Hox5 genes direct elastin network formation during alveologenesis by regulating myofibroblast adhesion.

abstract：:Lesion of the sciatic nerve caused a rapid increase in c-fos and c-jun mRNA that was followed about 2 hr later by an increase in nerve growth factor (NGF) mRNA. To evaluate whether the initial increase in c-fos mRNA is causally related to the subsequent increase in NGF mRNA, we performed experiments with fibroblasts o...

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

authors： Hengerer B,Lindholm D,Heumann R,Rüther U,Wagner EF,Thoenen H

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae possesses a high-affinity estrogen binding protein and an endogenous ligand that displaces [3H]estradiol from both the yeast binding protein and mammalian estrogen receptors. Semipurified preparations of this ligand have been shown to exhibit estrogenic activity in mammalian systems. We now de...

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

authors： Feldman D,Tökés LG,Stathis PA,Miller SC,Kurz W,Harvey D

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In making sense of the visual world, the brain's processing is driven by two factors: the physical information provided by the eyes ("bottom-up" data) and the expectancies driven by past experience ("top-down" influences). We use degraded stimuli to tease apart the effects of bottom-up and top-down processes because t...

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

authors： Gorlin S,Meng M,Sharma J,Sugihara H,Sur M,Sinha P

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclin E is an important regulator of cell cycle progression that together with cyclin-dependent kinase (cdk) 2 is crucial for the G1/S transition during the mammalian cell cycle. Previously, we showed that severe overexpression of cyclin E protein in tumor cells and tissues results in the appearance of lower molecula...

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

authors： Gray-Bablin J,Zalvide J,Fox MP,Knickerbocker CJ,DeCaprio JA,Keyomarsi K

更新日期：1996-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we compared the transport of newly synthesized cholesterol with that of influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA) from the endoplasmic reticulum to the plasma membrane. The arrival of cholesterol on the cell surface was monitored by cyclodextrin removal, and HA transport was monitored by surface trypsinization...

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

authors： Heino S,Lusa S,Somerharju P,Ehnholm C,Olkkonen VM,Ikonen E

更新日期：2000-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful adaptation to changes in an animal's emotional and motivational environment depends on behavioral flexibility accompanied by changes in bodily responses, e.g., autonomic and endocrine, which support the change in behavior. Here, we identify the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) as pivotal in the flexible regulatio...

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

authors： Reekie YL,Braesicke K,Man MS,Roberts AC

更新日期：2008-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:All immunoglobulins and T-cell receptors throughout phylogeny share regions of highly conserved amino acid sequence. To identify possible primitive immunoglobulins and immunoglobulin-like molecules, we utilized 3' RACE (rapid amplification of cDNA ends) and a highly conserved constant region consensus amino acid seque...

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

authors： Berstein RM,Schluter SF,Shen S,Marchalonis JJ

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The requirement for protein synthesis in the mechanism of a circadian pacemaker was investigated by using inhibitors of protein synthesis. Continuous treatment of the ocular circadian pacemaker of the mollusc Bulla gouldiana with anisomycin or cycloheximide substantially lengthened (up to 39 and 52 hr, respectively) t...

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

authors： Khalsa SB,Whitmore D,Block GD

更新日期：1992-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Raf-1 serine/threonine kinase is a key protein involved in the transmission of many growth and developmental signals. In this report, we show that autoinhibition mediated by the noncatalytic, N-terminal regulatory region of Raf-1 is an important mechanism regulating Raf-1 function. The inhibition of the regulatory...

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

authors： Cutler RE Jr,Stephens RM,Saracino MR,Morrison DK

更新日期：1998-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In autotrophically grown Chlorella cells, glucose induces a hexose transport system but, at the same time, the synthesis of two amino acid transport systems is also induced. Thus, the rates of uptake of glycine, L-alanine, L-proline, and L-serine, all of which compete with each other for entry into the cells, increase...

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

authors： Cho BH,Sauer N,Komor E,Tanner W

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study identifies CCR8+ regulatory T cells (Treg cells) as drivers of immunosuppression. We show that in human peripheral blood cells, more than 30% of Treg up-regulate CCR8 following activation in the presence of CCL1. This interaction induces STAT3-dependent up-regulation of FOXp3, CD39, IL-10, and granzy...

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

authors： Barsheshet Y,Wildbaum G,Levy E,Vitenshtein A,Akinseye C,Griggs J,Lira SA,Karin N

更新日期：2017-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma resistance to glucocorticoid treatment is a major health problem with unclear etiology. Glucocorticoids inhibit adrenal androgen production. However, androgens have potential benefits in asthma. HSD3B1 encodes for 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase-1 (3β-HSD1), which catalyzes peripheral conversion from adrenal de...

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

authors： Zein J,Gaston B,Bazeley P,DeBoer MD,Igo RP Jr,Bleecker ER,Meyers D,Comhair S,Marozkina NV,Cotton C,Patel M,Alyamani M,Xu W,Busse WW,Calhoun WJ,Ortega V,Hawkins GA,Castro M,Chung KF,Fahy JV,Fitzpatrick AM,Israel

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein prenylation with farnesyl or geranylgeranyl moieties is an important posttranslational modification that affects the activity of such diverse proteins as the nuclear lamins, the yeast mating factor mata, and the ras oncogene products. In this article, we show that whole retinal cultures incorporate radioactive...

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

authors： Lai RK,Perez-Sala D,Cañada FJ,Rando RR

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tight junctions (TJs) play a key role in mediating paracellular ion reabsorption in the kidney. The paracellular pathway in the collecting duct of the kidney is a predominant route for transepithelial chloride reabsorption that determines the extracellular NaCl content and the blood pressure. However, the molecular me...

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

authors： Hou J,Renigunta A,Yang J,Waldegger S

更新日期：2010-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1950, Barbara McClintock published a Classic PNAS article, "The origin and behavior of mutable loci in maize," which summarized the evidence leading to her discovery of transposition. The article described a number of genome alterations revealed through her studies of the Dissociation locus, the first mobile geneti...

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

authors： Fedoroff NV

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of human angiogenin (reported in the preceding paper in this issue) reveals that the site that corresponds to the pyrimidine binding site of RNase A is obstructed by Gln-117. Mutation of this residue to Ala and Gly is here found to increase activity 11- to 18-fold and 21- to 30-fold, respectively...

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

authors： Russo N,Shapiro R,Acharya KR,Riordan JF,Vallee BL

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The sparking of cut grape hemispheres in a household microwave oven has been a poorly explained Internet parlor trick for over two decades. By expanding this phenomenon to whole spherical dimers of various grape-sized fruit and hydrogel water beads, we demonstrate that the formation of plasma is due to electromagnetic...

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

authors： Khattak HK,Bianucci P,Slepkov AD

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence comparisons of genomes or expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from related organisms provide insight into functional conservation and diversification. We compare the sequences of ESTs from the male accessory gland of Drosophila simulans to their orthologs in its close relative Drosophila melanogaster, and demonstr...

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

authors： Swanson WJ,Clark AG,Waldrip-Dail HM,Wolfner MF,Aquadro CF

更新日期：2001-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory is stored in neural networks via changes in synaptic strength mediated in part by NMDA receptor (NMDAR)-dependent long-term potentiation (LTP). Here we show that a cholecystokinin (CCK)-B receptor (CCKBR) antagonist blocks high-frequency stimulation-induced neocortical LTP, whereas local infusion of CCK induces...

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

authors： Chen X,Li X,Wong YT,Zheng X,Wang H,Peng Y,Feng H,Feng J,Baibado JT,Jesky R,Wang Z,Xie H,Sun W,Zhang Z,Zhang X,He L,Zhang N,Zhang Z,Tang P,Su J,Hu LL,Liu Q,He X,Tan A,Sun X,Li M,Wong K,Wang X,Cheung

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Higher plants process two distinct, nuclear gene-encoded glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) proteins, a Calvin-cycle enzyme active within chloroplasts and a glycolytic enzyme active within the cytosol. The gene for the chloroplast enzyme was previously suggested to be of endosymbiotic origin. Since the a...

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

authors： Martin W,Brinkmann H,Savonna C,Cerff R

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Three preparations of purified papain-solublized HL-A antigens have been radiolabeled by reductive methylation using formaldehyde and potassium boro[3H]hydride, and their reaction with specific HL-A antisera has been investigated. Greater than 99 percent of the radioactivity in the [3H]HL-A2 preparation could be compl...

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

authors： Parham P,Terhorst C,Herrmann H,Humphreys RE,Waterfield MD,Strominger JL

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metal complex [(tpy)(Mebim-py)Ru(II)(S)](2+) (tpy = 2,2' : 6',2''-terpyridine; Mebim-py = 3-methyl-1-pyridylbenzimidazol-2-ylidene; S = solvent) is a robust, reactive electrocatalyst toward both water oxidation to oxygen and carbon dioxide reduction to carbon monoxide. Here we describe its use as a single electroc...

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

authors： Chen Z,Concepcion JJ,Brennaman MK,Kang P,Norris MR,Hoertz PG,Meyer TJ

更新日期：2012-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacterial pathogens produce diffusible signal factor (DSF)-type quorum sensing (QS) signals in modulation of virulence and biofilm formation. Previous work on Xanthomonas campestris showed that the RpfC/RpfG two-component system is involved in sensing and responding to DSF signals, but little is known in other mi...

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

authors： Deng Y,Schmid N,Wang C,Wang J,Pessi G,Wu D,Lee J,Aguilar C,Ahrens CH,Chang C,Song H,Eberl L,Zhang LH

更新日期：2012-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the products of the K and D loci of the H-2 complex as target antigens for cytotoxic T cells generated to modified syngeneic cells has been investigated. Spleen cells, when cocultured with trinitrophenyl-derivatized syngeneic cells, generate cytolytic T cells that lyse most effectively tumor or spleen targ...

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

authors： Burakoff SJ,Germain RN,Dorf ME,Benacerrah B

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After more than two decades of study, many fundamental questions remain unanswered about the dynamics of glass-forming materials confined to thin films. Experiments and simulations indicate that free interfaces enhance dynamics over length scales larger than molecular sizes, and this effect strengthens at lower temper...

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

authors： Ivancic RJS,Riggleman RA

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of the kinetoplast DNA (kDNA) minicircle of trypanosomatids initiates at a conserved 12-nt sequence, 5'-GGGGTTGGTGTA-3', termed the universal minicircle sequence (UMS). A sequence-specific single-stranded DNA-binding protein from Crithidia fasciculata binds the heavy strand of the 12-mer UMS. Whereas this ...

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

authors： Avrahami D,Tzfati Y,Shlomai J

更新日期：1995-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the widespread occurrence of spliceosomal introns in the genomes of higher eukaryotes, their origin remains controversial. One model proposes that the duplication of small genomic portions could have provided the boundaries for new introns. If this mechanism has occurred recently, the 5' and 3' boundaries of e...

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

authors： Zhuo D,Madden R,Elela SA,Chabot B

更新日期：2007-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have established that incubation of low density lipoprotein (LDL) with cultured endothelial cells (EC) converts it to a new form (EC-modified LDL) that is now recognized by a specific receptor on macrophages (the acetyl LDL receptor) and is taken up and degraded 3-10 times more rapidly than native LDL...

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

authors： Parthasarathy S,Steinbrecher UP,Barnett J,Witztum JL,Steinberg D

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylinositol (3,4,5)-triphosphate (PtdInsP(3)) mediates intracellular signaling for directional sensing and pseudopod extension at the leading edge of migrating cells during chemotaxis. How this PtdInsP(3) signal is translated into remodeling of the actin cytoskeleton is poorly understood. Here, using a proteo...

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

authors： Zhang P,Wang Y,Sesaki H,Iijima M

更新日期：2010-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Major changes in global rainfall patterns accompanied a northward shift of Earth's thermal equator at the onset of an abrupt climate change 14.6 kya. This northward pull of Earth's wind and rain belts stemmed from disintegration of North Atlantic winter sea ice cover, which steepened the interhemispheric meridional te...

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

authors： Broecker WS,Putnam AE

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00