IA-2beta, but not IA-2, is induced by ghrelin and inhibits glucose-stimulated insulin secretion.

abstract：:A recently determined set of 20 NMR-derived conformations of a 48-residue all-alpha-helical protein, (PDB ID code 2JVD), is validated here by comparing the observed (13)C(alpha) chemical shifts with those computed at the density functional level of theory. In addition, a recently introduced physics-based method, aimed...

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

authors： Vila JA,Aramini JM,Rossi P,Kuzin A,Su M,Seetharaman J,Xiao R,Tong L,Montelione GT,Scheraga HA

更新日期：2008-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:3T3 cells that have undergone adipose differentiation in vitro secrete into the culture medium a potent growth stimulatory activity for bovine aortic endothelial cells. When medium containing 2% fetal calf serum, which does not support significant endothelial cell growth, is conditioned by 3T3-F442A adipocytes, the en...

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

authors： Castellot JJ Jr,Karnovsky MJ,Spiegelman BM

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) expressing the photopigment melanopsin (OPN4), together with rods and cones, provide light information driving nonvisual light responses. We examined nonvisual photoreception in mice lacking RPE65, a protein that is required for regeneration of visual chromo...

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

authors： Doyle SE,Castrucci AM,McCall M,Provencio I,Menaker M

更新日期：2006-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to instantly create a state of immunity as achieved in the passive transfer of hyperimmune globulin has had a tremendous impact on public health. Unlike passive immunization, active immunization, which is the foundation of vaccinology, is an anticipatory strategy with inherent limitations. Here we show tha...

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

authors： Popkov M,Gonzalez B,Sinha SC,Barbas CF 3rd

更新日期：2009-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously have shown that proliferating lymphoid cells contain an extractable cytoplasmic protein that is capable of inducing DNA synthesis in isolated quiescent nuclei (activator of DNA replication, ADR). ADR is present in continuously proliferating (transformed) lymphoblastoid cell lines and in mitogen- or inter...

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

authors： Gutowski JK,West A,Cohen S

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In epithelial cells, sorting of membrane proteins to the basolateral surface depends on the presence of a basolateral sorting signal (BaSS) in their cytoplasmic domain. Amyloid precursor protein (APP), a basolateral protein implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, contains a tyrosine-based BaSS, and muta...

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

authors： Zheng P,Eastman J,Vande Pol S,Pimplikar SW

更新日期：1998-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Capsaicin is a unique alkaloid of the plant kingdom restricted to the genus Capsicum. Capsaicin is the pungency factor, a bioactive molecule of food and of medicinal importance. Capsaicin is useful as a counterirritant, antiarthritic, analgesic, antioxidant, and anticancer agent. Capsaicin biosynthesis involves conden...

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

authors： Prasad BC,Kumar V,Gururaj HB,Parimalan R,Giridhar P,Ravishankar GA

更新日期：2006-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Goblet-cell hyperplasia is a critical pathological feature in hypersecretory diseases of airways. However, the underlying mechanisms are unknown, and no effective therapy exists. Here we show that stimulation of epidermal growth factor receptors (EGF-R) by its ligands, EGF and transforming growth factor alpha (TGFalph...

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

authors： Takeyama K,Dabbagh K,Lee HM,Agustí C,Lausier JA,Ueki IF,Grattan KM,Nadel JA

更新日期：1999-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammonium sulfate fractionation of crude extracts of E. coli yields a soluble enzyme fraction (about 25-fold purification) that catalyzes the conversion of phiX174 single-stranded DNA to duplex DNA. The reaction is rifampicin-resistant, requires single-stranded DNA, Mg++, deoxynucleoside triphosphates, and ATP, and is ...

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

authors： Schuster H,Mikolajczyk M,Rohrschneider J,Geschke B

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reinstatement of neural activity is hypothesized to underlie our ability to mentally travel back in time to recover the context of a previous experience. We used intracranial recordings to directly examine the precise spatiotemporal extent of neural reinstatement as 32 participants with electrodes placed for seizure m...

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

authors： Yaffe RB,Kerr MS,Damera S,Sarma SV,Inati SK,Zaghloul KA

更新日期：2014-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The human Melan-A/MART-1 gene encodes an HLA-A2-restricted peptide epitope recognized by melanoma-reactive CD8(+) cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Here we report that this gene also encodes at least one HLA-DR4-presented peptide recognized by CD4(+) T cells. The Melan-A/MART-1(51-73) peptide was able to induce the in vitro ex...

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

authors： Zarour HM,Kirkwood JM,Kierstead LS,Herr W,Brusic V,Slingluff CL Jr,Sidney J,Sette A,Storkus WJ

更新日期：2000-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Using morphometrical methods, we investigated variation in the skeletons of more than 400 offspring of C57BL/6J and DBA/2J male mice that had received either a 250 mg/kg dose of the mutagen ethylnitrosourea or a solvent control. Sperm involved in the matings developed from cells in the spermatogonial stage at the time...

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

authors： Lovell DP,Willis DB,Johnson FM

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Egg laying hormone, a peptide neurohormone with an approximate molecular weight of 6000, was isolated from the region of the abdominal ganglion of Aplysia that contains the neuroendocrine bag cells and purified by gel filtration chromatography, isoelectric focusing, and dialysis. A 1-min local application of egg layin...

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

authors： Branton WD,Arch S,Smock T,Mayeri E

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We noticed that disease-related amyloidogenic proteins and especially cellular prion proteins have the highest proportion of incompletely desolvated backbone H bonds among soluble proteins. Such bonds are vulnerable to water attack and thus represent structural weaknesses. We have measured the adsorption of proteins o...

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

authors： Fernández A,Berry RS

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A remarkable property of tetrapod bone is its ability to detect and remodel areas where damage has accumulated through prolonged use. This process, believed vital to the long-term health of bone, is considered to be initiated and orchestrated by osteocytes, cells within the bone matrix. It is therefore surprising that...

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

authors： Atkins A,Dean MN,Habegger ML,Motta PJ,Ofer L,Repp F,Shipov A,Weiner S,Currey JD,Shahar R

更新日期：2014-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequence of blastokinin, also called uteroglobin, has been determined by a combined study of both the intact native molecule and the peptide fragments resulting from tryptic and chymotryptic digestions. Sequence analyses performed by automated methods and by sequential digestion with leucine aminopeptid...

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

authors： Popp RA,Foresman KR,Wise LD,Daniel JC Jr

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutator activity associated with the common male recombination (MR) chromosomes in Drosophila melanogaster appears to be suppressed in natural populations. Crosses between geographically separated populations, however, lead to the release of mutator activity as measured by a significant increase in visible mutations. ...

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

authors： Thompson JN Jr,Woodruff RC

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The livers of insulin-resistant, diabetic mice manifest selective insulin resistance, suggesting a bifurcation in the insulin signaling pathway: Insulin loses its ability to block glucose production (i.e., it fails to suppress PEPCK and other genes of gluconeogenesis), yet it retains its ability to stimulate fatty aci...

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

authors： Li S,Brown MS,Goldstein JL

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Domestic animals can be cloned using techniques such as embryo splitting and nuclear transfer to produce genetically identical individuals. Although embryo splitting is limited to the production of only a few identical individuals, nuclear transfer of donor nuclei into recipient oocytes, whose own nuclear DNA has been...

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

authors： Keefer CL

更新日期：2015-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine whether the vascular smooth muscle contractile effect of NG-methyl-L-arginine (NMA) is endothelium dependent and attributed to a decline in smooth muscle levels of cyclic GMP. Vascular smooth muscle levels of cyclic GMP are severalfold greater in endothelium-intact than in ...

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

authors： Gold ME,Wood KS,Byrns RE,Fukuto J,Ignarro LJ

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Males of the androdioecious species Caenorhabditis elegans are more likely to attempt to mate with and successfully inseminate C. elegans hermaphrodites that do not concurrently harbor sperm. Although a small number of genes have been implicated in this effect, the mechanism by which it arises remains unknown. In the ...

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

authors： Leighton DH,Choe A,Wu SY,Sternberg PW

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage lambda integrates into the chromosome of its Escherichia coli host by means of a site-specific recombination between a locus on the phage chromosome (phage att site) and a locus on the bacterial chromosome (bacterial att site). The nucleotide sequence of four lambda att sites altered in site-specific rec...

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

authors： Hoess RH,Landy A

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant DNA techniques have been combined with somatic cell genetic methods to identify, isolate, and amplify fragments of human DNA localized at specific regions of human chromosome 11 selected as a model system. A library of genomic DNA segments has been constructed, in lambda Charon 4A bacteriophage, from the D...

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

authors： Gusella JF,Keys C,VarsanyiBreiner A,Kao FT,Jones C,Puck TT,Housman D

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in copper/zinc superoxide dismutase (SOD1) are causative for dominantly inherited amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Despite high variability in biochemical properties among the disease-causing mutants, a proportion of both dismutase-active and -inactive mutants are stably bound to spinal cord mitochondria...

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

authors： Vande Velde C,Miller TM,Cashman NR,Cleveland DW

更新日期：2008-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:VEGF and angiopoietin-1 (Ang1) are two major angiogenic factors being investigated for the treatment of myocardial infarction (MI). Targeting VEGF and Ang1 expression in the ischemic myocardium can increase their local therapeutic effects and reduce possible adverse effects. Adeno-associated viral vectors (AAVs) expre...

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

authors： Tao Z,Chen B,Tan X,Zhao Y,Wang L,Zhu T,Cao K,Yang Z,Kan YW,Su H

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basic theory of a newly discovered physical technique, steady-state electrophoresis, is described followed by analyses of several representative macro-ion systems with the technique. This method measures apparent moments of molar diminished charge (defined below) of solvated macro-ions from an analysis of a concen...

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

authors： Godfrey JE

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The twin-arginine transport (Tat) system is a protein-targeting pathway of prokaryotes and chloroplasts. Most Escherichia coli Tat substrates are complex metalloenzymes that must be correctly folded and assembled before transport, and a preexport chaperone-mediated "proofreading" process is therefore in operation. The...

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

authors： Hatzixanthis K,Clarke TA,Oubrie A,Richardson DJ,Turner RJ,Sargent F

更新日期：2005-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteinase-activated receptor 2 (PAR-2) is a member of a family of G protein-coupled receptors for proteases. Proteases cleave PARs within the extracellular N-terminal domains to expose tethered ligands that bind to and activate the cleaved receptors. PAR-2 is highly expressed in colon in epithelial and neuronal e...

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

authors： Fiorucci S,Mencarelli A,Palazzetti B,Distrutti E,Vergnolle N,Hollenberg MD,Wallace JL,Morelli A,Cirino G

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In skeletal muscle, transcription of the gene encoding the mouse type Ialpha (RIalpha) subunit of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase is initiated from the alternative noncoding first exons 1a and 1b. Here, we report that activity of the promoter upstream of exon 1a (Pa) depends on two adjacent E boxes (E1 and E2) in NI...

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

authors： Barradeau S,Imaizumi-Scherrer T,Weiss MC,Faust DM

更新日期：2001-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:S-nitrosylation, the selective modification of cysteine residues in proteins to form S-nitrosocysteine, is a major emerging mechanism by which nitric oxide acts as a signaling molecule. Even though nitric oxide is intimately involved in the regulation of vascular smooth muscle cell functions, the potential protein tar...

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

authors： Greco TM,Hodara R,Parastatidis I,Heijnen HF,Dennehy MK,Liebler DC,Ischiropoulos H

更新日期：2006-05-09 00:00:00