Pattern of interleukin 6 gene expression in vivo suggests a role for this cytokine in angiogenesis.

abstract：:Insulin provides a classical model of a globular protein, yet how the hormone changes conformation to engage its receptor has long been enigmatic. Interest has focused on the C-terminal B-chain segment, critical for protective self-assembly in β cells and receptor binding at target tissues. Insight may be obtained fro...

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

authors： Menting JG,Yang Y,Chan SJ,Phillips NB,Smith BJ,Whittaker J,Wickramasinghe NP,Whittaker LJ,Pandyarajan V,Wan ZL,Yadav SP,Carroll JM,Strokes N,Roberts CT Jr,Ismail-Beigi F,Milewski W,Steiner DF,Chauhan VS,Ward CW,Weis

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGFs) and their receptors (VEGFRs) are key drivers of blood and lymph vessel formation in development, but also in several pathological processes. VEGF-C signaling through VEGFR-3 promotes lymphangiogenesis, which is a clinically relevant target for treating lymphatic insufficienc...

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

authors： Leppänen VM,Tvorogov D,Kisko K,Prota AE,Jeltsch M,Anisimov A,Markovic-Mueller S,Stuttfeld E,Goldie KN,Ballmer-Hofer K,Alitalo K

更新日期：2013-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosine kinases of the Janus kinase family initiate cellular responses through their association with receptors for alpha-helical cytokines. In addition to a tyrosine kinase domain, these enzymes possess a kinase-like (KL) domain, whose function remains elusive. To investigate the role of the KL domain of Tyk2 in int...

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

authors： Yeh TC,Dondi E,Uze G,Pellegrini S

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health care is a crucial factor in US economic growth, because growing health care costs have made US corporations less competitive than their counterparts in countries where central governments assume most of those costs. In this paper we illustrate a second, possibly more powerful, effect of health care expenditures...

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

authors： Manton KG,Gu XL,Ullian A,Tolley HD,Headen AE Jr,Lowrimore G

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4) methylation is catalyzed by the highly evolutionarily conserved multiprotein complex known as Set1/COMPASS or MLL/COMPASS-like complexes from yeast to human, respectively. Here we have reconstituted fully functional yeast Set1/COMPASS and human MLL/COMPASS-like complex in vitro and have iden...

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

authors： Takahashi YH,Westfield GH,Oleskie AN,Trievel RC,Shilatifard A,Skiniotis G

更新日期：2011-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A general model for the contractility of cells is presented that accounts for the dynamic reorganization of the cytoskeleton. The model is motivated by three key biochemical processes: (i) an activation signal that triggers actin polymerization and myosin phosphorylation, (ii) the tension-dependent assembly of the act...

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

authors： Deshpande VS,McMeeking RM,Evans AG

更新日期：2006-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The preservation of our cultural heritage is of great importance to future generations. Despite this, significant problems have arisen with the conservation of waterlogged wooden artifacts. Three major issues facing conservators are structural instability on drying, biological degradation, and chemical degradation on ...

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

authors： Walsh Z,Janeček ER,Hodgkinson JT,Sedlmair J,Koutsioubas A,Spring DR,Welch M,Hirschmugl CJ,Toprakcioglu C,Nitschke JR,Jones M,Scherman OA

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Using brain transcriptomic profiles from 853 individual honey bees exhibiting 48 distinct behavioral phenotypes in naturalistic contexts, we report that behavior-specific neurogenomic states can be inferred from the coordinated action of transcription factors (TFs) and their predicted target genes. Unsupervised hierar...

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

authors： Chandrasekaran S,Ament SA,Eddy JA,Rodriguez-Zas SL,Schatz BR,Price ND,Robinson GE

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is classically characterized as a movement disorder, however cognitive impairments precede the motor symptoms by ∼15 y. Based on proteomic and bioinformatic data linking the Huntingtin protein (Htt) and KCC2, which is required for hyperpolarizing GABAergic inhibition, and the important role o...

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

authors： Dargaei Z,Bang JY,Mahadevan V,Khademullah CS,Bedard S,Parfitt GM,Kim JC,Woodin MA

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:An array of photoreceptors including cryptochromes, phototropin, and phytochromes regulates various light responses in plants. Among these photoreceptors, phytochromes perceive red and far-red light by switching between two interconvertible spectral forms (Pr and Pfr). The Pfr form promotes light responses partly by d...

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

authors： Paik I,Yang S,Choi G

更新日期：2012-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the CB2 receptor is apparently an endogenous protective mechanism. Thus, it restrains inflammation and protects the skeleton against age-related bone loss. However, the endogenous cannabinoids, as well as Δ(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol, the main plant psychoactive constituent, activate both cannabinoid recept...

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

authors： Smoum R,Baraghithy S,Chourasia M,Breuer A,Mussai N,Attar-Namdar M,Kogan NM,Raphael B,Bolognini D,Cascio MG,Marini P,Pertwee RG,Shurki A,Mechoulam R,Bab I

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Under conditions (0.2% CO2; 1% O2) that allow high rates of photosynthesis, chlorophyll fluorescence was measured simultaneously with carbon assimilation at various light intensities in spinach (Spinacia oleracea) leaves. Using a stoichiometry of 3 ATP/CO2 and the known relationship between ATP synthesis rate and driv...

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

authors： Schönknecht G,Neimanis S,Katona E,Gerst U,Heber U

更新日期：1995-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The amphibian tetradecapeptide, bombesin (BBS) has been shown to stimulate insulin secretion both in vivo and by pancreatic islet cells in vitro. To determine whether BBS can act directly on pancreatic beta cells, we examined its effects on insulin secretion by HIT-T15 cells (HIT cells), a clonal islet cell line. Addi...

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

authors： Swope SL,Schonbrunn A

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypothesis that the nonrandom organization of the contents of interphase nuclei represents a compartmentalization of function, we examined the relative, spatial relationship of small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) and of DNase I hypersensitive chromatin (DHC) in rat pheochromocytoma cells. In controls...

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

authors： Park PC,De Boni U

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The charge-stabilization effect associated with alpha-helices in proteins has been reexamined by microscopic calculations without any a priori assumptions about the dielectric constant of the protein. The calculations reproduce the observed charge stabilization effect of a helix in two well-defined test cases: a histi...

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

authors： Aqvist J,Luecke H,Quiocho FA,Warshel A

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hormones and nutrients often induce genetic programs via signaling pathways that interface with gene-specific activators. Activation of the cAMP pathway, for example, stimulates cellular gene expression by means of the PKA-mediated phosphorylation of cAMP-response element binding protein (CREB) at Ser-133. Here, we us...

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

authors： Zhang X,Odom DT,Koo SH,Conkright MD,Canettieri G,Best J,Chen H,Jenner R,Herbolsheimer E,Jacobsen E,Kadam S,Ecker JR,Emerson B,Hogenesch JB,Unterman T,Young RA,Montminy M

更新日期：2005-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Large mandibular defects are clinically challenging to reconstruct due to the complex anatomy of the jaw and the limited availability of appropriate tissue for repair. We envision leveraging current advances in fabrication and biomaterials to create implantable devices that generate bone within the patients themselves...

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

authors： Tatara AM,Koons GL,Watson E,Piepergerdes TC,Shah SR,Smith BT,Shum J,Melville JC,Hanna IA,Demian N,Ho T,Ratcliffe A,van den Beucken JJJP,Jansen JA,Wong ME,Mikos AG

更新日期：2019-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the different categories of facial expressions of emotion regularly used by us is essential to gain insights into human cognition and affect as well as for the design of computational models and perceptual interfaces. Past research on facial expressions of emotion has focused on the study of six basic ca...

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

authors： Du S,Tao Y,Martinez AM

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonribosomal peptides and polyketides are a diverse group of natural products with complex chemical structures and enormous pharmaceutical potential. They are synthesized on modular nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) and polyketide synthase (PKS) enzyme complexes by a conserved thiotemplate mechanism. Here, we rep...

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

authors： Wang H,Fewer DP,Holm L,Rouhiainen L,Sivonen K

更新日期：2014-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromophore-assisted light inactivation (CALI) offers the only method capable of modulating specific protein activities in localized regions and at particular times. Here, we generalize CALI so that it can be applied to a wider range of tasks. Specifically, we show that CALI can work with a genetically inserted epitop...

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

authors： Surrey T,Elowitz MB,Wolf PE,Yang F,Nédélec F,Shokat K,Leibler S

更新日期：1998-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Gyrate atrophy (GA), a recessive eye disease involving progressive loss of vision due to chorioretinal degeneration, is associated with a deficiency of the mitochondrial enzyme ornithine aminotransferase (OATase; ornithine-oxo-acid aminotransferase; L-ornithine:2-oxo-acid aminotransferase, EC 2.6.1.13) with consequent...

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

authors： Ramesh V,McClatchey AI,Ramesh N,Benoit LA,Berson EL,Shih VE,Gusella JF

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron microscopic techniques have been used to reveal two classes of subunits of tubulin in ordered arrays. Presumably the two classes correspond to the alpha and beta polypeptide chains of tubulin that have been distinguished by chemical criteria. The two types of subunits alternate along individual protofilaments...

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

authors： Crepeau RH,McEwen B,Edelstein SJ

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sonic hedgehog (Shh) signaling plays diverse roles during animal development and adult tissue homeostasis through differential regulation of Gli family transcription factors. Dysregulated Shh signaling activities have been linked to birth defects and tumorigenesis. Here we report that Brg, an ATP-dependent chromatin r...

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

authors： Zhan X,Shi X,Zhang Z,Chen Y,Wu JI

更新日期：2011-08-02 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：:Although soft devices (grippers, actuators, and elementary robots) are rapidly becoming an integral part of the broad field of robotics, autonomy for completely soft devices has only begun to be developed. Adaptation of conventional systems of control to soft devices requires hard valves and electronic controls. This ...

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

authors： Preston DJ,Rothemund P,Jiang HJ,Nemitz MP,Rawson J,Suo Z,Whitesides GM

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We postulated that a synergistic combination of two innate immune functions, pathogen surface recognition and lysis, in a protein chimera would lead to a robust class of engineered antimicrobial therapeutics for protection against pathogens. In support of our hypothesis, we have engineered such a chimera to protect ag...

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

authors： Dandekar AM,Gouran H,Ibáñez AM,Uratsu SL,Agüero CB,McFarland S,Borhani Y,Feldstein PA,Bruening G,Nascimento R,Goulart LR,Pardington PE,Chaudhary A,Norvell M,Civerolo E,Gupta G

更新日期：2012-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) and associated carbon isotope excursion (CIE) are often touted as the best geologic analog for the current anthropogenic rise in pCO2. However, a causal mechanism for the PETM CIE remains unidentified because of large uncertainties in the duration of the CIE's onset. Here, w...

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

authors： Wright JD,Schaller MF

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present evidence of rapid and reliable associative learning by the terrestrial mollusc, Limax maximus. Slugs were exposed once to a pairing of a highly attractive food odor (potato or carrot) and a saturated solution of quinidine sulfate, a bitter-tasting plant substance. In comparison with control slugs, the expos...

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

authors： Sahley C,Gelperin A,Rudy JW

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although pain is a prevalent nonmotor symptom in Parkinson's disease (PD), it is undertreated, in part because of our limited understanding of the underlying mechanisms. Considering that the basal ganglia are implicated in pain sensation, and that their synaptic outputs are controlled by the subthalamic nucleus (STN),...

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

authors： Luan Y,Tang D,Wu H,Gu W,Wu Y,Cao JL,Xiao C,Zhou C

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The cis-acting regulatory sequence of transcription from long terminal repeats (LTRs) of human T-cell leukemia virus type I and type II (HTLV-I and HTLV-II), which is essential for action of the virally encoded trans-acting transcriptional factor(s) designated pX(s), in HTLV-I and -II was identified. Deletion of most ...

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

authors： Shimotohno K,Takano M,Teruuchi T,Miwa M

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00