Fibroblast growth factor signaling instructs ensheathing glia wrapping of Drosophila olfactory glomeruli.

abstract：:We measured quantitatively the binding affinities of purified Cro repressor to the chemically synthesized wild-type and mutant OR1 operators, consisting of all three possible base-pair substitutions and of thymine to uracil substitutions at each base-pair position of the 17-base-pair operator sequence. The sequence-sp...

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

authors： Takeda Y,Sarai A,Rivera VM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit corneas denuded of their endothelium were coated with bovine corneal endothelial cells (from steers) previously maintained in tissue culture for short (20 generations) or prolonged (200 generations) periods. When grafted back into female rabbits, the corneal buttons remained clear and showed no edema. In contra...

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

authors： Gospodarowicz D,Greenburg G,Alvarado J

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expansins are unusual proteins discovered by virtue of their ability to mediate cell wall extension in plants. We identified cDNA clones for two cucumber expansins on the basis of peptide sequences of proteins purified from cucumber hypocotyls. The expansin cDNAs encode related proteins with signal peptides predicted ...

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

authors： Shcherban TY,Shi J,Durachko DM,Guiltinan MJ,McQueen-Mason SJ,Shieh M,Cosgrove DJ

更新日期：1995-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Metallic nanoscale structures are capable of supporting surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), propagating collective electron oscillations with tight spatial confinement at the metal surface. SPPs represent one of the most promising structures to beat the diffraction limit imposed by conventional dielectric optics. Ag na...

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

authors： Yan R,Pausauskie P,Huang J,Yang P

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The accurate biogenesis of RNA-protein complexes is a key aspect of eukaryotic cells. Defects in Sm protein complex binding to snRNAs are known to reduce levels of snRNAs, suggesting an unknown quality control system for small nuclear ribonucleoprotein (snRNP) assembly. snRNA quality control may also be relevant in sp...

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

authors： Shukla S,Parker R

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:An interpretation is given of recent experiments by Brunori et al. on the binding of carbon monoxide by hemoglobin under photodissociating conditions. It is shown that their results follow directly from scalable models for hemoglobin in which the protein-modulated interactions are separable from the ligand binding. ...

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

authors： Szabo A,Karplus M

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of (45)Ca(++) was found to occur in membrane vesicles of E. coli prepared by lysis with a French pressure cell. The uptake occurs by active transport, requiring an energy source. Substrates of the electron transport chain, including D-lactate, reduced phenazine methosulfate, and NADH, stimulated accumulat...

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

authors： Rosen BP,McClees JS

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complexin activates Ca(2+)-triggered neurotransmitter release and regulates spontaneous release in the presynaptic terminal by cooperating with the neuronal soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptors (SNAREs) and the Ca(2+)-sensor synaptotagmin. The N-terminal domain of complexin is importa...

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

authors： Lai Y,Choi UB,Zhang Y,Zhao M,Pfuetzner RA,Wang AL,Diao J,Brunger AT

更新日期：2016-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The transthyretin amyloidoses (ATTR) are invariably fatal diseases characterized by progressive neuropathy and/or cardiomyopathy. ATTR are caused by aggregation of transthyretin (TTR), a natively tetrameric protein involved in the transport of thyroxine and the vitamin A-retinol-binding protein complex. Mutations with...

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

authors： Bulawa CE,Connelly S,Devit M,Wang L,Weigel C,Fleming JA,Packman J,Powers ET,Wiseman RL,Foss TR,Wilson IA,Kelly JW,Labaudinière R

更新日期：2012-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that the stimulation of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) brought about by tumor necrosis factor alpha and phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate can be inhibited by adding N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC). NAC, which replenishes intracellular glutathione, effectively inhibits the tumor necrosis factor alpha- or phorbol es...

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

authors： Roederer M,Staal FJ,Raju PA,Ela SW,Herzenberg LA,Herzenberg LA

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optogenetic methods have been highly effective for suppressing neural activity and modulating behavior in rodents, but effects have been much smaller in primates, which have much larger brains. Here, we present a suite of technologies to use optogenetics effectively in primates and apply these tools to a classic quest...

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

authors： Acker L,Pino EN,Boyden ES,Desimone R

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:L-Gulono-gamma-lactone oxidase (L-gulono-gamma-lactone:oxygen 2-oxidoreductase, EC 1.1.3.8) is the enzyme that catalyzes the terminal step of L-ascorbic acid biosynthesis in mammalian liver. The absence of the oxidase activity in primates and guinea pigs is the reason why these animals are subject to scurvy, which mus...

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

authors： Nishikimi M,Udenfriend S

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It had been shown previously that the heat-stable polypeptide of the ATP-dependent proteolytic system of reticulocytes, designated APF-1, forms covalent conjugates with protein substrates in an ATP-requiring process. We now describe an enzyme that carries out the activation by ATP of the polypeptide with pyrophosphate...

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

authors： Ciechanover A,Heller H,Katz-Etzion R,Hershko A

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli, acetyl phosphate can be formed from acetyl-CoA via the phosphotransacetylase (phosphate acetyltransferase; acetyl-CoA:orthophosphate acetyltransferase, EC 2.3.1.8) reaction and from acetate (plus ATP) via the acetate kinase (ATP:acetate phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.2.1) reaction. By restricting acet...

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

authors： Hong JS,Hunt AG,Masters PS,Lieberman MA

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of Escherichia coli to alkylating agents activates expression of AidB in addition to DNA repair proteins Ada, AlkA, and AlkB. AidB was recently shown to possess a flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) cofactor and to bind to dsDNA, implicating it as a flavin-dependent DNA repair enzyme. However, the molecular mec...

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

authors： Bowles T,Metz AH,O'Quin J,Wawrzak Z,Eichman BF

更新日期：2008-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP), the aggregate impact of land use on biomass available each year in ecosystems, is a prominent measure of the human domination of the biosphere. We present a comprehensive assessment of global HANPP based on vegetation modeling, agricultural and forestry statistics...

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

authors： Haberl H,Erb KH,Krausmann F,Gaube V,Bondeau A,Plutzar C,Gingrich S,Lucht W,Fischer-Kowalski M

更新日期：2007-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein-free nucleic acid preparation method for electron microscopy is described. The basic procedure is very similar to the classical protein monolayer spreading techniques. The carrier protein (usually cytochrome c) is replaced by benzyldimethylalkylammonium chloride. Both the hypophase method and the microdiffus...

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

authors： Vollenweider HJ,Sogo JM,Koller T

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of the anti-T-cell monoclonal antibodies OKT3, OKT5, and OKT8 on T-cell surface properties and cell functions were evaluated. Incubation of mononuclear cells isolated from peripheral blood for 48 hr with each monoclonal antibody in the absence of complement resulted in modulation of their respective surface an...

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

authors： Antel J,Oger JJ,Jackevicius S,Kuo HH,Arnason BG

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis have become an increasingly important subject as pathogens have become increasingly resistant to current antibiotics. The adhesion of microorganisms to the surface of host tissue is often a first step in pathogenesis and is a plausible target for new antiinfective agents. Examinati...

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

authors： Liang MN,Smith SP,Metallo SJ,Choi IS,Prentiss M,Whitesides GM

更新日期：2000-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the abundance and structure of globin mRNAs present in K562 cells both before and after induction of hemoglobin synthesis by hemin. In vitro translation of poly(A)+ RNA from K562 cells generated protein products corresponding to alpha, A gamma-, G gamma-, epsilon-, and zeta-globin mRNAs. Individual globin m...

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

authors： Dean A,Ley TJ,Humphries RK,Fordis M,Schechter AN

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the catalytic mechanism of the recently discovered ThyX family of flavin-dependent thymidylate synthases that are required for thymidylate (deoxythymidine 5'-monophosphate) synthesis in a large number of microbial species. Using a combination of site-directed mutagenesis and biochemical measureme...

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

authors： Leduc D,Graziani S,Lipowski G,Marchand C,Le Maréchal P,Liebl U,Myllykallio H

更新日期：2004-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Pentamidine, diminazene aceturate (Berenil), isometamidium chloride (Samorin), and ethidium bromide, which are important antitrypanosomal drugs, promote linearization of Trypanosoma equiperdum minicircle DNA (the principal component of kinetoplast DNA, the mitochondrial DNA in these parasites). This effect occurs at t...

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

authors： Shapiro TA,Englund PT

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present evidence that the JAK-STAT signal transduction pathway regulates multiple developmental processes in Drosophila. We screened for second-site mutations that suppress the phenotype of the hyperactive hopTum-1 Jak kinase, and recovered a mutation that meiotically maps to the known chromosomal position of D-Sta...

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

authors： Yan R,Luo H,Darnell JE Jr,Dearolf CR

更新日期：1996-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Axonal guidance is key to the formation of neuronal circuitry. Semaphorin 3A (Sema 3A; previously known as semaphorin III, semaphorin D, and collapsin-1), a secreted subtype of the semaphorin family, is an important axonal guidance molecule in vitro and in vivo. The molecular mechanisms of the repellent activity of se...

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

authors： Behar O,Mizuno K,Badminton M,Woolf CJ

更新日期：1999-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Addition of acetylcholine to growing cultures of mouse neuroblastoma cells induced a 37-fold increase in the specific activity of acetylcholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.7). Morphological changes, consisting of neurite-extensions, were also observed during the logarithmic phase of growth of cells stimulated with acetylcholine....

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

authors： Harkins J,Arsenault M,Schlesinger K,Kates J

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of NusA on the RNA polymerase contacts made by nucleotides at internal positions in the nascent RNA in Escherichia coli transcription complexes were analyzed by using the photocrosslinking nucleotide analog 5-[(4-azidophenacyl) thio]-UMP. It was placed at nucleotides between +6 and +15 in RNA transcribed f...

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

authors： Liu K,Hanna MM

更新日期：1995-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Innate immunity is the primary and most ancient defense against infection. Although critical to survival, coordinating protection against a foreign organism is energetically costly, creating the need to reallocate substrates from nonessential functions, such as growth and nutrient storage. However, the mechanism by wh...

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

authors： DiAngelo JR,Bland ML,Bambina S,Cherry S,Birnbaum MJ

更新日期：2009-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that the pituitary contains a cytotropic factor (CTF) that stimulates the secretion of catecholamines by dopaminergic neurons of the hypothalamus. In the present study, CTF was purified from rat pituitaries and found by means of mass spectrometric analysis to be adenosine. This finding was corroborat...

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

authors： Porter JC,Ijames CF,Wang TC,Markey SP

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic clones of the human non-N-methyl-D-aspartate (non-NMDA) glutamate receptor subunit GluR5 were isolated by high-stringency screening of a cosmid library using the rat cDNA as a probe. The chromosomal localization of the human GluR5 gene has been established. Southern hybridization of DNA isolated from mapping p...

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

authors： Eubanks JH,Puranam RS,Kleckner NW,Bettler B,Heinemann SF,McNamara JO

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescence of the supposedly buried tryptophan in ribonuclease T1 has been found to be collisionally quenched by acrylamide with a rate constant of 3 X 10(8) M--1 sec--1. Only a slight decrease in the quenching rate is observed upon a 5-fold increase in the viscosity of the solution. For this to be the case, the...

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

authors： Eftink MR,Ghiron CA

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00