abstract：:The paucity of knowledge about cardiomyocyte maturation is a major bottleneck in cardiac regenerative medicine. In development, cardiomyocyte maturation is characterized by orchestrated structural, transcriptional, and functional specializations that occur mainly at the perinatal stage. Sarcomeres are the key cytoskel...

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

authors： Guo Y,Cao Y,Jardin BD,Sethi I,Ma Q,Moghadaszadeh B,Troiano EC,Mazumdar N,Trembley MA,Small EM,Yuan GC,Beggs AH,Pu WT

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Sugar transport across tonoplasts is essential for maintaining cellular sugar homeostasis and metabolic balance in plant cells. It remains unclear, however, how this process is regulated among different classes of sugar transporters. Here, we identified a tonoplast H+/glucose symporter, MdERDL6-1, from apples, which w...

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

authors： Zhu L,Li B,Wu L,Li H,Wang Z,Wei X,Ma B,Zhang Y,Ma F,Ruan YL,Li M

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Precise genome editing is a valuable tool to study gene function in model organisms. Prime editing, a precise editing system developed in mammalian cells, does not require double-strand breaks or donor DNA and has low off-target effects. Here, we applied prime editing for the model organism Drosophila melanogaster and...

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

authors： Bosch JA,Birchak G,Perrimon N

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The release of urine, or micturition, serves a fundamental physiological function and, in many species, is critical for social communication. In mice, the pattern of urine release is modulated by external and internal factors and transmitted to the spinal cord via the pontine micturition center (PMC). Here, we exploit...

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

authors： Hyun M,Taranda J,Radeljic G,Miner L,Wang W,Ochandarena N,Huang KW,Osten P,Sabatini BL

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive organisms pose a global threat and are exceptionally difficult to eradicate after they become abundant in their new habitats. We report a successful multitactic strategy for combating the pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella), one of the world's most invasive pests. A coordinated program in the southwester...

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

authors： Tabashnik BE,Liesner LR,Ellsworth PC,Unnithan GC,Fabrick JA,Naranjo SE,Li X,Dennehy TJ,Antilla L,Staten RT,Carrière Y

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerobic glycolysis (AG), that is, the nonoxidative metabolism of glucose, contributes significantly to anabolic pathways, rapid energy generation, task-induced activity, and neuroprotection; yet high AG is also associated with pathological hallmarks such as amyloid-β deposition. An important yet unresolved question is...

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

authors： Chen Y,Lin Q,Liao X,Zhou C,He Y

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Real-life decisions are often repeated. Whether considering taking a job in a new city, or doing something mundane like checking if the stove is off, decisions are frequently revisited even if no new information is available. This mode of behavior takes a particularly pathological form in obsessive-compulsive disorder...

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

authors： Solway A,Lin Z,Vinaik E

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Metallophilicity is defined as the interaction among closed-shell metal centers, the origin of which remains controversial, particularly for the roles of spd orbital hybridization (mixing of the spd atomic orbitals of the metal atom in the molecular orbitals of metal complex) and the relativistic effect. Our studies r...

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

authors： Wan Q,Yang J,To WP,Che CM

更新日期：2021-01-05 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：:Fanconi anemia (FA) is caused by defects in cellular responses to DNA crosslinking damage and replication stress. Given the constant occurrence of endogenous DNA damage and replication fork stress, it is unclear why complete deletion of FA genes does not have a major impact on cell proliferation and germ-line FA patie...

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

authors： Wang R,Lenoir WF,Wang C,Su D,McLaughlin M,Hu Q,Shen X,Tian Y,Klages-Mundt N,Lynn E,Wood RD,Chen J,Hart T,Li L

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:There is no theoretical limit in using molecular networks to harvest diffusive sun photons on large areas and funnel them onto much smaller areas of highly efficient but also precious energy-converting materials. The most effective concept reported so far is based on a pool of randomly oriented, light-harvesting donor...

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

authors： Willich MM,Wegener L,Vornweg J,Hohgardt M,Nowak J,Wolter M,Jacob CR,Walla PJ

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial cells (ECs) sense and respond to hemodynamic shear stress, which is critical for circulatory homeostasis and the pathophysiology of vascular diseases. The mechanisms of shear stress mechanotransduction, however, remain elusive. We previously demonstrated a direct role of mitochondria in the purine...

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

authors： Yamamoto K,Nogimori Y,Imamura H,Ando J

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke patients with small central nervous system infarcts often demonstrate an acute dysexecutive syndrome characterized by difficulty with attention, concentration, and processing speed, independent of lesion size or location. We use magnetoencephalography (MEG) to show that disruption of network dynamics may be res...

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

authors： Marsh EB,Brodbeck C,Llinas RH,Mallick D,Kulasingham JP,Simon JZ,Llinás RR

更新日期：2020-12-29 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：:The formation and migration of disconnections (line defects constrained to the grain boundary [GB] plane with both dislocation and step character) control many of the kinetic and dynamical properties of GBs and the polycrystalline materials of which they are central constituents. We demonstrate that GBs undergo a fini...

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

authors： Chen K,Srolovitz DJ,Han J

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:As an alternative pathway of controlled cell death, necroptosis can be triggered by tumor necrosis factor via the kinases RIPK1/RIPK3 and the effector protein mixed-lineage kinase domain-like protein (MLKL). Upon activation, MLKL oligomerizes and integrates into the plasma membrane via its executioner domain. Here, we...

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

authors： Rübbelke M,Fiegen D,Bauer M,Binder F,Hamilton J,King J,Thamm S,Nar H,Zeeb M

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleosomes in eukaryotes act as platforms for the dynamic integration of epigenetic information. Posttranslational modifications are reversibly added or removed and core histones exchanged for paralogous variants, in concert with changing demands on transcription and genome accessibility. Histones are also common in ...

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

authors： Stevens KM,Swadling JB,Hocher A,Bang C,Gribaldo S,Schmitz RA,Warnecke T

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic many countries implemented containment measures to reduce disease transmission. Studies using digital data sources show that the mobility of individuals was effectively reduced in multiple countries. However, it remains unclear whether these reductions caused deeper structural chan...

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

authors： Schlosser F,Maier BF,Jack O,Hinrichs D,Zachariae A,Brockmann D

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetics regulation plays a critical role in determining cell identity by controlling the accessibility of lineage-specific regulatory regions. In muscle stem cells, epigenetic mechanisms of how chromatin accessibility is modulated during cell fate determination are not fully understood. Here, we identified a long ...

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

authors： Dong A,Preusch CB,So WK,Lin K,Luan S,Yi R,Wong JW,Wu Z,Cheung TH

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A hitherto unknown Neoproterozoic orogenic system, the Saharides, is described in North Africa. It formed during the 900-500-Ma interval. The Saharides involved large subduction accretion complexes occupying almost the entire Arabian Shield and much of Egypt and parts of the small Precambrian inliers in the Sahara inc...

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

authors： Şengör AMC,Lom N,Zabcı C,Sunal G,Öner T

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper studies the cathodic corrosion of a spherical single crystal of platinum in an aqueous alkaline electrolyte, to map out the detailed facet dependence of the corrosion structures forming during this still largely unexplored electrochemical phenomenon. We find that anisotropic corrosion of the platinum electr...

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

authors： Arulmozhi N,Hersbach TJP,Koper MTM

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Declining biodiversity and ecosystem functions put many of nature's contributions to people at risk. We review and synthesize the scientific literature to assess 50-y global trends across a broad range of nature's contributions. We distinguish among trends in potential and realized contributions of nature, as well as ...

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

authors： Brauman KA,Garibaldi LA,Polasky S,Aumeeruddy-Thomas Y,Brancalion PHS,DeClerck F,Jacob U,Mastrangelo ME,Nkongolo NV,Palang H,Pérez-Méndez N,Shannon LJ,Shrestha UB,Strombom E,Verma M

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic LINE-1 (L1) retrotransposition has been detected in early embryos, adult brains, and the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, and many cancers, including epithelial GI tumors. We previously found numerous somatic L1 insertions in paired normal and GI cancerous tissues. Here, using a modified method of single-cell anal...

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

authors： Yamaguchi K,Soares AO,Goff LA,Talasila A,Choi JA,Ivenitsky D,Karma S,Brophy B,Devine SE,Meltzer SJ,Kazazian HH Jr

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrin-dependent adhesions mediate reciprocal exchange of force and information between the cell and the extracellular matrix. These effects are attributed to the "focal adhesion clutch," in which moving actin filaments transmit force to integrins via dynamic protein interactions. To elucidate these processes, we me...

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

authors： Driscoll TP,Ahn SJ,Huang B,Kumar A,Schwartz MA

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The COVID-19 pandemic is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and has spread worldwide, with millions of cases and more than 1 million deaths to date. The gravity of the situation mandates accelerated efforts to identify safe and effective vaccines. Here, we generated measles virus (M...

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

authors： Hörner C,Schürmann C,Auste A,Ebenig A,Muraleedharan S,Dinnon KH 3rd,Scholz T,Herrmann M,Schnierle BS,Baric RS,Mühlebach MD

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Disease tolerance, the capacity of tissues to withstand damage caused by a stimulus without a decline in host fitness, varies across tissues, environmental conditions, and physiologic states. While disease tolerance is a known strategy of host defense, its role in noninfectious diseases has been understudied. Here, we...

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

authors： Man K,Bowman C,Braverman KN,Escalante V,Tian Y,Bisanz JE,Ganeshan K,Wang B,Patterson A,Bayrer JR,Turnbaugh PJ,Chawla A

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The deadly symptoms of malaria occur as Plasmodium parasites replicate within blood cells. Members of several variant surface protein families are expressed on infected blood cell surfaces. Of these, the largest and most ubiquitous are the Plasmodium-interspersed repeat (PIR) proteins, with more than 1,000 variants in...

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

authors： Harrison TE,Reid AJ,Cunningham D,Langhorne J,Higgins MK

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Seasonal cycles govern life on earth, from setting the time for the mating season to influencing migrations and governing physiological conditions like hibernation. The effect of such changing conditions on behavior is well-appreciated, but their impact on the brain remains virtually unknown. We investigate long-term ...

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

authors： Ray S,Li M,Koch SP,Mueller S,Boehm-Sturm P,Wang H,Brecht M,Naumann RK

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty acid transport protein 4 (FATP4), a transmembrane protein in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), is a recently identified negative regulator of the ER-associated retinal pigment epithelium (RPE)65 isomerase necessary for recycling 11-cis-retinal, the light-sensitive chromophore of both rod and cone opsin visual pigm...

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

authors： Li S,Gordon WC,Bazan NG,Jin M

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus responsible for COVID-19, employs two key host proteins to gain entry and replicate within cells, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) and the cell surface transmembrane protease serine 2 (TMPRSS2). TMPRSS2 was first characterized as an androgen...

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

authors： Qiao Y,Wang XM,Mannan R,Pitchiaya S,Zhang Y,Wotring JW,Xiao L,Robinson DR,Wu YM,Tien JC,Cao X,Simko SA,Apel IJ,Bawa P,Kregel S,Narayanan SP,Raskind G,Ellison SJ,Parolia A,Zelenka-Wang S,McMurry L,Su F,Wang R,

更新日期：2020-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Rare high-3He/4He signatures in ocean island basalts (OIB) erupted at volcanic hotspots derive from deep-seated domains preserved in Earth's interior. Only high-3He/4He OIB exhibit anomalous 182W-an isotopic signature inherited during the earliest history of Earth-supporting an ancient origin of high 3He/4He. However,...

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

authors： Jackson MG,Blichert-Toft J,Halldórsson SA,Mundl-Petermeier A,Bizimis M,Kurz MD,Price AA,Harðardóttir S,Willhite LN,Breddam K,Becker TW,Fischer RA

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxin-antitoxin systems are found in many bacterial chromosomes and plasmids with roles ranging from plasmid stabilization to biofilm formation and persistence. In these systems, the expression/activity of the toxin is counteracted by an antitoxin, which, in type I systems, is an antisense RNA. While the regulatory me...

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

authors： El Mortaji L,Tejada-Arranz A,Rifflet A,Boneca IG,Pehau-Arnaudet G,Radicella JP,Marsin S,De Reuse H

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA) is a P-type ATPase that transports Ca2+ from the cytosol into the sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum (SR/ER) lumen, driven by ATP. This primary transport activity depends on tight coupling between movements of the transmembrane helices forming the two Ca2+-binding sites a...

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

authors： Geurts MMG,Clausen JD,Arnou B,Montigny C,Lenoir G,Corey RA,Jaxel C,Møller JV,Nissen P,Andersen JP,le Maire M,Bublitz M

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Membraneless organelles contain a wide spectrum of molecular chaperones, indicating their important roles in modulating the metastable conformation and biological function of membraneless organelles. Here we report that class I and II Hsp40 (DNAJ) proteins possess a high ability of phase separation rendered by the fle...

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

authors： Gu J,Liu Z,Zhang S,Li Y,Xia W,Wang C,Xiang H,Liu Z,Tan L,Fang Y,Liu C,Li D

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:For species to stay temporally tuned to their environment, they use cues such as the accumulation of degree-days. The relationships between the timing of a phenological event in a population and its environmental cue can be described by a population-level reaction norm. Variation in reaction norms along environmental ...

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

authors： Delgado MDM,Roslin T,Tikhonov G,Meyke E,Lo C,Gurarie E,Abadonova M,Abduraimov O,Adrianova O,Akimova T,Akkiev M,Ananin A,Andreeva E,Andriychuk N,Antipin M,Arzamascev K,Babina S,Babushkin M,Bakin O,Barabancova A,Bas

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple resistance and pH adaptation (Mrp) complexes are sophisticated cation/proton exchangers found in a vast variety of alkaliphilic and/or halophilic microorganisms, and are critical for their survival in highly challenging environments. This family of antiporters is likely to represent the ancestor of cation pum...

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

authors： Li B,Zhang K,Nie Y,Wang X,Zhao Y,Zhang XC,Wu XL

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Domain walls, commonly occurring at the interface of different phases in solid-state materials, have recently been harnessed at the structural scale to enable additional modes of functionality. Here, we combine experimental, numerical, and theoretical tools to investigate the domain walls emerging upon uniaxial compre...

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

authors： Deng B,Yu S,Forte AE,Tournat V,Bertoldi K

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterizing the entropy of a system is a crucial, and often computationally costly, step in understanding its thermodynamics. It plays a key role in the study of phase transitions, pattern formation, protein folding, and more. Current methods for entropy estimation suffer from a high computational cost, lack of gen...

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

authors： Nir A,Sela E,Beck R,Bar-Sinai Y

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hippo pathway is an evolutionarily conserved regulator of organ growth and tumorigenesis. In Drosophila, oncogenic RasV12 cooperates with loss-of-cell polarity to promote Hippo pathway-dependent tumor growth. To identify additional factors that modulate this signaling, we performed a genetic screen utilizing the D...

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

authors： Guo X,Sun Y,Azad T,Janse van Rensburg HJ,Luo J,Yang S,Liu P,Lv Z,Zhan M,Lu L,Zhou Y,Ma X,Zhang X,Yang X,Xue L

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chaperone oligomerization is often a key aspect of their function. Irrespective of whether chaperone oligomers act as reservoirs for active monomers or exhibit a chaperoning function themselves, understanding the mechanism of oligomerization will further our understanding of how chaperones maintain the proteome. Here,...

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

authors： Karamanos TK,Tugarinov V,Clore GM

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00