A "public" T-helper epitope of the E7 transforming protein of human papillomavirus 16 provides cognate help for several E7 B-cell epitopes from cervical cancer-associated human papillomavirus genotypes.

abstract：:We measured quantitatively the binding affinities of purified Cro repressor to the chemically synthesized wild-type and mutant OR1 operators, consisting of all three possible base-pair substitutions and of thymine to uracil substitutions at each base-pair position of the 17-base-pair operator sequence. The sequence-sp...

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

authors： Takeda Y,Sarai A,Rivera VM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetic mechanisms are involved in the pathophysiology of depressive disorders and are unique potential targets for therapeutic intervention. The acetylating agent L-acetylcarnitine (LAC), a well-tolerated drug, behaves as an antidepressant by the epigenetic regulation of type 2 metabotropic glutamate (mGlu2) recep...

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

authors： Nasca C,Xenos D,Barone Y,Caruso A,Scaccianoce S,Matrisciano F,Battaglia G,Mathé AA,Pittaluga A,Lionetto L,Simmaco M,Nicoletti F

更新日期：2013-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The intermediates and the rate-limiting step in the crystallization of deoxygenated sickle hemoglobin have been determined by a kinetic study with the use of electron microscopy. In slowly stirred solutions of deoxygenated hemoglobin S [Pumphrey, J. & Steinhardt, J. (1977) J. Mol. Biol. 112, 359--375], the sequential ...

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

authors： Wilson SM,Makinen MW

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sprouty proteins act as intracellular inhibitors of receptor tyrosine kinase signaling. Here we show that the mammalian Sprouty2 protein contains an iron-sulfur complex that can exist in an oxidized, reduced, or nitrosylated state. Purified Sprouty2 assembles into large monodisperse spheres containing approximately 24...

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

authors： Wu X,Alexander PB,He Y,Kikkawa M,Vogel PD,McKnight SL

更新日期：2005-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Simulations with a regional chemical transport model show that anthropogenic emissions of volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides (NO(x) = NO + NO(2)) lead to a dramatic diurnal variation of surface ozone (O(3)) in Houston, Texas. During the daytime, photochemical oxidation of volatile organic compounds catalyz...

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

authors： Zhang R,Lei W,Tie X,Hess P

更新日期：2004-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinoblastoma gene product (the RB protein) is phosphorylated in a cell cycle-dependent manner and this modification is believed to be important for cells to progress through the cell cycle. We found that purified cdk2 (cyclin-dependent kinase/cell division kinase 2) can phosphorylate the RB protein in vitro at t...

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

authors： Akiyama T,Ohuchi T,Sumida S,Matsumoto K,Toyoshima K

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metallophilicity is defined as the interaction among closed-shell metal centers, the origin of which remains controversial, particularly for the roles of spd orbital hybridization (mixing of the spd atomic orbitals of the metal atom in the molecular orbitals of metal complex) and the relativistic effect. Our studies r...

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

authors： Wan Q,Yang J,To WP,Che CM

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor metastasis is the cause of most cancer deaths. Although metastases can form in multiple end organs, the liver is recognized as a highly permissive organ. Nevertheless, there is evidence for immune cell-mediated mechanisms that function to suppress liver metastasis by certain tumors, although the underlying mecha...

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

authors： Kimura Y,Inoue A,Hangai S,Saijo S,Negishi H,Nishio J,Yamasaki S,Iwakura Y,Yanai H,Taniguchi T

更新日期：2016-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Parts of the primary structure of the NAD-specific glutamate dehydrogenase [L-glutamate:NAD oxidoreductase (deaminating), EC 1.4.1.2] from Neurospora crassa are presented. Segments of the sequence representing 886 unique amino-acid residues have been determined; the largest contains 267 residues. There are only short ...

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

authors： Austen BM,Nyc JF,Degani Y,Smith EL

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptors for platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) have previously only been found on cells of mesenchymal and glial origin. This study shows PDGF receptors on an anaplastic thyroid carcinoma cell line, C 643, that was found to express thyroglobulin mRNA, confirming its origin from thyroid epithelium. Northern blot a...

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

authors： Heldin NE,Gustavsson B,Claesson-Welsh L,Hammacher A,Mark J,Heldin CH,Westermark B

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What determines the firing rate of cortical neurons in the absence of external sensory input or motor behavior, such as during sleep? Here we report that, in a familiar environment, the discharge frequency of simultaneously recorded individual CA1 pyramidal neurons and the coactivation of cell pairs remain highly corr...

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

authors： Hirase H,Leinekugel X,Czurkó A,Csicsvari J,Buzsáki G

更新日期：2001-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum provides growth factors that regulate and limit the growth of normal cells in tissue culture. Animal cells that are malignantly transformed usually exhibit diminished serum requirements for growth in culture. We have used a defined, serum-free medium to determine which of these growth factors becomes dispensable...

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

authors： Cherington PV,Smith BL,Pardee AB

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclotides are plant defense peptides that have been extensively investigated for pharmaceutical and agricultural applications, but key details of their posttranslational biosynthesis have remained elusive. Asparaginyl endopeptidases are crucial in the final stage of the head-to-tail cyclization reaction, but the enzy...

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

authors： Rehm FBH,Jackson MA,De Geyter E,Yap K,Gilding EK,Durek T,Craik DJ

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Six overlapping cosmid clones having an average insert size of 40 kilobase pairs were identified and isolated from a human genomic library by using a cDNA probe, Alu-7, specific for the amino acid sequence of C4d, a known region of the fourth component of human complement. Analysis of these genomic clones by restricti...

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

authors： Carroll MC,Porter RR

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetrodotoxin-sensitive sodium channels are detectable in normal human fibroblasts and in "glia-like" cells at appreciable levels when compared to what is observed in established neuronal cell lines in culture. Two- to 3-fold stimulations of sodium influx are observed in the presence of 0.2 mM veratridine and scorpion ...

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

authors： Munson R Jr,Westermark B,Glaser L

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporal and spatial patterns of floral determination in cultured internode segments of Nicotiana tabacum L. cv. Wisconsin 38 were investigated. Segments from internodes, when cultured on hormone-free medium, either produced some de novo floral shoots or produced only vegetative shoots. Segments that produced some...

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

authors： Singer SR,McDaniel CN

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of protein subunit vaccines to combat some of the world's deadliest pathogens such as a malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, is stalled, due in part to the inability to induce and sustain high-titer antibody responses. Here, we show the induction of persistent, high-titer antibody responses to reco...

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

authors： Wu Y,Przysiecki C,Flanagan E,Bello-Irizarry SN,Ionescu R,Muratova O,Dobrescu G,Lambert L,Keister D,Rippeon Y,Long CA,Shi L,Caulfield M,Shaw A,Saul A,Shiver J,Miller LH

更新日期：2006-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:To attempt to locate functionally important regions of the interferon (IFN) molecule, recombinant human IFN-alpha 2 was subjected to proteolytic digestion. The bacterial proteinase thermolysin produced two major complementary fragments, HuIFN-alpha 2-(1-110) and HuIFN-alpha 2-(111-153). After reduction with 2-mercapto...

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

authors： Ackerman SK,Zur Nedden D,Heintzelman M,Hunkapiller M,Zoon K

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:8-Methylbenz[a]anthracene (8-MeBaA) transdihydrodiol metabolites were isolated by reversed-phase and normal-phase HPLCs from incubations of 8-MeBaA with liver microsomes or a reconstituted system containing purified cytochrome P-448 and epoxide hydrolase. Regardless of the enzyme source, the metabolically formed 8-MeB...

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

authors： Yang SK,Chou MW,Fu PP,Wislocki PG,Lu AH

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells harboring a GAL1 promoter-linked beta-galactosidase gene, the simultaneous expression of Escherichia coli DNA topoisomerase I and inactivation of yeast DNA topoisomerases I and II reduces the cellular level of beta-galactosidase to an undetectable level. Analysis of intracellular mRNA...

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

authors： Gartenberg MR,Wang JC

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-independent cell lines were derived from mouse helper T-cell clones by culture in autologous supernatant obtained after stimulation with concanavalin A. A factor, termed P40, supporting the growth of these lines was purified and characterized as a basic 32- to 39-kDa single-chain glycoprotein functionally dist...

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

authors： Uyttenhove C,Simpson RJ,Van Snick J

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific protein domains and amino acids responsible for the apparent capacity of P-glycoprotein (mdr) to recognize and transport a large group of structurally unrelated drugs have not been identified. We have introduced a single Ser----Phe substitution within the predicted TM11 domain of mdr1 (position 941) and mdr3 ...

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

authors： Gros P,Dhir R,Croop J,Talbot F

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the variety of specialized intercellular junctions, those of the adherens type have the most obvious association with cytoskeletal elements. This may be with the actin microfilament system as in the zonula adherens or with intermediate filaments as in the macula adherens, or desmosome. In the former case, it is ...

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

authors： Wheeler GN,Parker AE,Thomas CL,Ataliotis P,Poynter D,Arnemann J,Rutman AJ,Pidsley SC,Watt FM,Rees DA

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional repressors can be classified as short- or long-range, according to their range of activity. Functional analysis of identified short-range repressors has been carried out largely in transgenic Drosophila, but it is not known whether general properties of short-range repressors are evident in other types...

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

authors： Ryu JR,Olson LK,Arnosti DN

更新日期：2001-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:OspA (outer surface protein A) is an abundant immunogenic lipoprotein of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. The crystal structure of a soluble recombinant form of OspA was solved in a complex with the Fab fragment of mouse monoclonal antibody 184.1 and refined to a resolution of 1.9 A. OspA has a repeti...

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

authors： Li H,Dunn JJ,Luft BJ,Lawson CL

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular and cellular basis of selective motor neuron (MN) vulnerability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is not known. In genetically distinct mouse models of familial ALS expressing mutant superoxide dismutase-1 (SOD1), TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43), and fused in sarcoma (FUS), we demonstrate select...

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

authors： Lalancette-Hebert M,Sharma A,Lyashchenko AK,Shneider NA

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary structure of the Escherichia coli hemolysin polypeptide (HlyA) is used to predict intramolecular structures involved in the secretion and cytolytic activity of the molecule. The C-terminal region of HlyA contains a repeated, 8-amino acid chain represented by the consensus sequence Leu-Xaa-Gly-Gly-Xaa-Gly-A...

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

authors： Felmlee T,Welch RA

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type-III secretion (T3S) systems of bacteria are part of self-assembling nanomachines: the bacterial flagellum that enables cells to propel themselves through liquid and across hydrated surfaces, and the injectisome that delivers pathogenic effector proteins into eukaryotic host cells. Although the flagellum and i...

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

authors： Wee DH,Hughes KT

更新日期：2015-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse celestial sources of relatively low surface brightness such as the Milky Way, zodiacal light, and gegenschein (or contre lumière) can be studied most reliably from above the earth's atmosphere with equipment flown in artificial satellites. We review the techniques used and some of the difficulties encountered ...

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

authors： Roach FE,Carroll B,Aller LH,Smith L

更新日期：1972-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of heat shock proteins (HSP) by cellular stress and the activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis by physiologic stress are biological responses that aid in the maintenance of cellular and organismal homeostasis, respectively. In this report, restraint stress, known to activate the hypothalam...

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

authors： Blake MJ,Udelsman R,Feulner GJ,Norton DD,Holbrook NJ

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00