A TNFSF15 disease-risk polymorphism increases pattern-recognition receptor-induced signaling through caspase-8-induced IL-1.

abstract：:Computational and biochemical studies implicate the blue-light sensor cryptochrome (CRY) as an endogenous light-dependent magnetosensor enabling migratory birds to navigate using the Earth's magnetic field. Validation of such a mechanism has been hampered by the absence of structures of vertebrate CRYs that have funct...

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

authors： Zoltowski BD,Chelliah Y,Wickramaratne A,Jarocha L,Karki N,Xu W,Mouritsen H,Hore PJ,Hibbs RE,Green CB,Takahashi JS

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently described organ culture system for human thymocytes is shown to support the generation of a diverse T-cell receptor repertoire in vitro: thymocytes of the alpha beta lineage, including representatives of the V beta families 5.2/5.3, 6.7, and 8, accounted for the majority of T-cell receptor-positive cells th...

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

authors： Merkenschlager M,Fisher AG

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The "chlamydial anomaly," first coined by James Moulder, describes the inability of researchers to detect or purify peptidoglycan (PG) from pathogenic Chlamydiae despite genetic and biochemical evidence and antibiotic susceptibility data that suggest its existence. We recently detected PG in Chlamydia trachomatis by a...

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

authors： Packiam M,Weinrick B,Jacobs WR Jr,Maurelli AT

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Triton X-100-solubilized high-density microsomes from insulin-treated rat adipocytes exhibit a marked increase in serine/threonine and tyrosine kinase activities toward exogenous histone when compared to controls. The insulin-dependent activation of microsomal histone kinase activities occurs within the physiological ...

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

authors： Yu KT,Khalaf N,Czech MP

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preadipocytes can give rise to either white adipocytes or beige adipocytes. Owing to their distinct abilities in nutrient storage and energy expenditure, strategies that specifically promote "beiging" of adipocytes hold great promise for counterbalancing obesity and metabolic diseases. Yet, factors dictating the diffe...

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

authors： Liu K,Lin L,Li Q,Xue Y,Zheng F,Wang G,Zheng C,Du L,Hu M,Huang Y,Shao C,Kong X,Melino G,Shi Y,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor suppressor protein p53 localizes to microtubules (MT) and, in response to DNA damage, is transported to the nucleus via the MT minus-end-directed motor protein dynein. Dynein is also responsible for MT-mediated nuclear targeting of adenovirus type 2 (Ad2). Here we show that treatment with low concentrations ...

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

authors： Giannakakou P,Nakano M,Nicolaou KC,O'Brate A,Yu J,Blagosklonny MV,Greber UF,Fojo T

更新日期：2002-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A panel of 26 mouse-human somatic cell hybrids containing different human chromosome complements was analyzed with a cloned human pepsinogen cDNA probe to determine the chromosomal location and the number of genes encoding these proteins. A complex containing variable numbers of pepsinogen genes was localized to the c...

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

authors： Taggart RT,Mohandas TK,Shows TB,Bell GI

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social networks exhibit strikingly systematic patterns across a wide range of human contexts. Although genetic variation accounts for a significant portion of the variation in many complex social behaviors, the heritability of egocentric social network attributes is unknown. Here, we show that 3 of these attributes (i...

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

authors： Fowler JH,Dawes CT,Christakis NA

更新日期：2009-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNA clones for the (S)-tetrahydroberberine (H4Ber) oxidase of cultured berberine-producing Coptis japonica cells were isolated by screening a C. japonica cDNA library with synthetic nucleotides that can encode the NH2-terminal sequence of this enzyme. Analyses of the nucleotide sequences of the cloned cDNA inserts re...

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

authors： Okada N,Koizumi N,Tanaka T,Ohkubo H,Nakanishi S,Yamada Y

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The likelihood with which an action potential elicits neurotransmitter release, the release probability (p(r)), is an important component of synaptic strength. Regulatory mechanisms controlling several steps of synaptic vesicle (SV) exocytosis may affect p(r), yet their relative importance in determining p(r) and elic...

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

authors： Matz J,Gilyan A,Kolar A,McCarvill T,Krueger SR

更新日期：2010-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The succession from aerobic and facultative anaerobic bacteria to obligate anaerobes in the infant gut along with the differences between the compositions of the mucosally adherent vs. luminal microbiota suggests that the gut microbes consume oxygen, which diffuses into the lumen from the intestinal tissue, maintainin...

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

authors： Friedman ES,Bittinger K,Esipova TV,Hou L,Chau L,Jiang J,Mesaros C,Lund PJ,Liang X,FitzGerald GA,Goulian M,Lee D,Garcia BA,Blair IA,Vinogradov SA,Wu GD

更新日期：2018-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of transcription and enzyme activities are two interwoven regulatory systems essential for the function of a metabolic node. Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains differing in enzyme activities at the chorismate branch point of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis were constructed by recombinant DNA technology. Express...

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

authors： Krappmann S,Lipscomb WN,Braus GH

更新日期：2000-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:An acid extract of pedal ganglia of the mollusc Mytilus edulis was fractionated by high-pressure liquid chromatography with a reverse-phase column. Peak fractions with retention times of those of [Met]- and [Leu]enkephalin were subjected to binding assays in both invertebrate and vertebrate tissues. The results showed...

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

authors： Leung MK,Stefano GB

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is a complex disease resulting from the interaction of multiple genes. We have used the Ldlr knockout mouse model in an interspecific genetic cross to map atherosclerosis susceptibility loci. A total of 174 (MOLF/Ei x B6.129S7-Ldlr(tm1Her)) x C57BL/6J-Ldlr(tm1Her) backcross mice, homozygous for the Ldl...

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

authors： Welch CL,Bretschger S,Latib N,Bezouevski M,Guo Y,Pleskac N,Liang CP,Barlow C,Dansky H,Breslow JL,Tall AR

更新日期：2001-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:MacArthur and Wilson [MacArthur, R. H. & Wilson, E. O. (1967) The Theory of Island Biogeography (Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ)] used the rate of recolonization of the Krakatau Islands (sterilized in the cataclysmic 1883 eruption) by birds and vascular plants to test their equilibrium model of immigration and e...

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

authors： Thornton IW,Zann RA,Rawlinson PA,Tidemann CR,Adikerana AS,Widjoya AH

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidation of mechanisms that regulate hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal and differentiation would be facilitated by the identification of defined culture conditions that allow these cells to be amplified. We now demonstrate a significant net increase (3-fold, P < 0.001) in vitro of cells that are individually abl...

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

authors： Miller CL,Eaves CJ

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Interest in cell-associated collagens led others to isolate A and B collagen chains, also known as type V collagen, from many tissues, but only after pepsin cleavage. Soluble precursors of these chains are synthesized in vitro by crop, a chicken embryo muscle tissue, and are converted by at least two processing steps ...

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

authors： Kumamoto CA,Fessler JH

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Full activation of T cells requires signaling through the T-cell antigen receptor (TCR) and additional surface molecules interacting with ligands on the antigen-presenting cell. TCR recognition of agonist ligands in the absence of accessory signals frequently results in the induction of a state of unresponsiveness ter...

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

authors： Madrenas J,Schwartz RH,Germain RN

更新日期：1996-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of ion balance in spermatozoa has been shown to be essential for sperm motility and fertility. Control of intracellular ion levels requires the function of distinct ion-transport mechanisms at the cell plasma membrane. Active Na(+) and K(+) exchange in sperm is under the control of the Na,K-ATPase. Two mole...

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

authors： Jimenez T,McDermott JP,Sánchez G,Blanco G

更新日期：2011-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Coatomer, the coat protein of coat protein complex (COP)I-vesicles, is a soluble protein complex made up of seven subunits, alpha-, beta-, beta'-, gamma-, delta-, epsilon-, and zeta-COP. Higher eukaryotes have two paralogous versions of the gamma- and zeta- subunits, termed gamma1- and gamma2-COP and zeta1- and zeta2-...

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

authors： Moelleken J,Malsam J,Betts MJ,Movafeghi A,Reckmann I,Meissner I,Hellwig A,Russell RB,Söllner T,Brügger B,Wieland FT

更新日期：2007-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical studies have revealed that genetic variations in metabotropic glutamate receptor 3 (mGlu3) affect performance on cognitive tasks dependent upon the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and may be linked to psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and addiction. We have performed a series of studies ...

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

authors： Walker AG,Wenthur CJ,Xiang Z,Rook JM,Emmitte KA,Niswender CM,Lindsley CW,Conn PJ

更新日期：2015-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of spontaneous suppressors to the temperature-sensitive phenotype of the single-stranded DNA-binding protein mutation ssb-1 were isolated. A genomic library of EcoRI fragments from one of these suppressor strains was prepared by using pBR325 as the cloning vector. A 10.0-kilobase class of inserts was identifi...

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

authors： Ruben SM,VanDenBrink-Webb SE,Rein DC,Meyer RR

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer membrane (OM) of Gram-negative bacteria forms a robust permeability barrier that blocks entry of toxins and antibiotics. Most OM proteins (OMPs) assume a β-barrel fold, and some form aqueous channels for nutrient uptake and efflux of intracellular toxins. The Bam machine catalyzes rapid folding and assembly ...

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

authors： Konovalova A,Grabowicz M,Balibar CJ,Malinverni JC,Painter RE,Riley D,Mann PA,Wang H,Garlisi CG,Sherborne B,Rigel NW,Ricci DP,Black TA,Roemer T,Silhavy TJ,Walker SS

更新日期：2018-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Ras has achieved notoriety as an oncogene aberrantly activated in multiple human tumors. Approximately 30% of all human tumors express an oncogenic form of this GTPase that is locked in an active conformation as a result of being insensitive to Ras GTPase-activating proteins (GAPs), proteins that normally regulate the...

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

authors： Jin H,Wang X,Ying J,Wong AH,Cui Y,Srivastava G,Shen ZY,Li EM,Zhang Q,Jin J,Kupzig S,Chan AT,Cullen PJ,Tao Q

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Excess activation of glutamate receptors and production of free radicals including nitric oxide may result in severe and irreversible damage to the mammalian central nervous system (CNS), but endogenous defense systems that protect neurons from these insults are poorly understood. Here, we purified and isolated a neur...

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

authors： Kume T,Asai N,Nishikawa H,Mano N,Terauchi T,Taguchi R,Shirakawa H,Osakada F,Mori H,Asakawa N,Yonaga M,Nishizawa Y,Sugimoto H,Shimohama S,Katsuki H,Kaneko S,Akaike A

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The interference of microtubular disruptors with the uptake of amino acids and other low molecular weight substrates has been studied in Morris hepatomas, host liver, and regenerating liver. Colchicine inhibits amino acid transport (alpha-aminoisobutyric acid, L-methionine, and L-leucine) in hepatomas by 59-98% wherea...

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

authors： Tauber R,Reutter W

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extensive Early Jurassic continental strata of southern Africa have yielded an exceptional record of dinosaurs that includes scores of partial to complete skeletons of the sauropodomorph Massospondylus, ranging from embryos to large adults. In 1976 an incomplete egg clutch including in ovo embryos of this dinosaur...

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

authors： Reisz RR,Evans DC,Roberts EM,Sues HD,Yates AM

更新日期：2012-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful adaptation to changes in an animal's emotional and motivational environment depends on behavioral flexibility accompanied by changes in bodily responses, e.g., autonomic and endocrine, which support the change in behavior. Here, we identify the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) as pivotal in the flexible regulatio...

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

authors： Reekie YL,Braesicke K,Man MS,Roberts AC

更新日期：2008-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An exciton is an electron-hole pair bound by attractive Coulomb interaction. Short-lived excitons have been detected by a variety of experimental probes in numerous contexts. An excitonic insulator, a collective state of such excitons, has been more elusive. Here, thanks to Nernst measurements in pulsed magnetic field...

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

authors： Wang J,Nie P,Li X,Zuo H,Fauqué B,Zhu Z,Behnia K

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of gangliosides in processes related to nerve regeneration and sprouting has been demonstrated recently. The type of interaction by which gangliosides may influence neuronal sprouting was investigated in the present work. Affinity-purified rabbit anti-GM1 antibodies were found to block the sprouting fr...

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

authors： Schwartz M,Spirman N

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00