Flow of information in the light-triggered cyclic nucleotide cascade of vision.

abstract：:All but two genes involved in the ergosterol biosynthetic pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae have been cloned, and their corresponding mutants have been described. The remaining genes encode the C-3 sterol dehydrogenase (C-4 decarboxylase) and the 3-keto sterol reductase and in concert with the C-4 sterol methyloxida...

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

authors： Gachotte D,Barbuch R,Gaylor J,Nickel E,Bard M

更新日期：1998-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The periaqueductal gray (PAG) and amygdala are known to be important for defensive responses, and many contemporary fear-conditioning models present the PAG as downstream of the amygdala, directing the appropriate behavior (i.e., freezing or fleeing). However, empirical studies of this circuitry are inconsistent and w...

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

authors： Kim EJ,Horovitz O,Pellman BA,Tan LM,Li Q,Richter-Levin G,Kim JJ

更新日期：2013-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We suggested to 228 subjects in two experiments that, as children, they had had negative experiences with a fattening food. An additional 107 subjects received no such suggestion and served as controls. In Experiment 1, a minority of subjects came to believe that they had felt ill after eating strawberry ice cream as ...

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

authors： Bernstein DM,Laney C,Morris EK,Loftus EF

更新日期：2005-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrashort light pulses can selectively excite charges, spins, and phonons in materials, providing a powerful approach for manipulating their properties. Here we use femtosecond laser pulses to coherently manipulate the electron and phonon distributions, and their couplings, in the charge-density wave (CDW) material 1...

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

authors： Zhang Y,Shi X,You W,Tao Z,Zhong Y,Cheenicode Kabeer F,Maldonado P,Oppeneer PM,Bauer M,Rossnagel K,Kapteyn H,Murnane M

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of arbuscules in Aglaophyton major, an Early Devonian land plant, provides unequivocal evidence that mycorrhizae were established >400 million years ago. Nonseptate hyphac and arbuscules occur in a specialized meristematic region of the cortex that continually provided new cells for fungal infection. Arb...

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

authors： Remy W,Taylor TN,Hass H,Kerp H

更新日期：1994-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A model of protein-ligand binding kinetics, in which slow solvent dynamics results from hydrophobic drying transitions, is investigated. Molecular dynamics simulations show that solvent in the receptor pocket can fluctuate between wet and dry states with lifetimes in each state that are long enough for the extraction ...

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

authors： Mondal J,Morrone JA,Berne BJ

更新日期：2013-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The goldfish (Carassius auratus) visual pathway displays continuous growth and plasticity throughout life. Since homeobox genes are important transcriptional regulators in development, we searched for homeobox genes in the adult goldfish retina and brain. Using the PCR, we discovered a repertoire of homeobox sequences...

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

authors： Levine EM,Schechter N

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibrillary tangles are one of two lesions found in the brain of Alzheimer disease victims. With synthetic peptide fragments of human neurofilament NF-M17 (Glu-Glu-Lys-Gly-Lys-Ser-Pro- Val-Pro-Lys-Ser-Pro-Val-Glu-Glu-Lys-Gly, phosphorylated and unphosphorylated), CD studies were done to examine the effect of sodiu...

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

authors： Fasman GD,Moore CD

更新日期：1994-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We find that histidine residues in proteins are major targets for reaction with the lipid peroxidation product 4-hydroxynon-2-enal (HNE). Reaction of insulin (which contains no sulfhydryl groups) with HNE leads to the generation of HNE-protein adducts, which are converted to radioactive derivatives upon subsequent tre...

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

authors： Uchida K,Stadtman ER

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody modulation of T-cell coinhibitory (e.g., CTLA-4) or costimulatory (e.g., 4-1BB) receptors promotes clinical responses to a variety of cancers. Therapeutic cancer vaccination, in contrast, has produced limited clinical benefit and no curative therapies. The E6 and E7 oncoproteins of human papilloma virus (HPV)...

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

authors： Bartkowiak T,Singh S,Yang G,Galvan G,Haria D,Ai M,Allison JP,Sastry KJ,Curran MA

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Human settlement of Oceania marked the culmination of a global colonization process that began when humans first left Africa at least 90,000 years ago. The precise origins and dispersal routes of the Austronesian peoples and the associated Lapita culture remain contentious, and numerous disparate models of dispersal (...

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

authors： Larson G,Cucchi T,Fujita M,Matisoo-Smith E,Robins J,Anderson A,Rolett B,Spriggs M,Dolman G,Kim TH,Thuy NT,Randi E,Doherty M,Due RA,Bollt R,Djubiantono T,Griffin B,Intoh M,Keane E,Kirch P,Li KT,Morwood M,Pedriñ

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Commensal and pathogenic bacteria must deal with many different stress conditions to survive in and colonize the human gastrointestinal tract. One major challenge that bacteria encounter in the gut is the high concentration of bile salts, which not only aid in food absorption but also act as effective physiological an...

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

authors： Cremers CM,Knoefler D,Vitvitsky V,Banerjee R,Jakob U

更新日期：2014-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to control drops and their movements on phobic surfaces is important in printing or patterning, microfluidic devices, and water-repellent materials. These materials are always micro-/nanotextured, and a natural limitation of repellency occurs when drops are small enough (as in a dew) to get trapped in the ...

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

authors： Wang Q,Yao X,Liu H,Quéré D,Jiang L

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult cardiomyocytes are irreversibly postmitotic but respond to a variety of stimuli by hypertrophic growth, which is associated with an increase in cell size and protein content, organization of sarcomeres, and activation of a fetal gene program. Recently, we described a novel cardiac helicase activated by MEF2 prot...

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

authors： Liu ZP,Olson EN

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat liver polysomal RNA was translated in the rabbit reticulocyte lysate and in the wheat germ cell-free protein-synthesizing systems, using [(35)S]methionine as label. The catalase (hydrogen-peroxide:hydrogen-peroxide oxidoreductase, EC 1.11.1.6) that was synthesized was isolated by immunoprecipitation and characteri...

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

authors： Robbi M,Lazarow PB

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most organisms, light plays a key role in the synchronization of the circadian timing system with the environmental day-night cycle. Light pulses that phase-shift the circadian clock also induce the expression of period (per) genes in vertebrates. Here, we report the cloning of a zebrafish per gene, zfper4, which i...

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

authors： Vallone D,Gondi SB,Whitmore D,Foulkes NS

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Orai1 and stromal interaction molecule 1 (STIM1) mediate store-operated Ca(2+) entry (SOCE) in immune cells. STIM1, an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) Ca(2+) sensor, detects store depletion and interacts with plasma membrane (PM)-resident Orai1 channels at the ER-PM junctions. However, the molecular composition of these ju...

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

authors： Woo JS,Srikanth S,Nishi M,Ping P,Takeshima H,Gwack Y

更新日期：2016-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The multisubunit enzyme aspartate transcarbamylase consists of six copies of two types of polypeptide chains, catalytic (C) and regulatory (R). A complex formed by the partial dissociation of this enzyme has been isolated. This species, which has the structure C(6)R(4), is a likely intermediate in the stepwise dissoci...

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

authors： Evans DR,Pastra-Landis SC,Lipscomb WN

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells are wrapped in inelastic membranes, yet they can sustain large mechanical strains by regulating their area. The area regulation in cells is achieved either by membrane folding or by membrane exo- and endocytosis. These processes involve complex morphological transformations of the cell membrane, i.e., invaginati...

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

authors： Staykova M,Holmes DP,Read C,Stone HA

更新日期：2011-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Depolarization of isolated nerve terminals (synaptosomes) has been shown to stimulate neurotransmitter release and to increase the phosphorylation state of a number of proteins, including synapsin I, in a Ca2+-dependent manner. Synapsin I, a prominent nerve terminal phosphoprotein, interacts with the cytoplasmic surfa...

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

authors： Sihra TS,Wang JK,Gorelick FS,Greengard P

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose and test a theoretical perspective in which a universal hallmark of successful literacy acquisition is the convergence of the speech and orthographic processing systems onto a common network of neural structures, regardless of how spoken words are represented orthographically in a writing system. During fun...

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

authors： Rueckl JG,Paz-Alonso PM,Molfese PJ,Kuo WJ,Bick A,Frost SJ,Hancock R,Wu DH,Mencl WE,Duñabeitia JA,Lee JR,Oliver M,Zevin JD,Hoeft F,Carreiras M,Tzeng OJ,Pugh KR,Frost R

更新日期：2015-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomes exhibit diverse patterns of species-specific GC content, GC and AT skews, codon bias, and mutation bias. Despite intensive investigations and the rapid accumulation of sequence data, the causes of these a priori different genome biases have not been agreed on and seem multifactorial and idiosyncratic. We show ...

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

authors： Vetsigian K,Goldenfeld N

更新日期：2009-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic mice harboring the int-2/Fgf-3 protooncogene under transcriptional control of the mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) promoter/enhancer exhibit a dramatic, benign hyperplasia of the mammary gland. In one int-2 transgenic line (TG.NX), this growth disturbance is evoked by pregnancy and regresses after parturiti...

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

authors： Lee FS,Lane TF,Kuo A,Shackleford GM,Leder P

更新日期：1995-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat calbindin D-9k gene is transcriptionally regulated by 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 in the intestine. We have examined the 5'-flanking region of this gene and identified a 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3-responsive element (DRE) between nucleotides -489 and -445. This element confers 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 responsivenes...

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

authors： Darwish HM,DeLuca HF

更新日期：1992-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral mobility of an active fluorescent derivative of cytochrome c on the membranes of giant mitochondria was measured by fluorescence redistribution after photobleaching. A diffusion coefficient of 1.6 X 10(-10) cm2/sec was determined for the labeled cytochrome c on inner mitochondrial membranes under conditions wh...

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

authors： Hochman JH,Schindler M,Lee JG,Ferguson-Miller S

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although inappropriate activation of the Wnt/beta-catenin pathway has been implicated in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the role of this signaling in liver carcinogenesis remains unclear. To investigate this issue, we constructed a mutant mouse strain, Apc(lox/lox), in which exon 14 of the tumor-su...

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

authors： Colnot S,Decaens T,Niwa-Kawakita M,Godard C,Hamard G,Kahn A,Giovannini M,Perret C

更新日期：2004-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement system is highly efficient in targeting pathogens, but lack of its apposite regulation results in host-cell damage, which is linked to diseases. Thus, complement activation is tightly regulated by a series of proteins, which primarily belong to the regulators of complement activation (RCA) family. Struc...

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

authors： Panwar HS,Ojha H,Ghosh P,Barage SH,Raut S,Sahu A

更新日期：2019-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Intact squid axons were injected with aequorin and bathed in 3 mM Ca seawater (a concentration close to that of squid blood). Sodium and potassium currents were pharmacologically blocked and repetitive voltage-clamp pulses of a duration of 1.5 ms were applied (to simulate the duration of an action potential) at amplit...

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

authors： Mullins LJ,Requena J,Whittembury J

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the cloning, expression, and characterization of a dual-substrate, cAMP and cGMP, cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (PDE) from mouse. This PDE contains the consensus sequence for a PDE catalytic domain, but shares <50% sequence identity with the catalytic domains of all other known PDEs and, therefore...

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

authors： Soderling SH,Bayuga SJ,Beavo JA

更新日期：1999-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), the principal signaling receptor for lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in mammals, requires the binding of MD-2 to its extracellular domain for maximal responsiveness. MD-2 contains a leader sequence but lacks a transmembrane domain, and we asked whether it is secreted into the medium as an active ...

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

authors： Visintin A,Mazzoni A,Spitzer JA,Segal DM

更新日期：2001-10-09 00:00:00