Deficient Smad7 expression: a putative molecular defect in scleroderma.

abstract：:Chronic psychosocial stress/trauma represents an increasing burden in our modern society and a risk factor for the development of mental disorders, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD, in turn, is highly comorbid with a plethora of inflammatory disorders and has been associated with increased bone fra...

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

authors： Haffner-Luntzer M,Foertsch S,Fischer V,Prystaz K,Tschaffon M,Mödinger Y,Bahney CS,Marcucio RS,Miclau T,Ignatius A,Reber SO

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin V, a double-headed molecular motor, transports organelles within cells by walking processively along actin, a process that requires coordination between the heads. To understand the mechanism underlying this coordination, processive runs of single myosin V molecules were perturbed by varying nucleotide content....

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

authors： Baker JE,Krementsova EB,Kennedy GG,Armstrong A,Trybus KM,Warshaw DM

更新日期：2004-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain reduction and enhancement can be produced by means of conditioning procedures, yet the role of awareness during the acquisition stage of classical conditioning is unknown. We used psychophysical measures to establish whether conditioned analgesic and hyperalgesic responses could be acquired by unseen (subliminall...

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

authors： Jensen K,Kirsch I,Odmalm S,Kaptchuk TJ,Ingvar M

更新日期：2015-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate constants for CO binding to the five-coordinate ferrous iron complexes of 5,10,15,20-[pyromellitoyl(tetrakis-o-oxyoxyphenyl)]porphyrin and 5,10,15,20-[pyromellitoyl(tetrakis-o-oxypropoxyphenyl)]porphyrin have been measured and compared with the corresponding rate constants for other hemes and hemoproteins. Th...

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

authors： Rose EJ,Venkatasubramanian PN,Swartz JC,Jones RD,Basolo F,Hoffman BM

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A somatic mutation in the X linked PIGA gene is responsible for the deficiency of glycosyl phosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored proteins on blood cells from patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria. No inherited form of GPI-anchor deficiency has been described. Because conventional Piga gene knockout is associ...

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

authors： Keller P,Tremml G,Rosti V,Bessler M

更新日期：1999-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:TREK channels produce background currents that regulate cell excitability. These channels are sensitive to a wide variety of stimuli including polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), phospholipids, mechanical stretch, and intracellular acidification. They are inhibited by neurotransmitters, hormones, and pharmacological ...

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

authors： Sandoz G,Bell SC,Isacoff EY

更新日期：2011-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) have been found as monomers but also as dimers or higher-order oligomers in cells. The relevance of the monomeric or dimeric receptor state for G protein activation is currently under debate for class A rhodopsin-like GPCRs. Clarification of this issue requires the availability of w...

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

authors： White JF,Grodnitzky J,Louis JM,Trinh LB,Shiloach J,Gutierrez J,Northup JK,Grisshammer R

更新日期：2007-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-component signal transduction systems are most often found in prokaryotic organisms where they are responsible for mediating the cellular responses to many environmental stimuli. These systems are composed of an autophosphorylating histidine kinase and a response regulator. We have found evidence for the existence...

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

authors： Alex LA,Borkovich KA,Simon MI

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Deoxy-D-[14C]glucose autoradiography was used in awake rats to map neural activity in the sensorimotor sector of striatum. Stimulation of hindlimb, trunk, or forelimb activated primary sensory cortex in a localized columnar pattern, indicating activation of somatosensory receptors and a discrete cortical functional ...

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

authors： Brown LL

更新日期：1992-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomic sequences encoding the human lysosomal acid lipase/cholesteryl esterase (sterol esterase; EC 3.1.1.13) have been isolated and sequenced, and the information has been used to identify mutations in both alleles of the gene from a patient with Wolman disease, an autosomal recessive lysosomal lipid storage dis...

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

authors： Anderson RA,Byrum RS,Coates PM,Sando GN

更新日期：1994-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain continuously influences and perceives the physiological condition of the body. Related cortical representations have been proposed to shape emotional experience and guide behavior. Although previous studies have identified brain regions recruited during autonomic processing, neurological lesion studies have ...

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

authors： Guo CC,Sturm VE,Zhou J,Gennatas ED,Trujillo AJ,Hua AY,Crawford R,Stables L,Kramer JH,Rankin K,Levenson RW,Rosen HJ,Miller BL,Seeley WW

更新日期：2016-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta nerve growth factor (NGF), a target-derived protein necessary for survival and development of sympathetic and sensory neurons, can also affect subpopulations of neurons in the central nervous system (CNS). Using a blot hybridization assay capable of detecting 10 fg of mRNA, we measured the levels of NGF mRNA in t...

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

authors： Shelton DL,Reichardt LF

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The explosive growth in our knowledge of genomes, proteomes, and metabolomes is driving ever-increasing fundamental understanding of the biochemistry of life, enabling qualitatively new studies of complex biological systems and their evolution. This knowledge also drives modern biotechnologies, such as molecular engin...

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

authors： Agresti JJ,Antipov E,Abate AR,Ahn K,Rowat AC,Baret JC,Marquez M,Klibanov AM,Griffiths AD,Weitz DA

更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of tuberculous meningitis, a devastating complication of tuberculosis in man, is poorly understood. We previously reported that rabbits with experimental tuberculous meningitis were protected from death by a combination of antibiotics and thalidomide therapy. Survival was associated with inhibition of...

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

authors： Tsenova L,Bergtold A,Freedman VH,Young RA,Kaplan G

更新日期：1999-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Different experimental structures of the same protein or of proteins with high sequence similarity contain many small variations. Here we construct ensembles of "high-sequence similarity Protein Data Bank" (HSP) structures and consider the extent to which such ensembles represent the structural heterogeneity of the na...

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

authors： Best RB,Lindorff-Larsen K,DePristo MA,Vendruscolo M

更新日期：2006-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:An src/yes-related novel gene named syn (SYN in human gene nomenclature) has been identified in the human genome on chromosome 6 and characterized by molecular cloning. Nucleotide sequence analysis of cDNA clones showed that the c-syn gene could encode a protein-tyrosine kinase that is very similar in primary structur...

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

authors： Semba K,Nishizawa M,Miyajima N,Yoshida MC,Sukegawa J,Yamanashi Y,Sasaki M,Yamamoto T,Toyoshima K

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) appears to mediate the rapid increase in pregnenolone synthesis stimulated by tropic hormones. cDNAs encoding StAR were isolated from a human adrenal cortex library. Human StAR, coexpressed in COS-1 cells with cytochrome P450scc and adrenodoxin, increased pregnenolone synt...

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

authors： Sugawara T,Holt JA,Driscoll D,Strauss JF 3rd,Lin D,Miller WL,Patterson D,Clancy KP,Hart IM,Clark BJ

更新日期：1995-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine suppressor T-cell hybridoma cells (231F1) secrete not only bioactive glycosylation-inhibiting factor (GIF) but also an inactive peptide comparable to bioactive GIF peptide in its molecular size and reactivity with anti-GIF; the amino acid sequence of the inactive peptide is identical to that of the bioactive ho...

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

authors： Nakano T,Liu YC,Mikayama T,Watarai H,Taniguchi M,Ishizaka K

更新日期：1995-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium kluyveri grown in the presence of 1 muM Na2(75)SeO3 produces a thiolase that copurifies with 75Se. Based on several criteria, the selenium moiety in this protein is selenomethionine. The 75Se-labeled amino acid in acid hydrolysates of the radioactive protein cochromatographed with authentic selenomethionin...

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

authors： Hartmanis MG,Stadtman TC

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth factor-induced signals govern the expression of three D-type cyclins, which, in turn, function as regulatory subunits of cyclin-dependent kinases (cdks) to control cell cycle transitions during the late G1 interval. 32D myeloid cells, which self-renew as uncommitted precursors in interleukin 3 (IL-3), express c...

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

authors： Kato JY,Sherr CJ

更新日期：1993-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Papain solubilized H-2a histocompatibility antigens (H-2Kk plus H-2Dd) have been purified by a large-scale procedure that can routinely provide 2-3 mg of heavy chain from 1 kg of mouse liver. The heavy chains were homogeneous by sodium dodecyl sulfate electrophoresis. Disc gel electrophoresis resolved two protein band...

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

authors： Henriksen O,Robinson EA,Appella E

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD), characterized by cognitive decline, has emerged as a disease of synaptic failure. The present study reveals an unanticipated role of erythropoietin-producing hepatocellular A4 (EphA4) in mediating hippocampal synaptic dysfunctions in AD and demonstrates that blockade of the ligand-binding dom...

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

authors： Fu AK,Hung KW,Huang H,Gu S,Shen Y,Cheng EY,Ip FC,Huang X,Fu WY,Ip NY

更新日期：2014-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Class I phosphoinositide 3-kinase contains four isoforms of the catalytic subunit, p110alpha, -beta, -gamma, and -delta. At physiological levels of expression, the wild-type p110alpha isoform lacks oncogenic potential, but gain-of-function mutations and overexpression of p110alpha are correlated with oncogenicity. The...

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

authors： Kang S,Denley A,Vanhaesebroeck B,Vogt PK

更新日期：2006-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Several gene fusions have been constructed in which coding sequences for antigenic regions of the pre-S sequences of hepatitis B virus, hepatitis B surface antigen, and the envelope protein of human immunodeficiency virus were linked to the 3' end of that for the first 144 residues of hepatitis B core antigen. The seq...

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

authors： Stahl SJ,Murray K

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of monoclonal antibodies was used to define three discrete stages of human intrathymic T-cell differentiation. The earliest stage was confined to <10% of thymocytes, which were.reactive with both OKT9 and OKT10. Subsequently, approximately 70% of human thymocytes acquired a thymocyte-restricted antigen, OKT6,...

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

authors： Reinherz EL,Kung PC,Goldstein G,Levey RH,Schlossman SF

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spo11 and the Rad50-Mre11 complex have been indirectly implicated in processes associated with DNA replication. These proteins also have been shown to have early meiotic roles essential for the formation of a programmed DNA double-strand break known in Saccharomyces cerevisiae to initiate meiotic recombination. In bot...

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

authors： Merino ST,Cummings WJ,Acharya SN,Zolan ME

更新日期：2000-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA) is a P-type ATPase that transports Ca2+ from the cytosol into the sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum (SR/ER) lumen, driven by ATP. This primary transport activity depends on tight coupling between movements of the transmembrane helices forming the two Ca2+-binding sites a...

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

authors： Geurts MMG,Clausen JD,Arnou B,Montigny C,Lenoir G,Corey RA,Jaxel C,Møller JV,Nissen P,Andersen JP,le Maire M,Bublitz M

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:SLAM (signaling lymphocyte activation molecule)-associated protein (SAP) is a Src homology 2 (SH2) domain-containing adaptor expressed in T cells and natural killer cells. Its essential role in immune responses is underscored by the recent finding that mutations in SAP result in a rare but fatal X-linked lymphoprolife...

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

authors： Gu C,Tangye SG,Sun X,Luo Y,Lin Z,Wu J

更新日期：2006-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional activation of the HIV type 1 (HIV-1) long terminal repeat (LTR) promoter element by the viral Tat protein is an essential step in the HIV-1 life cycle. Tat function is mediated by the TAR RNA target element encoded within the LTR and is known to require the recruitment of a complex consisting of Tat an...

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

authors： Bieniasz PD,Grdina TA,Bogerd HP,Cullen BR

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A close correlation was observed between intracellular Ca2+ pool depletion and refilling and the onset of DNA synthesis and proliferation of DDT1MF-2 smooth muscle cells. The intracellular Ca2+ pump inhibitors 2,5-di-tert-butyl-hydroquinone (DBHQ) and thapsigargin (TG) specifically emptied identical inositol 1,4,5-tri...

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

authors： Short AD,Bian J,Ghosh TK,Waldron RT,Rybak SL,Gill DL

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00