Anterior pituitary gland modulates the release of atrial natriuretic peptides from cardiac atria.

abstract：:In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, self-recognition and the thereby promoted aggregation of thousands of cells into protective flocs is mediated by a family of cell-surface adhesins, the flocculins (Flo). Based on this social behavior FLO genes fulfill the definition of "greenbeard" genes, which direct coo...

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

authors： Veelders M,Brückner S,Ott D,Unverzagt C,Mösch HU,Essen LO

更新日期：2010-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of selected heme analogues on heme oxygenase activity in tissues and on human and rabbit bone marrow hematopoietic colony growth were examined. Zinc protoporphyrin (ZnPP) and zinc mesoporphyrin (ZnMP), at concentrations ranging between 1 and 20 microM, produced significant inhibition of human and rabbit bo...

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

authors： Lutton JD,Abraham NG,Drummond GS,Levere RD,Kappas A

更新日期：1997-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:All extant life employs the same 20 amino acids for protein biosynthesis. Studies on the number of amino acids necessary to produce a foldable and catalytically active polypeptide have shown that a basis set of 7-13 amino acids is sufficient to build major structural elements of modern proteins. Hence, the reasons for...

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

authors： Granold M,Hajieva P,Toşa MI,Irimie FD,Moosmann B

更新日期：2018-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Bloom syndrome (BS) is a rare cancer-predisposing disorder in which the cells of affected persons have a high frequency of somatic mutation and genomic instability. BLM, the protein altered in BS, is a RecQ DNA helicase. This report shows that BLM is found in the nucleus of normal human cells in the nuclear domain 10 ...

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

authors： Yankiwski V,Marciniak RA,Guarente L,Neff NF

更新日期：2000-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smoking causes emphysema, a fatal disease involving extensive structural and functional damage of the lung. Using a guinea pig model and human lung cells, we show that oxidant(s) present in tobacco smoke not only cause direct oxidative damage of lung proteins, contributing to the major share of lung injury, ...

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

authors： Gupta I,Ganguly S,Rozanas CR,Stuehr DJ,Panda K

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in Cu, Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) cause the neurodegenerative disease familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis from an as-yet-unidentified toxic property(ies). Analysis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae of a broad range of human familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-linked SOD1 mutants (A4V, G37R, G41D, H46R, H...

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

authors： Corson LB,Strain JJ,Culotta VC,Cleveland DW

更新日期：1998-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal remodeling is a fundamental process by which the brain responds to environmental influences, e.g., during stress. In the hippocampus, chronic stress causes retraction of dendrites in CA3 pyramidal neurons. We have recently identified the glycoprotein M6a as a stress-responsive gene in the hippocampal formatio...

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

authors： Alfonso J,Fernández ME,Cooper B,Flugge G,Frasch AC

更新日期：2005-11-22 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：: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

abstract：:Several of the best-studied sex differences in the mammalian brain are ascribed to the hormonal control of cell death. This conclusion is based primarily on correlations between pyknotic cell counts in development and counts of mature neurons in adulthood; the molecular mechanisms of hormone-regulated, sexually dimorp...

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

authors： Forger NG,Rosen GJ,Waters EM,Jacob D,Simerly RB,de Vries GJ

更新日期：2004-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent mental disorders in developed societies. Although roles for the prefrontal cortex, amygdala, hippocampus and mediodorsal thalamus in anxiety disorders are well documented, molecular mechanisms contributing to the functions of these structures are poorly understood. Here we repo...

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

authors： Tekinay AB,Nong Y,Miwa JM,Lieberam I,Ibanez-Tallon I,Greengard P,Heintz N

更新日期：2009-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary processes leading to adaptive radiation regularly occur too fast to be accurately recorded in the fossil record but too slowly to be readily observed in living biota. The study of evolutionary radiations is thereby confronted with an epistemological gap between the timescales and approaches used by neonto...

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

authors： Van Bocxlaer B,Hunt G

更新日期：2013-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of heat shock proteins in three species of Leishmania, L. tropica, L. enrietti, and L. donovani is reported. When cultures of promastigotes are shifted from 26 degrees C to 37 degrees C or 40 degrees C, the synthesis of proteins with apparent molecular weights of 88,000, 74,000, and 54,000 is stimulated....

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

authors： Lawrence F,Robert-Gero M

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A somatic mutation in the X linked PIGA gene is responsible for the deficiency of glycosyl phosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored proteins on blood cells from patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria. No inherited form of GPI-anchor deficiency has been described. Because conventional Piga gene knockout is associ...

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

authors： Keller P,Tremml G,Rosti V,Bessler M

更新日期：1999-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In the majority of human tumors, expression of the c-MYC oncogene becomes constitutive. Here, we report that c-MYC directly regulates the expression of AP4 via CACGTG motifs in the first intron of the AP4 gene. Induction of AP4 was required for c-MYC-mediated cell cycle reentry of anti-estrogen arrested breast cancer ...

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

authors： Jung P,Menssen A,Mayr D,Hermeking H

更新日期：2008-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoreceptors of the Xenopus laevis retina are the site of a circadian clock. As part of a differential display screen for rhythmic gene products in this system, we have identified a photoreceptor-specific mRNA expressed in peak abundance at night. cDNA cloning revealed an open reading frame encoding a putative 388 a...

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

authors： Green CB,Besharse JC

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetically obese (ob/ob) mice, mice that became obese after treatment with gold thioglucose, and lean animals were studied in the euthyroid state, after induction of hypothyroidism, and after treatment with triiodothyronine. The activity of glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (sn-glycerol-3-phosphate:(acceptor) oxidor...

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

authors： York DA,Bray GA,Yukimura Y

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the early evolution of life, 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxyguanosine (O) may have functioned as a proto-flavin capable of repairing cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers in DNA or RNA by photoinduced electron transfer using longer wavelength UVB radiation. To investigate the ability of O to act as an excited-state electron...

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

authors： Zhang Y,Dood J,Beckstead AA,Li XB,Nguyen KV,Burrows CJ,Improta R,Kohler B

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant efforts have been directed to understanding the factors that influence the lineage commitment of stem cells. This paper demonstrates that cell shape, independent of soluble factors, has a strong influence on the differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from bone marrow. When exposed to compet...

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

authors： Kilian KA,Bugarija B,Lahn BT,Mrksich M

更新日期：2010-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is assumed to contribute to goal-directed episodic encoding by exerting cognitive control on medial temporal lobe (MTL) memory processes. However, it is thus far unclear to what extent the contribution of PFC-MTL interactions to memory manifests at a structural anatomical level. We combined...

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

authors： Schott BH,Niklas C,Kaufmann J,Bodammer NC,Machts J,Schütze H,Düzel E

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent of a large group of related proteinopathies for which there is currently no cure. Here, we used Drosophila to explore a strategy to block Aβ42 neurotoxicity through engineering of the Heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70), a chaperone that has demonstrated neuroprotective activit...

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

authors： Fernandez-Funez P,Sanchez-Garcia J,de Mena L,Zhang Y,Levites Y,Khare S,Golde TE,Rincon-Limas DE

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Coxiella burnetti, the etiologic agent of Q fever, is an oligate intracellular parasite of eukaryotes. Unlike the majority of successful bacterial parasites, which escape the bactericidal environment of the phagolysosome by various means, C. burnetii multiplies only in the phagolysosome. In view of the relatively hars...

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

authors： Hackstadt T,Williams JC

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A particularly promising approach to deconstructing and fractionating lignocellulosic biomass to produce green renewable fuels and high-value chemicals pretreats the biomass with organic solvents in aqueous solution. Here, neutron scattering and molecular-dynamics simulations reveal the temperature-dependent morpholog...

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

authors： Pingali SV,Smith MD,Liu SH,Rawal TB,Pu Y,Shah R,Evans BR,Urban VS,Davison BH,Cai CM,Ragauskas AJ,O'Neill HM,Smith JC,Petridis L

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium/hydrogen exchangers (NHEs) are ubiquitous ion transporters that serve multiple cell functions. We have studied two mammalian isoforms, NHE1 (ubiquitous) and NHE3 (epithelial-specific), by measuring extracellular proton (H+) gradients during whole-cell patch clamp with perfusion of the cell interior. Maximal Na(...

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

authors： Fuster D,Moe OW,Hilgemann DW

更新日期：2004-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Oriented assemblies of small crystals forming larger structures are common in nature and crucial for forthcoming technologies as they circumvent the difficulties of structural manipulation at microscopic scale. We have discovered two distinctive concentric assemblies of zinc oxide rods, wherein each rod has an intrins...

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

authors： Gautam UK,Imura M,Rout CS,Bando Y,Fang X,Dierre B,Sakharov L,Govindaraj A,Sekiguchi T,Golberg D,Rao CN

更新日期：2010-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The largest known DNA viruses infect Acanthamoeba and belong to two markedly different families. The Megaviridae exhibit pseudo-icosahedral virions up to 0.7 μm in diameter and adenine-thymine (AT)-rich genomes of up to 1.25 Mb encoding a thousand proteins. Like their Mimivirus prototype discovered 10 y ago, they enti...

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

authors： Legendre M,Bartoli J,Shmakova L,Jeudy S,Labadie K,Adrait A,Lescot M,Poirot O,Bertaux L,Bruley C,Couté Y,Rivkina E,Abergel C,Claverie JM

更新日期：2014-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein O-mannosylation represents an evolutionarily conserved, essential posttranslational modification with immense impact on a variety of cellular processes. In humans, O-mannosylation defects result in Walker-Warburg syndrome, a severe recessive congenital muscular dystrophy associated with defects in neuronal mig...

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

authors： Hutzler J,Schmid M,Bernard T,Henrissat B,Strahl S

更新日期：2007-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Inwardly rectifying potassium (K(+)) channels gated by G proteins (Kir3.x family) are widely distributed in neuronal, atrial, and endocrine tissues and play key roles in generating late inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, slowing the heart rate and modulating hormone release. They are directly activated by G(betagamma...

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

authors： Leaney JL,Tinker A

更新日期：2000-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:An RNA polymerase (nucleosidetriphosphate:RNA nucleotidyltransferase, EC 2.7.7.6) has been purified from phage-SP01-infected Bacillus subtilis that copies RNA almost exclusively from the heavy strand of native SP01 DNA, the DNA strand from which "middle" and "late" classes of RNA are copied in vivo. Hybridization-com...

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

authors： Pero J,Nelson J,Fox TD

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty liver disease (FLD) is a disorder in which accumulation of triglycerides (TGs) in the liver can lead to inflammation, fibrosis, and cirrhosis. Previously, we identified a variant (I148M) in patatin-like phospholipase domain-containing protein 3 (PNPLA3) that is strongly associated with FLD, but the mechanistic b...

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

authors： BasuRay S,Wang Y,Smagris E,Cohen JC,Hobbs HH

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00