An AAV-derived Apaf-1 dominant negative inhibitor prevents MPTP toxicity as antiapoptotic gene therapy for Parkinson's disease.

abstract：:Specific [3H]retinoic acid (RA)-binding sites in nuclear and cytosolic extracts prepared from human myeloblastic leukemia HL-60 cells have been detected by sucrose density gradient sedimentation and size-exclusion high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analyses. This RA-binding activity migrated as a single pea...

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

authors： Nervi C,Grippo JF,Sherman MI,George MD,Jetten AM

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proinflammatory signaling pathways are commonly up-regulated in breast cancer. In estrogen receptor-negative (ER-) and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), nitric oxide synthase-2 (NOS2) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX2) have been described as independent predictors of disease outcome. We further explore these findings by ...

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

authors： Basudhar D,Glynn SA,Greer M,Somasundaram V,No JH,Scheiblin DA,Garrido P,Heinz WF,Ryan AE,Weiss JM,Cheng RYS,Ridnour LA,Lockett SJ,McVicar DW,Ambs S,Wink DA

更新日期：2017-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyclic enzymatic function of a cytochrome P450, as it catalyzes the oxygen-dependent metabolism of many organic chemicals, requires the delivery of two electrons to the hemeprotein. In general these electrons are transferred from NADPH to the P450 via an FMN- and FAD-containing flavoprotein (NADPH-P450 reductase)....

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

authors： Faulkner KM,Shet MS,Fisher CW,Estabrook RW

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of lysosomes to move within the cytoplasm is important for many cellular functions. This ability is particularly critical in neurons, which comprise vast, highly differentiated domains such as the axon and dendrites. The mechanisms that control lysosome movement in these domains, however, remain poorly und...

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

authors： Farías GG,Guardia CM,De Pace R,Britt DJ,Bonifacino JS

更新日期：2017-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The redox siblings nitroxyl (HNO) and nitric oxide (NO) have often been assumed to undergo casual redox reactions in biological systems. However, several recent studies have demonstrated distinct pharmacological effects for donors of these two species. Here, infusion of the HNO donor Angeli's salt into normal dogs res...

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

authors： Miranda KM,Paolocci N,Katori T,Thomas DD,Ford E,Bartberger MD,Espey MG,Kass DA,Feelisch M,Fukuto JM,Wink DA

更新日期：2003-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular regulation by certain growth factor receptors and protooncogene products involves tyrosine kinase activity with the resultant tyrosine phosphorylation of protein substrates. In the present report we describe the distribution of phosphotyrosine-containing material detected by immunocytochemistry (ICC) in the r...

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

authors： Moss AM,Unger JW,Moxley RT,Livingston JN

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a simple theory that uses thermodynamic parameters to predict the probability that a protein retains the wild-type structure after one or more random amino acid substitutions. Our theory predicts that for large numbers of substitutions the probability that a protein retains its structure will decline expone...

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

authors： Bloom JD,Silberg JJ,Wilke CO,Drummond DA,Adami C,Arnold FH

更新日期：2005-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA polymerases replicate DNA by adding nucleotides to a growing primer strand while avoiding frameshift and point mutations. Here we present a series of up to six successive replication events that were obtained by extension of a primed template directly in a crystal of the thermostable Bacillus DNA polymerase I. The...

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

authors： Johnson SJ,Taylor JS,Beese LS

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rewards of promiscuity for males are undisputed. But why should a female mate promiscuously, particularly when her partners offer no resources other than sperm and increase her chances of succumbing to predation or disease? This question has been hotly debated but at present remains largely unresolved [Jennions, M...

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

authors： Evans JP,Magurran AE

更新日期：2000-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic gut inflammatory diseases are associated with disruption of intestinal epithelial barriers and impaired mucosal immunity. HIV-1 (HIV) causes depletion of mucosal CD4+ T cells early in infection and disruption of gut epithelium, resulting in chronic inflammation and immunodeficiency. Although antiretroviral the...

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

authors： Crakes KR,Santos Rocha C,Grishina I,Hirao LA,Napoli E,Gaulke CA,Fenton A,Datta S,Arredondo J,Marco ML,Sankaran-Walters S,Cortopassi G,Giulivi C,Dandekar S

更新日期：2019-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In a subclone derived from mouse L(tk-) cells, we found a plasmid present in a high copy number (greater than 5000 copies per cell) that was stably maintained extrachromosomally without any cytopathic effect to the host cells. This plasmid, termed L factor, has two forms: 5.3 and 5.5 kilobase pairs. DNA sequencing and...

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

authors： Kusano T,Uehara H,Saito H,Segawa K,Oishi M

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excited states of proteins may play important roles in function, yet are difficult to study spectroscopically because of their sparse population. High hydrostatic pressure increases the equilibrium population of excited states, enabling their characterization [Akasaka K (2003) Biochemistry 42:10875-85]. High-pressure ...

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

authors： Lerch MT,Horwitz J,McCoy J,Hubbell WL

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The theory presented here is based on results from in vitro experiments and deals with three proteins in the postsynaptic density/membrane-namely, calmodulin, the Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase, and the voltage-dependent Ca2+ channel. It is visualized that, in vivo in the polarized state of the membrane, cal...

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

authors： Siekevitz P

更新日期：1991-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous attempts to express functional DNA cytosine methyltransferase (EC 2.1.1.37) in cells transfected with the available Dnmt cDNAs have met with little or no success. We show that the published Dnmt sequence encodes an amino terminal-truncated protein that is tolerated only at very low levels when stably expresse...

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

authors： Tucker KL,Talbot D,Lee MA,Leonhardt H,Jaenisch R

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factors that act in hepatocyte-specific gene expression include proteins that are present mainly in liver cells (HNF-1/LFB1, C/EBP, HNF-3, HNF-4) (HNF, hepatocyte nuclear factor; C/EBP, rat enhancer binding protein) and proteins that are widely distributed (AP-1, NF-1, NF-Y/ACF). We show here that th...

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

authors： Xanthopoulos KG,Prezioso VR,Chen WS,Sladek FM,Cortese R,Darnell JE Jr

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated and determined the sequence of a genomic clone containing the gene for a human class I transplantation antigen. The gene contains seven exons. The first five exons code respectively for a signal peptide, for the first, second, and third extracellular domains of the protein molecule, and for the transm...

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

authors： Malissen M,Malissen B,Jordan BR

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of sickle cells with cystamine, a thiol reagnet, resulted in the formation of an intracellular S-ethylamine derivative. The rate of the reaction was dependent upon the cystamine concentration, the temperature, and the duration of the incubation. The cystamine-treated cells demonstrated a marked inhibition o...

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

authors： Hassan W,Beuzard Y,Rosa J

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the relationship between various treatment parameters within a latent variable model when the effects of treatment depend on the recipient's observed and unobserved characteristics. We show how this relationship can be used to identify the treatment parameters when they are identified and to bound ...

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

authors： Heckman JJ,Vytlacil EJ

更新日期：1999-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Decisions always involve both facts and values, whereas most science communication focuses only on facts. If science communication is intended to inform decisions, it must be competent with regard to both facts and values. Public participation inevitably involves both facts and values. Research on public participation...

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

authors： Dietz T

更新日期：2013-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATR (ATM- and rad3-related)-mediated checkpoint pathway has a crucial role in regulating the cellular responses to DNA damage and DNA-replication stress. ATRIP (ATR-interacting protein), the regulatory partner of ATR, binds directly to replication protein A (RPA)-coated ssDNA and enables the ATR-ATRIP complex to r...

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

authors： Namiki Y,Zou L

更新日期：2006-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Immobilizing a protein, that is fully compatible with the patient, on the surface of a biomedical device should make it possible to avoid adverse responses such as inflammation, rejection, or excessive fibrosis. A surface that strongly binds and does not denature the compatible protein is required. Hydrophilic surface...

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

authors： Bilek MM,Bax DV,Kondyurin A,Yin Y,Nosworthy NJ,Fisher K,Waterhouse A,Weiss AS,dos Remedios CG,McKenzie DR

更新日期：2011-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Albatrosses (Diomedeidae) do not occur in the North Atlantic Ocean today except as vagrants, although five species were present in the early Pliocene. No fossil breeding sites of albatrosses were known previously. The timing of extinction of albatrosses in the North Atlantic was likewise unknown. Deposits that formed ...

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

authors： Olson SL,Hearty PJ

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in hippocampal function seem critical for cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Although there is eventual loss of synapses in both AD and animal models of AD, deficits in spatial memory and inhibition of long-term potentiation (LTP) precede morphological alterations in the models, suggesting earli...

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

authors： Vitolo OV,Sant'Angelo A,Costanzo V,Battaglia F,Arancio O,Shelanski M

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a human gastrin gene from a genomic library by employing a human gastrin cDNA clone as a hybridization probe. The total length of the gene is approximately 4.0 kilobase pairs, and the gene is separated into three exons and two introns. A 130-base-pair intron interrupts the coding region and a 3.0-kilo...

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

authors： Ito R,Sato K,Helmer T,Jay G,Agarwal K

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strategies to elicit Abs that can neutralize diverse strains of a highly mutable pathogen are likely to result in a potent vaccine. Broadly neutralizing Abs (bnAbs) against HIV have been isolated from patients, proving that the human immune system can evolve them. Using computer simulations and theory, we study immuni...

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

authors： Shaffer JS,Moore PL,Kardar M,Chakraborty AK

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In both Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium there is approximately balanced synthesis of the six catalytic and six regulatory polypeptide chains of the regulatory enzyme aspartate transcarbamoylase (carbamoylphosphate:L-aspartate carbamoyltransferase, EC 2.1.3.2). This control is achieved by the contiguous pyr...

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

authors： Pauza CD,Karels MJ,Navre M,Schachman HK

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been recently shown that malignant activation of the c-has/bas proto-oncogene in T24 human bladder carcinoma cells was mediated by a single point mutation. A deoxyguanosine located at position 35 of the first exon of this proto-oncogene was substituted by thymidine. These findings predicted that the resulting o...

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

authors： Santos E,Reddy EP,Pulciani S,Feldmann RJ,Barbacid M

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants in dense vegetation compete for resources, including light, and optimize their growth based on neighbor detection cues. The best studied of such behaviors is the shade-avoidance syndrome that positions leaves in optimally lit zones of a vegetation. Although proximate vegetation is known to be sensed through a r...

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

authors： de Wit M,Kegge W,Evers JB,Vergeer-van Eijk MH,Gankema P,Voesenek LA,Pierik R

更新日期：2012-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:I summarize recent computational and experimental work that addresses the inherent variability in the synaptic and intrinsic conductances in normal healthy brains and shows that multiple solutions (sets of parameters) can produce similar circuit performance. I then discuss a number of issues raised by this observation...

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

authors： Marder E

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of identifying VEGF-independent pathways in pathological angiogenesis is increasingly recognized as a result of the emerging drug resistance to anti-VEGF therapies. PDGF-CC is the third member of the PDGF family discovered after more than two decades of studies on PDGF-AA and PDGF-BB. The biological fun...

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

authors： Hou X,Kumar A,Lee C,Wang B,Arjunan P,Dong L,Maminishkis A,Tang Z,Li Y,Zhang F,Zhang SZ,Wardega P,Chakrabarty S,Liu B,Wu Z,Colosi P,Fariss RN,Lennartsson J,Nussenblatt R,Gutkind JS,Cao Y,Li X

更新日期：2010-07-06 00:00:00