Recessive loss of function of the neuronal ubiquitin hydrolase UCHL1 leads to early-onset progressive neurodegeneration.

abstract：:Various concentrations of L-dopa (levodopa, L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine) were incorporated in the diets of young male Swiss albino mice, and the highest concentrations to which these mice became adapted within 3 weeks were determined. One such concentration administered indefinitely eventually induced a youthful appe...

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

authors： Cotzias GC,Miller ST,Nicholson AR Jr,Maston WH,Tang LC

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory CD4(+) T helper (Th) cells are central to long-term protection against pathogens, but they can also be pathogenic and drive chronic inflammatory disorders. How these pathogenic memory Th cells are maintained, particularly at sites of local inflammation, remains unclear. We found that ectopic lymphoid-like struc...

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

authors： Shinoda K,Hirahara K,Iinuma T,Ichikawa T,Suzuki AS,Sugaya K,Tumes DJ,Yamamoto H,Hara T,Tani-Ichi S,Ikuta K,Okamoto Y,Nakayama T

更新日期：2016-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphine is one of the most prescribed and effective drugs used for the treatment of acute and chronic pain conditions. In addition to its central effects, morphine can also produce peripheral analgesia. However, the mechanisms underlying this peripheral action of morphine have not yet been fully elucidated. Here, we ...

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

authors： Cunha TM,Roman-Campos D,Lotufo CM,Duarte HL,Souza GR,Verri WA Jr,Funez MI,Dias QM,Schivo IR,Domingues AC,Sachs D,Chiavegatto S,Teixeira MM,Hothersall JS,Cruz JS,Cunha FQ,Ferreira SH

更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway is central to the metabolic actions of insulin on liver. Here, we show that mice with a liver-specific deletion of the p85alpha regulatory subunit of PI3K (L-Pik3r1KO) exhibit a paradoxical improvement of hepatic and peripheral insulin sensitivity. Although PI3K enzymatic a...

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

authors： Taniguchi CM,Tran TT,Kondo T,Luo J,Ueki K,Cantley LC,Kahn CR

更新日期：2006-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Tactile-foraging ducks are specialist birds known for their touch-dependent feeding behavior. They use dabbling, straining, and filtering to find edible matter in murky water, relying on the sense of touch in their bill. Here, we present the molecular characterization of embryonic duck bill, which we show contains a h...

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

authors： Schneider ER,Anderson EO,Mastrotto M,Matson JD,Schulz VP,Gallagher PG,LaMotte RH,Gracheva EO,Bagriantsev SN

更新日期：2017-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In early stages of various pulmonary diseases, such as emphysema and fibrosis, the change in X-ray attenuation is not detectable with absorption-based radiography. To monitor the morphological changes that the alveoli network undergoes in the progression of these diseases, we propose using the dark-field signal, which...

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

authors： Schleede S,Meinel FG,Bech M,Herzen J,Achterhold K,Potdevin G,Malecki A,Adam-Neumair S,Thieme SF,Bamberg F,Nikolaou K,Bohla A,Yildirim AÖ,Loewen R,Gifford M,Ruth R,Eickelberg O,Reiser M,Pfeiffer F

更新日期：2012-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Particle tracking is a powerful biophysical tool that requires conversion of large video files into position time series, i.e., traces of the species of interest for data analysis. Current tracking methods, based on a limited set of input parameters to identify bright objects, are ill-equipped to handle the spectrum o...

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

authors： Newby JM,Schaefer AM,Lee PT,Forest MG,Lai SK

更新日期：2018-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells in the brain act as components of extended networks. Therefore, to understand neurobiological processes in a physiological context, it is essential to study them in vivo. Super-resolution microscopy has spatial resolution beyond the diffraction limit, thus promising to provide structural and functional insights ...

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

authors： Turcotte R,Liang Y,Tanimoto M,Zhang Q,Li Z,Koyama M,Betzig E,Ji N

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanistic basis for chloroquine resistance (CQR) in Plasmodium falciparum recently has been linked to the polymorphic gene pfcrt. Alleles associated with CQR in natural parasite isolates harbor threonine (T), as opposed to lysine (K) at amino acid 76. P. falciparum CQR strains of African and Southeast Asian orig...

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

authors： Mehlotra RK,Fujioka H,Roepe PD,Janneh O,Ursos LM,Jacobs-Lorena V,McNamara DT,Bockarie MJ,Kazura JW,Kyle DE,Fidock DA,Zimmerman PA

更新日期：2001-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultraviolet irradiation of the [3H]colchicine-tubulin complex leads to direct photolabeling of tubulin with low but practicable efficiency. The bulk (70% to greater than 90%) of the labeling occurs on beta-tubulin and appears early after irradiation, whereas alpha-tubulin is labeled later. The labeling ratio of beta-t...

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

authors： Wolff J,Knipling L,Cahnmann HJ,Palumbo G

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small 19- to 24-nt noncoding RNAs that have the capacity to regulate fundamental biological processes essential for cancer initiation and progression. In cancer, miRNAs may function as oncogenes or tumor suppressors. Here, we conducted global profiling for miRNAs in a cohort of stage 1 nonsmall ...

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

authors： Peng Y,Dai Y,Hitchcock C,Yang X,Kassis ES,Liu L,Luo Z,Sun HL,Cui R,Wei H,Kim T,Lee TJ,Jeon YJ,Nuovo GJ,Volinia S,He Q,Yu J,Nana-Sinkam P,Croce CM

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant mortality and birth rates are critical components of plant life history affecting the stability of plant populations and the ecosystems they form. Although allometric theory predicts that both plant birth and mortality rates should be size-dependent, this prediction has not yet been tested across plants ranging ...

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

authors： Marbà N,Duarte CM,Agustí S

更新日期：2007-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The location of phosphate residues involved in specific centers for binding of metal ions in M1 RNA, the catalytic RNA subunit of RNase P from Escherichia coli, was determined by analysis of induction of cleavage of RNA by metal ions. At pH 9.5, Mg2+ catalyzes cleavage of M1 RNA at five principal sites. Under certain ...

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

authors： Kazakov S,Altman S

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:cGMP is a second messenger that mediates numerous metabolic events; in the present work a role in myeloid cell differentiation was demonstrated. Nitroprusside and NaNO2, which activate cytosolic guanylate cyclase and increase the intracellular cGMP concentration, induced granulocytic differentiation of the human promy...

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

authors： Boss GR

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major challenge facing the genetics of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) is the large and growing number of candidate risk genes and gene variants of unknown functional significance. Here, we used Caenorhabditis elegans to systematically functionally characterize ASD-associated genes in vivo. Using our custom machine...

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

authors： McDiarmid TA,Belmadani M,Liang J,Meili F,Mathews EA,Mullen GP,Hendi A,Wong WR,Rand JB,Mizumoto K,Haas K,Pavlidis P,Rankin CH

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Swarming and mass migration are spectacular and sometimes devastating features of the biology of various animal species. These phenomena are typically associated with actual or anticipated depletion of food resources after an increase in population density, but the mechanisms driving such collective movements are poor...

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

authors： Simpson SJ,Sword GA,Lorch PD,Couzin ID

更新日期：2006-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the complexity of anisotropic turbulent processes over a wide range of spatiotemporal scales in engineering shear turbulence as well as climate atmosphere ocean science is a grand challenge of contemporary science with important societal impact. In such inhomogeneous turbulent dynamical systems there is ...

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

authors： Majda AJ

更新日期：2015-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple method combining photolithography and shadow (or angle) evaporation is developed to fabricate single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) devices with tube lengths of approximately 10-50 nm between metal contacts. Large numbers of such short devices are obtained without the need of complex tools such as electron be...

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

authors： Javey A,Qi P,Wang Q,Dai H

更新日期：2004-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Some cells from cultured embryonic mouse hypothalamus were found to express aromatic-L-amino acid decarboxylase (EC 4.1.1.28) activity and serotonin uptake and storage. These neuron-like cells differed from serotoninergic neurons in cultured embryonic mouse brain stem since they did not contain tryptophan hydroxylase....

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

authors： De Vitry F,Hamon M,Catelon J,Dubois M,Thibault J

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Up-regulation of the folding machinery of the heat-shock protein 90 (Hsp90) chaperone protein is crucial for cancer progression. The two Hsp90 isoforms (α and β) play different roles in response to chemotherapy. To identify isoform-selective inhibitors of Hsp90(α/β)/cochaperone p23 interactions, we developed a dual-lu...

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

authors： Chan CT,Reeves RE,Geller R,Yaghoubi SS,Hoehne A,Solow-Cordero DE,Chiosis G,Massoud TF,Paulmurugan R,Gambhir SS

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetrahymena ribozymes hold promise for repairing genetic disorders but are largely limited by their modest splicing efficiency and low production of final therapeutic proteins. Ribozyme evolution in intact living mammalian cells would greatly facilitate the discovery of new ribozyme variants with high in vivo activity...

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

authors： Hasegawa S,Jackson WC,Tsien RY,Rao J

更新日期：2003-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate [3H]phencyclidine ([3H]PCP)as a probe for the ionic channel of the nicotinic receptor, the characteristics of its binding to electric organ membranes od Torpedo ocellata and its effects on frog sartorius muscle were studied. Similar to PCP, [3H]PCP depressed the peak amplitude of endplate current, caused n...

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

authors： Eldefrawi ME,Eldefrawi AT,Aronstam RS,Maleque MA,Warnick JE,Albuquerque EX

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Goblet cell metaplasia and mucus hypersecretion are observed in many pulmonary diseases, including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and cystic fibrosis. However, the regulation of goblet cell differentiation remains unclear. Here, we identify a regulator of this process in an N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea...

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

authors： Kim HT,Yin W,Nakamichi Y,Panza P,Grohmann B,Buettner C,Guenther S,Ruppert C,Kobayashi Y,Guenther A,Stainier DYR

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The economic and ecological costs of wildfire in the United States have risen substantially in recent decades. Although climate change has likely enabled a portion of the increase in wildfire activity, the direct role of people in increasing wildfire activity has been largely overlooked. We evaluate over 1.5 million g...

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

authors： Balch JK,Bradley BA,Abatzoglou JT,Nagy RC,Fusco EJ,Mahood AL

更新日期：2017-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence and neuroanatomical locations of separate extrastriate visual pathways for object recognition and spatial localization were investigated in healthy young men. Regional cerebral blood flow was measured by positron emission tomography and bolus injections of H2(15)O, while subjects performed face matching,...

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

authors： Haxby JV,Grady CL,Horwitz B,Ungerleider LG,Mishkin M,Carson RE,Herscovitch P,Schapiro MB,Rapoport SI

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The four core histones (H2A, H2B, H3, and H4) and DNA were assembled into nucleosome-like particles at physiological ionic strengths either by an extract of chromatin rich in nicking-closing activity or by the purified nicking-closing enzyme itself. When histone-DNA complexes were assembled in vitro from relaxed circu...

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

authors： Germond JE,Rouvière-Yaniv J,Yaniv M,Brutlag D

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), the master circadian clock in mammals, sends major output signals to the subparaventricular zone (SPZ) and further to the paraventricular nucleus (PVN), the neural mechanism of which is largely unknown. In this study, the intracellular calcium levels were measured continuously in cul...

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

authors： Wu YE,Enoki R,Oda Y,Huang ZL,Honma KI,Honma S

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular cAMP plays a crucial role in regulating the developmental program of Dictyostelium discoideum, functioning as a chemotactic agent, as well as a signal that regulates expression of developmentally expressed genes. These activities appear to be mediated by a cell-surface receptor for cAMP. We have studied ...

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

authors： Chisholm RL,Hopkinson S,Lodish HF

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The post-translational proteolytic conversion of somatostatin-14 precursors was studied to characterize the enzyme system responsible for the production of the tetradecapeptide either from its 15-kDa precursor protein or from its COOH-terminal fragment, somatostatin-28. A synthetic undecapeptide Pro-Arg-Glu-Arg-Lys-Al...

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

authors： Gluschankof P,Morel A,Gomez S,Nicolas P,Fahy C,Cohen P

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the small size of a nanoconfinement, the property of water contained inside is rather challenging to probe. Herein, we measured the amount of water molecules released during the folding of individual G-quadruplex and i-motif structures, from which water activities are estimated in the DNA nanocages prepared by ...

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

authors： Jonchhe S,Pandey S,Emura T,Hidaka K,Hossain MA,Shrestha P,Sugiyama H,Endo M,Mao H

更新日期：2018-09-18 00:00:00