Perforin-low memory CD8+ cells are the predominant T cells in normal humans that synthesize the beta -chemokine macrophage inflammatory protein-1beta.

abstract：:The C terminus of transcription factor NusA from Escherichia coli comprises two repeat units, which bind during antitermination to protein N from phage lambda. To delineate the structural basis of the NusA-lambdaN interaction, we attempted to crystallize the NusA C-terminal repeats in complex with a lambdaN peptide (r...

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

authors： Bonin I,Mühlberger R,Bourenkov GP,Huber R,Bacher A,Richter G,Wahl MC

更新日期：2004-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic signals linking the actin cytoskeleton and cell adhesion receptors are essential for morphogenesis during development and normal tissue homeostasis. Abi1 is a central regulator of actin polymerization through interactions with multiple protein complexes. However, the in vivo role of Abi1 remains to be defined....

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

authors： Ring C,Ginsberg MH,Haling J,Pendergast AM

更新日期：2011-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The question was addressed whether the risk of cancer of an individual in a heterogeneous population can be predicted on the basis of measurable biochemical and biological variables postulated to be associated with the process of chemical carcinogenesis. Using the skin tumor model with outbred male NMRI mice, the late...

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

authors： Fischer WH,Lutz WK

更新日期：1995-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious tolerance describes the process of CD4(+) regulatory T cells (Tregs) converting naïve T cells to become additional Tregs. We show that antigen-specific Tregs induce, within skin grafts and dendritic cells, the expression of enzymes that consume at least 5 different essential amino acids (EAAs). T cells fail...

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

authors： Cobbold SP,Adams E,Farquhar CA,Nolan KF,Howie D,Lui KO,Fairchild PJ,Mellor AL,Ron D,Waldmann H

更新日期：2009-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:dAn.dTn sequences, otherwise known as A tracts, are hotspots for cis-syn thymine dimer formation and deletion mutations induced by UV light. Such A tracts are also known to bend DNA, suggesting that some biological effects of UV light might be related to the distinctive structure and properties of cis-syn dimer-contai...

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

authors： Wang CI,Taylor JS

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of proteins that hydrolyze inorganic pyrophosphate (PPi), very different in both amino acid sequence and structure, have been characterized to date: soluble and membrane-bound proton-pumping pyrophosphatases (sPPases and H(+)-PPases, respectively). sPPases are ubiquitous proteins that hydrolyze PPi releasing...

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

authors： Perez-Castineira JR,Lopez-Marques RL,Villalba JM,Losada M,Serrano A

更新日期：2002-12-10 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：:Although most experimental and theoretical studies of protein folding involve proteins in vitro, the effects of spatial confinement may complicate protein folding in vivo. In this study, we examine the folding dynamics of villin (a small fast folding protein) with explicit solvent confined to an inert nanopore. We hav...

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

authors： Lucent D,Vishal V,Pande VS

更新日期：2007-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In colloidal systems, the interplay between the short range attraction and long-range repulsion can lead to a low density associated state consisting of clusters of individual particles. Recently, such an equilibrium cluster phase was also reported for concentrated solutions of lysozyme at low ionic strength and close...

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

authors： Shukla A,Mylonas E,Di Cola E,Finet S,Timmins P,Narayanan T,Svergun DI

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomere syndromes have their most common manifestation in lung disease that is recognized as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema. In both conditions, there is loss of alveolar integrity, but the underlying mechanisms are not known. We tested the capacity of alveolar epithelial and stromal cells from mice with...

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

authors： Alder JK,Barkauskas CE,Limjunyawong N,Stanley SE,Kembou F,Tuder RM,Hogan BL,Mitzner W,Armanios M

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenodoxin reductase (AR; ferridoxin: NADP+ oxidoreductase, EC 1.18.1.2) is a flavoprotein that mediates electron transport from NADPH to all known mitochondrial forms of cytochrome P450. AR mRNA was found in all human adult and fetal tissues examined; however, it was vastly more abundant in tissues that synthesize s...

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

authors： Brentano ST,Black SM,Lin D,Miller WL

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MscS is a mechanosensitive channel that is ubiquitous among bacteria. Recent progress in the genome projects has revealed that homologs of MscS are also present in eukaryotes, but whether they operate as ion channels is unknown. In this study we cloned MSC1, a homolog of MscS in Chlamydomonas, and examined its functio...

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

authors： Nakayama Y,Fujiu K,Sokabe M,Yoshimura K

更新日期：2007-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptor for granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is composed of an alpha and beta subunit, which together form the high-affinity receptor. The alpha subunit by itself binds ligand at low affinity, whereas the isolated beta subunit does not bind GM-CSF. It is generally believed that the high-a...

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

authors： Ding DX,Rivas CI,Heaney ML,Raines MA,Vera JC,Golde DW

更新日期：1994-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The failure to induce self-tolerance of simian virus 40 large tumor antigen (T antigen) expressed in the pancreatic beta cells of transgenic mice results in an autoimmune response against this protein and the cells that synthesize it. In every transgenic mouse with delayed onset of T-antigen expression and consequent ...

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

authors： Skowronski J,Jolicoeur C,Alpert S,Hanahan D

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prohibitin (PHB)-domain proteins are membrane proteins that regulate a variety of biological activities, including mechanosensation, osmotic homeostasis, and cell signaling, although the mechanism of this regulation is unknown. We have studied two members of this large protein family, MEC-2, which is needed for to...

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

authors： Huber TB,Schermer B,Müller RU,Höhne M,Bartram M,Calixto A,Hagmann H,Reinhardt C,Koos F,Kunzelmann K,Shirokova E,Krautwurst D,Harteneck C,Simons M,Pavenstädt H,Kerjaschki D,Thiele C,Walz G,Chalfie M,Benzing T

更新日期：2006-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitin is a highly conserved protein that is encoded by a multigene family. It is generally believed that this gene family is subject to concerted evolution, which homogenizes the member genes of the family. However, protein homogeneity can be attained also by strong purifying selection. We therefore studied the pr...

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

authors： Nei M,Rogozin IB,Piontkivska H

更新日期：2000-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta-1,3-glucan recognition protein (betaGRP)/Gram-negative bacteria-binding protein 3 (GNBP3) is a crucial pattern-recognition receptor that specifically binds beta-1,3-glucan, a component of fungal cell walls. It evokes innate immunity against fungi through activation of the prophenoloxidase (proPO) cascade and ...

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

authors： Takahasi K,Ochiai M,Horiuchi M,Kumeta H,Ogura K,Ashida M,Inagaki F

更新日期：2009-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A translocation involving human chromosome 10, band q24, in a subset of T-cell acute leukemias disrupts a region surrounding the putative oncogene HOX11, which encodes a protein with a homeodomain. The HOX11 protein binds to a specific DNA sequence, it localizes to the cell nucleus, and it transactivates transcription...

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

authors： Dear TN,Sanchez-Garcia I,Rabbitts TH

更新日期：1993-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:As a master regulator of functional Ig heavy chain (IgH) expression, the IgH 3' regulatory region (3'RR) controls multiple transcription events at various stages of B-cell ontogeny, from newly formed B cells until the ultimate plasma cell stage. The IgH 3'RR plays a pivotal role in early B-cell receptor expression, ge...

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

authors： Garot A,Marquet M,Saintamand A,Bender S,Le Noir S,Rouaud P,Carrion C,Oruc Z,Bébin AG,Moreau J,Lebrigand K,Denizot Y,Alt FW,Cogné M,Pinaud E

更新日期：2016-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein misfolding is the molecular basis for several human diseases. How the primary amino acid sequence triggers misfolding and determines the benign or toxic character of the misfolded protein remains largely obscure. Among proteins that misfold, polyglutamine (polyQ) expansion proteins provide an interesting case:...

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

authors： Duennwald ML,Jagadish S,Muchowski PJ,Lindquist S

更新日期：2006-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of Drosophila melanogaster DNA polymerase alpha on DNA-primed single-stranded DNA templates has been examined. The DNA templates contain a 1471-nucleotide sequence from the heavy-strand origin region of mouse mtDNA inserted into the single-stranded bacteriophage vector M13Gori1. Preferred sites for pausin...

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

authors： Kaguni LS,Clayton DA

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A striking feature of the human genome is the dearth of CpG dinucleotides (CpGs) interrupted occasionally by CpG islands (CGIs), regions with relatively high content of the dinucleotide. CGIs are generally associated with promoters; genes, whose promoters are especially rich in CpG sequences, tend to be expressed in m...

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

authors： Saxonov S,Berg P,Brutlag DL

更新日期：2006-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus anthracis is the etiologic agent of anthrax, an acute fatal disease among mammals. It was thought to differ from Bacillus cereus, an opportunistic pathogen and cause of food poisoning, by the presence of plasmids pXO1 and pXO2, which encode the lethal toxin complex and the poly-gamma-d-glutamic acid capsule, ...

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

authors： Hoffmaster AR,Ravel J,Rasko DA,Chapman GD,Chute MD,Marston CK,De BK,Sacchi CT,Fitzgerald C,Mayer LW,Maiden MC,Priest FG,Barker M,Jiang L,Cer RZ,Rilstone J,Peterson SN,Weyant RS,Galloway DR,Read TD,Popovic T,Fras

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that individual cells infected with and expressing a recombinant retrovirus carrying the Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase gene (lacZ) can be viably stained, analyzed, sorted, and cloned by fluorescence-activated cell sorting based on the levels of lacZ expressed. To accomplish this we have devised a ...

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

authors： Nolan GP,Fiering S,Nicolas JF,Herzenberg LA

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza is a paradigm for understanding viral infections. As an opportunistic pathogen exploiting the cellular endocytic machinery for infection, influenza is also a valuable model system for exploring the cell's constitutive endocytic pathway. We have studied the transport, acidification, and fusion of single influ...

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

authors： Lakadamyali M,Rust MJ,Babcock HP,Zhuang X

更新日期：2003-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the four major types of Ca channel described in vertebrate cells (designated T, L, N, and P), N-type Ca channels are unique in that they are found specifically in neurons, have been correlated with control of neurotransmitter release, and are blocked by omega-conotoxin, a neuropeptide toxin isolated from the marine...

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

authors： Dubel SJ,Starr TV,Hell J,Ahlijanian MK,Enyeart JJ,Catterall WA,Snutch TP

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local inhomogeneities in lipid composition play a crucial role in regulation of signal transduction and membrane traffic. Nevertheless, most evidence for microdomains in cells remains indirect, and the nature of membrane inhomogeneities has been difficult to characterize. We used lipid analogs and lipid-anchored prote...

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

authors： Hao M,Mukherjee S,Maxfield FR

更新日期：2001-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Mach bands, the illusory brightness maxima and minima perceived at the initiation and termination of luminance gradients, respectively, are generally considered a direct perceptual manifestation of lateral inhibitory interactions among retinal or other lower order visual neurons. Here we examine an alternative explana...

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

authors： Lotto RB,Williams SM,Purves D

更新日期：1999-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical coding in the sympathetic nervous system involves both noradrenergic and, for a minority of neurons, cholinergic neurotransmission. The expression of the cholinergic phenotype in the developing sympathetic nervous system was examined to determine if coding for cholinergic transmission occurs before or after i...

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

authors： Schäfer MK,Schütz B,Weihe E,Eiden LE

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Zea mays L. ssp. mays, or corn, one of the most important crops and a model for plant genetics, has a genome approximately 80% the size of the human genome. To gain global insight into the organization of its genome, we have sequenced the ends of large insert clones, yielding a cumulative length of one-eighth of the g...

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

authors： Messing J,Bharti AK,Karlowski WM,Gundlach H,Kim HR,Yu Y,Wei F,Fuks G,Soderlund CA,Mayer KF,Wing RA

更新日期：2004-10-05 00:00:00