External blockade of the major cardiac delayed-rectifier K+ channel (Kv1.5) by polyunsaturated fatty acids.

abstract：:Understanding the mechanisms of nanoparticle interaction with cell membranes is essential for designing materials for applications such as bioimaging and drug delivery, as well as for assessing engineered nanomaterial safety. Much attention has focused on nanoparticles that bind strongly to biological membranes or ind...

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

authors： Foreman-Ortiz IU,Liang D,Laudadio ED,Calderin JD,Wu M,Keshri P,Zhang X,Schwartz MP,Hamers RJ,Rotello VM,Murphy CJ,Cui Q,Pedersen JA

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The folate-binding protein of rat liver mitochondria [Zamierowski, M. & Wagner, C. (1977) J. Biol. Chem. 252, 933-938] has been purified to homogeneity by a combination of gel filtration, DEAE-cellulose, and affinity chromatography. This protein was assayed by its ability to bind tetrahydro[3H]folic acid in vitro. the...

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

authors： Wittwer AJ,Wagner C

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cathepsin B (CTSB) is overexpressed in tumors of the lung, prostate, colon, breast, and stomach. However, evidence of primary genomic alterations in the CTSB gene during tumor initiation or progression has been lacking. We have found a novel amplicon at 8p22-23 that results in CTSB overexpression in esophageal adenoca...

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

authors： Hughes SJ,Glover TW,Zhu XX,Kuick R,Thoraval D,Orringer MB,Beer DG,Hanash S

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteolipid protein (PLP) is the major myelin membrane protein of the central nervous system. We have isolated a copy of an alternatively spliced PLP gene transcript from a mouse brain cDNA library that was screened for PLP-related sequences. The encoded 241-amino acid protein differs from PLP by an internal deletion ...

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

authors： Nave KA,Lai C,Bloom FE,Milner RJ

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

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：:Cholera vibrios produce a single polymeric protein that (i) causes hemagglutination; (ii) appears to participate in their attachment to gut epithelium; (iii) may mediate their detachment from gut epithelium; and (iv) is a protease that hydrolyzes fibronectin and mucin, cleaves lactoferrin, and nicks the A subunit of t...

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

authors： Finkelstein RA,Boesman-Finkelstein M,Holt P

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixed synthetic oligonucleotides encoding sequences conserved among tyrosine-specific protein kinases were used to probe the genome of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Two genes with homology to protein kinases were isolated and characterized by DNA sequence analysis. These genes, designated KIN1 and KIN2, ...

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

authors： Levin DE,Hammond CI,Ralston RO,Bishop JM

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in WNK1 and WNK4 lead to familial hyperkalemic hypertension (FHHt). Because FHHt associates net positive Na(+) balance together with K(+) and H(+) renal retention, the identification of WNK1 and WNK4 led to a new paradigm to explain how aldosterone can promote either Na(+) reabsorption or K(+) secretion in a...

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

authors： Hadchouel J,Soukaseum C,Büsst C,Zhou XO,Baudrie V,Zürrer T,Cambillau M,Elghozi JL,Lifton RP,Loffing J,Jeunemaitre X

更新日期：2010-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult workers in honeybee (Apis mellifera) colonies exhibit plasticity in hormonally regulated, age-based division of labor by altering their pattern of behavioral development in response to changes in colony conditions. One form of this plasticity is precocious development: levels of juvenile hormone increase prematu...

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

authors： Huang ZY,Robinson GE

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smoking causes emphysema, a fatal disease involving extensive structural and functional damage of the lung. Using a guinea pig model and human lung cells, we show that oxidant(s) present in tobacco smoke not only cause direct oxidative damage of lung proteins, contributing to the major share of lung injury, ...

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

authors： Gupta I,Ganguly S,Rozanas CR,Stuehr DJ,Panda K

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Defending cellular integrity against disturbances in intracellular concentrations of ATP ([ATP](i)) is predicated on coordinating the selection of substrates and their flux through metabolic pathways (metabolic signaling), ATP transfer from sites of production to utilization (energetic signaling), and the regulation o...

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

authors： Ruiz-Stewart I,Tiyyagura SR,Lin JE,Kazerounian S,Pitari GM,Schulz S,Martin E,Murad F,Waldman SA

更新日期：2004-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Biologists regularly search databases of DNA or protein sequences for evolutionary or functional relationships to a given query sequence. We describe a ranking algorithm that exploits the entire network structure of similarity relationships among proteins in a sequence database by performing a diffusion operation on a...

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

authors： Weston J,Elisseeff A,Zhou D,Leslie CS,Noble WS

更新日期：2004-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Modification by covalent attachment of polyethylene glycol (PEG) can reduce the immunogenicity and prolong the circulating life of proteins, but the utility of this approach for any protein is restricted by the number and distribution of PEG attachment sites (e.g., epsilon-amino groups of lysine residues). We have dev...

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

authors： Hershfield MS,Chaffee S,Koro-Johnson L,Mary A,Smith AA,Short SA

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been reported that expression of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FALS)-associated mutant Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase-1 (SOD) induces apoptosis of neuronal cells in culture associated with an increase in reactive oxygen species. SOD recently has been shown to prevent calcineurin inactivation, initiating t...

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

authors： Lee JP,Palfrey HC,Bindokas VP,Ghadge GD,Ma L,Miller RJ,Roos RP

更新日期：1999-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The largest known DNA viruses infect Acanthamoeba and belong to two markedly different families. The Megaviridae exhibit pseudo-icosahedral virions up to 0.7 μm in diameter and adenine-thymine (AT)-rich genomes of up to 1.25 Mb encoding a thousand proteins. Like their Mimivirus prototype discovered 10 y ago, they enti...

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

authors： Legendre M,Bartoli J,Shmakova L,Jeudy S,Labadie K,Adrait A,Lescot M,Poirot O,Bertaux L,Bruley C,Couté Y,Rivkina E,Abergel C,Claverie JM

更新日期：2014-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic field fluctuations arising from fundamental spins are ubiquitous in nanoscale biology, and are a rich source of information about the processes that generate them. However, the ability to detect the few spins involved without averaging over large ensembles has remained elusive. Here, we demonstrate the detect...

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

authors： Kaufmann S,Simpson DA,Hall LT,Perunicic V,Senn P,Steinert S,McGuinness LP,Johnson BC,Ohshima T,Caruso F,Wrachtrup J,Scholten RE,Mulvaney P,Hollenberg L

更新日期：2013-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin is a pivotal regulator of energy and glucose homeostasis, and defects in leptin signaling result in obesity and diabetes. The ATP-sensitive potassium (K(ATP)) channels couple glucose metabolism to insulin secretion in pancreatic β-cells. In this study, we provide evidence that leptin modulates pancreatic β-cell...

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

authors： Park SH,Ryu SY,Yu WJ,Han YE,Ji YS,Oh K,Sohn JW,Lim A,Jeon JP,Lee H,Lee KH,Lee SH,Berggren PO,Jeon JH,Ho WK

更新日期：2013-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Interaction of syntaxin 1 with the alpha(1D) subunit of the voltage-gated L type Ca(2+) channel was investigated in the pancreatic beta cell. Coexpression of the enhanced green fluorescent protein-linked alpha(1D) subunit with the enhanced blue fluorescent protein-linked syntaxin 1 and Western blot analysis together w...

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

authors： Yang SN,Larsson O,Bränström R,Bertorello AM,Leibiger B,Leibiger IB,Moede T,Köhler M,Meister B,Berggren PO

更新日期：1999-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporal and spatial patterns of floral determination in cultured internode segments of Nicotiana tabacum L. cv. Wisconsin 38 were investigated. Segments from internodes, when cultured on hormone-free medium, either produced some de novo floral shoots or produced only vegetative shoots. Segments that produced some...

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

authors： Singer SR,McDaniel CN

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium oxalate monohydrate (COM), which plays a functional role in plant physiology, is a source of chronic human disease, forming the major inorganic component of kidney stones. Understanding molecular mechanisms of biological control over COM crystallization is central to development of effective stone disease ther...

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

authors： Qiu SR,Wierzbicki A,Orme CA,Cody AM,Hoyer JR,Nancollas GH,Zepeda S,De Yoreo JJ

更新日期：2004-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Inbred 129 strain mice are predisposed to developing male germ cell tumors (GCTs) of the testes. The inherent genetic defects that underlie male GCT susceptibility in the 129 mouse strain are unknown. GCT incidence is increased in 129 strain males that lack functional p53 protein, and we have used this finding to faci...

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

authors： Muller AJ,Teresky AK,Levine AJ

更新日期：2000-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcalcifications geographically target the location of abnormalities within the breast and are of critical importance in breast cancer diagnosis. However, despite stereotactic guidance, core needle biopsy fails to retrieve microcalcifications in up to 15% of patients. Here, we introduce an approach based on diffuse...

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

authors： Soares JS,Barman I,Dingari NC,Volynskaya Z,Liu W,Klein N,Plecha D,Dasari RR,Fitzmaurice M

更新日期：2013-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change impacts island communities all over the world. Sea-level rise, an increase in the frequency and intensity of severe weather events, and changes in distribution and health of marine organisms are among the most significant processes affecting island communities worldwide. On islands of the Caribbean and ...

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

authors： Douglass K,Cooper J

更新日期：2020-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation may be a component of a multilevel control mechanism that regulates eukaryotic gene expression. We used synthetic oligonucleotides to investigate the effect of cytosine methylation on the binding of the transcription factor Sp1 to its target sequence (a G + C-rich sequence known as a "GC box"). Concate...

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

authors： Harrington MA,Jones PA,Imagawa M,Karin M

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the fundamental events in metamorphosis in insects is the replacement of larval tissues by imaginal tissues. Shortly after pupariation the imaginal discs evaginate to assume their positions at the surface of the prepupal animal. This is a very precise process that is only beginning to be understood. In Drosophi...

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

authors： Martin-Blanco E,Pastor-Pareja JC,Garcia-Bellido A

更新日期：2000-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity affects over 2 billion people worldwide and is accompanied by peripheral neuropathy (PN) and an associated poorer quality of life. Despite high prevalence, the molecular mechanisms underlying the painful manifestations of PN are poorly understood, and therapies are restricted to use of painkillers or other dru...

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

authors： Bonomo RR,Cook TM,Gavini CK,White CR,Jones JR,Bovo E,Zima AV,Brown IA,Dugas LR,Zakharian E,Aubert G,Alonzo F 3rd,Calcutt NA,Mansuy-Aubert V

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations into the biophysical properties of single molecules traditionally involve well defined in vitro systems where parameters such as solvent viscosity and applied forces are known a priori. These systems provide means to develop models describing the polymers response to a variety of conditions, including t...

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

authors： Fisher JK,Ballenger M,O'Brien ET,Haase J,Superfine R,Bloom K

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic liver disorder and is strongly associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes. Currently, there is no approved pharmacological treatment for this disease, but improvement of insulin resistance using peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPARγ) ag...

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

authors： Liu W,Struik D,Nies VJ,Jurdzinski A,Harkema L,de Bruin A,Verkade HJ,Downes M,Evans RM,van Zutphen T,Jonker JW

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A two-dimensional model of the expansion of a crack in an elastic medium is considered in which friction depends on the slip rate and the modulus of cohesion depends on the speed of expansion of the crack. Elastic waves are neglected (quasi-static model). Under some conditions, the expansion of the crack is realized b...

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

authors： Barenblatt GI,Keilis-Borok VI,Vishik MM

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse glucocorticoid receptor-interacting protein (GRIP1) is a member of the ERAP160 family of nuclear receptor (NR) coactivators (including SRC-1 and TIF2) which function as bridging proteins between ligand-activated NRs bound to cognate hormone-response elements (HREs) and the transcription initiation apparatus ...

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

authors： Walfish PG,Yoganathan T,Yang YF,Hong H,Butt TR,Stallcup MR

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00