Mapping multisensory parietal face and body areas in humans.

abstract：:Prions are infectious proteins that encipher biological information within their conformations; variations in these conformations dictate different prion strains. Toward elucidating the molecular language of prion protein (PrP) conformations, we produced an array of recombinant PrP amyloids with varying conformational...

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

authors： Colby DW,Giles K,Legname G,Wille H,Baskakov IV,DeArmond SJ,Prusiner SB

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host-defense cationic antimicrobial peptides ( approximately 12-50 aa long) play an essential protective role in the innate immune system of all organisms. Lipopeptides, however, are produced only in bacteria and fungi during cultivation, and they are composed of specific lipophilic moieties attached to anionic peptid...

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

authors： Makovitzki A,Avrahami D,Shai Y

更新日期：2006-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Chick-limb mesodermal cells have been maintained in tissue culture under conditions that permit development of muscle and cartilage. 3-Acetylpyridine, a nicotinamide-antagonized muscle teratogen, potentiates chondrogenic expression in cell cultures, as evidenced by histological and biochemical criteria, including the ...

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

authors： Caplan AI,Stoolmiller AC

更新日期：1973-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysregulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is a hallmark of major depressive disorder. A number of studies have shown that this dysregulation is correlated with impaired forebrain glucocorticoid receptor (GR) function. To determine whether a primary, acquired deficit in forebrain GR signaling is an...

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

authors： Boyle MP,Brewer JA,Funatsu M,Wozniak DF,Tsien JZ,Izumi Y,Muglia LJ

更新日期：2005-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Size has a profound effect on the structure of the brain. Many brain structures scale allometrically, that is, their relative size changes systematically as a function of brain size. Here we use independent contrasts analysis to examine the scaling of frontal cortex in 43 species of mammals including 25 primates and 1...

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

authors： Bush EC,Allman JM

更新日期：2004-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:ADP ribosylation factor (ARF) is a small guanosine triphosphate (GTP)-binding protein that regulates the binding of coat proteins to membranes and is required for several stages of vesicular transport. ARF also stimulates phospholipase D (PLD) activity, which can alter the lipid content of membranes by conversion of p...

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

authors： Ktistakis NT,Brown HA,Sternweis PC,Roth MG

更新日期：1995-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:mTOR is an evolutionarily conserved kinase that plays a critical role in sensing and responding to environmental determinants. Recent studies have shown that fine-tuning of the activity of mTOR complexes contributes to organogenesis and tumorigenesis. Although rapamycin, an allosteric mTOR inhibitor, is an effective i...

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

authors： Hoshii T,Kasada A,Hatakeyama T,Ohtani M,Tadokoro Y,Naka K,Ikenoue T,Ikawa T,Kawamoto H,Fehling HJ,Araki K,Yamamura K,Matsuda S,Hirao A

更新日期：2014-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite growing evidence for perceptual interactions between motion and position, no unifying framework exists to account for these two key features of our visual experience. We show that percepts of both object position and motion derive from a common object-tracking system--a system that optimally integrates sensory...

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

authors： Kwon OS,Tadin D,Knill DC

更新日期：2015-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:SsrA/SsrB is a primary two-component system that mediates the survival and replication of Salmonella within host cells. When activated, the SsrB response regulator directly promotes the transcription of multiple genes within Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 (SPI-2). As expression of the SsrB protein is promoted by se...

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

authors： Choi J,Shin D,Yoon H,Kim J,Lee CR,Kim M,Seok YJ,Ryu S

更新日期：2010-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the cascade of proteolytic caspases has been identified as the final common pathway of apoptosis in diverse biological systems. We have isolated a gene, termed MRIT, that possesses overall sequence homology to FLICE (MACH), a large prodomain caspase that links the aggregated complex of the death domain r...

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

authors： Han DK,Chaudhary PM,Wright ME,Friedman C,Trask BJ,Riedel RT,Baskin DG,Schwartz SM,Hood L

更新日期：1997-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Asymmetric epoxidation of various styrenes using carbocyclic oxazolidinone-containing ketone 3 has been investigated. High enantioselectivity (89-93% enantiomeric excess) has been attained for this challenging class of alkenes. Mechanistic studies show that substituents on the ketone catalyst can have electronic influ...

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

authors： Hickey M,Goeddel D,Crane Z,Shi Y

更新日期：2004-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The epothilones are naturally occurring, cytotoxic macrolides that function through a paclitaxel (Taxol)-like mechanism. Although structurally dissimilar, both classes of molecules lead to the arrest of cell division and eventual cell death by stabilizing cellular microtubule assemblies. The epothilones differ in thei...

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

authors： Chou TC,Zhang XG,Harris CR,Kuduk SD,Balog A,Savin KA,Bertino JR,Danishefsky SJ

更新日期：1998-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Ski8p is implicated in degradation of non-poly(A) and double-stranded RNA, and in meiotic DNA recombination. We have identified the Sordaria macrospora SKI8 gene. Ski8p is cytoplasmically localized in all vegetative and sexual cycle cells, and is nuclear localized, specifically in early-mid-meiotic prophase, in tempor...

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

authors： Tessé S,Storlazzi A,Kleckner N,Gargano S,Zickler D

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell walls of Mycobacterium leprae, prepared by differential solvent extraction, were shown to contain arabinogalactan, mycolates, and peptidoglycan. In addition, amino acid analysis revealed the unexpected presence of large amounts of protein that retained potent immunological reactivity. Purified cell walls stimulat...

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

authors： Melancon-Kaplan J,Hunter SW,McNeil M,Stewart C,Modlin RL,Rea TH,Convit J,Salgame P,Mehra V,Bloom BR

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive assay for detection of eukaryotic RNA polymerase II has been developed. This assay depends on the ability of polymerase II to elongate a small RNA primer, oligo(U), hybridized to a single-stranded homopolymeric DNA template, poly(dA). The poly(dA).oligo(U)-dependent RNA polymerase II from calf thymus has b...

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

authors： Fradkin LG,Leong K,Morrow CD,Berk AJ,Dasgupta A

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An inductive interaction between the sevenless (sev) transmembrane tyrosine kinase receptor and the bride of sevenless (boss) transmembrane ligand is required for the development of the R7 photoreceptor neuron in the compound eye of Drosophila melanogaster. The boss protein is proposed to contain a large N-terminal ex...

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

authors： Hart AC,Harrison SD,Van Vactor DL Jr,Rubin GM,Zipursky SL

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify mannosyl (Man)-containing intermediates of the human glycoinositol phospholipid (GPI) anchor pathway and examine their expression in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), mannolipid products deriving from in vitro guanosine diphosphate [3H]Man labeling of HeLa cell microsomes were characterized. The d...

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

authors： Hirose S,Ravi L,Prince GM,Rosenfeld MG,Silber R,Andresen SW,Hazra SV,Medof ME

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two high molecular weight growth inhibitors have been isolated from the culture medium of BSC-1 cells, epithelial cells of African green monkey kidney. The purified kidney epithelial cell growth inhibitors, at ng/ml concentrations, reversibly arrest the growth of BSC-1 cells in the G1 phase of the cell cycle. Their ac...

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

authors： Holley RW,Böhlen P,Fava R,Baldwin JH,Kleeman G,Armour R

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transforming protein of avian sarcoma virus UR2, p68v-ros, has an associated tyrosine-specific protein kinase activity similar to that of p60v-src and several other oncogene products. However, this activity has not been linked unequivocally to transformation, and the physiological action of these proteins remains ...

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

authors： Macara IG,Marinetti GV,Balduzzi PC

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the iPLA2-VIA/PLA2G6 gene are responsible for PARK14-linked Parkinson's disease (PD) with α-synucleinopathy. However, it is unclear how iPLA2-VIA mutations lead to α-synuclein (α-Syn) aggregation and dopaminergic (DA) neurodegeneration. Here, we report that iPLA2-VIA-deficient Drosophila exhibits defects ...

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

authors： Mori A,Hatano T,Inoshita T,Shiba-Fukushima K,Koinuma T,Meng H,Kubo SI,Spratt S,Cui C,Yamashita C,Miki Y,Yamamoto K,Hirabayashi T,Murakami M,Takahashi Y,Shindou H,Nonaka T,Hasegawa M,Okuzumi A,Imai Y,Hattori N

更新日期：2019-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Populations of jellyfish, Mastigias sp., landlocked in tropical marine lakes during the Holocene, show extreme genetic isolation (0.74 < or = phiST < or = 1.00), founder effects (genetic diversity: 0.000 < or = pi < or = 0.001), rapid morphological evolution, and behavioral adaptation. These results demonstrate incipi...

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

authors： Dawson MN,Hamner WM

更新日期：2005-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the protein structure-function relationship, we propose a method to efficiently create three-dimensional maps of structure space using a very large dataset of > 30,000 Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) domains. In our maps, each domain is represented by a point, and the distance between any two poi...

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

authors： Osadchy M,Kolodny R

更新日期：2011-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitory interneurons regulate the responses of cortical circuits. In auditory cortical areas, inhibition from these neurons narrows spectral tuning and shapes response dynamics. Acute disruptions of inhibition expand spectral receptive fields. However, the effects of long-term perturbations of inhibitory circuitry ...

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

authors： Seybold BA,Stanco A,Cho KK,Potter GB,Kim C,Sohal VS,Rubenstein JL,Schreiner CE

更新日期：2012-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein is the primary target for HIV-1-specific antibodies. The native HIV-1 envelope spike on the virion surface is a trimer, but trimeric gp140 and monomeric gp120 currently are believed to induce comparable immune responses. Indeed, most studies on the immunogenicity of HIV-1 envelope oligomers...

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

authors： Kovacs JM,Nkolola JP,Peng H,Cheung A,Perry J,Miller CA,Seaman MS,Barouch DH,Chen B

更新日期：2012-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial populations are subject to complex processes of diversification that involve mutation and horizontal DNA transfer mediated by transformation, transduction, or conjugation. Tracing the evolutionary events leading to genetic changes allows us to infer the history of a microbe. Here, we combine experimental and...

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

authors： Brochet M,Rusniok C,Couvé E,Dramsi S,Poyart C,Trieu-Cuot P,Kunst F,Glaser P

更新日期：2008-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of beta cells to endure assaults may be relevant in the development of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. This study examines the susceptibility of human pancreatic islets to agents that are cytotoxic for rodent beta cells--i.e., sodium nitroprusside (NP, a nitric oxide donor), streptozotocin (SZ), or al...

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

authors： Eizirik DL,Pipeleers DG,Ling Z,Welsh N,Hellerström C,Andersson A

更新日期：1994-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Beetle luciferases are thought to have evolved from fatty acyl-CoA synthetases present in all insects. Both classes of enzymes activate fatty acids with ATP to form acyl-adenylate intermediates, but only luciferases can activate and oxidize d-luciferin to emit light. Here we show that the Drosophila fatty acyl-CoA syn...

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

authors： Mofford DM,Reddy GR,Miller SC

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A key energy-saving adaptation to chronic hypoxia that enables cardiomyocytes to withstand severe ischemic insults is hibernation, i.e., a reversible arrest of contractile function. Whereas hibernating cardiomyocytes represent the critical reserve of dysfunctional cells that can be potentially rescued, a lack of a sui...

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

authors： May D,Gilon D,Djonov V,Itin A,Lazarus A,Gordon O,Rosenberger C,Keshet E

更新日期：2008-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The pleiotropic effect of the sickle gene suggests that factors in addition to polymerization of the mutant gene product might be involved in sickle disease pathobiology. We have examined rates of heme transfer to hemopexin from hemoglobin in dilute aqueous solution (0.5 mg of Hb per ml) at 37 degrees C. HbO2 S loses ...

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

authors： Hebbel RP,Morgan WT,Eaton JW,Hedlund BE

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene that codes for Drosophila alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH; alcohol:NAD+ oxidoreductase EC 1.1.1.1) was identified in a bacteriophage lambda library of genomic Drosophila DNA by using ADH cDNA cloned DNA as a probe. The DNA sequence of the protein encoding region was shown to be in agreement with the amino acid seq...

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

authors： Benyajati C,Place AR,Powers DA,Sofer W

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00