IKKβ slows Huntington's disease progression in R6/1 mice.

abstract：:We present a model to explain how the neurosecretory system of aquatic mollusks generates their diversity of shell structures and pigmentation patterns. The anatomical and physiological basis of this model sets it apart from other models used to explain shape and pattern. The model reproduces most known shell shapes a...

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

authors： Boettiger A,Ermentrout B,Oster G

更新日期：2009-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe an algorithm to compute trisections of orientable four-manifolds using arbitrary triangulations as input. This results in explicit complexity bounds for the trisection genus of a 4-manifold in terms of the number of pentachora (4-simplices) in a triangulation. ...

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

authors： Bell M,Hass J,Rubinstein JH,Tillmann S

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli infections, a leading cause of septic shock, remain a major threat to human health because of the fatal action to endotoxin (LPS). Therapeutic attempts to neutralize endotoxin currently focus on inhibiting the interaction of the toxic component lipid A with myeloid differentiating factor 2, which form...

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

authors： Gomery K,Müller-Loennies S,Brooks CL,Brade L,Kosma P,Di Padova F,Brade H,Evans SV

更新日期：2012-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Using defined oligomers of IgE, our group previously studied the quantitative relationship between the aggregation of the high affinity receptors for IgE (Fc epsilonRI) and the earliest signals initiated by such aggregation: the phosphorylation of tyrosines on the receptor. Notably, at certain doses of the oligomers s...

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

authors： Torigoe C,Goldstein B,Wofsy C,Metzger H

更新日期：1997-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA for parafusin, an evolutionarily conserved phosphoglycoprotein involved in exocytosis, has been cloned and sequenced from a unicellular eukaryote, Paramecium tetraurelia. A Paramecium cDNA library was screened with an oligonucleotide probe synthesized to an internal amino acid sequence of isolated parafusin. Th...

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

authors： Subramanian SV,Wyroba E,Andersen AP,Satir BH

更新日期：1994-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete inactivation of the human retinoblastoma gene (RB) is believed to be an essential step in tumorigenesis of several different cancers. To provide a framework for understanding inactivation mechanisms, the structure of RB was delineated. The RB transcript is encoded in 27 exons dispersed over about 200 kilobase...

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

authors： Hong FD,Huang HJ,To H,Young LJ,Oro A,Bookstein R,Lee EY,Lee WH

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DL-1,2-Dioctanoylglycerol (1,2-DiC8) added to human peripheral resting T lymphocytes was rapidly metabolized to produce octanoic acid and further to small molecules, probably by the action of diacylglycerol lipase and/or nonspecific esterase. Only a small portion was converted to the corresponding phosphatidic acid or...

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

authors： Asaoka Y,Oka M,Yoshida K,Nishizuka Y

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium marinum, a natural pathogen of fish and frogs and an occasional pathogen of humans, is capable of inducing actin tail formation within the cytoplasm of macrophages, leading to actin-based motility and intercellular spread. Actin tail formation by M. marinum is markedly reduced in macrophages deficient in...

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

authors： Stamm LM,Pak MA,Morisaki JH,Snapper SB,Rottner K,Lommel S,Brown EJ

更新日期：2005-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to grow the marine molluse Aplysia under laboratory conditions allows a detailed study of the formation of the nervous system and of the development of specific identified cells. I have found that the ganglia develop in a specific temporal order. Cerebral and pedal ganglia develop at hatching, the abdomina...

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

authors： Kriegstein AR

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomic RNA of the avian influenza A virus, fowl plague, was fractionated into eight species by electrophoresis in polyacrylamide-agarose gels containing 6 M urea. The separated 32P-labeled RNA species were characterized by digestion with RNase T1 and fractionation of the resulting oligonucleotides by two-dimensio...

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

authors： McGeoch D,Fellner P,Newton C

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The wetting of microstructured surfaces is studied both experimentally and theoretically. Even relatively simple surface topographies such as grooves with rectangular cross section exhibit a large variety of different wetting morphologies as observed by atomic force microscopy. This polymorphism arises from liquid wed...

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

authors： Seemann R,Brinkmann M,Kramer EJ,Lange FF,Lipowsky R

更新日期：2005-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Colloquium talks at prestigious universities both create and reflect academic researchers' reputations. Gender disparities in colloquium talks can arise through a variety of mechanisms. The current study examines gender differences in colloquium speakers at 50 prestigious US colleges and universities in 2013-2014. Usi...

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

authors： Nittrouer CL,Hebl MR,Ashburn-Nardo L,Trump-Steele RCE,Lane DM,Valian V

更新日期：2018-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung adenocarcinomas harboring activating mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) represent a common molecular subset of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cases. EGFR mutations predict sensitivity to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) and thus represent a dependency in NSCLCs harboring these alte...

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

authors： Sharifnia T,Rusu V,Piccioni F,Bagul M,Imielinski M,Cherniack AD,Pedamallu CS,Wong B,Wilson FH,Garraway LA,Altshuler D,Golub TR,Root DE,Subramanian A,Meyerson M

更新日期：2014-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Are animals conscious? If so, when did consciousness evolve? We address these long-standing and essential questions using a modern neuroscientific approach that draws on diverse fields such as consciousness studies, evolutionary neurobiology, animal psychology, and anesthesiology. We propose that the stepwise emergenc...

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

authors： Mashour GA,Alkire MT

更新日期：2013-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The tails of newborn rats, consisting of slender continuous cones of avascular cartilage, were transplanted in subcutaneous spaces of allogeneic adolescents; colloidal carbon was injected in a vein before the transplants were harvested on days 7-28. Between 97 and 100% of the transplants were accepted, underwent diffe...

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

authors： Huggins CB,Anderson KP

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (amino acid-tRNA ligases, EC 6.1.1.-) catalyze the aminoacylation of specific amino acids onto their cognate tRNAs with extraordinary accuracy. Recent reports, however, indicate that this class of enzymes may play other roles in cellular metabolism. Several aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are her...

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

authors： Rapaport E,Remy P,Kleinkauf H,Vater J,Zamecnik PC

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lentiviruses, including HIV-1, have transmembrane envelope (Env) glycoproteins with cytoplasmic tails that are quite long compared with those of other retroviruses. However, mainly because of the lack of biochemical studies performed in cell types that are targets for HIV-1 infection, no clear consensus exists regardi...

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

authors： Murakami T,Freed EO

更新日期：2000-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factor cAMP response element (CRE)-binding protein (CREB) has been shown to regulate neural plasticity. Drugs of abuse activate CREB in the nucleus accumbens, an important part of the brain's reward pathways, and local manipulations of CREB activity have been shown to affect cocaine reward, suggestin...

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

authors： Barrot M,Olivier JD,Perrotti LI,DiLeone RJ,Berton O,Eisch AJ,Impey S,Storm DR,Neve RL,Yin JC,Zachariou V,Nestler EJ

更新日期：2002-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a tightly coupled bidirectional interaction between visual cortex and visual thalamus [lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN)]. Using drifting sinusoidal grating stimuli, we compared the response of cells in the LGN with and without feedback from the visual cortex. Raster plots revealed a striking difference in the...

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

authors： Andolina IM,Jones HE,Wang W,Sillito AM

更新日期：2007-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein aggregation is a hallmark of many diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), where aggregation of Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) is implicated in causing neurodegeneration. Recent studies have suggested that destabilization and aggregation of the most immature form of SOD1, the disulfide-reduc...

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

authors： Vassall KA,Stubbs HR,Primmer HA,Tong MS,Sullivan SM,Sobering R,Srinivasan S,Briere LA,Dunn SD,Colón W,Meiering EM

更新日期：2011-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblast growth factor 1 (FGF-1) is a potent angiogenic and neurotrophic factor whose structure lacks a classical signal sequence for secretion. Although the initiation of these biological activities involves the interaction between FGF-1 and cell surface receptors, the mechanism responsible for the regulation of FG...

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

authors： Jackson A,Friedman S,Zhan X,Engleka KA,Forough R,Maciag T

更新日期：1992-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-related hearing loss and noise-induced hearing loss are major causes of human morbidity. Here we used genetics and functional studies to show that a shared cause of these disorders may be loss of function of the ATP-gated P2X(2) receptor (ligand-gated ion channel, purinergic receptor 2) that is expressed in sensor...

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

authors： Yan D,Zhu Y,Walsh T,Xie D,Yuan H,Sirmaci A,Fujikawa T,Wong AC,Loh TL,Du L,Grati M,Vlajkovic SM,Blanton S,Ryan AF,Chen ZY,Thorne PR,Kachar B,Tekin M,Zhao HB,Housley GD,King MC,Liu XZ

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of human purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) stops growth of activated T-cells and the formation of 6-oxypurine bases, making it a target for leukemia, autoimmune disorders, and gout. Four generations of ribocation transition-state mimics bound to PNP are structurally characterized. Immucillin-H (K*i(1/4)...

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

authors： Ho MC,Shi W,Rinaldo-Matthis A,Tyler PC,Evans GB,Clinch K,Almo SC,Schramm VL

更新日期：2010-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The balance between mitochondrial fusion and fission influences the reticular shape of mitochondria in yeasts. Little is known about whether mitochondria fusion occurs in plants. Plant mitochondria are usually more numerous and more grain-shaped than animal mitochondria. BLAST searches of the nuclear and mitochondrial...

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

authors： Arimura S,Yamamoto J,Aida GP,Nakazono M,Tsutsumi N

更新日期：2004-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The region of human chromosome 22q11 is prone to rearrangements. The resulting chromosomal abnormalities are involved in Velo-cardio-facial and DiGeorge syndromes (VCFS and DGS) (deletions), "cat eye" syndrome (duplications), and certain types of tumors (translocations). As a prelude to the development of mouse models...

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

authors： Puech A,Saint-Jore B,Funke B,Gilbert DJ,Sirotkin H,Copeland NG,Jenkins NA,Kucherlapati R,Morrow B,Skoultchi AI

更新日期：1997-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:UDP-xylose is a sugar donor required for the synthesis of diverse and important glycan structures in animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria. Xylose-containing glycans are particularly abundant in plants and in the polysaccharide capsule that is the major virulence factor of the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans....

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

authors： Bar-Peled M,Griffith CL,Doering TL

更新日期：2001-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The steady-state level and synthesis of a pair of polypeptides of Mr 33,000 and 35,000 in chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF) transformed by Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) are significantly decreased relative to normal CEF; however, the decrease is more pronounced in the case of the Mr 35,000 polypeptide. These polypeptides ha...

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

authors： Hendricks M,Weintraub H

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular morphogenesis relies partly on cell polarization by the cytoskeleton. In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, it is well established that microtubules (MTs) deliver the spatial cue Tea1, a kelch repeat protein, to the tip regions to direct the growth machinery at the cell tips driving the linear exten...

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

authors： Scheffler K,Recouvreux P,Paoletti A,Tran PT

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The core enzyme of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase acquires essential promoter recognition and transcription initiation activities by binding one of several sigma subunits. To characterize the proximity between sigma70, the major sigma for transcription of the growth-related genes, and the core enzyme subunits (alpha2...

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

authors： Owens JT,Miyake R,Murakami K,Chmura AJ,Fujita N,Ishihama A,Meares CF

更新日期：1998-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:pRK212.2, a derivative of the broad host range plasmid RK2, contains two EcoRI cleavage fragments, A and B, neither of which can replicate by itself in Escherichia coli. Fragment A (41.7 kilobases), but not fragment B (14.4 kilobases), can be cloned by insertion into the unrelated plasmids mini-F and ColE1. Fragment B...

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

authors： Figurski DH,Helinski DR

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00