Evidence that the Y chromosome influences autoimmune disease in male and female mice.

abstract：:Probasin, a rat prostatic protein, is statistically related to members of a protein family that includes serum, cellular, and nuclear proteins. In vivo, probasin appears both in the secretions and in the nucleus of prostatic epithelial cells. Using primer extension and S1 nuclease protection assays we detected only on...

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

authors： Spence AM,Sheppard PC,Davie JR,Matuo Y,Nishi N,McKeehan WL,Dodd JG,Matusik RJ

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A discrepancy of about 20% exists between the molecular weight of the alpha subunit of Torpedo californica electroplax acetylcholine receptor as determined by gel electrophoresis of the mature protein (Mr 40,000 +/- 2000) and by nucleotide sequence analysis of cDNA (Mr approximately equal to 50,000). We demonstrate by...

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

authors： Conti-Tronconi BM,Hunkapiller MW,Raftery MA

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum can cause infected red blood cells (iRBC) to form rosettes with uninfected RBC, a phenotype associated with severe malaria. Rosetting is mediated by a subset of the Plasmodium falciparum membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1) variant adhesins expressed on the infected host-cell su...

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

authors： Juillerat A,Lewit-Bentley A,Guillotte M,Gangnard S,Hessel A,Baron B,Vigan-Womas I,England P,Mercereau-Puijalon O,Bentley GA

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A volcanic catastrophe even more devastating than the famous anno Domini 79 Pompeii eruption occurred during the Old Bronze Age at Vesuvius. The 3780-yr-B.P. Avellino plinian eruption produced an early violent pumice fallout and a late pyroclastic surge sequence that covered the volcano surroundings as far as 25 km aw...

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

authors： Mastrolorenzo G,Petrone P,Pappalardo L,Sheridan MF

更新日期：2006-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the complete sequence of an extreme halophile, Halobacterium sp. NRC-1, harboring a dynamic 2,571,010-bp genome containing 91 insertion sequences representing 12 families and organized into a large chromosome and 2 related minichromosomes. The Halobacterium NRC-1 genome codes for 2,630 predicted proteins, 36...

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

authors： Ng WV,Kennedy SP,Mahairas GG,Berquist B,Pan M,Shukla HD,Lasky SR,Baliga NS,Thorsson V,Sbrogna J,Swartzell S,Weir D,Hall J,Dahl TA,Welti R,Goo YA,Leithauser B,Keller K,Cruz R,Danson MJ,Hough DW,Maddocks DG,Jabl

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike tailed bacteriophages, which use a preformed tail for transporting their genomes into a host bacterium, the ssDNA bacteriophage ΦX174 is tailless. Using cryo-electron microscopy and time-resolved small-angle X-ray scattering, we show that lipopolysaccharides (LPS) form bilayers that interact with ΦX174 at an ic...

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

authors： Sun Y,Roznowski AP,Tokuda JM,Klose T,Mauney A,Pollack L,Fane BA,Rossmann MG

更新日期：2017-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In the primary visual cortex (V1) of many mammalian species, neurons are spatially organized according to their preferred orientation into a highly ordered map. However, whether and how the various presynaptic inputs to V1 neurons are organized relative to the neuronal orientation map remain unclear. To address this i...

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

authors： Zhang QF,Li H,Chen M,Guo A,Wen Y,Poo MM

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphangiogenesis is an important process that contributes to the spread of cancer. Here we show that insulin-like growth factors 1 (IGF-1) and 2 (IGF-2) induce lymphangiogenesis in vivo. In a mouse cornea assay, IGF-1 and IGF-2 induce lymphangiogenesis as detected with LYVE-1, a specific marker for lymphatic endothel...

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

authors： Björndahl M,Cao R,Nissen LJ,Clasper S,Johnson LA,Xue Y,Zhou Z,Jackson D,Hansen AJ,Cao Y

更新日期：2005-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Concepts organize the relationship among individual stimuli or events by highlighting shared features. Often, new goals require updating conceptual knowledge to reflect relationships based on different goal-relevant features. Here, our aim is to determine how hippocampal (HPC) object representations are organized and ...

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

authors： Mack ML,Love BC,Preston AR

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Traits that enable species to persist in ecological environments are often maintained over time, a phenomenon known as niche conservatism. Here we argue that ecological niches function at levels above species, notably at the level of genus for mammals, and that niche conservatism is also evident above the species leve...

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

authors： Hadly EA,Spaeth PA,Li C

更新日期：2009-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of electrogenic events associated with the different steps of the light-induced proton pump of bacteriorhodopsin is well studied in a wide range of time scales by direct electric methods. However, the investigation of the fundamental primary charge translocation phenomena taking place in the functional en...

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

authors： Groma GI,Hebling J,Kozma IZ,Váró G,Hauer J,Kuhl J,Riedle E

更新日期：2008-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a form of amnesia, which we have called visual memory-deficit amnesia, that is caused by damage to areas of the visual system that store visual information. Because it is caused by a deficit in access to stored visual material and not by an impaired ability to encode or retrieve new material, it has the ot...

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

authors： Rubin DC,Greenberg DL

更新日期：1998-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Gating currents of the cloned delayed-rectifier K+ channel DRK1 expressed in Xenopus oocytes were measured with the open-oocyte Vaseline-gap voltage-clamp technique. DRK1 gating charge had the following salient properties: (i) gating-charge amplitude correlated positively with size of the expressed ionic K+ currents; ...

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

authors： Taglialatela M,Stefani E

更新日期：1993-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The apparent detection of an exoplanet orbiting Fomalhaut was announced in 2008. However, subsequent observations of Fomalhaut b raised questions about its status: Unlike other exoplanets, it is bright in the optical and nondetected in the infrared, and its orbit appears to cross the debris ring around the star withou...

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

authors： Gáspár A,Rieke GH

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The monoclonal antibodies (mAb) DA6.147, DA6.164, and HIG.48 against human Ia antigens, but not the W6/32 mAb against human class I major histocompatibility complex antigens or the anti-monocyte OKM1 and 63D3 mAb, stimulated monocytes to secrete interleukin 1 (IL-1). IL-1 was measured by its property of promoting the ...

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

authors： Palacios R

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer stem cells (CSCs) sustain tumor growth through their ability to self-renew and to generate differentiated progeny. These functions endow CSCs with the potential to initiate secondary tumors bearing characteristics similar to those of the parent. Recently the hair follicle stem cell marker CD34 was used to purif...

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

authors： Schober M,Fuchs E

更新日期：2011-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic recombination provides an important mechanism for the repair of DNA double-strand breaks. Homologous pairing and strand exchange lead to the formation of DNA intermediates, in which sister chromatids or homologous chromosomes are covalently linked by four-way Holliday junctions (HJs). Depending on the type of ...

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

authors： Shah Punatar R,Martin MJ,Wyatt HD,Chan YW,West SC

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Hoxb13 is robustly transcribed in derivatives of posterior endoderm including the colon, rectum, and the prostate gland. Transcriptional activity in the prostate persists unabated under conditions of androgen deprivation and throughout the course of disease progression in a mouse prostate cancer model. To elucidate th...

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

authors： McMullin RP,Dobi A,Mutton LN,Orosz A,Maheshwari S,Shashikant CS,Bieberich CJ

更新日期：2010-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:C1q, a member of the immune complement cascade, is implicated in the selective pruning of synapses by microglial phagocytosis. C1q-mediated synapse elimination has been shown to occur during brain development, while increased activation and complement-dependent synapse loss is observed in neurodegenerative diseases. H...

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

authors： Györffy BA,Kun J,Török G,Bulyáki É,Borhegyi Z,Gulyássy P,Kis V,Szocsics P,Micsonai A,Matkó J,Drahos L,Juhász G,Kékesi KA,Kardos J

更新日期：2018-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesenchymal stromal stem cells (MSCs) isolated from adult tissues offer tangible potential for regenerative medicine, given their feasibility for autologous transplantation. MSC research shows encouraging results in experimental stroke, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and neurotrauma models. However, further translatio...

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

authors： Ropper AE,Thakor DK,Han I,Yu D,Zeng X,Anderson JE,Aljuboori Z,Kim SW,Wang H,Sidman RL,Zafonte RD,Teng YD

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Maize domestication is one of the greatest feats of artificial selection and evolution, wherein a weedy plant in Central Mexico was converted through human-mediated selection into the most productive crop in the world. In fact, the changes were so astounding that it took much of the last century to identify modern mai...

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

authors： Tian F,Stevens NM,Buckler ES 4th

更新日期：2009-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapamycin is an immunosuppressive immunophilin ligand reported as having neurotrophic activity. We show that modification of rapamycin at the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) binding region yields immunophilin ligands, WYE-592 and ILS-920, with potent neurotrophic activities in cortical neuronal cultures, efficacy...

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

authors： Ruan B,Pong K,Jow F,Bowlby M,Crozier RA,Liu D,Liang S,Chen Y,Mercado ML,Feng X,Bennett F,von Schack D,McDonald L,Zaleska MM,Wood A,Reinhart PH,Magolda RL,Skotnicki J,Pangalos MN,Koehn FE,Carter GT,Abou-Gharbia M

更新日期：2008-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Defining bacterial species remains a challenging problem even for the model bacterium Escherichia coli and has major practical consequences for reliable diagnosis of infectious disease agents and regulations for transport and possession of organisms of economic importance. E. coli traditionally is thought to live with...

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

authors： Luo C,Walk ST,Gordon DM,Feldgarden M,Tiedje JM,Konstantinidis KT

更新日期：2011-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Combined intracellular and microfluorometric recording techniques were used to evaluate whether the inhibition by cholinergic or adrenergic transmitters of the Ca2(+)-activated potassium current (IAHP) in hippocampal CA3 pyramidal cells was mediated by an alteration of depolarization-induced change in cytosolic free C...

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

authors： Knöpfel T,Vranesic I,Gähwiler BH,Brown DA

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assess the significance of high-frequency variability of environmental parameters (sunlight, precipitation, temperature) for the structure and function of terrestrial ecosystems under current and future climate. We examine the influence of hourly, daily, and monthly variance using the Ecosystem Demography model ver...

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

authors： Medvigy D,Wofsy SC,Munger JW,Moorcroft PR

更新日期：2010-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Naked mole-rats form eusocial colonies consisting of a single breeding female (the queen), several breeding males, and sexually immature adults (subordinates). Subordinates are cooperative and provide alloparental care by huddling and retrieving pups to the nest. However, the physiological mechanism(s) underlying allo...

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

authors： Watarai A,Arai N,Miyawaki S,Okano H,Miura K,Mogi K,Kikusui T

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change is expected to cause shifts in the composition of tropical montane forests towards increased relative abundances of species whose ranges were previously centered at lower, hotter elevations. To investigate this process of "thermophilization," we analyzed patterns of compositional change over the last de...

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

authors： Duque A,Stevenson PR,Feeley KJ

更新日期：2015-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptidoglycan (PGN) recognition proteins (PGRPs) are pattern-recognition receptors of the innate immune system that bind and, in some cases, hydrolyze bacterial PGNs. We determined the crystal structure, at 2.30-A resolution, of the C-terminal PGN-binding domain of human PGRP-Ialpha in complex with a muramyl tripeptid...

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

authors： Guan R,Roychowdhury A,Ember B,Kumar S,Boons GJ,Mariuzza RA

更新日期：2004-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Jun is a transcription factor belonging to the activator protein 1 family. A mutated version of Jun (v-Jun) transduced by the avian retrovirus ASV17 induces oncogenic transformation in avian cell cultures and sarcomas in young galliform birds. The oncogenicity of Jun probably results from transcriptional deregulation ...

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

authors： Fu Sl,Bottoli I,Goller M,Vogt PK

更新日期：1999-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuropeptides oxytocin and vasopressin are evolutionarily conserved regulators of social perception and behavior. Evidence is building that they are critically involved in the development of social recognition skills within rodent species, primates, and humans. We investigated whether common polymorphisms in the g...

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

authors： Skuse DH,Lori A,Cubells JF,Lee I,Conneely KN,Puura K,Lehtimäki T,Binder EB,Young LJ

更新日期：2014-02-04 00:00:00