Dichotomous effects of VEGF-A on adipose tissue dysfunction.

abstract：:The binding of small molecules to distinctive three-dimensional structures in mRNA provides a new dimension in RNA control, previously limited to the targeting of secondary structures with antisense and RNA interference; such targeting can modulate mRNA function and rates of protein biosynthesis. Small molecules that ...

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

authors： Tibodeau JD,Fox PM,Ropp PA,Theil EC,Thorp HH

更新日期：2006-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The technique of self-sustained sequence replication allows isothermal amplification of DNA and RNA molecules in vitro. This method relies on the activities of a reverse transcriptase and a DNA-dependent RNA polymerase to amplify specific nucleic acid sequences. We have modified this protocol to allow selective amplif...

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

authors： Breaker RR,Joyce GF

更新日期：1994-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In FRTL5 rat thyroid cells, norepinephrine, by interacting with alpha 1-adrenergic receptors, stimulates inositol phosphate formation, through activation of phospholipase C, and arachidonic acid release. Recent studies have shown that GTP-binding proteins couple several types of receptors to phospholipase C activation...

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

authors： Burch RM,Luini A,Axelrod J

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic-cell hybrids have been shown to maintain the correct epigenetic chromatin states to study developmental globin gene expression as well as gene expression on the active and inactive X chromosomes. This suggests the potential use of somatic-cell hybrids containing either a maternal or a paternal human chromosome...

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

authors： Gabriel JM,Higgins MJ,Gebuhr TC,Shows TB,Saitoh S,Nicholls RD

更新日期：1998-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin generates force by a rotation of its lever arm. Crystal structures of myosin II indicate an unloaded working stroke of 10-12 nm, a range confirmed by recent x-ray interference experiments. However, when an actin filament, held between two weakly, optically trapped beads is made to interact with a single head of...

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

authors： Sleep J,Lewalle A,Smith D

更新日期：2006-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary diversity often varies inversely with prey resource abundance. This pattern, although typically measured at the population level, is usually assumed to also characterize the behavior of individual animals within the population. However, the pattern might also be produced by changes in the degree of variation a...

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

authors： Tinker MT,Bentall G,Estes JA

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of the radiomimetic anticancer enediyne C-1027 to induce ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM) and ATM and Rad3-related (ATR)-independent damage responses was discovered to reside in its unique ability to concurrently generate robust amounts of double-strand breaks (DSBs) and interstrand cross-links (ICLs) i...

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

authors： Kennedy DR,Ju J,Shen B,Beerman TA

更新日期：2007-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of type 1 diabetes in the nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse is preceded by an immune cell infiltrate in the pancreatic islets. The exact role of the attracted cells is still poorly understood. Chemokine CCL2/MCP-1 is known to attract CCR2(+) monocytes and dendritic cells (DCs). We have previously shown that tr...

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

authors： Kriegel MA,Rathinam C,Flavell RA

更新日期：2012-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A pentapeptide open reading frame equipped with a canonical ribosome-binding site is present in the Escherichia coli 23S rRNA. Overexpression of 23S rRNA fragments containing the mini-gene renders cells resistant to the ribosome-inhibiting antibiotic erythromycin. Mutations that change either the initiator or stop cod...

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

authors： Tenson T,DeBlasio A,Mankin A

更新日期：1996-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin resistance is a key factor in the etiology of type 2 diabetes. Insulin-stimulated glucose uptake is mediated by the glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4), which is expressed mainly in skeletal muscle and adipose tissue. Insulin-stimulated translocation of GLUT4 from its intracellular compartment to the plasma membrane...

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

authors： Baeza-Raja B,Li P,Le Moan N,Sachs BD,Schachtrup C,Davalos D,Vagena E,Bridges D,Kim C,Saltiel AR,Olefsky JM,Akassoglou K

更新日期：2012-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody raised against the purified human erythrocyte glucose transporter specifically precipitated four proteins from normal and Rous sarcoma virus-transformed chicken embryo cells: a major protein of Mr 41,000 and minor proteins of Mr 68,000, 73,000, and 82,000. The Mr 41,000 and 82,000 proteins were found only in ...

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

authors： Salter DW,Baldwin SA,Lienhard GE,Weber MJ

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural circuits are generated by precisely ordered synaptic connections among neurons, and this process is thought to rely on the ability of neurons to recognize specific partners. However, it is also known that neurons promiscuously form synapses with nonspecific partners, in particular when cultured in vitro, causin...

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

authors： Ito S,Takeichi M

更新日期：2009-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A major involvement of IFNalpha in the etiopathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus has been suggested by clinical observations, including the increase of serum levels of this cytokine in patients with active disease. Supporting this hypothesis, we have shown that expression of IFNalpha from a recombinant adenovir...

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

authors： Zagury D,Le Buanec H,Mathian A,Larcier P,Burnett R,Amoura Z,Emilie D,Peltre G,Bensussan A,Bizzini B,Gallo RC,Koutouzov S

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Tadpole collagenase (EC 3.4.24.3) cleaved chick cranial bone procollagen into two triple-stranded fragments, PCA and PCB. Only PCB, with an estimated molecular weight of about 60,000 for each component chain after reduction, was found to contain interchain disulfide bonds. The analogous cleavage of collagen is known t...

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

authors： Byers PH,Click EM,Harper E,Bornstein P

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phage phi 29 terminal protein, p3, essentially pure, was isolated in a denatured form from viral particles, and anti-p3 antiserum was obtained. A radioimmunoassay to detect and quantitate protein p3 was developed. By using this assay, native protein p3 was highly purified from Escherichia coli cells harboring a gene 3...

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

authors： Prieto I,Lázaro JM,García JA,Hermoso JM,Salas M

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic nucleotide metabolism was investigated in growing kidneys of rats during compensatory hypertrophy and during neonatal development. After unilateral nephrectomy a mild and short-lasting decrease in cyclic 3':5" adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) was observed in the hypertrophying kidney. In contrast, cyclic 3':5' gu...

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

authors： Schlondorff D,Weber H

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence both for and against Na(+)- and Cl(-)-dependent neurotransmitter transporters forming oligomers. We found that cross-linking the human dopamine transporter (DAT), which is heterologously expressed in human embryonic kidney 293 cells, either with copper phenanthroline (CuP) or the bifunctional reagent...

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

authors： Hastrup H,Karlin A,Javitch JA

更新日期：2001-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Indole-3-acetic acid is the major auxin in most plants. In Cruciferae, including Brassicaceae, indole-3-acetic acid is synthesized from indole-3-acetonitrile by nitrilase, after indole-3-acetonitrile is formed from tryptophan via indole-3-acetaldoxime or indole glycosinolates as the intermediate. We cloned and sequenc...

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

authors： Kobayashi M,Izui H,Nagasawa T,Yamada H

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Athymic mice grafted at birth with allogeneic thymic epithelium (TE) from day 10 embryos before hematopoietic cell colonization reconstitute normal numbers of T cells and exhibit full life-long tolerance to skin grafts of the TE haplotype. Intravenous transfers of splenic cells, from these animals to adult syngeneic a...

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

authors： Modigliani Y,Thomas-Vaslin V,Bandeira A,Coltey M,Le Douarin NM,Coutinho A,Salaün J

更新日期：1995-08-01 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

abstract：:ErbB3 (HER3) is a member of the EGF receptor (EGFR) family of receptor tyrosine kinases, which, unlike the other three family members, contains a pseudo kinase in place of a tyrosine kinase domain. In cancer, ErbB3 activation is driven by a ligand-dependent mechanism through the formation of heterodimers with EGFR, Er...

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

authors： Lee S,Greenlee EB,Amick JR,Ligon GF,Lillquist JS,Natoli EJ Jr,Hadari Y,Alvarado D,Schlessinger J

更新日期：2015-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A biomimetic hydrogel platform was designed to signal encapsulated cells using immobilized cell-cell communication cues, with a focus on enhancing the survival and function of encapsulated pancreatic β-cells to treat type 1 diabetes. When MIN6 cells, a pancreatic β-cell line, were encapsulated in poly(ethylene glycol)...

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

authors： Lin CC,Anseth KS

更新日期：2011-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial RsgA, a circularly permutated GTPase, whose GTPase activity is dependent on the 30S ribosomal subunit, is a late-stage ribosome biogenesis factor involved in the 30S subunit maturation. The role of RsgA is to release another 30S biogenesis factor, RbfA, from the mature 30S subunit in a GTP-dependent mann...

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

authors： Guo Q,Yuan Y,Xu Y,Feng B,Liu L,Chen K,Sun M,Yang Z,Lei J,Gao N

更新日期：2011-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:EcoRI endonuclease-generated DNA fragments carrying replication regions of the F'lac and R6-5 plasmids have been cloned and isolated, using as a selection vehicle a nonreplicating ampicillin-resistance DNA fragment derived from a Staphylococcus aureus plasmid. Heteroduplex analysis of the constructed plasmid chimeras ...

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

authors： Timmis K,Cabello F,Cohen SN

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To address devastating environmental crises and to improve human well-being, China has been implementing a number of national policies on payments for ecosystem services. Two of them, the Natural Forest Conservation Program (NFCP) and the Grain to Green Program (GTGP), are among the biggest programs in the world becau...

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

authors： Liu J,Li S,Ouyang Z,Tam C,Chen X

更新日期：2008-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cleavage of the hemagglutinin (HA) in tissue culture systems has been correlated with virulence of avian influenza viruses. To examine the structural requirements for cleavage of the HA, the HA gene from a virulent H5 influenza virus was expressed in mammalian cells (CV-1), and the cleavage site of the HA was explored...

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

authors： Kawaoka Y,Webster RG

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular agitation more rapid than thermal Brownian motion is reported for cellular environments, motor proteins, synthetic molecular motors, enzymes, and common chemical reactions, yet that chemical activity coupled to molecular motion contrasts with generations of accumulated knowledge about diffusion at equilibriu...

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

authors： Jee AY,Tlusty T,Granick S

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Superhydrophobic surfaces display water contact angles greater than 150 degrees in conjunction with low contact angle hysteresis. Microscopic pockets of air trapped beneath the water droplets placed on these surfaces lead to a composite solid-liquid-air interface in thermodynamic equilibrium. Previous experimental and...

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

authors： Tuteja A,Choi W,Mabry JM,McKinley GH,Cohen RE

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent laboratory studies have demonstrated that isoprene oxidation products can partition to atmospheric aerosols by reacting with condensed phase sulfuric acid, forming low-volatility organosulfate compounds. We have identified organosulfate compounds in free tropospheric aerosols by single particle mass spectrometr...

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

authors： Froyd KD,Murphy SM,Murphy DM,de Gouw JA,Eddingsaas NC,Wennberg PO

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein CopC from Pseudomonas syringae has been found capable of binding copper(I) and copper(II) at two different sites, occupied either one at a time or simultaneously. The protein, consisting of 102 amino acids, is known to bind copper(II) in a position that is now found consistent with a coordination arrangeme...

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

authors： Arnesano F,Banci L,Bertini I,Mangani S,Thompsett AR

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00