Activation of protein kinases and inhibition of protein phosphatases play a central role in the regulation of exocytosis in mouse pancreatic beta cells.

abstract：:Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) RNA was encapsulated in large, unilamellar phospholipid vesicles (liposomes), and the encapsulated TMV RNA was shown to be infectious when incubated with tobacco protoplasts under appropriate conditions. Maximal virus production in protoplasts was observed after their incubation with TMV RNA...

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

authors： Fraley RT,Dellaporta SL,Papahadjopoulos D

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptor for acetylcholine was partially purified by affinity chromatography of an extract in Triton X-100 of membrane fragments from electric tissue. The receptor was assayed, after its reduction with dithiothreitol, by reaction with the affinity-alkylating agent, [methyl-(3)H]4-(N-maleimido)-benzyltrimethylammon...

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

authors： Karlin A,Cowburn D

更新日期：1973-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitylation of histone H2B at lysine 120 (H2B-Ub) plays a critical role in transcriptional elongation, chromatin conformation, as well as the regulation of specific histone H3 methylations. Herein, we report a strategy for the site-specific chemical attachment of ubiquitin to preassembled nucleosomes. This allowed ...

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

authors： Holt MT,David Y,Pollock S,Tang Z,Jeon J,Kim J,Roeder RG,Muir TW

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A single animal group can display different types of collective motion at different times. For a one-dimensional individual-based model of self-organizing group formation, we show that repeated switching between distinct ordered collective states can occur entirely because of stochastic effects. We introduce a framewo...

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

authors： Kolpas A,Moehlis J,Kevrekidis IG

更新日期：2007-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:B-cell translocation gene 3 (BTG3) is a member of the antiproliferative BTG/ Transducer of ErbB2 gene family and is induced by genotoxic stress in a p53- and Checkpoint kinase 1 (CHK1)-dependent manner. Down-regulation of BTG3 has been observed in human cancers, suggesting that it plays an important role in tumor supp...

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

authors： Cheng YC,Lin TY,Shieh SY

更新日期：2013-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:While cells within tissues generate and sense 3D states of strain, the current understanding of the mechanics of fibrous extracellular matrices (ECMs) stems mainly from uniaxial, biaxial, and shear tests. Here, we demonstrate that the multiaxial deformations of fiber networks in 3D cannot be inferred solely based on t...

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

authors： Ban E,Wang H,Franklin JM,Liphardt JT,Janmey PA,Shenoy VB

更新日期：2019-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently have shown that mice deficient for the 86-kDa component (Ku80) of the DNA-dependent protein kinase exhibit growth retardation and a profound deficiency in V(D)J (variable, diversity, and joining) recombination. These defects may be related to abnormalities in DNA metabolism that arise from the inability of...

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

authors： Nussenzweig A,Sokol K,Burgman P,Li L,Li GC

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The topology of the tight junction is probed by introducing dipicrylamine (dpa-), a lipid-soluble anion, into the membranes of hepatocyte pairs in culture. Once partitioned into the membrane, dpa- ions are free to move in the hydrophobic core of the membrane, where their mobile charges greatly increase membrane capaci...

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

authors： Turin L,Béhé P,Plonsky I,Dunina-Barkovskaya A

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple paleoclimate proxies are required for robust assessment of past hydroclimatic conditions. Currently, estimates of drought variability over the past several thousand years are based largely on tree-ring records. We produced a 1,500-y record of winter precipitation in the Pacific Northwest using a physical mode...

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

authors： Steinman BA,Abbott MB,Mann ME,Stansell ND,Finney BP

更新日期：2012-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Two pools of heparan sulfate proteoglycans have been selectively solubilized from rat liver plasma membranes by successive incubations with heparin and detergent. The two populations of proteoglycans have similar polyanionic properties as indicated by identical elution positions on ion-exchange chromatography on DEAE-...

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

authors： Kjellén L,Pettersson I,Höök M

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using short-term cultures of hamster embryo cells, we have examined the effects of the free-radical scavenger superoxide dismutase (superoxide:superoxide oxidoreductase, EC 1.15.1.1) and the enzyme catalase (hydrogen-peroxide:hydrogenperoxide oxidoreductase, EC 1.11.1.6) on x-ray- and bleomycin-induced transformation ...

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

authors： Borek C,Troll W

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excessive activation of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP1) leads to NAD(+) depletion and cell death during ischemia and other conditions that generate extensive DNA damage. When activated by DNA strand breaks, PARP1 uses NAD(+) as substrate to form ADP-ribose polymers on specific acceptor proteins. These polymers a...

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

authors： Ying W,Sevigny MB,Chen Y,Swanson RA

更新日期：2001-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant human migration inhibitory factor (MIF), isolated through functional expression cloning in COS-1 cells, up-regulates expression of genes encoding HLA-DR and interleukin 1 beta (IL-1 beta) and elaboration of IL-1 beta by human monocyte-derived macrophages. Administration of soluble bovine serum albumin or h...

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

authors： Weiser WY,Pozzi LM,Titus RG,David JR

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Left-right (LR) asymmetry (handedness, chirality) is a well-conserved biological property of critical importance to normal development. Changes in orientation of the LR axis due to genetic or environmental factors can lead to malformations and disease. While the LR asymmetry of organs and whole organisms has been exte...

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

authors： Wan LQ,Ronaldson K,Park M,Taylor G,Zhang Y,Gimble JM,Vunjak-Novakovic G

更新日期：2011-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Simulations with a regional chemical transport model show that anthropogenic emissions of volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides (NO(x) = NO + NO(2)) lead to a dramatic diurnal variation of surface ozone (O(3)) in Houston, Texas. During the daytime, photochemical oxidation of volatile organic compounds catalyz...

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

authors： Zhang R,Lei W,Tie X,Hess P

更新日期：2004-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:By indirect immunofluorescence techniques, microtubules and mitochondria were localized in normal rat kidney cells, human WI38 fibroblasts, mouse peritoneal macrophages, and a putative smooth muscle rat cell line, in monolayer culture. The mitochondria were found to be arranged along the cytoplasmic microtubules in ea...

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

authors： Heggeness MH,Simon M,Singer SJ

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The motor protein cytoplasmic dynein is responsible for most of the minus-end-directed microtubule traffic within cells. Dynein contains four evolutionarily conserved AAA (ATPase associated with various cellular activities) domains that are thought to bind nucleotide; the role of nucleotide binding and hydrolysis in e...

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

authors： Reck-Peterson SL,Vale RD

更新日期：2004-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, mutations in either of two unlinked genes, RAM1 or RAM2, abolish the farnesyltransferase activity responsible for prenylation of Ras proteins and the a-factor mating pheromone. Here we report that the function of RAM1 and RAM2 genes is required for the membrane localization of Ra...

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

authors： He B,Chen P,Chen SY,Vancura KL,Michaelis S,Powers S

更新日期：1991-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Donor DNA molecules carrying Tn1 or Tn3 deletion mutants do not need to replicate in order to participate in replicon fusion recombination events during which the Tn1/Tn3 element is duplicated. We have assayed Tn1 delta Ap-mediated replicon fusion events involving plasmid R388 and the bacteriophage lambda-derived plas...

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

authors： Muster CJ,Shapiro JA,MacHattie LA

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the interaction of ethanol with the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)ergic system in neurons of slices of the rat central amygdala nucleus (CeA), a brain region thought to be critical for the reinforcing effects of ethanol. Brief superfusion of 11-66 mM ethanol significantly increased GABA type A (GABA(A)) re...

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

authors： Roberto M,Madamba SG,Moore SD,Tallent MK,Siggins GR

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Fermions need to satisfy the Pauli exclusion principle: no two can be in the same state. This restriction is most compactly expressed in a second quantization formalism by the requirement that the creation and annihilation operators of the electrons satisfy anticommutation relations. The usual classical limit of quant...

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

authors： Levine RD

更新日期：2000-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) is a tumor suppressor that is inactivated in many human cancers. PTEN loss has been associated with resistance to inhibitors of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), but the molecular basis of this resistance is unclear. It is believed that unopposed phosphatidylinosito...

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

authors： Vivanco I,Rohle D,Versele M,Iwanami A,Kuga D,Oldrini B,Tanaka K,Dang J,Kubek S,Palaskas N,Hsueh T,Evans M,Mulholland D,Wolle D,Rajasekaran S,Rajasekaran A,Liau LM,Cloughesy TF,Dikic I,Brennan C,Wu H,Mischel PS,

更新日期：2010-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:An extracellular matrix protein, cytotactin, with widespread tissue distribution has been identified, isolated, and partially characterized. Cytotactin mediates glia-neuron adhesion in vitro, but unlike Ng-CAM, the neuron-glia cell-adhesion molecule, it is absent from neurons. Cytotactin was isolated from 14-day embry...

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

authors： Grumet M,Hoffman S,Crossin KL,Edelman GM

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene-transfer approach was used to explore the function of the BCL2 (B-cell lymphoma/leukemia 2) gene in a human T-cell line, Jurkat. Though stable introduction of a BCL2 expression plasmid into Jurkat T cells was by itself insufficient, the combined transfer of BCL2 and MYC genes markedly enhanced the tumorigenicit...

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

authors： Reed JC,Cuddy M,Haldar S,Croce C,Nowell P,Makover D,Bradley K

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 16 (IL-16) is a chemotactic cytokine that binds to the CD4 receptor and affects the activation of T cells and replication of HIV. It is expressed as a large 67-kDa precursor protein (pro-IL-16) in lymphocytes, macrophages, and mast cells, as well as in airway epithelial cells from asthmatics after challeng...

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

authors： Bannert N,Avots A,Baier M,Serfling E,Kurth R

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The second structure of a eukaryotic RNA polymerase II so far determined, that of the enzyme from the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, is reported here. Comparison with the previous structure of the enzyme from the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveals differences in regions implicated in start site s...

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

authors： Spåhr H,Calero G,Bushnell DA,Kornberg RD

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional digital computers can execute advanced operations by a sequence of elementary Boolean functions of 2 or more bits. As a result, complicated tasks such as solving a linear system or solving a differential equation require a large number of computing steps and an extensive use of memory units to store indiv...

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

authors： Sun Z,Pedretti G,Ambrosi E,Bricalli A,Wang W,Ielmini D

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Class I gene products D, L, and R encoded by the D region of the H-2q haplotype were isolated by sequential immunoprecipitation from Nonidet P-40 extracts of B10.AKM murine spleen cells. Primary structural comparisons of these molecules were made by tryptic peptide map analyses and radiochemical amino acid sequence de...

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

authors： Lillehoj EP,Hansen TH,Sachs DH,Coligan JE

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Access to robust and information-rich human cardiac tissue models would accelerate drug-based strategies for treating heart disease. Despite significant effort, the generation of high-fidelity adult-like human cardiac tissue analogs remains challenging. We used computational modeling of tissue contraction and assembly...

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

authors： Thavandiran N,Dubois N,Mikryukov A,Massé S,Beca B,Simmons CA,Deshpande VS,McGarry JP,Chen CS,Nanthakumar K,Keller GM,Radisic M,Zandstra PW

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:There is considerable evidence that links the activation of cellular genes to oncogenesis. We previously reported that structural rearrangements in the cellular oncogene c-erbB correlate with the development of erythroblastosis induced by avian leukosis virus (ALV). c-erbB recently has been shown to be related to the ...

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

authors： Raines MA,Lewis WG,Crittenden LB,Kung HJ

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00