Brain structure in healthy adults is related to serum transferrin and the H63D polymorphism in the HFE gene.

abstract：:We report the isolation and functional characterization of cDNAs encoding a Drosophila kainate-selective glutamate receptor. The deduced mature 964-residue protein (DGluR-I) is 108,482 Da and exhibits significant homology to mammalian glutamate receptor subunits. Injection of DGluR-I cRNA into Xenopus oocytes generate...

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

authors： Ultsch A,Schuster CM,Laube B,Schloss P,Schmitt B,Betz H

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription, splicing, and translation are potentially coordinately regulatable in a temporospatial-dependent manner, although supporting experimental evidence for this notion is scarce. Yeast two-hybrid screening of a mammary gland cDNA library with human p21-activated kinase 1 (Pak1) as bait identified polyC-RNA-b...

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

authors： Meng Q,Rayala SK,Gururaj AE,Talukder AH,O'Malley BW,Kumar R

更新日期：2007-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Suppressor of variegation 3-9 homolog 1 (SUV39H1), a histone methyltransferase, catalyzes histone 3 lysine 9 trimethylation and is involved in heterochromatin organization and genome stability. However, the mechanism for regulation of the enzymatic activity of SUV39H1 in cancer cells is not yet well known. In this stu...

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

authors： Wang D,Zhou J,Liu X,Lu D,Shen C,Du Y,Wei FZ,Song B,Lu X,Yu Y,Wang L,Zhao Y,Wang H,Yang Y,Akiyama Y,Zhang H,Zhu WG

更新日期：2013-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Theories of evolution that state natural selection acts on individuals have been modified to include multiple levels of selection. Here we demonstrate in chimeric protochordates that primitive germ cell (pgc) and somatic cell (psc) lineages have traits that also make them likely units of natural selection. Specificall...

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

authors： Stoner DS,Rinkevich B,Weissman IL

更新日期：1999-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Many approaches to the origin of life focus on how the molecules found in biology might be made in the absence of biological processes, from the simplest plausible starting materials. Another approach could be to view the emergence of the chemistry of biology as process whereby the environment effectively directs "pri...

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

authors： Surman AJ,Rodriguez-Garcia M,Abul-Haija YM,Cooper GJT,Gromski PS,Turk-MacLeod R,Mullin M,Mathis C,Walker SI,Cronin L

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP and UTP can function as extracellular signaling molecules by activating plasma membrane receptors termed P2 purinergic receptors. In the present study a P2U receptor cDNA has been expressed in K-562 human leukemia cells, one of the few available mammalian cell lines that lacks an endogenous P2U receptor. In stably...

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

authors： Erb L,Lustig KD,Sullivan DM,Turner JT,Weisman GA

更新日期：1993-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Remembering is a complex process that involves recalling specific details, such as who you were with when you celebrated your last birthday, as well as contextual information, such as the place where you celebrated. It is well established that the act of remembering enhances long-term retention of the retrieved inform...

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

authors： Jonker TR,Dimsdale-Zucker H,Ritchey M,Clarke A,Ranganath C

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies imply that the intracellular domain of Notch1 must translocate to the nucleus for its activity. In this study, we demonstrate that a mNotch1 mutant protein that lacks its extracellular domain but retains its membrane-spanning region becomes proteolytically processed on its intracellular surface and, a...

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

authors： Kopan R,Schroeter EH,Weintraub H,Nye JS

更新日期：1996-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cycle progression is tightly regulated by cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs). The ankyrin-repeat protein p19INK4d functions as a key regulator of G1/S transition; however, its molecular mode of action is unknown. Here, we combine cell and structural biology methods to unravel the mechanism by which p19INK4d controls...

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

authors： Kumar A,Gopalswamy M,Wolf A,Brockwell DJ,Hatzfeld M,Balbach J

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Species- and strain-specific spontaneously occurring tumors have been observed in rodents maintained under normal laboratory conditions. Elucidation of the molecular mechanisms associated with the development of these spontaneous tumors may provide a better understanding of tumor development associated with exposure t...

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

authors： Reynolds SH,Stowers SJ,Maronpot RR,Anderson MW,Aaronson SA

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of promoter chromatin determines the ability of transcription factors (TFs) to bind to DNA and therefore has a profound effect on the expression levels of genes. However, the role of spontaneous nucleosome movements in this process is not fully understood. Here, we developed a single-molecule optical twe...

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

authors： Rudnizky S,Khamis H,Malik O,Melamed P,Kaplan A

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The folding energetics of the mono-N-glycosylated adhesion domain of the human immune cell receptor cluster of differentiation 2 (hCD2ad) were studied systematically to understand the influence of the N-glycan on the folding energy landscape. Fully elaborated N-glycan structures accelerate folding by 4-fold and stabil...

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

authors： Hanson SR,Culyba EK,Hsu TL,Wong CH,Kelly JW,Powers ET

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The live cold-adapted (ca) A/AA/6/60 influenza vaccine is being commercially developed for worldwide use in children and is being used as a model for other live vaccines. Although it has been proven safe and immunogenic, the molecular basis of cold adaptation has never been determined. To identify sequence changes res...

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

authors： Herlocher ML,Maassab HF,Webster RG

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two internal transcribed spacers (ITS1 and ITS2) of rDNA of three members of the Ixodes ricinus "complex" (Acari: Ixodidae) were sequenced. Sequence variation was assessed for the North American species I. scapularis, I. dammini, and I. pacificus at three levels: within individual/population, between individuals o...

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

authors： Wesson DM,McLain DK,Oliver JH,Piesman J,Collins FH

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous neuroimaging studies have implicated default mode network (DMN) involvement in both internally driven processes and memory. Nevertheless, it is unclear whether memory operations reflect a particular case of internally driven processing or alternatively involve the DMN in a distinct manner, possibly depending ...

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

authors： Shapira-Lichter I,Oren N,Jacob Y,Gruberger M,Hendler T

更新日期：2013-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of missense changes in BRCA1 in breast cancer susceptibility has been difficult to establish. We used comparative evolutionary methods to identify potential functionally important amino acid sites in exon 11 and missense changes likely to disrupt gene function, aligning sequences from 57 eutherian mammals and...

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

authors： Fleming MA,Potter JD,Ramirez CJ,Ostrander GK,Ostrander EA

更新日期：2003-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Portable, single-sided NMR sensors can operate under conditions inaccessible to conventional NMR while featuring lower cost, portability, and the ability to analyze arbitrary-sized objects. Such sensors can nondestructively probe the interior of samples by collecting images and measuring relaxation and diffusion const...

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

authors： Paulsen JL,Bouchard LS,Graziani D,Blümich B,Pines A

更新日期：2008-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Methane seeps are widespread seafloor ecosystems shaped by the emission of gas from seabed reservoirs. The microorganisms inhabiting methane seeps transform the chemical energy in methane to products that sustain rich benthic communities around the gas leaks. Despite the biogeochemical relevance of microbial methane r...

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

authors： Ruff SE,Biddle JF,Teske AP,Knittel K,Boetius A,Ramette A

更新日期：2015-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The major cell surface glycoconjugate of Leishmania major, a putative parasite receptor for macrophages, is a lipophosphoglycan containing 81.6% (wt/wt) carbohydrate, 17.0% (wt/wt) phosphate, and 1.4% (wt/wt) lipid. It has been purified to homogeneity by hydrophobic chromatography and consists of a polydisperse family...

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

authors： McConville MJ,Bacic A,Mitchell GF,Handman E

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by progressive ectopic mineralization of the skin, eyes, and arteries, for which no effective treatment exists. PXE is caused by inactivating mutations in the gene encoding ATP-binding cassette sub-family C member 6 (ABCC6), an ATP-dependen...

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

authors： Jansen RS,Küçükosmanoglu A,de Haas M,Sapthu S,Otero JA,Hegman IE,Bergen AA,Gorgels TG,Borst P,van de Wetering K

更新日期：2013-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:With every pair of bounded self-adjoint operators {U,V} on Hilbert space such that VU - UV = (1/pii)C, where C is trace class, there is associated a certain function of two complex variables called the determining function of the pair. It was previously shown how the determining function can be obtained as the solutio...

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

authors： Pincus JD

更新日期：1971-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peptide chain release factor 2 (RF2) gene, prfB, was cloned from Salmonella typhimurium by DNA hybridization using the Escherichia coli prfB probe. The nucleotide and amino acid sequences of prfB are 87.0% and 95.6% homologous between E. coli and S. typhimurium, respectively, including an in-frame premature UGA st...

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

authors： Kawakami K,Nakamura Y

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle wasting is a debilitating consequence of fasting, inactivity, cancer, and other systemic diseases that results primarily from accelerated protein degradation by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. To identify key factors in this process, we have used cDNA microarrays to compare normal and atrophying muscles and f...

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

authors： Gomes MD,Lecker SH,Jagoe RT,Navon A,Goldberg AL

更新日期：2001-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants have evolved adaptive strategies that involve transcriptional networks to cope with and survive environmental challenges. Key transcriptional regulators that mediate responses to environmental fluctuations in nitrate have been identified; however, little is known about how these regulators interact to orchestra...

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

authors： Guan P,Ripoll JJ,Wang R,Vuong L,Bailey-Steinitz LJ,Ye D,Crawford NM

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Three naturally occurring dermorphin-like peptides from the skin of the frog Phyllomedusa bicolor, the related carboxyl-terminal amides, and some substituted analogs were synthesized, their binding profiles to opioid receptors were determined, and their biological activities were studied in isolated organ preparations...

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

authors： Negri L,Erspamer GF,Severini C,Potenza RL,Melchiorri P,Erspamer V

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transplantation of pancreatic islets for treating type 1 diabetes is restricted to patients with critical metabolic lability resulting from the need for immunosuppression and the shortage of donor organs. To overcome these barriers, we developed a strategy to macroencapsulate islets from different sources that allow t...

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

authors： Ludwig B,Ludwig S,Steffen A,Knauf Y,Zimerman B,Heinke S,Lehmann S,Schubert U,Schmid J,Bleyer M,Schönmann U,Colton CK,Bonifacio E,Solimena M,Reichel A,Schally AV,Rotem A,Barkai U,Grinberg-Rashi H,Kaup FJ,Avni Y,J

更新日期：2017-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A 1-hr exposure of bovine lenses in organ culture to H2O2 concentrations in the range found in the aqueous fluid of patients with cataracts inhibits 86Rb+ influx. At 1 mM H2O2, complete inhibition was observed and further investigated. Membrane permeability is slightly decreased. Although lactate concentrations increa...

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

authors： Garner WH,Garner MH,Spector A

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) family has recently expanded by the identification and cloning of three additional members, namely VEGF-B, VEGF-C, and VEGF-D. In this study we demonstrate that VEGF-B binds selectively to VEGF receptor-1/Flt-1. This binding can be blocked by excess VEGF, indicating that t...

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

authors： Olofsson B,Korpelainen E,Pepper MS,Mandriota SJ,Aase K,Kumar V,Gunji Y,Jeltsch MM,Shibuya M,Alitalo K,Eriksson U

更新日期：1998-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) has evolved a remarkable strategy to thwart the antiviral effects of the cellular cytidine deaminase APOBEC3G (hA3G). HTLV-1 infects T lymphocytes in vivo, where, like HIV-1, it is likely to encounter hA3G. HIV-1 counteracts the innate antiviral activity of hA3G by producing...

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

authors： Derse D,Hill SA,Princler G,Lloyd P,Heidecker G

更新日期：2007-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we uncovered a critical role for norepinephrine and beta(1)-adrenergic signaling in hippocampus-dependent memory retrieval. Because the beta(1) receptor couples to G(s), we examine here whether cAMP is also required for contextual memory retrieval. Using pharmacologic and genetic approaches to manipulate cA...

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

authors： Ouyang M,Zhang L,Zhu JJ,Schwede F,Thomas SA

更新日期：2008-08-19 00:00:00