Qualitative and quantitative assessment of meningococcal antigens to evaluate the potential strain coverage of protein-based vaccines.

abstract：:Four synthetic peptides that together constitute the cell attachment domain of fibronectin [Pierschbacher, M.D., Ruoslahti, E., Sundelin, J., Lind, P. & Peterson, P. (1982) J. Biol. Chem. 257, 9593-9597] were constructed and tested for their ability to induce cell attachment and spreading. One of these peptides, consi...

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

authors： Pierschbacher M,Hayman EG,Ruoslahti E

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli RuvA and RuvB protein complex promotes branch migration of Holliday junctions during recombinational repair and homologous recombination and at stalled replication forks. The RuvB protein belongs to the AAA(+) (ATPase associated with various cellular activities) ATPase family and forms a hexameric...

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

authors： Hishida T,Han YW,Fujimoto S,Iwasaki H,Shinagawa H

更新日期：2004-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Donor DNA molecules carrying Tn1 or Tn3 deletion mutants do not need to replicate in order to participate in replicon fusion recombination events during which the Tn1/Tn3 element is duplicated. We have assayed Tn1 delta Ap-mediated replicon fusion events involving plasmid R388 and the bacteriophage lambda-derived plas...

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

authors： Muster CJ,Shapiro JA,MacHattie LA

更新日期：1983-04-01 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：:Dimension reduction methods are commonly applied to high-throughput biological datasets. However, the results can be hindered by confounding factors, either biological or technical in origin. In this study, we extend principal component analysis (PCA) to propose AC-PCA for simultaneous dimension reduction and adjustme...

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

authors： Lin Z,Yang C,Zhu Y,Duchi J,Fu Y,Wang Y,Jiang B,Zamanighomi M,Xu X,Li M,Sestan N,Zhao H,Wong WH

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of viable genetic chimeras in mammals through the transfer of cells between siblings in utero is rare. Using microsatellite DNA markers, we show here that chimerism in marmoset (Callithrix kuhlii) twins is not limited to blood-derived hematopoietic tissues as was previously described. All somatic tissue ...

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

authors： Ross CN,French JA,Ortí G

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Single cortical neurons in the mammalian brain receive signals arising from multiple sensory input channels. Dendritic integration of these afferent signals is critical in determining the amplitude and time course of the neurons' output signals. As of yet, little is known about the spatial and temporal organization of...

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

authors： Varga Z,Jia H,Sakmann B,Konnerth A

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-free extracts of nifF and nifJ mutants of Klebsiella pneumoniae are unable to couple acetylene reduction (N2 fixation) by nitrogenase to the oxidation of organic metabolites. However, nifF and nifJ mutants can complement each other in vitro to establish the coupling. This indicates that the products of the nifF a...

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

authors： Nieva-Gómez D,Roberts GP,Klevickis S,Brill WJ

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a multinanosecond molecular dynamics study of a bio-nano complex formed by a carbon nanoparticle, a buckyball C(60), and a biological molecule, an antibody, with high binding affinity and specificity. In the simulation, the ball is completely desolvated by the binding site of the antibody by means of a nearly ...

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

authors： Noon WH,Kong Y,Ma J

更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to retain in an in situ system the control mechanisms involved in synthesis of bacteriophage T4 DNA, infected cells were made permeable to nucleotides by plasmolysis with concentrated sucrose. Such preparations use exogenous deoxyribonucleotides to synthesize T4 phage DNA. As has been observed with in vivo st...

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

authors： Wovcha MG,Tomich PK,Chiu CS,Greenberg GR

更新日期：1973-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many of the world's around 6,000 languages are in danger of disappearing as people give up use of a minority language in favor of the majority language in a process called language shift. Language shift can be monitored on a large scale through the use of mathematical models by way of differential equations, for examp...

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

authors： Prochazka K,Vogl G

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant inhibition of spermatogenesis and appearance of antibodies against spermatogenic cells identified by cytotoxicity and immunofluorescence reactions were observed in mice of inbred strains 129/Sv and BALB/c and in albino guinea pigs after syngeneic, allogeneic, and xenogeneic immunization with mouse F9 embry...

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

authors： Vojtiskova M,Pokorna Z,Draber P

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have synthesized 175-nucleotide-long probes for the DNA of human histocompatibility antigens HLA-DR alpha and beta by extending on poly(A)+ mRNA from B-cell lines with short synthetic deoxyribonucleotide primers complementary to the predicted nucleotide sequence of the NH2 terminus of both polypeptides. The synthes...

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

authors： Das HK,Biro PA,Cohen SN,Erlich HA,von Gabain A,Lawrance SK,Lemaux PG,McDevitt HO,Peterlin BM,Schulz MF,Sood AK,Weissman SM

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eIF2alpha kinases are a family of evolutionarily conserved serine/threonine kinases that regulate stress-induced translational arrest. Here, we demonstrate that the yeast eIF2alpha kinase, GCN2, the target phosphorylation site of Gcn2p, Ser-51 of eIF2alpha, and the eIF2alpha-regulated transcriptional transactivato...

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

authors： Tallóczy Z,Jiang W,Virgin HW 4th,Leib DA,Scheuner D,Kaufman RJ,Eskelinen EL,Levine B

更新日期：2002-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The Amazon rainforest is the Earth's largest reservoir of plant and animal diversity, and it has been subjected to especially high rates of land use change, primarily to cattle pasture. This conversion has had a strongly negative effect on biological diversity, reducing the number of plant and animal species and homog...

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

authors： Rodrigues JL,Pellizari VH,Mueller R,Baek K,Jesus Eda C,Paula FS,Mirza B,Hamaoui GS Jr,Tsai SM,Feigl B,Tiedje JM,Bohannan BJ,Nüsslein K

更新日期：2013-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of beta-nerve growth factor (betaNGF) was studied in mouse submaxillary glands incubated with L-[(35)S]cystine. betaNGF was isolated from tissue extracts by the addition of antiserum against betaNGF and the washed immunoprecipitates were analyzed by sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis. With sho...

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

authors： Berger EA,Shooter EM

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What are the origins of humans' capacity to represent social relations? We approached this question by studying human infants' understanding of social dominance as a stable relation. We presented infants with interactions between animated agents in conflict situations. Studies 1 and 2 targeted expectations of stabilit...

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

authors： Mascaro O,Csibra G

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the sequence of full-length chicken triosephosphate isomerase (D-glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate ketol-isomerase, EC 5.3.1.1) mRNA based on the analysis of cDNA and genomic clones. To isolate cDNA clones encoding the enzyme, we screened a muscle cDNA library with radioactively labeled cDNA made from RNA that had...

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

authors： Straus D,Gilbert W

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viruses modulate biochemical cellular pathways to permit infection. A recently described mechanism mediates selective protein interactions between acidic domain readers and unacetylated, lysine-rich regions, opposite of bromodomain function. Kaposi´s sarcoma (KS)-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is tightly linked with KS...

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

authors： Juillard F,de Miranda MP,Li S,Franco A,Seixas AF,Liu B,Álvarez ÁL,Tan M,Szymula A,Kaye KM,Simas JP

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferric uptake regulation protein (Fur) is a bacterial global regulator that uses iron as a cofactor to bind to specific DNA sequences. The function of Fur is not limited to iron homeostasis. A wide variety of genes involved in various mechanisms such as oxidative and acid stresses are under Fur control. Flavohemoglobi...

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

authors： D'Autreaux B,Touati D,Bersch B,Latour JM,Michaud-Soret I

更新日期：2002-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:As long-term changes in life expectancy and fertility drive the emergence of aging societies across the globe, individual countries vary widely in the development of age-relevant policies and programs. While failure to adapt to the demographic transformation carries not only important financial risks but also social r...

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

authors： Chen C,Goldman DP,Zissimopoulos J,Rowe JW,Research Network on an Aging Society.

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A diverse range of neural cell types is generated from a pool of dividing stem and progenitor cells in an orderly manner during development. Little is known of the molecular and cellular biology underpinning the intrinsic control of this process. We have used a nonbiased method to purify populations of neural progenit...

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

authors： Livesey FJ,Young TL,Cepko CL

更新日期：2004-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The size and metabolic rate of cells affect processes from the molecular to the organismal level. We present a quantitative, theoretical framework for studying relationships among cell volume, cellular metabolic rate, body size, and whole-organism metabolic rate that helps reveal the feedback between these levels of o...

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

authors： Savage VM,Allen AP,Brown JH,Gillooly JF,Herman AB,Woodruff WH,West GB

更新日期：2007-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The cationic conductances of purified bovine retinal rod membranes were studied by incorporation of vesicles into planar lipid bilayers. When the membranes were stripped of all peripheral proteins [guanine nucleotide-binding protein (G protein) and cGMP phosphodiesterase (3',5'-cyclic-GMP 5'-nucleotidohydrolase), EC 3...

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

authors： Bennett N,Ildefonse M,Crouzy S,Chapron Y,Clerc A

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenic species of Yersinia contain the transcriptional regulator RovA. In Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Yersinia enterocolitica, RovA regulates expression of the invasion factor invasin (inv), which mediates translocation across the intestinal epithelium. A Y. enterocolitica rovA mutant has a significant dec...

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

authors： Cathelyn JS,Crosby SD,Lathem WW,Goldman WE,Miller VL

更新日期：2006-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Many current treatments for the reclamation of contaminated water sources are chemical-intensive, energy-intensive, and/or require posttreatment due to unwanted by-product formation. We demonstrate that through the integration of nanostructured materials, enzymatic catalysis, and iron-catalyzed free radical reactions ...

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

authors： Lewis SR,Datta S,Gui M,Coker EL,Huggins FE,Daunert S,Bachas L,Bhattacharyya D

更新日期：2011-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:c-Mpl, a member of the hematopoietic cytokine receptor family, is the receptor for thrombopoietin. To investigate signal transduction by c-Mpl, a chimeric receptor, composed of the extracellular domain of human growth hormone receptor and the intracellular domain of c-Mpl, was introduced into the interleukin 3-depende...

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

authors： Gurney AL,Wong SC,Henzel WJ,de Sauvage FJ

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The modulation of K+ channels by serotonin (5-HT) receptors was studied by coinjecting Xenopus oocytes with mRNA transcribed in vitro from a cloned 5-HT 1C subtype (5-HT1C) receptor gene, together with size-fractionated mRNA isolated from rat cerebral cortex that expresses K+ channels. After intracellular loading with...

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

authors： Panicker MM,Parker I,Miledi R

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene-transfer approach was used to explore the function of the BCL2 (B-cell lymphoma/leukemia 2) gene in a human T-cell line, Jurkat. Though stable introduction of a BCL2 expression plasmid into Jurkat T cells was by itself insufficient, the combined transfer of BCL2 and MYC genes markedly enhanced the tumorigenicit...

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

authors： Reed JC,Cuddy M,Haldar S,Croce C,Nowell P,Makover D,Bradley K

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using both heterologous rabbit antisera and mouse monoclonal antibody to RNA.DNA hybrids, we have mapped the in situ hybridization locus of the 18/28S ribosomal RNA fraction to a single large band on polytene autosome 3 in Drosophila heteroneura and Drosophila silvestris. This portion of the chromosome is not physical...

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

authors： Stuart WD,Bishop JG,Carson HL,Frank MB

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00