Soluble dextran-hemoglobin complex as a potential blood substitute.

abstract：:The core enzyme of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase acquires essential promoter recognition and transcription initiation activities by binding one of several sigma subunits. To characterize the proximity between sigma70, the major sigma for transcription of the growth-related genes, and the core enzyme subunits (alpha2...

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

authors： Owens JT,Miyake R,Murakami K,Chmura AJ,Fujita N,Ishihama A,Meares CF

更新日期：1998-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The enhancer-binding factor NF-kappa B, which is found only in cells that transcribe immunoglobulin light chain genes, has been purified from nuclear extracts of Namalwa cells (human Burkitt lymphoma cells) by sequence-specific DNA affinity chromatography. The purified NF-kappa B has been identified as a 51-kDa polype...

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

authors： Kawakami K,Scheidereit C,Roeder RG

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor gene is the cellular homolog of the avian erythroblastosis virus erbB oncogene. Control of EGF receptor expression determines cellular responsiveness to EGF and might play an important role in neoplastic development. Using RNA blot hybridization, we have found that exposure o...

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

authors： Clark AJ,Ishii S,Richert N,Merlino GT,Pastan I

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) is being used to develop methods to control pests and disease vectors. RNAi is robust and systemic in coleopteran insects but is quite variable in other insects. The determinants of efficient RNAi in coleopterans, as well as its potential mechanisms of resistance, are not known. RNAi screen ide...

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

authors： Yoon JS,Mogilicherla K,Gurusamy D,Chen X,Chereddy SCRR,Palli SR

更新日期：2018-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Tryptophan biosynthesis is subject to exquisite control in species of Bacillus and has become one of the best-studied model systems in gene regulation. The protein TRAP (trp RNA-binding attenuation protein) predominantly forms a ring-shaped 11-mer, which binds cognate RNA in the presence of tryptophan to suppress expr...

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

authors： Watanabe M,Heddle JG,Kikuchi K,Unzai S,Akashi S,Park SY,Tame JR

更新日期：2009-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Colloidal particles with directional interactions are key in the realization of new colloidal materials with possibly unconventional phase behaviors. Here we exploit DNA self-assembly to produce bulk quantities of "DNA stars" with three or four sticky terminals, mimicking molecules with controlled limited valence. Sol...

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

authors： Biffi S,Cerbino R,Bomboi F,Paraboschi EM,Asselta R,Sciortino F,Bellini T

更新日期：2013-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) are among the most common causes of diarrheal illness and death due to diarrhea among young children in low-/middle-income countries (LMICs). ETEC have also been associated with important sequelae including malnutrition and stunting, placing children at further risk of death...

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

authors： Sheikh A,Tumala B,Vickers TJ,Alvarado D,Ciorba MA,Bhuiyan TR,Qadri F,Singer BB,Fleckenstein JM

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In the cell, proteins are synthesized from N to C terminus and begin to fold during translation. Cotranslational folding mechanisms are therefore linked to elongation rate, which varies as a function of synonymous codon usage. However, synonymous codon substitutions can affect many distinct cellular processes, which h...

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

authors： Walsh IM,Bowman MA,Soto Santarriaga IF,Rodriguez A,Clark PL

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The term amyloid defines a group of proteins that aggregate into plaques or fibers. Amyloid fibers gained their fame mostly due to their relation with neurodegenerative diseases in humans. However, secreted by lower organisms, such as bacteria and fungi, amyloid fibers play a functional role: for example, when they se...

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

authors： Lester-Zer N,Ghrayeb M,Chai L

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogens control many physiological and behavioral processes, some of which are connected to reproduction. These include sexual and other social behaviors. Here we implicate four gene products in a micronet required for mammalian social recognition, through which an individual learns to recognize other individuals. F...

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

authors： Choleris E,Gustafsson JA,Korach KS,Muglia LJ,Pfaff DW,Ogawa S

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The major protein constituent of human plasma high density lipoproteins has been isolated and its complete amino-acid sequence determined. The protein, designated apolipoprotein-glutamine-I by the presence of carboxyl-terminal glutamine, is a single polypeptide chain of 245 amino-acid residues, including three residue...

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

authors： Baker HN,Delahunty T,Gotto AM Jr,Jackson RL

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reef-building corals are critically important species that are threatened by anthropogenic stresses including climate change. In attempts to understand corals' responses to stress and other aspects of their biology, numerous genomic and transcriptomic studies have been performed, generating a variety of hypotheses abo...

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

authors： Cleves PA,Strader ME,Bay LK,Pringle JR,Matz MV

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A descriptive medium for the presentation of protein structure has been developed and used to evaluate the structure of the active site of bovine trypsin (EC 3.4.21.4). This technique, involving advanced computer graphics technology, permits the facile display of a representation of the molecular surface of proteins o...

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

authors： Feldmann RJ,Bing DH,Furie BC,Furie B

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory neurons perceive environmental cues and are important of organismal survival. Peripheral sensory neurons interact intimately with glial cells. While the function of axonal ensheathment by glia is well studied, less is known about the functional significance of glial interaction with the somatodendritic compart...

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

authors： Yadav S,Younger SH,Zhang L,Thompson-Peer KL,Li T,Jan LY,Jan YN

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrin is a basal lamina molecule that directs key events in postsynaptic differentiation, most notably the aggregation of acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) on the muscle cell surface. Agrin's AChR clustering activity is regulated by alternative mRNA splicing. Agrin splice forms having inserts at two sites (y and z) in t...

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

authors： O'Toole JJ,Deyst KA,Bowe MA,Nastuk MA,McKechnie BA,Fallon JR

更新日期：1996-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes coding for apolipoproteins (apo) AI, CIII, and AIV, designated APOA1, APOC3, and APOA4, respectively, are closely linked and tandemly organized in the long arm of the human chromosome 11. A DNA rearrangement involving the genes encoding apoAI and apoCIII in certain patients with premature atherosclerosis has...

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

authors： Karathanasis SK,Ferris E,Haddad IA

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amphiphilic fluorescent styryl pyridinium dyes FM1-43 and FM4-64 are used to probe activity-dependent synaptic vesicle cycling in neurons. Cultured astrocytes can internalize FM1-43 and FM4-64 inside vesicles but their uptake is insensitive to the elevation of cytosolic calcium (Ca(2+)) concentration and the under...

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

authors： Li D,Hérault K,Oheim M,Ropert N

更新日期：2009-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:β subunits of high voltage-gated Ca2+ (CaV) channels promote cell-surface expression of pore-forming α1 subunits and regulate channel gating through binding to the α-interaction domain (AID) in the first intracellular loop. We addressed the stability of CaV α1B-β interactions by rapamycin-translocatable CaV β subunits...

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

authors： Yeon JH,Park CG,Hille B,Suh BC

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins need to be tightly regulated as they control biological processes in most normal cellular functions. The precise mechanisms of regulation are rarely completely understood but can involve binding of endogenous ligands and/or partner proteins at specific locations on a protein that can modulate function. Often,...

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

authors： Ludlow RF,Verdonk ML,Saini HK,Tickle IJ,Jhoti H

更新日期：2015-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The chloride permeability of airway and sweat ductal epithelium of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients is decreased. This abnormality could represent an intrinsic characteristic of the epithelial cell or the response to a tonic extrinsic stimulus, in vivo. We cultured airway epithelial cells derived from CF and non-CF indiv...

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

authors： Stutts MJ,Cotton CU,Yankaskas JR,Cheng E,Knowles MR,Gatzy JT,Boucher RC

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical cyclones have massive economic, social, and ecological impacts, and models of their occurrence influence many planning activities from setting insurance premiums to conservation planning. Most impact models allow for geographically varying cyclone rates but assume that individual storm events occur randomly w...

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

authors： Mumby PJ,Vitolo R,Stephenson DB

更新日期：2011-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have provided evidence that IL-15 expression within human tumors is crucial for optimal antitumor responses; however, the regulation of IL-15 within the tumor microenvironment (TME) is unclear. We report herein, in analyses of mice implanted with various tumor cell lines, soluble IL-15/IL-15Rα complex...

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

authors： Santana Carrero RM,Beceren-Braun F,Rivas SC,Hegde SM,Gangadharan A,Plote D,Pham G,Anthony SM,Schluns KS

更新日期：2019-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In the retina, dopamine plays a central role in neural adaptation to light. Progress in the study of dopaminergic amacrine (DA) cells has been limited because they are very few (450 in each mouse retina, 0.005% of retinal neurons). Here, we applied transgenic technology, single-cell global mRNA amplification, and cDNA...

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

authors： Gustincich S,Contini M,Gariboldi M,Puopolo M,Kadota K,Bono H,LeMieux J,Walsh P,Carninci P,Hayashizaki Y,Okazaki Y,Raviola E

更新日期：2004-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytochromes (phy) are red/far-red-absorbing photoreceptors that regulate the adaption of plant growth and development to changes in ambient light conditions. The nuclear transport of the phytochromes upon light activation is regarded as a key step in phytochrome signaling. Although nuclear import of phyA is regulated...

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

authors： Pfeiffer A,Nagel MK,Popp C,Wüst F,Bindics J,Viczián A,Hiltbrunner A,Nagy F,Kunkel T,Schäfer E

更新日期：2012-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A principal goal of cancer nanomedicine is to deliver therapeutics effectively to cancer cells within solid tumors. However, there are a series of biological barriers that impede nanomedicine from reaching target cells. Here, we report a stimuli-responsive clustered nanoparticle to systematically overcome these multip...

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

authors： Li HJ,Du JZ,Du XJ,Xu CF,Sun CY,Wang HX,Cao ZT,Yang XZ,Zhu YH,Nie S,Wang J

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycomb group genes (PcGs) have been implicated in cancer based on altered levels of expression observed in certain tumors and the behavior of cultured cells containing inserted PcG transgenes. Endometrial stromal tumors provide evidence for a direct causal relationship because they contain several chromosomal transl...

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

authors： Li H,Ma X,Wang J,Koontz J,Nucci M,Sklar J

更新日期：2007-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of electron-nuclear double resonance and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) studies on the hydrogen peroxide compound of yeast cytochrome c peroxidase are inconsistent with previous proposals for the source of the EPR signal in this compound, in particular with its identification with an aromatic amino ...

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

authors： Hoffman BM,Roberts JE,Brown TG,Kang CH,Margoliash E

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent political instabilities and conflicts around the world have drastically increased the number of people seeking refuge. The challenges associated with the large number of arriving refugees have revealed a deep divide among the citizens of host countries: one group welcomes refugees, whereas another rejects them....

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

authors： Böhm R,Theelen MMP,Rusch H,Van Lange PAM

更新日期：2018-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix metalloprotease type 9 (MMP-9) has been functionally implicated in VEGF activation, the induction and maintenance of chronic angiogenesis, and early stage tumor growth in a number of mouse models of cancer. In this article, we have identified two inflammatory cell types that are major sources of MMP-9 in the an...

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

authors： Nozawa H,Chiu C,Hanahan D

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the genetics of susceptibility to infectious agents is of great importance to our ability to combat disease. Here, we show that voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs) are critical for cellular binding and entry of the New World arenaviruses Junín and Tacaribe virus, suggesting that zoonosis via these rec...

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

authors： Sarute N,Ross SR

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00