Estrogen inhibits the vascular injury response in estrogen receptor beta-deficient female mice.

abstract：:The U.S. case against Iran is based on Iran's deceptions regarding nuclear weapons development. This case is buttressed by assertions that a state so petroleum-rich cannot need nuclear power to preserve exports, as Iran claims. The U.S. infers, therefore, that Iran's entire nuclear technology program must pertain to w...

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

authors： Stern R

更新日期：2007-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated that the primary region of factor IX and IXa responsible for saturable specific binding to bovine aortic endothelial cells resides in residues 3-11 at the amino terminus of factor IX. We also demonstrated that mutations of lysine to alanine at residue 5, factor IX K5A, or valine to lysine at...

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

authors： Cheung WF,van den Born J,Kühn K,Kjellén L,Hudson BG,Stafford DW

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used Monte Carlo methods to treat statistical problem of electrostatic interactions among many titrating amino acids and applied these methods to lysozyme and the photosynthetic reaction center of Rhodobacter sphaeroides, including all titrating sites. We computed the average protonation of residues as a function o...

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

authors： Beroza P,Fredkin DR,Okamura MY,Feher G

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pertussis toxin, a protein composed of five different subunits (S1, S2, S3, S4, and S5), is the major virulence factor of Bordetella pertussis. We have cloned and sequenced a DNA fragment of 4.7 kilobases that contains the genes coding for the five subunits. The genes are clustered within 3.2 kilobases in the followin...

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

authors： Nicosia A,Perugini M,Franzini C,Casagli MC,Borri MG,Antoni G,Almoni M,Neri P,Ratti G,Rappuoli R

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A light beam hitting the retina produces an excitatory process; however, around the edge of the light beam, sensory cells are inhibited and lose their sensitivity. This combination of stimulation and inhibition produces a discrepancy between the luminance pattern presented to the eye and the brightness pattern that is...

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

authors： Von Békésy G

更新日期：1972-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A paradigm of evolutionary biology is that adaptation and reproductive isolation are caused by a nearly infinite number of mutations of individually small effect. Here, we test this hypothesis by investigating the genetic basis of pollinator discrimination in two closely related species of monkeyflowers that differ in...

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

authors： Schemske DW,Bradshaw HD Jr

更新日期：1999-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We have demonstrated that the entire murine N-myc gene and the sequences necessary for its expression in human neuroblastoma cells are contained within a 7.4-kilobase murine genomic clone. The complete nucleotide sequence of this gene reveals a number of striking similarities and differences when compared to the relat...

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

authors： DePinho RA,Legouy E,Feldman LB,Kohl NE,Yancopoulos GD,Alt FW

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune responses can interfere with the effective use of therapeutic proteins to treat genetic deficiencies and have been challenging to manage. To address this problem, we adapted and studied methods of immune tolerance used in canine organ transplantation research to soluble protein therapeutics. A tolerization regi...

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

authors： Kakkis E,Lester T,Yang R,Tanaka C,Anand V,Lemontt J,Peinovich M,Passage M

更新日期：2004-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The chloroplast coupling factor 1 consists of five nonidentical subunits, three of which (alpha, beta, and epsilon subunits) have been shown in several laboratories to be synthesized within chloroplasts. The site of synthesis of the remaining two (gamma and delta subunits) was investigated by analyzing products direct...

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

authors： Watanabe A,Price CA

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligomerization of members of the p53 family of transcription factors (p53, p63, and p73) is essential for their distinct functions in cell-cycle control and development. To elucidate the molecular basis for tetramer formation of the various family members, we solved the crystal structure of the human p73 tetramerizat...

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

authors： Joerger AC,Rajagopalan S,Natan E,Veprintsev DB,Robinson CV,Fersht AR

更新日期：2009-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Underactivity of the glutamatergic system is an attractive model for the pathophysiology of several major mental illnesses. We previously described a chromosome abnormality disrupting the kainate class ionotropic glutamate receptor gene, GRIK4/KA1, in an individual with schizophrenia and learning disability (mental re...

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

authors： Pickard BS,Knight HM,Hamilton RS,Soares DC,Walker R,Boyd JK,Machell J,Maclean A,McGhee KA,Condie A,Porteous DJ,St Clair D,Davis I,Blackwood DH,Muir WJ

更新日期：2008-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence both for and against Na(+)- and Cl(-)-dependent neurotransmitter transporters forming oligomers. We found that cross-linking the human dopamine transporter (DAT), which is heterologously expressed in human embryonic kidney 293 cells, either with copper phenanthroline (CuP) or the bifunctional reagent...

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

authors： Hastrup H,Karlin A,Javitch JA

更新日期：2001-08-28 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：:Based on structural information derived from the F NMR data of labeled rhodopsins, rhodopsin crystal structure, and excited-state properties of model polyenes, we propose a molecular mechanism that accounts specifically for the causes of the well-known enhanced photoreactivity of rhodopsin (increased rates and quantum...

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

authors： Liu RS,Colmenares LU

更新日期：2003-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of carbon dioxide as a renewable and environmentally friendly source of carbon in organic synthesis is a highly attractive approach, but its real world applications remain a great challenge. The major obstacles for commercialization of most current protocols are their low catalytic performances, harsh reaction...

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

authors： Yu D,Zhang Y

更新日期：2010-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:EcoRI endonuclease-generated DNA fragments carrying replication regions of the F'lac and R6-5 plasmids have been cloned and isolated, using as a selection vehicle a nonreplicating ampicillin-resistance DNA fragment derived from a Staphylococcus aureus plasmid. Heteroduplex analysis of the constructed plasmid chimeras ...

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

authors： Timmis K,Cabello F,Cohen SN

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change is expected to influence the capacities of the land and oceans to act as repositories for anthropogenic CO2 and hence provide a feedback to climate change. A series of experiments with the National Center for Atmospheric Research-Climate System Model 1 coupled carbon-climate model shows that carbon sink...

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

authors： Fung IY,Doney SC,Lindsay K,John J

更新日期：2005-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:B-DNA becomes unstable under superhelical stress and is able to adopt a wide range of alternative conformations including strand-separated DNA and Z-DNA. Localized sequence-dependent structural transitions are important for the regulation of biological processes such as DNA replication and transcription. To directly p...

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

authors： Oberstrass FC,Fernandes LE,Bryant Z

更新日期：2012-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated overlapping phage genomic clones covering an area of 26 kilobases that encodes the human alpha 2-plasmin inhibitor. The alpha 2-plasmin inhibitor gene contains 10 exons and 9 introns distributed over approximately 16 kilobases of DNA. To our knowledge, the number of introns is the highest yet reported...

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

authors： Hirosawa S,Nakamura Y,Miura O,Sumi Y,Aoki N

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A central role for phenotypic plasticity in adaptive evolution is often posited yet lacks empirical support. Selection for the stable production of an induced phenotype is hypothesized to modify the regulation of preexisting developmental pathways, producing rapid adaptive change. We examined the role of plasticity in...

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

authors： Scoville AG,Pfrender ME

更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene IL-3 encodes interleukin 3, a hematopoietic colony-stimulating factor (CSF) that is capable of supporting the proliferation of a broad range of hematopoietic cell types. By using somatic cell hybrids and in situ chromosomal hybridization, we localized this gene to human chromosome 5 at bands q23-31, a chromos...

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

authors： Le Beau MM,Epstein ND,O'Brien SJ,Nienhuis AW,Yang YC,Clark SC,Rowley JD

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system postulated to be a cell-mediated autoimmune disease in which interferon gamma (IFN-gamma) plays an important role. There is increased IFN-gamma secretion in MS, and IFN-gamma administration induces exacerbations of disease. We foun...

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

authors： Balashov KE,Smith DR,Khoury SJ,Hafler DA,Weiner HL

更新日期：1997-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein-protein interaction (PPI) network is crucial for cellular information processing and decision-making. With suitable inputs, PPI networks drive the cells to diverse functional outcomes such as cell proliferation or cell death. Here, we characterize the structural controllability of a large directed human PP...

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

authors： Vinayagam A,Gibson TE,Lee HJ,Yilmazel B,Roesel C,Hu Y,Kwon Y,Sharma A,Liu YY,Perrimon N,Barabási AL

更新日期：2016-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The hetR gene plays a very important role in cell differentiation of heterocystous cyanobacteria. To understand the mechanism of the hetR gene product in regulation of heterocyst differentiation, the recombinant HetR protein (rHetR) was overproduced in Escherichia coli. Purified rHetR was unstable and degraded easily ...

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

authors： Zhou R,Wei X,Jiang N,Li H,Dong Y,Hsi KL,Zhao J

更新日期：1998-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer beta/A4 amyloid precursor protein (APP) has been suggested to play a central role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease. We have measured the content of different species of APP holoprotein and carboxyl-terminal fragments in human brains from young individuals, nondemented aged individuals, and aged indiv...

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

authors： Nordstedt C,Gandy SE,Alafuzoff I,Caporaso GL,Iverfeldt K,Grebb JA,Winblad B,Greengard P

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cortical neurons combine the information ascending and descending the cortical hierarchy. In the classical view, this information is combined nonlinearly to give rise to a single firing-rate output, which collapses all input streams into one. We analyze the extent to which neurons can simultaneously represent mul...

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

authors： Naud R,Sprekeler H

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Major breakthroughs have recently been reported that can help overcome two inherent drawbacks of NMR: the lack of sensitivity and the limited memory of longitudinal magnetization. Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) couples nuclear spins to the large reservoir of electrons, thus making it possible to detect dilute endo...

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

authors： Vasos PR,Comment A,Sarkar R,Ahuja P,Jannin S,Ansermet JP,Konter JA,Hautle P,van den Brandt B,Bodenhausen G

更新日期：2009-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Two subjects, of 11,000 healthy individuals screened, were found to be missing three and four immunoglobulin isotypes, respectively (IgA1, IgG2, and IgG4; IgA1, IgG2, IgG4, and IgE), and have been analyzed at the DNA level by means of Southern blotting and Ig heavy-chain-specific probes. A broad deletion within the he...

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

authors： Migone N,Oliviero S,de Lange G,Delacroix DL,Boschis D,Altruda F,Silengo L,DeMarchi M,Carbonara AO

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in external light patterns can alter cell activities in peripheral tissues through slow entrainment of the central clock in suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). It remains unclear whether cells in otherwise photo-insensitive tissues can achieve rapid responses to changes in external light. Here we show that light st...

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

authors： Fan SM,Chang YT,Chen CL,Wang WH,Pan MK,Chen WP,Huang WY,Xu Z,Huang HE,Chen T,Plikus MV,Chen SK,Lin SJ

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptor-binding specificity of HA, the major surface glycoprotein of influenza virus, primarily determines the host ranges that the virus can infect. Influenza type B virus almost exclusively infects humans and contributes to the annual "flu" sickness. Here we report the structures of influenza B virus HA in complex ...

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

authors： Wang Q,Tian X,Chen X,Ma J

更新日期：2007-10-23 00:00:00