Synapse-specific and size-dependent mechanisms of spine structural plasticity accompanying synaptic weakening.

abstract：:Cleavage of the group-specific antigen (Gag) polyprotein by HIV-1 protease represents the critical first step in the conversion of immature noninfectious viral particles to mature infectious virions. Selective pressure exerted by HIV-1 protease inhibitors, a mainstay of current anti-HIV-1 therapies, results in the acc...

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

authors： Deshmukh L,Louis JM,Ghirlando R,Clore GM

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eccentricity, obliquity, and precession are cyclic parameters of the Earth's orbit whose climatic implications have been widely demonstrated on recent and short time intervals. Amplitude modulations of these parameters on million-year time scales induce "grand orbital cycles," but the behavior and the paleoenvironment...

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

authors： Martinez M,Dera G

更新日期：2015-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The oligodendrocyte (Od), a glial cell that produces myelin in the central nervous system, may be a target for autoreactive T cells in autoimmune demyelinating processes, although not expressing major histocompatibility complex (MHC) products. To analyze Od-T-cell interactions, we selected from normal SJL/J mouse sple...

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

authors： Jewtoukoff V,Lebar R,Bach MA

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperphosphorylated α-synuclein in Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites is a characteristic neuropathological feature of Parkinson's disease (PD) and Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). The catalytic subunit of the specific phosphatase, protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) that dephosphorylates α-synuclein, is hypomethylated in these ...

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

authors： Yan R,Zhang J,Park HJ,Park ES,Oh S,Zheng H,Junn E,Voronkov M,Stock JB,Mouradian MM

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Lentiviruses, including HIV-1, have transmembrane envelope (Env) glycoproteins with cytoplasmic tails that are quite long compared with those of other retroviruses. However, mainly because of the lack of biochemical studies performed in cell types that are targets for HIV-1 infection, no clear consensus exists regardi...

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

authors： Murakami T,Freed EO

更新日期：2000-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA and protein determinants of nucleosome positioning have been examined after in vitro reconstitutions of native or modified histone octamers onto tandem repeats of 207- and 172-base-pair DNA sequences containing the Lytechinus variegatus 5S rRNA gene and onto monomeric sequences derived from these by digestion with...

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

authors： Dong F,Hansen JC,van Holde KE

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deregulation of energy metabolism by external interventions or mutations in metabolic genes can extend lifespan in a wide range of species. We describe mutations in Drosophila melanogaster that confer resistance to oxidative stress and display a longevity phenotype. These phenotypes are associated with molecular lesio...

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

authors： Mourikis P,Hurlbut GD,Artavanis-Tsakonas S

更新日期：2006-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins of ribosomes from various stages of development in Dictyostelium discoideum were analyzed by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Significant changes in protein composition were observed; the data demonstrate that cell differentiation in a eukaryotic system is accompanied by ribosome heterogene...

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

authors： Ramagopal S,Ennis HL

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ras is a guanine nucleotide-binding protein that cycles between inactive GDP-bound and active GTP-bound states to regulate a diverse array of cellular processes, including cell growth, apoptosis, and differentiation. The guanine nucleotide-bound state of Ras is tightly maintained by regulatory factors to promote regul...

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

authors： Williams JG,Pappu K,Campbell SL

更新日期：2003-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The six members of the contactin (CNTN) family of neural cell adhesion molecules are involved in the formation and maintenance of the central nervous system (CNS) and have been linked to mental retardation and neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism. Five of the six CNTNs bind to the homologous receptor protein tyro...

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

authors： Lamprianou S,Chatzopoulou E,Thomas JL,Bouyain S,Harroch S

更新日期：2011-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A key component of scientific communication is sufficient information for other researchers in the field to reproduce published findings. For computational and data-enabled research, this has often been interpreted to mean making available the raw data from which results were generated, the computer code that generate...

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

authors： Stodden V,Seiler J,Ma Z

更新日期：2018-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Asexual freshwater planarians reproduce by tearing themselves into two pieces by a process called binary fission. The resulting head and tail pieces regenerate within about a week, forming two new worms. Understanding this process of ripping oneself into two parts poses a challenging biomechanical problem. Because pla...

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

authors： Malinowski PT,Cochet-Escartin O,Kaj KJ,Ronan E,Groisman A,Diamond PH,Collins ES

更新日期：2017-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial pathogen Vibrio parahaemolyticus utilizes a type III secretion system to cause death of host cells within hours of infection. We report that cell death is completely independent of apoptosis and occurs by a mechanism in which injection of multiple type III effectors causes induction of autophagy, cell ro...

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

authors： Burdette DL,Yarbrough ML,Orvedahl A,Gilpin CJ,Orth K

更新日期：2008-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV buds from lipid rafts and requires cholesterol for its egress from and entry into cells. Viral accessory protein Nef plays a major role in this process. In this study, it not only increased the biosynthesis of lipid rafts and viral particles with newly synthesized cholesterol, but also enriched them. Furthermore, ...

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

authors： Zheng YH,Plemenitas A,Fielding CJ,Peterlin BM

更新日期：2003-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:During mammalian aging, cellular proteins become increasingly damaged: for example, by carbonylation and formation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs). The means to ensure that offspring are born without such damage are unknown. Unexpectedly, we found that undifferentiated mouse ES cells contain high levels of b...

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

authors： Hernebring M,Brolén G,Aguilaniu H,Semb H,Nyström T

更新日期：2006-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA was synthesized in vitro from a T3 DNA template by T3 RNA polymerase and subsequently separated into seven discrete size classes (molecular weights ranging between 0.21 x 10(6) and 6.2 x 10(6)) by electrophoresis in polyacrylamide slab gels. RNase T1-generated 3'-terminal oligonucleotide fragments were then select...

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

authors： Majumder HK,Maitra U,Rosenberg M

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:c-Jun transcriptional activity is augmented by expression of oncogenic Ras and Raf proteins. This study demonstrates a direct correlation between Ras transforming activity and c-Jun activation, supporting an important role for c-Jun in transformation by Ras. Since we observed that Ras activated c-Jun transcriptional a...

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

authors： Westwick JK,Cox AD,Der CJ,Cobb MH,Hibi M,Karin M,Brenner DA

更新日期：1994-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse transcriptase of murine retroviruses is a monomeric protein of approximately 80,000 daltons, which is encoded by the central portion of the viral pol gene. To prepare large quantities of the enzyme, we have constructed gene fusions between the trpE gene and portions of the pol gene of Moloney murine leukemia v...

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

authors： Tanese N,Roth M,Goff SP

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical birds are relatively long-lived and produce few offspring, which develop slowly and mature relatively late in life, the slow end of the life-history axis, whereas temperate birds lie at the opposite end of this continuum. We tested the hypothesis that tropical birds have evolved a reduced basal metabolic rate...

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

authors： Wiersma P,Muñoz-Garcia A,Walker A,Williams JB

更新日期：2007-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work using culture-independent methods suggests that the lungs of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients harbor a vast array of bacteria not conventionally implicated in CF lung disease. However, sampling lung secretions in living subjects requires that expectorated specimens or collection devices pass through the oroph...

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

authors： Goddard AF,Staudinger BJ,Dowd SE,Joshi-Datar A,Wolcott RD,Aitken ML,Fligner CL,Singh PK

更新日期：2012-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In normal vision, shifts of attention are usually followed by saccadic eye movements. Neurons in extrastriate area V4 are modulated by focal attention when eye movements are withheld, but they also respond in advance of visually guided saccadic eye movements. We have examined the visual selectivity of saccade-related ...

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

authors： Moore T,Tolias AS,Schiller PH

更新日期：1998-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:URF13 is a mitochondrially encoded, integral membrane protein found only in maize carrying the cms-T cytoplasm. URF13 is associated with cytoplasmic male sterility, Texas type, and causes susceptibility to the fungal pathogens Bipolaris maydis race T and Phyllosticta maydis. URF13 is predicted to contain three transme...

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

authors： Rhoads DM,Kaspi CI,Levings CS 3rd,Siedow JN

更新日期：1994-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To adapt to habitat temperature, vertebrates have developed sophisticated physiological and ecological mechanisms through evolution. Transient receptor potential melastatin 8 (TRPM8) serves as the primary sensor for cold. However, how cold activates TRPM8 and how this sensor is tuned for thermal adaptation remain larg...

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

authors： Yang S,Lu X,Wang Y,Xu L,Chen X,Yang F,Lai R

更新日期：2020-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of esterase 3 confer two forms of organophosphate resistance on contemporary Australasian Lucilia cuprina. One form, called diazinon resistance, is slightly more effective against commonly used insecticides and is now more prevalent than the other form, called malathion resistance. We report here that the si...

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

authors： Hartley CJ,Newcomb RD,Russell RJ,Yong CG,Stevens JR,Yeates DK,La Salle J,Oakeshott JG

更新日期：2006-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated in a series of searches for antithrombotic agents that diadenosine 5',5"'-P1,P4-tetraphosphate (AppppA) and its analogues are competitive inhibitors of ADP-induced platelet aggregation. Among various analogues, the P2,P3-monochloromethylene analog of AppppA (AppCHClppA) is superior to u...

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

authors： Chan SW,Gallo SJ,Kim BK,Guo MJ,Blackburn GM,Zamecnik PC

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the mammalian central nervous system, the excitatory amino acid transmitter L-glutamate activates three pharmacologically distinguishable receptors, the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), kainate, and quisqualate receptors. The present paper addresses the issue of whether these three receptors operate independent channel...

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

authors： Lerma J,Kushner L,Zukin RS,Bennett MV

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:If excision repair-proficient human cells are allowed time for repair before onset of S phase, the premutagenic lesions formed by (+/-)-7 beta,8 alpha-dihydroxy-9 alpha,10 alpha-epoxy- 7,8,9,10-tetrahydrobenzo[a]pyrene (benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide, BPDE) are lost from the transcribed strand of the hypoxanthine (guanin...

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

authors： Chen RH,Maher VM,Brouwer J,van de Putte P,McCormick JJ

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Our ability to interpret seismic observations including the seismic discontinuities and the density and velocity profiles in the earth's interior is critically dependent on the accuracy of pressure measurements up to 364 GPa at high temperature. Pressure scales based on the reduced shock-wave equations of state alone ...

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

authors： Fei Y,Ricolleau A,Frank M,Mibe K,Shen G,Prakapenka V

更新日期：2007-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Store-operated Ca(2+) entry depends critically on physical interactions of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) Ca(2+) sensor stromal interaction molecule 1 (STIM1) and the Ca(2+) release-activated Ca(2+) (CRAC) channel protein Orai1. Recent studies support a diffusion-trap mechanism in which ER Ca(2+) depletion causes STIM...

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

authors： Hoover PJ,Lewis RS

更新日期：2011-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimension reduction methods are commonly applied to high-throughput biological datasets. However, the results can be hindered by confounding factors, either biological or technical in origin. In this study, we extend principal component analysis (PCA) to propose AC-PCA for simultaneous dimension reduction and adjustme...

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

authors： Lin Z,Yang C,Zhu Y,Duchi J,Fu Y,Wang Y,Jiang B,Zamanighomi M,Xu X,Li M,Sestan N,Zhao H,Wong WH

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00