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    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 1998-03-28
    Description: The metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) are widely distributed in the brain and play important roles in synaptic plasticity. Here it is shown that some types of mGluRs are activated not only by glutamate but also by extracellular Ca2+ (Ca2+o). A single amino acid residue was found to determine the sensitivity of mGluRs to Ca2+o. One of the receptors, mGluR1alpha, but not its point mutant with reduced sensitivity to Ca2+o, caused morphological changes when transfected into mammalian cells. Thus, the sensing of Ca2+o by mGluRs may be important in cells under physiological condition.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kubo, Y -- Miyashita, T -- Murata, Y -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Mar 13;279(5357):1722-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Neurophysiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience, Musashidai 2-6, Fuchu, Tokyo 183-8526, Japan. ykubo@tmin.ac.jp〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9497291" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Actins/ultrastructure ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Binding Sites ; Brain/metabolism ; CHO Cells ; Calcium/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Cell Size ; Cricetinae ; Cyclic AMP/metabolism ; G Protein-Coupled Inwardly-Rectifying Potassium Channels ; Glutamic Acid/metabolism/pharmacology ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Oocytes ; Point Mutation ; Potassium Channels/metabolism ; *Potassium Channels, Inwardly Rectifying ; Rats ; Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism ; Second Messenger Systems ; Transfection ; Xenopus laevis
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    Publication Date: 1998-08-07
    Description: Clathrin-mediated endocytosis involves cycles of assembly and disassembly of clathrin coat components and their accessory proteins. Dephosphorylation of rat brain extract was shown to promote the assembly of dynamin 1, synaptojanin 1, and amphiphysin into complexes that also included clathrin and AP-2. Phosphorylation of dynamin 1 and synaptojanin 1 inhibited their binding to amphiphysin, whereas phosphorylation of amphiphysin inhibited its binding to AP-2 and clathrin. Thus, phosphorylation regulates the association and dissociation cycle of the clathrin-based endocytic machinery, and calcium-dependent dephosphorylation of endocytic proteins could prepare nerve terminals for a burst of endocytosis.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Slepnev, V I -- Ochoa, G C -- Butler, M H -- Grabs, D -- De Camilli, P -- CA46128/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- NS36251/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Aug 7;281(5378):821-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, 295 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9694653" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adaptor Protein Complex alpha Subunits ; Adaptor Protein Complex beta Subunits ; Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport ; Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism ; Animals ; Binding Sites ; Carbazoles/pharmacology ; Chromatography, Affinity ; Clathrin/*metabolism ; Cyclosporine/pharmacology ; Dimerization ; Dynamin I ; Dynamins ; *Endocytosis ; Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology ; GTP Phosphohydrolases/*metabolism ; Indole Alkaloids ; Membrane Proteins/*metabolism ; Nerve Tissue Proteins/*metabolism ; Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases/*metabolism ; Rats ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism ; src Homology Domains
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    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 1998-08-14
    Description: Differential actions of acetylcholine on the excitability of two subtypes of interneurons in layer V of the rat visual cortex were examined. Acetylcholine excited low-threshold spike (LTS) cells through nicotinic receptors, whereas it elicited hyperpolarization in fast spiking (FS) cells through muscarinic receptors. Axons of LTS cells were mainly distributed vertically to upper layers, and those of FS cells were primarily confined to layer V. Thus, cortical cholinergic activation may reduce some forms of intralaminar inhibition, promote intracolumnar inhibition, and change the direction of information flow within cortical circuits.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Xiang, Z -- Huguenard, J R -- Prince, D A -- NS 06477/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- NS 07280/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- NS 12151/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Aug 14;281(5379):985-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9703513" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetylcholine/*physiology ; Animals ; Hexamethonium/pharmacology ; In Vitro Techniques ; Interneurons/physiology ; Membrane Potentials ; Muscarinic Antagonists/pharmacology ; Nerve Net/*physiology ; *Neural Inhibition ; Nicotinic Antagonists/pharmacology ; Patch-Clamp Techniques ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Receptors, Nicotinic/physiology ; Scopolamine Hydrobromide/pharmacology ; Visual Cortex/cytology/*physiology
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    Publication Date: 1998-02-21
    Description: Protein kinase B (PKB) is activated in response to phosphoinositide 3-kinases and their lipid products phosphatidylinositol 3,4, 5-trisphosphate [PtdIns(3,4,5)P3] and PtdIns(3,4)P2 in the signaling pathways used by a wide variety of growth factors, antigens, and inflammatory stimuli. PKB is a direct target of these lipids, but this regulation is complex. The lipids can bind to the pleckstrin homologous domain of PKB, causing its translocation to the membrane, and also enable upstream, Thr308-directed kinases to phosphorylate and activate PKB. Four isoforms of these PKB kinases were purified from sheep brain. They bound PtdIns(3,4,5)P3 and associated with lipid vesicles containing it. These kinases contain an NH2-terminal catalytic domain and a COOH-terminal pleckstrin homologous domain, and their heterologous expression augments receptor activation of PKB, which suggests they are the primary signal transducers that enable PtdIns(3,4,5)P3 or PtdIns- (3,4)P2 to activate PKB and hence to control signaling pathways regulating cell survival, glucose uptake, and glycogen metabolism.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Stephens, L -- Anderson, K -- Stokoe, D -- Erdjument-Bromage, H -- Painter, G F -- Holmes, A B -- Gaffney, P R -- Reese, C B -- McCormick, F -- Tempst, P -- Coadwell, J -- Hawkins, P T -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jan 30;279(5351):710-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Inositide Laboratory, The Babraham Institute, Babraham, Cambridge CB2 4AT, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9445477" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: 3-Phosphoinositide-Dependent Protein Kinases ; Alternative Splicing ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Cell Line ; Cell Membrane/enzymology ; Cloning, Molecular ; DNA, Complementary ; Drosophila ; Drosophila Proteins ; Enzyme Activation ; Humans ; Liposomes/metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Open Reading Frames ; Phosphatidylinositol Phosphates/*metabolism ; Phosphorylation ; Platelet-Derived Growth Factor/pharmacology ; Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/chemistry/genetics/isolation & ; purification/*metabolism ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins/*metabolism ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt ; Rats ; Recombinant Proteins/metabolism ; Sheep ; *Signal Transduction
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    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 1998-10-09
    Description: Differential access to cocaine self-administration produced two patterns of drug intake in rats. With 1 hour of access per session, drug intake remained low and stable. In contrast, with 6 hours of access, drug intake gradually escalated over days. After escalation, drug consumption was characterized by an increased early drug loading and an upward shift in the cocaine dose-response function, suggesting an increase in hedonic set point. After 1 month of abstinence, escalation of cocaine intake was reinstated to a higher level than before. These findings may provide an animal model for studying the development of excessive drug intake and the basis of addiction.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ahmed, S H -- Koob, G F -- DA04398/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- DA08467/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Oct 9;282(5387):298-300.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Psychopharmacology, Department of Neuropharmacology, CVN-7, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. aserge@sage.scripps.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9765157" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Behavior, Addictive ; Cocaine/*administration & dosage ; Cocaine-Related Disorders/*etiology ; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ; Drug Tolerance ; Male ; Rats ; Rats, Wistar ; Reinforcement (Psychology) ; Time Factors
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    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 1998-03-21
    Description: Mossy fiber synaptic transmission at hippocampal CA3 pyramidal cells and interneurons was compared in rat brain slices to determine whether mossy terminals are functionally equivalent. Tetanic stimulation of mossy fibers induced long-term potentiation in pyramidal neurons but was either without effect or it induced depression at synapses onto interneurons. Unlike transmission onto pyramidal neurons, transmission onto interneurons was not potentiated after adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP) activation. Furthermore, metabotropic glutamate receptor depression of transmission onto interneurons did not involve cAMP-dependent pathways. Thus, synaptic terminals arising from a common afferent pathway do not function as a single compartment but are specialized, depending on their postsynaptic target.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Maccaferri, G -- Toth, K -- McBain, C J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Feb 27;279(5355):1368-70.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Neurophysiology, Room 5A72, Building 49, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda MD 20892-4495, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9478900" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Afferent Pathways ; Animals ; Colforsin/pharmacology ; Cyclic AMP/metabolism ; Cycloleucine/analogs & derivatives/pharmacology ; Cyclopropanes/pharmacology ; Electric Stimulation ; Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials/drug effects ; Glycine/analogs & derivatives/pharmacology ; Hippocampus/cytology/*physiology ; In Vitro Techniques ; Interneurons/drug effects/*physiology ; *Long-Term Potentiation ; Mossy Fibers, Hippocampal/*physiology ; Pyramidal Cells/drug effects/*physiology ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate/agonists/physiology ; Synaptic Transmission/drug effects
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    Publication Date: 1998-03-21
    Description: Long-term potentiation (LTP) is an activity-dependent strengthening of synaptic efficacy that is considered to be a model of learning and memory. Protein tyrosine phosphorylation is necessary to induce LTP. Here, induction of LTP in CA1 pyramidal cells of rats was prevented by blocking the tyrosine kinase Src, and Src activity was increased by stimulation producing LTP. Directly activating Src in the postsynaptic neuron enhanced excitatory synaptic responses, occluding LTP. Src-induced enhancement of alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptor-mediated synaptic responses required raised intracellular Ca2+ and N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors. Thus, Src activation is necessary and sufficient for inducing LTP and may function by up-regulating NMDA receptors.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lu, Y M -- Roder, J C -- Davidow, J -- Salter, M W -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Feb 27;279(5355):1363-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, and Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, M5S 1A8, Canada.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9478899" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Calcium/metabolism ; Electric Stimulation ; Enzyme Activation ; Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials/drug effects ; Hippocampus/cytology/enzymology/*physiology ; In Vitro Techniques ; *Long-Term Potentiation ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Oligopeptides/pharmacology ; Patch-Clamp Techniques ; Peptide Fragments/pharmacology ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins pp60(c-src)/pharmacology ; Pyramidal Cells/enzymology/*physiology ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Receptors, AMPA/physiology ; Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate/physiology ; Recombinant Proteins/pharmacology ; Up-Regulation ; src-Family Kinases/*metabolism
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  • 8
    Publication Date: 1998-09-11
    Description: Leptin is a hormone that regulates food intake, and its receptor (OB-Rb) is expressed primarily in the hypothalamus. Here, it is shown that OB-Rb is also expressed in human vasculature and in primary cultures of human endothelial cells. In vitro and in vivo assays revealed that leptin has angiogenic activity. In vivo, leptin induced neovascularization in corneas from normal rats but not in corneas from fa/fa Zucker rats, which lack functional leptin receptors. These observations indicate that the vascular endothelium is a target for leptin and suggest a physiological mechanism whereby leptin-induced angiogenesis may facilitate increased energy expenditure.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sierra-Honigmann, M R -- Nath, A K -- Murakami, C -- Garcia-Cardena, G -- Papapetropoulos, A -- Sessa, W C -- Madge, L A -- Schechner, J S -- Schwabb, M B -- Polverini, P J -- Flores-Riveros, J R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Sep 11;281(5383):1683-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06536, USA. rocio_sierra-honigmann@qm.yale.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9733517" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adipocytes/metabolism ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Carrier Proteins/analysis/*physiology ; Cells, Cultured ; Corneal Neovascularization ; DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism ; Endothelial Growth Factors/pharmacology ; Endothelium, Vascular/chemistry/cytology/*physiology ; Energy Metabolism ; Humans ; Leptin ; Lipid Metabolism ; Lymphokines/pharmacology ; Molecular Sequence Data ; *Neovascularization, Physiologic ; Phosphorylation ; Proteins/pharmacology/*physiology ; Rats ; Rats, Zucker ; *Receptors, Cell Surface ; Receptors, Leptin ; STAT3 Transcription Factor ; Trans-Activators/metabolism ; Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A ; Vascular Endothelial Growth Factors
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    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 1998-12-29
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sikorski, R -- Peters, R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Nov 20;282(5393):1438.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9867652" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Brain/virology ; Genetic Therapy/*methods ; *Genetic Vectors ; HIV/*genetics/physiology ; Neurons/virology ; Rats ; Retina/virology
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    Publication Date: 1998-12-18
    Description: Cocaine regulates the transcription factor CREB (adenosine 3', 5'-monophosphate response element binding protein) in rat nucleus accumbens, a brain region that is important for addiction. Overexpression of CREB in this region decreases the rewarding effects of cocaine and makes low doses of the drug aversive. Conversely, overexpression of a dominant-negative mutant CREB increases the rewarding effects of cocaine. Altered transcription of dynorphin likely contributes to these effects: Its expression is increased by overexpression of CREB and decreased by overexpression of mutant CREB. Moreover, blockade of kappa opioid receptors (on which dynorphin acts) antagonizes the negative effect of CREB on cocaine reward. These results identify an intracellular cascade-culminating in gene expression-through which exposure to cocaine modifies subsequent responsiveness to the drug.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Carlezon, W A Jr -- Thome, J -- Olson, V G -- Lane-Ladd, S B -- Brodkin, E S -- Hiroi, N -- Duman, R S -- Neve, R L -- Nestler, E J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Dec 18;282(5397):2272-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Molecular Psychiatry, Center for Genes and Behavior, Yale University School of Medicine and Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, CT 06508, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9856954" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cocaine/administration & dosage/*pharmacology ; Conditioning (Psychology) ; Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein/genetics/*metabolism ; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ; Dynorphins/genetics/metabolism ; Gene Expression ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Gene Transfer Techniques ; Genetic Vectors ; Naltrexone/analogs & derivatives/pharmacology ; Narcotic Antagonists/pharmacology ; Neurons/metabolism ; Nucleus Accumbens/*metabolism ; Point Mutation ; RNA, Messenger/genetics/metabolism ; Rats ; Receptors, Opioid, kappa/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism ; *Reward ; Simplexvirus/genetics
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    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 1998-05-09
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lawler, A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Apr 24;280(5363):515-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9575093" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Nervous System Physiological Phenomena ; Rats ; *Research ; Space Flight ; *Spacecraft ; United States ; United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; *Weightlessness
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    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 1998-05-09
    Description: Many molecular mechanisms for neural adaptation to stress remain unknown. Expression of alternative splice variants of Slo, a gene encoding calcium- and voltage-activated potassium channels, was measured in rat adrenal chromaffin tissue from normal and hypophysectomized animals. Hypophysectomy triggered an abrupt decrease in the proportion of Slo transcripts containing a "STREX" exon. The decrease was prevented by adrenocorticotropic hormone injections. In Xenopus oocytes, STREX variants produced channels with functional properties associated with enhanced repetitive firing. Thus, the hormonal stress axis is likely to control the excitable properties of epinephrine-secreting cells by regulating alternative splicing of Slo messenger RNA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Xie, J -- McCobb, D P -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Apr 17;280(5362):443-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Section of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9545224" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adrenal Medulla/*metabolism ; Adrenocorticotropic Hormone/metabolism/*pharmacology ; *Alternative Splicing ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Chromaffin Cells/*metabolism ; Corticosterone/blood/*metabolism ; Dexamethasone/pharmacology ; Epinephrine/secretion ; Exons ; Female ; Hypophysectomy ; Large-Conductance Calcium-Activated Potassium Channel alpha Subunits ; Large-Conductance Calcium-Activated Potassium Channels ; Male ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Oocytes ; Phenylethanolamine N-Methyltransferase/genetics ; Polymerase Chain Reaction ; Potassium Channels/*genetics ; *Potassium Channels, Calcium-Activated ; RNA, Messenger/genetics/metabolism ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Xenopus
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    Publication Date: 1998-09-04
    Description: Nerve growth is regulated by attractive and repulsive factors in the nervous system. Microscopic gradients of Collapsin-1/Semaphorin III/D (Sema III) and myelin-associated glycoprotein trigger repulsive turning responses by growth cones of cultured Xenopus spinal neurons; the repulsion can be converted to attraction by pharmacological activation of the guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cGMP) and adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate signaling pathways, respectively. Sema III also causes the collapse of cultured rat sensory growth cones, which can be inhibited by activation of the cGMP pathway. Thus cyclic nucleotides can regulate growth cone behaviors and may be targets for designing treatments to alleviate the inhibition of nerve regeneration by repulsive factors.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Song, H -- Ming, G -- He, Z -- Lehmann, M -- McKerracher, L -- Tessier-Lavigne, M -- Poo, M -- NS22764/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Sep 4;281(5382):1515-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0357, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9727979" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Axons/physiology ; Calcium/physiology ; Cells, Cultured ; Cyclic AMP/analogs & derivatives/pharmacology/*physiology ; Cyclic GMP/analogs & derivatives/pharmacology/*physiology ; Ganglia, Spinal/cytology ; Glycoproteins/*physiology ; Myelin-Associated Glycoprotein/physiology ; Nerve Growth Factors/*physiology ; Nerve Tissue Proteins/physiology ; Neurites/*physiology ; Neurons/cytology/*physiology ; Neuropilin-1 ; Rats ; Recombinant Proteins ; Semaphorin-3A ; Spinal Cord/cytology ; Thionucleotides/pharmacology ; Xenopus
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    Publication Date: 1998-01-31
    Description: Candidate mammalian odorant receptors were first cloned some 6 years ago. The physiological function of these receptors in initiating transduction in olfactory receptor neurons remains to be established. Here, a recombinant adenovirus was used to drive expression of a particular receptor gene in an increased number of sensory neurons in the rat olfactory epithelium. Electrophysiological recording showed that increased expression of a single gene led to greater sensitivity to a small subset of odorants.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Zhao, H -- Ivic, L -- Otaki, J M -- Hashimoto, M -- Mikoshiba, K -- Firestein, S -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jan 9;279(5348):237-42.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9422698" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenoviridae/genetics/physiology ; Aldehydes/metabolism/*pharmacology ; Animals ; Electrophysiology ; Female ; Gene Expression ; Genetic Vectors ; Green Fluorescent Proteins ; Luminescent Proteins/analysis/genetics ; Male ; *Odors ; Olfactory Receptor Neurons/*physiology/virology ; Patch-Clamp Techniques ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Receptors, Odorant/genetics/metabolism/*physiology ; Recombinant Proteins
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    Publication Date: 1998-12-29
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Peters, R -- Sikorski, R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Nov 20;282(5393):1439.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9867653" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Binding Sites ; Cattle ; Cyclic GMP/chemistry/*metabolism ; Cyclic GMP-Dependent Protein Kinase Type I ; Cyclic GMP-Dependent Protein Kinases/chemistry/*metabolism ; Dimerization ; Ion Channel Gating ; Ion Channels/chemistry/*metabolism ; Ligands ; Polyethylene Glycols ; Rats ; Retinal Rod Photoreceptor Cells/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1998-09-11
    Description: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is an inherited form of heart disease that affects 1 in 500 individuals. Here it is shown that calcineurin, a calcium-regulated phosphatase, plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of HCM. Administration of the calcineurin inhibitors cyclosporin and FK506 prevented disease in mice that were genetically predisposed to develop HCM as a result of aberrant expression of tropomodulin, myosin light chain-2, or fetal beta-tropomyosin in the heart. Cyclosporin had a similar effect in a rat model of pressure-overload hypertrophy. These results suggest that calcineurin inhibitors merit investigation as potential therapeutics for certain forms of human heart disease.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sussman, M A -- Lim, H W -- Gude, N -- Taigen, T -- Olson, E N -- Robbins, J -- Colbert, M C -- Gualberto, A -- Wieczorek, D F -- Molkentin, J D -- HL58224-01/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Sep 11;281(5383):1690-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9733519" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Calcineurin/metabolism ; *Calcineurin Inhibitors ; Calcium/metabolism ; *Cardiac Myosins ; Cardiomegaly/metabolism/pathology/*prevention & control ; Cardiomyopathy, Dilated/pathology/*prevention & control ; Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic/genetics/metabolism/pathology/*prevention & control ; Carrier Proteins/genetics ; Cyclosporine/*pharmacology ; Female ; Mice ; Mice, Transgenic ; *Microfilament Proteins ; Models, Cardiovascular ; Myocardium/*metabolism/pathology ; Myosin Light Chains/genetics/metabolism ; Rats ; Signal Transduction ; Tacrolimus/*pharmacology ; Tropomodulin ; Tropomyosin/genetics
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    Publication Date: 1998-03-07
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hanck, D -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Feb 13;279(5353):1004.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9490476" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Calcium/*metabolism ; Calcium Channels/*metabolism ; Ion Channel Gating ; Muscle, Skeletal/metabolism ; Myocardial Contraction/*physiology ; Myocardium/*metabolism ; Rats ; Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel/metabolism ; Sarcolemma/metabolism ; Sarcoplasmic Reticulum/metabolism ; Sodium Channels/*metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1998-08-15
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Nicoll, R A -- Malenka, R C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jul 17;281(5375):360-1.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-0450, USA. nicoll@phy.ucsf.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9705712" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Amino Acid Transport Systems, Neutral ; Animals ; Carrier Proteins/metabolism ; GABA Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins ; Glycine/*metabolism ; Glycine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins ; Interneurons/*metabolism ; Membrane Proteins/metabolism ; *Membrane Transport Proteins ; Motor Neurons/*metabolism ; *Organic Anion Transporters ; Presynaptic Terminals/*metabolism ; Rats ; Receptor Aggregation ; Receptors, GABA/metabolism ; Receptors, Glycine/metabolism ; Spinal Cord/cytology ; Synaptic Transmission ; Synaptic Vesicles/metabolism ; gamma-Aminobutyric Acid/*metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1998-03-21
    Description: The nocturnal increase in circulating melatonin in vertebrates is regulated by 10- to 100-fold increases in pineal serotonin N-acetyltransferase (AA-NAT) activity. Changes in the amount of AA-NAT protein were shown to parallel changes in AA-NAT activity. When neural stimulation was switched off by either light exposure or L-propranolol-induced beta-adrenergic blockade, both AA-NAT activity and protein decreased rapidly. Effects of L-propranolol were blocked in vitro by dibutyryl adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP) or inhibitors of proteasomal proteolysis. This result indicates that adrenergic-cAMP regulation of AA-NAT is mediated by rapid reversible control of selective proteasomal proteolysis. Similar proteasome-based mechanisms may function widely as selective molecular switches in vertebrate neural systems.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gastel, J A -- Roseboom, P H -- Rinaldi, P A -- Weller, J L -- Klein, D C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Feb 27;279(5355):1358-60.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Section on Neuroendocrinology, Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-4480, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9478897" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adrenergic beta-Agonists/pharmacology ; Adrenergic beta-Antagonists/pharmacology ; Animals ; Arylamine N-Acetyltransferase/*metabolism ; Bucladesine/pharmacology ; Cyclic AMP/metabolism ; Cysteine Endopeptidases/*metabolism ; Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitors/pharmacology ; Isoproterenol/pharmacology ; Light ; Melatonin/*biosynthesis ; Multienzyme Complexes/*metabolism ; Pineal Gland/cytology/drug effects/enzymology/*metabolism ; Propranolol/pharmacology ; Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex ; Rats ; Receptors, Adrenergic, beta/physiology
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    Publication Date: 1998-06-27
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Pallini, R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Apr 10;280(5361):181-2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9565524" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Axons/*physiology/*ultrastructure ; Brain Tissue Transplantation ; Cell Transplantation ; Denervation ; Myelin Sheath/physiology ; *Nerve Regeneration ; Neuroglia/physiology/*transplantation ; Olfactory Bulb/cytology ; Rats ; Schwann Cells/physiology ; Spinal Cord/cytology/*physiology ; Spinal Cord Injuries/pathology/*surgery
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    Publication Date: 1998-02-21
    Description: There are several forms of hereditary human hair loss, known collectively as alopecias, the molecular bases of which are entirely unknown. A kindred with a rare, recessively inherited type of alopecia universalis was used to search for a locus by homozygosity mapping, and linkage was established in a 6-centimorgan interval on chromosome 8p12 (the logarithm of the odds favoring linkage score was 6.19). The human homolog of a murine gene, hairless, was localized in this interval by radiation hybrid mapping, and a missense mutation was found in affected individuals. Human hairless encodes a putative single zinc finger transcription factor protein with restricted expression in the brain and skin.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ahmad, W -- Faiyaz ul Haque, M -- Brancolini, V -- Tsou, H C -- ul Haque, S -- Lam, H -- Aita, V M -- Owen, J -- deBlaquiere, M -- Frank, J -- Cserhalmi-Friedman, P B -- Leask, A -- McGrath, J A -- Peacocke, M -- Ahmad, M -- Ott, J -- Christiano, A M -- HG-00008/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- P30AR44535/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jan 30;279(5351):720-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Dermatology, Columbia University, 630 West 168 Street, VC-15-526, New York, NY 10032, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9445480" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alopecia/*genetics ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Brain/metabolism ; Chromosome Mapping ; Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8 ; DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics ; Female ; Forkhead Transcription Factors ; Gene Expression ; Genes, Recessive ; Homozygote ; Humans ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Hairless/genetics ; Microsatellite Repeats ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Pedigree ; Proteins/chemistry/*genetics ; Rats ; Sequence Analysis, DNA ; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid ; Skin/metabolism ; Transcription Factors/genetics ; *Zinc Fingers
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    Publication Date: 1998-01-24
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Strauss, E -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jan 2;279(5347):32-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9441405" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Analgesics, Non-Narcotic/chemical synthesis/chemistry/metabolism/*pharmacology ; Animals ; Anura ; Azetidines/chemical synthesis/chemistry/metabolism/*pharmacology ; Bicyclo Compounds, Heterocyclic/pharmacology/toxicity ; Drug Evaluation, Preclinical ; Nicotinic Agonists/chemistry/metabolism/pharmacology/toxicity ; Pain Measurement ; Pyridines/chemical synthesis/chemistry/metabolism/*pharmacology/toxicity ; Rats ; Receptors, Nicotinic/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1998-02-07
    Description: Mitogen stimulation of cytoskeletal changes and c-jun amino-terminal kinases is mediated by Rac small guanine nucleotide-binding proteins. Vav, a guanosine diphosphate (GDP)-guanosine triphosphate (GTP) exchange factor for Rac that stimulates the exchange of bound GDP for GTP, bound to and was directly controlled by substrates and products of phosphoinositide (PI) 3-kinase. The PI 3-kinase substrate phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate inhibited activation of Vav by the tyrosine kinase Lck, whereas the product phosphatidylinositol-3,4,5-trisphosphate enhanced phosphorylation and activation of Vav by Lck. Control of Vav in response to mitogens by the products of PI 3-kinase suggests a mechanism for Ras-dependent activation of Rac.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Han, J -- Luby-Phelps, K -- Das, B -- Shu, X -- Xia, Y -- Mosteller, R D -- Krishna, U M -- Falck, J R -- White, M A -- Broek, D -- CA50261/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA71443/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- GM31278/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jan 23;279(5350):558-60.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033-0800, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9438848" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Cell Line ; Enzyme Activation ; GTP Phosphohydrolases/*metabolism ; GTP-Binding Proteins/*metabolism ; Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors ; Guanosine Diphosphate/*metabolism ; Guanosine Triphosphate/metabolism ; Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate/metabolism/pharmacology ; Lymphocyte Specific Protein Tyrosine Kinase p56(lck)/metabolism ; Mutagenesis, Site-Directed ; Oncogene Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases/*metabolism ; Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-Diphosphate/metabolism/pharmacology ; Phosphatidylinositol Phosphates/metabolism/pharmacology ; Phosphatidylinositols/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Phosphorylation ; Proteins/metabolism ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-vav ; Rats ; rac GTP-Binding Proteins ; ras Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors
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    Publication Date: 1998-09-12
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Barinaga, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Aug 28;281(5381):1302-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9735048" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Apoptosis/drug effects ; Brain/metabolism/*pathology ; Brain Ischemia/drug therapy/metabolism/pathology ; *Cell Death ; Cerebrovascular Disorders/drug therapy/metabolism/*pathology ; Cysteine Endopeptidases/metabolism ; Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitors/pharmacology/therapeutic use ; DNA Fragmentation ; Humans ; Mice ; Necrosis ; Neurons/metabolism/*pathology ; Rats
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    Publication Date: 1998-01-31
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Reed, R R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jan 9;279(5348):193.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. rreed@jhmi.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9446227" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: 1-Octanol/pharmacology ; Adenoviridae/genetics/physiology ; Animals ; Caenorhabditis elegans ; *Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins ; Electrophysiology ; Genetic Vectors ; Green Fluorescent Proteins ; Helminth Proteins/physiology ; Ligands ; Luminescent Proteins/analysis/genetics ; *Odors ; Olfactory Receptor Neurons/*physiology ; Patch-Clamp Techniques ; Rats ; Receptors, Odorant/genetics/*physiology ; Recombinant Proteins
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    Publication Date: 1998-03-21
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Barinaga, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Feb 27;279(5355):1301.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9508703" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Carotid Body/*cytology/metabolism ; Cell Survival ; *Cell Transplantation ; Corpus Striatum/pathology ; Dopamine/biosynthesis/secretion ; Humans ; Nerve Fibers/ultrastructure ; Nerve Growth Factors/biosynthesis ; Neural Pathways ; Parkinson Disease/pathology/*surgery ; Rats ; Substantia Nigra/pathology
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    Publication Date: 1998-12-04
    Description: The M-current regulates the subthreshold electrical excitability of many neurons, determining their firing properties and responsiveness to synaptic input. To date, however, the genes that encode subunits of this important channel have not been identified. The biophysical properties, sensitivity to pharmacological blockade, and expression pattern of the KCNQ2 and KCNQ3 potassium channels were determined. It is concluded that both these subunits contribute to the native M-current.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wang, H S -- Pan, Z -- Shi, W -- Brown, B S -- Wymore, R S -- Cohen, I S -- Dixon, J E -- McKinnon, D -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Dec 4;282(5395):1890-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute of Molecular Cardiology, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9836639" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adult ; Animals ; Anthracenes/pharmacology ; Brain/metabolism ; Ganglia, Sympathetic/metabolism ; Gene Expression ; Humans ; Indoles/pharmacology ; KCNQ2 Potassium Channel ; KCNQ3 Potassium Channel ; Kinetics ; Neurons/drug effects/physiology ; Oocytes ; Patch-Clamp Techniques ; Potassium/*metabolism ; Potassium Channels/chemistry/drug effects/genetics/*metabolism ; Potassium Channels, Voltage-Gated ; Pyridines/pharmacology ; Rats ; Sympathetic Nervous System/drug effects/physiology ; Tetraethylammonium/pharmacology ; Xenopus
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    Publication Date: 1998-10-09
    Description: p53 acts as a tumor suppressor by inducing both growth arrest and apoptosis. p53-induced apoptosis can occur without new RNA synthesis through an unknown mechanism. In human vascular smooth muscle cells, p53 activation transiently increased surface Fas (CD95) expression by transport from the Golgi complex. Golgi disruption blocked both p53-induced surface Fas expression and apoptosis. p53 also induced Fas-FADD binding and transiently sensitized cells to Fas-induced apoptosis. In contrast, lpr and gld fibroblasts were resistant to p53-induced apoptosis. Thus, p53 can mediate apoptosis through Fas transport from cytoplasmic stores.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bennett, M -- Macdonald, K -- Chan, S W -- Luzio, J P -- Simari, R -- Weissberg, P -- HL34073/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Oct 9;282(5387):290-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9765154" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing ; Animals ; Antigens, CD95/genetics/*metabolism ; *Apoptosis/drug effects ; Brefeldin A/pharmacology ; Carrier Proteins/metabolism ; Cell Membrane/*metabolism ; Cells, Cultured ; Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology ; Etoposide/pharmacology ; Fas Ligand Protein ; Fas-Associated Death Domain Protein ; Golgi Apparatus/metabolism ; Humans ; Membrane Glycoproteins/genetics/metabolism ; Mice ; Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/cytology ; Mutation ; Protein Synthesis Inhibitors/pharmacology ; Rats ; Topoisomerase II Inhibitors ; Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/*physiology
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    Publication Date: 1998-03-21
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Barinaga, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Feb 20;279(5354):1134.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9508686" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Appetite/drug effects ; Appetite Stimulants/*isolation & purification/metabolism/pharmacology ; Hypothalamic Area, Lateral/chemistry/*physiology ; Nerve Tissue Proteins/*isolation & purification/metabolism/pharmacology ; Peptides/*isolation & purification/metabolism/pharmacology ; Rats ; Receptors, Cell Surface/metabolism ; Starvation
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    Publication Date: 1998-09-12
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Enserink, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Aug 21;281(5380):1124-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9735026" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Concanavalin A/genetics ; Crops, Agricultural/*adverse effects ; European Union ; *Genetic Engineering ; Great Britain ; Lectins/genetics ; Plant Lectins ; Plants, Genetically Modified/*adverse effects ; Rats ; Solanum tuberosum/*genetics
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    Publication Date: 1998-07-17
    Description: It is widely accepted that individual neurons in the central nervous system release only a single fast transmitter. The possibility of corelease of fast neurotransmitters was examined by making paired recordings from synaptically connected neurons in spinal cord slices. Unitary inhibitory postsynaptic currents generated at interneuron-motoneuron synapses consisted of a strychnine-sensitive, glycine receptor-mediated component and a bicuculline-sensitive, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)A receptor-mediated component. These results indicate that spinal interneurons release both glycine and GABA to activate functionally distinct receptors in their postsynaptic target cells. A subset of miniature synaptic currents also showed both components, consistent with corelease from individual synaptic vesicles.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Jonas, P -- Bischofberger, J -- Sandkuhler, J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jul 17;281(5375):419-24.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Physiologisches Institut der Universitat Freiburg, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany. jonasp@ruf.uni-freiburg.de〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9665886" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Baclofen/pharmacology ; Bicuculline/pharmacology ; GABA Antagonists ; GABA-A Receptor Antagonists ; GABA-B Receptor Antagonists ; Glycine/*metabolism ; Glycine Agents/pharmacology ; In Vitro Techniques ; Interneurons/drug effects/*metabolism ; Motor Neurons/drug effects/*metabolism ; Patch-Clamp Techniques ; Presynaptic Terminals/*metabolism ; Rats ; Rats, Wistar ; Receptors, GABA-A/metabolism ; Receptors, GABA-B/metabolism ; Receptors, Glycine/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism ; Spinal Cord/cytology ; Strychnine/pharmacology ; Synaptic Transmission/drug effects ; Synaptic Vesicles/metabolism ; gamma-Aminobutyric Acid/*metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1998-02-21
    Description: Syntaxins are thought to function during vesicular transport as receptors on the target membrane and to contribute to the specificity of membrane docking and fusion by interacting with vesicle-associated receptors. Here, syntaxin 5 (Syn5) was shown to be an integral component of endoplasmic reticulum-derived transport vesicles. This pool, but not the target, Golgi-associated Syn5 pool, was essential for the assembly of vesicular-tubular pre-Golgi intermediates and the delivery of cargo to the Golgi. The requirement for vesicle-associated Syn5 in transport suggests a reevaluation of the basis for operation of the early secretory pathway.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rowe, T -- Dascher, C -- Bannykh, S -- Plutner, H -- Balch, W E -- CA58689/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- GM 42336/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jan 30;279(5351):696-700.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9445473" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism ; Animals ; Antibodies ; Biological Transport ; Carrier Proteins/metabolism ; Cell Line ; Endoplasmic Reticulum/*metabolism ; Golgi Apparatus/*metabolism/ultrastructure ; Mannose-Binding Lectins ; Membrane Fusion ; *Membrane Glycoproteins ; Membrane Proteins/immunology/*metabolism ; N-Ethylmaleimide-Sensitive Proteins ; Organelles/metabolism ; Qa-SNARE Proteins ; Qb-SNARE Proteins ; Qc-SNARE Proteins ; R-SNARE Proteins ; Rats ; SNARE Proteins ; *Vesicular Transport Proteins ; Vesicular stomatitis Indiana virus/physiology ; Viral Envelope Proteins/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1998-07-10
    Description: A new method for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) based on the detection of relatively strong signal from intermolecular zero-quantum coherences (iZQCs) is reported. Such a signal would not be observable in the conventional framework of magnetic resonance; it originates in long-range dipolar couplings (10 micrometers to 1 millimeter) that are traditionally ignored. Unlike conventional MRI, where image contrast is based on variations in spin density and relaxation times (often with injected contrast agents), contrast with iZQC images comes from variations in the susceptibility over a distance dictated by gradient strength. Phantom and in vivo (rat brain) data confirm that iZQC images give contrast enhancement. This contrast might be useful in the detection of small tumors, in that susceptibility correlates with oxygen concentration and in functional MRI.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Warren, W S -- Ahn, S -- Mescher, M -- Garwood, M -- Ugurbil, K -- Richter, W -- Rizi, R R -- Hopkins, J -- Leigh, J S -- GM35253/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- RR02305/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- RR08079/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jul 10;281(5374):247-51.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1009, USA. wwarren@princeton.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9657717" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Brain/*anatomy & histology/physiology ; Brain Mapping ; Brain Neoplasms/*pathology ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging/*methods ; Magnetics ; Mathematics ; Phantoms, Imaging ; Rats
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    Publication Date: 1998-03-07
    Description: The tetrodotoxin-sensitive sodium ion (Na+) channel is opened by cellular depolarization and favors the passage of Na+ over other ions. Activation of the beta-adrenergic receptor or protein kinase A in rat heart cells transformed this Na+ channel into one that is promiscuous with respect to ion selectivity, permitting calcium ions (Ca2+) to permeate as readily as Na+. Similarly, nanomolar concentrations of cardiotonic steroids such as ouabain and digoxin switched the ion selectivity of the Na+ channel to this state of promiscuous permeability called slip-mode conductance. Slip-mode conductance of the Na+ channel can contribute significantly to local and global cardiac Ca2+ signaling and may be a general signaling mechanism in excitable cells.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Santana, L F -- Gomez, A M -- Lederer, W J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Feb 13;279(5353):1027-33.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biology, Medical Biotechnology Center and School of Medicine, University of Maryland, 725 West Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9461434" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Action Potentials ; Animals ; Calcium/*metabolism ; Cardiotonic Agents/pharmacology ; Cyclic AMP/metabolism ; Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases/metabolism ; Digoxin/pharmacology ; Enzyme Activation ; In Vitro Techniques ; Ion Channel Gating ; Isoproterenol/pharmacology ; Myocardial Contraction/*physiology ; Myocardium/cytology/*metabolism ; Ouabain/pharmacology ; Patch-Clamp Techniques ; Rats ; Receptors, Adrenergic, beta/physiology ; Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel/metabolism ; Sarcoplasmic Reticulum/*metabolism ; Signal Transduction ; Sodium/metabolism ; Sodium Channel Blockers ; Sodium Channels/drug effects/*metabolism ; Sodium-Calcium Exchanger/metabolism ; Tetrodotoxin/pharmacology
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    Publication Date: 1998-06-25
    Description: Long-term potentiation (LTP) at the Schaffer collateral-CA1 synapse involves interacting signaling components, including calcium (Ca2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) and cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) pathways. Postsynaptic injection of thiophosphorylated inhibitor-1 protein, a specific inhibitor of protein phosphatase-1 (PP1), substituted for cAMP pathway activation in LTP. Stimulation that induced LTP triggered cAMP-dependent phosphorylation of endogenous inhibitor-1 and a decrease in PP1 activity. This stimulation also increased phosphorylation of CaMKII at Thr286 and Ca2+-independent CaMKII activity in a cAMP-dependent manner. The blockade of LTP by a CaMKII inhibitor was not overcome by thiophosphorylated inhibitor-1. Thus, the cAMP pathway uses PP1 to gate CaMKII signaling in LTP.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Blitzer, R D -- Connor, J H -- Brown, G P -- Wong, T -- Shenolikar, S -- Iyengar, R -- Landau, E M -- DK52054/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- GM54508/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- NS33646/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jun 19;280(5371):1940-2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Bronx VA Medical Center and Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA. rb2@doc.mssm.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9632393" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 2 ; Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases/antagonists & inhibitors/*metabolism ; *Carrier Proteins ; Cyclic AMP/analogs & derivatives/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases/metabolism ; Electric Stimulation ; Enzyme Inhibitors/metabolism/pharmacology ; Hippocampus/*metabolism ; In Vitro Techniques ; *Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins ; *Long-Term Potentiation ; Male ; Phosphoprotein Phosphatases/antagonists & inhibitors/*metabolism ; Phosphorylation ; Protein Phosphatase 1 ; RNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism/pharmacology ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Signal Transduction ; Synapses/*metabolism ; Thionucleotides/pharmacology
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    Publication Date: 1998-06-20
    Description: Many of aspirin's therapeutic effects arise from its acetylation of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), whereas its antithrombotic and ulcerogenic effects result from its acetylation of COX-1. Here, aspirin-like molecules were designed that preferentially acetylate and irreversibly inactivate COX-2. The most potent of these compounds was o-(acetoxyphenyl)hept-2-ynyl sulfide (APHS). Relative to aspirin, APHS was 60 times as reactive against COX-2 and 100 times as selective for its inhibition; it also inhibited COX-2 in cultured macrophages and colon cancer cells and in the rat air pouch in vivo. Such compounds may lead to the development of aspirin-like drugs for the treatment or prevention of immunological and proliferative diseases without gastrointestinal or hematologic side effects.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kalgutkar, A S -- Crews, B C -- Rowlinson, S W -- Garner, C -- Seibert, K -- Marnett, L J -- CA47479/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA68485/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- ES00267/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 May 22;280(5367):1268-70.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉A.B. Hancock Jr. Memorial Laboratory for Cancer Research, Vanderbilt Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9596581" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetylation ; Acetylene/*analogs & derivatives/chemical synthesis/chemistry/pharmacology ; Alkynes ; Animals ; Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal/*chemical ; synthesis/chemistry/pharmacology ; Aspirin/chemistry/pharmacology ; Binding Sites ; Cell Division/drug effects ; Cell Line ; Colonic Neoplasms/enzymology/pathology ; Cyclooxygenase 2 ; Cyclooxygenase 2 Inhibitors ; Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors/*chemical synthesis/chemistry/pharmacology ; Dinoprostone/biosynthesis ; Drug Design ; Humans ; Indomethacin/pharmacology ; Isoenzymes/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Macrophages/enzymology ; Membrane Proteins ; Mutagenesis, Site-Directed ; Prostaglandin D2/biosynthesis ; Prostaglandin-Endoperoxide Synthases/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Rats ; Rats, Inbred Lew ; Sulfides/*chemical synthesis/chemistry/pharmacology ; Thromboxane B2/biosynthesis ; Tumor Cells, Cultured
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    Publication Date: 1998-08-26
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Blusztajn, J K -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Aug 7;281(5378):794-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pathology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA. jbluszta@bu.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9714685" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetylcholine/metabolism ; Aging ; Animals ; Apoptosis ; Brain/cytology/*embryology/growth & development/*physiology ; Cell Division ; Choline/*administration & dosage/*metabolism ; Choline Deficiency/physiopathology ; Cognition ; Diet ; Female ; Hippocampus/metabolism ; Humans ; Long-Term Potentiation ; Maternal-Fetal Exchange ; Memory ; Nutrition Policy ; Pregnancy ; Rats
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    Publication Date: 1998-06-20
    Description: Stimulation of T lymphocytes results in a rapid increase in intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) that parallels the activation of Ca2+-calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IV (CaMKIV), a nuclear enzyme that can phosphorylate and activate the cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) response element-binding protein (CREB). However, inactivation of CaMKIV occurs despite the sustained increase in [Ca2+]i that is required for T cell activation. A stable and stoichiometric complex of CaMKIV with protein serine-threonine phosphatase 2A (PP2A) was identified in which PP2A dephosphorylates CaMKIV and functions as a negative regulator of CaMKIV signaling. In Jurkat T cells, inhibition of PP2A activity by small t antigen enhanced activation of CREB-mediated transcription by CaMKIV. These findings reveal an intracellular signaling mechanism whereby a protein serine-threonine kinase (CaMKIV) is regulated by a tightly associated protein serine-threonine phosphatase (PP2A).〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Westphal, R S -- Anderson, K A -- Means, A R -- Wadzinski, B E -- GM33976/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM51366/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- HD07503/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 May 22;280(5367):1258-61.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9596578" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming/metabolism ; Brain/enzymology ; Calcium/metabolism ; Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 4 ; Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases/genetics/isolation & ; purification/*metabolism ; Calmodulin/metabolism ; Coenzymes/metabolism ; Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein/metabolism ; Enzyme Activation ; Humans ; Jurkat Cells ; Lymphocyte Activation ; Mutation ; Phosphoprotein Phosphatases/isolation & purification/*metabolism ; Phosphorylation ; Protein Phosphatase 2 ; Rats ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism ; *Signal Transduction ; T-Lymphocytes/*enzymology ; Transcription, Genetic
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    Publication Date: 1998-10-10
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bliss, T V -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Sep 25;281(5385):1975-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Neurophysiology, National Institute for Medical Research, London Nw7 1AA, UK. tbliss@ns1.nimr.mrc.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9767047" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Axons/physiology ; Dentate Gyrus/physiology ; Electric Stimulation ; Electrodes, Implanted ; Hippocampus/*physiology ; Long-Term Potentiation/*physiology ; Maze Learning/*physiology ; Perforant Pathway/physiology ; Pyramidal Cells/physiology ; Rats ; Synapses/*physiology ; Tetany
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    Publication Date: 1998-05-09
    Description: Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and digital imaging microscopy were modified to allow detection of single RNA molecules. Oligodeoxynucleotide probes were synthesized with five fluorochromes per molecule, and the light emitted by a single probe was calibrated. Points of light in exhaustively deconvolved images of hybridized cells gave fluorescent intensities and distances between probes consistent with single messenger RNA molecules. Analysis of beta-actin transcription sites after serum induction revealed synchronous and cyclical transcription from single genes. The rates of transcription initiation and termination and messenger RNA processing could be determined by positioning probes along the transcription unit. This approach extends the power of FISH to yield quantitative molecular information on a single cell.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Femino, A M -- Fay, F S -- Fogarty, K -- Singer, R H -- GM 54887/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Apr 24;280(5363):585-90.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology and Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9554849" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Actins/genetics ; Animals ; Cell Line ; Fluorescein-5-isothiocyanate ; *In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence ; Kinetics ; Oligonucleotide Probes ; RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional ; RNA, Messenger/*analysis/*genetics/metabolism ; Rats ; *Transcription, Genetic
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    Publication Date: 1998-08-28
    Description: Glutamatergic abnormalities have been associated with several psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia and addiction. Group II metabotropic glutamate receptors were targeted to normalize glutamatergic disruptions associated with an animal model of schizophrenia, the phencyclidine model. An agonist of this group of receptors, at a dose that was without effects on spontaneous activity and corticolimbic dopamine neurotransmission, attenuated the disruptive effects of phencyclidine on working memory, stereotypy, locomotion, and cortical glutamate efflux. This behavioral reversal occurred in spite of sustained dopamine hyperactivity. Thus, targeting this group of receptors may present a nondopaminergic therapeutic strategy for treatment of psychiatric disorders.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Moghaddam, B -- Adams, B W -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Aug 28;281(5381):1349-52.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, Veterans Administration Medical Center 116A/2, West Haven, CT 06516, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9721099" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Bicyclo Compounds/administration & dosage/*pharmacology/therapeutic use ; Disease Models, Animal ; Dopamine/metabolism ; Excitatory Amino Acid Agonists/administration & dosage/*pharmacology/therapeutic ; use ; Glutamic Acid/metabolism ; Male ; Memory/drug effects ; Motor Activity/drug effects ; Nucleus Accumbens/drug effects/metabolism ; Phencyclidine/*pharmacology ; Prefrontal Cortex/drug effects/metabolism ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate/*agonists/metabolism ; Schizophrenia/chemically induced/*drug therapy/metabolism ; Stereotyped Behavior/drug effects ; Synaptic Transmission/drug effects
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    Publication Date: 1998-03-28
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Juliano, S L -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Mar 13;279(5357):1653-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA. sjuliano@mx3.usuhs.mil〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9518376" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetylcholine/physiology ; Acoustic Stimulation ; Animals ; Auditory Cortex/*physiology ; Basal Ganglia/*physiology ; *Brain Mapping ; Electric Stimulation ; *Neuronal Plasticity ; Prosencephalon/*physiology ; Rats ; Receptors, Muscarinic/physiology ; Synaptic Transmission ; gamma-Aminobutyric Acid/physiology
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    Publication Date: 1998-10-23
    Description: Patients with abetalipoproteinemia, a disease caused by defects in the microsomal triglyceride transfer protein (MTP), do not produce apolipoprotein B-containing lipoproteins. It was hypothesized that small molecule inhibitors of MTP would prevent the assembly and secretion of these atherogenic lipoproteins. To test this hypothesis, two compounds identified in a high-throughput screen for MTP inhibitors were used to direct the synthesis of a highly potent MTP inhibitor. This molecule (compound 9) inhibited the production of lipoprotein particles in rodent models and normalized plasma lipoprotein levels in Watanabe-heritable hyperlipidemic (WHHL) rabbits, which are a model for human homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia. These results suggest that compound 9, or derivatives thereof, has potential applications for the therapeutic lowering of atherogenic lipoprotein levels in humans.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wetterau, J R -- Gregg, R E -- Harrity, T W -- Arbeeny, C -- Cap, M -- Connolly, F -- Chu, C H -- George, R J -- Gordon, D A -- Jamil, H -- Jolibois, K G -- Kunselman, L K -- Lan, S J -- Maccagnan, T J -- Ricci, B -- Yan, M -- Young, D -- Chen, Y -- Fryszman, O M -- Logan, J V -- Musial, C L -- Poss, M A -- Robl, J A -- Simpkins, L M -- Slusarchyk, W A -- Sulsky, R -- Taunk, P -- Magnin, D R -- Tino, J A -- Lawrence, R M -- Dickson, J K Jr -- Biller, S A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Oct 23;282(5389):751-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Metabolic Diseases, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Princeton, NJ 08543-4000, USA. Wetterau_John_R@msmail.bms.com〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9784135" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alanine Transaminase/blood ; Animals ; Apolipoproteins B/*blood ; Aspartate Aminotransferases/blood ; Carrier Proteins/*antagonists & inhibitors ; Cholesterol/*blood ; Cricetinae ; Disease Models, Animal ; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ; Drug Design ; Drug Evaluation, Preclinical ; Fluorenes/chemistry/pharmacokinetics/*pharmacology ; Humans ; Hyperlipidemias/blood/drug therapy ; Hyperlipoproteinemia Type II/*blood/drug therapy ; Lipids/blood ; Lipoproteins/blood ; Liver/metabolism ; Mice ; Piperidines/chemistry/pharmacokinetics/*pharmacology ; Rabbits ; Rats ; Triglycerides/*blood/metabolism ; Tumor Cells, Cultured
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    Publication Date: 1998-12-18
    Description: cAMP (3',5' cyclic adenosine monophosphate) is a second messenger that in eukaryotic cells induces physiological responses ranging from growth, differentiation, and gene expression to secretion and neurotransmission. Most of these effects have been attributed to the binding of cAMP to cAMP-dependent protein kinase A (PKA). Here, a family of cAMP-binding proteins that are differentially distributed in the mammalian brain and body organs and that exhibit both cAMP-binding and guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) domains is reported. These cAMP-regulated GEFs (cAMP-GEFs) bind cAMP and selectively activate the Ras superfamily guanine nucleotide binding protein Rap1A in a cAMP-dependent but PKA-independent manner. Our findings suggest the need to reformulate concepts of cAMP-mediated signaling to include direct coupling to Ras superfamily signaling.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kawasaki, H -- Springett, G M -- Mochizuki, N -- Toki, S -- Nakaya, M -- Matsuda, M -- Housman, D E -- Graybiel, A M -- P01 CA42063/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01 HL41484/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HD28341/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Dec 18;282(5397):2275-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9856955" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: 1-Methyl-3-isobutylxanthine/pharmacology ; Adrenal Glands/metabolism ; Adult ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Brain/metabolism ; Cell Line ; Colforsin/pharmacology ; Cyclic AMP/*metabolism ; Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism ; Fetus/metabolism ; GTP-Binding Proteins/*metabolism ; Gene Expression ; Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors ; Humans ; In Situ Hybridization ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Phosphorylation ; Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Rats ; Second Messenger Systems ; Sequence Deletion ; Signal Transduction ; rap GTP-Binding Proteins ; ras Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors
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    Publication Date: 1998-12-16
    Description: alpha-Dystroglycan (alpha-DG) is a component of the dystroglycan complex, which is involved in early development and morphogenesis and in the pathogenesis of muscular dystrophies. Here, alpha-DG was shown to serve as a Schwann cell receptor for Mycobacterium leprae, the causative organism of leprosy. Mycobacterium leprae specifically bound to alpha-DG only in the presence of the G domain of the alpha2 chain of laminin-2. Native alpha-DG competitively inhibited the laminin-2-mediated M. leprae binding to primary Schwann cells. Thus, M. leprae may use linkage between the extracellular matrix and cytoskeleton through laminin-2 and alpha-DG for its interaction with Schwann cells.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rambukkana, A -- Yamada, H -- Zanazzi, G -- Mathus, T -- Salzer, J L -- Yurchenco, P D -- Campbell, K P -- Fischetti, V A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Dec 11;282(5396):2076-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021, USA. rambuka@rockvax.rockefeller.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9851927" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Bacterial Adhesion ; Binding Sites ; Calcium/physiology ; Cell Line, Transformed ; Cells, Cultured ; Cytoskeletal Proteins/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Dystroglycans ; Edetic Acid/pharmacology ; Glycosylation ; Humans ; Laminin/chemistry/*metabolism ; Membrane Glycoproteins/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Mycobacterium leprae/*metabolism ; Peripheral Nerves/chemistry ; Rats ; Receptors, Laminin/metabolism ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism ; Recombinant Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Schwann Cells/metabolism/*microbiology
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    Publication Date: 1998-01-24
    Description: Development of analgesic agents for the treatment of severe pain requires the identification of compounds that are devoid of opioid receptor liabilities. A potent (inhibition constant = 37 picomolar) neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) ligand called ABT-594 was developed that has antinociceptive properties equal in efficacy to those of morphine across a series of diverse animal models of acute thermal, persistent chemical, and neuropathic pain states. These effects were blocked by the nAChR antagonist mecamylamine. In contrast to morphine, repeated treatment with ABT-594 did not appear to elicit opioid-like withdrawal or physical dependence. Thus, ABT-594 may be an analgesic that lacks the problems associated with opioid analgesia.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bannon, A W -- Decker, M W -- Holladay, M W -- Curzon, P -- Donnelly-Roberts, D -- Puttfarcken, P S -- Bitner, R S -- Diaz, A -- Dickenson, A H -- Porsolt, R D -- Williams, M -- Arneric, S P -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jan 2;279(5347):77-81.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Neurological and Urological Diseases Research, Pharmaceutical Products Division, Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL 60064-3500, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9417028" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Analgesics, Non-Narcotic/chemical synthesis/metabolism/*pharmacology ; Animals ; Azetidines/chemical synthesis/metabolism/*pharmacology ; Bicyclo Compounds, Heterocyclic/pharmacology ; Capsaicin/pharmacology ; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ; In Vitro Techniques ; Ligands ; Mecamylamine/pharmacology ; Morphine/pharmacology ; Nerve Fibers/drug effects/metabolism/physiology ; Neuromuscular Junction/metabolism ; Neurons/drug effects/metabolism/physiology ; Nicotine/pharmacology ; Nicotinic Agonists/chemical synthesis/metabolism/*pharmacology ; Nicotinic Antagonists/pharmacology ; Pain/drug therapy ; Pain Measurement ; Pyridines/chemical synthesis/metabolism/*pharmacology ; Rats ; Receptors, Nicotinic/*metabolism ; Spinal Cord/drug effects/metabolism/physiology ; Substance Withdrawal Syndrome/etiology ; Synaptic Transmission/drug effects
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    Publication Date: 1998-12-05
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Barinaga, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Nov 6;282(5391):1018-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9841441" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Brain/*cytology/embryology ; Cell Differentiation ; Clone Cells ; Dentate Gyrus/cytology ; Fetus ; Humans ; Neuroglia/*cytology ; Neurons/*cytology/physiology ; Rats ; Regeneration ; Stem Cell Transplantation ; Stem Cells/*cytology
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    Publication Date: 1998-09-25
    Description: The proapoptotic Bax protein induces cell death by acting on mitochondria. Bax binds to the permeability transition pore complex (PTPC), a composite proteaceous channel that is involved in the regulation of mitochondrial membrane permeability. Immunodepletion of Bax from PTPC or purification of PTPC from Bax-deficient mice yielded a PTPC that could not permeabilize membranes in response to atractyloside, a proapoptotic ligand of the adenine nucleotide translocator (ANT). Bax and ANT coimmunoprecipitated and interacted in the yeast two-hybrid system. Ectopic expression of Bax induced cell death in wild-type but not in ANT-deficient yeast. Recombinant Bax and purified ANT, but neither of them alone, efficiently formed atractyloside-responsive channels in artificial membranes. Hence, the proapoptotic molecule Bax and the constitutive mitochondrial protein ANT cooperate within the PTPC to increase mitochondrial membrane permeability and to trigger cell death.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Marzo, I -- Brenner, C -- Zamzami, N -- Jurgensmeier, J M -- Susin, S A -- Vieira, H L -- Prevost, M C -- Xie, Z -- Matsuyama, S -- Reed, J C -- Kroemer, G -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Sep 25;281(5385):2027-31.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉CNRS, UPR 420, 19 rue Guy Moquet, F-94801 Villejuif, France.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9748162" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Apoptosis ; Atractyloside/metabolism/pharmacology ; Binding Sites ; Bongkrekic Acid/metabolism/pharmacology ; Cyclosporine/pharmacology ; Dimerization ; HT29 Cells ; Humans ; Intracellular Membranes/physiology ; Liposomes ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Mitochondria/*physiology ; Mitochondrial ADP, ATP Translocases/chemistry/*metabolism ; Permeability ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2/pharmacology ; Rats ; Rats, Wistar ; Recombinant Proteins/pharmacology ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/cytology/genetics ; Transfection ; bcl-2-Associated X Protein
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    Publication Date: 1998-12-05
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Peters, R -- Sikorski, R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Oct 16;282(5388):432-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9841402" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Arteries/*anatomy & histology ; Helium ; Isotopes ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging/*methods ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Veins/*anatomy & histology
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    Publication Date: 1998-10-23
    Description: Nonpeptide agonists of each of the five somatostatin receptors were identified in combinatorial libraries constructed on the basis of molecular modeling of known peptide agonists. In vitro experiments using these selective compounds demonstrated the role of the somatostatin subtype-2 receptor in inhibition of glucagon release from mouse pancreatic alpha cells and the somatostatin subtype-5 receptor as a mediator of insulin secretion from pancreatic beta cells. Both receptors regulated growth hormone release from the rat anterior pituitary gland. The availability of high-affinity, subtype-selective agonists for each of the somatostatin receptors provides a direct approach to defining their physiological functions.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rohrer, S P -- Birzin, E T -- Mosley, R T -- Berk, S C -- Hutchins, S M -- Shen, D M -- Xiong, Y -- Hayes, E C -- Parmar, R M -- Foor, F -- Mitra, S W -- Degrado, S J -- Shu, M -- Klopp, J M -- Cai, S J -- Blake, A -- Chan, W W -- Pasternak, A -- Yang, L -- Patchett, A A -- Smith, R G -- Chapman, K T -- Schaeffer, J M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Oct 23;282(5389):737-40.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Cell Biochemistry and Physiology, Merck Research Laboratories, Post Office Box 2000, Rahway, NJ 07065, USA. susanvrohrer@merck.com〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9784130" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amides/metabolism/*pharmacology ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Cell Line ; Cells, Cultured ; Cricetinae ; Drug Design ; Glucagon/secretion ; Growth Hormone/secretion ; Insulin/secretion ; Islets of Langerhans/drug effects/secretion ; Ligands ; Membrane Proteins ; Mice ; Models, Chemical ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Pituitary Gland, Anterior/drug effects/metabolism ; Rats ; Receptors, Somatostatin/*agonists/physiology
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    Publication Date: 1998-08-15
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Malissen, B -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jul 24;281(5376):528-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Centre d'Immunologie INSERM-CNRS de Marseille-Luminy, Marseille, France. bernardm@ciml.univ-mrs.fr〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9705722" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Antigens/immunology ; Antigens, CD3/*metabolism ; Immunoglobulin E/metabolism ; Ligands ; Phosphorylation ; Phosphotyrosine/metabolism ; Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/metabolism ; Rats ; Receptor Aggregation ; Receptor-CD3 Complex, Antigen, T-Cell/metabolism ; Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/*metabolism ; Receptors, IgE/*metabolism ; Signal Transduction ; T-Lymphocytes/immunology
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    Publication Date: 1998-01-10
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cook-Deegan, R M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1997 Oct 24;278(5338):560-1.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9381158" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Biological Specimen Banks ; *Cloning, Molecular ; Insulin/*genetics ; *Patents as Topic ; Rats
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    Publication Date: 1998-06-06
    Description: RasGRP, a guanyl nucleotide-releasing protein for the small guanosine triphosphatase Ras, was characterized. Besides the catalytic domain, RasGRP has an atypical pair of "EF hands" that bind calcium and a diacylglycerol (DAG)-binding domain. RasGRP activated Ras and caused transformation in fibroblasts. A DAG analog caused sustained activation of Ras-Erk signaling and changes in cell morphology. Signaling was associated with partitioning of RasGRP protein into the membrane fraction. Sustained ligand-induced signaling and membrane partitioning were absent when the DAG-binding domain was deleted. RasGRP is expressed in the nervous system, where it may couple changes in DAG and possibly calcium concentrations to Ras activation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ebinu, J O -- Bottorff, D A -- Chan, E Y -- Stang, S L -- Dunn, R J -- Stone, J C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 May 15;280(5366):1082-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9582122" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Brain/*metabolism ; Calcium/metabolism ; Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases/metabolism ; Catalysis ; Cell Cycle Proteins/genetics/metabolism ; Cell Line ; Cell Membrane/metabolism ; Cell Size ; Cell Transformation, Neoplastic ; Cloning, Molecular ; DNA, Complementary ; DNA-Binding Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Diglycerides/metabolism ; Genes, ras ; *Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors ; Guanosine Diphosphate/metabolism ; Guanosine Triphosphate/metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Neurons/metabolism ; Phosphoprotein Phosphatases/genetics/metabolism ; Rats ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism ; Signal Transduction ; ras Proteins/*metabolism ; ras-GRF1
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    Publication Date: 1998-01-31
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Vogel, G -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jan 9;279(5348):174.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9446221" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Aging/genetics ; Alzheimer Disease/*genetics/metabolism ; Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor/analysis/biosynthesis/*genetics ; Animals ; Brain/*metabolism ; Brain Chemistry ; Down Syndrome/genetics/metabolism ; Frameshift Mutation ; Humans ; RNA, Messenger/genetics ; Rabbits ; Rats ; Sequence Deletion ; Ubiquitins/analysis/biosynthesis/*genetics
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    Publication Date: 1998-02-07
    Description: Dynamin guanosine triphosphatases support the scission of clathrin-coated vesicles from the plasmalemma during endocytosis. By fluorescence microscopy of cultured rat hepatocytes, a green fluorescent protein-dynamin II fusion protein localized with clathrin-coated vesicles at the Golgi complex. A cell-free assay was utilized to demonstrate the role of dynamin in vesicle formation at the trans-Golgi. Addition of peptide-specific anti-dynamin antibodies to the assay mixture inhibited both constitutive exocytic and clathrin-coated vesicle formation. Immunodepletion of dynamin proteins also inhibited vesicle formation, and budding efficiency was restored upon readdition of purified dynamin. These data suggest that dynamin participates in the formation of distinct transport vesicles from the trans-Golgi network.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Jones, S M -- Howell, K E -- Henley, J R -- Cao, H -- McNiven, M A -- P30 CA-46934/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P30 DK-34914/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jan 23;279(5350):573-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Center for Basic Research in Digestive Diseases, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9438853" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism ; Animals ; Biological Transport ; Cell Membrane/chemistry ; Cells, Cultured ; Clathrin/analysis ; Coated Vesicles/chemistry/*metabolism/ultrastructure ; Cytosol/metabolism ; Dynamins ; GTP Phosphohydrolases/analysis/immunology/*metabolism ; Golgi Apparatus/chemistry/*metabolism ; Green Fluorescent Proteins ; Guanosine 5'-O-(3-Thiotriphosphate)/metabolism ; Liver/ultrastructure ; Luminescent Proteins ; Microscopy, Fluorescence ; Organelles/chemistry/*metabolism/ultrastructure ; Rats ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/analysis
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    Publication Date: 1998-12-04
    Description: Cortical neurons communicate with various cortical and subcortical targets by way of stereotyped axon projections through the white matter. Slice overlay experiments indicate that the initial growth of cortical axons toward the white matter is regulated by a diffusible chemorepulsive signal localized near the marginal zone. Semaphorin III is a major component of this diffusible signal, and cortical neurons transduce this signal by way of the neuropilin-1 receptor. These observations indicate that semaphorin-neuropilin interactions play a critical role in the initial patterning of projections in the developing cortex.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Polleux, F -- Giger, R J -- Ginty, D D -- Kolodkin, A L -- Ghosh, A -- NS35165/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- NS36176/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- NS534814/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Dec 4;282(5395):1904-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 725 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9836643" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Axons/*physiology ; Cell Line ; Cerebral Cortex/*cytology/embryology ; Coculture Techniques ; Gene Targeting ; Glycoproteins/genetics/*physiology ; Humans ; Mice ; Nerve Growth Factors/*metabolism ; Nerve Tissue Proteins/*physiology ; Neurons, Efferent/cytology/*physiology ; Neuropilin-1 ; Rats ; Recombinant Proteins/metabolism ; Semaphorin-3A ; Signal Transduction
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    Publication Date: 1998-07-24
    Description: The ratio of late to early events stimulated by the mast cell receptor for immunoglobulin E (IgE) correlated with the affinity of a ligand for the receptor-bound IgE. Because excess receptors clustered by a weakly binding ligand could hoard a critical initiating kinase, they prevented the outnumbered clusters engendered by the high-affinity ligands from launching the more complete cascade. A similar mechanism could explain the antagonistic action of some peptides on the activation of T cells.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Torigoe, C -- Inman, J K -- Metzger, H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jul 24;281(5376):568-72.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Arthritis and Rheumatism Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1820, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9677201" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: 2,4-Dinitrophenol/immunology ; Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing ; Animals ; Antibody Affinity ; Antigen-Antibody Reactions ; Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases/metabolism ; Dansyl Compounds ; Enzyme Precursors/metabolism ; Focal Adhesion Kinase 2 ; Haptens/*immunology/metabolism ; Immunoglobulin E/immunology/*metabolism ; Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins ; Ligands ; Mast Cells/*immunology ; Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 1 ; Oncogene Proteins/metabolism ; Phosphorylation ; Phosphotyrosine/metabolism ; Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/metabolism ; Rats ; Receptor Aggregation ; Receptors, IgE/immunology/*metabolism ; Signal Transduction ; T-Lymphocytes/immunology ; Tumor Cells, Cultured
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    Publication Date: 1998-01-24
    Description: Developing axons reach their final targets as a result of a series of axonal projections to successive intermediate targets. Long-range chemoattraction by intermediate targets plays a key role in this process. Growing axons, however, do not stall at the intermediate targets, where the chemoattractant concentration is expected to be maximal. Commissural axons in the metencephalon, initially attracted by a chemoattractant released from the floor plate, were shown to lose responsiveness to the chemoattractant when they crossed the floor plate in vitro. Such changes in axon responsiveness to chemoattractants may enable developing axons to continue to navigate toward their final destinations.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Shirasaki, R -- Katsumata, R -- Murakami, F -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jan 2;279(5347):105-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Neuroscience, Division of Biophysical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560, Japan. sirasaki@bpe.es.osaka-u.ac.jp〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9417018" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Axons/*physiology ; Carbocyanines ; *Cell Adhesion Molecules, Neuronal ; *Chemotaxis ; Contactin 2 ; Culture Techniques ; Fluorescent Dyes ; Membrane Glycoproteins/analysis ; Nerve Growth Factors/*physiology ; Pons/*embryology/physiology ; Rats ; Rats, Wistar ; Rhombencephalon/*embryology/metabolism ; Tumor Suppressor Proteins
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    Publication Date: 1998-09-12
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wickelgren, I -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Aug 28;281(5381):1264-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9735037" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Bicyclo Compounds/pharmacology/*therapeutic use ; Dopamine/metabolism ; Excitatory Amino Acid Agonists/pharmacology/*therapeutic use ; Glutamic Acid/*metabolism ; Humans ; Maze Learning/drug effects ; Memory/drug effects ; Phencyclidine/pharmacology ; Prefrontal Cortex/drug effects/*metabolism ; Rats ; Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate/metabolism ; Schizophrenia/chemically induced/*drug therapy/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1998-07-21
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wickelgren, I -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jun 26;280(5372):2045-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9669958" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alcohol Deterrents/therapeutic use ; Alcoholism/drug therapy ; Animals ; Behavior, Addictive/drug therapy/*etiology ; Brain/*metabolism ; Cocaine/administration & dosage ; Cocaine-Related Disorders/drug therapy/*etiology ; Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists/therapeutic use ; Glutamic Acid/*physiology ; Humans ; Rats ; Receptors, Glutamate/metabolism ; Substance-Related Disorders/drug therapy/*etiology ; Synaptic Transmission ; Taurine/analogs & derivatives/therapeutic use
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    Publication Date: 1998-06-26
    Description: Hippocampal pyramidal cells are called place cells because each cell tends to fire only when the animal is in a particular part of the environment-the cell's firing field. Acute pharmacological blockade of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) glutamate receptors was used to investigate how NMDA-based synaptic plasticity participates in the formation and maintenance of the firing fields. The results suggest that the formation and short-term stability of firing fields in a new environment involve plasticity that is independent of NMDA receptor activation. By contrast, the long-term stabilization of newly established firing fields required normal NMDA receptor function and, therefore, may be related to other NMDA-dependent processes such as long-term potentiation and spatial learning.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kentros, C -- Hargreaves, E -- Hawkins, R D -- Kandel, E R -- Shapiro, M -- Muller, R V -- R01 20686/PHS HHS/ -- R01 45923/PHS HHS/ -- T32 AGO 00189/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jun 26;280(5372):2121-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Physiology, SUNY Health Science Center Brooklyn, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9641919" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Brain Mapping ; Evoked Potentials ; Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists/pharmacology ; Hippocampus/*physiology ; Long-Term Potentiation/*physiology ; Male ; Memory/*physiology ; Neuronal Plasticity ; Piperazines/pharmacology ; Pyramidal Cells/*physiology ; Rats ; Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate/antagonists & inhibitors/*physiology ; Space Perception/*physiology ; Time Factors
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    Publication Date: 1998-09-25
    Description: If information is stored as activity-driven increases in synaptic weights in the hippocampal formation, saturation of hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP) should impair learning. Here, rats in which one hippocampus had been lesioned were implanted with a multielectrode stimulating array across and into the angular bundle afferent to the other hippocampus. Repeated cross-bundle tetanization caused cumulative potentiation. Residual synaptic plasticity was assessed by tetanizing a naive test electrode in the center of the bundle. Spatial learning was disrupted in animals with no residual LTP (〈10 percent) but not in animals that were capable of further potentiation. Thus, saturation of hippocampal LTP impairs spatial learning.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Moser, E I -- Krobert, K A -- Moser, M B -- Morris, R G -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Sep 25;281(5385):2038-42.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7034 Trondheim, Norway.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9748165" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Dentate Gyrus/physiology ; Electric Stimulation ; Electrodes, Implanted ; Evoked Potentials ; Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials ; Hippocampus/*physiology ; Long-Term Potentiation/*physiology ; Male ; Maze Learning/*physiology ; Perforant Pathway ; Rats ; Synapses/physiology ; Tetany
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    Publication Date: 1998-03-28
    Description: Little is known about the mechanisms that allow the cortex to selectively improve the neural representations of behaviorally important stimuli while ignoring irrelevant stimuli. Diffuse neuromodulatory systems may facilitate cortical plasticity by acting as teachers to mark important stimuli. This study demonstrates that episodic electrical stimulation of the nucleus basalis, paired with an auditory stimulus, results in a massive progressive reorganization of the primary auditory cortex in the adult rat. Receptive field sizes can be narrowed, broadened, or left unaltered depending on specific parameters of the acoustic stimulus paired with nucleus basalis activation. This differential plasticity parallels the receptive field remodeling that results from different types of behavioral training. This result suggests that input characteristics may be able to drive appropriate alterations of receptive fields independently of explicit knowledge of the task. These findings also suggest that the basal forebrain plays an active instructional role in representational plasticity.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kilgard, M P -- Merzenich, M M -- NS-10414/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Mar 13;279(5357):1714-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Otolaryngology, W. M. Keck Foundation Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Avenue, Box 0732, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9497289" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetylcholine/metabolism ; Acoustic Stimulation ; Animals ; Auditory Cortex/*physiology ; Basal Ganglia/*physiology ; *Brain Mapping ; Conditioning (Psychology) ; Electric Stimulation ; *Neuronal Plasticity ; Neurons/physiology ; Prosencephalon/*physiology ; Rats
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    Publication Date: 1998-10-23
    Description: A map of 30,181 human gene-based markers was assembled and integrated with the current genetic map by radiation hybrid mapping. The new gene map contains nearly twice as many genes as the previous release, includes most genes that encode proteins of known function, and is twofold to threefold more accurate than the previous version. A redesigned, more informative and functional World Wide Web site (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genemap) provides the mapping information and associated data and annotations. This resource constitutes an important infrastructure and tool for the study of complex genetic traits, the positional cloning of disease genes, the cross-referencing of mammalian genomes, and validated human transcribed sequences for large-scale studies of gene expression.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Deloukas, P -- Schuler, G D -- Gyapay, G -- Beasley, E M -- Soderlund, C -- Rodriguez-Tome, P -- Hui, L -- Matise, T C -- McKusick, K B -- Beckmann, J S -- Bentolila, S -- Bihoreau, M -- Birren, B B -- Browne, J -- Butler, A -- Castle, A B -- Chiannilkulchai, N -- Clee, C -- Day, P J -- Dehejia, A -- Dibling, T -- Drouot, N -- Duprat, S -- Fizames, C -- Fox, S -- Gelling, S -- Green, L -- Harrison, P -- Hocking, R -- Holloway, E -- Hunt, S -- Keil, S -- Lijnzaad, P -- Louis-Dit-Sully, C -- Ma, J -- Mendis, A -- Miller, J -- Morissette, J -- Muselet, D -- Nusbaum, H C -- Peck, A -- Rozen, S -- Simon, D -- Slonim, D K -- Staples, R -- Stein, L D -- Stewart, E A -- Suchard, M A -- Thangarajah, T -- Vega-Czarny, N -- Webber, C -- Wu, X -- Hudson, J -- Auffray, C -- Nomura, N -- Sikela, J M -- Polymeropoulos, M H -- James, M R -- Lander, E S -- Hudson, T J -- Myers, R M -- Cox, D R -- Weissenbach, J -- Boguski, M S -- Bentley, D R -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Oct 23;282(5389):744-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Sanger Centre, Hinxton Hall, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9784132" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Chromosomes, Human/*genetics ; Expressed Sequence Tags ; Gene Expression ; Genetic Markers ; *Genome, Human ; Human Genome Project ; Humans ; Internet ; *Physical Chromosome Mapping ; Rats ; Sequence Tagged Sites
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 68 (1998), S. 31-49 
    ISSN: 0730-2312
    Keywords: Bax ; Bcl-2 ; Bcl-X ; bone ; programmed cell death ; p53 ; c-fos ; Msx-2 ; differentiation ; IRF-1 ; IRF-2 ; collagenase gene expression ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: We present evidence of cell death by apoptosis during the development of bone-like tissue formation in vitro. Fetal rat calvaria-derived osteoblasts differentiate in vitro, progressing through three stages of maturation: a proliferation period, a matrix maturation period when growth is downregulated and expression of the bone cell phenotype is induced, and a third mineralization stage marked by the expression of bone-specific genes. Here we show for the first time that cells differentiating to the mature bone cell phenotype undergo programmed cell death and express genes regulating apoptosis. Culture conditions that modify expression of the osteoblast phenotype simultaneously modify the incidence of apoptosis. Cell death by apoptosis is directly demonstrated by visualization of degraded DNA into oligonucleosomal fragments after gel electrophoresis. Bcl-XL, an inhibitor of apoptosis, and Bax, which can accelerate apoptosis, are expressed at maximal levels 24 h after initial isolation of the cells and again after day 25 in heavily mineralized bone tissue nodules. Bcl-2 is expressed in a reciprocal manner to its related gene product Bcl-XL with the highest levels observed during the early post-proliferative stages of osteoblast maturation. Expression of p53, c-fos, and the interferon regulatory factors IRF-1 and IRF-2, but not cdc2 or cdk, were also induced in mineralized bone nodules. The upregulation of Msx-2 in association with apoptosis is consistent with its in vivo expression during embryogenesis in areas that will undergo programmed cell death. We propose that cell death by apoptosis is a fundamental component of osteoblast differentiation that contributes to maintaining tissue organization. J. Cell. Biochem. 68:31-49, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 68 (1998), S. 309-327 
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    Keywords: in vitro replication ; ors8 ; Oct-1 transcription factor ; POU domain ; mammalian autonomously replicating DNA sequence ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: A 186-base pair fragment of ors8, a mammalian autonomously replicating DNA sequence isolated by extrusion of nascent monkey DNA in early S phase, has previously been identified as the minimal sequence required for replication function in vitro and in vivo. This 186-base pair fragment contains, among other sequence characteristics, an imperfect consensus binding site for the ubiquitous transcription factor Oct-1. We have investigated the role of Oct-1 protein in the in vitro replication of this mammalian origin. Depletion of the endogenous Oct-1 protein, by inclusion of an oligonucleotide comprising the Oct-1 binding site, inhibited the in vitro replication of p186 to approximately 15-20% of the control, whereas a mutated Oct-1 and a nonspecific oligonucleotide had no effect. Furthermore, immunodepletion of the Oct-1 protein from the HeLa cell extracts by addition of an anti-POU antibody to the in vitro replication reactioninhibited p186 replication to 25% of control levels. This inhibition of replication could be partially reversed to 50-65% of control levels, a two- to threefold increase, upon the addition of exogenous Oct-1 POU domain protein.Site-directed mutagenesis of the octamer binding site in p186 resulted in a mutant clone, p186-MutOct, which abolished Oct-1 binding but was still able to replicate as efficiently as the wild-type p186. The results suggest that Oct-1 protein is an enhancing component in the in vitro replication of p186 but that its effect on replication is not caused through direct binding to the octamer motif. J. Cell. Biochem. 68:309-327, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Keywords: cell proliferation ; tumor progression ; EGF receptor ; ErbB ; HER1 ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Heparin-binding epidermal growth factor-like growth factor (HB-EGF) is an activating ligand for the EGF receptor (HER1/ErbB1) and the high-affinity receptor for diphtheria toxin (DT) in its transmembrane form (proHB-EGF). HB-EGF was immunolocalized within human benign and malignant prostatic tissues, using monospecific antibodies directed against the mature protein and against the cytoplasmic domain of proHB-EGF. Prostate carcinoma cells, normal glandular epithelial cells, undifferentiated fibroblasts, and inflammatory cells were not decorated by the anti-HB-EGF antibodies; however, interstitial and vascular smooth muscle cells were highly reactive, indicating that the smooth muscle compartments are the major sites of synthesis and localization of HB-EGF within the prostate. In marked contrast to prostatic epithelium, proHB-EGF was immunolocalized to seminal vesicle epithelium, indicating differential regulation of HB-EGF synthesis within various epithelia of the reproductive tract. HB-EGF was not overexpressed in this series of cancer tissues, in comparison to the benign tissues. In experiments with LNCaP human prostate carcinoma cells, HB-EGF was similar in potency to epidermal growth factor (EGF) in stimulating cell growth. Exogenous HB-EGF and EGF each activated HER1 and HER3 receptor tyrosine kinases and induced tyrosine phosphorylation of cellular proteins to a similar extent. LNCaP cells expressed detectable but low levels of HB-EGF mRNA; however, proHB-EGF was detected at the cell surface indirectly by demonstration of specific sensitivity to DT. HB-EGF is the first HER1 ligand to be identified predominantly as a smooth muscle cell product in the human prostate. Further, the observation that HB-EGF is similar to EGF in mitogenic potency for human prostate carcinoma cells suggests that it may be one of the hypothesized stromal mediators of prostate cancer growth. J. Cell. Biochem. 68:328-338, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Keywords: chondrocytes ; cyclooxygenase-2 ; c-Jun N-terminal kinase ; protein kinase A ; cAMP response element ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The involvement of serine/threonine protein phosphatases in signaling pathways that control the expression of the cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) gene in human chondrocytes was examined. Okadaic acid (OKA), an inhibitor of protein phosphatases 1 (PP-1) and 2A (PP-2A), induced a delayed, time-dependent increase in the rate of COX-2 gene transcription (runoff assay) resulting in increased steady-state mRNA levels and enzyme synthesis. The latter response was dose dependent over a narrow range of 1-30 nmol/L with declining expression and synthesis of COX-2 at higher concentrations due to cell toxicity. The delayed increase in COX-2 mRNA expression was accompanied by the induction of the proto-oncogenes c-jun, junB, junD, and c-fos (but not FosB or Fra-1). Increased phosphorylation of CREB-1/ATF-1 transcription factors was observed beginning at 4 h and reached a zenith at 8 h. Gel-shift analysis confirmed the up-regulation of AP-1 and CRE nuclear binding proteins, though there was little or no OKA-induced nuclear protein binding to SP-1, AP-2, NF-κB or NF-IL-6 regulatory elements. OKA-induced nuclear protein binding to 32P-CRE oligonucleotides was abrogated by a pharmacological inhibitor of protein kinase A (PKA), KT-5720; the latter compound also inhibited OKA-induced COX-2 enzyme synthesis. Calphostin C (CalC), an inhibitor of PKC isoenzymes, had little effect in this regard. Inhibition of 32P-CRE binding was also observed in the presence of an antibody to CREB-binding protein (265-kDa CBP), an integrator and coactivator of cAMP-responsive genes. The binding to 32P-CRE was unaffected in the presence of excess radioinert AP-1 and COX-2 NF-IL-6 oligonucleotides, although a COX-2 CRE-oligo competed very efficiently. 32P-AP-1 consensus sequence binding was unaffected by incubation of chondrocytes with KT-5720 or CalC, but was dramatically diminished by excess radioinert AP-1 and CRE-COX-2 oligos. Supershift analysis in the presence of antibodies to c-Jun, c-Fos, JunD, and JunB suggested that AP-1 complexes were composed of c-Fos, JunB, and possibly c-Jun. OKA has no effect on total cellular PKC activity but caused a delayed time-dependent increase in total PKA activity and synthesis. OKA suppressed the activity of the MAP kinases, ERK1/2 in a time-dependent fashion, suggesting that the Raf-1/MEKK1/MEK1/ERK1,2 cascade was compromised by OKA treatment. By contrast, OKA caused a dramatic increase in SAPK/JNK expression and activity, indicative of an activation of MEKK1/JNKK/SAPK/JNK pathway. OKA stimulated a dose-dependent activation of CAT activity using transfected promoter-CAT constructs harboring the regulatory elements AP-1 (c-jun promoter) and CRE (CRE-tkCAT). We conclude that in primary phenotypically stable human chondrocytes, COX-2 gene expression may be controlled by critical phosphatases that interact with phosphorylation dependent (e.g., MAP kinases:AP-1, PKA:CREB/ATF) signaling pathways. AP-1 and CREB/ATF families of transcription factors may be important substrates for PP-1/PP-2A in human chondrocytes. J. Cell. Biochem. 69:392-413, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 68 (1998), S. 457-471 
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    Keywords: coated vesicles ; acetylcholine receptors ; AP180 ; myotube ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Monoclonal antibodies were generated to vesicular membranes of clathrin coated vesicles enriched for acetylcholinesterase (AChE). One of these, C172, recognizes vesicles which accumulate in muscle cells around nuclei associated with acetylcholine receptor AChR clusters. Immunoblots of muscle extracts and brain purified clathrin coated vesicles show that C172 recognizes a 100 kd band in muscle, but a 180 kd band in brain. Western blots of purified AP180 protein stained with the two antibodies AP180.1 and C172 displayed the same staining pattern. Tryptic digests probed with peptide antibodies (PS26 and PS27) generated to known sequences of AP180 were used to map the epitope for C172 within the brain AP180 sequence. On immunoblots of digested AP180, all AP180 antibodies and C172 recognized a 100 kd tryptic fragment, however only C172 recognized a smaller 60 kd. Our results suggest that the C172 epitope is located within amino acids 305-598 of the AP180 sequence. Confocal fluorescence microscopy of myoblasts and myotubes stained with the C172 antibody gives a punctate immunofluorescence pattern. Myoblasts stained with C172 revealed a polarized distribution of vesicles distinct from that observed when cells are stained with γ adaptin antibody which is known to localize to trans Golgi network. Myotubes stained with C172 antibody reveal a linear array of vesicular staining. Quantitative analysis of C172 reactive vesicles revealed a significant increase in number of vesicles present around the nuclei associated with the acetylcholine receptor clusters. These vesicles did not colocalize with the Golgi cisternae. These results indicate that a protein with homology to the neuron-specific coated vesicle protein AP180, is present in muscle cells associated with vesicles showing significant concentration around postsynaptic nuclei present in close proximity to AChR clusters. J. Cell. Biochem. 68:457-471, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Keywords: Rous sarcoma virus ; chondrocytes ; matrix calcification ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Endochondral bone formation involves the progression of epiphyseal growth plate chondrocytes through a sequence of developmental stages which include proliferation, differentiation, hypertrophy, and matrix calcification. To study this highly coordinated process, we infected growth plate chondrocytes with Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) and studied the effects of RSV transformation on cell proliferation, differentiation, matrix synthesis, and mineralization. The RSV-transformed chondrocytes exhibited a distinct bipolar, fibroblast-like morphology, while the mock-infected chondrocytes had a typical polygonal morphology. The RSV-transformed chondrocytes actively synthesized extracellular matrix proteins consisting mainly of type I collagen and fibronectin. RSV-transformed cells produced much less type X collagen than was produced by mock-transformed cells. There also was a significant reduction of proteoglycan levels secreted in both the cell-matrix layer and culture media from RSV-transformed chondrocytes. RSV-transformed chondrocytes expressed two- to- threefold more matrix metalloproteinase, while expressing only one-half to one-third of the alkaline phosphatase activity of mock infected cells. Finally, RSV-transformed chondrocytes failed to calcify the extracellular matrix, while mock-transformed cells deposited high levels of calcium and phosphate into their extracellular matrix. These results collectively indicate that RSV transformation disrupts the preprogrammed differentiation pattern of growth plate chondrocytes and inhibit chondrocyte terminal differentiation and mineralization. They also suggest that the expression of extracellular matrix proteins, type II and type X collagens, and the cartilage proteoglycans are important for chondrocyte terminal differentiation and matrix calcification. J. Cell. Biochem. 69:453-462, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Keywords: Cordyceps sinensis ; adrenal cells ; steroidogenesis ; signal pathway ; PKC ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Cordyceps sinensiscontains a factor that stimulates corticosteroid production in the animal model. However, it is not known whether this drug acts directly on the adrenal glands or indirectly via the hypothalamus-pituitary axis. In the present study, we used primary rat adrenal cell cultures to investigate the pharmacological function of a water-soluble extract of Cordyceps sinensis(CS) and thesignaling pathway involved. Radioimmunoassay of corticosterone indicated that the amount of corticosterone produced by adrenal cells is increased in a positively dose-dependent manner by CS, reaching a maximun at 25 μg/ml. This stimulating effect was seen 1 h after CS treatment and was maintained for up to 24 h. Concomitantly, the lipid droplets in these cells became small and fewer in number. Immunostaining with a monoclonal antibody, A2, a specific marker for the lipid droplet capsule, demonstrated that detachment of the capsule from the lipid droplet occurs in response to CS application and that the period required for decapsulation is inversely related to the concentration of CS applied. The mechanism of CS-induced steroidogenesis is apparently different from that for ACTH, since intracellular cAMP levels were not increased in CS-treated cells. However, combined application with calphostin C, a PKC inhibitor, completely blocked the effect of CS on steroidogenesis, suggesting that activation of PKC may be responsible for the CS-induced steroidogenesis. J. Cell. Biochem. 69:483-489, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 69 (1998), S. 506-521 
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    Keywords: heart ; development ; CaMPK ; cAPK ; CDK ; cGPK ; Kkialre ; PKC ; Wee1 ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: During early postnatal development, cardiomyocytes, which comprise about 80% of ventricular mass and volume, become phenotypically developed to facilitate their contractile functions and terminally differentiated to grow only in size but not in cell number. These changes are due to the expression of contractile proteins as well as the regulation of intracellular signal transduction proteins. In this study, the expression patterns of several protein kinases involved in various cardiac functions and cell-cycle control were analyzed by Western blotting of ventricular extracts from 1-, 10-, 20-, 50-, and 365-day-old rats. The expression level of cAMP-dependent protein kinase was slightly decreased (20%) over the first year, whereas no change was detected in cGMP-dependent protein kinase I. Calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II, which is involved in Ca2+ uptake into the sarcoplasmic reticulum, was increased as much as ten-fold. To the contrary, the expressions of protein kinase C-α and ι declined 77% with age. Cyclin-dependent protein kinases (CDKs) such as CDK1, CDK2, CDK4, and CDK5, which are required for cell-cycle progression, abruptly declined to almost undetectable levels after 10-20 days of age. In contrast, other CDK-related kinases, such as CDK8 or Kkialre, did not change significantly or increased up to 50% with age, respectively. Protein kinases implicated in CDK regulation such as CDK7 and Wee1 were either slightly increased in expression or did not change significantly. All of the proteins that were detected in ventricular extracts were also identified in isolated cardiac myocytes in equivalent amounts and analyzed for their relative expression in ten other adult rat tissues. J. Cell. Biochem. 69:506-521, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 70 (1998), S. 8-21 
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    Keywords: activin A ; bone marrow stromal cells ; gene regulation ; promoter activity ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Activin A, a member of the TGF-β superfamily, plays roles in differentiation and development, including hematopoiesis. Our previous studies indicated that the expression of activin A by human bone marrow cells and monocytes is highly regulated by inflammatory cytokines and glucocorticoids. The present study was undertaken to investigate the regulation of activin A gene expression in the human bone marrow stromal cell lines L87/4 and HS-5, as well as in primary stromal cells. Northern blots demonstrated that, like primary stromal cells, the cell lines expressed four activin A RNA transcripts (6.4, 4.0, 2.8, and 1.6 kb), although distribution of the RNA among the four sizes varied. The locations of the 5′ ends of the RNAs were investigated by Northern blots and RNase protection assays. The results identified a transcription start site at 212 nucleotides upstream of the translation start codon. In addition, luciferase expression assays of a series of deletion constructs were used to identify regulatory sequences upstream of the activin A gene. A 58 bp upstream sequence exhibits promoter activity. However, severalfold higher expression requires a positive element consisting of an additional 71 bp of the upstream region. Promoter activity was also identified between 2.5 and 3.6 kb upstream of the start codon. These findings suggest that expression of activin A at the transcriptional level follows complex patterns of regulation. J. Cell. Biochem. 70:8-21, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 70 (1998), S. 29-37 
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    Keywords: small GTPase ; membrane traffic ; vesicles ; transport ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Eukaryotic cells achieve complexity by compartmentalizing a subset of cellular functions into membrane-bound organelles. Maintaining this high level of cellular organization requires precise regulation of traffic between membranes. This task is accomplished, in part, by rab proteins. How these small GTPases regulate membrane traffic between cellular compartments is not clear. Here we report the characterization of a novel rab GTPase from the soil amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum. The predicted coding sequence of the new rab gene, Dictyostelium rab11b, encodes a protein of 25 kD containing all the structural hallmarks of a rab GTPase. Comparison of the sequence with the GenBank database and cladistic analysis demonstrated Dictyostelium rab11b to be a divergent member of the rab11 branch of rab proteins. Southern analysis revealed the presence of related genes in Dictyostelium. RNAse protection assays showed the Dictyostelium rab11b gene to be expressed at uniform levels throughout growth and development. Gene deletion experiments revealed that Dictyostelium rab11b was not essential for growth or development. Conceivably, the function of rab11b may be redundant with that of related genes in this organism. J. Cell. Biochem. 70:29-37, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, inc.
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    Keywords: coronary artery ; NO/EDRF ; adenosine ; prostacyclin ; phospholamban ; myosin light chain ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The intracellular mechanisms underlying the action of the endogenous vasodilators such as NO/EDRF, adenosine, and prostacyclin acting through cGMP and cAMP, respectively, are not well understood. One important action of cyclic nucleotides in smooth muscle relaxation is to lower the cytosolic Ca2+ concentration by enhanced sequestration into the sarcoplasmic reticulum. The present study was undertaken to elucidate the potential role of phosphorylation of phospholamban, the regulator of sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ pump, for the control of coronary vascular tone by NO/EDRF, adenosine, and prostacyclin. Phospholamban was identified in pig coronary artery preparations by immunofluorescence microscopy, Western blotting and in vitro phosphorylation. Segments of pig coronary artery, with either intact or denuded endothelium, were precontracted with prostaglandin F2α (PGF2α). In endothelium-denuded preparations 3-morpholinosydnonimine (SIN-1), 5′-N-ethylcarboxiamidoadenosine (NECA), and iloprost (ILO) caused both relaxation and phospholamban phosphorylation with the potency: SIN-1 〉 NECA 〉 ILO. The regulatory myosin light chain was significantly dephosphorylated only by SIN-1. In endothelium-intact pig coronary artery, L-NAME caused additional vasoconstriction and a decrease in phospholamban phosphorylation, while phosphorylation of myosin light chain remained unchanged. An inverse relationship between phospholamban phosphorylation and vessel tone was obtained. Our findings demonstrate significant phospholamban phosphorylation during coronary artery relaxation evoked by NO, prostacyclin, and adenosine receptor activation. Because of the close correlation between phosphorylation of phospholamban and vessel relaxation, we propose that phospholamban phosphorylation is an important mechanism by which endogenous vasodilators, especially endothelial NO/EDRF, control coronary vascular smooth muscle tone. J. Cell. Biochem. 70:49-59, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 70 (1998), S. 70-83 
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    Keywords: TGF-β1 ; apoptosis ; growth inhibition ; retina ; endothelial cells ; pericytes ; angiogenesis ; p21waf1/cip1 ; p53 ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) regulates a variety of cellular functions. In several types of cells, for example, it acts as a growth inhibitor and an inducer of apoptotic cell death. Although one of the important modulators in retinal vascular development and retinal neovascularization, the effects of TGF-β1 on retinal microvascular cells are not fully defined. We have found that proliferation of both bovine retinal endothelial cells (EC) and pericytes was inhibited by TGF-β1 in a concentration-dependent manner. However, only retinal EC lost viability after exposure to increasing concentrations of TGF-β1 (up to 10 μg/ml) in the presence of 2% fetal bovine serum. Dying EC exhibited the morphological and biochemical characteristics of apoptosis. Fragmented nuclei and chromatin condensation were apparent after staining with the fluorochrome Hoechst 33258 and the reagent ApopTag; moreover, gel electrophoresis of DNA from TGF-β1-treated EC demonstrated degradation of chromatin into the discrete fragments typically associated with apoptosis. The addition of anti-TGF-β1 neutralizing antibody abolished the apoptotic cell death induced by TGF-β1. Because not all the EC in a given culture died after exposure to TGF-β1, we separated the apoptosis-sensitive cells from those resistant to TGF-β1-mediated apoptosis and determined the expression of several proteins associated with this apoptotic pathway. Apoptosis of EC mediated by TGF-β1 was associated with a decreased level of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p21waf1/cip1, compared with that observed in the apoptosis-resistant cells. In contrast, the translation product of the tumor-suppressor gene p53 was increased in the TGF-β1-treated apoptotic cells. Thus, we propose that p21waf1/cip1 and p53 function in distinct pathways that are protective or permissive, respectively, for the apoptotic signals mediated by TGF-β1. J. Cell. Biochem. 70:70-83, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Keywords: steroid hormone receptor ; 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 ; nuclear retention ; DNA-binding ; transcriptional activation ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The human vitamin D receptor (hVDR) possesses a unique array of five basic amino acids positioned between the two DNA-binding zinc fingers that is similar to well-characterized nuclear localization sequences in other proteins. When residues within this region are mutated to nonbasic amino acids, or when this domain is deleted, the receptor is still well expressed, but it no longer associates with the vitamin D-responsive element in DNA, in vitro, and hVDR-mediated transcriptional activation is abolished in transfected cells. Concomitantly, the mutated hVDRs exhibit a significant shift in hVDR cellular distribution favoring cytoplasmic over nuclear retention as assessed by subcellular fractionation and immunoblotting. Independent immunocytochemical studies employing a VDR-specific monoclonal antibody demonstrate that mutation or deletion of this basic domain dramatically attenuates hVDR nuclear localization in transfected COS-7 cells. Although wild-type hVDR is partitioned predominantly to the nucleus in the absence of the 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25(OH)2D3) hormone, treatment with ligand further enhances nuclear translocation, as it does to some degree in receptors with the basic region altered. The role of 1,25(OH)2D3may be to facilitate hVDR heterodimerization with retinoid X receptors, stimulating subsequent DNA binding and ultimately enhancing nuclear retention. Taken together, these data reveal that the region of hVDR between Arg-49 and Lys-55 contains a novel constitutive nuclear localization signal, RRSMKRK. J. Cell. Biochem. 70:94-109, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Keywords: giant cell tumor of bone ; MCP-1 ; TGF-β ; CD68+ ; chemotaxis ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Giant cell tumor of bone (GCT) is one of a few neoplasms in which the macrophage/osteoclast precursor cells and osteoclast-like giant cells infiltrate the tumor mass. Monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1) is a potent chemotactic factor specific for monocytes. In search of relevant cytokines that may enhance the recruitment of these reactive cells, we evaluated the localization and regulation of MCP-1 mRNA and protein in GCT by using Northern blot analysis, in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry. We also determined whether conditioned medium obtained from GCT cultures can recruit human peripheral blood monocytes (CD68+) in an in vitro chemotactic assay. Using Northern blot analysis, we detected the specific gene transcript for MCP-1 in all GCT samples tested. In situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry revealed that both MCP-1 gene transcript and protein were consistently present in the cytoplasm of stromal-like tumor cells of GCT. Treatment of mononuclear cells from GCT at third passage with TGF-β1 for 24 h increased the level of MCP-1 mRNA in a dose-dependent manner, with the maximum effect at 1 ng/ml. Conditioned media from GCT cultures promoted the chemotactic migration of CD68+ peripheral monocytes, an activity which was abolished by the addition of MCP-1 antibody to the conditioned medium. Thus, the results of this study suggest that recruitment of CD68+ macrophage-like cells may be due to the production MCP-1 by stromal-like tumor cells. These CD68+ cells may originate from peripheral blood and could have the capability of further differentiating into osteoclasts in the tumor. J. Cell. Biochem. 70:121-129, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Keywords: signal transduction ; chromatin structure ; cytology ; histones ; metastasis ; Ras ; MAPKK ; NIH3T3 cells ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: An altered nuclear morphology has been previously noted in association with Ras activation, but little is known about the structural basis, functional significance, signaling pathway, or reproducibility of any such change. We first tested the reproducibility of Ras-associated nuclear change in a series of rodent fibroblast cell lines. After independently developing criteria for recognizing Ras-associated nuclear change in a Papanicolaou stained test cell line with an inducible H(T24)-Ras oncogene, two cytopathologists blindly and independently assessed 17 other cell lines. If the cell lines showed Ras-associated nuclear change, a rank order of increasing nuclear change was independently scored. Ras-associated nuclear changes were identified in v-Fes, v-Src, v-Mos, v-Raf, and five of five H(T24)-Ras transfectants consisting of a change from a flattened, occasionally undulating nuclear shape to a more rigid spherical shape and a change from a finely textured to a coarse heterochromatic appearance. Absent or minimal changes were scored in six control cell lines. The two cytopathologists' independent morphologic rank orders were similar (P〈 .0002). The mitogen signaling pathway per se does not appear to transduce the change since no morphologic alterations were identified in cell lines with activations of downstream components of this pathway - MAPKK or c-Myc - and the rank orders did not correlate with markers of mitotic rate (P 〉 .11). The rank order correlated closely with metastatic potential (P 〈 .0014 and P 〈 .0003) but not with histone H1 composition or global nuclease sensitivity. Based on published studies of five of the cell lines, there may be a correlation between increases in certain nuclear matrix proteins and the Ras-associated nuclear change. J. Cell. Biochem. 70:130-140, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 70 (1998), S. 159-171 
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    Keywords: nucleus ; nuclear domain ; genome ; nucleolus ; coiled body ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: It is becoming clear that the cell nucleus is not only organized in domains but that these domains are also organized relative to each other and to the genome. Specific nuclear domains, enriched in different proteins and RNAs, are often found next to each other and next to specific gene loci. Several lines of investigation suggest that nuclear domains are involved in facilitating or regulating gene expression. The emerging view is that the spatial relationship between different domains and genes on different chromosomes, as found in the nucleolus, is a common organizational principle in the nucleus, to allow an efficient and controlled synthesis and processing of a range of gene transcripts. J. Cell. Biochem. 70:159-171. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 70 (1998), S. 181-192 
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    Keywords: coiled bodies (CBs) ; gems ; p80 coilin ; RNPs ; RNA processing ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Coiled bodies (CBs) are nuclear organelles whose morphology and composition have been conserved from plants to animals. They are highly enriched in components of three different RNA processing pathways. Small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs) involved in pre-mRNA splicing, rRNA processing, and histone mRNA 3′ end maturation all take up residence in CBs. However, CB function(s) remain obscure. This review will focus on recent developments in several aspects of CB structure and function, including exciting new results on their twin organelles, called gems. In particular, the reader will be introduced to a novel hypothesis called the “salmon theory of snRNP biogenesis.” Questions arising from and experiments necessary to test this hypothesis will be discussed. J. Cell. Biochem. 70:181-192, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Keywords: monomeric laminin receptor ; receptor maturation ; acylation ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Even though the involvement of the 67-kDa laminin receptor (67LR) in tumor invasiveness has been clearly demonstrated, its molecular structure remains an open problem, since only a full-length gene encoding a 37-kDa precursor protein (37LRP) has been isolated so far. A pool of recently obtained monoclonal antibodies directed against the recombinant 37LRP molecule was used to investigate the processing that leads to the formation of the 67-kDa molecule. In soluble extracts of A431 human carcinoma cells, these reagents recognize the precursor molecule as well as the mature 67LR and a 120-kDa molecule. The recovery of these proteins was found to be strikingly dependent upon the cell solubilization conditions: the 67LR is soluble in NP-40-lysis buffer whereas the 37LRP is NP-40-insoluble. Inhibition of 67LR formation by cerulenin indicates that acylation is involved in the processing of the receptor. It is likely a palmitoylation process, as indicated by sensitivity of NP-40-soluble extracts to hydroxylamine treatment. Immunoblotting assays performed with a polyclonal serum directed against galectin3 showed that both the 67- and the 120-kDa proteins carry galectin3 epitopes whereas the 37LRP does not. These data suggest that the 67LR is a heterodimer stabilized by strong intramolecular hydrophobic interactions, carried by fatty acids bound to the 37LRP and to a galectin3 cross-reacting molecule. J. Cell. Biochem. 69:244-251, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 69 (1998), S. 260-270 
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    Keywords: oncogenic function of mutant p53 ; MAR-DNA elements ; MAR-DNA binding by mutant p53 ; MethA p53 ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: We recently reported that murine MethA mutant but not wild-type p53 specifically binds to MAR-DNA elements (MARs) with high affinity. Here we show that this DNA binding activity is exerted not only by MethA mutant p53 but also by other murine mutant p53 proteins isolated from the transformed murine BALB/c cell lines 3T3tx and T3T3 and differing in their conformational status. High affinity MAR-DNA binding was not restricted to the XbaI-IgE-MAR-DNA fragment from the murine immunoglobulin heavy chain gene enhancer locus [Cockerill et al. (1987): J Biol Chem 262:5394-5397] used in previous studies, as MethA p53 also specifically interacted with other A/T-rich bona fide MARs. Not only murine but also human mutant p53 proteins carrying the mutational hot spot amino acid exchanges 175Arg→His, 273Arg→Pro, or 273Arg→His bound to the XbaI-IgE-MAR-DNA fragment. We therefore conclude that high affinity MAR-DNA binding is a property common to a variety of mutant p53 proteins. J. Cell. Biochem. 69:260-270, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 69 (1998), S. 291-303 
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    Keywords: nuclear matrix ; TGF-β1 ; bone ; osteoblast differentiation ; mineralization ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Nuclear matrix protein (NMP) composition of osteoblasts shows distinct two-dimensional gel electrophoretic profiles of labeled proteins as a function of stages of cellular differentiation. Because NMPs are involved in the control of gene expression, we examined modifications in the representation of NMPs induced by TGF-β1 treatment of osteoblasts to gain insight into the effects of TGF-β on development of the osteoblast phenotype. Exposure of proliferating fetal rat calvarial derived primary cells in culture to TGF-β1 for 48 h (day 4-6) modifies osteoblast cell morphology and proliferation and blocks subsequent formation of mineralized nodules. Nuclear matrix protein profiles were very similar between control and TGF-β-treated cultures until day 14, but subsequently differences in nuclear matrix proteins were apparent in TGF-β-treated cultures. These findings support the concept that TGF-β1 modifies the final stage of osteoblast mineralization and alters the composition of the osteoblast nuclear matrix as reflected by selective and TGF-β-dependent modifications in the levels of specific nuclear matrix proteins. The specific changes induced by TGF-β in nuclear matrix associated proteins may reflect specialized mechanisms by which TGF-β signalling mediates the alterations in cell organization and nodule formation and/or the consequential block in extracellular mineralization. J. Cell. Biochem. 69:291-303, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Keywords: VAT-1 ; Pacific electric ray Torpedo californica ; ATPase ; Mus musculus ; gene structure ; Ehrlich ascites tumor ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Recently, interest has focused on the human gene encoding the putative protein homologous to VAT-1, the major protein of the synaptic vesicles of the electric organ of the Pacific electric ray Torpedo californica, after it has been localized on chromosome locus 17q21 in a region encompassing the breast cancer gene BRCA1. Chromosomal instability in this region is implicated in inherited predisposition for breast and ovarian cancer. Here we describe isolation and biochemical characterization of a mammalian 48 kDa protein homologous to the VAT-1 protein of Torpedo californica. This VAT-1 homolog was isolated from a murine breast cancer cell line (Ehrlich ascites tumor) and identified by sequencing of cleavage peptides. The isolated VAT-1 homolog protein displays an ATPase activity and exists in two isoforms with isoelectric points of 5.7 and 5.8. cDNA was prepared from Ehrlich ascites tumor cells, and the murine VAT-1 homolog sequence was amplified by polymerase chain reaction and partially sequenced. The known part of the murine and the human translated sequences share 97% identity. By Northern blots, the size of the VAT-1 homolog mRNA in both murine and human (T47D) breast cancer cells was determined to be 2.8 kb. Based on the presented data, a modified gene structure of the human VAT-1 homolog with an extended exon 1 is proposed. VAT-1 and the mammalian VAT-1 homolog form a subgroup within the protein superfamily of medium-chain dehydrogenases/reductases. J. Cell. Biochem. 69:304-315, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Keywords: architectural transcription factor ; nuclear matrix ; osteoblast ; parathyroid hormone ; type I collagen ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: In connective tissue, cell structure contributes to type I collagen expression. Differences in osteoblast microarchitecture may account for the two distinct cis elements regulating basal expression, in vivo and in vitro, of the rat type I collagen α1(I) polypeptide chain (COL1A1). The COL1A1 promoter conformation may be the penultimate culmination of osteoblast structure. Architectural transcription factors bind to the minor groove of AT-rich DNA and bend it, altering interactions between other trans-acting proteins. Similarly, nuclear matrix (NM) proteins bind to the minor groove of AT-rich matrix-attachment regions, regulating transcription by altering DNA structure. We propose that osteoblast NM architectural transcription factors link cell structure to promoter geometry and COL1A1 transcription. Our objective was to identify potential osteoblast NM architectural transcription factors near the in vitro and in vivo regulatory regions of the rat COL1A1 promoter. Nuclear protein-promoter interactions were analyzed by gel shift analysis and related techniques. NM extracts were derived from rat osteosarcoma cells and from rat bone. The NM protein, NMP4, and a soluble nuclear protein, NP, both bound to two homologous poly(dT) elements within the COL1A1 in vitro regulatory region and proximal to the in vivo regulatory element. These proteins bound within the minor groove and bent the DNA. Parathyroid hormone increased NP/NMP4 binding to both poly(dT) elements and decreased COL1A1 mRNA in the osteosarcoma cells. NP/NMP4-COL1A1 promoter interactions may represent a molecular pathway by which osteoblast structure is coupled to COL1A1 expression. J. Cell. Biochem. 69:336-352. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Keywords: human islets ; insulin release ; sulfonylurea receptors ; oral antidiabetic compounds ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Current information on pancreatic islet sulfonylurea receptors has been obtained with laboratory animal pancreatic β cells or stable β-cell lines. In the present study, we evaluated the properties of sulfonylurea receptors of human islets of Langherans, prepared by collagenase digestion and density-gradient purification. The binding characterisitics of labeled glibenclamide to pancreatic islet membrane preparations were analyzed, displacement studies with several oral hypoglycemic agents were performed, and these latter compounds were tested as for their insulinotropic action on intact human islets. [3H]glibenclamide saturable binding was shown to be linear at ≤0.25 mg/ml protein; it was both temperature and time dependent. Scatchard analysis of the equilibrium binding data at 25°C indicated the presence of a single class of saturable, high-affinity binding sites with a Kd value of 1.0 ± 0.07 nM and a Bmax value of 657 ± 48 fmol/mg of proteins. The displacement experiments showed the following rank order of potency of the oral hypoglycemic agents we tested: glibenclamide = glimepiride 〉 tolbutamide 〉 chlorpropamide ≫ metformin. This binding potency order was parallel with the insulinotropic potency of the evaluated compounds. J. Cell. Biochem. 71:182-188, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 72 (1998), S. 168-176 
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    Keywords: cadherin ; catenin ; differentiation ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Cadherins form a family of cell-cell adhesion proteins that are critical to normal embryonic development. Expression of the various family members is regulated in a complex pattern during embryogenesis. Both reduced and inappropriate expression of cadherins have been associated with abnormal tissue formation in embryos and tumorigenesis in mature organisms. Evidence is accumulating that signals unique to individual members of the cadherin family, as well as signals common to multiple cadherins, contribute to the differentiated phenotype of various cell types. While a complete understanding of the regulation of cadherin expression of the molecular nature of intracellular signaling downstream of cadherin adhesion is essential to an understanding of embryogenesis and tumorigenesis, our knowledge in both areas is inadequate. Clearly, elucidating the factors and conditions that regulate cadherin expression and defining the signaling pathways activated by cadherins are frontiers for future research. J. Cell. Biochem. Suppls. 30/31:168-176, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Keywords: assembly of type I collagen ; COOH-terminal propeptide ; pesin-resistant heterotrimers ; disulfide bonds ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Collagen biosynthesis is a complex process that begins with the association of three procollagen chains. A series of conserved intra- and interchain disulfide bonds in the carboxyl-terminal region of the procollagen chains, or C-propeptide, has been hypothesized to play an important role in the nucleation and alignment of the chains. We tested this hypothesis by analyzing the ability of normal and cysteine-mutated pro-α2(I) chains to assemble into type I collagen heterotrimers when expressed in a cell line (D2) that produces only endogenous pro-α1(I). Pro-α2(I) chains containing single or double cysteine mutations that disrupted individual intra- or interchain disulfide bonds were able to form pepsin resistant type I collagen with pro-α1(I), indicating that individual disulfide bonds were not critical for assembly of the pro-α2(I) chain with pro-α1(I). Pro-α2(I) chains containing a triple cysteine mutation that disrupted both intrachain disulfide bonds were not able to form pepsin resistant type I collagen with pro-α1(I). Therefore, disruption of both pro-α2(I) intrachain disulfide bonds prevented the production and secretion of type I collagen heterotrimers. Although none of the individual disulfide bonds is essential for assembly of the procollagen chains, the presence of at least one intrachain disulfide bond may be necessary as a structural requirement for chain association or to stabilize the protein to prevent intracellular degradation. J.Cell. Biochem. 71:233-242, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Keywords: assembly of type I collagen ; COOH-terminal propeptide ; pepsin-resistant heterotrimers ; interspecies collagen molecule ; thermal stability ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Procollagen (Type I) contains a noncollagenous COOH-terminal propeptide (C-propeptide) hypothesized to be important in directing chain association and alignment during assembly. We previously expressed human pro-α2(I) cDNA in rat liver epithelial cells, W8, that produce only pro-α1(I) trimer collagen (Lim et al. [1994] MatrixBiol. 14: 21-30). In the resulting cell lines, α2(I) assembled with α1(I) forming heterotrimers. Using this cell system, we investigated the importance of the COOH-terminal propeptide sequence of the pro-α2(I) chain for normal assembly of type I collagen. Full-length human pro-α2(I) cDNA was cloned into expression vectors with a premature stop signal eliminating the final 10 amino acids. No triple-helical molecules containing α2(I) were detected in transfected W8 cells, although pro-α2(I) mRNA was detected. Additional protein analysis demonstrated that these cells synthesize small amounts of truncated pro-α2(I) chains detected by immunoprecipitation with a pro-α2(I) antibody. In addition, since the human-rat collagen was less thermostable than normal intraspecies collagen, wild-type and C-terminal truncated mouse cDNAs were expressed in mouse D2 cells, which produced only type I trimers. Results from both systems were consistent, suggesting that the last 10 amino acid residues of the pro-α2(I) chain are important for formation of stable type I collagen. J. Cell. Biochem. 71:216-232, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Keywords: glucose transporters ; sperm ; dehydroascorbic acid ; fructose ; 2-deoxy-D-glucose ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: We analyzed the expression of hexose transporters in human testis and in human, rat, and bull spermatozoa and studied the uptake of hexoses and vitamin C in bull spermatozoa. Immunocytochemical and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction analyses demonstrated that adult human testis expressed the hexose transporters GLUT1, GLUT2, GLUT3, GLUT4, and GLUT5. Immunoblotting experiments demonstrated the presence of proteins of about 50-70 kD reactive with anti-GLUT1, GLUT2, GLUT3, and GLUT5 in membranes prepared from human spermatozoa, but no proteins reactive with GLUT4 antibodies were detected. Immunolocalization experiments confirmed the presence of GLUT1, GLUT2, GLUT3, GLUT5, and low levels of GLUT4 in human, rat, and bull spermatozoa. Each transporter isoform showed a typical subcellular localization in the head and the sperm tail. In the tail, GLUT3 and GLUT5 were present at the level of the middle piece in the three species examined, GLUT1 was present in the principal piece, and the localization of GLUT2 differed according of the species examined. Bull spermatozoa transported deoxyglucose, fructose, and the oxidized form of vitamin C, dehydroascorbic acid. Transport of deoxyglucose and dehydroascorbic acid was inhibited by cytochalasin B, indicating the direct participation of facilitative hexose transporters in the transport of both substrates by bull spermatozoa. Transport of fructose was not affected by cytochalasin B, which is consistent for an important role for GLUT5 in the transport of fructose in these cells. The data show that human, rat, and bull spermatozoa express several hexose transporter isoforms that allow for the efficient uptake of glucose, fructose, and dehydroascorbic acid by these cells. J. Cell. Biochem. 71:189-203, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 72 (1998), S. 103-110 
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    Keywords: secretion ; SNARE hypothesis ; priming, fusion competence ; phosphoinositides ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Maintenance of compartmental independence and diversity is part of the blueprint of the eukaryotic cell. The molecular composition of every organelle membrane is custom tailored to fulfill its unique tasks. It is retained by strict sorting and directional transport of newly synthesized cellular components by the use of specific transport vesicles. Temporally and spatially controlled membrane fission and fusion steps thus represent the basic process for delivery of both, membrane-bound and soluble components to their appropriate destination. This process is fundamental to cell growth, organelle inheritance during cell division, uptake and intracellular transport of membrane-bound and soluble molecules, and neuronal communication. The latter process has become one of the best studied examples in terms of regulatory mechanisms of membrane interactions. It has been dissected into the stages of transmitter vesicle docking, priming, and fusion: Specificity of membrane interactions depends on interactions between sets of organelle-specific membrane proteins. Priming of the secretory apparatus is an ATP-dependent process involving proteins and membrane phospholipids. Release of vesicle content is triggered by a rise in intracellular free Ca2+ levels that relieves a block previously established between the membranes poised to fuse. Neurotransmitter release is a paradigm of highly regulated intracellular membrane interaction and molecular mechanisms for this phenomenon begin to be delineated. J. Cell. Biochem. Suppls. 30/31:103-110, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 72 (1998), S. 111-122 
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    Keywords: TGF-β cooperative signaling ; SMADs ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) represents an evolutionarily conserved family of secreted factors that mobilize a complex signaling network to control cell fate by regulating proliferation, differentiation, motility, adhesion, and apoptosis. TGF-β promotes the assembly of a cell surface receptor complex composed of type I (TβRI) and type II (TβRII) receptor serine/threonine kinases. In response to TGF-β binding, TβRII recruits and activates TβRI through phosphorylation of the regulatory GS-domain. Activated TβRI then initiates cytoplasmic signaling pathways to produce cellular responses. SMAD proteins together constitute a unique signaling pathway with key roles in signal transduction by TGF-β and related factors. Pathway-restricted SMADs are phosphorylated and activated by type I receptors in response to stimulation by ligand. Once activated, pathway-restricted SMADs oligomerize with the common-mediator Smad4 and subsequently translocate to the nucleus. Genetic analysis in Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans, as well as TβRII and SMAD mutations in human tumors, emphasizes their importance in TGF-β signaling. Mounting evidence indicates that SMADs cooperate with ubiquitous cytoplasmic signaling cascades and nuclear factors to produce the full spectrum of TGF-β responses. Operating independently, these ubiquitous elements may influence the nature of cellular responses to TGF-β. Additionally, a variety of regulatory schemes contribute temporal and/or spatial restriction to TGF-β responses. This report reviews our current understanding of TGF-β signal transduction and considers the importance of a cooperative signaling paradigm to TGF-β-mediated biological responses. J. Cell. Biochem. Suppls. 30/31:111-122, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 72 (1998), S. 137-146 
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    Keywords: G proteins ; signal transduction ; protein tyrosine kinases ; PMN ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Complex cellular responses involve the integration of heterotrimeric G protein systems with protein kinase signal transduction pathways. Key in this integration is the control of small GTP-binding proteins including Ras and Rho family members. In this paper, we discuss the control of signal transduction pathways by G proteins and their integration with specific tyrosine kinases. The integration of G proteins, kinases, and small GTP-binding proteins in controlling cellular responses is illustrated through the newly defined Gα12/13-regulated pathways. Furthermore, the polymorphonuclear leukocyte provides a primary cell system for analyzing the integration of G proteins, kinases, and small GTP-binding proteins in controlling cellular functions such as superoxide production, adherence, chemotaxis, and granule secretion. J. Cell. Biochem. Suppls. 30/31:137-146, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 72 (1998), S. 158-167 
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    Keywords: peroxisomes ; lipid metabolism ; H2O2 metabolism ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Gene targeting and the elucidation of mutations underlying inherited peroxisomal diseases have provided new insights in peroxisomal lipid metabolism in vivo. The work led to the identification of a novel peroxisomal β-oxidation pathway and established clearly that genes, which are required for efficient peroxisomal oxidation of fatty acids, at the same time are key regulators of PPARα function in vivo. The new mouse models may provide helpful tools in the search for unknown natural PPARα agonists and in screening for in vivo PPARα antagonists. J. Cell Biochem. Suppls. 30/31:158-167, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 72 (1998), S. 177-184 
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    Keywords: nucleosome ; chromosomes ; DNA ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 72 (1998), S. 203-213 
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    Keywords: histone acetylation and phosphorylation ; coactivators ; corepressors ; transcriptional activation and repression ; histone acetyltransferase ; histone deacetylase ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Histone acetylation and phosphorylation destablizes nucleosome and chromatin structure. Relaxation of the chromatin fiber facilitates transcription. Coactivator complexes with histone acetyltransferase activity are recruited by transcription factors bound to enhancers or promoters. The recruited histone acetyltransferases may acetylate histone or nonhistone chromosomal proteins, resulting in the relaxation of chromatin structure. Alternatively, repressors recruit corepressor complexes with histone deacetylase activity, leading to condensation of chromatin.This review highlights the recent advances made in our understanding of the roles of histone acetyltransferases, histone deacetylases, histone kinases, and protein phosphatases in transcriptional activation and repression. Exciting reports revealing mechanistic connections between histone modifying activities and the RNA polymerase II machinery, the coupling of histone deacetylation and DNA methylation, the possible involvement of histone deacetylases in the organization of nuclear DNA, and the role of chromatin modulators in oncogenesis are discussed. J. Cell. Biochem. Suppls. 30/31:203-213, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 72 (1998), S. 220-231 
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    Keywords: nuclear architecture ; gene expression ; tumor cells ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Functional interrelationships between components of nuclear architecture and control of gene expression are becoming increasingly evident. There is growing appreciation that multiple levels of nuclear organization integrate the regulatory cues that support activation and suppression of genes as well as the processing of gene transcripts. The linear organization of genes and promoter elements provide the potential for responsiveness to physiological regulatory signals. Parameters of chromatin structure and nucleosome organization support synergism between activities at independent regulatory sequences and render promoter elements accessible or refractory to transcription factors. Association of genes, transcription factors, and the machinery for transcript processing with the nuclear matrix facilitates fidelity of gene expression within the three-dimensional context of nuclear architecture. Mechanisms must be defined that couple nuclear morphology with enzymatic parameters of gene expression. The recent characterization of factors that mediate chromatin remodeling and intranuclear targeting signals that direct transcription factors to subnuclear domains where gene expression occurs, reflect linkage of genetic and structural components of transcriptional control. Nuclear reorganization and aberrant intranuclear trafficking of transcription factors for developmental and tissue-specific control that occurs in tumor cells and in neurological disorders provides a basis for high resolution diagnostics and targeted therapy. J. Cell. Biochem. Suppls. 30/31:220-231, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 72 (1998), S. 243-249 
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    Keywords: functional organization ; nucleus ; targeting sequence ; DNA replication ; nuclear matrix ; cell cycle ; DNA methyltransferase ; DNA ligase I ; PCNA ; DNA replication factors ; GFP ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Mammalian nuclei are highly organized into functional compartments. Major nuclear processes like DNA replication and RNA processing take place in distinct foci. These microscopically visible foci are formed by the assembly of, for example, DNA replication factors and associated proteins into megadalton complexes often referred to as protein machines or factories. Thus far, two proteins, DNA ligase I and DNA methyltransferase (DNA MTase), have been analyzed in greater detail. In both cases, the assembly process appears to be controlled by distinct targeting sequences that were attached to the catalytic protein core in the course of evolution and mediate the association with replication factories in mammalian cells. The dynamics of these nuclear structures throughout the cell cycle are analyzed using green fluorescent protein (GFP). Further studies are needed to elucidate the architecture, regulation, and role of these subnuclear structures. J. Cell. Biochem. Suppls. 30/31:243-249, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 72 (1998), S. 284-285 
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    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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