Transforming growth factor beta targeted inactivation of cyclin E:cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (Cdk2) complexes by inhibition of Cdk2 activating kinase activity.

abstract：:This paper reports the results of a large-scale field experiment designed to test the hypothesis that group membership can increase participation and prosocial lending for an online crowdlending community, Kiva. The experiment uses variations on a simple email manipulation to encourage Kiva members to join a lending t...

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

authors： Ai W,Chen R,Chen Y,Mei Q,Phillips W

更新日期：2016-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have established that incubation of low density lipoprotein (LDL) with cultured endothelial cells (EC) converts it to a new form (EC-modified LDL) that is now recognized by a specific receptor on macrophages (the acetyl LDL receptor) and is taken up and degraded 3-10 times more rapidly than native LDL...

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

authors： Parthasarathy S,Steinbrecher UP,Barnett J,Witztum JL,Steinberg D

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High genetic diversity of East Asian village dogs has recently been used to argue for an East Asian origin of the domestic dog. However, global village dog genetic diversity and the extent to which semiferal village dogs represent distinct, indigenous populations instead of admixtures of various dog breeds has not bee...

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

authors： Boyko AR,Boyko RH,Boyko CM,Parker HG,Castelhano M,Corey L,Degenhardt JD,Auton A,Hedimbi M,Kityo R,Ostrander EA,Schoenebeck J,Todhunter RJ,Jones P,Bustamante CD

更新日期：2009-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Innate immunity is the primary and most ancient defense against infection. Although critical to survival, coordinating protection against a foreign organism is energetically costly, creating the need to reallocate substrates from nonessential functions, such as growth and nutrient storage. However, the mechanism by wh...

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

authors： DiAngelo JR,Bland ML,Bambina S,Cherry S,Birnbaum MJ

更新日期：2009-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic comparison of rRNA sequences has suggested that a pseudoknot structure exists in the central domain of small-subunit rRNA. In Escherichia coli 16S rRNA, this pseudoknot would form when positions 570 and 571 pair with positions 865 and 866. Mutations were introduced into this pseudoknot at the phylogenetic...

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

authors： Vila A,Viril-Farley J,Tapprich WE

更新日期：1994-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Midbrain dopamine neurons play central roles in reward processing. It is widely assumed that all dopamine neurons encode the same information. Some evidence, however, suggests functional differences between subgroups of dopamine neurons, particularly with respect to processing nonrewarding, aversive stimuli. To direct...

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

authors： Brischoux F,Chakraborty S,Brierley DI,Ungless MA

更新日期：2009-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:RNase T2 enzymes are conserved in most eukaryotic genomes, and expression patterns and phylogenetic analyses suggest that they may carry out an important housekeeping role. However, the nature of this role has been elusive. Here we show that RNS2, an intracellular RNase T2 from Arabidopsis thaliana, is essential for n...

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

authors： Hillwig MS,Contento AL,Meyer A,Ebany D,Bassham DC,Macintosh GC

更新日期：2011-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophage responses to Francisella infection have been characterized previously by subdued proinflammatory responses; however, these studies have generally focused on macrophage cell lines or monocyte-derived macrophages. Therefore, we studied the ability of fresh human blood monocytes to engulf and respond to Franci...

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

authors： Gavrilin MA,Bouakl IJ,Knatz NL,Duncan MD,Hall MW,Gunn JS,Wewers MD

更新日期：2006-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Because virtually all organisms compete with others in their social environment, mechanisms that reduce conflict between interacting individuals are crucial for the evolution of stable families, groups, and societies. Here, we tested whether costs of social conflict over territorial space between Seychelles warblers (...

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

authors： Bebbington K,Kingma SA,Fairfield EA,Dugdale HL,Komdeur J,Spurgin LG,Richardson DS

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Triton X-100-solubilized high-density microsomes from insulin-treated rat adipocytes exhibit a marked increase in serine/threonine and tyrosine kinase activities toward exogenous histone when compared to controls. The insulin-dependent activation of microsomal histone kinase activities occurs within the physiological ...

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

authors： Yu KT,Khalaf N,Czech MP

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human beings differ in their ability to master the sounds of their second language (L2). Phonetic training studies have proposed that differences in phonetic learning stem from differences in psychoacoustic abilities rather than speech-specific capabilities. We aimed at finding the origin of individual differences in ...

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

authors： Díaz B,Baus C,Escera C,Costa A,Sebastián-Gallés N

更新日期：2008-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:PKC eta is expressed predominantly in the epithelial tissues; however, its role in the regulation of epithelial tight junctions (TJs) is unknown. We present evidence that PKC eta phosphorylates occludin on threonine residues (T403 and T404) and plays a crucial role in the assembly and/or maintenance of TJs in Caco-2 a...

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

authors： Suzuki T,Elias BC,Seth A,Shen L,Turner JR,Giorgianni F,Desiderio D,Guntaka R,Rao R

更新日期：2009-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubc13 is a ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme responsible for noncanonical ubiquitination of TNF receptor-associated factor (TRAF)-family adapter proteins involved in Toll-like receptor and TNF-family cytokine receptor signaling, which are regulators of innate immunity. Gene ablation was used to study the function of Ubc13 ...

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

authors： Fukushima T,Matsuzawa S,Kress CL,Bruey JM,Krajewska M,Lefebvre S,Zapata JM,Ronai Z,Reed JC

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Two adjacent, divergently transcribed, developmentally regulated genes of the maize chloroplast chromosome have different superhelical density/transcriptional activation profiles when transcribed in vitro by the homologous DNA-dependent RNA polymerase. Promoter-specific transcription of the gene for the beta and epsil...

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

authors： Stirdivant SM,Crossland LD,Bogorad L

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular factors tightly regulate the architecture of bundles of filamentous cytoskeletal proteins, giving rise to assemblies with distinct morphologies and physical properties, and a similar control of the supramolecular organization of nanotubes and nanorods in synthetic materials is highly desirable. However, it is...

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

authors： Needleman DJ,Ojeda-Lopez MA,Raviv U,Miller HP,Wilson L,Safinya CR

更新日期：2004-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the dependence of the variance in the rotation rate of tethered cells of Escherichia coli on the mean rotation rate over a regime in which the motor generates constant torque. This dependence was compared with that of broken motors. In either case, motor torque was augmented with externally applied torque....

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

authors： Samuel AD,Berg HC

更新日期：1995-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria use membrane-integral sensor histidine kinases (HK) to perceive stimuli and transduce signals from the environment to the cytosol. Information on how the signal is transmitted across the membrane by HKs is still scarce. Combining both liquid- and solid-state NMR, we demonstrate that structural rearrangements ...

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

authors： Salvi M,Schomburg B,Giller K,Graf S,Unden G,Becker S,Lange A,Griesinger C

更新日期：2017-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure is described to discover genes that are specifically expressed in human prostate. The procedure involves searching the expressed sequence tag (EST) database for genes that have many related EST sequences from human prostate cDNA libraries but none or few from nonprostate human libraries. The selected candi...

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

authors： Vasmatzis G,Essand M,Brinkmann U,Lee B,Pastan I

更新日期：1998-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of replicative and chronological lifespan in Saccharomyces cerevisiae have advanced understanding of longevity in all eukaryotes. Chronological lifespan in this species is defined as the age-dependent viability of nondividing cells. To date this parameter has only been estimated under calorie restriction, mimi...

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

authors： Nagarajan S,Kruckeberg AL,Schmidt KH,Kroll E,Hamilton M,McInnerney K,Summers R,Taylor T,Rosenzweig F

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Overproduction or deficiency of many chaperones and other cellular components cure the yeast prions [PSI+] (formed by Sup35p) or [URE3] (based on Ure2p). However, at normal expression levels, Btn2p and Cur1p eliminate most newly arising [URE3] variants but do not cure [PSI+], even after overexpression. Deficiency or o...

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

authors： Gorkovskiy A,Reidy M,Masison DC,Wickner RB

更新日期：2017-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor hypoxia reduces the effectiveness of radiation therapy by limiting the biologically effective dose. An acute increase in tumor oxygenation before radiation treatment should therefore significantly improve the tumor cell kill after radiation. Efforts to increase oxygen delivery to the tumor have not shown positiv...

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

authors： Benej M,Hong X,Vibhute S,Scott S,Wu J,Graves E,Le QT,Koong AC,Giaccia AJ,Yu B,Chen CS,Papandreou I,Denko NC

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:For several decades, research into the mechanisms of genetic recombination proceeded without a complete understanding of its cellular function or its place in DNA metabolism. Many lines of research recently have coalesced to reveal a thorough integration of most aspects of DNA metabolism, including recombination. In b...

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

authors： Cox MM

更新日期：2001-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is known that the human genome contains hundreds of microRNA (miRNA) genes and that each miRNA can regulate a large number of mRNA targets, the overall effect of miRNAs on mRNA tissue profiles has not been systematically elucidated. Here, we show that predicted human mRNA targets of several highly tissue-s...

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

authors： Sood P,Krek A,Zavolan M,Macino G,Rajewsky N

更新日期：2006-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Spreading depression (SD), a slow diffusion-mediated self-sustained wave of depolarization that severely disrupts neuronal function, has been implicated as a cause of cellular injury in a number of central nervous system pathologies, including blind spots in the retina. Here we show that in the hypoglycemic chicken re...

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

authors： Yu Y,Santos LM,Mattiace LA,Costa ML,Ferreira LC,Benabou K,Kim AH,Abrahams J,Bennett MV,Rozental R

更新日期：2012-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The infection of human cells by laboratory strains of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) can be blocked readily in vitro by recombinant soluble CD4 and CD4-immunoglobulin hybrid molecules. In contrast, infection by primary isolates of HIV-1 is much less sensitive to blocking in vitro by soluble CD4-based mole...

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

authors： Ashkenazi A,Smith DH,Marsters SA,Riddle L,Gregory TJ,Ho DD,Capon DJ

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional interference between genes and the regulatory elements of simple eukaryotes such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae is an unavoidable consequence of their compressed genetic arrangement. We have shown previously that with the tandem arranged genes GAL10 and GAL7, inefficient transcriptional termination of the...

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

authors： Prescott EM,Proudfoot NJ

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of submicron particles by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy in 14 campaigns in North America, Asia, South America, and Europe were used to identify characteristic organic functional group compositions of fuel combustion, terrestrial vegetation, and ocean bubble bursting sources, each of which often ...

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

authors： Russell LM,Bahadur R,Ziemann PJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD45, a protein tyrosine phosphatase that regulates Src family kinases, is important for regulating T cell and B cell receptor signaling; however, little is known about how CD45 regulates immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif (ITAM)-dependent natural killer (NK) cell receptor signaling and the resulting effec...

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

authors： Hesslein DG,Takaki R,Hermiston ML,Weiss A,Lanier LL

更新日期：2006-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In an unprecedented finding, Davis et al. [Davis, R. E., Miller, S., Herrnstadt, C., Ghosh, S. S., Fahy, E., Shinobu, L. A., Galasko, D., Thal, L. J., Beal, M. F., Howell, N. & Parker, W. D., Jr. (1997) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94, 4526-4531] used an unusual DNA isolation method to show that healthy adults harbor a ...

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

authors： Hirano M,Shtilbans A,Mayeux R,Davidson MM,DiMauro S,Knowles JA,Schon EA

更新日期：1997-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased cardiovascular mortality occurs in diabetic patients with or without coronary artery disease and is attributed to the presence of diabetic cardiomyopathy. One potential mechanism is hyperglycemia that has been reported to activate protein kinase C (PKC), preferentially the beta isoform, which has been associ...

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

authors： Wakasaki H,Koya D,Schoen FJ,Jirousek MR,Ways DK,Hoit BD,Walsh RA,King GL

更新日期：1997-08-19 00:00:00