Adeno-associated virus vector carrying human minidystrophin genes effectively ameliorates muscular dystrophy in mdx mouse model.

abstract：:Closed and pH-tight membrane vesicles prepared from hypocotyls of 5-day-old dark-grown seedlings of Cucurbita pepo accumulate the plant growth hormone indole-3-acetic acid along an imposed proton gradient (pH low outside, high inside). The use of electron paramagnetic spin probes permitted quantitation both of apparen...

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

authors： Lomax TL,Mehlhorn RJ,Briggs WR

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological carbon fixation is limited by the supply of Fe in vast regions of the global ocean. Dissolved Fe in seawater is primarily sourced from continental mineral dust, submarine hydrothermalism, and sediment dissolution along continental margins. However, the relative contributions of these three sources to the Fe...

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

authors： Horner TJ,Williams HM,Hein JR,Saito MA,Burton KW,Halliday AN,Nielsen SG

更新日期：2015-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:During oxygenic photosynthesis in cyanobacteria and chloroplasts of plants and eukaryotic algae, conversion of light energy to biologically useful chemical energy occurs in the specialized thylakoid membranes. Light-induced charge separation at the reaction centers of photosystems I and II, two multisubunit pigment-pr...

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

authors： Zak E,Norling B,Maitra R,Huang F,Andersson B,Pakrasi HB

更新日期：2001-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The parietal cell (PC) plays an important role in normal gastric physiology and in common diseases of the stomach. Although the genes involved in acid secretion are well known, there is limited molecular information about other aspects of PC function. We have generated a comprehensive database of genes expressed prefe...

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

authors： Mills JC,Syder AJ,Hong CV,Guruge JL,Raaii F,Gordon JI

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-specific activation of T lymphocytes, via stimulation of the T-cell antigen receptor (TCR) complex, is marked by a rapid and sustained increase in the concentration of cytoplasmic free Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i). It has been suggested that the second messenger inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) produced after TCR stimulat...

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

authors： Jayaraman T,Ondriasová E,Ondrias K,Harnick DJ,Marks AR

更新日期：1995-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical and biological systems are often involved with coupled processes of different time scales. In the system with electronic and atomic motions, for example, the interplay between the atomic motion along the same energy landscape and the electronic hopping between different landscapes is critical: the system beha...

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

authors： Zhang K,Sasai M,Wang J

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A coenzyme B12-dependent ribonucleotide reductase was purified from the archaebacterium Thermoplasma acidophila and partially sequenced. Using probes derived from the sequence, the corresponding gene was cloned, completely sequenced, and expressed in Escherichia coli. The deduced amino acid sequence shows that the cat...

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

authors： Tauer A,Benner SA

更新日期：1997-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with primary (AL) cardiac amyloidosis suffer from progressive cardiomyopathy with a median survival of less than 8 months and a 5-year survival of <10%. Contributing to this poor prognosis is the fact that these patients generally do not tolerate standard heart failure therapies. The molecular mechanisms unde...

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

authors： Shi J,Guan J,Jiang B,Brenner DA,Del Monte F,Ward JE,Connors LH,Sawyer DB,Semigran MJ,Macgillivray TE,Seldin DC,Falk R,Liao R

更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Debate over the influence of postwildfire management on future fire severity is occurring in the absence of empirical studies. We used satellite data, government agency records, and aerial photography to examine a forest landscape in southwest Oregon that burned in 1987 and then was subject, in part, to salvage-loggin...

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

authors： Thompson JR,Spies TA,Ganio LM

更新日期：2007-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Two methods for increasing the length of DNA sequence data that can be read off a polyacrylamide gel are described. We have developed a rapid way to pour a buffer concentration gradient gel that, by altering the vertical band separation on an autoradiograph, allows more sequence to be obtained from a gel. We also show...

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

authors： Biggin MD,Gibson TJ,Hong GF

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human mammary epithelial cells secrete and express on their cell surfaces complex mucin glycoproteins (Mr greater than 250,000) that are developmentally regulated, tumor-associated, and highly immunogenic. Studies using monoclonal antibodies directed to these glycoproteins suggest that their molecular structures can v...

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

authors： Gendler SJ,Burchell JM,Duhig T,Lamport D,White R,Parker M,Taylor-Papadimitriou J

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Why do members of the public share some scientific findings and not others? What can scientists do to increase the chances that their findings will be shared widely among nonscientists? To address these questions, we integrate past research on the psychological drivers of interpersonal communication with a study exami...

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

authors： Milkman KL,Berger J

更新日期：2014-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence of the cloned Bacillus amyloliquefaciens subtilisin gene suggested that this secreted serine protease is produced as a larger precursor, designated preprosubtilisin [Wells, J. A., Ferrari, E., Henner, D. J., Estell, D. A. & Chen, E. Y. (1983) Nucleic Acids Res. 11, 7911-7925]. Biochemical evidence present...

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

authors： Power SD,Adams RM,Wells JA

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assemblies formed by solid particles at interfaces have been widely studied because they serve as models of molecular phenomena, including molecular self-assembly. Solid particles adsorbed at interfaces also provide a means of stabilizing liquid-liquid emulsions and synthesizing materials with tunable mechanical, opti...

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

authors： Koenig GM Jr,Lin IH,Abbott NL

更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-33, a cytokine of the IL-1 family, is closely associated with type II T cell responses. Here, we report an unexpected proinflammatory role of IL-33 in inflammatory arthritis. IL-33 was expressed in synovial fibroblasts from patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Expression was markedly elevated in vitro by inflam...

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

authors： Xu D,Jiang HR,Kewin P,Li Y,Mu R,Fraser AR,Pitman N,Kurowska-Stolarska M,McKenzie AN,McInnes IB,Liew FY

更新日期：2008-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of vertebrate eyes is still enigmatic. The "frontal eye" of amphioxus, our most primitive chordate relative, has long been recognized as a candidate precursor to the vertebrate eyes. However, the amphioxus frontal eye is composed of simple ciliated cells, unlike vertebrate rods and cones, which display more...

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

authors： Vopalensky P,Pergner J,Liegertova M,Benito-Gutierrez E,Arendt D,Kozmik Z

更新日期：2012-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that chronic activation of mitogenic signaling induced by over-expression of c-myc and transforming growth factor-alpha (TGFalpha) transgenes in mouse liver induces a state of oxidative stress. We therefore proposed that increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation might be responsible f...

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

authors： Factor VM,Laskowska D,Jensen MR,Woitach JT,Popescu NC,Thorgeirsson SS

更新日期：2000-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We used cryo-electron tomography in conjunction with single-particle averaging techniques to study the structures of frozen-hydrated envelope glycoprotein (Env) complexes on intact Moloney murine leukemia retrovirus particles. Cryo-electron tomography allows 3D imaging of viruses in toto at a resolution sufficient to ...

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

authors： Förster F,Medalia O,Zauberman N,Baumeister W,Fass D

更新日期：2005-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The knowledge of tropical palaeoclimates is crucial for understanding global climate change, because it is a test bench for general circulation models that are ultimately used to predict future global warming. A longstanding issue concerning the last glacial maximum in the tropics is the discrepancy between the decrea...

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

authors： Wu H,Guiot J,Brewer S,Guo Z,Peng C

更新日期：2007-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:VIP21/caveolin is localized to both caveolae and apical transport vesicles and presumably cycles between the cell surface and the Golgi complex. We have studied the lipid interactions of this protein by reconstituting Escherichia coli-expressed VIP21/caveolin into liposomes. Surprisingly, the protein reconstituted onl...

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

authors： Murata M,Peränen J,Schreiner R,Wieland F,Kurzchalia TV,Simons K

更新日期：1995-10-24 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：:FIP-3 (14.7K interacting protein) was discovered during a search for cell proteins that could interact with an adenovirus protein (Ad E3-14.7K) that had been shown to prevent tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha-induced cytolysis. FIP-3, which contains leucine zippers and a zinc finger domain, inhibits both basal and ind...

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

authors： Li Y,Kang J,Friedman J,Tarassishin L,Ye J,Kovalenko A,Wallach D,Horwitz MS

更新日期：1999-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium requires the mgtC gene to cause disease. The mgtC transcript includes a long leader region that harbors a short proline codon-rich ORF--termed mgtP--the translation of which is predicted to favor formation of one of two alternative stem-loop structures...

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

authors： Lee EJ,Choi J,Groisman EA

更新日期：2014-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional structures of RNA enzymes form catalytic centers that include specific substrate binding sites. High-resolution determination of these and other RNA structures is essential for a detailed understanding of the function of RNA in biological systems. The crystal structures of only a few RNA molecule...

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

authors： Doudna JA,Grosshans C,Gooding A,Kundrot CE

更新日期：1993-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A gradual loss of telomeric repeat sequences with aging previously has been noted in normal adult tissues, and this process has been implicated in cell senescence. No data exist that address the rate of telomere shortening in normal human cells within families or early in life. To address these questions, we measured ...

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

authors： Frenck RW Jr,Blackburn EH,Shannon KM

更新日期：1998-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:It is believed that neural representations of recent experiences become reactivated during sleep, and that this process serves to stabilize associated memories in long-term memory. Here, we initiated this reactivation process for specific memories during slow-wave sleep. Participants studied 50 object-location associa...

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

authors： van Dongen EV,Takashima A,Barth M,Zapp J,Schad LR,Paller KA,Fernández G

更新日期：2012-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding human plakoglobin was mapped to chromosome 17q12-q22. An intragenic restriction fragment length polymorphism was used to localize the plakoglobin gene distal to locus KRT10 and proximal to the marker D17S858. The plakoglobin gene colocalizes with the polymorphic 17q21 marker UM8 on the same cosmid in...

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

authors： Aberle H,Bierkamp C,Torchard D,Serova O,Wagner T,Natt E,Wirsching J,Heidkämper C,Montagna M,Lynch HT

更新日期：1995-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Deciding whether a set of objects are the same or different is a cornerstone of perception and cognition. Surprisingly, no principled quantitative model of sameness judgment exists. We tested whether human sameness judgment under sensory noise can be modeled as a form of probabilistically optimal inference. An optimal...

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

authors： van den Berg R,Vogel M,Josic K,Ma WJ

更新日期：2012-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We have generated eight mAbs (MW1-8) that bind the epitopes polyglutamine (polyQ), polyproline (polyP), or the C terminus of exon 1 in huntingtin (htt) protein. In the brains of Huntington's disease (HD) mouse models, the anti-polyQ mAbs bind to various cytoplasmic compartments, whereas the anti-polyP and anti-C termi...

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

authors： Khoshnan A,Ko J,Patterson PH

更新日期：2002-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:By adapting to sustained stimuli, hair cells in the internal ear retain their sensitivity to minute transient displacements. Because one model for adaptation asserts that this process is mediated by a myosin isozyme, we reasoned that we should be able to arrest adaptation by interfering with myosin's ATPase cycle thou...

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

authors： Gillespie PG,Hudspeth AJ

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00