Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide protects rat cerebellar granule neurons against ethanol-induced apoptotic cell death.

abstract：:A comprehensive nonredundant database of 475 cocrystallized protein-protein complexes was used to study low-resolution recognition, which was reported in earlier docking experiments with a small number of proteins. The docking program GRAMM was used to delete the atom-size structural details and systematically dock th...

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

authors： Vakser IA,Matar OG,Lam CF

更新日期：1999-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the relationship of genetic factors determining the expression of endogenous type-C RNA tumor viruses and other host-gene markers to tumorigenesis. A hybridization experiment was performed with mice of strains AKR/J and C57L, the first filial (F(1)) generation hybrids, the second filial (F(2)) generation h...

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

authors： Meier H,Taylor BA,Cherry M,Buebner RJ

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:p150Glued was first identified as a polypeptide that copurifies with cytoplasmic dynein, the minus-end-directed microtubule-based motor protein, and has more recently been shown to be present as a member of the oligomeric dynactin complex, which includes the actin-related protein centractin (Arp-1). Dynactin is though...

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

authors： Waterman-Storer CM,Karki S,Holzbaur EL

更新日期：1995-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:During the late summer to fall of 1987, Caribbean reef corals experienced an intense and widespread discoloration event described as bleaching. Contrary to initial predictions, most bleached corals did not die. However, energy input from zooxanthellae decreased, as estimated from: (i) delta(13)C values, a measure of t...

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

authors： Porter JW,Fitt WK,Spero HJ,Rogers CS,White MW

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Constitutive cyclooxygenase (COX-1; prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthase, EC 1.14.99.1) is present in cells under physiological conditions, whereas COX-2 is induced by some cytokines, mitogens, and endotoxin presumably in pathological conditions, such as inflammation. Therefore, we have assessed the relative inhibitory...

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

authors： Mitchell JA,Akarasereenont P,Thiemermann C,Flower RJ,Vane JR

更新日期：1993-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sialic acid-recognizing Ig-like lectins (Siglecs) are signaling receptors that modulate immune responses, and are targeted for interactions by certain pathogens. We describe two primate Siglecs that were rendered nonfunctional by single genetic events during hominin evolution after our common ancestor with the chimpan...

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

authors： Wang X,Mitra N,Secundino I,Banda K,Cruz P,Padler-Karavani V,Verhagen A,Reid C,Lari M,Rizzi E,Balsamo C,Corti G,De Bellis G,Longo L,NISC Comparative Sequencing Program.,Beggs W,Caramelli D,Tishkoff SA,Hayakawa T,Gree

更新日期：2012-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinoblastoma gene product (the RB protein) is phosphorylated in a cell cycle-dependent manner and this modification is believed to be important for cells to progress through the cell cycle. We found that purified cdk2 (cyclin-dependent kinase/cell division kinase 2) can phosphorylate the RB protein in vitro at t...

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

authors： Akiyama T,Ohuchi T,Sumida S,Matsumoto K,Toyoshima K

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The second critical endpoint in the basalt-H(2)O system was directly determined by a high-pressure and high-temperature X-ray radiography technique. We found that the second critical endpoint occurs at around 3.4 GPa and 770 °C (corresponding to a depth of approximately 100 km in a subducting slab), which is much shal...

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

authors： Mibe K,Kawamoto T,Matsukage KN,Fei Y,Ono S

更新日期：2011-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythroid cells which are homogeneous with regard to stage of maturation are naturally available from the circulation of chick embryos at various times of development. This provides a convenient system for examining the changes in plasma membrane protein composition during red cell maturation. Plasma membranes are iso...

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

authors： Chan LL

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans are consciously aware of some memories and can make verbal reports about these memories. Other memories cannot be brought to consciousness, even though they influence behavior. This conspicuous difference in access to memories is central in taxonomies of human memory systems but has been difficult to document i...

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

authors： Hampton RR

更新日期：2001-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenotype of several erythromycin-resistant mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardi was further characterized in terms of the electrophoretic properties of their chloroplast ribosomal proteins. In mutant ery-M2d a single protein of the large (52 S) subunit has altered properties, which probably result from a change in ...

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

authors： Mets L,Bogorad L

更新日期：1972-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeostasis is indispensable to counteract the destabilizing effects of Hebbian plasticity. Although it is commonly assumed that homeostasis modulates synaptic strength, membrane excitability, and firing rates, its role at the neural circuit and network level is unknown. Here, we identify changes in higher-order netwo...

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

authors： Wu YK,Hengen KB,Turrigiano GG,Gjorgjieva J

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemokine stromal cell-derived factor 1, SDF-1, is an important regulator of leukocyte and hematopoietic precursor migration and pre-B cell proliferation. The receptor for SDF-1, CXCR4, also functions as a coreceptor for T-tropic HIV-1 entry. We find that mice deficient for CXCR4 die perinatally and display profou...

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

authors： Ma Q,Jones D,Borghesani PR,Segal RA,Nagasawa T,Kishimoto T,Bronson RT,Springer TA

更新日期：1998-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae has a complex system for switching the mating type of haploid cells, requiring the genome to have three mating-type (MAT)-like loci and a mechanism for silencing two of them. How this system originated is unknown, because the three-locus system is present throughout the family Saccharomycetace...

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

authors： Hanson SJ,Byrne KP,Wolfe KH

更新日期：2014-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:To facilitate analysis of plant cell wall polysaccharide structure and composition, we cloned 74 genes encoding polysaccharide-degrading enzymes from Aspergillus nidulans, Aspergillus fumigatus, and Neurospora crassa and expressed the genes as secreted proteins with C-terminal Myc and 6x His tags. Most of the recombin...

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

authors： Bauer S,Vasu P,Persson S,Mort AJ,Somerville CR

更新日期：2006-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied visual perception using an annular random-dot motion stimulus called the racetrack. We recorded neural activity using magnetoencephalography while subjects viewed variants of this stimulus that contained no inherent motion or various degrees of embedded motion. Subjects reported seeing rotary motion during ...

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

authors： Crowe DA,Leuthold AC,Georgopoulos AP

更新日期：2010-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Transport of L-glutamine and of the chloroketone glutamine analog L-2-amino-4-oxo-5-chloropentanoate into lymphoid cells is mediated by the same system. Arginine and a number of other amino acids (e.g., glutamate, aspartate, and lysine) are transported to a much lesser extent by this system. However, after uptake of t...

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

authors： Novogrodsky A,Nehring RE Jr,Meister A

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical deforestation for the establishment of tree cash crop plantations causes significant alterations to soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics. Despite this recognition, the current Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) tier 1 method has a SOC change factor of 1 (no SOC loss) for conversion of forests to p...

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

authors： van Straaten O,Corre MD,Wolf K,Tchienkoua M,Cuellar E,Matthews RB,Veldkamp E

更新日期：2015-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The ever-increasing industrial demand for nylon-6 (polycaprolactam) necessitates the development of environmentally benign methods of producing its precursor, epsilon-caprolactam, from cyclohexanone. It is currently manufactured in two popular double-step processes, each of which uses highly aggressive reagents, and e...

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

authors： Thomas JM,Raja R

更新日期：2005-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Monospecific antibodies were produced in vitro by fusing mouse myeloma cells with spleen cells from a BALB/c mouse immunized with rat skeletal myofibrils. After cloning 3 times on agarose, two stable clones were obtained and chosen for further characterization. The first clone, JLB1, produced an antibody that recogniz...

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

authors： Lin JJ

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social ties are crucial for physical and mental health. However, psychiatric patients frequently encounter social rejection. Moreover, an increased reactivity to social exclusion influences the development, progression, and treatment of various psychiatric disorders. Nevertheless, the neuromodulatory substrates of rej...

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

authors： Preller KH,Pokorny T,Hock A,Kraehenmann R,Stämpfli P,Seifritz E,Scheidegger M,Vollenweider FX

更新日期：2016-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:L-Asparaginase (EC 3.5.1.1) inhibited respiration in sensitive, but not resistant, lines of murine lymphoma 6C3HED. Glucose, in these tumor lines, was principally converted to lactate, and very little was oxidized in the citric acid cycle or hexose monophosphate shunt. The cells derived 70-80% of their respiratory CO(...

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

authors： Lavietes BB,Regan DH,Demopoulos HB

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The H2O2-requiring ligninase of the basidiomycete Phanerochaete chrysosporium oxidatively cleaves both lignin and lignin model compounds between C alpha and C beta (C-1 and C-2) of their aliphatic side chains. Previous work has demonstrated a reaction mechanism by which ligninase oxidizes aromatic substrates to their ...

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

authors： Hammel KE,Kalyanaraman B,Kirk TK

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of glycine receptors (GlyRs) from newborn and adult rat spinal cord were studied in Xenopus oocytes injected with whole mRNA or the heavy (H) or light (L) mRNA fractions encoding their respective GlyRs. Mean open times and conductances of channels gated by H- or L-GlyRs were determined by noise analysis...

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

authors： Morales A,Nguyen QT,Miledi R

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonenzymatic manganese was first shown to provide protection against superoxide toxicity in vivo in 1981, but the chemical mechanism responsible for this protection subsequently became controversial due to conflicting reports concerning the ability of Mn to catalyze superoxide disproportionation in vitro. In a recent ...

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

authors： Barnese K,Gralla EB,Valentine JS,Cabelli DE

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fertilization and certain later stages in mammalian embryonic development require fusion between membranes of individual cells. The mechanism of eukaryotic cell-cell fusion is unknown, and no surface molecules required for this process have been unequivocally identified. The role of the sperm surface protein fertilin ...

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

authors： Myles DG,Kimmel LH,Blobel CP,White JM,Primakoff P

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In a subtropical gyre, the convergent Ekman layer forces water downward into the geostrophic flow below. The properties and depth of the mixed layer vary considerably during the course of the year, but this variability does not penetrate into the geostrophic region. Evidently there is some process at work that selects...

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

authors： Stommel H

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage 434 encodes a repressor that, like bacteriophage lambda repressor, both activates and represses transcription. As in the lambda chromosome, a region of the 434 chromosome, called the right operator, contains three repressor binding sites (OR1, OR2, and OR3) that mediate these effects on two adjacent prom...

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

authors： Bushman FD,Ptashne M

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement system has evolved to annul pathogens, but its improper regulation is linked with diseases. Efficient regulation of the system is primarily provided by a family of proteins termed regulators of complement activation (RCA). The knowledge of precise structural determinants of RCA proteins critical for imp...

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

authors： Gautam AK,Panse Y,Ghosh P,Reza MJ,Mullick J,Sahu A

更新日期：2015-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The human beta(2)-adrenergic receptor gene has multiple single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), but the relevance of chromosomally phased SNPs (haplotypes) is not known. The phylogeny and the in vitro and in vivo consequences of variations in the 5' upstream and ORF were delineated in a multiethnic reference populatio...

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

authors： Drysdale CM,McGraw DW,Stack CB,Stephens JC,Judson RS,Nandabalan K,Arnold K,Ruano G,Liggett SB

更新日期：2000-09-12 00:00:00