Antischizophrenic drugs of the diphenylbutylpiperidine type act as calcium channel antagonists.

abstract：:Injection of 3':5'-cyclic AMP (cAMP) into larvae of the fly Sarcophaga bullata 3-4 hr before the beginning of puparium formation (red-spiracle stage) greatly accelerates the onset of tanning without affecting initiation of puparium formation (anterior retraction). Accelerated tanning resembles real tanning in two impo...

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

authors： Fraenkel G,Blechl A,Blechl J,Herman P,Seligman MI

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurodegenerative diseases and noxious stimuli to the brain enhance transcription of serum- and glucocorticoid-induced kinase-1 (SGK1). Here, we report that the SGK1 gene encodes a brain-specific additional isoform, SGK1.1, which exhibits distinct regulation, properties, and functional effects. SGK1.1 decreases expres...

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

authors： Arteaga MF,Coric T,Straub C,Canessa CM

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Zea mays plasma membrane intrinsic proteins (ZmPIPs) fall into two groups, ZmPIP1s and ZmPIP2s, that exhibit different water channel activities when expressed in Xenopus oocytes. ZmPIP1s are inactive, whereas ZmPIP2s induce a marked increase in the membrane osmotic water permeability coefficient, P(f). We previously s...

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

authors： Zelazny E,Borst JW,Muylaert M,Batoko H,Hemminga MA,Chaumont F

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Complementation of the plasmin fragments of reduced-carbamoylmethylated (Cam) human somatotropin (hGH) with those of reduced-carbamoylmethylated human chorionic somatomammotropin (hCS) have been investigated. It was found that the recombinant obtained by noncovalent interaction of [Cys(Cam)53]hGH-(1-134) with [Cys(Cam...

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

authors： Li CH

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human T cell leukemia virus I basic leucine zipper protein (HTLV-1 HBZ) maintains chronic viral infection and promotes leukemogenesis through poorly understood mechanisms involving interactions with the KIX domain of the transcriptional coactivator CBP and its paralog p300. The KIX domain binds regulatory proteins...

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

authors： Yang K,Stanfield RL,Martinez-Yamout MA,Dyson HJ,Wilson IA,Wright PE

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The selective alteration of the cellular genome by laser microbeam irradiation has been extensively applied in cell biology. We report here the use of the third harmonic (355 nm) of an yttrium-aluminum garnet laser to facilitate the direct transfer of the neo gene into cultured human HT1080-6TG cells. The resultant tr...

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

authors： Tao W,Wilkinson J,Stanbridge EJ,Berns MW

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Associative memory of the mollusc Hermissenda crassicornis, previously correlated with changes of specific K+ currents, protein phosphorylation, and increased synthesis of mRNA and specific proteins, is here shown to be accompanied by macroscopic alteration in the structure of a single identified neuron, the medial ty...

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

authors： Alkon DL,Ikeno H,Dworkin J,McPhie DL,Olds JL,Lederhendler I,Matzel L,Schreurs BG,Kuzirian A,Collin C

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is a retrovirus that causes malignant and inflammatory diseases in ∼10% of infected people. A typical host has between 10(4) and 10(5) clones of HTLV-1-infected T lymphocytes, each clone distinguished by the genomic integration site of the single-copy HTLV-1 provirus. The HTL...

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

authors： Satou Y,Miyazato P,Ishihara K,Yaguchi H,Melamed A,Miura M,Fukuda A,Nosaka K,Watanabe T,Rowan AG,Nakao M,Bangham CR

更新日期：2016-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The perceptual color qualities of hue, saturation, and brightness do not correspond in any simple way to the physical characteristics of retinal stimuli, a fact that poses a major obstacle for any explanation of color vision. Here we test the hypothesis that these basic color attributes are determined by the statistic...

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

authors： Long F,Yang Z,Purves D

更新日期：2006-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A cancer DNA phenotype, identical to the DNA structure of tumors, has been identified in the prostate glands of certain healthy men over 55 years of age. We now show that the same DNA signature exists in normal tissues adjacent to tumors. This finding implies that the phenotype is maintained in normal prostate cells f...

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

authors： Malins DC,Gilman NK,Green VM,Wheeler TM,Barker EA,Anderson KM

更新日期：2005-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The trace metals nickel and platinum, which are not substrates for ferrochelatase and thus do not form heme in biological systems, were found to act similaryl to cobalt, and heme itself, in regulating heme metabolism in liver and kidney. These metals induced heme oxygenase activity in both organs with the peak of indu...

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

authors： Maines MD,Kappas A

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An earthquake of magnitude M and linear source dimension L(M) is preceded within a few years by certain patterns of seismicity in the magnitude range down to about (M - 3) in an area of linear dimension about 5L-10L. Prediction algorithms based on such patterns may allow one to predict approximately 80% of strong eart...

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

authors： Keilis-Borok VI

更新日期：1996-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In cat retina, antisera directed against tyrosine hydroxylase (tyrosine 3-monooxygenase; EC 1.14.16.2) labeled three morphologically distinct classes of neurons; amacrine cells, displaced amacrine cells, and interplexiform cells. These three cell populations differed not only in their morphologies but also in their nu...

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

authors： Oyster CW,Takahashi ES,Cilluffo M,Brecha NC

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental cues modulate a variety of intracellular pathways whose signaling is integrated by the molecular mechanism that constitutes the circadian clock. Although the essential gears of the circadian machinery have been elucidated, very little is known about the signaling systems regulating it. Here, we report th...

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

authors： Yujnovsky I,Hirayama J,Doi M,Borrelli E,Sassone-Corsi P

更新日期：2006-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of the dodecanucleotide d(CGCAAGCTGGCG) has been determined to a resolution of 2.5 A and refined to an R factor of 19.3% for 1710 reflections. The sequence crystallizes as a B-type double helix, with two G(anti).A(syn) base pairs. These are stabilized by three-center hydrogen bonds to pyrimidines...

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

authors： Webster GD,Sanderson MR,Skelly JV,Neidle S,Swann PF,Li BF,Tickle IJ

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Access to robust and information-rich human cardiac tissue models would accelerate drug-based strategies for treating heart disease. Despite significant effort, the generation of high-fidelity adult-like human cardiac tissue analogs remains challenging. We used computational modeling of tissue contraction and assembly...

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

authors： Thavandiran N,Dubois N,Mikryukov A,Massé S,Beca B,Simmons CA,Deshpande VS,McGarry JP,Chen CS,Nanthakumar K,Keller GM,Radisic M,Zandstra PW

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotactin is an extracellular matrix protein that is dynamically and transiently expressed in a place-dependent fashion during development by glial cells, fibroblasts, and several other cell types. In the present study, the effects of cytotactin on cell proliferation were examined in fibroblastic cells in culture. NI...

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

authors： Crossin KL

更新日期：1991-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have screened a large number of isolated human genomic clones that hybridize to a cloned HLA cDNA probe for their ability to direct the synthesis of HLA-A, -B, and -C surface antigens on mouse L cells following DNA-mediated gene transfer. The surface expression of human histocompatibility antigens, monitored by ind...

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

authors： Barbosa JA,Kamarck ME,Biro PA,Weissman SM,Ruddle FH

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding nuclear receptor signaling in vivo would be facilitated by an efficient methodology to determine where a nuclear receptor is active. Herein, we present a feedback-inducible expression system in transgenic mice to detect activated nuclear receptor effector proteins by using an inducible reporter gene. Wit...

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

authors： Mata De Urquiza A,Solomin L,Perlmann T

更新日期：1999-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive and rapid in situ method was developed to visualize sites of single-stranded (ss) DNA in cultured cells and in experimental test animals. Anti-bromodeoxyuridine antibody recognizes the halogenated base analog incorporated into chromosomal DNA only when substituted DNA is in the single strand form. After tr...

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

authors： Raderschall E,Golub EI,Haaf T

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The sigma-N (sigmaN) subunit of the bacterial RNA polymerase is a sequence specific DNA-binding protein. The RNA polymerase holoenzyme formed with sigmaN binds to promoters in an inactive form and only initiates transcription when activated by enhancer-binding positive control proteins. We now provide evidence to show...

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

authors： Cannon WV,Chaney MK,Wang X,Buck M

更新日期：1997-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium-dependent protein kinases (CDPKs) comprise the major group of Ca2+-regulated kinases in plants and protists. It has long been assumed that CDPKs are activated, like other Ca2+-regulated kinases, by derepression of the kinase domain (KD). However, we found that removal of the autoinhibitory domain from Toxoplas...

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

authors： Ingram JR,Knockenhauer KE,Markus BM,Mandelbaum J,Ramek A,Shan Y,Shaw DE,Schwartz TU,Ploegh HL,Lourido S

更新日期：2015-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In adult rodents, neurons are continually generated in the subventricular zone of the forebrain, from where they migrate tangentially toward the olfactory bulb, the only known target for these neuronal precursors. Within the main olfactory bulb, they ascend radially into the granule and periglomerular cell layers, whe...

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

authors： Gheusi G,Cremer H,McLean H,Chazal G,Vincent JD,Lledo PM

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential involvement of ceramide-related signaling processes in the induction of apoptosis by tumor necrosis factor alpha was assessed by multiple biochemical strategies in the human leukemic cell lines HL-60 and U937 and the murine fibrosarcoma cell lines L929/LM and WEHI 164/13. Exposure of these cells to tumor...

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

authors： Jarvis WD,Kolesnick RN,Fornari FA,Traylor RS,Gewirtz DA,Grant S

更新日期：1994-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that polyelectrolyte complexes and coacervates can form on mixing oppositely charged polyelectrolytes in aqueous solutions, due to mainly electrostatic attraction between the oppositely charged polymers. Here, we report the first (to the best of our knowledge) complexation and coacervation of two posi...

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

authors： Kim S,Huang J,Lee Y,Dutta S,Yoo HY,Jung YM,Jho Y,Zeng H,Hwang DS

更新日期：2016-02-16 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

abstract：:Astrocyte-elevated gene-1 (AEG-1) expression is increased in multiple cancers and plays a central role in Ha-ras-mediated oncogenesis through the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt signaling pathway. Additionally, overexpression of AEG-1 protects primary and transformed human and rat cells from serum starvation-...

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

authors： Emdad L,Lee SG,Su ZZ,Jeon HY,Boukerche H,Sarkar D,Fisher PB

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tauopathies are a class of neurodegenerative diseases associated with pathological tau. Despite many advances in our understanding of these diseases, the direct mechanism through which tau contributes to neurodegeneration remains poorly understood. Previously, our laboratory implicated the histone demethylase LSD1 in ...

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

authors： Engstrom AK,Walker AC,Moudgal RA,Myrick DA,Kyle SM,Bai Y,Rowley MJ,Katz DJ

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned four lambda light chain constant region (C) genes from mouse embryo DNA. Each carries its own joining (J) segment approximately 1.3 kilobases to its 5' side. The four C genes occur in two clusters, 5' J3C3J1C13' and 5' J2C2J4C43', with C4 being a new C lambda gene. We have also shown that V lambda 1 is ...

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

authors： Blomberg B,Traunecker A,Eisen H,Tonegawa S

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) plays a critical role in the maintenance of the outer retina. RPE cell death or dysfunction drives the pathophysiology of many retinal diseases, but the physiological response of the retina to RPE cell loss is poorly understood, mainly because of the absence of suitable experimenta...

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

authors： Longbottom R,Fruttiger M,Douglas RH,Martinez-Barbera JP,Greenwood J,Moss SE

更新日期：2009-11-03 00:00:00