Structure of columns in monkey striate cortex induced by luminant-contrast and color-contrast stimulation.

abstract：:To test directly whether fibrin(ogen) is a key binding site for apolipoprotein(a) [apo(a)] in vessel walls, apo(a) transgenic mice and fibrinogen knockout mice were crossed to generate fibrin(ogen)-deficient apo(a) transgenic mice and control mice. In the vessel wall of apo(a) transgenic mice, fibrin(ogen) deposition ...

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

authors： Lou XJ,Boonmark NW,Horrigan FT,Degen JL,Lawn RM

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein O-mannosylation represents an evolutionarily conserved, essential posttranslational modification with immense impact on a variety of cellular processes. In humans, O-mannosylation defects result in Walker-Warburg syndrome, a severe recessive congenital muscular dystrophy associated with defects in neuronal mig...

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

authors： Hutzler J,Schmid M,Bernard T,Henrissat B,Strahl S

更新日期：2007-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The human gamma herpesviruses, Kaposi sarcoma-associated virus (KSHV) and EBV, are associated with multiple cancers. Recent evidence suggests that EBV and possibly other viruses can manipulate the tumor microenvironment through the secretion of specific viral and cellular components into exosomes, small endocytically ...

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

authors： Meckes DG Jr,Gunawardena HP,Dekroon RM,Heaton PR,Edwards RH,Ozgur S,Griffith JD,Damania B,Raab-Traub N

更新日期：2013-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:An extracellular patch electrode was used to record ionic currents from individual complement-induced channels in the membranes of antibody-coated skeletal muscle. The amplitude of the single-channel currents leads to an estimate of 90 pS for the unit conductance. The kinetics of channel opening and closing show marke...

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

authors： Jackson MB,Stephens CL,Lecar H

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural exposure to prion disease is likely to occur throughout successive challenges, yet most experiments focus on single large doses of infectious material. We analyze the results from an experiment in which rodents were exposed to multiple doses of feed contaminated with the scrapie agent. We formally define hypot...

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

authors： Gravenor MB,Stallard N,Curnow R,McLean AR

更新日期：2003-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Stressful events evoke long-term changes in behavioral responses; however, the underlying mechanisms in the brain are not well understood. Previous work has shown that epigenetic changes and immediate-early gene (IEG) induction in stress-activated dentate gyrus (DG) granule neurons play a crucial role in these behavio...

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

authors： Saunderson EA,Spiers H,Mifsud KR,Gutierrez-Mecinas M,Trollope AF,Shaikh A,Mill J,Reul JM

更新日期：2016-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The minimal size of the recombination site required for efficient FLP recombinase-catalyzed recombination in vitro is no more than 28 base pairs, which includes parts of two 13-base-pair inverted repeats and all of an 8-base-pair spacer. The FLP recombinase cleaves the DNA at the boundaries of the spacer, becomes cova...

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

authors： Senecoff JF,Bruckner RC,Cox MM

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opposite slopes of "Evolution Canyon" in Israel have served as a natural model system of adaptation to a microclimate contrast. Long-term studies of Drosophila melanogaster populations inhabiting the canyon have exhibited significant interslope divergence in thermal and drought stress resistance, candidate genes, ...

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

authors： Hübner S,Rashkovetsky E,Kim YB,Oh JH,Michalak K,Weiner D,Korol AB,Nevo E,Michalak P

更新日期：2013-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligand-specific molecular switches composed of RNA were created by coupling preexisting catalytic and receptor domains via structural bridges. Binding of ligand to the receptor triggers a conformational change within the bridge, and this structural reorganization dictates the activity of the adjoining ribozyme. The mo...

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

authors： Soukup GA,Breaker RR

更新日期：1999-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotin carboxylase [biotin-carboxyl-carrier-protein:carbon-dioxide ligase (ADP-forming), EC 6.3.4.14] is the enzyme mediating the first step of the acetyl-CoA carboxylase [acetyl-CoA:carbon-dioxide ligase (ADP-forming), EC 6.4.1.2] reaction. We screened an Escherichia coli DNA library and a DNA fragment carrying the b...

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

authors： Kondo H,Shiratsuchi K,Yoshimoto T,Masuda T,Kitazono A,Tsuru D,Anai M,Sekiguchi M,Tanabe T

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the success of Plasmodium falciparum in establishing persistent infections is attributed to immune evasion through antigenic variation. This process involves periodically exchanging variants of the major surface antigen PfEMP1, a protein also responsible for parasite cytoadherence. PfEMP1 is encoded by genes o...

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

authors： Ralph SA,Scheidig-Benatar C,Scherf A

更新日期：2005-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of red blood cells is normally tightly regulated by a classic homeostatic mechanism based on oxygen sensing in the kidney. Decreased oxygen delivery resulting from anemia induces the production of erythropoietin, which increases red cell production and hence oxygen delivery. Investigations of erythropoietin...

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

authors： Percy MJ,Zhao Q,Flores A,Harrison C,Lappin TR,Maxwell PH,McMullin MF,Lee FS

更新日期：2006-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat insulin-like growth factor II gene, encoding a fetal somatomedin, expresses a multitranscript family in embryonic/fetal tissues and in the adult brain and spinal cord. By performing in situ hybridization on tissue sections of adult brain and spinal cord, we have found that these transcripts are not expressed i...

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

authors： Stylianopoulou F,Herbert J,Soares MB,Efstratiadis A

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral inhibition is the ubiquitous strategy used by visual neurons for spatial resolution throughout the animal kingdom. It has been a puzzle whether lateral inputs in retinal bipolar cells are mediated by the horizontal cell (HC)-cone feedback synapse, by the HC-bipolar cell feedforward synapse, or by both. By bloc...

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

authors： Yang XL,Wu SM

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in vitro have established that free tryptophan induces tna operon expression by binding to the ribosome that has just completed synthesis of TnaC-tRNA(Pro), the peptidyl-tRNA precursor of the leader peptide of this operon. Tryptophan acts by inhibiting Release Factor 2-mediated cleavage of this peptidyl-tRNA a...

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

authors： Cruz-Vera LR,Gong M,Yanofsky C

更新日期：2006-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Terminal oligopyrimidine (TOP) motifs are sequences at the 5' ends of mRNAs that link their translation to the mTOR Complex 1 (mTORC1) nutrient-sensing signaling pathway. They are commonly regarded as discrete elements that reside on ∼100 mRNAs that mostly encode translation factors. However, the full spectrum of TOP ...

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

authors： Philippe L,van den Elzen AMG,Watson MJ,Thoreen CC

更新日期：2020-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a genome-wide analysis of gene expression in primary human CD15(+) myeloid progenitor cells. By using the serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) technique, we obtained quantitative information for the expression of 37,519 unique SAGE-tag sequences. Of these unique tags, (i) 25% were detected at high an...

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

authors： Lee S,Zhou G,Clark T,Chen J,Rowley JD,Wang SM

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Two genes have a synthetically lethal relationship when the silencing or inhibiting of 1 gene is only lethal in the context of a mutation or activation of the second gene. This situation offers an attractive therapeutic strategy, as inhibition of such a gene will only trigger cell death in tumor cells with an activate...

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

authors： Molenaar JJ,Ebus ME,Geerts D,Koster J,Lamers F,Valentijn LJ,Westerhout EM,Versteeg R,Caron HN

更新日期：2009-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin V, a double-headed molecular motor, transports organelles within cells by walking processively along actin, a process that requires coordination between the heads. To understand the mechanism underlying this coordination, processive runs of single myosin V molecules were perturbed by varying nucleotide content....

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

authors： Baker JE,Krementsova EB,Kennedy GG,Armstrong A,Trybus KM,Warshaw DM

更新日期：2004-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Physiological sensing of O(2) tension (partial O(2) pressure, pO(2)) plays an important role in some mammalian cellular systems, but striated muscle generally is not considered to be among them. Here we describe a molecular mechanism in skeletal muscle that acutely couples changes in pO(2) to altered calcium release t...

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

authors： Sun QA,Hess DT,Nogueira L,Yong S,Bowles DE,Eu J,Laurita KR,Meissner G,Stamler JS

更新日期：2011-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma is the most common extranodal lymphoid cell neoplasia; it frequently follows chronic bacteria-induced inflammation in various tissues. MALT lymphomas are characterized genetically by the t(11;18)(q21;q21) translocation, which yields chimeric transcripts encoding struct...

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

authors： Stoffel A,Chaurushiya M,Singh B,Levine AJ

更新日期：2004-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-specific activation of the transcription factor sigma F during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis is controlled by a regulatory pathway involving the proteins SpoIIE, SpoIIAA, and SpoIIAB. SpoIIAB is an antagonist of sigma F, and SpoIIAA, which is capable of overcoming SpoIIAB-mediated inhibition of sigma F, is an ...

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

authors： Arigoni F,Duncan L,Alper S,Losick R,Stragier P

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Helodermin is a vasoactive intestinal peptide-like peptide in the salivary gland venom of the lizard Heloderma suspectum. Helodermin-like immunofluorescence was observed in the parafollicular (C) cells in several mammals and in the C cell homologues of the chicken ultimobranchial gland. Thus, helodermin-like peptides ...

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

authors： Grunditz T,Persson P,Håkanson R,Absood A,Böttcher G,Rerup C,Sundler F

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Junctions that mediate excitation-contraction (e-c) coupling are formed between the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) and either the surface membrane or the transverse (T) tubules in normal skeletal muscle. Two structural components of the junctions, the feet of the SR and the tetrads of T tubules, have been identified resp...

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

authors： Takekura H,Nishi M,Noda T,Takeshima H,Franzini-Armstrong C

更新日期：1995-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal detoxification is essential for bacteria's survival in adverse environments and their pathogenesis in hosts. Understanding the underlying mechanisms is crucial for devising antibacterial treatments. In the Gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli, membrane-bound sensor CusS and its response regulator CusR togeth...

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

authors： Fu B,Sengupta K,Genova LA,Santiago AG,Jung W,Krzemiński Ł,Chakraborty UK,Zhang W,Chen P

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the tRNA population of the archaeal parasite Nanoarchaeum equitans are five species assembled from separate 5' and 3' tRNA halves and four species derived from tRNA precursors containing introns. In both groups an intervening sequence element must be removed during tRNA maturation. A bulge-helix-bulge (BHB) moti...

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

authors： Randau L,Calvin K,Hall M,Yuan J,Podar M,Li H,Söll D

更新日期：2005-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuits are critical for motor control and motor learning. Classically, basal ganglia nuclei are thought to regulate motor behavior by increasing or decreasing cortical firing rates, and basal ganglia diseases are assumed to reflect abnormal overall activity levels. More recent studies s...

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

authors： Kojima S,Kao MH,Doupe AJ

更新日期：2013-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Clathrin-coated vesicles are known to be involved in the transport of proteins from the Golgi to the vacuole in plant cells. The mechanisms by which proteins are directed into this pathway are not known. Here we identify an integral membrane protein of approximately 80 kDa, extracted from clathrin-coated vesicles of d...

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

authors： Kirsch T,Paris N,Butler JM,Beevers L,Rogers JC

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The vulval development of Caenorhabditis elegans provides an opportunity to investigate genetic networks that control gene expression during organogenesis. During the fourth larval stage (L4), seven vulval cell types are produced, each of which executes a distinct gene expression program. We analyze how the expression...

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

authors： Inoue T,Wang M,Ririe TO,Fernandes JS,Sternberg PW

更新日期：2005-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Swarming bacteria move in multicellular groups and exhibit adaptive resistance to multiple antibiotics. Analysis of this phenomenon has revealed the protective power of high cell densities to withstand exposure to otherwise lethal antibiotic concentrations. We find that high densities promote bacterial survival, even ...

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

authors： Butler MT,Wang Q,Harshey RM

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00