Stimulus repetition modulates gamma-band synchronization in primate visual cortex.

abstract：:Actin polymerization provides a powerful propulsion force for numerous types of cell motility. Although tremendous progress has been made in identifying the biochemical components necessary for actin-based motility, the precise biophysical mechanisms of force generation remain unclear. To probe the polymerization forc...

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

authors： Upadhyaya A,Chabot JR,Andreeva A,Samadani A,van Oudenaarden A

更新日期：2003-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:SoxR is a transcription factor that governs a global defense against the oxidative stress caused by nitric oxide or excess superoxide in Escherichia coli. SoxR is a homodimer containing a pair of [2Fe-2S] clusters essential for its transcriptional activity, and changes in the stability of these metal centers could con...

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

authors： Ding H,Demple B

更新日期：1996-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:"Head-to-head" terpene synthases catalyze the first committed steps in sterol and carotenoid biosynthesis: the condensation of two isoprenoid diphosphates to form cyclopropylcarbinyl diphosphates, followed by ring opening. Here, we report the structures of Staphylococcus aureus dehydrosqualene synthase (CrtM) complexe...

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

authors： Lin FY,Liu CI,Liu YL,Zhang Y,Wang K,Jeng WY,Ko TP,Cao R,Wang AH,Oldfield E

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The sterol regulatory element-binding protein (SREBP) family of transcription factors controls the biosynthesis of cholesterol and other lipids, and lipid synthesis is critical for cell growth and proliferation. We were, therefore, interested in the expression and activity of SREBPs during the cell cycle. We found tha...

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

authors： Bengoechea-Alonso MT,Punga T,Ericsson J

更新日期：2005-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Photochemical oxidation of aromatic hydrocarbons leads to tropospheric ozone and secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation, with profound implications for air quality, human health, and climate. Toluene is the most abundant aromatic compound under urban environments, but its detailed chemical oxidation mechanism remai...

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

authors： Ji Y,Zhao J,Terazono H,Misawa K,Levitt NP,Li Y,Lin Y,Peng J,Wang Y,Duan L,Pan B,Zhang F,Feng X,An T,Marrero-Ortiz W,Secrest J,Zhang AL,Shibuya K,Molina MJ,Zhang R

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites are common DNA lesions that arise from spontaneous depurination or by base excision repair (BER) of modified bases. A biotin-containing aldehyde-reactive probe (ARP) [Kubo, K., Ide, H., Wallace, S. S. & Kow, Y. W. (1992) Biochemistry 31, 3703-3708] is used to measure AP sites in living...

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

authors： Atamna H,Cheung I,Ames BN

更新日期：2000-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial memory enhances an organism's navigational ability. Memory typically resides within the brain, but what if an organism has no brain? We show that the brainless slime mold Physarum polycephalum constructs a form of spatial memory by avoiding areas it has previously explored. This mechanism allows the slime mold...

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

authors： Reid CR,Latty T,Dussutour A,Beekman M

更新日期：2012-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Primates can store sensory stimulus parameters in working memory for subsequent manipulation, but until now, there has been no demonstration of this capacity in rodents. Here we report tactile working memory in rats. Each stimulus is a vibration, generated as a series of velocity values sampled from a normal distribut...

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

authors： Fassihi A,Akrami A,Esmaeili V,Diamond ME

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A goal of regenerative medicine is to identify cardiovascular progenitors from human ES cells (hESCs) that can functionally integrate into the human heart. Previous studies to evaluate the developmental potential of candidate hESC-derived progenitors have delivered these cells into murine and porcine cardiac tissue, w...

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

authors： Ardehali R,Ali SR,Inlay MA,Abilez OJ,Chen MQ,Blauwkamp TA,Yazawa M,Gong Y,Nusse R,Drukker M,Weissman IL

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The avian predentary is a small skeletal structure located rostral to the paired dentaries found only in Mesozoic ornithuromorphs. The evolution and function of this enigmatic element is unknown. Skeletal tissues forming the predentary and the lower jaws in the basal ornithuromorph Yanornis martini are identified usin...

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

authors： Bailleul AM,Li Z,O'Connor J,Zhou Z

更新日期：2019-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Nogo isoforms (Nogo-A and -B) have been implicated in regulating neural and cardiovascular functions, such as cell spreading and chemotaxis. Unlike the loop domain (Nogo-66) found in all Nogo isoforms that can interact with a neural-specific Nogo-66 receptor, the receptor for the amino terminus of Nogo-B that mediates...

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

authors： Miao RQ,Gao Y,Harrison KD,Prendergast J,Acevedo LM,Yu J,Hu F,Strittmatter SM,Sessa WC

更新日期：2006-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinylidene chromophore mutant (Y185F) of bacteriorhodopsin, in which Tyr-185 is substituted by phenylalanine, is examined and compared with wild-type bacteriorhodopsin expressed in Escherichia coli; both were reinstituted similarly in vesicles. The Y185F mutant shows (at least) two distinct spectra at neutral pH...

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

authors： Jang DJ,el-Sayed MA,Stern LJ,Mogi T,Khorana HG

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions between products of the 15-lipoxygenase cascade and human natural killer (NK) cell activity have been studied. Addition of human leukocyte-derived (14R,15S)-14,15-dihydroxy-5Z,8Z,10E,12E-ic osatetraenoic acid (14,15-DiHETE) to the NK cytotoxicity assay against K562 target cells resulted in inhibition ...

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

authors： Ramstedt U,Serhan CN,Lundberg U,Wigzell H,Samuelsson B

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arsenate is an abundant oxyanion that, because of its ability to mimic the phosphate group, is toxic to cells. Arsenate reductase (EC; encoded by the arsC gene in bacteria) participates to achieve arsenate resistance in both prokaryotes and yeast by reducing arsenate to arsenite; the arsenite is then exported by a spe...

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

authors： Bennett MS,Guan Z,Laurberg M,Su XD

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear lamina is a network of structural filaments, the A and B type lamins, located at the nuclear envelope and throughout the nucleus. Lamin filaments provide the nucleus with mechanical stability and support many basic activities, including gene regulation. Mutations in LMNA, the gene encoding A type lamins, c...

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

authors： Dahl KN,Scaffidi P,Islam MF,Yodh AG,Wilson KL,Misteli T

更新日期：2006-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe and test a Markov chain model of microsatellite evolution that can explain the different distributions of microsatellite lengths across different organisms and repeat motifs. Two key features of this model are the dependence of mutation rates on microsatellite length and a mutation process that includes bo...

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

authors： Kruglyak S,Durrett RT,Schug MD,Aquadro CF

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificially aminoacylated suppressor tRNAs were used to introduce photoreactive amino acids into model mitochondrial precursor proteins to probe the environment along the protein import pathway. Amino acids with benzophenone side chains of various lengths [DL-2-amino-3-(p-benzoylphenyl)propanoic acid (1) and DL-2-ami...

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

authors： Kanamori T,Nishikawa S,Shin I,Schultz PG,Endo T

更新日期：1997-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A recombinant plasmid containing a DNA segment complementary to rat liver albumin mRNA has been constructed, cloned, and used to examine the organization of albumin gene. The 18S fraction of total liver poly(A)-containing RNA was copied into a double-stranded cDNA by avian myeloblastosis virus reverse transcriptase an...

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

authors： Kioussis D,Hamilton R,Hanson RW,Tilghman SM,Taylor JM

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is now more than two decades since it was first reported that the imidazobenzodiazepine Ro15-4513 reverses behavioral alcohol effects, the molecular target(s) of Ro15-4513 and the mechanism of alcohol antagonism remain elusive. Here, we show that Ro15-4513 blocks the alcohol enhancement on recombinant "ext...

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

authors： Wallner M,Hanchar HJ,Olsen RW

更新日期：2006-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The mutagenic effect of low linear energy transfer ionizing radiation is reduced for a given dose as the dose rate (DR) is reduced to a low level, a phenomenon known as the direct DR effect. Our reanalysis of published data shows that for both somatic and germ-line mutations there is an opposite, inverse DR effect, wi...

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

authors： Vilenchik MM,Knudson AG Jr

更新日期：2000-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:During response of budding yeast to peptide mating pheromone, the cell becomes markedly polarized and MAPK scaffold protein Ste5 localizes to the resulting projection (shmoo tip). We demonstrated before that this recruitment is essential for sustained MAPK signaling and requires interaction of a pleckstrin homology (P...

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

authors： Garrenton LS,Stefan CJ,McMurray MA,Emr SD,Thorner J

更新日期：2010-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the mammalian testis, specialized tight junctions between somatic Sertoli cells create basal and apical polarity within the cells, restrict movement of molecules between cells, and separate the seminiferous epithelium into basal and adluminal compartments. These tight junctions form the basis of the blood-testi...

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

authors： Meng J,Holdcraft RW,Shima JE,Griswold MD,Braun RE

更新日期：2005-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have failed to detect an interaction between monomeric soluble CD4 (sCD4) and class II major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins, suggesting that oligomerization of CD4 on the cell surface may be required to form a stable class II MHC binding site. To test this possibility, we transfected the F4...

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

authors： Sakihama T,Smolyar A,Reinherz EL

更新日期：1995-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the mouse tumor necrosis factor (TNF) promoter, 5' untranslated region (UTR), and 3' UTR in TNF gene expression has been examined in three nonmacrophage cell lines (HeLa, NIH 3T3, and L-929). The TNF promoter is not macrophage-specific. On the contrary, it constitutively drives reporter gene expression in ...

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

authors： Kruys V,Kemmer K,Shakhov A,Jongeneel V,Beutler B

更新日期：1992-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Arabidopsis has been popular as a model plant system for decades. Completion of the Arabidopsis genome and the availability of large expressed sequence-tag collections from other dicot species provides an opportunity to assess gene content in Arabidopsis, specifically by identifying genes from dicot test species that ...

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

authors： Allen KD

更新日期：2002-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of both nosocomial and community-acquired infection. Biofilm formation at the site of infection reduces antimicrobial susceptibility and can lead to chronic infection. During biofilm formation, a subset of cells liberate cytoplasmic proteins and DNA, which are repurposed to for...

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

authors： DeFrancesco AS,Masloboeva N,Syed AK,DeLoughery A,Bradshaw N,Li GW,Gilmore MS,Walker S,Losick R

更新日期：2017-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Increases in cytoplasmic free calcium ([Ca2+]i) can be induced in resting B cells either by a low molecular weight (12-kDa) B-cell growth factor (LMW-BCGF) or by crosslinking the B-cell antigen CD19 with monoclonal antibody (mAb). LMW-BCGF causes a slow [Ca2+]i increase in peripheral blood and tonsillar B cells but ha...

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

authors： Ledbetter JA,Rabinovitch PS,June CH,Song CW,Clark EA,Uckun FM

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:8-L-Arginine vasopressin ([Arg8]VP) receptors are expressed transiently in the rat facial nucleus during the perinatal period. Electrophysiological studies suggest that at least part of these receptors is located on facial motoneurones. In the present study we report that, in the adult rat, unilateral section of a fac...

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

authors： Tribollet E,Arsenijevic Y,Marguerat A,Barberis C,Dreifuss JJ

更新日期：1994-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA toroids produced by the condensation of lambda phage DNA with hexammine cobalt (III) have been investigated by cryoelectron microscopy. Image resolution obtained by this technique has allowed unprecedented views of DNA packing within toroidal condensates. Toroids oriented coplanar with the microscope image plane e...

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

authors： Hud NV,Downing KH

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial virulence factors are typically surface-associated or secreted molecules that in Gram-negative bacteria must cross the outer membrane (OM). Protein translocation across the bacterial OM is not well understood. To elucidate this process we studied P pilus biogenesis in Escherichia coli. We present high-resolu...

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

authors： Thanassi DG,Saulino ET,Lombardo MJ,Roth R,Heuser J,Hultgren SJ

更新日期：1998-03-17 00:00:00