Contingent gene regulatory networks and B cell fate specification.

abstract：:We have previously proven that human macrophages can phagocytose porcine cells even in the absence of Ab or complement opsonization, indicating that macrophages present a pivotal immunological obstacle to xenotransplantation. A recent report indicates that the signal regulatory protein (SIRP)alpha is a critical immune...

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

authors： Ide K,Wang H,Tahara H,Liu J,Wang X,Asahara T,Sykes M,Yang YG,Ohdan H

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids play an important biphasic role in modulating neural plasticity; low doses enhance neural plasticity and spatial memory behavior, whereas chronic, higher doses produce inhibition. We found that 3 independent measures of mitochondrial function-mitochondrial oxidation, membrane potential, and mitochondri...

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

authors： Du J,Wang Y,Hunter R,Wei Y,Blumenthal R,Falke C,Khairova R,Zhou R,Yuan P,Machado-Vieira R,McEwen BS,Manji HK

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the known neuroreparative actions of IL-33 in experimental models of central nervous system (CNS) injury, we predicted that compounds which induce IL-33 are likely to promote remyelination. We found anacardic acid as a candidate molecule to serve as a therapeutic agent to promote remyelination. Addition of anaca...

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

authors： Ljunggren-Rose Å,Natarajan C,Matta P,Pandey A,Upender I,Sriram S

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the multiple steps constituting the kinesin mechanochemical cycle, one of the most interesting events is observed when kinesins move an 8-nm step from one microtubule (MT)-binding site to another. The stepping motion that occurs within a relatively short time scale ( approximately 100 mus) is, however, beyond th...

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

authors： Hyeon C,Onuchic JN

更新日期：2007-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The impacts of global climate change on different aspects of humanity's diverse life-support systems are complex and often difficult to predict. To facilitate policy decisions on mitigation and adaptation strategies, it is necessary to understand, quantify, and synthesize these climate-change impacts, taking into acco...

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

authors： Piontek F,Müller C,Pugh TA,Clark DB,Deryng D,Elliott J,Colón González Fde J,Flörke M,Folberth C,Franssen W,Frieler K,Friend AD,Gosling SN,Hemming D,Khabarov N,Kim H,Lomas MR,Masaki Y,Mengel M,Morse A,Neumann K,N

更新日期：2014-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex social behavior in Microtus voles and other mammals has been postulated to be under the direct genetic control of a single locus: the arginine vasopressin 1a receptor (avpr1a) gene. Using a phylogenetic approach, we show that a repetitive element in the promoter region of avpr1a, which reportedly causes social...

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

authors： Fink S,Excoffier L,Heckel G

更新日期：2006-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The MoxR family of AAA+ ATPases is widespread throughout bacteria and archaea but remains poorly characterized. We recently found that the Escherichia coli MoxR protein, RavA (Regulatory ATPase variant A), tightly interacts with the inducible lysine decarboxylase, LdcI/CadA, to form a unique cage-like structure. Here,...

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

authors： El Bakkouri M,Gutsche I,Kanjee U,Zhao B,Yu M,Goret G,Schoehn G,Burmeister WP,Houry WA

更新日期：2010-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus population growth depends on contacts between viruses and their hosts. It is often unclear how sufficient contacts are made between viruses and their specific hosts to generate spikes in viral abundance. Here, we show that copepods, acting as predators, can bring aquatic viruses and their algal hosts into contac...

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

authors： DeLong JP,Al-Ameeli Z,Duncan G,Van Etten JL,Dunigan DD

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular form of the Prion protein (PrPC) is necessary for prion replication in mice. To determine whether it is also sufficient, we expressed PrP under the control of various cell- or tissue-specific regulatory elements in PrP knockout mice. The interferon regulatory factor-1 promoter/Emu enhancer led to high PrP...

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

authors： Raeber AJ,Sailer A,Hegyi I,Klein MA,Rülicke T,Fischer M,Brandner S,Aguzzi A,Weissmann C

更新日期：1999-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of activated Ras with Raf initiates signaling cascades that contribute to a significant percentage of human tumors, suggesting that agents that specifically disrupt this interaction might have desirable chemotherapeutic properties. We used a subtractive forward two-hybrid approach to identify small mol...

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

authors： Kato-Stankiewicz J,Hakimi I,Zhi G,Zhang J,Serebriiskii I,Guo L,Edamatsu H,Koide H,Menon S,Eckl R,Sakamuri S,Lu Y,Chen QZ,Agarwal S,Baumbach WR,Golemis EA,Tamanoi F,Khazak V

更新日期：2002-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A site has been found that is required for repression of the Escherichia coli araBAD operon. This site was detected by the in vivo properties of deletion mutants. In vitro protection studies with DNase I and dimethylsulfate showed that araC protein can specifically bind in this area to nucleotides lying at position -2...

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

authors： Dunn TM,Hahn S,Ogden S,Schleif RF

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pore domain of voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channels consists of transmembrane helices S5 and S6, the turret, the pore helix, the selectivity filter, and the loop preceding S6, with a tertiary reentrant structure between S5 and S6. Using biogenic intermediates, mass tagging (pegylation), and a molecular tape measu...

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

authors： Gajewski C,Dagcan A,Roux B,Deutsch C

更新日期：2011-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombination between unirradiated chromosomes was induced by UV or x-ray irradiation of haploids followed by a mating with heteroallelic diploids of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The selected event of intragenic recombination did not involve the participation of the irradiated chromosome and apparently was not caused by ...

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

authors： Fabre F,Roman H

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 1,942-base-pair DNA segment encoding the structural gene for diphtheria toxin was sequenced, and the primary structure of the toxin was deduced. Restriction enzyme fragments corresponding to nontoxic or hypotoxic peptides of the toxin were isolated from corynebacteriophage beta and cloned into Escherichia coli on pl...

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

authors： Greenfield L,Bjorn MJ,Horn G,Fong D,Buck GA,Collier RJ,Kaplan DA

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron cryomicroscopy (cryo-EM) has been used to determine the atomic coordinates (models) from density maps of biological assemblies. These models can be assessed by their overall fit to the experimental data and stereochemical information. However, these models do not annotate the actual density values of the atom...

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

authors： Hryc CF,Chen DH,Afonine PV,Jakana J,Wang Z,Haase-Pettingell C,Jiang W,Adams PD,King JA,Schmid MF,Chiu W

更新日期：2017-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The androgen receptor (AR) plays an essential role in prostate cancer, and suppression of its signaling with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) has been the mainstay of treatment for metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer for more than 70 y. Chemotherapy has been reserved for metastatic castration-resistant pros...

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

authors： Komura K,Jeong SH,Hinohara K,Qu F,Wang X,Hiraki M,Azuma H,Lee GS,Kantoff PW,Sweeney CJ

更新日期：2016-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitation of HbCO by a single 6-psec 530-nm pulse results in photodissociation with a first-order constant of 0.89 X 10(11) sec-1. The kinetics of photodissociation, monitored by following absorbance changes in the Soret band at 440 nm, are interpreted as corresponding to predissociation followed by a corssing into a...

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

authors： Noe LJ,Eisert WG,Rentzepis PM

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed experimental investigation of Fe1+y Te (y = 0.11, 0.12) using pulsed magnetic fields up to 60 T confirms remarkable magnetic shape-memory (MSM) effects. These effects result from magnetoelastic transformation processes in the low-temperature antiferromagnetic state of these materials. The observation of mod...

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

authors： Rößler S,Koz C,Wang Z,Skourski Y,Doerr M,Kasinathan D,Rosner H,Schmidt M,Schwarz U,Rößler UK,Wirth S

更新日期：2019-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A residual sphere is formed by projecting seismic ray travel-time anomalies, relative to a reference Earth model, onto an imaginary sphere around an earthquake. Any dominant slab-like fast band can be determined with spherical harmonic expansion. The technique is useful in detecting trends associated with high-velocit...

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

authors： Zhou HW,Anderson DL

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germ-line mutations of the BRCA2 tumor suppressor gene greatly increase the risk of developing breast and ovarian cancers. Here, we show that wild-type BRCA2, but not a tumor-specific truncated mutant BRCA2, synergizes with the nuclear receptor coactivator p160 GRIP1 to enhance transcriptional activation by androgen r...

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

authors： Shin S,Verma IM

更新日期：2003-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A biological membrane is conceptualized as a system in which membrane proteins are naturally matched to the equilibrium thickness of the lipid bilayer. Cholesterol, in addition to lipid composition, has been suggested to be a major regulator of bilayer thickness in vivo because measurements in vitro have shown that ch...

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

authors： Mitra K,Ubarretxena-Belandia I,Taguchi T,Warren G,Engelman DM

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We find that histidine residues in proteins are major targets for reaction with the lipid peroxidation product 4-hydroxynon-2-enal (HNE). Reaction of insulin (which contains no sulfhydryl groups) with HNE leads to the generation of HNE-protein adducts, which are converted to radioactive derivatives upon subsequent tre...

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

authors： Uchida K,Stadtman ER

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Energy transfer is enhanced by translational diffusion of the donor and acceptor [Steinberg, I. Z. & Katchalski, E. (1968) J. Chem. Phys. 48, 2404-2410]. The effect of diffusion on energy transfer depends on Dtau(0)/s(2), in which D is the sum of the diffusion coefficients of the donor and acceptor, tau(0) is the life...

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

authors： Thomas DD,Carlsen WF,Stryer L

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-fos protooncogene is transcriptionally activated by a wide variety of agents including serum, growth factors, and phorbol esters. This induction is rapid and transient and is mediated through a number of identified promoter elements. Growth hormone (GH) is also known to induce transcription of c-fos in a variety...

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

authors： Meyer DJ,Stephenson EW,Johnson L,Cochran BH,Schwartz J

更新日期：1993-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1950, G. Ledyard Stebbins devoted two chapters of his book Variation and Evolution in Plants (Columbia Univ. Press, New York) to polyploidy, one on occurrence and nature and one on distribution and significance. Fifty years later, many of the questions Stebbins posed have not been answered, and many new questions h...

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

authors： Soltis PS,Soltis DE

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Left ventricular remodeling that occurs after myocardial infarction (MI) and pressure overload is generally accepted as a determinant of the clinical course of heart failure. The molecular mechanism of this process, however, remains to be elucidated. Apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 (ASK1) is a mitogen-activated p...

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

authors： Yamaguchi O,Higuchi Y,Hirotani S,Kashiwase K,Nakayama H,Hikoso S,Takeda T,Watanabe T,Asahi M,Taniike M,Matsumura Y,Tsujimoto I,Hongo K,Kusakari Y,Kurihara S,Nishida K,Ichijo H,Hori M,Otsu K

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple epiphyseal dysplasia (MED) is a degenerative cartilage condition shown in some cases to be caused by mutations in genes encoding cartilage oligomeric matrix protein or type IX collagen. We studied a family with autosomal dominant MED affecting predominantly the knee joints and a mild proximal myopathy. Geneti...

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

authors： Bönnemann CG,Cox GF,Shapiro F,Wu JJ,Feener CA,Thompson TG,Anthony DC,Eyre DR,Darras BT,Kunkel LM

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the general structure of immunoglobulin chains has remained relatively unchanged throughout evolution, the organization of the genes encoding these molecules differs substantially. To understand how the rearranging immunoglobulin system arose, it is necessary to examine living representatives of the most early v...

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

authors： Hohman VS,Schuchman DB,Schluter SF,Marchalonis JJ

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the CCAAT-binding transcription factor (CTF) family of proteins stimulate the initiation of adenovirus DNA replication and act as transcriptional activators. To investigate the mechanisms underlying CTF-mediated transactivation patterns, we expressed several natural CTF variants in Saccharomyces cerevisiae ...

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

authors： Altmann H,Wendler W,Winnacker EL

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory mechanisms for tissue repair and regeneration within damaged tissue have been extensively studied. However, the systemic regulation of tissue repair remains poorly understood. To elucidate tissue nonautonomous control of repair process, it is essential to induce local damage, independent of genetic manipula...

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

authors： Kashio S,Obata F,Zhang L,Katsuyama T,Chihara T,Miura M

更新日期：2016-02-16 00:00:00