Papillomavirus L1 major capsid protein self-assembles into virus-like particles that are highly immunogenic.

abstract：:The heptadecapeptide orphanin FQ (OFQ) is a recently discovered neuropeptide that exhibits structural features reminiscent of the opioid peptides and that is an endogenous ligand to a G protein-coupled receptor sequentially related to the opioid receptors. We have cloned both the human and rat cDNAs encoding the OFQ p...

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

authors： Nothacker HP,Reinscheid RK,Mansour A,Henningsen RA,Ardati A,Monsma FJ Jr,Watson SJ,Civelli O

更新日期：1996-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor VIII (antihemophilic factor) is a high molecular weight plasma glycoprotein that participates in the blood clotting cascade. The recent cloning and sequence analysis of the cDNA encoding human factor VIII revealed an obvious domain structure for the protein, which can be represented as A1-A2-B-A3-C1-C2. We now ...

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

authors： Toole JJ,Pittman DD,Orr EC,Murtha P,Wasley LC,Kaufman RJ

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the human beta amyloid peptide (A beta) in transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans animals can lead to the formation of intracellular immunoreactive deposits as well as the formation of intracellular amyloid. We have used this model to identify proteins that interact with intracellular A beta in vivo. Mass spe...

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

authors： Fonte V,Kapulkin WJ,Taft A,Fluet A,Friedman D,Link CD

更新日期：2002-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We use age distributions of sea otters (Enhydra lutris) found dead on beaches of western Prince William Sound, Alaska, between 1976 and 1998 in conjunction with time-varying demographic models to test for lingering effects from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Our results show that sea otters in this area had decrease...

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

authors： Monson DH,Doak DF,Ballachey BE,Johnson A,Bodkin JL

更新日期：2000-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Human 15-lipoxygenase (h15-LO) is present on chromosome 17p13.3 in close proximity to the tumor-suppressor gene, p53. 15-LO is implicated in antiinflammation, membrane remodeling, and cancer development/metastasis. The murine BALB/c embryo fibroblast cell line, (10)1val, expresses p53 in mutant (mt) conformation when ...

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

authors： Kelavkar UP,Badr KF

更新日期：1999-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Seed plants vary tremendously in size and morphology; however, variation and covariation in plant traits may be governed, at least in part, by universal biophysical laws and biological constants. Metabolic scaling theory (MST) posits that whole-organismal metabolism and growth rate are under stabilizing selection that...

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

authors： Vasseur F,Exposito-Alonso M,Ayala-Garay OJ,Wang G,Enquist BJ,Vile D,Violle C,Weigel D

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A murine hybridoma-derived antibody (IPH.134) has been produced which has apparent high binding specificity for an extract of Schistosoma japonicum adult worms. No binding was detected to extracts of S. japonicum eggs or to extracts from other adult trematodes (Fasciola hepatica, Paragonimus westermanii, Clonorchis si...

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

authors： Mitchell GF,Cruise KM,Garcia EG,Anders RF

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have assayed carbonic anhydrase activity (carbonate dehydratase, carbonate hydro-lyase, EC 4.2.1.1) and bicarbonate permeability in suspensions of broken and intact guinea pig mitochondria by monitoring the disappearance of C16O18O. We found significant activity in preparations from liver and skeletal muscle, but n...

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

authors： Dodgson SJ,Forster RE 2nd,Storey BT,Mela L

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myeloid leukemia subtype M4 with eosinophilia is associated with a chromosome 16 inversion that creates a fusion gene CBFB-MYH11. We have previously shown that CBFB-MYH11 is necessary but not sufficient for leukemogenesis. Here, we report the identification of genes that specifically cooperate with CBFB-MYH11 in...

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

authors： Castilla LH,Perrat P,Martinez NJ,Landrette SF,Keys R,Oikemus S,Flanegan J,Heilman S,Garrett L,Dutra A,Anderson S,Pihan GA,Wolff L,Liu PP

更新日期：2004-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetic inhibition of the gelation of hemoglobin S is compared to the change in hemoglobin S soulbility, when the solubility is altered by carbon monoxide, pH, or urea. By means of a new technique, the delay time and the extent of gelation are measured on the same sample. They delay time, td, is found to be propor...

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

authors： Hofrichter J,Ross PD,Eaton WA

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of auditory sensitivity in terms of the cochlear potentials were made in young specimens of three species of crocodilians, Caiman crocodilus and Alligator mississipiensis of the subfamily Alligatorinae and Crocodylus acutus of the subfamily Crocodylinae. These species show considerable similarity in their...

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

authors： Wever EG

更新日期：1971-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurological dysfunction caused by traumatic brain injury results in profound changes in net synaptic efficacy, leading to impaired cognition. Because excitability is directly controlled by the balance of excitatory and inhibitory activity, underlying mechanisms causing these changes were investigated using lateral fl...

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

authors： Cole JT,Mitala CM,Kundu S,Verma A,Elkind JA,Nissim I,Cohen AS

更新日期：2010-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Message passing is a fundamental technique for performing calculations on networks and graphs with applications in physics, computer science, statistics, and machine learning, including Bayesian inference, spin models, satisfiability, graph partitioning, network epidemiology, and the calculation of matrix eigenvalues....

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

authors： Cantwell GT,Newman MEJ

更新日期：2019-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A membrane-associated folate binding protein (FBP) and a soluble FBP, which is released into the culture medium, have been purified from human KB cells using affinity chromatography. By NaDodSO4/PAGE, both proteins have an apparent Mr of approximately 42,000. However, in the presence of Triton X-100, the soluble FBP e...

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

authors： Luhrs CA,Pitiranggon P,da Costa M,Rothenberg SP,Slomiany BL,Brink L,Tous GI,Stein S

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock locus V (HslV; also called ClpQ) is the proteolytic core of the ATP-dependent protease HslVU in Escherichia coli. It has sequence similarity with the beta-type subunits of the eukaryotic and archaebacterial proteasomes. Unlike these particles, which display 72-point symmetry, it is a dimer of hexamers with ...

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

authors： Bochtler M,Ditzel L,Groll M,Huber R

更新日期：1997-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:S-nitrosation is a posttranslational, oxidative addition of NO to cysteine residues of proteins that has been proposed as a cGMP-independent signaling pathway [Hess DT, Matsumoto A, Kim SO, Marshall HE, Stamler JS (2005) Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 6:150-166]. A paradox of S-nitrosation is that only a small set of reactive ...

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

authors： Mitchell DA,Morton SU,Fernhoff NB,Marletta MA

更新日期：2007-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A predictive coarse-grained protein force field [associative memory, water-mediated, structure, and energy model for molecular dynamics (AWSEM)-MD] is used to study the energy landscapes and relative stabilities of amyloid-β protein (1-40) in the monomer and all of its oligomeric forms up to an octamer. We find that a...

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

authors： Zheng W,Tsai MY,Chen M,Wolynes PG

更新日期：2016-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical imaging of the functional architecture of cortex, based on intrinsic signals, is a useful tool for the study of the development, organization, and function of the living mammalian brain. This relatively noninvasive technique is based on small activity-dependent changes of the optical properties of cortex. Thus...

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

authors： Grinvald A,Frostig RD,Siegel RM,Bartfeld E

更新日期：1991-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:L-type Ca(2+) currents conducted by CaV1.2 channels initiate excitation-contraction coupling in the heart. Their activity is increased by β-adrenergic/cAMP signaling via phosphorylation by PKA in the fight-or-flight response, but the sites of regulation are unknown. We describe the functional role of phosphorylation o...

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

authors： Fu Y,Westenbroek RE,Scheuer T,Catterall WA

更新日期：2013-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Integration of viral DNA into the host nuclear genome, although not unusual in bacterial and animal systems, has surprisingly not been reported for plants. We have discovered geminvirus-related DNA (GRD) sequences, in the form of distinct sets of multiple direct repeats comprising three related repeat classes, situate...

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

authors： Bejarano ER,Khashoggi A,Witty M,Lichtenstein C

更新日期：1996-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone remodeling requires osteoclasts to generate and maintain an acidified resorption compartment between the apical membrane and the bone surface to solubilize hydroxyapatite crystals within the bone matrix. This acidification process requires (i) apical proton secretion by a vacuolar H(+)-ATPase, (ii) actin cytoskel...

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

authors： Coury F,Zenger S,Stewart AK,Stephens S,Neff L,Tsang K,Shull GE,Alper SL,Baron R,Aliprantis AO

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The survival of motor neurons is controlled by multiple factors that regulate different aspects of their physiology. The identification of these factors is important because of their relationship to motor neuron disease. We investigate here whether Mullerian Inhibiting Substance (MIS) is a motor neuron survival factor...

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

authors： Wang PY,Koishi K,McGeachie AB,Kimber M,Maclaughlin DT,Donahoe PK,McLennan IS

更新日期：2005-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid antibody production in response to invading pathogens requires the dramatic expansion of pathogen-derived antigen-specific B lymphocyte populations. Whether B cell population dynamics are based on stochastic competition between competing cell fates, as in the development of competence by the bacterium Bacillus s...

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

authors： Mitchell S,Roy K,Zangle TA,Hoffmann A

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-33, a cytokine of the IL-1 family, is closely associated with type II T cell responses. Here, we report an unexpected proinflammatory role of IL-33 in inflammatory arthritis. IL-33 was expressed in synovial fibroblasts from patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Expression was markedly elevated in vitro by inflam...

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

authors： Xu D,Jiang HR,Kewin P,Li Y,Mu R,Fraser AR,Pitman N,Kurowska-Stolarska M,McKenzie AN,McInnes IB,Liew FY

更新日期：2008-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical stability in many biological materials is provided by the crosslinking of large structural proteins with gamma-glutamyl-epsilon-lysyl amide bonds. The three-dimensional structure of human recombinant factor XIII (EC 2.3.2.13 zymogen; protein-glutamine:amine gamma-glutamyltransferase a chain), a transglutami...

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

authors： Yee VC,Pedersen LC,Le Trong I,Bishop PD,Stenkamp RE,Teller DC

更新日期：1994-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:During malaria and other infections, the plasma concentration of alpha 1-acid glycoprotein (AGP) increases 3- to 4-fold, but the function of this glycoprotein has been unknown. This study demonstrates, by in vitro culture of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, that the AGP concentration achieved during malaria...

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

authors： Friedman MJ

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Canavan's disease (CD) is a fatal, hereditary disorder of CNS development that has been linked to mutations in the gene for the enzyme aspartoacylase (ASPA) (EC 3.5.1.15). ASPA acts to hydrolyze N-acetylaspartate (NAA) into l-aspartate and acetate, but the connection between ASPA deficiency and the failure of proper C...

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

authors： Madhavarao CN,Arun P,Moffett JR,Szucs S,Surendran S,Matalon R,Garbern J,Hristova D,Johnson A,Jiang W,Namboodiri MA

更新日期：2005-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotifers of the asexual class Bdelloidea are unusual in possessing two or more divergent copies of every gene that has been examined. Phylogenetic analysis of the heat-shock gene hsp82 and the TATA-box-binding protein gene tbp in multiple bdelloid species suggested that for each gene, each copy belonged to one of two ...

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

authors： Mark Welch DB,Cummings MP,Hillis DM,Meselson M

更新日期：2004-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:For over 40 y the dominant theory of stomatal behavior has been that plants should open stomates until the carbon gained by an infinitesimal additional opening balances the additional water lost times a water price that is constant at least over short periods. This theory has persisted because of its remarkable succes...

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

authors： Wolf A,Anderegg WR,Pacala SW

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T cell clones were analyzed for their susceptibility to activation-induced cell death (AICD) in response to CD3/T cell receptor ligation. AICD was observed only in Th1 clones and was Fas-mediated, whereas Th2 clones resisted AICD. Analysis of a panel of Th0 clones, characterized by their ability to secrete both ...

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

authors： Varadhachary AS,Perdow SN,Hu C,Ramanarayanan M,Salgame P

更新日期：1997-05-27 00:00:00