A subset of group A-like var genes encodes the malaria parasite ligands for binding to human brain endothelial cells.

abstract：:T follicular helper (Tfh) and regulatory (Tfr) cells are terminally differentiated cells found in germinal centers (GCs), specialized secondary lymphoid organ structures dedicated to antibody production. As such, follicular T (Tfol) cells are supposed to be specific for immunizing antigens, which has been reported for...

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

authors： Ritvo PG,Saadawi A,Barennes P,Quiniou V,Chaara W,El Soufi K,Bonnet B,Six A,Shugay M,Mariotti-Ferrandiz E,Klatzmann D

更新日期：2018-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans respond to foreign antigen by generating plasma Abs and memory B cells (MBCs). The Ab response then declines, sometimes to below the limit of detection. In contrast, MBCs are generally thought to be long-lived. We tested and compared Plasmodium falciparum (Pf)-specific Ab and MBC responses in two populations of...

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

authors： Ndungu FM,Olotu A,Mwacharo J,Nyonda M,Apfeld J,Mramba LK,Fegan GW,Bejon P,Marsh K

更新日期：2012-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:This study demonstrates the presence of an N-acetyl-D-galactosaminyltransferase in human serum and in erythrocyte membranes. This enzyme catalyzes the transfer of N-acetyl-D-galactosamine from UDP-N-acetyl-D-galactosamine to a mucin receptor and 2'-fucosyllactose that have blood group H activity and may be responsible...

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

authors： Kim YS,Perdomo J,Bella A Jr,Nordberg J

更新日期：1971-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A polyclonal antiserum directed against the C-terminal domain of dystrophin was used to isolate a cDNA clone encoding an antigenically cross-reactive protein, microtubule-associated protein 1B (MAP-1B). Physical mapping of the human MAP-1B locus places its chromosomal location at 5q13, in proximity to the spinal muscu...

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

authors： Lien LL,Boyce FM,Kleyn P,Brzustowicz LM,Menninger J,Ward DC,Gilliam TC,Kunkel LM

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eukaryotic proteasome mediates degradation of polyubiquitinated proteins. Here we report the single-particle cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) structures of the endogenous 26S proteasome from Saccharomyces cerevisiae at 4.6- to 6.3-Å resolution. The fine features of the cryo-EM maps allow modeling of 18 subunits i...

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

authors： Luan B,Huang X,Wu J,Mei Z,Wang Y,Xue X,Yan C,Wang J,Finley DJ,Shi Y,Wang F

更新日期：2016-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supports an ambitious portfolio of novel vaccines, drug regimens, and diagnostic tools for tuberculosis (TB). We elicited the expected efficacies and improvements of the novel interventions in discussions with the foundations managing their development. Using an age-structured mat...

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

authors： Abu-Raddad LJ,Sabatelli L,Achterberg JT,Sugimoto JD,Longini IM Jr,Dye C,Halloran ME

更新日期：2009-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative genomics of closely related bacterial isolates is a powerful method for uncovering virulence and other important genome elements. We determined draft sequences (8-fold coverage) of the genomes of strains JD1 and N40 of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, the causative agent of Lyme disease, and we compared...

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

authors： Qiu WG,Schutzer SE,Bruno JF,Attie O,Xu Y,Dunn JJ,Fraser CM,Casjens SR,Luft BJ

更新日期：2004-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin-myosin (actomyosin) generates mechanical force by consuming ATP molecules. We apply the energy landscape perspective to address a controversial issue as to whether the myosin head moves with multiple steps after a single ATP hydrolysis or only a single mechanical event of the lever-arm swinging follows a single ...

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

authors： Terada TP,Sasai M,Yomo T

更新日期：2002-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The integrity of cell membranes is maintained by a balance between the amount of cholesterol and the amounts of unsaturated and saturated fatty acids in phospholipids. This balance is maintained by membrane-bound transcription factors called sterol regulatory element-binding proteins (SREBPs) that activate genes encod...

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

authors： Brown MS,Goldstein JL

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We argue that folding of the compact domains of proteins can occur with adequate rapidity in the absence of a unique directed mechanism, provided that native-like local structure dominates the folding process. We further suggest that the evolution of amino acid sequences should favor multiple paths to the folded state...

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

authors： Harrison SC,Durbin R

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the ability of targeted immunomicelles to detect and assess macrophages in atherosclerotic plaque using MRI in vivo. There is a large clinical need for a noninvasive tool to assess atherosclerosis from a molecular and cellular standpoint. Macrophages play a central role in atherosclerosis and are assoc...

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

authors： Amirbekian V,Lipinski MJ,Briley-Saebo KC,Amirbekian S,Aguinaldo JG,Weinreb DB,Vucic E,Frias JC,Hyafil F,Mani V,Fisher EA,Fayad ZA

更新日期：2007-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore protein space from a global perspective, we consider 9,710 SCOP (Structural Classification of Proteins) domains with up to 70% sequence identity and present all similarities among them as networks: In the "domain network," nodes represent domains, and edges connect domains that share "motifs," i.e., signifi...

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

authors： Nepomnyachiy S,Ben-Tal N,Kolodny R

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate ordered orientation of the hydration water at the surface of phospholipid bilayers by use of coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy, a highly sensitive vibrational imaging method recently developed. We investigated negatively charged POPS (1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phospho-l-ser...

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

authors： Cheng JX,Pautot S,Weitz DA,Xie XS

更新日期：2003-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-DNA interactions were studied in vivo at the region containing a human DNA replication origin, located at the 3' end of the lamin B2 gene and partially overlapping the promoter of another gene, located downstream. DNase I treatment of nuclei isolated from both exponentially growing and nonproliferating HL-60 c...

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

authors： Dimitrova DS,Giacca M,Demarchi F,Biamonti G,Riva S,Falaschi A

更新日期：1996-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome P450(BioI) (CYP107H1) from the biotin operon of Bacillus subtilis forms a seven-carbon diacid through a multistep oxidative cleavage of a fatty acid linked to acyl carrier protein (ACP). Crystal structures of P450(BioI) in complex with three different length fatty acyl-ACP (Escherichia coli) ligands show th...

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

authors： Cryle MJ,Schlichting I

更新日期：2008-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli strain, ts-rnp5, originally described in 1975 by G. D. Burdick and H. Berger, is shown to possess an RNA polymerase (RNA nucleotidyltransferase) sigma subunit with an activity 4--6 times less thermostable at 45 degrees than sigma from wild-type strains. This defect remains associated with the sigm...

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

authors： Gross C,Hoffman J,Ward C,Hager D,Burdick G,Berger H,Burgess R

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique is described for isolation of plasmid DNA in closed and open circular double-stranded forms from bacterial cells, by use of ATP-dependent deoxyribonuclease purified from Micrococcus luteus. This DNase, acting only upon linear DNA molecules, degrades all bacterial chromosomal DNA extracted in the linear for...

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

authors： Mukai T,Matsubara K,Takagi Y

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A role for Notch in the elaboration of existing neural processes is emerging that is distinct from the increasingly well understood function of this gene in binary cell-fate decisions. Several research groups, by using a variety of organisms, have shown that Notch is important in the development of neural ultrastructu...

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

authors： Presente A,Boyles RS,Serway CN,de Belle JS,Andres AJ

更新日期：2004-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Supernumerary B chromosomes are optional additions to the basic set of A chromosomes, and occur in all eukaryotic groups. They differ from the basic complement in morphology, pairing behavior, and inheritance and are not required for normal growth and development. The current view is that B chromosomes are parasitic e...

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

authors： Martis MM,Klemme S,Banaei-Moghaddam AM,Blattner FR,Macas J,Schmutzer T,Scholz U,Gundlach H,Wicker T,Šimková H,Novák P,Neumann P,Kubaláková M,Bauer E,Haseneyer G,Fuchs J,Doležel J,Stein N,Mayer KF,Houben A

更新日期：2012-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work shows that the adolescent reward system is hyperactive, but this finding may be confounded by differences in how teens value money. To address this, we examined the neural ontogeny of objective value representation. Adolescent and adult participants performed a monetary gambling task in which they chose ...

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

authors： Barkley-Levenson E,Galván A

更新日期：2014-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to environmental changes, the connections ("arrows") in gene regulatory networks determine which genes modulate their expression, but the quantitative parameters of the network ("the numbers on the arrows") are equally important in determining the resulting phenotype. What are the objectives and constraint...

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

authors： Chubukov V,Zuleta IA,Li H

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified the mutation responsible for the autosomal recessive wasted (wst) mutation of the mouse. Wasted mice are characterized by wasting and neurological and immunological abnormalities starting at 21 days after birth; they die by 28 days. A deletion of 15.8 kb in wasted mice abolishes expression of a gene...

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

authors： Chambers DM,Peters J,Abbott CM

更新日期：1998-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The small heat-shock protein (sHSP) from Methanococcus jannaschii (Mj HSP16.5) forms a homomeric complex of 24 subunits and has an overall structure of a multiwindowed hollow sphere with an external diameter of approximately 120 A and an internal diameter of approximately 65 A with six square "windows" of approximatel...

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

authors： Kim R,Lai L,Lee HH,Cheong GW,Kim KK,Wu Z,Yokota H,Marqusee S,Kim SH

更新日期：2003-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The identity of cells that mediate positive selection of CD8(+) T cells was investigated in two T cell receptor (TCR) transgenic systems. Irradiated beta(2)-microglobulin mutant mice or mice with mutations in both the K(b) and D(b) genes were repopulated with fetal liver cells from class I(+) TCR transgenic mice. In t...

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

authors： Zerrahn J,Volkmann A,Coles MC,Held W,Lemonnier FA,Raulet DH

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of mitochondrial complex I is one of the leading hypotheses for dopaminergic neuron death associated with Parkinson's disease (PD). To test this hypothesis genetically, we used a mouse strain lacking functional Ndufs4, a gene encoding a subunit required for complete assembly and function of complex I. Delet...

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

authors： Choi WS,Kruse SE,Palmiter RD,Xia Z

更新日期：2008-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyze the effects of an externally applied electric field on thermal fluctuations for a binary electrolyte fluid. We show that the fluctuating Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations for charged multispecies diffusion coupled with the fluctuating fluid momentum equation result in enhanced charge transport via a mec...

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

authors： Péraud JP,Nonaka AJ,Bell JB,Donev A,Garcia AL

更新日期：2017-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-tyrosine kinases (PTKs) are critical enzymes for receptor-mediated signaling in lymphocytes. Because natural killer (NK) cells are large granular lymphocytes with specialized effector function, we set out to identify PTKs preferentially expressed in these cells. One such PTK was identified and molecularly clon...

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

authors： Kawamura M,McVicar DW,Johnston JA,Blake TB,Chen YQ,Lal BK,Lloyd AR,Kelvin DJ,Staples JE,Ortaldo JR

更新日期：1994-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) is a neuropeptide that coexists with acetylcholine in spinal cord motoneurons. The effects of CGRP on the functional properties of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AcChoR) were examined by electrophysiological methods. Using the whole-cell patch-clamp technique and a mouse c...

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

authors： Mulle C,Benoit P,Pinset C,Roa M,Changeux JP

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex I functions as a redox-linked proton pump in the respiratory chains of mitochondria and bacteria, driven by the reduction of quinone (Q) by NADH. Remarkably, the distance between the Q reduction site and the most distant proton channels extends nearly 200 Å. To elucidate the molecular origin of this long-range...

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

authors： Sharma V,Belevich G,Gamiz-Hernandez AP,Róg T,Vattulainen I,Verkhovskaya ML,Wikström M,Hummer G,Kaila VR

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Graphene oxide (GO), the main precursor of graphene-based materials made by solution processing, is known to be very stiff. Indeed, it has a Young's modulus comparable to steel, on the order of 300 GPa. Despite its very high stiffness, we show here that GO is superflexible. We quantitatively measure the GO bending rig...

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

authors： Poulin P,Jalili R,Neri W,Nallet F,Divoux T,Colin A,Aboutalebi SH,Wallace G,Zakri C

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00