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Diaconescu B Pohl K Vattuone L Savio L Hofmann P Silkin VM Pitarke JM Chulkov EV Echenique PM Farías D Rocca M 《Nature》2007,448(7149):57-59
Nearly two-dimensional (2D) metallic systems formed in charge inversion layers and artificial layered materials permit the existence of low-energy collective excitations, called 2D plasmons, which are not found in a three-dimensional (3D) metal. These excitations have caused considerable interest because their low energy allows them to participate in many dynamical processes involving electrons and phonons, and because they might mediate the formation of Cooper pairs in high-transition-temperature superconductors. Metals often support electronic states that are confined to the surface, forming a nearly 2D electron-density layer. However, it was argued that these systems could not support low-energy collective excitations because they would be screened out by the underlying bulk electrons. Rather, metallic surfaces should support only conventional surface plasmons-higher-energy modes that depend only on the electron density. Surface plasmons have important applications in microscopy and sub-wavelength optics, but have no relevance to the low-energy dynamics. Here we show that, in contrast to expectations, a low-energy collective excitation mode can be found on bare metal surfaces. The mode has an acoustic (linear) dispersion, different to the dependence of a 2D plasmon, and was observed on Be(0001) using angle-resolved electron energy loss spectroscopy. First-principles calculations show that it is caused by the coexistence of a partially occupied quasi-2D surface-state band with the underlying 3D bulk electron continuum and also that the non-local character of the dielectric function prevents it from being screened out by the 3D states. The acoustic plasmon reported here has a very general character and should be present on many metal surfaces. Furthermore, its acoustic dispersion allows the confinement of light on small surface areas and in a broad frequency range, which is relevant for nano-optics and photonics applications. 相似文献
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Rab5 is a signalling GTPase involved in actin remodelling by receptor tyrosine kinases 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Rab5 is a small GTPase involved in the control of intracellular trafficking, both at the level of receptor endocytosis and endosomal dynamics. The finding that Rab5 can be activated by receptor tyrosine kinases (RTK) raised the question of whether it also participates in effector pathways emanating from these receptors. Here we show that Rab5 is indispensable for a form of RTK-induced actin remodelling, called circular ruffling. Three independent signals, originating from Rab5, phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase and Rac, respectively, are simultaneously required for the induction of circular ruffles. Rab5 signals to the actin cytoskeleton through RN-tre, a previously identified Rab5-specific GTPase-activating protein (GAP). Here we demonstrate that RN-tre has the dual function of Rab5-GAP and Rab5 effector. We also show that RN-tre is critical for macropinocytosis, a process previously connected to the formation of circular ruffles. Finally, RN-tre interacts with both F-actin and actinin-4, an F-actin bundling protein. We propose that RN-tre establishes a three-pronged connection with Rab5, F-actin and actinin-4. This may aid crosslinking of actin fibres into actin networks at the plasma membrane. Thus, we have shown that Rab5 is a signalling GTPase and have elucidated the major molecular elements of its downstream pathway. 相似文献
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Elena Rapizzi Maria Letizia Taddei Tania Fiaschi Chiara Donati Paola Bruni Paola Chiarugi 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2009,66(19):3207-3218
Sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) is a bioactive lipid that acts through a family of G-protein-coupled receptors. Herein, we report
evidence of a novel redox-based cross-talk between S1P and insulin signaling pathways. In skeletal muscle cells S1P, through
engagement of its S1P2 receptor, is found to produce a transient burst of reactive oxygen species through a calcium-dependent activation of the
small GTPase Rac1. S1P-induced redox-signaling is sensed by protein tyrosine phosphatase-1B, the main negative regulator of
insulin receptor phosphorylation, which undergoes oxidation and enzymatic inhibition. This redox-based inhibition of the phosphatase
provokes a ligand-independent trans-phosphorylation of insulin receptor and a strong increase in glucose uptake. Our results propose a new role of S1P, recognizing
the lipid as an insulin-mimetic cue and pointing at reactive oxygen species as critical regulators of the cross-talk between
S1P and insulin pathways. Any possible implication of S1P-directed insulin signaling in diabetes and insulin resistance remains
to be established. 相似文献
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R. L. Chesanow M. Letizia Salvi P. U. Angeletti 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》1964,20(4):212-214
Riassunto Sono state frazionate le proteine solubili estratte dal rene di ratto, mediante cromatografia su colonna di DEAE-cellulosa. Quattro enzimi sono stati localizzati nelle varie frazioni. Sono stati paragonati i profili cromatografici del rene del maschio, della femmina e della femmina sottoposta a trattamento con androgeni.
Supported by NIH Grant and by the CNR. 相似文献
Supported by NIH Grant and by the CNR. 相似文献
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Maser RS Choudhury B Campbell PJ Feng B Wong KK Protopopov A O'Neil J Gutierrez A Ivanova E Perna I Lin E Mani V Jiang S McNamara K Zaghlul S Edkins S Stevens C Brennan C Martin ES Wiedemeyer R Kabbarah O Nogueira C Histen G Aster J Mansour M Duke V Foroni L Fielding AK Goldstone AH Rowe JM Wang YA Look AT Stratton MR Chin L Futreal PA DePinho RA 《Nature》2007,447(7147):966-971
Highly rearranged and mutated cancer genomes present major challenges in the identification of pathogenetic events driving the neoplastic transformation process. Here we engineered lymphoma-prone mice with chromosomal instability to assess the usefulness of mouse models in cancer gene discovery and the extent of cross-species overlap in cancer-associated copy number aberrations. Along with targeted re-sequencing, our comparative oncogenomic studies identified FBXW7 and PTEN to be commonly deleted both in murine lymphomas and in human T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia/lymphoma (T-ALL). The murine cancers acquire widespread recurrent amplifications and deletions targeting loci syntenic to those not only in human T-ALL but also in diverse human haematopoietic, mesenchymal and epithelial tumours. These results indicate that murine and human tumours experience common biological processes driven by orthologous genetic events in their malignant evolution. The highly concordant nature of genomic events encourages the use of genomically unstable murine cancer models in the discovery of biological driver events in the human oncogenome. 相似文献
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R. Budini M. Letizia Vannini O. Tubertini 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》1973,29(3):274-275
Riassunto Se si mantengono Planarie (Dugesia lugubris) per otto giorni in una soluzione di LSD (0,02 mg/ml), si nota un aumento di RNA nella parte cefalica del soggetto rispetto ai corpi e anche rispetto alle teste dei controlli. Anche l'incorporazione di uridina triziata segue lo stesso andamento. Vengono proposte alcune ipotesi. 相似文献
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