Chromosomal organization of the heavy chain variable region gene segments comprising the human fetal antibody repertoire.

abstract：:We report the crystal structure of a translation termination complex formed by the Thermus thermophilus 70S ribosome bound with release factor RF2, in response to a UAA stop codon, solved at 3 A resolution. The backbone of helix alpha5 and the side chain of serine of the conserved SPF motif of RF2 recognize U1 and A2 ...

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

authors： Korostelev A,Asahara H,Lancaster L,Laurberg M,Hirschi A,Zhu J,Trakhanov S,Scott WG,Noller HF

更新日期：2008-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) recently has been described to be a relatively specific growth factor for the lymphatic vascular system. Here we report that ectopic application of recombinant VEGF-C also has potent angiogenic effects in vivo. VEGF-C is sufficiently potent to stimulate neovascularization ...

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

authors： Cao Y,Linden P,Farnebo J,Cao R,Eriksson A,Kumar V,Qi JH,Claesson-Welsh L,Alitalo K

更新日期：1998-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Although(,) vascular remodeling is a hallmark of many chronic inflammatory disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and psoriasis, anti-vascular strategies to treat these conditions have received little attention to date. We investigated the anti-inflammatory activity of systemic blockade of...

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

authors： Schonthaler HB,Huggenberger R,Wculek SK,Detmar M,Wagner EF

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental exclusion of the Andean flamingo (Phoenicoparrus andinus) from shallow water areas of a salt lake in the Bolivian Andes caused large increases in the biomass of microorganisms inhabiting the surface sediments, especially a large diatom (Surirella wetzeli), amebas, ciliates, and nematodes. This is a conser...

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

authors： Hurlbert SH,Chang CC

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major breakthroughs have recently been reported that can help overcome two inherent drawbacks of NMR: the lack of sensitivity and the limited memory of longitudinal magnetization. Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) couples nuclear spins to the large reservoir of electrons, thus making it possible to detect dilute endo...

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

authors： Vasos PR,Comment A,Sarkar R,Ahuja P,Jannin S,Ansermet JP,Konter JA,Hautle P,van den Brandt B,Bodenhausen G

更新日期：2009-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic hydroperoxide resistance (Ohr) enzymes are unique Cys-based, lipoyl-dependent peroxidases. Here, we investigated the involvement of Ohr in bacterial responses toward distinct hydroperoxides. In silico results indicated that fatty acid (but not cholesterol) hydroperoxides docked well into the active site of Ohr...

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

authors： Alegria TG,Meireles DA,Cussiol JR,Hugo M,Trujillo M,de Oliveira MA,Miyamoto S,Queiroz RF,Valadares NF,Garratt RC,Radi R,Di Mascio P,Augusto O,Netto LE

更新日期：2017-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) cells (PCC) have an exceptional propensity to metastasize early into intratumoral, chemokine-secreting nerves. However, we hypothesized the opposite process, that precancerous pancreatic cells secrete chemokines that chemoattract Schwann cells (SC) of nerves and thus induce read...

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

authors： Demir IE,Kujundzic K,Pfitzinger PL,Saricaoglu ÖC,Teller S,Kehl T,Reyes CM,Ertl LS,Miao Z,Schall TJ,Tieftrunk E,Haller B,Diakopoulos KN,Kurkowski MU,Lesina M,Krüger A,Algül H,Friess H,Ceyhan GO

更新日期：2017-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic capacitance refers to the ability of a genome to accumulate mutations that are conditionally hidden and only reveal phenotype-altering effects after certain environmental or genetic changes. Capacitance has important implications for the evolution of novel forms and functions, but experimentally studied mec...

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

authors： Hayden EJ,Bendixsen DP,Wagner A

更新日期：2015-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A nonselective ex vivo assay was used to directly detect and quantify zidovudine (AZT)-resistant human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) in the blood of treated and untreated patients. In contrast to previous reports, drug-resistant virus was detected in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of a few of the patients ...

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

authors： Mohri H,Singh MK,Ching WT,Ho DD

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) is a member of the family of intermediate filament structural proteins and is found predominantly in astrocytes of the central nervous system (CNS). To assess the function of GFAP, we created GFAP-null mice using gene targeting in embryonic stem cells. The GFAP-null mice have nor...

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

authors： McCall MA,Gregg RG,Behringer RR,Brenner M,Delaney CL,Galbreath EJ,Zhang CL,Pearce RA,Chiu SY,Messing A

更新日期：1996-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The size of virus-specific RNA synthesized in cultured mouse kidney cells infected with polyoma virus was estimated by electrophoresis and sedimentation analysis of RNA extracts from whole cells. Newly synthesized "late" polyoma-specific RNA appears as "giant" molecules of heterogeneous size, up to several times large...

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

authors： Acheson NH,Buetti E,Scherrer K,Weil R

更新日期：1971-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The search for technosignatures from hypothetical galactic civilizations is going through a new phase of intense activity. For the first time, a significant fraction of the vast search space is expected to be sampled in the foreseeable future, potentially bringing informative data about the abundance of detectable ext...

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

authors： Grimaldi C,Marcy GW

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventeen monoclonal antibodies derived from fusions with spleen cells of mice immunized with established culture lines of renal cancers identified nine cell-surface antigenic systems. Six of the systems (gp160, S25, gp120r, gp120nr, gp115, and V1) represent antigens not previously described. The other three systems a...

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

authors： Ueda R,Ogata S,Morrissey DM,Finstad CL,Szkudlarek J,Whitmore WF,Oettgen HF,Lloyd KO,Old LJ

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repetitive sequences are hotspots of evolution at multiple levels. However, due to difficulties involved in their assembly and analysis, the role of repeats in tumor evolution is poorly understood. We developed a rigorous motif-based methodology to quantify variations in the repeat content, beyond microsatellites, in ...

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

authors： Persi E,Prandi D,Wolf YI,Pozniak Y,Barnabas GD,Levanon K,Barshack I,Barbieri C,Gasperini P,Beltran H,Faltas BM,Rubin MA,Geiger T,Koonin EV,Demichelis F,Horn D

更新日期：2019-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Initiation and control of replication of the broad-host-range plasmid RK2 requires two plasmid-encoded elements, the replication origin (oriV) and the initiation protein TrfA. Purified TrfA is largely in the form of a dimer; however, only the monomeric form of the protein can bind specifically to the direct repeats (i...

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

authors： Konieczny I,Helinski DR

更新日期：1997-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:P450c17 is the single enzyme mediating both 17 alpha-hydroxylase (steroid 17 alpha-monooxygenase, EC 1.14.99.9) and 17,20 lyase activities in the synthesis of steroid hormones. It has been suggested that different P450c17 isozymes mediate these activities in the adrenal gland and testis. We sequenced 423 of the 509 am...

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

authors： Chung BC,Picado-Leonard J,Haniu M,Bienkowski M,Hall PF,Shively JE,Miller WL

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translocation of proteins across the mitochondrial inner membrane is an essential process requiring an import motor having mitochondrial Hsp70 (mtHsp70) at its core. The J protein partner of mtHsp70, Pam18, is an integral part of this motor, serving to stimulate the ATPase activity of mtHsp70. Pam16, an essential prot...

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

authors： D'Silva PR,Schilke B,Walter W,Craig EA

更新日期：2005-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolution of an oxygenic atmosphere required primordial life to accommodate the toxicity associated with reactive oxygen species. We have characterized an archaeal antioxidant from the hyperthermophilic acidophile Sulfolobus solfataricus. The amino acid sequence of this approximately 22-kDa protein shares little seque...

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

authors： Wiedenheft B,Mosolf J,Willits D,Yeager M,Dryden KA,Young M,Douglas T

更新日期：2005-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Mood disorders cause much suffering and are the single greatest cause of lost productivity worldwide. Although multiple medications, along with behavioral therapies, have proven effective for some individuals, millions of people lack an effective therapeutic option. A common serotonin (5-HT) transporter (5-HTT/SERT, S...

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

authors： Baganz NL,Horton RE,Calderon AS,Owens WA,Munn JL,Watts LT,Koldzic-Zivanovic N,Jeske NA,Koek W,Toney GM,Daws LC

更新日期：2008-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Both treatment of disease and basic studies of complex tissues can benefit from directing viral vector infection to specific cell types. We have used a unique cell targeting method to direct viral vector transduction to cerebral cortical neurons expressing the neuregulin (NRG) receptor ErbB4; both NRG and ErbB4 have b...

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

authors： Choi J,Young JA,Callaway EM

更新日期：2010-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A "projection function," P(x,z), is defined as the partial integral of the molecular electron density, rho(x,y,z), over the region -infinity < y < +infinity. The projection provides a three-dimensional representation of molecular electron distributions. Chemically useful information can be discerned from graphical dis...

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

authors： Streitwieser A,Collins JB,McKelvey JM,Grier D,Sender J,Toczko AG

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:rap1/Krev-1 is a p21ras-related GTP-binding protein that has been implicated in the reversion of the ras-transformed cell phenotype. We have identified a GTPase-activating protein (GAP) specific for rap in plasma membranes isolated from differentiated HL60 cells. The rap GAP activity remained quantitatively associated...

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

authors： Polakis PG,Rubinfeld B,Evans T,McCormick F

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For a distribution F on R(p) and a point x in R(p) the simplicial depth D(x), which is the probability that x be inside a random simplex whose vertices are p + 1 independent observations from F, is introduced. D(x) can be viewed as a measure of depth of the point x relative to F, and its empirical version gives rise t...

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

authors： Liu RY

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic alpha 2u-globulin protein and RNA levels are under developmental and complex multihormonal control. The present studies directly evaluate the degree to which this regulation is transcriptional. alpha 2u-Globulin transcription was determined by measuring nuclear runoff RNA in vitro, and tissue alpha 2u-globulin...

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

authors： Kulkarni AB,Gubits RM,Feigelson P

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to intercept uncooperative targets is key to many diverse flight behaviors, from courtship to predation. Previous research has looked for simple geometric rules describing the attack trajectories of animals, but the underlying feedback laws have remained obscure. Here, we use GPS loggers and onboard video ...

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

authors： Brighton CH,Thomas ALR,Taylor GK

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The peroxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids leads to numerous products, including 4-hydroxynonenal (HNE). That 4-hydroxy-2-alkenal compounds react with sulfhydryl groups of proteins to form thioether adducts possessing a carbonyl function has been established [Schauenstein, E. & Esterbauer, H. (1979) Ciba Found. S...

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

authors： Uchida K,Stadtman ER

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma membrane insulin receptors, affinity labeled by covalent crosslinking to receptor-bound 125I-labeled insulin, are shown to appear as a heterogeneous population of three major disulfide-linked complexes (Mr 350,000, 320,000, and 290,000) upon electrophoresis in highly porous dodecyl sulfate/polyacrylamide gels i...

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

authors： Massague J,Pilch PF,Czech MP

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A subclass of zinc finger proteins containing a unique protein motif called the positive regulatory (PR) domain has been described. The members include the PRDI-BF1/Blimp-1 protein, the Caenorhabditis elegans egl-43 and EVI1 gene products, and the retinoblastoma interacting protein RIZ. Here we describe a member of th...

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

authors： Chittka A,Chao MV

更新日期：1999-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The intermediates and the rate-limiting step in the crystallization of deoxygenated sickle hemoglobin have been determined by a kinetic study with the use of electron microscopy. In slowly stirred solutions of deoxygenated hemoglobin S [Pumphrey, J. & Steinhardt, J. (1977) J. Mol. Biol. 112, 359--375], the sequential ...

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

authors： Wilson SM,Makinen MW

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the ortho-para conversion rate in solid hydrogen by using Raman scattering in a diamond-anvil cell, extending previous measurements by a factor of 60 in pressure. We confirm previous experiments that suggested a decrease in the conversion rate above about 0.5 GPa. We observe a distinct minimum at 3 GPa fol...

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

authors： Eggert JH,Karmon E,Hemley RJ,Mao A,Goncharov AF

更新日期：1999-10-26 00:00:00