Sea anemone model has a single Toll-like receptor that can function in pathogen detection, NF-κB signal transduction, and development.

abstract：:The GTPase-activating protein (GAP) has been postulated to function either as a negative regulator or as a possible target protein of Ras in mammalian cells and Xenopus oocytes. Ras must be localized in the plasma membrane of vertebrate cells to function, but GAP is localized in the cytosol. To test whether Ras functi...

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

authors： Gibbs JB,Schaber MD,Schofield TL,Scolnick EM,Sigal IS

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heroin analogue 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium, MPP(+), both in vitro and in vivo, produces death of dopaminergic substantia nigral cells by inhibiting the mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase multienzyme complex, producing a syndrome indistinguishable from Parkinson's disease. Similarly, a fragment of amyloid protein, A...

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

authors： Kashiwaya Y,Takeshima T,Mori N,Nakashima K,Clarke K,Veech RL

更新日期：2000-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in rodents and nonhuman primates have linked the activity of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors within the hippocampus to animals' performance on memory-related tasks. However, whether these receptors are similarly essential for human memory is still an open question. Here we present evidence suggesting tha...

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

authors： Grunwald T,Beck H,Lehnertz K,Blümcke I,Pezer N,Kurthen M,Fernández G,Van Roost D,Heinze HJ,Kutas M,Elger CE

更新日期：1999-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The human chaperonin Hsp60 is thought to play a role in the progression of Alzheimer's disease by mitigating against intracellular β-amyloid stress. Here, we show that the bacterial homolog GroEL (51% sequence identity) reduces the neurotoxic effects of amyloid-β(1-42) (Aβ42) on human neural stem cell-derived neuronal...

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

authors： Wälti MA,Steiner J,Meng F,Chung HS,Louis JM,Ghirlando R,Tugarinov V,Nath A,Clore GM

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial populations are subject to complex processes of diversification that involve mutation and horizontal DNA transfer mediated by transformation, transduction, or conjugation. Tracing the evolutionary events leading to genetic changes allows us to infer the history of a microbe. Here, we combine experimental and...

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

authors： Brochet M,Rusniok C,Couvé E,Dramsi S,Poyart C,Trieu-Cuot P,Kunst F,Glaser P

更新日期：2008-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared the process of prophage lambda induction with that of prophage Mu. According to the Campbell model, rescue of lambda DNA from the host DNA involves reversal of lambda integration such that the prophage DNA is excised from the host chromosome. We have monitored this event by locating the prophage DNA w...

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

authors： Ljungquist E,Bukhari AI

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A volcanic catastrophe even more devastating than the famous anno Domini 79 Pompeii eruption occurred during the Old Bronze Age at Vesuvius. The 3780-yr-B.P. Avellino plinian eruption produced an early violent pumice fallout and a late pyroclastic surge sequence that covered the volcano surroundings as far as 25 km aw...

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

authors： Mastrolorenzo G,Petrone P,Pappalardo L,Sheridan MF

更新日期：2006-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal progenitors and tumor cells possess propensity to proliferate and to migrate. Glutamate regulates proliferation and migration of neurons during development, but it is not known whether it influences proliferation and migration of tumor cells. We demonstrate that glutamate antagonists inhibit proliferation of ...

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

authors： Rzeski W,Turski L,Ikonomidou C

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomic basis of primate phenotypic uniqueness remains obscure, despite increasing genome and transcriptome sequence data availability. Although factors such as segmental duplications and positive selection have received much attention as potential drivers of primate phenotypes, single-copy primate-specific genes ...

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

authors： Tay SK,Blythe J,Lipovich L

更新日期：2009-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigation of retinal neurochemistry in a well-defined chick model of form-deprivation myopia indicated that dopamine and its metabolite 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid are reduced in myopic as compared to control eyes. The reduction in retinal dopamine is evident only during light adaptation and is accompanied by a...

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

authors： Stone RA,Lin T,Laties AM,Iuvone PM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosomatid RNA editing is a unique process and essential for these organisms. It therefore represents a drug target for a group of protozoa that includes the causative agents for African sleeping sickness and other devastating tropical and subtropical diseases. Here, we present drug-like inhibitors of a key enzyme...

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

authors： Amaro RE,Schnaufer A,Interthal H,Hol W,Stuart KD,McCammon JA

更新日期：2008-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:H2O2, in concentrations achieved in the proximity of stimulated leukocytes, induces injury and lysis of target cells. This may be an important aspect of inflammatory injury of tissues. Cell lysis in two target cells, the murine macrophage-like tumor cell line P388D1 and human peripheral lymphocytes, was found to be as...

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

authors： Schraufstatter IU,Hyslop PA,Hinshaw DB,Spragg RG,Sklar LA,Cochrane CG

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeriolysin O (LLO) is a cholesterol-dependent cytolysin that is an essential virulence factor of Listeria monocytogenes. LLO pore-forming activity is pH-dependent; it is active at acidic pH (<6), but not at neutral pH. In contrast to other pH-dependent toxins, we have determined that LLO pore-forming activity is co...

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

authors： Schuerch DW,Wilson-Kubalek EM,Tweten RK

更新日期：2005-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Because virtually all organisms compete with others in their social environment, mechanisms that reduce conflict between interacting individuals are crucial for the evolution of stable families, groups, and societies. Here, we tested whether costs of social conflict over territorial space between Seychelles warblers (...

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

authors： Bebbington K,Kingma SA,Fairfield EA,Dugdale HL,Komdeur J,Spurgin LG,Richardson DS

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Human-caused environmental changes are creating regional combinations of environmental conditions that, within the next 50 to 100 years, may fall outside the envelope within which many of the terrestrial plants of a region evolved. These environmental modifications might become a greater cause of global species extinc...

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

authors： Tilman D,Lehman C

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In signal-recognition particle (SRP)-dependent protein targeting to the bacterial plasma membrane, two GTPases, Ffh (a subunit of the bacterial SRP) and FtsY (the bacterial SRP receptor), act as GTPase activating proteins for one another. The molecular mechanism of this reciprocal GTPase activation is poorly understoo...

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

authors： Shan SO,Walter P

更新日期：2003-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Domesticated maize and its wild ancestor (teosinte) differ strikingly in morphology and afford an opportunity to examine the connection between strong selection and diversity in a major crop species. The tb1 gene largely controls the increase in apical dominance in maize relative to teosinte, and a region of the tb1 l...

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

authors： Clark RM,Linton E,Messing J,Doebley JF

更新日期：2004-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the human DYNC1H1 gene are associated with neurological diseases. DYNC1H1 encodes the heavy chain of cytoplasmic dynein-1, a 1.4-MDa motor complex that traffics organelles, vesicles, and macromolecules toward microtubule minus ends. The effects of the DYNC1H1 mutations on dynein motility, and consequently...

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

authors： Hoang HT,Schlager MA,Carter AP,Bullock SL

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Intermediate filaments-cytoplasmic filaments with a diameter of 8-9 nm-have been described in a large variety of cell types. In this study, the subunit protein of the neurofilament and the presumptive subunit of the astroglial filament are compared by immunological and biochemical methods and are found to be very simi...

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

authors： Yen SH,Dahl D,Schachner M,Shelanski ML

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has shown that the kinetoplast minicircle DNA of Leishmania species exhibits species-specific sequence divergence and this observation has led to the development of a DNA probe-based diagnostic test for leishmaniasis. In the work reported here, we demonstrate that the minicircle is composed of three type...

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

authors： Rogers WO,Wirth DF

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change is increasing fire activity in the western United States, which has the potential to accelerate climate-induced shifts in vegetation communities. Wildfire can catalyze vegetation change by killing adult trees that could otherwise persist in climate conditions no longer suitable for seedling establishmen...

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

authors： Davis KT,Dobrowski SZ,Higuera PE,Holden ZA,Veblen TT,Rother MT,Parks SA,Sala A,Maneta MP

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Soon after the initiation of sporulation, Bacillus subtilis divides asymmetrically to produce sister cells that have very different developmental fates. Recently, it has been proposed that the differential gene expression which begins soon after this division is due to cell-specific activation of the transcription fac...

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

authors： Lewis PJ,Partridge SR,Errington J

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of earlier energy computations, the various single peptide units in proteins were designated as helix-making or helix-breaking.(1) With the use of these designations, empirical rules for distinguishing between alpha-helical and non-alpha-helical regions of proteins have been formulated. These rules includ...

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

authors： Kotelchuck D,Scheraga HA

更新日期：1969-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligand specificity of a murine gammadelta T-cell receptor-expressing hybridoma (KN6) derived from adult thymocytes has been analyzed in detail. The molecule recognized by the KN6 gammadelta T-cell receptor is expressed on syngeneic cells of various sources (peritoneal macrophages, thymocytes, spleen cells, and Abelson...

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

authors： Bonneville M,Ito K,Krecko EG,Itohara S,Kappes D,Ishida I,Kanagawa O,Janeway CA,Murphy DB,Tonegawa S

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enkephalins, a group of small peptides with opiate-like activity, have been defined originally as neuropeptides. Recent reports showed, using in situ hybridization, that the enkephalin-encoding gene, proenkephalin A (pEnkA), is expressed in nondifferentiated cells of diverse mesodermal lineages. The transient expressi...

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

authors： Rosen H,Polakiewicz RD,Benzakine S,Bar-Shavit Z

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superficial cells from early amphibian embryos display regional specializations of their cell surfaces. That portion of the plasma membrane facing the perivitelline space (apical surface) is nonadhesive, whereas, in the same cell, the lateral and basal portions of the plasma membrane will adhere to other cells. These ...

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

authors： Roberson MM,Armstrong PB

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the human parkin gene cause autosomal recessive juvenile parkinsonism, a heritable form of Parkinson's disease (PD). To determine whether mutations in the mouse parkin gene (Park2) also result in a parkinsonian phenotype, we generated mice with a targeted deletion of parkin exon 2. Using an extensive beha...

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

authors： Perez FA,Palmiter RD

更新日期：2005-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we examine the effects of chronic anaerobic exposure and subsequent reoxygenation on protein synthesis patterns in Chinese hamster ovary cells. It is observed by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (isoelectric focusing/NaDodSO4/PAGE) that the transition from an atmospheric environment to an anaerobic s...

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

authors： Sciandra JJ,Subjeck JR,Hughes CS

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cleavage of the hemagglutinin (HA) in tissue culture systems has been correlated with virulence of avian influenza viruses. To examine the structural requirements for cleavage of the HA, the HA gene from a virulent H5 influenza virus was expressed in mammalian cells (CV-1), and the cleavage site of the HA was explored...

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

authors： Kawaoka Y,Webster RG

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few mechanisms are known that explain how transcription factors can adjust phenotypic outputs to accommodate differing environments. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the decision to mate or invade relies on environmental cues that converge on a shared transcription factor, Ste12. Specificity toward invasion occurs via Ste...

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

authors： Dorrity MW,Cuperus JT,Carlisle JA,Fields S,Queitsch C

更新日期：2018-08-21 00:00:00