EphB receptor forward signaling regulates area-specific reciprocal thalamic and cortical axon pathfinding.

abstract：:Due to its remarkably long half-life, together with its wide in vivo distribution and its lack of enzymatic or immunological functions, human serum albumin (HSA) represents an optimal carrier for therapeutic peptides/proteins aimed at interacting with cellular or molecular components of the vascular and interstitial c...

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

authors： Yeh P,Landais D,Lemaître M,Maury I,Crenne JY,Becquart J,Murry-Brelier A,Boucher F,Montay G,Fleer R

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary x-ray diffraction data from single crystals of the MoFe proteins of nitrogenase from Clostridium pasteurianum and Azotobacter vinelandii have been obtained. Both protein crystals belong to the P2(1) space group. The MoFe protein crystals from C. pasteurianum and A. vinelandii diffract to angles correspondi...

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

authors： Weininger MS,Mortenson LE

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beetle luciferases are thought to have evolved from fatty acyl-CoA synthetases present in all insects. Both classes of enzymes activate fatty acids with ATP to form acyl-adenylate intermediates, but only luciferases can activate and oxidize d-luciferin to emit light. Here we show that the Drosophila fatty acyl-CoA syn...

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

authors： Mofford DM,Reddy GR,Miller SC

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide excision repair proteins have been implicated in genetic recombination by experiments in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Drosophila melanogaster, but their role, if any, in mammalian cells is undefined. To investigate the role of the nucleotide excision repair gene ERCC1, the hamster homologue to the S. cerevi...

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

authors： Sargent RG,Rolig RL,Kilburn AE,Adair GM,Wilson JH,Nairn RS

更新日期：1997-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is the leading cause of hospital-acquired diarrhea in the United States. The two main virulence factors of C. difficile are the large toxins, TcdA and TcdB, which enter colonic epithelial cells and cause fluid secretion, inflammation, and cell death. Using a gene-trap insertional mutagenesis scre...

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

authors： LaFrance ME,Farrow MA,Chandrasekaran R,Sheng J,Rubin DH,Lacy DB

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In photosynthesis, light is captured by antenna proteins. These proteins transfer the excitation energy with almost 100% quantum efficiency to the reaction centers, where charge separation takes place. The time scale and pathways of this transfer are controlled by the protein scaffold, which holds the pigments at opti...

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

authors： Müh F,Madjet Mel-A,Adolphs J,Abdurahman A,Rabenstein B,Ishikita H,Knapp EW,Renger T

更新日期：2007-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the pathogenic mechanism of dominant mutations affecting the carboxyl terminus of rhodopsin that cause retinitis pigmentosa, we generated five lines of transgenic mice carrying the proline-347 to serine (P347S) mutation. The severity of photoreceptor degeneration correlated with the levels of transgene expr...

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

authors： Li T,Snyder WK,Olsson JE,Dryja TP

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta-1,3-glucan recognition protein (betaGRP)/Gram-negative bacteria-binding protein 3 (GNBP3) is a crucial pattern-recognition receptor that specifically binds beta-1,3-glucan, a component of fungal cell walls. It evokes innate immunity against fungi through activation of the prophenoloxidase (proPO) cascade and ...

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

authors： Takahasi K,Ochiai M,Horiuchi M,Kumeta H,Ogura K,Ashida M,Inagaki F

更新日期：2009-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequence of blastokinin, also called uteroglobin, has been determined by a combined study of both the intact native molecule and the peptide fragments resulting from tryptic and chymotryptic digestions. Sequence analyses performed by automated methods and by sequential digestion with leucine aminopeptid...

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

authors： Popp RA,Foresman KR,Wise LD,Daniel JC Jr

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmunity often involves the abnormal targeting of self-antigens by antibodies, leading to tissue destruction and other pathologies. This process could potentially be disrupted by small ligands that bind specifically to autoantibodies and inhibit their interaction with the target antigen. Here we report the identif...

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

authors： Doudna JA,Cech TR,Sullenger BA

更新日期：1995-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme is a common factor linking several metabolic perturbations in Alzheimer's disease (AD), including iron metabolism, mitochondrial complex IV, heme oxygenase, and bilirubin. Therefore, we determined whether heme metabolism was altered in temporal lobes obtained at autopsy from AD patients and age-matched nondemente...

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

authors： Atamna H,Frey WH 2nd

更新日期：2004-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies of human disease and transgenic animal experiments have clearly demonstrated the importance of desmosomes in normal tissue architecture. Furthermore, desmosomal components are down-regulated in certain types of carcinomas, suggesting a possible role for desmosomes in suppression of invasion and metastas...

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

authors： Tselepis C,Chidgey M,North A,Garrod D

更新日期：1998-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive, labor-saving, and easily automatable nonradioactive procedure named APEX-FCS (amplified probe extension detected by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy) has been established to detect specific in vitro amplification of pathogen genomic sequences. As an example, Mycobacterium tuberculosis genomic DNA was...

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

authors： Walter NG,Schwille P,Eigen M

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the contribution of interleukin-4 (IL-4) to airway inflammation in vivo and to explore directly its relationship to airway reactivity, we created transgenic mice in which the murine cDNA for IL-4 was regulated by the rat Clara cell 10 protein promoter. Expression was detected only in the lung and not in...

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

authors： Rankin JA,Picarella DE,Geba GP,Temann UA,Prasad B,DiCosmo B,Tarallo A,Stripp B,Whitsett J,Flavell RA

更新日期：1996-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that mammary epithelial specific expression of the activated erbB2 allele under the control of the endogenous promoter in mice resulted in the formation of mammary adenocarcinomas. To assess whether mammary tumorigenesis in this model is influenced by the developmental window of expression, we...

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

authors： Andrechek ER,Hardy WR,Laing MA,Muller WJ

更新日期：2004-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytosolic concentration of free Ca2+ in bovine neutrophils was monitored by using the intracellular Ca2+ indicator quin2, 2-[[2-bis(acetylamino)-5-methylphenoxy]methyl-6-methoxy-8- bis(acetylamino)]quinoline. Neutrophils at rest have a cytosolic Ca2+ concentration of 85 +/- 5 nM, which in 2-4 min increases to 300-...

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

authors： Gennaro R,Pozzan T,Romeo D

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) expressing the photopigment melanopsin (OPN4), together with rods and cones, provide light information driving nonvisual light responses. We examined nonvisual photoreception in mice lacking RPE65, a protein that is required for regeneration of visual chromo...

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

authors： Doyle SE,Castrucci AM,McCall M,Provencio I,Menaker M

更新日期：2006-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The serological properties of the gag gene products p15 and p12 of N- and B-tropic viruses of C57BL mice have been examined. Although these viruses were serologically identical by competition assays for proteins gp71 and p30, they were readily distinguishable in competition assays for proteins p15 and p12. Two isolate...

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

authors： Benade LE,Ihle JN,Declève A

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the human cDNA, isolated on the basis of homology to the murine carbonic anhydrase (CA) "Y" was expressed in COS cells, the human CA was targeted to and processed in mitochondria, as expected for CA-V. However, tissue distribution reported for the corresponding mouse CA Y mRNA was much more limited than that repo...

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

authors： Nagao Y,Srinivasan M,Platero JS,Svendrowski M,Waheed A,Sly WS

更新日期：1994-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been recognized since ancient times that malaria fever is highly periodic but the mechanism has been poorly understood. Malaria fever is related to the parasite growth cycle in erythrocytes. After a fixed period of replication, a mature parasite (schizont) causes the infected erythrocyte to rupture, releasing p...

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

authors： Kwiatkowski D,Nowak M

更新日期：1991-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed a comprehensive cDNA library from HeLa cell mRNA in a vector that directs expression of the cDNA in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We used this library to clone the human counterpart of the Sa. cerevisiae CCAAT-binding transcription factor, Hap2, by functional complementation of a hap2 mutation. The cDNA enc...

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

authors： Becker DM,Fikes JD,Guarente L

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:H-2M3 encodes HMT, the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I heavy chain of the maternally transmitted antigen (Mta). Like classical MHC class I genes, the expression of M3 can be stimulated by gamma-interferon and its message can be detected from mid-gestational embryos (day 8) through adulthood. HMTb, a non...

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

authors： Wang CR,Lindahl KF

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duodenal bicarbonate secretion (DBS) is accepted as the primary mucosal defense against acid discharged from the stomach and is impaired in patients with duodenal ulcer disease. The secretory response to luminal acid is the main physiological stimulus for DBS and involves mediation by PGE2 produced by mucosal cells. T...

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

authors： Leppilampi M,Parkkila S,Karttunen T,Gut MO,Gros G,Sjöblom M

更新日期：2005-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:From a consideration of (varphi, Psi) values of the amino acids of myoglobin, lysozyme, the alpha and beta chains of horse oxyhemoglobin, tosyl-alpha-chymotrypsin, and carboxypeptidase A, an empirical procedure of predicting whether amino-acid residues in proteins are in a non-helical or may be in a helical conformati...

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

authors： Wu TT,Kabat EA

更新日期：1971-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subunits A and B of chloroplast glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase are synthesized as higher molecular weight precursors when polyadenylylated mRNA from angiosperm seedlings is translated in vitro by wheat germ ribosomes. The in vivo levels of mRNA coding for these precursors are strongly light dependent, and th...

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

authors： Cerff R,Kloppstech K

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus anthracis is the etiologic agent of anthrax, an acute fatal disease among mammals. It was thought to differ from Bacillus cereus, an opportunistic pathogen and cause of food poisoning, by the presence of plasmids pXO1 and pXO2, which encode the lethal toxin complex and the poly-gamma-d-glutamic acid capsule, ...

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

authors： Hoffmaster AR,Ravel J,Rasko DA,Chapman GD,Chute MD,Marston CK,De BK,Sacchi CT,Fitzgerald C,Mayer LW,Maiden MC,Priest FG,Barker M,Jiang L,Cer RZ,Rilstone J,Peterson SN,Weyant RS,Galloway DR,Read TD,Popovic T,Fras

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) specifies in the infected cell a set of polypeptides (alpha) whose mRNAs are made in the absence of protein synthesis. The individual mRNAs specifying alpha polypeptides 0, 4, 22, and 27 were purified by hybridization to strand-separated or total HSV-1 DNA fragments cloned in pBR322 plas...

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

authors： Mackem S,Roizman B

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in the multiplication rate of blood stage malaria parasites is often positively correlated with the severity of the disease they cause. The rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium yoelii yoelii has strains with marked differences in multiplication rate and pathogenicity in the blood. We have used genetic analysis...

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

authors： Pattaradilokrat S,Culleton RL,Cheesman SJ,Carter R

更新日期：2009-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Four 12-O-tetradecanoyl-13-O-acetylphorbol-type tumor promoters--teleocidin, phorbol ester, aplysiatoxin, and ingenol ester--are superposed in an attempt to understand their common biological activity on the assumption that they may bind to the same receptor site. A method using three-dimensional computer graphics was...

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

authors： Itai A,Kato Y,Tomioka N,Iitaka Y,Endo Y,Hasegawa M,Shudo K,Fujiki H,Sakai S

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spreading depression (SD), a slow diffusion-mediated self-sustained wave of depolarization that severely disrupts neuronal function, has been implicated as a cause of cellular injury in a number of central nervous system pathologies, including blind spots in the retina. Here we show that in the hypoglycemic chicken re...

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

authors： Yu Y,Santos LM,Mattiace LA,Costa ML,Ferreira LC,Benabou K,Kim AH,Abrahams J,Bennett MV,Rozental R

更新日期：2012-02-14 00:00:00