Epitopes of proteoglycans eliciting an anti-proteoglycan response in chronic immune synovitis.

abstract：:The formation of amyloid-like aggregates by expanded polyglutamine (polyGln) sequences is suspected to play a critical role in the neuropathology of Huntington's disease and other expanded CAG-repeat diseases. To probe the folding of the polyGln sequence in the aggregate, we replaced Gln-Gln pairs at different sequenc...

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

authors： Thakur AK,Wetzel R

更新日期：2002-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial cells (ECs) at arterial branches and curvatures experience disturbed blood flow and induce a quiescent-to-activated phenotypic transition of the adjacent smooth muscle cells (SMCs) and a subsequent smooth muscle hyperplasia. However, the mechanism underlying the flow pattern-specific initiation of...

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

authors： Zhu JJ,Liu YF,Zhang YP,Zhao CR,Yao WJ,Li YS,Wang KC,Huang TS,Pang W,Wang XF,Wang X,Chien S,Zhou J

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoic acid receptor beta (RAR beta), which codes for a nuclear receptor for retinoic acid, is localized in a chromosomal region frequently deleted in lung cancer cells. The gene is expressed in normal lung tissue and in the majority of the cell lines derived from lung tumors but not in most of the lines derived fro...

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

authors： Houle B,Rochette-Egly C,Bradley WE

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/AKT signaling pathway is a frequent occurrence in human cancers and a major promoter of chemotherapeutic resistance. Inhibition of one downstream target in this pathway, mTORC1, has shown potential to improve chemosensitivity. However, the mechanisms and genetic m...

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

authors： Mills JR,Hippo Y,Robert F,Chen SM,Malina A,Lin CJ,Trojahn U,Wendel HG,Charest A,Bronson RT,Kogan SC,Nadon R,Housman DE,Lowe SW,Pelletier J

更新日期：2008-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods to acutely manipulate protein interactions at the subcellular level are powerful tools in cell biology. Several blue-light-dependent optical dimerization tools have been developed. In these systems one protein component of the dimer (the bait) is directed to a specific subcellular location, while the other com...

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

authors： Benedetti L,Barentine AES,Messa M,Wheeler H,Bewersdorf J,De Camilli P

更新日期：2018-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The abundances of (92)Nb and (146)Sm in the early solar system are determined from meteoritic analysis, and their stellar production is attributed to the p process. We investigate if their origin from thermonuclear supernovae deriving from the explosion of white dwarfs with mass above the Chandrasekhar limit is in agr...

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

authors： Lugaro M,Pignatari M,Ott U,Zuber K,Travaglio C,Gyürky G,Fülöp Z

更新日期：2016-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:An ammonia-oxidizing, carbon-fixing archaeon, Candidatus "Nitrosopumilus maritimus," recently was isolated from a salt-water aquarium, definitively confirming that chemoautotrophy exists among the marine archaea. However, in other incubation studies, pelagic archaea also were capable of using organic carbon. It has re...

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

authors： Ingalls AE,Shah SR,Hansman RL,Aluwihare LI,Santos GM,Druffel ER,Pearson A

更新日期：2006-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Two factors that contribute to the progression of Parkinson disease are a brain defect in mitochondrial respiration and the generation of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) by monoamine oxidase (MAO). Here we show that the two are linked. Metabolism of the neurotransmitter dopamine, or other monoamines (benzylamine, tyramine), ...

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

authors： Cohen G,Farooqui R,Kesler N

更新日期：1997-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Endorphin, an opiate-like peptide, has potent antinociceptive properties when it is administered directly into the brain and assayed in the the tail-flick, hot-plate, and writhing tests in mice and in the wet shake test in rats. On a molar basis, beta-endorphin is 18 to 33 times more potent than morphine and its ...

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

authors： Loh HH,Tseng LF,Wei E,Li CH

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The early steps in the biosynthesis of Taxol involve the cyclization of geranylgeranyl diphosphate to taxa-4(5),11(12)-diene followed by cytochrome P450-mediated hydroxylation at C5, acetylation of this intermediate, and a second cytochrome P450-dependent hydroxylation at C10 to yield taxadien-5 alpha-acetoxy-10 beta-...

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

authors： Schoendorf A,Rithner CD,Williams RM,Croteau RB

更新日期：2001-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Motifs of neural circuitry seem surprisingly conserved over different areas of neocortex or of paleocortex, while performing quite different sensory processing tasks. This apparent paradox may be resolved by the fact that seemingly different problems in sensory information processing are related by transformations (ch...

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

authors： Hopfield JJ

更新日期：1996-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:MinD is a widely conserved ATPase that has been demonstrated to play a pivotal role in selection of the division site in eubacteria and chloroplasts. It is a member of the large ParA superfamily of ATPases that are characterized by a deviant Walker-type ATP-binding motif. MinD localizes to the cytoplasmic face of the ...

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

authors： Szeto TH,Rowland SL,Rothfield LI,King GF

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The "parallel-up" packing in cellulose Ialpha and Ibeta unit cells was experimentally demonstrated by a combination of direct-staining the reducing ends of cellulose chains and microdiffraction-tilting electron crystallographic analysis. Microdiffraction investigation of nascent bacterial cellulose microfibrils showed...

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

authors： Koyama M,Helbert W,Imai T,Sugiyama J,Henrissat B

更新日期：1997-08-19 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：:Oligomerization plays a critical role in shaping the light-harvesting properties of many photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes, but a detailed understanding of this process at the level of individual pigments is still lacking. To study the effects of oligomerization, we designed a single-molecule approach to probe ...

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

authors： Wang Q,Moerner WE

更新日期：2015-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera, has reservoirs in fresh and brackish water where it interacts with virulent bacteriophages. Phages are the most abundant biological entity on earth and coevolve with bacteria. It was reported that concentrations of phage and V. cholerae inversely correlate in aquatic re...

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

authors： Silva-Valenzuela CA,Camilli A

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Acetylpyridine 5-[(dimethylamino)thiocarbonyl]thiocarbonohydrazone (A1110U) was found to be a potent inactivator of the ribonucleotide reductases (EC 1.17.4.1) encoded by herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 and by varicella-zoster virus and to be a weaker inactivator of human ribonucleotide reductase. It also markedl...

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

authors： Spector T,Harrington JA,Morrison RW Jr,Lambe CU,Nelson DJ,Averett DR,Biron K,Furman PA

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HLA-DR2 is associated with susceptibility to multiple sclerosis (MS). A peptide from human myelin basic protein (MBP, residues 85-99) was previously found to bind to purified HLA-DR2 (DRA, DRB1*1501) and to be recognized by human MBP-specific T cell clones. Soluble HLA-DR2 was expressed in the baculovirus system by re...

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

authors： Gauthier L,Smith KJ,Pyrdol J,Kalandadze A,Strominger JL,Wiley DC,Wucherpfennig KW

更新日期：1998-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a common allosteric mechanism for control of inflammatory and apoptotic caspases. Highly specific thiol-containing inhibitors of the human inflammatory caspase-1 were identified by using disulfide trapping, a method for site-directed small-molecule discovery. These compounds became trapped by forming a disu...

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

authors： Scheer JM,Romanowski MJ,Wells JA

更新日期：2006-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The swelling of secretory vesicles has been implicated in exocytosis, but the underlying mechanism of vesicle swelling remains largely unknown. Zymogen granules (ZGs), the membrane-bound secretory vesicles in exocrine pancreas, swell in response to GTP mediated by a G(alpha)i3 protein. Evidence is presented here that ...

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

authors： Cho SJ,Sattar AK,Jeong EH,Satchi M,Cho JA,Dash S,Mayes MS,Stromer MH,Jena BP

更新日期：2002-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of myoblast cell lines with 3-deazaadenosine stimulates differentiation into myofibers. Myoblast clone L5/ 3B5 , which does not form myofibers after 6 days in fusion medium, was stimulated to form myofibers after 5 days of culture in fusion medium containing 50 microM 3-deazaadenosine. Myoblast clone L5/ 3C4...

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

authors： Scarpa S,Strom R,Bozzi A,Aksamit RR,Backlund PS Jr,Chen J,Cantoni GL

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous study demonstrated that the translational inhibitor from lysates of heme-deficient rabbit reticulocytes is associated with a protein kinase activity. Chromatography of this inhibitor preparation on phosphocellulose yields two distinct protein kinase activities, PC1 and PC2. PC1, which consitutes about 90% o...

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

authors： Levin D,Ranu RS,Ernst V,London IM

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiotic mutant (2n) gametes formed by first-division restitution without crossover (FDR-NCO) are expected to be superior to FDR with crossover (FDR-CO) because they transmit to the progeny, without disruption by recombination, almost 100% of the parental genotype. FDR-CO transfers approximately 80% of the parental het...

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

authors： Buso JA,Boiteux LS,Tai GC,Peloquin SJ

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a novel technique of modulated photo-dissociation of carbon monoxide from hemoglobin, we have obtained the rates for conversion between the two quaternary states, R, and T, at 3-fold ligation. Our measurements at pH 7 and 22 degrees give rates of 780 +/- 40 sec-1 for going from R to T, and 2500 +/- 200 sec-1 fro...

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

authors： Ferrone FA,Hopfield JJ

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptor 2B4 belongs to the Ig superfamily and is found on the surface of all murine natural killer (NK) cells as well as T cells displaying non-MHC-restricted cytotoxicity. Previous studies have suggested that 2B4 is an activating molecule because cross-linking of this receptor results in increased cytotoxicity a...

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

authors： Schatzle JD,Sheu S,Stepp SE,Mathew PA,Bennett M,Kumar V

更新日期：1999-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe in this study punchless, a nonpathogenic mutant from the rice blast fungus M. grisea, obtained by plasmid-mediated insertional mutagenesis. As do most fungal plant pathogens, M. grisea differentiates an infection structure specialized for host penetration called the appressorium. We show that punchless dif...

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

authors： Clergeot PH,Gourgues M,Cots J,Laurans F,Latorse MP,Pepin R,Tharreau D,Notteghem JL,Lebrun MH

更新日期：2001-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the expression of thymidine kinase (tk) activity in synchronized populations of mouse cells that have been transformed to the tk+ phenotype with purified DNA from various sources or with metaphase chromosomes from human cells. The viral (herpes) tk gene is constitutively expressed but, in all other cases ...

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

authors： Schlosser CA,Steglich C,deWet JR,Scheffler IE

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An intense investigation of possible non-Fermi liquid states of matter has been inspired by two of the most intriguing phenomena discovered in the past quarter century, namely, high-temperature superconductivity and the fractional quantum Hall effect. Despite enormous conceptual strides, these two fields have develope...

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

authors： Jain JK,Anderson PW

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a phylogenetic analysis to determine whether a given tRNA molecule was established in evolution before its cognate aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase. The earlier appearance of tRNA versus their metabolically related enzymes is a prediction of the RNA world theory, but the available synthetase and tRNA sequences pre...

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

authors： Ribas de Pouplana L,Turner RJ,Steer BA,Schimmel P

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteinase-activated receptor 2 (PAR-2) is a member of a family of G protein-coupled receptors for proteases. Proteases cleave PARs within the extracellular N-terminal domains to expose tethered ligands that bind to and activate the cleaved receptors. PAR-2 is highly expressed in colon in epithelial and neuronal e...

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

authors： Fiorucci S,Mencarelli A,Palazzetti B,Distrutti E,Vergnolle N,Hollenberg MD,Wallace JL,Morelli A,Cirino G

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00