The hemochromatosis protein HFE inhibits iron export from macrophages.

abstract：:Population intelligence quotients increased throughout the 20th century-a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect-although recent years have seen a slowdown or reversal of this trend in several countries. To distinguish between the large set of proposed explanations, we categorize hypothesized causal factors by whether t...

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

authors： Bratsberg B,Rogeberg O

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A powerful way to deal with a complex system is to build a coarse-grained model capable of catching its main physical features, while being computationally affordable. Inevitably, such coarse-grained models introduce a set of phenomenological parameters, which are often not easily deducible from the underlying atomist...

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

authors： Invernizzi M,Valsson O,Parrinello M

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cercospora nicotianae SOR1 (singlet oxygen resistance) gene was identified previously as a gene involved in resistance of this fungus to singlet-oxygen-generating phototoxins. Although homologues to SOR1 occur in organisms in four kingdoms and encode one of the most highly conserved proteins yet identified, the pr...

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

authors： Ehrenshaft M,Bilski P,Li MY,Chignell CF,Daub ME

更新日期：1999-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of selected heme analogues on heme oxygenase activity in tissues and on human and rabbit bone marrow hematopoietic colony growth were examined. Zinc protoporphyrin (ZnPP) and zinc mesoporphyrin (ZnMP), at concentrations ranging between 1 and 20 microM, produced significant inhibition of human and rabbit bo...

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

authors： Lutton JD,Abraham NG,Drummond GS,Levere RD,Kappas A

更新日期：1997-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The G12 subfamily of heterotrimeric G proteins, comprised of the alpha-subunits Galpha12 and Galpha13, has been implicated as a signaling component in cellular processes ranging from cytoskeletal changes to cell growth and oncogenesis. In an attempt to elucidate specific roles of this subfamily in cell regulation, we ...

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

authors： Meigs TE,Fields TA,McKee DD,Casey PJ

更新日期：2001-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In all but the poorest countries of South Asia and Africa, the supply and quality of food will rise to meet the demand. Biotechnology, accelerated by genomics, will create wealth for both producers and consumers by reducing the cost and increasing the quality of food. Famine and malnutrition in the poorest countries m...

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

authors： Briggs SP

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:As root symbionts of cycad trees, cyanobacteria of the genus Nostoc produce beta-methylamino-l-alanine (BMAA), a neurotoxic nonprotein amino acid. The biomagnification of BMAA through the Guam ecosystem fits a classic triangle of increasing concentrations of toxic compounds up the food chain. However, because BMAA is ...

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

authors： Murch SJ,Cox PA,Banack SA

更新日期：2004-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells transformed by the oncogenic virus SV40 are known to contain viral DNA integrated into cellular DNA and to produce virus-specific RNA. It has been shown that nuclear molecules containing virus-specific sequences are considerably longer than presumed virus-specific mRNA molecules from cytoplasmic polyribosomes. T...

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

authors： Lindberg U,Darnell JE

更新日期：1970-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen atoms constitute about half of all atoms in proteins and play a critical role in enzyme mechanisms and macromolecular and solvent structure. Hydrogen atom positions can readily be determined by neutron diffraction, and as such, neutron diffraction is an invaluable tool for elucidating molecular mechanisms. Jo...

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

authors： Blum MM,Mustyakimov M,Rüterjans H,Kehe K,Schoenborn BP,Langan P,Chen JC

更新日期：2009-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Newly emerging plants provide the best forage for herbivores. To exploit this fleeting resource, migrating herbivores align their movements to surf the wave of spring green-up. With new technology to track migrating animals, the Green Wave Hypothesis has steadily gained empirical support across a diversity of migrator...

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

authors： Geremia C,Merkle JA,Eacker DR,Wallen RL,White PJ,Hebblewhite M,Kauffman MJ

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe an algorithm to compute trisections of orientable four-manifolds using arbitrary triangulations as input. This results in explicit complexity bounds for the trisection genus of a 4-manifold in terms of the number of pentachora (4-simplices) in a triangulation. ...

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

authors： Bell M,Hass J,Rubinstein JH,Tillmann S

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse serosal mast cells (SMCs) and Kirsten sarcoma virus-immortalized mast cells store large amounts of mast cell carboxypeptidase A and serine proteases in their secretory granules. Secretory granule proteins from 2.6 x 10(6) purified SMCs were separated by NaDodSO4/PAGE, trans-blotted to poly(vinylidine difluoride)...

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

authors： Reynolds DS,Stevens RL,Lane WS,Carr MH,Austen KF,Serafin WE

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-terminal arginine-rich motif of phage HK022 Nun protein binds to NUT sequences in phage lambda nascent transcripts and induces transcription termination. Interactions between the Nun C terminus and RNA polymerase as well as the DNA template are required for termination. We have isolated Nun C-terminal point and ...

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

authors： Kim HC,Zhou JG,Wilson HR,Mogilnitskiy G,Court DL,Gottesman ME

更新日期：2003-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells obtained from normal human skin synthesize predominantly type I collogen in culture. Cells obtained from the skin of an infant with a severe form of osteogenesis imperfecta were found to synthesize as much type III as type I collagen. Decreased synthesis of type I collagen could explain the tissue fragility obse...

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

authors： Penttinen RP,Lichtenstein JR,Martin GR,McKusick VA

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four different human cell lines transformed by simian virus 40 (SV40) were tested for their tumorigenicity in athymic nude mice. Two of these lines, W18Va2 and GM52VA, were found to be tumorigenic when inoculated at a concentration of 1 x 10(7) cells per mouse. The other two cell lines, LN-SV and GM54VA, were found to...

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

authors： Koprowski H,Croce CM

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein methylation reaction involved in chemotaxis of Escherichia coli has been identified. The involvement of this reaction in chemotaxis in indicated by four lines of evidence. (a) The methylation reaction is altered in several classes of generally nonchemotactic mutants and is coreverted with the chemotaxis defe...

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

authors： Kort EN,Goy MF,Larsen SH,Adler J

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a model to explain how the neurosecretory system of aquatic mollusks generates their diversity of shell structures and pigmentation patterns. The anatomical and physiological basis of this model sets it apart from other models used to explain shape and pattern. The model reproduces most known shell shapes a...

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

authors： Boettiger A,Ermentrout B,Oster G

更新日期：2009-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein sequences are often highly redundant and evolution can change them beyond recognition. It can therefore be difficult to identify proteins with functional or structural similarities by inspection of their sequences. Here we have used an experimental evolutionary approach to detect hidden similarities between th...

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

authors： Christ D,Winter G

更新日期：2003-11-11 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：:Mucolipidosis III (ML III), or pseudo-Hurler polydystrophy, is an inherited childhood disorder characterized biochemically by low activities and abnormal electrophoretic patterns of multiple lysosomal enzymes in fibroblasts. The primary deficiency of ML III has been proposed to be in UDP-N-acetylglucosamine:lysosomal ...

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

authors： Honey NK,Mueller OT,Little LE,Miller AL,Shows TB

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic stress is known to promote inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but the underlying mechanism remains largely unresolved. Here, we found chronic stress to sensitize mice to dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis; to increase the infiltration of B cells, neutrophils, and proinflammatory ly6Chi macrophages in ...

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

authors： Gao X,Cao Q,Cheng Y,Zhao D,Wang Z,Yang H,Wu Q,You L,Wang Y,Lin Y,Li X,Wang Y,Bian JS,Sun D,Kong L,Birnbaumer L,Yang Y

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Septins assemble into filaments and higher-order structures that act as scaffolds for diverse cell functions including cytokinesis, cell polarity, and membrane remodeling. Despite their conserved role in cell organization, little is known about how septin filaments elongate and are knitted together into higher-order a...

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

authors： Bridges AA,Zhang H,Mehta SB,Occhipinti P,Tani T,Gladfelter AS

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Chorismate mutase acts at the first branch-point of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis and catalyzes the conversion of chorismate to prephenate. The results of molecular dynamics simulations of the substrate in solution and in the active site of chorismate mutase are reported. Two nonreactive conformers of chorismate ar...

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

authors： Guo H,Cui Q,Lipscomb WN,Karplus M

更新日期：2001-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b protein (LHCP) is an integral thylakoid membrane protein. It is made in the cytosol as a precursor (pLHCP), imported into chloroplasts, and subsequently integrated into thylakoids. Integration of pLHCP into thylakoids requires a stromal protein factor that functions in part to main...

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

authors： Yuan J,Henry R,Cline K

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A de novo mutation in the KCND2 gene, which encodes the Kv4.2 K+ channel, was identified in twin boys with intractable, infant-onset epilepsy and autism. Kv4.2 channels undergo closed-state inactivation (CSI), a mechanism by which channels inactivate without opening during subthreshold depolarizations. CSI dynamically...

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

authors： Lin MA,Cannon SC,Papazian DM

更新日期：2018-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The photoproduct of carbon monoxide myoglobin generated at 4 K and lower has a resonance Raman spectrum characteristic of a high-spin heme but in which the high-frequency core size-sensitive lines are at lower frequency than those in the deoxy preparation. Such differences are not detected in the photoproduct generate...

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

authors： Rousseau DL,Argade PV

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a T cell-regulated, antibody-mediated autoimmune disease. Two peptides representing sequences of the human acetylcholine receptor alpha-subunit, p195-212 and p259-271, were previously shown to stimulate peripheral blood lymphocytes of patients with MG and were found to be immunodominant T cel...

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

authors： Katz-Levy Y,Paas-Rozner M,Kirshner S,Dayan M,Zisman E,Fridkin M,Wirguin I,Sela M,Mozes E

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We obtain a classification of the irreducible (nonunitary) representations of a connected semisimple Lie group G, in terms of their restriction to a maximal compact subgroup K of G. (A classification in terms of analytic properties of the representations has been given by R. P. Langlands [(1973), mimeographed notes, I...

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

authors： Vogan DA

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infected cell protein 0 (ICP0) is a 775-residue multifunctional herpes simplex virus protein associated with numerous functions related to transactivation of gene expression and repression of host defenses to infection. We report that an uncharted domain of ICP0 located between residues 245 and 510 contains multiple S...

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

authors： Liang Y,Kurakin A,Roizman B

更新日期：2005-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical severity of the neurodegenerative disorder spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is dependent on the levels of functional Survival Motor Neuron (SMN) protein. Consequently, current strategies for developing treatments for SMA generally focus on augmenting SMN levels. To identify additional potential therapeutic a...

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

authors： Sen A,Dimlich DN,Guruharsha KG,Kankel MW,Hori K,Yokokura T,Brachat S,Richardson D,Loureiro J,Sivasankaran R,Curtis D,Davidow LS,Rubin LL,Hart AC,Van Vactor D,Artavanis-Tsakonas S

更新日期：2013-06-25 00:00:00