Convergent evolution of apolipoprotein(a) in primates and hedgehog.

abstract：:The cat tongue is covered in sharp, rear-facing spines called papillae, the precise function of which is a mystery. In this combined experimental and theoretical study, we use high-speed film, grooming force measurements, and computed tomography (CT) scanning to elucidate the mechanism by which papillae are used to gr...

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

authors： Noel AC,Hu DL

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is a disorder of iron metabolism caused by common mutations in the gene HFE. The HFE protein binds to transferrin receptor-1 (TfR1) in competition with transferrin, and in vitro, reduces cellular iron by reducing iron uptake. However, in vivo, HFE is strongly expressed by liver macropha...

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

authors： Drakesmith H,Sweetland E,Schimanski L,Edwards J,Cowley D,Ashraf M,Bastin J,Townsend AR

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome of a thermophilic fungus, Thermomyces lanuginosus, contains a tandemly arranged cluster of sequences that are approximately equal to 50% homologous with the cytoplasmic 5S RNA and that are selectable by hybridization techniques. Unlike typical pseudogenes, these sequences are not truncated; rather, they bea...

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

authors： Wong WM,Abrahamson JL,Nazar RN

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chicken ovalbumin upstream promoter-transcription factor (COUP-TF) genes encode transcription factors belonging to the orphan subfamily of the steroid/thyroid hormone receptor superfamily. Two COUP-TF counterparts have been cloned from mouse. In an attempt to study the function of these genes in the developing central...

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

authors： Qiu Y,Cooney AJ,Kuratani S,DeMayo FJ,Tsai SY,Tsai MJ

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-Jun NH(2)-terminal kinase (JNK) is activated when cells are exposed to environmental stress, including UV radiation. Gene disruption studies demonstrate that JNK is essential for UV-stimulated apoptosis mediated by the mitochondrial pathway by a Bax/Bak-dependent mechanism. Here, we demonstrate that JNK phosphor...

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

authors： Lei K,Davis RJ

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Lines containing two third-chromosome inversions (Arrowhead and Pikes Peak) of Drosophila pseudoobscura selected for fast and slow mating speed were crossed to a multichromosomal, dominant marker inversion stock, and strains with various combinations of chromosomal derivation were tested for their mating activity. Whe...

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

authors： Sherwin RN,Spiess EB

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theories of density-dependent natural selection predict that evolution should favor those genotypes with the highest per capita rates of population growth under the current density conditions. These theories are silent about the mechanisms that may give rise to these increases in density-dependent growth rates. We hav...

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

authors： Guo PZ,Mueller LD,Ayala FJ

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major challenge in research on executive control is to reveal its functional decomposition into underlying neural mechanisms. A typical assumption is that this decomposition occurs solely through anatomically based dissociations. Here we tested an alternative hypothesis that different cognitive control processes may...

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

authors： Braver TS,Paxton JL,Locke HS,Barch DM

更新日期：2009-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that phytoliths are softer than dental enamel but still act as abrasive agents. Thus, phytolith content should be reflected in dental wear. Because native phytoliths show lower indentation hardness than phytoliths extracted by dry ashing, we propose that the hydration state of plant tissue wi...

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

authors： Winkler DE,Schulz-Kornas E,Kaiser TM,De Cuyper A,Clauss M,Tütken T

更新日期：2019-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular imbalance in the levels of antioxidants and reactive oxygen species resulting in apoptosis is directly associated with a number of parasitic infections, aging, and several genetic and multifactorial diseases. The baculovirus AcNPV-encoded antiapoptotic p35 gene prevents apoptosis induced by a variety of apopt...

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

authors： Sah NK,Taneja TK,Pathak N,Begum R,Athar M,Hasnain SE

更新日期：1999-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The hormone gibberellin (GA) is a key regulator of plant growth. Many of the components of the gibberellin signal transduction [e.g., GIBBERELLIN INSENSITIVE DWARF 1 (GID1) and DELLA], biosynthesis [e.g., GA 20-oxidase (GA20ox) and GA3ox], and deactivation pathways have been identified. Gibberellin binds its receptor,...

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

authors： Middleton AM,Úbeda-Tomás S,Griffiths J,Holman T,Hedden P,Thomas SG,Phillips AL,Holdsworth MJ,Bennett MJ,King JR,Owen MR

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Several polypeptides contained in the coat and the core of adenovirus type 2 particles have been identified as virus gene products. They are synthesized in vitro by a cell-free protein-making system programmed by adenovirus type 2 messenger RNA that has been hybridized with and eluted from virus DNA. Fractionation by ...

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

authors： Eron L,Westphal H

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi play crucial roles in the biogeochemistry of terrestrial ecosystems, most notably as saprophytes decomposing organic matter and as mycorrhizal fungi enhancing plant nutrient uptake. However, a recurrent problem in fungal ecology is to establish the trophic status of species in the field. Our interpretations and ...

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

authors： Högberg P,Plamboeck AH,Taylor AF,Fransson PM

更新日期：1999-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In the 7 years since dynamin was first isolated from bovine brain in search of novel microtubule-based motors, our understanding of this enzyme has expanded significantly. We now know that brain dynamin belongs to a family of large GTPases, which mediate vesicle trafficking. Furthermore, this enzymatic activity is mar...

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

authors： Urrutia R,Henley JR,Cook T,McNiven MA

更新日期：1997-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The second critical endpoint in the basalt-H(2)O system was directly determined by a high-pressure and high-temperature X-ray radiography technique. We found that the second critical endpoint occurs at around 3.4 GPa and 770 °C (corresponding to a depth of approximately 100 km in a subducting slab), which is much shal...

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

authors： Mibe K,Kawamoto T,Matsukage KN,Fei Y,Ono S

更新日期：2011-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The role played by postsynaptic alpha-adrenergic receptors in the stimulation of pineal N-acetyltransferase (EC 2.3.1.5) and [3H]melatonin production was investigated in the rat. In vivo studies indicated that phenylephrine, an alpha-adrenergic agonist, potentiated and prolonged the effects of isoproterenol, a beta-ad...

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

authors： Klein DC,Sugden D,Weller JL

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular activation of trypsinogen, which is both pH- and calcium-dependent, is an important early step in the development of acute pancreatitis. The cellular compartment in which trypsinogen activation occurs currently is unknown. We therefore investigated the site of intracellular trypsinogen activation by ...

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

authors： Sherwood MW,Prior IA,Voronina SG,Barrow SL,Woodsmith JD,Gerasimenko OV,Petersen OH,Tepikin AV

更新日期：2007-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Lissencephaly is a severe brain malformation in humans. To study the function of the gene mutated in lissencephaly (LIS1), we deleted the first coding exon from the mouse Lis1 gene. The deletion resulted in a shorter protein (sLIS1) that initiates from the second methionine, a unique situation because most LIS1 mutati...

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

authors： Cahana A,Escamez T,Nowakowski RS,Hayes NL,Giacobini M,von Holst A,Shmueli O,Sapir T,McConnell SK,Wurst W,Martinez S,Reiner O

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with chronic ulcerative colitis (UC) are at high risk for developing colorectal cancer. In this study, archival formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded colonic tissue from patients with UC who developed carcinoma (CA) or high-grade dysplasia (HGD) was examined for changes in expression of the proinflammatory and mit...

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

authors： Gillespie E,Leeman SE,Watts LA,Coukos JA,O'Brien MJ,Cerda SR,Farraye FA,Stucchi AF,Becker JM

更新日期：2011-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease caused by a glutamine expansion within huntingtin protein. The exact pathological mechanisms determining disease onset and progression remain unclear. However, aggregates of insoluble mutant huntingtin (mhtt), a hallmark of HD, are readily detected w...

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

authors： Chopra V,Fox JH,Lieberman G,Dorsey K,Matson W,Waldmeier P,Housman DE,Kazantsev A,Young AB,Hersch S

更新日期：2007-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin (5-HT) plays a critical role in modulating synaptic plasticity in the marine mollusc Aplysia and in the mammalian nervous system. In Aplysia sensory neurons, 5-HT can activate several signal cascades, including PKA and PKC, presumably via distinct types of G protein-coupled receptors. However, the molecular ...

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

authors： Lee YS,Choi SL,Lee SH,Kim H,Park H,Lee N,Lee SH,Chae YS,Jang DJ,Kandel ER,Kaang BK

更新日期：2009-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a high mortality in patients with diabetes and severe pressure ulcers. For example, chronic pressure sores of the heels often lead to limb loss in diabetic patients. A major factor underlying this is reduced neovascularization caused by impaired activity of the transcription factor hypoxia inducible factor-1 ...

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

authors： Duscher D,Neofytou E,Wong VW,Maan ZN,Rennert RC,Inayathullah M,Januszyk M,Rodrigues M,Malkovskiy AV,Whitmore AJ,Walmsley GG,Galvez MG,Whittam AJ,Brownlee M,Rajadas J,Gurtner GC

更新日期：2015-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The 158,000 Mr protein, previously designated C5c, present in fully assembled complement (C) membrane attack complexes (MC5b-9) has been identified as a disulfide-bonded dimer of C9. This conclusion was based on the observations that: (i) a portion of the 125I-radiolabeled precursor C9 incorporated into MC5b-9 complex...

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

authors： Ware CF,Kolb WP

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A core operation in speech production is the preparation of words from a semantic base. The theory of lexical access reviewed in this article covers a sequence of processing stages beginning with the speaker's focusing on a target concept and ending with the initiation of articulation. The initial stages of preparatio...

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

authors： Levelt WJ

更新日期：2001-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic, relapsing myelitis has been induced in golden Syrian hamsters by the intracerebral inoculation of measles virus when the animals were less than 1 day old. No acute illness was seen in animals that developed myelitis, and the onset of the myelitis was at 5 to 50 weeks after infection. In most animals the illne...

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

authors： Carrigan DR,Johnson KP

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the LEF-1/TCF family of transcription factors have been implicated in mediating a nuclear response to Wnt signals by association with beta-catenin. Consistent with this view, mice carrying mutations in either the Wnt3a gene or in both transcription factor genes Lef1 and Tcf1 were previously found to show a ...

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

authors： Galceran J,Hsu SC,Grosschedl R

更新日期：2001-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a genome-wide analysis of gene expression in primary human CD15(+) myeloid progenitor cells. By using the serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) technique, we obtained quantitative information for the expression of 37,519 unique SAGE-tag sequences. Of these unique tags, (i) 25% were detected at high an...

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

authors： Lee S,Zhou G,Clark T,Chen J,Rowley JD,Wang SM

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Insects have diversified through more than 450 million y of Earth's changeable climate, yet rapidly shifting patterns of temperature and precipitation now pose novel challenges as they combine with decades of other anthropogenic stressors including the conversion and degradation of land. Here, we consider how insects ...

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

authors： Halsch CA,Shapiro AM,Fordyce JA,Nice CC,Thorne JH,Waetjen DP,Forister ML

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously proven that human macrophages can phagocytose porcine cells even in the absence of Ab or complement opsonization, indicating that macrophages present a pivotal immunological obstacle to xenotransplantation. A recent report indicates that the signal regulatory protein (SIRP)alpha is a critical immune...

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

authors： Ide K,Wang H,Tahara H,Liu J,Wang X,Asahara T,Sykes M,Yang YG,Ohdan H

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly(ADP ribose) polymerase inhibitors (PARPi) have efficacy in triple negative breast (TNBC) and ovarian cancers (OCs) harboring BRCA mutations, generating homologous recombination deficiencies (HRDs). DNA methyltransferase inhibitors (DNMTi) increase PARP trapping and reprogram the DNA damage response to generate HR...

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

authors： McLaughlin LJ,Stojanovic L,Kogan AA,Rutherford JL,Choi EY,Yen RC,Xia L,Zou Y,Lapidus RG,Baylin SB,Topper MJ,Rassool FV

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00