The microRNA-21-PDCD4 axis prevents type 1 diabetes by blocking pancreatic beta cell death.

abstract：:Classification within the genus Pistacia has been based on leaf morphology and geographical distribution. Molecular genetic tools (PCR amplification followed by restriction analysis of a 3.2-kb region of variable chloroplast DNA, and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of the Pistacia cpDNA with tobacco ...

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

authors： Parfitt DE,Badenes ML

更新日期：1997-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase subunit PIK3CA is frequently mutated in human cancers. Here we used gene targeting to "knock in" PIK3CA mutations into human breast epithelial cells to identify new therapeutic targets associated with oncogenic PIK3CA. Mutant PIK3CA knockin cells were capable of epidermal growth facto...

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

authors： Gustin JP,Karakas B,Weiss MB,Abukhdeir AM,Lauring J,Garay JP,Cosgrove D,Tamaki A,Konishi H,Konishi Y,Mohseni M,Wang G,Rosen DM,Denmeade SR,Higgins MJ,Vitolo MI,Bachman KE,Park BH

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a forward-mutation assay based on the inactivation of the tetracycline-resistance gene located on plasmid pBR322, we have determined the mutation spectrum induced in Escherichia coli by cisplatin [cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II)], a widely used antitumor drug. Cisplatin is known to form mainly intrastrand diadd...

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

authors： Burnouf D,Duane M,Fuchs RP

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sublocalized the yeast nucleoporin Nup82 to the cytoplasmic side of the nuclear pore complex (NPC) by immunoelectron microscopy. Moreover, by in vitro binding assays we showed that Nup82 interacts with the C-terminal region of Nup159, a yeast nucleoporin that previously was also localized to the cytoplasmic side of...

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

authors： Hurwitz ME,Strambio-de-Castillia C,Blobel G

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) Tat protein suppresses antigen-induced, but not mitogen-induced, activation of human T cells when added to T-cell cultures [Viscidi, R. P., Mayur, K., Lederman, H. M. & Frankel, A. D. (1989) Science 246, 1606-1608]. This activity is potentially pertinent to the development of...

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

authors： Gutheil WG,Subramanyam M,Flentke GR,Sanford DG,Munoz E,Huber BT,Bachovchin WW

更新日期：1994-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Peace River is one of the few shocked members of the L-chondrites clan that contains both high-pressure polymorphs of olivine, ringwoodite and wadsleyite, in diverse textures and settings in fragments entrained in shock-melt veins. Among these settings are complete olivine porphyritic chondrules. We encountered few sq...

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

authors： Miyahara M,El Goresy A,Ohtani E,Nagase T,Nishijima M,Vashaei Z,Ferroir T,Gillet P,Dubrovinsky L,Simionovici A

更新日期：2008-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal rabies control has been frustrated by the existence of multiple wildlife reservoirs and the lack of efficacious oral vaccines. In this investigation, raccoons fed a vaccinia-rabies glycoprotein recombinant virus in a sponge bait developed rabies virus-neutralizing antibody (0.6-54.0 units) and resisted street r...

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

authors： Rupprecht CE,Wiktor TJ,Johnston DH,Hamir AN,Dietzschold B,Wunner WH,Glickman LT,Koprowski H

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human major histocompatibility complex encodes three classical class I antigens, HLA-A, -B, and -C. Of these HLA-A and -B act as strong transplantation antigens and as restriction molecules for recognition of foreign antigen by cytotoxic T lymphocytes. In contrast, little is known about HLA-C and it is not clear w...

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

authors： Dill O,Kievits F,Koch S,Ivanyi P,Hämmerling GJ

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate calculations of force generated and of ATP flux, in steady isotonic contractions, are made on a simple, two-state muscle model of the sliding filament type. The objective is to illustrate the proper formulation and use of a complete and self-consistent molecular model of muscle. Otherwise, the model is not me...

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

authors： Chen YD,Hill TL

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We characterize a sonic hedgehog (Shh) signaling domain restricted to the adventitial layer of artery wall that supports resident Sca1-positive vascular progenitor cells (AdvSca1). Using patched-1 (Ptc1(lacZ)) and patched-2 (Ptc2(lacZ)) reporter mice, adventitial Shh signaling activity was first detected at embryonic ...

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

authors： Passman JN,Dong XR,Wu SP,Maguire CT,Hogan KA,Bautch VL,Majesky MW

更新日期：2008-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:PIK3CA mutations are reported to be present in approximately 25% of breast cancer (BC), particularly the estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) and HER2-overexpressing (HER2+) subtypes, making them one of the most common genetic aberrations in BC. In experimental models, these mutations have been shown to activate AKT and i...

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

authors： Loi S,Haibe-Kains B,Majjaj S,Lallemand F,Durbecq V,Larsimont D,Gonzalez-Angulo AM,Pusztai L,Symmans WF,Bardelli A,Ellis P,Tutt AN,Gillett CE,Hennessy BT,Mills GB,Phillips WA,Piccart MJ,Speed TP,McArthur GA,Sotiriou

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NRSF/REST is a protein that silences transcription of a number of genes that contain a DNA element called the neuron-restrictive silencer element (NRSE). During embryogenesis, REST is expressed ubiquitously in nonneural cells, but is down-regulated during differentiation of neural progenitors into neurons. REST is als...

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

authors： Koenigsberger C,Chicca JJ 2nd,Amoureux MC,Edelman GM,Jones FS

更新日期：2000-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin (IL)-33 is an important member of the IL-1 family that has pleiotropic activities in innate and adaptive immune responses in host defense and disease. It signals through its ligand-binding primary receptor ST2 and IL-1 receptor accessory protein (IL-1RAcP), both of which are members of the IL-1 receptor fa...

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

authors： Liu X,Hammel M,He Y,Tainer JA,Jeng US,Zhang L,Wang S,Wang X

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Several domains of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein have been identified that are involved in HIV-1-mediated membrane fusion. One domain that is involved in membrane fusion is the hydrophobic amino terminus of the HIV-1 transmembrane glycoprotein gp41. Here we show that a polar sub...

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

authors： Freed EO,Delwart EL,Buchschacher GL Jr,Panganiban AT

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerobic glycolysis in yeast and cancer cells produces pyruvate beyond oxidative needs, a paradox noted by Warburg almost a century ago. To address this question, we reanalyzed extensive measurements from (13)C magnetic resonance spectroscopy of yeast glycolysis and the coupled pathways of futile cycling and glycogen a...

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

authors： Shulman RG,Rothman DL

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of color categories in the world's languages is contested. One major view holds that color categories are organized around universal focal colors, whereas an opposing view holds instead that categories are defined at their boundaries by linguistic convention. Both of these standardly opposed views are chall...

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

authors： Regier T,Kay P,Khetarpal N

更新日期：2007-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Gap junctions are specialized membrane regions that seem to mediate intercellular communication. They appear to contain closely packed arrays of equally sized particles all of which, upon freeze-cleaving, remain attached to one membrane leaflet and not to the other. One gap junction cleavage face, therefore, always ex...

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

authors： Staehelin LA

更新日期：1972-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports of structural differences between the brains of men and women, heterosexual and homosexual men, and male-to-female transsexuals and other men have been offered as evidence that the behavioral differences between these groups are likely caused by differences in the early development of the brain. However, a pos...

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

authors： Cooke BM,Tabibnia G,Breedlove SM

更新日期：1999-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Various biological processes exhibit characteristics that vary dramatically in response to different input conditions or changes in the history of the process itself. One of the examples studied here, the Ras-PKC-mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) bistable pathway, follows two distinct dynamics (modes) depending ...

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

authors： Barbano PE,Spivak M,Feng J,Antoniotti M,Mishra B

更新日期：2005-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-gated KCNQ1 (Kv7.1) potassium channels are expressed abundantly in heart but they are also found in multiple other tissues. Differential coassembly with single transmembrane KCNE beta subunits in different cell types gives rise to a variety of biophysical properties, hence endowing distinct physiological roles...

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

authors： Yu H,Lin Z,Mattmann ME,Zou B,Terrenoire C,Zhang H,Wu M,McManus OB,Kass RS,Lindsley CW,Hopkins CR,Li M

更新日期：2013-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:An earthquake of magnitude M and linear source dimension L(M) is preceded within a few years by certain patterns of seismicity in the magnitude range down to about (M - 3) in an area of linear dimension about 5L-10L. Prediction algorithms based on such patterns may allow one to predict approximately 80% of strong eart...

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

authors： Keilis-Borok VI

更新日期：1996-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 289,868 locus tests, based on 28 different protein phenotypes and using one-dimensional electrophoresis to detect variant proteins, has yielded one probable mutation in the offspring of "proximally exposed" parents, who received an estimated average gonadal exposure of 31 to 39 rem in the atomic bombings of...

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

authors： Neel JV,Satoh C,Hamilton HB,Otake M,Goriki K,Kageoka T,Fujita M,Neriishi S,Asakawa J

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction method with precise control of hydrostatic conditions, typically with helium or neon as the pressure-transmitting medium, has significantly changed our view on what happens with low-density silica phases under pressure. Coesite is a prototype material for pressure-induced...

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

authors： Liu W,Wu X,Liang Y,Liu C,Miranda CR,Scandolo S

更新日期：2017-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors that elevate amyloid-beta (Abeta) peptide levels are associated with an increased risk for Alzheimer's disease. Insulysin has been identified as one of several proteases potentially involved in Abeta degradation based on its hydrolysis of Abeta peptides in vitro. In this study, in vivo levels of brain Abeta40 ...

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

authors： Miller BC,Eckman EA,Sambamurti K,Dobbs N,Chow KM,Eckman CB,Hersh LB,Thiele DL

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress-induced structural remodeling in the adult hippocampus, involving debranching and shortening of dendrites and suppression of neurogenesis, provides a cellular basis for understanding the impairment of neural plasticity in the human hippocampus in depressive illness. Accordingly, reversal of structural remodelin...

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

authors： Czéh B,Michaelis T,Watanabe T,Frahm J,de Biurrun G,van Kampen M,Bartolomucci A,Fuchs E

更新日期：2001-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A pH-dependent transition between delocalized and trapped mixed valence states of an engineered CuA center in azurin has been investigated by UV-visible absorption and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopic techniques. At pH 7.0, the CuA azurin displays a typical delocalized mixed valence dinuclear [Cu(1.5).......

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

authors： Hwang HJ,Lu Y

更新日期：2004-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a heterogeneous degenerative motor neuron disease linked to numerous genetic mutations in apparently unrelated proteins. These proteins, including SOD1, TDP-43, and FUS, are highly aggregation-prone and form a variety of intracellular inclusion bodies that are characteristic of d...

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

authors： Ciryam P,Lambert-Smith IA,Bean DM,Freer R,Cid F,Tartaglia GG,Saunders DN,Wilson MR,Oliver SG,Morimoto RI,Dobson CM,Vendruscolo M,Favrin G,Yerbury JJ

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine whether the vascular smooth muscle contractile effect of NG-methyl-L-arginine (NMA) is endothelium dependent and attributed to a decline in smooth muscle levels of cyclic GMP. Vascular smooth muscle levels of cyclic GMP are severalfold greater in endothelium-intact than in ...

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

authors： Gold ME,Wood KS,Byrns RE,Fukuto J,Ignarro LJ

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seismic magnitudes determined from surface and body waves for the Soviet underground nuclear explosion of September 14, 1988, are used to calculate the yield of that event from previously derived calibration curves. The yield obtained by combining the two seismic estimates is 113 kilotons, which is very close to those...

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

authors： Sykes LR,Ekström G

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria commonly grow in densely populated surface-bound communities, termed biofilms, where they gain benefits including superior access to nutrients and resistance to environmental insults. The secretion of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), which bind bacterial collectives together, is ubiquitously associat...

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

authors： Nadell CD,Bassler BL

更新日期：2011-08-23 00:00:00