Population dynamics of natural antibodies in normal and autoimmune individuals.

abstract：:We deal with the issue of quantifying and optimizing the rotation dynamics of synthetic molecular motors. For this purpose, the continuous four-stage rotation behavior of a typical light-activated molecular motor was measured in detail. All reaction constants were determined empirically. Next, we developed a Markov mo...

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

authors： Geertsema EM,van der Molen SJ,Martens M,Feringa BL

更新日期：2009-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A light beam hitting the retina produces an excitatory process; however, around the edge of the light beam, sensory cells are inhibited and lose their sensitivity. This combination of stimulation and inhibition produces a discrepancy between the luminance pattern presented to the eye and the brightness pattern that is...

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

authors： Von Békésy G

更新日期：1972-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribavirin is a nucleotide analog that can be incorporated by viral polymerases, causing mutations by allowing base mismatches. It is currently used therapeutically as an antiviral drug during hepatitis C virus infections. During the amplification of poliovirus genomic RNA or hepatitis C replicons, error frequency is k...

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

authors： Pfeiffer JK,Kirkegaard K

更新日期：2003-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction and expression of multiple transgenes is frequently required for basic and applied studies. However, at present, multigene transformation is very difficult due to technical limitations of existing methods. Here, we describe a vector system for efficient multigene assembly and transformation. The system co...

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

authors： Lin L,Liu YG,Xu X,Li B

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed a recombinant DNA molecule carrying the coding region and the 3' flanking sequences of the rat preproinsulin I gene, replacing the late region of a simian virus 40 (SV40) viral vector. The sequences making up the single intron of the preproinsulin I gene, located within the nontranslated leader region, ...

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

authors： Gruss P,Efstratiadis A,Karathanasis S,König M,Khoury G

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The location of renin (EC 3.4.99.19) in rat pituitary was determined by the peroxidase-antiperoxidase immunohistochemical technique. By using antisera prepared with purified rat renal renin, an immunoreactive substance was localized within ovoid cells scattered throughout the anterior pituitary. These cells were shown...

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

authors： Naruse K,Takii Y,Inagami T

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show in climate model experiments that large-scale afforestation in northern mid-latitudes warms the Northern Hemisphere and alters global circulation patterns. An expansion of dark forests increases the absorption of solar energy and increases surface temperature, particularly in regions where the land surface is ...

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

authors： Swann AL,Fung IY,Chiang JC

更新日期：2012-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cancers have substantial genomic heterogeneity within a given tumor, and to fully understand that diversity requires the ability to perform single cell analysis. We performed targeted sequencing of a panel of single nucleotide variants (SNVs), deletions, and IgH sequences in 1,479 single tumor cells from six acut...

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

authors： Gawad C,Koh W,Quake SR

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultraviolet (UV)-stimulated nonconservative DNA synthesis has been observed in E. coli rendered permeable to nucleoside triphosphates by exposure to toluene. This synthesis is detected in toluenized cells in which the background of UV-independent DNA synthesis is reduced by use of dnaB mutants temperature-sensitive fo...

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

authors： Masker WE,Hanawalt PC

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular basis of the magnetic sense remains an unsolved scientific mystery. One theory that aims to explain how animals detect the magnetic field is the magnetite hypothesis. It argues that intracellular crystals of the iron oxide magnetite (Fe3O4) are coupled to mechanosensitive channels that elicit neuronal act...

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

authors： Edelman NB,Fritz T,Nimpf S,Pichler P,Lauwers M,Hickman RW,Papadaki-Anastasopoulou A,Ushakova L,Heuser T,Resch GP,Saunders M,Shaw JA,Keays DA

更新日期：2015-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The MHC class I antigen presentation pathway allows the immune system to distinguish between self and nonself. Despite extensive research on the processing of antigenic peptides, little is known about their origin. Here, we show that mRNAs carrying premature stop codons that prevent the production of full-length prote...

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

authors： Apcher S,Daskalogianni C,Lejeune F,Manoury B,Imhoos G,Heslop L,Fåhraeus R

更新日期：2011-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood leukocytes incubated with a semisynthetic phage antibody library and fluorochrome-labeled CD3 and CD20 antibodies were used to isolate human single-chain Fv antibodies specific for subsets of blood leukocytes by flow cytometry. Isolated phage antibodies showed exclusive binding to the subpopulation us...

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

authors： de Kruif J,Terstappen L,Boel E,Logtenberg T

更新日期：1995-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholine is the main neurotransmitter at the mammalian neuromuscular junction (NMJ) where nicotinic acetylcholine receptors mediate the signaling between nerve terminals and muscle fibers. We show that under glutamatergic transmission, rat NMJ switches from cholinergic type synapse to glutamatergic synapse. Conne...

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

authors： Brunelli G,Spano P,Barlati S,Guarneri B,Barbon A,Bresciani R,Pizzi M

更新日期：2005-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:CD31 is an Ig-like molecule expressed by leukocytes and endothelial cells with an established role in the regulation of leukocyte trafficking. Despite genetic deletion of CD31 being associated with exacerbation of T cell-mediated autoimmunity, the contribution of this molecule to T-cell responses is largely unknown. H...

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

authors： Ma L,Mauro C,Cornish GH,Chai JG,Coe D,Fu H,Patton D,Okkenhaug K,Franzoso G,Dyson J,Nourshargh S,Marelli-Berg FM

更新日期：2010-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of oriented, polymerized sickle cell hemoglobin (hemoglobin S) in erythrocytes is visualized with a microscope that produces an image proportional to linear dichroism. Monochromatic light alternately polarized along two perpendicular directions is incident on the sample. The image is focused on a diod...

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

authors： Mickols W,Maestre MF,Tinoco I Jr,Embury SH

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence spectroscopy was used to characterize blue light responses from chloroplasts of adaxial guard cells from Pima cotton (Gossypium barbadense) and coleoptile tips from corn (Zea mays). The chloroplast response to blue light was quantified by measurements of the blue light-induced enhancement of a red light-s...

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

authors： Quiñones MA,Lu Z,Zeiger E

更新日期：1996-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway is central to the metabolic actions of insulin on liver. Here, we show that mice with a liver-specific deletion of the p85alpha regulatory subunit of PI3K (L-Pik3r1KO) exhibit a paradoxical improvement of hepatic and peripheral insulin sensitivity. Although PI3K enzymatic a...

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

authors： Taniguchi CM,Tran TT,Kondo T,Luo J,Ueki K,Cantley LC,Kahn CR

更新日期：2006-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The guanidinium group of arginine-166 has been postulated to act as an electrophilic species during phosphorylation of alkaline phosphatase. Its role could be either to stabilize the developing negative charge on the oxygen of the leaving group or the pentacoordinate transition state or to help bind the -PO2-3 group. ...

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

authors： Butler-Ransohoff JE,Kendall DA,Kaiser ET

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases are central components of signal transduction pathways for cell proliferation, stress responses, and differentiation. Signaling efficiency and specificity are modulated in large part by docking interactions between individual MAP kinase and the kinase interaction motif (KIM), (R...

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

authors： Liu S,Sun JP,Zhou B,Zhang ZY

更新日期：2006-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective lodgement or homing of transplanted hemopoietic stem cells in the recipient's bone marrow (BM) is a critical step in the establishment of long-term hemopoiesis after BM transplantation. However, despite its biologic and clinical significance, little is understood about the process of homing. In the present s...

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

authors： Papayannopoulou T,Craddock C,Nakamoto B,Priestley GV,Wolf NS

更新日期：1995-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of antibodies binding the influenza hemagglutinin (HA) protein to neutralize viral infectivity is of key importance in the design of next-generation vaccines and for prophylactic and therapeutic use. The two antibodies CR6261 and CR8020 have recently been shown to efficiently neutralize influenza A infecti...

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

authors： Otterstrom JJ,Brandenburg B,Koldijk MH,Juraszek J,Tang C,Mashaghi S,Kwaks T,Goudsmit J,Vogels R,Friesen RH,van Oijen AM

更新日期：2014-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Two deletion-substitution mutations of phage lambda, spi-113 and spi-274, are shown to remove about half of the rightward operator OR. Physiological studies show that spi-113 is still repressible. Thus, the 50 or so nucleotides of OR deleted in this mutant are not absolutely essential for repression. prm-116, which in...

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

authors： Smith GR,Eisen H,Reichardt L,Hedgepeth J

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisera directed against human dopamine beta-hydroxylase or serotonin were used to characterize the noradrenergic and serotonergic innervation patterns within the primary visual cortex of the squirrel monkey. The noradrenergic and serotonergic projections exhibit a high degree of laminar complementarity: layers V and...

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

authors： Morrison JH,Foote SL,Molliver ME,Bloom FE,Lidov HG

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclophilins are a family of ubiquitous proteins that are the intracellular target of the immunosuppressant drug cyclosporin A. Although cyclophilins catalyze peptidylprolyl cis-trans isomerization in vitro, it has remained open whether they also perform this function in vivo. Here we show that Cpr3p, a cyclophilin in...

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

authors： Matouschek A,Rospert S,Schmid K,Glick BS,Schatz G

更新日期：1995-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:All immunoglobulins and T-cell receptors throughout phylogeny share regions of highly conserved amino acid sequence. To identify possible primitive immunoglobulins and immunoglobulin-like molecules, we utilized 3' RACE (rapid amplification of cDNA ends) and a highly conserved constant region consensus amino acid seque...

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

authors： Berstein RM,Schluter SF,Shen S,Marchalonis JJ

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence indicates that the modulatory effects of the adrenergic stress hormone epinephrine as well as several other neuromodulatory systems on memory storage are mediated by activation of beta-adrenergic mechanisms in the amygdala. In view of our recent findings indicating that the amygdala is involved in mediating t...

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

authors： Quirarte GL,Roozendaal B,McGaugh JL

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological processes such as circadian rhythms, cell division, metabolism, and development occur as ordered sequences of events. The synchronization of these coordinated events is essential for proper cell function, and hence the determination of critical time points in biological processes is an important component o...

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

authors： Ramakrishnan N,Tadepalli S,Watson LT,Helm RF,Antoniotti M,Mishra B

更新日期：2010-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the identification and cloning of a 28-kDa polypeptide (p28) in Tetrahymena macronuclei that shares several features with the well studied heterochromatin-associated protein HP1 from Drosophila. Notably, like HP1, p28 contains both a chromodomain and a chromoshadow domain. p28 also shares features with linke...

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

authors： Huang H,Wiley EA,Lending CR,Allis CD

更新日期：1998-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the principal energy-transfer pathways responsible for allosteric communication in biomolecules remains challenging, partially due to the intrinsic complexity of the systems and the lack of effective characterization methods. In this work, we introduce the eigenvector centrality metric based on mutual info...

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

authors： Negre CFA,Morzan UN,Hendrickson HP,Pal R,Lisi GP,Loria JP,Rivalta I,Ho J,Batista VS

更新日期：2018-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown that initiation of translation involves several steps. (i) Binding of fMet-tRNA(fMet) to the bacterial 30S ribosomal subunit in the absence of messenger RNA, yielding a 34S complex. This binding is rapid and dependent on initiation factor 2 but not on initiation factor 3. (ii) Binding of messenger RNA to t...

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

authors： Jay G,Kaempfer R

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00