Translocatable voltage-gated Ca2+ channel β subunits in α1-β complexes reveal competitive replacement yet no spontaneous dissociation.

abstract：:Development of pharyngeal muscle in nematodes and cardiac muscle in vertebrates and insects involves the related homeobox genes ceh-22, nkx2.5, and tinman, respectively. To determine whether the nematode and vertebrate genes perform similar functions, we examined activity of the zebrafish nkx2.5 gene in transgenic Cae...

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

authors： Haun C,Alexander J,Stainier DY,Okkema PG

更新日期：1998-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A critical step in the induction of apoptosis is the activation of the apoptotic initiator caspase 9. We show that at its normal physiological concentration, caspase 9 is primarily an inactive monomer (zymogen), and that activity is associated with a dimeric species. At the high concentrations used for crystal formati...

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

authors： Renatus M,Stennicke HR,Scott FL,Liddington RC,Salvesen GS

更新日期：2001-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Monospecific antibodies were produced in vitro by fusing mouse myeloma cells with spleen cells from a BALB/c mouse immunized with rat skeletal myofibrils. After cloning 3 times on agarose, two stable clones were obtained and chosen for further characterization. The first clone, JLB1, produced an antibody that recogniz...

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

authors： Lin JJ

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research has previously shown that, without methionine supplements, neural tube proteins of rat embryos cultured on bovine sera were hypomethylated and neural tubes failed to close. In the present study, to identify the proteins that became methylated during neurulation, rat embryos were first cultured on methionine-d...

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

authors： Moephuli SR,Klein NW,Baldwin MT,Krider HM

更新日期：1997-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the molecular mechanisms by which the embryo proper and suspensor of plant embryos activate specific gene sets shortly after fertilization. We analyzed the upstream region of the scarlet runner bean (Phaseolus coccineus) G564 gene to understand how genes are activated specifically within the susp...

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

authors： Kawashima T,Wang X,Henry KF,Bi Y,Weterings K,Goldberg RB

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of previously published sets of DNA microarray gene expression data by singular value decomposition has uncovered underlying patterns or "characteristic modes" in their temporal profiles. These patterns contribute unequally to the structure of the expression profiles. Moreover, the essential features of a giv...

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

authors： Holter NS,Mitra M,Maritan A,Cieplak M,Banavar JR,Fedoroff NV

更新日期：2000-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The rpoN gene encoding the transcription factor sigma54 in Myxococcus xanthus has been cloned using a heterologous rpoN probe. The sequence of the cross-hybridizing DNA confirmed the existence of an ORF 1518 bp long that encodes a well conserved member of the sigma54 family of sigma factors. Low- as well as high-strin...

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

authors： Keseler IM,Kaiser D

更新日期：1997-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) mediate critical CNS functions, whereas excessive activity contributes to neuronal damage. At physiological glycine concentrations, NMDAR currents recorded from cultured rodent hippocampal neurons exhibited strong desensitization in the continued presence of NMDA, thus protectin...

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

authors： You H,Tsutsui S,Hameed S,Kannanayakal TJ,Chen L,Xia P,Engbers JD,Lipton SA,Stys PK,Zamponi GW

更新日期：2012-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent experimental data on the equilibrium binding of myosin subfragment 1 (S-1) to regulated actin filaments in the presence and in the absence of Ca(2+) are analyzed by using a linear Ising model. In the model, each tropomyosin-troponin unit (including seven sites on the actin filament) can be in one of two possibl...

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

authors： Hill TL,Eisenberg E,Greene L

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of cellular protein levels is a complex process involving many regulatory mechanisms, each introducing stochastic events, leading to variability of protein levels between isogenic cells. Previous studies have shown that perturbing genes involved in transcription regulation affects the amount of cell-to-...

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

authors： Rinott R,Jaimovich A,Friedman N

更新日期：2011-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that binding of interleukin 1 (IL-1) to its receptor and intracellular processing of the IL-1/IL-1 receptor complex appear to be different in B- and T-lymphocyte cell lines. In this study we used a B-lymphoid cell line, 70Z/3, and T-lymphoid cell line, EL-4 6.1 C10, to explore further the d...

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

authors： Bomsztyk K,Sims JE,Stanton TH,Slack J,McMahan CJ,Valentine MA,Dower SK

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increasing amount of investment has been devoted to protecting and restoring ecosystem services worldwide. The efficiency of conservation investments, including payments for ecosystem services (PES), has been found to be affected by biological, political, economic, demographic, and social factors, but little is kno...

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

authors： Chen X,Lupi F,He G,Liu J

更新日期：2009-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:REPRESSOR OF SILENCING 1 (ROS1) is a DNA demethylation enzyme that was previously identified during a genetic screen for the silencing of both RD29A-LUC and 35S-NPTII transgenes on a T-DNA construct. Here we performed a genetic screen to identify additional mutants in which the 35S-NPTII transgene is silenced. We iden...

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

authors： Li X,Qian W,Zhao Y,Wang C,Shen J,Zhu JK,Gong Z

更新日期：2012-07-10 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：:Linear hierarchies, the classical pecking-order structures, are formed readily in both nature and the laboratory in a great range of species including humans. However, the probability of getting linear structures by chance alone is quite low. In this paper we investigate the two hypotheses that are proposed most often...

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

authors： Chase ID,Tovey C,Spangler-Martin D,Manfredonia M

更新日期：2002-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The assembly of clathrin-coated vesicles on Golgi membranes is initiated by the GTP-binding protein ADP ribosylation factor (ARF), which generates high-affinity membrane-binding sites for the heterotetrameric AP-1 adaptor complex. Once bound, the AP-1 recruits clathrin triskelia, which polymerize to form the coat. We ...

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

authors： Zhu Y,Drake MT,Kornfeld S

更新日期：1999-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The flow orientation of anisotropic particles through narrow channels is of importance in many fields, ranging from the spinning and molding of fibers to the flow of cells and proteins through thin capillaries. It is commonly assumed that anisotropic particles align parallel to the flow direction. When flowing through...

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

authors： Trebbin M,Steinhauser D,Perlich J,Buffet A,Roth SV,Zimmermann W,Thiele J,Förster S

更新日期：2013-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In normal messenger RNA for the human beta-globin chain, nucleotide sequences have been identified which can be matched to the amino-acid sequence of the abnormally long segment of the beta-chain of hemoglobin Cranston. The finding of these sequences strengthens the hypothesis that the betaCranston chain arose by a fr...

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

authors： Forget BG,Marotta CA,Weissman SM,Cohen-Solal M

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugation of drugs with antibodies to surface endothelial antigens is a potential strategy for drug delivery to endothelium. We studied antibodies to platelet-endothelial adhesion molecule 1 (PECAM-1, a stably expressed endothelial antigen) as carriers for vascular immunotargeting. Although 125I-labeled anti-PECAM b...

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

authors： Muzykantov VR,Christofidou-Solomidou M,Balyasnikova I,Harshaw DW,Schultz L,Fisher AB,Albelda SM

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Many fatal neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson, the prion-related diseases, and non-neurodegenerative disorders such as type II diabetes are characterized by abnormal amyloid fiber aggregates, suggesting a common mechanism of pathogenesis. We have discovered that a class of systematically designe...

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

authors： Hauser CA,Deng R,Mishra A,Loo Y,Khoe U,Zhuang F,Cheong DW,Accardo A,Sullivan MB,Riekel C,Ying JY,Hauser UA

更新日期：2011-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A glycoprotein, termed amphiregulin (AR), inhibits growth of several human carcinoma cells in culture and stimulates proliferation of human fibroblasts and certain other tumor cells. It has been purified to apparent homogeneity from serum-free conditioned medium of MCF-7 human breast carcinoma cells that had been trea...

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

authors： Shoyab M,McDonald VL,Bradley JG,Todaro GJ

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adjacent paraffin sections of rat hypothalami fixed in Bouin's fluid were treated either with buffer or with luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) before immunocytochemical staining with anti-LHRH. Upon buffer pretreatment, pituitary gonadotrophs were unstained and hypothalamic fibers were stained. Upon LHRH pr...

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

authors： Sternberger LA,Greenwald JL,Hock D,Elger K,Forssmann WG

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ApcMin (Min, multiple intestinal neoplasia) is a point mutation in the murine homolog of the APC gene. Min/+ mice develop multiple intestinal adenomas, as do humans carrying germ-line mutations in APC. Female mice carrying Min are also prone to develop mammary tumors. Min/+ mammary glands are more sensitive to chemica...

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

authors： Moser AR,Mattes EM,Dove WF,Lindstrom MJ,Haag JD,Gould MN

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most kinases are capable of recognizing and phosphorylating peptides containing short, linear sequence motifs. To measure the activation state of many kinases from the same cell lysate, we created a multiplexed, mass-spectrometry-based in vitro kinase assay. Ninety chemically synthesized peptides derived from well-cha...

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

authors： Yu Y,Anjum R,Kubota K,Rush J,Villen J,Gygi SP

更新日期：2009-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Two virus-specific RNA species of 7.5 and 7.0 kilobases have been identified in avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV) by denaturing gel electrophoresis and blot hybridization analysis, and they were found to be in a 10:1 ratio. The individual RNAs direccted the cell-free synthesis of the 76,000-dalton "gag" protein and the...

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

authors： Schulz RA,Chirikjian JG,Papas TS

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae is both an inhabitant of estuarine environments and the etiologic agent of the diarrheal disease cholera. Previous work has demonstrated that V. cholerae forms both an exopolysaccharide-dependent biofilm and a Ca2+-dependent biofilm. In this work, we demonstrate a role for the O-antigen polysaccharide ...

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

authors： Kierek K,Watnick PI

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), or prion diseases, are mammalian neurodegenerative disorders characterized by a posttranslational conversion and brain accumulation of an insoluble, protease-resistant isoform (PrP(Sc)) of the host-encoded cellular prion protein (PrP(C)). Human and animal TSE agents ex...

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

authors： Casalone C,Zanusso G,Acutis P,Ferrari S,Capucci L,Tagliavini F,Monaco S,Caramelli M

更新日期：2004-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral organ distribution at the shoot apical meristem defines specific and robust phyllotaxis patterns that have intrigued biologists and mathematicians for centuries. In silico studies have revealed that this self-organizing process can be recapitulated by modeling the polar transport of the phytohormone auxin. Phy...

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

authors： Pinon V,Prasad K,Grigg SP,Sanchez-Perez GF,Scheres B

更新日期：2013-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The chronometric redshift-distance relation z = tan 2(1/2rho), where rho is the distance in radians in the Einstein metric, is derived by an elementary geometric analysis comparable to that in traditional analysis of the expanding universe model. The differential dTt of Einstein time evolution Tt through time t, as ap...

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

authors： Segal IE

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between performance and ability is a central concern in the social sciences: Are the most successful much more able than others, and are failures unskilled? Prior research has shown that noise and self-reinforcing dynamics make performance unpredictable and lead to a weak association between ability a...

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

authors： Denrell J,Liu C

更新日期：2012-06-12 00:00:00