Designing biomimetic pores based on carbon nanotubes.

abstract：:In response to hypoxia the hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) mediates transcriptional activation of a network of genes encoding erythropoietin, vascular endothelial growth factor, and several glycolytic enzymes. HIF-1 consists of a heterodimer of two basic helix-loop-helix PAS (Per/Arnt/Sim) proteins, HIF-1alpha and ...

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

authors： Kallio PJ,Pongratz I,Gradin K,McGuire J,Poellinger L

更新日期：1997-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza is a paradigm for understanding viral infections. As an opportunistic pathogen exploiting the cellular endocytic machinery for infection, influenza is also a valuable model system for exploring the cell's constitutive endocytic pathway. We have studied the transport, acidification, and fusion of single influ...

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

authors： Lakadamyali M,Rust MJ,Babcock HP,Zhuang X

更新日期：2003-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A vestigial, nonphotosynthetic plastid has been identified recently in protozoan parasites of the phylum Apicomplexa. The apicomplexan plastid, or "apicoplast," is indispensable, but the complete sequence of both the Plasmodium falciparum and Toxoplasma gondii apicoplast genomes has offered no clue as to what essentia...

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

authors： Waller RF,Keeling PJ,Donald RG,Striepen B,Handman E,Lang-Unnasch N,Cowman AF,Besra GS,Roos DS,McFadden GI

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ly-6 locus encodes several cell surface proteins whose functions are unknown. Although it is hypothesized that these proteins may be receptors, there is no direct evidence that they bind a ligand. Herein we present evidence that Ly-6A.2, a Ly-6 protein expressed on T lymphocytes, binds a ligand expressed on normal...

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

authors： Bamezai A,Rock KL

更新日期：1995-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual cell types are defined by architecturally and functionally specialized cortical domains. The Ezrin, Radixin, and Moesin (ERM) proteins play a major role in organizing cortical domains by assembling membrane protein complexes and linking them to the cortical actin cytoskeleton. Many studies have focused on t...

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

authors： Casaletto JB,Saotome I,Curto M,McClatchey AI

更新日期：2011-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy (H) chain binding protein (BiP), which binds to free immunoglobulin H chain of the mu and gamma classes, can be demonstrated in pre-B-cells. It is proposed that the displacement of BiP from H chain by light (L) chain terminates the activity of the enzyme system, L-generase, which catalyzes DNA rearrangement at t...

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

authors： Wabl M,Steinberg C

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As countries pursue sustainable development across sectors as diverse as health, agriculture, and infrastructure, sectoral policies interact, generating synergies that alter their effectiveness. Identifying those synergies ex ante facilitates the harmonization of policies and provides an important lever to achieve the...

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

authors： Pedercini M,Arquitt S,Collste D,Herren H

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The simple yet powerful technique of induced pluripotency may eventually supply a wide range of differentiated cells for cell therapy and drug development. However, making the appropriate cells via induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) requires reprogramming of somatic cells and subsequent redifferentiation. Given ho...

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

authors： Kim J,Efe JA,Zhu S,Talantova M,Yuan X,Wang S,Lipton SA,Zhang K,Ding S

更新日期：2011-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of interleukin 2 receptors (IL-2R) is a critical step leading to normal lymphocyte proliferation. Since thymosin fraction 5 (TF5), a thymic hormone preparation, enhances lymphoproliferative responses of human cells, we examined the effects of TF5 on the expression of IL-2R on mitogen-stimulated human ly...

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

authors： Sztein MB,Serrate SA,Goldstein AL

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To address the significance of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) replication in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), we have used reverse transcriptase-initiated PCR to measure HIV-1 mRNA expression in PBMC specimens collected from a cohort of HIV-infected individuals during a long-term prospective study. We f...

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

authors： Saksela K,Stevens C,Rubinstein P,Baltimore D

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study static and dynamical properties that distinguish 2D crystals constrained to lie on a curved substrate from their flat-space counterparts. A generic mechanism of dislocation unbinding in the presence of varying Gaussian curvature is presented in the context of a model surface amenable to full analytical treatm...

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

authors： Vitelli V,Lucks JB,Nelson DR

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The peripheral axonal branch of primary sensory neurons readily regenerates after peripheral nerve injury, but the central branch, which courses in the dorsal columns of the spinal cord, does not. However, if a peripheral nerve is transected before a spinal cord injury, sensory neurons that course in the dorsal column...

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

authors： Neumann S,Skinner K,Basbaum AI

更新日期：2005-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence spectroscopy was used to characterize blue light responses from chloroplasts of adaxial guard cells from Pima cotton (Gossypium barbadense) and coleoptile tips from corn (Zea mays). The chloroplast response to blue light was quantified by measurements of the blue light-induced enhancement of a red light-s...

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

authors： Quiñones MA,Lu Z,Zeiger E

更新日期：1996-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Class I PI3-kinases signal downstream of receptor tyrosine kinases and G protein-coupled receptors and have been implicated in tumorigenesis. Although the oncogenic potential of the PI3-kinase subunit p110α requires its mutational activation, other p110 isoforms can induce transformation when overexpressed in the wild...

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

authors： Dbouk HA,Pang H,Fiser A,Backer JM

更新日期：2010-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Size-selective mortality inevitably leads to a decrease in population density and exerts a direct negative effect on targeted size classes. But density and population size structure are also shaped by food-dependent processes, such as individual growth, maturation, and reproduction. Mortality relaxes competition and t...

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

authors： Schröder A,Persson L,de Roos AM

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on structural information derived from the F NMR data of labeled rhodopsins, rhodopsin crystal structure, and excited-state properties of model polyenes, we propose a molecular mechanism that accounts specifically for the causes of the well-known enhanced photoreactivity of rhodopsin (increased rates and quantum...

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

authors： Liu RS,Colmenares LU

更新日期：2003-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies to chromatin proteins of Novikoff hepatoma cells formed precipitin bands in the double-diffusion immunoprecipitation assay with chromatin proteins of Novikoff hepatoma, Walker 256 carcinosarcoma, and 18-day fetal rat liver. The antigen used for preparation of antiserum was the chromatin proteins initially e...

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

authors： Yeoman LC,Jordan JJ,Busch RK,Taylor CW,Savage HE,Busch H

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a technique for transferring electrophoretically separated bands of RNA from an agarose gel to paper strips. The RNA is coupled covalently to diazobenzyloxymethyl groups on the paper. After transfer and appropriate treatment of the paper to destroy remaining diazo groups, specific RNA bands can be detected...

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

authors： Alwine JC,Kemp DJ,Stark GR

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The survival of motor neurons is controlled by multiple factors that regulate different aspects of their physiology. The identification of these factors is important because of their relationship to motor neuron disease. We investigate here whether Mullerian Inhibiting Substance (MIS) is a motor neuron survival factor...

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

authors： Wang PY,Koishi K,McGeachie AB,Kimber M,Maclaughlin DT,Donahoe PK,McLennan IS

更新日期：2005-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A human beta-globin gene derived from an established human lymphoblast cell line was introduced into murine erythroleukemia (MEL) cells by cell fusion. The globin genes in MEL cells are inducible by dimethyl sulfoxide (Me2SO); induction leads to the accumulation of mouse globin mRNA and hemoglobin. Globin mRNA was not...

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

authors： Pyati J,Kucherlapati RS,Skoultchi AI

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial enzyme glutaminase C (GAC) catalyzes the hydrolysis of glutamine to glutamate plus ammonia, a key step in the metabolism of glutamine by cancer cells. Recently, we discovered a class of allosteric inhibitors of GAC that inhibit cancer cell growth without affecting their normal cellular counterparts, ...

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

authors： Stalnecker CA,Ulrich SM,Li Y,Ramachandran S,McBrayer MK,DeBerardinis RJ,Cerione RA,Erickson JW

更新日期：2015-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Stromal cell lines were established from canine long-term marrow cultures, cloned by limiting dilution, and maintained in stromal cell-conditioned medium. These cells grew adherent, maintained stable growth rate and morphology under standard conditions (in 20-30% conditioned medium; confluency, 70-90%), and supported ...

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

authors： Huss R,Hong DS,McSweeney PA,Hoy CA,Deeg HJ

更新日期：1995-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocean acidification (OA) refers to the ongoing decline in oceanic pH resulting from the uptake of atmospheric CO(2). Mounting experimental evidence suggests that OA will have negative consequences for a variety of marine organisms. Whereas the effect of OA on the calcification of adult reef corals is increasingly well...

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

authors： Albright R,Mason B,Miller M,Langdon C

更新日期：2010-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A great deal is known about the export of spliced mRNAs, but little is known about the export of mRNAs encoded by human cellular genes that naturally lack introns. Here, we investigated the requirements for export of three naturally intronless mRNAs (HSPB3, IFN-α1, and IFN-β1). Significantly, we found that all three m...

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

authors： Lei H,Dias AP,Reed R

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of amyloid-beta (Aβ), which is associated with Alzheimer's disease, can be caused by excess production or insufficient clearance. Because of its β-sheet structure, fibrillar Aβ is resistant to proteolysis, which would contribute to slow degradation of Aβ plaques in vivo. Fibrillar Aβ can be internalized b...

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

authors： Solé-Domènech S,Rojas AV,Maisuradze GG,Scheraga HA,Lobel P,Maxfield FR

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisense oligodeoxyribonucleotides targeted to the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor were encapsulated into liposomes linked to folate via a polyethylene glycol spacer (folate-PEG-liposomes) and efficiently delivered into cultured KB cells via folate receptor-mediated endocytosis. The oligonucleotides were a pho...

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

authors： Wang S,Lee RJ,Cauchon G,Gorenstein DG,Low PS

更新日期：1995-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Autopsy studies suggest that most aging men will develop lesions that, if detected clinically, would be diagnosed as prostate cancer (PCa). Most of these cancers are indolent and remain localized; however, a subset of PCa is aggressive and accounts for more than 27,000 deaths in the United States annually. Identificat...

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

authors： Xu J,Zheng SL,Isaacs SD,Wiley KE,Wiklund F,Sun J,Kader AK,Li G,Purcell LD,Kim ST,Hsu FC,Stattin P,Hugosson J,Adolfsson J,Walsh PC,Trent JM,Duggan D,Carpten J,Grönberg H,Isaacs WB

更新日期：2010-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Expansion of myeloid cells associated with solid tumor development is a key contributor to neoplastic progression. Despite their clinical relevance, the mechanisms controlling myeloid cell production and activity in cancer remains poorly understood. Using a multistage mouse model of breast cancer, we show that product...

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

authors： Casbon AJ,Reynaud D,Park C,Khuc E,Gan DD,Schepers K,Passegué E,Werb Z

更新日期：2015-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of the human embryonic stem (hES) cell line H9, when cultured in the form of embryoid bodies, give rise to cells with markers of the keratinocyte of stratified squamous epithelia. Keratinocytes also form in nodules produced in scid mice by injected H9 cells; the hES-derived keratinocytes could be recovered in cu...

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

authors： Iuchi S,Dabelsteen S,Easley K,Rheinwald JG,Green H

更新日期：2006-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutational processes of simple sequence repeats (SSRs) in complex genomes are poorly understood. We examined these processes by introducing a two-phase mutation model. In this model, most mutations are single-step changes, but infrequent large jumps in repeat number also occur. We used computer simulations to determin...

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

authors： Di Rienzo A,Peterson AC,Garza JC,Valdes AM,Slatkin M,Freimer NB

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00