Structural and energetic determinants of adhesive binding specificity in type I cadherins.

abstract：:Targeted ablation of the surfactant protein D (SP-D) gene caused chronic inflammation, emphysema, and fibrosis in the lungs of SP-D (-/-) mice. Although lung morphology was unperturbed during the first 2 weeks of life, airspace enlargement was observed by 3 weeks and progressed with advancing age. Inflammation consist...

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

authors： Wert SE,Yoshida M,LeVine AM,Ikegami M,Jones T,Ross GF,Fisher JH,Korfhagen TR,Whitsett JA

更新日期：2000-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Clear-cut inherited Mendelian traits, such as familial adenomatous polyposis or hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer, account for <4% of colorectal cancers. Another 20% of all colorectal cancers are thought to occur in individuals with a significant inherited multifactorial susceptibility to colorectal cancer tha...

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

authors： Fearnhead NS,Wilding JL,Winney B,Tonks S,Bartlett S,Bicknell DC,Tomlinson IP,Mortensen NJ,Bodmer WF

更新日期：2004-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium requires the mgtC gene to cause disease. The mgtC transcript includes a long leader region that harbors a short proline codon-rich ORF--termed mgtP--the translation of which is predicted to favor formation of one of two alternative stem-loop structures...

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

authors： Lee EJ,Choi J,Groisman EA

更新日期：2014-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two collaborations in which psychologists and economists provided essential support on foundational projects in major research programs. One project involved eliciting adolescents' expectations regarding significant future life events affecting their psychological and economic development. The second proje...

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

authors： Bruine de Bruin W,Fischhoff B

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In animal cells, exogenous DNA recombines into random chromosomal sites much more frequently than it recombines into homologous sites. Free DNA ends are "recombinogenic" in both processes. To test the effects of specific ends on analogous extrachromosomal processes, we constructed a linear genome of simian virus 40 wi...

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

authors： Chang XB,Wilson JH

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal cerebral ischemia and traumatic brain injury induce an escalating amount of cell death because of harmful mediators diffusing from the original lesion site. Evidence suggests that healthy cells surrounding these lesions attempt to protect themselves by producing endocannabinoids (eCBs) and activating cannabinoid...

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

authors： Witting A,Chen L,Cudaback E,Straiker A,Walter L,Rickman B,Möller T,Brosnan C,Stella N

更新日期：2006-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Current knowledge of the evolution of the postcranial skeleton in the genus Homo is hampered by a geographically and chronologically scattered fossil record. Here we present a complete characterization of the postcranium of the middle Pleistocene paleodeme from the Sima de los Huesos (SH) and its paleobiological impli...

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

authors： Arsuaga JL,Carretero JM,Lorenzo C,Gómez-Olivencia A,Pablos A,Rodríguez L,García-González R,Bonmatí A,Quam RM,Pantoja-Pérez A,Martínez I,Aranburu A,Gracia-Téllez A,Poza-Rey E,Sala N,García N,Alcázar de Velasco A,Cuenca-B

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Biogeochemical reactions occur unevenly in space and time, but this heterogeneity is often simplified as a linear average due to sparse data, especially in subsurface environments where access is limited. For example, little is known about the spatial variability of groundwater denitrification, an important process in...

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

authors： Kolbe T,de Dreuzy JR,Abbott BW,Aquilina L,Babey T,Green CT,Fleckenstein JH,Labasque T,Laverman AM,Marçais J,Peiffer S,Thomas Z,Pinay G

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Linear growth delay (stunting) affects roughly 155 million children under the age of 5 years worldwide. Treatment has been limited by a lack of understanding of the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms. Stunting is most likely associated with changes in the microbial community of the small intestine, a compartment...

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

authors： Vonaesch P,Morien E,Andrianonimiadana L,Sanke H,Mbecko JR,Huus KE,Naharimanananirina T,Gondje BP,Nigatoloum SN,Vondo SS,Kaleb Kandou JE,Randremanana R,Rakotondrainipiana M,Mazel F,Djorie SG,Gody JC,Finlay BB,Rubbo PA,

更新日期：2018-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome of a thermophilic fungus, Thermomyces lanuginosus, contains a tandemly arranged cluster of sequences that are approximately equal to 50% homologous with the cytoplasmic 5S RNA and that are selectable by hybridization techniques. Unlike typical pseudogenes, these sequences are not truncated; rather, they bea...

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

authors： Wong WM,Abrahamson JL,Nazar RN

更新日期：1984-03-01 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

abstract：:The chimaeric protein repressor-galactosidase, in which fully active lac repressor is covalently linked to the active enzyme beta-galactosidase, was used as a system for probing the quaternary structure of lac repressor. Electron micrographs revealed repressor-galactosidase to be a tetrameric aggregate. When lac repre...

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

authors： Kania J,Brown DT

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proopiomelanocortin (POMC), a major pituitary product, is also present in the adult mouse testis. We have shown previously that POMC mRNAs are most abundant in a subpopulation of Leydig cells associated with tubules in specific stages of the cycle of the seminiferous epithelium. In the present study, we examined the e...

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

authors： Gizang-Ginsberg E,Wolgemuth DJ

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of the recently identified murMN operon in penicillin-resistant strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae was shown already to cause two major effects: elimination of branched-structured muropeptides from the cell wall and complete loss of penicillin resistance. We now show that cells with inactivated murMN als...

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

authors： Filipe SR,Severina E,Tomasz A

更新日期：2002-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae serogroup O139 emerged on the Indian subcontinent in October 1992 to become the first non-O1 V. cholerae serogroup documented to cause epidemic cholera. Although related to V. cholerae El Tor O1 strains, O139 strains have unique surface structures that include a capsular surface layer and lipopolysacch...

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

authors： Waldor MK,Colwell R,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：1994-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete soybean leghemoglobin lbc(3) gene was transferred into the legume Lotus corniculatus using an Agrobacterium rhizogenes vector system. Organ-specific expression of the soybean gene was observed in root nodules formed on regenerated transgenic plants after infection with Rhizobium loti. The primary transcri...

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

authors： Stougaard J,Petersen TE,Marcker KA

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic mutations can now be quantified in almost any cell type in mice carrying bacterial genes in a lambda phage shuttle vector. Mutations induced in vivo are detectable ex vivo, after packaging host-cell DNA into phage that are grown on suitable bacteria. However, the transgenic DNA differs from many host loci in s...

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

authors： Tao KS,Urlando C,Heddle JA

更新日期：1993-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurobiological theories of awareness propose divergent accounts of the spatial extent of brain changes that support conscious perception. Whereas focal theories posit mostly local regional changes, global theories propose that awareness emerges from the propagation of neural signals across a broad extent of sensory a...

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

authors： Godwin D,Barry RL,Marois R

更新日期：2015-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Because the insolubility of the scrapie prion protein (PrP(Sc)) has frustrated structural studies by x-ray crystallography or NMR spectroscopy, we used electron crystallography to characterize the structure of two infectious variants of the prion protein. Isomorphous two-dimensional crystals of the N-terminally trunca...

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

authors： Wille H,Michelitsch MD,Guenebaut V,Supattapone S,Serban A,Cohen FE,Agard DA,Prusiner SB

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variants underlying life-threatening diseases, being unlikely to be transmitted to the next generation, are gradually and selectively eliminated from the population through negative selection. We study the determinants of this evolutionary process in human genes underlying monogenic diseases by comparing vario...

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

authors： Rapaport F,Boisson B,Gregor A,Béziat V,Boisson-Dupuis S,Bustamante J,Jouanguy E,Puel A,Rosain J,Zhang Q,Zhang SY,Gleeson JG,Quintana-Murci L,Casanova JL,Abel L,Patin E

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A power-law distribution of the length of perfectly conserved sequence from mouse/human whole-genome intersection and alignment is exhibited. Spatial correlations of these elements within the mouse genome are studied. It is argued that these power-law distributions and correlations are comprised in part by functional ...

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

authors： Salerno W,Havlak P,Miller J

更新日期：2006-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The somatostatin receptor subtype 2 (sst2) behaves as a tumor suppressor when expressed and stimulated by its ligand somatostatin in pancreatic cancer. We reveal a mechanism underlying oncosuppressive action of sst2, whereby this inhibitory receptor upregulates the expression of the secreted angioinhibitory factor thr...

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

authors： Laklai H,Laval S,Dumartin L,Rochaix P,Hagedorn M,Bikfalvi A,Le Guellec S,Delisle MB,Schally AV,Susini C,Pyronnet S,Bousquet C

更新日期：2009-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A descriptive medium for the presentation of protein structure has been developed and used to evaluate the structure of the active site of bovine trypsin (EC 3.4.21.4). This technique, involving advanced computer graphics technology, permits the facile display of a representation of the molecular surface of proteins o...

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

authors： Feldmann RJ,Bing DH,Furie BC,Furie B

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human liver alkaline phosphatase [ortho-phosphoric monoester phosphohydrolase (alkaline optimum), EC 3.1.3.1] was purified, and some of its physical and chemical properties were examined and compared to those of human placental alkaline phosphatase. The results indicated a different peptide structure for each, based u...

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

authors： Badger KS,Sussman HH

更新日期：1976-07-01 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：:Most simian-human immunodeficiency viruses (SHIVs) bearing envelope (Env) glycoproteins from primary HIV-1 strains fail to infect rhesus macaques (RMs). We hypothesized that inefficient Env binding to rhesus CD4 (rhCD4) limits virus entry and replication and could be enhanced by substituting naturally occurring simian...

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

authors： Li H,Wang S,Kong R,Ding W,Lee FH,Parker Z,Kim E,Learn GH,Hahn P,Policicchio B,Brocca-Cofano E,Deleage C,Hao X,Chuang GY,Gorman J,Gardner M,Lewis MG,Hatziioannou T,Santra S,Apetrei C,Pandrea I,Alam SM,Liao HX,

更新日期：2016-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:VASP (vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein), an established substrate of cAMP- and cGMP-dependent protein kinases in vitro and in living cells, is associated with focal adhesions, microfilaments, and membrane regions of high dynamic activity. Here, the identification of an 83-kDa protein (p83) that specifically binds...

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

authors： Reinhard M,Jouvenal K,Tripier D,Walter U

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase [GAPDH; D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate:NAD+ oxidoreductase (phosphorylating), EC 1.2.1.12] mRNA levels are induced by physiologic concentrations of insulin in cultured 3T3-F442A adipocyte and H35 hepatoma cell lines. To examine the mechanism by which insulin regulates GAPDH mRNA ...

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

authors： Alexander MC,Lomanto M,Nasrin N,Ramaika C

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphism in materials often leads to significantly different physical properties--the rutile and anatase polymorphs of TiO2 are a prime example. Polytypism is a special type of polymorphism, occurring in layered materials when the geometry of a repeating structural layer is maintained but the layer-stacking sequen...

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

authors： Luo H,Xie W,Tao J,Inoue H,Gyenis A,Krizan JW,Yazdani A,Zhu Y,Cava RJ

更新日期：2015-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Donor DNA molecules carrying Tn1 or Tn3 deletion mutants do not need to replicate in order to participate in replicon fusion recombination events during which the Tn1/Tn3 element is duplicated. We have assayed Tn1 delta Ap-mediated replicon fusion events involving plasmid R388 and the bacteriophage lambda-derived plas...

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

authors： Muster CJ,Shapiro JA,MacHattie LA

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00