Prospective measurements of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate in a cohort of elderly subjects: relationship to gender, subjective health, smoking habits, and 10-year mortality.

abstract：:How colloidal particles interact with each other is one of the key issues that determines our ability to interpret experimental results for phase transitions in colloidal dispersions and our ability to apply colloid science to various industrial processes. The long-accepted theories for answering this question have be...

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

authors： Wu J,Bratko D,Prausnitz JM

更新日期：1998-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The central structural feature of natural proteins is a tightly packed and highly ordered hydrophobic core. If some measure of exquisite, native-like core packing is necessary for enzymatic function, this would constitute a significant obstacle to the development of novel enzymes, either by design or by natural or exp...

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

authors： Axe DD,Foster NW,Fersht AR

更新日期：1996-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Palmitoylation is a common lipid modification known to regulate the functional properties of various proteins and is a vital step in the biosynthesis of voltage-activated sodium (Nav) channels. We discovered a mutation in an intracellular loop of rNav1.2a (G1079C), which results in a higher apparent affinity for exter...

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

authors： Bosmans F,Milescu M,Swartz KJ

更新日期：2011-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found that in the gill- and siphon- withdrawal reflex of Aplysia, the memory for short-term sensitization grades smoothly into long-term memory with increased amounts of sensitization training. One cellular locus for the storage of the memory underlying short-term sensitization is the set of monosynaptic conne...

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

authors： Frost WN,Castellucci VF,Hawkins RD,Kandel ER

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nerve growth factor protein was purified over 100-fold from adult mouse salivary glands. The first step was a gel filtration on Sephadex G-100 at pH 7.5 of the aqueous gland extract. After gel filtration, most of the NGF activity was eluted in the 80,000-90,000-molecular-weight region (G-100 pool). The G-100 pool ...

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

authors： Bocchini V,Angeletti PU

更新日期：1969-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:E2F is a heterodimeric transcription factor that regulates the expression of genes at the G1/S boundary and is composed of two related but distinct families of proteins, E2F and DP. E2F/DP heterodimers form complexes with the retinoblastoma (Rb) protein, the Rb-related proteins p107 and p130, and cyclins/cdks in a cel...

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

authors： Rogers KT,Higgins PD,Milla MM,Phillips RS,Horowitz JM

更新日期：1996-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Two clusters of configurations of the main proteolytic subunit β5 were identified by principal component analysis of crystal structures of the yeast proteasome core particle (yCP). The apo-cluster encompasses unliganded species and complexes with nonpeptidic ligands, and the pep-cluster comprises complexes with peptid...

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

authors： Arciniega M,Beck P,Lange OF,Groll M,Huber R

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the strategies used by organisms to adapt to life under conditions of short energy supply is to use the by-product pyrophosphate to support cation gradients in membranes. Transport reactions are catalyzed by membrane-integral pyrophosphatases (PPases), which are classified into two homologous subfamilies: H(+)-...

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

authors： Luoto HH,Baykov AA,Lahti R,Malinen AM

更新日期：2013-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA mismatch repair is central to the maintenance of genomic stability. It is initiated by the recognition of base-base mismatches and insertion/deletion loops by the family of MutS proteins. Subsequently, ATP induces a unique conformational change in the MutS-mismatch complex but not in the MutS-homoduplex complex th...

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

authors： Wang H,Yang Y,Schofield MJ,Du C,Fridman Y,Lee SD,Larson ED,Drummond JT,Alani E,Hsieh P,Erie DA

更新日期：2003-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The GTP/GDP nucleotide switch in Ras superfamily GTPases generally involves differential affinity toward downstream effectors, with the GTP-bound state having a higher affinity for effector than the GDP-bound state. We have developed a quantitative model of allosteric regulation of the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein...

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

authors： Leung DW,Rosen MK

更新日期：2005-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are key modulators of immune tolerance, capable of suppressing inflammatory immune responses and promoting nonlymphoid tissue homeostasis. Helios, a transcription factor (TF) that is selectively expressed by Tregs, has been shown to be essential for the maintenance of Treg lineage stability ...

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

authors： Yates K,Bi K,Haining WN,Cantor H,Kim HJ

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray diffraction studies have produced a low resolution image and also located the iron atoms of a monomeric hemerythrin from muscles of a sipunculan worm. These results reveal the course of the polypeptide chain and some details of the active center. ...

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

authors： Hendrickson WA,Klippenstein GL,Ward KB

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), the translocation t(11;14) is considered the cytogenetic hallmark of the disease. Recently, however, deletion of the chromosomal region 11q22-q23 has been identified as a frequent event in this type of cancer, indicating the existence of a pathogenically relevant tumor suppressor gene in...

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

authors： Schaffner C,Idler I,Stilgenbauer S,Döhner H,Lichter P

更新日期：2000-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant cutin monomers trigger, and glucose suppresses, the expression of the cutinase gene of pathogenic fungi. To identify the cutinase promoter region responsible for induction by the unique plant components, a promoter analysis was done with transformants. Plasmids were constructed that contained (i) the 5' flanking...

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

authors： Bajar A,Podila GK,Kolattukudy PE

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Early embryos of many organisms develop outside the mother and are immediately confronted with myriads of potential colonizers. How these naive developmental stages control and shape the bacterial colonization is largely unknown. Here we show that early embryonic stages of the basal metazoan Hydra are able to control ...

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

authors： Fraune S,Augustin R,Anton-Erxleben F,Wittlieb J,Gelhaus C,Klimovich VB,Samoilovich MP,Bosch TC

更新日期：2010-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of arbuscules in Aglaophyton major, an Early Devonian land plant, provides unequivocal evidence that mycorrhizae were established >400 million years ago. Nonseptate hyphac and arbuscules occur in a specialized meristematic region of the cortex that continually provided new cells for fungal infection. Arb...

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

authors： Remy W,Taylor TN,Hass H,Kerp H

更新日期：1994-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells recognize lipid antigens presented by CD1d and play a central role in regulating immunity and inflammation in peripheral tissues. However, the mechanisms which govern iNKT cell homeostasis after thymic emigration are incompletely understood. Here we demonstrate that microsomal t...

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

authors： Zeissig S,Peuker K,Iyer S,Gensollen T,Dougan SK,Olszak T,Kaser A,Blumberg RS

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell proliferation is regulated by the induction of growth promoting genes and the suppression of growth inhibitory genes. Malignant growth can result from the altered balance of expression of these genes in favor of cell proliferation. Induction of the transcription factor, c-Myc, promotes cell proliferation and tran...

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

authors： Lee TC,Li L,Philipson L,Ziff EB

更新日期：1997-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccinia virus is the prototypic orthopoxvirus and was the vaccine used to eradicate smallpox, yet the expression profiles of many of its genes remain unknown. Using a genome tiling array approach, we simultaneously measured the expression levels of all 223 annotated vaccinia virus genes during infection and determine...

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

authors： Assarsson E,Greenbaum JA,Sundström M,Schaffer L,Hammond JA,Pasquetto V,Oseroff C,Hendrickson RC,Lefkowitz EJ,Tscharke DC,Sidney J,Grey HM,Head SR,Peters B,Sette A

更新日期：2008-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal unilateral enucleation in mammals causes an extensive anatomical reorganization of visual pathways. The remaining eye innervates the entire extent of visual subcortical and cortical areas. Electrophysiological recordings have shown that the retino-geniculate connections are retinotopically organized and genic...

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

authors： Bisti S,Trimarchi C

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic switches based on the [Formula: see text] system are master regulators of an array of cellular responses. Recent kinetic experiments have shown that [Formula: see text] can actively remove NF-κB bound to its genetic sites via a process called "molecular stripping." This allows the [Formula: see text] switch to...

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

authors： Potoyan DA,Zheng W,Komives EA,Wolynes PG

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of androgen receptor (AR) via androgen in muscle cells has been closely linked to their growth and differentiation. Here, we report the cloning and characterization of supervillin (SV), a 205-kDa actin-binding protein, as an AR coregulator from the skeletal muscle cDNA library. Mammalian two-hybrid and glut...

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

authors： Ting HJ,Yeh S,Nishimura K,Chang C

更新日期：2002-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody raised against the human erythrocyte glucose transporter identified a recombinant lambda gt11 bacteriophage in a cDNA library prepared from immunoselected polysomal RNA from adult rat brain. The cDNA predicts a 492-amino acid protein that demonstrates 97.6% identity to the human hepatoma hexose carrier. The t...

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

authors： Birnbaum MJ,Haspel HC,Rosen OM

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant efforts have been directed to understanding the factors that influence the lineage commitment of stem cells. This paper demonstrates that cell shape, independent of soluble factors, has a strong influence on the differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from bone marrow. When exposed to compet...

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

authors： Kilian KA,Bugarija B,Lahn BT,Mrksich M

更新日期：2010-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The morbidity and mortality associated with Vibrio-mediated waterborne diseases necessitates the development of sensitive detection technologies that are able to elucidate the identity, potential pathogenicity, susceptibility, and viability of contaminating bacteria in a timely manner. For this purpose, we have design...

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

authors： Vora GJ,Meador CE,Bird MM,Bopp CA,Andreadis JD,Stenger DA

更新日期：2005-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:TGF-beta-activated kinase-1 (TAK1), also known as MAPKK kinase-7 (MAP3K7), is a candidate effector of multiple circuits in cardiac biology and disease. Here, we show that inhibition of TAK1 in mice by a cardiac-specific dominant-negative mutation evokes electrophysiological and biochemical properties reminiscent of hu...

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

authors： Xie M,Zhang D,Dyck JR,Li Y,Zhang H,Morishima M,Mann DL,Taffet GE,Baldini A,Khoury DS,Schneider MD

更新日期：2006-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Characteristic classes for the index of the Dirac family [unk](A) are computed in terms of differential forms on the orbit space of vector potentials under gauge transformations. They represent obstructions to the existence of a covariant Dirac propagator. The first obstruction is related to a chiral anomaly. ...

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

authors： Atiyah MF,Singer IM

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The qualities of perception depend not only on the sensory inputs but also on the brain state before stimulus presentation. Although the collective evidence from neuroimaging studies for a relation between prestimulus state and perception is strong, the interpretation in the context of sensory computations or decision...

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

authors： Kayser SJ,McNair SW,Kayser C

更新日期：2016-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the mechanism of action of compounds capable of inhibiting amyloid-fibril formation is critical to the development of potential therapeutics against protein-misfolding diseases. A fundamental challenge for progress is the range of possible target species and the disparate timescales involved, since the a...

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

authors： Michaels TCT,Šarić A,Meisl G,Heller GT,Curk S,Arosio P,Linse S,Dobson CM,Vendruscolo M,Knowles TPJ

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A major protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTPase 1B) has been isolated in essentially homogeneous form from the soluble and particulate fractions of human placenta. Unexpectedly, partial amino acid sequences displayed no homology with the primary structures of the protein Ser/Thr phosphatases deduced from cDNA clones. How...

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

authors： Charbonneau H,Tonks NK,Walsh KA,Fischer EH

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00