Retroviral sequences related to human T-lymphotropic virus type II in patients with chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome.

abstract：:Cell-based therapies, using multipotent mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) for organ regeneration, are being pursued for cardiac disease, orthopedic injuries and biomaterial fabrication. The molecular pathways that regulate MSC-mediated regeneration or enhance their therapeutic efficacy are, however, poorly understood. We ...

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

authors： Alfaro MP,Pagni M,Vincent A,Atkinson J,Hill MF,Cates J,Davidson JM,Rottman J,Lee E,Young PP

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Maltose-binding protein (MBP) is a two-domain protein that undergoes a ligand-mediated conformational rearrangement from an "open" to a "closed" structure on binding to maltooligosaccharides. To characterize the energy landscape associated with this transition, we have generated five variants of MBP with mutations loc...

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

authors： Millet O,Hudson RP,Kay LE

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Coral bleaching, caused by heat stress, is accompanied by the light-induced loss of photosynthetic pigments in in situ symbiotic dinoflagellate algae (Symbiodinium spp.). However, the molecular mechanisms responsible for pigment loss are poorly understood. Here, we show that moderate heat stress causes photobleaching ...

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

authors： Takahashi S,Whitney S,Itoh S,Maruyama T,Badger M

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The adenovirus (Ad) early region 3 (E3) genes code for at least four proteins that inhibit the host immune responses mediated by cytotoxic T lymphocytes and tumor necrosis factor alpha. To evaluate the potential use of these immunoregulatory viral functions in facilitating allogeneic cell transplantation, the Ad E3 ge...

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

authors： Efrat S,Fejer G,Brownlee M,Horwitz MS

更新日期：1995-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Splenic lymphocytes from a Lewis rat, immunized with purified estradiol-receptor complex of calf uterine nuclei, were fused with cells of three different mouse myeloma lines (P3-X63-Ag8, P3-NSI/I-Ag4-1, and Sp2/0-Ag14) to yield hybridoma cultures, 9% of which produced antibodies to the receptor protein (estrophilin). ...

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

authors： Greene GL,Fitch FW,Jensen EV

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Degassing of planetary interiors through surface volcanism plays an important role in the evolution of planetary bodies and atmospheres. On Earth, carbon dioxide and water are the primary volatile species in magmas. However, little is known about the speciation and degassing of carbon in magmas formed on other planets...

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

authors： Wetzel DT,Rutherford MJ,Jacobsen SD,Hauri EH,Saal AE

更新日期：2013-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work shows that arachidonic acid and some other long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids such as docosahexaenoic acid, which is abundant in fish oil, produce a direct open channel block of the major voltage-dependent K+ channel (Kv1.5) cloned in cardiac cells. The inhibitory action of these selected fatty ac...

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

authors： Honoré E,Barhanin J,Attali B,Lesage F,Lazdunski M

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proton NMR method is described for determining the orientation of a porphyrin within the heme pocket of a hemoprotein. The pattern of the hyperfine-shifted heme methyl resonances in low-spin ferric model compounds is demonstrated to characteristically reflect the position of a localized low-symmetry perturbation on ...

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

authors： La Mar GN,Budd DL,Viscio DB,Smith KM,Langry KC

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of irreversible cell lineage commitment depends on a delicate balance between positive and negative regulators, which comprise a sophisticated network of transcription factors. Receptor activator of NF-kappaB ligand (RANKL) stimulates the differentiation of bone-resorbing osteoclasts through the induction o...

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

authors： Nishikawa K,Nakashima T,Hayashi M,Fukunaga T,Kato S,Kodama T,Takahashi S,Calame K,Takayanagi H

更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibronectin (FN) forms the primitive fibrillar matrix in both embryos and healing wounds. To study the matrix in living cell cultures, we have constructed a cell line that secretes FN molecules chimeric with green fluorescent protein. These FN-green fluorescent protein molecules were assembled into a typical matrix th...

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

authors： Ohashi T,Kiehart DP,Erickson HP

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:p21(WAF1/Cip1) is one of the best characterized downstream targets of p53, and the growth suppressing function of this cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor is well established. However, whether p21 exerts a tumor-suppressing function of its own remains to be established. We report here that, similarly to loss of p53, dis...

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

authors： Topley GI,Okuyama R,Gonzales JG,Conti C,Dotto GP

更新日期：1999-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Histidine biosynthesis is an essential process in plants and microorganisms, making it an attractive target for the development of herbicides and antibacterial agents. Imidazoleglycerol-phosphate dehydratase (IGPD), a key enzyme within this pathway, has been biochemically characterized in both Saccharomyces cerevisiae...

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

authors： Rawson S,Bisson C,Hurdiss DL,Fazal A,McPhillie MJ,Sedelnikova SE,Baker PJ,Rice DW,Muench SP

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Quaking(viable) (qk(v)) is a recessive neurological mouse mutation with severe dysmyelination of the CNS and spermiogenesis failure. The molecular lesion in the qk(v) mutant is a deletion of approximately 1 Mb on mouse chromosome 17 that alters the expression of the qk gene in oligodendrocytes. Complementation analysi...

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

authors： Lorenzetti D,Bishop CE,Justice MJ

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a human gastrin gene from a genomic library by employing a human gastrin cDNA clone as a hybridization probe. The total length of the gene is approximately 4.0 kilobase pairs, and the gene is separated into three exons and two introns. A 130-base-pair intron interrupts the coding region and a 3.0-kilo...

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

authors： Ito R,Sato K,Helmer T,Jay G,Agarwal K

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine adrenal medullary cells, cultured on quartz plates, were superfused with buffer to which pulses of stimulant were added. Cytosolic Ca2+ was measured by the fura-2 fluorescence method and the simultaneously released catecholamine was measured electrochemically. When stimulant concentrations were adjusted to give...

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

authors： Kim KT,Westhead EW

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although some important advances in the modeling of sorption and hygrothermal deformations of nanoporous materials such as hydrated cement paste, shale, coal, and some other rocks and soils have already been made, a comprehensive nanoporomechanics theory remains elusive. Here we strive to formulate it based on Gibb's ...

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

authors： Nguyen H,Rahimi-Aghdam S,Bažant ZP

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of insulin to a mixture of plasma membrane and mitochondrial fractions from rat adipocytes results in a decrease in the phosphorylation of a mitochondrial protein identified as the alpha subunit of pyruvate dehydrogenase [pyruvate:lipoamide oxidoreductase (decarboxylating and acceptor-acetylating), EC 1.2...

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

authors： Seals JR,Jarett L

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From a genomic library constructed from sperm DNA of the inbred BALB/c mouse, we previously isolated 54 cosmid clones that contain 36 class I genes and can be divided by restriction map analyses into 13 gene clusters. We have isolated single- and low-copy DNA probes from each of these clusters to visualize restriction...

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

authors： Winoto A,Steinmetz M,Hood L

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual information is conveyed from the eye to the brain by distinct types of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). It is largely unknown how RGCs acquire their defining morphological and physiological features and connect to upstream and downstream synaptic partners. The three Brn3/Pou4f transcription factors (TFs) particip...

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

authors： Sajgo S,Ghinia MG,Brooks M,Kretschmer F,Chuang K,Hiriyanna S,Wu Z,Popescu O,Badea TC

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Failure of embryo implantation accounts for a significant percentage of female infertility. Exquisitely coordinated molecular programs govern the interaction between the competent blastocyst and the receptive uterus. Decidualization, the rapid proliferation and differentiation of endometrial stromal cells into decidua...

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

authors： Haller M,Yin Y,Ma L

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant cuticles are composed of wax and cutin and evolved in the land plants as a hydrophobic boundary that reduces water loss from the plant epidermis. The expanding maize adult leaf displays a dynamic, proximodistal gradient of cuticle development, from the leaf base to the tip. Laser microdissection RNA Sequencing (...

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

authors： Qiao P,Bourgault R,Mohammadi M,Matschi S,Philippe G,Smith LG,Gore MA,Molina I,Scanlon MJ

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:To facilitate analysis of plant cell wall polysaccharide structure and composition, we cloned 74 genes encoding polysaccharide-degrading enzymes from Aspergillus nidulans, Aspergillus fumigatus, and Neurospora crassa and expressed the genes as secreted proteins with C-terminal Myc and 6x His tags. Most of the recombin...

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

authors： Bauer S,Vasu P,Persson S,Mort AJ,Somerville CR

更新日期：2006-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously described how T and natural killer (NK) lineage commitment proceeds from common T/NK progenitors (p-T/NK) in the murine fetal thymus (FT), with the use of a clonal assay system capable of discriminating p-T/NK from unipotent T or NK lineage-committed progenitors (p-T and p-NK, respectively). The mol...

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

authors： Ikawa T,Fujimoto S,Kawamoto H,Katsura Y,Yokota Y

更新日期：2001-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal dynamics display a complex spatiotemporal structure involving the precise, context-dependent coordination of activation patterns across a large number of spatially distributed regions. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has played a central role in demonstrating the nontrivial spatial and topologica...

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

authors： Zalesky A,Fornito A,Cocchi L,Gollo LL,Breakspear M

更新日期：2014-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that glycolate oxidation in unicellular green algae is linked to mitochondrial electron transport, rather than to peroxisomal metabolism as in higher plants and animals, was studied in a mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (dk97) deficient in cytochrome oxidase. This mutant had normal rates of dark res...

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

authors： Husic DW,Tolbert NE

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The design, realization, and test performances of an electronic junction based on single-electron phenomena that works in the air at room temperature are hereby reported. The element consists of an electrochemically etched sharp tungsten stylus over whose tip a nanometer-size crystal was synthesized. Langmuir-Blodgett...

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

authors： Facci P,Erokhin V,Carrara S,Nicolini C

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical and gene mapping studies reveal that chloroplast DNA from geranium (Pelargonium hortorum) has sustained a number of extensive duplications and inversions, resulting in a genome arrangement radically unlike that of other plants. At 217 kilobases in size, the circular chromosome is about 50% larger than the typ...

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

authors： Palmer JD,Nugent JM,Herbon LA

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The H2O2-requiring ligninase of the basidiomycete Phanerochaete chrysosporium oxidatively cleaves both lignin and lignin model compounds between C alpha and C beta (C-1 and C-2) of their aliphatic side chains. Previous work has demonstrated a reaction mechanism by which ligninase oxidizes aromatic substrates to their ...

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

authors： Hammel KE,Kalyanaraman B,Kirk TK

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide-binding domain and leucine-rich repeats containing proteins (NLRs) serve as immune receptors in both plants and animals. Overaccumulation of NLRs often leads to autoimmune responses, suggesting that the levels of these immune receptors must be tightly controlled. However, the mechanism by which NLR prot...

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

authors： Cheng YT,Li Y,Huang S,Huang Y,Dong X,Zhang Y,Li X

更新日期：2011-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Freshwater planarian flatworms are capable of regenerating complete organisms from tiny fragments of their bodies; the basis for this regenerative prowess is an experimentally accessible stem cell population that is present in the adult planarian. The study of these organisms, classic experimental models for investiga...

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

authors： Newmark PA,Reddien PW,Cebrià F,Sánchez Alvarado A

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00