Adenosine receptor A2A-R contributes to motoneuron survival by transactivating the tyrosine kinase receptor TrkB.

abstract：:The effects of three anti-inflammatory drugs, which interfere with arachidonic acid transformation by three different enzymes, have been compared by using a simple model of tissue damage and foreign body rejection. In groups of control rats, subcutaneously implanted polyester sponges were rejected after a mean of 12 d...

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

authors： Higgs GA,Mugridge KG,Moncada S,Vane JR

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington disease stems from a mutation of the protein huntingtin and is characterized by selective loss of discrete neuronal populations in the brain. Despite a massive loss of neurons in the corpus striatum, NO-generating neurons are intact. We recently identified a brain-specific protein that associates with hunti...

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

authors： Li XJ,Sharp AH,Li SH,Dawson TM,Snyder SH,Ross CA

更新日期：1996-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:During the early evolution of life, 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxyguanosine (O) may have functioned as a proto-flavin capable of repairing cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers in DNA or RNA by photoinduced electron transfer using longer wavelength UVB radiation. To investigate the ability of O to act as an excited-state electron...

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

authors： Zhang Y,Dood J,Beckstead AA,Li XB,Nguyen KV,Burrows CJ,Improta R,Kohler B

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-target residence time (t = 1/k(off), where k(off) is the dissociation rate constant) has become an important index in discovering better- or best-in-class drugs. However, little effort has been dedicated to developing computational methods that can accurately predict this kinetic parameter or related parameters, ...

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

authors： Bai F,Xu Y,Chen J,Liu Q,Gu J,Wang X,Ma J,Li H,Onuchic JN,Jiang H

更新日期：2013-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the importance of tuberculosis as a public health problem, we know relatively little about the molecular mechanisms used by the causative organism, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, to persist in the host. To define these mechanisms, we have mutated virtually every nonessential gene of M. tuberculosis and determined...

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

authors： Sassetti CM,Rubin EJ

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The pineal organ of the lizard Anolis carolinensis can be maintained for up to 10 days in superfused organ culture. During this time it synthesizes and releases melatonin into the medium flowing slowly over it. Collection of timed aliquots of medium and subsequent analysis for melatonin by radioimmunoassay reveal circ...

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

authors： Menaker M,Wisner S

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repeated within-day testing on a texture discrimination task leads to retinotopically specific decreases in performance. Although perceptual learning has been shown to be highly specific to the retinotopic location and characteristics of the trained stimulus, the specificity of perceptual deterioration has not been st...

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

authors： Mednick SC,Arman AC,Boynton GM

更新日期：2005-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing tools for investigating the cellular activity of glycans will help to delineate the molecular basis for aberrant glycosylation in pathological processes such as cancer. Metabolic oligosaccharide engineering, which inserts sugar-reporting groups into cellular glycoconjugates, represents a powerful method for...

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

authors： Hsu TL,Hanson SR,Kishikawa K,Wang SK,Sawa M,Wong CH

更新日期：2007-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins potentiated by epidermal growth factor (EGF) to induce a transformed phenotype in non-neoplastic rat kidney fibroblasts in cell culture have been isolated from many non-neoplastic tissues of the adult mouse, including submaxillary gland, kidney, liver, muscle, heart, and brain. They resemble previously descri...

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

authors： Roberts AB,Anzano MA,Lamb LC,Smith JM,Sporn MB

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arf family GTP-binding proteins are best characterized as regulators of membrane traffic, but recent studies indicate an additional role in cytoskeletal organization. An Arf GTPase-activating protein of the centaurin beta family, ASAP1 (also known as centaurin beta4), binds Arf and two other known regulators of the ac...

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

authors： Randazzo PA,Andrade J,Miura K,Brown MT,Long YQ,Stauffer S,Roller P,Cooper JA

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:For disordered proteins, the dimensions of the chain are an important property that is sensitive to environmental conditions. We have used single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer to probe the temperature-induced chain collapse of five unfolded or intrinsically disordered proteins. Because this behavior is se...

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

authors： Wuttke R,Hofmann H,Nettels D,Borgia MB,Mittal J,Best RB,Schuler B

更新日期：2014-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium/hydrogen exchangers (NHEs) are ubiquitous ion transporters that serve multiple cell functions. We have studied two mammalian isoforms, NHE1 (ubiquitous) and NHE3 (epithelial-specific), by measuring extracellular proton (H+) gradients during whole-cell patch clamp with perfusion of the cell interior. Maximal Na(...

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

authors： Fuster D,Moe OW,Hilgemann DW

更新日期：2004-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The convulsant agent methionine sulfoximine inhibits brain glutamine synthetase irreversibly and the inhibitor becomes bound to the active site of the enzyme as methionine sulfoximine phosphate. Only one of the four isomers of methionine sulfoximine, L-methionine-S-sulfoximine, inhibits glutamine synthetase. In the pr...

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

authors： Rowe WB,Meister A

更新日期：1970-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper is an essential metal nutrient that is tightly regulated in the body because loss of its homeostasis is connected to severe diseases such as Menkes and Wilson diseases, Alzheimer's disease, prion disorders, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The complex relationships between copper status and various stages of ...

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

authors： Hirayama T,Van de Bittner GC,Gray LW,Lutsenko S,Chang CJ

更新日期：2012-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Viruses are the most common biological entities in the oceans by an order of magnitude. However, very little is known about their diversity. Here we report a genomic analysis of two uncultured marine viral communities. Over 65% of the sequences were not significantly similar to previously reported sequences, suggestin...

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

authors： Breitbart M,Salamon P,Andresen B,Mahaffy JM,Segall AM,Mead D,Azam F,Rohwer F

更新日期：2002-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine-virus-infected erythroleukemia cells cultured in a medium with dimethylsulfoxide or N,N-dimethylformamide are induced to differentiate to erythroid cells. A number of highly polar compounds have a similar effect in inducing erythroid differentiation of the virus-infected cells, as assayed by the appearance of h...

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

authors： Tanaka M,Levy J,Terada M,Breslow R,Rifkind RA,Marks PA

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sliding at a quasi-statically loaded frictional interface can occur via macroscopic slip events, which nucleate locally before propagating as rupture fronts very similar to fracture. We introduce a microscopic model of a frictional interface that includes asperity-level disorder, elastic interaction between local slip...

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

authors： de Geus TWJ,Popović M,Ji W,Rosso A,Wyart M

更新日期：2019-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Oocyte endowment dwindles away during prepubertal and adult life until menopause occurs, and apoptosis has been identified as a central mechanism responsible for oocyte elimination. A few recent reports suggest that uncontrolled inflammation may adversely affect ovarian reserve. We tested the possible role of the proi...

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

authors： Uri-Belapolsky S,Shaish A,Eliyahu E,Grossman H,Levi M,Chuderland D,Ninio-Many L,Hasky N,Shashar D,Almog T,Kandel-Kfir M,Harats D,Shalgi R,Kamari Y

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Absorbance changes reflecting the formation of a transient radical-pair state, P(F), were measured in reaction centers from Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides under conditions that blocked electron transfer to a later carrier (a quinone, Q). The temperature dependence of the absorbance changes suggests that P(F) is an equil...

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

authors： Shuvalov VA,Parson WW

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory CD8 T cells provide durable protection against diverse intracellular pathogens and can be broadly segregated into distinct circulating and tissue-resident populations. Paradigmatic studies have demonstrated that circulating memory cells can be further divided into effector memory (Tem) and central memory (Tcm) ...

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

authors： Milner JJ,Nguyen H,Omilusik K,Reina-Campos M,Tsai M,Toma C,Delpoux A,Boland BS,Hedrick SM,Chang JT,Goldrath AW

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Positional cloning has already produced the sequences of more than 70 human genes associated with specific diseases. In addition to their medical importance, these genes are of interest as a set of human genes isolated solely on the basis of the phenotypic effect of the respective mutations. We analyzed the protein se...

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

authors： Mushegian AR,Bassett DE Jr,Boguski MS,Bork P,Koonin EV

更新日期：1997-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the molecular basis of the voltage sensor that triggers excitation-contraction (EC) coupling, the four-domain pore subunit of the dihydropyridine receptor (DHPR) was cut in the cytoplasmic linker between domains II and III. cDNAs for the I-II domain (alpha1S 1-670) and the III-IV domain (alpha1S 701-187...

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

authors： Ahern CA,Arikkath J,Vallejo P,Gurnett CA,Powers PA,Campbell KP,Coronado R

更新日期：2001-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of actin filament barbed end uncapping on Arp23 complex function both in vivo and in vitro. Arp23 complex redistributes rapidly and uniformly to the lamellar edge of activated wild-type platelets and fibroblasts but clusters in marginal actin filament clumps in gelsolin-null cells. Treatment...

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

authors： Falet H,Hoffmeister KM,Neujahr R,Italiano JE Jr,Stossel TP,Southwick FS,Hartwig JH

更新日期：2002-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of epidermal growth factor (EGF) to neonatal mice resulted in rapid tyrosine phosphorylation of a number of specific substrates in liver, kidney, lung, bladder, skin, and brain as detected by Western blot analysis of tissue homogenates with anti-phosphotyrosine antibodies. In the liver, three prominent ...

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

authors： Donaldson RW,Cohen S

更新日期：1992-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The human beta(2)-adrenergic receptor gene has multiple single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), but the relevance of chromosomally phased SNPs (haplotypes) is not known. The phylogeny and the in vitro and in vivo consequences of variations in the 5' upstream and ORF were delineated in a multiethnic reference populatio...

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

authors： Drysdale CM,McGraw DW,Stack CB,Stephens JC,Judson RS,Nandabalan K,Arnold K,Ruano G,Liggett SB

更新日期：2000-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:PTP1C, a protein-tyrosine-phosphatase (protein-tyrosine-phosphate phosphohydrolase, EC 3.1.3.48) containing two src homology 2 domains, is poorly active when assayed with various protein substrates in vitro. Its activity is stimulated > 1000-fold by anionic phospholipids when myelin basic protein or mitogen-activated ...

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

authors： Zhao Z,Shen SH,Fischer EH

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serine protease autotransporters of Enterobacteriaceae (SPATEs) are secreted by pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria through the autotransporter pathway. We previously classified SPATE proteins into two classes: cytotoxic (class 1) and noncytotoxic (class 2). Here, we show that Pic, a class 2 SPATE protein produced b...

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

authors： Ruiz-Perez F,Wahid R,Faherty CS,Kolappaswamy K,Rodriguez L,Santiago A,Murphy E,Cross A,Sztein MB,Nataro JP

更新日期：2011-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A common design principle of heteromeric signaling proteins is the use of shared subunits. This allows encoding of complex messages while maintaining evolutionary flexibility. How cells regulate and control assembly of such composite signaling proteins remains an important open question. An example of particular compl...

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

authors： Müller SI,Friedl A,Aschenbrenner I,Esser-von Bieren J,Zacharias M,Devergne O,Feige MJ

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vitro system for replication of lambda dv plasmid DNA has been constructed. This system consists of an ammonium sulfate fraction from Escherichia coli extract, exogenously added purified lambda O and P proteins, and lambda dv DNA in closed circular form. More than 85% of the added template DNA replicated semicon...

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

authors： Tsurimoto T,Matsubara K

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pokeweed antiviral protein (PAP), a 29-kDa protein isolated from Phytolacca americana, inhibits translation by catalytically removing a specific adenine residue from the large rRNA of the 60S subunit of eukaryotic ribosomes. In addition to its ribosome-inactivating ability, PAP has potent antiviral activity against ma...

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

authors： Tumer NE,Hwang DJ,Bonness M

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00