Diverse Toll-like receptors utilize Tpl2 to activate extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) in hemopoietic cells.

abstract：:The betaalpha barrel is the common protein fold of numerous enzymes and was proposed recently to be the result of gene duplication and fusion of an ancient half-barrel. The initial enzyme of shikimate biosynthesis possesses the additional feature of feedback regulation. The crystal structure and kinetic studies on chi...

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

authors： Hartmann M,Schneider TR,Pfeil A,Heinrich G,Lipscomb WN,Braus GH

更新日期：2003-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferredoxin was isolated from individual Leucaena glauca trees, and the distribution of amino acids at three of the four sites of sequence heterogeneity was determined. The results indicated that the most probable causes of the observed microheterogeneity are the presence of either nonallelic nuclear genes or differing...

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

authors： Benson AM,Yasunobu KT

更新日期：1969-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity-regulated cytoskeleton-associated protein (Arc) gene is a neural immediate early gene that is involved in synaptic downscaling and is robustly induced by prolonged wakefulness in rodent brains. Converging evidence has led to the hypothesis that wakefulness potentiates, and sleep reduces, synaptic strength...

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

authors： Suzuki A,Yanagisawa M,Greene RW

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Endangered species recovery programs seek to restore populations to self-sustaining levels. Nonetheless, many recovering species require continuing management to compensate for persistent threats in their environment. Judging true recovery in the face of this management is often difficult, impeding thorough analysis o...

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

authors： Finkelstein ME,Doak DF,George D,Burnett J,Brandt J,Church M,Grantham J,Smith DR

更新日期：2012-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:CooA, the CO-sensing heme protein from Rhodospirillum rubrum, regulates the expression of genes that encode a CO-oxidation system, allowing R. rubrum to use CO as a sole energy source. To better understand the gas-sensing regulation mechanism used by R. rubrum CooA and its homologs in other organisms, we characterized...

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

authors： Clark RW,Lanz ND,Lee AJ,Kerby RL,Roberts GP,Burstyn JN

更新日期：2006-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:ALOX15 (12/15-lipoxygenase) orthologs have been implicated in maturational degradation of intracellular organelles and in the biosynthesis of antiinflammatory and proresolving eicosanoids. Here we hypothesized that lower mammals (mice, rats, pigs) express 12-lipoxygenating ALOX15 orthologs. In contrast, 15-lipoxygenat...

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

authors： Adel S,Karst F,González-Lafont À,Pekárová M,Saura P,Masgrau L,Lluch JM,Stehling S,Horn T,Kuhn H,Heydeck D

更新日期：2016-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation between North Korean and Latin American isolates in the circumsporozoite (CS) protein encoding gene of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax was studied. Polymorphic positions are confined to the central tandemly repeated sequences. Nucleotide substitutions in the tandem repeats produce variants; these...

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

authors： Arnot DE,Barnwell JW,Stewart MJ

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A calmodulin-neomycin-resistance fusion gene was introduced into Trypanosoma brucei by electroporation, and stably transformed cell lines were obtained. In all of the transformants, the fusion gene had integrated into the host genome at the cognate locus, evidently by homologous recombination within flanking calmoduli...

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

authors： Eid J,Sollner-Webb B

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of speech production on speech perception is well established in adults. However, because adults have a long history of both perceiving and producing speech, the extent to which the perception-production linkage is due to experience is unknown. We addressed this issue by asking whether articulatory confi...

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

authors： Bruderer AG,Danielson DK,Kandhadai P,Werker JF

更新日期：2015-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We explored the feasibility of designing retroviral vectors that can target human breast cancer cells with characteristic receptors via ligand-receptor interaction. The ecotropic Moloney murine leukemia virus envelope was modified by insertion of sequences encoding human heregulin. Ecotropic virus, which normally does...

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

authors： Han X,Kasahara N,Kan YW

更新日期：1995-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The natural history of follicular lymphoma (FL) is frequently characterized by transformation to a more aggressive diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL). We compared the gene-expression profiles between transformed DLBCL and their antecedent FL. No genes were observed to increase or decrease their expression in all of...

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

authors： Lossos IS,Alizadeh AA,Diehn M,Warnke R,Thorstenson Y,Oefner PJ,Brown PO,Botstein D,Levy R

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The leukotrienes C4, D4, and E4, previously referred to as slow reacting substance of anaphylaxis, elicited long-lasting contractions of bronchi isolated from two birch pollen-sensitive asthmatics. The leukotrienes were 1,000 times more potent on a molar basis than was histamine or prostaglandin F2 alpha. Moreover, al...

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

authors： Dahlén SE,Hansson G,Hedqvist P,Björck T,Granström E,Dahlén B

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Kitaev model with an applied magnetic field in the [Formula: see text] direction shows two transitions: from a nonabelian gapped quantum spin liquid (QSL) to a gapless QSL at [Formula: see text] and a second transition at a higher field [Formula: see text] to a gapped partially polarized phase, where K is the stre...

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

authors： Patel ND,Trivedi N

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Much recent attention in the study of adaptation of organismal form has centered on developmental regulation. As such, the highly conserved respiratory machinery of eukaryotic cells might seem an unlikely target for selection supporting novel morphologies. We demonstrate that a dramatic molecular evolutionary rate inc...

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

authors： Jobson RW,Nielsen R,Laakkonen L,Wikström M,Albert VA

更新日期：2004-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of leucine incorporation into a specific estrogen-induced protein of immature rat isolated by gel electrophoresis declines rapidly between 2-4 hr after estrogen stimulation in vivo followed by incubation in vitro. Actinomycin D present during the in vitro phase prevents this decline, and elicits a "superinduc...

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

authors： DeAngelo AB,Fujimoto GI

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat insulin-like growth factor II gene, encoding a fetal somatomedin, expresses a multitranscript family in embryonic/fetal tissues and in the adult brain and spinal cord. By performing in situ hybridization on tissue sections of adult brain and spinal cord, we have found that these transcripts are not expressed i...

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

authors： Stylianopoulou F,Herbert J,Soares MB,Efstratiadis A

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional role of residue Tyr-19 of Chromatium vinosum HiPIP has been evaluated by site-directed mutagenesis experiments. The stability of the [Fe4S4] cluster prosthetic center is sensitive to side-chain replacements. Polar residues result in significant instability, while nonpolar residues (especially with aroma...

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

authors： Agarwal A,Li D,Cowan JA

更新日期：1995-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolism of [3-13C]alanine in the presence and absence of beta-hydroxybutyrate or ethanol has been followed at 25 degrees C by 13C NMR at 90.5 MHz in primary hepatocytes from untreated rats and rats treated with triiodothyronine and not allowed to eat for 24 hr. The phosphoenolpyruvate/pyruvate futile cycle was foll...

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

authors： Cohen SM,Glynn P,Shulman RG

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role played by postsynaptic alpha-adrenergic receptors in the stimulation of pineal N-acetyltransferase (EC 2.3.1.5) and [3H]melatonin production was investigated in the rat. In vivo studies indicated that phenylephrine, an alpha-adrenergic agonist, potentiated and prolonged the effects of isoproterenol, a beta-ad...

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

authors： Klein DC,Sugden D,Weller JL

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The energetics of the TiO(2) polymorphs (rutile, anatase, and brookite) were studied by high temperature oxide melt drop solution calorimetry. Relative to bulk rutile, bulk brookite is 0.71 +/- 0.38 kJ/mol (6) and bulk anatase is 2.61 +/- 0.41 kJ/mol higher in enthalpy. The surface enthalpies of rutile, brookite, and ...

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

authors： Ranade MR,Navrotsky A,Zhang HZ,Banfield JF,Elder SH,Zaban A,Borse PH,Kulkarni SK,Doran GS,Whitfield HJ

更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular matrix (ECM) profoundly influences the growth and differentiation of the mammary gland epithelium, both in culture and in vivo. Utilizing a clonal population of mouse mammary epithelial cells that absolutely requires an exogenous ECM for function, we developed a rapid assay to study signal transduction b...

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

authors： Roskelley CD,Desprez PY,Bissell MJ

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A molecular recognition code has been hypothesized to exist in which ligands and their binding sites are encoded on complementary segments of genomic DNA. We have tested this hypothesis by generating a rabbit antibody to a synthetic decapeptide (complementary peptide) encoded by an RNA complementary to the mRNA for lu...

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

authors： Mulchahey JJ,Neill JD,Dion LD,Bost KL,Blalock JE

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-specific recombination is responsible for a broad range of biological phenomena, including DNA inversion, resolution of transposition intermediates, and the integration and excision of bacteriophage genomes. Integration of mycobacteriophage L5 is catalyzed by a phage-encoded integrase with recombination occurring...

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

authors： Peña CE,Kahlenberg JM,Hatfull GF

更新日期：2000-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Convergent evidence has revealed an association between insulin resistance and Alzheimer's disease (AD), and the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma (PPAR-gamma) agonist, rosiglitazone, an insulin sensitizer and mitochondrial activator, improves cognition in patients with early or mild-to-moderate AD. Apo...

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

authors： Brodbeck J,Balestra ME,Saunders AM,Roses AD,Mahley RW,Huang Y

更新日期：2008-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Release of formylmethionine from the reticulocyte ribosomal substrate, f[(3)H]Met-tRNA.ribosome, is promoted by reticulocyte release factor (RF). The initial rate of this reaction is stimulated by GTP but inhibited by GDPCP. Formation of an RF.UA[(3)H]A(2).ribosome complex is a measure of the binding of reticulocyte R...

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

authors： Tate WP,Beaudet AL,Caskey CT

更新日期：1973-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal microchimerism (MMc) has been associated with development of allospecific transplant tolerance, antitumor immunity, and cross-generational reproductive fitness, but its mode of action is unknown. We found in a murine model that MMc caused exposure to the noninherited maternal antigens in all offspring, but in...

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

authors： Bracamonte-Baran W,Florentin J,Zhou Y,Jankowska-Gan E,Haynes WJ,Zhong W,Brennan TV,Dutta P,Claas FH,van Rood JJ,Burlingham WJ

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlling calorie intake (CCI) extends healthful life-span by a mechanism that may involve reduced rates of cell division without detriment to inducible cellular responses. To test whether inducible cellular proliferation is preserved by CCI and whether the mRNA expression levels of oncogenes activated by cell divis...

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

authors： Himeno Y,Engelman RW,Good RA

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous relatively short regions within intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) serve as molecular recognition elements (MoREs). They fold into ordered structures upon binding to their partner molecules. Currently, there is still a lack of in-depth understanding of how coupled binding and folding occurs in MoREs. He...

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

authors： Wang Y,Chu X,Longhi S,Roche P,Han W,Wang E,Wang J

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The P23T mutant of human gammaD-crystallin (HGD) is associated with cataract. We have previously investigated the solution properties of this mutant, as well as those of the closely related P23V and P23S mutants, and shown that although mutations at site 23 of HGD do not produce a significant structural change in the ...

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

authors： McManus JJ,Lomakin A,Ogun O,Pande A,Basan M,Pande J,Benedek GB

更新日期：2007-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Hairs, feathers, and scales normally exhibit precise orientations with respect to the body axes. In Frizzled6 (Fz6)(-/-) mice, the global orientation of hair follicles is disrupted, leading to waves, whorls, and tufts, each comprising many hundreds of hairs. By analyzing the orientation of developing hair follicles, w...

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

authors： Wang Y,Badea T,Nathans J

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00