Granzyme B delivery via perforin is restricted by size, but not by heparan sulfate-dependent endocytosis.

abstract：:The endosymbiont Wolbachia is common among insects and known for the reproductive manipulations it exerts on hosts as well as inhibition of virus replication in their hosts. Recently, we showed that Wolbachia uses host microRNAs to manipulate host gene expression for its efficient maintenance in the dengue mosquito ve...

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

authors： Zhang G,Hussain M,O'Neill SL,Asgari S

更新日期：2013-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol dependence has traditionally been considered a brain disorder. Alteration in the composition of the gut microbiota has recently been shown to be present in psychiatric disorders, which suggests the possibility of gut-to-brain interactions in the development of alcohol dependence. The aim of the present study w...

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

authors： Leclercq S,Matamoros S,Cani PD,Neyrinck AM,Jamar F,Stärkel P,Windey K,Tremaroli V,Bäckhed F,Verbeke K,de Timary P,Delzenne NM

更新日期：2014-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Messenger RNA from rat liver was partially purified by chromatography on cellulose on the basis of its poly(A) content. Microgram amounts of this RNA stimulate protein synthesis manyfold in a heterologous cell-free system, derived from Krebs ascites cells supplemented with reticulocyte initiation factors. The messenge...

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

authors： Schutz G,Beato M,Feigelson P

更新日期：1973-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a master regulator of functional Ig heavy chain (IgH) expression, the IgH 3' regulatory region (3'RR) controls multiple transcription events at various stages of B-cell ontogeny, from newly formed B cells until the ultimate plasma cell stage. The IgH 3'RR plays a pivotal role in early B-cell receptor expression, ge...

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

authors： Garot A,Marquet M,Saintamand A,Bender S,Le Noir S,Rouaud P,Carrion C,Oruc Z,Bébin AG,Moreau J,Lebrigand K,Denizot Y,Alt FW,Cogné M,Pinaud E

更新日期：2016-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The pivotal step on the mitochondrial pathway to apoptosis is permeabilization of the mitochondrial outer membrane (MOM) by oligomers of the B-cell lymphoma-2 (Bcl-2) family members Bak or Bax. However, how they disrupt MOM integrity is unknown. A longstanding model is that activated Bak and Bax insert two α-helices, ...

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

authors： Westphal D,Dewson G,Menard M,Frederick P,Iyer S,Bartolo R,Gibson L,Czabotar PE,Smith BJ,Adams JM,Kluck RM

更新日期：2014-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The free radicals nitric oxide and superoxide anion react to form peroxynitrite (ONOO-), a highly toxic oxidant species. In vivo formation of ONOO- has been demonstrated in shock and inflammation. Herein we provide evidence that cytotoxicity in cells exposed to ONOO- is mediated by DNA strand breakage and the subseque...

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

authors： Szabó C,Zingarelli B,O'Connor M,Salzman AL

更新日期：1996-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The appearance of jaws was a turning point in vertebrate evolution because it allowed primitive vertebrates to capture and process large, motile prey. The vertebrate jaw consists of separate dorsal and ventral skeletal elements connected by a joint. How this structure evolved from the unjointed gill bar of a jawless a...

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

authors： Cerny R,Cattell M,Sauka-Spengler T,Bronner-Fraser M,Yu F,Medeiros DM

更新日期：2010-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Although soft devices (grippers, actuators, and elementary robots) are rapidly becoming an integral part of the broad field of robotics, autonomy for completely soft devices has only begun to be developed. Adaptation of conventional systems of control to soft devices requires hard valves and electronic controls. This ...

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

authors： Preston DJ,Rothemund P,Jiang HJ,Nemitz MP,Rawson J,Suo Z,Whitesides GM

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The gal operon of Escherichia coli is negatively regulated by repressor binding to bipartite operators separated by 11 helical turns of DNA. Synergistic binding of repressor to separate sites on DNA results in looping, with the intervening DNA as a topologically closed domain containing the two promoters. A closed DNA...

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

authors： Choy HE,Park SW,Parrack P,Adhya S

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A change in the conformation of the active site of scallop myosin under the influence of regulatory amounts of Ca2+ has been identified by use of the ADP photoaffinity analog 2-[(4-azido-2-nitrophenyl)amino]ethyl diphosphate (NANDP). NANDP, trapped at the active site with Mn2+ and vanadate, photolabeled preferentially...

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

authors： Kerwin BA,Yount RG

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrated assessment models of climate and the economy provide estimates of the social cost of carbon and inform climate policy. We create a variant of the Regional Integrated model of Climate and the Economy (RICE)-a regionally disaggregated version of the Dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy (DICE)-i...

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

authors： Dennig F,Budolfson MB,Fleurbaey M,Siebert A,Socolow RH

更新日期：2015-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular form of the Prion protein (PrPC) is necessary for prion replication in mice. To determine whether it is also sufficient, we expressed PrP under the control of various cell- or tissue-specific regulatory elements in PrP knockout mice. The interferon regulatory factor-1 promoter/Emu enhancer led to high PrP...

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

authors： Raeber AJ,Sailer A,Hegyi I,Klein MA,Rülicke T,Fischer M,Brandner S,Aguzzi A,Weissmann C

更新日期：1999-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintaining the fidelity of nascent peptide chain (NP) synthesis is essential for proteome integrity and cellular health. Ribosome-associated quality control (RQC) serves to resolve stalled translation, during which untemplated Ala/Thr residues are added C terminally to stalled peptide, as shown during C-terminal Ala ...

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

authors： Li S,Wu Z,Tantray I,Li Y,Chen S,Dong J,Glynn S,Vogel H,Snyder M,Lu B

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The Schiff base adducts of glyceraldehyde with hemoglobin undergo Amadori rearrangement to form stable ketoamine structures; this reaction is similar to the nonenzymic glucosylation of proteins. In the present studies the analogous rearrangement of the Schiff base adducts of glycolaldehyde with proteins has been demon...

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

authors： Acharya AS,Manning JM

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncogene-induced senescence (OIS) is a critical tumor-suppressing mechanism that restrains cancer progression at premalignant stages, in part by causing telomere dysfunction. Currently it is unknown whether this proliferative arrest presents a stable and therefore irreversible barrier to cancer progression. Here we de...

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

authors： Patel PL,Suram A,Mirani N,Bischof O,Herbig U

更新日期：2016-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite high predation pressure, planktonic copepods remain one of the most abundant groups on the planet. Their escape response provides one of most effective mechanisms to maximize evolutionary fitness. Owing to their small size (100 µm) compared with their predators (>1 mm), increasing viscosity is believed to have...

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

authors： Gemmell BJ,Sheng J,Buskey EJ

更新日期：2013-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Three allelic variants of P-pilus-associated G-adhesins (lectins) with different cell-binding properties were recently described. Here we have analyzed Escherichia coli HB101 strains expressing the recombinant G-adhesin variants for their ability to agglutinate erythrocytes from various species as this relates to the ...

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

authors： Strömberg N,Nyholm PG,Pascher I,Normark S

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonhuman primates possess a highly developed capacity for face recognition, which resembles the human capacity both cognitively and neurologically. Face recognition is typically tested by having subjects compare facial images, whereas there has been virtually no attention to how they connect these images to reality. C...

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

authors： Pokorny JJ,de Waal FB

更新日期：2009-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The cingulate gyri in 37 subjects with and without early dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) were studied by using MRI at 1.0 mm3 isotropic resolution. Groups were segregated into young controls (n = 10), age-matched normal controls (n = 10), very mild DAT (n = 8), and mild DAT (n = 9). By using automated Bayesian se...

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

authors： Miller MI,Hosakere M,Barker AR,Priebe CE,Lee N,Ratnanather JT,Wang L,Gado M,Morris JC,Csernansky JG

更新日期：2003-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome of a thermophilic fungus, Thermomyces lanuginosus, contains a tandemly arranged cluster of sequences that are approximately equal to 50% homologous with the cytoplasmic 5S RNA and that are selectable by hybridization techniques. Unlike typical pseudogenes, these sequences are not truncated; rather, they bea...

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

authors： Wong WM,Abrahamson JL,Nazar RN

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In yeast, the mRNA encoded by the MAT alpha 1 gene is unstable (t1/2 = 5 min) and the mRNAs encoded by the ACT1 gene (t1/2 = 30 min) and the PGK1 gene (t1/2 = 45 min) are stable. To understand the RNA structural features that dictate mRNA decay rates in yeast, we have constructed PGK1/MAT alpha 1 and ACT1/MAT alpha 1 ...

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

authors： Parker R,Jacobson A

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant improvement in molecular hydrogen uptake properties is revealed by our ab initio calculations for Li-decorated metal-organic framework 5. We have found that two Li atoms are strongly adsorbed on the surfaces of the six-carbon rings, one on each side, carrying a charge of +0.9e per Li atom. Each Li can cl...

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

authors： Blomqvist A,Araújo CM,Srepusharawoot P,Ahuja R

更新日期：2007-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the earliest steps of the intrinsic clotting pathway, Hageman factor (Factor XII) was exposed to Sephadex gels to which ellagic acid had been adsorbed; Hageman factor was then separated from the gels and studied in the fluid phase. Sephadex-ellagic acid-exposed Hageman factor, whether purified or in pla...

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

authors： Ratnoff OD,Saito H

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two major DNA double-strand break repair pathways exist in all eukaryotes, nonhomologous DNA end joining (NHEJ) and homologous recombination (HR). Although both pathways can function throughout the cell cycle, NHEJ predominates in G0/G1) (when a replicated sister chromatid is unavailable), whereas HR makes a more subs...

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

authors： Convery E,Shin EK,Ding Q,Wang W,Douglas P,Davis LS,Nickoloff JA,Lees-Miller SP,Meek K

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent article [Vinkovic D, Kirman A (2006) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103:19261-19265] showing that the Schelling model has a physical analogue extends our understanding of the model. However, prior research has already outlined a mathematical basis for the Schelling model and simulations based on it have already enhan...

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

authors： Clark WA,Fossett M

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a model system of purified components to explore the effects of a downstream target on the signaling properties of a covalent modification cycle, an example of retroactivity. In the experimental system used, a bifunctional enzyme catalyzed the modification and demodification of its substrate protein, with both...

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

authors： Ventura AC,Jiang P,Van Wassenhove L,Del Vecchio D,Merajver SD,Ninfa AJ

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kampo formulations are traditional herbal medications used in China and Japan for many centuries to treat diarrheal diseases such as cholera. Our studies were undertaken to identify and verify by chemical synthesis the active components that inhibited cholera toxin (CT), the virulence factor secreted by Vibrio cholera...

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

authors： Oi H,Matsuura D,Miyake M,Ueno M,Takai I,Yamamoto T,Kubo M,Moss J,Noda M

更新日期：2002-03-05 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：:Using [3H]quinuclidinyl benzilate as a specific cholinergic muscarinic ligand, it has been demonstrated that lymphocytes have muscarinic binding sites. There are approximately 200 sites per cell and the dissociation constant for quinuclidinyl benzilate is approximately 1 X 10(-9) M. Quinuclidinyl benzilate receptor bi...

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

authors： Gordon MA,Cohen JJ,Wilson IB

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the completion of genome sequences of major model organisms, increasingly sophisticated genetic tools are necessary for investigating the complex and coordinated functions of genes. Here we describe a genetic manipulation system termed "genomic engineering" in Drosophila. Genomic engineering is a 2-step process t...

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

authors： Huang J,Zhou W,Dong W,Watson AM,Hong Y

更新日期：2009-05-19 00:00:00