The Wingless homolog Wnt5a stimulates phagocytosis but not bacterial killing.

abstract：:Two types of proteins that hydrolyze inorganic pyrophosphate (PPi), very different in both amino acid sequence and structure, have been characterized to date: soluble and membrane-bound proton-pumping pyrophosphatases (sPPases and H(+)-PPases, respectively). sPPases are ubiquitous proteins that hydrolyze PPi releasing...

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

authors： Perez-Castineira JR,Lopez-Marques RL,Villalba JM,Losada M,Serrano A

更新日期：2002-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that the medial-temporal lobe (MTL) is critical for recognition memory. The MTL is known to be composed of distinct structures that are organized in a hierarchical manner. At present, it remains controversial whether lower structures in this hierarchy, such as perirhinal cortex, support memory f...

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

authors： Bowles B,Crupi C,Mirsattari SM,Pigott SE,Parrent AG,Pruessner JC,Yonelinas AP,Köhler S

更新日期：2007-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here the successful establishment of a reverse genetics system for rotavirus (RV), a member of the Reoviridae family whose genome consists of 10-12 segmented dsRNA. The system is based on the recombinant vaccinia virus T7 RNA polymerase-driven procedure for supplying artificial viral mRNA in the cytoplasm....

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

authors： Komoto S,Sasaki J,Taniguchi K

更新日期：2006-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last 60,000 y humans have expanded across the globe and now occupy a wider range than any other terrestrial species. Our ability to successfully adapt to such a diverse range of habitats is often explained in terms of our cognitive ability. Humans have relatively bigger brains and more computing power than othe...

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

authors： Boyd R,Richerson PJ,Henrich J

更新日期：2011-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Searches of ribosomal RNA sequences for compensatory base changes preserving Watson-Crick base pairing have led to detailed models of the conserved secondary structures of these RNAs. In principle, tertiary interactions can also be detected by searches for phylogenetically covariant bases. Within a highly conserved re...

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

authors： Ryan PC,Draper DE

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of Chinese hamster cells to reduced oxygen partial pressure results in a marked enhancement in the frequency of methotrexate resistance and dihydrofolate reductase gene amplification. The frequency of enhanced resistance is a function of the length of exposure to hypoxic conditions and the time after recovery...

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

authors： Rice GC,Hoy C,Schimke RT

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental cues modulate a variety of intracellular pathways whose signaling is integrated by the molecular mechanism that constitutes the circadian clock. Although the essential gears of the circadian machinery have been elucidated, very little is known about the signaling systems regulating it. Here, we report th...

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

authors： Yujnovsky I,Hirayama J,Doi M,Borrelli E,Sassone-Corsi P

更新日期：2006-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We combine direct surface force measurements with thermodynamic arguments to demonstrate that pure ionic liquids are expected to behave as dilute weak electrolyte solutions, with typical effective dissociated ion concentrations of less than 0.1% at room temperature. We performed equilibrium force-distance measurements...

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

authors： Gebbie MA,Valtiner M,Banquy X,Fox ET,Henderson WA,Israelachvili JN

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Characteristic classes for the index of the Dirac family [unk](A) are computed in terms of differential forms on the orbit space of vector potentials under gauge transformations. They represent obstructions to the existence of a covariant Dirac propagator. The first obstruction is related to a chiral anomaly. ...

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

authors： Atiyah MF,Singer IM

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potent transforming activity of membrane-targeted Raf-1 (Raf-CAAX) suggests that Ras transformation is triggered primarily by a Ras-mediated translocation of Raf-1 to the plasma membrane. However, whereas constitutively activated mutants of Ras [H-Ras(61L) and K-Ras4B(12V)] and Raf-1 (DeltaRaf-22W and Raf-CAAX) ca...

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

authors： Oldham SM,Clark GJ,Gangarosa LM,Coffey RJ Jr,Der CJ

更新日期：1996-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Friend murine leukemia virus (F-MuLV) is a replication-competent retrovirus that induces a rapidly fetal leukemia in susceptible mice (stage I disease). Leukemia cells obtained from these animals do not grow in cell culture using standard tissue culture conditions. However, in the presence of WEHI-3 cell-conditioned m...

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

authors： Oliff A,Oliff I,Schmidt B,Famulari N

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term synaptic plasticity requires both gene expression in the nucleus and local protein synthesis at synapses. The effector proteins that link molecular events in the cell body with local maintenance of synaptic strength are not known. We now show that treatment with serotonin (5-HT) that produces long-term facil...

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

authors： Giustetto M,Hegde AN,Si K,Casadio A,Inokuchi K,Pei W,Kandel ER,Schwartz JH

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well accepted that the induction of endothelial cell (EC) adhesion molecules is a critical component in acute inflammatory responses as well as allogeneic interactions in vascularized allografts and, possibly, atherogenesis. The "inflammatory triad" of interleukin 1 (IL-1), tumor necrosis factor, and lipopolysac...

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

authors： Bender JR,Sadeghi MM,Watson C,Pfau S,Pardi R

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a method for introducing mtDNA mutations into the mouse female germ line by means of embryonic stem (ES) cell cybrids. Mitochondria were recovered from the brain of a NZB mouse by fusion of synaptosomes to a mtDNA-deficient (rho degrees ) cell line. These cybrids were enucleated and the cytoplasts were elect...

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

authors： Sligh JE,Levy SE,Waymire KG,Allard P,Dillehay DL,Nusinowitz S,Heckenlively JR,MacGregor GR,Wallace DC

更新日期：2000-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino-acid sequence of the gamma-carboxyglutamic acid-containing protein of bovine bone is presented. The sequence of 43 of the 49 residues was determined automatically on the intact protein and on a tryptic peptide. The remainder was determined by conventional procedures on tryptic and chymotrytic peptides. Resid...

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

authors： Price PA,Poser JW,Raman N

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gold nanoparticles quench the fluorescence of cationic polyfluorene with Stern-Volmer constants (KSV) approaching 1011 M-1, several orders of magnitude larger than any previously reported conjugated polymer-quencher pair and 9-10 orders of magnitude larger than small molecule dye-quencher pairs. The dependence of KSV ...

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

authors： Fan C,Wang S,Hong JW,Bazan GC,Plaxco KW,Heeger AJ

更新日期：2003-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an approach for the detection of magnetic resonance imaging without superconducting magnets and cryogenics: optical atomic magnetometry. This technique possesses a high sensitivity independent of the strength of the static magnetic field, extending the applicability of magnetic resonance imaging to low magne...

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

authors： Xu S,Yashchuk VV,Donaldson MH,Rochester SM,Budker D,Pines A

更新日期：2006-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is associated with the t(15;17) translocation, which generates a PML/RAR alpha fusion protein between PML, a growth suppressor localized on nuclear matrix-associated bodies, and RAR alpha, a nuclear receptor for retinoic acid (RA). PML/RAR alpha was proposed to block myeloid differen...

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

authors： Zhu J,Koken MH,Quignon F,Chelbi-Alix MK,Degos L,Wang ZY,Chen Z,de Thé H

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Signal transductions by the dual-function CXCR4 and CCR5 chemokine receptors/HIV type 1 (HIV-1) coreceptors were electrophysiologically monitored in Xenopus laevis oocytes that also coexpressed the viral receptor CD4 and a G protein-coupled inward-rectifying K+ channel (Kir 3.1). Large Kir 3.1-dependent currents gener...

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

authors： Madani N,Kozak SL,Kavanaugh MP,Kabat D

更新日期：1998-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of class II gene transcription may involve alleviation of transcription repression as well as stimulation of the assembly and function of the general RNA polymerase (RNAP) II transcription machinery. Here, we investigated whether activator-reversible transcription repression by NC2 (Dr1/DRAP1) contributes t...

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

authors： Castaño E,Gross P,Wang Z,Roeder RG,Oelgeschläger T

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The 32-kDa subunit of replication protein A (RPA) is phosphorylated during the S phase of the cell cycle in vivo and during simian virus 40 DNA replication in vitro. To explore the functional significance of this modification, we purified a HeLa cell protein kinase that phosphorylates RPA in the presence of single-str...

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

authors： Brush GS,Anderson CW,Kelly TJ

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term depression (LTD) at cerebellar parallel fiber (PF)-Purkinje cell synapses must be balanced by long-term potentiation (LTP) to prevent saturation and allow reversal of motor learning. The only previously analyzed form of cerebellar LTP is induced by 4-8 Hz PF stimulation and requires cAMP but not nitric oxide...

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

authors： Lev-Ram V,Wong ST,Storm DR,Tsien RY

更新日期：2002-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce Pathifier, an algorithm that infers pathway deregulation scores for each tumor sample on the basis of expression data. This score is determined, in a context-specific manner, for every particular dataset and type of cancer that is being investigated. The algorithm transforms gene-level information into pa...

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

authors： Drier Y,Sheffer M,Domany E

更新日期：2013-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Host-defense cationic antimicrobial peptides ( approximately 12-50 aa long) play an essential protective role in the innate immune system of all organisms. Lipopeptides, however, are produced only in bacteria and fungi during cultivation, and they are composed of specific lipophilic moieties attached to anionic peptid...

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

authors： Makovitzki A,Avrahami D,Shai Y

更新日期：2006-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned a member of the nuclear receptor superfamily. The cDNA was isolated from a rat liver library and encodes a protein of 446 aa with a predicted mass of 50 kDa. This clone (OR-1) shows no striking homology to any known member of the steroid/thyroid hormone receptor superfamily. The most related receptor is...

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

authors： Teboul M,Enmark E,Li Q,Wikström AC,Pelto-Huikko M,Gustafsson JA

更新日期：1995-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular basis for the absence of anthocyanins and proanthocyanidins in four independent sodium azide-induced ant18 mutants of barley was examined by sequencing the gene encoding dihydroflavonol 4-reductase in these mutants. Sodium azide generated 21 base substitutions, which corresponds to 0.17% of the 12,704 nu...

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

authors： Olsen O,Wang X,von Wettstein D

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the absence of adaptive immunity displayed by animals, plants respond locally to biotic challenge via inducible basal defense networks activated through recognition and response to conserved pathogen-associated molecular patterns. In addition, immunity can be induced in tissues remote from infection sites by system...

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

authors： Truman W,Bennett MH,Kubigsteltig I,Turnbull C,Grant M

更新日期：2007-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:State-of-the-art NMR spectrometers using superconducting magnets have enabled, with their ultrafine spectral resolution, the determination of the structure of large molecules such as proteins, which is one of the most profound applications of modern NMR spectroscopy. Many chemical and biotechnological applications, ho...

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

authors： Ha D,Paulsen J,Sun N,Song YQ,Ham D

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We present two methods to probe the energy landscape and motions of proteins in the context of molecular dynamics simulations of the helix-forming S-peptide of RNase A and the RNase A-3'-UMP enzyme-product complex. The first method uses the generalized ergodic measure to compute the rate of conformational space sampli...

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

authors： Straub JE,Thirumalai D

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The calcium-dependent phosphatase calcineurin and its downstream transcriptional effector nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT) are important regulators of inducible gene expression in multiple cell types. In T cells, calcineurin-NFAT signaling represents a critical event for mediating cellular activation and the...

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

authors： Bueno OF,Brandt EB,Rothenberg ME,Molkentin JD

更新日期：2002-07-09 00:00:00