The distinct surface of human blood dendritic cells, as observed after an improved isolation method.

abstract：:For 2 < k [abstract: see text] we define lifts of cuspidal Poincaré series in S(k)(Gamma(0)(N)) to weight 2 - k harmonic weak Maass forms. This construction answers a question of Dyson by providing the general framework "explaining" Ramanujan's mock theta functions. As an application, we show that the number of partit...

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

authors： Bringmann K,Ono K

更新日期：2007-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new forms of carboxypeptidase B have been isolated from spontaneously activated bovine pancreatic juice. The fully active enzymes contain an internal split at residues 92-93 and 95-96, respectively. Sequenator analysis of the amino terminal segments of the two chains of the enzyme has extended the sequence informa...

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

authors： Reeck GR,Walsh KA,Hermodson MA,Neurath H

更新日期：1971-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After prolonged visual adaptation of Drosophila, dramatic long-term changes of in vitro phosphorylation of a 50-kDa brain protein that is identical to the Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (EC 2.7.1.37) can be measured in isolated heads. By selective receptor cell desensitization in blue light, subcellular dist...

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

authors： Willmund R,Mitschulat H,Schneider K

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Venom peptide toxins such as conotoxins play a critical role in the characterization of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) structure and function and have potential as nervous system therapeutics as well. However, the lack of solved structures of conotoxins bound to nAChRs and the large size of these peptides ar...

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

authors： Leffler AE,Kuryatov A,Zebroski HA,Powell SR,Filipenko P,Hussein AK,Gorson J,Heizmann A,Lyskov S,Tsien RW,Poget SF,Nicke A,Lindstrom J,Rudy B,Bonneau R,Holford M

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The total amounts of type I and type II cytoplasmic cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase activities were measured in various tissues of intact rats and rats subjected to castration, hypophysectomy, or adrenalectomy. After castration, the total amount of type I activity decreased rapidly in classifically steroid-respons...

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

authors： Fuller DJ,Byus CV,Russell DH

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the end of World War II, much evidence has accrued of the primary phase of village-farming community life in Southwestern Asia, which began about 7000 B.C. The remains of (usually) several of the positively domesticated animals (dog, sheep, goat, pig) and plants (wheat, barley, legumes such as peas and lentils) ...

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

authors： Braidwood RJ,Cambel H,Redman CL,Watson PJ

更新日期：1971-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal detoxification is essential for bacteria's survival in adverse environments and their pathogenesis in hosts. Understanding the underlying mechanisms is crucial for devising antibacterial treatments. In the Gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli, membrane-bound sensor CusS and its response regulator CusR togeth...

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

authors： Fu B,Sengupta K,Genova LA,Santiago AG,Jung W,Krzemiński Ł,Chakraborty UK,Zhang W,Chen P

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent findings suggest that neurons can efficiently repair oxidatively damaged DNA, and that both DNA damage and repair are enhanced by activation of excitatory glutamate receptors. However, in pathological conditions such as ischemic stroke, excessive DNA damage can trigger the death of neurons. Oxidative DNA damage...

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

authors： Canugovi C,Yoon JS,Feldman NH,Croteau DL,Mattson MP,Bohr VA

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies have shown that high olive oil intake reduces blood pressure (BP). These positive effects of olive oil have frequently been ascribed to its minor components, such as alpha-tocopherol, polyphenols, and other phenolic compounds that are not present in other oils. However, in this study we demonstrate th...

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

authors： Terés S,Barceló-Coblijn G,Benet M,Alvarez R,Bressani R,Halver JE,Escribá PV

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA extracted from Dane particles has been characterized by gel electrophoresis and restriction enzyme cleavage with endonuclease R-HaeIII (from Hemophilus aegyptius). Dane particle DNA is proposed to be a double-stranded circular DNA approximately 3600 nucleotides in length containing a single-stranded gap of 600-210...

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

authors： Summers J,O'Connell A,Millman I

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gold nanoparticles quench the fluorescence of cationic polyfluorene with Stern-Volmer constants (KSV) approaching 1011 M-1, several orders of magnitude larger than any previously reported conjugated polymer-quencher pair and 9-10 orders of magnitude larger than small molecule dye-quencher pairs. The dependence of KSV ...

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

authors： Fan C,Wang S,Hong JW,Bazan GC,Plaxco KW,Heeger AJ

更新日期：2003-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:General optimization results from physics indicate that maximum efficiency of a process, in the sense of minimum overall entropy production, is achieved when the rate of entropy production is constant over time, however not in ordinary clock time but on an, in general varying, "eigen time" scale, intrinsic to the syst...

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

authors： Andresen B,Shiner JS,Uehlinger DE

更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A paradox in bone tissue is that tissue-level strains due to animal and human locomotion are too small to initiate intracellular chemical responses directly. A model recently was proposed to resolve this paradox, which predicts that the fluid flow through the pericellular matrix in the lacunar-canalicular porosity due...

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

authors： Han Y,Cowin SC,Schaffler MB,Weinbaum S

更新日期：2004-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the adeno-associated virus (AAV-2) has been determined to 3-A resolution by x-ray crystallography. AAV is being developed as a vector for gene therapy to treat diseases including hemophilia, cancer, and cystic fibrosis. As in the distantly related autonomous parvoviruses, the capsid protein has a beta...

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

authors： Xie Q,Bu W,Bhatia S,Hare J,Somasundaram T,Azzi A,Chapman MS

更新日期：2002-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We present ab initio calculations of the phase diagram of liquid CO(2) and its melting curve over a wide range of pressure and temperature conditions, including those relevant to the Earth. Several distinct liquid phases are predicted up to 200 GPa and 10,000 K based on their structural and electronic characteristics....

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

authors： Boates B,Teweldeberhan AM,Bonev SA

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrical block to fertilization of sea urchin eggs can be overcome by very brief periods of inside-negative egg membrane potential. Lytechinus pictus eggs whose membrane potentials have been clamped at +15 mV cannot be fertilized. If the membrane potential is repolarized to inside-negative voltages for a brief i...

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

authors： Shen SS,Steinhardt RA

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-based therapies are attractive for revascularizing and regenerating tissues and organs, but clinical trials of endothelial progenitor cell transplantation have not resulted in consistent benefit. We propose a different approach in which a material delivery system is used to create a depot of vascular progenitor c...

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

authors： Silva EA,Kim ES,Kong HJ,Mooney DJ

更新日期：2008-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage N4 minivirion RNA polymerase (mini-vRNAP), the RNA polymerase (RNAP) domain of vRNAP, is a member of the T7-like RNAP family. Mini-vRNAP recognizes promoters that comprise conserved sequences and a 3-base loop-5-base pair (bp) stem DNA hairpin structure on single-stranded templates. Here, we defined the ...

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

authors： Davydova EK,Santangelo TJ,Rothman-Denes LB

更新日期：2007-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we report on studies of the nature of the dynamics and hydrophobic binding in cyclodextrins and human serum albumin protein complexes with orange II. With femtosecond time resolution, we examined the proton-transfer and trans-cis isomerization reactions of the ligand in these nanocavities and in pure sol...

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

authors： Douhal A,Sanz M,Tormo L

更新日期：2005-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The process by which cells select one of several specific programs of genetic information in development was examined in homoeotic mutant Antennapedia of Rappaport in Drosophila melanogaster. The results show that the alteration of determination from antenna to leg induced by this homoeotic mutation occurs in a popula...

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

authors： Postlethwait JH,Schneiderman HA

更新日期：1969-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the penis, nitric oxide (NO) can be formed by both neuronal NO synthase and endothelial NOS (eNOS). eNOS is activated by viscous drag/shear stress in blood vessels to produce NO continuously, a process mediated by the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3kinase)/Akt pathway. Here we show that PI3-kinase/Akt physiologi...

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

authors： Hurt KJ,Musicki B,Palese MA,Crone JK,Becker RE,Moriarity JL,Snyder SH,Burnett AL

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the manner in which the sea urchin larva takes up calcium from its body cavity into the primary mesenchymal cells (PMCs) that are responsible for spicule formation. We used the membrane-impermeable fluorescent dye calcein and alexa-dextran, with or without a calcium channel inhibitor, and imaged the la...

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

authors： Vidavsky N,Addadi S,Schertel A,Ben-Ezra D,Shpigel M,Addadi L,Weiner S

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the crystal structure of the RuvB motor protein from Thermus thermophilus HB8, which drives branch migration of the Holliday junction during homologous recombination. RuvB has a crescent-like architecture consisting of three consecutive domains, the first two of which are involved in ATP binding and hyd...

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

authors： Yamada K,Kunishima N,Mayanagi K,Ohnishi T,Nishino T,Iwasaki H,Shinagawa H,Morikawa K

更新日期：2001-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been controversial whether the cytochrome oxidase (CO)-dense blobs in primate primary visual cortex (V1) and CO-dense thin stripes in visual area 2 (V2) are parts of a cortical color-processing stream that is segregated from other functional streams. One of the key pieces of evidence for the segregated color st...

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

authors： Xiao Y,Felleman DJ

更新日期：2004-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The past two decades have seen an enormous growth in the field of human brain mapping. Investigators have extensively exploited techniques such as positron emission tomography and MRI to map patterns of brain activity based on changes in cerebral hemodynamics. However, until recently, most studies have investigated eq...

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

authors： Rosen BR,Buckner RL,Dale AM

更新日期：1998-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In the United States, the iconic groundfish fishery for Gulf of Maine cod has endured several dramatic reductions in annual catch limits and been federally declared an economic disaster. Using a repeated cross-sectional survey of fishing captains to assess potential social impacts of the fishery failure, we found that...

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

authors： Scyphers SB,Picou JS,Grabowski JH

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Three approaches were used to study hybridization of complementary oligodeoxynucleotides by nonradiative fluorescence resonance energy transfer. (i) Fluorescein (donor) and rhodamine (acceptor) were covalently attached to the 5' ends of complementary oligodeoxynucleotides of various lengths. Upon hybridization of the ...

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

authors： Cardullo RA,Agrawal S,Flores C,Zamecnik PC,Wolf DE

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics investigation of the guanidinoacetate methyltransferase catalyzed reaction, which shows that proton transfer from guanidinoacetate (GAA) to Asp-134 and methyl transfer from S-adenosyl-L-methionine (AdoMet) to GAA are concerted. By self-consistent-charge density funct...

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

authors： Zhang X,Bruice TC

更新日期：2006-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain src protooncogene is expressed in two forms, one identical to message in other tissues, and one containing an 18-nucleotide insert specific to brain. We have mapped mRNA for the two forms of src in rat brain with selective antisense oligonucleotide probes to the brain (src+) and peripheral (src-) forms. Fetal ra...

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

authors： Ross CA,Wright GE,Resh MD,Pearson RC,Snyder SH

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of in vitro resistance to HN2 (also called mustargen or mechlorethamine hydrochloride), N,N'-bis(2-chloroethyl)-N-nitrosourea (BCNU), and cisplatin [cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II)] was achieved in two human cell lines, the Raji/Burkitt lymphoma and a squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue. A 10- to 20-fol...

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

authors： Frei E 3rd,Cucchi CA,Rosowsky A,Tantravahi R,Bernal S,Ervin TJ,Ruprecht RM,Haseltine WA

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00