Allele-specific increase in basal transcription of the plasminogen-activator inhibitor 1 gene is associated with myocardial infarction.

abstract：:The larger structures are, the lower their mechanical strength. Already discussed by Leonardo da Vinci and Edmé Mariotte several centuries ago, size effects on strength remain of crucial importance in modern engineering for the elaboration of safety regulations in structural design or the extrapolation of laboratory r...

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

authors： Weiss J,Girard L,Gimbert F,Amitrano D,Vandembroucq D

更新日期：2014-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Exocytosis allows the release of secretory products and the delivery of new membrane material to the plasma membrane. So far, little is known about the underlying molecular mechanism and its control in plant cells. We have used the whole-cell patch-clamp technique to monitor changes in membrane capacitance to study ex...

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

authors： Homann U,Tester M

更新日期：1997-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Exchange proteins directly activated by cAMP (Epac1 and Epac2) have been recently recognized as key players in β-adrenergic-dependent cardiac arrhythmias. Whereas Epac1 overexpression can lead to cardiac hypertrophy and Epac2 activation can be arrhythmogenic, it is unknown whether distinct subcellular distribution of ...

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

authors： Pereira L,Rehmann H,Lao DH,Erickson JR,Bossuyt J,Chen J,Bers DM

更新日期：2015-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:PIK3R2 encodes a ubiquitous regulatory subunit (p85β) of PI3K, an enzyme that generates 3-polyphosphoinositides at the plasma membrane. PI3K activation triggers cell survival and migration. We found that p85β expression is elevated in breast and colon carcinomas and that its increased expression correlates with PI3K p...

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

authors： Cortés I,Sánchez-Ruíz J,Zuluaga S,Calvanese V,Marqués M,Hernández C,Rivera T,Kremer L,González-García A,Carrera AC

更新日期：2012-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeting tyrosine kinase receptors (RTKs) with specific Abs is a promising therapeutic approach for cancer treatment, although the molecular mechanism(s) responsible for the Abs' biological activity are not completely known. We targeted the transmembrane RTK for hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) with a monoclonal Ab (DN...

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

authors： Petrelli A,Circosta P,Granziero L,Mazzone M,Pisacane A,Fenoglio S,Comoglio PM,Giordano S

更新日期：2006-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The internal promoter of the Xenopus laevis oocyte-type 5S RNA gene is preferentially cleaved by S1 and Bal-31 nucleases in plasmid DNA. S1 nuclease sensitivity is largely dependent on supercoiling; however, Bal-31 cleaves within the 5S RNA gene in linear as well as in supercoiled DNA. The S1 nuclease-hypersensitive s...

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

authors： Reynolds WF,Gottesfeld JM

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two F' plasmids isolated independently from a recA- strain of Escherichia coli and containing identical deletion end points and identical associated inverted duplications are described. In these plasmids, DNA of F plasmid from the IS3 element alpha 1 beta 1 up to the transposon gamma delta is duplicated in inverted or...

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

authors： Tsai M,Thompson TL,Deonier RC

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied androgen binding characteristics of cells for androgen insensitivity from an obligate heterozygote, who is the mother of three male pseudohermaphrodites with dihydrotestosterone (17beta-hydroxy-5alpha-androstan-3-one) receptor deficiency. Specific dihydrotestosterone binding by skin fibroblasts from he...

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

authors： Meyer WJ 3rd,Migeon BR,Migeon CJ

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How granzymes gain entry into the cytosol of target cells during killer cell attack has been the subject of several studies in the past, but the effective delivery mechanism during target cell encounter has not been clarified. Here we show that granzyme B (GzmB) mutants lacking binding to negatively charged, essential...

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

authors： Kurschus FC,Fellows E,Stegmann E,Jenne DE

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparanase is an endoglycosidase that cleaves heparan sulfate side chains of proteoglycans, resulting in disassembly of the extracellular matrix underlying endothelial and epithelial cells and associating with enhanced cell invasion and metastasis. Heparanase expression is induced in carcinomas and sarcomas, often ass...

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

authors： Weissmann M,Arvatz G,Horowitz N,Feld S,Naroditsky I,Zhang Y,Ng M,Hammond E,Nevo E,Vlodavsky I,Ilan N

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Many urological studies rely on models of animals, such as rats and pigs, but their relation to the human urinary system is poorly understood. Here, we elucidate the hydrodynamics of urination across five orders of magnitude in body mass. Using high-speed videography and flow-rate measurement obtained at Zoo Atlanta, ...

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

authors： Yang PJ,Pham J,Choo J,Hu DL

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA encoding a specific form of thyroid hormone receptor expressed in human liver, kidney, placenta, and brain was isolated from a human kidney library. Identical clones were found in human placenta and HepG2 cDNA libraries. The cDNA encodes a 490-amino acid protein (Mr, 54,824). When expressed and translated in vi...

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

authors： Nakai A,Seino S,Sakurai A,Szilak I,Bell GI,DeGroot LJ

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent findings intriguingly place DNA double-strand break repair proteins at chromosome ends in yeast, where they help maintain normal telomere length and structure. In the present study, an essential telomere function, the ability to cap and thereby protect chromosomes from end-to-end fusions, was assessed in repair...

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

authors： Bailey SM,Meyne J,Chen DJ,Kurimasa A,Li GC,Lehnert BE,Goodwin EH

更新日期：1999-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are involved in a wide range of regulatory processes in the cell. Owing to their flexibility, their conformations are expected to be particularly sensitive to the crowded cellular environment. Here we use single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer to quantify the effect ...

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

authors： Soranno A,Koenig I,Borgia MB,Hofmann H,Zosel F,Nettels D,Schuler B

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cells exhibit periodic transient increases in cytosolic calcium levels rather than a sustained rise when stimulated by a hormone or growth factor. We propose here a molecular model that accounts for periodic calcium spiking induced by a constant stimulus. Four elements give rise to repetitive calcium transients: ...

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

authors： Meyer T,Stryer L

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among yeasts that underwent whole-genome duplication (WGD), Kluyveromyces polysporus represents the lineage most distant from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. By sequencing the K. polysporus genome and comparing it with the S. cerevisiae genome using a likelihood model of gene loss, we show that these species diverged very s...

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

authors： Scannell DR,Frank AC,Conant GC,Byrne KP,Woolfit M,Wolfe KH

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms formed by nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) are central to the chronicity, recurrence, and resistance to treatment of multiple human respiratory tract diseases including otitis media, chronic rhinosinusitis, and exacerbations of both cystic fibrosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Extracell...

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

authors： Jurcisek JA,Brockman KL,Novotny LA,Goodman SD,Bakaletz LO

更新日期：2017-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregation of p53 is initiated by first-order processes that generate an aggregation-prone state with parallel pathways of major or partial unfolding. Here, we elaborate the mechanism and explore its consequences, beginning with the core domain and extending to the full-length p53 mutant Y220C. Production of large li...

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

authors： Wang G,Fersht AR

更新日期：2012-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Affinity-fractionated porcine heparin was randomly scissioned by chemical techniques to give hexasaccharides, octasaccharides, decasaccharides, and mucopolysaccharide fragments of approximately 14 residues and approximately 16 residues that were able to complex with the protease inhibitor. Direct measurements of the k...

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

authors： Oosta GM,Gardner WT,Beeler DL,Rosenberg RD

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of specific trans-acting transcription factors in prokaryotes and lower eukaryotes has been greatly facilitated by genetic analysis of mutant strains deficient in such factors. We have developed such a system to study mammalian trans-acting factors that regulate the transcription of class II major histocompa...

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

authors： Calman AF,Peterlin BM

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrathymic T-cell development requires temporally regulated rearrangement and expression of T-cell receptor (TCR) genes. To assess the role of the TCR beta gene transcriptional enhancer (Ebeta) in this process, mouse strains in which Ebeta is deleted were generated using homologous recombination techniques. We report...

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

authors： Bouvier G,Watrin F,Naspetti M,Verthuy C,Naquet P,Ferrier P

更新日期：1996-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A way to assess specific CD8+ T-cell activity in a skin test analogous to the conventional delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) reaction for CD4+ T cells is presented. Local injection of viral class I binding peptides caused a specific CD8+ T-cell-mediated DTH in footpads of virally infected mice. The DTH was inducible...

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

authors： Kündig TM,Althage A,Hengartner H,Zinkernagel RM

更新日期：1992-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the process of molecularly cloning unintegrated proviral DNA from NIH-3T3 mouse cells infected with Rauscher murine leukemia virus, we observed the occurrence of clones with inserts smaller than the expected Rauscher murine leukemia virus fragments. The insert of one of these clones, lambda.Xe-1, was characterized ...

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

authors： van der Hoorn FA,Onnekink C,van der Putten H,Zijlstra M,Bloemers HP

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The light-entrained master central circadian clock (CC) located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) not only controls the diurnal alternance of the active phase (the light period of the human light-dark cycle, but the mouse dark period) and the rest phase (the human dark period, but the mouse light period), but also ...

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

authors： Mukherji A,Kobiita A,Damara M,Misra N,Meziane H,Champy MF,Chambon P

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Any isospectral family of two-dimensional Euclidean domains is shown to be compact in the C(infinity) topology. Previously Melrose, using heat invariants, was able to establish the C(infinity) compactness of the curvature of the boundary curves. The additional ingredient used in this paper to obtain the compactness of...

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

authors： Osgood B,Phillips R,Sarnak P

更新日期：1988-08-01 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：:DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are serious genomic insults that can lead to chromosomal rearrangements if repaired incorrectly. To gain insight into the nuclear mechanisms contributing to these rearrangements, we developed an assay in yeast to measure cis (same site) vs. trans (different site) repair for the majority...

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

authors： Sunder S,Wilson TE

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The innate immune system detects viral nucleic acids and induces type I interferon (IFN) responses. The RNA- and DNA-sensing pathways converge on the protein kinase TANK-binding kinase 1 (TBK1) and the transcription factor IFN-regulatory factor 3 (IRF3). Activation of the IFN signaling pathway is known to trigger the ...

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

authors： Seo M,Lee SO,Kim JH,Hong Y,Kim S,Kim Y,Min DH,Kong YY,Shin J,Ahn K

更新日期：2016-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Although prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) are socially monogamous, males vary in both sexual and spatial fidelity. Most males form pairbonds, cohabit with one female, and defend territories. Wandering males, in contrast, have expansive home ranges that overlap many males and females. In the laboratory, pairing is ...

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

authors： Ophir AG,Wolff JO,Phelps SM

更新日期：2008-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We have synthesized pulmonary surfactant apoprotein SP-B peptides by solid-phase chemistry and demonstrated their ability to enhance the surface-active properties of synthetic lipid mixtures. The synthetic peptides were reactive with antiserum generated against the native bovine surfactant peptide. Both peptides confe...

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

authors： Sarin VK,Gupta S,Leung TK,Taylor VE,Ohning BL,Whitsett JA,Fox JL

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00