TRPM8 activation attenuates inflammatory responses in mouse models of colitis.

abstract：:A 900-base-pair (bp) sequence from a cDNA clone of the rye endosperm-storage-protein gene Sec-1 was labeled with biotin and hybridized to Secale cereale 'Blanco' chromosomes. Hybridization was seen on the satellite part of the short arm of chromosome 1R, where the Sec-1 gene has been genetically mapped, in approximate...

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

authors： Gustafson JP,Butler E,McIntyre CL

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune cells take residence in metabolic tissues, providing a framework for direct regulation of nutrient metabolism. Despite conservation of this anatomic relationship through evolution, the signals and mechanisms by which the immune system regulates nutrient homeostasis and insulin action remain poorly understood. H...

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

authors： Ricardo-Gonzalez RR,Red Eagle A,Odegaard JI,Jouihan H,Morel CR,Heredia JE,Mukundan L,Wu D,Locksley RM,Chawla A

更新日期：2010-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Mating elicits two major changes in the reproductive behavior of many insect females. The egg-laying rate increases and the readiness to accept males (receptivity) is reduced. These postmating responses last approximately 1 week in Drosophila melanogaster. Males that do not transfer sperm but transfer seminal fluid du...

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

authors： Liu H,Kubli E

更新日期：2003-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiolipin is important for bacterial and mitochondrial stability and function. The final step in cardiolipin biosynthesis is catalyzed by cardiolipin synthase and differs mechanistically between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. To study the importance of cardiolipin synthesis for mitochondrial integrity, membrane protein...

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

authors： Serricchio M,Bütikofer P

更新日期：2012-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that the genes of the gibberellin (GA) biosynthesis pathway in the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi are organized in a cluster of at least seven genes. P450-1 is one of four cytochrome P450 monooxygenase genes in this cluster. Disruption of the P450-1 gene in the GA-producing wild-type strain IMI ...

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

authors： Rojas MC,Hedden P,Gaskin P,Tudzynski B

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial superantigen staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA) is an extremely potent activator of T lymphocytes when presented on major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II molecules. To develop a tumor-specific superantigen for cancer therapy, we have made a recombinant fusion protein of SEA and the Fab region o...

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

authors： Dohlsten M,Abrahmsén L,Björk P,Lando PA,Hedlund G,Forsberg G,Brodin T,Gascoigne NR,Förberg C,Lind P

更新日期：1994-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The GTP/GDP nucleotide switch in Ras superfamily GTPases generally involves differential affinity toward downstream effectors, with the GTP-bound state having a higher affinity for effector than the GDP-bound state. We have developed a quantitative model of allosteric regulation of the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein...

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

authors： Leung DW,Rosen MK

更新日期：2005-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the preparation and structural analysis of ordered tubular arrays of the actin-DNase I complex. These structures consist of helically stacked rings; each ring is 73 A thick, has a 240 A outer and a 120 A inner diameter, and has 7-fold rotational symmetry. The actin-DNase I complex forms tubes under conditi...

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

authors： Fowler WE,Buhle EL,Aebi U

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying potentially unique features of the human cerebral cortex is a first step to understanding how evolution has shaped the brain in our species. By analyzing MR images obtained from 177 humans and 73 chimpanzees, we observed a human-specific asymmetry in the superior temporal sulcus at the heart of the communi...

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

authors： Leroy F,Cai Q,Bogart SL,Dubois J,Coulon O,Monzalvo K,Fischer C,Glasel H,Van der Haegen L,Bénézit A,Lin CP,Kennedy DN,Ihara AS,Hertz-Pannier L,Moutard ML,Poupon C,Brysbaert M,Roberts N,Hopkins WD,Mangin JF,Dehaene-

更新日期：2015-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of newborn rats with Borne disease virus (BDV) results in selective degeneration of granule cell neurons of the dentate gyrus (DG). To study cellular countermechanisms that might prevent this pathology, we screened for rat strains resistant to this BDV-induced neuronal degeneration. To this end, we infected ...

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

authors： Wu YJ,Schulz H,Lin CC,Saar K,Patone G,Fischer H,Hübner N,Heimrich B,Schwemmle M

更新日期：2013-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Partial amino acid sequence has been determined for the cone, alpha' subunit of the bovine photoreceptor cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (PDE) and deduced from nucleotide sequences of a partial cDNA clone. These sequences identify the alpha' subunit as the product of a gene that is distinct from those encoding the...

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

authors： Charbonneau H,Prusti RK,LeTrong H,Sonnenburg WK,Mullaney PJ,Walsh KA,Beavo JA

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although x-ray crystallography is the most widely used method for macromolecular structure determination, it does not provide dynamical information, and either experimental tricks or complementary experiments must be used to overcome the inherently static nature of crystallographic structures. Here we used specific x-...

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

authors： Colletier JP,Bourgeois D,Sanson B,Fournier D,Sussman JL,Silman I,Weik M

更新日期：2008-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of alphavbeta3- or alphavbeta5-integrins and selectins is widespread on blood cells and endothelial cells. Here we report that human tumor cells injected s.c. into mice lacking beta3- or beta3/beta5-integrins or various selectins show enhanced tumor growth compared with growth in control mice. There was inc...

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

authors： Taverna D,Moher H,Crowley D,Borsig L,Varki A,Hynes RO

更新日期：2004-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-7 functions as a trophic factor during T lymphocyte development by a mechanism that is partly based on the induction of Bcl-2, which protects cells from apoptosis. Here we report a mechanism by which cytokine withdrawal activates the prodeath protein Bax. On loss of IL-7 in a dependent cell line, Bax protein transl...

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

authors： Khaled AR,Kim K,Hofmeister R,Muegge K,Durum SK

更新日期：1999-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The grand partition function for a long linear system of alternating alpha and beta sequences with the restraint of a fixed number, N(alphabeta), of alphabeta boundaries depends in an extremely simple way on the alpha-sequence and beta-sequence grand partition functions, xi(alpha) and xi(beta). When the restraint is r...

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

authors： Hill TL

更新日期：1972-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent cryoEM density maps of Abeta(42) fibrils obtained at low pH revealed two protofilaments winding around a hollow core raising the question if such tubular structures also exist at physiological pH. Based on the cryoEM measurements and on NMR data, we probe amyloid fibril organizations corresponding to the observ...

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

authors： Miller Y,Ma B,Tsai CJ,Nussinov R

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecosystem services are supplied by nature but, by definition, are received by people. Ecosystem service assessments, intended to influence the decisions people make regarding their interactions with nature, need to understand how people benefit from different ecosystem services. A critical question is therefore, What ...

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

authors： Hicks CC,Cinner JE

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Five peptides corresponding to amino acid sequences predicted from all three reading frames of the nucleotide sequence of the third internal repeat array (IR3) of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) genome were synthesized chemically. All five peptides elicited antipeptide antibodies in rabbits. The antiserum raised against ...

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

authors： Dillner J,Sternås L,Kallin B,Alexander H,Ehlin-Henriksson B,Jörnvall H,Klein G,Lerner R

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unfolded protein response (UPR) is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism by which all eukaryotic cells adapt to the accumulation of unfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Inositol-requiring kinase 1 (IRE1) and PKR-related ER kinase (PERK) are two type I transmembrane ER-localized protein kinase recep...

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

authors： Zhou J,Liu CY,Back SH,Clark RL,Peisach D,Xu Z,Kaufman RJ

更新日期：2006-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Banded iron formations (BIFs) record a time of extensive Fe deposition in the Precambrian oceans, but the sources and pathways for metals in BIFs remain controversial. Here, we present Fe- and Nd-isotope data that indicate two sources of Fe for the large BIF units deposited 2.5 billion y ago. High-εNd and -δ(56)Fe sig...

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

authors： Li W,Beard BL,Johnson CM

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:An artificial charge pair buried in the hydrophobic core of staphylococcal nuclease was engineered by making the V23E and L36K substitutions. Buried individually, Glu-23 and Lys-36 both titrate with pKa values near 7. When buried together their pKa values appear to be normal. The ionizable moieties of the buried Glu-L...

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

authors： Robinson AC,Castañeda CA,Schlessman JL,García-Moreno EB

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:When T cells become infected by the parasite Theileria parva, they acquire a transformed phenotype and no longer require antigen-specific stimulation or exogenous growth factors. This is accompanied by constitutive interleukin 2 (IL-2) and IL-2 receptor expression. Transformation can be reversed entirely by eliminatio...

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

authors： Galley Y,Hagens G,Glaser I,Davis W,Eichhorn M,Dobbelaere D

更新日期：1997-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Time series data on arthropod populations are critical for understanding the magnitude, direction, and drivers of change. However, most arthropod monitoring programs are short-lived and restricted in taxonomic resolution. Monitoring data from the Arctic are especially underrepresented, yet critical to uncovering and u...

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

authors： Høye TT,Loboda S,Koltz AM,Gillespie MAK,Bowden JJ,Schmidt NM

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolution of new enzymatic activities is believed to require a period of gene sharing in which a single enzyme must serve both its original function and a new function that has become advantageous to the organism. Subsequent gene duplication allows one copy to maintain the original function, while the other diverges t...

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

authors： McLoughlin SY,Copley SD

更新日期：2008-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The balance between mitochondrial fusion and fission influences the reticular shape of mitochondria in yeasts. Little is known about whether mitochondria fusion occurs in plants. Plant mitochondria are usually more numerous and more grain-shaped than animal mitochondria. BLAST searches of the nuclear and mitochondrial...

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

authors： Arimura S,Yamamoto J,Aida GP,Nakazono M,Tsutsumi N

更新日期：2004-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the lethal, ataxic phenotype of complex I deficiency in Ndufs4 knockout (KO) mice, we inactivated Ndufs4 selectively in neurons and glia (NesKO mice). NesKO mice manifested the same symptoms as KO mice including retarded growth, loss of motor ability, breathing abnormalities, and death by approximately 7 wk...

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

authors： Quintana A,Kruse SE,Kapur RP,Sanz E,Palmiter RD

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Since their discovery as key regulators of early animal development, microRNAs now are recognized as widespread regulators of gene expression. Despite their abundance, little is known regarding the regulation of microRNA biogenesis. We show that three highly conserved muscle-specific microRNAs, miR-1, miR-133 and miR-...

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

authors： Rao PK,Kumar RM,Farkhondeh M,Baskerville S,Lodish HF

更新日期：2006-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:To visualize histone acetylation in living cells, we developed a genetically encoded fluorescent resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based indicator. Response of the indicator reflects changes in the acetylation state of both K5 and K8 in histone H4. Using this acetylation indicator, we were able to monitor the dynamic f...

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

authors： Sasaki K,Ito T,Nishino N,Khochbin S,Yoshida M

更新日期：2009-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that the helical RecA nucleoprotein filament formed on a circular single strand of DNA causes the progressive, directional transfer of a complementary strand from naked linear duplex DNA to the nucleoprotein filament, even when the duplex contains a sizable heterologous insertion. Since Rec...

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

authors： Jwang B,Radding CM

更新日期：1992-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Autocatalytic activation of an initiator caspase triggers the onset of apoptosis. In dying cells, caspase-9 activation is mediated by a multimeric adaptor complex known as the Apaf-1 apoptosome. The molecular mechanism by which caspase-9 is activated by the Apaf-1 apoptosome remains largely unknown. Here we demonstrat...

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

authors： Hu Q,Wu D,Chen W,Yan Z,Yan C,He T,Liang Q,Shi Y

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00