Science in support of the Deepwater Horizon response.

abstract：:Cigarette smoke is the major cause of lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer death, and of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. Using high-density gene expression arrays, we describe genes that are normally expressed in a subset of human airway epithelial cel...

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

authors： Spira A,Beane J,Shah V,Liu G,Schembri F,Yang X,Palma J,Brody JS

更新日期：2004-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The ciliary epithelium in the eye consists of pigmented epithelial cells that express the α1β1 isoform of Na,K-ATPase and nonpigmented epithelial cells that express mainly the α2β3 isoform. In principle, a Na,K-ATPase inhibitor with selectivity for α2β3 that penetrates the cornea could effectively reduce intraocular p...

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

authors： Katz A,Tal DM,Heller D,Habeck M,Ben Zeev E,Rabah B,Bar Kana Y,Marcovich AL,Karlish SJ

更新日期：2015-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro biological activities of several rabies virus-neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) were compared with their ability to prevent a lethal rabies virus encephalomyelitis. The protective activity of a particular mAb in vivo did not correlate with its virus-neutralizing activity in vitro; rather it was re...

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

authors： Dietzschold B,Kao M,Zheng YM,Chen ZY,Maul G,Fu ZF,Rupprecht CE,Koprowski H

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor (LDLR) cause hypercholesterolemia because of inefficient LDL clearance from the circulation. In addition, there is a paradoxical oversecretion of the metabolic precursor of LDL, very low density lipoprotein (VLDL). We recently demonstrated that the LDLR mediates ...

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

authors： Gillian-Daniel DL,Bates PW,Tebon A,Attie AD

更新日期：2002-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Digestion of mouse L cell mitochondrial DNA with EcoRI restriction endonuclease produces two linear duplex fragments comprising 86.3 +/- 2.0% and 14.2 +/- 1.0% of the circular genome length (16,000 +/- 470 nucleotide pairs). Digestion of human HeLa cell mitochondrial DNA with EcoRI produces three linear duplex fragmen...

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

authors： Robberson DL,Clayton DA,Morrow JF

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug discovery in psychiatry has been limited to chemical modifications of compounds originally discovered serendipitously. Therefore, more mechanism-oriented strategies of drug discovery for mental disorders are awaited. Schizophrenia is a devastating mental disorder with synaptic disconnectivity involved in its path...

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

authors： Hayashi-Takagi A,Araki Y,Nakamura M,Vollrath B,Duron SG,Yan Z,Kasai H,Huganir RL,Campbell DA,Sawa A

更新日期：2014-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila is an intracellular parasite of freshwater protozoa and human macrophages. Recent studies determined that the macrophage infectivity potentiator (Mip) surface protein, a prokaryotic homolog of the FK506-binding proteins, is required for optimal infection of macrophages. To determine whether Mip ...

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

authors： Cianciotto NP,Fields BS

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HBc, the capsid-forming "core protein" of human hepatitis B virus (HBV), is a multidomain, α-helical homodimer that aggressively forms human HBV capsids. Structural plasticity has been proposed to be important to the myriad functions HBc mediates during viral replication. Here, we report detailed thermodynamic analyse...

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

authors： Alexander CG,Jürgens MC,Shepherd DA,Freund SM,Ashcroft AE,Ferguson N

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism, chromosome 17 type (FTDP-17) is caused by mutations in the tau gene, and the signature lesions of FTDP-17 are filamentous tau inclusions. Tau mutations may be pathogenic either by altering protein function or gene regulation. Here we show that missense, silent, and intronic t...

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

authors： D'Souza I,Poorkaj P,Hong M,Nochlin D,Lee VM,Bird TD,Schellenberg GD

更新日期：1999-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide growth factors were isolated from conditioned medium derived from rice (Oryza sativa L.) suspension cultures and identified to be a sulfated pentapeptide [H-Tyr(SO3H)-Ile-Tyr(SO3H)-Thr-Gln-OH] and its C-terminal-truncated tetrapeptide [H-Tyr(SO3H)-Ile-Tyr(SO3H)-Thr-OH]. These structures were identical to the p...

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

authors： Matsubayashi Y,Takagi L,Sakagami Y

更新日期：1997-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The maytansinoid drug DM1 is 100- to 1000-fold more cytotoxic than anticancer drugs that are currently in clinical use. The immunoconjugate C242-DM1 was prepared by conjugating DM1 to the monoclonal antibody C242, which recognizes a mucin-type glycoprotein expressed to various extents by human colorectal cancers. C242...

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

authors： Liu C,Tadayoni BM,Bourret LA,Mattocks KM,Derr SM,Widdison WC,Kedersha NL,Ariniello PD,Goldmacher VS,Lambert JM,Blättler WA,Chari RV

更新日期：1996-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We develop a potential landscape approach to quantitatively describe experimental data from a fibroblast cell line that exhibits a wide range of GFP expression levels under the control of the promoter for tenascin-C. Time-lapse live-cell microscopy provides data about short-term fluctuations in promoter activity, and ...

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

authors： Sisan DR,Halter M,Hubbard JB,Plant AL

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteocalcin, a bone-specific protein and marker of the mature osteoblast, is expressed only in nonproliferating osteoblasts in a mineralizing extracellular matrix, while type I collagen is expressed in proliferating cells. The nuclear proteins encoded by the c-fos and c-jun protooncogenes are expressed during the prol...

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

authors： Owen TA,Bortell R,Yocum SA,Smock SL,Zhang M,Abate C,Shalhoub V,Aronin N,Wright KL,van Wijnen AJ

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article extends our previous quantitative analysis of the relationship between the dynamics of the primary structure of DNA and mutagenesis associated with single-strand lesions to an analysis of the production and processing of endogenous double-strand breaks (EDSBs) and to their implications for oncogenesis. We...

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

authors： Vilenchik MM,Knudson AG

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:An established line of mouse fibroblasts, C3H/10T1/2 cells, was used for the assessment in vitro of oncogenic transformations caused by single and split doses of x-rays. The shape of the dose-response relationship was determined over the range from 0.1 to 10 Gy. It was found that splitting the x-ray dose into two equa...

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

authors： Miller RC,Hall EJ,Rossi HH

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now well established that glasses feature quasilocalized nonphononic excitations-coined "soft spots"-, which follow a universal [Formula: see text] density of states in the limit of low frequencies ω. All glass-specific properties, such as the dependence on the preparation protocol or composition, are encapsulat...

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

authors： Rainone C,Bouchbinder E,Lerner E

更新日期：2020-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The succession from aerobic and facultative anaerobic bacteria to obligate anaerobes in the infant gut along with the differences between the compositions of the mucosally adherent vs. luminal microbiota suggests that the gut microbes consume oxygen, which diffuses into the lumen from the intestinal tissue, maintainin...

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

authors： Friedman ES,Bittinger K,Esipova TV,Hou L,Chau L,Jiang J,Mesaros C,Lund PJ,Liang X,FitzGerald GA,Goulian M,Lee D,Garcia BA,Blair IA,Vinogradov SA,Wu GD

更新日期：2018-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The Skp1-Cullin1 F-box protein-Fbw7 ubiquitin ligase regulates phosphorylation-dependent cyclin E degradation, and disruption of this pathway is associated with genetic instability and tumorigenesis. Fbw7 is a human tumor suppressor that is targeted for mutation in primary cancers. However, mechanisms other than mutat...

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

authors： Minella AC,Welcker M,Clurman BE

更新日期：2005-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Microarrays have enabled the determination of how thousands of genes are expressed to coordinate function within single organisms. Yet applications to natural or engineered communities where different organisms interact to produce complex properties are hampered by theoretical and technological limitations. Here we de...

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

authors： Marcelino LA,Backman V,Donaldson A,Steadman C,Thompson JR,Preheim SP,Lien C,Lim E,Veneziano D,Polz MF

更新日期：2006-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATP-sensitive potassium channel (K-ATP channel) plays a key role in insulin secretion from pancreatic beta-cells. It is closed by glucose metabolism, which stimulates secretion, and opened by the drug diazoxide, which inhibits insulin release. Metabolic regulation is mediated by changes in ATP and MgADP concentrat...

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

authors： Trapp S,Tucker SJ,Ashcroft FM

更新日期：1997-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse serosal mast cells (SMCs) and Kirsten sarcoma virus-immortalized mast cells store large amounts of mast cell carboxypeptidase A and serine proteases in their secretory granules. Secretory granule proteins from 2.6 x 10(6) purified SMCs were separated by NaDodSO4/PAGE, trans-blotted to poly(vinylidine difluoride)...

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

authors： Reynolds DS,Stevens RL,Lane WS,Carr MH,Austen KF,Serafin WE

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tramadol, previously only known as a synthetic analgesic, has now been found in the bark and wood of roots of the African medicinal tree Nauclea latifolia. At present, no direct evidence is available as to the biosynthetic pathway of its unusual skeleton. To provide guidance as to possible biosynthetic precursors, we ...

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

authors： Romek KM,Nun P,Remaud GS,Silvestre V,Taïwe GS,Lecerf-Schmidt F,Boumendjel A,De Waard M,Robins RJ

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Autocatalytic chemical reactions are widely studied as models of biological processes and to better understand the origins of life on Earth. Minimal self-reproducing amphiphiles have been developed in this context and as an approach to de novo "bottom-up" synthetic protocells. How chemicals come together to produce li...

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

authors： Ortega-Arroyo J,Bissette AJ,Kukura P,Fletcher SP

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages use phagocytosis to control the spread of pathogens in the body, to clear apoptotic cells, and to aid in tissue remodeling. The phagosomal membrane is traditionally thought to originate from the plasmalemma and then go through a series of maturation steps involving sequential fusion with endosomal compartm...

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

authors： Rogers LD,Foster LJ

更新日期：2007-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The central questions of bacterial ecology and evolution require a method to consistently demarcate, from the vast and diverse set of bacterial cells within a natural community, the groups playing ecologically distinct roles (ecotypes). Because of a lack of theory-based guidelines, current methods in bacterial systema...

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

authors： Koeppel A,Perry EB,Sikorski J,Krizanc D,Warner A,Ward DM,Rooney AP,Brambilla E,Connor N,Ratcliff RM,Nevo E,Cohan FM

更新日期：2008-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used a semiselective Hahn spin-echo sequence of the form (1331)-tau-(2662)-tau-AQ, delivered by a surface coil to obtain high-resolution 1H NMR spectra from the brains of intact dead rats. This sequence gave suppression of the tissue water resonance by a factor of 80,000 when tau = 68 ms. Delivery of a frequen...

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

authors： Hetherington HP,Avison MJ,Shulman RG

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is presented for detection of lysosomal hydrolase activity in situ in colonies of Chinese hamster ovary cells. This method was used to screen for mutants deficient in lysosomal alpha-mannosidase. Mutagenized cells were replicated onto filter papers [Esko, J. D. & Raetz, C. R. H. (1978) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. ...

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

authors： Robbins AR

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:p150Glued was first identified as a polypeptide that copurifies with cytoplasmic dynein, the minus-end-directed microtubule-based motor protein, and has more recently been shown to be present as a member of the oligomeric dynactin complex, which includes the actin-related protein centractin (Arp-1). Dynactin is though...

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

authors： Waterman-Storer CM,Karki S,Holzbaur EL

更新日期：1995-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Initial attempts to correlate the distribution of gene density (number of gene loci per unit length on the linkage map) with the distribution of lengths of coding sequences have led to the observation that 46% of approximately 1000 sampled proteins in Escherichia coli have molecular masses of n X 14,000 +/- 2500 dalto...

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

authors： Savageau MA

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium oscillations suppress mitochondrial movements along the microtubules to support on-demand distribution of mitochondria. To activate this mechanism, Ca(2+) targets a yet unidentified cytoplasmic factor that does not seem to be a microtubular motor or a kinase/phosphatase. Here, we have studied the dependence of...

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

authors： Saotome M,Safiulina D,Szabadkai G,Das S,Fransson A,Aspenstrom P,Rizzuto R,Hajnóczky G

更新日期：2008-12-30 00:00:00