Independent control of ribosomal gene replication in polytene chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster.

abstract：:Our conditional serum response factor (SRF) knockout, Srf (Cko), in the heart-forming region blocked the appearance of rhythmic beating myocytes, one of the earliest cardiac defects caused by the ablation of a cardiac-enriched transcription factor. The appearance of Hand1 and Smyd1, transcription and chromatin remodel...

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

authors： Niu Z,Iyer D,Conway SJ,Martin JF,Ivey K,Srivastava D,Nordheim A,Schwartz RJ

更新日期：2008-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Insights into the pathogenesis of migraine with aura may be gained from a study of human Ca(V)2.1 channels containing mutations linked to familial hemiplegic migraine (FHM). Here, we extend the previous single-channel analysis to human Ca(V)2.1 channels containing mutation V1457L. This mutation increased the channel o...

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

authors： Tottene A,Fellin T,Pagnutti S,Luvisetto S,Striessnig J,Fletcher C,Pietrobon D

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heterogeneous RNA of the HeLa cell nucleus contains short internal poly(A) sequences which, in contrast to the longer poly(A) sequences at the 3' ends, are not found in messenger RNA of the cytoplasm. A distinct origin for each of these homologous sequences is evident when the effects of actinomycin D and 3'-deoxy...

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

authors： Nakazato H,Edmonds M,Kopp DW

更新日期：1974-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of membranes and membrane lipid function has lagged far behind that of nucleic acids and proteins, largely because it is difficult to manipulate cellular membrane lipid composition. To help solve this problem, we show that methyl-α-cyclodextrin (MαCD)-catalyzed lipid exchange can be used to maximally...

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

authors： Li G,Kim J,Huang Z,St Clair JR,Brown DA,London E

更新日期：2016-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro incubation of leukemic bone marrow with the lipophilic fluorescent dye merocyanine 540 and simultaneous exposure to light reduced the concentration of L1210 leukemia cells by about 5 orders of magnitude but spared enough normal pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells to allow hematopoietic reconstitution of leth...

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

authors： Sieber F,Spivak JL,Sutcliffe AM

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the accumulation of amyloid plaques in the brain. This amyloid primarily contains amyloid-beta (Abeta), a 39- to 43-aa peptide derived from the proteolytic cleavage of the endogenous amyloid precursor protein. The 42-residue-length Abeta peptide (Abe...

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

authors： Zhang R,Hu X,Khant H,Ludtke SJ,Chiu W,Schmid MF,Frieden C,Lee JM

更新日期：2009-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In mice, recent thymic emigrants (RTEs) make up a large part of the naïve T cell pool and have been suggested to be a distinct short-lived pool. In humans, however, the life span and number of RTEs are unknown. Although (2)H(2)O labeling in young mice showed high thymic-dependent daily naïve T cell production, long te...

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

authors： Vrisekoop N,den Braber I,de Boer AB,Ruiter AF,Ackermans MT,van der Crabben SN,Schrijver EH,Spierenburg G,Sauerwein HP,Hazenberg MD,de Boer RJ,Miedema F,Borghans JA,Tesselaar K

更新日期：2008-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations into the biophysical properties of single molecules traditionally involve well defined in vitro systems where parameters such as solvent viscosity and applied forces are known a priori. These systems provide means to develop models describing the polymers response to a variety of conditions, including t...

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

authors： Fisher JK,Ballenger M,O'Brien ET,Haase J,Superfine R,Bloom K

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) has been associated with a variety of human diseases, including Parkinson's disease and Crohn's disease, whereas LRRK2 deficiency leads to accumulation of abnormal lysosomes in aged animals. However, the cellular roles and mechanisms of LRRK2-mediated lysosomal regulation have rema...

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

authors： Eguchi T,Kuwahara T,Sakurai M,Komori T,Fujimoto T,Ito G,Yoshimura SI,Harada A,Fukuda M,Koike M,Iwatsubo T

更新日期：2018-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of insulin to a mixture of plasma membrane and mitochondrial fractions from rat adipocytes results in a decrease in the phosphorylation of a mitochondrial protein identified as the alpha subunit of pyruvate dehydrogenase [pyruvate:lipoamide oxidoreductase (decarboxylating and acceptor-acetylating), EC 1.2...

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

authors： Seals JR,Jarett L

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequence of blastokinin, also called uteroglobin, has been determined by a combined study of both the intact native molecule and the peptide fragments resulting from tryptic and chymotryptic digestions. Sequence analyses performed by automated methods and by sequential digestion with leucine aminopeptid...

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

authors： Popp RA,Foresman KR,Wise LD,Daniel JC Jr

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mature immunologically competent dendritic cells are the most efficient antigen-presenting cells that powerfully activate T cells and initiate and sustain immune responses. Indeed, dendritic cells are able to efficiently capture antigens, express high levels of costimulatory molecules, and produce the combination of c...

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

authors： Quaratino S,Duddy LP,Londei M

更新日期：2000-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the nucleotide sequence of the dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthetase (DHFR-TS) gene of the protozoan parasite Leishmania major (dihydrofolate reductase, EC 1.5.1.3 and thymidylate synthase, EC 2.1.1.45). The DHFR-TS protein is encoded by a single 1560-base-pair open reading frame within gen...

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

authors： Beverley SM,Ellenberger TE,Cordingley JS

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the transforming growth factor-β superfamily play essential roles in various aspects of embryonic development and physiological organ function. Among them, bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) 9 and BMP10 regulate embryonic vascular development by activating their endothelial receptor ALK1 (activin receptor-lik...

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

authors： Somekawa S,Imagawa K,Hayashi H,Sakabe M,Ioka T,Sato GE,Inada K,Iwamoto T,Mori T,Uemura S,Nakagawa O,Saito Y

更新日期：2012-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction site variation in DNA that encodes rRNA (rDNA) was surveyed among 714 offspring within 31 lineages (26 genotypes) of obligate asexually reproducing Taraxacum officinale (dandelions). Although clonal offspring are expected, plants with nonparental rDNA were produced from two parents that were themselves sib...

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

authors： King LM,Schaal BA

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A remarkable property of Ca2+ fluxes through the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (InsP3)-gated Ca2+ channel is that successive increments of InsP3 induce repeated transient release of accumulated Ca2+. The initial aim of this study was to propose a model, based on hypotheses compatible with the current description of thi...

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

authors： Swillens S,Combettes L,Champeil P

更新日期：1994-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex cooperative behavior exhibited by wild chimpanzees generates considerable theoretical and empirical interest, yet we know very little about the mechanisms responsible for its evolution. Here, we investigate the influence of kinship on the cooperative behavior of male chimpanzees living in an unusually larg...

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

authors： Langergraber KE,Mitani JC,Vigilant L

更新日期：2007-05-08 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：:We present a theory, and its computer implementation, of how mental simulations underlie the abductions of informal algorithms and deductions from these algorithms. Three experiments tested the theory's predictions, using an environment of a single railway track and a siding. This environment is akin to a universal Tu...

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

authors： Khemlani SS,Mackiewicz R,Bucciarelli M,Johnson-Laird PN

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca(2+) is essential for physiological depolarization-evoked synchronous neurotransmitter release. But, whether Ca(2+) influx or another factor controls release initiation is still under debate. The time course of ACh release is controlled by a presynaptic inhibitory G protein-coupled autoreceptor (GPCR), whose agonist...

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

authors： Kupchik YM,Rashkovan G,Ohana L,Keren-Raifman T,Dascal N,Parnas H,Parnas I

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and highly sensitive catalysis assay is demonstrated based on analyzing reactions with acridonetagged compounds by thin-layer chromatography. As little as 1 pmol of product is readily visualized by its blue fluorescence under UV illumination and identified by its retention factor (Rf). Each assay requires onl...

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

authors： Reymond JL,Koch T,Schröer J,Tierney E

更新日期：1996-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Defining the processes of autoimmune attack of tissues is important for inhibiting continued tissue destruction. In type 1 diabetes, it is not known how cytotoxic effector T cell responses evolve over time in the pancreatic islets targeted for destruction. We used two-photon microscopy of live, intact, individual isle...

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

authors： Friedman RS,Lindsay RS,Lilly JK,Nguyen V,Sorensen CM,Jacobelli J,Krummel MF

更新日期：2014-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Excited states of proteins may play important roles in function, yet are difficult to study spectroscopically because of their sparse population. High hydrostatic pressure increases the equilibrium population of excited states, enabling their characterization [Akasaka K (2003) Biochemistry 42:10875-85]. High-pressure ...

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

authors： Lerch MT,Horwitz J,McCoy J,Hubbell WL

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A high proportion of human B cells carry B-cell receptors (BCRs) that are autoreactive. Inhibitory receptors such as CD22 can downmodulate autoreactive BCR responses. With its extracellular domain, CD22 binds to sialic acids in α2,6 linkages in cis, on the surface of the same B cell or in trans, on other cells. Sialic...

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

authors： Müller J,Obermeier I,Wöhner M,Brandl C,Mrotzek S,Angermüller S,Maity PC,Reth M,Nitschke L

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of immunoregulatory genes conferring dominant resistance to autoimmunity is well documented. In an effort to better understand the nature and mechanisms of action of these genes, we utilized the murine model of autoimmune orchitis as a prototype. When the orchitis-resistant strain DBA/2J is crossed with ...

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

authors： Meeker ND,Hickey WF,Korngold R,Hansen WK,Sudweeks JD,Wardell BB,Griffith JS,Teuscher C

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The lectin chaperone calreticulin (CRT) assists the folding and quality control of newly synthesized glycoproteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). It interacts with ERp57, a thiol-disulfide oxidoreductase that promotes the formation of disulfide bonds in glycoproteins bound by CRT. Here, we investigated the interac...

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

authors： Frickel EM,Riek R,Jelesarov I,Helenius A,Wuthrich K,Ellgaard L

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The hammerhead ribozyme, as engineered by J. Haseloff and W. L. Gerlach [(1988) Nature (London) 334, 585-591], is an RNA molecule containing two regions of conserved nucleotides, a double helix, called helix II, which connects the two conserved regions, and flanking arms of variable sequence, which hybridize the riboz...

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

authors： McCall MJ,Hendry P,Jennings PA

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the most prototypical G protein-coupled receptor, beta-adrenergic receptor (betaAR) regulates the pace and strength of heart beating by enhancing and synchronizing L-type channel (LCC) Ca(2+) influx, which in turn elicits greater sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca(2+) release flux via ryanodine receptors (RyRs). Howeve...

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

authors： Zhou P,Zhao YT,Guo YB,Xu SM,Bai SH,Lakatta EG,Cheng H,Hao XM,Wang SQ

更新日期：2009-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the ultrafast structural transitions of the heme induced by nitric oxide (NO) binding for several heme proteins by subpicosecond time-resolved resonance Raman and femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy. We probed the heme iron motion by the evolution of the iron-histidine Raman band intensity af...

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

authors： Kruglik SG,Yoo BK,Franzen S,Vos MH,Martin JL,Negrerie M

更新日期：2010-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously described an antigen-specific I-Ad-restricted T-cell hybridoma, A1.1, that constitutively releases an antigen-specific immunoregulatory activity into supernatants. Using retrovirally mediated gene transfer, we have found that transfer of the T-cell receptor alpha chain (TCR alpha) gene from A1.1 to ...

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

authors： Green DR,Bissonnette R,Zheng HG,Onda T,Echeverri F,Mogil RJ,Steele JK,Voralia M,Fotedar A

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00