Ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme Ubc13 is a critical component of TNF receptor-associated factor (TRAF)-mediated inflammatory responses.

abstract：:The peroxisome biogenesis disorders (PBDs), including Zellweger syndrome (ZS) and neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy (NALD), are autosomal recessive diseases caused by defects in peroxisome assembly, for which at least 10 complementation groups have been reported. We have isolated a human PEX1 cDNA (HsPEX1) by functional c...

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

authors： Tamura S,Okumoto K,Toyama R,Shimozawa N,Tsukamoto T,Suzuki Y,Osumi T,Kondo N,Fujiki Y

更新日期：1998-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypomagnesemia affects insulin resistance and is a risk factor for diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2) and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the epithelial magnesium channel TRPM6 (V(1393)I, K(1584)E) were predicted to confer susceptibility for DM2. Here, we show using patch...

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

authors： Nair AV,Hocher B,Verkaart S,van Zeeland F,Pfab T,Slowinski T,Chen YP,Schlingmann KP,Schaller A,Gallati S,Bindels RJ,Konrad M,Hoenderop JG

更新日期：2012-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains expressing the activated RAS2Val19 gene or lacking both cAMP phosphodiesterase genes, PDE1 and PDE2, have impaired growth control and display an acute sensitivity to heat shock. We have isolated two classes of mammalian cDNAs from yeast expression libraries that suppress the heat shock...

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

authors： Colicelli J,Nicolette C,Birchmeier C,Rodgers L,Riggs M,Wigler M

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic delivery of bioactive molecules in the CNS is hampered by the blood-brain barrier, which has bottlenecked noninvasive physiological study of the brain and the development of CNS drugs. Here we report that irradiation with an ultrashort pulsed laser to the blood vessel wall induces transient leakage of blood p...

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

authors： Choi M,Ku T,Chong K,Yoon J,Choi C

更新日期：2011-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile has rapidly emerged as the leading cause of antibiotic-associated diarrheal disease, with the transcontinental spread of various PCR ribotypes, including 001, 017, 027 and 078. However, the genetic basis for the emergence of C. difficile as a human pathogen is unclear. Whole genome sequencing was...

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

authors： He M,Sebaihia M,Lawley TD,Stabler RA,Dawson LF,Martin MJ,Holt KE,Seth-Smith HM,Quail MA,Rance R,Brooks K,Churcher C,Harris D,Bentley SD,Burrows C,Clark L,Corton C,Murray V,Rose G,Thurston S,van Tonder A,Walker D

更新日期：2010-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyploidy, the presence of more than two complete sets of chromosomes in an organism, has significantly shaped the genomes of angiosperms during evolution. Two forms of polyploidy are often considered: allopolyploidy, which originates from interspecies hybrids, and autopolyploidy, which originates from intraspecies g...

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

authors： Yu Z,Haberer G,Matthes M,Rattei T,Mayer KF,Gierl A,Torres-Ruiz RA

更新日期：2010-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Located within the brain's ventricles, the choroid plexus produces cerebrospinal fluid and forms an important barrier between the central nervous system and the blood. For unknown reasons, the choroid plexus produces high levels of the protein klotho. Here, we show that these levels naturally decline with aging. Deple...

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

authors： Zhu L,Stein LR,Kim D,Ho K,Yu GQ,Zhan L,Larsson TE,Mucke L

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposable elements make up half of the mammalian genome. One of the most abundant is the short interspersed nuclear element (SINE). Among their million copies, B2 accounts for ∼350,000 in the mouse genome and has garnered special interest because of emerging roles in epigenetic regulation. Our recent work demonstra...

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

authors： Hernandez AJ,Zovoilis A,Cifuentes-Rojas C,Han L,Bujisic B,Lee JT

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified and purified a cell surface glycoprotein from retina and brain, called neural cell adhesion molecule or N-CAM, that appears to be involved in neural cell--cell adhesion, the fasciculation of neurites, and the formation of normal tissue patterns in the retina. The present studies reveal th...

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

authors： Rutishauser U,Hoffman S,Edelman GM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The noninvasive detection and quantification of CD8(+) T cells in vivo are important for both the detection and staging of CD8(+) lymphomas and for the monitoring of successful cancer immunotherapies, such as adoptive cell transfer and antibody-based immunotherapeutics. Here, antibody fragments are constructed to targ...

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

authors： Tavaré R,McCracken MN,Zettlitz KA,Knowles SM,Salazar FB,Olafsen T,Witte ON,Wu AM

更新日期：2014-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of von Hippel-Lindau disease (VHL) tumor-suppressor gene product (pVHL) are found in patients with dominant inherited VHL syndrome and in the vast majority of sporadic clear cell renal carcinomas. The function of the pVHL protein has not been clarified. pVHL has been shown to form a complex with elongin B an...

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

authors： Iwai K,Yamanaka K,Kamura T,Minato N,Conaway RC,Conaway JW,Klausner RD,Pause A

更新日期：1999-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional imaging of the human brain is an increasingly important technique for clinical and cognitive neuroscience research, with functional MRI (fMRI) of the blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) response and electroencephalography or magnetoencephalography (MEG) recordings of neural oscillations being 2 of the most ...

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

authors： Muthukumaraswamy SD,Edden RA,Jones DK,Swettenham JB,Singh KD

更新日期：2009-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we compared the transport of newly synthesized cholesterol with that of influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA) from the endoplasmic reticulum to the plasma membrane. The arrival of cholesterol on the cell surface was monitored by cyclodextrin removal, and HA transport was monitored by surface trypsinization...

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

authors： Heino S,Lusa S,Somerharju P,Ehnholm C,Olkkonen VM,Ikonen E

更新日期：2000-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Secreted parasitism proteins encoded by parasitism genes expressed in esophageal gland cells mediate infection and parasitism of plants by root-knot nematodes (RKN). Parasitism gene 16D10 encodes a conserved RKN secretory peptide that stimulates root growth and functions as a ligand for a putative plant transcription ...

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

authors： Huang G,Allen R,Davis EL,Baum TJ,Hussey RS

更新日期：2006-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The trilaminate vascular architecture provides biochemical regulation and mechanical integrity. Yet regulatory control can be regained after injury without recapitulating tertiary structure. Tissue-engineered (TE) endothelium controls repair even when placed in the perivascular space of injured vessels. It remains unc...

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

authors： Zani BG,Kojima K,Vacanti CA,Edelman ER

更新日期：2008-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is a multifactorial illness and genetic factors play a role in its etiology. The understanding of its physiopathology relies on the availability of experimental models potentially mimicking the disease. Here we describe a model built up by selective breeding of mice with strikingly different responses in th...

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

authors： El Yacoubi M,Bouali S,Popa D,Naudon L,Leroux-Nicollet I,Hamon M,Costentin J,Adrien J,Vaugeois JM

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported that normal human salivary gland-derived epithelial cells exclusively express keratinocyte growth factor receptor (KGFR). In the process of malignant transformation of human salivary gland tumors, KGFR gene expression disappeared concomitantly with the de novo expression of the fibroblast growth facto...

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

authors： Zhang Y,Wang H,Toratani S,Sato JD,Kan M,McKeehan WL,Okamoto T

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) is an antiviral effector of the innate immune system. Viruses that can interfere with NO synthesis may be able to replicate more rapidly than viruses that cannot limit NO synthesis. We show that the adenovirus E1A protein inhibits NO production by decreasing expression of the inducible NO synthase (N...

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

authors： Cao W,Bao C,Lowenstein CJ

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether genes escape X chromosome inactivation by positioning outside of the territory defined by XIST RNA. Results reveal an unanticipated higher order organization of genes and noncoding sequences. All 15 X-linked genes, regardless of activity, position on the border of the XIST RNA territory, which ...

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

authors： Clemson CM,Hall LL,Byron M,McNeil J,Lawrence JB

更新日期：2006-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Burmese python (Python molurus), the rapid up-regulation of gastrointestinal (GI) function and morphology after feeding, and subsequent down-regulation on completing digestion, are expected to be mediated by GI hormones and neuropeptides. Hence, we examined postfeeding changes in plasma and tissue concentration...

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

authors： Secor SM,Fehsenfeld D,Diamond J,Adrian TE

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide growth factors were isolated from conditioned medium derived from rice (Oryza sativa L.) suspension cultures and identified to be a sulfated pentapeptide [H-Tyr(SO3H)-Ile-Tyr(SO3H)-Thr-Gln-OH] and its C-terminal-truncated tetrapeptide [H-Tyr(SO3H)-Ile-Tyr(SO3H)-Thr-OH]. These structures were identical to the p...

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

authors： Matsubayashi Y,Takagi L,Sakagami Y

更新日期：1997-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of proenkephalin and [Met]enkephalin immunoreactivities in the bovine hypothalamo-neurohypophyseal system was studied by use of specific antisera. Proenkephalin and [Met]enkephalin immunoreactivities were found in magnocellular neuronal cell bodies in the dorsal part of the supraoptic nuclei and in th...

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

authors： Vanderhaeghen JJ,Lotstra F,Liston DR,Rossier J

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The drug resistance factor RP4, originally isolated in Pseudomonas, was transferred to Rhizobium meliloti. In that strain, RP4 promotes conjugational transfer of chromosomal markers to form haploid recombinants. This mating system has been used to construct a linkage map of R. meliloti. ...

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

authors： Meade HM,Signer ER

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We and others have reported that the vast majority of virus-producing CD4(+) T cells during the acute infection of rhesus macaques with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) or CXCR4 (X4)-using simian/human immunodeficiency viruses (SHIVs) exhibited a nonactivated phenotype. These findings have been extended to show tha...

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

authors： Nishimura Y,Sadjadpour R,Mattapallil JJ,Igarashi T,Lee W,Buckler-White A,Roederer M,Chun TW,Martin MA

更新日期：2009-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In the usual Darwinian case in which struggle for existence leads to density limitations on the environment's carrying capacity, R. A. Fisher's reproductive-value concept reduces to zero for every initial age group. To salvage some meaning for Fisher's notion, two variant reproductive-value concepts are defined here: ...

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

authors： Samuelson PA

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osmotically shocked Escherichia coli and membrane vesicle ghosts from E. coli cells have lost the ability to accumulate potassium by active transport. The addition of valinomycin to the membrane ghosts restores the capacity to accumulate radioactive (42)K and (86)Rb by a temperature- and energy-dependent process. Memb...

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

authors： Bhattacharyya P,Epstein W,Silver S

更新日期：1971-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of G-quadruplex (G4) DNA structures in key regulatory regions in the genome has emerged as a secondary structure-based epigenetic mechanism for regulating multiple biological processes including transcription, replication, and telomere maintenance. G4 formation (folding), stabilization, and unfolding must be...

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

authors： Roychoudhury S,Pramanik S,Harris HL,Tarpley M,Sarkar A,Spagnol G,Sorgen PL,Chowdhury D,Band V,Klinkebiel D,Bhakat KK

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past five decades, ultra high vacuum (uhv) techniques applied to well-defined single-crystal samples (the "surface science paradigm") have transformed our understanding of fundamental surface chemistry. To translate this success to the world of realistic heterogeneous catalysis, however, requires one seriousl...

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

authors： Iyngaran P,Madden DC,Jenkins SJ,King DA

更新日期：2011-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA library derived from human cerebral cortex was screened for the presence of sodium channel alpha subunit-specific clones. Ligation of three overlapping clones generated a full-length cDNA clone, HBA, that provided the complete nucleotide sequence coding for a protein of 2005 amino acids. The predicted structure...

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

authors： Ahmed CM,Ware DH,Lee SC,Patten CD,Ferrer-Montiel AV,Schinder AF,McPherson JD,Wagner-McPherson CB,Wasmuth JJ,Evans GA

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secondary (i.e., heterotrophic or animal) production is a main pathway of energy flow through an ecosystem as it makes energy available to consumers, including humans. Its estimation can play a valuable role in the examination of linkages between ecosystem functions and services. We found that oil and gas platforms of...

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

authors： Claisse JT,Pondella DJ 2nd,Love M,Zahn LA,Williams CM,Williams JP,Bull AS

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00