Photosensitized destruction of human bladder carcinoma cells treated with chlorin e6-conjugated microspheres.

abstract：:Matching ATP:NADPH provision and consumption in the chloroplast is a prerequisite for efficient photosynthesis. In terms of ATP:NADPH ratio, the amount of ATP generated from the linear electron flow does not meet the demand of the Calvin-Benson-Bassham (CBB) cycle. Several different mechanisms to increase ATP availabi...

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

authors： Voon CP,Guan X,Sun Y,Sahu A,Chan MN,Gardeström P,Wagner S,Fuchs P,Nietzel T,Versaw WK,Schwarzländer M,Lim BL

更新日期：2018-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been recognized since ancient times that malaria fever is highly periodic but the mechanism has been poorly understood. Malaria fever is related to the parasite growth cycle in erythrocytes. After a fixed period of replication, a mature parasite (schizont) causes the infected erythrocyte to rupture, releasing p...

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

authors： Kwiatkowski D,Nowak M

更新日期：1991-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:As the most prototypical G protein-coupled receptor, beta-adrenergic receptor (betaAR) regulates the pace and strength of heart beating by enhancing and synchronizing L-type channel (LCC) Ca(2+) influx, which in turn elicits greater sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca(2+) release flux via ryanodine receptors (RyRs). Howeve...

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

authors： Zhou P,Zhao YT,Guo YB,Xu SM,Bai SH,Lakatta EG,Cheng H,Hao XM,Wang SQ

更新日期：2009-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:G protein-gated inwardly rectifying potassium (GIRK) channels are critical regulators of neuronal excitability and can be directly activated by ethanol. Constitutive deletion of the GIRK3 subunit has minimal phenotypic consequences, except in response to drugs of abuse. Here we investigated how the GIRK3 subunit contr...

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

authors： Herman MA,Sidhu H,Stouffer DG,Kreifeldt M,Le D,Cates-Gatto C,Munoz MB,Roberts AJ,Parsons LH,Roberto M,Wickman K,Slesinger PA,Contet C

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Tryptophan biosynthesis is subject to exquisite control in species of Bacillus and has become one of the best-studied model systems in gene regulation. The protein TRAP (trp RNA-binding attenuation protein) predominantly forms a ring-shaped 11-mer, which binds cognate RNA in the presence of tryptophan to suppress expr...

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

authors： Watanabe M,Heddle JG,Kikuchi K,Unzai S,Akashi S,Park SY,Tame JR

更新日期：2009-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Explaining the maintenance of tropical forest diversity under the countervailing forces of drift and competition poses a major challenge to ecological theory. Janzen-Connell effects, in which host-specific natural enemies restrict the recruitment of juveniles near conspecific adults, provide a potential mechanism. Jan...

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

authors： Levi T,Barfield M,Barrantes S,Sullivan C,Holt RD,Terborgh J

更新日期：2019-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Human infants are predisposed to rapidly acquire their native language. The nature of these predispositions is poorly understood, but is crucial to our understanding of how infants unpack their speech input to recover the fundamental word-like units, assign them referential roles, and acquire the rules that govern the...

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

authors： Shukla M,White KS,Aslin RN

更新日期：2011-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate energy transport through an alpha-aminoisobutyric acid-based 3(10)-helix dissolved in chloroform in a combined experimental-theoretical approach. Vibrational energy is locally deposited at the N terminus of the helix by ultrafast internal conversion of a covalently attached, electronically excited, azob...

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

authors： Botan V,Backus EH,Pfister R,Moretto A,Crisma M,Toniolo C,Nguyen PH,Stock G,Hamm P

更新日期：2007-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of misfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) triggers the unfolded protein response (UPR), an intracellular signaling pathway that adjusts the protein folding capacity of the ER according to need. If homeostasis in the ER protein folding environment cannot be reestablished, cells commit to apop...

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

authors： Li H,Korennykh AV,Behrman SL,Walter P

更新日期：2010-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1A diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disorder the risk of which is increased by specific HLA DR/DQ alleles [e.g., DRB1*03-DQB1*0201 (DR3) or DRB1*04-DQB1*0302 (DR4)]. The genotype associated with the highest risk for T1D is the DR3/4-DQ8 (DQ8 is DQA1*0301, DQB1*0302) heterozygous genotype. We determined HLA-DR and ...

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

authors： Aly TA,Ide A,Jahromi MM,Barker JM,Fernando MS,Babu SR,Yu L,Miao D,Erlich HA,Fain PR,Barriga KJ,Norris JM,Rewers MJ,Eisenbarth GS

更新日期：2006-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Psoralens linked to triplex-forming oligonucleotides (psoTFOs) have been used in conjunction with laser-induced two-photon excitation (TPE) to damage a specific DNA target sequence. To demonstrate that TPE can initiate photochemistry resulting in psoralen-DNA photoadducts, target DNA sequences were incubated with psoT...

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

authors： Oh DH,King BA,Boxer SG,Hanawalt PC

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiapoptotic Bcl-2 family members interact with inositol trisphosphate receptor (InsP3R) Ca(2+)release channels in the endoplasmic reticulum to modulate Ca(2+)signals that affect cell viability. However, the molecular details and consequences of their interactions are unclear. Here, we found that Bcl-xL activates sin...

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

authors： Yang J,Vais H,Gu W,Foskett JK

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyomavirus enhancer is composed of multiple DNA sequence elements serving as binding sites for proteins present in mouse nuclear extracts that activate transcription and DNA replication. We have identified three such proteins and their binding sites and correlate them with enhancer function. Mutation of nucleoti...

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

authors： Martin ME,Piette J,Yaniv M,Tang WJ,Folk WR

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New experiments using scanning probe microcopies and advanced optical methods allow us to study molecules as individuals, not just as populations. The findings of these studies not only include the confirmation of results expected from studies of bulk matter, but also give substantially new information concerning the ...

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

authors： Bai C,Wang C,Xie XS,Wolynes PG

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A major question in plant physiology is how the large amount of sucrose made in leaves is transported to the rest of the plant. Although physiological, biochemical, and anatomical investigations have been performed in this field, to date there have been very few genetic studies. Using a reverse genetic screen, we have...

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

authors： Gottwald JR,Krysan PJ,Young JC,Evert RF,Sussman MR

更新日期：2000-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A major problem facing the effective treatment of patients with cancer is how to get the specific antitumor agent into every tumor cell. In this report we describe the use of a strategy that, by using retroviral vectors encoding a truncated human CD5 cDNA, allows the selection of only the infected cells, and we show t...

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

authors： García-Hernández B,Castellanos A,López A,Orfao A,Sánchez-García I

更新日期：1997-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent expeditions to the Fayum Depression, Egypt, have made possible the discovery of mandibles and a maxilla of a new genus and species of late Eocene elephant-shrew as well as initial evidence of the upper dentition of the early Oligocene taxon Metoldobotes. These fossils demonstrate that macroscelideans underwent ...

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

authors： Simons EL,Holroyd PA,Bown TM

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cathepsin B (CTSB) is overexpressed in tumors of the lung, prostate, colon, breast, and stomach. However, evidence of primary genomic alterations in the CTSB gene during tumor initiation or progression has been lacking. We have found a novel amplicon at 8p22-23 that results in CTSB overexpression in esophageal adenoca...

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

authors： Hughes SJ,Glover TW,Zhu XX,Kuick R,Thoraval D,Orringer MB,Beer DG,Hanash S

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasectomy is a well accepted global contraceptive approach frequently associated with epididymal granuloma and sperm autoantibody formation. To understand the long-term sequelae of vasectomy, we investigated the early immune response in vasectomized mice. Vasectomy leads to rapid epithelial cell apoptosis and necrosis...

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

authors： Wheeler K,Tardif S,Rival C,Luu B,Bui E,Del Rio R,Teuscher C,Sparwasser T,Hardy D,Tung KS

更新日期：2011-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Foreign DNA molecules and chromosomal fragments are generally eliminated from proliferating cells, but we know little about how mammalian cells prevent their propagation. Here, we show that dividing human and canine cells partition transfected plasmid DNA asymmetrically, preferentially into the daughter cell harboring...

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

authors： Wang X,Le N,Denoth-Lippuner A,Barral Y,Kroschewski R

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Trial electron density functions have some conceptual and computational advantages over wave functions. The properties of some simple density functions for H(+) (2) and H(2) are examined. It appears that for a diatomic molecule a good density function would be given by rho = N(A(2) + B(2)), in which A and B are short ...

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

authors： Pearson RG,Palke WE

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is a progressive inflammatory disease of the pancreas, leading to its fibrotic destruction. There are currently no drugs that can stop or slow the progression of the disease. The etiology of the disease is multifactorial, whereas recurrent attacks of acute pancreatitis are thought to precede ...

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

authors： Hao W,Komar HM,Hart PA,Conwell DL,Lesinski GB,Friedman A

更新日期：2017-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A glycoprotein was isolated and purified to homogeneity from the serum of a patient with chronic non-A, non-B hepatitis. NaDodSO4/PAGE of the glycoprotein revealed a single major band at Mr approximately 77,000. Antibodies to this glycoprotein were shown to possess the following immunoreactivity: (i) they reacted by r...

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

authors： Seto B,Gerety RJ

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of founder events in promoting evolutionary changes on islands has been a subject of long-running controversy. Resolution of this debate has been hindered by a lack of empirical evidence from naturally founded island populations. Here we undertake a genetic analysis of a series of historically documente...

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

authors： Clegg SM,Degnan SM,Kikkawa J,Moritz C,Estoup A,Owens IP

更新日期：2002-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cDNAs encoding two human receptors for retinoic acid (RA), RAR-alpha and RAR-beta, have been characterized recently. Synthetic peptides corresponding to the cDNA-deduced amino acid sequences unique to RAR-alpha and RAR-beta were used to generate anti-RAR-alpha antiserum (SP171) and anti-RAR-beta antisera (SP172 an...

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

authors： Gaub MP,Lutz Y,Ruberte E,Petkovich M,Brand N,Chambon P

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unqualified, the statement that approximately 1.3% of the approximately 10,000 presently known bird species have become extinct since A.D. 1500 yields an estimate of approximately 26 extinctions per million species per year (or 26 E/MSY). This is higher than the benchmark rate of approximately 1 E/MSY before human imp...

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

authors： Pimm S,Raven P,Peterson A,Sekercioglu CH,Ehrlich PR

更新日期：2006-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:G9a is an epigenetic regulator that methylates H3K9, generally causing repression of gene expression, and participates in diverse cellular functions. G9a is genetically deregulated in a variety of tumor types and can silence tumor suppressor genes and, therefore, is important for carcinogenesis. Although hypoxia is re...

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

authors： Casciello F,Al-Ejeh F,Kelly G,Brennan DJ,Ngiow SF,Young A,Stoll T,Windloch K,Hill MM,Smyth MJ,Gannon F,Lee JS

更新日期：2017-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Inwardly rectifying potassium (K(+)) channels gated by G proteins (Kir3.x family) are widely distributed in neuronal, atrial, and endocrine tissues and play key roles in generating late inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, slowing the heart rate and modulating hormone release. They are directly activated by G(betagamma...

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

authors： Leaney JL,Tinker A

更新日期：2000-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The adrenergic receptors (ARs) (subtypes alpha 1, alpha 2, beta 1, and beta 2) are a prototypic family of guanine nucleotide binding regulatory protein-coupled receptors that mediate the physiological effects of the hormone epinephrine and the neurotransmitter norepinephrine. We have previously assigned the genes for ...

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

authors： Yang-Feng TL,Xue FY,Zhong WW,Cotecchia S,Frielle T,Caron MG,Lefkowitz RJ,Francke U

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in mice indicate that the gut microbiota promotes energy harvest and storage from components of the diet when these components are plentiful. Here we examine how the microbiota shapes host metabolic and physiologic adaptations to periods of nutrient deprivation. Germ-free (GF) mice and mice who had received a ...

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

authors： Crawford PA,Crowley JR,Sambandam N,Muegge BD,Costello EK,Hamady M,Knight R,Gordon JI

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00