Sterols regulate cycling of SREBP cleavage-activating protein (SCAP) between endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi.

abstract：:A unique multicomponent vaccine against serogroup B meningococci incorporates the novel genome-derived proteins fHbp, NHBA, and NadA that may vary in sequence and level of expression. Measuring the effectiveness of such vaccines, using the accepted correlate of protection against invasive meningococcal disease, could ...

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

authors： Donnelly J,Medini D,Boccadifuoco G,Biolchi A,Ward J,Frasch C,Moxon ER,Stella M,Comanducci M,Bambini S,Muzzi A,Andrews W,Chen J,Santos G,Santini L,Boucher P,Serruto D,Pizza M,Rappuoli R,Giuliani MM

更新日期：2010-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A complementarity-determining region (CDR) of the mouse monoclonal antibody (mAb) F58 was constructed with specificity to a neutralization-inducing region of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). The mAb has its major reactivity to the amino acid sequence I--GPGRA in the V3 viral envelope region. All CDRs inclu...

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

authors： Levi M,Sällberg M,Rudén U,Herlyn D,Maruyama H,Wigzell H,Marks J,Wahren B

更新日期：1993-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ectopic activation of the Wnt signaling pathway is highly oncogenic for many human tissues. Here, we show that ectopic Wnt signaling increases the effective stem cell activity in mouse mammary glands in vivo. Furthermore, Wnt effectors induce the accumulation of mouse mammary epithelial progenitors (assayed by Hoechst...

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

authors： Liu BY,McDermott SP,Khwaja SS,Alexander CM

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The switch from membrane-bound to secreted IgM is accomplished by producing alternative forms of mRNA from a single mu heavy-chain gene. This process might be controlled at any of three steps--transcription termination, RNA splicing, or RNA cleavage/poly(A) addition. To distinguish between these possibilities, we have...

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

authors： Danner D,Leder P

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The zinc finger motif, exemplified by a segment of the Drosophila gap gene Krüppel, is a nucleic acid-binding domain present in many transcription factors. To investigate the gene family encoding this motif in the human genome, a placental genomic library was screened at moderate stringency with a degenerate oligodeox...

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

authors： Bray P,Lichter P,Thiesen HJ,Ward DC,Dawid IB

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sliding at a quasi-statically loaded frictional interface can occur via macroscopic slip events, which nucleate locally before propagating as rupture fronts very similar to fracture. We introduce a microscopic model of a frictional interface that includes asperity-level disorder, elastic interaction between local slip...

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

authors： de Geus TWJ,Popović M,Ji W,Rosso A,Wyart M

更新日期：2019-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the function of the two nerve growth factor (NGF) receptors, p75NGFR and p140trk, chimeric molecules were constructed of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and NGF receptors. Rat PC12 pheochromocytoma cells transiently transfected with TNF-p140trk chimeras, which contain the extracellular domain of TNF receptor ...

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

authors： Rovelli G,Heller RA,Canossa M,Shooter EM

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ouabain-sensitive uncoupled Na+ efflux has been studied in human, pig, and rat red cells and in vesicles containing reconstituted kidney Na+/K+ pumps obtained from these same species. The red cells from the different species gave qualitatively similar results; the uncoupled Na+ efflux was 15-30% of the Na+/K+ exchange...

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

authors： Martin WH,Richards DE,Marín R,Jack-Hays M,Hoffman JF

更新日期：1994-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In adipocytes, adenylate cyclase is positively regulated by beta-adrenergic agents and negatively regulated by adenosine. Incubation of adipocytes with adenosine deaminase relieves the inhibition of adenylate cyclase by destroying the adenosine that the cells release into the medium. When adipocytes are incubated with...

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

authors： Chung FZ,Weber HW,Appleman MM

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major histocompatibility complex-encoded class I molecule, a noncovalent dimer of a polymorphic 45-kDa heavy chain and a nonpolymorphic 12-kDa beta 2-microglobulin (beta 2m) light chain, binds peptide antigen prior to its interaction with T-cell antigen receptors. We report here that the binding in aqueous solutio...

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

authors： Boyd LF,Kozlowski S,Margulies DH

更新日期：1992-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now well established that glasses feature quasilocalized nonphononic excitations-coined "soft spots"-, which follow a universal [Formula: see text] density of states in the limit of low frequencies ω. All glass-specific properties, such as the dependence on the preparation protocol or composition, are encapsulat...

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

authors： Rainone C,Bouchbinder E,Lerner E

更新日期：2020-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila clock genes period (per) and timeless (tim) have been studied behaviorally and biochemically, but to date there has been no viable culture system for studying the cell biology of the Drosophila clock. We have cultured pupal ring glands attached to the central nervous system and observed rhythms of perio...

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

authors： Emery IF,Noveral JM,Jamison CF,Siwicki KK

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Immigration and demographic change have become highly salient in American politics, partly because of the 2016 campaign of Donald Trump. Previous research indicates that local influxes of immigrants or unfamiliar ethnic groups can generate threatened responses, but has either focused on nonelectoral outcomes or analyz...

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

authors： Hill SJ,Hopkins DJ,Huber GA

更新日期：2019-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The usual bias in earthquake catalogs against shocks of small magnitudes can be removed by testing the randomness of the magnitudes of successive shocks. The southern California catalog, 1933-1967, is found to be unbiased in the sense of the test at magnitude 4 or above; the cutoff is improved to M = 3 for the subcata...

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

authors： Knopoff L,Gardner JK

更新日期：1969-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to control drops and their movements on phobic surfaces is important in printing or patterning, microfluidic devices, and water-repellent materials. These materials are always micro-/nanotextured, and a natural limitation of repellency occurs when drops are small enough (as in a dew) to get trapped in the ...

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

authors： Wang Q,Yao X,Liu H,Quéré D,Jiang L

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The Caulobacter crescentus flagellum is formed at a specific time in the cell cycle and its assembly requires the ordered expression of a large number of genes. These genes are controlled in a positive trans-acting hierarchy that reflects the order of assembly of the flagellum. Using plasmids carrying transcriptional ...

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

authors： Xu H,Dingwall A,Shapiro L

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial tissues mechanically deform the surrounding extracellular matrix during embryonic development, wound repair, and tumor invasion. Ex vivo measurements of such multicellular tractions within three-dimensional (3D) biomaterials could elucidate collective dissemination during disease progression and enable prec...

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

authors： Leggett SE,Patel M,Valentin TM,Gamboa L,Khoo AS,Williams EK,Franck C,Wong IY

更新日期：2020-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteocalcin, a bone-specific protein and marker of the mature osteoblast, is expressed only in nonproliferating osteoblasts in a mineralizing extracellular matrix, while type I collagen is expressed in proliferating cells. The nuclear proteins encoded by the c-fos and c-jun protooncogenes are expressed during the prol...

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

authors： Owen TA,Bortell R,Yocum SA,Smock SL,Zhang M,Abate C,Shalhoub V,Aronin N,Wright KL,van Wijnen AJ

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single dose of N-methyl-N-nitrosourea given to sexually immature female Buf/N rats produces a high incidence of mammary adenocarcinomas. A large percentage of these tumors contain the Ha-ras oncogene, activated by a G----A transition at the second nucleotide of codon 12. Copenhagen rats, on the other hand, are compl...

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

authors： Lu SJ,Archer MC

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine a nonreciprocally coupled dynamical model of a mixture of two diffusing species. We demonstrate that nonreciprocity, which is encoded in the model via antagonistic cross-diffusivities, provides a generic mechanism for the emergence of traveling patterns in purely diffusive systems with conservative dynamics...

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

authors： You Z,Baskaran A,Marchetti MC

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional activation of the HIV type 1 (HIV-1) long terminal repeat (LTR) promoter element by the viral Tat protein is an essential step in the HIV-1 life cycle. Tat function is mediated by the TAR RNA target element encoded within the LTR and is known to require the recruitment of a complex consisting of Tat an...

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

authors： Bieniasz PD,Grdina TA,Bogerd HP,Cullen BR

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common and lethal genetic muscle disorder, caused by recessive mutations in the dystrophin gene. One of every 3,500 males suffers from DMD, yet no treatment is currently available. Genetic therapeutic approaches, using primarily myoblast transplantation and adenovirus-medi...

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

authors： Wang B,Li J,Xiao X

更新日期：2000-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrical currents at the surface of the proximal portion of an isolated and transected lamprey spinal cord were measured with an extracellular vibrating probe. Soon after transection, currents of about 0.5 mA/cm2 enter the cut surface of the spinal cord. These currents fall to about a quarter of their initial va...

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

authors： Borgens RB,Jaffe LF,Cohen MJ

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:dAn.dTn sequences, otherwise known as A tracts, are hotspots for cis-syn thymine dimer formation and deletion mutations induced by UV light. Such A tracts are also known to bend DNA, suggesting that some biological effects of UV light might be related to the distinctive structure and properties of cis-syn dimer-contai...

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

authors： Wang CI,Taylor JS

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The planarity of peptide bonds is an assumption that underlies decades of theoretical modeling of proteins. Peptide bonds strongly deviating from planarity are considered very rare features of protein structure that occur for functional reasons. Here, empirical analyses of atomic-resolution protein structures reveal t...

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

authors： Berkholz DS,Driggers CM,Shapovalov MV,Dunbrack RL Jr,Karplus PA

更新日期：2012-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The infectivity of cloned hepatitis B viral DNA (HBV) has been tested in chimpanzees to identify a fully functional HBV genome and to assess the risk associated with its handling. Only one of two HBV DNA sequence variants tested was shown to be infectious. "Clone purified" virus of predicted nucleotide sequence was pr...

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

authors： Will H,Cattaneo R,Darai G,Deinhardt F,Schellekens H,Schaller H

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CCR5 encodes a cell surface chemokine receptor molecule that serves as the principal coreceptor, with CD4, for HIV-type 1 (HIV-1). Varied HIV-1 susceptibility and time to progression to AIDS have been associated with polymorphisms in CCR5. Many of these polymorphisms are located in the 5' cis-regulatory region of CCR5...

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

authors： Bamshad MJ,Mummidi S,Gonzalez E,Ahuja SS,Dunn DM,Watkins WS,Wooding S,Stone AC,Jorde LB,Weiss RB,Ahuja SK

更新日期：2002-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Unilateral stimulation of human peripheral nerves activates the primary somatosensory cortex (SI) contralaterally and the secondary somatosensory cortex (SII) bilaterally. We aimed at characterizing phase locking between SI and SII in response to electric stimuli applied once every 3 s to the right median nerve at the...

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

authors： Simões C,Jensen O,Parkkonen L,Hari R

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The vulval development of Caenorhabditis elegans provides an opportunity to investigate genetic networks that control gene expression during organogenesis. During the fourth larval stage (L4), seven vulval cell types are produced, each of which executes a distinct gene expression program. We analyze how the expression...

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

authors： Inoue T,Wang M,Ririe TO,Fernandes JS,Sternberg PW

更新日期：2005-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiangiogenic agent fumagillin (Fg) and its analog TNP-470 bind to intracellular metalloprotease methionine aminopeptidase-2 (MetAP-2) and inhibit endothelial cell growth in a p53-dependent manner. To confirm the role of MetAP-2 in endothelial cell proliferation and to validate it as a physiological target for th...

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

authors： Yeh JJ,Ju R,Brdlik CM,Zhang W,Zhang Y,Matyskiela ME,Shotwell JD,Crews CM

更新日期：2006-07-05 00:00:00