Intercellular adhesion molecule-1 inhibits interleukin 4 production by naive T cells.

abstract：:We introduce a coarse-grained model for atomic glass formers. Its elements are physically motivated local microscopic dynamical rules parameterized by observables. Results of the model are established and used to interpret the measured behaviors of supercooled fluids approaching glass transitions. The model predicts t...

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

authors： Garrahan JP,Chandler D

更新日期：2003-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported that normal human salivary gland-derived epithelial cells exclusively express keratinocyte growth factor receptor (KGFR). In the process of malignant transformation of human salivary gland tumors, KGFR gene expression disappeared concomitantly with the de novo expression of the fibroblast growth facto...

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

authors： Zhang Y,Wang H,Toratani S,Sato JD,Kan M,McKeehan WL,Okamoto T

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the first part of a quantitative theory for the structure and dynamics of forests at demographic and resource steady state. The theory uses allometric scaling relations, based on metabolism and biomechanics, to quantify how trees use resources, fill space, and grow. These individual-level traits and propert...

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

authors： West GB,Enquist BJ,Brown JH

更新日期：2009-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanism of desensitization of soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC), the NO receptor, has long remained unresolved. Posttranslational modification and redox state have been postulated to affect sGC sensitivity to NO but evidence has been lacking. We now show that sGC can be S-nitrosylated in primary aortic sm...

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

authors： Sayed N,Baskaran P,Ma X,van den Akker F,Beuve A

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The p2b domain of Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) Gag and the p6 domain of HIV-1 Gag contain late assembly (L) domains that engage the ESCRT membrane fission machinery and are essential for virus release. We now show that the PPXY-type RSV L domain specifically recruits the BAR domain protein PACSIN2 into virus-like particle...

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

authors： Popov S,Popova E,Inoue M,Wu Y,Göttlinger H

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle (Calvin cycle) catalyzes virtually all primary productivity on Earth and is the major sink for atmospheric CO(2). A less appreciated function of CO(2) fixation is as an electron-accepting process. It is known that anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria require the Calvin cycle to accept elect...

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

authors： McKinlay JB,Harwood CS

更新日期：2010-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Many neurotransmitters are known to regulate neuronal cell function by means of activation of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) and phosphorylation of neuronal substrate proteins, including transcription factors and ion channels. Here, we have characterized the gene expression of two isoforms of a protein kinase inh...

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

authors： Seasholtz AF,Gamm DM,Ballestero RP,Scarpetta MA,Uhler MD

更新日期：1995-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of human fibroblast cells with human fibroblast (beta)interferon for up to 8 hr resulted in the accumulation of at least four mRNAs. The mRNAs were isolated from cellular polysomes and characterized by stimulation of translation in a wheat germ cell-free protein synthesis system. The mRNAs appear as early as...

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

authors： Colonno RJ

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To use recombinant DNA technology to functionally analyze mutations introduced into cloned eukaryotic genes, a rapid procedure is necessary to assay the steps along the gene expression pathway. Since cloned rat insulin genes are not transcribed efficiently after transfection into various cell lines, I have asked wheth...

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

authors： Lomedico PT

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporal distribution of the major extinctions over the past 250 million years has been investigated statistically using various forms of time series analysis. The analyzed record is based on variation in extinction intensity for fossil families of marine vertebrates, invertebrates, and protozoans and contains 12 ...

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

authors： Raup DM,Sepkoski JJ Jr

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic cells irradiated with high doses of UV exhibit cell-cycle responses referred to as G(1)/S, intraS, and G(2)/M checkpoints. After a moderate UV dose that approximates sunlight exposure and is lethal to fission yeast checkpoint mutants, we found unexpectedly that these cell-cycle responses do not occur. Inste...

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

authors： Callegari AJ,Kelly TJ

更新日期：2006-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Septins assemble into filaments and higher-order structures that act as scaffolds for diverse cell functions including cytokinesis, cell polarity, and membrane remodeling. Despite their conserved role in cell organization, little is known about how septin filaments elongate and are knitted together into higher-order a...

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

authors： Bridges AA,Zhang H,Mehta SB,Occhipinti P,Tani T,Gladfelter AS

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Two regions of human thyrotropin (thyroid-stimulating hormone, TSH) receptor (TSHR) (residues 12-44 and 308-364) were selected on the basis that they exhibit no sequence resemblance to luteinizing hormone/chorionic gonadotropin receptor. Five synthetic overlapping peptides (12-30, 24-44, 308-328, 324-344, and 339-364)...

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

authors： Atassi MZ,Manshouri T,Sakata S

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide (GIP) is a 42-amino acid gastrointestinal regulatory peptide that stimulates insulin secretion from pancreatic beta cells in the presence of glucose. Approximately 7.8 x 10(5) recombinant clones of a neonatal rat intestinal cDNA library were screened by using plaque hybridizati...

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

authors： Tseng CC,Jarboe LA,Landau SB,Williams EK,Wolfe MM

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin sequences were compared by using a technique that takes into account the dissimilarity in physicochemical properties of amino acids. Exterior residues showed greater structural variability than interior residues. High structural variability was found at positions known from crystallographic studies to b...

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

authors： Padlan EA

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using a simplified model of small open liquid-like clusters with surface effects, in the gas phase, it is shown how the statistical thermodynamics of small systems can be extended to include metastable supersaturated gaseous states not too far from the gas-liquid equilibrium transition point. To accomplish this, on...

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

authors： Hill TL,Chamberlin RV

更新日期：1998-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, we explore the nature of the inductive stimuli leading to expression of the divergently regulated lymphokines interleukin 2 (IL-2) and interleukin 4 (IL-4). Elevation of cAMP levels blocks IL-2 induction while sparing IL-4 induction. These effects are gene-specific, not cell-specific, and can be observ...

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

authors： Novak TJ,Rothenberg EV

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated erythroleukemic cell lines arrested at different levels of the erythroid differentiation pathway. One cell line (CB5), established from mice infected with the helper-independent Friend murine leukemia virus (F-MuLV), exhibited properties similar to those of the normal erythroid progenitor burst-forming cel...

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

authors： Shibuya T,Mak TW

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination is the most effective medical intervention ever introduced and, together with clean water and sanitation, it has eliminated a large part of the infectious diseases that once killed millions of people. A recent study concluded that since 1924 in the United States alone, vaccines have prevented 40 million ca...

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

authors： Rappuoli R,Pizza M,Del Giudice G,De Gregorio E

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Array technologies have made it straightforward to monitor simultaneously the expression pattern of thousands of genes. The challenge now is to interpret such massive data sets. The first step is to extract the fundamental patterns of gene expression inherent in the data. This paper describes the application of self-o...

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

authors： Tamayo P,Slonim D,Mesirov J,Zhu Q,Kitareewan S,Dmitrovsky E,Lander ES,Golub TR

更新日期：1999-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene EPXH2 encodes for the soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH), an enzyme involved in the regulation of cardiovascular and renal physiology containing two distinct domains connected via a proline-rich linker. The C-terminal domain containing the EH catalytic activity has been well studied. In contrast, a function for ...

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

authors： Newman JW,Morisseau C,Harris TR,Hammock BD

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the pathogenic processes contributing to dopaminergic neuron (DN) death in Parkinson disease (PD), evidence points to non-cell-autonomous mechanisms, particularly chronic inflammation mounted by activated microglia. Yet little is known about endogenous regulatory processes that determine microglial actions in pa...

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

authors： Ros-Bernal F,Hunot S,Herrero MT,Parnadeau S,Corvol JC,Lu L,Alvarez-Fischer D,Carrillo-de Sauvage MA,Saurini F,Coussieu C,Kinugawa K,Prigent A,Höglinger G,Hamon M,Tronche F,Hirsch EC,Vyas S

更新日期：2011-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular Ca(2+) release in many types of cells is mediated by ryanodine receptor Ca(2+) release channels (RyRCs) that are assembled into two-dimensional paracrystalline arrays in the endoplasmic/sarcoplasmic reticulum. However, the in situ operating mechanism of the RyRC array is unknown. Here, we found that the ...

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

authors： Wang SQ,Stern MD,Ríos E,Cheng H

更新日期：2004-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The operon model was proposed by Jacob and Monod in 1961 to explain the regulation of enzyme synthesis in bacteria. The model requires two genetic elements: a locus i which directs the synthesis of a repressor, and a locus called the operon which contains an operator gene and associated structural genes. The repressor...

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

authors： Zubay G,Lederman M

更新日期：1969-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylation of ADP to ATP was induced in nonrespiring submitochondrial particles (SMP) from rat liver by the application of electric pulses with field strengths of 10-35 kV/cm and a decay time of 60 mus. In all cases respiration was inhibited completely by using cyanide or rotenone. Newly formed ATP was measured b...

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

authors： Teissie J,Knox BE,Tsong TY,Wehrle J

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variable regions of Ig chains provide the antigen recognition portion of B-cell receptors and derivative antibodies. Ig heavy-chain variable region exons are assembled developmentally from V, D, J gene segments. Each variable region contains three antigen-contacting complementarity-determining regions (CDRs), with CDR...

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

authors： Hwang JK,Wang C,Du Z,Meyers RM,Kepler TB,Neuberg D,Kwong PD,Mascola JR,Joyce MG,Bonsignori M,Haynes BF,Yeap LS,Alt FW

更新日期：2017-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A posttranslational protein O-mannosylation process resembling that found in fungi and animals has been reported in the major human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and related actinobacteria. However, the role and incidence of this process, which is essential in eukaryotes, have never been explored in Mtb. W...

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

authors： Liu CF,Tonini L,Malaga W,Beau M,Stella A,Bouyssié D,Jackson MC,Nigou J,Puzo G,Guilhot C,Burlet-Schiltz O,Rivière M

更新日期：2013-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Dantu is a rare antigen of the human MNSs blood group system carried by a hybrid glycophorin on the erythrocyte membrane. To delineate its structure and relationship to alpha and delta glycophorins at the genomic level, we analyzed DNA from a three-generation family, in which both the presence of Dantu and Mi-III (ano...

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

authors： Huang CH,Blumenfeld OO

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic fluxes of s-block metals like potassium, sodium, and calcium are of broad importance in cell signaling. In contrast, the concept of mobile transition metals triggered by cell activation remains insufficiently explored, in large part because metals like copper and iron are typically studied as static cellular n...

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

authors： Dodani SC,Domaille DW,Nam CI,Miller EW,Finney LA,Vogt S,Chang CJ

更新日期：2011-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of the vertebrate eye has been found to require the activity of several genes encoding homeodomain proteins (Freund, C., Horsford, D. J. & McInnes, R. R. (1996) Hum. Mol. Genet. 5, 1471-1488). Some of these genes, or portions thereof, are highly conserved across phyla. In this paper, we report the identifi...

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

authors： Furukawa T,Kozak CA,Cepko CL

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00