Secreted frizzled related protein 2 (Sfrp2) is the key Akt-mesenchymal stem cell-released paracrine factor mediating myocardial survival and repair.

abstract：:The cochlear implant (CI) is a neuroprosthesis that allows profoundly deaf patients to recover speech intelligibility. This recovery goes through long-term adaptative processes to build coherent percepts from the coarse information delivered by the implant. Here we analyzed the longitudinal postimplantation evolution ...

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

authors： Rouger J,Lagleyre S,Fraysse B,Deneve S,Deguine O,Barone P

更新日期：2007-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A readily accessible new class of near infrared (NIR) molecular probes has been synthesized and evaluated. Specific fluorophores in this unique xanthene based regioisomeric seminaphthofluorone dye series exhibit a combination of desirable characteristics including (i) low molecular weight (339 amu), (ii) aqueous solub...

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

authors： Yang Y,Lowry M,Xu X,Escobedo JO,Sibrian-Vazquez M,Wong L,Schowalter CM,Jensen TJ,Fronczek FR,Warner IM,Strongin RM

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum amyloid A (SAA) is an acute-phase plasma protein that functions in innate immunity and lipid homeostasis. SAA is a protein precursor of reactive AA amyloidosis, the major complication of chronic inflammation and one of the most common human systemic amyloid diseases worldwide. Most circulating SAA is protected f...

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

authors： Jayaraman S,Gantz DL,Haupt C,Gursky O

更新日期：2017-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The developmental origin of dendritic cells, a specialized system of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II-rich antigen-presenting cells for T-cell immunity and tolerance, is not well characterized. Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is known to stimulate dendritic cells, including gro...

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

authors： Inaba K,Inaba M,Deguchi M,Hagi K,Yasumizu R,Ikehara S,Muramatsu S,Steinman RM

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonization of land by plants was a major transition on Earth, but the developmental and genetic innovations required for this transition remain unknown. Physiological studies and the fossil record strongly suggest that the ability of the first land plants to form symbiotic associations with beneficial fungi was one ...

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

authors： Delaux PM,Radhakrishnan GV,Jayaraman D,Cheema J,Malbreil M,Volkening JD,Sekimoto H,Nishiyama T,Melkonian M,Pokorny L,Rothfels CJ,Sederoff HW,Stevenson DW,Surek B,Zhang Y,Sussman MR,Dunand C,Morris RJ,Roux C,Wong GK

更新日期：2015-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of a number of proteins is regulated by self-processing reactions. Elegant examples are the cleavage of the prokaryotic LexA and lambdaCI transcriptional repressors and the UmuD-like mutagenesis proteins. Various studies support the hypothesis that LexA and lambdaCI cleavage reactions are predominantly in...

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

authors： McDonald JP,Frank EG,Levine AS,Woodgate R

更新日期：1998-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanylate cyclase [GTP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.2] activity of human platelet homogenates was stimulated by the addition of phospholipase A2 or unsaturated fatty acids such as oleic, vaccenic, linoleic, linolenic, eicosenoic, eicosadienoic, and arachidonic acids. The addition of lipoxidase potentiated...

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

authors： Hidaka H,Asano T

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP and UTP can function as extracellular signaling molecules by activating plasma membrane receptors termed P2 purinergic receptors. In the present study a P2U receptor cDNA has been expressed in K-562 human leukemia cells, one of the few available mammalian cell lines that lacks an endogenous P2U receptor. In stably...

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

authors： Erb L,Lustig KD,Sullivan DM,Turner JT,Weisman GA

更新日期：1993-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Nearly 500 alkaloids have been detected in skin extracts from frogs of the family Dendrobatidae. All seem to have been sequestered unchanged into skin glands from alkaloid-containing arthropods. Ants, beetles, and millipedes seem to be the source of decahydroquinolines, certain izidines, coccinellines, and spiropyrrol...

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

authors： Daly JW,Kaneko T,Wilham J,Garraffo HM,Spande TF,Espinosa A,Donnelly MA

更新日期：2002-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans have altered natural patterns of fire for millennia, but the impact of human-set fires is thought to have been slight in wet closed-canopy forests. In the South Island of New Zealand, Polynesians (Māori), who arrived 700-800 calibrated years (cal y) ago, and then Europeans, who settled ∼150 cal y ago, used fire...

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

authors： McWethy DB,Whitlock C,Wilmshurst JM,McGlone MS,Fromont M,Li X,Dieffenbacher-Krall A,Hobbs WO,Fritz SC,Cook ER

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Although microtubules (MTs) frequently form highly dynamic networks, subsets of MTs become stabilized in response to environmental cues and function as specialized tracks for vesicle and macromolecular trafficking. MT stabilization is controlled by specialized plus-end tracking proteins (+TIPs) whose accumulation at t...

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

authors： Naghavi MH,Gundersen GG,Walsh D

更新日期：2013-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Assembly of nitrogenase FeMoco is one of the key processes in bioinorganic chemistry. NifB and NifEN are two essential elements immediately adjacent to each other along the biosynthetic pathway of FeMoco. Previously, an 8Fe-precursor of FeMoco was identified on NifEN; however, the identity of the biosynthetic intermed...

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

authors： Wiig JA,Hu Y,Ribbe MW

更新日期：2011-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein, we report the identification of a unique HIV-1 integrase (IN) inhibitor-binding site using photoaffinity labeling and mass spectrometric analysis. We chemically incorporated a photo-activatable benzophenone moiety into a series of coumarin-containing IN inhibitors. A representative of this series was covalentl...

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

authors： Al-Mawsawi LQ,Fikkert V,Dayam R,Witvrouw M,Burke TR Jr,Borchers CH,Neamati N

更新日期：2006-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic mutations can now be quantified in almost any cell type in mice carrying bacterial genes in a lambda phage shuttle vector. Mutations induced in vivo are detectable ex vivo, after packaging host-cell DNA into phage that are grown on suitable bacteria. However, the transgenic DNA differs from many host loci in s...

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

authors： Tao KS,Urlando C,Heddle JA

更新日期：1993-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:FK506-binding protein 52 (FKBP52), which binds FK506 and possesses peptidylprolyl isomerase activity, is an important immunophilin involved in the heterocomplex of steroid receptors with heat-shock protein 90. Here we report the crystal structures of two overlapped fragments [N(1-260) and C(145-459)] of FKBP52 and the...

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

authors： Wu B,Li P,Liu Y,Lou Z,Ding Y,Shu C,Ye S,Bartlam M,Shen B,Rao Z

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a family-based cluster detection approach designed to localize significant rare disease-risk variants clusters within a region of interest to systematically search for schizophrenia (SCZ) susceptibility genes within 49 genomic loci previously implicated by de novo copy number variants. Using two independent wh...

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

authors： Ionita-Laza I,Xu B,Makarov V,Buxbaum JD,Roos JL,Gogos JA,Karayiorgou M

更新日期：2014-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-component signal transduction systems are most often found in prokaryotic organisms where they are responsible for mediating the cellular responses to many environmental stimuli. These systems are composed of an autophosphorylating histidine kinase and a response regulator. We have found evidence for the existence...

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

authors： Alex LA,Borkovich KA,Simon MI

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Phages of the Caudovirales order possess a tail that recognizes the host and ensures genome delivery upon infection. The X-ray structure of the approximately 1.8 MDa host adsorption device (baseplate) from the lactococcal phage TP901-1 shows that the receptor-binding proteins are pointing in the direction of the host,...

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

authors： Veesler D,Spinelli S,Mahony J,Lichière J,Blangy S,Bricogne G,Legrand P,Ortiz-Lombardia M,Campanacci V,van Sinderen D,Cambillau C

更新日期：2012-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) has evolved a remarkable strategy to thwart the antiviral effects of the cellular cytidine deaminase APOBEC3G (hA3G). HTLV-1 infects T lymphocytes in vivo, where, like HIV-1, it is likely to encounter hA3G. HIV-1 counteracts the innate antiviral activity of hA3G by producing...

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

authors： Derse D,Hill SA,Princler G,Lloyd P,Heidecker G

更新日期：2007-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:During performance of attention-demanding cognitive tasks, certain regions of the brain routinely increase activity, whereas others routinely decrease activity. In this study, we investigate the extent to which this task-related dichotomy is represented intrinsically in the resting human brain through examination of s...

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

authors： Fox MD,Snyder AZ,Vincent JL,Corbetta M,Van Essen DC,Raichle ME

更新日期：2005-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike the dominant role of one class II invariant chain peptide (CLIP) in blocking MHC class II, comparative lipidomics analysis shows that human cluster of differentiation (CD) proteins CD1a, CD1b, CD1c, and CD1d bind lipids corresponding to hundreds of diverse accurate mass retention time values. Although most ions...

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

authors： Huang S,Cheng TY,Young DC,Layre E,Madigan CA,Shires J,Cerundolo V,Altman JD,Moody DB

更新日期：2011-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Poliovirus type 1 cDNA sequences coding for viral capsid polypeptide VP1 were inserted into the beta-lactamase sequence of Escherichia coli plasmid pBR322. Resulting recombinant plasmid pSW119 expressed in Escherichia coli a VP1-beta-lactamase fusion protein that reacted with antibodies raised against poliovirus capsi...

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

authors： van der Werf S,Wychowski C,Bruneau P,Blondel B,Crainic R,Horodniceanu F,Girard M

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidating the lineage relationships among different cell types is key to understanding human brain development. Here we developed parallel RNA and DNA analysis after deep sequencing (PRDD-seq), which combines RNA analysis of neuronal cell types with analysis of nested spontaneous DNA somatic mutations as cell lineag...

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

authors： Huang AY,Li P,Rodin RE,Kim SN,Dou Y,Kenny CJ,Akula SK,Hodge RD,Bakken TE,Miller JA,Lein ES,Park PJ,Lee EA,Walsh CA

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Control over structural transformations in supramolecular entities by external stimuli is critical for the development of adaptable and functional soft materials. Herein, we have designed and synthesized a dipyridyl donor containing a central Z-configured stiff-stilbene unit that self-assembles in the presence of two ...

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

authors： Yan X,Xu JF,Cook TR,Huang F,Yang QZ,Tung CH,Stang PJ

更新日期：2014-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotic cells, RAD52 protein plays a central role in genetic recombination and DNA repair by (i) promoting the annealing of complementary single-stranded DNA and (ii) stimulation of the RAD51 recombinase. The single-strand annealing domain resides in the N-terminal region of the protein and is highly conserved, ...

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

authors： Singleton MR,Wentzell LM,Liu Y,West SC,Wigley DB

更新日期：2002-10-15 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：:Metagenomics is expanding our knowledge of the gene content, functional significance, and genetic variability in natural microbial communities. Still, there exists limited information concerning the regulation and dynamics of genes in the environment. We report here global analysis of expressed genes in a naturally oc...

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

authors： Frias-Lopez J,Shi Y,Tyson GW,Coleman ML,Schuster SC,Chisholm SW,Delong EF

更新日期：2008-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective gene therapy depends on the efficient transfer of therapeutic genes and their protein products to target cells. Lentiviral vectors appear promising for virus-mediated gene delivery and long-term expression in nondividing cells. The herpes simplex virus type 1 tegument protein VP22 has recently been shown to ...

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

authors： Lai Z,Han I,Zirzow G,Brady RO,Reiser J

更新日期：2000-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:This perspective addresses recent advances in lipid transport across the Gram-negative inner and outer membranes. While we include a summary of previously existing literature regarding this topic, we focus on the maintenance of lipid asymmetry (Mla) pathway. Discovered in 2009 by the Silhavy group [J. C. Malinverni, T...

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

authors： Powers MJ,Trent MS

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed gene expression patterns in human gastric cancers by using cDNA microarrays representing approximately equal 30,300 genes. Expression of PLA2G2A, a gene previously implicated as a modifier of the Apc(Min/+) (multiple intestinal neoplasia 1) mutant phenotype in the mouse, was significantly correlated with p...

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

authors： Leung SY,Chen X,Chu KM,Yuen ST,Mathy J,Ji J,Chan AS,Li R,Law S,Troyanskaya OG,Tu IP,Wong J,So S,Botstein D,Brown PO

更新日期：2002-12-10 00:00:00