Unraveling the complexity of amyloid polymorphism using gold nanoparticles and cryo-EM.

abstract：:DNA sequences in Neurospora crassa that code for ribosomal RNA have been isolated in a highly purified state by DNA-RNA hybridization. About 100 separate ribosomal RNA genes exist in each nucleus. These genes are composed of repeated sequences that are present about 100 times per nucleus. The individual members of thi...

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

authors： Chattopadhyay SK,Kohne DE,Dutta SK

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the POU-homeodomain gene family encode transcriptional regulatory molecules that play important roles in terminal differentiation of many organ systems. Sperm-1 (Sprm-1) is a POU domain factor that is exclusively expressed in the differentiating male germ cell. We show here that the Sprm-1 protein is expres...

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

authors： Pearse RV 2nd,Drolet DW,Kalla KA,Hooshmand F,Bermingham JR Jr,Rosenfeld MG

更新日期：1997-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A debate has recently surfaced concerning the degree of precommitment attained by alpha beta and gamma delta T-cell precursors prior to T-cell receptor (TCR) gene rearrangement. It has been suggested that precursors may be precommitted to rearrange either alpha or delta genes, but not both, thus giving rise to alpha b...

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

authors： Thompson SD,Pelkonen J,Hurwitz JL

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although much evidence suggests that the plasma membrane of eukaryotic cells is not homogenous, the precise architecture of this important structure has not been clear. Here we use transmission electron microscopy of plasma membrane sheets and specific probes to show that most or all plasma membrane-associated protein...

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

authors： Lillemeier BF,Pfeiffer JR,Surviladze Z,Wilson BS,Davis MM

更新日期：2006-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein aggregation plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, and the mechanism of its progression is poorly understood. Here, we examine the structural and dynamic characteristics of transiently evolving protein aggregates under ambient conditions by directly probing protein surface wat...

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

authors： Pavlova A,Cheng CY,Kinnebrew M,Lew J,Dahlquist FW,Han S

更新日期：2016-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A form of autosomal dominant juvenile myoclonic epilepsy is caused by a nonconservative missense mutation, A322D, in the GABAA receptor alpha1 subunit M3 transmembrane helix. We reported previously that the A322D mutation reduced total and surface alpha1(A322D) subunit protein and that residual alpha1(A322D) subunit r...

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

authors： Gallagher MJ,Ding L,Maheshwari A,Macdonald RL

更新日期：2007-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157:H7, a toxin-producing food and waterborne bacterial pathogen, has been linked to large outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness for more than two decades. E. coli O157 causes a wide range of clinical illness that varies by outbreak, although factors that contribute to variation in disease severity a...

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

authors： Manning SD,Motiwala AS,Springman AC,Qi W,Lacher DW,Ouellette LM,Mladonicky JM,Somsel P,Rudrik JT,Dietrich SE,Zhang W,Swaminathan B,Alland D,Whittam TS

更新日期：2008-03-25 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：:The mammary gland consists of an adipose tissue that, in a process called branching morphogenesis, is invaded by a ductal epithelial network comprising basal and luminal epithelial cells. Stem and progenitor cells drive mammary growth, and their proliferation is regulated by multiple extracellular cues. One of the key...

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

authors： Kessenbrock K,Smith P,Steenbeek SC,Pervolarakis N,Kumar R,Minami Y,Goga A,Hinck L,Werb Z

更新日期：2017-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin provides a classical model of a globular protein, yet how the hormone changes conformation to engage its receptor has long been enigmatic. Interest has focused on the C-terminal B-chain segment, critical for protective self-assembly in β cells and receptor binding at target tissues. Insight may be obtained fro...

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

authors： Menting JG,Yang Y,Chan SJ,Phillips NB,Smith BJ,Whittaker J,Wickramasinghe NP,Whittaker LJ,Pandyarajan V,Wan ZL,Yadav SP,Carroll JM,Strokes N,Roberts CT Jr,Ismail-Beigi F,Milewski W,Steiner DF,Chauhan VS,Ward CW,Weis

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid development of genetic variability may contribute to the pathogenicity of lentiviruses as it may allow escape from immune surveillance and/or from suppression of virus replication. Although apathogenic in African green monkeys, simian immunodeficiency virus isolated from African green monkeys is shown to display...

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

authors： Baier M,Dittmar MT,Cichutek K,Kurth R

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied hepatic uptake of chylomicron retinyl ester. Chylomicrons were obtained from intestinal lymph of rats that were given retinol in groundnut oil by intraduodenal injection. When lymph was injected intravenously into normal rats, the radioactivity was cleared from blood with t1/2 approximately equal to 10...

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

authors： Blomhoff R,Helgerud P,Rasmussen M,Berg T,Norum KR

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Absolute pitch (AP) is the rare ability to identify the pitch of a tone without the aid of a reference tone. Understanding both the nature and genesis of AP can provide insights into neuroplasticity in the auditory system. We explored factors that may influence the accuracy of pitch perception in AP subjects both duri...

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

authors： Athos EA,Levinson B,Kistler A,Zemansky J,Bostrom A,Freimer N,Gitschier J

更新日期：2007-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against purified human placental insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) receptors were prepared and characterized. Three IgG mAbs were specific for the human IGF-I receptor and displayed negligible crossreactivity with the human insulin receptor. They stimulated 125I-labeled IGF-I (125I-IGF-...

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

authors： Xiong L,Kasuya J,Li SL,Kato J,Fujita-Yamaguchi Y

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate [3H]phencyclidine ([3H]PCP)as a probe for the ionic channel of the nicotinic receptor, the characteristics of its binding to electric organ membranes od Torpedo ocellata and its effects on frog sartorius muscle were studied. Similar to PCP, [3H]PCP depressed the peak amplitude of endplate current, caused n...

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

authors： Eldefrawi ME,Eldefrawi AT,Aronstam RS,Maleque MA,Warnick JE,Albuquerque EX

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have demonstrated that the primary visual cortex contains multiple functional maps of visual properties (e.g., ocular dominance, orientation preference, and spatial-frequency preference), but as yet no consistent picture has emerged as to how these maps are related to one another. Three divergent, prior o...

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

authors： Sirovich L,Uglesich R

更新日期：2004-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:[3H]Thymidine-labeled progeny DNA was isolated after infection of Escherichia coli with two different bacteriophage T4 mutants. These strands were isolated shortly after the initiation of DNA replication and hybridized to 15 different (EcoRI) T4 restriction fragments cloned in plasmid vectors. Uniformly labeled T4 [32...

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

authors： Halpern ME,Mattson T,Kozinski AW

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:c-Jun transcriptional activity is augmented by expression of oncogenic Ras and Raf proteins. This study demonstrates a direct correlation between Ras transforming activity and c-Jun activation, supporting an important role for c-Jun in transformation by Ras. Since we observed that Ras activated c-Jun transcriptional a...

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

authors： Westwick JK,Cox AD,Der CJ,Cobb MH,Hibi M,Karin M,Brenner DA

更新日期：1994-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:GDP-dissociation inhibitors (GDIs) play a primary role in modulating the activation of GTPases and may also be critical for the cellular compartmentalization of GTPases. RhoGDI and GDI/D4 are two currently known GDIs for the Rho-subfamily of GTPases. Using their cDNAs to screen a human brain cDNA library under low str...

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

authors： Adra CN,Manor D,Ko JL,Zhu S,Horiuchi T,Van Aelst L,Cerione RA,Lim B

更新日期：1997-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Precipitates of hemoglobin, termed Heinz bodies, occur in a fraction of erythrocytes after removal of the spleen and are also observed in aged erythrocytes. This implies that precipitates of hemoglobin might play a particular role in senescent cell recognition. By using immunofluorescence microscopy, evidence is prese...

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

authors： Schlüter K,Drenckhahn D

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The demonstration of enzymatic capabilities of certain RNAs, in addition to their well-known template properties, has led to the recognition that RNAs are the only biological macromolecules that can function both as genotype and phenotype, hence raising the possibility of Darwinian selection and precellular evolution ...

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

authors： Diener TO

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracisternal A-particles were isolated from three different myeloma lines in BALB/c mice and from cultured neuroblastoma cells of A/J origin. All preparations contained a major structural protein with an apparent molecular weight near 70,000 as estimated by electrophoretic mobility in sodium dodecyl sulfate-containi...

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

authors： Kuff EL,Leuders KK,Ozer HL,Wivel NA

更新日期：1972-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluids may store and manipulate information, enabling complex applications ranging from digital logic gates to algorithmic self-assembly. While controllable hydrodynamic chaos has previously been observed in viscous fluids and harnessed for efficient mixing, its application to the manipulation of digital information h...

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

authors： Gilpin W

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a heterogeneous degenerative motor neuron disease linked to numerous genetic mutations in apparently unrelated proteins. These proteins, including SOD1, TDP-43, and FUS, are highly aggregation-prone and form a variety of intracellular inclusion bodies that are characteristic of d...

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

authors： Ciryam P,Lambert-Smith IA,Bean DM,Freer R,Cid F,Tartaglia GG,Saunders DN,Wilson MR,Oliver SG,Morimoto RI,Dobson CM,Vendruscolo M,Favrin G,Yerbury JJ

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocytes generate a "respiratory burst" of NADPH oxidase-dependent superoxide anion (O(2)(-*)) production that is required for efficient clearance of bacterial pathogens. Hv1 mediates a voltage-gated H(+) channel activity that is proposed to serve a charge-balancing role in granulocytic phagocytes such as neutroph...

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

authors： Ramsey IS,Ruchti E,Kaczmarek JS,Clapham DE

更新日期：2009-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:H-2M3 encodes HMT, the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I heavy chain of the maternally transmitted antigen (Mta). Like classical MHC class I genes, the expression of M3 can be stimulated by gamma-interferon and its message can be detected from mid-gestational embryos (day 8) through adulthood. HMTb, a non...

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

authors： Wang CR,Lindahl KF

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mosquitoes are major disease vectors because most species must feed on blood from a vertebrate host to produce eggs. Blood feeding by the vector mosquito Aedes aegypti triggers the release of two neurohormones, ovary ecdysteroidogenic hormone (OEH) and insulin-like peptides (ILPs), which activate multiple processes re...

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

authors： Vogel KJ,Brown MR,Strand MR

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional MRI based on blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) contrast is well established as a neuroimaging technique for detecting neural activity in the cortex of the human brain. While detection and characterization of BOLD signals, as well as their electrophysiological and hemodynamic/metabolic origins, have b...

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

authors： Ding Z,Huang Y,Bailey SK,Gao Y,Cutting LE,Rogers BP,Newton AT,Gore JC

更新日期：2018-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenylated Rab GTPases regulate intracellular vesicle trafficking in eukaryotic cells by associating with specific membranes and recruiting a multitude of Rab-specific effector proteins. Prenylation, membrane delivery, and recycling of all 60 members of the Rab GTPase family are regulated by two related molecules, Rab...

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

authors： Wu YW,Tan KT,Waldmann H,Goody RS,Alexandrov K

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic and cDNA clones for the human nerve growth factor receptor have been used in conjunction with somatic cell hybrid analysis and in situ hybridization to localize the nerve growth factor receptor locus to human chromosome region 17q12-q22. Additionally, part, if not all, of the nerve growth factor receptor locus...

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

authors： Huebner K,Isobe M,Chao M,Bothwell M,Ross AH,Finan J,Hoxie JA,Sehgal A,Buck CR,Lanahan A

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00