Diverse regulation of mammary epithelial growth and branching morphogenesis through noncanonical Wnt signaling.

abstract：:Human beings differ in their ability to master the sounds of their second language (L2). Phonetic training studies have proposed that differences in phonetic learning stem from differences in psychoacoustic abilities rather than speech-specific capabilities. We aimed at finding the origin of individual differences in ...

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

authors： Díaz B,Baus C,Escera C,Costa A,Sebastián-Gallés N

更新日期：2008-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydrodynamic properties of the detergent-solubilized, terminal membrane complex of serum complement components C5-C9 [C5b-9(m)] were studied to obtain an estimate of its molecular weight. In a solution of Triton X-100/deoxycholate, the protein complex binds 17% Triton X-100 and 11% deoxycholate by weight. The sedi...

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

authors： Bhakdi S,Tranum-Jensen J

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proboscis is an important head appendage in insects that has primarily been thought to process gustatory information during food intake. Indeed, in Drosophila and other insects in which they have been identified, most gustatory receptors are expressed in proboscis neurons. Our previous characterization of the expr...

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

authors： Kwon HW,Lu T,Rützler M,Zwiebel LJ

更新日期：2006-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In the mammalian retina, extensive processing of spatiotemporal and chromatic information occurs. One key principle in signal transfer through the retina is parallel processing. Two of these parallel pathways are the ON- and OFF-channels transmitting light and dark signals. This dual system is created in the outer ple...

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

authors： Hack I,Peichl L,Brandstätter JH

更新日期：1999-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine reserve theory suggests that where large, productive populations are protected within no-take marine reserves, fished areas outside reserves will benefit through the spillover of larvae produced in the reserves. However, empirical evidence for larval export has been sparse. Here we use a simple idealized coastl...

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

authors： Pelc RA,Warner RR,Gaines SD,Paris CB

更新日期：2010-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The multifunctional DNA-binding protein (DBP) encoded by human adenovirus binds RNA. The association of purified DBP with RNA in vitro was demonstrated by using either a gel filtration or a filter binding assay. This association is sensitive to ionic strength and exhibits no apparent sequence specificity. DBP also int...

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

authors： Cleghon VG,Klessig DF

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the retina, dopamine plays a central role in neural adaptation to light. Progress in the study of dopaminergic amacrine (DA) cells has been limited because they are very few (450 in each mouse retina, 0.005% of retinal neurons). Here, we applied transgenic technology, single-cell global mRNA amplification, and cDNA...

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

authors： Gustincich S,Contini M,Gariboldi M,Puopolo M,Kadota K,Bono H,LeMieux J,Walsh P,Carninci P,Hayashizaki Y,Okazaki Y,Raviola E

更新日期：2004-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Docosahexaenoic acid (DCHA), a major polyunsaturated acid component of fish lipid, is not a substrate for prostaglandin synthetase from ram seminal vesicles but is a strong competitive inhibitor (Ki, 0.36 microM) of the conversion by this enzyme of arachidonate (Km, 5.9 microM) to prostaglandins. In contrast, DCHA exh...

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

authors： Corey EJ,Shih C,Cashman JR

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After uptake by the endosome of an antigen-presenting cell (APC), exogenous proteins are known to be degraded into peptides by protease digestion. Here, we report the mechanism by which pure carbohydrates can be depolymerized within APC endosomes/lysosomes by nitric oxide (NO)-derived reactive nitrogen species (RNSs) ...

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

authors： Duan J,Avci FY,Kasper DL

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In adult skeletal muscles, 2 junctophilin isoforms (JPH1 and JPH2) tether the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) to transverse tubule (T-tubule) membranes, generating stable membrane contact sites known as triads. JPHs are anchored to the membrane of the SR by a C-terminal transmembrane domain (TMD) and bind the T-tubule mem...

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

authors： Rossi D,Scarcella AM,Liguori E,Lorenzini S,Pierantozzi E,Kutchukian C,Jacquemond V,Messa M,De Camilli P,Sorrentino V

更新日期：2019-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligomerization of members of the p53 family of transcription factors (p53, p63, and p73) is essential for their distinct functions in cell-cycle control and development. To elucidate the molecular basis for tetramer formation of the various family members, we solved the crystal structure of the human p73 tetramerizat...

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

authors： Joerger AC,Rajagopalan S,Natan E,Veprintsev DB,Robinson CV,Fersht AR

更新日期：2009-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyaromatic hydrocarbons are ubiquitous environmental chemicals that are important mutagens and carcinogens. The purpose of this study was to determine whether genes within the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) influence their biological activities. Cell-mediated immunity to dimethylbenz(a)anthracene (DMBA) was ...

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

authors： Elmets CA,Athar M,Tubesing KA,Rothaupt D,Xu H,Mukhtar H

更新日期：1998-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Efforts to increase the potency of transcriptional activators are generally unsuccessful because poor expression of activators in mammalian cells limits their delivery to target promoters. Here we report that the effectiveness of chimeric activators can be dramatically improved by expressing them as noncovalent tetram...

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

authors： Natesan S,Molinari E,Rivera VM,Rickles RJ,Gilman M

更新日期：1999-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Disulfide bonds have only rarely been found in intracellular proteins. That pattern is consistent with the chemically reducing environment inside the cells of well-studied organisms. However, recent experiments and new calculations based on genomic data of archaea provide striking contradictions to this pattern. Our r...

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

authors： Mallick P,Boutz DR,Eisenberg D,Yeates TO

更新日期：2002-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A two-component transposon system based on the Ac element of maize was used as a mutagen in Arabidopsis thaliana. Transposition of a Ds element marked with a hygromycin-resistance gene was activated from four different locations in the Arabidopsis genome. The progeny of 201 plants carrying independent transposition ev...

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

authors： Long D,Martin M,Sundberg E,Swinburne J,Puangsomlee P,Coupland G

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In adipocytes, adenylate cyclase is positively regulated by beta-adrenergic agents and negatively regulated by adenosine. Incubation of adipocytes with adenosine deaminase relieves the inhibition of adenylate cyclase by destroying the adenosine that the cells release into the medium. When adipocytes are incubated with...

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

authors： Chung FZ,Weber HW,Appleman MM

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Livers of a natural population of winter flounder from a contaminated site in Boston Harbor were examined for the presence of oncogenes by transfection of DNA into NIH 3T3 mouse fibroblasts. Tissues analyzed contained histopathologic lesions including abnormal vacuolation, biliary proliferation, and, in many cases, he...

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

authors： McMahon G,Huber LJ,Moore MJ,Stegeman JJ,Wogan GN

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although biological cells are mostly transparent, they are phase objects that differ in shape and refractive index. Any image that is projected through layers of randomly oriented cells will normally be distorted by refraction, reflection, and scattering. Counterintuitively, the retina of the vertebrate eye is inverte...

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

authors： Franze K,Grosche J,Skatchkov SN,Schinkinger S,Foja C,Schild D,Uckermann O,Travis K,Reichenbach A,Guck J

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The mature gag and pol proteins of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and all retroviruses derive from large gag and gag-pol polyprotein precursors by posttranslational cleavage. A highly specific, virally encoded protease is required for this essential proteolytic processing. In this study, the HIV protease gene prod...

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

authors： Debouck C,Gorniak JG,Strickler JE,Meek TD,Metcalf BW,Rosenberg M

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant (ML 308-22) was isolated from Escherichia coli ML 308, which had lost the normal capacity to accumulate lactose analogs despite an increase in the membrane carrier activity. The exit of thiomethylgalactoside was much faster than normal, accounting for the inability of the cell to maintain high intracellular c...

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

authors： Wong PT,Kashket ER,Wilson TH

更新日期：1970-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptide B (NPB) and neuropeptide W (NPW) are endogenous neuropeptide ligands for the G protein-coupled receptors NPBWR1 and NPBWR2. Here we report that the majority of NPW neurons in the mesolimbic region possess tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity, indicating that a small subset of dopaminergic neurons coexpre...

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

authors： Motoike T,Long JM,Tanaka H,Sinton CM,Skach A,Williams SC,Hammer RE,Sakurai T,Yanagisawa M

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:This note answers some questions on holomorphic curves and their distribution in an algebraic surface of positive index. More specifically, we exploit the existence of natural negatively curved "pseudo-Finsler" metrics on a surface S of general type whose Chern numbers satisfy c(2)1>2c2 to show that a holomorphic map ...

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

authors： Lu SS,Yau ST

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The claudin-low subtype is a recently identified rare molecular subtype of human breast cancer that expresses low levels of tight and adherens junction genes and shows high expression of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) genes. These tumors are enriched in gene expression signatures derived from human tumor-i...

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

authors： Herschkowitz JI,Zhao W,Zhang M,Usary J,Murrow G,Edwards D,Knezevic J,Greene SB,Darr D,Troester MA,Hilsenbeck SG,Medina D,Perou CM,Rosen JM

更新日期：2012-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The voltage-sensor domain (VSD) of voltage-dependent ion channels and enzymes is critical for cellular responses to membrane potential. The VSD can also be regulated by interaction with intracellular proteins and ligands, but how this occurs is poorly understood. Here, we show that the VSD of the BK-type K(+) channel ...

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

authors： Yang H,Hu L,Shi J,Delaloye K,Horrigan FT,Cui J

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The transforming growth factors beta (TGF-beta s) are important modulators of growth and differentiation. They are intermolecular disulfide-bonded homodimeric molecules. The monomer fold has a conserved cystine knot and lacks a hydrophobic core. The biological specificity of a given member of the family is believed to...

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

authors： Venkataraman G,Sasisekharan V,Cooney CL,Langer R,Sasisekharan R

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of the dimeric gene V protein of bacteriophage f1 was determined using multiwavelength anomalous diffraction on the selenomethionine-containing wild-type and isoleucine-47-->methionine mutant proteins with x-ray diffraction data phased to 2.5 A resolution. The structure of the wild-type protein h...

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

authors： Skinner MM,Zhang H,Leschnitzer DH,Guan Y,Bellamy H,Sweet RM,Gray CW,Konings RN,Wang AH,Terwilliger TC

更新日期：1994-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonreceptor tyrosine phosphatase Shp2 (PTPN11) has been implicated in tyrosine kinase, cytokine, and integrin receptor signaling. We show here that conditional mutation of Shp2 in neural crest cells and in myelinating Schwann cells resulted in deficits in glial development that are remarkably similar to those obse...

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

authors： Grossmann KS,Wende H,Paul FE,Cheret C,Garratt AN,Zurborg S,Feinberg K,Besser D,Schulz H,Peles E,Selbach M,Birchmeier W,Birchmeier C

更新日期：2009-09-29 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：:Procedures are described for the isolation of conditional lethal mutants of mouse L-60T cells. The mutant lines were temperature sensitive by the following criteria: (a) colony-forming ability, (b) growth in suspension culture, and (c) rate of uptake of tritiated-thymidine. ...

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

authors： Thompson LH,Mankovitz R,Baker RM,Till JE,Siminovitch L,Whitmore GF

更新日期：1970-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female Utetheisa ornatrix exercise postcopulatory mate selection, favoring sperm of larger males. Larger males also produce larger spermatophores, raising the question whether males are selected on the basis of body size or the size of their spermatophore. We here present evidence, based on matings in which males were...

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

authors： LaMunyon CW,Eisner T

更新日期：1994-07-19 00:00:00