Gender differences in human cortical synaptic density.

abstract：:Conflicting data have been reported with regard to the infectability, dysfunction, and depletion of dendritic cells (DCs) in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease. These discrepancies could potentially be explained by the existence of multiple subsets of cells with dendritic morphology in peripheral blood. The is...

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

authors： Weissman D,Li Y,Ananworanich J,Zhou LJ,Adelsberger J,Tedder TF,Baseler M,Fauci AS

更新日期：1995-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of lutropin (LH; luteinizing hormone) alpha and beta subunits was examined in rat pituitaries incubated with [35S]methionine or [35S]sulfate. Combination was assessed by using antiserum directed against the beta subunit. The data show that combination of most of the subunits proceeds rapidly, well befo...

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

authors： Hoshina H,Boime I

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ring-shaped hexameric helicases and translocases support essential DNA-, RNA-, and protein-dependent transactions in all cells and many viruses. How such systems coordinate ATPase activity between multiple subunits to power conformational changes that drive the engagement and movement of client substrates is a fundame...

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

authors： Thomsen ND,Lawson MR,Witkowsky LB,Qu S,Berger JM

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:This study quantifies sex differences in the diurnal and circadian variation of sleep and waking while controlling for menstrual cycle phase and hormonal contraceptive use. We compared the diurnal and circadian variation of sleep and alertness of 8 women studied during two phases of the menstrual cycle and 3 women stu...

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

authors： Boivin DB,Shechter A,Boudreau P,Begum EA,Ng Ying-Kin NM

更新日期：2016-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of specific gangliosides to function as host cell receptors for Sendai virus was investigated by using Madin-Darby bovine kidney cells which become resistant to infection upon treatment with Vibrio cholerae sialidase. Sialidase-treated cells were incubated for 20 min at 37 degrees C with individual, highly...

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

authors： Markwell MA,Svennerholm L,Paulson JC

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical cross-linking mass spectrometry (CXMS) is being increasingly used to study protein assemblies and complex protein interaction networks. Existing CXMS chemical cross-linkers target only Lys, Cys, Glu, and Asp residues, limiting the information measurable. Here we report a "plant-and-cast" cross-linking strateg...

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

authors： Yang B,Wu H,Schnier PD,Liu Y,Liu J,Wang N,DeGrado WF,Wang L

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In polyandrous species, fathers benefit from attracting greater maternal investment toward their offspring at the expense of the offspring of other males, while mothers should usually allocate resources equally among offspring. This conflict can lead to an evolutionary arms race between the sexes, manifested through a...

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

authors： Raunsgard A,Opedal ØH,Ekrem RK,Wright J,Bolstad GH,Armbruster WS,Pélabon C

更新日期：2018-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymersomes, which are stable and robust vesicles made of block copolymer amphiphiles, are good candidates for drug carriers or micro/nanoreactors. Polymer chemistry enables almost unlimited molecular design of responsive polymersomes whose degradation upon environmental changes has been used for the slow release of ...

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

authors： Mabrouk E,Cuvelier D,Brochard-Wyart F,Nassoy P,Li MH

更新日期：2009-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We noticed that disease-related amyloidogenic proteins and especially cellular prion proteins have the highest proportion of incompletely desolvated backbone H bonds among soluble proteins. Such bonds are vulnerable to water attack and thus represent structural weaknesses. We have measured the adsorption of proteins o...

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

authors： Fernández A,Berry RS

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Both neocortical and hippocampal networks organize the firing patterns of their neurons by prominent oscillations during sleep, but the functional role of these rhythms is not well understood. Here, we show a robust correlation of neuronal discharges between the somatosensory cortex and hippocampus on both slow and fi...

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

authors： Sirota A,Csicsvari J,Buhl D,Buzsáki G

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell variants resistant to the cytotoxic effect of mycophenolic acid, an inhibitor of IMP dehydrogenase (IMP:NAD+ oxidoreductase, EC 1.2.1.14), were selected by a one-step procedure from Chinese hamster V79 cells. The frequency of these variants was increased in a dose-dependent manner after treatment with the mutagen...

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

authors： Huberman E,McKeown CK,Friedman J

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During cellular stresses, phosphorylation of eukaryotic initiation factor-2 (eIF2) elicits gene expression designed to ameliorate the underlying cellular disturbance. Central to this stress response is the transcriptional regulator activating transcription factor, ATF4. Here we describe the mechanism regulating ATF4 e...

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

authors： Vattem KM,Wek RC

更新日期：2004-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/AKT signaling pathway is a frequent occurrence in human cancers and a major promoter of chemotherapeutic resistance. Inhibition of one downstream target in this pathway, mTORC1, has shown potential to improve chemosensitivity. However, the mechanisms and genetic m...

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

authors： Mills JR,Hippo Y,Robert F,Chen SM,Malina A,Lin CJ,Trojahn U,Wendel HG,Charest A,Bronson RT,Kogan SC,Nadon R,Housman DE,Lowe SW,Pelletier J

更新日期：2008-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila is the cause of Legionnaires' disease, which is a form of potentially fatal pneumonia. To identify genes required for virulence of the bacterium, a library of 1,386 L. pneumophila signature tagged transposon mutants was studied for guinea pig virulence. The mutants were screened in pools of 96 e...

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

authors： Edelstein PH,Edelstein MA,Higa F,Falkow S

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The aspartate receptor involved in chemotaxis is modified by methyl esterification at four distinct glutamate residues during the adaptive response of this receptor. To explain the high degree of specificity of this modification, it has been proposed that the methyltransferase recognizes the sequence Glu-Glu-Xaa-Xaa-A...

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

authors： Terwilliger TC,Wang JY,Koshland DE Jr

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P elements, a class of mobile genetic elements that cause hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster, have thus far been shown to occur only in this species. Using whole genome blot analysis, we present evidence which indicates that sequences homologous to D. melanogaster P elements also occur in Drosophila paulisto...

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

authors： Daniels SB,Strausbaugh LD,Ehrman L,Armstrong R

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane-integrated type II phosphatidic acid phosphatases (PAP2s) are important for numerous bacterial to human biological processes, including glucose transport, lipid metabolism, and signaling. Escherichia coli phosphatidylglycerol-phosphate phosphatase B (ecPgpB) catalyzes removing the terminal phosphate group fro...

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

authors： Fan J,Jiang D,Zhao Y,Liu J,Zhang XC

更新日期：2014-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Steep topography, a tropical climate, and mafic lithologies contribute to efficient chemical weathering and carbon sequestration in the Southeast Asian islands. Ongoing arc-continent collision between the Sunda-Banda arc system and Australia has increased the area of subaerially exposed land in the region since the mi...

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

authors： Park Y,Maffre P,Goddéris Y,Macdonald FA,Anttila ESC,Swanson-Hysell NL

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether mitotic structures like the centrosome can self-organize from the regulated mobility of their dynamic protein components remains unclear. Here, we combine fluorescence spectroscopy and chemical genetics to study in living cells the diffusion of polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1), an enzyme critical for centrosome matur...

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

authors： Mahen R,Jeyasekharan AD,Barry NP,Venkitaraman AR

更新日期：2011-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-human primates (NHP) provide crucial research models. Their strong similarities to humans make them particularly valuable for understanding complex behavioral traits and brain structure and function. We report here the genetic mapping of an NHP nervous system biologic trait, the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) concentra...

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

authors： Freimer NB,Service SK,Ophoff RA,Jasinska AJ,McKee K,Villeneuve A,Belisle A,Bailey JN,Breidenthal SE,Jorgensen MJ,Mann JJ,Cantor RM,Dewar K,Fairbanks LA

更新日期：2007-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal neural development is essential for the formation of neuronal networks and brain function. Cutaneous T cell lymphoma-associated antigen 5 (cTAGE5)/meningioma expressed antigen 6 (MEA6) plays a critical role in the secretion of proteins. However, its roles in the transport of nonsecretory cellular components and...

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

authors： Zhang F,Wang Y,Wang T,Yao L,Lam SM,Huang X,Fan J,Wang Q,Liu L,Jiang Y,Zhang H,Shi L,Yu M,Shui G,Wang Y,Gao F,Zhang X,Xu Z

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that perceived pain intensity can influence placebo analgesia was tested. One hundred and seven subjects rated their pain from from 0 to 10 on a visual analog scale after a standard wisdom tooth extraction. The expected course of such postoperative pain in the absence of therapy or placebo is a steady i...

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

authors： Levine JD,Gordon NC,Bornstein JC,Fields HL

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug resistance in Gram-negative bacteria, to which multidrug efflux pumps such as the AcrB transporter makes a major contribution, is becoming a major public health problem. Unfortunately only a few compounds have been cocrystallized with AcrB, and thus computational approaches are essential in elucidating the i...

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

authors： Vargiu AV,Nikaido H

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesp2 is a transcription factor that plays fundamental roles in somitogenesis, and its expression is strictly restricted to the anterior presomitic mesoderm just before segment border formation. The transcriptional on-off cycle is linked to the segmentation clock. In our current study, we show that a T-box transcripti...

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

authors： Yasuhiko Y,Haraguchi S,Kitajima S,Takahashi Y,Kanno J,Saga Y

更新日期：2006-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns of interacting amino acids are so preserved within protein families that the sole analysis of evolutionary comutations can identify pairs of contacting residues. It is also known that evolution conserves functional dynamics, i.e., the concerted motion or displacement of large protein regions or domains. Is it...

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

authors： Granata D,Ponzoni L,Micheletti C,Carnevale V

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A somatic hybrid of ASL-1 leukemia cells [H-2a, thymus leukemia (TL)1,2,3, Thy-1b] and LM(TK)-cells [H-2-k, TL(-), Thy-1 (-), thymidine kinase deficient] was formed with the aid of inactivated Sendai virus. The selection of hybrid cell clones was facilitated by the inability of ASL-1 cells to grow in vitro and of LM(T...

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

authors： Liang W,Cohen EP

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linear hierarchies, the classical pecking-order structures, are formed readily in both nature and the laboratory in a great range of species including humans. However, the probability of getting linear structures by chance alone is quite low. In this paper we investigate the two hypotheses that are proposed most often...

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

authors： Chase ID,Tovey C,Spangler-Martin D,Manfredonia M

更新日期：2002-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer relapse after surgery is a common occurrence, most frequently resulting from the outgrowth of minimal residual disease in the form of metastases. We examined the effectiveness of cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4) blockade as an adjunctive immunotherapy to reduce metastatic relapse after prima...

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

authors： Kwon ED,Foster BA,Hurwitz AA,Madias C,Allison JP,Greenberg NM,Burg MB

更新日期：1999-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:KRAS mutant tumors are largely recalcitrant to targeted therapies. Genetically engineered mouse models (GEMMs) of Kras mutant cancer recapitulate critical aspects of this disease and are widely used for preclinical validation of targets and therapies. Through comprehensive profiling of exomes and matched transcriptome...

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

authors： Chung WJ,Daemen A,Cheng JH,Long JE,Cooper JE,Wang BE,Tran C,Singh M,Gnad F,Modrusan Z,Foreman O,Junttila MR

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle contraction and relaxation is regulated by transient elevations of myoplasmic Ca(2+). Ca(2+) is released from stores in the lumen of the sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum (SER) to initiate formation of the Ca(2+) transient by activation of a class of Ca(2+) release channels referred to as ryanodine receptors (RyRs) ...

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

authors： Amador FJ,Liu S,Ishiyama N,Plevin MJ,Wilson A,MacLennan DH,Ikura M

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00