A potent dimeric peptide antagonist of interleukin-5 that binds two interleukin-5 receptor alpha chains.

abstract：:Deletion of 5 residues (Delta5) from the central cytoplasmic loop of the lactose permease of Escherichia coli has no significant effect on expression or activity, whereas Delta12 leads to increased rates of permease turnover after membrane insertion and decreased transport activity, and Delta20 abolishes insertion and...

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

authors： Weinglass AB,Kaback HR

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone mRNAs are naturally intronless and accumulate efficiently in the cytoplasm. To learn whether there are cis-acting sequences within histone genes that allow efficient cytoplasmic accumulation of RNAs, we made recombinant constructs in which sequences from the mouse H2a gene were cloned into a human beta-globin ...

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

authors： Huang Y,Carmichael GG

更新日期：1997-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied intracellular pH (pHi) regulation in the absence of HCO3- in single mesangial cells (MCs) with the pH-sensitive dye 2',7'-bis(2-carboxyethyl)-5(and -6)carboxyfluorescein. Our approach was to acid load the cells by an NH+4 prepulse and to monitor the subsequent pHi recovery. Previous work on MCs and other ce...

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

authors： Boyarsky G,Ganz MB,Cragoe EJ Jr,Boron WF

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypothesis directed proteomics offers higher throughput over global analyses. We show that immunoprecipitation (IP)-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) in H929 multiple myeloma (MM) cancer cells led to the discovery of a rare and unexpected BCR-ABL fusion, informing a therapeutic intervention using imatinib (Gleevec)....

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

authors： Breitkopf SB,Yuan M,Pihan GA,Asara JM

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) infection induces transcription of the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) gene directed by the long terminal repeat (LTR) of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in both transiently and permanently transfected cells containing the HIV-LTR/CAT hybrid gene. To define the mechanism by wh...

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

authors： Mosca JD,Bednarik DP,Raj NB,Rosen CA,Sodroski JG,Haseltine WA,Hayward GS,Pitha PM

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate energy transport through an alpha-aminoisobutyric acid-based 3(10)-helix dissolved in chloroform in a combined experimental-theoretical approach. Vibrational energy is locally deposited at the N terminus of the helix by ultrafast internal conversion of a covalently attached, electronically excited, azob...

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

authors： Botan V,Backus EH,Pfister R,Moretto A,Crisma M,Toniolo C,Nguyen PH,Stock G,Hamm P

更新日期：2007-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Viperin is an IFN-inducible radical S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) enzyme that inhibits viral replication. We determined crystal structures of an anaerobically prepared fragment of mouse viperin (residues 45-362) complexed with S-adenosylhomocysteine (SAH) or 5'-deoxyadenosine (5'-dAdo) and l-methionine (l-Met). Viperin c...

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

authors： Fenwick MK,Li Y,Cresswell P,Modis Y,Ealick SE

更新日期：2017-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic-cell hybrids have been shown to maintain the correct epigenetic chromatin states to study developmental globin gene expression as well as gene expression on the active and inactive X chromosomes. This suggests the potential use of somatic-cell hybrids containing either a maternal or a paternal human chromosome...

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

authors： Gabriel JM,Higgins MJ,Gebuhr TC,Shows TB,Saitoh S,Nicholls RD

更新日期：1998-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Prototrophic hybrids formed from an adenine-requiring Chinese hamster cell and human fibroblasts uniformly display new esterase activity that differs from that of either parental cell in electrophoretic mobility and substrate specificity. The hybrids that grew in the selective medium and possessed the new esterase act...

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

authors： Kao FT,Puck TT

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inheritance of specific apolipoprotein E (apoE) alleles determines, in large part, the risk and mean age of onset of late-onset familial and sporadic Alzheimer disease. The mechanism by which the apoE isoforms differentially contribute to disease expression is, however, unknown. Isoform-specific differences have been ...

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

authors： Strittmatter WJ,Roses AD

更新日期：1995-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Although(,) vascular remodeling is a hallmark of many chronic inflammatory disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and psoriasis, anti-vascular strategies to treat these conditions have received little attention to date. We investigated the anti-inflammatory activity of systemic blockade of...

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

authors： Schonthaler HB,Huggenberger R,Wculek SK,Detmar M,Wagner EF

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans (Cn) is a soil fungus that causes life-threatening meningitis in immunocompromised patients and is a facultative intracellular pathogen capable of replication inside macrophages. The mechanism by which environmental fungi acquire and maintain virulence for mammalian hosts is unknown. We hypothe...

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

authors： Steenbergen JN,Shuman HA,Casadevall A

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Myofibril formation was visualized in cultured live cardiomyocytes that were transfected with plasmids expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP) linked to the Z-band protein, alpha-actinin. The expression of this fluorescent protein provided an in vivo label for structures containing alpha-actinin. The GFP-alpha-acti...

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

authors： Dabiri GA,Turnacioglu KK,Sanger JM,Sanger JW

更新日期：1997-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) RNA was encapsulated in large, unilamellar phospholipid vesicles (liposomes), and the encapsulated TMV RNA was shown to be infectious when incubated with tobacco protoplasts under appropriate conditions. Maximal virus production in protoplasts was observed after their incubation with TMV RNA...

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

authors： Fraley RT,Dellaporta SL,Papahadjopoulos D

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The FKBP12-rapamycin-associated protein (FRAP; also called RAFT1/mTOR) regulates translation initiation and entry into the cell cycle. Depriving cells of amino acids or treating them with the small molecule rapamycin inhibits FRAP and results in rapid dephosphorylation and inactivation of the translational regulators ...

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

authors： Peterson RT,Desai BN,Hardwick JS,Schreiber SL

更新日期：1999-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Atmospheric models generally assume that aerosol particles are in equilibrium with the surrounding gas phase. However, recent observations that secondary organic aerosols can exist in a glassy state have highlighted the need to more fully understand the kinetic limitations that may control water partitioning in ambien...

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

authors： Bones DL,Reid JP,Lienhard DM,Krieger UK

更新日期：2012-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients have poor overall survival despite using irinotecan- or oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy combined with anti-EGFR (epidermal growth factor receptor) drugs, especially those with the oncogene mutation of KRAS Metformin has been reported as a potentially novel antitumor agent in...

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

authors： Xie J,Xia L,Xiang W,He W,Yin H,Wang F,Gao T,Qi W,Yang Z,Yang X,Zhou T,Gao G

更新日期：2020-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The natural history of follicular lymphoma (FL) is frequently characterized by transformation to a more aggressive diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL). We compared the gene-expression profiles between transformed DLBCL and their antecedent FL. No genes were observed to increase or decrease their expression in all of...

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

authors： Lossos IS,Alizadeh AA,Diehn M,Warnke R,Thorstenson Y,Oefner PJ,Brown PO,Botstein D,Levy R

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The remarkable fidelity of most DNA polymerases depends on a series of early steps in the reaction pathway which allow the selection of the correct nucleotide substrate, while excluding all incorrect ones, before the enzyme is committed to the chemical step of nucleotide incorporation. The conformational transitions t...

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

authors： Santoso Y,Joyce CM,Potapova O,Le Reste L,Hohlbein J,Torella JP,Grindley ND,Kapanidis AN

更新日期：2010-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A cloned complementary DNA sequence has been isolated from a human placental cDNA library in the bacteriophage expression vector lambda gt11 after screening with polyclonal antibodies against human placental aromatase-system cytochrome P-450 (P-450Arom). A single recombinant clone, lambda hAROM1, was characterized by ...

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

authors： Evans CT,Ledesma DB,Schulz TZ,Simpson ER,Mendelson CR

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although mind wandering occupies a large proportion of our waking life, its neural basis and relation to ongoing behavior remain controversial. We report an fMRI study that used experience sampling to provide an online measure of mind wandering during a concurrent task. Analyses focused on the interval of time immedia...

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

authors： Christoff K,Gordon AM,Smallwood J,Smith R,Schooler JW

更新日期：2009-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:For almost a century the plant hormone auxin has been central to theories on apical dominance, whereby the growing shoot tip suppresses the growth of the axillary buds below. According to the classic model, the auxin indole-3-acetic acid is produced in the shoot tip and transported down the stem, where it inhibits bud...

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

authors： Mason MG,Ross JJ,Babst BA,Wienclaw BN,Beveridge CA

更新日期：2014-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:p53 is required for the induction of a G(1) and/or G(2) irreversible arrest after gamma irradiation (IR), whereas blocked DNA replication causes a p53-independent S-phase arrest. We have examined the response to p53 when DNA synthesis is blocked by hydroxyurea (HU) or aphidicolin or when DNA is damaged by gamma IR. Si...

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

authors： Gottifredi V,Shieh S,Taya Y,Prives C

更新日期：2001-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In an earlier paper, the author jointly with S. Suryawanshi proposed statistical analysis of shape through triangulation of landmarks on objects. It was observed that the angles of the triangles are invariant to scaling, location, and rotation of objects. No distinction was made between an object and its reflection. T...

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

authors： Rao CR

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive test for kinetic unfolding intermediates in ribonuclease A (EC 3.1.27.5) is performed under conditions where the enzyme unfolds slowly (10 degrees C, pH 8.0, 4.5 M guanidinium chloride). Exchange of peptide NH protons (2H-1H) is used to monitor structural opening of individual hydrogen bonds during unfoldi...

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

authors： Kiefhaber T,Baldwin RL

更新日期：1995-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Two features make the tooth an excellent model in the study of evolutionary innovations: the relative simplicity of its structure and the fact that the major tooth-forming genes have been identified in eutherian mammals. To understand the nature of the innovation at the molecular level, it is necessary to identify the...

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

authors： Toyosawa S,O'hUigin C,Figueroa F,Tichy H,Klein J

更新日期：1998-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Most HLA haplotypes carry two expressed DR beta-chain genes; in the DR4 haplotype, the polymorphic locus has been called DR beta 1 and the apparently nonpolymorphic locus has been called DR beta 2. We have isolated nearly full-length DR beta-chain cDNA clones representing each of these two loci from a cell line homozy...

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

authors： Curtsinger JM,Hilden JM,Cairns JS,Bach FH

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been a widely accepted hypothesis that the molecular clock slows down during evolution of higher primates. By molecular cloning and nucleotide sequence comparison of a rhesus macaque alpha-globin gene to its homologs in man, orangutan, olive baboon, and other mammals, we demonstrate a burst of evolution of the ...

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

authors： Shaw JP,Marks J,Shen CC,Shen CK

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the usual Darwinian case in which struggle for existence leads to density limitations on the environment's carrying capacity, R. A. Fisher's reproductive-value concept reduces to zero for every initial age group. To salvage some meaning for Fisher's notion, two variant reproductive-value concepts are defined here: ...

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

authors： Samuelson PA

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative ribosome subunit proteins are prevalent in the genomes of diverse bacterial species, but their functional significance is controversial. Attempts to study microbial ribosomal heterogeneity have mostly relied on comparing wild-type strains with mutants in which subunits have been deleted, but this approach ...

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

authors： Chen YX,Xu ZY,Ge X,Sanyal S,Lu ZJ,Javid B

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00