Recombinant human migration inhibitory factor has adjuvant activity.

abstract：:The DNA damage response is an essential process for the survival of living cells. In a subset of stress-responsive genes in humans, Elongin controls transcription in response to multiple stimuli, such as DNA damage, oxidative stress, and heat shock. Yeast Elongin (Ela1-Elc1), along with Def1, is known to facilitate ub...

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

authors： Damodaren N,Van Eeuwen T,Zamel J,Lin-Shiao E,Kalisman N,Murakami K

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have identified human breast tumor particles possessing many of the features characteristic of RNA tumor viruses. In addition to the expected size (600 S) and density (1.16 g/ml) these include possession of an outer membrane and an inner one surrounding a "core" containing a DNA polymerase and a large...

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

authors： Ohno T,Sweet RW,Dejak D,Spiegelman S

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of carboxylate ions (acetate, butyrate) with nucleic aicd bases and nucleosides has been investigated by proton magnetic resonance in dimethyl sulfoxide (d6)/H2O mixtures. Carboxylate ions interacted only with guanine derivatives and led to a large downfield shift of the NH2 resonance. A 1:1 stoichiome...

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

authors： Lancelot G,Hélène C

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an investigation to determine how proteins are localized within the nucleus of a cell, we demonstrate that the restriction endonuclease EcoRI is able to enter and function within the nucleus of Saccharomyces cerevisiae when this prokaryotic protein is synthesized in vivo. The EcoRI endonuclease was produced in yeas...

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

authors： Barnes G,Rine J

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SapB is a morphogenetic peptide that is important for aerial mycelium formation by the filamentous bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor. Production of SapB commences during aerial mycelium formation and depends on most of the genes known to be required for the morphogenesis of aerial hyphae. Furthermore, the application ...

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

authors： Kodani S,Hudson ME,Durrant MC,Buttner MJ,Nodwell JR,Willey JM

更新日期：2004-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:New data are reported on the influence of size on the velocity threshold for real movement. As the length of a narrow stimulus object increases, width remaining constant, the velocity threshold also increases. These findings are discussed in relation to some psychophysical experiments on contrast and some physiologica...

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

authors： Mates B,Graham CH

更新日期：1970-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a primitive chordate model of natural chimerism, one chimeric partner is often eliminated in a process of allogeneic resorption. Here, we identify the cellular framework underlying loss of tolerance to one partner within a natural Botryllus schlosseri chimera. We show that the principal cell type mediating chimeric...

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

authors： Corey DM,Rosental B,Kowarsky M,Sinha R,Ishizuka KJ,Palmeri KJ,Quake SR,Voskoboynik A,Weissman IL

更新日期：2016-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on global patterns of diversity has been dominated by studies seeking explanations for the equator-to-poles decline in richness of most groups of organisms, namely the latitudinal diversity gradient. A problem with this gradient is that it conflates two key explanations, namely biome stability (age and area) ...

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

authors： Colville JF,Beale CM,Forest F,Altwegg R,Huntley B,Cowling RM

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes an unbiased method for systematically determining gene function in mammalian cells. A total of 20,704 predicted human full-length cDNAs were tested for induction of the IL-8 promoter. A number of genes, including those for cytokines, receptors, adapters, kinases, and transcription factors, were i...

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

authors： Iourgenko V,Zhang W,Mickanin C,Daly I,Jiang C,Hexham JM,Orth AP,Miraglia L,Meltzer J,Garza D,Chirn GW,McWhinnie E,Cohen D,Skelton J,Terry R,Yu Y,Bodian D,Buxton FP,Zhu J,Song C,Labow MA

更新日期：2003-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of molecular methods is altering our understanding of the microbial biosphere and the complexity of the tree of life. Here, we report a newly discovered uncultured plastid-bearing eukaryotic lineage named the rappemonads. Phylogenies using near-complete plastid ribosomal DNA (rDNA) operons demonstrate that thi...

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

authors： Kim E,Harrison JW,Sudek S,Jones MD,Wilcox HM,Richards TA,Worden AZ,Archibald JM

更新日期：2011-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions between products of the 15-lipoxygenase cascade and human natural killer (NK) cell activity have been studied. Addition of human leukocyte-derived (14R,15S)-14,15-dihydroxy-5Z,8Z,10E,12E-ic osatetraenoic acid (14,15-DiHETE) to the NK cytotoxicity assay against K562 target cells resulted in inhibition ...

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

authors： Ramstedt U,Serhan CN,Lundberg U,Wigzell H,Samuelsson B

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reported isolation of nanobacteria from human kidney stones raises the intriguing possibility that these microorganisms are etiological agents of pathological extraskeletal calcification [Kajander, E. O. & Ciftçioglu, N. (1998) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 8274-8279]. Nanobacteria were previously isolated from F...

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

authors： Cisar JO,Xu DQ,Thompson J,Swaim W,Hu L,Kopecko DJ

更新日期：2000-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms that are essential for the maintenance of nutrient status in breast milk are unclear. Our data demonstrate that the intestine via hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-2α is an essential regulatory mechanism for maintaining the quality of breast milk. During lactation, intestinal HIF-2α is highly increased, le...

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

authors： Ramakrishnan SK,Anderson ER,Martin A,Centofanti B,Shah YM

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding and manipulation of the forces assembling DNA/RNA helices have broad implications for biology, medicine, and physics. One subject of significance is the attractive force between dsDNA mediated by polycations of valence ≥ 3. Despite extensive studies, the physical origin of the "like-charge attraction" re...

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

authors： Qiu X,Parsegian VA,Rau DC

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here on the isolation and characterization of a serotonin (5HT) transporter from Drosophila melanogaster. A 3.1-kb complementary DNA clone (dSERT) was found to encode a protein of 622 amino acid residues with a predicted molecular mass of approximately 69 kDa and a putative transmembrane topology characteris...

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

authors： Demchyshyn LL,Pristupa ZB,Sugamori KS,Barker EL,Blakely RD,Wolfgang WJ,Forte MA,Niznik HB

更新日期：1994-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:ChIP-on-chip has emerged as a powerful tool to dissect the complex network of regulatory interactions between transcription factors and their targets. However, most ChIP-on-chip analysis methods use conservative approaches aimed at minimizing false-positive transcription factor targets. We present a model with improve...

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

authors： Margolin AA,Palomero T,Sumazin P,Califano A,Ferrando AA,Stolovitzky G

更新日期：2009-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for assessing genomic similarity based on relative abundances of short oligonucleotides in large DNA samples is introduced. The method requires neither homologous sequences nor prior sequence alignments. The analysis centers on (i) dinucleotide (and tri- and tetra-) relative abundance extremes in genomic sequ...

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

authors： Karlin S,Ladunga I

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The polypeptide chain initiation factor 2 (eIF-2) binds phospholipid (PL) and becomes a potent inhibitor of translation in hemin-supplemented reticulocyte lysates. This binding is markedly reduced by prior treatment of eIF-2 with N-ethylmaleimide. Although PL is probably bound by all three eIF-2 subunits, our results ...

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

authors： de Haro C,de Herreros AG,Ochoa S

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contact-dependent growth inhibition (CDI) is a mechanism by which bacteria exchange toxins via direct cell-to-cell contact. CDI systems are distributed widely among Gram-negative pathogens and are thought to mediate interstrain competition. Here, we describe tsf mutations that alter the coiled-coil domain of elongatio...

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

authors： Jones AM,Garza-Sánchez F,So J,Hayes CS,Low DA

更新日期：2017-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Type VI secretion systems (T6SSs) are multiprotein complexes best studied in Gram-negative pathogens where they have been shown to inhibit or kill prokaryotic or eukaryotic cells and are often important for virulence. We recently showed that T6SS loci are also widespread in symbiotic human gut bacteria of the order Ba...

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

authors： Chatzidaki-Livanis M,Geva-Zatorsky N,Comstock LE

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile, a causative agent of antibiotic-associated diarrhea and its potentially lethal form, pseudomembranous colitis, produces two large protein toxins that are responsible for the cellular damage associated with the disease. The level of toxin production appears to be critical for determining the seve...

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

authors： Mani N,Dupuy B

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive assay for detection of eukaryotic RNA polymerase II has been developed. This assay depends on the ability of polymerase II to elongate a small RNA primer, oligo(U), hybridized to a single-stranded homopolymeric DNA template, poly(dA). The poly(dA).oligo(U)-dependent RNA polymerase II from calf thymus has b...

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

authors： Fradkin LG,Leong K,Morrow CD,Berk AJ,Dasgupta A

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The output of the cerebellar cortex is controlled by two main inputs, (i.e., the climbing fiber and mossy fiber-parallel fiber pathway) and activations of these inputs elicit characteristic effects in its Purkinje cells: that is, the so-called complex spikes and simple spikes. Target neurons of the Purkinje cells in t...

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

authors： Hoebeek FE,Witter L,Ruigrok TJ,De Zeeuw CI

更新日期：2010-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of interleukin 8 (IL-8) with heparin was studied by using synthetic IL-8 analogs with C- and N-terminal truncations. Elimination of the N-terminal region preceding the first cysteine, which constitutes the IL-8 receptor binding site, did not affect the affinity to heparin-Sepharose. Affinity, however, ...

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

authors： Webb LM,Ehrengruber MU,Clark-Lewis I,Baggiolini M,Rot A

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological realm has inherited symmetries from the physicochemical realm, but with the increasing complexity at higher phenomenological levels of life, some inherited symmetries are broken while novel symmetries appear. These symmetries are of two types, structural and operational. Biological novelties result from...

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

authors： García-Bellido A

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In some countries across the globe, tropical forest cover is increasing. The national-scale reforestation of Vietnam since 1992 is assumed to contribute to this recovery. It is achieved, however, by the displacement of forest extraction to other countries on the order of 49 (34-70) M m(3), or approximately 39% of the ...

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

authors： Meyfroidt P,Lambin EF

更新日期：2009-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A physical map of the 9.2-Mbp Myxococcus xanthus DK1622 chromosome at a resolution of 25 kbp was constructed by using a strategy that is applicable to virtually all microorganisms. Segments of the chromosome were used as hybridization probes to subdivide a yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) library into groups of linke...

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

authors： He Q,Chen H,Kuspa A,Cheng Y,Kaiser D,Shimkets LJ

更新日期：1994-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxin-antitoxin systems are found in many bacterial chromosomes and plasmids with roles ranging from plasmid stabilization to biofilm formation and persistence. In these systems, the expression/activity of the toxin is counteracted by an antitoxin, which, in type I systems, is an antisense RNA. While the regulatory me...

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

authors： El Mortaji L,Tejada-Arranz A,Rifflet A,Boneca IG,Pehau-Arnaudet G,Radicella JP,Marsin S,De Reuse H

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Human mammary epithelial cells secrete and express on their cell surfaces complex mucin glycoproteins (Mr greater than 250,000) that are developmentally regulated, tumor-associated, and highly immunogenic. Studies using monoclonal antibodies directed to these glycoproteins suggest that their molecular structures can v...

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

authors： Gendler SJ,Burchell JM,Duhig T,Lamport D,White R,Parker M,Taylor-Papadimitriou J

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During natural fertilization, mammalian spermatozoa must pass through the zona pellucida before reaching the plasma membrane of the oocyte. It is assumed that this step involves partial lysis of the zona by sperm acrosomal enzymes, but there has been no unequivocal evidence to support this view. Here we present eviden...

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

authors： Hirose M,Honda A,Fulka H,Tamura-Nakano M,Matoba S,Tomishima T,Mochida K,Hasegawa A,Nagashima K,Inoue K,Ohtsuka M,Baba T,Yanagimachi R,Ogura A

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00