Bifidobacterial surface-exopolysaccharide facilitates commensal-host interaction through immune modulation and pathogen protection.

abstract：:Local tissue stem cells have been described in airways of the lung but their contribution to normal epithelial maintenance is currently unknown. We therefore developed aggregation chimera mice and a whole-lung imaging method to determine the relative contributions of progenitor (Clara) and bronchiolar stem cells to ep...

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

authors： Giangreco A,Arwert EN,Rosewell IR,Snyder J,Watt FM,Stripp BR

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Aire induces ectopic expression of peripheral tissue antigens (PTAs) in thymic medullary epithelial cells, which promotes immunological tolerance. Beginning with a broad screen of histone peptides, we demonstrate that the mechanism by which this single factor controls the transcription of thousands of genes involves r...

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

authors： Koh AS,Kuo AJ,Park SY,Cheung P,Abramson J,Bua D,Carney D,Shoelson SE,Gozani O,Kingston RE,Benoist C,Mathis D

更新日期：2008-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-cycle progression is mediated by a co-ordinated interaction between cyclin-dependent kinases and their target proteins including the pRB and E2F/DP-1 complexes. Immunoneutralization and antisense experiments have established that the abundance of cyclin D1, a regulatory subunit of the cyclin-dependent kinases, ma...

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

authors： Watanabe G,Howe A,Lee RJ,Albanese C,Shu IW,Karnezis AN,Zon L,Kyriakis J,Rundell K,Pestell RG

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:ClpB is a ring-forming, ATP-dependent protein disaggregase that cooperates with the cognate Hsp70 system to recover functional protein from aggregates. How ClpB harnesses the energy of ATP binding and hydrolysis to facilitate the mechanical unfolding of previously aggregated, stress-damaged proteins remains unclear. H...

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

authors： Biter AB,Lee S,Sung N,Tsai FT

更新日期：2012-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the use of engineered ribozymes to shuffle exon cassettes in vitro. Specifically, we have designed derivatives of a group II intron that insert into selected sites in the human tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) mRNA. The insertion reaction links t-PA sequences to the group II intron sequences so that trans...

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

authors： Mikheeva S,Jarrell KA

更新日期：1996-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Inherited colorectal cancer syndromes in humans exhibit regional specificity for tumor formation. By using mice with germline mutations in the adenomatous polyposis coli gene (Apc) and/or DNA mismatch repair genes, we have analyzed the genetic control of tumor regionality in the mouse small intestine. In C57BL/6 mice ...

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

authors： Haigis KM,Hoff PD,White A,Shoemaker AR,Halberg RB,Dove WF

更新日期：2004-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral nerve injury induces a robust proregenerative program that drives axon regeneration. While many regeneration-associated genes are known, the mechanisms by which injury activates them are less well-understood. To identify such mechanisms, we performed a loss-of-function pharmacological screen in cultured adu...

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

authors： Karney-Grobe S,Russo A,Frey E,Milbrandt J,DiAntonio A

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage 434 encodes a repressor that, like bacteriophage lambda repressor, both activates and represses transcription. As in the lambda chromosome, a region of the 434 chromosome, called the right operator, contains three repressor binding sites (OR1, OR2, and OR3) that mediate these effects on two adjacent prom...

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

authors： Bushman FD,Ptashne M

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced personalized medical diagnostics depend on the availability of high-quality biological samples. These are typically biofluids, such as blood, saliva, or urine; and their collection and storage is critical to obtain reliable results. Without proper temperature regulation, protein biomarkers in particular can d...

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

authors： Kluge JA,Li AB,Kahn BT,Michaud DS,Omenetto FG,Kaplan DL

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Depolarization of neuroblastoma cells causes a 70-fold increase in the apparent dissociation constant KD for scorpion toxin enhancement of activation of the action potential Na+ ionophore by veratridine and a large increase in the rate of reversal of scorpion toxin action. Depolarization also inhibits binding of 125I-...

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

authors： Catterall WA,Ray R,Morrow CS

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the plant Nicotiana plumbaginifolia, manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) is synthesized in the cytoplasm as a preprotein and is subsequently translocated to the mitochondrial matrix with corresponding cleavage of an NH2-terminal leader sequence. To determine whether the plant enzyme could replace the endogenous ...

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

authors： Bowler C,Alliotte T,Van den Bulcke M,Bauw G,Vandekerckhove J,Van Montagu M,Inzé D

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stability of an immunogen against enzymatic degradation is considered an important factor for the design of synthetic vaccines. For our studies, we have selected an epitope from the tandem-repeat unit of the high-molecular-weight MUC2 mucin glycoprotein, which can be underglycosylated in case of colon cancer. In t...

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

authors： Tugyi R,Uray K,Iván D,Fellinger E,Perkins A,Hudecz F

更新日期：2005-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkin functions as a multipurpose E3 ubiquitin ligase, and Parkin loss of function is associated with both sporadic and familial Parkinson's disease (PD). We report that the Bin/Amphiphysin/Rvs (BAR) domain of protein interacting with PRKCA1 (PICK1) bound to the really interesting new gene 1 (RING1) domain of Parkin ...

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

authors： He J,Xia M,Yeung PKK,Li J,Li Z,Chung KK,Chung SK,Xia J

更新日期：2018-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence from three studies reveals a critical difference in self-control as a function of political ideology. Specifically, greater endorsement of political conservatism (versus liberalism) was associated with greater attention regulation and task persistence. Moreover, this relationship is shown to stem from varying...

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

authors： Clarkson JJ,Chambers JR,Hirt ER,Otto AS,Kardes FR,Leone C

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of previous strength training can be long-lived, even after prolonged subsequent inactivity, and retraining is facilitated by a previous training episode. Traditionally, such "muscle memory" has been attributed to neural factors in the absence of any identified local memory mechanism in the muscle tissue. We h...

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

authors： Bruusgaard JC,Johansen IB,Egner IM,Rana ZA,Gundersen K

更新日期：2010-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In polyandrous species, fathers benefit from attracting greater maternal investment toward their offspring at the expense of the offspring of other males, while mothers should usually allocate resources equally among offspring. This conflict can lead to an evolutionary arms race between the sexes, manifested through a...

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

authors： Raunsgard A,Opedal ØH,Ekrem RK,Wright J,Bolstad GH,Armbruster WS,Pélabon C

更新日期：2018-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In autotrophically grown Chlorella cells, glucose induces a hexose transport system but, at the same time, the synthesis of two amino acid transport systems is also induced. Thus, the rates of uptake of glycine, L-alanine, L-proline, and L-serine, all of which compete with each other for entry into the cells, increase...

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

authors： Cho BH,Sauer N,Komor E,Tanner W

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of adenosine and adenosine analogs on adenylate cyclases from several tissues have been examined. Two adenosine-reactive sites have been identified: (i) the "R" site, occupancy of which usually leads to activation of cyclase and which requires integrity of the ribose ring for activity, and (ii) the "P" sit...

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

authors： Londos C,Wolff J

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNase T2 enzymes are conserved in most eukaryotic genomes, and expression patterns and phylogenetic analyses suggest that they may carry out an important housekeeping role. However, the nature of this role has been elusive. Here we show that RNS2, an intracellular RNase T2 from Arabidopsis thaliana, is essential for n...

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

authors： Hillwig MS,Contento AL,Meyer A,Ebany D,Bassham DC,Macintosh GC

更新日期：2011-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete soybean leghemoglobin lbc(3) gene was transferred into the legume Lotus corniculatus using an Agrobacterium rhizogenes vector system. Organ-specific expression of the soybean gene was observed in root nodules formed on regenerated transgenic plants after infection with Rhizobium loti. The primary transcri...

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

authors： Stougaard J,Petersen TE,Marcker KA

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of 6 days' s.c. infusions of angiotensin II at increasing doses was determined on the uptake of rat or human low density lipoprotein (LDL) and of human fibrinogen by aorta in normal and spontaneously hypertensive rats. Rat or human LDL or human fibrinogen was injected i.v. 5 days after the start of infusion...

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

authors： Cardona-Sanclemente LE,Medina R,Born GV

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The acid-sensing ion channel 1a (ASIC1a) is abundantly expressed in the amygdala complex and other brain regions associated with fear. Studies of mice with a disrupted ASIC1 gene suggested that ASIC1a may contribute to learned fear. To test this hypothesis, we generated mice overexpressing human ASIC1a by using the pa...

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

authors： Wemmie JA,Coryell MW,Askwith CC,Lamani E,Leonard AS,Sigmund CD,Welsh MJ

更新日期：2004-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Stressful events evoke long-term changes in behavioral responses; however, the underlying mechanisms in the brain are not well understood. Previous work has shown that epigenetic changes and immediate-early gene (IEG) induction in stress-activated dentate gyrus (DG) granule neurons play a crucial role in these behavio...

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

authors： Saunderson EA,Spiers H,Mifsud KR,Gutierrez-Mecinas M,Trollope AF,Shaikh A,Mill J,Reul JM

更新日期：2016-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of androgen receptor (AR) via androgen in muscle cells has been closely linked to their growth and differentiation. Here, we report the cloning and characterization of supervillin (SV), a 205-kDa actin-binding protein, as an AR coregulator from the skeletal muscle cDNA library. Mammalian two-hybrid and glut...

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

authors： Ting HJ,Yeh S,Nishimura K,Chang C

更新日期：2002-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a tumor suppressor syndrome characterized by benign tumors in multiple organs, including the brain and kidney. TSC-associated tumors exhibit hyperactivation of mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1), a direct inhibitor of autophagy. Autophagy can either promote or inhibit ...

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

authors： Parkhitko A,Myachina F,Morrison TA,Hindi KM,Auricchio N,Karbowniczek M,Wu JJ,Finkel T,Kwiatkowski DJ,Yu JJ,Henske EP

更新日期：2011-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Sorting objects and events into categories and concepts is a fundamental cognitive capacity that reduces the cost of learning every particular situation encountered in our daily lives. Relational concepts such as "same," "different," "better than," or "larger than"--among others--are essential in human cognition becau...

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

authors： Avarguès-Weber A,Dyer AG,Combe M,Giurfa M

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Misfolded proteins are eliminated from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) by retrotranslocation into the cytosol, a pathway hijacked by certain viruses to destroy MHC class I heavy chains. The translocation of polypeptides across the ER membrane requires their polyubiquitination and subsequent extraction from the membrane...

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

authors： Ye Y,Shibata Y,Kikkert M,van Voorden S,Wiertz E,Rapoport TA

更新日期：2005-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA library derived from human cerebral cortex was screened for the presence of sodium channel alpha subunit-specific clones. Ligation of three overlapping clones generated a full-length cDNA clone, HBA, that provided the complete nucleotide sequence coding for a protein of 2005 amino acids. The predicted structure...

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

authors： Ahmed CM,Ware DH,Lee SC,Patten CD,Ferrer-Montiel AV,Schinder AF,McPherson JD,Wagner-McPherson CB,Wasmuth JJ,Evans GA

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of T1ST2, the IL-33R, by Th2 cells requires GATA3. Resting Th2 cells express little GATA3, which is increased by IL-33 and a STAT5 activator, in turn increasing T1ST2 from its low-level expression on resting Th2 cells. Th2 cells that have upregulated T1ST2 produce IL-13, but not IL-4, in response to IL-33 p...

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

authors： Guo L,Wei G,Zhu J,Liao W,Leonard WJ,Zhao K,Paul W

更新日期：2009-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The pH gradient (delta pH) across the membrane of bovine neurohypophysial granules was estimated by using the [14C]methylamine partition technique. The granule membrane showed high permeability to sugars such as sucrose or sorbitol and to cations. Granules suspended in sucrose medium showed an acidic internal delta pH...

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

authors： Scherman D,Nordmann JJ

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00