Complex flexibility of the transforming growth factor beta superfamily.

abstract：:The insulin signaling pathway is of pivotal importance in metabolic diseases, such as diabetes, and in cellular processes, such as aging. Insulin activates a tyrosine phosphorylation cascade that branches to create a complex network affecting multiple biological processes. To understand the full spectrum of the tyrosi...

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

authors： Krüger M,Kratchmarova I,Blagoev B,Tseng YH,Kahn CR,Mann M

更新日期：2008-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The NMR spectra at 220 MHz of lysinevasopressin and its precursors were measured in dimethyl sulfoxide, and the peaks were assigned to specific protons. Information about hydrogen bonding was obtained from the temperature coefficients of the chemical shifts. With these data, and with several chemical-shift positions a...

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

authors： Von Dreele PH,Brewster AI,Scheraga HA,Ferger MF,Du Vigneaud V

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An assay has been developed to test the hypothesis that neurons from a limited area of the retina will adhere preferentially to that part of the optic tectum near their normal synaptic termini. The method measures the adherence of (32)P-labeled cell bodies from either the dorsal or ventral half of the neural retina of...

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

authors： Barbera AJ,Marchase RB,Roth S

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucolipidosis III (ML III), or pseudo-Hurler polydystrophy, is an inherited childhood disorder characterized biochemically by low activities and abnormal electrophoretic patterns of multiple lysosomal enzymes in fibroblasts. The primary deficiency of ML III has been proposed to be in UDP-N-acetylglucosamine:lysosomal ...

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

authors： Honey NK,Mueller OT,Little LE,Miller AL,Shows TB

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like all aliphatic amines, the polyamines spermine and spermidine are physical quenchers of singlet molecular oxygen (1O2*). The rate constants of these processes were determined in vitro with photochemically generated 1O2* and the hydrocarbon rubrene as substrate, in pyridine. At millimolar concentration, spermine an...

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

authors： Khan AU,Mei YH,Wilson T

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although much of the brain's functional organization is genetically predetermined, it appears that some noninnate functions can come to depend on dedicated and segregated neural tissue. In this paper, we describe a series of experiments that have investigated the neural development and organization of one such noninna...

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

authors： Polk TA,Farah MJ

更新日期：1998-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Adipose tissue dysfunction is causally implicated in the impaired metabolic homeostasis associated with obesity; however, detailed mechanisms underlying dysregulated adipocyte functions in obesity remain to be elucidated. Here we searched for genes that provide a previously unknown mechanism in adipocyte metabolic fun...

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

authors： Wardhana DA,Ikeda K,Barinda AJ,Nugroho DB,Qurania KR,Yagi K,Miyata K,Oike Y,Hirata KI,Emoto N

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Striatal enkephalin and dynorphin opioid systems mediate reward and negative affect, respectively, relevant to addiction disorders. We examined polymorphisms of proenkephalin (PENK) and prodynorphin (PDYN) genes in relation to heroin abuse and gene expression in the human striatum and the relevance of genetic dopamine...

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

authors： Nikoshkov A,Drakenberg K,Wang X,Horvath MC,Keller E,Hurd YL

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the diploid genome sequence of the fungal pathogen Candida albicans. Because C. albicans has no known haploid or homozygous form, sequencing was performed as a whole-genome shotgun of the heterozygous diploid genome in strain SC5314, a clinical isolate that is the parent of strains widely used for molecular...

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

authors： Jones T,Federspiel NA,Chibana H,Dungan J,Kalman S,Magee BB,Newport G,Thorstenson YR,Agabian N,Magee PT,Davis RW,Scherer S

更新日期：2004-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Partial amino acid sequence of the Ia molecule encoded by the I-E or I-C (I-EC) subregion of the major histocompatibility complex of the mouse are presented. The Ia molecule appears to be comprised of two noncovalently associated polypeptides. The larger subunit, alpha, has an approximate molecular weight of 35,000 an...

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

authors： McMillan M,Cecka JM,Murphy DB,McDevitt HO,Hood L

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that the receptor binding moiety of Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin (EtxB) can completely prevent autoimmune disease in a murine model of arthritis. Injection of male DBA/1 mice at the base of the tail with type II collagen in the presence of complete Freund's adjuvant normally leads to arthrit...

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

authors： Williams NA,Stasiuk LM,Nashar TO,Richards CM,Lang AK,Day MJ,Hirst TR

更新日期：1997-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The lactose-H+ symport protein (LacS) of Streptococcus thermophilus has a C-terminal hydrophilic domain that is homologous to IIA protein(s) domains of the phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system (PTS). C-terminal truncation mutants were constructed and expressed in Escherichia coli and their properties we...

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

authors： Poolman B,Knol J,Mollet B,Nieuwenhuis B,Sulter G

更新日期：1995-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Sea urchins are a major component of recent marine communities where they exert a key role as grazers and benthic predators. However, their impact on past marine organisms, such as crinoids, is hard to infer in the fossil record. Analysis of bite mark frequencies on crinoid columnals and comprehensive genus-level dive...

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

authors： Gorzelak P,Salamon MA,Baumiller TK

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr nuclear antigen 1 (EBNA1) plays a vital role in the maintenance of the viral genome and is the only viral protein expressed in nearly all forms of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) latency and EBV-associated diseases, including numerous cancer types. To our knowledge, no specific agent against EBV genes or protein...

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

authors： Jiang L,Lung HL,Huang T,Lan R,Zha S,Chan LS,Thor W,Tsoi TH,Chau HF,Boreström C,Cobb SL,Tsao SW,Bian ZX,Law GL,Wong WT,Tai WC,Chau WY,Du Y,Tang LHX,Chiang AKS,Middeldorp JM,Lo KW,Mak NK,Long NJ,Wong KL

更新日期：2019-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Although common in birds, social monogamy, or pair-living, is rare among mammals because internal gestation and lactation in mammals makes it advantageous for males to seek additional mating opportunities. A number of hypotheses have been proposed to explain the evolution of social monogamy among mammals: as a male ma...

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

authors： Opie C,Atkinson QD,Dunbar RI,Shultz S

更新日期：2013-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The semaphorins comprise a large family of membrane-bound and secreted proteins, some of which have been shown to function in axon guidance. We have cloned a transmembrane semaphorin, Sema W, that belongs to the class IV subgroup of the semaphorin family. The mouse and rat forms of Sema W show 97% amino acid sequence ...

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

authors： Encinas JA,Kikuchi K,Chedotal A,de Castro F,Goodman CS,Kimura T

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The avian neuroretina (NR) is part of the central nervous system and is composed of photoreceptors, neuronal cells, and Müller (glial) cells. These cells are derived from proliferating neuroectodermal precursors that differentiate after terminal mitosis and become organized in cell strata. Genes that are specifically ...

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

authors： Guermah M,Crisanti P,Laugier D,Dezelee P,Bidou L,Pessac B,Calothy G

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Children who are treated for congenital cataracts later exhibit impairments in configural face analysis. This has been explained in terms of a critical period for the acquisition of normal face processing. Here, we consider a more parsimonious account according to which deficits in configural analysis result from the ...

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

authors： Vogelsang L,Gilad-Gutnick S,Ehrenberg E,Yonas A,Diamond S,Held R,Sinha P

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Bruton tyrosine kinase (EC 2.7.1.112) [Btk, encoded by Btk in mice and BTK in humans (formerly known as atk, BPK, or emb)], which is variously mutated in chromosome X-linked agammaglobulinemia patients and X-linked immunodeficient (xid) mice, has the pleckstrin homology (PH) domain at its amino terminus. The PH domain...

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

authors： Yao L,Kawakami Y,Kawakami T

更新日期：1994-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein misfolding is the molecular basis for several human diseases. How the primary amino acid sequence triggers misfolding and determines the benign or toxic character of the misfolded protein remains largely obscure. Among proteins that misfold, polyglutamine (polyQ) expansion proteins provide an interesting case:...

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

authors： Duennwald ML,Jagadish S,Muchowski PJ,Lindquist S

更新日期：2006-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Although heparin and low-molecular-weight heparins (LMWH) have been widely used clinically as anticoagulants, their broader use has been limited by the lack of noninvasive delivery methods for this class of molecules. In this study, we demonstrate an efficient, rapid, and reproducible delivery system for heparin throu...

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

authors： Qi Y,Zhao G,Liu D,Shriver Z,Sundaram M,Sengupta S,Venkataraman G,Langer R,Sasisekharan R

更新日期：2004-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatophores of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides yield the antenna complex B850 in either of two states, depending on the method of isolation. Methods using dodecyl (= lauryl) dimethylamine oxide yield B850 with an absorption spectrum like that in vivo: the bands at 800 and 850 nm, due to the bacteriochlorophyll (Bchl) ...

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

authors： Clayton RK,Clayton BJ

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Explants of human endometrium were cultured to study the release of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). Analysis of conditioned media by zymography revealed latent and active forms of collagenase (MMP-1, EC 3.4.24.7), 72-kDa gelatinase A (MMP-2, EC 3.4.24.24), and 92-kDa gelatinase B (MMP-9, EC 3.4.24.35). These protein...

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

authors： Marbaix E,Donnez J,Courtoy PJ,Eeckhout Y

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The drought of progress in clinical brain tumor therapy provides an impetus for developing new treatments as well as methods for testing therapeutics in animal models. The inability of traditional assays to simultaneously measure tumor size, location, growth kinetics, and cell kill achieved by a treatment complicates ...

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

authors： Ross BD,Zhao YJ,Neal ER,Stegman LD,Ercolani M,Ben-Yoseph O,Chenevert TL

更新日期：1998-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:State transition in photosynthesis is a short-term balancing mechanism of energy distribution between photosystem I (PSI) and photosystem II (PSII). When PSII is preferentially excited (state 2), a pool of mobile light-harvesting complex II (LHCII) antenna proteins is thought to migrate from PSII to PSI, but biochemic...

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

authors： Takahashi H,Iwai M,Takahashi Y,Minagawa J

更新日期：2006-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a simplified method for culturing fetal central nervous system cells predominantly inducing neurons that grow, differentiate, and live in vitro for as long as 10 weeks. These central nervous system cells form a confluent cell culture in which about 80% of the cells are fully differentiated neurons producing ...

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

authors： Sotelo J,Gibbs CJ Jr,Gajdusek DC,Toh BH,Wurth M

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Native cytochrome c (cyt c) has a compact tertiary structure with a hexacoordinated heme iron and functions in electron transport in mitochondria and apoptosis in the cytoplasm. However, the possibility that protein modifications confer additional functions to cyt c has not been explored. Disruption of methionine 80 (...

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

authors： Godoy LC,Muñoz-Pinedo C,Castro L,Cardaci S,Schonhoff CM,King M,Tórtora V,Marín M,Miao Q,Jiang JF,Kapralov A,Jemmerson R,Silkstone GG,Patel JN,Evans JE,Wilson MT,Green DR,Kagan VE,Radi R,Mannick JB

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations are introduced into rearranged Ig variable genes at a frequency of 10(-2) mutations per base pair by an unknown mechanism. Assuming that DNA repair pathways generate or remove mutations, the frequency and pattern of mutation will be different in variable genes from mice defective in repair. Therefore, hyperm...

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

authors： Winter DB,Phung QH,Umar A,Baker SM,Tarone RE,Tanaka K,Liskay RM,Kunkel TA,Bohr VA,Gearhart PJ

更新日期：1998-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the pathogenesis that may be induced by human adenovirus type 12 (Ad12), we have generated transgenic mice carrying the Ad12 early region 1 under control of the mouse mammary tumor virus long terminal repeat. Eleven of 11 male founder mice, but only 2 of 12 females, died between 3 to 4 mo of age. Death w...

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

authors： Koike K,Hinrichs SH,Isselbacher KJ,Jay G

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reveal that the aragonite CaCO3 platelets in nacre of Haliotis laevigata are covered with a continuous layer of disordered amorphous CaCO3 and that there is no protein interaction with this layer. This finding contradicts classical paradigms of biomineralization, e.g., an epitaxial match between the structural orga...

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

authors： Nassif N,Pinna N,Gehrke N,Antonietti M,Jäger C,Cölfen H

更新日期：2005-09-06 00:00:00