Electrochemical and homogeneous electron transfers to the Alzheimer amyloid-beta copper complex follow a preorganization mechanism.

abstract：:Glucose entry, as measured by 5-min uptake into the acid-soluble fraction, is enhanced 15-30 times by long-term (12-24 hr) hexose starvation of chick fibroblasts. The rate of galactose accumulation in the cells increases only 5 times under the same conditions of starvation. Several carbon and energy sources that were ...

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

authors： Martineau R,Kohlbacher M,Shaw SN,Amos H

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium abscessus (Mabs) is a rapidly growing Mycobacterium and an emerging pathogen in humans. Transitioning from a smooth (S) high-glycopeptidolipid (GPL) producer to a rough (R) low-GPL producer is associated with increased virulence in zebrafish, which involves the formation of massive serpentine cords, absc...

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

authors： Halloum I,Carrère-Kremer S,Blaise M,Viljoen A,Bernut A,Le Moigne V,Vilchèze C,Guérardel Y,Lutfalla G,Herrmann JL,Jacobs WR Jr,Kremer L

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The history of the genus Pan is a topic of enduring interest. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are often divided into subspecies, but the population structure and genetic history of chimpanzees across Africa remain unclear. Some population genetics studies have led to speculation that, until recently, this species consti...

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

authors： Gonder MK,Locatelli S,Ghobrial L,Mitchell MW,Kujawski JT,Lankester FJ,Stewart CB,Tishkoff SA

更新日期：2011-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is specifically overexpressed in tumors of several cancers, including an aggressive form of breast cancer. It is therefore a target for both cancer diagnostics and therapy. The 58 amino acid residue Zher2 affibody molecule was previously engineered as a high-affinity...

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

authors： Eigenbrot C,Ultsch M,Dubnovitsky A,Abrahmsén L,Härd T

更新日期：2010-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously extracted a protein from inflammatory mouse granuloma that fully protects normal mice against lethal Listeria monocytogenes infection. We now report that polyclonal antibodies directed against this protein react with a human urinary fraction that also provides full protection of normal mice against ...

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

authors： Fontan E,Saklani-Jusforgues H,Fauve RM

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidation of molecular hydrogen catalyzed by [NiFe] hydrogenases is a widespread mechanism of energy generation among prokaryotes. Biosynthesis of the H2-oxidizing enzymes is a complex process subject to positive control by H2 and negative control by organic energy sources. In this report we describe a novel signal tr...

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

authors： Lenz O,Friedrich B

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The modern Old World Monkeys (Superfamily Cercopithecoidea, Family Cercopithecidae) can be traced back into the late Miocene, but their origin and subsequent diversification is obscured by the scarcity of terrestrial fossil sites in Africa between 15 and 6 Ma. Here, we document the presence of cercopithecids at 12.5 M...

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

authors： Rossie JB,Gilbert CC,Hill A

更新日期：2013-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The prgB gene encodes the surface protein, Asc10, which mediates cell aggregation, resulting in high-frequency conjugative transfer of the pheromone-inducible tetracycline-resistance plasmid pCF10 in Enterococcus faecalis. Messenger RNA analysis by Northern blot hybridization and primer extension indicates that prgB t...

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

authors： Chung JW,Dunny GM

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the serum proteolytic system plasminogen/plasminogen activator as a biochemical tool used by the glia or neurons, or both, for maintaining their temporary and flexible cellular interactions during histogenesis of the nervous system is under study. The present report identifies a glia cell type, the Schwann...

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

authors： Kalderon N

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A form of autosomal dominant juvenile myoclonic epilepsy is caused by a nonconservative missense mutation, A322D, in the GABAA receptor alpha1 subunit M3 transmembrane helix. We reported previously that the A322D mutation reduced total and surface alpha1(A322D) subunit protein and that residual alpha1(A322D) subunit r...

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

authors： Gallagher MJ,Ding L,Maheshwari A,Macdonald RL

更新日期：2007-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Although many types of ancient bacteria and archea rely on hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S) for their energy production, eukaryotes generate ATP in an oxygen-dependent fashion. We hypothesize that endogenous H(2)S remains a regulator of energy production in mammalian cells under stress conditions, which enables the body to co...

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

authors： Fu M,Zhang W,Wu L,Yang G,Li H,Wang R

更新日期：2012-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of beta cells to endure assaults may be relevant in the development of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. This study examines the susceptibility of human pancreatic islets to agents that are cytotoxic for rodent beta cells--i.e., sodium nitroprusside (NP, a nitric oxide donor), streptozotocin (SZ), or al...

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

authors： Eizirik DL,Pipeleers DG,Ling Z,Welsh N,Hellerström C,Andersson A

更新日期：1994-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquitous gasotransmitter hydrogen sulfide (H2S) has been recognized to play a crucial role in human health. Using cystathionine γ-lyase (CSE)-deficient mice, we demonstrate an unexpected role of H2S in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) pathogenesis. We showed that Mtb-infected CSE-/- mice survive longer than WT m...

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

authors： Rahman MA,Cumming BM,Addicott KW,Pacl HT,Russell SL,Nargan K,Naidoo T,Ramdial PK,Adamson JH,Wang R,Steyn AJC

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Various compounds that affect signal transduction regulate the relative utilization of alternative processing pathways for the beta-amyloid precursor protein (beta APP) in intact cells, increasing the production of nonamyloidogenic soluble beta APP (s beta APP) and decreasing that of amyloidogenic beta-amyloid peptide...

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

authors： Xu H,Sweeney D,Greengard P,Gandy S

更新日期：1996-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Remarkable progress has come from whole-brain models linking anatomy and function. Paradoxically, it is not clear how a neuronal dynamical system running in the fixed human anatomical connectome can give rise to the rich changes in the functional repertoire associated with human brain function, which is impossible to ...

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

authors： Kringelbach ML,Cruzat J,Cabral J,Knudsen GM,Carhart-Harris R,Whybrow PC,Logothetis NK,Deco G

更新日期：2020-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:p150Glued was first identified as a polypeptide that copurifies with cytoplasmic dynein, the minus-end-directed microtubule-based motor protein, and has more recently been shown to be present as a member of the oligomeric dynactin complex, which includes the actin-related protein centractin (Arp-1). Dynactin is though...

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

authors： Waterman-Storer CM,Karki S,Holzbaur EL

更新日期：1995-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Prions are thought to replicate in an autocatalytic process that converts cellular prion protein (PrP(C)) to the disease-associated misfolded PrP isoform (PrP(Sc)). Our study scrutinizes this hypothesis by in vitro protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA). In serial transmission PMCA experiments, PrP(Sc) was ino...

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

authors： Bieschke J,Weber P,Sarafoff N,Beekes M,Giese A,Kretzschmar H

更新日期：2004-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells expressing chimeric antigen receptors (CAR T cells) have shown impressive therapeutic efficacy against leukemias and lymphomas. However, they have not been as effective against solid tumors because they become hyporesponsive ("exhausted" or "dysfunctional") within the tumor microenvironment, with decreased cyt...

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

authors： Seo H,Chen J,González-Avalos E,Samaniego-Castruita D,Das A,Wang YH,López-Moyado IF,Georges RO,Zhang W,Onodera A,Wu CJ,Lu LF,Hogan PG,Bhandoola A,Rao A

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurobiological theories of awareness propose divergent accounts of the spatial extent of brain changes that support conscious perception. Whereas focal theories posit mostly local regional changes, global theories propose that awareness emerges from the propagation of neural signals across a broad extent of sensory a...

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

authors： Godwin D,Barry RL,Marois R

更新日期：2015-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of toxic oligomers during the aggregation of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide Aβ42 into amyloid fibrils and plaques has emerged as a central feature of the onset and progression of Alzheimer's disease, but the molecular pathways that control pathological aggregation have proved challenging to identify. Here, ...

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

authors： Cohen SI,Linse S,Luheshi LM,Hellstrand E,White DA,Rajah L,Otzen DE,Vendruscolo M,Dobson CM,Knowles TP

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary obstacle to producing renewable fuels from lignocellulosic biomass is a plant's recalcitrance to releasing sugars bound in the cell wall. From a sample set of wood cores representing 1,100 individual undomesticated Populus trichocarpa trees, 47 extreme phenotypes were selected across measured lignin conten...

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

authors： Studer MH,DeMartini JD,Davis MF,Sykes RW,Davison B,Keller M,Tuskan GA,Wyman CE

更新日期：2011-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardin and the myocardin-related transcription factors (MRTFs) A and B act as coactivators for serum response factor, which plays a key role in cardiovascular development. To determine the functions of MRTF-B in vivo, we generated MRTF-B mutant mice by targeted inactivation of the MRTF-B gene. We show that mice hom...

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

authors： Oh J,Richardson JA,Olson EN

更新日期：2005-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a Kappa-on-Heavy (KoH) mouse that produces a class of highly diverse, fully human, antibody-like agents. This mouse was made by replacing the germline variable sequences of both the Ig heavy-chain (IgH) and Ig kappa (IgK) loci with the human IgK germline variable sequences, producing antibody-like molecule...

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

authors： Macdonald LE,Meagher KA,Franklin MC,Levenkova N,Hansen J,Badithe AT,Zhong M,Krueger P,Rafique A,Tu N,Shevchuk J,Wadhwa S,Ehrlich G,Bautista J,Grant C,Esau L,Poueymirou WT,Auerbach W,Morton L,Babb R,Chen G,Huang

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhinoviruses (RVs) are the major causes of common colds in humans. They have a nonenveloped, icosahedral capsid surrounding a positive-strand RNA genome. Here we report that the antigen-binding (Fab) fragment of a neutralizing antibody (C5) can trigger genome release from RV-B14 to form emptied particles and neutraliz...

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

authors： Dong Y,Liu Y,Jiang W,Smith TJ,Xu Z,Rossmann MG

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The adult brain exhibits a local increase in cortical blood flow in response to external stimulus. However, broadly varying hemodynamic responses in the brains of newborn and young infants have been reported. Particular controversy exists over whether the "true" neonatal response to stimulation consists of a decrease ...

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

authors： Kozberg MG,Chen BR,DeLeo SE,Bouchard MB,Hillman EM

更新日期：2013-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A molecular dynamics study was performed to compare the differences in the active-site dynamics of the wild-type and W137F mutant enzymes of 4-chlorobenzoyl-CoA dehalogenase. Only in the wild-type simulation are conformations formed between the catalytic Asp-145 and 4-chlorobenzoyl-CoA, which resemble the ab initio ca...

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

authors： Lau EY,Bruice TC

更新日期：2001-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of messages initiated by one receptor on the covalent modification of a second receptor were studied by use of a technique for rapidly separating the receptors. Methylation of the bacterial-chemotactic serine receptor increases as a result of aspartate binding to the aspartate receptor. The aspartate-induc...

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

authors： Sanders DA,Koshland DE Jr

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of electron-nuclear double resonance and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) studies on the hydrogen peroxide compound of yeast cytochrome c peroxidase are inconsistent with previous proposals for the source of the EPR signal in this compound, in particular with its identification with an aromatic amino ...

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

authors： Hoffman BM,Roberts JE,Brown TG,Kang CH,Margoliash E

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:n-Type Si electrodes in MeOH solvent with 0.2 M (1-hydroxyethyl)ferrocene, 0.5 mM (1-hydroxyethyl)ferricenium, and 1.0 M LiClO(4) exhibit air mass 2 conversion efficiencies of 10.1% for optical energy into electricity. We observe open-circuit voltages of 0.53 V and short-circuit quantum efficiencies for electron flow ...

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

authors： Gronet CM,Lewis NS,Cogan G,Gibbons J

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth hormone (GH) has previously been implicated in T-cell development, and here we test its efficacy in promoting T-lymphocyte engraftment in mice with severe combined immune deficiency (SCID). SCID mice receiving syngeneic thymocytes and treated with recombinant human GH (rhGH) had significantly better T-cell engr...

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

authors： Murphy WJ,Durum SK,Longo DL

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00