Metabolomics analysis reveals large effects of gut microflora on mammalian blood metabolites.

abstract：:Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are key modulators of immune tolerance, capable of suppressing inflammatory immune responses and promoting nonlymphoid tissue homeostasis. Helios, a transcription factor (TF) that is selectively expressed by Tregs, has been shown to be essential for the maintenance of Treg lineage stability ...

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

authors： Yates K,Bi K,Haining WN,Cantor H,Kim HJ

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed the spectra of UV-induced mutations in the lacI gene of a wild-type and an mfd strain of Escherichia coli. mfd strains have been recently proposed to be deficient in a factor coupling DNA repair and transcription. Analysis of UV-induced mutations occurring at adjacent pyrimidines showed that mutations...

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

authors： Oller AR,Fijalkowska IJ,Dunn RL,Schaaper RM

更新日期：1992-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Often, resistance to drugs is an obstacle to a successful treatment of cancer. In spite of the importance of the problem, the actual mechanisms that control the evolution of drug resistance are not fully understood. Many attempts to study drug resistance have been made in the mathematical modeling literature. Clearly,...

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

authors： Tomasetti C,Levy D

更新日期：2010-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:8-L-Arginine vasopressin ([Arg8]VP) receptors are expressed transiently in the rat facial nucleus during the perinatal period. Electrophysiological studies suggest that at least part of these receptors is located on facial motoneurones. In the present study we report that, in the adult rat, unilateral section of a fac...

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

authors： Tribollet E,Arsenijevic Y,Marguerat A,Barberis C,Dreifuss JJ

更新日期：1994-09-27 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：:Tibetans have adapted to the chronic hypoxia of high altitude and display a distinctive suite of physiologic adaptations, including augmented hypoxic ventilatory response and resistance to pulmonary hypertension. Genome-wide studies have consistently identified compelling genetic signatures of natural selection in two...

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

authors： Song D,Navalsky BE,Guan W,Ingersoll C,Wang T,Loro E,Eeles L,Matchett KB,Percy MJ,Walsby-Tickle J,McCullagh JSO,Medina RJ,Khurana TS,Bigham AW,Lappin TR,Lee FS

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:As a dynamic property of folded proteins, protein compressibility provides important information about the forces that govern structural stability. We relate intrinsic compressibility to stability by using molecular dynamics to identify a molecular basis for the variation in compressibility among globular proteins. We...

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

authors： Dadarlat VM,Post CB

更新日期：2003-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:mtDNA mutations occur in a wide variety of degenerative diseases and cancer. mtDNA seems to be more susceptible to DNA damage and consequently sustains higher rates of mutation than does nuclear DNA (nDNA). Many of the somatic mtDNA mutations in human cancers are located in the displacement loop (D-loop) and in partic...

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

authors： Mambo E,Gao X,Cohen Y,Guo Z,Talalay P,Sidransky D

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the identification of a pollen-specific gene from Zea mays that contains multiple Ser-(Pro)n repeats, the motif found in the cell wall-associated extensins. Sequence analysis reveals that the encoded protein has a putative globular domain at the N terminus and an extensin-like domain at the C terminus. ...

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

authors： Rubinstein AL,Broadwater AH,Lowrey KB,Bedinger PA

更新日期：1995-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is the major glycolipid that is present in the outer membranes (OMs) of most Gram-negative bacteria. LPS molecules are assembled with divalent metal cations in the outer leaflet of the OM to form an impervious layer that prevents toxic compounds from entering the cell. For most Gram-negative b...

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

authors： Chng SS,Ruiz N,Chimalakonda G,Silhavy TJ,Kahne D

更新日期：2010-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Gold nanoparticles quench the fluorescence of cationic polyfluorene with Stern-Volmer constants (KSV) approaching 1011 M-1, several orders of magnitude larger than any previously reported conjugated polymer-quencher pair and 9-10 orders of magnitude larger than small molecule dye-quencher pairs. The dependence of KSV ...

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

authors： Fan C,Wang S,Hong JW,Bazan GC,Plaxco KW,Heeger AJ

更新日期：2003-05-27 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：:Overexpression of the p53 protein, resulting from gene mutations that increase protein stability, has been detected in greater than 25% of primary human breast cancers. In addition, approximately 10% of breast cancer patients have circulating antibodies to the p53 protein. In this study, the anti-p53 humoral response ...

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

authors： Davidoff AM,Iglehart JD,Marks JR

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Commercial hydrogen production by electrocatalytic water splitting will benefit from the realization of more efficient and less expensive catalysts compared with noble metal catalysts, especially for the oxygen evolution reaction, which requires a current density of 500 mA/cm2 at an overpotential below 300 mV with lon...

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

authors： Zhou H,Yu F,Sun J,He R,Chen S,Chu CW,Ren Z

更新日期：2017-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Grain growth under shear annealing is crucial for controlling the properties of polycrystalline materials. However, their microscopic kinetics are not well understood because individual atomic trajectories are difficult to track. Here, we study grain growth with single-particle kinetics in colloidal polycrystals using...

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

authors： Li W,Peng Y,Zhang Y,Still T,Yodh AG,Han Y

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Wildfire can influence climate directly and indirectly, but little is known about the relationships between wildfire and climate during the Quaternary, especially how wildfire patterns varied over glacial-interglacial cycles. Here, we present a high-resolution soot record from the Chinese Loess Plateau; this is a reco...

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

authors： Han Y,An Z,Marlon JR,Bradley RS,Zhan C,Arimoto R,Sun Y,Zhou W,Wu F,Wang Q,Burr GS,Cao J

更新日期：2020-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracolonic administration of trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid in mice causes inflammation in the colon that is accompanied by increased expression of proinflammatory cytokines and of the substance P (SP), neurokinin 1 receptor (NK-1R) in the proximal mesenteric fat depot. We also investigated whether human mesenteric p...

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

authors： Karagiannides I,Kokkotou E,Tansky M,Tchkonia T,Giorgadze N,O'Brien M,Leeman SE,Kirkland JL,Pothoulakis C

更新日期：2006-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Gold nanoparticles (NPs) wrapped in a membrane can be utilized as artificial virus nanoparticles (AVNs) that combine the large nonblinking or bleaching optical cross-section of the NP core with the biological surface properties and functionalities provided by a self-assembled lipid membrane. We used these hybrid nanom...

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

authors： Xu F,Bandara A,Akiyama H,Eshaghi B,Stelter D,Keyes T,Straub JE,Gummuluru S,Reinhard BM

更新日期：2018-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Rickettsiae are responsible for some of the most devastating human infections. A high infectivity and severe illness after inhalation make some rickettsiae bioterrorism threats. We report that deletion of the exchange protein directly activated by cAMP (Epac) gene, Epac1, in mice protects them from an ordinarily letha...

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

authors： Gong B,Shelite T,Mei FC,Ha T,Hu Y,Xu G,Chang Q,Wakamiya M,Ksiazek TG,Boor PJ,Bouyer DH,Popov VL,Chen J,Walker DH,Cheng X

更新日期：2013-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison of the monoclinic and orthorhombic crystal structures of the uncomplexed double-stranded, antiparallel, left-handed beta-helix (5.6 amino acid residues per turn) (increases decreases beta 5.6) conformers of gramicidin A reveals marked differences in the tryptophan side-chain orientations and the degree of...

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

authors： Langs DA,Smith GD,Courseille C,Précigoux G,Hospital M

更新日期：1991-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:High-valent iron-oxo species are thought to be intermediates in the catalytic cycles of oxygenases and peroxidases. An attractive route to these iron-oxo intermediates involves laser flash-quench oxidation of ferric hemes, as demonstrated by our work on the ferryl (compound II) and ferryl porphyrin radical cation (com...

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

authors： Ener ME,Lee YT,Winkler JR,Gray HB,Cheruzel L

更新日期：2010-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Syncytins are envelope genes of retroviral origin that have been co-opted for a role in placentation and likely contribute to the remarkable diversity of placental structures. Independent capture events have been identified in primates, rodents, lagomorphs, and carnivores, where they are involved in the formation of a...

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

authors： Cornelis G,Heidmann O,Degrelle SA,Vernochet C,Lavialle C,Letzelter C,Bernard-Stoecklin S,Hassanin A,Mulot B,Guillomot M,Hue I,Heidmann T,Dupressoir A

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Through rapid genetic adaptation and natural selection, the Plasmodium falciparum parasite--the deadliest of those that cause malaria--is able to develop resistance to antimalarial drugs, thwarting present efforts to control it. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) provide a critical hypothesis-generating tool for u...

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

authors： Park DJ,Lukens AK,Neafsey DE,Schaffner SF,Chang HH,Valim C,Ribacke U,Van Tyne D,Galinsky K,Galligan M,Becker JS,Ndiaye D,Mboup S,Wiegand RC,Hartl DL,Sabeti PC,Wirth DF,Volkman SK

更新日期：2012-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis is a bacterial pathogen that infects the eyes and urogenital tract. Ocular infection by this organism is the leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide. The infection is also a leading cause of sexually transmitted disease in the United States. As obligate intracellular pathogens, chlamydia...

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

authors： Lad SP,Li J,da Silva Correia J,Pan Q,Gadwal S,Ulevitch RJ,Li E

更新日期：2007-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether G protein-coupled receptors signal from endosomes to control important pathophysiological processes and are therapeutic targets is uncertain. We report that opioids from the inflamed colon activate δ-opioid receptors (DOPr) in endosomes of nociceptors. Biopsy samples of inflamed colonic mucosa from patients an...

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

authors： Jimenez-Vargas NN,Gong J,Wisdom MJ,Jensen DD,Latorre R,Hegron A,Teng S,DiCello JJ,Rajasekhar P,Veldhuis NA,Carbone SE,Yu Y,Lopez-Lopez C,Jaramillo-Polanco J,Canals M,Reed DE,Lomax AE,Schmidt BL,Leong KW,Vanner SJ,

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We stabilize nematic droplets with handles against surface tension-driven instabilities, using a yield-stress material as outer fluid, and study the complex nematic textures and defect structures that result from the competition between topological constraints and the elasticity of the nematic liquid crystal. We uncov...

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

authors： Pairam E,Vallamkondu J,Koning V,van Zuiden BC,Ellis PW,Bates MA,Vitelli V,Fernandez-Nieves A

更新日期：2013-06-04 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：:Finding regions of the genome that are significantly recurrent in noisy data are a common but difficult problem in present day computational biology. Cores of recurrent events (CORE) is a computational approach to solving this problem that is based on a formalized notion by which "core" intervals explain the observed ...

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

authors： Krasnitz A,Sun G,Andrews P,Wigler M

更新日期：2013-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal infectivity of HIV-1 virions requires synthesis of the HIV-1 regulatory protein Nef in some producer cells but not others. A survey of 18 lymphoid cell lines found that Nef was dispensable in three, each of which harbored gammaretroviruses. Nef-dependent cell lines were rendered Nef-independent by a cell-free ...

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

authors： Pizzato M

更新日期：2010-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:An excised patch of embryonic muscle membrane was used as a probe for measuring the release of acetylcholine (AcCho) from growing spinal neurons in Xenopus cell culture. The neuron was stimulated extracellularly at the soma, and the evoked AcCho release was monitored at the growth cone, along the neurite, and near the...

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

authors： Sun YA,Poo MM

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00