A human immunoglobulin G receptor exists in both polypeptide-anchored and phosphatidylinositol-glycan-anchored forms.

abstract：:We have characterized seven murine retinoic acid receptor gamma cDNA isoforms (mRAR-gamma 1 to -gamma 7) generated by alternative splicing of at least seven exons. These isoforms differ from one another in their 5' untranslated region and in two cases (mRAR-gamma 1 and -gamma 2) differ in their N-terminal A region, wh...

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

authors： Kastner P,Krust A,Mendelsohn C,Garnier JM,Zelent A,Leroy P,Staub A,Chambon P

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium kluyveri grown in the presence of 1 muM Na2(75)SeO3 produces a thiolase that copurifies with 75Se. Based on several criteria, the selenium moiety in this protein is selenomethionine. The 75Se-labeled amino acid in acid hydrolysates of the radioactive protein cochromatographed with authentic selenomethionin...

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

authors： Hartmanis MG,Stadtman TC

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article discusses some of the similarities between work being done by economists and by physicists seeking to contribute to economics. We also mention some of the differences in the approaches taken and seek to justify these different approaches by developing the argument that by approaching the same problem from...

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

authors： Stanley HE,Amaral LA,Buldyrev SV,Gopikrishnan P,Plerou V,Salinger MA

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:MinD is a widely conserved ATPase that has been demonstrated to play a pivotal role in selection of the division site in eubacteria and chloroplasts. It is a member of the large ParA superfamily of ATPases that are characterized by a deviant Walker-type ATP-binding motif. MinD localizes to the cytoplasmic face of the ...

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

authors： Szeto TH,Rowland SL,Rothfield LI,King GF

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol dependence has traditionally been considered a brain disorder. Alteration in the composition of the gut microbiota has recently been shown to be present in psychiatric disorders, which suggests the possibility of gut-to-brain interactions in the development of alcohol dependence. The aim of the present study w...

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

authors： Leclercq S,Matamoros S,Cani PD,Neyrinck AM,Jamar F,Stärkel P,Windey K,Tremaroli V,Bäckhed F,Verbeke K,de Timary P,Delzenne NM

更新日期：2014-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Indirect immunofluorescent analysis revealed that sera from five patients with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis possessed IgD antibodies directed against measles virus components in persistently infected HeLa cells. IgD levels in these sera were within the normal range. Control studies indicated that the reaction w...

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

authors： Luster MI,Armen RC,Hallum JV,Leslie GA

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transacting activator of transduction (TAT) protein plays a key role in the progression of AIDS. Studies have shown that a +8 charged sequence of amino acids in the protein, called the TAT peptide, enables the TAT protein to penetrate cell membranes. To probe mechanisms of binding and translocation of the TAT pept...

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

authors： Rao Y,Kwok SJ,Lombardi J,Turro NJ,Eisenthal KB

更新日期：2014-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptotic cells contain nuclear autoantigens that may initiate a systemic autoimmune response. To explore the mechanism of antibody binding to apoptotic cells, 3H9, a murine autoantibody with dual specificity for phospholipids and DNA, was used. H chain mutants of 3H9 were constructed, expressed as single-chain Fv (sc...

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

authors： Cocca BA,Seal SN,D'Agnillo P,Mueller YM,Katsikis PD,Rauch J,Weigert M,Radic MZ

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular dynamics simulations show that the desolvation rates of isotopes of Li(+), K(+), Rb(+), Ca(2+), Sr(2+), and Ba(2+) may have a relatively strong dependence on the metal cation mass. This inference is based on the observation that the exchange rate constant, k(wex), for water molecules in the first hydration s...

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

authors： Hofmann AE,Bourg IC,DePaolo DJ

更新日期：2012-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Prediction of the native tertiary structure of a globular protein from the primary sequence will require a potential energy model that can discriminate all nonnative structures from the native structure(s). A successful model must distinguish not only alternate structures that are very nonnative but also alternate str...

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

authors： Wang Y,Zhang H,Li W,Scott RA

更新日期：1995-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence suggests that cholinergic input to the hippocampus plays an important role in learning and memory and that degeneration of cholinergic terminals in the hippocampus may contribute to the memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease. One of the more prominent effects of cholinergic agonists on hippocampal ph...

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

authors： Marino MJ,Rouse ST,Levey AI,Potter LT,Conn PJ

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An AU rich element (ARE) in the 3' noncoding region promotes the rapid degradation of mammalian cytokine and proto-oncogene mRNAs, such as tumor necrosis factor-alpha, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and c-fos. Destabilization of ARE-mRNAs involves the association of ARE-binding proteins tris...

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

authors： Laroia G,Sarkar B,Schneider RJ

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A mixture of two recombinant plasmids was microinjected into mouse thymidine kinase-negative fibroblasts (L cells). One plasmid contained the thymidine kinase gene of herpes simplex virus type I and the other contained the human beta globin gene. Seven fibroblast colonies arising from injected cells incubated in hypox...

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

authors： Anderson WF,Killos L,Sanders-Haigh L,Kretschmer PJ,Diacumakos EG

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male (NZW x BXSB)F1 (W/BF1) mice develop systemic autoimmunity involving autoantibodies, thrombocytopenia, lupus nephritis, and coronary vascular disease (CVD) with myocardial infarction. To determine whether this murine lupus-associated CVD can be prevented by the reduction of dietary calories, male W/BF1 mice were s...

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

authors： Mizutani H,Engelman RW,Kinjoh K,Kurata Y,Ikehara S,Matsuzawa Y,Good RA

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:During differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes into adipocytes, transcription of the C/EBP alpha (CCA-AT/enhancer binding protein alpha) gene is activated. The promoter of the C/EBP alpha gene contains a bipartite cis element with binding sites for C/EBP alpha undifferentiated protein (CUP) and an Sp1-like GT box bind...

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

authors： Vasseur-Cognet M,Lane MD

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water-biomolecule interactions have been extensively studied in dilute solutions, crystals, and rehydrated powders, but none of these model systems may capture the behavior of water in the highly organized intracellular milieu. Because of the experimental difficulty of selectively probing the structure and dynamics of...

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

authors： Persson E,Halle B

更新日期：2008-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A sequence of 14 nucleotides in one human diversity (D) minigene (D2) is identical with a sequence in complementarity-determining region 2 (CDR2) of one human gene for the variable region of the heavy chain of immunoglobulin. The finding that nucleotide segments present in a D minigene can appear in CDR2 raises the po...

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

authors： Wu TT,Kabat EA

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D gene segments with irregular spacers (DIR) are D gene segments that are specific to higher primates. Their use is controversial because of their G+C-rich long sequences. In the human, it has always been tempting to assume that a complementarity-determining region 3 sequence has been added by terminal deoxynucleotidy...

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

authors： Tuaillon N,Capra JD

更新日期：1998-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Although tumor necrosis factor (TNF) initially came to prominence because of its anti-tumor activity, most attention is now focused on its proinflammatory actions. TNF appears to play a critical role in both early and late events involved in inflammation, from localizing the noxious agent and amplifying the cellular a...

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

authors： Marino MW,Dunn A,Grail D,Inglese M,Noguchi Y,Richards E,Jungbluth A,Wada H,Moore M,Williamson B,Basu S,Old LJ

更新日期：1997-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystals of myosin subfragment 1 from avian skeletal muscle have been grown reproducibly. They diffract x-rays to at least 4.5-A resolution. The subfragment 1 crystallizes in space group P2(1)2(1)2(1) where a = 107 A, b = 117 A, and c = 278 A. The cell dimensions and intensity distribution on x-ray diffraction photogr...

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

authors： Rayment I,Winkelmann DA

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly aggressive character of melanoma makes it an excellent model for probing the mechanisms underlying metastasis, which remains one of the most difficult challenges in treating cancer. We find that miR-182, member of a miRNA cluster in a chromosomal locus (7q31-34) frequently amplified in melanoma, is commonly...

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

authors： Segura MF,Hanniford D,Menendez S,Reavie L,Zou X,Alvarez-Diaz S,Zakrzewski J,Blochin E,Rose A,Bogunovic D,Polsky D,Wei J,Lee P,Belitskaya-Levy I,Bhardwaj N,Osman I,Hernando E

更新日期：2009-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The self assembly of phospholipid molecules in the bilayer form was considered in terms of equivalent molecular shapes representing intermolecular forces. The equivalent size of each phospholipid headgroup was approximated by the net atomic volume plus the volume of the associated water molecules, which was derived fr...

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

authors： Hui SW,Sen A

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription initiation site of the human ribosomal RNA gene (rDNA) was located by using the single-strand specific nuclease protection method and by determining the first nucleotide of the in vitro capped 45S preribosomal RNA. The sequence of 1,211 nucleotides surrounding the initiation site was determined. The ...

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

authors： Financsek I,Mizumoto K,Mishima Y,Muramatsu M

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that laminar flow activates peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma) in vascular endothelial cells in a ligand-dependent manner that involves phospholipase A2 and cytochrome P450 epoxygenases. In this study, we investigated whether epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs), the cataly...

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

authors： Liu Y,Zhang Y,Schmelzer K,Lee TS,Fang X,Zhu Y,Spector AA,Gill S,Morisseau C,Hammock BD,Shyy JY

更新日期：2005-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The amphiphilic fluorescent styryl pyridinium dyes FM1-43 and FM4-64 are used to probe activity-dependent synaptic vesicle cycling in neurons. Cultured astrocytes can internalize FM1-43 and FM4-64 inside vesicles but their uptake is insensitive to the elevation of cytosolic calcium (Ca(2+)) concentration and the under...

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

authors： Li D,Hérault K,Oheim M,Ropert N

更新日期：2009-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Past research found that the ingestion of glucose can enhance self-control. It has been widely assumed that basic physiological processes underlie this effect. We hypothesized that the effect of glucose also depends on people's theories about willpower. Three experiments, both measuring (experiment 1) and manipulating...

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

authors： Job V,Walton GM,Bernecker K,Dweck CS

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a novel Escherichia coli in vitro decay system in which polysomes are the source of both enzymes and mRNA, we demonstrate a requirement for poly(A) polymerase I (PAP I) in mRNA turnover. The in vitro decay of two different mRNAs (trxA and lpp) is triggered by the addition of ATP only when polysomes are prepared ...

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

authors： Ingle CA,Kushner SR

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of the rare initiation triplet AUU on mRNA translation was investigated by comparing the activity of two pairs of model mRNAs that differ in the length of Shine-Dalgarno and spacer sequences. Irrespective of the initiation triplet (AUG or AUU), all mRNAs had similar template activity in vitro, but transl...

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

authors： La Teana A,Pon CL,Gualerzi CO

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although NMDA receptor (NMDAR)-dependent long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD) of glutamatergic transmission are candidate mechanisms for long-term spatial memory, the precise contributions of LTP and LTD remain poorly understood. Here, we report that LTP and LTD in the hippocampal CA1 region of ...

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

authors： Ge Y,Dong Z,Bagot RC,Howland JG,Phillips AG,Wong TP,Wang YT

更新日期：2010-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal locations of members of the xenotropic-related env gene family in the mouse genome have been determined. Endonuclease restriction site polymorphisms detected by molecular hybridization were used to study the inheritance of mink cell-focus inducing and xenotropic env gene-related sequences in recombinant in...

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

authors： Blatt C,Mileham K,Haas M,Nesbitt MN,Harper ME,Simon MI

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00