Systematic screen of chemotherapeutics in Drosophila stem cell tumors.

abstract：:Synaptic transmission of the light response from photoreceptors to second-order cells of the retina was studied with the whole-cell patch-clamp technique in tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) retinal slices. Synaptic strength is modulated by extracellular pH in a striking manner: Light-sensitive postsynaptic curren...

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

authors： Barnes S,Merchant V,Mahmud F

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The environmental backdrop to the evolution and spread of early Homo sapiens in East Africa is known mainly from isolated outcrops and distant marine sediment cores. Here we present results from new scientific drill cores from Lake Malawi, the first long and continuous, high-fidelity records of tropical climate change...

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

authors： Scholz CA,Johnson TC,Cohen AS,King JW,Peck JA,Overpeck JT,Talbot MR,Brown ET,Kalindekafe L,Amoako PY,Lyons RP,Shanahan TM,Castañeda IS,Heil CW,Forman SL,McHargue LR,Beuning KR,Gomez J,Pierson J

更新日期：2007-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils are immune cells that bind to, engulf, and destroy bacterial and fungal pathogens in infected tissue, and their clearance by apoptosis is essential for the resolution of inflammation. Killing involves both oxidative and nonoxidative processes, the oxidative pathway requiring electrogenic production of supe...

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

authors： Fay AJ,Qian X,Jan YN,Jan LY

更新日期：2006-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlled maturation of ovarian follicles is necessary for fertility. Follicles are restrained at an immature stage until stimulated by FSH secreted by pituitary gonadotropes. FSH acts on granulosa cells within the immature follicle to inhibit apoptosis, promote proliferation, stimulate production of steroid and prot...

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

authors： Hunzicker-Dunn ME,Lopez-Biladeau B,Law NC,Fiedler SE,Carr DW,Maizels ET

更新日期：2012-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:By the combined use of DNase I footprinting, electrophoretic mobility-shift assay, and methylation interference analysis, we have identified a series of sequence-specific protein-DNA interactions in the 5' flanking region of the rat osteocalcin gene. Stimulation of osteocalcin gene expression by 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin ...

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

authors： Markose ER,Stein JL,Stein GS,Lian JB

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the role of APP and PSEN genes in genetic Alzheimer's disease (AD) cases is well established, fairly little is known about the molecular mechanisms affecting Abeta generation in sporadic AD. Deficiency in Abeta clearance is certainly a possibility, but increased expression of proteins like APP or BACE1/beta-s...

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

authors： Hébert SS,Horré K,Nicolaï L,Papadopoulou AS,Mandemakers W,Silahtaroglu AN,Kauppinen S,Delacourte A,De Strooper B

更新日期：2008-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Sugar compartmentation into vacuoles of higher plants is a very important physiological process, providing extra space for transient and long-term sugar storage and contributing to the osmoregulation of cell turgor and shape. Despite the long-standing knowledge of this subcellular sugar partitioning, the proteins resp...

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

authors： Aluri S,Büttner M

更新日期：2007-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Aire induces ectopic expression of peripheral tissue antigens (PTAs) in thymic medullary epithelial cells, which promotes immunological tolerance. Beginning with a broad screen of histone peptides, we demonstrate that the mechanism by which this single factor controls the transcription of thousands of genes involves r...

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

authors： Koh AS,Kuo AJ,Park SY,Cheung P,Abramson J,Bua D,Carney D,Shoelson SE,Gozani O,Kingston RE,Benoist C,Mathis D

更新日期：2008-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator (ARNT) is a basic helix-loop-helix Period/ARNT/Single-minded (bHLH-PAS) protein that controls various biological pathways as part of dimeric transcriptional regulator complexes with other bHLH-PAS proteins. The two PAS domains within ARNT, PAS-A and PAS-B, are essenti...

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

authors： Evans MR,Card PB,Gardner KH

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:[PSI+] is a genetic element in yeast for which a heritable change in phenotype appears to be caused by a heritable change in the conformational state of the Sup35 protein. The inheritance of [PSI+] and the physical state of Sup35 in vivo depend on the protein chaperone Hsp104 (heat shock protein 104). Although these o...

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

authors： Schirmer EC,Lindquist S

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro tests for predicting the response of tumors to chemotherapeutic agents might be improved if they were modified to take into account tumor-cell heterogeneity. We have studied the heterogeneity of cellular growth rate and drug response in mouse fibroblast NIH 3T3 cells and in NIH 3T3 cells transformed with the ...

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

authors： Kuczek T,Axelrod DE

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging evidence suggests that tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), currently the only FDA-approved medication for ischemic stroke, exerts important biological actions on the CNS besides its well-known thrombolytic effect. In this study, we investigated the role of tPA on primary neurons in culture and on brain recove...

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

authors： Pu H,Shi Y,Zhang L,Lu Z,Ye Q,Leak RK,Xu F,Ma S,Mu H,Wei Z,Xu N,Xia Y,Hu X,Hitchens TK,Bennett MVL,Chen J

更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of invariant chain to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins is an important step in processing of MHC class II proteins and in antigen presentation. The question of how invariant chain can bind to all MHC class II proteins is central to understanding these processes. We have employed molecular mo...

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

authors： Lee C,McConnell HM

更新日期：1995-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of cardiac contraction by neurotransmitters and hormones is often correlated with regulation of the L-type Ca2(+)-channel current (ICa) through the opposite actions of two second messengers, cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP. While cyclic AMP stimulation of ICa is mediated by the activation of cyclic AMP-dependent ...

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

authors： Méry PF,Lohmann SM,Walter U,Fischmeister R

更新日期：1991-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes that are unexpressed in somatic cells have been activated by injecting cultured cell nuclei of the frog Xenopus laevis into oocytes of the newt Pleurodeles waltlii. The genes that were activated are normally expressed in oocytes but not in cultured cells. Conversely, genes that are normally expressed in cultured...

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

authors： De Robertis EM,Gurdon JB

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that Cloudman melanoma cells undergo rapid arborization in response to [Nle4,D-Phe7]alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone, a potent analogue of alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH). The arbors were established by extension of processes and resembled dendrites. We used this system to study the regula...

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

authors： Preston SF,Volpi M,Pearson CM,Berlin RD

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have sequenced the mutant beta-actin gene of a tumorigenic human fibroblast cell line (HuT-14T) and found that it carries three mutations that alter the amino acids at positions 36, 83, and 244 as well as a 22-base-pair "insertion" sequence, in the 5' intron, not present in a wild-type gene. The less tumorigenic ce...

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

authors： Lin CS,Ng SY,Gunning P,Kedes L,Leavitt J

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive fusion protein attachment protein receptor (SNARE) protein interactions at the synaptic vesicle/plasma membrane interface play an essential role in neurotransmitter release. The membrane-proximal region (amino acids 77-90) of the v-SNARE vesicle-associated membrane protein 2 (VAMP 2,...

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

authors： de Haro L,Ferracci G,Opi S,Iborra C,Quetglas S,Miquelis R,Lévêque C,Seagar M

更新日期：2004-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is about an algorithm, FlexTree, for general supervised learning. It extends the binary tree-structured approach (Classification and Regression Trees, CART) although it differs greatly in its selection and combination of predictors. It is particularly applicable to assessing interactions: gene by gene and g...

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

authors： Huang J,Lin A,Narasimhan B,Quertermous T,Hsiung CA,Ho LT,Grove JS,Olivier M,Ranade K,Risch NJ,Olshen RA

更新日期：2004-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonclassical MHC class I-related (MHC-I) molecule HFE controls cellular iron homeostasis by a mechanism that has not been fully elucidated. We examined the regulation of HFE by K5, the E3 ubiquitin ligase encoded by Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV/HHV8), that is known to down-regulate classical MHC-I...

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

authors： Rhodes DA,Boyle LH,Boname JM,Lehner PJ,Trowsdale J

更新日期：2010-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary restriction has been shown to have several health benefits including increased insulin sensitivity, stress resistance, reduced morbidity, and increased life span. The mechanism remains unknown, but the need for a long-term reduction in caloric intake to achieve these benefits has been assumed. We report that w...

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

authors： Anson RM,Guo Z,de Cabo R,Iyun T,Rios M,Hagepanos A,Ingram DK,Lane MA,Mattson MP

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding protein (IRBP) has been hypothesized to function as an intercellular shuttle in the vertebrate eye, serving to transport retinoids between the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and photoreceptors in the process by which visual pigment is regenerated after photolysis. This hypothesis ...

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

authors： Okajima TI,Pepperberg DR,Ripps H,Wiggert B,Chader GJ

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conserved Ndc80 complex is an essential microtubule-binding component of the kinetochore. Recent findings suggest that the Ndc80 complex influences microtubule dynamics at kinetochores in vivo. However, it was unclear if the Ndc80 complex mediates these effects directly, or by affecting other factors localized at ...

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

authors： Umbreit NT,Gestaut DR,Tien JF,Vollmar BS,Gonen T,Asbury CL,Davis TN

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNA fragments of the homologues of the Drosophila head homeotic genes labial (lab), proboscipedia (pb), and Deformed (Dfd) have been isolated from the crustacean Porcellio scaber. Because the accumulation domains of the head homeotic complex (Hox) genes had not been previously reported for crustaceans, we studied the...

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

authors： Abzhanov A,Kaufman TC

更新日期：1999-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Soybean plants and Rhizobium japonicum 122 DES, a hydrogen uptake-positive strain, were cultured in media purified to remove Ni. Supplemental Ni had no significant effect on the dry matter or total N content of plants. However, the addition of Ni to both nitrate-grown and symbiotically grown plants resulted in a 7- to...

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

authors： Klucas RV,Hanus FJ,Russell SA,Evans HJ

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in mice indicate that the gut microbiota promotes energy harvest and storage from components of the diet when these components are plentiful. Here we examine how the microbiota shapes host metabolic and physiologic adaptations to periods of nutrient deprivation. Germ-free (GF) mice and mice who had received a ...

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

authors： Crawford PA,Crowley JR,Sambandam N,Muegge BD,Costello EK,Hamady M,Knight R,Gordon JI

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Adverse social conditions have been linked to a conserved transcriptional response to adversity (CTRA) in circulating leukocytes that may contribute to social gradients in disease. However, the CNS mechanisms involved remain obscure, in part because CTRA gene-expression profiles often track external social-environment...

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

authors： Mehl MR,Raison CL,Pace TWW,Arevalo JMG,Cole SW

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Through use of a synthetic oligonucleotide probe, human insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) cDNA clones were isolated from a liver library. Two types of cDNAs were defined by restriction enzyme analysis and DNA sequencing. Both encode IGF-I precursors of either 195 or 153 amino acids. The two predicted protein precur...

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

authors： Rotwein P

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The translational apparatus in cell-free extracts prepared from L cells infected with reovirus undergoes a time-dependent transition from cap dependence to cap independence. Extracts from uninfected L cells translate capped reovirus mRNA at high efficiency and synthesize the expected three size classes of reovirus pol...

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

authors： Skup D,Millward S

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultural processes occur in a wide variety of animal taxa, from insects to cetaceans. The songs of humpback whales are one of the most striking examples of the transmission of a cultural trait and social learning in any nonhuman animal. To understand how songs are learned, we investigate rare cases of song hybridizati...

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

authors： Garland EC,Rendell L,Lamoni L,Poole MM,Noad MJ

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00