alpha-Synuclein in filamentous inclusions of Lewy bodies from Parkinson's disease and dementia with lewy bodies.

abstract：:The chemical dynamics of lakes and streams affect their suitability as aquatic habitats and as water supplies for human needs. Because water quality is typically monitored only weekly or monthly, however, the higher-frequency dynamics of stream chemistry have remained largely invisible. To illuminate a wider spectrum ...

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

authors： Kirchner JW,Neal C

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced serum testosterone (T), or hypogonadism, affects millions of men and is associated with many pathologies, including infertility, cardiovascular diseases, metabolic syndrome, and decreased libido and sexual function. Administering T-replacement therapy (TRT) reverses many of the symptoms associated with low T l...

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

authors： Li L,Li Y,Sottas C,Culty M,Fan J,Hu Y,Cheung G,Chemes HE,Papadopoulos V

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfated glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) such as heparan sulfate (HS) are heteropolysaccharides implicated in the pathology of protein aggregation diseases including localized and systemic forms of amyloidosis. Among subdomains of sulfated GAGs, highly sulfated domains of HS, called HS S-domains, have been highlighted as be...

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

authors： Iwahashi N,Ikezaki M,Nishikawa T,Namba N,Ohgita T,Saito H,Ihara Y,Shimanouchi T,Ino K,Uchimura K,Nishitsuji K

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:After exposure of segments of rabbit taenia coli to the nonionic detergent Triton X-100, tension could be induced by increasing the [Ca2+] in the micromolar range. In the presence of a saturating [Ca2+], this preparation developed nearly 100% of the control tetanus tension recorded from the intact muscle prior to the ...

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

authors： Gordon AR

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type I collagenopathies are a group of heterogeneous connective tissue disorders, that are caused by mutations in the genes encoding type I collagen and include specific forms of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) and the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS). These disorders present with a broad disease spectrum and large clini...

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

authors： Gistelinck C,Kwon RY,Malfait F,Symoens S,Harris MP,Henke K,Hawkins MB,Fisher S,Sips P,Guillemyn B,Bek JW,Vermassen P,De Saffel H,Witten PE,Weis M,De Paepe A,Eyre DR,Willaert A,Coucke PJ

更新日期：2018-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The D1 reaction center protein of photosystem II (PSII) is subject to light-induced damage. Degradation of damaged D1 and its replacement by nascent D1 are at the heart of a PSII repair cycle, without which photosynthesis is inhibited. In mature plant chloroplasts, light stimulates the recruitment of ribosomes specifi...

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

authors： Chotewutmontri P,Barkan A

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We showed previously that rrn P1 promoters require unusually high concentrations of the initiating nucleoside triphosphates (ATP or GTP, depending on the promoter) for maximal transcription in vitro. We proposed that this requirement for high initiating NTP concentrations contributes to control of the rrn P1 promoters...

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

authors： Schneider DA,Gaal T,Gourse RL

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The energetics of the TiO(2) polymorphs (rutile, anatase, and brookite) were studied by high temperature oxide melt drop solution calorimetry. Relative to bulk rutile, bulk brookite is 0.71 +/- 0.38 kJ/mol (6) and bulk anatase is 2.61 +/- 0.41 kJ/mol higher in enthalpy. The surface enthalpies of rutile, brookite, and ...

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

authors： Ranade MR,Navrotsky A,Zhang HZ,Banfield JF,Elder SH,Zaban A,Borse PH,Kulkarni SK,Doran GS,Whitfield HJ

更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in protein function can lead to changes in the selection acting on specific residues. This can often be detected as evolutionary rate changes at the sites in question. A maximum-likelihood method for detecting evolutionary rate shifts at specific protein positions is presented. The method determines significan...

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

authors： Knudsen B,Miyamoto MM

更新日期：2001-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 infection in the brain induces neuronal apoptosis leading to HIV-associated dementia. To explore the underlying mechanism, we developed a murine model by using human peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC)-transplanted nonobese diabetic (NOD)-severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) (hu-PBMC-NOD-SCID) mice. Admi...

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

authors： Miura Y,Misawa N,Kawano Y,Okada H,Inagaki Y,Yamamoto N,Ito M,Yagita H,Okumura K,Mizusawa H,Koyanagi Y

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The mid-winter development of refractoriness to melatonin (Mel) triggers recrudescence of the atrophied reproductive apparatus of rodents. As a consequence, over-wintering animals become reproductively competent just before the onset of spring conditions favorable for breeding. The neural target tissues that cease to ...

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

authors： Freeman DA,Zucker I

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A general approach to high-throughput screening of enantiomeric excess (ee) and concentration was developed by using indicator displacement assays (IDAs), and the protocol was then applied to the vicinal diol hydrobenzoin. The method involves the sequential utilization of what we define herein as screening, training, ...

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

authors： Shabbir SH,Regan CJ,Anslyn EV

更新日期：2009-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A high-resolution compositional map of glass-forming ability (GFA) in the Ni-Cr-Nb-P-B system is experimentally determined along various compositional planes. GFA is shown to be a piecewise continuous function formed by intersecting compositional subsurfaces, each associated with a nucleation pathway for a specific cr...

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

authors： Na JH,Demetriou MD,Floyd M,Hoff A,Garrett GR,Johnson WL

更新日期：2014-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that genes involved in oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) exhibit reduced expression in skeletal muscle of diabetic and prediabetic humans. Moreover, these changes may be mediated by the transcriptional coactivator peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator-1alpha (PGC-1alph...

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

authors： Mootha VK,Handschin C,Arlow D,Xie X,St Pierre J,Sihag S,Yang W,Altshuler D,Puigserver P,Patterson N,Willy PJ,Schulman IG,Heyman RA,Lander ES,Spiegelman BM

更新日期：2004-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Scaling down the size of computing circuits is about to reach the limitations imposed by the discrete atomic structure of matter. Reducing the power requirements and thereby dissipation of integrated circuits is also essential. New paradigms are needed to sustain the rate of progress that society has become used to. S...

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

authors： Mol JA,Verduijn J,Levine RD,Remacle F,Rogge S

更新日期：2011-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting climate change impact on ecosystem structure and services is one of the most important challenges in ecology. Until now, plant species response to climate change has been described at the level of fixed plant functional types, an approach limited by its inflexibility as there is much interspecific functiona...

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

authors： Soudzilovskaia NA,Elumeeva TG,Onipchenko VG,Shidakov II,Salpagarova FS,Khubiev AB,Tekeev DK,Cornelissen JH

更新日期：2013-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In the presence of the S polypeptide, maize chloroplast DNA-dependent RNA polymerase preferentially transcribes sequences within the 2200-nucleotide-pair-long maize chloroplast chromosome fragment Eco [unk] from a supercoiled chimeric plasmid cloned in Escherichia coli [Jolly, S. O. & Bogorad, L. (1980) Proc. Natl. Ac...

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

authors： Schwarz Z,Jolly SO,Steinmetz AA,Bogorad L

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To initiate fertilization, mouse sperm bind to Ser- (O-) linked oligosaccharides located at the sperm combining site of zona pellucida glycoprotein mZP3. Apparently, the oligosaccharides are present on one or more of five Ser residues clustered in the carboxyl-terminal region of the mZP3 polypeptide. Here, each of the...

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

authors： Chen J,Litscher ES,Wassarman PM

更新日期：1998-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A tetramer of the Mu transposase (MuA) pairs the recombination sites, cleaves the donor DNA, and joins these ends to a target DNA by strand transfer. Juxtaposition of the recombination sites is accomplished by the assembly of a stable synaptic complex of MuA protein and Mu DNA. This initial critical step is facilitate...

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

authors： Clubb RT,Mizuuchi M,Huth JR,Omichinski JG,Savilahti H,Mizuuchi K,Clore GM,Gronenborn AM

更新日期：1996-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical speciation of arsenic in sediments and porewaters of aquifers is the critical factor that determines whether dissolved arsenic accumulates to potentially toxic levels. Sequestration of arsenic in solid phases, which may occur by adsorption or precipitation processes, controls dissolved concentrations. We ...

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

authors： O'Day PA,Vlassopoulos D,Root R,Rivera N

更新日期：2004-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 is one of the leading worldwide public health concerns, causing large outbreaks of hemorrhagic colitis as well as numerous small outbreaks and sporadic cases. The variability of restriction enzyme-digestion patterns of O157 genomes, which is widely used to distinguish strains in...

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

authors： Ohnishi M,Terajima J,Kurokawa K,Nakayama K,Murata T,Tamura K,Ogura Y,Watanabe H,Hayashi T

更新日期：2002-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The human spliceosome is a large ribonucleoprotein complex that catalyzes pre-mRNA splicing. It consists of five snRNAs and more than 200 proteins. Because of this complexity, much work has focused on the Saccharomyces cerevisiae spliceosome, viewed as a highly simplified system with fewer than half as many splicing f...

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

authors： Stark MR,Dunn EA,Dunn WS,Grisdale CJ,Daniele AR,Halstead MR,Fast NM,Rader SD

更新日期：2015-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The adult repertoire of antibody specificities is acquired in a developmentally programmed fashion that, in mouse and man, parallels the ordered rearrangement of a limited number of germ-line heavy chain variable region (VH) gene segments during development. It has been hypothesized that this developmental bias is a c...

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

authors： Willems van Dijk K,Milner LA,Sasso EH,Milner EC

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mitochondrial gene from Saccharomyces cerevisiae encoding a hydrophobic membrane protein, subunit 8 of the F0/F1-type mitochondrial ATPase complex, has been functionally replaced by an artificial nuclear gene specifying an imported version of this protein. The experiments reported here utilized a multicopy expressio...

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

authors： Nagley P,Farrell LB,Gearing DP,Nero D,Meltzer S,Devenish RJ

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Encoding ribonuclease H1 (RNase H1) degrades RNA hybridized to DNA, and its function is essential for mitochondrial DNA maintenance in the developing mouse. Here we define the role of RNase H1 in mitochondrial DNA replication. Analysis of replicating mitochondrial DNA in embryonic fibroblasts lacking RNase H1 reveals ...

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

authors： Holmes JB,Akman G,Wood SR,Sakhuja K,Cerritelli SM,Moss C,Bowmaker MR,Jacobs HT,Crouch RJ,Holt IJ

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Helper T (Th) cells are classified as Th1 or Th2 cells by virtue of cytokine secretion and function as mediators of cellular or humoral immunity, respectively. Cytokines also regulate the differentiation of Th cells. For example, interleukin (IL)-12 promotes Th1 and suppresses Th2 cell development, suggesting that IL-...

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

authors： Milich DR,Wolf SF,Hughes JL,Jones JE

更新日期：1995-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophage foam cells are integral in the development of atherosclerotic lesions. Gene expression analysis of lesional macrophage foam cells is complicated by the cellular heterogeneity of atherosclerotic plaque and the presence of lesions of various degrees of severity. To overcome these limitations, we tested the ab...

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

authors： Trogan E,Choudhury RP,Dansky HM,Rong JX,Breslow JL,Fisher EA

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:During natural fertilization, mammalian spermatozoa must pass through the zona pellucida before reaching the plasma membrane of the oocyte. It is assumed that this step involves partial lysis of the zona by sperm acrosomal enzymes, but there has been no unequivocal evidence to support this view. Here we present eviden...

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

authors： Hirose M,Honda A,Fulka H,Tamura-Nakano M,Matoba S,Tomishima T,Mochida K,Hasegawa A,Nagashima K,Inoue K,Ohtsuka M,Baba T,Yanagimachi R,Ogura A

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice with a targeted deletion of beta3 integrin were used to examine the process by which tumor cells metastasize and destroy bone. Injection of B16 melanoma cells into the left cardiac ventricle resulted in osteolytic bone metastasis in 74% of beta3+/+ mice by 14 days. In contrast, only 4% of beta3-/- mice developed ...

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

authors： Bakewell SJ,Nestor P,Prasad S,Tomasson MH,Dowland N,Mehrotra M,Scarborough R,Kanter J,Abe K,Phillips D,Weilbaecher KN

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Contact of axons with target territories results in the formation of synapses, specific junctional complexes that may represent a final stage of neuronal maturation. Synaptosomal-associated protein 25 (SNAP-25) is a component of particular nerve terminals recently identified in rodent brain. To evaluate the structure ...

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

authors： Catsicas S,Larhammar D,Blomqvist A,Sanna PP,Milner RJ,Wilson MC

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00