Partial D-amino acid substitution: Improved enzymatic stability and preserved Ab recognition of a MUC2 epitope peptide.

abstract：:The effect of the IgG from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients was tested on the voltage-dependent barium currents (IBa) in mammalian dissociated Purkinje cells and in isolated P-type calcium channels in lipid bilayers. Whole cell clamp of Purkinje cells demonstrates that ALS IgG increases the amplitude of IB...

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

authors： Llinás R,Sugimori M,Cherksey BD,Smith RG,Delbono O,Stefani E,Appel S

更新日期：1993-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In Arabidopsis thaliana, biosynthesis of the essential thiol antioxidant, glutathione (GSH), is plastid-regulated, but many GSH functions, including heavy metal detoxification and plant defense activation, depend on cytosolic GSH. This finding suggests that plastid and cytosol thiol pools are closely integrated and we...

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

authors： Maughan SC,Pasternak M,Cairns N,Kiddle G,Brach T,Jarvis R,Haas F,Nieuwland J,Lim B,Müller C,Salcedo-Sora E,Kruse C,Orsel M,Hell R,Miller AJ,Bray P,Foyer CH,Murray JA,Meyer AJ,Cobbett CS

更新日期：2010-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative adaptations-different adaptive phenotypes maintained in the same life stage and the same population but not necessarily simultaneously expressed in the same individual-represent contrasting character sets produced by the same genome, in effect allowing a single species to occupy more than one sympatric nic...

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

authors： West-Eberhard MJ

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proinflammatory signaling pathways are commonly up-regulated in breast cancer. In estrogen receptor-negative (ER-) and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), nitric oxide synthase-2 (NOS2) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX2) have been described as independent predictors of disease outcome. We further explore these findings by ...

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

authors： Basudhar D,Glynn SA,Greer M,Somasundaram V,No JH,Scheiblin DA,Garrido P,Heinz WF,Ryan AE,Weiss JM,Cheng RYS,Ridnour LA,Lockett SJ,McVicar DW,Ambs S,Wink DA

更新日期：2017-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic pluripotency in the mouse is established and maintained by a gene-regulatory network under the control of a core set of transcription factors that include octamer-binding protein 4 (Oct4; official name POU domain, class 5, transcription factor 1, Pou5f1), sex-determining region Y (SRY)-box containing gene 2 ...

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

authors： Fernandez-Tresguerres B,Cañon S,Rayon T,Pernaute B,Crespo M,Torroja C,Manzanares M

更新日期：2010-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNA clones encoding a glucose transporter-like protein have been isolated from adult human liver and kidney cDNA libraries by cross-hybridization with the human HepG2/erythrocyte glucose transporter cDNA. Analysis of the sequence of this 524-amino acid glucose transporter-like protein indicates that it has 55.5% iden...

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

authors： Fukumoto H,Seino S,Imura H,Seino Y,Eddy RL,Fukushima Y,Byers MG,Shows TB,Bell GI

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mannose receptor (MR) is an endocytic receptor involved in serum homeostasis and antigen presentation. Here, we identify the MR as a direct regulator of CD8(+) T-cell activity. We demonstrate that MR expression on dendritic cells (DCs) impaired T-cell cytotoxicity in vitro and in vivo. This regulatory effect of th...

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

authors： Schuette V,Embgenbroich M,Ulas T,Welz M,Schulte-Schrepping J,Draffehn AM,Quast T,Koch K,Nehring M,König J,Zweynert A,Harms FL,Steiner N,Limmer A,Förster I,Berberich-Siebelt F,Knolle PA,Wohlleber D,Kolanus W,Beyer M

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1950, John Nash contributed a remarkable one-page PNAS article that defined and characterized a notion of equilibrium for n- person games. This notion, now called the "Nash equilibrium," has been widely applied and adapted in economics and other behavioral sciences. Indeed, game theory, with the Nash equilibrium as...

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

authors： Holt CA,Roth AE

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase kinase is an enzyme that activates the growth factor-regulated MAP kinase in vitro by a mechanism that involves direct phosphorylation of MAP kinase on tyrosine and threonine residues. MAP kinase kinase is stimulated by growth factor treatment of cells and has been shown to be in...

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

authors： Ahn NG,Campbell JS,Seger R,Jensen AL,Graves LM,Krebs EG

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of x-rays on the rate of semiconservative DNA replication was investigated by autoradiography in single cells obtained from normal individuals and from patients having ataxia-telangiectasia (AT). In the five AT cell strains studied, the rate of DNA synthesis was inhibited to a lesser extent that in two norm...

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

authors： Jaspers NG,Bootsma D

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal cell walls and fragments thereof (elicitors) induce the formation of low and high molecular weight defense compounds in plant cell suspension cultures. This induced synthesis requires a signal molecule transmitting the message between the elicitor plant cell wall receptor and gene activation. We demonstrate in ...

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

authors： Mueller MJ,Brodschelm W,Spannagl E,Zenk MH

更新日期：1993-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cambodia, in which both Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum are endemic, has been the focus of numerous malaria-control interventions, resulting in a marked decline in overall malaria incidence. Despite this decline, the number of P vivax cases has actually increased. To understand better the factors underlying...

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

authors： Parobek CM,Lin JT,Saunders DL,Barnett EJ,Lon C,Lanteri CA,Balasubramanian S,Brazeau N,DeConti DK,Garba DL,Meshnick SR,Spring MD,Chuor CM,Bailey JA,Juliano JJ

更新日期：2016-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Arachidonic acid (AA) has recently been shown to influence various cellular functions in the central nervous system. Here we report that AA increases, in a time- and concentration-dependent manner, 2-deoxy-D-[1-3H]glucose ([3H]2DG) uptake in primary cultures of astrocytes prepared from the cerebral cortex of neonatal ...

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

authors： Yu N,Martin JL,Stella N,Magistretti PJ

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration of urea in renal medullary cells is high enough to affect enzymes seriously by reducing Vmax or raising Km, yet the cells survive and function. The usual explanation is that the methylamines found in the renal medulla, namely glycerophosphocholine and betaine, have actions opposite to those of urea a...

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

authors： Burg MB,Peters EM,Bohren KM,Gabbay KH

更新日期：1999-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Measures of complexity derived from ergodic theory of dynamical systems were developed and applied to an exemplary data set describing locomotor movements of rats in a bounded space. A symbolic dynamical system was obtained by partitioning the event space into equally probable partition elements, using a k-dimensional...

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

authors： Paulus MP,Geyer MA,Gold LH,Mandell AJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The actions of various opioids were examined on calcium action potentials in the cell somata of guinea pig myenteric neurones and on the release of acetylcholine at synapses onto these cells. The opioids morphine, normorphine, and [D-Ala2, MePhe4, Met5(O)]enkephalin-ol caused membrane hyperpolarizations resulting from...

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

authors： Cherubini E,North RA

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) play a central role in determining the induction of T cell responses. IL-27 production by DCs favors induction of IL-10-producing regulatory T cells, whereas osteopontin (OPN) promotes pathogenic IL-17 T cell responses. The regulatory mechanisms in DCs that control these two cells types are not u...

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

authors： Murugaiyan G,Mittal A,Weiner HL

更新日期：2010-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The past decade of scientific ocean drilling has revealed seemingly ubiquitous, slow-growing microbial life within a range of deep biosphere habitats. Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 337 expanded these studies by successfully coring Miocene-aged coal beds 2 km below the seafloor hypothesized to be "hot sp...

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

authors： Trembath-Reichert E,Morono Y,Ijiri A,Hoshino T,Dawson KS,Inagaki F,Orphan VJ

更新日期：2017-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG expansion within the huntingtin gene that encodes a polymorphic glutamine tract at the amino terminus of the huntingtin protein. HD is one of nine polyglutamine expansion diseases. The clinical threshold of polyglutamine expansion for HD is near 3...

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

authors： Caron NS,Desmond CR,Xia J,Truant R

更新日期：2013-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase activity was identified in extracts from several different mouse cell lines. Addition of telomeric TTAGGG repeats was specific to telomeric oligonucleotide primers and sensitive to pretreatment with RNase A. In contrast to the hundreds of repeats synthesized by the human and Tetrahymena telomerase enzymes i...

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

authors： Prowse KR,Avilion AA,Greider CW

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the F-specific ssRNA phage MS2 has long had paradigm status, little is known about penetration of the genomic RNA (gRNA) into the cell. The phage initially binds to the F-pilus using its maturation protein (Mat), and then the Mat-bound gRNA is released from the viral capsid and somehow crosses the bacterial e...

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

authors： Harb L,Chamakura K,Khara P,Christie PJ,Young R,Zeng L

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we report the transcriptional organization of a 450-kb gene cluster in Xq28, flanked by the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and the color vision genes. CpG islands previously identified and mapped to distal Xq28 have helped in construction of a continuous contig of cosmids and in identification of cDN...

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

authors： Bione S,Tamanini F,Maestrini E,Tribioli C,Poustka A,Torri G,Rivella S,Toniolo D

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differentiation of the female gamete into a developmentally competent oocyte relies on the protected environment of the ovarian follicle. The oocyte plays a key role in establishing this microenvironment by releasing paracrine factors that control the functions of surrounding somatic cells. Growth differentiation ...

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

authors： Cakmak H,Franciosi F,Zamah AM,Cedars MI,Conti M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extinction of a species is inevitably preceded by the extirpation of a series of local populations. Ecological theory predicts that vulnerability to extirpation varies between populations and is ultimately linked to environmental heterogeneity. If populations of a species are present in multiple regions separated ...

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

authors： Yackulic CB,Sanderson EW,Uriarte M

更新日期：2011-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced intake of nutrients [calorie restriction (CR)] extends longevity in organisms ranging from yeast to mammals. Mutations affecting somatotropic, insulin, or homologous signaling pathways can increase life span in worms, flies, and mice, and there is considerable evidence that reduced secretion of insulin-like gr...

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

authors： Bonkowski MS,Rocha JS,Masternak MM,Al Regaiey KA,Bartke A

更新日期：2006-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To help reach the target of tuberculosis (TB) disease elimination by 2050, vaccine development needs to occur now. We estimated the impact and cost-effectiveness of potential TB vaccines in low- and middle-income countries using an age-structured transmission model. New vaccines were assumed to be available in 2024, t...

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

authors： Knight GM,Griffiths UK,Sumner T,Laurence YV,Gheorghe A,Vassall A,Glaziou P,White RG

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:By exploiting the cell-cycle-dependent proteolysis of two ubiquitination oscillators, human Cdt1 and geminin, which are the direct substrates of SCF(Skp2) and APC(Cdh1) complexes, respectively, Fucci technique labels mammalian cell nuclei in G(1) and S/G(2)/M phases with different colors. Transgenic mice expressing th...

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

authors： Sugiyama M,Sakaue-Sawano A,Iimura T,Fukami K,Kitaguchi T,Kawakami K,Okamoto H,Higashijima S,Miyawaki A

更新日期：2009-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Zooxanthellae are unicellular algae that occur as endosymbionts in many hundreds of common marine invertebrates. The issue of zooxanthella diversity has been difficult to address. Most zooxanthellae have been placed in the dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium as one or several species that are not easily distinguished. W...

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

authors： Rowan R,Powers DA

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-containing protein 2 (NOD2) agonist muramyl dipeptide (MDP), a peptidoglycan motif common to all bacteria, supports leucine-rich repeat-containing G protein-coupled receptor 5 (LGR5)+ intestinal stem cell (ISC) survival through NOD2 activation upon an otherwise lethal oxid...

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

authors： Levy A,Stedman A,Deutsch E,Donnadieu F,Virgin HW,Sansonetti PJ,Nigro G

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The early steps in the biosynthesis of Taxol involve the cyclization of geranylgeranyl diphosphate to taxa-4(5),11(12)-diene followed by cytochrome P450-mediated hydroxylation at C5, acetylation of this intermediate, and a second cytochrome P450-dependent hydroxylation at C10 to yield taxadien-5 alpha-acetoxy-10 beta-...

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

authors： Schoendorf A,Rithner CD,Williams RM,Croteau RB

更新日期：2001-02-13 00:00:00