Mice with targeted Slc4a10 gene disruption have small brain ventricles and show reduced neuronal excitability.

abstract：:Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infects ∼1.4 million people annually and, although there is a vaccine, there are no licensed therapeutic drugs. HAV is unusually stable (making disinfection problematic) and little is known of how it enters cells and releases its RNA. Here we report a potent HAV-specific monoclonal antibody, R1...

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

authors： Wang X,Zhu L,Dang M,Hu Z,Gao Q,Yuan S,Sun Y,Zhang B,Ren J,Kotecha A,Walter TS,Wang J,Fry EE,Stuart DI,Rao Z

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about genetic regulation of the development of white matter. This knowledge is critical in understanding the pathophysiology of neurodevelopmental syndromes associated with altered cognition as well as in elucidating the genetics of normal human cognition. The hemideletion of approximately 25 genes on ...

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

authors： Marenco S,Siuta MA,Kippenhan JS,Grodofsky S,Chang WL,Kohn P,Mervis CB,Morris CA,Weinberger DR,Meyer-Lindenberg A,Pierpaoli C,Berman KF

更新日期：2007-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:An effective metabolism is essential to all living organisms, including the important human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus. To establish successful infection, S. aureus must scavenge nutrients and coordinate its metabolism for proliferation. Meanwhile, it also must produce an array of virulence factors to interfere wi...

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

authors： Ding Y,Liu X,Chen F,Di H,Xu B,Zhou L,Deng X,Wu M,Yang CG,Lan L

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal mammary epithelial cells from BALB/cfC3H midpregnant mice were freed from stromal cell types by Percoll density gradient centrifugation after collagenase digestion and were then embedded within collagen gels. Sustained growth leading to an increase in cell number was accomplished in response to cholera toxin an...

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

authors： Yang J,Richards J,Guzman R,Imagawa W,Nandi S

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of irreversible cell lineage commitment depends on a delicate balance between positive and negative regulators, which comprise a sophisticated network of transcription factors. Receptor activator of NF-kappaB ligand (RANKL) stimulates the differentiation of bone-resorbing osteoclasts through the induction o...

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

authors： Nishikawa K,Nakashima T,Hayashi M,Fukunaga T,Kato S,Kodama T,Takahashi S,Calame K,Takayanagi H

更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Athymic mice grafted at birth with allogeneic thymic epithelium (TE) from day 10 embryos before hematopoietic cell colonization reconstitute normal numbers of T cells and exhibit full life-long tolerance to skin grafts of the TE haplotype. Intravenous transfers of splenic cells, from these animals to adult syngeneic a...

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

authors： Modigliani Y,Thomas-Vaslin V,Bandeira A,Coltey M,Le Douarin NM,Coutinho A,Salaün J

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-dependent potassium channels (Kv) are homotetramers composed of four voltage sensors and one pore domain. Because of high-level structural flexibility, the first mammalian Kv structure, Kv1.2 at 2.9 A, has about 37% molecular mass of the transmembrane portion not resolved. In this study, by applying a novel no...

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

authors： Chen X,Wang Q,Ni F,Ma J

更新日期：2010-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelia in animals are colonized by complex communities of microbes. Although a topic of long-standing interest, understanding the evolution of the microbial communities and their role in triggering innate immune responses has resisted analysis. Cnidaria are among the simplest animals at the tissue grade of organiza...

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

authors： Fraune S,Bosch TC

更新日期：2007-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Deleting an important active-site residue of diphtheria toxin, glutamic acid-148, reduces the toxin's ADP-ribosyltransferase activity by a factor of greater than 10(4). We considered using this mutation to construct a recombinant toxoid for expression by live attenuated vaccines and explored second-site mutations that...

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

authors： Killeen KP,Escuyer V,Mekalanos JJ,Collier RJ

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The circadian rhythms of melatonin and body temperature are set to an earlier hour in women than in men, even when the women and men maintain nearly identical and consistent bedtimes and wake times. Moreover, women tend to wake up earlier than men and exhibit a greater preference for morning activities than men. Altho...

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

authors： Duffy JF,Cain SW,Chang AM,Phillips AJ,Münch MY,Gronfier C,Wyatt JK,Dijk DJ,Wright KP Jr,Czeisler CA

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) strains that have been passaged in vitro rapidly acquire mutations that impact viral growth. These laboratory-adapted strains of HCMV generally exhibit restricted tropism, produce high levels of cell-free virus, and develop susceptibility to natural killer cells. To permit experimentation ...

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

authors： Murrell I,Bedford C,Ladell K,Miners KL,Price DA,Tomasec P,Wilkinson GWG,Stanton RJ

更新日期：2017-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study has been to determine which Na,K-ATPase isoforms are expressed in red blood cells and whether kinetic differences in the uncoupled sodium efflux mode between the human red blood cell Na,K-ATPase and other preparations can be explained by differences in the underlying subunit composition. To...

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

authors： Stengelin MK,Hoffman JF

更新日期：1997-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In mouse and human, the beta-globin genes reside in a linear array that is associated with a positive regulatory element located 5' to the genes known as the locus control region (LCR). The sequences of the mouse and human beta-globin LCRs are homologous, indicating conservation of an essential function in beta-globin...

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

authors： Bulger M,van Doorninck JH,Saitoh N,Telling A,Farrell C,Bender MA,Felsenfeld G,Axel R,Groudine M

更新日期：1999-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Axonal guidance is key to the formation of neuronal circuitry. Semaphorin 3A (Sema 3A; previously known as semaphorin III, semaphorin D, and collapsin-1), a secreted subtype of the semaphorin family, is an important axonal guidance molecule in vitro and in vivo. The molecular mechanisms of the repellent activity of se...

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

authors： Behar O,Mizuno K,Badminton M,Woolf CJ

更新日期：1999-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic AMP levels increase abruptly in the secondary palatal shelf (mesenchyme plus a two- to three-cell-layered epithelium) between day 15 and 16 of gestation in the rat embryo. The addition of dibutyryl cyclic AMP to the media in which immature palatal shelves (day 14) are cultured causes a precocious decrease in DN...

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

authors： Pratt RM,Martin GR

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The steroid cholesterol is an essential component of eukaryotic membranes, and it functionally modulates membrane proteins, including G protein-coupled receptors. To reveal insight into how cholesterol modulates G protein-coupled receptors, we have used dynamic single-molecule force spectroscopy to quantify the mechan...

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

authors： Zocher M,Zhang C,Rasmussen SG,Kobilka BK,Müller DJ

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:An obstacle in the utilization of catalytic Abs for selective prodrug activation in cancer therapy has been systemic tumor targeting. Here we report the generation of catalytic Abs that effectively target tumor cells with undiminished prodrug activation capability. Ab conjugates were prepared by covalent conjugation o...

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

authors： Abraham S,Guo F,Li LS,Rader C,Liu C,Barbas CF 3rd,Lerner RA,Sinha SC

更新日期：2007-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of systemic PD134308 [0.1-3 mg/kg; an antagonist of the cholecystokinin (CCK) type B receptor], morphine, and intrathecal (i.t.) galanin (GAL) on the excitability of the spinal nociceptive flexor reflex and in the hot plate test were examined in rats. PD134308 caused a weak naloxone-reversible depression o...

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

authors： Wiesenfeld-Hallin Z,Xu XJ,Hughes J,Horwell DC,Hökfelt T

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Achieving long-term pancellular expression of a transferred gene at therapeutic level in a given hematopoietic lineage remains an important goal of gene therapy. Advances have recently been made in the genetic correction of the hemoglobinopathies by means of lentiviral vectors and large locus control region (LCR) deri...

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

authors： Imren S,Payen E,Westerman KA,Pawliuk R,Fabry ME,Eaves CJ,Cavilla B,Wadsworth LD,Beuzard Y,Bouhassira EE,Russell R,London IM,Nagel RL,Leboulch P,Humphries RK

更新日期：2002-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Lineage plasticity is a prominent feature of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) cells, which can occur via deregulation of lineage-specifying transcription factors. Here, we show that the zinc finger protein ZBED2 is aberrantly expressed in PDA and alters tumor cell identity in this disease. Unexpectedly, our epig...

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

authors： Somerville TDD,Xu Y,Wu XS,Maia-Silva D,Hur SK,de Almeida LMN,Preall JB,Koo PK,Vakoc CR

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Ectopic activation of the Wnt signaling pathway is highly oncogenic for many human tissues. Here, we show that ectopic Wnt signaling increases the effective stem cell activity in mouse mammary glands in vivo. Furthermore, Wnt effectors induce the accumulation of mouse mammary epithelial progenitors (assayed by Hoechst...

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

authors： Liu BY,McDermott SP,Khwaja SS,Alexander CM

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisense RNA to the 27/32-kDa rat liver gap junction (GJ) protein was used to explore the role of GJs in preimplantation embryos. When all blastomeres of two- and four-cell embryos were injected with GJ antisense RNA, the percentage of embryos compacted at 60 hr of development was reduced to less than 20%, while 90% ...

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

authors： Bevilacqua A,Loch-Caruso R,Erickson RP

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a reliable genetic selection strategy for isolating interacting proteins based on the "hitchhiker" mechanism of the Escherichia coli twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathway. This method, designated FLI-TRAP (functional ligand-binding identification by Tat-based recognition of associating proteins),...

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

authors： Waraho D,DeLisa MP

更新日期：2009-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:West Nile virus, which is transmitted by Culex mosquitoes while feeding on birds and humans, has emerged as the dominant vector borne disease in North America. We have identified natural compounds from humans and birds, which are detected with extreme sensitivity by olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) on the antennae of...

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

authors： Syed Z,Leal WS

更新日期：2009-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat serine dehydratase cDNA clones were isolated from a lambda gt11 cDNA library on the basis of their reactivity with monospecific immunoglobulin to the purified enzyme. Using the cDNA insert from a clone that encoded the serine dehydratase subunit as a probe, additional clones were isolated from the same library by ...

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

authors： Ogawa H,Miller DA,Dunn T,Su Y,Burcham JM,Peraino C,Fujioka M,Babcock K,Pitot HC

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Debate over the influence of postwildfire management on future fire severity is occurring in the absence of empirical studies. We used satellite data, government agency records, and aerial photography to examine a forest landscape in southwest Oregon that burned in 1987 and then was subject, in part, to salvage-loggin...

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

authors： Thompson JR,Spies TA,Ganio LM

更新日期：2007-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A scientist may publish tens or hundreds of papers over a career, but these contributions are not evenly spaced in time. Sixty years of studies on career productivity patterns in a variety of fields suggest an intuitive and universal pattern: Productivity tends to rise rapidly to an early peak and then gradually decli...

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

authors： Way SF,Morgan AC,Clauset A,Larremore DB

更新日期：2017-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the importance of the thrombin substrate recognition exosite for fibrinogen binding in the formation of both arterial and venous thrombi, we evaluated the antithrombotic effects of the tyrosine-sulfated dodecapeptide from residues 53-64 of hirudin (H peptide) in a nonhuman primate model. This peptide was ...

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

authors： Cadroy Y,Maraganore JM,Hanson SR,Harker LA

更新日期：1991-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been hypothesized that penicillin acts as a structural analog of the acyl-D-alanyl-D-alanine terminus of nascent bacterial cell wall and that it consequently binds to and acylates the active site of the enzyme(s) that crosslinks the cell wall to form an inactive penicilloyl enzyme [Tipper, D.J. & Strominger, J....

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

authors： Yocum RR,Waxman DJ,Rasmussen JR,Strominger JL

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the state of the art in applications of voice-processing technologies. In the first part, technologies concerning the implementation of speech recognition and synthesis algorithms are described. Hardware technologies such as microprocessors and DSPs (digital signal processors) are discussed. Softw...

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

authors： Nakatsu R,Suzuki Y

更新日期：1995-10-24 00:00:00