Crystal structures that suggest late development of genetic code components for differentiating aromatic side chains.

abstract：:In 1999, the population of Vancouver Island, Canada, began to experience an outbreak of a fatal fungal disease caused by a highly virulent lineage of Cryptococcus gattii. This organism has recently spread to the Canadian mainland and Pacific Northwest, but the molecular cause of the outbreak remains unknown. Here we s...

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

authors： Ma H,Hagen F,Stekel DJ,Johnston SA,Sionov E,Falk R,Polacheck I,Boekhout T,May RC

更新日期：2009-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual system of genetic exchange exists in the purple nonsulfur bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus. DNA transmission is mediated by a small bacteriophage-like particle called the gene transfer agent (GTA) that transfers random 4.5-kb segments of the producing cell's genome to recipient cells, where allelic replacem...

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

authors： Lang AS,Beatty JT

更新日期：2000-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody modulation of T-cell coinhibitory (e.g., CTLA-4) or costimulatory (e.g., 4-1BB) receptors promotes clinical responses to a variety of cancers. Therapeutic cancer vaccination, in contrast, has produced limited clinical benefit and no curative therapies. The E6 and E7 oncoproteins of human papilloma virus (HPV)...

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

authors： Bartkowiak T,Singh S,Yang G,Galvan G,Haria D,Ai M,Allison JP,Sastry KJ,Curran MA

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotine exposure diminishes the protective breathing and arousal responses to stress (hypoxia). By exacerbating sleep-disordered breathing, this disturbance could underpin the well established association between smoking and the increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome. We show here that the protective response...

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

authors： Cohen G,Han ZY,Grailhe R,Gallego J,Gaultier C,Changeux JP,Lagercrantz H

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite significant infiltration into tumors and atherosclerotic plaques, the role of T lymphocytes in these pathological conditions is still unclear. We have demonstrated that tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) and plaque-infiltrating lymphocytes (PILs) produce heparin-binding epidermal growth factor-like growth f...

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

authors： Peoples GE,Blotnick S,Takahashi K,Freeman MR,Klagsbrun M,Eberlein TJ

更新日期：1995-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Perhydrohistrionicotoxin, at concentrations of 10(-12)-10(-7) M, depressed the current generated by iontophoretic application of acetylcholine to endplate regions of soleus and extensor digitorum longus muscles of rats. However, no changes in the amplitude or time course of spontaneous miniature endplate potentials or...

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

authors： Albuquerque EX,Gage PW

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by mutations in the gene encoding the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) anion channel. Airway disease is the major source of morbidity and mortality. Successful implementation of gene- and cell-based therapies for CF airway disease requires knowledge of relations...

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

authors： Shah VS,Ernst S,Tang XX,Karp PH,Parker CP,Ostedgaard LS,Welsh MJ

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence suggests that subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissues are differentially associated with metabolic disorders. In obesity, subcutaneous adipose tissue is beneficial for metabolic homeostasis because of repressed inflammation. However, the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Here, we demonstrat...

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

authors： Hwang I,Jo K,Shin KC,Kim JI,Ji Y,Park YJ,Park J,Jeon YG,Ka S,Suk S,Noh HL,Choe SS,Alfadda AA,Kim JK,Kim S,Kim JB

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian reproductive function depends upon a neuroendocrine circuit that evokes the pulsatile release of gonadotropin hormones (luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone) from the pituitary. This reproductive circuit is sensitive to metabolic perturbations. When challenged with starvation, insufficient en...

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

authors： Padilla SL,Qiu J,Nestor CC,Zhang C,Smith AW,Whiddon BB,Rønnekleiv OK,Kelly MJ,Palmiter RD

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Various biological processes exhibit characteristics that vary dramatically in response to different input conditions or changes in the history of the process itself. One of the examples studied here, the Ras-PKC-mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) bistable pathway, follows two distinct dynamics (modes) depending ...

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

authors： Barbano PE,Spivak M,Feng J,Antoniotti M,Mishra B

更新日期：2005-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The proinflammatory cytokine interleukin 1 (IL-1) activates the transcription of many genes encoding acute phase and proinflammatory proteins, a function mediated primarily by the transcription factor NF-kappaB. An early IL-1 signaling event is the recruitment of the Ser/Thr kinase IRAK to the type I IL-1 receptor (IL...

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

authors： Huang J,Gao X,Li S,Cao Z

更新日期：1997-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cell therapy has emerged as a promising tool for the treatment of a variety of diseases. Previously, we have shown that Akt-modified mesenchymal stem cells mediate tissue repair through paracrine mechanisms. Using a comprehensive functional genomic strategy, we show that secreted frizzled related protein 2 (Sfrp2...

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

authors： Mirotsou M,Zhang Z,Deb A,Zhang L,Gnecchi M,Noiseux N,Mu H,Pachori A,Dzau V

更新日期：2007-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smoke is the major cause of lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer death, and of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. Using high-density gene expression arrays, we describe genes that are normally expressed in a subset of human airway epithelial cel...

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

authors： Spira A,Beane J,Shah V,Liu G,Schembri F,Yang X,Palma J,Brody JS

更新日期：2004-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The biodistribution profiles in mice of two pyrrole-imidazole polyamides were determined by PET. Pyrrole-imidazole polyamides are a class of small molecules that can be programmed to bind a broad repertoire of DNA sequences, disrupt transcription factor-DNA interfaces, and modulate gene expression pathways in cell cul...

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

authors： Harki DA,Satyamurthy N,Stout DB,Phelps ME,Dervan PB

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic studies in mice suggest that Wnt4 signaling antagonizes expression of male hormones and effectively blocks male development in the female embryo. We recently identified an XY intersex patient carrying a chromosomal duplication of the WNT4 locus and proposed that this patient's feminization arises from an incre...

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

authors： Jordan BK,Shen JH,Olaso R,Ingraham HA,Vilain E

更新日期：2003-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:How granzymes gain entry into the cytosol of target cells during killer cell attack has been the subject of several studies in the past, but the effective delivery mechanism during target cell encounter has not been clarified. Here we show that granzyme B (GzmB) mutants lacking binding to negatively charged, essential...

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

authors： Kurschus FC,Fellows E,Stegmann E,Jenne DE

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Aneuploidy, a chromosome content other than a multiple of the haploid number, is a common feature of cancer cells. Whole chromosomal aneuploidy accompanying ongoing chromosomal instability in mice resulting from reduced levels of the centromere-linked motor protein CENP-E has been reported to increase the incidence of...

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

authors： Silk AD,Zasadil LM,Holland AJ,Vitre B,Cleveland DW,Weaver BA

更新日期：2013-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent demonstrations of correlated low-frequency MRI signal variations between subregions of the spinal cord at rest in humans, similar to those found in the brain, suggest that such resting-state functional connectivity constitutes a common feature of the intrinsic organization of the entire central nervous system. ...

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

authors： Chen LM,Mishra A,Yang PF,Wang F,Gore JC

更新日期：2015-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic manipulation of nitrogenase and key glutamate-forming enzymes can provide mutants that excrete fixed N2 as NH4+. A derepressed N2 fxation mutant (SK-24) has been isolated , which excretes up to 20.2 mumol of fixed N2 as NH4+ per mg of cell protein in 24 hr at room temperature. Biochemical analysis shows that t...

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

authors： Shanmugam KT,Valentine RC

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical studies have revealed that genetic variations in metabotropic glutamate receptor 3 (mGlu3) affect performance on cognitive tasks dependent upon the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and may be linked to psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and addiction. We have performed a series of studies ...

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

authors： Walker AG,Wenthur CJ,Xiang Z,Rook JM,Emmitte KA,Niswender CM,Lindsley CW,Conn PJ

更新日期：2015-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic cycle of the ATP/Mg(2+)-dependent enzyme beta-lactam synthetase (beta-LS) from Streptomyces clavuligerus has been observed through a series of x-ray crystallographic snapshots. Chemistry is initiated by the ordered binding of ATP/Mg(2+) and N(2)-(carboxyethyl)-l-arginine (CEA) to the apoenzyme. The apo a...

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

authors： Miller MT,Bachmann BO,Townsend CA,Rosenzweig AC

更新日期：2002-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-independent cell lines were derived from mouse helper T-cell clones by culture in autologous supernatant obtained after stimulation with concanavalin A. A factor, termed P40, supporting the growth of these lines was purified and characterized as a basic 32- to 39-kDa single-chain glycoprotein functionally dist...

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

authors： Uyttenhove C,Simpson RJ,Van Snick J

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C1q, a member of the immune complement cascade, is implicated in the selective pruning of synapses by microglial phagocytosis. C1q-mediated synapse elimination has been shown to occur during brain development, while increased activation and complement-dependent synapse loss is observed in neurodegenerative diseases. H...

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

authors： Györffy BA,Kun J,Török G,Bulyáki É,Borhegyi Z,Gulyássy P,Kis V,Szocsics P,Micsonai A,Matkó J,Drahos L,Juhász G,Kékesi KA,Kardos J

更新日期：2018-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Cooperation via production of common goods is found in diverse life forms ranging from viruses to social animals. However, natural selection predicts a "tragedy of the commons": Cheaters, benefiting from without producing costly common goods, are more fit than cooperators and should destroy cooperation. In an attempt ...

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

authors： Waite AJ,Shou W

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The ganglioside pattern of both SV40- and polyoma virus-transformed mouse cell lines differs from that of the parent cell lines or of cell lines that have transformed spontaneously in tissue culture. This is manifested by a dramatic decrease of gangliosides with an oligosaccharide chain larger than sialyllactose. Pres...

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

authors： Cumar FA,Brady RO,Kolodny EH,McFarland VW,Mora PT

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the potassium channel gene KCNQ4 underlie DFNA2, an autosomal dominant form of progressive hearing loss in humans. In the mouse cochlea, the transcript has been found exclusively in the outer hair cells. By using specific antibodies, we now show that KCNQ4 is situated at the basal membrane of these sensor...

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

authors： Kharkovets T,Hardelin JP,Safieddine S,Schweizer M,El-Amraoui A,Petit C,Jentsch TJ

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetics of growth and decay of triplet states of molecules at known orientation in a magnetic field have been measured. Amplitudes of the zero field eigenstates in each of the eigenstates at finite field were varied by choice of orientation. No interference between the amplitudes of the zero field states was found in...

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

authors： Felix CC,Weissman SI

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenic species of Yersinia contain the transcriptional regulator RovA. In Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Yersinia enterocolitica, RovA regulates expression of the invasion factor invasin (inv), which mediates translocation across the intestinal epithelium. A Y. enterocolitica rovA mutant has a significant dec...

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

authors： Cathelyn JS,Crosby SD,Lathem WW,Goldman WE,Miller VL

更新日期：2006-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino-acid sequence of the gamma-carboxyglutamic acid-containing protein of bovine bone is presented. The sequence of 43 of the 49 residues was determined automatically on the intact protein and on a tryptic peptide. The remainder was determined by conventional procedures on tryptic and chymotrytic peptides. Resid...

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

authors： Price PA,Poser JW,Raman N

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study uses a multiisotope (carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and strontium) approach to examine early animal management in the Maya region. An analysis of faunal specimens across almost 2,000 years (1000 BC to AD 950) at the site of Ceibal, Guatemala, reveals the earliest evidence for live-traded dogs and possible captiv...

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

authors： Sharpe AE,Emery KF,Inomata T,Triadan D,Kamenov GD,Krigbaum J

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00