Association of FOXO3A variation with human longevity confirmed in German centenarians.

abstract：:Compartmentalization of biomolecules within lipid membranes is a fundamental requirement of living systems and an essential feature of many pharmaceutical therapies. However, applications of membrane-enclosed solutions of proteins, DNA, and other biologically active compounds have been limited by the difficulty of for...

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

authors： Stachowiak JC,Richmond DL,Li TH,Liu AP,Parekh SH,Fletcher DA

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Radioimmunoassays specific for the N and C termini of human prothymosin alpha and the N terminus of human parathymosin alpha were employed for the measurement of the levels of alpha-thymosins in human thymus, spleen, and liver during normal growth and intestine and breast in malignant growth. A differential expression...

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

authors： Tsitsiloni OE,Stiakakis J,Koutselinis A,Gogas J,Markopoulos C,Yialouris P,Bekris S,Panoussopoulos D,Kiortsis V,Voelter W

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-component signal transduction systems are most often found in prokaryotic organisms where they are responsible for mediating the cellular responses to many environmental stimuli. These systems are composed of an autophosphorylating histidine kinase and a response regulator. We have found evidence for the existence...

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

authors： Alex LA,Borkovich KA,Simon MI

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Inducer-mediated murine erythroleukemia cell (MELC) differentiation provides a model for examining factors determining terminal cell differentiation. The nuclear protein, p53, has been implicated as a potential determinant of cell cycle progression and cell differentiation. In this study p53 content and synthesis, dur...

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

authors： Shen DW,Real FX,DeLeo AB,Old LJ,Marks PA,Rifkind RA

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2'-Deoxyadenosine 5'-O-(1-thiotriphosphate) (dATP[alpha S]) was introduced into the 3' ends of DNA restriction fragments with Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I to give phosphorothioate internucleotide linkages. Such "capped" 3' ends were found to be resistant to exonuclease III digestion. Moreover, the resistance to d...

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

authors： Putney SD,Benkovic SJ,Schimmel PR

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Speciation involves the origin of trait differences that limit or prevent gene exchange and ultimately results in daughter populations that form monophyletic or exclusive genetic groups. However, for recently diverged populations or species between which reproductive isolation is often incomplete, gene genealogies wil...

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

authors： Dopman EB,Pérez L,Bogdanowicz SM,Harrison RG

更新日期：2005-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:C factor, an intercellular signaling protein, is required for aggregation and sporulation of the social bacterium, Myxococcus xanthus. We report that C factor, which normally is associated with the cell surface, provides input to the Frz signal transduction cascade. Elements of this cascade have sequence homology to b...

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

authors： Søgaard-Andersen L,Kaiser D

更新日期：1996-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Many and diverse modifications of the myosin subfragment 1 (S-1) increase (modulate) its ATPase activity, including interaction of this particle with actin; a recent addition to these modifications is the extensive lysine modification of S-1 that seems prerequisite to crystallizing it for structure analysis. In this s...

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

authors： Bivin DB,Ue K,Khoroshev M,Morales M

更新日期：1994-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Five instances of association between distinctive stromatolites and blue-green algal nannofossils are recorded from a 100-m sequence of carbonate rocks about 1.6 x 10(9) years old, along the south side of Paradise Creek, northwestern Queensland, Australia. No eukaryotes were identified in any of these systematically l...

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

authors： Licari GR,Cloud P

更新日期：1972-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental study of the configurational thermodynamics for a series of near-eutectic Pt80-x Cu x P20 bulk metallic glass-forming alloys is reported where 14 < x < 27. The undercooled liquid alloys exhibit very high fragility that increases as x decreases, resulting in...

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

authors： Na JH,Corona SL,Hoff A,Johnson WL

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We used positron emission tomography (PET) to examine the role of the hippocampal formation in implicit and explicit memory. Human volunteers studied a list of familiar words, and then they either provided the first word that came to mind in response to three-letter cues (implicit memory) or tried to recall studied wo...

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

authors： Schacter DL,Alpert NM,Savage CR,Rauch SL,Albert MS

更新日期：1996-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recently discovered class of oncogenes, GTPase-inhibiting mutations constitutively activate alpha subunits of signal-transducing guanine nucleotide-binding proteins (G proteins). Somatic mutations in a subclass of endocrine tumors are found in the arginine-179 codon of the alpha subunit of Gi2 (alpha i2), creatin...

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

authors： Pace AM,Wong YH,Bourne HR

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclophilins are a family of proteins that bind cyclosporin A (CsA) and possess peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase activity. In addition, they are secreted by activated cells and act in a cytokine-like manner, presumably via signaling through a cell surface cyclophilin receptor. More recently, host-derived cyclophili...

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

authors： Sherry B,Zybarth G,Alfano M,Dubrovsky L,Mitchell R,Rich D,Ulrich P,Bucala R,Cerami A,Bukrinsky M

更新日期：1998-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:An ultra-high vacuum experimental study of acetylene chemisorption on Pt(111) and Pt(100) and of the reaction of hydrogen with the acetylene adsorbate has established distinguishing features of carbon-hydrogen bond breaking and making processes as a function of pressure, temperature, and surface crystallography. The r...

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

authors： Muetterties EL,Tasi MC,Kelemen SR

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most guanine nucleotide binding protein (G protein)-coupled receptors have a conserved cysteine in the C-terminal cytoplasmic tail near the seventh transmembrane spanning region. This cysteine is known to be palmitoylated in rhodopsin, the beta 2-adrenergic receptor (beta 2AR) and the alpha 2A-adrenergic receptor (alp...

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

authors： Eason MG,Jacinto MT,Theiss CT,Liggett SB

更新日期：1994-11-08 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：:A mechanistic understanding of the controls on carbon storage and losses is essential for our capacity to predict and mitigate human impacts on the global carbon cycle. Plant litter decomposition is an important first step for carbon and nutrient turnover, and litter inputs and losses are essential in determining soil...

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

authors： Austin AT,Méndez MS,Ballaré CL

更新日期：2016-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful implementation of bone marrow transplantation for hematopoietic reconstitution is limited by the lack of suitably HLA-matched donors and by the occurrence of graft-versus-host disease that frequently accompanies this procedure. Recent clinical reports have implied that the use of umbilical cord blood as a s...

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

authors： Harris DT,Schumacher MJ,Locascio J,Besencon FJ,Olson GB,DeLuca D,Shenker L,Bard J,Boyse EA

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary deficiency of factor IXa (fIXa), a key enzyme in blood coagulation, causes hemophilia B, a severe X chromosome-linked bleeding disorder afflicting 1 in 30,000 males; clinical studies have identified nearly 500 deleterious variants. The x-ray structure of porcine fIXa described here shows the atomic origins ...

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

authors： Brandstetter H,Bauer M,Huber R,Lollar P,Bode W

更新日期：1995-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Inferring evolutionary relationships among highly divergent protein sequences is a daunting task. In particular, when pairwise sequence alignments between protein sequences fall <25% identity, the phylogenetic relationships among sequences cannot be estimated with statistical certainty. Here, we show that phylogenetic...

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

authors： Chang GS,Hong Y,Ko KD,Bhardwaj G,Holmes EC,Patterson RL,van Rossum DB

更新日期：2008-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Egg activation is the process in which mature oocytes are released from developmental arrest and gain competency for embryonic development. In Drosophila and other arthropods, eggs are activated by mechanical pressure in the female reproductive tract, whereas in most other species, eggs are activated by fertilization....

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

authors： Hu Q,Wolfner MF

更新日期：2019-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin wound infections are a significant health problem, and antibiotic resistance is on the rise. Mast cells (MCs) have been shown to contribute to host-defense responses in certain bacterial infections, but their role in skin wound superinfection is unknown. We subjected 2 MC-deficient mouse strains to Pseudomonas ae...

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

authors： Zimmermann C,Troeltzsch D,Giménez-Rivera VA,Galli SJ,Metz M,Maurer M,Siebenhaar F

更新日期：2019-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Proper segregation of chromosomes in meiosis is essential to prevent miscarriages and birth defects. This requires that sister chromatids maintain cohesion at the centromere as cohesion is released on the chromatid arms when the homologs segregate at anaphase I. The Shugoshin proteins preserve centromere cohesion by p...

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

authors： Pinto BS,Orr-Weaver TL

更新日期：2017-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine adrenal medullary cells, cultured on quartz plates, were superfused with buffer to which pulses of stimulant were added. Cytosolic Ca2+ was measured by the fura-2 fluorescence method and the simultaneously released catecholamine was measured electrochemically. When stimulant concentrations were adjusted to give...

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

authors： Kim KT,Westhead EW

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specific nucleocytoplasmic compartmentalization of proteins has been examined for some major soluble acidic nuclear proteins in oocytes of different amphibia. Proteins synthesized and radioactively labeled by translation in vitro, by using mRNA from ovaries of the frog Xenopus laevis, were injected into the cytopl...

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

authors： Dabauvalle MC,Franke WW

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) and pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) are two mediators synthesized by immune cells, specially under inflammatory and antigen stimulation conditions. Reports have shown that neuropeptides attenuate the deleterious consequences of septic shock both by down-re...

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

authors： Martinez C,Abad C,Delgado M,Arranz A,Juarranz MG,Rodriguez-Henche N,Brabet P,Leceta J,Gomariz RP

更新日期：2002-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the complete nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences of a mouse epidermal keratin subunit of 60,000 Da. The keratin possesses a central alpha-helical domain of four tracts (termed 1A, 1B, 2A, and 2B) that can form coiled-coils, interspersed by short linker sequences, and has non-alpha-helical terminal d...

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

authors： Steinert PM,Parry DA,Racoosin EL,Idler WW,Steven AC,Trus BL,Roop DR

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The symbiotic bacterium Wolbachia pipientis has been considered unique in its ability to cause multiple reproductive anomalies in its arthropod hosts. Here we report that an undescribed bacterium is vertically transmitted and associated with thelytokous parthenogenetic reproduction in Encarsia, a genus of parasitoid w...

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

authors： Zchori-Fein E,Gottlieb Y,Kelly SE,Brown JK,Wilson JM,Karr TL,Hunter MS

更新日期：2001-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The underlying structure is taken as a strongly superharmonic cone [unk], defined as a partially ordered abelian semigroup with identity 0 which admits a multiplication by nonnegative scalars and satisfies two fundamental axioms of a potentialtheoretic character. In terms of a fixed nonzero element e there is introduc...

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

authors： Arsove M,Leutwiler H

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently developed the electron force field (eFF) method for practical nonadiabatic electron dynamics simulations of materials under extreme conditions and showed that it gave an excellent description of the shock thermodynamics of hydrogen from molecules to atoms to plasma, as well as the electron dynamics of the ...

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

authors： Kim H,Su JT,Goddard WA 3rd

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00