A multitude of genes expressed solely in meiotic or postmeiotic spermatogenic cells offers a myriad of contraceptive targets.

abstract：:Members of the tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNFR) superfamily are important for cell growth and survival. In addition to providing costimulatory signals for cell proliferation, ligation of both TNFR1 and Fas can result in programmed cell death or apoptosis. The underlying mechanism requires an intact 80-aa stretch ...

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

authors： Prasad KV,Ao Z,Yoon Y,Wu MX,Rizk M,Jacquot S,Schlossman SF

更新日期：1997-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of alphavbeta3- or alphavbeta5-integrins and selectins is widespread on blood cells and endothelial cells. Here we report that human tumor cells injected s.c. into mice lacking beta3- or beta3/beta5-integrins or various selectins show enhanced tumor growth compared with growth in control mice. There was inc...

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

authors： Taverna D,Moher H,Crowley D,Borsig L,Varki A,Hynes RO

更新日期：2004-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We used electron cryotomography and subtomogram averaging to determine the in situ structures of mitochondrial ATP synthase dimers from two organisms belonging to the phylum euglenozoa: Trypanosoma brucei, a lethal human parasite, and Euglena gracilis, a photosynthetic protist. At a resolution of 32.5 Å and 27.5 Å, re...

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

authors： Mühleip AW,Dewar CE,Schnaufer A,Kühlbrandt W,Davies KM

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose and test a theoretical perspective in which a universal hallmark of successful literacy acquisition is the convergence of the speech and orthographic processing systems onto a common network of neural structures, regardless of how spoken words are represented orthographically in a writing system. During fun...

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

authors： Rueckl JG,Paz-Alonso PM,Molfese PJ,Kuo WJ,Bick A,Frost SJ,Hancock R,Wu DH,Mencl WE,Duñabeitia JA,Lee JR,Oliver M,Zevin JD,Hoeft F,Carreiras M,Tzeng OJ,Pugh KR,Frost R

更新日期：2015-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although tumor necrosis factor (TNF) initially came to prominence because of its anti-tumor activity, most attention is now focused on its proinflammatory actions. TNF appears to play a critical role in both early and late events involved in inflammation, from localizing the noxious agent and amplifying the cellular a...

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

authors： Marino MW,Dunn A,Grail D,Inglese M,Noguchi Y,Richards E,Jungbluth A,Wada H,Moore M,Williamson B,Basu S,Old LJ

更新日期：1997-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal medullary cells contain high concentrations of myo-inositol, sorbitol, betaine, and glycerophosphocholine, whose levels vary with urinary osmolality. Accumulation of these "compatible" organic osmolytes is believed to help the cells osmoregulate in response to the high extracellular osmolality that occurs as par...

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

authors： Nakanishi T,Turner RJ,Burg MB

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth hormone (GH) has previously been implicated in T-cell development, and here we test its efficacy in promoting T-lymphocyte engraftment in mice with severe combined immune deficiency (SCID). SCID mice receiving syngeneic thymocytes and treated with recombinant human GH (rhGH) had significantly better T-cell engr...

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

authors： Murphy WJ,Durum SK,Longo DL

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The human intestine is densely populated by a microbial consortium whose metabolic activities are influenced by, among others, bifidobacteria. However, the genetic basis of adaptation of bifidobacteria to the human gut is poorly understood. Analysis of the 2,214,650-bp genome of Bifidobacterium bifidum PRL2010, a stra...

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

authors： Turroni F,Bottacini F,Foroni E,Mulder I,Kim JH,Zomer A,Sánchez B,Bidossi A,Ferrarini A,Giubellini V,Delledonne M,Henrissat B,Coutinho P,Oggioni M,Fitzgerald GF,Mills D,Margolles A,Kelly D,van Sinderen D,Ventura M

更新日期：2010-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The acid-sensing ion channel 1a (ASIC1a) is abundantly expressed in the amygdala complex and other brain regions associated with fear. Studies of mice with a disrupted ASIC1 gene suggested that ASIC1a may contribute to learned fear. To test this hypothesis, we generated mice overexpressing human ASIC1a by using the pa...

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

authors： Wemmie JA,Coryell MW,Askwith CC,Lamani E,Leonard AS,Sigmund CD,Welsh MJ

更新日期：2004-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:CD4(+) T cells producing IL-17 [T helper (Th)17], as distinct from Th1 or Th2 cells, have recently been shown to be associated with autoimmunity, but it is not entirely clear how Th17 cells are generated from naïve T cells. We demonstrate here that IL-6, but not TNF-alpha or IL-1beta, can, in combination with TGF-beta...

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

authors： Kimura A,Naka T,Kishimoto T

更新日期：2007-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-mediated electron transfer is an essential event in many biochemical processes. Efficient electron transfer requires the reorganization energy of the redox event to be minimized, which is ensured by the presence of rigid donor and acceptor sites. Electron transfer copper sites are present in the ubiquitous cup...

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

authors： Zaballa ME,Abriata LA,Donaire A,Vila AJ

更新日期：2012-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein synthesis has an overall error rate of approximately 10(-4) for each mRNA codon translated. The fidelity of translation is mainly determined by two events: synthesis of cognate amino acid:tRNA pairs by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRSs) and accurate selection of aminoacyl-tRNAs (aa-tRNAs) by the ribosome. To e...

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

authors： Reynolds NM,Ling J,Roy H,Banerjee R,Repasky SE,Hamel P,Ibba M

更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A 1-hr exposure of bovine lenses in organ culture to H2O2 concentrations in the range found in the aqueous fluid of patients with cataracts inhibits 86Rb+ influx. At 1 mM H2O2, complete inhibition was observed and further investigated. Membrane permeability is slightly decreased. Although lactate concentrations increa...

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

authors： Garner WH,Garner MH,Spector A

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defining the virus-host interactions responsible for HIV-1 transmission, including the phenotypic requirements of viruses capable of establishing de novo infections, could be important for AIDS vaccine development. Previous analyses have failed to identify phenotypic properties other than chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) a...

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

authors： Parrish NF,Gao F,Li H,Giorgi EE,Barbian HJ,Parrish EH,Zajic L,Iyer SS,Decker JM,Kumar A,Hora B,Berg A,Cai F,Hopper J,Denny TN,Ding H,Ochsenbauer C,Kappes JC,Galimidi RP,West AP Jr,Bjorkman PJ,Wilen CB,Doms RW

更新日期：2013-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate real-time tracking of influenza outbreaks helps public health officials make timely and meaningful decisions that could save lives. We propose an influenza tracking model, ARGO (AutoRegression with GOogle search data), that uses publicly available online search data. In addition to having a rigorous statistic...

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

authors： Yang S,Santillana M,Kou SC

更新日期：2015-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The human chaperonin Hsp60 is thought to play a role in the progression of Alzheimer's disease by mitigating against intracellular β-amyloid stress. Here, we show that the bacterial homolog GroEL (51% sequence identity) reduces the neurotoxic effects of amyloid-β(1-42) (Aβ42) on human neural stem cell-derived neuronal...

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

authors： Wälti MA,Steiner J,Meng F,Chung HS,Louis JM,Ghirlando R,Tugarinov V,Nath A,Clore GM

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical modifications of RNAs have long been established as key modulators of nonprotein-coding RNA structure and function in cells. There is a growing appreciation that messenger RNA (mRNA) sequences responsible for directing protein synthesis can also be posttranscriptionally modified. The enzymatic incorporation o...

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

authors： Eyler DE,Franco MK,Batool Z,Wu MZ,Dubuke ML,Dobosz-Bartoszek M,Jones JD,Polikanov YS,Roy B,Koutmou KS

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Efforts to delineate the advent of many enzymes essential to protein translation are often limited by the fact that the modern genetic code evolved before divergence of the tree of life. Glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase (GlnRS) is one noteworthy exception to the universality of the translation apparatus. In eukaryotes and s...

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

authors： Skouloubris S,Ribas de Pouplana L,De Reuse H,Hendrickson TL

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Intermolecular electronic coupling dictates the optical properties of molecular aggregate systems. Of particular interest are photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes that absorb sunlight then efficiently direct energy toward the photosynthetic reaction center. Two-dimensional (2D) ultrafast spectroscopy has been used...

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

authors： Read EL,Engel GS,Calhoun TR,Mancal T,Ahn TK,Blankenship RE,Fleming GR

更新日期：2007-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Kruppel-like factor 4 (KLF4) is involved in self-renewal of embryonic stem cells and reprogramming of somatic cells to pluripotency. However, its role in lineage-committed stem cells remains largely unknown. Here, we show that KLF4 is expressed in neural stem cells (NSCs) and is down-regulated during neuronal differen...

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

authors： Qin S,Liu M,Niu W,Zhang CL

更新日期：2011-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper identifies all statistically significant dyad symmetry combinations in the Epstein-Barr virus genome. The distribution of long dyad symmetry pairings emphasizes two regions, the 5' third of the 3.1-kilobase-pair (kbp) repeat and the oriP region, the latter essential for Epstein-Barr virus replication during...

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

authors： Karlin S

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Probasin, a rat prostatic protein, is statistically related to members of a protein family that includes serum, cellular, and nuclear proteins. In vivo, probasin appears both in the secretions and in the nucleus of prostatic epithelial cells. Using primer extension and S1 nuclease protection assays we detected only on...

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

authors： Spence AM,Sheppard PC,Davie JR,Matuo Y,Nishi N,McKeehan WL,Dodd JG,Matusik RJ

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone morphogenetic protein 9 (BMP9) promotes the acquisition of the cholinergic phenotype in basal forebrain cholinergic neurons (BFCN) during development and protects these neurons from cholinergic dedifferentiation following axotomy when administered in vivo. A decline in BFCN function occurs in patients with Alzhei...

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

authors： Burke RM,Norman TA,Haydar TF,Slack BE,Leeman SE,Blusztajn JK,Mellott TJ

更新日期：2013-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant melanoma has one of the highest mortality rates of any cancer because of its aggressive nature and high metastatic potential. Clinical staging of the disease at the time of diagnosis is very important for the prognosis and outcome of melanoma treatment. In this study, we designed and synthesized the 18F-labe...

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

authors： Pyo A,Kim DY,Kim H,Lim D,Kwon SY,Kang SR,Kim HS,Bom HS,Min JJ

更新日期：2020-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome packaging is an essential step in virus replication and a potential drug target. Single-stranded RNA viruses have been thought to encapsidate their genomes by gradual co-assembly with capsid subunits. In contrast, using a single molecule fluorescence assay to monitor RNA conformation and virus assembly in real ...

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

authors： Borodavka A,Tuma R,Stockley PG

更新日期：2012-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium oxalate monohydrate (COM), which plays a functional role in plant physiology, is a source of chronic human disease, forming the major inorganic component of kidney stones. Understanding molecular mechanisms of biological control over COM crystallization is central to development of effective stone disease ther...

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

authors： Qiu SR,Wierzbicki A,Orme CA,Cody AM,Hoyer JR,Nancollas GH,Zepeda S,De Yoreo JJ

更新日期：2004-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A pure population of mast cells was obtained after 14 days of culturing mouse bone marrow cells in the presence of medium derived from concanavalin A-stimulated mouse spleen cells. The cells were characterized as mast cells by their morphologic appearance and histologic staining, by their histamine content (450 ng per...

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

authors： Razin E,Cordon-Cardo C,Good RA

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary x-ray diffraction data from single crystals of the MoFe proteins of nitrogenase from Clostridium pasteurianum and Azotobacter vinelandii have been obtained. Both protein crystals belong to the P2(1) space group. The MoFe protein crystals from C. pasteurianum and A. vinelandii diffract to angles correspondi...

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

authors： Weininger MS,Mortenson LE

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a unique conductance-based model of awake thalamic alpha and some of its implications for function. The full model includes a model for a specialized class of high-threshold thalamocortical cells (HTC cells), which burst at the alpha frequency at depolarized membrane potentials (~-56 mV). Our model generat...

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

authors： Vijayan S,Kopell NJ

更新日期：2012-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescence decay functions of individual, specifically labeled tRNAPhe molecules exhibit nonexponential character as a result of conformational dynamics occurring during the measurement on a single molecule. tRNAPhe conformational states that interchange much more slowly are evidenced by the distribution of life...

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

authors： Jia Y,Sytnik A,Li L,Vladimirov S,Cooperman BS,Hochstrasser RM

更新日期：1997-07-22 00:00:00