Agonist binding evokes extensive conformational changes in the extracellular domain of the ATP-gated human P2X1 receptor ion channel.

abstract：:Cell-free DNA shed by cancer cells has been shown to be a rich source of putative tumor-specific biomarkers. Because cell-free DNA from brain and spinal cord tumors cannot usually be detected in the blood, we studied whether the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that bathes the CNS is enriched for tumor DNA, here termed CSF-t...

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

authors： Wang Y,Springer S,Zhang M,McMahon KW,Kinde I,Dobbyn L,Ptak J,Brem H,Chaichana K,Gallia GL,Gokaslan ZL,Groves ML,Jallo GI,Lim M,Olivi A,Quinones-Hinojosa A,Rigamonti D,Riggins GJ,Sciubba DM,Weingart JD,Wolinsky JP

更新日期：2015-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In many cell-signaling pathways, information is transmitted by the diffusion of messenger molecules. Diffusion coefficients characterize the messenger's spatial range and the characteristic times of signal propagation. Inside cells, particles usually diffuse in the presence of immobile binding sites (or traps). It is ...

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

authors： Pando B,Dawson SP,Mak DO,Pearson JE

更新日期：2006-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Reptiles and fish have robust regenerative powers for tooth renewal. However, extant mammals can either renew their teeth one time (diphyodont dentition) or not at all (monophyodont dentition). Humans replace their milk teeth with permanent teeth and then lose their ability for tooth renewal. Here, we study tooth rene...

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

authors： Wu P,Wu X,Jiang TX,Elsey RM,Temple BL,Divers SJ,Glenn TC,Yuan K,Chen MH,Widelitz RB,Chuong CM

更新日期：2013-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent experiments have shown that spreading epithelial sheets exhibit a long-range coordination of motility forces that leads to a buildup of tension in the tissue, which may enhance cell division and the speed of wound healing. Furthermore, the edges of these epithelial sheets commonly show finger-like protrusions w...

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

authors： Basan M,Elgeti J,Hannezo E,Rappel WJ,Levine H

更新日期：2013-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1, the cause of AIDS, is composed of four phylogenetic lineages, groups M, N, O, and P, each of which resulted from an independent cross-species transmission event of simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) infecting African apes. Although groups M and N have been traced to geographically distinct chimpanzee commun...

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

authors： D'arc M,Ayouba A,Esteban A,Learn GH,Boué V,Liegeois F,Etienne L,Tagg N,Leendertz FH,Boesch C,Madinda NF,Robbins MM,Gray M,Cournil A,Ooms M,Letko M,Simon VA,Sharp PM,Hahn BH,Delaporte E,Mpoudi Ngole E,Peeters M

更新日期：2015-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of Zn2+ on a voltage-dependent, transient potassium current (IA) in acutely dissociated neurons from the suprachiasmatic nucleus was studied with the whole-cell patch-clamp technique. At micromolar concentrations, Zn2+ markedly potentiated IA activated from a holding potential of -60 mV, which is the restin...

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

authors： Huang RC,Peng YW,Yau KW

更新日期：1993-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:By affinity chromatography on heparin-Sepharose, two classes of lipoproteins were separated from high density lipoproteins (HDL) isolated from patients with primary or secondary lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferase (LCATase; EC 2.3.1.43) deficiency and from normal subjects. The unretained fraction, HDL(A), was charact...

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

authors： Marcel YL,Vezina C,Emond D,Suzue G

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in profilin 1 (PFN1) are associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); however, the pathological mechanism of PFN1 in this fatal disease is unknown. We demonstrate that ALS-linked mutations severely destabilize the native conformation of PFN1 in vitro and cause accelerated turnover of the PFN1 protein...

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

authors： Boopathy S,Silvas TV,Tischbein M,Jansen S,Shandilya SM,Zitzewitz JA,Landers JE,Goode BL,Schiffer CA,Bosco DA

更新日期：2015-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The spread of bacteria resistant to antimicrobial agents calls for population-wide treatment strategies to delay or reverse the trend toward antibiotic resistance. Here we propose new criteria for the evaluation of the population-wide effects of treatment protocols for directly transmitted bacterial infections and dis...

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

authors： Bonhoeffer S,Lipsitch M,Levin BR

更新日期：1997-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We completed the cDNA cloning and sequencing of gp330, the major kidney glomerular antigen for rat Heymann nephritis. The deduced 4660-aa sequence, expected to constitute a mature protein of M(r) 516,715, consists of a probable N-terminal signal peptide sequence (25 aa), an extracellular region (4400 aa), a single tra...

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

authors： Saito A,Pietromonaco S,Loo AK,Farquhar MG

更新日期：1994-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the CCAAT-binding transcription factor (CTF) family of proteins stimulate the initiation of adenovirus DNA replication and act as transcriptional activators. To investigate the mechanisms underlying CTF-mediated transactivation patterns, we expressed several natural CTF variants in Saccharomyces cerevisiae ...

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

authors： Altmann H,Wendler W,Winnacker EL

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Major changes in global rainfall patterns accompanied a northward shift of Earth's thermal equator at the onset of an abrupt climate change 14.6 kya. This northward pull of Earth's wind and rain belts stemmed from disintegration of North Atlantic winter sea ice cover, which steepened the interhemispheric meridional te...

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

authors： Broecker WS,Putnam AE

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A climate/vegetation model simulates episodic wetter and drier periods at the 21,000-y precession period in eastern North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Levant over the past 140,000 y. Large orbitally forced wet/dry extremes occur during interglacial time, ∼130 to 80 ka, and conditions between these two extrem...

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

authors： Kutzbach JE,Guan J,He F,Cohen AS,Orland IJ,Chen G

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The endbrain (telencephalon) is at the rostral end of the central nervous system and is primarily responsible for supporting cognition and affect. Structurally, it consists of right and left cerebral hemispheres, each parceled into multiple cortical and nuclear gray matter regions. The global network organization of a...

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

authors： Swanson LW,Hahn JD,Jeub LGS,Fortunato S,Sporns O

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The flavin cofactor in photoenzyme photolyase and photoreceptor cryptochrome may exist in an oxidized state and should be converted into reduced state(s) for biological functions. Such redox changes can be efficiently achieved by photoinduced electron transfer (ET) through a series of aromatic residues in the enzyme. ...

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

authors： Liu Z,Tan C,Guo X,Li J,Wang L,Sancar A,Zhong D

更新日期：2013-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Many of the world's around 6,000 languages are in danger of disappearing as people give up use of a minority language in favor of the majority language in a process called language shift. Language shift can be monitored on a large scale through the use of mathematical models by way of differential equations, for examp...

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

authors： Prochazka K,Vogl G

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Life-long protection from disease through immunization can be accomplished through individual or community protection. Individual protection is the goal for vaccination against diseases that have inanimate or animal reservoirs or that pose risks for certain populations. Community protection is the goal for vaccination...

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

authors： Dowdle WR,Orenstein WA

更新日期：1994-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Dematerialization, represented by declining consumption per GDP of energy or of goods, offers some hope for rising environmental quality with development. The declining proportion of income spent on staples as affluence grows, which income elasticity <1.0 measures, makes dematerialization widespread. Further, as learn...

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

authors： Ausubel JH,Waggoner PE

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukocytes normally marginate toward the vascular wall in large vessels and within the microvasculature. Reversal of this process, leukocyte demargination, leads to substantial increases in the clinical white blood cell and granulocyte count and is a well-documented effect of glucocorticoid and catecholamine hormones,...

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

authors： Fay ME,Myers DR,Kumar A,Turbyfield CT,Byler R,Crawford K,Mannino RG,Laohapant A,Tyburski EA,Sakurai Y,Rosenbluth MJ,Switz NA,Sulchek TA,Graham MD,Lam WA

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified differential screening procedure was applied to analyze cDNA libraries of cloned helper T lymphocytes (Th) and cytolytic T lymphocytes (CTL). Negative and positive differential screening and RNA blot analysis were used to identify cDNA clones that were expressed preferentially in Th or CTL. Seven clones cor...

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

authors： Kwon BS,Kim GS,Prystowsky MB,Lancki DW,Sabath DE,Pan JL,Weissman SM

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Daphnia pulex de Geer and Daphnia magna Straus populations cannot be maintained in defined (sensu stricto) media containing less than 0.1 part per billion (ppb) of selenium. A concentration of 1 ppb is sufficient to satisfy minimal needs in otherwise sufficient media. In the first generation with no selenium added to ...

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

authors： Keating KI,Dagbusan BC

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The liver is a central organ for the synthesis and storage of nutrients, production of serum proteins and hormones, and breakdown of toxins and metabolites. Because the liver is susceptible to toxin- or pathogen-mediated injury, it maintains a remarkable capacity to regenerate by compensatory growth. Specifically, in ...

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

authors： Goh YP,Henderson NC,Heredia JE,Red Eagle A,Odegaard JI,Lehwald N,Nguyen KD,Sheppard D,Mukundan L,Locksley RM,Chawla A

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The redox potentials of electron transfer proteins vary over a wide range, even when the type of redox center is the same. Rees [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (1985) 82, 3082-3085] proposed that this variation of redox potential partly reflects the different net charges of the proteins, and he presented a linear correlat...

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

authors： Moore GR,Pettigrew GW,Rogers NK

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA delivery of IL-12 has shown promise in reducing the toxic side effects associated with administration of recombinant human (h)IL-12 protein while maintaining the ability to inhibit tumor growth and abolish tumor metastases in animal models. We have developed a more potent version of IL-12 by using DNA shuffling an...

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

authors： Leong SR,Chang JC,Ong R,Dawes G,Stemmer WP,Punnonen J

更新日期：2003-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Chylomicron catabolism is known to be initiated by the enzyme lipoprotein lipase (triacylglycero-protein acylhydrolase, EC 3.1.1.34). Chylomicron remnants, produced by lipolysis, are rapidly taken up by the liver via an apolipoprotein E (apoE)-mediated, receptor-dependent process. The low density lipoprotein (LDL) rec...

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

authors： Beisiegel U,Weber W,Bengtsson-Olivecrona G

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanopsin, the photopigment of the "circadian" receptors that regulate the biological clock and the pupillary reflex in mammals, is homologous to invertebrate rhodopsins. Evidence supporting the involvement of phosphoinositides in light-signaling has been garnered, but the downstream effectors that control the light-...

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

authors： Peinado G,Osorno T,Gomez Mdel P,Nasi E

更新日期：2015-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA, cRKIN1, encoding a putative homologue of the yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) SNF1-encoded protein-serine/threonine kinase, has been isolated from a library prepared from rye endosperm mRNA. Northern blot analysis demonstrated the presence of cRKIN1-related transcripts in developing endosperms but not in shoot...

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

authors： Alderson A,Sabelli PA,Dickinson JR,Cole D,Richardson M,Kreis M,Shewry PR,Halford NG

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transforming growth factors beta (TGF-beta s) are important modulators of growth and differentiation. They are intermolecular disulfide-bonded homodimeric molecules. The monomer fold has a conserved cystine knot and lacks a hydrophobic core. The biological specificity of a given member of the family is believed to...

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

authors： Venkataraman G,Sasisekharan V,Cooney CL,Langer R,Sasisekharan R

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum levels of apolipoprotein CIII (apoCIII) are increased in type 1 diabetic patients, and when β cells are exposed to these diabetic sera, apoptosis occurs, an effect abolished by an antibody against apoCIII. We have investigated the BB rat, an animal model that develops a human-like type 1 diabetes, and found that...

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

authors： Holmberg R,Refai E,Höög A,Crooke RM,Graham M,Olivecrona G,Berggren PO,Juntti-Berggren L

更新日期：2011-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hippo signaling pathway is a master regulator of organ growth, tissue homeostasis, and tumorigenesis. The activity of the Hippo pathway is controlled by various upstream components, including Expanded (Ex), but the precise molecular mechanism of how Ex is regulated remains poorly understood. Here we identify Plent...

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

authors： Ma X,Guo X,Richardson HE,Xu T,Xue L

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00