Signal inhibition by the dual-specific phosphatase 4 impairs T cell-dependent B-cell responses with age.

abstract：:Humans readily form social impressions, such as attractiveness and trustworthiness, from a stranger's facial features. Understanding the provenance of these impressions has clear scientific importance and societal implications. Motivated by the efficient coding hypothesis of brain representation, as well as Claude Sha...

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

authors： Ryali CK,Goffin S,Winkielman P,Yu AJ

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebellar granule cells are the most abundant neurons in the brain, and granule cell precursors (GCPs) are a common target of transformation in the pediatric brain tumor medulloblastoma. Proliferation of GCPs is regulated by the secreted signaling molecule Sonic hedgehog (Shh), but the mechanisms by which Shh control...

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

authors： Oliver TG,Grasfeder LL,Carroll AL,Kaiser C,Gillingham CL,Lin SM,Wickramasinghe R,Scott MP,Wechsler-Reya RJ

更新日期：2003-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Paracoccidioidomycosis, a disease caused by Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, which is endemic to Latin America, is much more common in men than women, suggesting a role for hormonal factors. We recently showed that two other yeasts possess steroid binding proteins and postulated that these receptor-like molecules repres...

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

authors： Loose DS,Stover EP,Restrepo A,Stevens DA,Feldman D

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement membrane attack complexes (MACs) promote inflammatory functions in endothelial cells (ECs) by stabilizing NF-κB-inducing kinase (NIK) and activating noncanonical NF-κB signaling. Here we report a novel endosome-based signaling complex induced by MACs to stabilize NIK. We found that, in contrast to cytokine-...

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

authors： Jane-wit D,Surovtseva YV,Qin L,Li G,Liu R,Clark P,Manes TD,Wang C,Kashgarian M,Kirkiles-Smith NC,Tellides G,Pober JS

更新日期：2015-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine proinsulin has been crystallized under a variety of conditions at both neutral and acid pH. Microtechniques were employed with sample weights of about 200 mug and volumes of 5-20 mul. The crystalline preparations all differ from each other morphologically.X-ray photographs of one form, tetragonal bipyramids gro...

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

authors： Fullerton WW,Potter R,Low BW

更新日期：1970-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a functional profiling strategy to identify and characterize subtypes of neurons present in a peripheral ganglion, which should be extendable to neurons in the CNS. In this study, dissociated dorsal-root ganglion neurons from mice were exposed to various pharmacological agents (challenge compounds), while ...

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

authors： Teichert RW,Smith NJ,Raghuraman S,Yoshikami D,Light AR,Olivera BM

更新日期：2012-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The atomic buckling in 2D "Xenes" (such as silicene) fosters a plethora of exotic electronic properties such as a quantum spin Hall effect and could be engineered by external strain. Quantifying the buckling magnitude with subangstrom precision is, however, challenging, since epitaxially grown 2D layers exhibit comple...

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

authors： Pawlak R,Drechsel C,D'Astolfo P,Kisiel M,Meyer E,Cerda JI

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Gelation of colloidal nanocrystals emerged as a strategy to preserve inherent nanoscale properties in multiscale architectures. However, available gelation methods to directly form self-supported nanocrystal networks struggle to reliably control nanoscale optical phenomena such as photoluminescence and localized surfa...

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

authors： Saez Cabezas CA,Ong GK,Jadrich RB,Lindquist BA,Agrawal A,Truskett TM,Milliron DJ

更新日期：2018-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:To reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, Indonesia instituted a nationwide moratorium on new license areas ("concessions") for oil palm plantations, timber plantations, and logging activity on primary forests and peat lands after May 2011. Here we indirectly evaluate the effectiveness of this policy usin...

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

authors： Busch J,Ferretti-Gallon K,Engelmann J,Wright M,Austin KG,Stolle F,Turubanova S,Potapov PV,Margono B,Hansen MC,Baccini A

更新日期：2015-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In healthy adults, activation of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)(A) and glycine receptors inhibits neurons as a result of low intracellular chloride concentration ([Cl(-)](i)), which is maintained by the potassium-chloride cotransporter KCC2. A reduction of KCC2 expression or function is implicated in the pathogenesis of s...

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

authors： Bos R,Sadlaoud K,Boulenguez P,Buttigieg D,Liabeuf S,Brocard C,Haase G,Bras H,Vinay L

更新日期：2013-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpesviruses must traverse the nuclear envelope to gain access to the cytoplasm and, ultimately, to exit cells. It is believed that herpesvirus nucleocapsids enter the perinuclear space by budding through the inner nuclear membrane (NM). To reach the cytoplasm these enveloped particles must fuse with the outer NM and...

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

authors： Farnsworth A,Wisner TW,Webb M,Roller R,Cohen G,Eisenberg R,Johnson DC

更新日期：2007-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosystem II (PSII), the light-driven water/plastoquinone photooxidoreductase, is of central importance in the planetary energy cycle. The product of the reaction, plastohydroquinone (PQH2), is released into the membrane from the QB site, where it is formed. A plastoquinone (PQ) from the membrane pool then binds int...

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

authors： De Causmaecker S,Douglass JS,Fantuzzi A,Nitschke W,Rutherford AW

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies to elucidate the mode of action of aldosterone have been carried out in the amphibian urinary bladder. The following previously reported hypotheses were evaluated: (1) aldosterone stimulates sodium transport by increasing the amount of sodium available to the sodium pump; (2) aldosterone enhances energy produc...

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

authors： Goodman DB,Allen JE,Rasmussen H

更新日期：1969-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of interferons to distinct cell surface receptors leads to the induction of synthesis of several unique polypeptides and their corresponding mRNAs (1-6). We have isolated two cDNAs that are complementary to nuclear RNA whose synthesis is induced from undetectable levels to maximal rates of transcription wi...

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

authors： Larner AC,Jonak G,Cheng YS,Korant B,Knight E,Darnell JE Jr

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple paleoclimate proxies are required for robust assessment of past hydroclimatic conditions. Currently, estimates of drought variability over the past several thousand years are based largely on tree-ring records. We produced a 1,500-y record of winter precipitation in the Pacific Northwest using a physical mode...

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

authors： Steinman BA,Abbott MB,Mann ME,Stansell ND,Finney BP

更新日期：2012-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The global gene expression profiles for 67 human lung tumors representing 56 patients were examined by using 24,000-element cDNA microarrays. Subdivision of the tumors based on gene expression patterns faithfully recapitulated morphological classification of the tumors into squamous, large cell, small cell, and adenoc...

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

authors： Garber ME,Troyanskaya OG,Schluens K,Petersen S,Thaesler Z,Pacyna-Gengelbach M,van de Rijn M,Rosen GD,Perou CM,Whyte RI,Altman RB,Brown PO,Botstein D,Petersen I

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies are created and refined by somatic evolution in B cell populations, which endows the human immune system with the ability to recognize and eliminate diverse pathogens. However, the evolutionary processes that sculpt antibody repertoires remain poorly understood. Here, using an unbiased repertoire-scale appr...

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

authors： Horns F,Vollmers C,Dekker CL,Quake SR

更新日期：2019-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Three classes of heterogeneous nuclear RNA (HnRNA) alpha, beta, and gamma, with different chemical and physical properties, can be identified in the early sea urchin embryo by hybridization with poly(U). The relative amounts of these classes vary as a function of embryonic development. It is demonstrated here that the...

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

authors： Dubroff LM

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone deacetylases (HDACs) are key regulators of gene expression that require assembly into larger protein complexes for activity. Efforts to understand how associated proteins modulate the function of HDACs would benefit from new technologies that evaluate HDAC activity in native biological systems. Here, we descri...

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

authors： Salisbury CM,Cravatt BF

更新日期：2007-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The acetylcholine receptor is a protein that contains certain critical disulfide bonds. Experiments were designed to determine the role such bonds might play in the physiological activity of the receptor. Modification of the receptor with sodium bisulfite and diamide produced an increase in the time constants of the m...

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

authors： Steinacker A,Zuazaga DC

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activator protein-1 (AP-1) is a crucial transcription factor implicated in numerous cancers. For this reason, nine homologues of the AP-1 leucine zipper region have been characterized: Fos (c-Fos, FosB, Fra1, and Fra2), Jun (c-Jun, JunB, and JunD), and semirational library-designed winning peptides FosW and JunW. The ...

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

authors： Mason JM,Schmitz MA,Müller KM,Arndt KM

更新日期：2006-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently have introduced the term vasculogenic mimicry to describe the unique ability of aggressive melanoma tumor cells to form tubular structures and patterned networks in three-dimensional culture, which "mimics" embryonic vasculogenic networks formed by differentiating endothelial cells. In the current study, w...

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

authors： Hendrix MJ,Seftor EA,Meltzer PS,Gardner LM,Hess AR,Kirschmann DA,Schatteman GC,Seftor RE

更新日期：2001-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Human X chromosome DNA was partially purified from a mouse-human hybrid cell line containing a single human chromosome, the X. Enrichment of such DNA was accomplished by two sequential reassociations of radiolabeled hybrid cell DNA with large excesses of mouse DNA. Unreassociated hybrid cell DNA was used as a probe fo...

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

authors： Schmeckpeper BJ,Smith KD,Dorman BP,Ruddle FH,Talbot CC Jr

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the caspase family of cysteine proteases play central roles in coordinating the stereotypical events that occur during apoptosis. Because the major executioner caspases, caspase-3 and caspase-7, exhibit almost indistinguishable activity toward certain synthetic peptide substrates, this has led to the widesp...

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

authors： Walsh JG,Cullen SP,Sheridan C,Lüthi AU,Gerner C,Martin SJ

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous intravenous infusion of heparin suppresses smooth muscle cell proliferation in rats after endothelial injury but may lead to hemorrhage and other complications. The anticoagulant property has been removed from chemically modified heparin without loss of antiproliferative effect but use of such compounds is ...

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

authors： Edelman ER,Adams DH,Karnovsky MJ

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 24 nucleotides comprising the carbohydrate-recognition domain of Maackia amurensis hemagglutinin (MAH) cDNA were randomly mutated. The mutant lectins were expressed as glutathione-S-transferase fusion proteins in Escherichia coli and 16 clones were randomly chosen. Although all of 16 recombinant lectins reacted st...

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

authors： Yim M,Ono T,Irimura T

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:WE REEXAMINED TWO QUESTIONS CONCERNING LYT ANTIGENS OF CYTOTOXIC T CELLS OF THE MOUSE: is Lyt-1 antigen expressed on cytotoxic effector cells and can cytotoxicity be blocked by antibody to Lyt antigens in the absence of added complement? A 3-hr (51)Cr-release assay with splenic effector cells and leukemia or myeloma t...

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

authors： Nakayama E,Shiku H,Stockert E,Oettgen HF,Old LJ

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) is the prototype member of a distinctive subset of lymphotropic herpesviruses (the gamma 2 subgroup) with A+T-rich coding sequences. In this paper, we show that cells productively infected with HVS contain high concentrations of a virus-specified thymidylate synthase (5,10-methylenetetrahydro...

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

authors： Honess RW,Bodemer W,Cameron KR,Niller HH,Fleckenstein B,Randall RE

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a procedure for purifying highly specific polyclonal antibodies against 5-methylcytosine. These antibodies were used to probe the distribution of 5-methylcytosine among fractionated nucleosomes of mouse cell chromatin. Our results demonstrate that at least 80% of the 5-methylcytosine is localized in ...

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

authors： Ball DJ,Gross DS,Garrard WT

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli galactokinase gene (galK) was inserted into a modified early region transcription unit of simian virus 40 (SV40) contained on a bacterial plasmid. Introduction of this pSVK vector into monkey, mouse, and hamster cell lines by transfection resulted in efficient expression of the bacterial galK gene...

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

authors： Schümperli D,Howard BH,Rosenberg M

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00