Protein tyrosine phosphatase σ targets apical junction complex proteins in the intestine and regulates epithelial permeability.

abstract：:The mammalian anx7 gene codes for a Ca(2+)-activated GTPase, which supports Ca(2+)/GTP-dependent secretion events and Ca(2+) channel activities in vitro and in vivo. To test whether anx7 might be involved in Ca(2+) signaling in secreting pancreatic beta cells, we knocked out the anx7 gene in the mouse and tested the i...

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

authors： Srivastava M,Atwater I,Glasman M,Leighton X,Goping G,Caohuy H,Miller G,Pichel J,Westphal H,Mears D,Rojas E,Pollard HB

更新日期：1999-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant-made vaccines have been the subject of intense interest because they can be produced economically in large scale without the use of animal-derived components. Plant-made therapeutic vaccines against challenging chronic diseases, such as cancer, have received little research attention, and no previous human clini...

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

authors： McCormick AA,Reddy S,Reinl SJ,Cameron TI,Czerwinkski DK,Vojdani F,Hanley KM,Garger SJ,White EL,Novak J,Barrett J,Holtz RB,Tusé D,Levy R

更新日期：2008-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Noninvasive prenatal testing using fetal DNA in maternal plasma is an actively researched area. The current generation of tests using massively parallel sequencing is based on counting plasma DNA sequences originating from different genomic regions. In this study, we explored a different approach that is based on the ...

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

authors： Yu SC,Chan KC,Zheng YW,Jiang P,Liao GJ,Sun H,Akolekar R,Leung TY,Go AT,van Vugt JM,Minekawa R,Oudejans CB,Nicolaides KH,Chiu RW,Lo YM

更新日期：2014-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcoholism causes serious neurologic disease that may be due, in part, to the ability of ethanol to interact with neural cell membranes and change neuronal function. Adenosine receptors are membrane-bound proteins that appear to mediate some of the effects of ethanol in the brain. Human lymphocytes also have adenosine...

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

authors： Diamond I,Wrubel B,Estrin W,Gordon A

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What can be done to reduce unhealthy eating among adolescents? It was hypothesized that aligning healthy eating with important and widely shared adolescent values would produce the needed motivation. A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled experiment with eighth graders (total n = 536) evaluated the impact of a...

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

authors： Bryan CJ,Yeager DS,Hinojosa CP,Chabot A,Bergen H,Kawamura M,Steubing F

更新日期：2016-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of selected heme analogues on heme oxygenase activity in tissues and on human and rabbit bone marrow hematopoietic colony growth were examined. Zinc protoporphyrin (ZnPP) and zinc mesoporphyrin (ZnMP), at concentrations ranging between 1 and 20 microM, produced significant inhibition of human and rabbit bo...

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

authors： Lutton JD,Abraham NG,Drummond GS,Levere RD,Kappas A

更新日期：1997-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription initiation factor TFIID is a multimeric protein complex that plays a central role in transcriptional regulation by facilitating promoter responses to various activators. cDNAs encoding the 110-kDa subunit of Drosophila TFIID (p110) were isolated with a degenerate oligodeoxynucleotide probe based on an am...

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

authors： Kokubo T,Gong DW,Roeder RG,Horikoshi M,Nakatani Y

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody-secreting plasma cells (PCs) arise rapidly during adaptive immunity to control infections. The early PCs are retained within the reactive lymphoid organ where their localization and homeostasis rely on extrinsic factors, presumably produced by local niche cells. While myeloid cells have been proposed to form ...

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

authors： Huang HY,Rivas-Caicedo A,Renevey F,Cannelle H,Peranzoni E,Scarpellino L,Hardie DL,Pommier A,Schaeuble K,Favre S,Vogt TK,Arenzana-Seisdedos F,Schneider P,Buckley CD,Donnadieu E,Luther SA

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The type II cell of the alveolar epithelium of adult rats has been studied by electron microscopy to determine its ability to endocytose electron-dense tracers of differing molecular charge and size. The tracers studied were native (anionic) ferritin, cationic ferritin, 70-kilodalton dextran, and colloidal carbon. Alv...

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

authors： Williams MC

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-negative bacteria possess a characteristic outer membrane, of which the lipid A constituent elicits a strong host immune response through the Toll-like receptor 4 complex, and acts as a component of the permeability barrier to prevent uptake of bactericidal compounds. Lipid A species comprise the bulk of the oute...

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

authors： Dovala D,Rath CM,Hu Q,Sawyer WS,Shia S,Elling RA,Knapp MS,Metzger LE 4th

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The survival of motor neurons is controlled by multiple factors that regulate different aspects of their physiology. The identification of these factors is important because of their relationship to motor neuron disease. We investigate here whether Mullerian Inhibiting Substance (MIS) is a motor neuron survival factor...

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

authors： Wang PY,Koishi K,McGeachie AB,Kimber M,Maclaughlin DT,Donahoe PK,McLennan IS

更新日期：2005-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-molecule methods have given experimental access to the mechanical properties of single protein molecules. So far, access has been limited to mostly one spatial direction of force application. Here, we report single-molecule experiments that explore the mechanical properties of a folded protein structure in prec...

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

authors： Dietz H,Berkemeier F,Bertz M,Rief M

更新日期：2006-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Scores of homeobox gene-encoded transcription factors are expressed in a definite spatiotemporal pattern during embryogenesis and regulate a series of as yet unidentified target genes to help coordinate the morphogenetic process. We have suggested that homeobox gene products modulate the expression of adhesion molecul...

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

authors： Jones FS,Holst BD,Minowa O,De Robertis EM,Edelman GM

更新日期：1993-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured high-resolution x-ray absorption spectra of lanthanide (Ln) and heavy transition metal complexes that display prominent narrow absorption peaks near the L2 and L3 absorption edges. The anomalous scattering factors (f' and f"), which are mathematically related to the absorption cross section, have corr...

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

authors： Lye RC,Phillips JC,Kaplan D,Doniach S,Hodgson KO

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Canonical Wnt signaling plays an important role in development and disease, regulating transcription of target genes and stabilizing many proteins phosphorylated by glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK3). We observed that the MiT family of transcription factors, which includes the melanoma oncogene MITF (micropthalmia-asso...

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

authors： Ploper D,Taelman VF,Robert L,Perez BS,Titz B,Chen HW,Graeber TG,von Euw E,Ribas A,De Robertis EM

更新日期：2015-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphorylation state of the Na,K-ATPase alpha subunit has been examined in 32P-labeled sciatic nerves of control and streptozotocin-treated diabetic rats. Intact nerves were challenged with protein kinase (PK) modulators and alpha-subunit 32P labeling was analyzed after immunoprecipitation. In control nerves, the...

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

authors： Borghini I,Geering K,Gjinovci A,Wollheim CB,Pralong WF

更新日期：1994-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite sharing a common architecture with archetypal voltage-gated ion channels (VGICs), hyperpolarization- and cAMP-activated ion (HCN) channels open upon hyperpolarization rather than depolarization. The basic motions of the voltage sensor and pore gates are conserved, implying that these domains are inversely coup...

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

authors： Cowgill J,Klenchin VA,Alvarez-Baron C,Tewari D,Blair A,Chanda B

更新日期：2019-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Niemann-Pick type C disease (NP-C) is an inherited neurovisceral lipid storage disorder characterized by progressive neurodegeneration. Most cases of NP-C result from inactivating mutations of NPC1, a recently identified member of a family of genes encoding membrane-bound proteins containing putative sterol sensing do...

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

authors： Patel SC,Suresh S,Kumar U,Hu CY,Cooney A,Blanchette-Mackie EJ,Neufeld EB,Patel RC,Brady RO,Patel YC,Pentchev PG,Ong WY

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Synchrotron far-IR spectroscopy and density-functional calculations are used to characterize the low-frequency dynamics of model heme FeCO compounds. The "doming" vibrational mode in which the iron atom moves out of the porphyrin plane while the periphery of this ring moves in the opposite direction determines the rea...

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

authors： Klug DD,Zgierski MZ,Tse JS,Liu Z,Kincaid JR,Czarnecki K,Hemley RJ

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular and cellular basis of selective motor neuron (MN) vulnerability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is not known. In genetically distinct mouse models of familial ALS expressing mutant superoxide dismutase-1 (SOD1), TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43), and fused in sarcoma (FUS), we demonstrate select...

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

authors： Lalancette-Hebert M,Sharma A,Lyashchenko AK,Shneider NA

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth factor-induced signals govern the expression of three D-type cyclins, which, in turn, function as regulatory subunits of cyclin-dependent kinases (cdks) to control cell cycle transitions during the late G1 interval. 32D myeloid cells, which self-renew as uncommitted precursors in interleukin 3 (IL-3), express c...

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

authors： Kato JY,Sherr CJ

更新日期：1993-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Femtosecond and subfemtosecond time scales typically rule electron dynamics at metal surfaces. Recent advance in experimental techniques permits now remarkable precision in the description of these processes. In particular, shorter time scales, smaller system sizes, and spin-dependent effects are current targets of in...

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

authors： Muiño RD,Sánchez-Portal D,Silkin VM,Chulkov EV,Echenique PM

更新日期：2011-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:AB-type toxins, like other bacterial toxins, are notably opportunistic molecules. They rely on target cell receptors to reach the appropriate location within the target cell where translocation of their enzymatic subunits occurs. The anthrax toxin, however, times its own uptake, suggesting that toxin binding triggers ...

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

authors： Abrami L,Kunz B,van der Goot FG

更新日期：2010-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that perceived pain intensity can influence placebo analgesia was tested. One hundred and seven subjects rated their pain from from 0 to 10 on a visual analog scale after a standard wisdom tooth extraction. The expected course of such postoperative pain in the absence of therapy or placebo is a steady i...

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

authors： Levine JD,Gordon NC,Bornstein JC,Fields HL

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of small peptides corresponding to the amino termini of the fibrin alpha- and beta-chains has been synthesized. The peptides glycyl-L-prolyl-L-arginyl-L-proline and glycyl-L-prolyl-L-arginylsarcosine are potent inhibitors of fibrin polymerization. Moreover, these peptides have a natural stability stemming fro...

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

authors： Laudano AP,Doolittle RF

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Initiation of bovine papillomavirus (BPV) DNA synthesis in vivo and in vitro depends on the interaction of the viral initiator protein E1 with the replication origin (ori+ DNA). The viral E2 protein assists this interaction, resulting in a cooperative assembly of both proteins on the replication origin. Using gel mobi...

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

authors： Lusky M,Hurwitz J,Seo YS

更新日期：1994-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Seeking research funding is an essential part of academic life. Funded projects are primarily collaborative in nature through internal and external partnerships, but what role does funding play in the formulation of these partnerships? Here, by examining over 43,000 scientific projects funded over the past three decad...

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

authors： Ma A,Mondragón RJ,Latora V

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some patients with a lesion to the primary visual cortex (V1) show "blindsight": the remarkable ability to guess correctly about attributes of stimuli presented to the blind hemifield. Here, we show that blindsight can be induced in normal observers by using transcranial magnetic stimulation of the occipital cortex bu...

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

authors： Jolij J,Lamme VA

更新日期：2005-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The spontaneous assembly of proteins into amyloid fibrils is a phenomenon central to many increasingly common and currently incurable human disorders, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Oligomeric species form transiently during this process and not only act as essential intermediates in the assembly of n...

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

authors： Dear AJ,Michaels TCT,Meisl G,Klenerman D,Wu S,Perrett S,Linse S,Dobson CM,Knowles TPJ

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid antibody production in response to invading pathogens requires the dramatic expansion of pathogen-derived antigen-specific B lymphocyte populations. Whether B cell population dynamics are based on stochastic competition between competing cell fates, as in the development of competence by the bacterium Bacillus s...

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

authors： Mitchell S,Roy K,Zangle TA,Hoffmann A

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00