The role of zinc in the binding of killer cell Ig-like receptors to class I MHC proteins.

abstract：:The photosynthetic apparatus converts light into chemical energy by a series of reactions that give rise to a coupled flow of electrons and protons that generate reducing power and ATP, respectively. A key intermediate in these reactions is plastoquinone (PQ), the most abundant electron and proton (hydrogen) carrier i...

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

authors： McCauley SW,Melis A,Tang GM,Arnon DI

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic coupling of blood supply with energy demand is a natural brain property that requires signaling between synapses and endothelial cells. Our previous work showed that cortical arteriole lumen diameter is regulated by N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) expressed by brain endothelial cells. The purpose of th...

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

authors： Hogan-Cann AD,Lu P,Anderson CM

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The spectrum of cellular targets in the autoimmune diseases is both large and varied and includes among the nuclear components the so-called Sm and RNP antigens associated with systemic lupus erythematosus. The use of immunoaffinity chromatography with dual specificity for the Sm and RNP antigens has allowed for their...

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

authors： White PJ,Gardner WD,Hoch SO

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor (LDLR) cause hypercholesterolemia because of inefficient LDL clearance from the circulation. In addition, there is a paradoxical oversecretion of the metabolic precursor of LDL, very low density lipoprotein (VLDL). We recently demonstrated that the LDLR mediates ...

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

authors： Gillian-Daniel DL,Bates PW,Tebon A,Attie AD

更新日期：2002-04-02 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

abstract：:The effects of selected heme analogues on heme oxygenase activity in tissues and on human and rabbit bone marrow hematopoietic colony growth were examined. Zinc protoporphyrin (ZnPP) and zinc mesoporphyrin (ZnMP), at concentrations ranging between 1 and 20 microM, produced significant inhibition of human and rabbit bo...

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

authors： Lutton JD,Abraham NG,Drummond GS,Levere RD,Kappas A

更新日期：1997-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Group II intron RNAs self-splice in vitro but only at high salt and/or Mg2+ concentrations and have been thought to require proteins to stabilize their active structure for efficient splicing in vivo. Here, we show that a DEAD-box protein, CYT-19, can by itself promote the splicing and reverse splicing of the yeast aI...

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

authors： Mohr S,Matsuura M,Perlman PS,Lambowitz AM

更新日期：2006-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of therapeutic recombinant proteins in medicine has led to a variety of tactics to increase their circulation time or to enable routes of administration other than injection. One clinically successful tactic to improve both protein circulation and delivery is to fuse the Fc domain of IgG to therapeutic ...

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

authors： Sockolosky JT,Tiffany MR,Szoka FC

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Two mutations are described that alter the pattern of inheritance of chloroplast genes in Chlamydomonas. The mutant gene mat-1 linked to the mating type allele mt(-) greatly increases the frequency of exceptional zygotes, i.e., zygotes that transmit chloroplast genes from the mt(-) (male) parent. In some crosses, 80-9...

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

authors： Sager R,Ramanis Z

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MST1, mammalian STE20-like kinase 1, is a serine/threonine kinase that is cleaved and activated by caspases during apoptosis. MST1 is capable of inducing apoptotic morphological changes such as chromatin condensation upon overexpression. In this study, we show that MST1 contains two functional nuclear export signals (...

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

authors： Ura S,Masuyama N,Graves JD,Gotoh Y

更新日期：2001-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Nipah virus (NiV) and Hendra virus are the type species of the highly pathogenic paramyxovirus genus Henipavirus, which can cause severe respiratory disease and fatal encephalitis infections in humans, with case fatality rates approaching 75%. NiV contains two envelope glycoproteins, the receptor-binding G glycoprotei...

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

authors： Xu K,Rajashankar KR,Chan YP,Himanen JP,Broder CC,Nikolov DB

更新日期：2008-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyadenylylated RNA synthesized after heat shock was isolated from polysomes of cultured cells of Drosophila melanogaster and used as template to prepare cDNA. An excess of poly(A)-RNA from heat-shocked cells hybridized to 80% of the cDNA, whereas cytoplasmic poly(A)-RNA from cells grown at 25 degrees could drive onl...

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

authors： Biessmann H,Levy B,McCarthy BJ

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding plant metabolism as an integrated system is essential for metabolic engineering aimed at the effective production of compounds useful to human life and the global environment. The "omics" approach integrates transcriptome and metabolome data into a single data set and can lead to the identification of un...

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

authors： Hirai MY,Sugiyama K,Sawada Y,Tohge T,Obayashi T,Suzuki A,Araki R,Sakurai N,Suzuki H,Aoki K,Goda H,Nishizawa OI,Shibata D,Saito K

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental mystery of plant cell biology is the occurrence of "stromules," stroma-filled tubular extensions from plastids (such as chloroplasts) that are universally observed in plants but whose functions are, in effect, completely unknown. One prevalent hypothesis is that stromules exchange signals or metabolites ...

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

authors： Brunkard JO,Runkel AM,Zambryski PC

更新日期：2015-08-11 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：:Prions are thought to replicate in an autocatalytic process that converts cellular prion protein (PrP(C)) to the disease-associated misfolded PrP isoform (PrP(Sc)). Our study scrutinizes this hypothesis by in vitro protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA). In serial transmission PMCA experiments, PrP(Sc) was ino...

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

authors： Bieschke J,Weber P,Sarafoff N,Beekes M,Giese A,Kretzschmar H

更新日期：2004-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The most frequent form of inherited amyloidoses is associated with mutations in the transthyretin (TTR) gene coding for 127-amino acid residues of four identical, noncovalently linked subunits that form a pair of dimers in the plasma protein complex. Amyloid fibrils containing the variant and to a lesser extent the wi...

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

authors： Jenne DE,Denzel K,Blätzinger P,Winter P,Obermaier B,Linke RP,Altland K

更新日期：1996-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer remains the cancer with the highest mortality among women in the United States. Peptides derived from the oncogenic Tac1 gene (full transcript: betaPPT-A) stimulate the proliferation of breast cancer cells (BCCs) via seven-transmembrane G protein-coupled neurokinin 1 (NK1) and NK2 receptors. The NK1 gene...

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

authors： Patel HJ,Ramkissoon SH,Patel PS,Rameshwar P

更新日期：2005-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of antiviral beta-chemokines has joined cytolysis as a potential mechanism for the control of HIV-1 infection by CD8(+) T cells. Recent evidence suggests that these two effector functions can diverge in some individuals infected with HIV-1; however, little is known about the CD8(+) T cell subsets in norm...

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

authors： Kamin-Lewis R,Abdelwahab SF,Trang C,Baker A,DeVico AL,Gallo RC,Lewis GK

更新日期：2001-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Zeolite and zeolite-like molecular sieves are being used in a large number of applications such as adsorption and catalysis. Achievement of the long-standing goal of creating a chiral, polycrystalline molecular sieve with bulk enantioenrichment would enable these materials to perform enantioselective functions. Here, ...

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

authors： Brand SK,Schmidt JE,Deem MW,Daeyaert F,Ma Y,Terasaki O,Orazov M,Davis ME

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfolobus turreted icosahedral virus (STIV) was isolated in acidic hot springs where it infects the archeon Sulfolobus solfataricus. We determined the STIV structure using near-atomic resolution electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography allowing tracing of structural polypeptide chains and visualization of transm...

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

authors： Veesler D,Ng TS,Sendamarai AK,Eilers BJ,Lawrence CM,Lok SM,Young MJ,Johnson JE,Fu CY

更新日期：2013-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapamycin is an immunosuppressive immunophilin ligand reported as having neurotrophic activity. We show that modification of rapamycin at the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) binding region yields immunophilin ligands, WYE-592 and ILS-920, with potent neurotrophic activities in cortical neuronal cultures, efficacy...

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

authors： Ruan B,Pong K,Jow F,Bowlby M,Crozier RA,Liu D,Liang S,Chen Y,Mercado ML,Feng X,Bennett F,von Schack D,McDonald L,Zaleska MM,Wood A,Reinhart PH,Magolda RL,Skotnicki J,Pangalos MN,Koehn FE,Carter GT,Abou-Gharbia M

更新日期：2008-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The human major histocompatibility complex includes approximately 14 class II HLA genes within the HLA-D region, most of which exist in multiple allelic forms. One of these genes, the DQ3.2 beta gene, accounts for the well-documented association of HLA-DR4 with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and is the single all...

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

authors： Kwok WW,Lotshaw C,Milner EC,Knitter-Jack N,Nepom GT

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Real-world studies show that the facial expressions produced during pain and orgasm-two different and intense affective experiences-are virtually indistinguishable. However, this finding is counterintuitive, because facial expressions are widely considered to be a powerful tool for social interaction. Consequently, de...

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

authors： Chen C,Crivelli C,Garrod OGB,Schyns PG,Fernández-Dols JM,Jack RE

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing global temperature and sea-level rise have led to concern about expansions in the distribution and prevalence of complex-lifecycle parasites (CLPs). Indeed, numerous environmental variables can influence the infectivity and reproductive output of many pathogens. Digenean trematodes are CLPs with intermediat...

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

authors： Huntley JW,Fürsich FT,Alberti M,Hethke M,Liu C

更新日期：2014-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:G protein-coupled receptors mediate biological signals by stimulating nucleotide exchange in heterotrimeric G proteins (Galphabetagamma). Receptor dimers have been proposed as the functional unit responsible for catalytic interaction with Galphabetagamma. To investigate whether a G protein-coupled receptor monomer can...

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

authors： Ernst OP,Gramse V,Kolbe M,Hofmann KP,Heck M

更新日期：2007-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Pokeweed antiviral protein (PAP), a 29-kDa protein isolated from Phytolacca americana, inhibits translation by catalytically removing a specific adenine residue from the large rRNA of the 60S subunit of eukaryotic ribosomes. In addition to its ribosome-inactivating ability, PAP has potent antiviral activity against ma...

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

authors： Tumer NE,Hwang DJ,Bonness M

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Representational difference analysis was used to search for pathogens in multiple sclerosis brains. We detected a 341-nucleotide fragment that was 99.4% identical to the major DNA binding protein gene of human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6). Examination of 86 brain specimens by PCR demonstrated that HHV-6 was present in > 70% ...

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

authors： Challoner PB,Smith KT,Parker JD,MacLeod DL,Coulter SN,Rose TM,Schultz ER,Bennett JL,Garber RL,Chang M

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent to which stratospheric intrusions on synoptic scales influence the tropospheric ozone (O3) levels remains poorly understood, because quantitative detection of stratospheric air has been challenging. Cosmogenic 35S mainly produced in the stratosphere has the potential to identify stratospheric air masses at ...

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

authors： Lin M,Su L,Shaheen R,Fung JC,Thiemens MH

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Wingless (Wg)/Wnt signaling has been implicated in heart development of multiple organisms, conflicting results have been reported regarding the role of Wnt/beta-catenin pathway in cardiac myogenesis: Wg/armadillo signaling promotes heart development in Drosophila, whereas activation of Wnt/beta-catenin signa...

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

authors： Naito AT,Shiojima I,Akazawa H,Hidaka K,Morisaki T,Kikuchi A,Komuro I

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00