Emergence of a bacterial clone with enhanced virulence by acquisition of a phage encoding a secreted phospholipase A2.

abstract：:Wild bees are highly valuable pollinators. Along with managed honey bees, they provide a critical ecosystem service by ensuring stable pollination to agriculture and wild plant communities. Increasing concern about the welfare of both wild and managed pollinators, however, has prompted recent calls for national evalua...

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

authors： Koh I,Lonsdorf EV,Williams NM,Brittain C,Isaacs R,Gibbs J,Ricketts TH

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides constitute an important component of the mammalian innate immune response. Several types of antimicrobial peptides, including the beta-defensins, are produced at epithelial surfaces in response to infectious threats. Here we show that a class of small molecules, including l-isoleucine and severa...

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

authors： Fehlbaum P,Rao M,Zasloff M,Anderson GM

更新日期：2000-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Hodgkin disease (HD) is characterized by a small number of malignant Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg (H/RS) cells among a major population of nonmalignant cells. The analysis of H/RS cells has been hampered by their low frequency and fragility. Here, we describe the isolation of viable H/RS cells from HD affected tissues b...

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

authors： Irsch J,Nitsch S,Hansmann ML,Rajewsky K,Tesch H,Diehl V,Jox A,Küppers R,Radbruch A

更新日期：1998-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We present data that demonstrate that three MR elements isolated from wild populations of Drosophila melanogaster on two continents can cause large deletions of the X chromosome in males. The deleted chromosomes, termed mini-X chromosomes, are induced at a frequency of approximately 1:4000 in chromosomes that are init...

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

authors： Green MM,Yamamoto MT,Miklos GL

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cambodia, in which both Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum are endemic, has been the focus of numerous malaria-control interventions, resulting in a marked decline in overall malaria incidence. Despite this decline, the number of P vivax cases has actually increased. To understand better the factors underlying...

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

authors： Parobek CM,Lin JT,Saunders DL,Barnett EJ,Lon C,Lanteri CA,Balasubramanian S,Brazeau N,DeConti DK,Garba DL,Meshnick SR,Spring MD,Chuor CM,Bailey JA,Juliano JJ

更新日期：2016-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The embryonic neuroepithelium gives rise to the components of the central nervous system in the mature animal. To study the early development of the murine central nervous system we have sought to isolate growth factor receptors from the neuroepithelium of the neural tube of 10-day-old mouse embryos. Because many grow...

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

authors： Reid HH,Wilks AF,Bernard O

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basophils are powerful mediators of Th2 immunity and are present in increased numbers during allergic inflammation and helminth infection. Despite their ability to potentiate Th2 immunity the mechanisms regulating basophil development remain largely unknown. We have found a unique role for isotype-switched antibodies ...

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

authors： Herbst T,Esser J,Prati M,Kulagin M,Stettler R,Zaiss MM,Hewitson JP,Merky P,Verbeek JS,Bourquin C,Camberis M,Prout M,Maizels RM,Le Gros G,Harris NL

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli, acetyl phosphate can be formed from acetyl-CoA via the phosphotransacetylase (phosphate acetyltransferase; acetyl-CoA:orthophosphate acetyltransferase, EC 2.3.1.8) reaction and from acetate (plus ATP) via the acetate kinase (ATP:acetate phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.2.1) reaction. By restricting acet...

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

authors： Hong JS,Hunt AG,Masters PS,Lieberman MA

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent development of metallic glass-matrix composites represents a particular milestone in engineering materials for structural applications owing to their remarkable combination of strength and toughness. However, metallic glasses are highly susceptible to cyclic fatigue damage, and previous attempts to solve th...

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

authors： Launey ME,Hofmann DC,Johnson WL,Ritchie RO

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 maturation involves conversion of the immature Gag polyprotein lattice, which lines the inner surface of the viral membrane, to the mature capsid protein (CA) lattice, which encloses the viral RNA. Maturation inhibitors such as bevirimat (BVM) bind within six-helix bundles, formed by a segment that spans the jun...

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

authors： Gupta S,Louis JM,Tycko R

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, the highly invasive Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, rapidly displaced resident populations of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti in the southeastern United States and in Bermuda. Although multiple mechanisms of competitive displacement have been hypothesized, recent evidence of cross-inseminati...

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

authors： Bargielowski IE,Lounibos LP,Carrasquilla MC

更新日期：2013-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:An expression is produced for the Casimir energy of a dielectric medium with a spherically symmetrical dielectric discontinuity. Tests based on dielectric and geometrical limits are successful. ...

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

authors： Schwinger J

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Watson-Crick model for DNA duplex duplication proposes that the two parental chains separate and that each directs the synthesis of a complementary chain with which it is found associated after the duplication act. Previous experiments have left unchallenged alternative models which propose that in any single act ...

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

authors： Russo VE,Stahl MM,Stahl FW

更新日期：1970-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitatively identifying direct dependencies between variables is an important task in data analysis, in particular for reconstructing various types of networks and causal relations in science and engineering. One of the most widely used criteria is partial correlation, but it can only measure linearly direct associ...

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

authors： Zhao J,Zhou Y,Zhang X,Chen L

更新日期：2016-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The Etruscans, the only preclassical European population that has been genetically characterized so far, share only two haplotypes with their modern geographic counterparts, the Tuscans, who, nonetheless, appear to be their closest relatives. We modeled 10 demographic scenarios spanning the last 2,500 years and tested...

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

authors： Belle EM,Ramakrishnan U,Mountain JL,Barbujani G

更新日期：2006-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrieval of recently acquired declarative memories depends on the hippocampus, but with time, retrieval is increasingly sustainable by neocortical representations alone. This process has been conceptualized as system-level consolidation. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we assessed over the course of thre...

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

authors： Takashima A,Petersson KM,Rutters F,Tendolkar I,Jensen O,Zwarts MJ,McNaughton BL,Fernández G

更新日期：2006-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin filaments and integrin-based focal adhesions (FAs) form integrated systems that mediate dynamic cell interactions with their environment or other cells during migration, the immune response, and tissue morphogenesis. How adhesion-associated actin structures obtain their functional specificity is unclear. Here we...

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

authors： Skau CT,Plotnikov SV,Doyle AD,Waterman CM

更新日期：2015-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The issue of protein dynamics and its implications in the biological function of proteins are arousing greater and greater interest in different fields of molecular biology. In cryo-electron tomography experiments one may take several snapshots of a given biological macromolecule. In principle, a large enough collecti...

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

authors： Bongini L,Fanelli D,Piazza F,De Los Rios P,Sandin S,Skoglund U

更新日期：2004-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a HeLa cell line stably transfected with the tat gene from human immunodeficiency virus type 1, we have found that the expression of the regulatory Tat protein suppresses the expression of cellular Mn-containing superoxide dismutase (Mn-SOD). This enzyme is one of the cell's primary defenses against oxygen-deriv...

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

authors： Flores SC,Marecki JC,Harper KP,Bose SK,Nelson SK,McCord JM

更新日期：1993-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Striatal inhibition plays an important role in models of cortex-basal ganglia function and is altered in many basal ganglia diseases. The gamma-aminobutyric acid ergic spiny projection neuron comprises >95% of striatal neurons, but despite strong anatomical evidence, the electrophysiological properties and functions o...

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

authors： Czubayko U,Plenz D

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Assembly of protein complexes is a key mechanism for achieving spatial and temporal coordination in processes involving many enzymes. Growth of rod-shaped bacteria is a well-studied example requiring such coordination; expansion of the cell wall is thought to involve coordination of the activity of synthetic enzymes w...

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

authors： Lee TK,Tropini C,Hsin J,Desmarais SM,Ursell TS,Gong E,Gitai Z,Monds RD,Huang KC

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA fragmentation is a hallmark of apoptosis (programmed cell death). However, the biological function of apoptotic DNA fragmentation remains unclear. Here, we show that DNA fragmentation factor plays an important role for maintaining genomic stability. Inhibition or loss of the DNA fragmentation factor (DFF)/caspase-...

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

authors： Yan B,Wang H,Peng Y,Hu Y,Wang H,Zhang X,Chen Q,Bedford JS,Dewhirst MW,Li CY

更新日期：2006-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils are immune cells that bind to, engulf, and destroy bacterial and fungal pathogens in infected tissue, and their clearance by apoptosis is essential for the resolution of inflammation. Killing involves both oxidative and nonoxidative processes, the oxidative pathway requiring electrogenic production of supe...

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

authors： Fay AJ,Qian X,Jan YN,Jan LY

更新日期：2006-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Death of pancreatic β cells is a pathological hallmark of type 1 diabetes (T1D). However, the molecular mechanisms of β cell death and its regulation are poorly understood. Here we describe a unique regulatory pathway of β cell death that comprises microRNA-21, its target tumor suppressor PDCD4, and its upstream trans...

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

authors： Ruan Q,Wang T,Kameswaran V,Wei Q,Johnson DS,Matschinsky F,Shi W,Chen YH

更新日期：2011-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A change-point detection is proposed by using a Bayesian-type statistic based on the shortest Hamiltonian path, and the change-point is estimated by using ratio cut. A permutation procedure is applied to approximate the significance of Bayesian-type statistics. The change-point test is proven to be consistent, and an ...

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

authors： Shi X,Wu Y,Rao CR

更新日期：2017-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:PIK3R2 encodes a ubiquitous regulatory subunit (p85β) of PI3K, an enzyme that generates 3-polyphosphoinositides at the plasma membrane. PI3K activation triggers cell survival and migration. We found that p85β expression is elevated in breast and colon carcinomas and that its increased expression correlates with PI3K p...

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

authors： Cortés I,Sánchez-Ruíz J,Zuluaga S,Calvanese V,Marqués M,Hernández C,Rivera T,Kremer L,González-García A,Carrera AC

更新日期：2012-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The free and membrane-bound ribosomes of hepatic cells were isolated and used to program protein synthesis in cell-free extracts. Immuno-electrophoretic and radioautographic analysis of the products showed that the membrane-bound ribosomes synthesized serum proteins, whereas ribosomes free of endoplasmic reticulum syn...

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

authors： Ganoza MC,Williams CA

更新日期：1969-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA polymerases (DNAPs) responsible for genome replication are highly faithful enzymes that nonetheless cannot deal with damaged DNA. In contrast, translesion synthesis (TLS) DNAPs are suitable for replicating modified template bases, although resulting in very low-fidelity products. Here we report the biochemical cha...

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

authors： Berjón-Otero M,Villar L,de Vega M,Salas M,Redrejo-Rodríguez M

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:An argument is presented in favor of the hypothesis that, bovine carboxypeptidases A and B fit by and large, the concept of homology on the levels of both amino acid sequence and three-dimensional structure. Two peptide sequences from carboxypeptidases A and B, comprising 46 amino acid residues, display structural hom...

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

authors： Bradshaw RA,Neurath H,Walsh KA

更新日期：1969-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells contain numerous enzymes that use molecular oxygen for their reactions. Often, their active sites are buried deeply inside the protein, which raises the question whether there are specific access channels guiding oxygen to the site of catalysis. Choosing 12/15-lipoxygenase as a typical example for such oxygen-de...

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

authors： Saam J,Ivanov I,Walther M,Holzhütter HG,Kuhn H

更新日期：2007-08-14 00:00:00