Attenuation of virulence in Mycobacterium tuberculosis expressing a constitutively active iron repressor.

abstract：:The nonneural cholinergic system of immune cells is pivotal for the maintenance of immunological homeostasis. Here we demonstrate the expression of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) and cholinergic enzymes in murine natural killer (NK) cells. The capacity for acetylcholine synthesis by NK cells increased markedly under...

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

authors： Jiang W,Li D,Han R,Zhang C,Jin WN,Wood K,Liu Q,Shi FD,Hao J

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Loquacious-PD (Loqs-PD) is required for biogenesis of many endogenous siRNAs in Drosophila In vitro, Loqs-PD enhances the rate of dsRNA cleavage by Dicer-2 and also enables processing of substrates normally refractory to cleavage. Using purified components, and Loqs-PD truncations, we provide a mechanistic basis for L...

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

authors： Trettin KD,Sinha NK,Eckert DM,Apple SE,Bass BL

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo production of frameshift and base-substitution mutations predicted as a consequence of the metabolic processing of misaligned quasipalindromic DNA sequences has been confirmed. Spontaneous frameshift mutations of the T4 rII gene that had been genetically mapped to quasipalindromic DNA sequences were sequen...

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

authors： de Boer JG,Ripley LS

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exocytosis allows the release of secretory products and the delivery of new membrane material to the plasma membrane. So far, little is known about the underlying molecular mechanism and its control in plant cells. We have used the whole-cell patch-clamp technique to monitor changes in membrane capacitance to study ex...

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

authors： Homann U,Tester M

更新日期：1997-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the cloning and expression of a cDNA encoding human sterol carrier protein 2 (SCP2). The 1.3-kilobase (kb) cDNA contains an open reading frame which encompasses a 143-amino acid sequence which is 89% identical to the rat SCP2 amino acid sequence. The deduced amino acid sequence of the polypeptide reveals a 2...

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

authors： Yamamoto R,Kallen CB,Babalola GO,Rennert H,Billheimer JT,Strauss JF 3rd

更新日期：1991-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two human 12-lipoxygenase enzyme (arachidonate:oxygen 12-oxidoreductase, EC 1.13.11.31)-related genes were characterized from 13 distinct clones isolated from three genomic bacteriophage and cosmid libraries. A complete gene (12-lipoxygenase gene 1) spanning approximately 17 kilobases and consisting of 14 exons with s...

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

authors： Funk CD,Funk LB,FitzGerald GA,Samuelsson B

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper investigates quantitatively the characteristics of the local folding code. The overlapping four-residue fragments which make up the amino acid sequences of 114 proteins are divided into classes on the basis of the physical properties of their constituent amino acids. The distribution of structural types ass...

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

authors： Rackovsky S

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a genetic disorder caused by loss of the protein dystrophin. In humans, DMD has early onset, causes developmental delays, muscle necrosis, loss of ambulation, and death. Current animal models have been challenged by their inability to model the early onset and severity of the disea...

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

authors： Hughes KJ,Rodriguez A,Flatt KM,Ray S,Schuler A,Rodemoyer B,Veerappan V,Cuciarone K,Kullman A,Lim C,Gutta N,Vemuri S,Andriulis V,Niswonger D,Barickman L,Stein W,Singhvi A,Schroeder NE,Vidal-Gadea AG

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages (M phi) are activated by IFN gamma and are important cellular targets for infection by human and murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV), making it advantageous for CMVs to block IFN gamma-induced M phi differentiation. We found that MCMV infection inhibited IFN gamma regulation of many genes in M phi. MCMV infectio...

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

authors： Popkin DL,Watson MA,Karaskov E,Dunn GP,Bremner R,Virgin HW 4th

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Reconnections of coherent filamentary structures play a key role in the dynamics of fluids, redistributing energy and helicity among the length scales, triggering dissipative effects, and inducing fine-scale mixing. Unlike ordinary (classical) fluids where vorticity is a continuous field, in superfluid helium and in a...

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

authors： Galantucci L,Baggaley AW,Parker NG,Barenghi CF

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural abundance 13C spin-lattice (T1) relaxation time measurements are reported for unilamellar vesicles of 1,2-dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine), in the liquid crystalline phase, at magnetic field strengths of 1.40, 1.87, 2.35, 4.23, 7.05, 8.45, and 11.7 tesla (resonance f...

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

authors： Brown MF,Ribeiro AA,Williams GD

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent development of metallic glass-matrix composites represents a particular milestone in engineering materials for structural applications owing to their remarkable combination of strength and toughness. However, metallic glasses are highly susceptible to cyclic fatigue damage, and previous attempts to solve th...

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

authors： Launey ME,Hofmann DC,Johnson WL,Ritchie RO

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In a primitive chordate model of natural chimerism, one chimeric partner is often eliminated in a process of allogeneic resorption. Here, we identify the cellular framework underlying loss of tolerance to one partner within a natural Botryllus schlosseri chimera. We show that the principal cell type mediating chimeric...

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

authors： Corey DM,Rosental B,Kowarsky M,Sinha R,Ishizuka KJ,Palmeri KJ,Quake SR,Voskoboynik A,Weissman IL

更新日期：2016-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Germ-line mutations of tumor suppressor genes confer strong predisposition to tumor formation. In the rat, a form of dominantly inherited renal carcinoma (RC) results in multiple chromophobe cell tumors that resemble the human disease, and heterozygous carriers (RC/+) are highly susceptible to environmental agents (ra...

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

authors： Yeung RS,Buetow KH,Testa JR,Knudson AG Jr

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major question in plant physiology is how the large amount of sucrose made in leaves is transported to the rest of the plant. Although physiological, biochemical, and anatomical investigations have been performed in this field, to date there have been very few genetic studies. Using a reverse genetic screen, we have...

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

authors： Gottwald JR,Krysan PJ,Young JC,Evert RF,Sussman MR

更新日期：2000-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) resides latently in hematopoietic cells of the bone marrow. Although viral genomes can be found in CD14+ monocytes and CD34+ progenitor cells, the primary reservoir for latent cytomegalovirus is unknown. We analyzed human hematopoietic subpopulations infected in vitro with a recombinant vi...

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

authors： Goodrum FD,Jordan CT,High K,Shenk T

更新日期：2002-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:R. A. Fisher's 1930 "reproductive value" is defined as the contribution made by a population's initial age elements to its asymptotically dominating exponential growth mode. For the Leslie discrete-time model, it is the characteristic row vector of the Leslie matrix, and for the integral-equation model of Lotka the si...

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

authors： Samuelson PA

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic gut inflammatory diseases are associated with disruption of intestinal epithelial barriers and impaired mucosal immunity. HIV-1 (HIV) causes depletion of mucosal CD4+ T cells early in infection and disruption of gut epithelium, resulting in chronic inflammation and immunodeficiency. Although antiretroviral the...

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

authors： Crakes KR,Santos Rocha C,Grishina I,Hirao LA,Napoli E,Gaulke CA,Fenton A,Datta S,Arredondo J,Marco ML,Sankaran-Walters S,Cortopassi G,Giulivi C,Dandekar S

更新日期：2019-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Expansins are unusual proteins discovered by virtue of their ability to mediate cell wall extension in plants. We identified cDNA clones for two cucumber expansins on the basis of peptide sequences of proteins purified from cucumber hypocotyls. The expansin cDNAs encode related proteins with signal peptides predicted ...

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

authors： Shcherban TY,Shi J,Durachko DM,Guiltinan MJ,McQueen-Mason SJ,Shieh M,Cosgrove DJ

更新日期：1995-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The inability of adenovirus to infect primitive hematopoietic cells presents an obstacle to the use of adenovirus vectors for gene transfer to these cell types. Therefore, expanding the tropism of adenovirus vectors to unique cell surface antigens would be an important development for gene therapy protocols. In this s...

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

authors： Smith JS,Keller JR,Lohrey NC,McCauslin CS,Ortiz M,Cowan K,Spence SE

更新日期：1999-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Archaeochemistry as the application of the most recent analytical techniques to ancient samples now provides an unprecedented understanding of human culture throughout history. In this paper, we report on a multiplatform analytical investigation of 170-y-old champagne bottles found in a shipwreck at the bottom of the ...

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

authors： Jeandet P,Heinzmann SS,Roullier-Gall C,Cilindre C,Aron A,Deville MA,Moritz F,Karbowiak T,Demarville D,Brun C,Moreau F,Michalke B,Liger-Belair G,Witting M,Lucio M,Steyer D,Gougeon RD,Schmitt-Kopplin P

更新日期：2015-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A nuclear protein, termed leucine-rich acidic nuclear protein (LANP), has been isolated from among rat cerebellar proteins whose expression was transiently increased during an early stage of postnatal development. The amino acid sequence, deduced from its cDNA, showed that LANP contains 247 amino acids consisting of t...

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

authors： Matsuoka K,Taoka M,Satozawa N,Nakayama H,Ichimura T,Takahashi N,Yamakuni T,Song SY,Isobe T

更新日期：1994-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of Cl- secretion by human airway epithelium is determined, in part, by apical cell membrane Cl- conductance. In cystic fibrosis airway epithelia, defective regulation of Cl- conductance decreases the capability to secrete Cl-. Here we report that extracytosolic ATP in the luminal bath of cultured human airway...

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

authors： Stutts MJ,Chinet TC,Mason SJ,Fullton JM,Clarke LL,Boucher RC

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that extensive wildfires occurred after the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) impact event. An abundance of soot and pyrosynthetic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (pPAHs) in marine K-T boundary impact rocks (BIRs) have been considered support for this hypothesis. However, nonmarine K-T BIRs, from across ...

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

authors： Belcher CM,Finch P,Collinson ME,Scott AC,Grassineau NV

更新日期：2009-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of the critical role of the process of adaptation in evolution, there are few detailed studies of the genotypic and molecular basis of the process. Drosophila melanogaster flies selected for increased tolerance to ethanol exhibited higher levels of alcohol dehydrogenase (alcohol:NAD+ oxidoreductase; EC 1.1.1....

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

authors： McDonald JF,Chambers GK,David J,Ayala FJ

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, the focus of network research shifted to network controllability, prompting us to determine proteins that are important for the control of the underlying interaction webs. In particular, we determined minimum dominating sets of proteins (MDSets) in human and yeast protein interaction networks. Such groups of...

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

authors： Wuchty S

更新日期：2014-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine the IFN-alpha/beta-independent activation of cellular transcription that constitutes an early antiviral response of cells against influenza A and B viruses, which cause widespread epidemics in humans. We show that influenza B virus induces the synthesis in human cells of several mature mRNAs encoded by gene...

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

authors： Kim MJ,Latham AG,Krug RM

更新日期：2002-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of amyloid-beta (Aβ), which is associated with Alzheimer's disease, can be caused by excess production or insufficient clearance. Because of its β-sheet structure, fibrillar Aβ is resistant to proteolysis, which would contribute to slow degradation of Aβ plaques in vivo. Fibrillar Aβ can be internalized b...

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

authors： Solé-Domènech S,Rojas AV,Maisuradze GG,Scheraga HA,Lobel P,Maxfield FR

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid cancer is a common endocrine malignancy that encompasses well-differentiated as well as dedifferentiated cancer types. The latter tumors have high mortality and lack effective therapies. Using a paired-end RNA-sequencing approach, we report the discovery of rearrangements involving the anaplastic lymphoma kina...

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

authors： Kelly LM,Barila G,Liu P,Evdokimova VN,Trivedi S,Panebianco F,Gandhi M,Carty SE,Hodak SP,Luo J,Dacic S,Yu YP,Nikiforova MN,Ferris RL,Altschuler DL,Nikiforov YE

更新日期：2014-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Urbanization and rural-urban migration are two factors driving global patterns of disease and mortality. There is significant concern about their potential impact on disease burden and the effectiveness of current control approaches. Few attempts have been made to increase our understanding of the relationship between...

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

authors： Tian H,Hu S,Cazelles B,Chowell G,Gao L,Laine M,Li Y,Yang H,Li Y,Yang Q,Tong X,Huang R,Bjornstad ON,Xiao H,Stenseth NC

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00