Engineering a BCR-ABL-activated caspase for the selective elimination of leukemic cells.

abstract：:Diffuse celestial sources of relatively low surface brightness such as the Milky Way, zodiacal light, and gegenschein (or contre lumière) can be studied most reliably from above the earth's atmosphere with equipment flown in artificial satellites. We review the techniques used and some of the difficulties encountered ...

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

authors： Roach FE,Carroll B,Aller LH,Smith L

更新日期：1972-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis, has become an attractive new model organism for comparative genomics and evolutionary developmental biology. Over the last few years, many genes have been isolated and their expression patterns studied to gain insight into their function. More recently, functional tools have be...

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

authors： Renfer E,Amon-Hassenzahl A,Steinmetz PR,Technau U

更新日期：2010-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Inducible cAMP early repressor (ICER) is a transcriptional repressor, which, because of alternate promoter use, is generated from the 3' region of the cAMP response modulator (Crem) gene. Its expression and nuclear occurrence are elevated by high cAMP levels in naturally occurring regulatory T cells (nTregs). Using tw...

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

authors： Vaeth M,Gogishvili T,Bopp T,Klein M,Berberich-Siebelt F,Gattenloehner S,Avots A,Sparwasser T,Grebe N,Schmitt E,Hünig T,Serfling E,Bodor J

更新日期：2011-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Mind wandering represents the human capacity for internally focused thought and relies upon the brain's default network and its interactions with attentional networks. Studies have characterized mind wandering in healthy people, yet there is limited understanding of how this capacity is affected in clinical population...

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

authors： O'Callaghan C,Shine JM,Hodges JR,Andrews-Hanna JR,Irish M

更新日期：2019-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In movies or on TV, a wheel can seem to rotate backwards, due to the temporal subsampling inherent in the recording process (the wagon wheel illusion). Surprisingly, this effect has also been reported under continuous light, suggesting that our visual system, too, might sample motion in discrete "snapshots." Recently,...

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

authors： VanRullen R,Reddy L,Koch C

更新日期：2005-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Aotus monkeys, which are generally killed when infected with the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, have been identified and grouped by karyotype. These animals were immunized with parasite material obtained from P. falciparum cultivated in vitro which had been maintained in culture for over a year. When su...

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

authors： Reese RT,Trager W,Jensen JB,Miller DA,Tantravahi R

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial fatty acid derivatives are emerging as promising alternatives to fossil fuel derived transportation fuels. Among bacterial fatty acid synthases (FAS), the Escherichia coli FAS is perhaps the most well studied, but little is known about its steady-state kinetic behavior. Here we describe the reconstitution of...

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

authors： Yu X,Liu T,Zhu F,Khosla C

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A (Mg(2+) + Ca(2+))ATPase (ATP phosphohydrolase, EC 3.6.1.3) has been purified from sarcoplasmic reticulum using a single step centrifugation procedure. The preparation is >95% pure by weight and contains only 25-30% of the lipid associated with the enzyme in native sarcoplasmic reticulum. The purified enzyme is unabl...

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

authors： Warren GB,Toon PA,Birdsall NJ,Lee AG,Metcalfe JC

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article emphasizes the role played by a remarkable pointwise inequality satisfied by fractionary derivatives in order to obtain maximum principles and Lp-decay of solutions of several interesting partial differential equations. In particular, there are applications to quasigeostrophic flows, in two space variable...

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

authors： Cordoba A,Cordoba D

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly productive coastal Mediterranean fishery off the Nile River delta collapsed after the completion of the Aswan High Dam in 1965. But the fishery has been recovering dramatically since the mid-1980s, coincident with large increases in fertilizer application and sewage discharge in Egypt. We use stable isotope...

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

authors： Oczkowski AJ,Nixon SW,Granger SL,El-Sayed AF,McKinney RA

更新日期：2009-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein sequences are often highly redundant and evolution can change them beyond recognition. It can therefore be difficult to identify proteins with functional or structural similarities by inspection of their sequences. Here we have used an experimental evolutionary approach to detect hidden similarities between th...

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

authors： Christ D,Winter G

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the interaction of human cytomegalovirus (CMV) with cultured primary granulocyte-macrophage progenitors, a suspected natural site of viral latency, and have established conditions for latent infection and reactivation in this cell population. Progenitor cells from human fetal liver or bone marrow ...

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

authors： Kondo K,Kaneshima H,Mocarski ES

更新日期：1994-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific rabbit antisera against purified bovine pituitary carboxypeptidase processing enzyme (which has also been referred to as "enkephalin convertase") have been prepared and characterized. The antisera recognized both the purified soluble and the membrane-bound forms of the enzyme with equal affinity, suggesting t...

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

authors： Hook VY,Mezey E,Fricker LD,Pruss RM,Siegel RE,Brownstein MJ

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein aggregation is a hallmark of many diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), where aggregation of Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) is implicated in causing neurodegeneration. Recent studies have suggested that destabilization and aggregation of the most immature form of SOD1, the disulfide-reduc...

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

authors： Vassall KA,Stubbs HR,Primmer HA,Tong MS,Sullivan SM,Sobering R,Srinivasan S,Briere LA,Dunn SD,Colón W,Meiering EM

更新日期：2011-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-electron oxidation of cobaltous octaethylporphyrin [Co(II)(Et)(8)P] yields a stable pi-cation radical [Co(III)(Et)(8)P](2+.), the optical spectrum of which exhibits spectral changes dependent upon the nature of the counterion. Comparison of these spectra with those of Compounds I of horseradish peroxidase and cata...

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

authors： Dolphin D,Forman A,Borg DC,Fajer J,Felton RH

更新日期：1971-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is found that the addition of hexamethylphosphoramide to the solution of an alkyne, Et(2)Zn, and (S)-1,1'-bi-2-naphthol in methylene chloride allows the generation of an alkynylzinc at room temperature and shows highly enantioselective additions to aldehydes. The mild condition for the formation of the alkynylzinc ...

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

authors： Gao G,Xie RG,Pu L

更新日期：2004-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical data showing correlations between low thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels and high bone turnover markers, low bone mineral density, and an increased risk of osteoporosis-related fractures are buttressed by mouse genetic and pharmacological studies identifying a direct action of TSH on the skeleton. Here ...

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

authors： Sun L,Zhu LL,Lu P,Yuen T,Li J,Ma R,Baliram R,Moonga SS,Liu P,Zallone A,New MI,Davies TF,Zaidi M

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of the adenovirus (Ad) early coding region 1a (E1a) is required for virus-induced cell transformation and for the activation of other viral early genes and some cellular genes. Two overlapping early mRNAs of 13S and 12S that are transcribed from this region code for a 289-amino acid protein and a 243-am...

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

authors： Hurwitz DR,Chinnadurai G

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA library derived from human cerebral cortex was screened for the presence of sodium channel alpha subunit-specific clones. Ligation of three overlapping clones generated a full-length cDNA clone, HBA, that provided the complete nucleotide sequence coding for a protein of 2005 amino acids. The predicted structure...

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

authors： Ahmed CM,Ware DH,Lee SC,Patten CD,Ferrer-Montiel AV,Schinder AF,McPherson JD,Wagner-McPherson CB,Wasmuth JJ,Evans GA

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic, infectious, and tumor cell-intrinsic noxae can all evoke the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response in tumor cells, which is critical for tumor cell growth and cancer progression. Evidence exists that the ER stress response can drive a proinflammatory program in tumor cells and macrophages but, to our k...

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

authors： Mahadevan NR,Rodvold J,Sepulveda H,Rossi S,Drew AF,Zanetti M

更新日期：2011-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Netrin-1 is critical for axonal pathfinding which shares similarities with formation of vascular network. Here we report that netrin-1 induction of angiogenesis is mediated by an increase in endothelial nitric oxide (NO*) production, which occurs via a DCC-dependent, ERK1/2-eNOS feed-forward mechanism. Exposure of mat...

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

authors： Nguyen A,Cai H

更新日期：2006-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The marine nitrogen fixing microorganisms (diazotrophs) are a major source of nitrogen to open ocean ecosystems and are predicted to be limited by iron in most marine environments. Here we use global and targeted proteomic analyses on a key unicellular marine diazotroph Crocosphaera watsonii to reveal large scale diel...

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

authors： Saito MA,Bertrand EM,Dutkiewicz S,Bulygin VV,Moran DM,Monteiro FM,Follows MJ,Valois FW,Waterbury JB

更新日期：2011-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The precise determination of de novo genetic variants has enormous implications across different fields of biology and medicine, particularly personalized medicine. Currently, de novo variations are identified by mapping sample reads from a parent-offspring trio to a reference genome, allowing for a certain degree of ...

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

authors： Gómez-Romero L,Palacios-Flores K,Reyes J,García D,Boege M,Dávila G,Flores M,Schatz MC,Palacios R

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian nervous system function involves billions of neurons which are interconnected in a multitude of neural circuits. Here we describe a genetic approach to chart neural circuits. By using an olfactory-specific promoter, we selectively expressed barley lectin in sensory neurons in the olfactory epithelium and vom...

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

authors： Horowitz LF,Montmayeur JP,Echelard Y,Buck LB

更新日期：1999-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The term quantum turbulence denotes the turbulent motion of quantum fluids, systems such as superfluid helium and atomic Bose-Einstein condensates, which are characterized by quantized vorticity, superfluidity, and, at finite temperatures, two-fluid behavior. This article introduces their basic properties, describes t...

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

authors： Barenghi CF,Skrbek L,Sreenivasan KR

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A method using PCR amplification and primer extension with fluorescent oligonucleotides was developed to analyze T-cell repertoires. The sizes of the hypervariable CDR3-like regions of the murine T-cell antigen receptor beta chains were measured for all possible V beta-J beta combinations. This analysis shows that bet...

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

authors： Pannetier C,Cochet M,Darche S,Casrouge A,Zöller M,Kourilsky P

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How colloidal particles interact with each other is one of the key issues that determines our ability to interpret experimental results for phase transitions in colloidal dispersions and our ability to apply colloid science to various industrial processes. The long-accepted theories for answering this question have be...

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

authors： Wu J,Bratko D,Prausnitz JM

更新日期：1998-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA in chromatin of isolated thymus nuclei, and in two different preparations of deoxyribonucleoprotein extracted from chromatin, has been digested with DNase. By variation of the time of reaction and the concentration of enzyme, and by comparison of the action of the enzyme on (protein-free) DNA with its action o...

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

authors： Mirsky AE

更新日期：1971-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophage responses to Francisella infection have been characterized previously by subdued proinflammatory responses; however, these studies have generally focused on macrophage cell lines or monocyte-derived macrophages. Therefore, we studied the ability of fresh human blood monocytes to engulf and respond to Franci...

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

authors： Gavrilin MA,Bouakl IJ,Knatz NL,Duncan MD,Hall MW,Gunn JS,Wewers MD

更新日期：2006-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice prefer to mate with individuals expressing different MHC genes from their own. Volatile components presenting MHC-dependent odor types are present in urine and can be detected by mice, as shown by extensive behavioral studies. Similar odor types are suspected to influence human behavior as well. Although a recent...

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

authors： Montag S,Frank M,Ulmer H,Wernet D,Göpel W,Rammensee HG

更新日期：2001-07-31 00:00:00