Stepwise assembly of the Nova-regulated alternative splicing network in the vertebrate brain.

abstract：:DNA origami enables the precise fabrication of nanoscale geometries. We demonstrate an approach to engineer complex and reversible motion of nanoscale DNA origami machine elements. We first design, fabricate, and characterize the mechanical behavior of flexible DNA origami rotational and linear joints that integrate s...

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

authors： Marras AE,Zhou L,Su HJ,Castro CE

更新日期：2015-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 originated in Wuhan, China at the end of 2019 and rapidly spread in more than 100 countries. Researchers in different fields have been working on finding explanations for the unequal impact of the virus and deaths from the associated coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-1...

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

authors： Arpino B,Bordone V,Pasqualini M

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Adrenergic receptors on Friend erythroleukemic cells were identified by the use of 125I-labeled hydroxybenzylpindolol, a potent beta-adrenergic antagonist. Binding of this ligand was saturable and stereospecific. The relative orders of potency of isoproterenol, epinephrine, and norepinephrine to displace bound hy...

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

authors： Schmitt H,Guyaux M,Pochet R,Kram R

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA polymerase pausing represents an important mechanism of transcriptional regulation. In this study, we use a single-molecule transcription assay to investigate the effect of template base-pair composition on pausing by RNA polymerase II and the evolutionarily distinct mitochondrial polymerase Rpo41. For both enzyme...

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

authors： Zamft B,Bintu L,Ishibashi T,Bustamante C

更新日期：2012-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly expanded Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary section from the Chicxulub peak ring, recovered by International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP)-International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) Expedition 364, provides an unprecedented window into the immediate aftermath of the impact. Site M0077 inclu...

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

authors： Gulick SPS,Bralower TJ,Ormö J,Hall B,Grice K,Schaefer B,Lyons S,Freeman KH,Morgan JV,Artemieva N,Kaskes P,de Graaff SJ,Whalen MT,Collins GS,Tikoo SM,Verhagen C,Christeson GL,Claeys P,Coolen MJL,Goderis S,Goto K,

更新日期：2019-09-24 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：:It is unknown whether cross-regulatory interactions between homeotic genes, which have been shown to play an important role in the maintenance of their expression domains during Drosophila development, are also important during mammalian development. We have analyzed here the expression of Hox genes in Hoxa-1 (Hox-1.6...

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

authors： Dollé P,Lufkin T,Krumlauf R,Mark M,Duboule D,Chambon P

更新日期：1993-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An immature state of cellular differentiation--characterized by stem cell-like tendencies and impaired differentiation--is a hallmark of cancer. Using glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) as a model system, we sought to determine whether molecular determinants that drive cells toward terminal differentiation are also genetic...

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

authors： Hu J,Ho AL,Yuan L,Hu B,Hua S,Hwang SS,Zhang J,Hu T,Zheng H,Gan B,Wu G,Wang YA,Chin L,DePinho RA

更新日期：2013-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that Ha-ras and c-myc genes collaborate in promoting transformation, tumor progression, and metastasis. However, the precise mechanism underlying this cooperation remains unclear. In the present study, we document that astrocyte elevated gene-1 (AEG-1) is a downstream target molecule of Ha-ras a...

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

authors： Lee SG,Su ZZ,Emdad L,Sarkar D,Fisher PB

更新日期：2006-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuropeptide galanin is expressed developmentally in the dorsal root ganglion (DRG) and is rapidly up-regulated 120-fold after peripheral nerve section in the adult. Here we report that adult mice carrying a loss-of-function mutation in the galanin gene have a 13% reduction in the number of cells in the DRG associ...

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

authors： Holmes FE,Mahoney S,King VR,Bacon A,Kerr NC,Pachnis V,Curtis R,Priestley JV,Wynick D

更新日期：2000-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The serine proteases sequentially activated to form a fibrin clot are inhibited primarily by members of the serpin family, which use a unique beta-sheet expansion mechanism to trap and destroy their targets. Since the discovery that serpins were a family of serine protease inhibitors there has been controversy as to t...

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

authors： Baglin TP,Carrell RW,Church FC,Esmon CT,Huntington JA

更新日期：2002-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:More than a thousand proteins are thought to contribute to mammalian chromatin and its regulation, but our understanding of the genomic occupancy and function of most of these proteins is limited. Here we describe an approach, which we call "chromatin proteomic profiling," to identify proteins associated with genomic ...

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

authors： Ji X,Dadon DB,Abraham BJ,Lee TI,Jaenisch R,Bradner JE,Young RA

更新日期：2015-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the endoplasmic reticulum stress-regulated kinase, PERK, in mammary gland function was assessed through generation of a targeted deletion in mammary epithelium. Characterization revealed that PERK is required for functional maturation of milk-secreting mammary epithelial cells. PERK-dependent signaling con...

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

authors： Bobrovnikova-Marjon E,Hatzivassiliou G,Grigoriadou C,Romero M,Cavener DR,Thompson CB,Diehl JA

更新日期：2008-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian myelocytomatosis virus (MC29), a defective acute leukemia virus, has a broad oncogenic spectrum in vivo and transforms fibroblasts and hematopoietic target cells in vitro. We have used recombinant DNA technology to isolate and to characterize the sequences that are essential in the transformation process. Integr...

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

authors： Lautenberger JA,Schulz RA,Garon CF,Tsichlis PN,Papas TS

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrobacterium tumefaciens harboring the tumor-inducing Ti plasmid incites crown gall tumor on dicotyledonous species. Upon infection of these plants, Ti plasmid DNA sequence is stably transferred (T-DNA) by unknown mechanisms to plant cells to be integrated into nuclear DNA. The T-DNA processing and transfer require t...

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

authors： Usami S,Okamoto S,Takebe I,Machida Y

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preterm birth (PTB) complications are the leading cause of long-term morbidity and mortality in children. By using whole blood samples, we integrated whole-genome sequencing (WGS), RNA sequencing (RNA-seq), and DNA methylation data for 270 PTB and 521 control families. We analyzed this combined dataset to identify gen...

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

authors： Knijnenburg TA,Vockley JG,Chambwe N,Gibbs DL,Humphries C,Huddleston KC,Klein E,Kothiyal P,Tasseff R,Dhankani V,Bodian DL,Wong WSW,Glusman G,Mauldin DE,Miller M,Slagel J,Elasady S,Roach JC,Kramer R,Leinonen K,Linth

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor gene is the cellular homolog of the avian erythroblastosis virus erbB oncogene. Control of EGF receptor expression determines cellular responsiveness to EGF and might play an important role in neoplastic development. Using RNA blot hybridization, we have found that exposure o...

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

authors： Clark AJ,Ishii S,Richert N,Merlino GT,Pastan I

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increase in free Ca2+ triggers exocytosis in pituitary nerve terminals leading to an increase in membrane area and membrane capacitance. When Ca2+ is increased by step depolarization, an instantaneous capacitance increase during the first 80 ms is followed by a slow increase extending over several seconds. We measu...

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

authors： Rosenboom H,Lindau M

更新日期：1994-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The putative oxidation of hydroethidine (HE) has become a widely used fluorescent assay for the detection of superoxide in cultured cells. By covalently joining HE to a hexyl triphenylphosphonium cation (Mito-HE), the HE moiety can be targeted to mitochondria. However, the specificity of HE and Mito-HE for superoxide ...

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

authors： Robinson KM,Janes MS,Pehar M,Monette JS,Ross MF,Hagen TM,Murphy MP,Beckman JS

更新日期：2006-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals treated with potent gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase inhibitors and a patient with severe gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase deficiency excrete much larger than normal amounts of glutathione, gamma-glutamylcysteine, and cysteine in their urine; these compounds were found in disulfide forms. The findings indicate that ...

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

authors： Griffith OW,Meister A

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the northern hemisphere, there is compelling evidence for climate-related advances of spring events, but no such long-term biological time series exist for the southern hemisphere. We have studied a unique data set of dates of first arrival and laying of first eggs over a 55-year period for the entire community of ...

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

authors： Barbraud C,Weimerskirch H

更新日期：2006-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitroxyl anion (HNONO(-)), the one-electron reduced form of nitric oxide (NO), induces positive cardiac inotropy and selective venodilation in the normal in vivo circulation. Here we tested whether HNO/NO(-) augments systolic and diastolic function of failing hearts, and whether contrary to NO/nitrates such modulation...

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

authors： Paolocci N,Katori T,Champion HC,St John ME,Miranda KM,Fukuto JM,Wink DA,Kass DA

更新日期：2003-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:When a local mechanical perturbation is applied to the surface of a thin film of a mechanically interlocked molecule (a rotaxane), the molecules self-organize into periodic arrays of discrete dots or lines. The dimensionality of the nanostructures depends on whether the mechanical stimulus acts along a 1D line or over...

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

authors： Biscarini F,Cavallini M,Kshirsagar R,Bottari G,Leigh DA,León S,Zerbetto F

更新日期：2006-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to childhood trauma (CT) increases the risk for psychosis and affects the development of brain structures, possibly through oxidative stress. As oxidative stress is also linked to psychosis, it may interact with CT, leading to a more severe clinical phenotype. In 133 patients with early psychosis (EPP), we ex...

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

authors： Alameda L,Fournier M,Khadimallah I,Griffa A,Cleusix M,Jenni R,Ferrari C,Klauser P,Baumann PS,Cuenod M,Hagmann P,Conus P,Do KQ

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Phages of the Caudovirales order possess a tail that recognizes the host and ensures genome delivery upon infection. The X-ray structure of the approximately 1.8 MDa host adsorption device (baseplate) from the lactococcal phage TP901-1 shows that the receptor-binding proteins are pointing in the direction of the host,...

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

authors： Veesler D,Spinelli S,Mahony J,Lichière J,Blangy S,Bricogne G,Legrand P,Ortiz-Lombardia M,Campanacci V,van Sinderen D,Cambillau C

更新日期：2012-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-17-producing CD4(+) T helper (Th17) cells have recently been defined as a unique subset of proinflammatory helper cells whose development depends on signaling initiated by IL-6 and TGF-beta, autocrine activity of IL-21, activation of STAT3, and induction of the orphan nuclear receptor RORgammat. The maintenance, ex...

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

authors： Voo KS,Wang YH,Santori FR,Boggiano C,Wang YH,Arima K,Bover L,Hanabuchi S,Khalili J,Marinova E,Zheng B,Littman DR,Liu YJ

更新日期：2009-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of reactive oxygen intermediates (ROI) and a form of programmed cell death called hypersensitive response (HR) are often associated with disease resistance of plants. We have previously shown that the Rac homolog of rice, OsRac1, is a regulator of ROI production and cell death in rice. Here we show that the...

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

authors： Ono E,Wong HL,Kawasaki T,Hasegawa M,Kodama O,Shimamoto K

更新日期：2001-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Secretion of extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs) by growing bacteria is an integral part of forming biofilm-like structures. In such dense systems, mechanical interactions among the structural components can be expected to significantly contribute to morphological properties. Here, we use a particle-based modeli...

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

authors： Ghosh P,Mondal J,Ben-Jacob E,Levine H

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:During zebrafish development, zygotic gene expression initiated at the midblastula transition converts maternal information on embryo polarity into a transcriptional read-out. Expression of a homeobox gene, vega1, is activated at midblastula transition in all blastomeres, but is down-regulated dorsally before gastrula...

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

authors： Kawahara A,Wilm T,Solnica-Krezel L,Dawid IB

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:At least three separate regions of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) genome encode RNA in a cell line that is growth transformed and nonpermissively infected with EBV. Six polyadenylylated cytoplasmic RNAs have been identified from these three regions. An abundant RNA 3.0-3.1 kilobases (kb) long is encoded by DNA of the in...

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

authors： van Santen V,Cheung A,Kieff E

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00