25-Hydroxycholesterol secreted by macrophages in response to Toll-like receptor activation suppresses immunoglobulin A production.

abstract：:Rivers around the world are being regulated by dams to accommodate the needs of a rapidly growing global population. These regulatory efforts usually oppose the natural tendency of rivers to flood, move sediment, and migrate. Although an economic benefit, river regulation has come at unforeseen and unevaluated cumulat...

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

authors： Trush WJ,McBain SM,Leopold LB

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli chaperonins GroEL and GroES facilitate the refolding of polypeptide chains in an ATP hydrolysis-dependent reaction. The elementary steps in the binding and release of polypeptide substrates to GroEL were investigated in surface plasmon resonance studies to measure the rates of binding and dissocia...

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

authors： Lin Z,Eisenstein E

更新日期：1996-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In a subtropical gyre, the convergent Ekman layer forces water downward into the geostrophic flow below. The properties and depth of the mixed layer vary considerably during the course of the year, but this variability does not penetrate into the geostrophic region. Evidently there is some process at work that selects...

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

authors： Stommel H

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural and functional organization of the Cct complex was addressed by genetic analyses of subunit interactions and catalytic cooperativity among five of the eight different essential subunits, Cct1p-Cct8p, in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The cct1-1, cct2-3, and cct3-1 alleles, containing mutations at t...

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

authors： Lin P,Sherman F

更新日期：1997-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The versatility of CRISPR-Cas endonucleases as a tool for biomedical research has led to diverse applications in gene editing, programmable transcriptional control, and nucleic acid detection. Most CRISPR-Cas systems, however, suffer from off-target effects and unpredictable nonspecific binding that negatively impact ...

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

authors： Specht DA,Xu Y,Lambert G

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last few years, data from experiments employing transgenic models of autoimmune disease have strengthened a particular concept of autoimmunity: disease results not so much from cracks in tolerance induction systems, leading to the generation of anti-self repertoire, as from the breakdown of secondary systems th...

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

authors： André I,Gonzalez A,Wang B,Katz J,Benoist C,Mathis D

更新日期：1996-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells form three functionally distinct populations of effectors: competent cytolytic effectors able to bind and kill target cells and two subsets of nonlytic effectors, one able and the other unable to bind target cells. A flow cytometric method was developed, based on size and two-color fluorescen...

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

authors： Lebow LT,Bonavida B

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymic epithelial cells (TECs), the major component of the thymic microenvironment, can be modulated by pituitary hormones. We have shown previously that prolactin (PRL) can influence the endocrine activity of TECs and stimulate TEC proliferation as well as cytokeratin expression, suggesting the existence of PRL recep...

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

authors： Dardenne M,Kelly PA,Bach JF,Savino W

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An antibody (anti-p21ser) was raised against a ras p21-related synthetic peptide and was able to recognize specifically the substitution of serine for glycine at amino acid 12 of p21. This substitution causes oncogenic activation of p21. Anti-p21ser was found to immunoprecipitate v-Ki-ras p21 and to strongly inhibit i...

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

authors： Clark R,Wong G,Arnheim N,Nitecki D,McCormick F

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of the fluorescence polarization of 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene in membranes of normal, transformed, and revertant 3T3 cells allowed estimation of microviscosities (eta) of the lipid bilayers of these cells. Fluorescence polarization values observed with normal cells were significantly lower than those obser...

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

authors： Fuchs P,Parola A,Robbins PW,Blout ER

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular injury during hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection has been postulated to result from a human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-restricted T-lymphocyte host immune response against HBV antigens. Although HLA expression is enhanced in the presence of hepatic inflammation, whether HBV itself can induce HLA expression ...

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

authors： Hu KQ,Vierling JM,Siddiqui A

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hormone gibberellin (GA) is a key regulator of plant growth. Many of the components of the gibberellin signal transduction [e.g., GIBBERELLIN INSENSITIVE DWARF 1 (GID1) and DELLA], biosynthesis [e.g., GA 20-oxidase (GA20ox) and GA3ox], and deactivation pathways have been identified. Gibberellin binds its receptor,...

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

authors： Middleton AM,Úbeda-Tomás S,Griffiths J,Holman T,Hedden P,Thomas SG,Phillips AL,Holdsworth MJ,Bennett MJ,King JR,Owen MR

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A discrepancy of about 20% exists between the molecular weight of the alpha subunit of Torpedo californica electroplax acetylcholine receptor as determined by gel electrophoresis of the mature protein (Mr 40,000 +/- 2000) and by nucleotide sequence analysis of cDNA (Mr approximately equal to 50,000). We demonstrate by...

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

authors： Conti-Tronconi BM,Hunkapiller MW,Raftery MA

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An amine-functionalized derivative of 1,3-dipropyl-8-phenylxanthine has been prepared in tritiated form as a xanthine amine congener ([3H]XAC) for use as an antagonist radioligand for adenosine receptors. [3H]XAC has higher receptor affinity, higher specific activity, lower nonspecific membrane binding, and more favor...

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

authors： Jacobson KA,Ukena D,Kirk KL,Daly JW

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poliovirus RNA polymerase requires a host factor to initiate RNA synthesis in vitro. The host factor was previously purified to near homogeneity from HeLa cells but was not assigned an enzymatic activity. This report describes the purification of a terminal uridylyltransferase that can act as host factor. By all crite...

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

authors： Andrews NC,Baltimore D

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell of the bacterium Escherichia coli was tethered covalently to a glass coverslip by a single flagellum, and its rotation was stopped by using optical tweezers. The tweezers acted directly on the cell body or indirectly, via a trapped polystyrene bead. The torque generated by the flagellar motor was determined by ...

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

authors： Berry RM,Berg HC

更新日期：1997-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The three members of the Brn-3 family of POU domain transcription factors are found in highly restricted sets of central nervous system neurons. Within the retina, these factors are present only within subsets of ganglion cells. We show here that in the developing mouse retina, Brn-3b protein is first observed in pres...

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

authors： Gan L,Xiang M,Zhou L,Wagner DS,Klein WH,Nathans J

更新日期：1996-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The mode of binding of the competitive inhibitor 2-benzyl-3-formylpropanoic acid to the active site of carboxypeptidase A has been studied by x-ray diffraction methods to a resolution of 1.7 A. The actual species bound to the enzyme was determined to be the gem-diol resulting from covalent hydration at the aldehyde ca...

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

authors： Christianson DW,Lipscomb WN

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chimeric mouse-human antibody has been created that recognizes an antigen found on the surface of cells from many carcinomas. Immunoglobulin constant (C) domains of the mouse monoclonal antibody L6, C gamma 2a and C kappa, were substituted by the human C gamma 1 and C kappa by recombining cDNA modules encoding varia...

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

authors： Liu AY,Robinson RR,Hellström KE,Murray ED Jr,Chang CP,Hellström I

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The exo isomer of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) 8,9-epoxide appears to be the only product of AFB1 involved in reaction with DNA and reacts with the N7 atom of guanine via an SN2 reaction from an intercalated state. Although the epoxide hydrolyzes rapidly in H2O (0.6 s-1 at 25 degrees C), very high yields of DNA adduct result. ...

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

authors： Johnson WW,Guengerich FP

更新日期：1997-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of studies have noted that nucleotide substitution rates at the chloroplast-encoded rbcL locus violate the molecular clock principle. Substitution rate variation at this plastid gene is particularly pronounced between palms and grasses; for example, a previous study estimated that substitution rates in rbcL s...

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

authors： Gaut BS,Morton BR,McCaig BC,Clegg MT

更新日期：1996-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of antibodies to extravasate out of blood vessels is critical for therapeutic activity, because molecular targets for most diseases are located outside of the endothelial lining. By performing detailed biodistribution studies with a novel IL9-armed cancer-specific antibody, we identified a clear correlatio...

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

authors： Venetz D,Hess C,Lin CW,Aebi M,Neri D

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Zea mays L. ssp. mays, or corn, one of the most important crops and a model for plant genetics, has a genome approximately 80% the size of the human genome. To gain global insight into the organization of its genome, we have sequenced the ends of large insert clones, yielding a cumulative length of one-eighth of the g...

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

authors： Messing J,Bharti AK,Karlowski WM,Gundlach H,Kim HR,Yu Y,Wei F,Fuks G,Soderlund CA,Mayer KF,Wing RA

更新日期：2004-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of matching variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) profiles to link suspects with crimes is potentially very powerful, but it has been quite controversial. Initial debate over laboratory procedures has largely given way to debate over the statistical and population genetic issues involved in calculating the f...

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

authors： Weir BS

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Egg activation is the process by which a mature oocyte becomes capable of supporting embryo development. In vertebrates and echinoderms, activation is induced by fertilization. Molecules introduced into the egg by the sperm trigger progressive release of intracellular calcium stores in the oocyte. Calcium wave(s) spre...

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

authors： Kaneuchi T,Sartain CV,Takeo S,Horner VL,Buehner NA,Aigaki T,Wolfner MF

更新日期：2015-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Expansins are unusual proteins discovered by virtue of their ability to mediate cell wall extension in plants. We identified cDNA clones for two cucumber expansins on the basis of peptide sequences of proteins purified from cucumber hypocotyls. The expansin cDNAs encode related proteins with signal peptides predicted ...

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

authors： Shcherban TY,Shi J,Durachko DM,Guiltinan MJ,McQueen-Mason SJ,Shieh M,Cosgrove DJ

更新日期：1995-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We postulated that a synergistic combination of two innate immune functions, pathogen surface recognition and lysis, in a protein chimera would lead to a robust class of engineered antimicrobial therapeutics for protection against pathogens. In support of our hypothesis, we have engineered such a chimera to protect ag...

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

authors： Dandekar AM,Gouran H,Ibáñez AM,Uratsu SL,Agüero CB,McFarland S,Borhani Y,Feldstein PA,Bruening G,Nascimento R,Goulart LR,Pardington PE,Chaudhary A,Norvell M,Civerolo E,Gupta G

更新日期：2012-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) is an antiviral effector of the innate immune system. Viruses that can interfere with NO synthesis may be able to replicate more rapidly than viruses that cannot limit NO synthesis. We show that the adenovirus E1A protein inhibits NO production by decreasing expression of the inducible NO synthase (N...

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

authors： Cao W,Bao C,Lowenstein CJ

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA microarrays comprising approximately 95% of the Bacillus subtilis annotated protein coding ORFs were deployed to generate a series of snapshots of genomewide transcriptional changes that occur when cells are grown under various conditions that are expected to increase or decrease transcription of the trp operon se...

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

authors： Berka RM,Cui X,Yanofsky C

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We described previously a mutation in maize, hcf106, caused by the insertion of a Mu1 transposon. When the Mu transposon system is in an active phase, hcf106 conditions a nonphotosynthetic, pale green phenotype. However, when the Mu system is inactive (a state correlated with hypermethylation of Mu elements), the plan...

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

authors： Barkan A,Martienssen RA

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00