Anthrax pathogen evades the mammalian immune system through stealth siderophore production.

abstract：:Systemic administration of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) causes parkinsonism in humans and subhuman primates, but not in rats and many other laboratory animals; mice are intermediate in their susceptibility. Since MPTP causes selective dopaminergic neurotoxicity when infused directly into rat sub...

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

authors： Kalaria RN,Mitchell MJ,Harik SI

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental question in the study of human language acquisition centers around apportioning explanatory force between the experience of the learner and the core knowledge that allows learners to represent that experience. We provide a previously unidentified kind of data identifying children's contribution to langua...

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

authors： Han CH,Musolino J,Lidz J

更新日期：2016-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the four major types of Ca channel described in vertebrate cells (designated T, L, N, and P), N-type Ca channels are unique in that they are found specifically in neurons, have been correlated with control of neurotransmitter release, and are blocked by omega-conotoxin, a neuropeptide toxin isolated from the marine...

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

authors： Dubel SJ,Starr TV,Hell J,Ahlijanian MK,Enyeart JJ,Catterall WA,Snutch TP

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The triphenylmethane derivative aurintricarboxylic acid (ATA), but not aurin, selectively prevented the binding of OKT4A/Leu-3a monoclonal antibody (mAb) and, to a lesser extent, OKT4 mAb to the CD4 cell receptor for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). The effect was seen within 1 min at an ATA concentration ...

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

authors： Schols D,Baba M,Pauwels R,Desmyter J,De Clercq E

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enhanced ethylene production is an early response of plants to pathogen attack and has been associated with both resistance and susceptibility to disease. Tobacco plants were transformed with the mutant etr1-1 gene from Arabidopsis, conferring dominant ethylene insensitivity. Besides lacking known ethylene responses, ...

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

authors： Knoester M,van Loon LC,van den Heuvel J,Hennig J,Bol JF,Linthorst HJ

更新日期：1998-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta-globin locus control region (LCR) consists of four erythroid-specific DNase I-hypersensitive sites, which are necessary for high-level expression of the beta-like globin genes in erythroid tissues. One of these sites, designated 5'HS-2, functions as an erythroid-specific enhancer element in transfection and t...

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

authors： Liu D,Chang JC,Moi P,Liu W,Kan YW,Curtin PT

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osmotic homeostasis in the brain involves movement of water through aquaporin-4 (AQP4) membrane channels. Perivascular astrocyte end-feet contain distinctive orthogonal lattices (square arrays) assembled from 4- to 6-nm intramembrane particles (IMPs) corresponding to individual AQP4 tetramers. Two isoforms of AQP4 res...

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

authors： Furman CS,Gorelick-Feldman DA,Davidson KG,Yasumura T,Neely JD,Agre P,Rash JE

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Insufficient and disrupted sleep is linked with cardiovascular and metabolic dysregulation and morbidity. The current study examines the degree to which differences in sleep between black/African American (AA) and white/European American (EA) adults explain racial differences in cardiometabolic (CMB) disease risk. Tot...

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

authors： Curtis DS,Fuller-Rowell TE,El-Sheikh M,Carnethon MR,Ryff CD

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) underlies the development of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) and multiple sclerosis. Environmental factors, such as Bordetella pertussis, are thought to sensitize central endothelium to biogenic amines like histamine, thereby leading to increased BBB permeabi...

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

authors： Lu C,Diehl SA,Noubade R,Ledoux J,Nelson MT,Spach K,Zachary JF,Blankenhorn EP,Teuscher C

更新日期：2010-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Electromyographic recordings from individual identified ankle muscles of the 7-day chick embryo (stage 31) were used to determine the organization of motor output at a developmental stage shortly after the onset of spontaneous motility in the leg. During spontaneous motility of the embryo, the electromyographic record...

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

authors： Bekoff A,Stein PS,Hamburger V

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recombinant plasmid containing a DNA segment complementary to rat liver albumin mRNA has been constructed, cloned, and used to examine the organization of albumin gene. The 18S fraction of total liver poly(A)-containing RNA was copied into a double-stranded cDNA by avian myeloblastosis virus reverse transcriptase an...

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

authors： Kioussis D,Hamilton R,Hanson RW,Tilghman SM,Taylor JM

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying the downstream targets of microRNAs (miRNAs) is essential to understanding cellular regulatory networks. We devised a direct biochemical method for miRNA target discovery that combined RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) purification with microarray analysis of bound mRNAs. Because targets of miR-124a hav...

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

authors： Karginov FV,Conaco C,Xuan Z,Schmidt BH,Parker JS,Mandel G,Hannon GJ

更新日期：2007-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Initiation of bovine papillomavirus (BPV) DNA synthesis in vivo and in vitro depends on the interaction of the viral initiator protein E1 with the replication origin (ori+ DNA). The viral E2 protein assists this interaction, resulting in a cooperative assembly of both proteins on the replication origin. Using gel mobi...

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

authors： Lusky M,Hurwitz J,Seo YS

更新日期：1994-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews the developments that have occurred in the field of human genetics of infectious diseases from the second half of the 20th century onward. In particular, it stresses and explains the importance of the recently described monogenic inborn errors of immunity underlying resistance or susceptibility to s...

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

authors： Casanova JL

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The human carcinogen vinyl chloride is metabolized in the liver to reactive intermediates which form N2,3-ethenoguanine in DNA. N2,3-Ethenoguanine is known to cause G----A transitions during DNA replication in Escherichia coli, and its formation may be a carcinogenic event in higher organisms. To investigate the repai...

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

authors： Matijasevic Z,Sekiguchi M,Ludlum DB

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptide B (NPB) and neuropeptide W (NPW) are endogenous neuropeptide ligands for the G protein-coupled receptors NPBWR1 and NPBWR2. Here we report that the majority of NPW neurons in the mesolimbic region possess tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity, indicating that a small subset of dopaminergic neurons coexpre...

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

authors： Motoike T,Long JM,Tanaka H,Sinton CM,Skach A,Williams SC,Hammer RE,Sakurai T,Yanagisawa M

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Host-defense cationic antimicrobial peptides ( approximately 12-50 aa long) play an essential protective role in the innate immune system of all organisms. Lipopeptides, however, are produced only in bacteria and fungi during cultivation, and they are composed of specific lipophilic moieties attached to anionic peptid...

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

authors： Makovitzki A,Avrahami D,Shai Y

更新日期：2006-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by impaired social interactions and communication. The pathogenesis of ASD is not known, but it involves activation of microglia. We had shown that the peptide neurotensin (NT) is increased in the serum of children with ASD and stimulates cultured adult human microglia t...

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

authors： Tsilioni I,Pantazopoulos H,Conti P,Leeman SE,Theoharides TC

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium marinum, a natural pathogen of fish and frogs and an occasional pathogen of humans, is capable of inducing actin tail formation within the cytoplasm of macrophages, leading to actin-based motility and intercellular spread. Actin tail formation by M. marinum is markedly reduced in macrophages deficient in...

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

authors： Stamm LM,Pak MA,Morisaki JH,Snapper SB,Rottner K,Lommel S,Brown EJ

更新日期：2005-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinesin-1 is a molecular motor protein that transports cargo along microtubules. Inside cells, the vast majority of kinesin-1 is regulated to conserve ATP and to ensure its proper intracellular distribution and coordination with other molecular motors. Regulated kinesin-1 folds in half at a hinge in its coiled-coil st...

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

authors： Dietrich KA,Sindelar CV,Brewer PD,Downing KH,Cremo CR,Rice SE

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The grand partition function for a long linear system of alternating alpha and beta sequences with the restraint of a fixed number, N(alphabeta), of alphabeta boundaries depends in an extremely simple way on the alpha-sequence and beta-sequence grand partition functions, xi(alpha) and xi(beta). When the restraint is r...

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

authors： Hill TL

更新日期：1972-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two prominent members of the ATP-binding cassette superfamily of transmembrane proteins, multidrug resistance 1 (MDR1) P-glycoprotein and multidrug resistance protein 1 (MRP1), can mediate the cellular extrusion of xenobiotics and (anticancer) drugs from normal and tumor cells. The MRP subfamily consists of at least s...

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

authors： Wijnholds J,Mol CA,van Deemter L,de Haas M,Scheffer GL,Baas F,Beijnen JH,Scheper RJ,Hatse S,De Clercq E,Balzarini J,Borst P

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In the rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta), the frequency of pulsatile gonadotropic hormone release is relatively constant in the face of widely varying levels of estradiol (E2) in the peripheral circulation--e.g., in the course of the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle and after ovariectomy. This suggests that modula...

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

authors： Kesner JS,Wilson RC,Kaufman JM,Hotchkiss J,Chen Y,Yamamoto H,Pardo RR,Knobil E

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sea urchins are a major component of recent marine communities where they exert a key role as grazers and benthic predators. However, their impact on past marine organisms, such as crinoids, is hard to infer in the fossil record. Analysis of bite mark frequencies on crinoid columnals and comprehensive genus-level dive...

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

authors： Gorzelak P,Salamon MA,Baumiller TK

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lactose-H+ symport protein (LacS) of Streptococcus thermophilus has a C-terminal hydrophilic domain that is homologous to IIA protein(s) domains of the phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system (PTS). C-terminal truncation mutants were constructed and expressed in Escherichia coli and their properties we...

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

authors： Poolman B,Knol J,Mollet B,Nieuwenhuis B,Sulter G

更新日期：1995-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic administration of the atypical antipsychotic drug, clozapine, to rodents has been shown to increase the concentration of apolipoprotein D (apoD) in several area of the brain, suggesting that apoD could be involved in the therapeutic effects of antipsychotic drugs and/or the pathology of psychotic illnesses. He...

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

authors： Thomas EA,Dean B,Pavey G,Sutcliffe JG

更新日期：2001-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The exceptional sensitivity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to isonicotinic acid hydrazide (INH) lacks satisfactory definition. M. tuberculosis is a natural mutant in oxyR, a central regulator of peroxide stress response. The ahpC gene, which encodes a critical subunit of alkyl hydroperoxide reductase, is one of the tar...

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

authors： Zhang Y,Dhandayuthapani S,Deretic V

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative importance of the roles of adaptation and chance in determining genetic diversity and evolution has received attention in the last 50 years, but our understanding is still incomplete. All statements about the relative effects of evolutionary factors, especially drift, need confirmation by strong demograph...

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

authors： Chiaroni J,Underhill PA,Cavalli-Sforza LL

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression cloning of cDNAs was first described a decade ago and was based on transient expression of cDNA libraries in COS cells. In contrast to transient transfection of plasmids, retroviral gene transfer delivers genes stably into a wide range of target cells. We utilize a simple packaging system for production of ...

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

authors： Kitamura T,Onishi M,Kinoshita S,Shibuya A,Miyajima A,Nolan GP

更新日期：1995-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The productivity of aquatic ecosystems depends on the supply of limiting nutrients. The invasion of the Laurentian Great Lakes, the world's largest freshwater ecosystem, by dreissenid (zebra and quagga) mussels has dramatically altered the ecology of these lakes. A key open question is how dreissenids affect the cycli...

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

authors： Li J,Ianaiev V,Huff A,Zalusky J,Ozersky T,Katsev S

更新日期：2021-02-09 00:00:00