A generation at risk: young investigators and the future of the biomedical workforce.

abstract：:BALB/c murine sarcoma Meth A is known to have three missense point mutations in p53. We previously reported that a nonamer peptide containing the codon 234 mutational product (designated 234CM) elicited 234CM-specific cytotoxic T cells and that immunization with 234CM in adjuvant before tumor challenge inhibited Meth ...

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

authors： Noguchi Y,Richards EC,Chen YT,Old LJ

更新日期：1995-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smoking causes emphysema, a fatal disease involving extensive structural and functional damage of the lung. Using a guinea pig model and human lung cells, we show that oxidant(s) present in tobacco smoke not only cause direct oxidative damage of lung proteins, contributing to the major share of lung injury, ...

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

authors： Gupta I,Ganguly S,Rozanas CR,Stuehr DJ,Panda K

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse adipsin gene encodes a member of the serine protease family that is expressed predominantly in adipose tissue and is secreted into the bloodstream. Adipsin expression is sharply down-regulated in several models of genetic and acquired obesity, representing the first example of an adipocyte gene whose express...

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

authors： Platt KA,Min HY,Ross SR,Spiegelman BM

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By commandeering cellular translation initiation factors, or destroying those dispensable for viral mRNA translation, viruses often suppress host protein synthesis. In contrast, cellular protein synthesis proceeds in human cytomegalovirus (HCMV)-infected cells, forcing viral and cellular mRNAs to compete for limiting ...

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

authors： McKinney C,Perez C,Mohr I

更新日期：2012-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic cells respond to a variety of DNA insults by triggering a common signal transduction cascade, known as checkpoint response, which temporarily halts cell-cycle progression. Although the main players involved in the cascade have been identified, there is still uncertainty about the nature of the structures th...

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

authors： Marini F,Nardo T,Giannattasio M,Minuzzo M,Stefanini M,Plevani P,Muzi Falconi M

更新日期：2006-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Leucine analogs were tested in the Krebs II ascites cell-free translation system for the ability to inhibit preprotein cleavage by replacing leucine in nascent chains of bovine preprolactin, rat preprolactin, human placental prelactogen (pre-hPL), and pre-alpha subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin (alpha-hCG). In t...

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

authors： Hortin G,Boime I

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Absolute pitch (AP) is the rare ability to identify the pitch of a tone without the aid of a reference tone. Understanding both the nature and genesis of AP can provide insights into neuroplasticity in the auditory system. We explored factors that may influence the accuracy of pitch perception in AP subjects both duri...

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

authors： Athos EA,Levinson B,Kistler A,Zemansky J,Bostrom A,Freimer N,Gitschier J

更新日期：2007-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress has been found in lungs of patients with familial and sporadic idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. We tested whether ER stress causes or exacerbates lung fibrosis by (i) conditional expression of a mutant form of surfactant protein C (L188Q SFTPC) found in familial interstitial...

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

authors： Lawson WE,Cheng DS,Degryse AL,Tanjore H,Polosukhin VV,Xu XC,Newcomb DC,Jones BR,Roldan J,Lane KB,Morrisey EE,Beers MF,Yull FE,Blackwell TS

更新日期：2011-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-dimensional objects such as molecular strands, ladders, and sheets have intrinsic features that affect their propensity to fold into 3D objects. Understanding this relationship remains a challenge for de novo design of functional structures. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we investigate the refolding of the...

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

authors： Dodd PM,Damasceno PF,Glotzer SC

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:These studies sought to determine if neurons in the estrogen receptor-alpha knockout (ERalphaKO) mouse brain concentrated 16alpha-[125I]iodo-11beta-methoxy-17beta-estradiol (125I-estrogen), and if so, whether estrogen binding augmented the expression of progesterone receptor (PR) mRNA. Mice were injected with 125I-est...

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

authors： Shughrue PJ,Lubahn DB,Negro-Vilar A,Korach KS,Merchenthaler I

更新日期：1997-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:An implicit assumption of speciation biology is that population differentiation is an important stage of evolutionary diversification, but its significance as a rate-limiting control on phylogenetic speciation dynamics remains largely untested. If population differentiation within a species is related to its speciatio...

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

authors： Harvey MG,Seeholzer GF,Smith BT,Rabosky DL,Cuervo AM,Brumfield RT

更新日期：2017-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoinositides are essential lipid regulators of trafficking and signaling pathways of all eukaryotic cells. Phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate (PtdIns4P) is an intermediate in the synthesis of several important phosphoinositide species but also serves as a regulatory molecule in its own right. Phosphatidylinositol 4...

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

authors： Szentpetery Z,Várnai P,Balla T

更新日期：2010-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of hypertension in the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) is associated with renal dysfunction and vasoconstriction. The kidneys of young SHRs exhibit exaggerated reactivity to angiotensin II (Ang-II) and attenuated responses to vasodilators that normally activate the cAMP signal to buffer hormone-in...

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

authors： Chatziantoniou C,Ruan X,Arendshorst WJ

更新日期：1995-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular membranes are a heterogeneous mix of lipids, proteins and small molecules. Special groupings enriched in saturated lipids and cholesterol form liquid-ordered domains, known as "lipid rafts," thought to serve as platforms for signaling, trafficking and material transport throughout the secretory pathway. Quest...

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

authors： Ursell TS,Klug WS,Phillips R

更新日期：2009-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Urodeles and fetal mammals are capable of impressive epimorphic regeneration in a variety of tissues, whereas the typical default response to injury in adult mammals consists of inflammation and scar tissue formation. One component of epimorphic regeneration is the recruitment of resident progenitor and stem cells to ...

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

authors： Agrawal V,Johnson SA,Reing J,Zhang L,Tottey S,Wang G,Hirschi KK,Braunhut S,Gudas LJ,Badylak SF

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have designed three zinc-finger proteins with different DNA binding specificities. The design strategy combines a consensus zinc-finger framework sequence with previously characterized recognition regions such that the specificity of each protein is predictable. The first protein consists of three identical zinc fi...

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

authors： Desjarlais JR,Berg JM

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of antibiotic resistance among nosocomial pathogens has reemphasized the need for effective infection control strategies. The spread of resistant pathogens within hospital settings proceeds along various routes of transmission and is characterized by large fluctuations in prevalence, which are typical fo...

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

authors： Pelupessy I,Bonten MJ,Diekmann O

更新日期：2002-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Injection of antisense oligonucleotides was used to investigate the function of c-mos in murine oocytes. Oocytes injected with antisense c-mos oligonucleotides completed the first meiotic division but failed to initiate meiosis II. Instead, loss of c-mos function led to chromosome decondensation, reformation of a nucl...

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

authors： O'Keefe SJ,Wolfes H,Kiessling AA,Cooper GM

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the differentiation potential of precursor cells within the developing spinal cord of mice and have shown that spinal cord cells from embryonic day 10 specifically give rise to neurons when plated onto an astrocytic monolayer, Ast-1. These neurons had the morphology of motor neurons and > 83% expr...

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

authors： Richards LJ,Murphy M,Dutton R,Kilpatrick TJ,Puche AC,Key B,Tan SS,Talman PS,Bartlett PF

更新日期：1995-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:It is believed that neural representations of recent experiences become reactivated during sleep, and that this process serves to stabilize associated memories in long-term memory. Here, we initiated this reactivation process for specific memories during slow-wave sleep. Participants studied 50 object-location associa...

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

authors： van Dongen EV,Takashima A,Barth M,Zapp J,Schad LR,Paller KA,Fernández G

更新日期：2012-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The voltage-sensor domain (VSD) of voltage-dependent ion channels and enzymes is critical for cellular responses to membrane potential. The VSD can also be regulated by interaction with intracellular proteins and ligands, but how this occurs is poorly understood. Here, we show that the VSD of the BK-type K(+) channel ...

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

authors： Yang H,Hu L,Shi J,Delaloye K,Horrigan FT,Cui J

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A plasmid construct expressing the p66 version of the human immunodeficiency virus reverse transcriptase as a bacterial fusion protein was subjected to in vitro mutagenesis, and the resulting variant proteins were assayed to define the locations of the two major enzymatic activities. The DNA polymerase activity was lo...

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

authors： Prasad VR,Goff SP

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal monkeys and monkeys with lesions of the hippocampal formation and adjacent cortex (the H+ lesion) were trained on the delayed nonmatching to sample (DNMS) task with a delay of 0.5 s between the sample and the choice. The animals with H+ lesions learned the task normally at this short delay and also exhibited th...

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

authors： Alvarez P,Zola-Morgan S,Squire LR

更新日期：1994-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional 1H NMR investigations were used to locate elements of regular secondary structure in the human complement protein C3a (the des-Arg77 derivative) in solution. The results were compared to a refined crystal structure based on the 3.2-A resolution structure of des-Arg77-C3a [Huber, R., Scholze, H., Paques...

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

authors： Nettesheim DG,Edalji RP,Mollison KW,Greer J,Zuiderweg ER

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given a collection L of n points on a sphere [Formula: see text] of surface area n, a fair allocation is a partition of the sphere into n parts each of area 1, and each is associated with a distinct point of L. We show that, if the n points are chosen uniformly at random and if the partition is defined by a certain "g...

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

authors： Holden N,Peres Y,Zhai A

更新日期：2018-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A plasmid that consists of an 812-base-pair segment containing the replication origin of plasmid ColE1 and of a 1240-base-pair segment containing a beta-lactamase gene has been constructed. The plasmid DNA has three principal sites where transcription is initiated in vitro. One is located in the ColE1 segment 555 nucl...

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

authors： Itoh T,Tomizawa J

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of interferons to distinct cell surface receptors leads to the induction of synthesis of several unique polypeptides and their corresponding mRNAs (1-6). We have isolated two cDNAs that are complementary to nuclear RNA whose synthesis is induced from undetectable levels to maximal rates of transcription wi...

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

authors： Larner AC,Jonak G,Cheng YS,Korant B,Knight E,Darnell JE Jr

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual arousal is a dynamical, highly coordinated neurophysiological process that is often induced by visual stimuli. Numerous studies have proposed that the cognitive processing stage of responding to sexual stimuli is the first stage, in which sex differences occur, and the divergence between men and women has been ...

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

authors： Mitricheva E,Kimura R,Logothetis NK,Noori HR

更新日期：2019-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A neuroethological approach to human and nonhuman primate behavior and cognition predicts biological specializations for social life. Evidence reviewed here indicates that ancestral mechanisms are often duplicated, repurposed, and differentially regulated to support social behavior. Focusing on recent research from no...

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

authors： Chang SW,Brent LJ,Adams GK,Klein JT,Pearson JM,Watson KK,Platt ML

更新日期：2013-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The term amyloid defines a group of proteins that aggregate into plaques or fibers. Amyloid fibers gained their fame mostly due to their relation with neurodegenerative diseases in humans. However, secreted by lower organisms, such as bacteria and fungi, amyloid fibers play a functional role: for example, when they se...

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

authors： Lester-Zer N,Ghrayeb M,Chai L

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00