GBA1 deficiency negatively affects physiological α-synuclein tetramers and related multimers.

abstract：:Gliogenesis in animal development is spatiotemporally regulated so that correct numbers of glia are present to support various neuronal functions. During Drosophila embryonic development, the glial regulatory gene, glial cell missing/glial cell deficient (gcm/glide), promotes glial cell fate and differentiation. Here ...

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

authors： Ho MS,Chen H,Chen M,Jacques C,Giangrande A,Chien CT

更新日期：2009-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Legumes were among the first plant species to be domesticated, and accompanied cereals in expansion of agriculture from the Fertile Crescent into diverse environments across the Mediterranean basin, Europe, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. Although several recent studies have outlined the molecular basis for...

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

authors： Weller JL,Liew LC,Hecht VF,Rajandran V,Laurie RE,Ridge S,Wenden B,Vander Schoor JK,Jaminon O,Blassiau C,Dalmais M,Rameau C,Bendahmane A,Macknight RC,Lejeune-Hénaut I

更新日期：2012-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamics of social networks can determine the transmission of information, the spread of diseases, and the evolution of behavior. Despite this broad importance, a general framework for predicting social network stability has not been proposed. Here we present longitudinal data on the social dynamics of a cooperati...

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

authors： Dakin R,Ryder TB

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A near-full-length casbene synthase cDNA clone, pCS7, was isolated by using a partial cDNA clone, pCS4, to probe a lambda gt10 library constructed from poly(A)+ RNA from elicited castor bean seedlings. The cDNA insert had a length of 1983 bases with a polyadenylate tail of 19 bases. Translation of the cDNA sequence re...

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

authors： Mau CJ,West CA

更新日期：1994-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The field of perceptual learning has identified changes in perceptual templates as a powerful mechanism mediating the learning of statistical regularities in our environment. By measuring threshold-vs.-contrast curves using an orientation identification task under varying levels of external noise, the perceptual templ...

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

authors： Bejjanki VR,Zhang R,Li R,Pouget A,Green CS,Lu ZL,Bavelier D

更新日期：2014-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:There is not a single pharmaceutical that halts or even slows any neurodegenerative disease. Mounting evidence shows that prions cause many neurodegenerative diseases, and arguably, scrapie and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease prions represent the best therapeutic targets. We report here that the previously identified 2-amin...

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

authors： Berry DB,Lu D,Geva M,Watts JC,Bhardwaj S,Oehler A,Renslo AR,DeArmond SJ,Prusiner SB,Giles K

更新日期：2013-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral malaria is the most deadly manifestation of infection with Plasmodium falciparum. The pathology of cerebral malaria is characterized by the accumulation of infected erythrocytes (IEs) in the microvasculature of the brain caused by parasite adhesins on the surface of IEs binding to human receptors on microvasc...

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

authors： Claessens A,Adams Y,Ghumra A,Lindergard G,Buchan CC,Andisi C,Bull PC,Mok S,Gupta AP,Wang CW,Turner L,Arman M,Raza A,Bozdech Z,Rowe JA

更新日期：2012-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Gelation of colloidal nanocrystals emerged as a strategy to preserve inherent nanoscale properties in multiscale architectures. However, available gelation methods to directly form self-supported nanocrystal networks struggle to reliably control nanoscale optical phenomena such as photoluminescence and localized surfa...

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

authors： Saez Cabezas CA,Ong GK,Jadrich RB,Lindquist BA,Agrawal A,Truskett TM,Milliron DJ

更新日期：2018-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth or decay of population of a single species interacting with a large number of other species (or environment) according to the Volterra-Lotka model is investigated. When the environment is initially very close to its equilibrium level, the growth of a single species follows a generalized Verhulst law, contai...

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

authors： Zwanzig R

更新日期：1973-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon monoxide (CO) synthesized by heme oxygenase 2 (HO2) and nitric oxide (NO) produced by neuronal NO synthase (nNOS) mediate nonadrenergic/noncholinergic (NANC) intestinal relaxation. In many areas of the gastrointestinal tract, NO and CO function as coneurotransmitters. In the internal anal sphincter (IAS), NANC ...

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

authors： Watkins CC,Boehning D,Kaplin AI,Rao M,Ferris CD,Snyder SH

更新日期：2004-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A single-chain Fv (scFv) fusion phage library derived from random combinations of VH and VL (variable heavy and light chains) domains in the antibody repertoire of a vaccinated melanoma patient was previously used to isolate clones that bind specifically to melanoma cells. An unexpected finding was that one of the clo...

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

authors： Cai X,Garen A

更新日期：1997-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial cells (ECs) sense and respond to hemodynamic shear stress, which is critical for circulatory homeostasis and the pathophysiology of vascular diseases. The mechanisms of shear stress mechanotransduction, however, remain elusive. We previously demonstrated a direct role of mitochondria in the purine...

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

authors： Yamamoto K,Nogimori Y,Imamura H,Ando J

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of spatial patterns in multicellular organisms depends on gradients in the concentration of signaling molecules that control gene expression. In the Drosophila embryo, Bicoid (Bcd) morphogen controls cell fate along 70% of the anteroposterior axis but is translated from mRNA localized at the anterior pole....

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

authors： Gregor T,Bialek W,de Ruyter van Steveninck RR,Tank DW,Wieschaus EF

更新日期：2005-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA restriction fragments of the genes encoding HLA class II-beta antigens were compared in 34 patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and 34 HLA-DR-matched healthy individuals. Ninety-three fragments, determined by six restriction enzymes (EcoRI, EcoRV, HindIII, BamHI, Pvu II, and Taq I), were analyzed: (i)...

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

authors： Cohen-Haguenauer O,Robbins E,Massart C,Busson M,Deschamps I,Hors J,Lalouel JM,Dausset J,Cohen D

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decomposition is a critical source of plant nutrients, and drives the largest flux of terrestrial C to the atmosphere. Decomposing soil organic matter typically contains litter from multiple plant species, yet we lack a mechanistic understanding of how species diversity influences decomposition processes. Here, we sho...

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

authors： Meier CL,Bowman WD

更新日期：2008-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the structural and functional alterations of active lamellae during initial cell-cell collision and establishment of cell-cell contacts in wounded cultures of nontransformed rat epitheliocytes (IAR-2 line) and their ras-transformed descendants (C4 line). Typically, the leading edges of nontransformed c...

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

authors： Gloushankova NA,Alieva NA,Krendel MF,Bonder EM,Feder HH,Vasiliev JM,Gelfand IM

更新日期：1997-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood cells transplantation is largely replacing bone marrow transplantation because engraftment is more rapid. This accelerated engraftment is thought to be mediated by relatively mature committed hematopoietic progenitor cells. Herein, we have used a modified rhodamine (Rho) staining procedure to identify and purify...

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

authors： Zijlmans JM,Visser JW,Laterveer L,Kleiverda K,Heemskerk DP,Kluin PM,Willemze R,Fibbe WE

更新日期：1998-01-20 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：:A sensitive assay for detection of eukaryotic RNA polymerase II has been developed. This assay depends on the ability of polymerase II to elongate a small RNA primer, oligo(U), hybridized to a single-stranded homopolymeric DNA template, poly(dA). The poly(dA).oligo(U)-dependent RNA polymerase II from calf thymus has b...

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

authors： Fradkin LG,Leong K,Morrow CD,Berk AJ,Dasgupta A

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred fifty years ago glial cells were discovered as a second, non-neuronal, cell type in the central nervous system. To ascribe a function to these new, enigmatic cells, it was suggested that they either glue the neurons together (the Greek word "gammalambdaiotaalpha" means "glue") or provide a robust scaffold ...

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

authors： Lu YB,Franze K,Seifert G,Steinhäuser C,Kirchhoff F,Wolburg H,Guck J,Janmey P,Wei EQ,Käs J,Reichenbach A

更新日期：2006-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy is the most common neurological disorder of young humans. Each year 150,000 children in the United States experience their first seizure. Antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), used to treat seizures in children, infants, and pregnant women, cause cognitive impairment, microcephaly, and birth defects. The cause of unwan...

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

authors： Bittigau P,Sifringer M,Genz K,Reith E,Pospischil D,Govindarajalu S,Dzietko M,Pesditschek S,Mai I,Dikranian K,Olney JW,Ikonomidou C

更新日期：2002-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic regions of nearly every species diverged into different haplotypes, mostly based on point mutations, small deletions, and insertions that do not affect the collinearity of genes within a species. However, the same genomic interval containing the z1C gene cluster of two inbred lines of Zea mays significantly lo...

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

authors： Song R,Messing J

更新日期：2003-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A loss-of-function mutation in the APC gene initiates colorectal carcinogenesis. Although the molecular mechanism of tumor initiation is complex, several modifier genes have been identified using mouse models, including the ApcMin mouse. Among the familial adenomatous polyposis mouse lines carrying a truncation mutati...

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

authors： Shibata H,Takano H,Ito M,Shioya H,Hirota M,Matsumoto H,Kakudo Y,Ishioka C,Akiyama T,Kanegae Y,Saito I,Noda T

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The INT6 gene has been implicated in human breast cancer formation, but its function is unknown. We isolated an Int6 homolog from fission yeast, Yin6, by its binding to a conserved protein in the Ras pathway, Moe1. Yin6 and Moe1 converge on the same protein complex to promote microtubule instability/disassembly. Yin6 ...

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

authors： Yen HC,Chang EC

更新日期：2000-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The steroid cholesterol is an essential component of eukaryotic membranes, and it functionally modulates membrane proteins, including G protein-coupled receptors. To reveal insight into how cholesterol modulates G protein-coupled receptors, we have used dynamic single-molecule force spectroscopy to quantify the mechan...

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

authors： Zocher M,Zhang C,Rasmussen SG,Kobilka BK,Müller DJ

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms leading to down-regulation of activated microglia and astrocytes are poorly understood, in spite of the potentially detrimental role of activated glia in neurodegeneration. Prostaglandins, produced both by neurons and glia, may serve as mediators of glial and neuronal functions. We examined the influence of...

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

authors： Petrova TV,Akama KT,Van Eldik LJ

更新日期：1999-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The semaphorins comprise a large family of membrane-bound and secreted proteins, some of which have been shown to function in axon guidance. We have cloned a transmembrane semaphorin, Sema W, that belongs to the class IV subgroup of the semaphorin family. The mouse and rat forms of Sema W show 97% amino acid sequence ...

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

authors： Encinas JA,Kikuchi K,Chedotal A,de Castro F,Goodman CS,Kimura T

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We simulated the behavior of suspended carbon nanotube resonators over a broad range of temperatures to explore the physics of semiflexible polymers in underdamped environments. We find that thermal fluctuations induce strong coupling between resonance modes. This effect leads to spectral fluctuations that readily acc...

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

authors： Barnard AW,Sazonova V,van der Zande AM,McEuen PL

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple biological processes involve the stretching of nucleic acids (NAs). Stretching forces induce local changes in the molecule structure, inhibiting or promoting the binding of proteins, which ultimately affects their functionality. Understanding how a force induces changes in the structure of NAs at the atomic l...

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

authors： Marin-Gonzalez A,Vilhena JG,Perez R,Moreno-Herrero F

更新日期：2017-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Stomatal pores are microscopic structures on the epidermis of leaves formed by 2 specialized guard cells that control the exchange of water vapor and CO(2) between plants and the atmosphere. Stomatal size (S) and density (D) determine maximum leaf diffusive (stomatal) conductance of CO(2) (g(c(max))) to sites of assim...

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

authors： Franks PJ,Beerling DJ

更新日期：2009-06-23 00:00:00