Microbial iron transport via a siderophore shuttle: a membrane ion transport paradigm.

abstract：:The stress inoculation hypothesis presupposes that brief intermittent stress exposure early in life induces the development of subsequent stress resistance in human and nonhuman primates. Rodent studies, however, suggest a role for maternal care rather than stress exposure per se (i.e., the maternal mediation hypothes...

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

authors： Parker KJ,Buckmaster CL,Sundlass K,Schatzberg AF,Lyons DM

更新日期：2006-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of prostate cancer pathogenesis and development of new therapies have been hampered by a lack of appropriate mouse models. We have generated PSA-Cre-ER(T2) mice that express the tamoxifen-dependent Cre-ER(T2) recombinase selectively in prostatic epithelium, thus allowing us to target floxed genes selectively i...

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

authors： Ratnacaram CK,Teletin M,Jiang M,Meng X,Chambon P,Metzger D

更新日期：2008-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin VI is a molecular motor implicated in many processes, and it likely associates with a variety of cargoes that specify its functions. Although it is critical to Drosophila development, little is known about its cellular roles. To reveal its involvement in specific pathways, we sought to identify the binding part...

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

authors： Finan D,Hartman MA,Spudich JA

更新日期：2011-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the Dobzhansky-Muller model, hybrid sterility is a consequence of the independent evolution of related taxa resulting in incompatible genomic interactions of their hybrids. The model implies that the incompatibilities evolve randomly, unless a particular gene or nongenic sequence diverges much faster than...

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

authors： Bhattacharyya T,Gregorova S,Mihola O,Anger M,Sebestova J,Denny P,Simecek P,Forejt J

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial multiple system tauopathy with presenile dementia (MSTD) is a neurodegenerative disease with an abundant filamentous tau protein pathology. It belongs to the group of familial frontotemporal dementias with Parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17), a major class of inherited dementing disorders whose gen...

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

authors： Spillantini MG,Murrell JR,Goedert M,Farlow MR,Klug A,Ghetti B

更新日期：1998-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme oxygenase (decyclizing) [heme,hydrogen-donor:oxygen oxidoreductase (alpha-methene-oxidizing, hydroxylating), EC 1.14.99.3] is greatly induced in the kidney by the administration of nickel or tin. Manganese, when administered simultaneously with nickel or tin in an equimolar amount, substantially inhibited the ind...

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

authors： Drummond GS,Kappas A

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of homogeneous preparations of mouse submandibular gland nerve growth factor (NGF) with the classical complement pathway was studied. NGF was found to be capable of carrying out the enzyme activities of the first component (C1-) of the classical complement pathway (i.e., the cleavage of zymogen C4 and ...

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

authors： Boyle MD,Young M

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The p53 protein is an attractive target for immunotherapy, because mutations in the p53 gene are the most common genetic alterations found in human tumors. These mutations result in high levels of p53 protein in the tumor cell, whereas the expression level of wild-type p53 in nonmalignant tissue is usually much lower....

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

authors： Roth J,Dittmer D,Rea D,Tartaglia J,Paoletti E,Levine AJ

更新日期：1996-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied hepatic uptake of chylomicron retinyl ester. Chylomicrons were obtained from intestinal lymph of rats that were given retinol in groundnut oil by intraduodenal injection. When lymph was injected intravenously into normal rats, the radioactivity was cleared from blood with t1/2 approximately equal to 10...

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

authors： Blomhoff R,Helgerud P,Rasmussen M,Berg T,Norum KR

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuraminidase inhibitors oseltamivir and zanamivi are used to treat H5N1 influenza. However, oseltamivir-resistant H5N1 viruses have been isolated from oseltamivir-treated patients. Moreover, reassortment between H5N1 viruses and oseltamvir-resistant human H1N1 viruses currently circulating could create oseltamivi...

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

authors： Kiso M,Takahashi K,Sakai-Tagawa Y,Shinya K,Sakabe S,Le QM,Ozawa M,Furuta Y,Kawaoka Y

更新日期：2010-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown that a very simple semiempirical equation represents quite accurately the thermodynamic properties of aqueous sodium chloride from 373 to 823 K. The equation comprises one Margules term and a Debye-Hückel term. Just the one Margules parameter is freely adjustable because the Debye-Hückel parameter is deter...

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

authors： Pitzer KS,Li YG

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent characterization of the prokaryotic Cys(2)His(2) zinc-finger domain, identified in Ros protein from Agrobacterium tumefaciens, has demonstrated that, although possessing a similar zinc coordination sphere, this domain is structurally very different from its eukaryotic counterpart. A search in the databases ...

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

authors： Baglivo I,Russo L,Esposito S,Malgieri G,Renda M,Salluzzo A,Di Blasio B,Isernia C,Fattorusso R,Pedone PV

更新日期：2009-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) plays an important role in the pathogenesis of obesity-driven type 2 diabetes mellitus and associated cardiovascular complications. Here, we show that perturbation of caveolar microdomains leads to insulin resistance and concomitant up-regulation of PAI-1 in 3T3L1 adipocytes. ...

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

authors： Venugopal J,Hanashiro K,Yang ZZ,Nagamine Y

更新日期：2004-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1776 and 1920, the US Congress designed more than 200 distinct securities and stated the maximum amount of each that the Treasury could sell. Between 1917 and 1939, Congress gradually delegated all decisions about designing US debt instruments to the Treasury. In 1939, Congress began imposing a limit on the pa...

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

authors： Hall GJ,Sargent TJ

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Sympatric speciation has been controversial since it was first proposed as a mode of speciation. Subterranean blind mole rats (Spalacidae) are considered to speciate allopatrically or peripatrically. Here, we report a possible incipient sympatric adaptive ecological speciation in Spalax galili (2n = 52). The study mic...

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

authors： Hadid Y,Tzur S,Pavlícek T,Šumbera R,Šklíba J,Lövy M,Fragman-Sapir O,Beiles A,Arieli R,Raz S,Nevo E

更新日期：2013-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The stimulatory activity of peptides from the alpha 1 domain of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I antigen on adipose cell glucose transport was previously shown to require a preformed, ordered conformation of the peptide. The two peptides studied previously were Dk-(61-85) (ERETQIAKGNEQSFRVDLRTLLRYY) ...

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

authors： Stagsted J,Mapelli C,Meyers C,Matthews BW,Anfinsen CB,Goldstein A,Olsson L

更新日期：1993-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The earliest measurable parameter that shows density-dependent inhibition is the uptake of [(3)H]deoxyglucose by Balb 3T3 cells. The rate decreases even during the exponential phase of growth and reaches a minimum, about 8- to 10-times lower than maximum, as the culture approaches the saturation density. Cells transfo...

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

authors： Bose SK,Zlotnick BJ

更新日期：1973-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome P450(BioI) (CYP107H1) from the biotin operon of Bacillus subtilis forms a seven-carbon diacid through a multistep oxidative cleavage of a fatty acid linked to acyl carrier protein (ACP). Crystal structures of P450(BioI) in complex with three different length fatty acyl-ACP (Escherichia coli) ligands show th...

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

authors： Cryle MJ,Schlichting I

更新日期：2008-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Using animal models of acinar and ductal pancreatic cancer, we investigated the effect of analogs of hypothalamic hormones on tumor growth. In Wistar/Lewis rats bearing the acinar pancreatic tumor DNCP-322, chronic administration of [L-5-Br-Trp8]somatostatin-14 significantly decreased tumor weights and volume. Somatos...

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

authors： Redding TW,Schally AV

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune responses to several soluble antigens were compared between B6.C-H-2bm12 mutant and wild-type B6 mice by using a lymph node T-cell proliferation assay. B6.C-H-2bm12 mice failed to respond to beef insulin whereas other IA gene-controlled responses, such as response to poly(L-Tyr, L-Glu)--poly(DL-Ala, L-Lys) and ...

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

authors： Lin CC,Rosenthal AS,Passmore HC,Hansen TH

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle contraction and relaxation is regulated by transient elevations of myoplasmic Ca(2+). Ca(2+) is released from stores in the lumen of the sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum (SER) to initiate formation of the Ca(2+) transient by activation of a class of Ca(2+) release channels referred to as ryanodine receptors (RyRs) ...

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

authors： Amador FJ,Liu S,Ishiyama N,Plevin MJ,Wilson A,MacLennan DH,Ikura M

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of chemotaxis in the virulence of gastrointestinal pathogens is ill defined. Counterintuitively, nonchemotactic mutants of the polarly flagellated pathogen Vibrio cholerae greatly out-compete the wild-type strain during infection of the small intestine. We show that the out-competition phenotype is dependent ...

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

authors： Butler SM,Camilli A

更新日期：2004-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocean acidification (OA) refers to the ongoing decline in oceanic pH resulting from the uptake of atmospheric CO(2). Mounting experimental evidence suggests that OA will have negative consequences for a variety of marine organisms. Whereas the effect of OA on the calcification of adult reef corals is increasingly well...

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

authors： Albright R,Mason B,Miller M,Langdon C

更新日期：2010-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We induced sublimation of suspended few-layer graphene by in situ Joule-heating inside a transmission electron microscope. The graphene sublimation fronts consisted of mostly {1100} zigzag edges. Under appropriate conditions, a fractal-like "coastline" morphology was observed. Extensive multiple-layer reconstructions ...

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

authors： Huang JY,Ding F,Yakobson BI,Lu P,Qi L,Li J

更新日期：2009-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin (CaM) is a second messenger protein that has evolved to bind tightly to a variety of targets and, as such, exhibits low binding specificity. We redesigned CaM by using a computational protein design algorithm to improve its binding specificity for one of its targets, smooth muscle myosin light chain kinase ...

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

authors： Shifman JM,Mayo SL

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether electromagnetic precursors to earthquakes (EQs) exist is an important question not only for EQ prediction but also for understanding the physical processes of EQ generation. Slow transient geoelectric potential changes have been observed before several recent EQs in Japan. In most cases, they appeared 1-19 day...

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

authors： Uyeda S,Nagao T,Orihara Y,Yamaguchi T,Takahashi I

更新日期：2000-04-25 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：:Protein 4.1R (4.1R) is a multifunctional component of the red cell membrane. It forms a ternary complex with actin and spectrin, which defines the nodal junctions of the membrane-skeletal network, and its attachment to the transmembrane protein glycophorin C creates a bridge between the protein network and the membran...

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

authors： Salomao M,Zhang X,Yang Y,Lee S,Hartwig JH,Chasis JA,Mohandas N,An X

更新日期：2008-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the rice transcription factor, REB (rice endosperm bZIP) was cloned from a bacterial artificial chromosome library of rice. The cloned 6,227-bp-long Reb gene is composed of six exons and five introns and is flanked by a 1.2-kb 5' promoter and a 1.2-kb 3' terminator region. The function of the Reb gen...

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

authors： Yang D,Wu L,Hwang YS,Chen L,Huang N

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Quaking(viable) (qk(v)) is a recessive neurological mouse mutation with severe dysmyelination of the CNS and spermiogenesis failure. The molecular lesion in the qk(v) mutant is a deletion of approximately 1 Mb on mouse chromosome 17 that alters the expression of the qk gene in oligodendrocytes. Complementation analysi...

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

authors： Lorenzetti D,Bishop CE,Justice MJ

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00