An N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor channel blocker with neuroprotective activity.

abstract：:The nature of color categories in the world's languages is contested. One major view holds that color categories are organized around universal focal colors, whereas an opposing view holds instead that categories are defined at their boundaries by linguistic convention. Both of these standardly opposed views are chall...

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

authors： Regier T,Kay P,Khetarpal N

更新日期：2007-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The concepts of source and quantum action principle are used to produce the phonon Green's function appropriate for an initial phonon vacuum state. An application to the Mossbauer effect is presented. ...

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

authors： Schwinger J

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soybean plants and Rhizobium japonicum 122 DES, a hydrogen uptake-positive strain, were cultured in media purified to remove Ni. Supplemental Ni had no significant effect on the dry matter or total N content of plants. However, the addition of Ni to both nitrate-grown and symbiotically grown plants resulted in a 7- to...

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

authors： Klucas RV,Hanus FJ,Russell SA,Evans HJ

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the electrophoretic transport of single-stranded RNA molecules through 1.5-nm-wide pores of carbon nanotube membranes by molecular dynamics simulations. From approximately 170 individual RNA translocation events analyzed at full atomic resolution of solvent, membrane, and RNA, we identify key factors in membr...

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

authors： Yeh IC,Hummer G

更新日期：2004-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi that cause brown rot of wood are essential biomass recyclers and also the principal agents of decay in wooden structures, but the extracellular mechanisms by which they degrade lignocellulose remain unknown. To test the hypothesis that brown-rot fungi use extracellular free radical oxidants as biodegradative too...

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

authors： Kerem Z,Bao W,Hammel KE

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the molecular determinants of specificity in protein-protein interaction is an outstanding challenge of postgenome biology. The availability of large protein databases generated from sequences of hundreds of bacterial genomes enables various statistical approaches to this problem. In this context covaria...

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

authors： Weigt M,White RA,Szurmant H,Hoch JA,Hwa T

更新日期：2009-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the principles that has emerged from experimental evolutionary studies of microorganisms is that polymorphic alleles or new mutations can sometimes possess a latent potential to respond to selection in different environments, although the alleles may be functionally equivalent or disfavored under typical condit...

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

authors： Stebbins GL,Hartl DL

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquisition of acetylcholine receptors during differentiation of a clonal myoblast cell line was monitored with a neurotoxin isolated from venom of the Indian Cobra Naja naja. Toxin bound specifically and reversibly to acetylcholine receptors of the differentiated cells. Specificity of the binding reaction was assayed...

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

authors： Patrick J,Heinemann SF,Lindstrom J,Schubert D,Steinbach JH

更新日期：1972-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) can induce a robust increase in lipid synthesis which is critical for the success of infection. In mammalian cells the central precursor for lipid biosynthesis, cytosolic acetyl CoA (Ac-CoA), is produced by ATP-citrate lyase (ACLY) from mitochondria-derived c...

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

authors： Vysochan A,Sengupta A,Weljie AM,Alwine JC,Yu Y

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent emergence and reemergence of viruses in the human population has highlighted the need to develop broader panels of therapeutic molecules. High-throughput screening assays opening access to untargeted steps of the viral replication cycle will provide powerful leverage to identify innovative antiviral molecul...

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

authors： Fernandez J,Hassen-Khodja C,Georget V,Rose T,Jacob Y,Janin YL,Nisole S,Vidalain PO,Arhel NJ

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:An approach combining signal detection theory and precise 3D reconstructions from serial section electron microscopy (3DEM) was used to investigate synaptic plasticity and information storage capacity at medial perforant path synapses in adult hippocampal dentate gyrus in vivo. Induction of long-term potentiation (LTP...

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

authors： Bromer C,Bartol TM,Bowden JB,Hubbard DD,Hanka DC,Gonzalez PV,Kuwajima M,Mendenhall JM,Parker PH,Abraham WC,Sejnowski TJ,Harris KM

更新日期：2018-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) is an important cause of acute renal failure in children. Mutations in one or more genes encoding complement-regulatory proteins have been reported in approximately one-third of nondiarrheal, atypical HUS (aHUS) patients, suggesting a defect in the protection of cell surfaces against co...

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

authors： Goicoechea de Jorge E,Harris CL,Esparza-Gordillo J,Carreras L,Arranz EA,Garrido CA,López-Trascasa M,Sánchez-Corral P,Morgan BP,Rodríguez de Córdoba S

更新日期：2007-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major public health concern, being responsible for more than 1.5 million deaths annually through pneumonia, meningitis, and septicemia. Available vaccines target only a subset of serotypes, so vaccination is often accompanied by a rise in the frequency of nonvaccine...

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

authors： Obolski U,Lourenço J,Thompson C,Thompson R,Gori A,Gupta S

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase (IMPDH) controls a key metabolic step in the regulation of cell growth and differentiation. This step is the NAD-dependent oxidation of inosine 5' monophosphate (IMP) to xanthosine 5' monophosphate, the rate-limiting step in the synthesis of the guanine nucleotides. Two isoforms of ...

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

authors： Colby TD,Vanderveen K,Strickler MD,Markham GD,Goldstein BM

更新日期：1999-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic hydroperoxide resistance (Ohr) enzymes are unique Cys-based, lipoyl-dependent peroxidases. Here, we investigated the involvement of Ohr in bacterial responses toward distinct hydroperoxides. In silico results indicated that fatty acid (but not cholesterol) hydroperoxides docked well into the active site of Ohr...

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

authors： Alegria TG,Meireles DA,Cussiol JR,Hugo M,Trujillo M,de Oliveira MA,Miyamoto S,Queiroz RF,Valadares NF,Garratt RC,Radi R,Di Mascio P,Augusto O,Netto LE

更新日期：2017-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoactivation of the retinal photoreceptor rhodopsin proceeds through a cascade of intermediates, resulting in protein-protein interactions catalyzing the activation of the G-protein transducin (Gt). Using stabilization and photoregeneration of the receptor's signaling state and Gt activation assays, we provide evid...

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

authors： Kisselev OG,Meyer CK,Heck M,Ernst OP,Hofmann KP

更新日期：1999-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:By using both double-colony hybridization and an in situ immunostaining assay for transformants, 39 cDNA clones (clone p-16 alpha) encoding mouse liver microsomal testosterone 16 alpha-hydroxylase (cytochrome P-450(16) alpha) were isolated from a cDNA library constructed in the cloning vector pUC-9 with poly(A)+ RNA i...

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

authors： Harada N,Negishi M

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat carbonic anhydrase (CA) IV was purified by affinity chromatography and used to produce a specific antiserum in rabbits for immunolocalization studies in rat kidney. CA IV was localized in apical plasma membranes of the proximal convoluted tubule and the thick ascending limb of Henle. Both of these segments are inv...

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

authors： Brown D,Zhu XL,Sly WS

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP-2) is a potent inducer of differentiation of osteoblasts both in vivo and in vitro. We examined the action of BMP-2 on expression of a helix-loop-helix-type transcription factor, Id (inhibitor of differentiation), in osteoblast-like cells, as well as in osteoblast-enriched cells and p...

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

authors： Ogata T,Wozney JM,Benezra R,Noda M

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research links diet-induced obesity (DIO) with impaired immunity, although the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We find that the induction of inducible NO synthase (iNOS) and cytokines is suppressed in mice with DIO and in bone marrow macrophages (BMMPhi) from mice with DIO exposed to an oral pathogen, Por...

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

authors： Zhou Q,Leeman SE,Amar S

更新日期：2009-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a method for studying RNA processing and ribonucleoprotein assembly in vivo, by using RNA synthesized in vitro. SP6-transcribed 32P-labeled U2 small nuclear RNA precursor molecules were introduced into cultured human 293 cells by calcium phosphate-mediated uptake, as in standard DNA transfection experiments...

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

authors： Kleinschmidt AM,Pederson T

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TNF superfamily death ligands are expressed on the surface of immune cells and can trigger apoptosis in susceptible cancer cells by engaging cognate death receptors. A recombinant soluble protein comprising the ectodomain of Apo2 ligand/TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (Apo2L/TRAIL) has shown remarkable preclinic...

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

authors： Nair PM,Flores H,Gogineni A,Marsters S,Lawrence DA,Kelley RF,Ngu H,Sagolla M,Komuves L,Bourgon R,Settleman J,Ashkenazi A

更新日期：2015-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Aphids maintain mutualistic symbioses involving consortia of coinherited organisms. All possess a primary endosymbiont, Buchnera, which compensates for dietary deficiencies; many also contain secondary symbionts, such as Hamiltonella defensa, which confers defense against natural enemies. Genome sequences of uncultiva...

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

authors： Moran NA,Degnan PH,Santos SR,Dunbar HE,Ochman H

更新日期：2005-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Aged rats, displaying impairments in spatial learning and memory associated with marked cellular atrophy of forebrain cholinergic neurons, received intracerebroventricular infusions of one of the four neurotrophins nerve growth factor (NGF), brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), neurotrophin 3 (NT-3), or neurotrop...

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

authors： Fischer W,Sirevaag A,Wiegand SJ,Lindsay RM,Björklund A

更新日期：1994-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Following proteolytic conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin, clot assembly commences with formation of double-stranded fibrils that subsequently branch extensively in forming a three-dimensional network. Plasmin digests of fibrin clots that had first been covalently crosslinked by plasma transglutaminase (factor XIIIa) c...

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

authors： Mosesson MW,Siebenlist KR,Amrani DL,DiOrio JP

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison of five constant region sequences of human and mouse k and lambda immunoglobulin chains has been undertaken in order to reveal sequence homologies and evolutionary relationships. Simultaneously, a comparison with the three-dimensional structure of one mouse k-chain (McPC 603) has suggested structural reas...

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

authors： Kabat EA,Padlan EA,Davies DR

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus thuringiensis is a widely used bacterial entomopathogen producing insecticidal toxins, some of which are expressed in insect-resistant transgenic crops. Surprisingly, the killing mechanism of B. thuringiensis remains controversial. In particular, the importance of the septicemia induced by the host midgut mic...

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

authors： Caccia S,Di Lelio I,La Storia A,Marinelli A,Varricchio P,Franzetti E,Banyuls N,Tettamanti G,Casartelli M,Giordana B,Ferré J,Gigliotti S,Ercolini D,Pennacchio F

更新日期：2016-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical forest degradation emits carbon at a rate of approximately 0.5 Pgxy(-1), reduces biodiversity, and facilitates forest clearance. Understanding degradation drivers and patterns is therefore crucial to managing forests to mitigate climate change and reduce biodiversity loss. Putative patterns of degradation aff...

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

authors： Ahrends A,Burgess ND,Milledge SA,Bulling MT,Fisher B,Smart JC,Clarke GP,Mhoro BE,Lewis SL

更新日期：2010-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical and epidemiological synergy exists between the globally important sexually transmitted infections, gonorrhea and HIV. Neisseria gonorrhoeae, which causes gonorrhea, is particularly adept at driving HIV-1 expression, but the molecular determinants of this relationship remain undefined. N. gonorrhoeae liberates...

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

authors： Malott RJ,Keller BO,Gaudet RG,McCaw SE,Lai CC,Dobson-Belaire WN,Hobbs JL,St Michael F,Cox AD,Moraes TF,Gray-Owen SD

更新日期：2013-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The operon model was proposed by Jacob and Monod in 1961 to explain the regulation of enzyme synthesis in bacteria. The model requires two genetic elements: a locus i which directs the synthesis of a repressor, and a locus called the operon which contains an operator gene and associated structural genes. The repressor...

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

authors： Zubay G,Lederman M

更新日期：1969-02-01 00:00:00