Human trypanolytic factor APOL1 forms pH-gated cation-selective channels in planar lipid bilayers: relevance to trypanosome lysis.

abstract：:gp130 is a common signal-transducing receptor component for the interleukin 6 family of cytokines functioning in, for example, immune, hematopoietic, and nervous systems. In this study, to investigate the physiological functions of gp130 and to determine the pathological consequences of impaired gp130 signals, we have...

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

authors： Kumanogoh A,Marukawa S,Kumanogoh T,Hirota H,Yoshida K,Lee IS,Yasui T,Yoshida K,Taga T,Kishimoto T

更新日期：1997-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-2-PE40 is a chimeric protein composed of human interleukin 2 (IL-2) genetically fused to the amino terminus of a modified form of Pseudomonas exotoxin lacking its cell recognition domain. IL-2-PE40, which is extremely cytotoxic to IL-2 receptor-positive cells, was examined for its ability to prevent graft rejection...

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

authors： Lorberboum-Galski H,Barrett LV,Kirkman RL,Ogata M,Willingham MC,FitzGerald DJ,Pastan I

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gaseous phytohormone ethylene C(2)H(4) mediates numerous aspects of growth and development. Genetic analysis has identified a number of critical elements in ethylene signaling, but how these elements interact biochemically to transduce the signal from the ethylene receptor complex at the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)...

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

authors： Ju C,Yoon GM,Shemansky JM,Lin DY,Ying ZI,Chang J,Garrett WM,Kessenbrock M,Groth G,Tucker ML,Cooper B,Kieber JJ,Chang C

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultures were prepared of embryonic cells from Drosophila melanogaster. Neurons and myocytes differentiated in vitro from their respective stem cells. Electron microscopy showed that neuromuscular junctions formed where axons contacted myocytes. Electrical stimuli were applied to axons and these caused contractions of...

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

authors： Seecof RL,Teplitz RL,Gerson I,Ikeda K,Donady J

更新日期：1972-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Programmed cell death (apoptosis) is a normal physiological process, which could in principle be manipulated to play an important role in cancer therapy. The key importance of p53 expression in the apoptotic response to DNA-damaging agents has been stressed because mutant or deleted p53 is so common in most kinds of c...

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

authors： Xu C,Meikrantz W,Schlegel R,Sager R

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular response to ionizing radiation (IR) includes induction of the c-jun and EGR1 early response genes. The present work has examined potential cytoplasmic signaling cascades that transduce IR-induced signals to the nucleus. The results demonstrate activation of the 40S ribosomal protein S6 kinase, pp90rsk, in...

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

authors： Kharbanda S,Saleem A,Shafman T,Emoto Y,Weichselbaum R,Kufe D

更新日期：1994-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have obtained long-term cultures of differentiated proliferating follicular cells from normal adult human thyroid glands. In vitro growth of such human cells has been sustained by a modified F-12 medium, supplemented with bovine hypothalamus and pituitary extracts and no added thyrotropin. Cultures have been expand...

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

authors： Curcio F,Ambesi-Impiombato FS,Perrella G,Coon HG

更新日期：1994-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used a microfluidic mass sensor to measure the density of single living cells. By weighing each cell in two fluids of different densities, our technique measures the single-cell mass, volume, and density of approximately 500 cells per hour with a density precision of 0.001 g mL(-1). We observe that the intrins...

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

authors： Grover WH,Bryan AK,Diez-Silva M,Suresh S,Higgins JM,Manalis SR

更新日期：2011-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Human skin and lung mast cells and rodent peritoneal mast cells contain a carboxypeptidase in their secretory granules. We have screened human lung cDNA libraries with a mouse mast cell carboxypeptidase A (MC-CPA) cDNA probe to isolate a near-full-length cDNA that encodes human MC-CPA. The 5' end of the human MC-CPA t...

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

authors： Reynolds DS,Gurley DS,Stevens RL,Sugarbaker DJ,Austen KF,Serafin WE

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In North America there are two generally recognized pathotypes (pathotypes 1 and 2) of the fungus Entomophaga grylli which show host-preferential infection of grasshopper subfamilies. Pathotype 3, discovered in Australia, has a broader grasshopper host range and was considered to be a good biocontrol agent. Between 19...

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

authors： Bidochka MJ,Walsh SR,Ramos ME,St Leger RJ,Silver JC,Roberts DW

更新日期：1996-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Silencing of multiple cancer-related genes is associated with de novo methylation of linked CpG islands. Additionally, bivalent histone modification profiles characterized by the juxtaposition of active and inactive histone marks have been observed in genes that become hypermethylated in cancer. It is unknown how thes...

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

authors： Rodriguez J,Muñoz M,Vives L,Frangou CG,Groudine M,Peinado MA

更新日期：2008-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of mouse metallothionein (MT)-I and MT-II is transcriptionally induced by the synthetic glucocorticoid, dexamethasone (DEX) or both in vivo as well as in numerous cell lines. However, the location(s) of a glucocorticoid response element (GRE) has not been described. The observation that a marked MT-I gene, a...

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

authors： Kelly EJ,Sandgren EP,Brinster RL,Palmiter RD

更新日期：1997-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work shows that arachidonic acid and some other long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids such as docosahexaenoic acid, which is abundant in fish oil, produce a direct open channel block of the major voltage-dependent K+ channel (Kv1.5) cloned in cardiac cells. The inhibitory action of these selected fatty ac...

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

authors： Honoré E,Barhanin J,Attali B,Lesage F,Lazdunski M

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the development of infectious cDNA clones of viral RNA genomes and the means of delivery of the in vitro-synthesized RNA into cells, alphaviruses have become an attractive system for expression of heterologous genetic information. Alphaviruses replicate exclusively in the cytoplasm, and their genetic material ca...

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

authors： Kim DY,Atasheva S,McAuley AJ,Plante JA,Frolova EI,Beasley DW,Frolov I

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective autophagy of damaged mitochondria requires autophagy receptors optineurin (OPTN), NDP52 (CALCOCO2), TAX1BP1, and p62 (SQSTM1) linking ubiquitinated cargo to autophagic membranes. By using quantitative proteomics, we show that Tank-binding kinase 1 (TBK1) phosphorylates all four receptors on several autophagy...

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

authors： Richter B,Sliter DA,Herhaus L,Stolz A,Wang C,Beli P,Zaffagnini G,Wild P,Martens S,Wagner SA,Youle RJ,Dikic I

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Papain solubilized H-2a histocompatibility antigens (H-2Kk plus H-2Dd) have been purified by a large-scale procedure that can routinely provide 2-3 mg of heavy chain from 1 kg of mouse liver. The heavy chains were homogeneous by sodium dodecyl sulfate electrophoresis. Disc gel electrophoresis resolved two protein band...

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

authors： Henriksen O,Robinson EA,Appella E

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prove that the property of excision in algebraic K-theory is for a Q-algebra A equivalent to the H-unitality of the latter. Our excision theorem, in particular, implies Karoubi's conjecture on the equality of algebraic and topological K-theory groups of stable C*-algebras. It also allows us to identify the algebrai...

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

authors： Suslin AA,Wodzicki M

更新日期：1990-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The generalized seizures of status epilepticus (SE) trigger a series of molecular and cellular events that produce cognitive deficits and can culminate in the development of epilepsy. Known early events include opening of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and astrocytosis accompanied by activation of brain microglia. Wher...

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

authors： Varvel NH,Neher JJ,Bosch A,Wang W,Ransohoff RM,Miller RJ,Dingledine R

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspartic acid in the second transmembrane domain is a highly conserved amino acid among the G protein-coupled receptors and is functionally important for agonist binding and G-protein coupling in beta 2-adrenergic and luteinizing hormone receptors. To determine whether this aspartic acid is also involved in the functi...

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

authors： Bihoreau C,Monnot C,Davies E,Teutsch B,Bernstein KE,Corvol P,Clauser E

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rRNA intervening sequence of Tetrahymena is a catalytic RNA molecule, or "ribozyme." A tertiary-structure model of the active site of this ribozyme has been constructed based on comparative sequence analysis of related group I intervening sequences, data on the accessibility of each nucleotide to chemical and enzy...

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

authors： Kim SH,Cech TR

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1950, G. Ledyard Stebbins devoted two chapters of his book Variation and Evolution in Plants (Columbia Univ. Press, New York) to polyploidy, one on occurrence and nature and one on distribution and significance. Fifty years later, many of the questions Stebbins posed have not been answered, and many new questions h...

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

authors： Soltis PS,Soltis DE

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulatory photoreceptor phytochrome controls the transcription of its own phy genes in a negative feedback fashion. We have exploited microprojectile-mediated gene transfer to develop a rapid transient expression assay system for the study of DNA sequences involved in the phytochrome-regulated expression of these...

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

authors： Bruce WB,Christensen AH,Klein T,Fromm M,Quail PH

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cotransfection assays were used to show that the members of the GTP-binding protein Gq class of alpha subunits could activate phospholipase C (PLC) beta 2. Similar experiments also demonstrated that G beta 1 gamma 1, G beta 1 gamma 5, and G beta 2 gamma 5 could activate the beta 2 isoform of PLC but not the beta 1 iso...

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

authors： Wu D,Katz A,Simon MI

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD28 is a 44-kDa glycoprotein expressed as a homodimer on the surface of a major subset of human T cells. Previous studies have demonstrated that the binding of monoclonal antibodies to the CD28 surface antigen can augment the proliferation of purified human T cells stimulated with suboptimal doses of mitogens or anti...

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

authors： Thompson CB,Lindsten T,Ledbetter JA,Kunkel SL,Young HA,Emerson SG,Leiden JM,June CH

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To relate transients of force by single kinesin molecules with the elementary steps of the ATPase cycle, we measured the time to force generation by kinesin after photorelease of ATP from caged ATP. Kinesin-coated beads were trapped by an infrared laser and brought onto microtubules fixed to a coverslip. Tension was a...

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

authors： Higuchi H,Muto E,Inoue Y,Yanagida T

更新日期：1997-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino-terminal amino acid sequence and several internal peptide sequences of angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE; peptidyl-dipeptidase A, kininase II; EC 3.4.15.1) purified from human kidney were used to design oligonucleotide probes. The nucleotide sequence of ACE mRNA was determined by molecular cloning of the ...

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

authors： Soubrier F,Alhenc-Gelas F,Hubert C,Allegrini J,John M,Tregear G,Corvol P

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term synaptic plasticity requires both gene expression in the nucleus and local protein synthesis at synapses. The effector proteins that link molecular events in the cell body with local maintenance of synaptic strength are not known. We now show that treatment with serotonin (5-HT) that produces long-term facil...

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

authors： Giustetto M,Hegde AN,Si K,Casadio A,Inokuchi K,Pei W,Kandel ER,Schwartz JH

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Exocytosis allows the release of secretory products and the delivery of new membrane material to the plasma membrane. So far, little is known about the underlying molecular mechanism and its control in plant cells. We have used the whole-cell patch-clamp technique to monitor changes in membrane capacitance to study ex...

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

authors： Homann U,Tester M

更新日期：1997-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Cooperativity in oligonucleotide-directed sequence-specific recognition of DNA by triple helix formation can be enhanced by the addition of discrete dimerization domains. The equilibrium association constants for cooperative binding of oligonucleotides that dimerize by Watson-Crick hydrogen bonds and occupy adjacent s...

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

authors： Distefano MD,Dervan PB

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the ribosome is a very general catalyst, it cannot synthesize all protein sequences equally well. For example, ribosomes stall on the secretion monitor (SecM) leader peptide to regulate expression of a downstream gene. Using a genetic selection in Escherichia coli, we identified additional nascent peptide mot...

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

authors： Woolstenhulme CJ,Parajuli S,Healey DW,Valverde DP,Petersen EN,Starosta AL,Guydosh NR,Johnson WE,Wilson DN,Buskirk AR

更新日期：2013-03-05 00:00:00