Activation of the genetically defined m1 muscarinic receptor potentiates N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor currents in hippocampal pyramidal cells.

abstract：:To examine the influence of interferon gamma (IFN-gamma) on tumorigenicity, we established constitutively IFN-gamma-producing cell lines from a malignant mouse neuroblastoma, C1300, by retroviral transfer of a mouse IFN-gamma cDNA. The gene-transferred cells generally showed an enhanced high-level expression of the ma...

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

authors： Watanabe Y,Kuribayashi K,Miyatake S,Nishihara K,Nakayama E,Taniyama T,Sakata T

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The apparent failure of infants to understand "object permanence" by reaching for hidden objects is perhaps the most striking and debated phenomenon in cognitive development. Of particular interest is the extent to which infants perceive and remember objects in a similar way to that of adults. Here we report two findi...

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

authors： Kaufman J,Csibra G,Johnson MH

更新日期：2005-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the physical origins of phase contrast in dynamic atomic force microscopy (dAFM) in liquids where low-stiffness microcantilever probes are often used for nanoscale imaging of soft biological samples with gentle forces. Under these conditions, we show that the phase contrast derives primarily from a unique ene...

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

authors： Melcher J,Carrasco C,Xu X,Carrascosa JL,Gómez-Herrero J,José de Pablo P,Raman A

更新日期：2009-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, utilization of galactose requires four inducible enzyme activities. Three of these activities (galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase, EC 2.7.7.10; uridine diphosphogalactose 4-epimerase, EC 5.1.3.2; and galactokinase, EC 2.7.1.6) are specified by three tightly linked genes (GAL7, GAL10,...

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

authors： Hopper JE,Broach JR,Rowe LB

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of a particular individual occurs when we reactivate links between current perceptual inputs and the previously formed representation of that person. This recognition can be achieved by identifying, separately or simultaneously, distinct elements such as the face, silhouette, or voice as belonging to one i...

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

authors： Sliwa J,Duhamel JR,Pascalis O,Wirth S

更新日期：2011-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In Caenorhabditis elegans, the small nuclear ribonucleoprotein (snRNP)-associated proteins U1A and U2B'' are approximately 50% identical to each other, and neither bears signature characteristics of mammalian U1A or U2B'' or the single Drosophila homolog, SNF. We show here that the genes that encode these proteins (rn...

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

authors： Saldi T,Wilusz C,MacMorris M,Blumenthal T

更新日期：2007-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:ARGONAUTE (AGO) RNA-binding proteins are involved in RNA silencing. They bind to short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) and microRNAs (miRNAs) through a conserved PAZ domain, and, in animals, they assemble into a multisubunit RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC). The mammalian AGO2, termed Slicer, directs siRNA- and miRNA-me...

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

authors： Baumberger N,Baulcombe DC

更新日期：2005-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal signatures, idiosyncrasies in the ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and/or proteins, are characteristic of the individual domains of life. As such, insight into the early evolution of the domains can be gained from a comparative analysis of their respective signatures in the translational apparatus. In this work, we iden...

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

authors： Roberts E,Sethi A,Montoya J,Woese CR,Luthey-Schulten Z

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Monkeypox virus (MPV) is a virulent human pathogen that has gained increased attention because of its potential use as a bioterrorism agent and inadvertent introduction into North America in 2003. The US outbreak also provided an important opportunity to study MPV-specific T cell immunity. Although MPV-specific CD4(+)...

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

authors： Hammarlund E,Dasgupta A,Pinilla C,Norori P,Früh K,Slifka MK

更新日期：2008-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In animals and in man, diverse immunologic functions are mediated by specialized T-cell (thymus-derived lymphocyte) subsets that are distinguishable from one another on the basis of differences in cell surface determinants. Unfortunately, in humans, subset-specific antibodies have been difficult to generate. In this s...

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

authors： Engleman EG,Benike C,Osborne B,Goldsby R

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The global configuration of individual, surface-adsorbed molecules of the giant muscle protein titin, labeled with rhodamine conjugates, was followed with confocal microscopy. Fluorescence-emission intensity was reduced because of self-quenching caused by the close spacing between rhodamine dye molecules that formed d...

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

authors： Grama L,Somogyi B,Kellermayer MS

更新日期：2001-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat beta-lipotropin was isolated from 40 anterior pituitaries using high efficiency chromatography columns and sensitive fluorometric methods. The beta-lipotropin was characterized as to molecular weight, amino acid composition, and generation of opioid activity by trypsinization. Other opioid peptides, as well as a p...

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

authors： Rubinstein M,Stein S,Gerber LD,Udenfriend S

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus colonizes the skin of the majority of patients with atopic dermatitis (AD), and its presence increases disease severity. Adhesion of S. aureus to corneocytes in the stratum corneum is a key initial event in colonization, but the bacterial and host factors contributing to this process have not bee...

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

authors： Towell AM,Feuillie C,Vitry P,Da Costa TM,Mathelié-Guinlet M,Kezic S,Fleury OM,McAleer MA,Dufrêne YF,Irvine AD,Geoghegan JA

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma-band synchronization adjusts the timing of excitatory and inhibitory inputs to a neuron. Neurons in the visual cortex are selective for stimulus orientation because of dynamic interactions between excitatory and inhibitory inputs. We hypothesized that these interactions and hence also orientation selectivity var...

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

authors： Womelsdorf T,Lima B,Vinck M,Oostenveld R,Singer W,Neuenschwander S,Fries P

更新日期：2012-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Many distributed collective decision-making processes must balance diverse individual preferences with a desire for collective unity. We report here on an extensive session of behavioral experiments on biased voting in networks of individuals. In each of 81 experiments, 36 human subjects arranged in a virtual network ...

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

authors： Kearns M,Judd S,Tan J,Wortman J

更新日期：2009-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:What are the origins of humans' capacity to represent social relations? We approached this question by studying human infants' understanding of social dominance as a stable relation. We presented infants with interactions between animated agents in conflict situations. Studies 1 and 2 targeted expectations of stabilit...

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

authors： Mascaro O,Csibra G

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical forces have a profound effect on growth, morphology, locomotion, and survival of organisms. At the level of individual cells, the role of mechanical forces is well recognized in eukaryotic physiology, but much less is known about prokaryotic organisms. Recent findings suggest an effect of physical forces on b...

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

authors： Genova LA,Roberts MF,Wong YC,Harper CE,Santiago AG,Fu B,Srivastava A,Jung W,Wang LM,Krzemiński Ł,Mao X,Sun X,Hui CY,Chen P,Hernandez CJ

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of Rauscher leukemia virus (RLV) with low levels of Nonidet P-40 yielded "immature" cores. These cores have a diameter of about 920 A, as opposed to the 1300-A diameter of RLV, possess knob-like protuberances, and contain a concentrically coiled internal strand apposed to the core shell. The two major polyp...

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

authors： Yoshinaka Y,Luftig RB

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Precipitation extreme changes are often assumed to scale with, or are constrained by, the change in atmospheric moisture content. Studies have generally confirmed the scaling based on moisture content for the midlatitudes but identified deviations for the tropics. In fact half of the twelve selected Intergovernmental ...

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

authors： Sugiyama M,Shiogama H,Emori S

更新日期：2010-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The major auxin-binding protein in maize membranes is thought to function as a physiological receptor. From earlier information, including the use of site-directed irreversible inhibitors, several of the amino acids likely to form part of the active auxin-binding site were provisionally assigned. Inspection of the ami...

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

authors： Venis MA,Napier RM,Barbier-Brygoo H,Maurel C,Perrot-Rechenmann C,Guern J

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controversy remains over whether the cancer stem cell (CSC) theory applies to all tumors. To determine whether cells within a highly aggressive solid tumor are stochastically or hierarchically organized, we combined a reporter system where the nucleostemin (NS) promoter drives GFP expression (termed NS-GFP) with a mou...

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

authors： Tamase A,Muraguchi T,Naka K,Tanaka S,Kinoshita M,Hoshii T,Ohmura M,Shugo H,Ooshio T,Nakada M,Sawamoto K,Onodera M,Matsumoto K,Oshima M,Asano M,Saya H,Okano H,Suda T,Hamada J,Hirao A

更新日期：2009-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The photoaffinity herbicide azidoatrazine (2-azido-4-ethylamino-6-isopropylamino-s-triazine) selectively labels the L subunit of the reaction center of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. Herbicide-resistant mutants retain the L subunit and have altered binding properties for methylthio- and chl...

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

authors： Brown AE,Gilbert CW,Guy R,Arntzen CJ

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfate-assimilating organisms reduce inorganic sulfate for Cys biosynthesis. There are two leading hypotheses for the mechanism of sulfate reduction in higher plants. In one, adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate (APS) (5'-adenylysulfate) sulfotransferase carries out reductive transfer of sulfate from APS to reduced glutathion...

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

authors： Setya A,Murillo M,Leustek T

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In normal messenger RNA for the human beta-globin chain, nucleotide sequences have been identified which can be matched to the amino-acid sequence of the abnormally long segment of the beta-chain of hemoglobin Cranston. The finding of these sequences strengthens the hypothesis that the betaCranston chain arose by a fr...

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

authors： Forget BG,Marotta CA,Weissman SM,Cohen-Solal M

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonucleotide reductase provides deoxynucleotides for nuclear and mitochondrial (mt) DNA replication and repair. The mammalian enzyme consists of a catalytic (R1) and a radical-generating (R2 or p53R2) subunit. During S-phase, a R1/R2 complex is the major provider of deoxynucleotides. p53R2 is induced by p53 after DN...

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

authors： Pontarin G,Fijolek A,Pizzo P,Ferraro P,Rampazzo C,Pozzan T,Thelander L,Reichard PA,Bianchi V

更新日期：2008-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The ten-eleven translocation (TET) family of methylcytosine dioxygenases initiates demethylation of DNA and is associated with tumorigenesis in many cancers; however, the mechanism is mostly unknown. Here we identify upstream activators and downstream effectors of TET1 in breast cancer using human breast cancer cells ...

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

authors： Sun M,Song CX,Huang H,Frankenberger CA,Sankarasharma D,Gomes S,Chen P,Chen J,Chada KK,He C,Rosner MR

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Conversion of carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons using solar energy is an attractive strategy for storing such a renewable source of energy into the form of chemical energy (a fuel). This can be achieved in a system coupling a photovoltaic (PV) cell to an electrochemical cell (EC) for CO2 reduction. To be beneficial and...

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

authors： Huan TN,Dalla Corte DA,Lamaison S,Karapinar D,Lutz L,Menguy N,Foldyna M,Turren-Cruz SH,Hagfeldt A,Bella F,Fontecave M,Mougel V

更新日期：2019-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:There is currently an unmet need for versatile techniques to monitor the assembly and dynamics of ternary complexes in live cells. Here we describe bioluminescence resonance energy transfer with fluorescence enhancement by combined transfer (BRETFect), a high-throughput technique that enables robust spectrometric dete...

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

authors： Cotnoir-White D,El Ezzy M,Boulay PL,Rozendaal M,Bouvier M,Gagnon E,Mader S

更新日期：2018-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A single animal group can display different types of collective motion at different times. For a one-dimensional individual-based model of self-organizing group formation, we show that repeated switching between distinct ordered collective states can occur entirely because of stochastic effects. We introduce a framewo...

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

authors： Kolpas A,Moehlis J,Kevrekidis IG

更新日期：2007-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally acknowledged that cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen-4 (CTLA-4/CD152) plays a pivotal role in the regulation of T-cell activation and the establishment of self-tolerance in the periphery. CTLA-4-deficient (CTLA-4KO) mice develop a lymphoproliferative disorder and die within 4 weeks of birth, sug...

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

authors： Verhagen J,Gabrysová L,Minaee S,Sabatos CA,Anderson G,Sharpe AH,Wraith DC

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00