CD4+ T cells mediate antibody-independent acquired immunity to pneumococcal colonization.

abstract：:Delta5 and Delta6 fatty acid desaturases are critical enzymes in the pathways for the biosynthesis of the polyunsaturated fatty acids arachidonic, eicosapentaenoic, and docosahexaenoic acids. They are encoded by distinct genes in mammals and Caenorhabditis elegans. This paper describes a cDNA isolated from zebrafish (...

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

authors： Hastings N,Agaba M,Tocher DR,Leaver MJ,Dick JR,Sargent JR,Teale AJ

更新日期：2001-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Gametocytes are nonreplicative sexual forms that mediate malaria transmission to a mosquito vector. They are generated from asexual blood-stage parasites that proliferate in the circulation. However, little is known about how this transition is genetically regulated. Here, we report that an Apetala2 (AP2) family trans...

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

authors： Yuda M,Iwanaga S,Kaneko I,Kato T

更新日期：2015-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-specific activation of the transcription factor sigma F during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis is controlled by a regulatory pathway involving the proteins SpoIIE, SpoIIAA, and SpoIIAB. SpoIIAB is an antagonist of sigma F, and SpoIIAA, which is capable of overcoming SpoIIAB-mediated inhibition of sigma F, is an ...

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

authors： Arigoni F,Duncan L,Alper S,Losick R,Stragier P

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Early passages of NIH 3T3 cells yield about 10 transformed foci for every 10(5) cells seeded after the cells multiply to confluence in a standardized 2-week assay. The question arose whether more cells would give rise to foci if given more time for their development. This question could not be answered simply by exten...

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

authors： Chow M,Yao A,Rubin H

更新日期：1994-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The BAG6 complex was first identified as an upstream loading factor for tail-anchored membrane proteins entering the TRC40-dependent pathway for posttranslational delivery to the endoplasmic reticulum. Subsequently, BAG6 was shown to enhance the proteasomal degradation of mislocalized proteins by selectively promoting...

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

authors： Leznicki P,High S

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the rice transcription factor, REB (rice endosperm bZIP) was cloned from a bacterial artificial chromosome library of rice. The cloned 6,227-bp-long Reb gene is composed of six exons and five introns and is flanked by a 1.2-kb 5' promoter and a 1.2-kb 3' terminator region. The function of the Reb gen...

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

authors： Yang D,Wu L,Hwang YS,Chen L,Huang N

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyramidal cells in piriform cortex receive excitatory inputs from two different sources that are segregated onto adjacent segments of their apical dendrites. The present studies show that excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) evoked by primary olfactory tract afferents that terminate on distal apical segments dis...

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

authors： Bower JM,Haberly LB

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cofactor composition and electron-transfer kinetics of the reaction center (RC) from a magnesium chelatase (bchD) mutant of Rhodobacter sphaeroides were characterized. In this RC, the special pair (P) and accessory (B) bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) -binding sites contain Zn-BChl rather than BChl a. Spectroscopic meas...

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

authors： Lin S,Jaschke PR,Wang H,Paddock M,Tufts A,Allen JP,Rosell FI,Mauk AG,Woodbury NW,Beatty JT

更新日期：2009-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a general mass spectrometric approach for the rapid identification and characterization of proteins isolated by preparative two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. This method possesses the inherent power to detect and structurally characterize covalent modifications. Absolute sensitivities of ma...

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

authors： Clauser KR,Hall SC,Smith DM,Webb JW,Andrews LE,Tran HM,Epstein LB,Burlingame AL

更新日期：1995-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Ascorbic acid, at nontoxic concentrations, causes a substantial reduction in the ability of avian tumor viruses to replicate in both primary avian tendon cells and chicken embryo fibroblasts. The virus-infected cultures appear to be less transformed in the presence of ascorbic acid by the criteria of morphology, reduc...

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

authors： Bissell MJ,Hatie C,Farson DA,Schwarz RI,Soo WJ

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented that suggests that GTP (or 5'-guanylylmethylene diphosphonate) is not essential for either formation of an AUG-directed, initiation factor IF-2-dependent initiation complex on the 30S subunit or for positioning of fMet-tRNA on the peptidyl site. However, recycling of limiting amounts of IF-2 requ...

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

authors： Mazumder R

更新日期：1972-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parathyroid cells have unusual responses to an increase in the external calcium concentration--a reduction in secretion and a depolarization. In an attempt to explain this behavior, we have studied voltage-clamped inside-out patches from bovine parathyroid cells. We found a potassium-selective channel that requires in...

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

authors： Jia M,Ehrenstein G,Iwasa K

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Random graphs are useful models of social and technological networks. To date, most of the research in this area has concerned geometric properties of the graphs. Here we focus on processes taking place on the network. In particular we are interested in how their behavior on networks differs from that in homogeneously...

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

authors： Durrett R

更新日期：2010-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence suggests that cholinergic input to the hippocampus plays an important role in learning and memory and that degeneration of cholinergic terminals in the hippocampus may contribute to the memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease. One of the more prominent effects of cholinergic agonists on hippocampal ph...

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

authors： Marino MJ,Rouse ST,Levey AI,Potter LT,Conn PJ

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:LINEs are transposable elements found in various eukaryotes such as plants, protists, insects, and mammals. Their transposition is usually difficult to study, particularly in humans, where some diseases have been shown to result from LINE insertion mutations. This is due to the fact that most copies of any particular ...

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

authors： Pélisson A,Finnegan DJ,Bucheton A

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opioid receptors are differentially coupled to ion channels. Mu- and delta-opioid receptors are coupled to calcium- and/or voltage-dependent potassium channels and kappa-opioid receptors are coupled to voltage-dependent calcium channels. Using the single-electrode voltage-clamp technique, we investigated the effect of...

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

authors： Gross RA,Macdonald RL

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natal dispersal, the process through which immature individuals permanently depart their natal area in search of new sites, is integral to the ecology and evolution of animals. Insights about the underlying causes of natal dispersal arise mainly from research on species whose short dispersal distances or restricted di...

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

authors： Studds CE,Kyser TK,Marra PP

更新日期：2008-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast tumors lacking expression of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) and the estrogen and the progesterone receptors (triple negative; TNBC) are more aggressive than other disease subtypes, and no molecular targeted agents are currently available for their treatment. Because TNBC commonly displays EGF r...

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

authors： Ferraro DA,Gaborit N,Maron R,Cohen-Dvashi H,Porat Z,Pareja F,Lavi S,Lindzen M,Ben-Chetrit N,Sela M,Yarden Y

更新日期：2013-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Integration of viral DNA into the host nuclear genome, although not unusual in bacterial and animal systems, has surprisingly not been reported for plants. We have discovered geminvirus-related DNA (GRD) sequences, in the form of distinct sets of multiple direct repeats comprising three related repeat classes, situate...

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

authors： Bejarano ER,Khashoggi A,Witty M,Lichtenstein C

更新日期：1996-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the importance of valuing another person's welfare for prosocial behavior, currently we have only a limited understanding of how these values are represented in the brain and, more importantly, how they give rise to individual variability in prosociality. In the present study, participants underwent functional...

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

authors： Sul S,Tobler PN,Hein G,Leiberg S,Jung D,Fehr E,Kim H

更新日期：2015-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In the presence of a single-stranded-DNA-binding protein (SSB), the elongation of primed DNA templates by DNA polymerase delta (pol delta) is dependent on ATP and two protein factors, activator 1 (A1) and proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA). We have examined the interaction of these proteins with (dA)4500.(dT)12...

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

authors： Lee SH,Hurwitz J

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a genetic disorder caused by loss of the protein dystrophin. In humans, DMD has early onset, causes developmental delays, muscle necrosis, loss of ambulation, and death. Current animal models have been challenged by their inability to model the early onset and severity of the disea...

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

authors： Hughes KJ,Rodriguez A,Flatt KM,Ray S,Schuler A,Rodemoyer B,Veerappan V,Cuciarone K,Kullman A,Lim C,Gutta N,Vemuri S,Andriulis V,Niswonger D,Barickman L,Stein W,Singhvi A,Schroeder NE,Vidal-Gadea AG

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocean acidification describes the progressive, global reduction in seawater pH that is currently underway because of the accelerating oceanic uptake of atmospheric CO(2). Acidification is expected to reduce coral reef calcification and increase reef dissolution. Inorganic cementation in reefs describes the precipitati...

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

authors： Manzello DP,Kleypas JA,Budd DA,Eakin CM,Glynn PW,Langdon C

更新日期：2008-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat cortical astrocytes in pure culture are functionally coupled to neighboring cells via connexin (Cx) 43 gap junctions under ordinary conditions. Small fluorescent molecules such as Lucifer yellow (LY) pass between cell interiors via gap junctions, but do not enter the cells when externally applied. Subjecting rat a...

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

authors： Contreras JE,Sánchez HA,Eugenin EA,Speidel D,Theis M,Willecke K,Bukauskas FF,Bennett MV,Sáez JC

更新日期：2002-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular adaptation is typically assumed to proceed by sequential fixation of beneficial mutations. In diploids, this picture presupposes that for most adaptive mutations, the homozygotes have a higher fitness than the heterozygotes. Here, we show that contrary to this expectation, a substantial proportion of adaptiv...

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

authors： Sellis D,Callahan BJ,Petrov DA,Messer PW

更新日期：2011-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent political instabilities and conflicts around the world have drastically increased the number of people seeking refuge. The challenges associated with the large number of arriving refugees have revealed a deep divide among the citizens of host countries: one group welcomes refugees, whereas another rejects them....

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

authors： Böhm R,Theelen MMP,Rusch H,Van Lange PAM

更新日期：2018-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:As new disease threats arise and existing pathogens grow resistant to conventional interventions, attention increasingly focuses on the development of vaccines to induce protective immune responses. Given their admirable safety records, protein subunit vaccines are attractive for widespread immunization, but their dis...

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

authors： Chen DJ,Osterrieder N,Metzger SM,Buckles E,Doody AM,DeLisa MP,Putnam D

更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the pathways that control epithelial carcinogenesis is vital to the development of effective treatments. The Polycomb group family member Bmi1 is overexpressed in numerous epithelial tumors, but its role in their development has not been established. We now show a key role for Bmi1 in lung adenocarcinoma...

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

authors： Dovey JS,Zacharek SJ,Kim CF,Lees JA

更新日期：2008-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, considerable progress has been made in understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying olfaction in insects. Because of the diverse nature of the gene families involved, this process has largely relied on genomic data. As a consequence, studies have focused on a small subset of species with extensiv...

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

authors： Grosse-Wilde E,Kuebler LS,Bucks S,Vogel H,Wicher D,Hansson BS

更新日期：2011-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The synaptonemal complex (SC) is a conserved meiotic structure that regulates the repair of double-strand breaks (DSBs) into crossovers or gene conversions. The removal of any central-region SC component, such as the Drosophila melanogaster transverse filament protein C(3)G, causes a complete loss of SC structure and ...

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

authors： Billmyre KK,Cahoon CK,Heenan GM,Wesley ER,Yu Z,Unruh JR,Takeo S,Hawley RS

更新日期：2019-10-22 00:00:00