Internal Ca2+ mobilization is altered in fibroblasts from patients with Alzheimer disease.

abstract：:The Alu element has been a major source of new exons during primate evolution. Thousands of human genes contain spliced exons derived from Alu elements. However, identifying Alu exons that have acquired genuine biological functions remains a major challenge. We investigated the creation and establishment of Alu exons ...

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

authors： Shen S,Lin L,Cai JJ,Jiang P,Kenkel EJ,Stroik MR,Sato S,Davidson BL,Xing Y

更新日期：2011-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The E26 transformation-specific (Ets-1) transcription factor is autoinhibited by a conformationally disordered serine-rich region (SRR) that transiently interacts with its DNA-binding ETS domain. In response to calcium signaling, autoinhibition is reinforced by calmodulin-dependent kinase II phosphorylation of serines...

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

authors： Desjardins G,Meeker CA,Bhachech N,Currie SL,Okon M,Graves BJ,McIntosh LP

更新日期：2014-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared folding properties of designed protein Top7 and natural protein S6 by using coarse-grained chain models with a mainly native-centric construct that accounted also for nonnative hydrophobic interactions and desolvation barriers. Top7 and S6 have similar secondary structure elements and are approximately equ...

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

authors： Zhang Z,Chan HS

更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a simple yet powerful technique for delineating the morphological events of tumor-induced angiogenesis and other tumor-induced host processes with dual-color fluorescence. The method clearly images implanted tumors and adjacent stroma, distinguishing unambiguously the host and tumor-specific componen...

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

authors： Yang M,Li L,Jiang P,Moossa AR,Penman S,Hoffman RM

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenovirus (Ad) vectors have been extensively used to deliver recombinant genes to a great variety of cell types in vitro and in vivo. Ad-based vectors are available that replace the Ad early region 1 (E1) with recombinant foreign genes. The resultant E1-deleted vectors can then be propagated on 293 cells, a human emb...

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

authors： Amalfitano A,Begy CR,Chamberlain JS

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:I reject the Darwinian assumption that larvae and their adults evolved from a single common ancestor. Rather I posit that, in animals that metamorphose, the basic types of larvae originated as adults of different lineages, i.e., larvae were transferred when, through hybridization, their genomes were acquired by distan...

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

authors： Williamson DI

更新日期：2009-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The hippocampus and cerebellum are critically involved in trace eyeblink classical conditioning (EBCC). The mechanisms underlying the hippocampal-cerebellar interaction during this task are not well-understood, although hippocampal theta (3-7 Hz) oscillations are known to reflect a favorable state for EBCC. Two groups...

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

authors： Hoffmann LC,Berry SD

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Germ-line stem cells (GSCs) are maintained by the somatic microenvironment, or GSC niche, which ensures that GSCs can both self-renew and produce functional gametes. However, it remains unclear how the proper niche size and location are regulated within the developing gonads. In the Drosophila testis, the hub cells th...

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

authors： Kitadate Y,Kobayashi S

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpesvirus entry into cells requires the coordinated action of multiple virus envelope glycoproteins, including gH, gL, and gB. For EBV, the gp42 protein assembles into complexes with gHgL heterodimers and binds HLA class II to activate gB-mediated membrane fusion with B cells. EBV tropism is dictated by gp42 levels ...

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

authors： Sathiyamoorthy K,Jiang J,Möhl BS,Chen J,Zhou ZH,Longnecker R,Jardetzky TS

更新日期：2017-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:GLQ223 is a highly purified, formulated preparation of trichosanthin, a 26-kDa plant-derived ribosome-inactivating protein with potent inhibitory activity against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in vitro. The compound produced concentration-dependent inhibition of HIV replication in acutely infected cultures of T-l...

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

authors： McGrath MS,Hwang KM,Caldwell SE,Gaston I,Luk KC,Wu P,Ng VL,Crowe S,Daniels J,Marsh J

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli AlkB protein protects against the cytotoxicity of methylating agents by repair of the DNA lesions 1-methyladenine and 3-methylcytosine, which are generated in single-stranded stretches of DNA. AlkB is an alpha-ketoglutarate- and Fe(II)-dependent dioxygenase that oxidizes the relevant methyl groups...

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

authors： Duncan T,Trewick SC,Koivisto P,Bates PA,Lindahl T,Sedgwick B

更新日期：2002-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Sinorhizobium meliloti is an alpha-proteobacterium that forms agronomically important N(2)-fixing root nodules in legumes. We report here the complete sequence of the largest constituent of its genome, a 62.7% GC-rich 3,654,135-bp circular chromosome. Annotation allowed assignment of a function to 59% of the 3,341 pre...

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

authors： Capela D,Barloy-Hubler F,Gouzy J,Bothe G,Ampe F,Batut J,Boistard P,Becker A,Boutry M,Cadieu E,Dréano S,Gloux S,Godrie T,Goffeau A,Kahn D,Kiss E,Lelaure V,Masuy D,Pohl T,Portetelle D,Pühler A,Purnelle B,Ramsper

更新日期：2001-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:T helper (Th) lymphocytes can develop memory for the expression of particular cytokines, like IL-4 or IL-10, in that reexpression of those cytokines is independent of the original costimulatory signal IL-4 and depends only on T cell receptor stimulation. Here, we show that in the course of Th2 cell differentiation in ...

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

authors： Löhning M,Richter A,Stamm T,Hu-Li J,Assenmacher M,Paul WE,Radbruch A

更新日期：2003-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose and test a theoretical perspective in which a universal hallmark of successful literacy acquisition is the convergence of the speech and orthographic processing systems onto a common network of neural structures, regardless of how spoken words are represented orthographically in a writing system. During fun...

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

authors： Rueckl JG,Paz-Alonso PM,Molfese PJ,Kuo WJ,Bick A,Frost SJ,Hancock R,Wu DH,Mencl WE,Duñabeitia JA,Lee JR,Oliver M,Zevin JD,Hoeft F,Carreiras M,Tzeng OJ,Pugh KR,Frost R

更新日期：2015-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor microenvironment restrains conventional T cell (Tconv) activation while facilitating the expansion of Tregs. Here we showed that Tregs' advantage in the tumor milieu relies on supplemental energetic routes involving lipid metabolism. In murine models, tumor-infiltrating Tregs displayed intracellular lipid ac...

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

authors： Pacella I,Procaccini C,Focaccetti C,Miacci S,Timperi E,Faicchia D,Severa M,Rizzo F,Coccia EM,Bonacina F,Mitro N,Norata GD,Rossetti G,Ranzani V,Pagani M,Giorda E,Wei Y,Matarese G,Barnaba V,Piconese S

更新日期：2018-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Competition for mates can be a major source of selection, not just on secondary sexual traits but across the genome. Mate competition strengthens selection on males via sexual selection, which typically favors healthy, vigorous individuals and, thus, all genetic variants that increase overall quality. However, recent ...

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

authors： Yun L,Chen PJ,Kwok KE,Angell CS,Rundle HD,Agrawal AF

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiotic recombination in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is initiated by programmed double-strand breaks at selected sites throughout the genome (hotspots). alpha-Hotspots are binding sites for transcription factors. Double-strand breaks at alpha-hotspots require binding of transcription factor but not high levels ...

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

authors： Abdullah MF,Borts RH

更新日期：2001-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A Mr 35,000 calmodulin-binding protein, which also possesses the ability to interact with a number of cytoskeletal elements, was purified from bovine synaptosomal membranes, using hydroxylapatite and phosphocellulose column chromatography. We call this protein "cytosynalin," which is derived from a combination of the ...

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

authors： Sobue K,Okabe T,Kadowaki K,Itoh K,Tanaka T,Fujio Y

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How cells achieve their final sizes is a pervasive biological question. One strategy to increase cell size is for the cell to amplify its chromosomal DNA content through endoreduplication cycles. Although endoreduplication is widespread in eukaryotes, we know very little about its molecular mechanisms. Successful prog...

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

authors： Sugimoto-Shirasu K,Roberts GR,Stacey NJ,McCann MC,Maxwell A,Roberts K

更新日期：2005-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The conserved Ndc80 complex is an essential microtubule-binding component of the kinetochore. Recent findings suggest that the Ndc80 complex influences microtubule dynamics at kinetochores in vivo. However, it was unclear if the Ndc80 complex mediates these effects directly, or by affecting other factors localized at ...

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

authors： Umbreit NT,Gestaut DR,Tien JF,Vollmar BS,Gonen T,Asbury CL,Davis TN

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used X-ray diffraction on the rhombohedral phospholipid phase to reconstruct stalk structures in different pure lipids and lipid mixtures with unprecedented resolution, enabling a quantitative analysis of geometry, as well as curvature and hydration energies. Electron density isosurfaces are used to study shap...

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

authors： Aeffner S,Reusch T,Weinhausen B,Salditt T

更新日期：2012-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Dyskeratosis congenita is a rare inherited disorder characterized by abnormal skin manifestations. Morbidity and mortality from this disease is usually due to bone marrow failure, but idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and an increased cancer predisposition also occur. Families with autosomal dominant dyskeratosis congenit...

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

authors： Armanios M,Chen JL,Chang YP,Brodsky RA,Hawkins A,Griffin CA,Eshleman JR,Cohen AR,Chakravarti A,Hamosh A,Greider CW

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most Gram-positive bacteria, serine-46-phosphorylated HPr (P-Ser-HPr) controls the expression of numerous catabolic genes ( approximately 10% of their genome) by acting as catabolite corepressor. HPr kinase/phosphorylase (HprK/P), the bifunctional sensor enzyme for catabolite repression, phosphorylates HPr, a phosp...

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

authors： Mijakovic I,Poncet S,Galinier A,Monedero V,Fieulaine S,Janin J,Nessler S,Marquez JA,Scheffzek K,Hasenbein S,Hengstenberg W,Deutscher J

更新日期：2002-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Light chains were obtained from IgG rabbit antibodies to the group-specific carbohydrates of groups A and C streptococci. An analysis of the amino acid alternatives which exist at the first three positions of the N-terminus in both light-chain preparations shows a marked restriction in amino acid sequence heterogeneit...

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

authors： Hood L,Lackland H,Eichman K,Kindt TJ,Braun DG,Krause RM

更新日期：1969-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian intestinal epithelium undergoes continuous and rapid renewal of its four principal terminally differentiated cell types. These cells arise from multipotent stem cells located at or near the base of the crypts of Lieberkühn. The differentiation process is precisely organized along two spatial dimensions (...

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

authors： Roth KA,Gordon JI

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated cold-sensitive mutations in two genes of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, BIN2 and BIN3, that cause aberrant chromosome segregation in vivo. BIN2 and BIN3 encode essential proteins that are similar to each other and to TCP-1. TCP-1 and TCP-1-like proteins are components of the eukaryotic cytoplasmi...

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

authors： Chen X,Sullivan DS,Huffaker TC

更新日期：1994-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the electrophoretic transport of single-stranded RNA molecules through 1.5-nm-wide pores of carbon nanotube membranes by molecular dynamics simulations. From approximately 170 individual RNA translocation events analyzed at full atomic resolution of solvent, membrane, and RNA, we identify key factors in membr...

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

authors： Yeh IC,Hummer G

更新日期：2004-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Duplication of genomic segments provides a primary resource for the origin of evolutionary novelties. However, most previous studies have focused on duplications of complete protein-coding genes, whereas little is known about the significance of duplication segments that are entirely internal to genes. Our examination...

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

authors： Gao X,Lynch M

更新日期：2009-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue virus (DENV) is the most prevalent human vector-borne viral disease. The force of infection (FoI), the rate at which susceptible individuals are infected in a population, is an important metric for infectious disease modeling. Understanding how and why the FoI of DENV changes over time is critical for developin...

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

authors： Katzelnick LC,Ben-Shachar R,Mercado JC,Rodriguez-Barraquer I,Elizondo D,Arguello S,Nuñez A,Ojeda S,Sanchez N,Lopez Mercado B,Gresh L,Burger-Calderon R,Kuan G,Gordon A,Balmaseda A,Harris E

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The early detection of pathogens with epidemic potential is of major importance to public health. Most emerging infections result in dead-end "spillover" events in which a pathogen is transmitted from an animal reservoir to a human but is unable to achieve the sustained human-to-human transmission necessary for a full...

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

authors： Geoghegan JL,Senior AM,Di Giallonardo F,Holmes EC

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00