An extracellular signaling component in propagation of astrocytic calcium waves.

abstract：:To understand molecular interactions that organize developing myofibrils, we examined the biosynthesis and interaction of titin and myosin heavy chain in cultures of developing muscle. Use of pulse-labeling, immunoprecipitation, and a reversible cross-linking procedure demonstrates that within minutes of synthesis, ti...

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

authors： Isaacs WB,Kim IS,Struve A,Fulton AB

更新日期：1992-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) are known mainly for their secretion of type I IFN upon viral encounter. We describe a CD2hiCD5+CD81+ pDC subset, distinguished by prominent dendrites and a mature phenotype, in human blood, bone marrow, and tonsil, which can be generated from CD34+ progenitors. These CD2hiCD5+CD81+...

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

authors： Zhang H,Gregorio JD,Iwahori T,Zhang X,Choi O,Tolentino LL,Prestwood T,Carmi Y,Engleman EG

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Global change drivers (GCDs) are expected to alter community structure and consequently, the services that ecosystems provide. Yet, few experimental investigations have examined effects of GCDs on plant community structure across multiple ecosystem types, and those that do exist present conflicting patterns. In an unp...

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

authors： Komatsu KJ,Avolio ML,Lemoine NP,Isbell F,Grman E,Houseman GR,Koerner SE,Johnson DS,Wilcox KR,Alatalo JM,Anderson JP,Aerts R,Baer SG,Baldwin AH,Bates J,Beierkuhnlein C,Belote RT,Blair J,Bloor JMG,Bohlen PJ,Bork EW

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The preferential inactivation of the paternal X chromosome in extraembryonic cells during early mouse development is an example of parental imprinting, but it has not been studied at the transcriptional level because standard methods of measuring RNA levels do not allow detection of allele-specific RNAs in individual ...

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

authors： Singer-Sam J,Chapman V,LeBon JM,Riggs AD

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of a recently synthesized photolabile chelator for divalent cations are described, the affinity of which for Ca2+ changes by some 5 orders of magnitude on illumination. The compound 1-(2-nitro-4,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-N,N,N',N'-tetrakis[(oxycarbonyl)me thyl]-1,2-ethanediamine (DM-nitrophen) binds Ca2+ (Kd a...

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

authors： Kaplan JH,Ellis-Davies GC

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of carbon in Earth's mantle greatly exceeds its modest abundance of approximately 1,000-4,000 ppm. Carbon is a constituent of key terrestrial volatiles (CO, CO(2), CH(4)), it forms diamonds, and it may also contribute to the bulk electrical properties of the silicate Earth. In contrast to that of the ma...

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

authors： Hayden LA,Watson EB

更新日期：2008-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular granules in several types of leukocytes contain preformed proteins whose secretions contribute to immune and inflammatory functions of leukocytes, including eosinophils, cells notably associated with asthma, allergic inflammation, and helminthic infections. Cytokines and chemokines typically elicit extra...

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

authors： Neves JS,Perez SA,Spencer LA,Melo RC,Reynolds L,Ghiran I,Mahmudi-Azer S,Odemuyiwa SO,Dvorak AM,Moqbel R,Weller PF

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fas/APO-1 cytotoxic pathway plays an important role in the regulation of peripheral immunity. Recent evidence indicates that this regulatory function operates through deletion of activated T and B lymphocytes by CD4+ T cells expressing the Fas ligand. Because macrophages play a key role in peripheral immunity, we ...

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

authors： Ashany D,Song X,Lacy E,Nikolic-Zugic J,Friedman SM,Elkon KB

更新日期：1995-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of myelin by Schwann cells (SCs) occurs via a series of orchestrated molecular events. We previously used global expression profiling to examine peripheral nerve myelination and identified the NAD(+)-dependent deacetylase Sir-two-homolog 2 (Sirt2) as a protein likely to be involved in myelination. Here, ...

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

authors： Beirowski B,Gustin J,Armour SM,Yamamoto H,Viader A,North BJ,Michán S,Baloh RH,Golden JP,Schmidt RE,Sinclair DA,Auwerx J,Milbrandt J

更新日期：2011-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) glutamate receptor-mediated increases in intracellular calcium are thought to play a critical role in synaptic plasticity. The mechanisms by which changes in cytoplasmic calcium transmit the glutamate signal to the nucleus, which is ultimately important for long-lasting neuronal responses, ...

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

authors： Yun HY,Gonzalez-Zulueta M,Dawson VL,Dawson TM

更新日期：1998-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Charybdotoxin (ChTX), a K+ channel blocker, depolarizes human peripheral T lymphocytes and renders them insensitive to activation by mitogen. We observed four types of K+ channels in human T cells: one voltage-activated, and three Ca(2+)-activated. To discern the mechanism by which ChTX depolarizes T cells, we examine...

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

authors： Leonard RJ,Garcia ML,Slaughter RS,Reuben JP

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Arabidopsis thaliana AtHKT1 protein, a Na(+)/K(+) transporter, is capable of mediating inward Na(+) currents in Xenopus laevis oocytes and K(+) uptake in Escherichia coli. HKT1 proteins are members of a superfamily of K(+) transporters. These proteins have been proposed to contain eight transmembrane segments and ...

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

authors： Kato Y,Sakaguchi M,Mori Y,Saito K,Nakamura T,Bakker EP,Sato Y,Goshima S,Uozumi N

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1999, the population of Vancouver Island, Canada, began to experience an outbreak of a fatal fungal disease caused by a highly virulent lineage of Cryptococcus gattii. This organism has recently spread to the Canadian mainland and Pacific Northwest, but the molecular cause of the outbreak remains unknown. Here we s...

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

authors： Ma H,Hagen F,Stekel DJ,Johnston SA,Sionov E,Falk R,Polacheck I,Boekhout T,May RC

更新日期：2009-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of cell surface immunoglobulin in helper T-cell-dependent B-cell activation was analyzed using a B-cell lymphoma, CH12, with known antigen specificity and activation properties similar to those of a resting B cell. Two sources of helper T cells were used, both selected such that they interact with H-2-encoded...

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

authors： LoCascio NJ,Haughton G,Arnold LW,Corley RB

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic manipulation of nitrogenase and key glutamate-forming enzymes can provide mutants that excrete fixed N2 as NH4+. A derepressed N2 fxation mutant (SK-24) has been isolated , which excretes up to 20.2 mumol of fixed N2 as NH4+ per mg of cell protein in 24 hr at room temperature. Biochemical analysis shows that t...

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

authors： Shanmugam KT,Valentine RC

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several lines of evidence suggest that the mixed lineage leukemia protein (MLL, ALL-1, HRX) plays a role in regulating myelomonocytic differentiation. In this study we examined the effect of expression of MLL-AF9 on differentiation of the monoblastic U937 cell line by using a tetracycline-inducible expression system. ...

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

authors： Caslini C,Shilatifard A,Yang L,Hess JL

更新日期：2000-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents some calculated results on the vibrational structuring of the magnetic circular dichroism of the benzene (1)A(1g)"(1)B(2u) transition. The good agreement between the experimental and calculated relative intensities of the B-bands (positive magnetic circular dichroism bands) indicates that these ban...

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

authors： Shieh DJ,Lin SH,Eyring H

更新日期：1972-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear lamina is a network of structural filaments, the A and B type lamins, located at the nuclear envelope and throughout the nucleus. Lamin filaments provide the nucleus with mechanical stability and support many basic activities, including gene regulation. Mutations in LMNA, the gene encoding A type lamins, c...

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

authors： Dahl KN,Scaffidi P,Islam MF,Yodh AG,Wilson KL,Misteli T

更新日期：2006-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Positional cloning has already produced the sequences of more than 70 human genes associated with specific diseases. In addition to their medical importance, these genes are of interest as a set of human genes isolated solely on the basis of the phenotypic effect of the respective mutations. We analyzed the protein se...

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

authors： Mushegian AR,Bassett DE Jr,Boguski MS,Bork P,Koonin EV

更新日期：1997-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The POU-IV or "Brn-3" class of POU-domain transcription factors is represented in Drosophila by I-POU and twin-of-I-POU, alternative splice products of the I-POU gene. I-POU has been previously reported to inhibit DNA binding by the POU-III class factor drifter/Cf1a via the formation of heterodimeric complexes. Here w...

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

authors： Turner EE

更新日期：1996-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hawaiian Islands are renowned for some of the most spectacular species radiations in the world. Most of these radiations have been attributed to single colonization events, although the evidence supporting monophyletic origins is often poorly resolved and/or ambiguous. Without a concrete understanding of the origi...

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

authors： Gillespie RG,Croom HB,Palumbi SR

更新日期：1994-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Methionine sulfoxide reductase A (MsrA) catalyzes the reduction of methionine sulfoxide to methionine and is specific for the S epimer of methionine sulfoxide. The enzyme participates in defense against oxidative stresses by reducing methionine sulfoxide residues in proteins back to methionine. Because oxidation of me...

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

authors： Lim JC,You Z,Kim G,Levine RL

更新日期：2011-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell fusion was induced by brain extracts containing the scrapie virus and the virus of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The assay involved quantitation of colony-forming ability in a double selection system, strandardized against fusion induced by Sendai virus. Correlation between the logarithm of virus dilution and the hy...

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

authors： Kidson C,Moreau MC,Asher DM,Brown PW,Coon HG,Gajdusek DC,Gibbs CJ Jr

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of configurations, including all possible singly excited configurations, is incorporated into the calculation of oscillatory and rotatory intensities of simple nonplanar pi-electronic systems such as skewed butadiene and acrolein. The results are discussed in terms of the reliability of the (self-consi...

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

authors： Cheong KK,Oshita A,Caldwell DJ,Eyring H

更新日期：1970-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The suppressor of Hairy-wing [su(Hw)] protein exerts a polar effect on gene expression by repressing the function of transcriptional enhancers located distally from the promoter with respect to the location of su(Hw) binding sequences. The directionality of this effect suggests that the su(Hw) protein specifically int...

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

authors： Georgiev PG,Corces VG

更新日期：1995-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The human gamma herpesviruses, Kaposi sarcoma-associated virus (KSHV) and EBV, are associated with multiple cancers. Recent evidence suggests that EBV and possibly other viruses can manipulate the tumor microenvironment through the secretion of specific viral and cellular components into exosomes, small endocytically ...

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

authors： Meckes DG Jr,Gunawardena HP,Dekroon RM,Heaton PR,Edwards RH,Ozgur S,Griffith JD,Damania B,Raab-Traub N

更新日期：2013-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Transport of peptides across the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum for assembly with MHC class I molecules is an essential step in antigen presentation to cytotoxic T cells. This task is performed by the major histocompatibility complex-encoded transporter associated with antigen processing (TAP). Using a combinat...

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

authors： Uebel S,Kraas W,Kienle S,Wiesmüller KH,Jung G,Tampé R

更新日期：1997-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Most transmissible spongiform encephalopathies arise either spontaneously or by infection. Mutations of PRNP, which encodes the prion protein, PrP, segregate with phenotypically similar diseases. Here we report that moderate overexpression in transgenic mice of mPrP(170N,174T), a mouse PrP with two point mutations tha...

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

authors： Sigurdson CJ,Nilsson KP,Hornemann S,Heikenwalder M,Manco G,Schwarz P,Ott D,Rülicke T,Liberski PP,Julius C,Falsig J,Stitz L,Wüthrich K,Aguzzi A

更新日期：2009-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Mind wandering represents the human capacity for internally focused thought and relies upon the brain's default network and its interactions with attentional networks. Studies have characterized mind wandering in healthy people, yet there is limited understanding of how this capacity is affected in clinical population...

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

authors： O'Callaghan C,Shine JM,Hodges JR,Andrews-Hanna JR,Irish M

更新日期：2019-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Encoding activity in the medial temporal lobe, presumably evoked by the presentation of stimuli (postonset activity), is known to predict subsequent memory. However, several independent lines of research suggest that preonset activity also affects subsequent memory. We investigated the role of preonset and postonset s...

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

authors： Urgolites ZJ,Wixted JT,Goldinger SD,Papesh MH,Treiman DM,Squire LR,Steinmetz PN

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00