been implicated as a pathogenic mediator in a variety of central nervous system (CNS) disease states, including the animal model of multiple sclerosis (MS) and experimental allergic encephalomyelitis. We have examined post-mortem brain tissues collected from patients previously diagnosed with MS,...

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

authors： Bagasra O,Michaels FH,Zheng YM,Bobroski LE,Spitsin SV,Fu ZF,Tawadros R,Koprowski H

更新日期：1995-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex I functions as a redox-linked proton pump in the respiratory chains of mitochondria and bacteria, driven by the reduction of quinone (Q) by NADH. Remarkably, the distance between the Q reduction site and the most distant proton channels extends nearly 200 Å. To elucidate the molecular origin of this long-range...

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

authors： Sharma V,Belevich G,Gamiz-Hernandez AP,Róg T,Vattulainen I,Verkhovskaya ML,Wikström M,Hummer G,Kaila VR

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have suggested that Paleozoic hyperoxia enabled animal gigantism, and the subsequent hypoxia drove a reduction in animal size. This evolutionary hypothesis depends on the argument that gas exchange in many invertebrates and skin-breathing vertebrates becomes compromised at large sizes because of distanc...

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

authors： Kaiser A,Klok CJ,Socha JJ,Lee WK,Quinlan MC,Harrison JF

更新日期：2007-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The actin cytoskeleton is an essential intracellular filamentous structure that underpins cellular transport and cytoplasmic streaming in plant cells. However, the system-level properties of actin-based cellular trafficking remain tenuous, largely due to the inability to quantify key features of the actin cytoskeleton...

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

authors： Breuer D,Nowak J,Ivakov A,Somssich M,Persson S,Nikoloski Z

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00