The anti-tetanus immune response of neonatal mice is augmented by retinoic acid combined with polyriboinosinic:polyribocytidylic acid.

abstract：:After encoding, memory traces are initially fragile and have to be reinforced to become permanent. The initial steps of this process occur at a cellular level within minutes or hours. Besides this rapid synaptic consolidation, systems consolidation occurs within a time frame of days to years. For declarative memory, t...

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

authors： Gais S,Albouy G,Boly M,Dang-Vu TT,Darsaud A,Desseilles M,Rauchs G,Schabus M,Sterpenich V,Vandewalle G,Maquet P,Peigneux P

更新日期：2007-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary transitions in individuality (ETIs) underlie the watershed events in the history of life on Earth, including the origins of cells, eukaryotes, plants, animals, and fungi. Each of these events constitutes an increase in the level of complexity, as groups of individuals become individuals in their own right...

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

authors： Herron MD,Hackett JD,Aylward FO,Michod RE

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary innovations often arise from complex genetic and ecological interactions, which can make it challenging to understand retrospectively how a novel trait arose. In a long-term experiment, Escherichia coli gained the ability to use abundant citrate (Cit(+)) in the growth medium after ∼31,500 generations of e...

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

authors： Quandt EM,Deatherage DE,Ellington AD,Georgiou G,Barrick JE

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type Escherichia coli cells grow normally in 95% O(2)/5% CO(2). In contrast, cells that cannot make polyamines because of mutations in the biosynthetic pathway are rapidly killed by incubation in 95% O(2)/5% CO(2). Addition of polyamines prevents the toxic effect of oxygen, permitting cell survival and optimal gr...

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

authors： Chattopadhyay MK,Tabor CW,Tabor H

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate transporters clear synaptically released glutamate to maintain precise communication between neurons and limit glutamate neurotoxicity. Although much progress has been made on the topology, structure, and function of these carriers, few studies have addressed large-scale structural motions collectively assoc...

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

authors： Jiang J,Shrivastava IH,Watts SD,Bahar I,Amara SG

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor betas (TGF-betas) regulate key aspects of embryonic development and major human diseases. Although Smad2, Smad3, and extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) have been proposed as key mediators in TGF-beta signaling, their functional specificities...

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

authors： Yang YC,Piek E,Zavadil J,Liang D,Xie D,Heyer J,Pavlidis P,Kucherlapati R,Roberts AB,Böttinger EP

更新日期：2003-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported previously that murine bone marrow-derived dendritic cells (DC) pulsed with whole tumor lysates can mediate potent antitumor immune responses both in vitro and in vivo. Because successful therapy was dependent on host immune T cells, we have now evaluated whether the systemic administration of the T c...

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

authors： Shimizu K,Fields RC,Giedlin M,Mulé JJ

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In the majority of human tumors, expression of the c-MYC oncogene becomes constitutive. Here, we report that c-MYC directly regulates the expression of AP4 via CACGTG motifs in the first intron of the AP4 gene. Induction of AP4 was required for c-MYC-mediated cell cycle reentry of anti-estrogen arrested breast cancer ...

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

authors： Jung P,Menssen A,Mayr D,Hermeking H

更新日期：2008-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:H-2(q) mice (DBA/1) do not make an antibody response to a synthetic aminoacid polymer, (Glu, Ala,Tyr(10)), after an immunizing regimen that produces a good antibody response in mouse strains with other H-2 alleles. Their thymocytes, however, show evidence of recognizing this antigen since they synthesize DNA when they...

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

authors： Gershon RK,Maurer PH,Merryman CF

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA-protein interactions underlie a wide range of cellular processes. Improved methods are needed to systematically map RNA-protein interactions in living cells in an unbiased manner. We used two approaches to target the engineered peroxidase APEX2 to specific cellular RNAs for RNA-centered proximity biotinylation of ...

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

authors： Han S,Zhao BS,Myers SA,Carr SA,He C,Ting AY

更新日期：2020-09-08 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：:Creatine kinase from rabbit muscle has been specifically labeled with a derivative of a nitroxide free radical on the two essential sulfhydryl groups, one per active site. The conformation in the environment of the enzyme-bound free radical and the change in conformation induced upon binding of the substrate, metal ad...

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

authors： Taylor JS,Leigh JS Jr,Cohn M

更新日期：1969-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcin B17 (MccB17) is a 3.1-kDa Escherichia coli antibiotic that contains thiazole and oxazole heterocycles in a peptide backbone. MccB17 inhibits its cellular target, DNA gyrase, by trapping the enzyme in a complex that is covalently bound to double-strand cleaved DNA, in a manner similar to the well-known quinolo...

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

authors： Zamble DB,Miller DA,Heddle JG,Maxwell A,Walsh CT,Hollfelder F

更新日期：2001-07-03 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

abstract：:In most human follicular B cell lymphomas the bcl-2 gene is up-regulated as a result of the t(14;18) chromosomal translocation generating a hybrid bcl-2-IgH mRNA. Recently, we have identified in t(14;18)-positive cells a bcl-2-IgH mRNA in the antisense orientation, putatively responsible for the overexpression of bcl-...

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

authors： Morelli S,Delia D,Capaccioli S,Quattrone A,Schiavone N,Bevilacqua A,Tomasini S,Nicolin A

更新日期：1997-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene editing techniques have been extensively used to attempt to model recurrent genomic rearrangements found in tumor cells. These methods involve the induction of double-strand breaks at endogenous loci followed by the identification of breakpoint junctions within a population, which typically arise by nonhomologous...

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

authors： Vanoli F,Tomishima M,Feng W,Lamribet K,Babin L,Brunet E,Jasin M

更新日期：2017-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic hydroperoxide resistance (Ohr) enzymes are unique Cys-based, lipoyl-dependent peroxidases. Here, we investigated the involvement of Ohr in bacterial responses toward distinct hydroperoxides. In silico results indicated that fatty acid (but not cholesterol) hydroperoxides docked well into the active site of Ohr...

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

authors： Alegria TG,Meireles DA,Cussiol JR,Hugo M,Trujillo M,de Oliveira MA,Miyamoto S,Queiroz RF,Valadares NF,Garratt RC,Radi R,Di Mascio P,Augusto O,Netto LE

更新日期：2017-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal deletion of the NESP55 differentially methylated region (DMR) (delNESP55/ASdel3-4(m), delNAS(m)) from the GNAS locus in humans causes autosomal dominant pseudohypoparathyroidism type Ib (AD-PHP-Ib(delNASm)), a disorder of proximal tubular parathyroid hormone (PTH) resistance associated with loss of maternal G...

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

authors： Fernández-Rebollo E,Maeda A,Reyes M,Turan S,Fröhlich LF,Plagge A,Kelsey G,Jüppner H,Bastepe M

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Germ-line stem cells (GSCs) are maintained by the somatic microenvironment, or GSC niche, which ensures that GSCs can both self-renew and produce functional gametes. However, it remains unclear how the proper niche size and location are regulated within the developing gonads. In the Drosophila testis, the hub cells th...

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

authors： Kitadate Y,Kobayashi S

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We prove theorems on the structure of the fundamental group of a compact riemannian manifold of non-positive curvature. In particular, a conjecture of J. Wolf [J. Differential Geometry, 2, 421-446 (1968)] is proved. ...

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

authors： Yau ST

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutational activation of the Ras oncogene products (H-Ras, K-Ras, and N-Ras) is frequently observed in human cancers, making them promising anticancer drug targets. Nonetheless, no effective strategy has been available for the development of Ras inhibitors, partly owing to the absence of well-defined surface pockets s...

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

authors： Shima F,Yoshikawa Y,Ye M,Araki M,Matsumoto S,Liao J,Hu L,Sugimoto T,Ijiri Y,Takeda A,Nishiyama Y,Sato C,Muraoka S,Tamura A,Osoda T,Tsuda K,Miyakawa T,Fukunishi H,Shimada J,Kumasaka T,Yamamoto M,Kataoka T

更新日期：2013-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A labile selenium donor compound monoselenophosphate is synthesized from selenide and ATP by selenophosphate synthetase (SPS). In the present study, Sps1 and Sps2 were cloned from a cDNA library prepared from human lung adenocarcinoma cells (NCIH441). The human lung Sps1 has been cloned as an ORF of 1,179 bp, identica...

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

authors： Tamura T,Yamamoto S,Takahata M,Sakaguchi H,Tanaka H,Stadtman TC,Inagaki K

更新日期：2004-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Multituberculates were the longest-lived order of the Class Mammalia and, during the Mesozoic and early Cenozoic, were among the most diverse and abundant representatives of the class. However, until the recent discovery of two Cretaceous teeth, one from South America and one from Africa, they were known only from nor...

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

authors： Krause DW,Bonaparte JF

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-directed spin labeling EPR (SDSL-EPR) was used to determine the structure of the inhibitory region of TnI in the intact cardiac troponin ternary complex. Maeda and collaborators have modeled the inhibitory region of TnI (skeletal 96-112: the structural motif that communicates the Ca(2+) signal to actin) as a kink...

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

authors： Brown LJ,Sale KL,Hills R,Rouviere C,Song L,Zhang X,Fajer PG

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the cloning, expression, and characterization of a dual-substrate, cAMP and cGMP, cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (PDE) from mouse. This PDE contains the consensus sequence for a PDE catalytic domain, but shares <50% sequence identity with the catalytic domains of all other known PDEs and, therefore...

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

authors： Soderling SH,Bayuga SJ,Beavo JA

更新日期：1999-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Spiperone, a dopamine antagonist widely used as a specific ligand for dopamine and serotonin receptors, is actively accumulated into the F4C1 strain of rat pituitary tumor cells. The accumulation of 10 nM [3H]spiperone was linear for 3 min and reached a steady state after 10 min. Spiperone accumulation was reduced 50%...

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

authors： Dannies PS,Rudnick MS,Fishkes H,Rudnick G

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of cellular protein levels is a complex process involving many regulatory mechanisms, each introducing stochastic events, leading to variability of protein levels between isogenic cells. Previous studies have shown that perturbing genes involved in transcription regulation affects the amount of cell-to-...

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

authors： Rinott R,Jaimovich A,Friedman N

更新日期：2011-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the electrophoretic transport of single-stranded RNA molecules through 1.5-nm-wide pores of carbon nanotube membranes by molecular dynamics simulations. From approximately 170 individual RNA translocation events analyzed at full atomic resolution of solvent, membrane, and RNA, we identify key factors in membr...

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

authors： Yeh IC,Hummer G

更新日期：2004-08-17 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：:Myosin V, a double-headed molecular motor, transports organelles within cells by walking processively along actin, a process that requires coordination between the heads. To understand the mechanism underlying this coordination, processive runs of single myosin V molecules were perturbed by varying nucleotide content....

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

authors： Baker JE,Krementsova EB,Kennedy GG,Armstrong A,Trybus KM,Warshaw DM

更新日期：2004-04-13 00:00:00