Pneumococcal carriage results in ganglioside-mediated olfactory tissue infection.

abstract：:The brain contains an astonishing diversity of neurons, each expressing only one set of ion channels out of the billions of potential channel combinations. Simple organizing principles are required for us to make sense of this abundance of possibilities and wealth of related data. We suggest that energy minimization s...

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

authors： Hasenstaub A,Otte S,Callaway E,Sejnowski TJ

更新日期：2010-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is now more than two decades since it was first reported that the imidazobenzodiazepine Ro15-4513 reverses behavioral alcohol effects, the molecular target(s) of Ro15-4513 and the mechanism of alcohol antagonism remain elusive. Here, we show that Ro15-4513 blocks the alcohol enhancement on recombinant "ext...

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

authors： Wallner M,Hanchar HJ,Olsen RW

更新日期：2006-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Metalloproteases (MPs) are a large and diverse class of enzymes implicated in numerous physiological and pathological processes, including tissue remodeling, peptide hormone processing, and cancer. MPs are tightly regulated by multiple posttranslational mechanisms in vivo, hindering their functional analysis by conven...

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

authors： Saghatelian A,Jessani N,Joseph A,Humphrey M,Cravatt BF

更新日期：2004-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Current understanding of the integration of cell division and expansion in the development of plant lateral organs such as leaves is limited. Cell number is established during a mitotic phase, and subsequent growth into a mature organ relies primarily on cell expansion accompanied by endocycles. Here we show that the ...

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

authors： Dewitte W,Scofield S,Alcasabas AA,Maughan SC,Menges M,Braun N,Collins C,Nieuwland J,Prinsen E,Sundaresan V,Murray JA

更新日期：2007-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila ovo/svb (dovo) is required for epidermal cuticle/denticle differentiation and is genetically downstream of the wg signaling pathway. Similarly, a mouse homolog of dovo, movo1, is required for the proper formation of hair, a mammalian epidermal appendage. Here, we provide biochemical evidence that movo1 enco...

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

authors： Li B,Mackay DR,Dai Q,Li TW,Nair M,Fallahi M,Schonbaum CP,Fantes J,Mahowald AP,Waterman ML,Fuchs E,Dai X

更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The rise of animals occurred during an interval of Earth history that witnessed dynamic marine redox conditions, potentially rapid plate motions, and uniquely large perturbations to global biogeochemical cycles. The largest of these perturbations, the Shuram carbon isotope excursion, has been invoked as a driving mech...

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

authors： Rooney AD,Cantine MD,Bergmann KD,Gómez-Pérez I,Al Baloushi B,Boag TH,Busch JF,Sperling EA,Strauss JV

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The swelling of secretory vesicles has been implicated in exocytosis, but the underlying mechanism of vesicle swelling remains largely unknown. Zymogen granules (ZGs), the membrane-bound secretory vesicles in exocrine pancreas, swell in response to GTP mediated by a G(alpha)i3 protein. Evidence is presented here that ...

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

authors： Cho SJ,Sattar AK,Jeong EH,Satchi M,Cho JA,Dash S,Mayes MS,Stromer MH,Jena BP

更新日期：2002-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Ho endonuclease of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a homing endonuclease that makes a site-specific double-strand break in the MAT gene in late G(1). Here we show that Ho is rapidly degraded via the ubiquitin-26S proteasome system through two ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes UBC2(Rad6) and UBC3(Cdc34). UBC2(Rad6) is complexe...

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

authors： Kaplun L,Ivantsiv Y,Kornitzer D,Raveh D

更新日期：2000-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Stressful events evoke long-term changes in behavioral responses; however, the underlying mechanisms in the brain are not well understood. Previous work has shown that epigenetic changes and immediate-early gene (IEG) induction in stress-activated dentate gyrus (DG) granule neurons play a crucial role in these behavio...

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

authors： Saunderson EA,Spiers H,Mifsud KR,Gutierrez-Mecinas M,Trollope AF,Shaikh A,Mill J,Reul JM

更新日期：2016-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed a recombinant DNA molecule carrying the coding region and the 3' flanking sequences of the rat preproinsulin I gene, replacing the late region of a simian virus 40 (SV40) viral vector. The sequences making up the single intron of the preproinsulin I gene, located within the nontranslated leader region, ...

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

authors： Gruss P,Efstratiadis A,Karathanasis S,König M,Khoury G

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2 (ERK1/2) are central mediators of cardiac hypertrophy and are discussed as potential therapeutic targets. However, direct inhibition of ERK1/2 leads to exacerbated cardiomyocyte death and impaired heart function. We have previously identified ERK(Thr188) autophosphorylati...

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

authors： Ruppert C,Deiss K,Herrmann S,Vidal M,Oezkur M,Gorski A,Weidemann F,Lohse MJ,Lorenz K

更新日期：2013-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The apparatus of photosynthetic energy conversion in chloroplasts is quite well characterized with respect to structure and function. Light-driven electron transport in the thylakoid membrane is coupled to synthesis of ATP, used to drive energy-dependent metabolic processes in the stroma and the outer surface of the t...

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

authors： Spetea C,Hundal T,Lundin B,Heddad M,Adamska I,Andersson B

更新日期：2004-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the demonstration that the sequence of a protein encodes its structure, the prediction of structure from sequence remains an outstanding problem that impacts numerous scientific disciplines, including many genome projects. By iteratively fixing secondary structure assignments of residues during Monte Carlo simul...

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

authors： DeBartolo J,Colubri A,Jha AK,Fitzgerald JE,Freed KF,Sosnick TR

更新日期：2009-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The Helicobacter pylori immunodominant protein, CagA, is associated with severe gastritis and carcinoma. Injection of CagA into gastric epithelial cells by type IV secretion leads to actin-cytoskeletal rearrangements and cell scattering. CagA has been reported to have no role in the induction of transcription factor N...

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

authors： Brandt S,Kwok T,Hartig R,König W,Backert S

更新日期：2005-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The type of cytokines produced during T cell responses determines susceptibility or resistance to many pathogens and influences the development of autoimmunity and allergy. To define the role of individual accessory molecules in cytokine production during primary immune responses, Drosophila cell lines expressing muri...

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

authors： Luksch CR,Winqvist O,Ozaki ME,Karlsson L,Jackson MR,Peterson PA,Webb SR

更新日期：1999-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular fatty acid incorporation into the phospholipids of Staphylococcus aureus occurs via fatty acid phosphorylation. We show that fatty acid kinase (Fak) is composed of two dissociable protein subunits encoded by separate genes. FakA provides the ATP binding domain and interacts with two distinct FakB protein...

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

authors： Parsons JB,Broussard TC,Bose JL,Rosch JW,Jackson P,Subramanian C,Rock CO

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:IFN-alpha/beta plays an essential role in innate immunity against viral and bacterial infection. Among the proteins induced by IFN-alpha/beta are the ubiquitin-like ISG15 protein and its E1- (Ube1L) and E2- (UbcH8) conjugating enzymes, leading to the conjugation of ISG15 to cellular proteins. It is likely that ISG15 c...

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

authors： Zhao C,Denison C,Huibregtse JM,Gygi S,Krug RM

更新日期：2005-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The energy landscape theory provides a general framework for describing protein folding reactions. Because a large number of studies, however, have focused on two-state proteins with single well-defined folding pathways and without detectable intermediates, the extent to which free energy landscapes are shaped up by t...

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

authors： Calosci N,Chi CN,Richter B,Camilloni C,Engström A,Eklund L,Travaglini-Allocatelli C,Gianni S,Vendruscolo M,Jemth P

更新日期：2008-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:It is becoming common practice to partition glass-forming liquids into two classes based on the dependence of the shear viscosity η on temperature T. In an Arrhenius plot, ln η vs 1/T, a strong liquid shows linear behavior whereas a fragile liquid exhibits an upward curvature [super-Arrhenius (SA) behavior], a situati...

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

authors： Mallamace F,Branca C,Corsaro C,Leone N,Spooren J,Chen SH,Stanley HE

更新日期：2010-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The stereospecificity of the beta-adrenergic receptor of turkey erythrocyte ghosts was studied. Binding of the specific beta-adrenergic antagonist, propranolol, was found to occur exclusively with the l-stereoisomer. The stereospecificity of catecholamine binding was determined by assaying the ability of the catechola...

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

authors： Atlas D,Steer ML,Levitzki A

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear bodies are RNA and protein-rich, membraneless organelles that play important roles in gene regulation. The largest and most well-known nuclear body is the nucleolus, an organelle whose primary function in ribosome biogenesis makes it key for cell growth and size homeostasis. The nucleolus and other nuclear bod...

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

authors： Berry J,Weber SC,Vaidya N,Haataja M,Brangwynne CP

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper investigates quantitatively the characteristics of the local folding code. The overlapping four-residue fragments which make up the amino acid sequences of 114 proteins are divided into classes on the basis of the physical properties of their constituent amino acids. The distribution of structural types ass...

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

authors： Rackovsky S

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Several models have been proposed for the infectious agents that cause human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and sheep scrapie. Purified proteins and extracted nucleic acids are not infectious. To further identify the critical molecular components of the CJD agent, 120S infectious material with reduced prion protein (...

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

authors： Manuelidis L,Sklaviadis T,Akowitz A,Fritch W

更新日期：1995-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hyal-1 locus, which we have previously described and mapped to mouse chromosome 9, influences the serum levels and molecular weight forms of hyaluronidase. We have also shown that the growth of two transplantable tumors, the 3LL carcinoma and the B16F10 melanoma, is influenced by the alleles at Hyal-1, in that the...

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

authors： De Maeyer-Guignard J,Lauret E,Eusèbe L,De Maeyer E

更新日期：1993-06-15 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：:Sustained activation of N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) -type glutamate receptors leads to excitotoxic neuronal death in stroke, brain trauma, and neurodegenerative disorders. Superoxide production by NADPH oxidase is a requisite event in the process leading from NMDA receptor activation to excitotoxic death. NADPH oxidas...

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

authors： Lam TI,Brennan-Minnella AM,Won SJ,Shen Y,Hefner C,Shi Y,Sun D,Swanson RA

更新日期：2013-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The cingulate gyri in 37 subjects with and without early dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) were studied by using MRI at 1.0 mm3 isotropic resolution. Groups were segregated into young controls (n = 10), age-matched normal controls (n = 10), very mild DAT (n = 8), and mild DAT (n = 9). By using automated Bayesian se...

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

authors： Miller MI,Hosakere M,Barker AR,Priebe CE,Lee N,Ratnanather JT,Wang L,Gado M,Morris JC,Csernansky JG

更新日期：2003-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of Escherichia coli to alkylating agents activates expression of AidB in addition to DNA repair proteins Ada, AlkA, and AlkB. AidB was recently shown to possess a flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) cofactor and to bind to dsDNA, implicating it as a flavin-dependent DNA repair enzyme. However, the molecular mec...

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

authors： Bowles T,Metz AH,O'Quin J,Wawrzak Z,Eichman BF

更新日期：2008-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding interactions between membranes requires measurements on well-controlled systems close to natural conditions, in which fluctuations play an important role. We have determined, by grazing incidence X-ray scattering, the interaction potential between two lipid bilayers, one adsorbed on a solid surface and t...

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

authors： Hemmerle A,Malaquin L,Charitat T,Lecuyer S,Fragneto G,Daillant J

更新日期：2012-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated rat brain cDNA clones encoding AE2, a homologue of the erythrocyte anion exchanger, band 3 (AE1). Immunocytochemistry and in situ hybridization reveal that, in brain, AE2 expression is restricted to the basolateral membrane of the choroid plexus epithelium. Expression of a full-length mouse AE2 cDNA i...

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

authors： Lindsey AE,Schneider K,Simmons DM,Baron R,Lee BS,Kopito RR

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00