Hv1 proton channels are required for high-level NADPH oxidase-dependent superoxide production during the phagocyte respiratory burst.

abstract：:Transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta plays a pivotal role in regulation of progression of cancer through effects on tumor microenvironment as well as on cancer cells. TGF-beta inhibitors have recently been shown to prevent the growth and metastasis of certain cancers. However, there may be adverse effects caused by T...

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

authors： Kano MR,Bae Y,Iwata C,Morishita Y,Yashiro M,Oka M,Fujii T,Komuro A,Kiyono K,Kaminishi M,Hirakawa K,Ouchi Y,Nishiyama N,Kataoka K,Miyazono K

更新日期：2007-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleus accumbens is considered a critical target of the action of drugs of abuse. In this nucleus a "shell" and a "core" have been distinguished on the basis of anatomical and histochemical criteria. The present study investigated the effect in freely moving rats of intravenous cocaine, amphetamine, and morphine ...

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

authors： Pontieri FE,Tanda G,Di Chiara G

更新日期：1995-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:IFN-gamma is well known as the signature cytokine of CD4+ T helper 1, CD8+, and natural killer cells, but recent studies demonstrate that antigen-presenting cells, in particular dendritic cells (DCs), are another potent source for this proinflammatory cytokine. T-bet, a transcription factor that controls IFN-gamma exp...

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

authors： Lugo-Villarino G,Maldonado-Lopez R,Possemato R,Penaranda C,Glimcher LH

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Is the pathway of protein folding determined by the relative stability of folding intermediates, or by the relative height of the activation barriers leading to these intermediates? This is a fundamental question for resolving the Levinthal paradox, which stated that protein folding by a random search mechanism would ...

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

authors： Su ZD,Arooz MT,Chen HM,Gross CJ,Tsong TY

更新日期：1996-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is the most common genetic cause of renal failure in humans. Several proteins that are encoded by genes associated with PKD have recently been identified in primary cilia in renal tubular epithelia. These findings have suggested that abnormalities in cilia formation and function may pla...

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

authors： Lin F,Hiesberger T,Cordes K,Sinclair AM,Goldstein LS,Somlo S,Igarashi P

更新日期：2003-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Innervation of skeletal muscle by motor neurons occurs through the neuromuscular junction, a cholinergic synapse essential for normal muscle growth and function. Defects in nerve-muscle signaling cause a variety of neuromuscular disorders with features of ataxia, paralysis, skeletal muscle wasting, and degeneration. H...

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

authors： Anderson DM,Cannavino J,Li H,Anderson KM,Nelson BR,McAnally J,Bezprozvannaya S,Liu Y,Lin W,Liu N,Bassel-Duby R,Olson EN

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of biomolecular isomerization processes, such as protein folding, is governed by a free-energy surface of high dimensionality and complexity. As an alternative to projections into one or two dimensions, the free-energy surface can be mapped into a weighted network where nodes and links are configurations ...

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

authors： Gfeller D,De Los Rios P,Caflisch A,Rao F

更新日期：2007-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Nogo isoforms (Nogo-A and -B) have been implicated in regulating neural and cardiovascular functions, such as cell spreading and chemotaxis. Unlike the loop domain (Nogo-66) found in all Nogo isoforms that can interact with a neural-specific Nogo-66 receptor, the receptor for the amino terminus of Nogo-B that mediates...

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

authors： Miao RQ,Gao Y,Harrison KD,Prendergast J,Acevedo LM,Yu J,Hu F,Strittmatter SM,Sessa WC

更新日期：2006-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The visual (retinoid) cycle, the enzymatic pathway that regenerates chromophore after light absorption, is located primarily in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and is essential for rod photoreceptor survival. Whether this pathway also is essential for cone photoreceptor survival is unknown, and there are no data ...

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

authors： Jacobson SG,Aleman TS,Cideciyan AV,Heon E,Golczak M,Beltran WA,Sumaroka A,Schwartz SB,Roman AJ,Windsor EA,Wilson JM,Aguirre GD,Stone EM,Palczewski K

更新日期：2007-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In human financial and social systems, exchanges of information among individuals cause speculative bubbles, behavioral cascades, and other correlated actions that profoundly influence system-level function. Exchanges of information are also widespread in ecological systems, but their effects on ecosystem-level proces...

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

authors： Gil MA,Hein AM

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutaredoxins (Grxs) have been identified across taxa as important mediators in various physiological functions. A chloroplastic monothiol glutaredoxin, AtGRXS16 from Arabidopsis thaliana, comprises two distinct functional domains, an N-terminal domain (NTD) with GlyIleTyr-TyrIleGly (GIY-YIG) endonuclease motif and a ...

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

authors： Liu X,Liu S,Feng Y,Liu JZ,Chen Y,Pham K,Deng H,Hirschi KD,Wang X,Cheng N

更新日期：2013-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The central nitrogen metabolic circuit in enteric bacteria consists of three enzymes: glutamine synthetase, glutamate synthase (GOGAT), and glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH). With the carbon skeleton provided by 2-oxoglutarate, ammonia/ammonium (NH(4)(+)) is assimilated into two central nitrogen intermediates, glutamate a...

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

authors： Yan D

更新日期：2007-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfection of cells with the H-2Kk gene lacking the transmembrane and cytoplasmic segments resulted in secretion of the H-2Kk protein, as determined by immunoprecipitation with monoclonal anti-H-2Kk antibodies. Transgenic (H-2b X H-2d)F1 mice were established carrying integrated copies of the modified H-2Kk gene. Ex...

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

authors： Arnold B,Dill O,Küblbeck G,Jatsch L,Simon MM,Tucker J,Hämmerling GJ

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the ability of macrophages and B cells to function as antigen-presenting cells (APCs) for murine TH1 and TH2 cloned T helper cell lines. Antigen presented by concanavalin A-elicited peritoneal macrophages or resting splenic B cells stimulated antigen-dependent proliferation of both T helper subsets. Parafo...

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

authors： Weaver CT,Hawrylowicz CM,Unanue ER

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To some extent, the genetic theory of adaptive evolution in bacteria is a simple extension of that developed for sexually reproducing eukaryotes. In other, fundamental ways, the process of adaptive evolution in bacteria is quantitatively and qualitatively different from that of organisms for which recombination is an ...

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

authors： Levin BR,Bergstrom CT

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Creatine, a nitrogenous organic acid, replenishes cytoplasmic ATP at the expense of mitochondrial ATP via the phosphocreatine shuttle. Creatine levels are maintained by diet and endogenous synthesis from arginine and glycine. Glycine amidinotransferase (GATM) catalyzes the rate-limiting step of creatine biosynthesis: ...

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

authors： Turer E,McAlpine W,Wang KW,Lu T,Li X,Tang M,Zhan X,Wang T,Zhan X,Bu CH,Murray AR,Beutler B

更新日期：2017-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:An intense (up to 20 muA/cm(2)) steady electrical current enters the anterior or nurse cell end of the growing follicle (or oocyte-nurse cell complex) of the Cecropia moth and is balanced by a more diffuse current leaving elsewhere. In late growth stages, the total transfollicular current is about 100 nA. Moreover, a ...

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

authors： Jaffe LF,Woodruff RI

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular replicative DNA polymerases cannot initiate DNA synthesis without a priming 3' OH. During DNA replication, this is supplied in the context of a short RNA primer molecule synthesized by DNA primase. The primase of archaea and eukaryotes, despite having varying subunit compositions, share sequence and struc...

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

authors： Yan J,Holzer S,Pellegrini L,Bell SD

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:FAP48 was identified and cloned thanks to its interaction with FK506-binding proteins (FKBPs) such as FKBP52 and FKBP12, which belong to the large family of immunophilins that bind the macrolide immunosuppressant drugs FK506 and rapamycin. We have previously shown that FAP48-FKBP complexes are dissociated by FK506 and...

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

authors： Krummrei U,Baulieu EE,Chambraud B

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reconstituted Z rings in tubular multilamellar liposomes with FtsZ-YFP-mts, where mts is a membrane-targeting amphiphilic helix. These reconstituted Z rings generated a constriction force but did not divide the thick-walled liposomes. Here we developed a unique system to observe Z rings in unilamellar li...

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

authors： Osawa M,Erickson HP

更新日期：2013-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethionamide (ETA) is an important component of second-line therapy for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Synthesis of radiolabeled ETA and an examination of drug metabolites formed by whole cells of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTb) have allowed us to demonstrate that ETA is activated by S-oxidation be...

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

authors： DeBarber AE,Mdluli K,Bosman M,Bekker LG,Barry CE 3rd

更新日期：2000-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Freshwater planarian flatworms are capable of regenerating complete organisms from tiny fragments of their bodies; the basis for this regenerative prowess is an experimentally accessible stem cell population that is present in the adult planarian. The study of these organisms, classic experimental models for investiga...

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

authors： Newmark PA,Reddien PW,Cebrià F,Sánchez Alvarado A

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the proline-specific aminopeptidase (EC 3.4.11.9) from Escherichia coli has been solved and refined for crystals of the native enzyme at a 2.0-A resolution, for a dipeptide-inhibited complex at 2.3-A resolution, and for a low-pH inactive form at 2.7-A resolution. The protein crystallizes as a tetramer...

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

authors： Wilce MC,Bond CS,Dixon NE,Freeman HC,Guss JM,Lilley PE,Wilce JA

更新日期：1998-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Seamless and minimally invasive integration of 3D electronic circuitry within host materials could enable the development of materials systems that are self-monitoring and allow for communication with external environments. Here, we report a general strategy for preparing ordered 3D interconnected and addressable macr...

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

authors： Liu J,Xie C,Dai X,Jin L,Zhou W,Lieber CM

更新日期：2013-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Cobra venom factor (CVF) is the complement-activating protein in cobra venom. Like C3b, CVF forms with factor B and factor D in human and mammalian serum the bimolecular C3/C5 convertase. This functional similarity of CVF and C3 correlates with many structural similarities, which led to the suggestion that CVF is evol...

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

authors： Fritzinger DC,Bredehorst R,Vogel CW

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly multiplexed assays using antibody coated, fluorescent (xMap) beads are widely used to measure quantities of soluble analytes, such as cytokines and antibodies in clinical and other studies. Current analyses of these assays use methods based on standard curves that have limitations in detecting low or high abund...

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

authors： Won JH,Goldberger O,Shen-Orr SS,Davis MM,Olshen RA

更新日期：2012-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes experiments in which cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations ([Ca2+]i) and catecholamine release were measured in two populations of chromaffin cells stimulated with a solution enriched in K+ (100 mM). Once depolarized, external Ca2+ or Ba2+ ions were offered to cells either as a single 2.5 mM step or as a ...

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

authors： Michelena P,García-Pérez LE,Artalejo AR,García AG

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The high-affinity (K(m) = 3 x 10(-8) M) transport system for histidine in Salmonella typhimurium has been resolved into three components: J, K, and P. J, which is a histidine-binding protein released by osmotic shock, is specified by the hisJ gene: hisJ mutants lack the binding protein and are defective in histidine t...

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

authors： Ames GF,Lever J

更新日期：1970-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ritz upper bound to eigenvalues of Hermitian operators is essential for many applications in science. It is a staple of quantum chemistry and physics computations. The lower bound devised by Temple in 1928 [G. Temple, Proc. R. Soc. A Math. Phys. Eng. Sci. 119, 276-293 (1928)] is not, since it converges too slowly....

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

authors： Martinazzo R,Pollak E

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The WWOX gene is a recently cloned tumor suppressor gene that spans the FRA16D fragile region. Wwox protein contains two WW domains that are generally known to mediate protein-protein interaction. Here we show that Wwox physically interacts via its first WW domain with the p53 homolog, p73. The tyrosine kinase, Src, p...

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

authors： Aqeilan RI,Pekarsky Y,Herrero JJ,Palamarchuk A,Letofsky J,Druck T,Trapasso F,Han SY,Melino G,Huebner K,Croce CM

更新日期：2004-03-30 00:00:00