Bacteriolytic therapy can generate a potent immune response against experimental tumors.

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：: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：:Transcriptional activation of cytochrome P450 (CYP) genes and various drug metabolizing enzymes by the prototypical inducer phenobarbital (PB) and many other drugs and chemicals is an adaptive response of the organism to exposure to xenobiotics. The response to PB is mediated by the nuclear receptor constitutive andro...

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

authors： Blättler SM,Rencurel F,Kaufmann MR,Meyer UA

更新日期：2007-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4) methylation is catalyzed by the highly evolutionarily conserved multiprotein complex known as Set1/COMPASS or MLL/COMPASS-like complexes from yeast to human, respectively. Here we have reconstituted fully functional yeast Set1/COMPASS and human MLL/COMPASS-like complex in vitro and have iden...

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

authors： Takahashi YH,Westfield GH,Oleskie AN,Trievel RC,Shilatifard A,Skiniotis G

更新日期：2011-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to modulate the collective properties of correlated electron systems at their interfaces and surfaces underpins the burgeoning field of "designer" quantum materials. Here, we show how an electronic reconstruction driven by surface polarity mediates a Stoner-like magnetic instability to itinerant ferromagne...

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

authors： Mazzola F,Sunko V,Khim S,Rosner H,Kushwaha P,Clark OJ,Bawden L,Marković I,Kim TK,Hoesch M,Mackenzie AP,King PDC

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are involved in a wide range of regulatory processes in the cell. Owing to their flexibility, their conformations are expected to be particularly sensitive to the crowded cellular environment. Here we use single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer to quantify the effect ...

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

authors： Soranno A,Koenig I,Borgia MB,Hofmann H,Zosel F,Nettels D,Schuler B

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synergism between transcriptional activators is a powerful way of potentiating their function. Here we show that the glial POU domain protein Tst-1 (also known as Oct-6 and SCIP) and large tumor antigen (T antigen) synergistically increased transcription from both the early and the late promoters of papovavirus JC in ...

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

authors： Renner K,Leger H,Wegner M

更新日期：1994-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:By using an indirect immunofluorescence technique, the distribution of poly(ADP-ribose) synthesis in human blood cells was investigated. The antibody used was reactive with poly(ADP-ribose) larger than trimers. The specific immunofluorescence of poly(ADP-ribose) synthesized in situ from NAD+ was observed in nuclei of ...

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

authors： Ikai K,Ueda K,Fukushima M,Nakamura T,Hayaishi O

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapamycin is a potent immunosuppressant that blocks the G1/S transition in antigen-activated T cells and in yeast. The similar effects of rapamycin in animal cells and yeast suggest that the biochemical steps affected by rapamycin are conserved. Using a two-hybrid system we isolated mammalian clones that interact with...

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

authors： Chiu MI,Katz H,Berlin V

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin sequences were compared by using a technique that takes into account the dissimilarity in physicochemical properties of amino acids. Exterior residues showed greater structural variability than interior residues. High structural variability was found at positions known from crystallographic studies to b...

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

authors： Padlan EA

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies provide effective antiviral immunity despite the fact that viruses escape into cells when they infect. Here we show that antibodies remain attached to viruses after cell infection and mediate an intracellular immune response that disables virions in the cytosol. We have discovered that cells possess a cytos...

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

authors： Mallery DL,McEwan WA,Bidgood SR,Towers GJ,Johnson CM,James LC

更新日期：2010-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Mosquitoes transmit devastating human diseases because they need vertebrate blood for egg development. Metabolism in female mosquitoes is tightly coupled with blood meal-mediated reproduction, which requires an extremely high level of energy consumption. Functional analysis has shown that major genes encoding for enzy...

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

authors： Wang X,Hou Y,Saha TT,Pei G,Raikhel AS,Zou Z

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Down syndrome (DS) caused by trisomy of chromosome 21 is the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability. Although the prenatal diagnosis of DS has become feasible, there are no therapies available for the rescue of DS-related neurocognitive impairment. A growth inducer newly identified in our screen of neura...

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

authors： Nakano-Kobayashi A,Awaya T,Kii I,Sumida Y,Okuno Y,Yoshida S,Sumida T,Inoue H,Hosoya T,Hagiwara M

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutation of the p53 gene is one of the most frequent genetic changes found in human cancers. Recent experiments indicated that p53 might contain a transcription-activating domain, which functions when directed to a promoter. This study shows that wild-type p53 suppresses transcription of the retinoblastoma (Rb) gene. ...

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

authors： Shiio Y,Yamamoto T,Yamaguchi N

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Partial, unilateral nigrostriatal lesions of varying severity were produced in rats by injecting graded doses of 6-hydroxydopamine into the substantia nigra. Formation of the dopamine metabolites dihydroxyphenylacetic acid and homovanillic acid in each surviving nigrostriatal neuron (estimated by the ratios of dihydro...

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

authors： Melamed E,Hefti F,Wurtman RJ

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulated exocytosis requires tight coupling of the membrane fusion machinery to a triggering signal and a fast response time. Complexins are part of this regulation and, together with synaptotagmins, control calcium-dependent exocytosis. Stimulatory and inhibitory functions have been reported for complexins. To test ...

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

authors： Malsam J,Seiler F,Schollmeier Y,Rusu P,Krause JM,Söllner TH

更新日期：2009-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ritz upper bound to eigenvalues of Hermitian operators is essential for many applications in science. It is a staple of quantum chemistry and physics computations. The lower bound devised by Temple in 1928 [G. Temple, Proc. R. Soc. A Math. Phys. Eng. Sci. 119, 276-293 (1928)] is not, since it converges too slowly....

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

authors： Martinazzo R,Pollak E

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have identified lipid-poor high density lipoproteins with electrophoretic pre-beta mobility as the initial acceptors of cell-derived cholesterol in human plasma. These lipoproteins contain apolipoprotein A-I (apo A-I) as their sole apolipoprotein. In the present study, incubation of human plasma with ...

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

authors： Huang Y,von Eckardstein A,Wu S,Maeda N,Assmann G

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For isolated rat hepatocytes, glucagon, 3':5'-cyclic AMP, 3':5'-cyclic GMP, and epinephrine stimulate the rate of gluconeogenesis from substrates not involving pathways of mitochondrial metabolism. From estimation of the rates of glucose formation, fructose 6-phosphate phosphorylation, and lactate and pyruvate formati...

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

authors： Kneer NM,Bosch AL,Clark MG,Lardy HA

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BSC-1 cells, epithelial cells of African green monkey kidney origin, show pronounced density-dependent regulation of growth in cell culture. Growth of the cells is rapid to a density of approximately 1.5 x 10(5) cells/per cm(2) in Dulbecco-modified Eagle's medium supplemented with 10% calf serum. Above this "saturatio...

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

authors： Holley RW,Armour R,Baldwin JH

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25-(OH)2vitamin D3] analog KH1060 exerts very potent effects on cell proliferation and cell differentiation via the vitamin D receptor (VDR). However, the activities of KH1060 are not associated with an increased affinity for the VDR. We now show that increased stabilization of the VDR-...

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

authors： van den Bemd GC,Pols HA,Birkenhäger JC,van Leeuwen JP

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of substance P-immunoreactive (SPI) varicose nerve networks and nerve fiber bundles in guinea pig prevertebral sympathetic ganglia has been confirmed by fluorescence immunohistochemistry. No SPI neurons have been found in sympathetic ganglia, including lumbar paravertebral ganglia. Peroxidase-antiperoxida...

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

authors： Matthews MR,Cuello AC

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asn-linked glycans (N-glycans) play important roles in the quality control (QC) of glycoprotein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) lumen and in ER-associated degradation (ERAD) of proteins by cytosolic proteasomes. A UDP-Glc:glycoprotein glucosyltransferase glucosylates N-glycans of misfolded proteins, which ar...

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

authors： Banerjee S,Vishwanath P,Cui J,Kelleher DJ,Gilmore R,Robbins PW,Samuelson J

更新日期：2007-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The method of anticodon loop replacement has been used to make derivatives of yeast tRNAPhe. By constructing tRNAs with a CUA anticodon, complementary to the amber (UAG) terminator, functional amber suppressor tRNAs were produced. The activity of these tRNAs was assayed in a mammalian cell-free protein synthesizing sy...

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

authors： Bruce AG,Atkins JF,Wills N,Uhlenbeck O,Gesteland RF

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:O-GlcNAc glycosylation (or O-GlcNAcylation) is a dynamic, inducible posttranslational modification found on proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as α-synuclein, amyloid precursor protein, and tau. Deletion of the O-GlcNAc transferase (ogt) gene responsible for the modification causes early postnata...

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

authors： Wang AC,Jensen EH,Rexach JE,Vinters HV,Hsieh-Wilson LC

更新日期：2016-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2005 four outstanding multiple burials were discovered near Eulau, Germany. The 4,600-year-old graves contained groups of adults and children buried facing each other. Skeletal and artifactual evidence and the simultaneous interment of the individuals suggest the supposed families fell victim to a violent event. In...

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

authors： Haak W,Brandt G,de Jong HN,Meyer C,Ganslmeier R,Heyd V,Hawkesworth C,Pike AW,Meller H,Alt KW

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal trefoil factor (ITF) is an essential regulator of colonic epithelial restitution, the rapid migration of colonocytes over mucosal wounds. High levels of ITF are frequently present in colorectal cancers and derived cell lines. Mucosal restitution requires the detachment of epithelium from substrate, which wo...

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

authors： Taupin DR,Kinoshita K,Podolsky DK

更新日期：2000-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The protective effects of estrogen in the cardiovascular system result from both systemic effects and direct actions of the hormone on the vasculature. Two estrogen receptors have been identified, ERalpha and ERbeta. We demonstrated previously that estrogen inhibits the response to vascular injury in both wild-type an...

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

authors： Karas RH,Hodgin JB,Kwoun M,Krege JH,Aronovitz M,Mackey W,Gustafsson JA,Korach KS,Smithies O,Mendelsohn ME

更新日期：1999-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A murine monoclonal antibody (OKT9) raised against human leukemic cells binds to a wide variety of leukemia and tumor cell lines and to a minority of leukemia cells taken directly from patients. Fetal thymus and liver are strongly reactive as are some normal, immature hemopoietic cells and activated lymphocytes. React...

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

authors： Sutherland R,Delia D,Schneider C,Newman R,Kemshead J,Greaves M

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultural processes occur in a wide variety of animal taxa, from insects to cetaceans. The songs of humpback whales are one of the most striking examples of the transmission of a cultural trait and social learning in any nonhuman animal. To understand how songs are learned, we investigate rare cases of song hybridizati...

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

authors： Garland EC,Rendell L,Lamoni L,Poole MM,Noad MJ

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00