Calcium waves occur as Drosophila oocytes activate.

abstract：:The human cytokine I-309 is a small glycoprotein secreted by activated T lymphocytes and structurally related to a number of inflammatory cytokines. To investigate the biological activities of I-309 protein, we produced a stable Chinese hamster ovary cell transfectant, CDI.10, which constitutively secretes I-309 prote...

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

authors： Miller MD,Krangel MS

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal growth factor (EGF), transforming growth factor alpha (TGF-alpha), and amphiregulin are structurally and functionally related growth regulatory proteins. These secreted polypeptides all bind to the 170-kDa cell-surface EGF receptor, activating its intrinsic kinase activity. However, amphiregulin exhibits dif...

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

authors： Plowman GD,Whitney GS,Neubauer MG,Green JM,McDonald VL,Todaro GJ,Shoyab M

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphine produces analgesia at opiate receptors expressed in nociceptive circuits. mu, delta, and kappa opiate receptor subtypes are expressed in circuits that can modulate nociception and receive inputs from endogenous opioid neuropeptide ligands. The roles played by each receptor subtype in nociceptive processing in...

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

authors： Sora I,Takahashi N,Funada M,Ujike H,Revay RS,Donovan DM,Miner LL,Uhl GR

更新日期：1997-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The six-layered neocortex is a uniquely mammalian structure with evolutionary origins that remain in dispute. One long-standing hypothesis, based on similarities in neuronal connectivity, proposes that homologs of the layer 4 input and layer 5 output neurons of neocortex are present in the avian forebrain, where they ...

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

authors： Dugas-Ford J,Rowell JJ,Ragsdale CW

更新日期：2012-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Apomixis is a naturally occurring mode of reproduction that results in embryo formation without the involvement of meiosis or fertilization of the egg. Seed-derived progeny of an apomictic plant are genetically identical to the maternal parent. We are studying a form of apomixis called apospory that occurs in the genu...

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

authors： Ozias-Akins P,Roche D,Hanna WW

更新日期：1998-04-28 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：:In insulin resistant states such as type 2 diabetes, there is a high demand on the β-cell to synthesize and secrete insulin, which challenges the ability of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to synthesize and fold nascent proteins. This creates a state of ER stress that triggers a coordinated program referred to as the u...

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

authors： Winnay JN,Dirice E,Liew CW,Kulkarni RN,Kahn CR

更新日期：2014-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The 4D organization of the interphase nucleus, or the 4D Nucleome (4DN), reflects a dynamical interaction between 3D genome structure and function and its relationship to phenotype. We present initial analyses of the human 4DN, capturing genome-wide structure using chromosome conformation capture and 3D imaging, and f...

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

authors： Chen H,Chen J,Muir LA,Ronquist S,Meixner W,Ljungman M,Ried T,Smale S,Rajapakse I

更新日期：2015-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In the nervous system, glucocorticosteroid hormones play a major role during development and adult life. Myelin-forming cells are among the targets of glucocorticosteroids, which have been shown to promote myelination both in the central and peripheral nervous system. Glucocorticosteroid-stimulated gene transcription ...

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

authors： Fonte C,Grenier J,Trousson A,Chauchereau A,Lahuna O,Baulieu EE,Schumacher M,Massaad C

更新日期：2005-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The F-box protein Skp2 (S-phase kinase-associated protein 2) positively regulates the G(1)-S transition by controlling the stability of several G(1) regulators, such as the cell cycle inhibitor p27. We show here that Skp2 expression correlates directly with grade of malignancy and inversely with p27 levels in human ly...

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

authors： Latres E,Chiarle R,Schulman BA,Pavletich NP,Pellicer A,Inghirami G,Pagano M

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans, the connection between sleep and mood has long been recognized, although direct molecular evidence is lacking. We identified two rare variants in the circadian clock gene PERIOD3 (PER3-P415A/H417R) in humans with familial advanced sleep phase accompanied by higher Beck Depression Inventory and seasonality s...

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

authors： Zhang L,Hirano A,Hsu PK,Jones CR,Sakai N,Okuro M,McMahon T,Yamazaki M,Xu Y,Saigoh N,Saigoh K,Lin ST,Kaasik K,Nishino S,Ptáček LJ,Fu YH

更新日期：2016-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypothesis that the nonrandom organization of the contents of interphase nuclei represents a compartmentalization of function, we examined the relative, spatial relationship of small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) and of DNase I hypersensitive chromatin (DHC) in rat pheochromocytoma cells. In controls...

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

authors： Park PC,De Boni U

更新日期：1996-10-15 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：:The hetR gene plays a very important role in cell differentiation of heterocystous cyanobacteria. To understand the mechanism of the hetR gene product in regulation of heterocyst differentiation, the recombinant HetR protein (rHetR) was overproduced in Escherichia coli. Purified rHetR was unstable and degraded easily ...

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

authors： Zhou R,Wei X,Jiang N,Li H,Dong Y,Hsi KL,Zhao J

更新日期：1998-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Threats to species from commercial fishing are rarely identified until species have suffered large population declines, by which time remedial actions can have severe economic consequences, such as closure of fisheries. Many of the species most threatened by fishing are caught in multispecies fisheries, which can rema...

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

authors： Burgess MG,Polasky S,Tilman D

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Speciation involves the origin of trait differences that limit or prevent gene exchange and ultimately results in daughter populations that form monophyletic or exclusive genetic groups. However, for recently diverged populations or species between which reproductive isolation is often incomplete, gene genealogies wil...

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

authors： Dopman EB,Pérez L,Bogdanowicz SM,Harrison RG

更新日期：2005-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Complementation of the plasmin fragments of reduced-carbamoylmethylated (Cam) human somatotropin (hGH) with those of reduced-carbamoylmethylated human chorionic somatomammotropin (hCS) have been investigated. It was found that the recombinant obtained by noncovalent interaction of [Cys(Cam)53]hGH-(1-134) with [Cys(Cam...

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

authors： Li CH

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To achieve accurate aminoacylation of tRNAs with their cognate amino acids, errors in aminoacylation are corrected by the "editing" mechanism in several aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. Phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase (PheRS) hydrolyzes, or edits, misformed tyrosyl-tRNA with its editing domain in the beta subunit. We report t...

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

authors： Sasaki HM,Sekine S,Sengoku T,Fukunaga R,Hattori M,Utsunomiya Y,Kuroishi C,Kuramitsu S,Shirouzu M,Yokoyama S

更新日期：2006-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is responsible for nonspecific, bulk degradation of cytoplasmic components. Recent work has revealed also that there is specific, autophagic degradation of polyubiquitinated protein aggregates, whose buildup occurs during neurodegenerative disease. Here, we report that simple mono-ubiquitination of normally ...

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

authors： Kim PK,Hailey DW,Mullen RT,Lippincott-Schwartz J

更新日期：2008-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein A-I (apo A-I), the major apolipoprotein in human high density lipoproteins, is involved in the disease atherosclerosis. Cloned apo A-I cDNA (pA1-3) was used as a probe in chromosome mapping studies to detect the human apo A-I structural gene sequence in human-Chinese hamster cell hybrids. Southern blot ...

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

authors： Cheung P,Kao FT,Law ML,Jones C,Puck TT,Chan L

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA from noninfectious virions produced by two established clonal lines of sarcoma positive-leukemia negative (S+L-)-transformed 3T3 cells has been characterized. RNA from virions or nucleoids of S+L--(C243) cells consisted of three to four sizes: +/-44 S (6%), 28 S (17%), 18 S (38%), and <18 S (39%). 28S virion RNA c...

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

authors： Phillips LA,Hollis VW Jr,Bassin RH,Fischinger PJ

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A molecular dynamics simulation of the gramicidin A channel in an explicit dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine bilayer was generated to study the details of lipid-protein interactions at the microscopic level. Solid-state NMR properties of the channel averaged over the 500-psec trajectory are in excellent agreement with a...

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

authors： Woolf TB,Roux B

更新日期：1994-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) is essential to class-switch recombination (CSR) and somatic hypermutation (SHM) in both V region SHM and S region SHM (s-SHM). Uracil DNA glycosylase (UNG), a member of the base excision repair (BER) complex, is required for CSR. Strikingly, however, UNG deficiency causes a...

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

authors： Yousif AS,Stanlie A,Mondal S,Honjo T,Begum NA

更新日期：2014-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular nature of the cell surface-cytoskeleton interaction in microvilli isolated from ascites 13762 rat mammary adenocarcinoma sublines with immobile (MAT-C1) and mobile (MAT-B1) receptors was investigated by extraction and fractionation studies on the microvillar membranes. Extraction of membranes from MAT-C1...

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

authors： Carraway CA,Jung G,Carraway KL

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of pediatric adrenal cortical carcinoma (ACC) in southern Brazil is 10-15 times higher than that of pediatric ACC worldwide. Because childhood ACC is associated with Li-Fraumeni syndrome, we examined the cancer history and p53 status of 36 Brazilian patients and their families. Remarkably, 35 of 36 patie...

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

authors： Ribeiro RC,Sandrini F,Figueiredo B,Zambetti GP,Michalkiewicz E,Lafferty AR,DeLacerda L,Rabin M,Cadwell C,Sampaio G,Cat I,Stratakis CA,Sandrini R

更新日期：2001-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play important roles in aging, inflammation, and cancer. Mitochondria are an important source of ROS; however, the spatiotemporal ROS events underlying oxidative cellular damage from dysfunctional mitochondria remain unresolved. To this end, we have developed and validated a chemoptogenet...

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

authors： Qian W,Kumar N,Roginskaya V,Fouquerel E,Opresko PL,Shiva S,Watkins SC,Kolodieznyi D,Bruchez MP,Van Houten B

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely accepted that the heavily glycosylated glycoprotein gp120 on the surface of HIV-1 shields peptide epitopes from recognition by the immune system and may promote infection in vivo by interaction with dendritic cells and transport to tissue rich in CD4(+) T cells such as lymph nodes. A conserved cluster of ...

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

authors： Wang SK,Liang PH,Astronomo RD,Hsu TL,Hsieh SL,Burton DR,Wong CH

更新日期：2008-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosomosis, or sleeping sickness, is a major disease constraint on livestock productivity in sub-Saharan Africa. To identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) controlling resistance to trypanosomosis in cattle, an experimental cross was made between trypanotolerant African N'Dama (Bos taurus) and trypanosusceptible im...

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

authors： Hanotte O,Ronin Y,Agaba M,Nilsson P,Gelhaus A,Horstmann R,Sugimoto Y,Kemp S,Gibson J,Korol A,Soller M,Teale A

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory information from the external world is inherently ambiguous, necessitating prior experience as a constraint on perception. Prolonged experience (adaptation) induces perception of ambiguous morph faces as a category different from the adapted category, suggesting sensitivity in underlying neural codes to differ...

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

authors： Furl N,van Rijsbergen NJ,Treves A,Friston KJ,Dolan RJ

更新日期：2007-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Control over the fluorescence of supramolecular assemblies is crucial for the development of chemosensors and light-emitting materials. Consequently, the postsynthetic modification of supramolecular structures via host-guest interactions has emerged as an efficient strategy in recent years that allows the facile tunin...

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

authors： Zhang M,Yin S,Zhang J,Zhou Z,Saha ML,Lu C,Stang PJ

更新日期：2017-03-21 00:00:00