Chromatin configuration of the human CD2 gene locus during T-cell development.

abstract：:Light activates rod outer segment (ROS) phosphodiesterase (PDEase), as shown by previous biochemical and physiological studies. We have further investigated the role of PDEase in this system by injecting trypsin-activated PDEase, purified from bovine ROS, into single ROS of the isolated retina of the toad Bufo marinus...

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

authors： Shimoda Y,Hurley JB,Miller WH

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregation of the receptor for IgE on mast cells, basophils, and a tumor analog, rat basophilic leukemia (RBL) cells, induces a calcium-dependent degranulation of the cells. We have measured the membrane potential (delta psi) of RBL cells during this reaction by using the tetraphenylphosphonium ion (Ph4P+) equilibrat...

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

authors： Kanner BI,Metzger H

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been nearly 40 y since it was suggested that genomic methylation patterns could be transmitted via maintenance methylation during S phase and might play a role in the dynamic regulation of gene expression during development [Holliday R, Pugh JE (1975) Science 187(4173):226-232; Riggs AD (1975) Cytogenet Cell Ge...

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

authors： Bestor TH,Edwards JR,Boulard M

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear factor-κB (NFκB) family of transcription factors has been implicated in inflammatory disorders, viral infections, and cancer. Most of the drugs that inhibit NFκB show significant side effects, possibly due to sustained NFκB suppression. Drugs affecting induced, but not basal, NFκB activity may have the pot...

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

authors： Chen M,Liang J,Ji H,Yang Z,Altilia S,Hu B,Schronce A,McDermott MSJ,Schools GP,Lim CU,Oliver D,Shtutman MS,Lu T,Stark GR,Porter DC,Broude EV,Roninson IB

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Creatine, a nitrogenous organic acid, replenishes cytoplasmic ATP at the expense of mitochondrial ATP via the phosphocreatine shuttle. Creatine levels are maintained by diet and endogenous synthesis from arginine and glycine. Glycine amidinotransferase (GATM) catalyzes the rate-limiting step of creatine biosynthesis: ...

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

authors： Turer E,McAlpine W,Wang KW,Lu T,Li X,Tang M,Zhan X,Wang T,Zhan X,Bu CH,Murray AR,Beutler B

更新日期：2017-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have established empirical limits for the circular dichroism spectra appropriate for aqueous solutions of the B, C, and A forms of calf-thymus DNA and have analyzed DNA conformations in biological structures. The circular dichroism spectrum above 250 nm of purified calf-thymus chromatin can be satisfactorily accoun...

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

authors： Hanlon S,Johnson RS,Wolf B,Chan A

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid-sensing ion channels (ASICs) are trimeric cation-selective ion channels activated by protons in the physiological range. Recent reports have revealed that postsynaptically localized ASICs contribute to the excitatory postsynaptic current by responding to the transient acidification of the synaptic cleft that acco...

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

authors： MacLean DM,Jayaraman V

更新日期：2017-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of a number of genes encoding products involved in copper ion uptake in yeast is specifically inhibited by copper ions. We show here that copper metalloregulation occurs through Cu-dependent repression of the transactivation activity of Mac1p. A segment of the yeast transcription factor Mac1p was identi...

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

authors： Graden JA,Winge DR

更新日期：1997-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae is both an inhabitant of estuarine environments and the etiologic agent of the diarrheal disease cholera. Previous work has demonstrated that V. cholerae forms both an exopolysaccharide-dependent biofilm and a Ca2+-dependent biofilm. In this work, we demonstrate a role for the O-antigen polysaccharide ...

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

authors： Kierek K,Watnick PI

更新日期：2003-11-25 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：:To characterize the region on human IgG1 responsible for its high-affinity interaction with the human Fc gamma receptor class I (Fc gamma RI), we have analyzed the binding properties of a series of genetically engineered chimeric antidinitrophenyl antibodies with identical murine antibody combining sites and hybrid Ig...

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

authors： Chappel MS,Isenman DE,Everett M,Xu YY,Dorrington KJ,Klein MH

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Viruses are fundamental components of marine microbial communities that significantly influence oceanic productivity, biogeochemistry, and ecosystem processes. Despite their importance, the temporal activities and dynamics of viral assemblages in natural settings remain largely unexplored. Here we report the transcrip...

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

authors： Aylward FO,Boeuf D,Mende DR,Wood-Charlson EM,Vislova A,Eppley JM,Romano AE,DeLong EF

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling plays a major role in dorsoventral patterning in vertebrates and in Drosophila. Remarkably, in Tribolium, a beetle with an ancestral type of insect development, early BMP/dpp exhibits differential expression along the anteroposterior axis. However, the BMP/Dpp inhibitor Sog/c...

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

authors： van der Zee M,Stockhammer O,von Levetzow C,Nunes da Fonseca R,Roth S

更新日期：2006-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:More than half of all Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi genes still remain unannotated. Although pathogenesis of S. Typhi is incompletely understood, treatment of typhoid fever is complicated by the emergence of drug resistance. Effectiveness of the currently available vaccines is also limited. In search of novel viru...

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

authors： Ghosh S,Chakraborty K,Nagaraja T,Basak S,Koley H,Dutta S,Mitra U,Das S

更新日期：2011-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Sour taste is detected by a subset of taste cells on the tongue and palate epithelium that respond to acids with trains of action potentials. Entry of protons through a Zn(2+)-sensitive proton conductance that is specific to sour taste cells has been shown to be the initial event in sour taste transduction. Whether th...

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

authors： Ye W,Chang RB,Bushman JD,Tu YH,Mulhall EM,Wilson CE,Cooper AJ,Chick WS,Hill-Eubanks DC,Nelson MT,Kinnamon SC,Liman ER

更新日期：2016-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Opioid drugs produce their pharmacological effects by activating inhibitory guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory protein-linked mu, delta, and kappa opioid receptors. One major effector for these receptors is adenylyl cyclase, which is inhibited upon receptor activation. However, little is known about which of the te...

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

authors： Kim KS,Lee KW,Lee KW,Im JY,Yoo JY,Kim SW,Lee JK,Nestler EJ,Han PL

更新日期：2006-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we report a time-course study of development of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis in Lewis rats, by monitoring neuroendocrine regulation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis through corticotropin-releasing hormone mRNA expression, inflammatory cellular infiltrate, macrophagic and neuronal nit...

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

authors： Calzà L,Giardino L,Pozza M,Micera A,Aloe L

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When an unusually high frequency of an allele is encountered in a population, "founder effect" is often invoked as an explanation. As usually used, the term implies the disproportionate increase through chance (rather than selection) of an allele contributed to the population by a particular ancestor. While genetic th...

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

authors： Thompson EA,Neel JV

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A central question in protein-DNA recognition is the origin of the specificity that permits binding to the correct site in the presence of excess, nonspecific DNA. In the P22 Arc repressor, the Phe-10 side chain is part of the hydrophobic core of the free protein but rotates out to pack against the sugar-phosphate bac...

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

authors： Schildbach JF,Karzai AW,Raumann BE,Sauer RT

更新日期：1999-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The nerve growth factor protein was purified over 100-fold from adult mouse salivary glands. The first step was a gel filtration on Sephadex G-100 at pH 7.5 of the aqueous gland extract. After gel filtration, most of the NGF activity was eluted in the 80,000-90,000-molecular-weight region (G-100 pool). The G-100 pool ...

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

authors： Bocchini V,Angeletti PU

更新日期：1969-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have demonstrated that the primary visual cortex contains multiple functional maps of visual properties (e.g., ocular dominance, orientation preference, and spatial-frequency preference), but as yet no consistent picture has emerged as to how these maps are related to one another. Three divergent, prior o...

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

authors： Sirovich L,Uglesich R

更新日期：2004-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Here the first reproductive sterility system for the tephritid fruit fly pest, Anastrepha suspensa, is presented, based on lethality primarily limited to embryos heterozygous for a conditional lethal transgene combination. This tetracycline (Tet)-suppressible system uses a driver construct having the promoter from the...

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

authors： Schetelig MF,Handler AM

更新日期：2012-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The adrenergic receptors (ARs) (subtypes alpha 1, alpha 2, beta 1, and beta 2) are a prototypic family of guanine nucleotide binding regulatory protein-coupled receptors that mediate the physiological effects of the hormone epinephrine and the neurotransmitter norepinephrine. We have previously assigned the genes for ...

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

authors： Yang-Feng TL,Xue FY,Zhong WW,Cotecchia S,Frielle T,Caron MG,Lefkowitz RJ,Francke U

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious tolerance describes the process of CD4(+) regulatory T cells (Tregs) converting naïve T cells to become additional Tregs. We show that antigen-specific Tregs induce, within skin grafts and dendritic cells, the expression of enzymes that consume at least 5 different essential amino acids (EAAs). T cells fail...

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

authors： Cobbold SP,Adams E,Farquhar CA,Nolan KF,Howie D,Lui KO,Fairchild PJ,Mellor AL,Ron D,Waldmann H

更新日期：2009-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease characterized by insulitis and islet β-cell loss. Thus, an effective therapy may require β-cell restoration and immune suppression. Currently, there is no treatment that can achieve both goals efficiently. We report here that GABA exerts antidiabetic effects by acting on ...

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

authors： Soltani N,Qiu H,Aleksic M,Glinka Y,Zhao F,Liu R,Li Y,Zhang N,Chakrabarti R,Ng T,Jin T,Zhang H,Lu WY,Feng ZP,Prud'homme GJ,Wang Q

更新日期：2011-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptojanin 1 is a polyphosphoinositide phosphatase concentrated in presynaptic nerve terminals, where it dephosphorylates a pool of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate implicated in synaptic vesicle recycling. Like other proteins with a role in endocytosis, synaptojanin 1 undergoes constitutive phosphorylation in ...

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

authors： Lee SY,Wenk MR,Kim Y,Nairn AC,De Camilli P

更新日期：2004-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal pancreatic beta cells demonstrate a deficient insulin release in response to glucose, but the underlying mechanism at the cellular level is unknown. By using beta cells from 21-day fetal rats we made an attempt to clarify the mechanism(s) behind this reduced glucose response. In addition to measuring insulin rel...

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

authors： Rorsman P,Arkhammar P,Bokvist K,Hellerström C,Nilsson T,Welsh M,Welsh N,Berggren PO

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid and efficient protocols to generate oligodendrocytes (OL) from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) are currently lacking, but may be a key technology to understand the biology of myelin diseases and to develop treatments for such disorders. Here, we demonstrate that the induction of three transcription f...

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

authors： Ehrlich M,Mozafari S,Glatza M,Starost L,Velychko S,Hallmann AL,Cui QL,Schambach A,Kim KP,Bachelin C,Marteyn A,Hargus G,Johnson RM,Antel J,Sterneckert J,Zaehres H,Schöler HR,Baron-Van Evercooren A,Kuhlmann T

更新日期：2017-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Although some important advances in the modeling of sorption and hygrothermal deformations of nanoporous materials such as hydrated cement paste, shale, coal, and some other rocks and soils have already been made, a comprehensive nanoporomechanics theory remains elusive. Here we strive to formulate it based on Gibb's ...

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

authors： Nguyen H,Rahimi-Aghdam S,Bažant ZP

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfolobus turreted icosahedral virus (STIV) was isolated in acidic hot springs where it infects the archeon Sulfolobus solfataricus. We determined the STIV structure using near-atomic resolution electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography allowing tracing of structural polypeptide chains and visualization of transm...

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

authors： Veesler D,Ng TS,Sendamarai AK,Eilers BJ,Lawrence CM,Lok SM,Young MJ,Johnson JE,Fu CY

更新日期：2013-04-02 00:00:00