The Vibrio cholerae O139 O-antigen polysaccharide is essential for Ca2+-dependent biofilm development in sea water.

abstract：:Neurotrophins are essential for neuronal differentiation, but the onset and the intensity of neurotrophin signaling within the neuronal microenvironment are poorly understood. We tested the hypothesis that extracellular nucleotides and their cognate receptors regulate neurotrophin-mediated differentiation. We found th...

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

authors： Arthur DB,Akassoglou K,Insel PA

更新日期：2005-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes is preceded by the development of insulin resistance, in which the action of insulin is impaired, largely in skeletal muscles. Caveolin-3 (Cav3) is a muscle-specific subtype of caveolin, an example of a scaffolding protein found within membranes. Cav is also known as growth signal inhibitor, although i...

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

authors： Oshikawa J,Otsu K,Toya Y,Tsunematsu T,Hankins R,Kawabe J,Minamisawa S,Umemura S,Hagiwara Y,Ishikawa Y

更新日期：2004-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) regulates the uptake of cell-surface receptors as well as their downstream signaling activities. We recently reported that signaling can reciprocally regulate CME in cancer cells and that this crosstalk can contribute to cancer progression. To further explore the nature and extent o...

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

authors： Xiao GY,Mohanakrishnan A,Schmid SL

更新日期：2018-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Lifelong interactions between host and the ubiquitous and persistent cytomegalovirus (CMV) have been proposed to contribute to the age-related decline in immunity. Prior work from us and others found some support for that idea, yet evidence that this led to increased vulnerability to other infections was not obtained....

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

authors： Smithey MJ,Venturi V,Davenport MP,Buntzman AS,Vincent BG,Frelinger JA,Nikolich-Žugich J

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Bufonid anurans of the genus Atelopus contain both steroidal bufadienolides and various guanidinium alkaloids of the tetrodotoxin class. The former inhibit sodium-potassium ATPases, whereas the latter block voltage-dependent sodium channels. The structure of one guanidinium alkaloid, zetekitoxin AB, has remained a mys...

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

authors： Yotsu-Yamashita M,Kim YH,Dudley SC Jr,Choudhary G,Pfahnl A,Oshima Y,Daly JW

更新日期：2004-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:One way to dissect the antibody response to an invading microorganism is to clone the antibody repertoire from immune donors and subsequently characterize the specific antibodies. Recently, methodological advances have allowed investigations of neutralizing antibodies against hepatitis C virus (HCV) in vitro. We have ...

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

authors： Johansson DX,Voisset C,Tarr AW,Aung M,Ball JK,Dubuisson J,Persson MA

更新日期：2007-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Aposematic coloration, or warning coloration, is a visual signal that acts to minimize contact between predator and unprofitable prey. The conditions favoring the evolution of aposematic coloration remain largely unidentified. Recent work suggests that diet specialization and resultant toxicity may play a role in faci...

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

authors： Prudic KL,Oliver JC,Sperling FA

更新日期：2007-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse genes encoding the constitutively expressed complement component C4 and its closely related isoform C4-Slp (sex-limited protein), which is expressed only in male animals of several strains, provide a unique model to study sequence elements and trans-acting factors responsible for androgen responsiveness. Our...

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

authors： Varin-Blank N,Dondi E,Tosi M,Hernandez C,Boucontet L,Gotoh H,Shiroishi T,Moriwaki K,Meo T

更新日期：1998-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Diversity in 39 HLA-A, -B, and -C molecules is derived from 20 amino acid positions of high variability and 71 positions of low variability. Variation in the structurally homologous alpha 1 and alpha 2 domains is distinct and may correlate with partial segregation of peptide and T-cell receptor binding functions. Comp...

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

authors： Parham P,Lomen CE,Lawlor DA,Ways JP,Holmes N,Coppin HL,Salter RD,Wan AM,Ennis PD

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviruses evolved from long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons by acquisition of envelope functions, and subsequently reinvaded host genomes. Together, endogenous retroviruses and LTR retrotransposons represent major components of animal, plant, and fungal genomes. Sequences from these elements have been exapte...

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

authors： Dodonova SO,Prinz S,Bilanchone V,Sandmeyer S,Briggs JAG

更新日期：2019-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertically transmitted symbionts that protect their hosts against parasites and pathogens are well known from insects, yet the underlying mechanisms of symbiont-mediated defense are largely unclear. A striking example of an ecologically important defensive symbiosis involves the woodland fly Drosophila neotestacea, wh...

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

authors： Hamilton PT,Peng F,Boulanger MJ,Perlman SJ

更新日期：2016-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:By using clones of murine T cells reactive with alloantigens as well as soluble antigens, it has been possible to demonstrate that Ia antigens, Ir gene phenomena (defined as the ability of immune T cells to recognize antigen), and mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR)-stimulating determinants encoded within the I-A subregio...

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

authors： Fathman CG,Kimoto M,Melvold R,David CS

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide (GIP) is a 42-amino acid gastrointestinal regulatory peptide that stimulates insulin secretion from pancreatic beta cells in the presence of glucose. Approximately 7.8 x 10(5) recombinant clones of a neonatal rat intestinal cDNA library were screened by using plaque hybridizati...

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

authors： Tseng CC,Jarboe LA,Landau SB,Williams EK,Wolfe MM

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycan-protein interactions are emerging as important modulators of membrane protein organization and dynamics, regulating multiple cellular functions. In particular, it has been postulated that glycan-mediated interactions regulate surface residence time of glycoproteins and endocytosis. How this precisely occurs is ...

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

authors： Torreno-Pina JA,Castro BM,Manzo C,Buschow SI,Cambi A,Garcia-Parajo MF

更新日期：2014-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular activation of trypsinogen, which is both pH- and calcium-dependent, is an important early step in the development of acute pancreatitis. The cellular compartment in which trypsinogen activation occurs currently is unknown. We therefore investigated the site of intracellular trypsinogen activation by ...

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

authors： Sherwood MW,Prior IA,Voronina SG,Barrow SL,Woodsmith JD,Gerasimenko OV,Petersen OH,Tepikin AV

更新日期：2007-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformational change in amyloid beta (Abeta) peptide from its monomeric form to aggregates is crucial in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). In the healthy brain, some unidentified chaperones appear to prevent the aggregation of Abeta. Here we reported that lipocalin-type prostaglandin D synthase (L-PGD...

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

authors： Kanekiyo T,Ban T,Aritake K,Huang ZL,Qu WM,Okazaki I,Mohri I,Murayama S,Ozono K,Taniike M,Goto Y,Urade Y

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The biconcave disk shape and deformability of mammalian RBCs rely on the membrane skeleton, a viscoelastic network of short, membrane-associated actin filaments (F-actin) cross-linked by long, flexible spectrin tetramers. Nonmuscle myosin II (NMII) motors exert force on diverse F-actin networks to control cell shapes,...

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

authors： Smith AS,Nowak RB,Zhou S,Giannetto M,Gokhin DS,Papoin J,Ghiran IC,Blanc L,Wan J,Fowler VM

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We obtain a collection of multilinear Littlewood-Paley estimates, which we then apply to two problems in partial differential equations. The first problem is the estimation of the square root of an elliptic operator in divergence form, and the second is the estimation of solutions to the Cauchy problem for nondivergen...

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

authors： Fabes EB,Jerison DS,Kenig CE

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypercholesterolemia, high serum cholesterol in the form of LDL, is a major risk factor for atherosclerosis. LDL is mostly degraded in the liver after its cellular internalization with the LDL receptor (LDLR). This clathrin-mediated endocytosis depends on the protein autosomal recessive hypercholesterolemia (ARH), whi...

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

authors： Dvir H,Shah M,Girardi E,Guo L,Farquhar MG,Zajonc DM

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the theory that the insulin-induced loss of insulin binding from adipocytes is due to internalization of insulin receptors. Cell-surface receptors were assessed by the binding capacity of intact cells at 16 degrees C. Total (i.e., cell-surface plus intracellular) receptors were assessed by solubil...

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

authors： Green A,Olefsky JM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of amyloid-like aggregates by expanded polyglutamine (polyGln) sequences is suspected to play a critical role in the neuropathology of Huntington's disease and other expanded CAG-repeat diseases. To probe the folding of the polyGln sequence in the aggregate, we replaced Gln-Gln pairs at different sequenc...

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

authors： Thakur AK,Wetzel R

更新日期：2002-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenic sites of horse and rat cytochromes c in the major antigenic region were compared using a panel of variant cytochromes c and a large number of BALB/c mouse monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) in competitive ELISAs. The major antigenic region of cytochrome c is located on the surface opposite of that containing t...

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

authors： Jemmerson R,Johnson JG

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishment of functional synaptic connections in a selective manner is essential for nervous system operation. In mammalian retinas, rod and cone photoreceptors form selective synaptic connections with different classes of bipolar cells (BCs) to propagate light signals. While there has been progress in elucidating ...

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

authors： Cao Y,Wang Y,Dunn HA,Orlandi C,Shultz N,Kamasawa N,Fitzpatrick D,Li W,Zeitz C,Hauswirth W,Martemyanov KA

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was made of the effects of di- and trivalent cations on homomeric rho 1-type gamma-aminobutyrate (GABA rho 1) receptors expressed in Xenopus oocytes after injection of mRNA coding for the GABA rho 1 subunit. GABA elicited large currents with a Kd approximately 1 microM. The properties of these GABA rho 1 recep...

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

authors： Calvo DJ,Vazquez AE,Miledi R

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence indicates there is a role for small membrane vesicles, including exosomes, as vehicles for intercellular communication. Exosomes secreted by most cell types can mediate transfer of proteins, mRNAs, and microRNAs, but their role in the transmission of infectious agents is less established. Recent studie...

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

authors： Ramakrishnaiah V,Thumann C,Fofana I,Habersetzer F,Pan Q,de Ruiter PE,Willemsen R,Demmers JA,Stalin Raj V,Jenster G,Kwekkeboom J,Tilanus HW,Haagmans BL,Baumert TF,van der Laan LJ

更新日期：2013-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinopathy of prematurity is a blinding disease, initiated by lack of retinal vascular growth after premature birth. We show that lack of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) in knockout mice prevents normal retinal vascular growth, despite the presence of vascular endothelial growth factor, important to vessel devel...

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

authors： Hellstrom A,Perruzzi C,Ju M,Engstrom E,Hard AL,Liu JL,Albertsson-Wikland K,Carlsson B,Niklasson A,Sjodell L,LeRoith D,Senger DR,Smith LE

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:After primary infection, human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) persists as a life-long latent infection, with host immunosuppression often resulting in clinical reactivation. During lytic infection, major changes in the expression of secreted cellular proteins (the secretome) occur that have profound effects on host-cell inter...

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

authors： Mason GM,Poole E,Sissons JG,Wills MR,Sinclair JH

更新日期：2012-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) catalyzes the conversion of nucleoside diphosphates to deoxynucleoside diphosphates (dNDPs). The Escherichia coli class Ia RNR uses a mechanism of radical propagation by which a cysteine in the active site of the RNR large (α2) subunit is transiently oxidized by a stable tyrosyl radical ...

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

authors： Minnihan EC,Ando N,Brignole EJ,Olshansky L,Chittuluru J,Asturias FJ,Drennan CL,Nocera DG,Stubbe J

更新日期：2013-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Ants are the world's most conspicuous and important eusocial insects and their diversity, abundance, and extreme behavioral specializations make them a model system for several disciplines within the biological sciences. Here, we report the discovery of a new ant that appears to represent the sister lineage to all ext...

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

authors： Rabeling C,Brown JM,Verhaagh M

更新日期：2008-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:DBA/2 mice immunized with poly(A).poly(U) complexed with methylated bovine serum albumin and emulsified in Freund's complete adjuvant were protected against challenge with Friend leukemia virus. There was no correlation between the level of antibody to the immunogen in the prechallenge serum and induced resistance to ...

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

authors： Nahon-Merlin E,Lacour F,Friend C,Revoltella R

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00