Indirubin derivatives inhibit Stat3 signaling and induce apoptosis in human cancer cells.

abstract：:Regulation of biological phenomena occurs in all types of systems, being manifested in many different reaction types, from allosteric behavior in proteins, through modulation in energy and information transfer, to the control of growth and differentiation in cells, organelles, and organisms. In this communication, a m...

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

authors： Sligar SG,Gunsalus IC

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescence of the supposedly buried tryptophan in ribonuclease T1 has been found to be collisionally quenched by acrylamide with a rate constant of 3 X 10(8) M--1 sec--1. Only a slight decrease in the quenching rate is observed upon a 5-fold increase in the viscosity of the solution. For this to be the case, the...

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

authors： Eftink MR,Ghiron CA

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of antibiotic resistance among nosocomial pathogens has reemphasized the need for effective infection control strategies. The spread of resistant pathogens within hospital settings proceeds along various routes of transmission and is characterized by large fluctuations in prevalence, which are typical fo...

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

authors： Pelupessy I,Bonten MJ,Diekmann O

更新日期：2002-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression in higher organisms is thought to be regulated by a complex network of transcription factor binding and chromatin modifications, yet the relative importance of these two factors remains a matter of debate. Here, we show that a computational approach allows surprisingly accurate prediction of histone mo...

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

authors： Benveniste D,Sonntag HJ,Sanguinetti G,Sproul D

更新日期：2014-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined iron nitrosylation of non-heme protein and enzymatic activity of the Fe-S cluster protein, aconitase, in acute cardiac allograft rejection. Heterotopic transplantation of donor hearts was performed in histocompatibility matched (isografts: Lewis --> Lewis) and mismatched (allografts: Wistar-Furth --> Lewis...

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

authors： Pieper GM,Halligan NL,Hilton G,Konorev EA,Felix CC,Roza AM,Adams MB,Griffith OW

更新日期：2003-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cereal agriculture originated with the domestication of barley and early forms of wheat in the Fertile Crescent. There has long been speculation that barley was domesticated more than once. We use differences in haplotype frequency among geographic regions at multiple loci to infer at least two domestications of barle...

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

authors： Morrell PL,Clegg MT

更新日期：2007-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Although potassium channels play a variety of roles in shaping the electrical properties of neurons, little is known about how these channels are constituted in neurons. To examine the assembly and physiological function of A-type K+ channels in mature differentiated neurons, we have developed a highly efficient gene ...

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

authors： Kaang BK,Pfaffinger PJ,Grant SG,Kandel ER,Furukawa Y

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 158,000 Mr protein, previously designated C5c, present in fully assembled complement (C) membrane attack complexes (MC5b-9) has been identified as a disulfide-bonded dimer of C9. This conclusion was based on the observations that: (i) a portion of the 125I-radiolabeled precursor C9 incorporated into MC5b-9 complex...

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

authors： Ware CF,Kolb WP

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlling the effects of proactive interference (PI), the deleterious effect of prior mental activity on current memory representations, is believed to be a key function of the prefrontal cortex. This view is supported by neuroimaging evidence for a correlation between the longer reaction times caused by high PI con...

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

authors： Feredoes E,Tononi G,Postle BR

更新日期：2006-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used low magnesium concentrations and the specific antagonist D-2-amino-5-phosphonopentanoate (D-AP5) to estimate the effects of long-term potentiation (LTP) on the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) and non-NMDA receptor-mediated components of postsynaptic responses. LTP induction resulted in a considerably larger p...

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

authors： Muller D,Lynch G

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental scheme for sequencing large DNA molecules is proposed where DNA strands are replicated, with all nucleotides of a given kind marked with radioactive 32P. The marked strands are affixed to an appropriate substrate and are kept until most 32P atoms decay. The local damage caused by the decay is expected ...

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

authors： Kelson I,Nussinov S

更新日期：1994-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple epidemic diseases have been designated as emerging or reemerging because the numbers of clinical cases have increased. Emerging diseases are often suspected to be driven by increased virulence or fitness, possibly associated with the gain of novel genes or mutations. However, the time period over which humans...

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

authors： Zhou Z,McCann A,Weill FX,Blin C,Nair S,Wain J,Dougan G,Achtman M

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage display of antibodies provides a method for the generation of immunological reagents against rare and uncharacterized antigens. To ascertain the usefulness of this approach for the characterization of inner-ear proteins, we produced a bacteriophage-displayed antibody-fragment library directed against pro...

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

authors： Cyr JL,Hudspeth AJ

更新日期：2000-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:An intense (up to 20 muA/cm(2)) steady electrical current enters the anterior or nurse cell end of the growing follicle (or oocyte-nurse cell complex) of the Cecropia moth and is balanced by a more diffuse current leaving elsewhere. In late growth stages, the total transfollicular current is about 100 nA. Moreover, a ...

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

authors： Jaffe LF,Woodruff RI

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clustered DNA damage induced by ionizing radiation is refractory to repair and may trigger carcinogenic events for reasons that are not well understood. Here, we used an in situ method to directly monitor induction and repair of clustered DNA lesions in individual cells. We showed, consistent with biophysical modeling...

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

authors： Asaithamby A,Hu B,Chen DJ

更新日期：2011-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:By using a systematic genetic approach, the resonances in the 19F NMR spectrum of 3-fluorotyrosine-substituted lac repressor protein have been assigned. The NMR data indicate that each monomer of the repressor consists of two distinct and independent domains. One domain, the NH2-terminal sixth of the primary sequence,...

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

authors： Jarema MA,Lu P,Miller JH

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In typical force spectroscopy experiments, a small biomolecule is attached to a soft polymer linker that is pulled with a relatively large bead or cantilever. At constant force, the total extension stochastically changes between two (or more) values, indicating that the biomolecule undergoes transitions between two (o...

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

authors： Cossio P,Hummer G,Szabo A

更新日期：2015-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The methyl-CpG dinucleotide containing a symmetrical 5-methylcytosine (mC) is involved in gene regulation and genome stability. We report here that methylation-mediated transcriptional repressor methylated DNA-binding domain 1 (MBD1) interacts with methylpurine-DNA glycosylase (MPG), which excises damaged bases from s...

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

authors： Watanabe S,Ichimura T,Fujita N,Tsuruzoe S,Ohki I,Shirakawa M,Kawasuji M,Nakao M

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA vaccines, comprised of plasmid DNA encoding proteins from pathogens, allergens, and tumors, are being evaluated as prophylactic vaccines and therapeutic treatments for infectious diseases, allergies, and cancer; plasmids encoding normal human proteins are likewise being tested as vaccines and treatments for autoim...

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

authors： Liu M,Acres B,Balloul JM,Bizouarne N,Paul S,Slos P,Squiban P

更新日期：2004-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator 1-alpha (PGC-1α) is a transcriptional coactivator that controls expression of metabolic/energetic genes, programming cellular responses to nutrient and environmental adaptations such as fasting, cold, or exercise. Unlike other coactivators, PGC-1α contai...

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

authors： Tavares CDJ,Aigner S,Sharabi K,Sathe S,Mutlu B,Yeo GW,Puigserver P

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence of the cloned Bacillus amyloliquefaciens subtilisin gene suggested that this secreted serine protease is produced as a larger precursor, designated preprosubtilisin [Wells, J. A., Ferrari, E., Henner, D. J., Estell, D. A. & Chen, E. Y. (1983) Nucleic Acids Res. 11, 7911-7925]. Biochemical evidence present...

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

authors： Power SD,Adams RM,Wells JA

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pivotal step on the mitochondrial pathway to apoptosis is permeabilization of the mitochondrial outer membrane (MOM) by oligomers of the B-cell lymphoma-2 (Bcl-2) family members Bak or Bax. However, how they disrupt MOM integrity is unknown. A longstanding model is that activated Bak and Bax insert two α-helices, ...

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

authors： Westphal D,Dewson G,Menard M,Frederick P,Iyer S,Bartolo R,Gibson L,Czabotar PE,Smith BJ,Adams JM,Kluck RM

更新日期：2014-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:GSTs catalyze the conjugation of glutathione with a wide variety of hydrophobic compounds, generally resulting in nontoxic products that can be readily eliminated. In contrast to many other organisms, the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum possesses only one GST isoenzyme (PfGST). This GST is highly abundant in t...

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

authors： Fritz-Wolf K,Becker A,Rahlfs S,Harwaldt P,Schirmer RH,Kabsch W,Becker K

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) are synthases required to build the essential peptidoglycan (PG) cell wall surrounding most bacterial cells. The mechanisms regulating the activity of these enzymes to control PG synthesis remain surprisingly poorly defined given their status as key antibiotic targets. Several years ...

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

authors： Greene NG,Fumeaux C,Bernhardt TG

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying presynaptic mechanisms of general anesthetics is critical to understanding their effects on synaptic transmission. We show that the volatile anesthetic isoflurane inhibits synaptic vesicle (SV) exocytosis at nerve terminals in dissociated rat hippocampal neurons through inhibition of presynaptic Ca(2+) inf...

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

authors： Baumgart JP,Zhou ZY,Hara M,Cook DC,Hoppa MB,Ryan TA,Hemmings HC Jr

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the dystrophin gene cause Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) most commonly through loss of protein expression. In a small subpopulation of patients, missense mutations can cause DMD, Becker muscular dystrophy, or X-linked cardiomyopathy. Nearly one-half of disease-causing missense mutations are located in ...

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

authors： Henderson DM,Lee A,Ervasti JM

更新日期：2010-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferating-cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) mediates the replication of simian virus 40 (SV40) DNA by reversing the effects of a protein that inhibits the elongation reaction. Two other protein fractions, activator I and activator II, were also shown to play important roles in this process. We report that activator II i...

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

authors： Lee SH,Eki T,Hurwitz J

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated and partially sequenced a M(r) 160,000 glycoprotein whose rate of cycling to and from the adipocyte cell surface is enhanced by insulin in a manner apparently identical to the effect of insulin on GLUT4 cycling. Based on the protein sequence, we have prepared an antipeptide antibody against this prote...

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

authors： Kandror KV,Pilch PF

更新日期：1994-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage T7 encodes an essential inhibitor of the Escherichia coli host RNA polymerase (RNAP), the product of gene 2 (Gp2). We determined a series of X-ray crystal structures of E. coli RNAP holoenzyme with or without Gp2. The results define the structure and location of the RNAP σ(70) subunit domain 1.1(σ(1.1)(7...

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

authors： Bae B,Davis E,Brown D,Campbell EA,Wigneshweraraj S,Darst SA

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that perceived pain intensity can influence placebo analgesia was tested. One hundred and seven subjects rated their pain from from 0 to 10 on a visual analog scale after a standard wisdom tooth extraction. The expected course of such postoperative pain in the absence of therapy or placebo is a steady i...

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

authors： Levine JD,Gordon NC,Bornstein JC,Fields HL

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00