Regulation of muscarinic acetylcholine receptor mRNA expression by activation of homologous and heterologous receptors.

abstract：:Nerve growth factor (NGF) serum levels were measured in 49 patients with asthma and/or rhinoconjunctivitis and/or urticaria-angioedema. Clinical and biochemical parameters, such as bronchial reactivity, total and specific serum IgE levels, and circulating eosinophil cationic protein levels, were evaluated in relation ...

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

authors： Bonini S,Lambiase A,Bonini S,Angelucci F,Magrini L,Manni L,Aloe L

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dictyostelium myosin II is activated by phosphorylation of its regulatory light chain by myosin light chain kinase A (MLCK-A), an unconventional MLCK that is not regulated by Ca2+/calmodulin. MLCK-A is activated by autophosphorylation of threonine-289 outside of the catalytic domain and by phosphorylation of threonine...

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

authors： Silveira LA,Smith JL,Tan JL,Spudich JA

更新日期：1998-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:For a series of different proteins, including a structural protein, enzyme, inhibitor, protein marker, and a charge-transfer system, we have quantified the higher affinity of Na+ over K+ to the protein surface by means of molecular dynamics simulations and conductivity measurements. Both approaches show that sodium bi...

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

authors： Vrbka L,Vondrásek J,Jagoda-Cwiklik B,Vácha R,Jungwirth P

更新日期：2006-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological polymers such as nucleic acids and proteins are constructed of only one-the d or l-of the two possible nonsuperimposable mirror images (enantiomers) of selected organic compounds. However, before the advent of life, it is generally assumed that chemical reactions produced 50:50 (racemic) mixtures of enantio...

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

authors： Cooper G,Rios AC

更新日期：2016-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Von Willebrand protein is present in the extracellular matrix of endothelial cells where it codistributes with fibronectin and types IV and V collagen. Bacterial collagenase digestion of endothelial cells removed fibrillar collagen, but the pattern of fibronectin and of von Willebrand protein remained undisturbed. Exo...

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

authors： Wagner DD,Urban-Pickering M,Marder VJ

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid hormone (TH) metabolism, mediated by deiodinase types 1, 2, and 3 (D1, D2, and D3) is profoundly affected by acute illness. We examined the role of TH metabolism during ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) in mice. Mice exposed to VILI recapitulated the serum TH findings of acute illness, namely a decrease in...

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

authors： Barca-Mayo O,Liao XH,DiCosmo C,Dumitrescu A,Moreno-Vinasco L,Wade MS,Sammani S,Mirzapoiazova T,Garcia JG,Refetoff S,Weiss RE

更新日期：2011-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a common allosteric mechanism for control of inflammatory and apoptotic caspases. Highly specific thiol-containing inhibitors of the human inflammatory caspase-1 were identified by using disulfide trapping, a method for site-directed small-molecule discovery. These compounds became trapped by forming a disu...

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

authors： Scheer JM,Romanowski MJ,Wells JA

更新日期：2006-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the genetic interactions between mutant alleles in 12 genes, designated PER1-PER12, which are essential for peroxisome biogenesis in the yeast Hansenula polymorpha. Recessive mutations in any of these genes determined three different morphological phenotypes: (i) complete absence of peroxisomes (Per-);...

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

authors： Titorenko VI,Waterham HR,Cregg JM,Harder W,Veenhuis M

更新日期：1993-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:D gene segments with irregular spacers (DIR) are D gene segments that are specific to higher primates. Their use is controversial because of their G+C-rich long sequences. In the human, it has always been tempting to assume that a complementarity-determining region 3 sequence has been added by terminal deoxynucleotidy...

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

authors： Tuaillon N,Capra JD

更新日期：1998-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We use stable isotope ratios in feces of wild mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei) to test the hypothesis that diet shifts within a single year, as measured by dry mass intake, can be recovered. Isotopic separation of staple foods indicates that intraannual changes in the isotopic composition of feces reflect shifts i...

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

authors： Blumenthal SA,Chritz KL,Rothman JM,Cerling TE

更新日期：2012-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphism in materials often leads to significantly different physical properties--the rutile and anatase polymorphs of TiO2 are a prime example. Polytypism is a special type of polymorphism, occurring in layered materials when the geometry of a repeating structural layer is maintained but the layer-stacking sequen...

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

authors： Luo H,Xie W,Tao J,Inoue H,Gyenis A,Krizan JW,Yazdani A,Zhu Y,Cava RJ

更新日期：2015-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Under a stretching force, the sugar ring of polysaccharide molecules switches from the chair to the boat-like or inverted chair conformation. This conformational change can be observed by stretching single polysaccharide molecules with an atomic force microscope. In those early experiments, the molecules were stretche...

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

authors： Marszalek PE,Li H,Oberhauser AF,Fernandez JM

更新日期：2002-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrical response of a pigmented lipid bilayer to a short laser pulse is measured by a tunable voltage clamp method. In this method, a variable access impedance permits "tuning" of the observed relaxations for optimal measurements. Analysis of the data so obtained leads to an equivalent circuit that contains a n...

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

authors： Hong FT,Mauzerall D

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3.L2 T cell receptor transgenic T cells are activated by the 64-76 peptide of the mouse hemoglobin d beta chain [Hb(64-76)], and their response is antagonized by the position 72 alanine substitution of this peptide (A72). To test the effect of this altered peptide ligand (APL) on 3.L2 T cell function in vivo, a transg...

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

authors： Basu D,Williams CB,Allen PM

更新日期：1998-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Let t --> gamma(t), 0

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

authors： Stein EM,Wainger S

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:p63 inhibits metastasis. Here, we show that p63 (both TAp63 and ΔNp63 isoforms) regulates expression of miR-205 in prostate cancer (PCa) cells, and miR-205 is essential for the inhibitory effects of p63 on markers of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), such as ZEB1 and vimentin. Correspondingly, the inhibitory ef...

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

authors： Tucci P,Agostini M,Grespi F,Markert EK,Terrinoni A,Vousden KH,Muller PA,Dötsch V,Kehrloesser S,Sayan BS,Giaccone G,Lowe SW,Takahashi N,Vandenabeele P,Knight RA,Levine AJ,Melino G

更新日期：2012-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic DNA based on the known amino acid sequence of the brain/gut peptide cholecystokinin (CCK) was synthesized. This DNA contained deoxyinosines at ambiguous codon positions and was used as a probe to isolate the CCK gene directly from a human genomic library. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the isolated gene r...

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

authors： Takahashi Y,Kato K,Hayashizaki Y,Wakabayashi T,Ohtsuka E,Matsuki S,Ikehara M,Matsubara K

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation plays an important role in pathological angiogenesis. Receptor-interacting protein 1 (RIP1) is highly expressed in inflammatory cells and is known to play an important role in the regulation of apoptosis, necroptosis, and inflammation; however, a comprehensive description of its role in angiogenesis remai...

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

authors： Ueta T,Ishihara K,Notomi S,Lee JJ,Maidana DE,Efstathiou NE,Murakami Y,Hasegawa E,Azuma K,Toyono T,Paschalis EI,Aihara M,Miller JW,Vavvas DG

更新日期：2019-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Prophenoloxidases (PPOs) are key enzymes of the melanization reaction, which is a prominent defense mechanism of arthropods. The mosquito Aedes aegypti has ten PPO genes in the genome, four of which (PPO1, PPO3, PPO5, and PPO8) were expressed in response to microbial infection. Cactus depletion resulted in transcripti...

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

authors： Zou Z,Shin SW,Alvarez KS,Bian G,Kokoza V,Raikhel AS

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the kinetics of vitellogenin mRNA accumulation in rooster liver after a primary injection of 17beta-estradiol. The levels of vitellogenin mRNA have been determined both by hybridization of total cellular RNA to vitellogenin cDNA and by translation of vitellogenin mRNA in a wheat germ cell-free system. ...

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

authors： Burns AT,Deeley RG,Gordon JI,Udell DS,Mullinix KP,Goldberger RF

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunotherapy is emerging as one of the most effective methods for treating many cancers. However, immunotherapy can still introduce significant off-target toxicity, and methods are sought to enable targeted immunotherapy at tumor sites. Here, we show that relatively large (>100-nm) anionic nanoparticles administered ...

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

authors： Haber T,Cornejo YR,Aramburo S,Flores L,Cao P,Liu A,Mooney R,Gilchrist M,Tirughana R,Nwokafor U,Abidi W,Han E,Dellinger T,Wakabayashi MT,Aboody KS,Berlin JM

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used site-directed mutagenesis of cloned Moloney murine leukemia virus (MuLV) DNA to define a function encoded in the 3' region of the viral pol gene and required for efficient integration of viral DNA. One mutant, MuLV-SF1, contained a single base substitution (C to T at base 4950) that resulted in an arginin...

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

authors： Donehower LA,Varmus HE

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water autoionization reaction 2H2O --> H3O- + OH- is a textbook process of basic importance, resulting in pH = 7 for pure water. However, pH of pure water surface is shown to be significantly lower, the reduction being caused by proton stabilization at the surface. The evidence presented here includes ab initio and cl...

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

authors： Buch V,Milet A,Vácha R,Jungwirth P,Devlin JP

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic cysteine of the typical 2-Cys Prx subfamily of peroxiredoxins is occasionally hyperoxidized to cysteine sulfinic acid during the peroxidase catalytic cycle. Sulfinic Prx (Prx-SO2H) is reduced back to the active form of the enzyme by sulfiredoxin. The abundance of Prx-SO2H was recently shown to oscillate ...

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

authors： Cho CS,Yoon HJ,Kim JY,Woo HA,Rhee SG

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of what is a perceptual object is one of the most central and also controversial issues in cognitive science. According to the topological approach to perceptual organization, the core intuitive notion of an object--the holistic identity preserved over shape-changing transformations--may be characterized ...

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

authors： Zhou K,Luo H,Zhou T,Zhuo Y,Chen L

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropathic pain afflicts millions of individuals and represents a major health problem for which there is limited effective and safe therapy. Emerging literature links altered sphingolipid metabolism to nociceptive processing. However, the neuropharmacology of sphingolipid signaling in the central nervous system in t...

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

authors： Chen Z,Doyle TM,Luongo L,Largent-Milnes TM,Giancotti LA,Kolar G,Squillace S,Boccella S,Walker JK,Pendleton A,Spiegel S,Neumann WL,Vanderah TW,Salvemini D

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variants underlying life-threatening diseases, being unlikely to be transmitted to the next generation, are gradually and selectively eliminated from the population through negative selection. We study the determinants of this evolutionary process in human genes underlying monogenic diseases by comparing vario...

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

authors： Rapaport F,Boisson B,Gregor A,Béziat V,Boisson-Dupuis S,Bustamante J,Jouanguy E,Puel A,Rosain J,Zhang Q,Zhang SY,Gleeson JG,Quintana-Murci L,Casanova JL,Abel L,Patin E

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Six overlapping cosmid clones having an average insert size of 40 kilobase pairs were identified and isolated from a human genomic library by using a cDNA probe, Alu-7, specific for the amino acid sequence of C4d, a known region of the fourth component of human complement. Analysis of these genomic clones by restricti...

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

authors： Carroll MC,Porter RR

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trafficking and turnover of transmitter receptors required to maintain and modify the strength of chemical synapses have been characterized extensively. In contrast, little is known regarding trafficking of gap junction components at electrical synapses. By combining ultrastructural and in vivo physiological analysis ...

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

authors： Flores CE,Nannapaneni S,Davidson KG,Yasumura T,Bennett MV,Rash JE,Pereda AE

更新日期：2012-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:At the synapse, presynaptic membranes specialized for vesicular traffic are linked to postsynaptic membranes specialized for signal transduction. The mechanisms that connect pre- and postsynaptic membranes into synaptic junctions are unknown. Neuroligins and beta-neurexins are neuronal cell-surface proteins that bind ...

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

authors： Song JY,Ichtchenko K,Südhof TC,Brose N

更新日期：1999-02-02 00:00:00