An integral membrane component of coatomer-coated transport vesicles defines a family of proteins involved in budding.

abstract：:The rat brain increases >6x in mass from birth to adulthood, presumably through the addition of glial cells and increasing neuronal size, without the addition of neurons. To test this hypothesis, here we investigate quantitatively the postnatal changes in the total number of neuronal and non-neuronal cells in the deve...

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

authors： Bandeira F,Lent R,Herculano-Houzel S

更新日期：2009-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Brown-rot fungi such as Postia placenta are common inhabitants of forest ecosystems and are also largely responsible for the destructive decay of wooden structures. Rapid depolymerization of cellulose is a distinguishing feature of brown-rot, but the biochemical mechanisms and underlying genetics are poorly understood...

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

authors： Martinez D,Challacombe J,Morgenstern I,Hibbett D,Schmoll M,Kubicek CP,Ferreira P,Ruiz-Duenas FJ,Martinez AT,Kersten P,Hammel KE,Vanden Wymelenberg A,Gaskell J,Lindquist E,Sabat G,Bondurant SS,Larrondo LF,Canessa P,Vic

更新日期：2009-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a regulatory molecule for many cell functions, both for intracellular and, perhaps less well known, extracellular functions. An important example of the latter involves red blood cells (RBCs), which help regulate blood pressure by releasing ATP as a vasodilatory signaling molecule in re...

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

authors： Wan J,Ristenpart WD,Stone HA

更新日期：2008-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) 65 is one of the major pancreatic antigens targeted by self-reactive T cells in type I diabetes mellitus. T cells specific for GAD65 are among the first to enter inflamed islets and may be important for the initiation of autoimmune diabetes. However, we previously reported that nonobe...

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

authors： Kim SK,Tarbell KV,Sanna M,Vadeboncoeur M,Warganich T,Lee M,Davis M,McDevitt HO

更新日期：2004-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The X gene product encoded by the hepatitis B virus, termed pX, is a promiscuous transactivator of a variety of viral and cellular genes under the control of diverse cis-acting elements. Although pX does not appear to directly bind DNA, pX-responsive elements include the NF-kappa B, AP-1, and CRE (cAMP response elemen...

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

authors： Williams JS,Andrisani OM

更新日期：1995-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Two mutations are described that alter the pattern of inheritance of chloroplast genes in Chlamydomonas. The mutant gene mat-1 linked to the mating type allele mt(-) greatly increases the frequency of exceptional zygotes, i.e., zygotes that transmit chloroplast genes from the mt(-) (male) parent. In some crosses, 80-9...

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

authors： Sager R,Ramanis Z

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) are at the base of current nanoelectronics because of their exceptional mobilities. Often the accumulation layer forms at polar interfaces with longitudinal optical (LO) modes. In most cases, the many-body screening of the quasi-2DEGs dramatically reduces the Fröhlich scattering ...

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

authors： Chen Z,Sjakste J,Dong J,Taleb-Ibrahimi A,Rueff JP,Shukla A,Peretti J,Papalazarou E,Marsi M,Perfetti L

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) is essential to class-switch recombination (CSR) and somatic hypermutation (SHM) in both V region SHM and S region SHM (s-SHM). Uracil DNA glycosylase (UNG), a member of the base excision repair (BER) complex, is required for CSR. Strikingly, however, UNG deficiency causes a...

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

authors： Yousif AS,Stanlie A,Mondal S,Honjo T,Begum NA

更新日期：2014-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine viruses are the most abundant biological entities in the oceans shaping community structure and nutrient cycling. The interaction between the bloom-forming alga Emiliania huxleyi and its specific large dsDNA virus (EhV) is a major factor determining the fate of carbon in the ocean, thus serving as a key host-pa...

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

authors： Ziv C,Malitsky S,Othman A,Ben-Dor S,Wei Y,Zheng S,Aharoni A,Hornemann T,Vardi A

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants produce a wide range of allelochemicals to defend against herbivore attack, and generalist herbivores have evolved mechanisms to avoid, sequester, or detoxify a broad spectrum of natural defense compounds. Successful arthropod pests have also developed resistance to diverse classes of pesticides and this adapta...

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

authors： Dermauw W,Wybouw N,Rombauts S,Menten B,Vontas J,Grbic M,Clark RM,Feyereisen R,Van Leeuwen T

更新日期：2013-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant genetic engineering led to the production of plant-derived mAb (mAbP), which provides a safe and economically feasible alternative to the current methods of antibody production in animal systems. In this study, the heavy and light chains of human anti-rabies mAb were expressed and assembled in planta under the c...

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

authors： Ko K,Tekoah Y,Rudd PM,Harvey DJ,Dwek RA,Spitsin S,Hanlon CA,Rupprecht C,Dietzschold B,Golovkin M,Koprowski H

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Secretion of inflammatory mediators by rat mast cells (line RBL-2H3) was earlier shown to be inhibited upon clustering a membrane glycoprotein by monoclonal antibody G63. This glycoprotein, named mast cell function-associated antigen (MAFA), was also shown to interfere with the coupling cascade of the type 1 Fc epsilo...

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

authors： Guthmann MD,Tal M,Pecht I

更新日期：1995-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A generic modeling framework to infer the failure-spreading process based on failure times of individual nodes is proposed and tested in four simulation studies: one for cascading failures in interdependent power and transportation networks, one for influenza epidemics, one benchmark test case for congestion cascade i...

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

authors： Guan X,Chen C

更新日期：2018-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytochrome photoreceptors control plant growth, development, and the shade avoidance response that limits crop yield in high-density agricultural plantings. Cyanobacteriochromes (CBCRs) are distantly related photosensory proteins that control cyanobacterial metabolism and behavior in response to light. Photoreceptors...

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

authors： Lim S,Yu Q,Gottlieb SM,Chang CW,Rockwell NC,Martin SS,Madsen D,Lagarias JC,Larsen DS,Ames JB

更新日期：2018-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of heat shock proteins in three species of Leishmania, L. tropica, L. enrietti, and L. donovani is reported. When cultures of promastigotes are shifted from 26 degrees C to 37 degrees C or 40 degrees C, the synthesis of proteins with apparent molecular weights of 88,000, 74,000, and 54,000 is stimulated....

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

authors： Lawrence F,Robert-Gero M

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterogeneous nucleation is vital to a wide range of areas as diverse as ice nucleation on atmospheric aerosols and the fabrication of high-performance thin films. There is excellent evidence that surface topography is a key factor in directing crystallization in real systems; however, the mechanisms by which nanoscal...

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

authors： Campbell JM,Meldrum FC,Christenson HK

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the caspase family of cysteine proteases play central roles in coordinating the stereotypical events that occur during apoptosis. Because the major executioner caspases, caspase-3 and caspase-7, exhibit almost indistinguishable activity toward certain synthetic peptide substrates, this has led to the widesp...

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

authors： Walsh JG,Cullen SP,Sheridan C,Lüthi AU,Gerner C,Martin SJ

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Many insects are dependent on bacterial symbionts that provide essential nutrients (ex. aphid-Buchnera and tsetse-Wiglesworthia associations), wherein the symbionts are harbored in specific cells called bacteriocytes that constitute a symbiotic organ bacteriome. Facultative and parasitic bacterial symbionts like Wolba...

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

authors： Hosokawa T,Koga R,Kikuchi Y,Meng XY,Fukatsu T

更新日期：2010-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is a multifactorial illness and genetic factors play a role in its etiology. The understanding of its physiopathology relies on the availability of experimental models potentially mimicking the disease. Here we describe a model built up by selective breeding of mice with strikingly different responses in th...

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

authors： El Yacoubi M,Bouali S,Popa D,Naudon L,Leroux-Nicollet I,Hamon M,Costentin J,Adrien J,Vaugeois JM

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Eradication of an invasive species can provide significant environmental, economic, and social benefits, but eradication programs often fail. Constant and careful monitoring improves the chance of success, but an invasion may seem to be in decline even when it is expanding in abundance or spatial extent. Determining w...

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

authors： Keith JM,Spring D

更新日期：2013-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:It is unknown whether cross-regulatory interactions between homeotic genes, which have been shown to play an important role in the maintenance of their expression domains during Drosophila development, are also important during mammalian development. We have analyzed here the expression of Hox genes in Hoxa-1 (Hox-1.6...

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

authors： Dollé P,Lufkin T,Krumlauf R,Mark M,Duboule D,Chambon P

更新日期：1993-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The polypeptide chain initiation factor 2 (eIF-2) binds phospholipid (PL) and becomes a potent inhibitor of translation in hemin-supplemented reticulocyte lysates. This binding is markedly reduced by prior treatment of eIF-2 with N-ethylmaleimide. Although PL is probably bound by all three eIF-2 subunits, our results ...

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

authors： de Haro C,de Herreros AG,Ochoa S

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological processes often require that a single gene product participate in multiple types of molecular interactions. Viruses with quasiequivalent capsids provide an excellent paradigm for studying such phenomena because identical protein subunits are found in different structural environments. Differences in subunit...

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

authors： Johnson JE

更新日期：1996-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In rodent models of Parkinson disease in which transplants of dissociated rodent and human embryonic mesencephalic tissue, rich in dopamine neurons, have been studied, only 5-20% of the dopamine neurons survive the implantation procedure. We have investigated the effects of inhibiting free radical generation with two ...

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

authors： Nakao N,Frodl EM,Duan WM,Widner H,Brundin P

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:S-nitrosylation, the selective modification of cysteine residues in proteins to form S-nitrosocysteine, is a major emerging mechanism by which nitric oxide acts as a signaling molecule. Even though nitric oxide is intimately involved in the regulation of vascular smooth muscle cell functions, the potential protein tar...

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

authors： Greco TM,Hodara R,Parastatidis I,Heijnen HF,Dennehy MK,Liebler DC,Ischiropoulos H

更新日期：2006-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an irreversible neurodegenerative disorder that has a progression that is closely associated with oxidative stress. It has long been speculated that the reactive oxygen species (ROS) level in AD brains is much higher than that in healthy brains. However, evidence from living beings is scarc...

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

authors： Yang J,Zhang X,Yuan P,Yang J,Xu Y,Grutzendler J,Shao Y,Moore A,Ran C

更新日期：2017-11-21 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：:In adipocytes, adenylate cyclase is positively regulated by beta-adrenergic agents and negatively regulated by adenosine. Incubation of adipocytes with adenosine deaminase relieves the inhibition of adenylate cyclase by destroying the adenosine that the cells release into the medium. When adipocytes are incubated with...

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

authors： Chung FZ,Weber HW,Appleman MM

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cones show briefer light responses than rods and do not saturate even under very bright light. Using purified rod and cone homogenates, we measured the activity of guanylate cyclase (GC), an enzyme responsible for cGMP synthesis and therefore recovery of a light response. The basal GC activity was 36 times higher in c...

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

authors： Takemoto N,Tachibanaki S,Kawamura S

更新日期：2009-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin preparations from pig intestinal mucosa and from bovine lung were separated by chromatography on antithrombin-Sepharose into a high-affinity fraction (with high anticoagulant activity) and a low-affinity fraction (with low anticoagulant). Antithrombin-binding heparin fragments (12-16 monosaccharide units) were...

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

authors： Lindahl U,Bäckström G,Höök M,Thunberg L,Fransson LA,Linker A

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00