Septin assemblies form by diffusion-driven annealing on membranes.

abstract：:Astrocyte-elevated gene-1 (AEG-1) expression is increased in multiple cancers and plays a central role in Ha-ras-mediated oncogenesis through the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt signaling pathway. Additionally, overexpression of AEG-1 protects primary and transformed human and rat cells from serum starvation-...

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

authors： Emdad L,Lee SG,Su ZZ,Jeon HY,Boukerche H,Sarkar D,Fisher PB

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in WNK1 and WNK4 lead to familial hyperkalemic hypertension (FHHt). Because FHHt associates net positive Na(+) balance together with K(+) and H(+) renal retention, the identification of WNK1 and WNK4 led to a new paradigm to explain how aldosterone can promote either Na(+) reabsorption or K(+) secretion in a...

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

authors： Hadchouel J,Soukaseum C,Büsst C,Zhou XO,Baudrie V,Zürrer T,Cambillau M,Elghozi JL,Lifton RP,Loffing J,Jeunemaitre X

更新日期：2010-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Many multifunctional tumor suppressor proteins have low stability, a property linked to cancer development. The von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor protein (pVHL) is one of these proteins. pVHL forms part of the E3 ubiquitin ligase complex that regulates the degradation of the hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF). Under nati...

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

authors： Liu J,Nussinov R

更新日期：2008-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Since cdc48 mutants were isolated by the first genetic screens for cell division cycle (cdc) mutants in yeast, the requirement of the chaperone-like ATPase Cdc48/p97 during cell division has remained unclear. Here, we discover an unanticipated function for Caenorhabditis elegans CDC-48 in DNA replication linked to cel...

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

authors： Mouysset J,Deichsel A,Moser S,Hoege C,Hyman AA,Gartner A,Hoppe T

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Smooth muscle cells (SMCs) have been shown to migrate in response to insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I). However, the mechanism mediating this response has not been determined. The migration rates of porcine and human vascular SMCs were assessed in a monolayer wounding assay. IGF-I and IGF-II induced increases of 14...

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

authors： Jones JI,Prevette T,Gockerman A,Clemmons DR

更新日期：1996-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of the murine leukemia viruses is strongly suppressed in mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells. Proviral DNAs are formed normally but are then silenced by a large complex bound to DNA by the ES cell-specific zinc-finger protein ZFP809. We show here that ZFP809 expression is not regulated by transcription but rat...

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

authors： Wang C,Goff SP

更新日期：2017-02-07 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

abstract：:Despite the common use of the blooming metaphor, its floral inspiration remains poorly understood. Here we study the physical process of blooming in the asiatic lily Lilium casablanca. Our observations show that the edges of the petals wrinkle as the flower opens, suggesting that differential growth drives the deploym...

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

authors： Liang H,Mahadevan L

更新日期：2011-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfactory transduction is thought to take place in the outer dendritic membrane of insect olfactory receptor neurons. Here we show that the outer dendritic plasma membrane of silkmoth olfactory receptor neurons seems to be exclusively equipped with a specific ion channel activated by low concentrations of the species-...

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

authors： Zufall F,Hatt H

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An expression vector containing the murine c-ets-2 protooncogene cDNA was introduced into NIH 3T3 cells by DNA transfection. The cells transfected with this construct showed foci of densely growing, morphologically altered cells, when grown either in low-serum (0.05%) or in serum-free medium. The c-ets-2-derived foci ...

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

authors： Seth A,Watson DK,Blair DG,Papas TS

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) requires open, flexible chromatin domains. The NuA4-Tip60 complex creates these flexible chromatin structures by exchanging histone H2A.Z onto nucleosomes and promoting acetylation of histone H4. Here, we demonstrate that the accumulation of H2A.Z on nucleosomes at DSBs is...

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

authors： Gursoy-Yuzugullu O,Ayrapetov MK,Price BD

更新日期：2015-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:N6-methyladenosine (m6A) represents one of the most common RNA modifications in eukaryotes. Specific m6A writer, eraser, and reader proteins have been identified. As an m6A eraser, ALKBH5 specifically removes m6A from target mRNAs and inactivation of Alkbh5 leads to male infertility in mice. However, the underlying mo...

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

authors： Tang C,Klukovich R,Peng H,Wang Z,Yu T,Zhang Y,Zheng H,Klungland A,Yan W

更新日期：2018-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Involution of the thymus is accompanied by a decline in the number of thymic epithelial cells (TECs) and a severely restricted peripheral repertoire of T-cell specificities. TECs are essential for T-cell differentiation; they originate from a bipotent progenitor that gives rise to cells of cortical (cTEC) and medullar...

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

authors： Rode I,Boehm T

更新日期：2012-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex biomechanical events associated with embryo development are investigated in vivo, by using femtosecond laser pulse-induced ablation combined with multimodal nonlinear microscopy. We demonstrate controlled intravital ablations preserving local cytoskeleton dynamics and resulting in the modulation of specifi...

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

authors： Supatto W,Débarre D,Moulia B,Brouzés E,Martin JL,Farge E,Beaurepaire E

更新日期：2005-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In nonneuronal cells, several plasma membrane proteins such as exofacial enzymes, receptors, and ion channels recycle between their intracellular compartment(s) and the cell surface via an endosomal pathway. In neurons, however, this pathway has not been extensively characterized. In particular, it remains unclear whe...

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

authors： Thoidis G,Chen P,Pushkin AV,Vallega G,Leeman SE,Fine RE,Kandror KV

更新日期：1998-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:For many agronomically important plant genes, only their position on a genetic map is known. In the absence of an efficient transposon tagging system, such genes have to be isolated by map-based cloning. In bread wheat Triticum aestivum, the genome is hexaploid, has a size of 1.6 x 10(10) bp, and contains more than 80...

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

authors： Stein N,Feuillet C,Wicker T,Schlagenhauf E,Keller B

更新日期：2000-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Five peptides corresponding to amino acid sequences predicted from all three reading frames of the nucleotide sequence of the third internal repeat array (IR3) of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) genome were synthesized chemically. All five peptides elicited antipeptide antibodies in rabbits. The antiserum raised against ...

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

authors： Dillner J,Sternås L,Kallin B,Alexander H,Ehlin-Henriksson B,Jörnvall H,Klein G,Lerner R

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urbanization and rural-urban migration are two factors driving global patterns of disease and mortality. There is significant concern about their potential impact on disease burden and the effectiveness of current control approaches. Few attempts have been made to increase our understanding of the relationship between...

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

authors： Tian H,Hu S,Cazelles B,Chowell G,Gao L,Laine M,Li Y,Yang H,Li Y,Yang Q,Tong X,Huang R,Bjornstad ON,Xiao H,Stenseth NC

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns of interacting amino acids are so preserved within protein families that the sole analysis of evolutionary comutations can identify pairs of contacting residues. It is also known that evolution conserves functional dynamics, i.e., the concerted motion or displacement of large protein regions or domains. Is it...

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

authors： Granata D,Ponzoni L,Micheletti C,Carnevale V

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine hematopoietic blast colony-forming cells (BL-CFCs) are able to generate up to 30,000 progeny blast cells within 10 d in agar cultures. Contained in these populations are large numbers of lineage-committed progenitor cells in the granulocytic and macrophage lineages. Sequential analyses of blast colonies reveale...

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

authors： Metcalf D,Ng A,Mifsud S,Di Rago L

更新日期：2010-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:If, because of trade-offs or similar considerations, components of fitness are negatively correlated in equilibrium populations, they may then exhibit no correlation with total fitness. Lack of correlation with fitness is a fundamental characteristic of selective neutrality. Hence, selectively important traits become ...

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

authors： Reeve R,Smith E,Wallace B

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of translation is critical for maintaining cellular protein levels, and thus protein homeostasis. The conserved RNA-binding protein CsrA (also called RsmA; for carbon storage regulator and regulator of secondary metabolism, respectively; hereafter called CsrA) represents a well-characterized example of regu...

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

authors： Altegoer F,Rensing SA,Bange G

更新日期：2016-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:An 125I-labeled synthetic analog of bovine parathyroid hormone, [8-norleucine,18-norleucine,34-tyrosine]PTH-(1-34) amide ([Nle]PTH-(1-34)-NH2), purified by high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC), was employed to label the parathyroid hormone (PTH) receptor in cell lines derived from PTH target tissues: the ROS 17/...

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

authors： Wright BS,Tyler GA,O'Brien R,Caporale LH,Rosenblatt M

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic polyribonucleotide, poly(U5,G), was used to study the codon specificity of wild-type and UGA suppressor tRNATrp from Escherichia coli. Phe (UUU) incorporation directed by this synthetic messenger is reduced somewhat by omission from the incubation mixtures of Val (GUU), Leu (UUG), or Cys (UGU). In contrast...

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

authors： Buckingham RH,Kurland CG

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is a disorder of iron metabolism caused by common mutations in the gene HFE. The HFE protein binds to transferrin receptor-1 (TfR1) in competition with transferrin, and in vitro, reduces cellular iron by reducing iron uptake. However, in vivo, HFE is strongly expressed by liver macropha...

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

authors： Drakesmith H,Sweetland E,Schimanski L,Edwards J,Cowley D,Ashraf M,Bastin J,Townsend AR

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The substitution pattern of anthocyanin pigments is a main determinant of flower color. Flavonoid 3',5'-hydroxylase (F3'5'H) is a cytochrome P450 enzyme (Cyt P450) that catalyzes the 3', 5'-hydroxylation of dihydroflavonols, the precursors of purple anthocyanins. Species such as rose and carnation lack F3'5'H activity...

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

authors： de Vetten N,ter Horst J,van Schaik HP,de Boer A,Mol J,Koes R

更新日期：1999-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribozyme activity in vivo depends on achieving high-level expression, intracellular stability, target colocalization, and cleavage site access. At present, target site selection is problematic because of unforeseeable secondary and tertiary RNA structures that prevent cleavage. To overcome this design obstacle, we wis...

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

authors： Warashina M,Kuwabara T,Kato Y,Sano M,Taira K

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEpo) has been used successfully in the treatment of cancer-related anemia. Clinical observations with several patients with multiple-myeloma treated with rHuEpo has shown, in addition to the improved quality of life, a longer survival than expected, considering the poor prognostic ...

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

authors： Mittelman M,Neumann D,Peled A,Kanter P,Haran-Ghera N

更新日期：2001-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Insufficient and disrupted sleep is linked with cardiovascular and metabolic dysregulation and morbidity. The current study examines the degree to which differences in sleep between black/African American (AA) and white/European American (EA) adults explain racial differences in cardiometabolic (CMB) disease risk. Tot...

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

authors： Curtis DS,Fuller-Rowell TE,El-Sheikh M,Carnethon MR,Ryff CD

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The perceptual quality of odors usually is robust to variability in concentration. However, maps of neural activation across the olfactory bulb glomerular layer are not stable in this respect; rather, glomerular odor representations both broaden and intensify as odorant concentrations are increased. The relative level...

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

authors： Cleland TA,Johnson BA,Leon M,Linster C

更新日期：2007-02-06 00:00:00