Targeted deletion in astrocyte intermediate filament (Gfap) alters neuronal physiology.

abstract：:Domesticated animals formed an important element of farming practices in prehistoric Britain, a fact revealed through the quantity and variety of animal bone typically found at archaeological sites. However, it is not known whether the ruminant animals were raised purely for their tissues (e.g., meat) or alternatively...

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

authors： Copley MS,Berstan R,Dudd SN,Docherty G,Mukherjee AJ,Straker V,Payne S,Evershed RP

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells react to extremely small numbers of activating agonist peptides. Spatial organization of T-cell receptors (TCR) and their peptide-major histocompatibility complex (pMHC) ligands into microclusters is correlated with T-cell activation. Here we have designed an experimental strategy that enables control over the...

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

authors： Manz BN,Jackson BL,Petit RS,Dustin ML,Groves J

更新日期：2011-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the GABA(A) receptor gamma2 subunit are associated with childhood absence epilepsy and febrile seizures. To understand better the molecular basis of absence epilepsy in man, we developed a mouse model harboring a gamma2 subunit point mutation (R43Q) found in a large Australian family. Mice heterozygous fo...

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

authors： Tan HO,Reid CA,Single FN,Davies PJ,Chiu C,Murphy S,Clarke AL,Dibbens L,Krestel H,Mulley JC,Jones MV,Seeburg PH,Sakmann B,Berkovic SF,Sprengel R,Petrou S

更新日期：2007-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The skeletal muscle L-type Ca2+ channel is a complex of five subunits that is specifically localized in the triad. Its primary function is the rapid activation of Ca2+ release from cytoplasmic stores in a process called excitation-contraction coupling. To study the role of alpha1S-beta1a interactions in the incorporat...

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

authors： Neuhuber B,Gerster U,Döring F,Glossmann H,Tanabe T,Flucher BE

更新日期：1998-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein synthesis has an overall error rate of approximately 10(-4) for each mRNA codon translated. The fidelity of translation is mainly determined by two events: synthesis of cognate amino acid:tRNA pairs by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRSs) and accurate selection of aminoacyl-tRNAs (aa-tRNAs) by the ribosome. To e...

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

authors： Reynolds NM,Ling J,Roy H,Banerjee R,Repasky SE,Hamel P,Ibba M

更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of a specialized herbivore to overcome the chemical defense of a particular plant taxon not only makes it accessible as a food source but may also provide metabolites to be exploited for communication or chemical defense. Phyllotreta flea beetles are adapted to crucifer plants (Brassicales) that are defend...

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

authors： Beran F,Pauchet Y,Kunert G,Reichelt M,Wielsch N,Vogel H,Reinecke A,Svatoš A,Mewis I,Schmid D,Ramasamy S,Ulrichs C,Hansson BS,Gershenzon J,Heckel DG

更新日期：2014-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that supercoiling of a DNA trefoil, the simplest knotted ring, perturbs differently the spatial writhe of its two chiral forms. As a consequence, the negative-noded and positive-noded DNA trefoils can be resolved by gel electrophoresis. Analysis of the chirality of trefoils produced by cyclization of two linea...

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

authors： Shaw SY,Wang JC

更新日期：1997-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin acts as a potent inhibitory factor against obesity by regulating energy expenditure, food intake, and adiposity. The obese diabetic db/db mouse, which has defects in leptin receptor, displays enhanced neural responses and elevated behavioral preference to sweet stimuli. Here, we show the effects of leptin on th...

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

authors： Kawai K,Sugimoto K,Nakashima K,Miura H,Ninomiya Y

更新日期：2000-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-fos protooncogene is transcriptionally activated by a wide variety of agents including serum, growth factors, and phorbol esters. This induction is rapid and transient and is mediated through a number of identified promoter elements. Growth hormone (GH) is also known to induce transcription of c-fos in a variety...

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

authors： Meyer DJ,Stephenson EW,Johnson L,Cochran BH,Schwartz J

更新日期：1993-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The proapoptotic activity of the "BH3-only" molecule BAD can be differentially regulated by survival factor signaling. Bad-deficient mice lacking both BAD long and BAD short proteins proved viable, and most cell types appeared to develop normally. BAD did not exclusively account for cell death after withdrawal of surv...

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

authors： Ranger AM,Zha J,Harada H,Datta SR,Danial NN,Gilmore AP,Kutok JL,Le Beau MM,Greenberg ME,Korsmeyer SJ

更新日期：2003-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylation is a major mechanism regulating the activity of ion channels that remains poorly understood with respect to T-type calcium channels (Cav3). These channels are low voltage-activated calcium channels that play a key role in cellular excitability and various physiological functions. Their dysfunction has ...

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

authors： Blesneac I,Chemin J,Bidaud I,Huc-Brandt S,Vandermoere F,Lory P

更新日期：2015-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulated changes in gene expression underlie many biological processes, but globally profiling cell-to-cell variations in transcriptional regulation is problematic when measuring single cells. Transcriptome-wide identification of regulatory heterogeneities can be robustly achieved by randomly collecting small numbers...

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

authors： Bajikar SS,Fuchs C,Roller A,Theis FJ,Janes KA

更新日期：2014-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Size has a profound effect on the structure of the brain. Many brain structures scale allometrically, that is, their relative size changes systematically as a function of brain size. Here we use independent contrasts analysis to examine the scaling of frontal cortex in 43 species of mammals including 25 primates and 1...

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

authors： Bush EC,Allman JM

更新日期：2004-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The Raf-1 serine/threonine kinase is a key protein involved in the transmission of many growth and developmental signals. In this report, we show that autoinhibition mediated by the noncatalytic, N-terminal regulatory region of Raf-1 is an important mechanism regulating Raf-1 function. The inhibition of the regulatory...

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

authors： Cutler RE Jr,Stephens RM,Saracino MR,Morrison DK

更新日期：1998-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer RNA is one of the most richly modified biological molecules. Biosynthetic pathways that introduce these modifications are underexplored, largely because their absence does not lead to obvious phenotypes under normal growth conditions. Queuosine (Q) is a hypermodified base found in the wobble positions of tRNA...

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

authors： Miles ZD,McCarty RM,Molnar G,Bandarian V

更新日期：2011-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The λ exonuclease is an ATP-independent enzyme that binds to dsDNA ends and processively digests the 5'-ended strand to form 5' mononucleotides and a long 3' overhang. The crystal structure of λ exonuclease revealed a toroidal homotrimer with a central funnel-shaped channel for tracking along the DNA, and a mechanism ...

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

authors： Zhang J,McCabe KA,Bell CE

更新日期：2011-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans readily form social impressions, such as attractiveness and trustworthiness, from a stranger's facial features. Understanding the provenance of these impressions has clear scientific importance and societal implications. Motivated by the efficient coding hypothesis of brain representation, as well as Claude Sha...

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

authors： Ryali CK,Goffin S,Winkielman P,Yu AJ

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeting neuroendocrine tumors expressing somatostatin receptor subtypes (sst) with radiolabeled somatostatin agonists is an established diagnostic and therapeutic approach in oncology. While agonists readily internalize into tumor cells, permitting accumulation of radioactivity, radiolabeled antagonists do not, and ...

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

authors： Ginj M,Zhang H,Waser B,Cescato R,Wild D,Wang X,Erchegyi J,Rivier J,Mäcke HR,Reubi JC

更新日期：2006-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Asymmetric epoxidation of various styrenes using carbocyclic oxazolidinone-containing ketone 3 has been investigated. High enantioselectivity (89-93% enantiomeric excess) has been attained for this challenging class of alkenes. Mechanistic studies show that substituents on the ketone catalyst can have electronic influ...

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

authors： Hickey M,Goeddel D,Crane Z,Shi Y

更新日期：2004-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Human brain functional networks are embedded in anatomical space and have topological properties--small-worldness, modularity, fat-tailed degree distributions--that are comparable to many other complex networks. Although a sophisticated set of measures is available to describe the topology of brain networks, the selec...

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

authors： Vértes PE,Alexander-Bloch AF,Gogtay N,Giedd JN,Rapoport JL,Bullmore ET

更新日期：2012-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The fatty acids associated with phospholipids of cell membranes, and particularly their degree of unsaturation, contribute to the fluidity of their structure and hance determine many of their biological properties. We describe a technique for modulating membrane fluidity which consists of hydrogenating the unsaturated...

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

authors： Chapman D,Quinn PJ

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polypeptide composition of the phycobilisome, the major light-harvesting complex of prokaryotic cyanobacteria and certain eukaryotic algae, can be modulated by different light qualities in cyanobacteria exhibiting chromatic adaptation. We have identified genomic fragments encoding a cluster of phycobilisome polype...

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

authors： Conley PB,Lemaux PG,Lomax TL,Grossman AR

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma-Glutamyl transpeptidase, which consists of two nonidentical subunits, is rapidly inactivated with respect to its transpeptidase and hydrolase activities by the gamma-glutamyl analogs 6-diazo-5-oxo-L-norleucine and L-azaserine. Inactivation, which is prevented by gamma-glutamyl substrates (but not by acceptor sub...

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

authors： Tate SS,Meister A

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The redox siblings nitroxyl (HNO) and nitric oxide (NO) have often been assumed to undergo casual redox reactions in biological systems. However, several recent studies have demonstrated distinct pharmacological effects for donors of these two species. Here, infusion of the HNO donor Angeli's salt into normal dogs res...

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

authors： Miranda KM,Paolocci N,Katori T,Thomas DD,Ford E,Bartberger MD,Espey MG,Kass DA,Feelisch M,Fukuto JM,Wink DA

更新日期：2003-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease characterized by insulitis and islet β-cell loss. Thus, an effective therapy may require β-cell restoration and immune suppression. Currently, there is no treatment that can achieve both goals efficiently. We report here that GABA exerts antidiabetic effects by acting on ...

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

authors： Soltani N,Qiu H,Aleksic M,Glinka Y,Zhao F,Liu R,Li Y,Zhang N,Chakrabarti R,Ng T,Jin T,Zhang H,Lu WY,Feng ZP,Prud'homme GJ,Wang Q

更新日期：2011-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:By commandeering cellular translation initiation factors, or destroying those dispensable for viral mRNA translation, viruses often suppress host protein synthesis. In contrast, cellular protein synthesis proceeds in human cytomegalovirus (HCMV)-infected cells, forcing viral and cellular mRNAs to compete for limiting ...

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

authors： McKinney C,Perez C,Mohr I

更新日期：2012-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic psychosocial stress/trauma represents an increasing burden in our modern society and a risk factor for the development of mental disorders, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD, in turn, is highly comorbid with a plethora of inflammatory disorders and has been associated with increased bone fra...

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

authors： Haffner-Luntzer M,Foertsch S,Fischer V,Prystaz K,Tschaffon M,Mödinger Y,Bahney CS,Marcucio RS,Miclau T,Ignatius A,Reber SO

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamics of Helicobacter pylori colonization from its acquisition through the development of steady-state are examined through a mathematical model that includes the host response. The model encompasses both host and microbiological variation. The individual capacity of the host response is shown to be a key model...

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

authors： Blaser MJ,Kirschner D

更新日期：1999-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A longstanding problem in the social, biological, and computational sciences is to determine how groups of distributed individuals can form intelligent collective judgments. Since Galton's discovery of the "wisdom of crowds" [Galton F (1907) Nature 75:450-451], theories of collective intelligence have suggested that t...

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

authors： Becker J,Brackbill D,Centola D

更新日期：2017-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We noticed that disease-related amyloidogenic proteins and especially cellular prion proteins have the highest proportion of incompletely desolvated backbone H bonds among soluble proteins. Such bonds are vulnerable to water attack and thus represent structural weaknesses. We have measured the adsorption of proteins o...

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

authors： Fernández A,Berry RS

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00