Engineered defective interfering RNAs of Sindbis virus express bacterial chloramphenicol acetyltransferase in avian cells.

abstract：:We have previously shown that surfactant protein A (SP-A) mediates in vitro killing of mycoplasmas by alveolar macrophages (AMs) from resistant C57BL/6 mice through a nitric oxide (.NO)-dependent mechanism. Herein, SP-A-deficient [SP-A(-/-)] and inducible.NO synthase-deficient [iNOS(-/-)] mice were infected intranasal...

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

authors： Hickman-Davis J,Gibbs-Erwin J,Lindsey JR,Matalon S

更新日期：1999-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The thylakoid compartments of plant chloroplasts are a vital destination for copper. Copper is needed to form holo-plastocyanin, which must shuttle electrons between photosystems to convert light into biologically useful chemical energy. Copper can bind tightly to proteins, so it has been hypothesized that copper part...

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

authors： Banci L,Bertini I,Ciofi-Baffoni S,Kandias NG,Robinson NJ,Spyroulias GA,Su XC,Tottey S,Vanarotti M

更新日期：2006-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Even in the absence of sensory stimulation, the neocortex shows complex spontaneous activity patterns, often consisting of alternating "DOWN" states of generalized neural silence and "UP" states of massive, persistent network activity. To investigate how this spontaneous activity propagates through neuronal assemblies...

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

authors： Luczak A,Barthó P,Marguet SL,Buzsáki G,Harris KD

更新日期：2007-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The lack of efficient mechanisms for stable genetic transformation of medically important insects, such as anopheline mosquitoes, is the single most important impediment to progress in identifying novel control strategies. Currently available techniques for foreign gene expression in insect cells in culture lack the b...

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

authors： Matsubara T,Beeman RW,Shike H,Besansky NJ,Mukabayire O,Higgs S,James AA,Burns JC

更新日期：1996-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hawaiian honeycreepers (Drepanidae) represent a superb illustration of evolutionary radiation, with a single colonization event giving rise to 19 extant and at least 10 extinct species [Curnutt, J. & Pimm, S. (2001) Stud. Avian Biol. 22, 15-30]. They also represent a dramatic example of anthropogenic extinction. C...

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

authors： Benning TL,LaPointe D,Atkinson CT,Vitousek PM

更新日期：2002-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:CD4(+) T cells expand after transfer into lymphopenic H-2(b) A(beta)-/- mice (I-A(beta)-, I-E(alpha)-deficient mice) but not after transfer into lymphopenic MHC II(Delta/Delta) mice (I-A(alpha)-, I-A(beta)-, I-E(alpha)-, and I-E(beta)-deficient mice), implying that in H-2(b) A(beta)-/- mice, A(alpha) chain and E(beta)...

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

authors： Martin B,Bourgeois C,Dautigny N,Lucas B

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera vibrios produce a single polymeric protein that (i) causes hemagglutination; (ii) appears to participate in their attachment to gut epithelium; (iii) may mediate their detachment from gut epithelium; and (iv) is a protease that hydrolyzes fibronectin and mucin, cleaves lactoferrin, and nicks the A subunit of t...

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

authors： Finkelstein RA,Boesman-Finkelstein M,Holt P

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila neuroblasts divide asymmetrically by aligning their mitotic spindle with cortical cell polarity to generate distinct sibling cell types. Neuroblasts asymmetrically localize Galphai, Pins, and Mud proteins; Pins/Galphai direct cortical polarity, whereas Mud is required for spindle orientation. It is currentl...

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

authors： Nipper RW,Siller KH,Smith NR,Doe CQ,Prehoda KE

更新日期：2007-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathologic extraskeletal bone formation, or heterotopic ossification (HO), occurs following mechanical trauma, burns, orthopedic operations, and in patients with hyperactivating mutations of the type I bone morphogenetic protein receptor ACVR1 (Activin type 1 receptor). Extraskeletal bone forms through an endochondral...

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

authors： Agarwal S,Loder S,Brownley C,Cholok D,Mangiavini L,Li J,Breuler C,Sung HH,Li S,Ranganathan K,Peterson J,Tompkins R,Herndon D,Xiao W,Jumlongras D,Olsen BR,Davis TA,Mishina Y,Schipani E,Levi B

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary tumors secrete factors that alter the microenvironment of distant organs, rendering those organs as fertile soil for subsequent metastatic cancer cell colonization. Although the lungs are exposed to these factors ubiquitously, lung metastases usually develop as a series of discrete lesions. The underlining mol...

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

authors： Hiratsuka S,Goel S,Kamoun WS,Maru Y,Fukumura D,Duda DG,Jain RK

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An acetone extract of chloroplast particles, when layered on an aqueous surface, exhibited light-dependent phosphorylation. Studies with the firefly-tail enzyme assay, as well as with (32)P-labeled inorganic phosphate, show an initial release of adenosine triphosphate (a step that is apparently only light-triggered), ...

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

authors： McPhee J,Brody SS

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrotic diseases are not well-understood. They represent a number of different diseases that are characterized by the development of severe organ fibrosis without any obvious cause, such as the devastating diseases idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and scleroderma. These diseases have a poor prognosis comparable wi...

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

authors： Wernig G,Chen SY,Cui L,Van Neste C,Tsai JM,Kambham N,Vogel H,Natkunam Y,Gilliland DG,Nolan G,Weissman IL

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In virtually all multicellular eukaryotes, mitochondria are transmitted exclusively through one parent, usually the mother. In this short review, we discuss some of the major consequences of uniparental transmission of mitochondria, including deleterious effects in males and selection for increased transmission throug...

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

authors： Perlman SJ,Hodson CN,Hamilton PT,Opit GP,Gowen BE

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Almost all theoretical and experimental studies of the mechanisms underlying learning and memory focus on synaptic efficacy and make the implicit assumption that changes in synaptic efficacy are both necessary and sufficient to account for learning and memory. However, network dynamics depends on the complex interacti...

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

authors： Marder E,Abbott LF,Turrigiano GG,Liu Z,Golowasch J

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased plasminogen-activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1) activity is a common finding in patients with coronary heart disease. Here we provide evidence for an independent, etiological role of PAI-1 in myocardial infarction. The 4G allele of a recently described common 4/5-guanine-tract (4G/5G) polymorphism in the PAI-1 pro...

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

authors： Eriksson P,Kallin B,van 't Hooft FM,Båvenholm P,Hamsten A

更新日期：1995-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A densely packed granular system is an example of an out-of-equilibrium system in the jammed state. It has been a longstanding problem to determine whether this class of systems can be described by concepts arising from equilibrium statistical mechanics, such as an effective temperature and compactivity. The measureme...

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

authors： Song C,Wang P,Makse HA

更新日期：2005-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene amplification may be visualized within a chromosome as a homogeneously stained region (HSR) and HSRs have rarely been reported in human tumor cells with identification of the amplified gene. A parental line and seven clones derived from KB cells resistant to methotrexate (MTX) contain dihydrofolate reductase (DHF...

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

authors： Wolman SR,Craven ML,Grill SP,Domin BA,Cheng YC

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methane emissions due to accidents in the oil and natural gas sector are very challenging to monitor, and hence are seldom considered in emission inventories and reporting. One of the main reasons is the lack of measurements during such events. Here we report the detection of large methane emissions from a gas well bl...

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

authors： Pandey S,Gautam R,Houweling S,Denier van der Gon H,Sadavarte P,Borsdorff T,Hasekamp O,Landgraf J,Tol P,van Kempen T,Hoogeveen R,van Hees R,Hamburg SP,Maasakkers JD,Aben I

更新日期：2019-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In a medium without Na+, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) binds at 0 degrees to freshly prepared crude synaptic membranes from rat cerebral cortex with an apparent dissociation constant of 218 nM. An endogenous inhibitor of the Na+-independent GABA binding was removed from these membranes by freezing and thawing and by ...

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

authors： Toffano G,Guidotti A,Costa E

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the sequence of full-length chicken triosephosphate isomerase (D-glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate ketol-isomerase, EC 5.3.1.1) mRNA based on the analysis of cDNA and genomic clones. To isolate cDNA clones encoding the enzyme, we screened a muscle cDNA library with radioactively labeled cDNA made from RNA that had...

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

authors： Straus D,Gilbert W

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of small molecules to distinctive three-dimensional structures in mRNA provides a new dimension in RNA control, previously limited to the targeting of secondary structures with antisense and RNA interference; such targeting can modulate mRNA function and rates of protein biosynthesis. Small molecules that ...

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

authors： Tibodeau JD,Fox PM,Ropp PA,Theil EC,Thorp HH

更新日期：2006-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Two high molecular weight growth inhibitors have been isolated from the culture medium of BSC-1 cells, epithelial cells of African green monkey kidney. The purified kidney epithelial cell growth inhibitors, at ng/ml concentrations, reversibly arrest the growth of BSC-1 cells in the G1 phase of the cell cycle. Their ac...

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

authors： Holley RW,Böhlen P,Fava R,Baldwin JH,Kleeman G,Armour R

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin (5-HT) plays a key role in early brain development, and manipulation of 5-HT levels during this period can have lasting neurobiological and behavioral consequences. It is unclear how perinatal exposure to drugs, such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), impacts cortical neural network function...

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

authors： Simpson KL,Weaver KJ,de Villers-Sidani E,Lu JY,Cai Z,Pang Y,Rodriguez-Porcel F,Paul IA,Merzenich M,Lin RC

更新日期：2011-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A typical molecular ion mass spectrum consists of a sum of signals from species of various possible isotopic compositions. Only the monoisotopic peak (e.g., all carbons are 12C; all nitrogens are 14N, etc.) has a unique elemental composition. Every other isotope peak at approximately integer multiples of approximately...

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

authors： Shi SD,Hendrickson CL,Marshall AG

更新日期：1998-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a coevolutionary method for the computational design of HIV-1 protease inhibitors selected for their ability to retain efficacy in the face of protease mutation. For HIV-1 protease, typical drug design techniques are shown to be ineffective for the design of resistance-evading inhibitors: An inhibito...

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

authors： Rosin CD,Belew RK,Morris GM,Olson AJ,Goodsell DS

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Cointegrate DNA molecules containing two copies of a transposable element appear to be intermediates in the transposition process. These structures are resolved by site-specific recombination to yield the normal end products of transposition. The transposable element gamma delta (Tn1000) synthesizes a product intercha...

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

authors： Kitts P,Symington L,Burke M,Reed R,Sherratt D

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Damage to the protooncogene MYC has been implicated in the genesis of diverse human tumors, but the tumorigenic potential of the isolated gene has been disputed. Here we report the use of a retroviral vector to test the potency of human MYC for neoplastic transformation in avian cells. We found that sustained and abun...

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

authors： Ramsay GM,Moscovici G,Moscovici C,Bishop JM

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The later stages of cochlear differentiation and the developmental onset of hearing require thyroid hormone. Although thyroid hormone receptors (TRs) are a prerequisite for this process, it is likely that other factors modify TR activity during cochlear development. The mouse cochlea expresses type 2 deiodinase (D2), ...

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

authors： Ng L,Goodyear RJ,Woods CA,Schneider MJ,Diamond E,Richardson GP,Kelley MW,Germain DL,Galton VA,Forrest D

更新日期：2004-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone remodeling requires osteoclasts to generate and maintain an acidified resorption compartment between the apical membrane and the bone surface to solubilize hydroxyapatite crystals within the bone matrix. This acidification process requires (i) apical proton secretion by a vacuolar H(+)-ATPase, (ii) actin cytoskel...

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

authors： Coury F,Zenger S,Stewart AK,Stephens S,Neff L,Tsang K,Shull GE,Alper SL,Baron R,Aliprantis AO

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of L-3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.35) has been derived from electron-density maps calculated at 2.8-A resolution with phases obtained from two heavy-atom derivatives and the bound coenzyme, NAD. Like other dehydrogenases, 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase is a double-domain structure, but t...

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

authors： Birktoft JJ,Holden HM,Hamlin R,Xuong NH,Banaszak LJ

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00