Red cells' dynamic morphologies govern blood shear thinning under microcirculatory flow conditions.

abstract：:Turkey erythrocyte membranes showed specific binding of [(3)H]epinephrine. The concentration of hormone required for half-maximal binding (30 muM) was the same as that required for half-maximal activation of the adenylate cyclase located in the same membrane preparation. The binding reaction at 37 degrees C reached co...

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

authors： Schramm M,Feinstein H,Naim E,Lang E,Lasser M

更新日期：1972-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca(2+) is essential for physiological depolarization-evoked synchronous neurotransmitter release. But, whether Ca(2+) influx or another factor controls release initiation is still under debate. The time course of ACh release is controlled by a presynaptic inhibitory G protein-coupled autoreceptor (GPCR), whose agonist...

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

authors： Kupchik YM,Rashkovan G,Ohana L,Keren-Raifman T,Dascal N,Parnas H,Parnas I

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanism by which the homodimeric enzyme Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD) causes neural damage in amytrophic lateral sclerosis is yet poorly understood. A striking, as well as an unusual, feature of SOD is that it maintains intrasubunit disulfide bonds in the reducing environment of the cytosol. Here, w...

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

authors： Lindberg MJ,Normark J,Holmgren A,Oliveberg M

更新日期：2004-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluate the impact of anthropogenic and natural NO(x) sources over the contiguous United States on tropospheric NO(x) and O(3) levels by using a global 3D chemical transport model. The effects of major U.S. surface NO(x) emission sources (including anthropogenic, biomass burning, and soil emissions) are compared w...

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

authors： Zhang R,Tie X,Bond DW

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in coherent x-ray diffractive imaging have paved the way to reliable and quantitative imaging of noncompact specimens at the nanometer scale. Introduced a year ago, an advanced implementation of ptychographic coherent diffractive imaging has removed much of the previous limitations regarding sample pre...

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

authors： Giewekemeyer K,Thibault P,Kalbfleisch S,Beerlink A,Kewish CM,Dierolf M,Pfeiffer F,Salditt T

更新日期：2010-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebellar development occurs mainly postnatally and implies cell proliferation and migration. Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and Met are involved in mediating these responses in other tissues and are coexpressed in the cerebellum. Here we show that Met is localized in granule cell precursors and that cultures of thes...

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

authors： Ieraci A,Forni PE,Ponzetto C

更新日期：2002-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of chemotaxis in the virulence of gastrointestinal pathogens is ill defined. Counterintuitively, nonchemotactic mutants of the polarly flagellated pathogen Vibrio cholerae greatly out-compete the wild-type strain during infection of the small intestine. We show that the out-competition phenotype is dependent ...

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

authors： Butler SM,Camilli A

更新日期：2004-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Acanthamoeba castellanii contains two enzymes, myosins IA and IB, that exhibit the catalytic properties of a myosin but possess very unusual physical properties, the most striking of which are their single, low molecular weight heavy chain, their globular shape, and their inability to form bipolar filaments. We have n...

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

authors： Hammer JA 3rd,Jung G,Korn ED

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium, a universal second messenger, regulates diverse cellular processes in eukaryotes. Ca2+ and Ca2+/calmodulin-regulated protein phosphorylation play a pivotal role in amplifying and diversifying the action of Ca(2+)-binding domain was cloned and characterized from lily. The cDNA clone contains an open reading fr...

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

authors： Patil S,Takezawa D,Poovaiah BW

更新日期：1995-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:B-lymphocyte-specific class switch recombination is known to occur between pairs of 2- to 10-kb switch regions located immediately upstream of the immunoglobulin constant heavy-chain genes. Others have shown that the recombination is temporally correlated with the induction of transcription at the targeted switch regi...

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

authors： Daniels GA,Lieber MR

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate cellular diversity and clonal evolution in tissues and tumors, one must resolve genomic heterogeneity in single cells. To this end, we have developed low-cost, mass-producible micro-/nanofluidic chips for DNA extraction from individual cells. These chips have modules that collect genomic DNA for sequencin...

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

authors： Marie R,Pedersen JN,Bærlocher L,Koprowska K,Pødenphant M,Sabatel C,Zalkovskij M,Mironov A,Bilenberg B,Ashley N,Flyvbjerg H,Bodmer WF,Kristensen A,Mir KU

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Obligate intracellular pathogens such as Leishmania specifically target host phagocytes for survival and replication. Phosphoinositide 3-kinase γ (PI3Kγ), a member of the class I PI3Ks that is highly expressed by leukocytes, controls cell migration by initiating actin polymerization and cytoskeletal reorganization, wh...

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

authors： Cummings HE,Barbi J,Reville P,Oghumu S,Zorko N,Sarkar A,Keiser TL,Lu B,Rückle T,Varikuti S,Lezama-Davila C,Wewers MD,Whitacre C,Radzioch D,Rommel C,Seveau S,Satoskar AR

更新日期：2012-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-based therapies, using multipotent mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) for organ regeneration, are being pursued for cardiac disease, orthopedic injuries and biomaterial fabrication. The molecular pathways that regulate MSC-mediated regeneration or enhance their therapeutic efficacy are, however, poorly understood. We ...

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

authors： Alfaro MP,Pagni M,Vincent A,Atkinson J,Hill MF,Cates J,Davidson JM,Rottman J,Lee E,Young PP

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a procedure for predicting the tertiary folds of alpha-helical proteins from their primary sequences. The central component of the procedure is a method for predicting interhelical contacts that is based on a helix-packing model. Instead of predicting the individual contacts, our method attempts to identif...

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

authors： Zhang C,Hou J,Kim SH

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancers frequently arise as a result of an acquired genomic instability and the subsequent clonal evolution of neoplastic cells with variable patterns of genetic aberrations. Thus, the presence and behaviors of distinct clonal populations in each patient's tumor may underlie multiple clinical phenotypes in cancers. We...

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

authors： Ruiz C,Lenkiewicz E,Evers L,Holley T,Robeson A,Kiefer J,Demeure MJ,Hollingsworth MA,Shen M,Prunkard D,Rabinovitch PS,Zellweger T,Mousses S,Trent JM,Carpten JD,Bubendorf L,Von Hoff D,Barrett MT

更新日期：2011-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Colloidal particles with directional interactions are key in the realization of new colloidal materials with possibly unconventional phase behaviors. Here we exploit DNA self-assembly to produce bulk quantities of "DNA stars" with three or four sticky terminals, mimicking molecules with controlled limited valence. Sol...

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

authors： Biffi S,Cerbino R,Bomboi F,Paraboschi EM,Asselta R,Sciortino F,Bellini T

更新日期：2013-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In higher eukaryotic cells, mitochondria are essential subcellular organelles for energy production, cell signaling, and the biosynthesis of biomolecules. The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genome is indispensable for mitochondrial function because it encodes protein subunits of the electron transport chain and a full set ...

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

authors： Xu W,Boyd RM,Tree MO,Samkari F,Zhao L

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanism of desensitization of soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC), the NO receptor, has long remained unresolved. Posttranslational modification and redox state have been postulated to affect sGC sensitivity to NO but evidence has been lacking. We now show that sGC can be S-nitrosylated in primary aortic sm...

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

authors： Sayed N,Baskaran P,Ma X,van den Akker F,Beuve A

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:One can imagine a variety of mechanisms that should result in self-perpetuating biological states. It is generally assumed that cytosine methylation is propagated in eukaryotes by enzymes that specifically methylate hemimethylated symmetrical sites (e.g., (5')CpGGpC(5') or (5')CpNpGGpNpC(5')). Although there is wide s...

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

authors： Selker EU,Freitag M,Kothe GO,Margolin BS,Rountree MR,Allis CD,Tamaru H

更新日期：2002-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Social interactions are fundamental for human behavior, but the quantification of their neural underpinnings remains challenging. Here, we used hyperscanning functional MRI (fMRI) to study information flow between brains of human dyads during real-time social interaction in a joint attention paradigm. In a hardware se...

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

authors： Bilek E,Ruf M,Schäfer A,Akdeniz C,Calhoun VD,Schmahl C,Demanuele C,Tost H,Kirsch P,Meyer-Lindenberg A

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated and characterized the complete human villin gene. The villin gene is located on chromosome 2q35-36 in humans and on chromosome 1 in mice. Villin belongs to a family of calcium-regulated actin-binding proteins that share structural and functional homologies. The villin gene is expressed mainly in cells...

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

authors： Pringault E,Robine S,Louvard D

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxiredoxins (Prx), a family of peroxidases that reduce intracellular peroxides with the thioredoxin system as the electron donor, are highly expressed in various cellular compartments. Among the antioxidant Prx enzymes, Prx2 is the most abundant in mammalian neurons, making it a prime candidate to defend against ox...

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

authors： Fang J,Nakamura T,Cho DH,Gu Z,Lipton SA

更新日期：2007-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Prions are infectious proteins that encipher biological information within their conformations; variations in these conformations dictate different prion strains. Toward elucidating the molecular language of prion protein (PrP) conformations, we produced an array of recombinant PrP amyloids with varying conformational...

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

authors： Colby DW,Giles K,Legname G,Wille H,Baskakov IV,DeArmond SJ,Prusiner SB

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A likely mechanism of chromosomal rearrangement formation involves joining the ends from two different chromosomal double-strand breaks (DSBs). These events could potentially be mediated by either of two end-joining (EJ) repair pathways [canonical nonhomologous end joining (C-NHEJ) or alternative end joining (ALT-EJ)]...

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

authors： Bhargava R,Carson CR,Lee G,Stark JM

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The exopolysaccharide alginate is a major virulence factor in the pathogenicity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infecting the lungs of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Alginate synthesis by P. aeruginosa is believed to occur in response to environmental signals present in the CF lung. Transcription of a critical alginate bios...

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

authors： Roychoudhury S,Sakai K,Chakrabarty AM

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) represent a unique tool for the study of the pathophysiology of human disease, because these cells can be differentiated into multiple cell types in vitro and used to generate patient- and tissue-specific disease models. Given the critical role for skeletal muscle insulin res...

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

authors： Iovino S,Burkart AM,Warren L,Patti ME,Kahn CR

更新日期：2016-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Substantial evidence from epidemiological, pathological, and clinical reports suggests that vascular factors are critical in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and changes in blood flow are currently the most reliable indicators of the disease. We previously reported that older APP23 transgenic (tg) mice ha...

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

authors： Meyer EP,Ulmann-Schuler A,Staufenbiel M,Krucker T

更新日期：2008-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Transferrin, a nonheme iron-binding protein, is polymorphic in most vertebrate species that have been examined. In pigeons, it is controlled by an autosomal gene, with two known codominant alleles, Tf(A) and Tf(B). The two alleles are found in nearly equal frequencies and the three genotypes are at Hardy-Weinberg equi...

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

authors： Frelinger JA

更新日期：1972-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salivary gland cells in the larvae of the dipteran Chironomus tentans offer unique possibilities to visualize the assembly and nucleocytoplasmic transport of a specific transcription product. Each nucleus harbors four giant polytene chromosomes, whose transcription sites are expanded, or puffed. On chromosome IV, ther...

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

authors： Daneholt B

更新日期：2001-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD) is characterized by asthma, tissue eosinophilia, overproduction of cysteinyl leukotrienes (cysLTs), and respiratory reactions to nonselective cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitors. Ex vivo studies suggest that functional abnormalities of the COX-2/microsomal prostaglandin (PG)E...

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

authors： Liu T,Laidlaw TM,Katz HR,Boyce JA

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00