Energetics of nanocrystalline TiO2.

abstract：:New Zealand Black (NZB) mice develop after 16 weeks of age an autoimmune and lymphoproliferative disease which is a model for systemic lupus erythematosus and lymphoid malignancy in humans. At this age, the mice manifest a progressive decline in T lymphocyte (thymus-derived lymphocyte) functions and serum thymosin lev...

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

authors： Dauphinee MJ,Talal N,Goldstein AL,White A

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial hibernating 100S ribosome is a poorly understood form of the dimeric 70S particle that has been linked to pathogenesis, translational repression, starvation responses, and ribosome turnover. In the opportunistic pathogen Staphylococcus aureus and most other bacteria, hibernation-promoting factor (HPF) ho...

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

authors： Basu A,Yap MN

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired magnesium reabsorption in patients with TRPM6 gene mutations stresses an important role of TRPM6 (melastatin-related TRP cation channel) in epithelial magnesium transport. While attempting to isolate full-length TRPM6, we found that the human TRPM6 gene encodes multiple mRNA isoforms. Full-length TRPM6 varian...

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

authors： Chubanov V,Waldegger S,Mederos y Schnitzler M,Vitzthum H,Sassen MC,Seyberth HW,Konrad M,Gudermann T

更新日期：2004-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic DNA based on the known amino acid sequence of the brain/gut peptide cholecystokinin (CCK) was synthesized. This DNA contained deoxyinosines at ambiguous codon positions and was used as a probe to isolate the CCK gene directly from a human genomic library. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the isolated gene r...

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

authors： Takahashi Y,Kato K,Hayashizaki Y,Wakabayashi T,Ohtsuka E,Matsuki S,Ikehara M,Matsubara K

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine whether the vascular smooth muscle contractile effect of NG-methyl-L-arginine (NMA) is endothelium dependent and attributed to a decline in smooth muscle levels of cyclic GMP. Vascular smooth muscle levels of cyclic GMP are severalfold greater in endothelium-intact than in ...

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

authors： Gold ME,Wood KS,Byrns RE,Fukuto J,Ignarro LJ

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of quiescent cultures of mouse embryo-derived AKR-2B cells with transforming growth factor beta resulted in an early induction of c-sis mRNA. The increase in c-sis mRNA was followed by a corresponding increase in protein similar to platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) in the culture medium. In addition, PDG...

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

authors： Leof EB,Proper JA,Goustin AS,Shipley GD,DiCorleto PE,Moses HL

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prion diseases are characterized by an accumulation of PrP(Sc), a misfolded isoform of the normal cellular prion protein, PrP(C). We previously reported the bioactivity of acridine-based compounds against PrP(Sc) replication in scrapie-infected neuroblastoma cells and now report the improved potency of bis-acridine co...

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

authors： May BC,Fafarman AT,Hong SB,Rogers M,Deady LW,Prusiner SB,Cohen FE

更新日期：2003-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Paired immunoglobulin-like type 2 receptor α (PILRα) and β (PILRβ) belong to the PILR family and are related to innate immune regulation in various species. Despite their high sequence identity, PILRα and PILRβ are shown to have variant sialic acid (SA) binding avidities. To explore the molecular basis of this interac...

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

authors： Lu Q,Lu G,Qi J,Wang H,Xuan Y,Wang Q,Li Y,Zhang Y,Zheng C,Fan Z,Yan J,Gao GF

更新日期：2014-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified NADPH:cytochrome c (P-450) reductase (FpT; NADPH-ferrihemoprotein oxidoreductase, EC 1.6.2.4) can reductively activate mitomycin antibiotics through a one-electron reduction to species that alkylate DNA. To assess the involvement of FpT in the intracellular activation of the mitomycins, transfectants overexpr...

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

authors： Belcourt MF,Hodnick WF,Rockwell S,Sartorelli AC

更新日期：1996-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Human urokinase cDNA clones have been identified from a cDNA library prepared from total RNA of human fibroblasts transformed by simian virus 40 [Okayama, H. & Berg, P. (1983) Mol. Cell. Biol. 3, 280-289]. Synthetic oligonucleotides, corresponding to urokinase protein sequence, were used as probes. The cloned cDNA cov...

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

authors： Verde P,Stoppelli MP,Galeffi P,Di Nocera P,Blasi F

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acetylcholine receptor is a protein that contains certain critical disulfide bonds. Experiments were designed to determine the role such bonds might play in the physiological activity of the receptor. Modification of the receptor with sodium bisulfite and diamide produced an increase in the time constants of the m...

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

authors： Steinacker A,Zuazaga DC

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutant alleles at the dilute unconventional myosin heavy chain locus cause diluted coat color, opisthotonic seizures, and death. The dilute coat color phenotype is caused by irregular clumping of pigment in the hair, but amounts of melanin are unchanged from wild-type controls. The melanocyte phenotype has been descri...

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

authors： Provance DW Jr,Wei M,Ipe V,Mercer JA

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of variations in the concentrations or structures of biomolecules (e.g., mRNAs, proteins, peptides, natural products) that occur either naturally or in response to environmental or genetic perturbations can provide important insight into complex biological processes. Many biological samples are mixtures that ...

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

authors： Yao S,Anex DS,Caldwell WB,Arnold DW,Smith KB,Schultz PG

更新日期：1999-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium vivax uses a single member of the Duffy binding-like (DBL) receptor family to invade erythrocytes and is not found in West Africa where its erythrocyte ligand, the Duffy blood group antigen, is missing. In contrast, Plasmodium falciparum expresses four members of the DBL family, and remarkably, single-point...

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

authors： Mayer DC,Jiang L,Achur RN,Kakizaki I,Gowda DC,Miller LH

更新日期：2006-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple steps of plant growth and development rely on rapid cell elongation during which secretory and endocytic trafficking via the trans-Golgi network (TGN) plays a central role. Here, we identify the ECHIDNA (ECH) protein from Arabidopsis thaliana as a TGN-localized component crucial for TGN function. ECH partiall...

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

authors： Gendre D,Oh J,Boutté Y,Best JG,Samuels L,Nilsson R,Uemura T,Marchant A,Bennett MJ,Grebe M,Bhalerao RP

更新日期：2011-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubule-associated protein 2 kinase (MAP kinase), which exists in several forms, is a protein serine/threonine kinase that participates in a growth factor-activated protein kinase cascade in which it activates a ribosomal protein S6 kinase (pp90rsk) while being regulated itself by a cytoplasmic factor (MAP kinase ...

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

authors： Seger R,Ahn NG,Boulton TG,Yancopoulos GD,Panayotatos N,Radziejewska E,Ericsson L,Bratlien RL,Cobb MH,Krebs EG

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found that 1 of 20 human tumors transplanted and passaged in nude mice was associated with a massive induction of endogenous murine leukemia virus (MuLV). Separation and growth of these viruses on various substrates indicated that both ecotropic and xenotropic MuLV were present in the induced mixture. Tryptic ...

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

authors： Gautsch JW,Knowles AF,Jensen FC,Kaplan NO

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle U1C protein has a zinc finger-like structure (C2H2 motif) at its N terminus, which is conserved from yeast to humans. Mutations of amino acid L13 within this domain rescue the essential function of the helicase protein Prp28p. Prp28p has been implicated in unwinding the ...

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

authors： Du H,Tardiff DF,Moore MJ,Rosbash M

更新日期：2004-10-12 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：:Interleukin 2 (IL-2) occupies a central position in the cascade of events involved in the immune response. We were interested in determining whether IL-2 could function as an adjuvant to vaccination, to increase the immune response to vaccine immunogens. Using the National Institutes of Health test for rabies vaccine ...

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

authors： Nunberg JH,Doyle MV,York SM,York CJ

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this contribution, we study situations in which nanoparticles in a fluid are strongly heated, generating high heat fluxes. This situation is relevant to experiments in which a fluid is locally heated by using selective absorption of radiation by solid particles. We first study this situation for different types of ...

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

authors： Merabia S,Shenogin S,Joly L,Keblinski P,Barrat JL

更新日期：2009-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2.5-fold stimulation of cyclic AMP cellular content is measured 60 sec after addition of 100 nM synthetic ovine corticotropin-releasing factor (C-RF; corticoliberin) to rat anterior pituitary cells in culture. A maximal response of cyclic AMP content at 400% above control is observed between 2 and 30 min after addit...

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

authors： Giguère V,Labrie F,Côté J,Coy DH,Sueiras-Diaz J,Schally AV

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reelin is a key mediator of ordered neuronal alignment in the brain. Here, we demonstrate that Reelin molecules assemble with each other to form a huge protein complex both in vitro and in vivo. The Reelin-Reelin interaction clearly is inhibited by the function-blocking anti-Reelin antibody, CR-50, at a concentration ...

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

authors： Utsunomiya-Tate N,Kubo K,Tate S,Kainosho M,Katayama E,Nakajima K,Mikoshiba K

更新日期：2000-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial structure of genetic diversity underlying social variation is a critical determinant of how cooperation and conflict evolve. Here we investigated whether natural social groups of the cooperative soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus harbor internal genetic and phenotypic variation and thus the potential for so...

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

authors： Kraemer SA,Velicer GJ

更新日期：2011-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A determinanat for chloramphenicol resistance, cam, initially detected on a resistance transfer factor (RTF) and since transferred to phage P1, may be acquired from P1 by coliphage lambda. Lambdapcam are obtained when a lambda prophage is induced in bacteria which also harbor P1 cam prophage. Lambdacam formation is no...

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

authors： Gottesman MM,Rosner JL

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus population growth depends on contacts between viruses and their hosts. It is often unclear how sufficient contacts are made between viruses and their specific hosts to generate spikes in viral abundance. Here, we show that copepods, acting as predators, can bring aquatic viruses and their algal hosts into contac...

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

authors： DeLong JP,Al-Ameeli Z,Duncan G,Van Etten JL,Dunigan DD

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Apomixis is a naturally occurring mode of reproduction that results in embryo formation without the involvement of meiosis or fertilization of the egg. Seed-derived progeny of an apomictic plant are genetically identical to the maternal parent. We are studying a form of apomixis called apospory that occurs in the genu...

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

authors： Ozias-Akins P,Roche D,Hanna WW

更新日期：1998-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the glycolytic enzyme triose-phosphate isomerase (TPI; EC 5.3.1.1) has been central to the long-standing controversy on the origin and evolutionary significance of spliceosomal introns by virtue of its pivotal support for the introns-early view, or exon theory of genes. Putative correlations between ...

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

authors： Logsdon JM Jr,Tyshenko MG,Dixon C,D-Jafari J,Walker VK,Palmer JD

更新日期：1995-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) (∼56 Ma) was a ∼170,000-y (∼170-kyr) period of global warming associated with rapid and massive injections of 13C-depleted carbon into the ocean-atmosphere system, reflected in sedimentary components as a negative carbon isotope excursion (CIE). Carbon cycle modeling has ind...

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

authors： Frieling J,Svensen HH,Planke S,Cramwinckel MJ,Selnes H,Sluijs A

更新日期：2016-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Many Drosophila non-long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons actively transpose into internal, gene-rich regions of chromosomes but do not transpose onto chromosome ends. HeT-A and TART are remarkable exceptions; they form telomeres of Drosophila by repeated transpositions onto the ends of chromosomes and never tra...

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

authors： Rashkova S,Karam SE,Pardue ML

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00