Withdrawal of IL-7 induces Bax translocation from cytosol to mitochondria through a rise in intracellular pH.

abstract：:T helper 17 (TH17) cells represent a discrete TH cell subset instrumental in the immune response to extracellular bacteria and fungi. However, TH17 cells are considered to be detrimentally involved in autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS). In contrast to TH17 cells, regulatory T (Treg) cells were shown to b...

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

authors： Ulges A,Witsch EJ,Pramanik G,Klein M,Birkner K,Bühler U,Wasser B,Luessi F,Stergiou N,Dietzen S,Brühl TJ,Bohn T,Bündgen G,Kunz H,Waisman A,Schild H,Schmitt E,Zipp F,Bopp T

更新日期：2016-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms underlying analgesia related to social touch are not clear. While recent research highlights the role of the empathy of the observer to pain relief in the target, the contribution of social interaction to analgesia is unknown. The current study examines brain-to-brain coupling during pain with interpers...

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

authors： Goldstein P,Weissman-Fogel I,Dumas G,Shamay-Tsoory SG

更新日期：2018-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The major histocompatibility complex class-I (MHC-I) peptide-loading complex (PLC) is a cornerstone of the human adaptive immune system, being responsible for processing antigens that allow killer T cells to distinguish between healthy and compromised cells. Based on a recent low-resolution cryo-electron microscopy (c...

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

authors： Fisette O,Schröder GF,Schäfer LV

更新日期：2020-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcin B17 (MccB17) is a 3.1-kDa Escherichia coli antibiotic that contains thiazole and oxazole heterocycles in a peptide backbone. MccB17 inhibits its cellular target, DNA gyrase, by trapping the enzyme in a complex that is covalently bound to double-strand cleaved DNA, in a manner similar to the well-known quinolo...

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

authors： Zamble DB,Miller DA,Heddle JG,Maxwell A,Walsh CT,Hollfelder F

更新日期：2001-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal infectivity of HIV-1 virions requires synthesis of the HIV-1 regulatory protein Nef in some producer cells but not others. A survey of 18 lymphoid cell lines found that Nef was dispensable in three, each of which harbored gammaretroviruses. Nef-dependent cell lines were rendered Nef-independent by a cell-free ...

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

authors： Pizzato M

更新日期：2010-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of Shigella to spread within the cytosol of infected epithelial cells and to infect adjacent cells is critical for the development of infection foci, which lead to mucosal abscesses. Shigella is a nonmotile microorganism that appears to utilize host cell microfilaments to generate intra- as well as interc...

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

authors： Bernardini ML,Mounier J,d'Hauteville H,Coquis-Rondon M,Sansonetti PJ

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we have observed that interleukin (IL) 1 alpha or IL-1 beta directly induced expression of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the latently infected human promonocytic cell line U1. In addition, IL-1 synergized with IL-6, but not with tumor necrosis factor, in the upregulation of virus expressio...

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

authors： Poli G,Kinter AL,Fauci AS

更新日期：1994-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal CD103(-) dendritic cells (DCs) are pathogenic for colitis. Unveiling molecular mechanisms that render these cells proinflammatory is important for the design of specific immunotherapies. In this report, we demonstrated that mesenteric lymph node CD103(-) DCs express, among other proinflammatory cytokines, h...

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

authors： Kourepini E,Aggelakopoulou M,Alissafi T,Paschalidis N,Simoes DC,Panoutsakopoulou V

更新日期：2014-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Overlapping cDNAs derived from the chicken alpha-fibrinogen mRNA have been sequenced, beginning from within the coding region for the signal peptide of this subunit and terminating within the poly(A) extension. The predicted size of chicken alpha-fibrinogen is 54,187 daltons, which is the smallest of any alpha chain r...

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

authors： Weissbach L,Grieninger G

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which antifreeze proteins (AFPs) irreversibly bind to ice has not yet been resolved. The ice-binding site of an AFP is relatively hydrophobic, but also contains many potential hydrogen bond donors/acceptors. The extent to which hydrogen bonding and the hydrophobic effect contribute to ice binding has ...

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

authors： Garnham CP,Campbell RL,Davies PL

更新日期：2011-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant immunotoxins (RITs) are chimeric proteins composed of an Fv and a protein toxin being developed for cancer treatment. The Fv brings the toxin to the cancer cell, but most of the RITs do not reach the tumor and are removed by other organs. To identify cells responsible for RIT removal, and the pathway by wh...

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

authors： Liu XF,Wei J,Zhou Q,Molitoris BA,Sandoval R,Kobayashi H,Okada R,Nagaya T,Karim B,Butcher D,Pastan I

更新日期：2020-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The x-ray crystal structure of an oligomeric miniprotein has been determined to a 1.2-A resolution by means of multiwavelength anomalous diffraction phasing with selenomethionine analogs that retain the biophysical characteristics of the native peptide. Peptide 1, comprising alpha and beta secondary structure elements...

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

authors： Ali MH,Peisach E,Allen KN,Imperiali B

更新日期：2004-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown that initiation of translation involves several steps. (i) Binding of fMet-tRNA(fMet) to the bacterial 30S ribosomal subunit in the absence of messenger RNA, yielding a 34S complex. This binding is rapid and dependent on initiation factor 2 but not on initiation factor 3. (ii) Binding of messenger RNA to t...

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

authors： Jay G,Kaempfer R

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphism in materials often leads to significantly different physical properties--the rutile and anatase polymorphs of TiO2 are a prime example. Polytypism is a special type of polymorphism, occurring in layered materials when the geometry of a repeating structural layer is maintained but the layer-stacking sequen...

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

authors： Luo H,Xie W,Tao J,Inoue H,Gyenis A,Krizan JW,Yazdani A,Zhu Y,Cava RJ

更新日期：2015-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The product of the recA gene of E. coli has been identified by labeling proteins synthesized in UV-treated cells after infection with specialized transducing phages carrying the recA gene. Following infection of UV-treated cells by lambda precA, which carries the recA+ gene, a major protein with a molecular weight of ...

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

authors： McEntee K,Hesse JE,Epstein W

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that Ha-ras and c-myc genes collaborate in promoting transformation, tumor progression, and metastasis. However, the precise mechanism underlying this cooperation remains unclear. In the present study, we document that astrocyte elevated gene-1 (AEG-1) is a downstream target molecule of Ha-ras a...

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

authors： Lee SG,Su ZZ,Emdad L,Sarkar D,Fisher PB

更新日期：2006-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Degeneracy, the ability of elements that are structurally different to perform the same function or yield the same output, is a well known characteristic of the genetic code and immune systems. Here, we point out that degeneracy is a ubiquitous biological property and argue that it is a feature of complexity at geneti...

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

authors： Edelman GM,Gally JA

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major cause of liver disease, affecting over 2% of the world's population. The HCV envelope glycoproteins E1 and E2 mediate viral entry, with E2 being the main target of neutralizing antibody responses. Structural investigations of E2 have produced templates for vaccine design, including t...

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

authors： Kong L,Lee DE,Kadam RU,Liu T,Giang E,Nieusma T,Garces F,Tzarum N,Woods VL Jr,Ward AB,Li S,Wilson IA,Law M

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The P23T mutant of human gammaD-crystallin (HGD) is associated with cataract. We have previously investigated the solution properties of this mutant, as well as those of the closely related P23V and P23S mutants, and shown that although mutations at site 23 of HGD do not produce a significant structural change in the ...

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

authors： McManus JJ,Lomakin A,Ogun O,Pande A,Basan M,Pande J,Benedek GB

更新日期：2007-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-scale conformational changes in proteins are often associated with the binding of a substrate. Because conformational changes may be related to the function of an enzyme, understanding the kinetics and energetics of these motions is very important. We have delineated the atomically detailed conformational transi...

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

authors： Arora K,Brooks CL 3rd

更新日期：2007-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic matter is responsible for the generation of hydrocarbons during the thermal maturation of source rock formation. This geochemical process engenders a network of organic hosted pores that governs the flow of hydrocarbons from the organic matter to fractures created during the stimulation of production wells. Th...

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

authors： Berthonneau J,Obliger A,Valdenaire PL,Grauby O,Ferry D,Chaudanson D,Levitz P,Kim JJ,Ulm FJ,Pellenq RJ

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Energy transfer is enhanced by translational diffusion of the donor and acceptor [Steinberg, I. Z. & Katchalski, E. (1968) J. Chem. Phys. 48, 2404-2410]. The effect of diffusion on energy transfer depends on Dtau(0)/s(2), in which D is the sum of the diffusion coefficients of the donor and acceptor, tau(0) is the life...

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

authors： Thomas DD,Carlsen WF,Stryer L

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Confronted with an object of perception, an individual will spontaneously try to identify unambiguously and consistently all its parts; except in rare instances of "illusory phenomena," he will immediately succeed. This elementary fact is formalized in a law of visual perception. It is used to define sets of stable st...

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

authors： Shiman LG

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type IV pili (Tfp), which are key virulence factors in many bacterial pathogens, define a large group of multipurpose filamentous nanomachines widespread in Bacteria and Archaea. Tfp biogenesis is a complex multistep process, which relies on macromolecular assemblies composed of 15 conserved proteins in model gram-neg...

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

authors： Goosens VJ,Busch A,Georgiadou M,Castagnini M,Forest KT,Waksman G,Pelicic V

更新日期：2017-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolomic markers associated with incident central adiposity gain were investigated in young adults. In a 9-mo prospective study of university freshmen (n = 264). Blood samples and anthropometry measurements were collected in the first 3 d on campus and at the end of the year. Plasma from individuals was pooled by p...

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

authors： Hootman KC,Trezzi JP,Kraemer L,Burwell LS,Dong X,Guertin KA,Jaeger C,Stover PJ,Hiller K,Cassano PA

更新日期：2017-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal monkeys and monkeys with lesions of the hippocampal formation and adjacent cortex (the H+ lesion) were trained on the delayed nonmatching to sample (DNMS) task with a delay of 0.5 s between the sample and the choice. The animals with H+ lesions learned the task normally at this short delay and also exhibited th...

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

authors： Alvarez P,Zola-Morgan S,Squire LR

更新日期：1994-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have engineered the ecdysone-inducible mammalian expression system for general retroviral delivery to cultured mammalian cells. We inducibly expressed PTEN in the glioblastoma cell line, U87MG, lacking this gene. Because nearly all cells are recruited on induction, we find both up- and down-regulated genes by cDNA ...

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

authors： Stolarov J,Chang K,Reiner A,Rodgers L,Hannon GJ,Wigler MH,Mittal V

更新日期：2001-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Keratins 14 and 5 are the structural hallmarks of the basal keratinocytes of the epidermis and outer root sheath (ORS) of the hair follicle. Their genes are controlled in a tissue-specific manner and thus serve as useful tools to elucidate the regulatory mechanisms involved in keratinocyte-specific transcription. Prev...

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

authors： Sinha S,Fuchs E

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypothalamic malonyl-CoA has been shown to function in global energy homeostasis by modulating food intake and energy expenditure. Little is known, however, about the regulation of malonyl-CoA concentration in the central nervous system. To address this issue we investigated the response of putative intermediates in t...

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

authors： Wolfgang MJ,Cha SH,Sidhaye A,Chohnan S,Cline G,Shulman GI,Lane MD

更新日期：2007-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in coherent x-ray diffractive imaging have paved the way to reliable and quantitative imaging of noncompact specimens at the nanometer scale. Introduced a year ago, an advanced implementation of ptychographic coherent diffractive imaging has removed much of the previous limitations regarding sample pre...

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

authors： Giewekemeyer K,Thibault P,Kalbfleisch S,Beerlink A,Kewish CM,Dierolf M,Pfeiffer F,Salditt T

更新日期：2010-01-12 00:00:00