A superior descriptor of random textures and its predictive capacity.

abstract：:We used a sensitive and specific cDNA polymerase chain reaction assay to detect hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA in serum samples from 128 unselected southern African Blacks with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and found HCV RNA in 26 (20.3%) of these patients. Antibodies to HCV (anti-HCV) were detected in 59 patients (46.1...

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

authors： Bukh J,Miller RH,Kew MC,Purcell RH

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depending on the cellular context, BCL2-like proteins promote mitochondrial fusion or fission. What determines which of these two opposing processes they promote has so far been unknown. Furthermore, the mechanisms through which BCL2-like proteins affect mitochondrial dynamics remain to be fully understood. The BCL2-l...

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

authors： Lu Y,Rolland SG,Conradt B

更新日期：2011-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The tremendous pandemic potential of coronaviruses was demonstrated twice in the past few decades by two global outbreaks of deadly pneumonia. The coronavirus spike (S) glycoprotein initiates infection by promoting fusion of the viral and cellular membranes through conformational changes that remain largely uncharacte...

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

authors： Walls AC,Tortorici MA,Snijder J,Xiong X,Bosch BJ,Rey FA,Veesler D

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural circuits are generated by precisely ordered synaptic connections among neurons, and this process is thought to rely on the ability of neurons to recognize specific partners. However, it is also known that neurons promiscuously form synapses with nonspecific partners, in particular when cultured in vitro, causin...

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

authors： Ito S,Takeichi M

更新日期：2009-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Deinococcus radiodurans is among a small number of bacterial species that are extremely resistant to ionizing radiation, UV light, toxic chemicals, and desiccation. We measured proteome oxidation (i.e., protein carbonylation, PC) in D. radiodurans as well as in standard and evolved resistant strains of Escherichia col...

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

authors： Krisko A,Radman M

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In the developing CNS, Notch1 and its ligand, Jagged1, regulate oligodendrocyte differentiation and myelin formation, but their role in repair of demyelinating lesions in diseases such as multiple sclerosis remains unresolved. To address this question, we generated a mouse model in which we targeted Notch1 inactivatio...

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

authors： Zhang Y,Argaw AT,Gurfein BT,Zameer A,Snyder BJ,Ge C,Lu QR,Rowitch DH,Raine CS,Brosnan CF,John GR

更新日期：2009-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a procedure for predicting the tertiary folds of alpha-helical proteins from their primary sequences. The central component of the procedure is a method for predicting interhelical contacts that is based on a helix-packing model. Instead of predicting the individual contacts, our method attempts to identif...

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

authors： Zhang C,Hou J,Kim SH

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:p53 is a master regulatory, sequence-specific transcription factor that directly controls expression of over 100 genes in response to various stress signals. Transactivation is generally considered to occur through p53 binding to a consensus response element (RE) composed of two 5'-RRRCWWGYYY-3' decamers. Recently, st...

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

authors： Menendez D,Inga A,Resnick MA

更新日期：2010-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Dyskeratosis congenita is a rare inherited disorder characterized by abnormal skin manifestations. Morbidity and mortality from this disease is usually due to bone marrow failure, but idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and an increased cancer predisposition also occur. Families with autosomal dominant dyskeratosis congenit...

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

authors： Armanios M,Chen JL,Chang YP,Brodsky RA,Hawkins A,Griffin CA,Eshleman JR,Cohen AR,Chakravarti A,Hamosh A,Greider CW

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sal-like 4 (SALL4) is a nuclear factor central to the maintenance of stem cell pluripotency and is a key component in hepatocellular carcinoma, a malignancy with no effective treatment. In cancer cells, SALL4 associates with nucleosome remodeling deacetylase (NuRD) to silence tumor-suppressor genes, such as PTEN. Here...

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

authors： Liu BH,Jobichen C,Chia CSB,Chan THM,Tang JP,Chung TXY,Li J,Poulsen A,Hung AW,Koh-Stenta X,Tan YS,Verma CS,Tan HK,Wu CS,Li F,Hill J,Joy J,Yang H,Chai L,Sivaraman J,Tenen DG

更新日期：2018-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete amino acid and DNA sequences of the human 40-kDa keratin are reported. The DNA sequence encodes a protein of 44,098 Da, which is unique in that it lacks the terminal non-alpha-helical tail segment found in all other keratins. When the human 40-kDa keratin amino acid sequence is compared to the correspondi...

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

authors： Eckert RL

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand the roles of Sm proteins in forming the cores of many RNA-processing ribonucleoproteins, we determined the crystal structure of an atypical Sm-like archaeal protein (SmAP3) in which the conserved Sm domain is augmented by a previously uncharacterized, mixed alpha/beta C-terminal domain. The struct...

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

authors： Mura C,Phillips M,Kozhukhovsky A,Eisenberg D

更新日期：2003-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The energetics of the TiO(2) polymorphs (rutile, anatase, and brookite) were studied by high temperature oxide melt drop solution calorimetry. Relative to bulk rutile, bulk brookite is 0.71 +/- 0.38 kJ/mol (6) and bulk anatase is 2.61 +/- 0.41 kJ/mol higher in enthalpy. The surface enthalpies of rutile, brookite, and ...

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

authors： Ranade MR,Navrotsky A,Zhang HZ,Banfield JF,Elder SH,Zaban A,Borse PH,Kulkarni SK,Doran GS,Whitfield HJ

更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an approach for the detection of magnetic resonance imaging without superconducting magnets and cryogenics: optical atomic magnetometry. This technique possesses a high sensitivity independent of the strength of the static magnetic field, extending the applicability of magnetic resonance imaging to low magne...

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

authors： Xu S,Yashchuk VV,Donaldson MH,Rochester SM,Budker D,Pines A

更新日期：2006-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Ionizing radiation (IR) induces a variety of DNA lesions among which DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are the biologically most significant. It is currently unclear if DSB repair is equally efficient after low and high doses. Here, we use gamma-H2AX, phospho-ATM (pATM), and 53BP1 foci analysis to monitor DSB repair. We...

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

authors： Grudzenski S,Raths A,Conrad S,Rübe CE,Löbrich M

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:General optimization results from physics indicate that maximum efficiency of a process, in the sense of minimum overall entropy production, is achieved when the rate of entropy production is constant over time, however not in ordinary clock time but on an, in general varying, "eigen time" scale, intrinsic to the syst...

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

authors： Andresen B,Shiner JS,Uehlinger DE

更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of heterozygosity affecting chromosome 17p has been detected at high frequencies in a variety of human tumors, including cancers of the colon, breast, lung, and brain. One presumed target of these losses is p53, a tumor suppressor gene located on 17p. To our knowledge, loss of heterozygosity has not yet been repo...

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

authors： Meltzer SJ,Yin J,Huang Y,McDaniel TK,Newkirk C,Iseri O,Vogelstein B,Resau JH

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The UV photodissociation kinetics of tryptophan amino acid, Trp, attached to the membrane of bacteria, Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis, have been studied by means of normal and synchronous fluorescence. Our experimental data suggest that the fluorescence intensity of Trp increases during the first minute of irr...

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

authors： Li R,Dhankhar D,Chen J,Cesario TC,Rentzepis PM

更新日期：2019-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal H2O2 levels are closely related to many diseases, including inflammation and cancers. Herein, we simultaneously load HRP and its substrate, 2,2'-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) (ABTS), into liposomal nanoparticles, obtaining a Lipo@HRP&ABTS optical nanoprobe for in vivo H2O2-responsive chrom...

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

authors： Chen Q,Liang C,Sun X,Chen J,Yang Z,Zhao H,Feng L,Liu Z

更新日期：2017-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic and gastrointestinal D cells were examined by immunocytochemistry using antisera against somatostatin-28 (SS28) and its NH2-terminal fragment SS28-(1-12), followed by the staphylococcal protein A-gold (pAg) complex. In pancreatic and gastric D cells incubated with antiserum against SS28-(1-12) the gold part...

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

authors： Ravazzola M,Benoit R,Ling N,Guillemin R,Orci L

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) DNA, a small sequence, designated the a sequence, flanks the reiterated sequences at the ends of both the L and S components. The a sequence is the only sequence shared by the termini of all isomeric arrangements of HSV-1 DNA that arise from inversions of the covalently linked L and S...

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

authors： Knipe DM,Ruyechan WT,Honess RW,Roizman B

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder of uncertain pathogenesis characterized by a loss of substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) dopaminergic (DA) neurons, and can be modeled by the neurotoxin 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP). Both inflammatory processes and oxidative stress may c...

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

authors： Wu DC,Teismann P,Tieu K,Vila M,Jackson-Lewis V,Ischiropoulos H,Przedborski S

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Signaling through the Toll receptor is required for dorsal/ventral polarity in Drosophila embryos, and also plays an evolutionarily conserved role in the immune response. Upon ligand binding, Toll appears to multimerize and activate the associated kinase, Pelle. However, the immediate downstream targets of Pelle have ...

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

authors： Shen B,Liu H,Skolnik EY,Manley JL

更新日期：2001-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase [GAPDH; D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate:NAD+ oxidoreductase (phosphorylating), EC 1.2.1.12] mRNA levels are induced by physiologic concentrations of insulin in cultured 3T3-F442A adipocyte and H35 hepatoma cell lines. To examine the mechanism by which insulin regulates GAPDH mRNA ...

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

authors： Alexander MC,Lomanto M,Nasrin N,Ramaika C

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombin induces platelet aggregation and formation of a fibrin clot in platelet-rich plasma; leupeptin, a protease inhibitor, partially inhibits platelet aggregation, but it does not inhibit fibrin clot formation. Indomethacin does not inhibit either thrombin-induced platelet aggregation or fibrin clot formation. How...

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

authors： Ruggiero M,Lapetina EG

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli K12 2320(lambda)-15B has a mutation that results in ochre suppressor activity.(1) This mutation concomitantly causes a decreased growth rate in rich medium, an increased sensitivity to streptomycin,(1) and the production of some altered 30S ribosomes which are differentially sensitive to RNase.(2) The...

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

authors： Gartner TK,Orias E,Lannan JE,Beeson J,Reid PJ

更新日期：1969-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide diversity of biological molecules are modified by the addition of sugar residues, and a large number of glycosyltransferases have been identified that are responsible for these reactions. Despite catalyzing closely related reactions, many of these transferases show little apparent sequence homology. By comparin...

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

authors： Wiggins CA,Munro S

更新日期：1998-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of IκB kinase (IKK) β-dependent NF-κB signaling in hematopoietic cells is associated with increased granulopoiesis. Here we identify a regulatory cytokine loop that causes neutrophilia in Ikkβ-deficient mice. TNF-α-dependent apoptosis of myeloid progenitor cells leads to the release of IL-1β, which promotes Th17 ...

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

authors： Mankan AK,Canli O,Schwitalla S,Ziegler P,Tschopp J,Korn T,Greten FR

更新日期：2011-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs) hydrolyze almost all β-lactam antibiotics and are unaffected by clinically available β-lactamase inhibitors (βLIs). Active-site architecture divides MBLs into three classes (B1, B2, and B3), complicating development of βLIs effective against all enzymes. Bisthiazolidines (BTZs) are carboxyl...

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

authors： Hinchliffe P,González MM,Mojica MF,González JM,Castillo V,Saiz C,Kosmopoulou M,Tooke CL,Llarrull LI,Mahler G,Bonomo RA,Vila AJ,Spencer J

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Stromal cell lines were established from canine long-term marrow cultures, cloned by limiting dilution, and maintained in stromal cell-conditioned medium. These cells grew adherent, maintained stable growth rate and morphology under standard conditions (in 20-30% conditioned medium; confluency, 70-90%), and supported ...

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

authors： Huss R,Hong DS,McSweeney PA,Hoy CA,Deeg HJ

更新日期：1995-01-31 00:00:00