Heritable major histocompatibility complex class II-associated differences in production of tumor necrosis factor alpha: relevance to genetic predisposition to systemic lupus erythematosus.

abstract：:The substrate specificity of thermophilic xylose isomerase from Clostridium thermosulfurogenes was examined by using predictions from the known crystal structure of the Arthrobacter enzyme and site-directed mutagenesis of the thermophile xylA gene. The orientation of glucose as a substrate in the active site of the th...

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

authors： Meng M,Lee C,Bagdasarian M,Zeikus JG

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symbiotic microbes impact the severity of a variety of diseases through regulation of T-cell development. However, little is known regarding the molecular mechanisms by which this is accomplished. Here we report that a secreted factor, Erdr1, is regulated by the microbiota to control T-cell apoptosis. Erdr1 expression...

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

authors： Soto R,Petersen C,Novis CL,Kubinak JL,Bell R,Stephens WZ,Lane TE,Fujinami RS,Bosque A,O'Connell RM,Round JL

更新日期：2017-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is a multifactorial illness and genetic factors play a role in its etiology. The understanding of its physiopathology relies on the availability of experimental models potentially mimicking the disease. Here we describe a model built up by selective breeding of mice with strikingly different responses in th...

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

authors： El Yacoubi M,Bouali S,Popa D,Naudon L,Leroux-Nicollet I,Hamon M,Costentin J,Adrien J,Vaugeois JM

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In many species that form pair bonds, males display to their mate after pair formation. These displays elevate the female's investment into the brood. This is a form of cooperation because without the display, female investment is reduced to levels that are suboptimal for both sexes. The presence of such displays is p...

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

authors： Servedio MR,Powers JM,Lande R,Price TD

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Rifamycin antibiotics, which inhibit RNA-directed DNA polymerase of Rauscher leuckemia virus, prevent the leukemogenic activity of the virus, and the effect of leukemogenesis correlates with the magnitude of inhibition of the purified enzyme. This inhibition of enzyme activity by rifamycin SV derivatives is due to a r...

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

authors： Wu AM,Ting RC,Gallo RC

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prion protein (PrP) is a scrapie-associated fibril protein that accumulates in the brains of hamsters and mice infected with the scrapie agent, and also in the brains of persons affected with kuru or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. It has been previously proposed that PrP could be either the primary transmissible agent...

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

authors： Locht C,Chesebro B,Race R,Keith JM

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional structure of O,O',N-trimethyl-d-tubocurarine, a neuromuscular blocking agent, has been determined by x-ray crystallography. This may help to provide insight into its pharmacologic action. ...

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

authors： Sobell HM,Sakore TD,Tavale SS,Canepa FG,Pauling P,Petcher TJ

更新日期：1972-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) plays an important role in peroxisome biogenesis; some peroxisomal membrane proteins are inserted into the ER and trafficked to peroxisomes in vesicles. These vesicles could also provide the phospholipids required for the growth of peroxisomal membranes, because peroxisomes lack phosphol...

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

authors： Raychaudhuri S,Prinz WA

更新日期：2008-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli DnaK acts as a molecular chaperone through its ATP-regulated binding and release of polypeptide substrates. Overexpressing a C-terminal fragment (CTF) of DnaK (Gly-384 to Lys-638) containing the polypeptide substrate binding domain is lethal in wild-type E. coli. This dominant-negative phenotype may r...

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

authors： Burkholder WF,Zhao X,Zhu X,Hendrickson WA,Gragerov A,Gottesman ME

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fundamental questions of how lubricant molecules organize into a layered structure under nanometers confinement and what is the interplay between layering and friction are still not well answered in the field of nanotribology. While the phase transition of lubricants during a squeeze-out process under compression ...

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

authors： Xu RG,Leng Y

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Many urological studies rely on models of animals, such as rats and pigs, but their relation to the human urinary system is poorly understood. Here, we elucidate the hydrodynamics of urination across five orders of magnitude in body mass. Using high-speed videography and flow-rate measurement obtained at Zoo Atlanta, ...

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

authors： Yang PJ,Pham J,Choo J,Hu DL

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron/sulfur cluster (ISC)-containing proteins are essential components of cells. In most eukaryotes, Fe/S clusters are synthesized by the mitochondrial ISC machinery, the cytosolic iron/sulfur assembly system, and, in photosynthetic species, a plastid sulfur-mobilization (SUF) system. Here we show that the anaerobic h...

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

authors： Tsaousis AD,Ollagnier de Choudens S,Gentekaki E,Long S,Gaston D,Stechmann A,Vinella D,Py B,Fontecave M,Barras F,Lukeš J,Roger AJ

更新日期：2012-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the ability of macrophages and B cells to function as antigen-presenting cells (APCs) for murine TH1 and TH2 cloned T helper cell lines. Antigen presented by concanavalin A-elicited peritoneal macrophages or resting splenic B cells stimulated antigen-dependent proliferation of both T helper subsets. Parafo...

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

authors： Weaver CT,Hawrylowicz CM,Unanue ER

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have tried to find out why Ascaris hemoglobin has such an exceptionally high oxygen affinity (P50 approximately 0.004 mmHg; 1 mmHg = 133 Pa). Following Kloek et al., we have synthesized the N-terminal globin domain of Ascaris hemoglobin in Escherichia coli [Kloek, A. P., Yang, J., Mathews, F. S. & Goldberg, D. (199...

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

authors： De Baere I,Perutz MF,Kiger L,Marden MC,Poyart C

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Current evidence suggests that the length of poly(A) tails of bacterial mRNAs result from a competition between poly(A) polymerase and exoribonucleases that attack the 3' ends of RNAs. Here, we show that host factor Hfq is also involved in poly(A) tail metabolism. Inactivation of the hfq gene reduces the length of pol...

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

authors： Hajnsdorf E,Régnier P

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of human papillomavirus (HPV) and activated oncogenes on the growth and morphology of primary baby mouse kidney (BMK) cells has been studied. Early region DNA from HPV types 16, 18, 31, and 33, but not type 6, under the transcriptional control of a heterologous, retroviral promoter cooperated with EJ-ras to...

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

authors： Crook T,Storey A,Almond N,Osborn K,Crawford L

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is not a single pharmaceutical that halts or even slows any neurodegenerative disease. Mounting evidence shows that prions cause many neurodegenerative diseases, and arguably, scrapie and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease prions represent the best therapeutic targets. We report here that the previously identified 2-amin...

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

authors： Berry DB,Lu D,Geva M,Watts JC,Bhardwaj S,Oehler A,Renslo AR,DeArmond SJ,Prusiner SB,Giles K

更新日期：2013-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhomboid domain-containing protein 3 (Rhbdd3), which belongs to a family of proteins with rhomboid domain, is widely expressed in immune cells; however, the roles of the Rhbdd members, including Rhbdd3, in immunity remain unknown. Natural killer (NK) cells are critical for host immune defense and also can mediate infl...

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

authors： Liu J,Liu S,Xia M,Xu S,Wang C,Bao Y,Jiang M,Wu Y,Xu T,Cao X

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The photosynthetic apparatus converts light into chemical energy by a series of reactions that give rise to a coupled flow of electrons and protons that generate reducing power and ATP, respectively. A key intermediate in these reactions is plastoquinone (PQ), the most abundant electron and proton (hydrogen) carrier i...

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

authors： McCauley SW,Melis A,Tang GM,Arnon DI

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate replication in the presence of DNA damage is essential to genome stability and viability in all cells. In Escherichia coli, DNA replication forks blocked by UV-induced damage undergo a partial resection and RecF-catalyzed regression before synthesis resumes. These processing events generate distinct structura...

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

authors： Jeiranian HA,Schalow BJ,Courcelle CT,Courcelle J

更新日期：2013-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Seep sediments are dominated by intensive microbial sulfate reduction coupled to the anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM). Through geochemical measurements of incubation experiments with methane seep sediments collected from Hydrate Ridge, we provide insight into the role of iron oxides in sulfate-driven AOM. Seep sed...

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

authors： Sivan O,Antler G,Turchyn AV,Marlow JJ,Orphan VJ

更新日期：2014-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A spectroscopic interpretation of incoherent neutron scattering experiments is presented which is based on Franck-Condon-type probabilities for scattering-induced transitions between quantum states of the target. The resulting expressions for the scattering functions enable an energy landscape-oriented analysis of neu...

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

authors： Kneller GR

更新日期：2018-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino-terminal sequences of two polypeptides with nonsuppressible insulin-like and cell-growth-promoting activities (NSILA I and II), isolated from human serum, were determined. Of the first 31 residues, 22 are identical in NSILA I and II. Moreover, a striking structural similarity was found between NSILA and insu...

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

authors： Rinderknecht E,Humbel RE

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in metabolic engineering have demonstrated that microbial biosynthesis can provide a viable alternative to chemical synthesis for the production of bulk and fine chemicals. Introduction of a new biosynthetic pathway typically requires the expression of multiple heterologous enzymes in the production ho...

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

authors： Michener JK,Nielsen J,Smolke CD

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A striking and widespread observation is that higher-order folding for many RNAs is very slow, often requiring minutes. In some cases, slow folding reflects the need to disrupt stable, but incorrect, interactions. However, a molecular explanation for slow folding in most RNAs is unknown. The specificity domain of the ...

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

authors： Mortimer SA,Weeks KM

更新日期：2009-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-related hearing loss and noise-induced hearing loss are major causes of human morbidity. Here we used genetics and functional studies to show that a shared cause of these disorders may be loss of function of the ATP-gated P2X(2) receptor (ligand-gated ion channel, purinergic receptor 2) that is expressed in sensor...

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

authors： Yan D,Zhu Y,Walsh T,Xie D,Yuan H,Sirmaci A,Fujikawa T,Wong AC,Loh TL,Du L,Grati M,Vlajkovic SM,Blanton S,Ryan AF,Chen ZY,Thorne PR,Kachar B,Tekin M,Zhao HB,Housley GD,King MC,Liu XZ

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretical considerations predict that amplification of expressed gene transcripts by reverse transcription-PCR using arbitrarily chosen primers will result in the preferential amplification of the central portion of the transcript. Systematic, high-throughput sequencing of such products would result in an expressed ...

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

authors： Dias Neto E,Correa RG,Verjovski-Almeida S,Briones MR,Nagai MA,da Silva W Jr,Zago MA,Bordin S,Costa FF,Goldman GH,Carvalho AF,Matsukuma A,Baia GS,Simpson DH,Brunstein A,de Oliveira PS,Bucher P,Jongeneel CV,O'Hare MJ,

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Life-long protection from disease through immunization can be accomplished through individual or community protection. Individual protection is the goal for vaccination against diseases that have inanimate or animal reservoirs or that pose risks for certain populations. Community protection is the goal for vaccination...

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

authors： Dowdle WR,Orenstein WA

更新日期：1994-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypercholesterolemia, high serum cholesterol in the form of LDL, is a major risk factor for atherosclerosis. LDL is mostly degraded in the liver after its cellular internalization with the LDL receptor (LDLR). This clathrin-mediated endocytosis depends on the protein autosomal recessive hypercholesterolemia (ARH), whi...

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

authors： Dvir H,Shah M,Girardi E,Guo L,Farquhar MG,Zajonc DM

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current epidemic of infections caused by antibiotic-resistant gram-positive bacteria requires the discovery of new drug targets and the development of new therapeutics. Lipoteichoic acid (LTA), a cell wall polymer of gram-positive bacteria, consists of 1,3-polyglycerol-phosphate linked to glycolipid. LTA synthase ...

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

authors： Richter SG,Elli D,Kim HK,Hendrickx AP,Sorg JA,Schneewind O,Missiakas D

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00