An essential amino acid induces epithelial beta -defensin expression.

abstract：:Previous reconstructions of marine fishing fleets have aggregated data without regard to the artisanal and industrial sectors. Engine power has often been estimated from subsets of the developed world, leading to inflated results. We disaggregated data into three sectors, artisanal (unpowered/powered) and industrial, ...

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

authors： Rousseau Y,Watson RA,Blanchard JL,Fulton EA

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo phage display identifies peptides that selectively home to the vasculature of individual organs, tissues, and tumors. Here we report the identification of a cyclic nonapeptide, CPGPEGAGC, which homes to normal breast tissue with a 100-fold selectivity over nontargeted phage. The homing of the phage is inhibite...

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

authors： Essler M,Ruoslahti E

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Although tumor necrosis factor (TNF) initially came to prominence because of its anti-tumor activity, most attention is now focused on its proinflammatory actions. TNF appears to play a critical role in both early and late events involved in inflammation, from localizing the noxious agent and amplifying the cellular a...

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

authors： Marino MW,Dunn A,Grail D,Inglese M,Noguchi Y,Richards E,Jungbluth A,Wada H,Moore M,Williamson B,Basu S,Old LJ

更新日期：1997-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Global loss of DNA methylation has been known for decades as an epigenomic aberration associated with carcinogenesis and cancer progression. Loss of DNA methylation affects predominantly repetitive elements, which encompass >50% of the CpG dinucleotides present in the human genome. Because of the lack of an effective ...

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

authors： Xie H,Wang M,Bonaldo Mde F,Rajaram V,Stellpflug W,Smith C,Arndt K,Goldman S,Tomita T,Soares MB

更新日期：2010-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with hematological malignancies can be successfully treated with HLA-matched T cell-depleted allogeneic stem cell transplantation (alloSCT) and subsequent donor lymphocyte infusions (DLIs). The efficacy of DLI is mediated by donor T cells recognizing minor histocompatibility antigens (mHags) on malignant reci...

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

authors： Griffioen M,van der Meijden ED,Slager EH,Honders MW,Rutten CE,van Luxemburg-Heijs SA,von dem Borne PA,van Rood JJ,Willemze R,Falkenburg JH

更新日期：2008-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological "surprises" are defined as unexpected findings about the natural environment. They are critically important in ecology because they are catalysts for questioning and reformulating views of the natural world, help shape assessments of the veracity of a priori predictions about ecological trends and phenomena...

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

authors： Lindenmayer DB,Likens GE,Krebs CJ,Hobbs RJ

更新日期：2010-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the MLL genomic translocation breakpoint in acute myeloid leukemia of infant twins. Southern blot analysis in both cases showed two identical MLL gene rearrangements indicating chromosomal translocation. The rearrangements were detectable in the second twin before signs of clinical disease and the intensit...

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

authors： Megonigal MD,Rappaport EF,Jones DH,Williams TM,Lovett BD,Kelly KM,Lerou PH,Moulton T,Budarf ML,Felix CA

更新日期：1998-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in experimental animals and humans have stressed the role of the cerebellum in motor skill learning. Yet, the relative importance of the cerebellar cortex and deep nuclei, as well as the nature of the dynamic functional changes occurring between these and other motor-related structures during learning, remains...

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

authors： Doyon J,Song AW,Karni A,Lalonde F,Adams MM,Ungerleider LG

更新日期：2002-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the discovery of an unusually large isotope effect in the structural relaxation and the glass transition temperature Tg of water. Dielectric relaxation spectroscopy of low-density as well as of vapor-deposited amorphous water reveal Tg differences of 10 ± 2 K between H2O and D2O, sharply contrasting with ot...

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

authors： Gainaru C,Agapov AL,Fuentes-Landete V,Amann-Winkel K,Nelson H,Köster KW,Kolesnikov AI,Novikov VN,Richert R,Böhmer R,Loerting T,Sokolov AP

更新日期：2014-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Most humans in the United States have been infected with BK virus (BKV), a human papovavirus. Because BKV has oncogenic properties, we have investigated whether it may be a cause of human cancer. Basic principles of tumor virology imply that BKV-induced tumors should contain BKV DNA sequences. Therefore, we assayed (b...

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

authors： Wold WS,Mackey JK,Brackmann KH,Takemori N,Rigden P,Green M

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) DNA was treated with four restriction endonucleases (EcoRI, HincIII, Bgl II, and Xba I) and eight fragments were purified and labeled with 32P in vitro. The kinetics of renaturation of each of the fragments was measured in the presence of DNA extracted from 333-8-9, a hamster cell l...

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

authors： Galloway DA,Copple CD,McDougall JK

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Grasslands cover more than 20% of the Earth's terrestrial surface, and their rise to dominance is one of the most dramatic events of biome evolution in Earth history. Grasses possess two main photosynthetic pathways: the C(3) pathway that is typical of most plants and a specialized C(4) pathway that minimizes photores...

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

authors： Edwards EJ,Smith SA

更新日期：2010-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Niemann-Pick C1 (NPC1) and NPC2 proteins are indispensable for the export of LDL-derived cholesterol from late endosomes. Mutations in these proteins result in Niemann-Pick type C disease, a lysosomal storage disease. Despite recent reports of the NPC1 structure depicting its overall architecture, the function of its ...

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

authors： Li X,Lu F,Trinh MN,Schmiege P,Seemann J,Wang J,Blobel G

更新日期：2017-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The gluconate (gnt) operon of Bacillus subtilis consists of four gnt genes; the second and third genes code for gluconate kinase (gluconokinase, EC 2.7.1.12) and gluconate permease, respectively. A fragment carrying the promoter of this operon (gnt promoter) and the first gene (gntR) was subcloned into a promoter prob...

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

authors： Fujita Y,Fujita T

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neural cell adhesion molecule N-CAM is a sialic acid-rich, cell surface glycoprotein that mediates cell adhesion by a homophilic mechanism. Its binding function has been implicated in both morphogenesis and histogenesis; during development it changes in amount at the cell surface and perinatally it undergoes a dec...

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

authors： Hoffman S,Chuong CM,Edelman GM

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The motion and mixing of granular media are observed in several contexts in nature, often displaying striking similarities to liquids. Granular dynamics occur in geological phenomena and also enable technologies ranging from pharmaceuticals production to carbon capture. Here, we report the discovery of a family of gra...

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

authors： McLaren CP,Kovar TM,Penn A,Müller CR,Boyce CM

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Ho endonuclease of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a homing endonuclease that makes a site-specific double-strand break in the MAT gene in late G(1). Here we show that Ho is rapidly degraded via the ubiquitin-26S proteasome system through two ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes UBC2(Rad6) and UBC3(Cdc34). UBC2(Rad6) is complexe...

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

authors： Kaplun L,Ivantsiv Y,Kornitzer D,Raveh D

更新日期：2000-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Let T(k) (epsilon)(lambda; t(1),..., t(k)) = rho(X(t) (1))q(epsilon)(X(t) (2) - X(t) (1))... q(epsilon)(X(t(k) ) - X(t(k) )-1), where X(t) is a Brownian motion in R(2), lambda(dx) = rho(x)dx, and q(epsilon) converges to Dirac's delta function as epsilon downward arrow 0. The self-intersection local times of order k ar...

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

authors： Dynkin EB

更新日期：1986-06-01 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：:Cdc10-dependent transcript 1 (Cdt1) is an essential DNA replication protein whose accumulation at the end of the cell cycle promotes the formation of pre-replicative complexes and replication in the next cell cycle. Geminin is thought to be involved in licensing replication by promoting the accumulation of Cdt1 in mit...

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

authors： Ballabeni A,Zamponi R,Moore JK,Helin K,Kirschner MW

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial trifunctional protein (TFP) catalyzes three reactions in the fatty acid β-oxidation process. Mutations in the two TFP subunits cause mitochondrial trifunctional protein deficiency and acute fatty liver of pregnancy that can lead to death. Here we report a 4.2-Å cryo-electron microscopy α2β2 tetrameri...

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

authors： Liang K,Li N,Wang X,Dai J,Liu P,Wang C,Chen XW,Gao N,Xiao J

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil organisms, as recorded by trace fossils in paleosols of the Willwood Formation, Wyoming, show significant body-size reductions and increased abundances during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). Paleobotanical, paleopedologic, and oxygen isotope studies indicate high temperatures during the PETM and shar...

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

authors： Smith JJ,Hasiotis ST,Kraus MJ,Woody DT

更新日期：2009-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The benzo[a]pyrene 4,5-, 7,8-, and 9,10-oxides and the six corresponding phenols (4-, 5-, 7-, 8-, 9-, and 10-hydroxybenzo[a]pyrene) have been tested for mutagenic and cytotoxic activity in bacteria and in a mammalian cell culture system. Benzo[a]pyrene 4,5-oxide (K-region) was highly mutagenic in two histidine-depende...

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

authors： Wood AW,Goode RL,Chang RL,Levin W,Conney AH,Yagi H,Dansette PM,Jerina DM

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA repair alkyltransferases protect organisms against the cytotoxic, mutagenic, and carcinogenic effects of alkylating agents by transferring alkyl adducts from DNA to an active cysteine on the protein, thereby restoring the native DNA structure. We used random sequence substitutions to gain structure-function inform...

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

authors： Christians FC,Loeb LA

更新日期：1996-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Deregulated production of nitric oxide (NO) has been implicated in the development of certain human diseases, including cancer. We sought to assess the damaging potential of NO produced under long-term conditions through the development of a suitable model cell culture system. In this study, we report that when murine...

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

authors： Zhuang JC,Wogan GN

更新日期：1997-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the basis for the template specificities of the bacteriophage T3 and T7 RNA polymerases (EC 2.7.7.6), we determined the nucleotide sequences of six promoters recognized by the T3 RNA polymerase and compared them with the previously determined promoter sequences recognized by the bacteriophage T7 RNA polymer...

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

authors： Bailey JN,Klement JF,McAllister WT

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conversion of cells from a normal phenotype to full malignancy apparently requires multiple genetic events. Efforts to reconstruct multistep tumorigenesis in cell culture have shown that two types of oncogenes (typified by HRAS and MYC) can cooperate to elicit complete transformation. Transformation of embryonic r...

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

authors： Hjelle B,Liu E,Bishop JM

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nod (no distributive disjunction) and the ncd (non-claret disjunctional) mutations are both female-specific, recessive meiotic mutations in Drosophila melanogaster. Mutations at either locus show high frequencies of nondisjunction at meiosis I and both have been shown to encode kinesin-like proteins. Unlike the nc...

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

authors： Knowles BA,Hawley RS

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune responses of the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles gambiae were monitored systematically by the induced expression of five RNA markers after infection challenge. One newly isolated marker encodes a homologue of the moth Gram-negative bacteria-binding protein (GNBP), and another corresponds to a serine protease-...

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

authors： Dimopoulos G,Richman A,Müller HM,Kafatos FC

更新日期：1997-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Human serum albumin (HSA) derivatized with cis-aconitic anhydride was covalently coupled to liposomes with a size of approximately 100 nm [polyaconitylated HSA (Aco-HSA) liposomes]. Within 30 min after injection into a rat, Aco-HSA liposomes were completely cleared from the blood and almost exclusively taken up by the...

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

authors： Kamps JA,Morselt HW,Swart PJ,Meijer DK,Scherphof GL

更新日期：1997-10-14 00:00:00