A therapeutic aptamer inhibits angiogenesis by specifically targeting the heparin binding domain of VEGF165.

abstract：:This article emphasizes the role played by a remarkable pointwise inequality satisfied by fractionary derivatives in order to obtain maximum principles and Lp-decay of solutions of several interesting partial differential equations. In particular, there are applications to quasigeostrophic flows, in two space variable...

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

authors： Cordoba A,Cordoba D

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The rearrangement of immunoglobulin genes in B-lymphocyte precursors requires the expression of the recombination activating genes (Rag), which leads to the generation of a highly diverse B-cell repertoire. We can use the level of Rag-1 mRNA in the bone marrow as an index of its capacity to support the maturation of B...

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

authors： Ben-Yehuda A,Szabo P,Dyall R,Weksler ME

更新日期：1994-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor alpha (TGF-alpha) is generated by cleavage of a membrane-anchored precursor protein, proTGF-alpha. ProTGF-alpha is cleaved at a slow rate and accumulates on the cell surface, thereby mediating cell-cell adhesion and mitogenic stimulation. We show here that cleavage of membrane proTGF-alpha b...

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

authors： Pandiella A,Massagué J

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found a defect in the ouabain-sensitive Na+, K+-ATPase (Na+ pump, EC 3.6.1.37) of erythrocytes from streptozocin diabetic rats. This defect was accompanied by an increase in cell volume and osmotic fragility and a decrease in the cytosolic K+/Na+ ratio. There was also a doubling in the time needed for diabetic...

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

authors： Kowluru R,Bitensky MW,Kowluru A,Dembo M,Keaton PA,Buican T

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of membranes and membrane lipid function has lagged far behind that of nucleic acids and proteins, largely because it is difficult to manipulate cellular membrane lipid composition. To help solve this problem, we show that methyl-α-cyclodextrin (MαCD)-catalyzed lipid exchange can be used to maximally...

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

authors： Li G,Kim J,Huang Z,St Clair JR,Brown DA,London E

更新日期：2016-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonucleotide reductase provides deoxynucleotides for nuclear and mitochondrial (mt) DNA replication and repair. The mammalian enzyme consists of a catalytic (R1) and a radical-generating (R2 or p53R2) subunit. During S-phase, a R1/R2 complex is the major provider of deoxynucleotides. p53R2 is induced by p53 after DN...

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

authors： Pontarin G,Fijolek A,Pizzo P,Ferraro P,Rampazzo C,Pozzan T,Thelander L,Reichard PA,Bianchi V

更新日期：2008-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells are essential for immune defenses against pathogens, such that viability of naïve T cells before antigen encounter is critical to preserve a polyclonal repertoire and prevent immunodeficiencies. The viability of naïve T cells before antigen recognition is ensured by IL-7, which drives expression of the prosurv...

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

authors： Miller ML,Mashayekhi M,Chen L,Zhou P,Liu X,Michelotti M,Tramontini Gunn N,Powers S,Zhu X,Evaristo C,Alegre ML,Molinero LL

更新日期：2014-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas the laws of thermodynamics prohibit extraction of useful work from the Brownian motion of particles in equilibrium, these motions can be "rectified" under nonequilibrium conditions, for example, in the presence of asymmetric geometrical obstacles. Here, we describe a class of systems in which aerobic bacteria ...

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

authors： Sokolov A,Apodaca MM,Grzybowski BA,Aranson IS

更新日期：2010-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:After more than two decades of study, many fundamental questions remain unanswered about the dynamics of glass-forming materials confined to thin films. Experiments and simulations indicate that free interfaces enhance dynamics over length scales larger than molecular sizes, and this effect strengthens at lower temper...

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

authors： Ivancic RJS,Riggleman RA

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:To modify the lac permease of Escherichia coli for fluorescence spectroscopy, six tryptophan residues at positions 10, 33, 78, 151, 171, and 223 were first replaced individually with phenylalanine by using oligonucleotide-directed site-specific mutagenesis. None of the tryptophan residues is critical for activity, as ...

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

authors： Menezes ME,Roepe PD,Kaback HR

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:d-amino acids are present in some peptides from amphibian skin. These residues are derived from the corresponding L-amino acids present in the respective precursors. From skin secretions of Bombinae, we have isolated an enzyme that catalyzes the isomerization of an L-Ile in position 2 of a model peptide to D-allo-Ile....

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

authors： Jilek A,Mollay C,Tippelt C,Grassi J,Mignogna G,Müllegger J,Sander V,Fehrer C,Barra D,Kreil G

更新日期：2005-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Type beta transforming growth factor (TGF-beta) activity was found in conditioned medium harvested from fetal rat and neonatal mouse calvariae by using the anchorage-independent growth of normal rat kidney fibroblasts as an indicator system. Calvariae incubated with parathyroid hormone, 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3, and i...

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

authors： Pfeilschifter J,Mundy GR

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins synthesized in the cell can begin to fold during translation before the entire polypeptide has been produced, which may be particularly relevant to the folding of multidomain proteins. Here, we study the cotranslational folding of adjacent domains from the cytoskeletal protein α-spectrin using force profile a...

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

authors： Kemp G,Nilsson OB,Tian P,Best RB,von Heijne G

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM)-dependent O-methyltransferases (OMTs) catalyze the methylation of hydroxycinnamic acid derivatives for the synthesis of methylated plant polyphenolics, including lignin. The distinction in the extent of methylation of lignins in angiosperms and gymnosperms, mediated by substrate-specific ...

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

authors： Li L,Popko JL,Zhang XH,Osakabe K,Tsai CJ,Joshi CP,Chiang VL

更新日期：1997-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In RBL-2H3 rat tumor mast cells, cross-linking the high-affinity IgE receptor Fc epsilon RI causes tyrosine phosphorylation of multiple proteins. These phosphoproteins include phospholipase C gamma 1, the beta and gamma subunits of the Fc epsilon RI, the Src family protein-tyrosine kinase Lyn, and a 72-kDa protein tha...

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

authors： Hutchcroft JE,Geahlen RL,Deanin GG,Oliver JM

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera vibrios produce a single polymeric protein that (i) causes hemagglutination; (ii) appears to participate in their attachment to gut epithelium; (iii) may mediate their detachment from gut epithelium; and (iv) is a protease that hydrolyzes fibronectin and mucin, cleaves lactoferrin, and nicks the A subunit of t...

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

authors： Finkelstein RA,Boesman-Finkelstein M,Holt P

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated several lines of rat embryo cells transformed by simian virus 40. All these lines are fully transformed with regard to saturation density and serum sensitivity, but they differ greatly in their anchorage dependence, as assayed by efficiency of plating in methyl cellulose suspension. This set of lines ...

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

authors： Pollack R,Risser R,Conlon S,Rifkin D

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunophilin-immunosuppressant complexes cyclophilin-cyclosporin A (CsA) and FKBP12-FK506 inhibit the phosphatase calcineurin to block T-cell activation. Although cyclophilin A, FKBP12, and calcineurin are highly conserved from yeast to man, none had previously been shown to be essential for viability. We find tha...

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

authors： Breuder T,Hemenway CS,Movva NR,Cardenas ME,Heitman J

更新日期：1994-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The transmission of complexity during DNA replication has been investigated to clarify the significance of this molecular property in a deterministic process. Complexity was equated with the amount of randomness within an ordered molecular structure and measured by the entropy of a posteriori probabilities for discret...

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

authors： Davis BK

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biodiversity responses to ongoing climate and atmospheric changes will affect both ecosystem processes and the delivery of ecosystem goods and services. Combined effects of co-occurring global changes on diversity, however, are poorly understood. We examined plant diversity responses in a California annual grassland t...

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

authors： Zavaleta ES,Shaw MR,Chiariello NR,Mooney HA,Field CB

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the trimeric HIV-1 envelope (Env) spike, the first and second variable loops (V1V2 region) and the third variable loop (V3) of the gp120 subunit play dual roles in antibody recognition, because they contain neutralization epitopes and also participate in epitope masking. The spatial relationships between V1V2 a...

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

authors： Liu L,Cimbro R,Lusso P,Berger EA

更新日期：2011-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoamines, including dopamine (DA), have been linked to aggression in various species. However, the precise role or roles served by the amine in aggression have been difficult to define because dopaminergic systems influence many behaviors, and all can be altered by changing the function of dopaminergic neurons. In t...

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

authors： Alekseyenko OV,Chan YB,Li R,Kravitz EA

更新日期：2013-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 2 (IL-2) plays a critical role in the growth and differentiation of lymphoid cells. The IL-2 signal is delivered intracellularly by the IL-2 receptor beta chain (IL-2R beta); however, the mechanism by which the signal reaches the nucleus remains unclear. In this study, we demonstrate the rapid activation o...

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

authors： Hatakeyama M,Kawahara A,Mori H,Shibuya H,Taniguchi T

更新日期：1992-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulation of cells with various peptide growth factors induces the production of phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate (PIP3) through activation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase. The action of this enzyme is reversed by that of the tumor suppressor PTEN. With the use of cells overexpressing NADPH oxidase 1 or per...

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

authors： Kwon J,Lee SR,Yang KS,Ahn Y,Kim YJ,Stadtman ER,Rhee SG

更新日期：2004-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate protein folding dynamics in terms of compactness, we developed a continuous-flow mixing device to make small-angle x-ray scattering measurements with the time resolution of 160 micros and characterized the radius of gyration (R(g)) of two folding intermediates of cytochrome c (cyt c). The early intermed...

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

authors： Akiyama S,Takahashi S,Kimura T,Ishimori K,Morishima I,Nishikawa Y,Fujisawa T

更新日期：2002-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The transforming protein of avian sarcoma virus UR2, p68v-ros, has an associated tyrosine-specific protein kinase activity similar to that of p60v-src and several other oncogene products. However, this activity has not been linked unequivocally to transformation, and the physiological action of these proteins remains ...

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

authors： Macara IG,Marinetti GV,Balduzzi PC

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNFR) superfamily are important for cell growth and survival. In addition to providing costimulatory signals for cell proliferation, ligation of both TNFR1 and Fas can result in programmed cell death or apoptosis. The underlying mechanism requires an intact 80-aa stretch ...

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

authors： Prasad KV,Ao Z,Yoon Y,Wu MX,Rizk M,Jacquot S,Schlossman SF

更新日期：1997-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual cell types are defined by architecturally and functionally specialized cortical domains. The Ezrin, Radixin, and Moesin (ERM) proteins play a major role in organizing cortical domains by assembling membrane protein complexes and linking them to the cortical actin cytoskeleton. Many studies have focused on t...

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

authors： Casaletto JB,Saotome I,Curto M,McClatchey AI

更新日期：2011-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factors (TNF) alpha and beta are structurally related cytokines that mediate a wide range of immunological, inflammatory, and cytotoxic effects. During bacterial infection of the bloodstream (sepsis), TNF-alpha induction by bacterial endotoxin is thought to be a major factor contributing to the cardiova...

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

authors： Ashkenazi A,Marsters SA,Capon DJ,Chamow SM,Figari IS,Pennica D,Goeddel DV,Palladino MA,Smith DH

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HsPKS1 from Huperzia serrata is a type III polyketide synthase (PKS) with remarkable substrate tolerance and catalytic potential. Here we present the synthesis of unnatural unique polyketide-alkaloid hybrid molecules by exploiting the enzyme reaction using precursor-directed and structure-based approaches. HsPKS1 prod...

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

authors： Morita H,Yamashita M,Shi SP,Wakimoto T,Kondo S,Kato R,Sugio S,Kohno T,Abe I

更新日期：2011-08-16 00:00:00