Capturing microRNA targets using an RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC)-trap approach.

abstract：:It is believed that neural representations of recent experiences become reactivated during sleep, and that this process serves to stabilize associated memories in long-term memory. Here, we initiated this reactivation process for specific memories during slow-wave sleep. Participants studied 50 object-location associa...

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

authors： van Dongen EV,Takashima A,Barth M,Zapp J,Schad LR,Paller KA,Fernández G

更新日期：2012-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter hepaticus-infected Rag2(-/-) mice emulate many aspects of human inflammatory bowel disease, including the development of colitis and colon cancer. To elucidate mechanisms of inflammation-induced carcinogenesis, we undertook a comprehensive analysis of histopathology, molecular damage, and gene expression ...

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

authors： Mangerich A,Knutson CG,Parry NM,Muthupalani S,Ye W,Prestwich E,Cui L,McFaline JL,Mobley M,Ge Z,Taghizadeh K,Wishnok JS,Wogan GN,Fox JG,Tannenbaum SR,Dedon PC

更新日期：2012-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The most common monogenic cause of small-vessel disease leading to ischemic stroke and vascular dementia is the neurodegenerative syndrome cerebral autosomal-dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL), which is associated with mutations in the Notch 3 receptor. CADASIL pathology ...

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

authors： Arboleda-Velasquez JF,Manent J,Lee JH,Tikka S,Ospina C,Vanderburg CR,Frosch MP,Rodríguez-Falcón M,Villen J,Gygi S,Lopera F,Kalimo H,Moskowitz MA,Ayata C,Louvi A,Artavanis-Tsakonas S

更新日期：2011-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The high susceptibility of human immunoglobulin D to proteolytic degradation affects its biological function, metabolism, and immunoassay. High-pressure liquid chromatography was used to investigate the mechanism and rate of limited proteolytic cleavage of IgD and also to identify, isolate, and quantify the reaction p...

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

authors： Ishioka N,Takahashi N,Putnam FW

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenopus oocytes express a gene encoding bovine rhodopsin as well as its SP6 RNA polymerase-derived transcripts and total retinal mRNA. The opsin produced is in unglycosylated (30 kDa) and two glycosylated (35 kDa and 41 kDa) forms. Incubation of the cells expressing the above proteins with 11-cis-retinal generates rho...

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

authors： Khorana HG,Knox BE,Nasi E,Swanson R,Thompson DA

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 50 years, the rising tree line along Jumpingpound Ridge in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, Canada, has reduced the area of alpine meadows and isolated populations that reside within them. By analyzing an 11-year data set of butterfly population sizes for 17 subpopulations along the ridge, we show that fo...

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

authors： Roland J,Matter SF

更新日期：2007-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyramidal cells in piriform cortex receive excitatory inputs from two different sources that are segregated onto adjacent segments of their apical dendrites. The present studies show that excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) evoked by primary olfactory tract afferents that terminate on distal apical segments dis...

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

authors： Bower JM,Haberly LB

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combinatorial transcription codes generate the myriad of cell types during development and thus likely provide crucial insights into directed differentiation of stem cells to a specific cell type. The LIM complex composed of Isl1 and Lhx3 directs the specification of spinal motor neurons (MNs) in embryos. Here, we rep...

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

authors： Lee S,Cuvillier JM,Lee B,Shen R,Lee JW,Lee SK

更新日期：2012-02-28 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：:Although most experimental and theoretical studies of protein folding involve proteins in vitro, the effects of spatial confinement may complicate protein folding in vivo. In this study, we examine the folding dynamics of villin (a small fast folding protein) with explicit solvent confined to an inert nanopore. We hav...

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

authors： Lucent D,Vishal V,Pande VS

更新日期：2007-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In a subtropical gyre, the convergent Ekman layer forces water downward into the geostrophic flow below. The properties and depth of the mixed layer vary considerably during the course of the year, but this variability does not penetrate into the geostrophic region. Evidently there is some process at work that selects...

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

authors： Stommel H

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral and neural evidence reveal a prospective goal-directed decision process that relies on mental simulation of the environment, and a retrospective habitual process that caches returns previously garnered from available choices. Artificial systems combine the two by simulating the environment up to some depth ...

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

authors： Keramati M,Smittenaar P,Dolan RJ,Dayan P

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We posit that feasible reversal of the growth of atmospheric CH(4) and other trace gases would provide a vital contribution toward averting dangerous anthropogenic interference with global climate. Such trace gas reductions may allow stabilization of atmospheric CO(2) at an achievable level of anthropogenic CO(2) emis...

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

authors： Hansen J,Sato M

更新日期：2004-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:HLA-I molecules play a central role in antigen presentation. They typically bind 9- to 12-mer peptides, and their canonical binding mode involves anchor residues at the second and last positions of their ligands. To investigate potential noncanonical binding modes, we collected in-depth and accurate HLA peptidomics da...

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

authors： Guillaume P,Picaud S,Baumgaertner P,Montandon N,Schmidt J,Speiser DE,Coukos G,Bassani-Sternberg M,Filippakopoulos P,Gfeller D

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The vast majority of biologists engaged in evolutionary studies interpret virtually every aspect of biodiversity in adaptive terms. This narrow view of evolution has become untenable in light of recent observations from genomic sequencing and population-genetic theory. Numerous aspects of genomic architecture, gene st...

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

authors： Lynch M

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+ ions control the cGMP-gated channel of rod photoreceptor cells from the external and internal face. We studied ion selectivity and blockage by Ca2+ of wild-type and mutant channels in a heterologous expression system. External Ca2+ blocks the inward current at micromolar concentrations in a highly voltage-depende...

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

authors： Eismann E,Müller F,Heinemann SH,Kaupp UB

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seed dormancy is a trait of considerable adaptive significance because it maximizes seedling survival by preventing premature germination under unfavorable conditions. Understanding how seeds break dormancy and initiate growth is also of great agricultural and biotechnological interest. Abscisic acid (ABA) plays prima...

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

authors： Lopez-Molina L,Mongrand S,Chua NH

更新日期：2001-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the properties of r-eag voltage-activated potassium channels in a stably transfected human embryonic kidney cell line. It was found that r-eag channels are rapidly and reversibly inhibited by a rise in intracellular calcium from 30 to 300 nM. The inhibition does not appear to depend on the activity of ...

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

authors： Stansfeld CE,Röper J,Ludwig J,Weseloh RM,Marsh SJ,Brown DA,Pongs O

更新日期：1996-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The members of the chimaerin family of Rac-GTPase-activating proteins possess a single C1 domain with high homology to those present in protein kinase C (PKC) isozymes. This domain in PKCs is involved in phorbol ester and diacylglycerol (DAG) binding. We previously have demonstrated that one of the chimaerin isoforms,...

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

authors： Caloca MJ,Garcia-Bermejo ML,Blumberg PM,Lewin NE,Kremmer E,Mischak H,Wang S,Nacro K,Bienfait B,Marquez VE,Kazanietz MG

更新日期：1999-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Jasmonoyl-isoleucine (JA-Ile), the active form of the plant hormone jasmonate (JA), is sensed by the F-box protein CORONATINE INSENSITIVE 1 (COI1), a component of a functional Skp-Cullin-F-box E3 ubiquitin ligase complex. Sensing of JA-Ile by COI1 rapidly triggers genome-wide transcriptional changes that are largely r...

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

authors： An C,Li L,Zhai Q,You Y,Deng L,Wu F,Chen R,Jiang H,Wang H,Chen Q,Li C

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Although neural circuits mediating various simple behaviors have been delineated, those generating more complex behaviors are less well described. The discrete structure of avian song control nuclei promises that circuits controlling complex behaviors, such as birdsong, can also be understood. To this end, we develope...

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

authors： Mooney R,Konishi M

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sustained activity of mammalian methionine synthase (MS) requires MS reductase (MSR), but there have been few studies of the interactions between these two proteins. In this study, recombinant human MS (hMS) and MSR (hMSR) were expressed in baculovirus-infected insect cells and purified to homogeneity. hMSR maintained...

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

authors： Yamada K,Gravel RA,Toraya T,Matthews RG

更新日期：2006-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of specific trans-acting transcription factors in prokaryotes and lower eukaryotes has been greatly facilitated by genetic analysis of mutant strains deficient in such factors. We have developed such a system to study mammalian trans-acting factors that regulate the transcription of class II major histocompa...

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

authors： Calman AF,Peterlin BM

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The poison frogs (family Dendrobatidae) are terrestrial anuran amphibians displaying a wide range of coloration and toxicity. These frogs generally have been considered to be aposematic, but relatively little research has been carried out to test the predictions of this hypothesis. Here we use a comparative approach t...

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

authors： Summers K,Clough ME

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Although biological cells are mostly transparent, they are phase objects that differ in shape and refractive index. Any image that is projected through layers of randomly oriented cells will normally be distorted by refraction, reflection, and scattering. Counterintuitively, the retina of the vertebrate eye is inverte...

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

authors： Franze K,Grosche J,Skatchkov SN,Schinkinger S,Foja C,Schild D,Uckermann O,Travis K,Reichenbach A,Guck J

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mature peripheral T cells respond to foreign but not to self-antigens. During development in the thymus, deletion of high-affinity self-reactive immature thymocytes contributes to tolerance of mature T cells. However, double-positive thymocytes are positively selected to survive if they respond to self-peptide-MHC com...

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

authors： Stephen TL,Wilson BS,Laufer TM

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Under particular circumstances like lactation and fasting, the blood-borne monocarboxylates acetoacetate, beta-hydroxybutyrate, and lactate represent significant energy substrates for the brain. Their utilization is dependent on a transport system present on both endothelial cells forming the blood-brain barrier and o...

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

authors： Pellerin L,Pellegri G,Martin JL,Magistretti PJ

更新日期：1998-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) inhibited [3H]thymidine incorporation in normal adrenocortical cells of adult rats in culture, with a concomitant increase in corticosterone production and a characteristic retraction of cells. Both dibutyryl cyclic AMP and an analog of ACTH, which produces virtually no cyclic AMP, i...

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

authors： Ramachandran J,Suyama AT

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human hepatitis B virus genome encodes a protein, termed HBx, that is widely recognized as a transcriptional transactivator. While HBx does not directly bind cis-acting transcriptional control elements, it has been shown to associate with cellular proteins that bind DNA. Because HBx transactivated a large number of vi...

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

authors： Qadri I,Conaway JW,Conaway RC,Schaack J,Siddiqui A

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inside-out erythrocyte membranes attached to polycationic beads manifested glutathione disulfide (GSSG)-stimulated ATPase activity. A Lineweaver-Burk plot of the ATPase activity as a function of GSSG concentration was biphasic and gave apparent Km values of 0.13 mM and 2.0 mM. These kinetics are similar to those repor...

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

authors： Kondo T,Kawakami Y,Taniguchi N,Beutler E

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00