Synthetic recombinant bat SARS-like coronavirus is infectious in cultured cells and in mice.

abstract：:Hypercholesterolemia, high serum cholesterol in the form of LDL, is a major risk factor for atherosclerosis. LDL is mostly degraded in the liver after its cellular internalization with the LDL receptor (LDLR). This clathrin-mediated endocytosis depends on the protein autosomal recessive hypercholesterolemia (ARH), whi...

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

authors： Dvir H,Shah M,Girardi E,Guo L,Farquhar MG,Zajonc DM

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor promoter phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) induces characteristic reversible changes of cell shape in certain fibroblastic lines: motile lamellas are transformed into noncontractile narrow processes; simultaneously, the actin microfilament network of lamellas is locally disorganized. This reaction to PMA...

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

authors： Bershadsky AD,Ivanova OY,Lyass LA,Pletyushkina OY,Vasiliev JM,Gelfand IM

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T-regulatory cells (Treg) and mast cells (MC) are abundant in colorectal cancer (CRC) tumors. Interaction between the two is known to promote immune suppression or loss of Treg functions and autoimmunity. Here, we demonstrate that in both human CRC and murine polyposis the outcome of this interaction is the generation...

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

authors： Blatner NR,Bonertz A,Beckhove P,Cheon EC,Krantz SB,Strouch M,Weitz J,Koch M,Halverson AL,Bentrem DJ,Khazaie K

更新日期：2010-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the development of infectious cDNA clones of viral RNA genomes and the means of delivery of the in vitro-synthesized RNA into cells, alphaviruses have become an attractive system for expression of heterologous genetic information. Alphaviruses replicate exclusively in the cytoplasm, and their genetic material ca...

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

authors： Kim DY,Atasheva S,McAuley AJ,Plante JA,Frolova EI,Beasley DW,Frolov I

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A plasmid containing the rat preproinsulin I gene was entrapped in large liposomes and intravenously administered to rats. Four hours after inoculation, the livers were processed for the isolation of hepatocytes. Kupffer cells, and endothelial cells, DNA was purified, and the exogenous DNA was detected in the differen...

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

authors： Soriano P,Dijkstra J,Legrand A,Spanjer H,Londos-Gagliardi D,Roerdink F,Scherphof G,Nicolau C

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenal chromaffin granules contain at least 10 peptides, ranging in size from 3 to 5 kilodaltons, that yield, upon digestion with trypsin, peptides that show specific binding to opiate receptors. All are distinctly different from beta-endorphin. Two of these peptides have been purified to homogeneity and subjected to...

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

authors： Kimura S,Lewis RV,Stern AS,Rossier J,Stein S,Udenfriend S

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus responsible for COVID-19, employs two key host proteins to gain entry and replicate within cells, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) and the cell surface transmembrane protease serine 2 (TMPRSS2). TMPRSS2 was first characterized as an androgen...

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

authors： Qiao Y,Wang XM,Mannan R,Pitchiaya S,Zhang Y,Wotring JW,Xiao L,Robinson DR,Wu YM,Tien JC,Cao X,Simko SA,Apel IJ,Bawa P,Kregel S,Narayanan SP,Raskind G,Ellison SJ,Parolia A,Zelenka-Wang S,McMurry L,Su F,Wang R,

更新日期：2020-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a global epidemic manifested mainly by chronic infection. One strategy that HCV employs to establish chronic infection is to use the viral Ser protease NS3/4A to cleave some unknown cellular targets involved in innate immunity. Here we show that the target of NS3/4A is the mitochondrial anti...

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

authors： Li XD,Sun L,Seth RB,Pineda G,Chen ZJ

更新日期：2005-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper provides transcendental and algebraic framework for the classification of identities expressing pi and other logarithms of algebraic numbers as rapidly convergent generalized hypergeometric series in rational parameters. Algebraic and arithmetic relations between values of p+1Fp hypergeometric functions and...

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

authors： Chudnovsky DV,Chudnovsky GV

更新日期：1998-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The building evidence for the contribution of microbiota to human disease has spurred an effort to develop therapies that target the gut microbiota. This is particularly evident in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), where clinical trials of fecal microbiota transplantation have shown some efficacy. To aid the develop...

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

authors： Britton GJ,Contijoch EJ,Spindler MP,Aggarwala V,Dogan B,Bongers G,San Mateo L,Baltus A,Das A,Gevers D,Borody TJ,Kaakoush NO,Kamm MA,Mitchell H,Paramsothy S,Clemente JC,Colombel JF,Simpson KW,Dubinsky MC,Grinspan A,

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblasts cultured from the skin of a patient with metachromatic leukodystrophy have been found to manifest the biochemical defect of this inborn error of metabolism, a deficiency of arylsulfatase A. Diseased cells had less than five per cent of normal arylsulfatase-A activity, while activities of other lysosomal en...

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

authors： Porter MT,Fluharty AL,Kihara H

更新日期：1969-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although microtubules (MTs) frequently form highly dynamic networks, subsets of MTs become stabilized in response to environmental cues and function as specialized tracks for vesicle and macromolecular trafficking. MT stabilization is controlled by specialized plus-end tracking proteins (+TIPs) whose accumulation at t...

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

authors： Naghavi MH,Gundersen GG,Walsh D

更新日期：2013-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Shewanella species are renowned for their respiratory versatility, including their ability to respire poorly soluble substrates by using enzymatic machinery that is localized to the outside of the cell. The ability to engage in "extracellular respiration" to date has focused primarily on respiration of minerals. Here,...

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

authors： Gralnick JA,Vali H,Lies DP,Newman DK

更新日期：2006-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a model describing how Mg(2+) binds and stabilizes specific RNA structures. In this model, RNA stabilization arises from two energetically distinct modes of Mg(2+) binding: diffuse- and site-binding. Diffusely bound Mg(2+) are electrostatically attracted to the strong anionic field around the RNA and are ac...

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

authors： Misra VK,Draper DE

更新日期：2001-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate how a conventional confocal spinning-disk (CSD) microscope can be converted into a doubly resolving image scanning microscopy (ISM) system without changing any part of its optical or mechanical elements. Making use of the intrinsic properties of a CSD microscope, we illuminate stroboscopically, generati...

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

authors： Schulz O,Pieper C,Clever M,Pfaff J,Ruhlandt A,Kehlenbach RH,Wouters FS,Großhans J,Bunt G,Enderlein J

更新日期：2013-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttranscriptional regulation is an important step in the regulation of gene expression. In this article, we show an unexpected connection between two proteins that participate in different processes of posttranscriptional regulation that ensures the production of functional mRNA molecules. Specifically, we show that...

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

authors： Agranat L,Raitskin O,Sperling J,Sperling R

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of an amino acid other than aspartic acid at position 57 of the HLA-DQ beta chain (non-Asp-57) is highly associated with susceptibility to insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), whereas an aspartic acid at this position (Asp-57) appears to confer resistance to the disease. We hypothesize that the 30-...

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

authors： Dorman JS,LaPorte RE,Stone RA,Trucco M

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By combining the pairwise interactions between proteins, as predicted by the conserved co-occurrence of their genes in operons, we obtain protein interaction networks. Here we study the properties of such networks to identify functional modules: sets of proteins that together are involved in a biological process. The ...

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

authors： Snel B,Bork P,Huynen MA

更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Wnt/beta-catenin signaling inhibits adipogenesis. Genome-wide profiling studies have revealed the enrichment of histone H3K27 methyltransferase Ezh2 on Wnt genes. However, the functional significance of such a direct link between the two types of developmental regulators in mammalian cells, and the role of Ezh2 in adi...

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

authors： Wang L,Jin Q,Lee JE,Su IH,Ge K

更新日期：2010-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we report the development of an in vivo system to study the interaction of stem cells with drugs using a tumor model in the adult Drosophila intestine. Strikingly, we find that some Food and Drug Administration-approved chemotherapeutics that can inhibit the growth of Drosophila tumor stem cells can paradoxically...

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

authors： Markstein M,Dettorre S,Cho J,Neumüller RA,Craig-Müller S,Perrimon N

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Defining the virus-host interactions responsible for HIV-1 transmission, including the phenotypic requirements of viruses capable of establishing de novo infections, could be important for AIDS vaccine development. Previous analyses have failed to identify phenotypic properties other than chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) a...

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

authors： Parrish NF,Gao F,Li H,Giorgi EE,Barbian HJ,Parrish EH,Zajic L,Iyer SS,Decker JM,Kumar A,Hora B,Berg A,Cai F,Hopper J,Denny TN,Ding H,Ochsenbauer C,Kappes JC,Galimidi RP,West AP Jr,Bjorkman PJ,Wilen CB,Doms RW

更新日期：2013-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor metastasis is the cause of most cancer deaths. Although metastases can form in multiple end organs, the liver is recognized as a highly permissive organ. Nevertheless, there is evidence for immune cell-mediated mechanisms that function to suppress liver metastasis by certain tumors, although the underlying mecha...

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

authors： Kimura Y,Inoue A,Hangai S,Saijo S,Negishi H,Nishio J,Yamasaki S,Iwakura Y,Yanai H,Taniguchi T

更新日期：2016-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Solvent additives (cosolvents, osmolytes) modulate biochemical reactions if, during the course of the reaction, there is a change in preferential interactions of solvent components with the reacting system. Preferential interactions can be expressed in terms of preferential binding of the cosolvent or its preferential...

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

authors： Timasheff SN

更新日期：2002-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles were exposed to various thiol-directed spin labels, and the position of the label on the inner or outer vesicle surface was investigated as a function of the ATPase (adenosinetriphosphatase; ATP phosphohydrolase, EC 3.6.1.3) chemical state. Previous measurements of label accessibility t...

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

authors： Champeil P,Rigaud JL,Gary-Bobo CM

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial pathogens with the ability to establish chronic infections have evolved strategies to actively modulate the host immune response. Brucellosis is a disease caused by a Gram-negative intracellular pathogen that if not treated during the initial phase of the infection becomes chronic as the bacteria persist for...

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

authors： Spera JM,Ugalde JE,Mucci J,Comerci DJ,Ugalde RA

更新日期：2006-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Mapping biological pathways across microbial genomes is a highly important technique in functional studies of biological systems. Existing methods mainly rely on sequence-based orthologous gene mapping, which often leads to suboptimal mapping results because sequence-similarity information alone does not contain suffi...

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

authors： Mao F,Su Z,Olman V,Dam P,Liu Z,Xu Y

更新日期：2006-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonates are highly susceptible to infectious diseases and, in general, respond poorly to conventional vaccines due to immaturity of the immune system. In the present study, we hypothesized that the anti-tetanus toxoid (TT) vaccine response of neonatal mice could be enhanced by retinoic acid (RA), a bioactive retinoid...

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

authors： Ma Y,Ross AC

更新日期：2005-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:14-3-3 proteins are ubiquitously expressed regulators of various cellular functions, including proliferation, metabolism, and differentiation, and altered 14-3-3 expression is associated with development and progression of cancer. We report a transforming 14-3-3 oncoprotein, which we identified through conventional cy...

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

authors： Lee CH,Ou WB,Mariño-Enriquez A,Zhu M,Mayeda M,Wang Y,Guo X,Brunner AL,Amant F,French CA,West RB,McAlpine JN,Gilks CB,Yaffe MB,Prentice LM,McPherson A,Jones SJ,Marra MA,Shah SP,van de Rijn M,Huntsman DG,Dal Cin P

更新日期：2012-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete inactivation of the human retinoblastoma gene (RB) is believed to be an essential step in tumorigenesis of several different cancers. To provide a framework for understanding inactivation mechanisms, the structure of RB was delineated. The RB transcript is encoded in 27 exons dispersed over about 200 kilobase...

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

authors： Hong FD,Huang HJ,To H,Young LJ,Oro A,Bookstein R,Lee EY,Lee WH

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the core features of human speech is that words cause listeners to retrieve corresponding visual mental images. However, whether vocalizations similarly evoke mental images in animal communication systems is surprisingly unknown. Japanese tits (Parus minor) produce specific alarm calls when and only when encoun...

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

authors： Suzuki TN

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00