Primate evidence on the late health effects of early-life adversity.

abstract：:Double-positive (DP) thymocytes respond to intrathymic T-cell receptor (TCR) signals by undergoing positive selection and lineage differentiation into single-positive (SP) mature cells. Concomitant with these well-characterized events is the acquisition of a mature T-cell gene expression program characterized by the i...

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

authors： Shi LZ,Saravia J,Zeng H,Kalupahana NS,Guy CS,Neale G,Chi H

更新日期：2017-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Type VI secretion systems (T6SSs) are multiprotein complexes best studied in Gram-negative pathogens where they have been shown to inhibit or kill prokaryotic or eukaryotic cells and are often important for virulence. We recently showed that T6SS loci are also widespread in symbiotic human gut bacteria of the order Ba...

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

authors： Chatzidaki-Livanis M,Geva-Zatorsky N,Comstock LE

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer beta/A4 amyloid precursor protein (APP) has been suggested to play a central role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease. We have measured the content of different species of APP holoprotein and carboxyl-terminal fragments in human brains from young individuals, nondemented aged individuals, and aged indiv...

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

authors： Nordstedt C,Gandy SE,Alafuzoff I,Caporaso GL,Iverfeldt K,Grebb JA,Winblad B,Greengard P

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To attempt to locate functionally important regions of the interferon (IFN) molecule, recombinant human IFN-alpha 2 was subjected to proteolytic digestion. The bacterial proteinase thermolysin produced two major complementary fragments, HuIFN-alpha 2-(1-110) and HuIFN-alpha 2-(111-153). After reduction with 2-mercapto...

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

authors： Ackerman SK,Zur Nedden D,Heintzelman M,Hunkapiller M,Zoon K

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila melanogaster is a powerful model organism for dissecting the neurogenetic basis of appetitive and aversive behaviors. However, some methods used to assay food preference require or cause starvation. This can be problematic for fly ethanol research because it can be difficult to dissociate caloric preference...

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

authors： Park A,Tran T,Atkinson NS

更新日期：2018-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The leukotrienes C4, D4, and E4, previously referred to as slow reacting substance of anaphylaxis, elicited long-lasting contractions of bronchi isolated from two birch pollen-sensitive asthmatics. The leukotrienes were 1,000 times more potent on a molar basis than was histamine or prostaglandin F2 alpha. Moreover, al...

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

authors： Dahlén SE,Hansson G,Hedqvist P,Björck T,Granström E,Dahlén B

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galectin-3 is a glycan-binding protein (GBP) that binds β-galactoside glycan structures to orchestrate a variety of important biological events, including the activation of hepatic stellate cells and regulation of immune responses. While the requisite glycan epitopes needed to bind galectin-3 have long been elucidated...

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

authors： Joeh E,O'Leary T,Li W,Hawkins R,Hung JR,Parker CG,Huang ML

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical and gene mapping studies reveal that chloroplast DNA from geranium (Pelargonium hortorum) has sustained a number of extensive duplications and inversions, resulting in a genome arrangement radically unlike that of other plants. At 217 kilobases in size, the circular chromosome is about 50% larger than the typ...

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

authors： Palmer JD,Nugent JM,Herbon LA

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using a simplified model of small open liquid-like clusters with surface effects, in the gas phase, it is shown how the statistical thermodynamics of small systems can be extended to include metastable supersaturated gaseous states not too far from the gas-liquid equilibrium transition point. To accomplish this, on...

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

authors： Hill TL,Chamberlin RV

更新日期：1998-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth hormone receptor (GHR) has been demonstrated to be nuclear localized both in vivo and in vitro, but the significance of this observation has remained elusive. Here we show that nuclear GHR is strongly correlated with proliferative status in vivo by using a liver regeneration model. In vitro, nuclear translocati...

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

authors： Conway-Campbell BL,Wooh JW,Brooks AJ,Gordon D,Brown RJ,Lichanska AM,Chin HS,Barton CL,Boyle GM,Parsons PG,Jans DA,Waters MJ

更新日期：2007-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Secreted parasitism proteins encoded by parasitism genes expressed in esophageal gland cells mediate infection and parasitism of plants by root-knot nematodes (RKN). Parasitism gene 16D10 encodes a conserved RKN secretory peptide that stimulates root growth and functions as a ligand for a putative plant transcription ...

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

authors： Huang G,Allen R,Davis EL,Baum TJ,Hussey RS

更新日期：2006-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral genome packaging into capsids is powered by high-force-generating motor proteins. In the presence of all packaging components, ATP-powered translocation in vitro expels all detectable tightly bound YOYO-1 dye from packaged short dsDNA substrates and removes all aminoacridine dye from packaged genomic DNA in vivo...

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

authors： Dixit AB,Ray K,Black LW

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Uniparentally inherited mutations to antibiotic resistance and dependence in Chlamydomonas reinhardi exhibit an altered chloroplast ribosome phenotype. Genetic studies demonstrate an absolute correlation between the drug resistance or dependence and the ribosome phenotype in two such mutants. ...

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

authors： Gillham NW,Boynton JE,Burkholder B

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of peptide-secreting endocrine cells contain a population of recycling microvesicles that share several major membrane polypeptides with neuronal synaptic vesicles (SVs). The function of these synaptic-like microvesicles (SLMVs) remains to be elucidated. It was previously suggested that SLMVs of pancreatic b...

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

authors： Thomas-Reetz A,Hell JW,During MJ,Walch-Solimena C,Jahn R,De Camilli P

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nit-2 major nitrogen regulatory gene of Neurospora crassa turns on the expression of various unlinked structural genes that specify nitrogen-catabolic enzymes under nitrogen-limitation conditions. The nit-2 gene encodes a protein of 1036 amino acid residues with a single zinc finger and a downstream basic region t...

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

authors： Fu YH,Marzluf GA

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The idea that the first living systems on earth were based on self-replicating RNA molecules has recently become popular as a result of the discovery of ribozymes. However, there are several major problems associated with the prebiotic synthesis of ribonucleotides. In addition, there is the newly recognized problem of...

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

authors： Joyce GF,Schwartz AW,Miller SL,Orgel LE

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emerging method of femtosecond crystallography (FX) may extend the diffraction resolution accessible from small radiation-sensitive crystals and provides a means to determine catalytically accurate structures of acutely radiation-sensitive metalloenzymes. Automated goniometer-based instrumentation developed for us...

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

authors： Cohen AE,Soltis SM,González A,Aguila L,Alonso-Mori R,Barnes CO,Baxter EL,Brehmer W,Brewster AS,Brunger AT,Calero G,Chang JF,Chollet M,Ehrensberger P,Eriksson TL,Feng Y,Hattne J,Hedman B,Hollenbeck M,Holton JM,Keab

更新日期：2014-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have implicated local inflammation and activation of complement amongst the processes involved in the pathogenesis of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Several lines of investigation also indicate that bis-retinoid pigments, such as A2E, that accumulate as lipofuscin in retinal pigment epithelial ...

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

authors： Zhou J,Jang YP,Kim SR,Sparrow JR

更新日期：2006-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The large class of adhesion G protein-coupled receptors (aGPCRs) bind extracellular matrix or neighboring cell-surface ligands to regulate organ and tissue development through an unknown activation mechanism. We examined aGPCR activation using two prototypical aGPCRs, GPR56 and GPR110. Active dissociation of the nonco...

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

authors： Stoveken HM,Hajduczok AG,Xu L,Tall GG

更新日期：2015-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Homologous recombination is an important biological process that occurs in all organisms and facilitates genome rearrangements and repair of DNA double-strand breaks. Eukaryotic Rad51 proteins (Rad51sp or Rhp51 in fission yeast) are functional and structural homologs of bacterial RecA protein, an evolutionarily conser...

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

authors： Akamatsu Y,Dziadkowiec D,Ikeguchi M,Shinagawa H,Iwasaki H

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisome proliferators (PP) induce a highly predictable pleiotropic response in rat and mouse liver that is characterized by hepatomegaly, increase in peroxisome number in hepatocytes, and induction of certain peroxisomal enzymes. The PP-binding protein (PPbP) was purified from rat liver cytosol by a two-step proced...

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

authors： Lalwani ND,Alvares K,Reddy MK,Reddy MN,Parikh I,Reddy JK

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The murine pre-B leukemic cell line 70Z/3 contains both an unrearranged immunoglobulin kappa-light-chain gene and a functionally rearranged but silent kappa-light-chain gene. Mitogenic stimulation of growing 70Z/3 cells with bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) activates kappa-light-gene transcription and results in a 1...

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

authors： Wall R,Briskin M,Carter C,Govan H,Taylor A,Kincade P

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the serum proteolytic system plasminogen/plasminogen activator as a biochemical tool used by the glia or neurons, or both, for maintaining their temporary and flexible cellular interactions during histogenesis of the nervous system is under study. The present report identifies a glia cell type, the Schwann...

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

authors： Kalderon N

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypothesis that the pubertal increase in luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) release is withheld by a dominant inhibitory neuronal system, the role of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), a known inhibitory neurotransmitter, in the control of LHRH release was examined in conscious female monkeys at the...

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

authors： Mitsushima D,Hei DL,Terasawa E

更新日期：1994-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The HIV type 1 (HIV-1) virion infectivity factor (Vif) protein blocks the action of the host defense factor APOBEC3G in human cells, thereby allowing release of infectious virions, but fails to inhibit similar APOBEC3G proteins present in some simian cells. Conversely, the Vif protein encoded by the African green monk...

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

authors： Bogerd HP,Doehle BP,Wiegand HL,Cullen BR

更新日期：2004-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory CD4(+) T helper (Th) cells are central to long-term protection against pathogens, but they can also be pathogenic and drive chronic inflammatory disorders. How these pathogenic memory Th cells are maintained, particularly at sites of local inflammation, remains unclear. We found that ectopic lymphoid-like struc...

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

authors： Shinoda K,Hirahara K,Iinuma T,Ichikawa T,Suzuki AS,Sugaya K,Tumes DJ,Yamamoto H,Hara T,Tani-Ichi S,Ikuta K,Okamoto Y,Nakayama T

更新日期：2016-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Five different selectively deuterated analogs of staphylococcal nuclease (Foggi) were prepared having all but a selected few hydrogen atoms in the enzyme molecule replaced by deuterium. The (1)H-NMR spectra of these analogs are extremely simplified, since they consist of lines arising only from the remaining protonate...

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

authors： Putter I,Barreto A,Markley JL,Jardetzky O

更新日期：1969-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides are postulated to disrupt microbial phospholipid membranes. The prevailing molecular model is based on the formation of stable or transient pores although the direct observation of the fundamental processes is lacking. By combining rational peptide design with topographical (atomic force microsc...

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

authors： Rakowska PD,Jiang H,Ray S,Pyne A,Lamarre B,Carr M,Judge PJ,Ravi J,Gerling UI,Koksch B,Martyna GJ,Hoogenboom BW,Watts A,Crain J,Grovenor CR,Ryadnov MG

更新日期：2013-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane proteins of cytotoxic T cells specifically reorganize to form an immunological synapse (IS) on interaction with their specific target. In this paper, we investigated the redistribution of Kv1.3 channels, which are the dominant voltage-gated potassium channels, in the plasma membrane of allogen-activated human...

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

authors： Panyi G,Vámosi G,Bacsó Z,Bagdány M,Bodnár A,Varga Z,Gáspár R,Mátyus L,Damjanovich S

更新日期：2004-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:During transcription, RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) must select the correct nucleotide, catalyze its addition to the growing RNA transcript, and move stepwise along the DNA until a gene is fully transcribed. In all kingdoms of life, transcription must be finely tuned to ensure an appropriate balance between fidelity and ...

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

authors： Larson MH,Zhou J,Kaplan CD,Palangat M,Kornberg RD,Landick R,Block SM

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00