Claudin-4 forms paracellular chloride channel in the kidney and requires claudin-8 for tight junction localization.

abstract：:C-tail-anchored (TA) proteins often require a transmembrane domain of moderate hydrophobicity to maintain their endoplasmic reticulum residence, but the suggested role of protein-lipid interactions in this phenomenon has not been established. Here, we studied the interaction of TA proteins with lipids by differential ...

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

authors： Ceppi P,Colombo S,Francolini M,Raimondo F,Borgese N,Masserini M

更新日期：2005-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies against the porcine 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 receptor were immobilized on Sepharose CL-4B and used to obtain a highly purified 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 receptor fraction with a 45% recovery of the 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 binding capacity. The porcine receptor was purified to homogeneity by prepa...

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

authors： Brown TA,Prahl JM,DeLuca HF

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single intravenous (i.v.) injection of the water-soluble mammary carcinogen N-nitroso-N-methylurea (NMU; 35 mg/kg of body weight) elicited cancer of the breast in young female rats of two strains in the following incidence: Long-Evans strain, 4%; Sprague-Dawley strain, 70%. In sisters of these rats, a set of 5 i.v. ...

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

authors： Huggins CB,Ueda N,Wiessler M

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colony-stimulating factors (CSFs) stimulate the differentiation of immature precursor cells to mature granulocytes and macrophages. Purified 125I-labeled murine L cell CSF has been used to develop a radioimmunoassay (RIA) that detects a subclass of CSFs that stimulates macrophage production. Murine CSF preparations th...

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

authors： Stanley ER

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificial two-dimensional biological habitats were prepared from porous polymer layers and inoculated with the fungus Penicillium roqueforti to provide a living material. Such composites of classical industrial ingredients and living microorganisms can provide a novel form of functional or smart materials with capabi...

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

authors： Gerber LC,Koehler FM,Grass RN,Stark WJ

更新日期：2012-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+ ions control the cGMP-gated channel of rod photoreceptor cells from the external and internal face. We studied ion selectivity and blockage by Ca2+ of wild-type and mutant channels in a heterologous expression system. External Ca2+ blocks the inward current at micromolar concentrations in a highly voltage-depende...

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

authors： Eismann E,Müller F,Heinemann SH,Kaupp UB

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impacts of global climate change on different aspects of humanity's diverse life-support systems are complex and often difficult to predict. To facilitate policy decisions on mitigation and adaptation strategies, it is necessary to understand, quantify, and synthesize these climate-change impacts, taking into acco...

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

authors： Piontek F,Müller C,Pugh TA,Clark DB,Deryng D,Elliott J,Colón González Fde J,Flörke M,Folberth C,Franssen W,Frieler K,Friend AD,Gosling SN,Hemming D,Khabarov N,Kim H,Lomas MR,Masaki Y,Mengel M,Morse A,Neumann K,N

更新日期：2014-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike other predators that use vision as their primary sensory system, bats compute the three-dimensional (3D) position of flying insects from discrete echo snapshots, which raises questions about the strategies they employ to track and intercept erratically moving prey from interrupted sensory information. Here, we ...

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

authors： Salles A,Diebold CA,Moss CF

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been nearly 40 y since it was suggested that genomic methylation patterns could be transmitted via maintenance methylation during S phase and might play a role in the dynamic regulation of gene expression during development [Holliday R, Pugh JE (1975) Science 187(4173):226-232; Riggs AD (1975) Cytogenet Cell Ge...

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

authors： Bestor TH,Edwards JR,Boulard M

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Defining the molecules that regulate tumor cell survival is an essential prerequisite for the development of targeted approaches to cancer treatment. Whereas many studies aimed at identifying such targets use human tumor cells grown in vitro or as s.c. xenografts, it is unclear whether such experimental models replica...

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

authors： Camphausen K,Purow B,Sproull M,Scott T,Ozawa T,Deen DF,Tofilon PJ

更新日期：2005-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:d-alanine-d-lactate ligase from Enterococcus faecium BM4147 is directly responsible for the biosynthesis of alternate cell-wall precursors in bacteria, which are resistant to the glycopeptide antibiotic vancomycin. The crystal structure has been determined with data extending to 2.5-A resolution. This structure shows ...

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

authors： Roper DI,Huyton T,Vagin A,Dodson G

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:αβ T-cell repertoire selection is mediated by peptide-MHC complexes presented by thymic epithelial or myeloid cells, and by lipid-CD1 complexes expressed by thymocytes. γδ T-cell repertoire selection, by contrast, is largely unresolved. Mice mutant for Skint-1, a unique Ig superfamily gene, do not develop canonical Vγ...

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

authors： Barbee SD,Woodward MJ,Turchinovich G,Mention JJ,Lewis JM,Boyden LM,Lifton RP,Tigelaar R,Hayday AC

更新日期：2011-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here a shorter version of the proof of our earlier work, showing that the von Neumann factor associated with the group Z(2)SL(2,Z) has trivial fundamental group. ...

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

authors： Popa S

更新日期：2004-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Arf family GTP-binding proteins are best characterized as regulators of membrane traffic, but recent studies indicate an additional role in cytoskeletal organization. An Arf GTPase-activating protein of the centaurin beta family, ASAP1 (also known as centaurin beta4), binds Arf and two other known regulators of the ac...

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

authors： Randazzo PA,Andrade J,Miura K,Brown MT,Long YQ,Stauffer S,Roller P,Cooper JA

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A renin promoter-large tumor antigen (T antigen) fusion gene was constructed to provide a reporter function for renin expression in transgenic mice. These transgenic mice gave rise to tumors in subcutaneous soft tissue, which was attributed to transgene expression at this site. An immunohistochemical analysis of trans...

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

authors： Sigmund CD,Jones CA,Mullins JJ,Kim U,Gross KW

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SoxR is a transcription factor that governs a global defense against the oxidative stress caused by nitric oxide or excess superoxide in Escherichia coli. SoxR is a homodimer containing a pair of [2Fe-2S] clusters essential for its transcriptional activity, and changes in the stability of these metal centers could con...

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

authors： Ding H,Demple B

更新日期：1996-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Both stem cells and mast cells express c-kit and proliferate after exposure to c-kit ligand. Mutations in c-kit may enhance or interfere with the ability of c-kit receptor to initiate the intracellular pathways resulting in cell proliferation. These observations suggested to us that mastocytosis might in some patients...

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

authors： Nagata H,Worobec AS,Oh CK,Chowdhury BA,Tannenbaum S,Suzuki Y,Metcalfe DD

更新日期：1995-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Both plants and animals require the activity of proteins containing nucleotide binding (NB) domain and leucine-rich repeat (LRR) domains for proper immune system function. NB-LRR proteins in plants (NLR proteins in animals) also require conserved regulation via the proteins SGT1 and cytosolic HSP90. RAR1, a protein sp...

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

authors： Hubert DA,He Y,McNulty BC,Tornero P,Dangl JL

更新日期：2009-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal studies have shown that the brain is an insulin-responsive organ and that central nervous insulin resistance induces obesity and disturbances in glucose metabolism. In humans, insulin effects in the brain are poorly characterized. We used a magnetoencephalography approach during a two-step hyperinsulinemic eugl...

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

authors： Tschritter O,Preissl H,Hennige AM,Stumvoll M,Porubska K,Frost R,Marx H,Klösel B,Lutzenberger W,Birbaumer N,Häring HU,Fritsche A

更新日期：2006-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary processes leading to adaptive radiation regularly occur too fast to be accurately recorded in the fossil record but too slowly to be readily observed in living biota. The study of evolutionary radiations is thereby confronted with an epistemological gap between the timescales and approaches used by neonto...

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

authors： Van Bocxlaer B,Hunt G

更新日期：2013-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcine aortic endothelial cells were isolated and maintained in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DME medium)/10% citrate-treated human plasma. They were stimulated by DME medium/10% human serum to grow from a density of 10,100 +/- 500 per well to a final density of 83,000 +/- 1,800 per well over a 9-day period. On...

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

authors： Clemmons DR,Isley WL,Brown MT

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Night-shift workers are at high risk of drowsiness-related motor vehicle crashes as a result of circadian disruption and sleep restriction. However, the impact of actual night-shift work on measures of drowsiness and driving performance while operating a real motor vehicle remains unknown. Sixteen night-shift workers ...

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

authors： Lee ML,Howard ME,Horrey WJ,Liang Y,Anderson C,Shreeve MS,O'Brien CS,Czeisler CA

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontypeable Hemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is an important human pathogen in both children and adults. In children, it causes otitis media, the most common childhood infection and the leading cause of conductive hearing loss in the United States. In adults, it causes lower respiratory tract infections in the setting of ...

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

authors： Shuto T,Xu H,Wang B,Han J,Kai H,Gu XX,Murphy TF,Lim DJ,Li JD

更新日期：2001-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Fish in schooling formations navigate complex flow fields replete with mechanical energy in the vortex wakes of their companions. Their schooling behavior has been associated with evolutionary advantages including energy savings, yet the underlying physical mechanisms remain unknown. We show that fish can improve thei...

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

authors： Verma S,Novati G,Koumoutsakos P

更新日期：2018-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerogel materials have myriad scientific and technological applications due to their large intrinsic surface areas and ultralow densities. However, creating a nanodiamond aerogel matrix has remained an outstanding and intriguing challenge. Here we report the high-pressure, high-temperature synthesis of a diamond aerog...

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

authors： Pauzauskie PJ,Crowhurst JC,Worsley MA,Laurence TA,Kilcoyne AL,Wang Y,Willey TM,Visbeck KS,Fakra SC,Evans WJ,Zaug JM,Satcher JH Jr

更新日期：2011-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is a genetically and clinically heterogeneous disease, and the contributions of different target cells and different oncogenic mutations to this heterogeneity are not well understood. Here we report that mammary tumors induced by components of the Wnt signaling pathway contain heterogeneous cell types an...

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

authors： Li Y,Welm B,Podsypanina K,Huang S,Chamorro M,Zhang X,Rowlands T,Egeblad M,Cowin P,Werb Z,Tan LK,Rosen JM,Varmus HE

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic resistance in clinically important bacteria can be mediated by target protection mechanisms, whereby a protein binds to the drug target and protects it from the inhibitory effects of the antibiotic. The most prevalent source of clinical resistance to the antibiotic fusidic acid (FA) is expression of the Fus...

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

authors： Tomlinson JH,Kalverda AP,Calabrese AN

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of antimicrobials is critical in this time of increasing antibiotic resistance of most clinically relevant bacteria. To date, all current antibiotics focus on inhibiting crucial enzymatic activities of their protein targets (i.e., trimethoprim for dihydrofolate reductase), thus disrupting in vitro esse...

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

authors： Shakhnovich EA,Hung DT,Pierson E,Lee K,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：2007-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the multiple steps constituting the kinesin mechanochemical cycle, one of the most interesting events is observed when kinesins move an 8-nm step from one microtubule (MT)-binding site to another. The stepping motion that occurs within a relatively short time scale ( approximately 100 mus) is, however, beyond th...

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

authors： Hyeon C,Onuchic JN

更新日期：2007-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cellular cargoes move bidirectionally along microtubules, driven by teams of plus- and minus-end-directed motor proteins. To probe the forces exerted on cargoes during intracellular transport, we examined latex beads phagocytosed into living mammalian macrophages. These latex bead compartments (LBCs) are encased ...

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

authors： Hendricks AG,Holzbaur EL,Goldman YE

更新日期：2012-11-06 00:00:00