Transducin translocation contributes to rod survival and enhances synaptic transmission from rods to rod bipolar cells.

abstract：:Two anti-tumor monoclonal antibodies, L6 (anticarcinoma) and 1F5 (anti-B lymphoma), were covalently linked to alkaline phosphatase (AP), forming conjugates that could bind to the surface of antigen-positive tumor cells. The conjugates were capable of converting a relatively noncytotoxic prodrug, etoposide phosphate (E...

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

authors： Senter PD,Saulnier MG,Schreiber GJ,Hirschberg DL,Brown JP,Hellström I,Hellström KE

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) represent an important research tool and a potential resource for regenerative medicine. Generally, ESCs are cocultured with a supportive feeder cell layer of murine embryonic fibroblasts, which maintain the ESCs' capacity for self-renewal and block spontaneous differentiation. These cumber...

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

authors： Miyabayashi T,Teo JL,Yamamoto M,McMillan M,Nguyen C,Kahn M

更新日期：2007-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene therapy of the brain is hindered by the presence of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), which prevents the brain uptake of bloodborne gene formulations. Exogenous genes have been expressed in the brain after invasive routes of administration, such as craniotomy or intracarotid arterial infusion of noxious agents causi...

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

authors： Shi N,Pardridge WM

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein products of T4 bacteriophage genes 41, 43, 45, 44, and 62 have been purified to near homogeneity using an assay which measures their stimulation of DNA synthesis in a crude lysate of Escherichia coli cells in fected by an appropriate mutant phage. When all of these proteins and T4 gene 32 protein are incub...

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

authors： Morris CF,Sinha NK,Alberts BM

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA polymerases (DNAPs) responsible for genome replication are highly faithful enzymes that nonetheless cannot deal with damaged DNA. In contrast, translesion synthesis (TLS) DNAPs are suitable for replicating modified template bases, although resulting in very low-fidelity products. Here we report the biochemical cha...

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

authors： Berjón-Otero M,Villar L,de Vega M,Salas M,Redrejo-Rodríguez M

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:At the neuromuscular junction, two motor neuron-derived signals have been implicated in the regulation of synaptogenesis. Neuregulin-1 is thought to induce transcription of acetylcholine receptor (AChR) genes in subsynaptic muscle nuclei by activating ErbB receptors. Neural agrin aggregates AChRs by activating the rec...

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

authors： Moore C,Leu M,Müller U,Brenner HR

更新日期：2001-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Three distinct endosomal fractions were isolated in high purity from livers of estradiol-treated rats. Each fraction had characteristic physical and ultrastructural properties, but the lipid composition and major proteins of their membranes were similar and differed from those derived from the Golgi apparatus. Injecte...

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

authors： Belcher JD,Hamilton RL,Brady SE,Hornick CA,Jaeckle S,Schneider WJ,Havel RJ

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that the microbial community in the human intestine may play an important role in the pathogenesis of obesity. We examined 184,094 sequences of microbial 16S rRNA genes from PCR amplicons by using the 454 pyrosequencing technology to compare the microbial community structures of 9 individuals,...

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

authors： Zhang H,DiBaise JK,Zuccolo A,Kudrna D,Braidotti M,Yu Y,Parameswaran P,Crowell MD,Wing R,Rittmann BE,Krajmalnik-Brown R

更新日期：2009-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Probasin, a rat prostatic protein, is statistically related to members of a protein family that includes serum, cellular, and nuclear proteins. In vivo, probasin appears both in the secretions and in the nucleus of prostatic epithelial cells. Using primer extension and S1 nuclease protection assays we detected only on...

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

authors： Spence AM,Sheppard PC,Davie JR,Matuo Y,Nishi N,McKeehan WL,Dodd JG,Matusik RJ

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bryostatins are macrocyclic lactones, extracted from the marine bryozoan Bugula neritina, and have been reported to be potent antineoplastic agents. Results described here demonstrate that the bryostatins may also be useful as stimulators of normal human hematopoietic cells since they can (i) directly stimulate bo...

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

authors： May WS,Sharkis SJ,Esa AH,Gebbia V,Kraft AS,Pettit GR,Sensenbrenner LL

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A brilliant, coarsely granular nuclear antigen was detected by anti-complement immunofluorescence in the nuclei of acute myeloid leukemia myeloblasts. Designated as LANA (leukemia-associated nuclear antigen), the reactivity differs from that of the Epstein-Barr-virus-determined nuclear antigen (EBNA) in immunological ...

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

authors： Klein G,Steiner M,Wiener F,Klein E

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like all aliphatic amines, the polyamines spermine and spermidine are physical quenchers of singlet molecular oxygen (1O2*). The rate constants of these processes were determined in vitro with photochemically generated 1O2* and the hydrocarbon rubrene as substrate, in pyridine. At millimolar concentration, spermine an...

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

authors： Khan AU,Mei YH,Wilson T

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recombinant plasmid containing a DNA segment complementary to rat liver albumin mRNA has been constructed, cloned, and used to examine the organization of albumin gene. The 18S fraction of total liver poly(A)-containing RNA was copied into a double-stranded cDNA by avian myeloblastosis virus reverse transcriptase an...

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

authors： Kioussis D,Hamilton R,Hanson RW,Tilghman SM,Taylor JM

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell fate determination depends in part on the establishment of specific transcriptional programs of gene expression. These programs result from the interpretation of the genomic cis-regulatory information by sequence-specific factors. Decoding this information in sequenced genomes is an important issue. Here, we deve...

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

authors： Rouault H,Mazouni K,Couturier L,Hakim V,Schweisguth F

更新日期：2010-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The charge-stabilization effect associated with alpha-helices in proteins has been reexamined by microscopic calculations without any a priori assumptions about the dielectric constant of the protein. The calculations reproduce the observed charge stabilization effect of a helix in two well-defined test cases: a histi...

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

authors： Aqvist J,Luecke H,Quiocho FA,Warshel A

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dynamical theory for the evolution of the genetic code is presented, which accounts for its universality and optimality. The central concept is that a variety of collective, but non-Darwinian, mechanisms likely to be present in early communal life generically lead to refinement and selection of innovation-sharing pr...

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

authors： Vetsigian K,Woese C,Goldenfeld N

更新日期：2006-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholine is the main neurotransmitter at the mammalian neuromuscular junction (NMJ) where nicotinic acetylcholine receptors mediate the signaling between nerve terminals and muscle fibers. We show that under glutamatergic transmission, rat NMJ switches from cholinergic type synapse to glutamatergic synapse. Conne...

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

authors： Brunelli G,Spano P,Barlati S,Guarneri B,Barbon A,Bresciani R,Pizzi M

更新日期：2005-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) preparations contain activity against HIV type 1 (HIV-1). However, there has been controversy about whether some biological activities of hCG beta-subunit (hCGbeta) preparations are caused by the beta-subunit itself or other proteins present in the preparations. We report here the pu...

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

authors： Lee-Huang S,Huang PL,Sun Y,Huang PL,Kung HF,Blithe DL,Chen HC

更新日期：1999-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination has been used to control the spread of seasonal flu; however, the virus continues to evolve and escape from host immune response through mutation and increasing glycosylation. Efforts have been directed toward development of a universal vaccine with broadly protective activity against multiple influenza st...

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

authors： Liao HY,Wang SC,Ko YA,Lin KI,Ma C,Cheng TR,Wong CH

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus is characterized by either the inability to produce insulin (type 1 diabetes) or as insensitivity to insulin secreted by the body (type 2 diabetes). In either case, the body is unable to move blood glucose efficiently across cell membranes to be used. This leads to a variety of local and systemic det...

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

authors： Alipio Z,Liao W,Roemer EJ,Waner M,Fink LM,Ward DC,Ma Y

更新日期：2010-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of NusA on the RNA polymerase contacts made by nucleotides at internal positions in the nascent RNA in Escherichia coli transcription complexes were analyzed by using the photocrosslinking nucleotide analog 5-[(4-azidophenacyl) thio]-UMP. It was placed at nucleotides between +6 and +15 in RNA transcribed f...

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

authors： Liu K,Hanna MM

更新日期：1995-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Through a multiplex promoter spanning 218 kb, the phase II UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 1A (UGT1) gene encodes at least eight differently regulated mRNAs whose protein products function as the principal means to eliminate a vast array of steroids, heme metabolites, environmental toxins, and drugs. The orphan nuclear re...

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

authors： Xie W,Yeuh MF,Radominska-Pandya A,Saini SP,Negishi Y,Bottroff BS,Cabrera GY,Tukey RH,Evans RM

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a simple yet powerful technique for delineating the morphological events of tumor-induced angiogenesis and other tumor-induced host processes with dual-color fluorescence. The method clearly images implanted tumors and adjacent stroma, distinguishing unambiguously the host and tumor-specific componen...

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

authors： Yang M,Li L,Jiang P,Moossa AR,Penman S,Hoffman RM

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of bacteria in the natural environment live within the confines of a biofilm. The Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis forms biofilms that exhibit a characteristic wrinkled morphology and a highly hydrophobic surface. A critical component in generating these properties is the protein BslA, which form...

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

authors： Bromley KM,Morris RJ,Hobley L,Brandani G,Gillespie RM,McCluskey M,Zachariae U,Marenduzzo D,Stanley-Wall NR,MacPhee CE

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Chondrules may have played a critical role in the earliest stages of planet formation by mediating the accumulation of dust into planetesimals. However, the origin of chondrules and their significance for planetesimal accretion remain enigmatic. Here, we show that chondrules and matrix in the carbonaceous chondrite Al...

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

authors： Budde G,Kleine T,Kruijer TS,Burkhardt C,Metzler K

更新日期：2016-03-15 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：:We have detected a proteolytic mechanism in chloroplasts that selectively and rapidly degrades the imported small subunit of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase when pools of the chloroplast-synthesized large subunit are depleted. This degradation system is constitutively present and appears to be responsible for pr...

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

authors： Schmidt GW,Mishkind ML

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:30S ribosomal proteins from Bacillus stearothermophilus (B. proteins) have been fractionated and characterized with respect to their ability to replace various E. coli 30S proteins (E. proteins) in the E. coli 30S ribosome reconstitution system. The functional counterparts of all the E. proteins, except S1, S6, S9, an...

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

authors： Higo K,Held W,Kahan L,Nomura M

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper shows that proteins display an unexpectedly wide range of behaviors in buffers containing moderate (0.1-10 mM) concentrations of SDS (complete unfolding, formation of stable intermediate states, specific association with SDS, and various kinetic phenomena); capillary electrophoresis provides a convenient me...

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

authors： Gudiksen KL,Gitlin I,Whitesides GM

更新日期：2006-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The structurally diverse peroxisome proliferators ciprofibrate, clofibrate, and bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate [(EtHx)2 greater than Pht] increase the activities of hepatic catalase and peroxisomal fatty acid beta-oxidation enzymes in conjunction with profound proliferation of peroxisomes in hepatocytes. In order to deli...

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

authors： Reddy JK,Goel SK,Nemali MR,Carrino JJ,Laffler TG,Reddy MK,Sperbeck SJ,Osumi T,Hashimoto T,Lalwani ND

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00