Discovery of virulence genes of Legionella pneumophila by using signature tagged mutagenesis in a guinea pig pneumonia model.

abstract：:Surface plasmon resonance biosensor technology was used to directly measure the binding interactions of small molecules to the ligand-binding domain of human estrogen receptor. In a screening mode, specific ligands of the receptor were easily discerned from nonligands. In a high-resolution mode, the association and di...

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

authors： Rich RL,Hoth LR,Geoghegan KF,Brown TA,LeMotte PK,Simons SP,Hensley P,Myszka DG

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:From 25 to 29 April 2020, the state of Indiana undertook testing of 3,658 randomly chosen state residents for the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus, the agent causing COVID-19 disease. This was the first statewide randomized study of COVID-19 testing in the United States. Both PC...

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

authors： Yiannoutsos CT,Halverson PK,Menachemi N

更新日期：2021-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins, nucleic acids, and fluorescein-conjugated antibody are shown to be identifidable in situ via the fluorescence excited by the focused electron beam of a canning electron microscope. A molecular species is identified by its characteristic fluorescence spectrum and by a characteristic alteration of the spectrum...

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

authors： Hough PV,McKinney WR,Ledbeter MC,Pollack RE,Moos HW

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work showed that cultured human pancreatic cancer cells overexpress the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor. In the present study, we sought to determine whether some of these cell lines produce transforming growth factor alpha (TGF-alpha). Utilizing a radiolabeled TGF-alpha cDNA in hybridization experimen...

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

authors： Smith JJ,Derynck R,Korc M

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ALS is a terminal disease of motor neurons that is characterized by accumulation of proteinaceous deposits in affected cells. Pathological deposition of mutated Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) accounts for ∼20% of the familial ALS (fALS) cases. However, understanding the molecular link between mutation and disease h...

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

authors： Ivanova MI,Sievers SA,Guenther EL,Johnson LM,Winkler DD,Galaleldeen A,Sawaya MR,Hart PJ,Eisenberg DS

更新日期：2014-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Each G protein-coupled receptor recognizes only a distinct subset of the many structurally closely related G proteins expressed within a cell. How this selectively is achieved at a molecular level is not well understood, particularly since no specific point-to-point contact sites between a receptor and its cognate G p...

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

authors： Liu J,Conklin BR,Blin N,Yun J,Wess J

更新日期：1995-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Dense granular materials display a complicated set of flow properties, which differentiate them from ordinary fluids. Despite their ubiquity, no model has been developed that captures or predicts the complexities of granular flow, posing an obstacle in industrial and geophysical applications. Here we propose a 3D cons...

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

authors： Henann DL,Kamrin K

更新日期：2013-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:E2F is a cellular transcription factor that binds to two sites in the adenovirus E2 promoter. Previous experiments have implicated E2F in the E1A-dependent transactivation of the E2 gene since levels of active E2F increase markedly during adenovirus infection in parallel with the increase in E2 transcription, and an E...

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

authors： Hiebert SW,Lipp M,Nevins JR

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex differences in parenting are common in species where both males and females provide care. Although there is a considerable body of game and optimality theory for why the sexes should differ in parental care, genetics can also play a role, and no study has examined how genetic influences might influence differences...

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

authors： Walling CA,Stamper CE,Smiseth PT,Moore AJ

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE), an autoimmune model of multiple sclerosis, is a complex disease influenced by genetic, intrinsic, and environmental factors. In this study, we questioned whether parent-of-origin effects influence EAE, using reciprocal F2 intercross progeny generated between EAE-susceptib...

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

authors： Teuscher C,Noubade R,Spach K,McElvany B,Bunn JY,Fillmore PD,Zachary JF,Blankenhorn EP

更新日期：2006-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Although they lie at the conceptual core of a wide range of scientific questions, the notions of irregular or "random" arrangement and the process of randomization itself have never been unambiguously defined. Algorithmic implementation of these concepts requires a combinatorial, rather than a probability-theoretic, f...

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

authors： Singer BH,Pincus S

更新日期：1998-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic beta-galactoside transport in whole cells and membrane vesicles from E. coli ML 308-225 is coupled to the oxidation of alpha-glycerol-P or D-lactate with fumarate as an electron acceptor. Alternatively, anaerobic beta-galactoside transport may be coupled to the oxidation of formate utilizing nitrate as elect...

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

authors： Konings WN,Kaback HR

更新日期：1973-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was made of the effects of di- and trivalent cations on homomeric rho 1-type gamma-aminobutyrate (GABA rho 1) receptors expressed in Xenopus oocytes after injection of mRNA coding for the GABA rho 1 subunit. GABA elicited large currents with a Kd approximately 1 microM. The properties of these GABA rho 1 recep...

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

authors： Calvo DJ,Vazquez AE,Miledi R

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:To generate antibodies with different effector functions, B cells undergo Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain (IgH) class switch recombination (CSR). The ligation step of CSR is usually mediated by the classical nonhomologous end-joining (cNHEJ) pathway. In cNHEJ-deficient cells, a remarkable ∼25% of CSR can be achieved by the...

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

authors： Wang XS,Zhao J,Wu-Baer F,Shao Z,Lee BJ,Cupo OM,Rabadan R,Gautier J,Baer R,Zha S

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The 26S proteasome, a molecular machine responsible for regulated protein degradation, consists of a proteolytic core particle (20S CP) associated with 19S regulatory particles (19S RPs) subdivided into base and lid subcomplexes. The assembly of 19S RP base subcomplex is mediated by multiple dedicated chaperones. Amon...

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

authors： Barrault MB,Richet N,Godard C,Murciano B,Le Tallec B,Rousseau E,Legrand P,Charbonnier JB,Le Du MH,Guérois R,Ochsenbein F,Peyroche A

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizosaccharomyces pombe cells were transformed with an S. pombe expression vector containing a full-length cDNA of the Chlorella hexose transporter. The transformed cells accumulated 3-O-methylglucose up to 10-fold, whereas wild-type S. pombe and control transformants could only equilibrate this sugar analogue. In a...

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

authors： Sauer N,Caspari T,Klebl F,Tanner W

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrating sulfanyl substituents into copper-bonded phenoxyls significantly alters their optical and redox properties and provides insight into the influence of cysteine modification of the tyrosine cofactor in the enzyme galactose oxidase. The model complexes [1(SR2)](+) are class II mixed-valent Cu(II)-phenoxyl-phe...

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

authors： Verma P,Pratt RC,Storr T,Wasinger EC,Stack TD

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Destruction of mitotic cyclins by ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis is required for cells to complete mitosis and enter interphase of the next cell cycle. In clam eggs, this process is catalyzed by a cyclin-selective ubiquitin carrier protein, E2-C, and the cyclosome/anaphase promoting complex (APC), a 20S particle cont...

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

authors： Townsley FM,Aristarkhov A,Beck S,Hershko A,Ruderman JV

更新日期：1997-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma of normal human individuals was shown to contain an inhibitor of Trypanosoma cruzi neuraminidase (NAase; acylneuraminyl hydrolase, sialidase, EC 3.2.1.18). The inhibitor has been purified to homogeneity by PEG precipitation, CM Affi-Gel Blue Sepharose chromatography, and gel filtration. The purified preparation...

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

authors： Prioli RP,Rosenberg I,Pereira ME

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A segment of DNA containing cya, the gene for adenylate cyclase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1], has been isolated from Salmonella typhimurium. The phage lambda gt4 was used as a cloning vector and adenylate cyclase-positive hybrid phages were isolated that complemented adenylate cyclase-negative bac...

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

authors： Wang JY,Clegg DO,Koshland DE Jr

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of immunoregulatory genes conferring dominant resistance to autoimmunity is well documented. In an effort to better understand the nature and mechanisms of action of these genes, we utilized the murine model of autoimmune orchitis as a prototype. When the orchitis-resistant strain DBA/2J is crossed with ...

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

authors： Meeker ND,Hickey WF,Korngold R,Hansen WK,Sudweeks JD,Wardell BB,Griffith JS,Teuscher C

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteinase-activated receptor 2 (PAR-2) is a member of a family of G protein-coupled receptors for proteases. Proteases cleave PARs within the extracellular N-terminal domains to expose tethered ligands that bind to and activate the cleaved receptors. PAR-2 is highly expressed in colon in epithelial and neuronal e...

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

authors： Fiorucci S,Mencarelli A,Palazzetti B,Distrutti E,Vergnolle N,Hollenberg MD,Wallace JL,Morelli A,Cirino G

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Prions are composed solely of an alternatively folded isoform of the prion protein (PrP), designated PrP(Sc). N-terminally truncated PrP(Sc), denoted PrP 27-30, retains infectivity and polymerizes into rods with the ultrastructural and tinctorial properties of amyloid. We report here that some polyoxometalates (POMs) ...

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

authors： Wille H,Shanmugam M,Murugesu M,Ollesch J,Stubbs G,Long JR,Safar JG,Prusiner SB

更新日期：2009-03-10 00:00:00

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

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

authors： Mascaro O,Csibra G

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies found that increased risk for atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common human heart arrhythmia, is associated with noncoding sequence variants located in proximity to PITX2 Cardiomyocyte-specific epigenomic and comparative genomics uncovered 2 AF-associated enhancers neighboring PITX2 w...

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

authors： Zhang M,Hill MC,Kadow ZA,Suh JH,Tucker NR,Hall AW,Tran TT,Swinton PS,Leach JP,Margulies KB,Ellinor PT,Li N,Martin JF

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The fdhF gene encoding the 80-kDa selenopolypeptide subunit of formate dehydrogenase H from Escherichia coli contains an in-frame TGA codon at amino acid position 140, which encodes selenocysteine. We have analyzed how this UGA "sense codon" is discriminated from a UGA codon signaling polypeptide chain termination. De...

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

authors： Zinoni F,Heider J,Böck A

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotes, transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are transcribed in the nucleus yet function in the cytoplasm; thus, tRNA movement within the cell was believed to be unidirectional--from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. It is now known that mature tRNAs also move in a retrograde direction from the cytoplasm to the nucleus via retrog...

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

authors： Kramer EB,Hopper AK

更新日期：2013-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Most cells in the well-known pre-B-lymphocyte line 18-81 have correctly assembled genes for both alleles at the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus. Only one allele is "active"; the other, "silent" allele contains an amber termination codon. The rate of reversion of this amber codon was determined to be 0.3-1 X 10(-4) pe...

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

authors： Wabl M,Burrows PD,von Gabain A,Steinberg C

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All classes of antidepressants increase hippocampal cell proliferation and neurogenesis, which contributes, in part, to the behavioral actions of these treatments. Among antidepressant treatments, electroconvulsive seizure (ECS) is the most robust stimulator of hippocampal cell proliferation and the most efficacious t...

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

authors： Segi-Nishida E,Warner-Schmidt JL,Duman RS

更新日期：2008-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Rod and cone opsin genes are expressed in a mutually exclusive manner in their respective photoreceptor subtypes in the mammalian retina. Previous transgenic mouse studies showed that functional interactions between the distal enhancer and proximal promoter of rhodopsin and long/medium-wavelength (L/M) opsin genes are...

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

authors： Peng GH,Chen S

更新日期：2011-10-25 00:00:00