Adenosine deaminase-related growth factors stimulate cell proliferation in Drosophila by depleting extracellular adenosine.

abstract：:Interaction of the alpha beta T cell receptor (TCR) with major histocompatibility (MHC) molecules occupied with any of a large collection of peptides derived from self proteins is a critical step in driving T cell "positive" selection in the thymus. Interaction with this same pool of self-peptide/MHC ligands deletes T...

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

authors： Liu CP,Crawford F,Marrack P,Kappler J

更新日期：1998-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the occurrence of epistasis and pleiotropy is widely accepted at the molecular level, its effect on the adaptive value of fitness-related genes is rarely investigated in plants. Knowledge of these features of a gene is critical to understand the molecular basis of adaptive evolution. Here we investigate the i...

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

authors： Scarcelli N,Cheverud JM,Schaal BA,Kover PX

更新日期：2007-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of recombinant plasmids was generated in Escherichia coli in which the TEM beta-lactamase translocon (TnA) was inserted into the small plasmid RSF1010. RSF1010 is a 5.5 X 10(6) dalton nonconjugative plasmid which confers resistance to streptomycin and sulfonamide. The recombinant plasmids can be classified in...

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

authors： Heffron F,Rubens C,Falkow S

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptor-associated factor 6 (TRAF6) plays a vital role in immune signal transduction pathways by acting as a ubiquitin ligase (E3) for Lys63-linked polyubiquitin chain synthesis. However, the detailed mechanism by which the TRAF6 RING dimer promotes ubiquitin transfer was unknown. Through ...

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

authors： Fu TM,Shen C,Li Q,Zhang P,Wu H

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The M2 protein of influenza A virus forms a transmembrane proton channel important for viral infection and replication. Amantadine blocks this channel, thus inhibiting viral replication. Elucidating the high-resolution structure of the M2 protein and its change upon amantadine binding is crucial for designing antivira...

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

authors： Cady SD,Hong M

更新日期：2008-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas amyloid-β (Aβ) accumulates in the brain of normal animals dosed with low levels of copper (Cu), the mechanism is not completely known. Cu could contribute to Aβ accumulation by altering its clearance and/or its production. Because Cu homeostasis is altered in transgenic mice overexpressing Aβ precursor protein...

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

authors： Singh I,Sagare AP,Coma M,Perlmutter D,Gelein R,Bell RD,Deane RJ,Zhong E,Parisi M,Ciszewski J,Kasper RT,Deane R

更新日期：2013-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a strategy to "revive" putatively pathogenic T cells from frozen specimens of human inflammatory target organs. To distinguish pathogenic from irrelevant bystander T cells, we focused on cells that were (i) clonally expanded and (ii) in direct morphological contact with a target cell. Using CDR3 spectratyp...

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

authors： Seitz S,Schneider CK,Malotka J,Nong X,Engel AG,Wekerle H,Hohlfeld R,Dornmair K

更新日期：2006-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:An approximately decadal periodicity in surface air temperature is discernable in global observations from A.D. 1855 to 1900 and since A.D. 1945, but with a periodicity of only about 6 years during the intervening period. Changes in solar irradiance related to the sunspot cycle have been proposed to account for the fo...

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

authors： Keeling CD,Whorf TP

更新日期：1997-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships between parental effort, offspring growth, and offspring blood parasitemias are poorly known. We examined the effect of parental effort on offspring size and prevalence of trypanosomes in peripheral blood of nestling Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca aged 13 days. Trypanosome infections were likely...

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

authors： Merino S,Potti J,Moreno J

更新日期：1996-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The history of the development of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory is reviewed from a personal perspective. This review is necessarily biased and limited by space because it attempts to cover a time span approaching five decades. ...

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

authors： Weisskopf MC

更新日期：2010-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Although they lie at the conceptual core of a wide range of scientific questions, the notions of irregular or "random" arrangement and the process of randomization itself have never been unambiguously defined. Algorithmic implementation of these concepts requires a combinatorial, rather than a probability-theoretic, f...

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

authors： Singer BH,Pincus S

更新日期：1998-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the importance of aggression in the behavioral repertoire of most animals, relatively little is known of its proximate causation and control. To take advantage of modern methods of genetic analysis for studying this complex behavior, we have developed a quantitative framework for studying aggression in common ...

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

authors： Chen S,Lee AY,Bowens NM,Huber R,Kravitz EA

更新日期：2002-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The two internal transcribed spacers (ITS1 and ITS2) of rDNA of three members of the Ixodes ricinus "complex" (Acari: Ixodidae) were sequenced. Sequence variation was assessed for the North American species I. scapularis, I. dammini, and I. pacificus at three levels: within individual/population, between individuals o...

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

authors： Wesson DM,McLain DK,Oliver JH,Piesman J,Collins FH

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expansion of machine learning to high-stakes application domains such as medicine, finance, and criminal justice, where making informed decisions requires clear understanding of the model, has increased the interest in interpretable machine learning. The widely used Classification and Regression Trees (CART) have ...

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

authors： Luna JM,Gennatas ED,Ungar LH,Eaton E,Diffenderfer ES,Jensen ST,Simone CB 2nd,Friedman JH,Solberg TD,Valdes G

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endbrain (telencephalon) is at the rostral end of the central nervous system and is primarily responsible for supporting cognition and affect. Structurally, it consists of right and left cerebral hemispheres, each parceled into multiple cortical and nuclear gray matter regions. The global network organization of a...

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

authors： Swanson LW,Hahn JD,Jeub LGS,Fortunato S,Sporns O

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical forces have a profound effect on growth, morphology, locomotion, and survival of organisms. At the level of individual cells, the role of mechanical forces is well recognized in eukaryotic physiology, but much less is known about prokaryotic organisms. Recent findings suggest an effect of physical forces on b...

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

authors： Genova LA,Roberts MF,Wong YC,Harper CE,Santiago AG,Fu B,Srivastava A,Jung W,Wang LM,Krzemiński Ł,Mao X,Sun X,Hui CY,Chen P,Hernandez CJ

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an approach for the detection of magnetic resonance imaging without superconducting magnets and cryogenics: optical atomic magnetometry. This technique possesses a high sensitivity independent of the strength of the static magnetic field, extending the applicability of magnetic resonance imaging to low magne...

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

authors： Xu S,Yashchuk VV,Donaldson MH,Rochester SM,Budker D,Pines A

更新日期：2006-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Two nucleases that catalyze the excision of photoproducts from UV-irradiated DNA have been extensively purified from M. luteus (M. lysodeikticus). The first enzyme, an endonuclease, has been purified 5000-fold and is free of conflicting nuclease activities. It introduces single-strand breaks into irradiated DNA but do...

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

authors： Kaplan JC,Kushner SR,Grossman L

更新日期：1969-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma iron turnover was measured in 19 normal subjects. A correlation was found between plasma iron concentration and plasma iron turnover. In addition to the turnover of 55Fe at normal plasma iron concentration (predominantly monoferric transferrin), a second turnover in which the labeled plasma was saturated wi...

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

authors： Skarberg K,Eng M,Huebers H,Marsaglia G,Finch C

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a tumor suppressor syndrome characterized by benign tumors in multiple organs, including the brain and kidney. TSC-associated tumors exhibit hyperactivation of mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1), a direct inhibitor of autophagy. Autophagy can either promote or inhibit ...

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

authors： Parkhitko A,Myachina F,Morrison TA,Hindi KM,Auricchio N,Karbowniczek M,Wu JJ,Finkel T,Kwiatkowski DJ,Yu JJ,Henske EP

更新日期：2011-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein biosynthesis, the translation of the genetic code into polypeptides, occurs on ribonucleoprotein particles called ribosomes. Although X-ray structures of bacterial ribosomes are available, high-resolution structures of eukaryotic 80S ribosomes are lacking. Using cryoelectron microscopy and single-particle reco...

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

authors： Armache JP,Jarasch A,Anger AM,Villa E,Becker T,Bhushan S,Jossinet F,Habeck M,Dindar G,Franckenberg S,Marquez V,Mielke T,Thomm M,Berninghausen O,Beatrix B,Söding J,Westhof E,Wilson DN,Beckmann R

更新日期：2010-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique for systematic peptide variation by a combination of rational and evolutionary approaches is presented. The design scheme consists of five consecutive steps: (i) identification of a "seed peptide" with a desired activity, (ii) generation of variants selected from a physicochemical space around the seed pep...

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

authors： Schneider G,Schrödl W,Wallukat G,Müller J,Nissen E,Rönspeck W,Wrede P,Kunze R

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrimethamine (Pyr) targets dihydrofolate reductase of Plasmodium vivax (PvDHFR) as well as other malarial parasites, but its use as antimalarial is hampered by the widespread high resistance. Comparison of the crystal structures of PvDHFR from wild-type and the Pyr-resistant (SP21, Ser-58 --> Arg + Ser-117 --> Asn) s...

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

authors： Kongsaeree P,Khongsuk P,Leartsakulpanich U,Chitnumsub P,Tarnchompoo B,Walkinshaw MD,Yuthavong Y

更新日期：2005-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) is being used to develop methods to control pests and disease vectors. RNAi is robust and systemic in coleopteran insects but is quite variable in other insects. The determinants of efficient RNAi in coleopterans, as well as its potential mechanisms of resistance, are not known. RNAi screen ide...

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

authors： Yoon JS,Mogilicherla K,Gurusamy D,Chen X,Chereddy SCRR,Palli SR

更新日期：2018-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The chronic use of several drugs, including opiates, results in the stereotypical behaviors characteristic of addiction. Alterations in gene expression have been associated with the use of these addictive drugs. Previous studies, however, have been limited to describing changes in amounts of individual mRNAs from sing...

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

authors： Mackler SA,Eberwine JH

更新日期：1994-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to mechanisms mediating uptake of intracellular bacterial pathogens, bacterial egress and cell-to-cell transmission are poorly understood. Previously, we showed that the transmission of pathogenic mycobacteria between phagocytic cells also depends on nonlytic ejection through an F-actin based structure, ca...

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

authors： Gerstenmaier L,Pilla R,Herrmann L,Herrmann H,Prado M,Villafano GJ,Kolonko M,Reimer R,Soldati T,King JS,Hagedorn M

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:It was previously shown that coexpression of the lactose permease of Escherichia coli in two contiguous fragments leads to functional complementation. We demonstrate here that site-directed thiol crosslinking of coexpressed permease fragments can be used to determine helix proximity in situ without the necessity of pu...

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

authors： Wu J,Kaback HR

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Lithium is the most commonly used drug for the treatment of manic depressive illness. The precise mechanisms underlying its clinical efficacy remain unknown. We found that long-term exposure to lithium chloride dramatically protects cultured rat cerebellar, cerebral cortical, and hippocampal neurons against glutamate-...

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

authors： Nonaka S,Hough CJ,Chuang DM

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The intrinsic role of endogenous IL-17A in spontaneous intestinal tumorigenesis has not been addressed previously to our knowledge. Ablation of IL-17A significantly reduced tumor development in mice bearing a heterozygote mutation in the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene (Apc(Min/+) mice). There was also a decreas...

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

authors： Chae WJ,Gibson TF,Zelterman D,Hao L,Henegariu O,Bothwell AL

更新日期：2010-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum RNase (ribonuclease) of normal persons and of patients with pancreatitis, carcinoma of pancreas, or other neoplasms was determined with poly(C) as substrate. Strikingly abnormal elevations occur in the serum RNase of patients with pancreatic cancer. There is no elevation in the serum RNase level of patients with...

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

authors： Reddi KK,Holland JF

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00