Direct reprogramming of mouse fibroblasts to neural progenitors.

abstract：:The gamma-aminobutyrate-synthesizing enzyme glutamate decarboxylase (GAD; L-glutamate 1-carboxy-lyase, EC 4.1.1.15) is a major target of autoantibodies associated with both early and late stages of pancreatic beta-cell destruction and development of type 1 diabetes. We have used five monoclonal anti-islet-cell antibod...

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

authors： Richter W,Shi Y,Baekkeskov S

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloids are often associated with pathologic processes such as in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but can also underlie physiological processes such as pigmentation. Formation of pathological and functional amyloidogenic substrates can require precursor processing by proteases, as exemplified by the generation of Aβ peptid...

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

authors： Rochin L,Hurbain I,Serneels L,Fort C,Watt B,Leblanc P,Marks MS,De Strooper B,Raposo G,van Niel G

更新日期：2013-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Scientific cinematography using ultrafast optical imaging is a common tool to study motion. In opaque organisms or structures, X-ray radiography captures sequences of 2D projections to visualize morphological dynamics, but for many applications full four-dimensional (4D) spatiotemporal information is highly desirable....

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

authors： dos Santos Rolo T,Ershov A,van de Kamp T,Baumbach T

更新日期：2014-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphibian eggs and embryos as well as mammalian cells have been reported to contain an activity that unwinds double-stranded RNA. We have now found that adenosine residues have been modified in the RNA products of this unwinding activity. Although the modified RNA remains double-stranded, the modification causes the R...

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

authors： Wagner RW,Smith JE,Cooperman BS,Nishikura K

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opposite slopes of "Evolution Canyon" in Israel have served as a natural model system of adaptation to a microclimate contrast. Long-term studies of Drosophila melanogaster populations inhabiting the canyon have exhibited significant interslope divergence in thermal and drought stress resistance, candidate genes, ...

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

authors： Hübner S,Rashkovetsky E,Kim YB,Oh JH,Michalak K,Weiner D,Korol AB,Nevo E,Michalak P

更新日期：2013-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of longstanding immunologic tolerance is essential for survival of transplanted organs and tissues. Despite recent advances in immunosuppression protocols, allograft damage inflicted by antibody specific for donor organs continues to represent a major obstacle to graft survival. Here we report that activatio...

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

authors： Choi JY,Eskandari SK,Cai S,Sulkaj I,Assaker JP,Allos H,AlHaddad J,Muhsin SA,Alhussain E,Mansouri A,Yeung MY,Seelen MAJ,Kim HJ,Cantor H,Azzi JR

更新日期：2020-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A close correlation was observed between intracellular Ca2+ pool depletion and refilling and the onset of DNA synthesis and proliferation of DDT1MF-2 smooth muscle cells. The intracellular Ca2+ pump inhibitors 2,5-di-tert-butyl-hydroquinone (DBHQ) and thapsigargin (TG) specifically emptied identical inositol 1,4,5-tri...

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

authors： Short AD,Bian J,Ghosh TK,Waldron RT,Rybak SL,Gill DL

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To generate antibodies with different effector functions, B cells undergo Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain (IgH) class switch recombination (CSR). The ligation step of CSR is usually mediated by the classical nonhomologous end-joining (cNHEJ) pathway. In cNHEJ-deficient cells, a remarkable ∼25% of CSR can be achieved by the...

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

authors： Wang XS,Zhao J,Wu-Baer F,Shao Z,Lee BJ,Cupo OM,Rabadan R,Gautier J,Baer R,Zha S

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological character displacement describes a pattern where morphological differences between sympatric species are enhanced through interspecific competition. Although widely considered a pervasive force in evolutionary ecology, few clear-cut examples have been documented. Here we report a case of ecological characte...

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

authors： Adams DC,Rohlf FJ

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Very little is known about how animals discriminate pathogens from innocuous microbes. To address this question, we examined infection-response gene induction in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. We focused on genes that are induced in C. elegans by infection with the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, but ...

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

authors： Estes KA,Dunbar TL,Powell JR,Ausubel FM,Troemel ER

更新日期：2010-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase plays an essential role in aerobic cellular respiration, reducing dioxygen to water in a process coupled with the pumping of protons across the mitochondrial inner membrane. An aspartate residue, Asp-51, located near the enzyme surface, undergoes a redox-coupled x-ray structural chan...

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

authors： Tsukihara T,Shimokata K,Katayama Y,Shimada H,Muramoto K,Aoyama H,Mochizuki M,Shinzawa-Itoh K,Yamashita E,Yao M,Ishimura Y,Yoshikawa S

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Increases in cytoplasmic free calcium ([Ca2+]i) can be induced in resting B cells either by a low molecular weight (12-kDa) B-cell growth factor (LMW-BCGF) or by crosslinking the B-cell antigen CD19 with monoclonal antibody (mAb). LMW-BCGF causes a slow [Ca2+]i increase in peripheral blood and tonsillar B cells but ha...

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

authors： Ledbetter JA,Rabinovitch PS,June CH,Song CW,Clark EA,Uckun FM

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both laboratory and field data suggest that people punish noncooperators even in one-shot interactions. Although such "altruistic punishment" may explain the high levels of cooperation in human societies, it creates an evolutionary puzzle: existing models suggest that altruistic cooperation among nonrelatives is evolu...

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

authors： Boyd R,Gintis H,Bowles S,Richerson PJ

更新日期：2003-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last few years, data from experiments employing transgenic models of autoimmune disease have strengthened a particular concept of autoimmunity: disease results not so much from cracks in tolerance induction systems, leading to the generation of anti-self repertoire, as from the breakdown of secondary systems th...

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

authors： André I,Gonzalez A,Wang B,Katz J,Benoist C,Mathis D

更新日期：1996-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:If they are able to spread in wild populations, CRISPR-based gene-drive elements would provide new ways to address ecological problems by altering the traits of wild organisms, but the potential for uncontrolled spread tremendously complicates ethical development and use. Here, we detail a self-exhausting form of CRIS...

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

authors： Noble C,Min J,Olejarz J,Buchthal J,Chavez A,Smidler AL,DeBenedictis EA,Church GM,Nowak MA,Esvelt KM

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the structure and function of the gene for parathyroid hormone, we obtained recombinant plasmids containing bovine parathyroid hormone cDNA. The nucleotide sequence at the 5' terminus (relative to the sense strand) of the cDNA insert in a recombinant plasmid, pPTHi4, was different from that previously reporte...

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

authors： Weaver CA,Gordon DF,Kemper B

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned and determined the entire nucleotide sequence of cDNAs corresponding to the putative alpha subunits of the human and rat mast cell high-affinity IgE receptors. Both human and rat cDNAs encode an NH2-terminal signal peptide, two immunoglobulin-like extracellular domains (encoded by discrete exons), a hyd...

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

authors： Shimizu A,Tepler I,Benfey PN,Berenstein EH,Siraganian RP,Leder P

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An integral mitochondrial membrane protein (p32) of yeast has previously been molecularly cloned and sequenced and suggested to function as a mitochondrial import receptor. However, this protein has also been proposed to function as phosphate translocator [Guérin, B., Bukusoglu, C., Rakotomanana, F. & Wohlrab, H. (199...

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

authors： Murakami H,Blobel G,Pain D

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding molecular mechanisms in the context of living cells requires the development of new methods of in vivo biochemical analysis to complement established in vitro biochemistry. A critically important molecular mechanism is genetic recombination, required for the beneficial reassortment of genetic information...

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

authors： Cockram CA,Filatenkova M,Danos V,El Karoui M,Leach DR

更新日期：2015-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Intact DNA molecules extracted from HSV-1 (herpes simplex virus 1, human herpes virus 1) strain MP virions have a molecular weight of approximately 97 X 10(6), but cleavage with the HinIII restriction enzyme yields fourteen fragments with summed molecular weights of 160 X 10(6). Six "major" fragments occur once in eve...

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

authors： Hayward GS,Jacob RJ,Wadsworth SC,Roizman B

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The torI gene has been identified by using a genetic multicopy approach as a negative regulator of the torCAD operon that encodes the trimethylamine N-oxide reductase respiratory system in Escherichia coli. The negative effect was due to a previously unidentified small ORF (66 aa) of phage origin that we called torI f...

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

authors： Ansaldi M,Théraulaz L,Méjean V

更新日期：2004-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:1-Methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) is a neurotoxin that causes parkinsonism in humans and nonhuman animals, and its use has led to greater understanding of the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease. However, its molecular targets have not been defined. We show that mice lacking the gene for poly(ADP-rib...

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

authors： Mandir AS,Przedborski S,Jackson-Lewis V,Wang ZQ,Simbulan-Rosenthal CM,Smulson ME,Hoffman BE,Guastella DB,Dawson VL,Dawson TM

更新日期：1999-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of nerve-muscle junctions in monolayer cultures of embryonic muscle and spinal cord cells is described. Muscle-forming cells (myoblasts) from leg muscles of 12-day chick embryos were separated with trypsin and cultured on a collagen substrate for two days. Suspensions of ventral spinal cord cells from si...

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

authors： Shimada Y,Fischman DA,Moscona AA

更新日期：1969-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils are immune cells that bind to, engulf, and destroy bacterial and fungal pathogens in infected tissue, and their clearance by apoptosis is essential for the resolution of inflammation. Killing involves both oxidative and nonoxidative processes, the oxidative pathway requiring electrogenic production of supe...

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

authors： Fay AJ,Qian X,Jan YN,Jan LY

更新日期：2006-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage lambda encodes a number of genes involved in the recombinational repair of DNA double-strand breaks. The product of one of these genes, rap, has been purified. Truncated Rap proteins that copurify with the full-length form are derived, at least in part, from a rho-dependent transcription terminator locat...

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

authors： Sharples GJ,Corbett LM,Graham IR

更新日期：1998-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Seed development in plants involves the coordinated growth of the embryo, endosperm, and maternal tissue. Several genes have been identified that influence seed size by acting maternally, such as AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR2, APETALA2, and DA1. However, given the lack of gain-of-function effects of these genes on seed size,...

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

authors： Adamski NM,Anastasiou E,Eriksson S,O'Neill CM,Lenhard M

更新日期：2009-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonates suffer high morbidity and mortality in infection, presumably because of the lack of a fully developed adaptive and innate immune system. Evidence of poor innate responses in neonates has been shown by using a model that sensitizes the host to Toll-like receptor (TLR)-mediated inflammation with d-galactosamine...

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

authors： Zhao J,Kim KD,Yang X,Auh S,Fu YX,Tang H

更新日期：2008-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal stress exposure is associated with risk for psychiatric disorders later in life. This may be mediated in part via enhanced exposure to glucocorticoids (GCs), which are known to impact neurogenesis. We aimed to identify molecular mediators of these effects, focusing on long-lasting epigenetic changes. In a hum...

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

authors： Provençal N,Arloth J,Cattaneo A,Anacker C,Cattane N,Wiechmann T,Röh S,Ködel M,Klengel T,Czamara D,Müller NS,Lahti J,PREDO team.,Räikkönen K,Pariante CM,Binder EB

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:An artificial charge pair buried in the hydrophobic core of staphylococcal nuclease was engineered by making the V23E and L36K substitutions. Buried individually, Glu-23 and Lys-36 both titrate with pKa values near 7. When buried together their pKa values appear to be normal. The ionizable moieties of the buried Glu-L...

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

authors： Robinson AC,Castañeda CA,Schlessman JL,García-Moreno EB

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The prefrontal cortex continues to mature after puberty and into early adulthood, mirroring the time course of maturation of cognitive abilities. However, the way in which prefrontal activity changes during peri- and postpubertal cortical maturation is largely unknown. To address this question, we evaluated the develo...

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

authors： Zhou X,Zhu D,Katsuki F,Qi XL,Lees CJ,Bennett AJ,Salinas E,Stanford TR,Constantinidis C

更新日期：2014-03-11 00:00:00