Enhancing the antitumor efficacy of a cell-surface death ligand by covalent membrane display.

abstract：:Little is known about stem cell biology or the specialized environments or niches believed to control stem cell renewal and differentiation in self-renewing tissues of the body. Functional assays for stem cells are available only for hematopoiesis and spermatogenesis, and the microenvironment, or niche, for hematopoie...

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

authors： Shinohara T,Orwig KE,Avarbock MR,Brinster RL

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A vitamin D(3) metabolite in intestine more polar than 25-hydroxy-vitamin D(3)(25-OH D(3)) has been detected by countercurrent distribution. The intestinal metabolite is found also after administration of labeled hydroxy D(3), indicating that it arises from vitamin D(3) via the intermediate 25-hydroxy derivative. The ...

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

authors： Haussler MR,Boyce DW,Littledike ET,Rasmussen H

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The VX2 carcinoma-bearing rabbit is an animal model for tumor-induced hypercalcemia, thought to be due to increased bone destruction effected by prostaglandin E2. The present experiments suggest that the pathophysiology of the hypercalcemia differs from that previously proposed. Tumor was transplanted intramuscularly ...

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

authors： Doppelt SH,Slovik DM,Neer RM,Nolan J,Zusman RM,Potts JT Jr

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylmalonyl-CoA mutase (EC 5.4.99.2) is a mitochondrial matrix enzyme whose activity is deficient in the inherited disorder methylmalonic acidemia. Previous studies on primary fibroblast cell lines from patients with methylmalonic acidemia have delineated a variety of biochemical phenotypes underlying this disorder....

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

authors： Ledley FD,Jansen R,Nham SU,Fenton WA,Rosenberg LE

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major challenge in interpreting genome sequences is understanding how the genome encodes the information that specifies when and where a gene will be expressed. The first step in this process is the identification of regions of the genome that contain regulatory information. In higher eukaryotes, this cis-regulatory...

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

authors： Berman BP,Nibu Y,Pfeiffer BD,Tomancak P,Celniker SE,Levine M,Rubin GM,Eisen MB

更新日期：2002-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrated hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA is almost invariably found in hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC) which develop in HBV carriers. Integrated HBV DNAs from two single-integration HCCs (C3 and C4) have been cloned, and the cellular integration sites have been analyzed. Integrated HBV DNA of C3 is present in chromosome...

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

authors： Hino O,Shows TB,Rogler CE

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfonated gallium(III) corroles are intensely fluorescent macrocyclic compounds that spontaneously assemble with carrier proteins to undergo cell entry. We report in vivo imaging and therapeutic efficacy of a tumor-targeted corrole noncovalently assembled with a heregulin-modified protein directed at the human epider...

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

authors： Agadjanian H,Ma J,Rentsendorj A,Valluripalli V,Hwang JY,Mahammed A,Farkas DL,Gray HB,Gross Z,Medina-Kauwe LK

更新日期：2009-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolism of [3-13C]alanine in the presence and absence of beta-hydroxybutyrate or ethanol has been followed at 25 degrees C by 13C NMR at 90.5 MHz in primary hepatocytes from untreated rats and rats treated with triiodothyronine and not allowed to eat for 24 hr. The phosphoenolpyruvate/pyruvate futile cycle was foll...

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

authors： Cohen SM,Glynn P,Shulman RG

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observations made during the last ten years with the Chandra X-ray Observatory have shed much light on the cooling gas in the centers of clusters of galaxies and the role of active galactic nucleus (AGN) heating. Cooling of the hot intracluster medium in cluster centers can feed the supermassive black holes found in t...

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

authors： Blanton EL,Clarke TE,Sarazin CL,Randall SW,McNamara BR

更新日期：2010-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that exposure to solar UVB (290-320 nm) gives rise to mutations in oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes that initiate the molecular cascade toward skin cancer. Although UVA (320-400 nm) has also been implicated in multistage photocarcinogenesis, its potential contribution to sunlight mutagenesis...

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

authors： Drobetsky EA,Turcotte J,Châteauneuf A

更新日期：1995-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:rev-regulated expression of HIV-1 envelope proteins from a simian virus 40 late replacement vector was found to be dependent on the presence of a 5' splice site in the env mRNA in spite of the fact that this mRNA remains unspliced. When the 5' splice site upstream of the env open reading frame was deleted or mutated, ...

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

authors： Lu XB,Heimer J,Rekosh D,Hammarskjöld ML

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies may bind to bacterial pathogens or their toxins to control infections, and their effector activity is mediated through the recruitment of complement component C1q or the engagement with Fcγ receptors (FcγRs). For bacterial pathogens that rely on a single toxin to cause disease, immunity correlates with toxi...

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

authors： Chen X,Shi M,Tong X,Kim HK,Wang LX,Schneewind O,Missiakas D

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of information-processing adaptations in the brain is controversial, in part because of disputes about the form such adaptations might take. Many psychologists assume that adaptations come in two kinds, specialized and general-purpose. Specialized mechanisms are typically thought of as innate, domain-specifi...

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

authors： Barrett HC

更新日期：2012-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies in Saccharomyces cerevisiae have defined an essential role for the Dbf4-Cdc7 kinase complex in the initiation of DNA replication presumably by phosphorylation of target proteins, such as the minichromosome maintenance (Mcm) complex. We have examined the phosphorylation of the Mcm complex by the Dfp1-H...

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

authors： Lee JK,Seo YS,Hurwitz J

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) is a widely used method for analysis of gene function in tissue culture cells. However, to date there has been no reliable method for testing the specificity of any particular RNAi experiment. The ideal experiment is to rescue the phenotype by expression of the target gene in a form refractory ...

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

authors： Kittler R,Pelletier L,Ma C,Poser I,Fischer S,Hyman AA,Buchholz F

更新日期：2005-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:New geochemical data from the Malawi Rift (Chiwondo Beds, Karonga Basin) fill a major spatial gap in our knowledge of hominin adaptations on a continental scale. Oxygen (δ18O), carbon (δ13C), and clumped (Δ47) isotope data on paleosols, hominins, and selected fauna elucidate an unexpected diversity in the Pleistocene ...

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

authors： Lüdecke T,Kullmer O,Wacker U,Sandrock O,Fiebig J,Schrenk F,Mulch A

更新日期：2018-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The light-harvesting phycobilisome in cyanobacteria and red algae requires the lyase-catalyzed chromophorylation of phycobiliproteins. There are three functionally distinct lyase families known. The heterodimeric E/F type is specific for attaching bilins covalently to α-subunits of phycocyanins and phycoerythrins. Unl...

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

authors： Zhao C,Höppner A,Xu QZ,Gärtner W,Scheer H,Zhou M,Zhao KH

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Point mutations in vascular smooth muscle α-actin (SM α-actin), encoded by the gene ACTA2, are the most prevalent cause of familial thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections (TAAD). Here, we provide the first molecular characterization, to our knowledge, of the effect of the R258C mutation in SM α-actin, expressed wit...

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

authors： Lu H,Fagnant PM,Bookwalter CS,Joel P,Trybus KM

更新日期：2015-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been known that cholera outbreaks can be initiated when Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera, is present in drinking water in sufficient numbers to constitute an infective dose, if ingested by humans. Outbreaks associated with drinking or bathing in unpurified river or brackish water may dire...

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

authors： Lobitz B,Beck L,Huq A,Wood B,Fuchs G,Faruque AS,Colwell R

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The essential eukaryotic pre-mRNA splicing factor U2AF (U2 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein auxiliary factor) is required to specify the 3' splice at an early step in spliceosome assembly. U2AF binds site-specifically to the intron polypyrimidine tract and recruits U2 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein to the branch site....

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

authors： Rudner DZ,Kanaar R,Breger KS,Rio DC

更新日期：1996-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytochrome A (phyA) is the only plant photoreceptor that perceives far-red light and then mediates various responses to this signal. Phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of oat phyA have been extensively studied, and it was shown that phosphorylation of a serine residue in the hinge region of oat phyA could regulate...

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

authors： Zhou Y,Yang L,Duan J,Cheng J,Shen Y,Wang X,Han R,Li H,Li Z,Wang L,Terzaghi W,Zhu D,Chen H,Deng XW,Li J

更新日期：2018-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Calendar date of the beginning of the growing season at high altitude in the Colorado Rocky Mountains is variable but has not changed significantly over the past 25 years. This result differs from growing evidence from low altitudes that climate change is resulting in a longer growing season, earlier migrations, and e...

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

authors： Inouye DW,Barr B,Armitage KB,Inouye BD

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Many fatal neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson, the prion-related diseases, and non-neurodegenerative disorders such as type II diabetes are characterized by abnormal amyloid fiber aggregates, suggesting a common mechanism of pathogenesis. We have discovered that a class of systematically designe...

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

authors： Hauser CA,Deng R,Mishra A,Loo Y,Khoe U,Zhuang F,Cheong DW,Accardo A,Sullivan MB,Riekel C,Ying JY,Hauser UA

更新日期：2011-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Although inappropriate activation of the Wnt/beta-catenin pathway has been implicated in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the role of this signaling in liver carcinogenesis remains unclear. To investigate this issue, we constructed a mutant mouse strain, Apc(lox/lox), in which exon 14 of the tumor-su...

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

authors： Colnot S,Decaens T,Niwa-Kawakita M,Godard C,Hamard G,Kahn A,Giovannini M,Perret C

更新日期：2004-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms and signals that regulate transcriptional coactivators are still largely unknown. Here we provide genetic evidence for a repressor that interacts with and regulates the nuclear receptor coactivator PGC-1. Association with the repressor requires a PGC-1 protein interface that is similar to the one used by nu...

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

authors： Knutti D,Kressler D,Kralli A

更新日期：2001-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose approaching prediction from a framework grounded in the theoretical correct prediction rate of a variable set as a parameter of interest. This framework allows us to define a measure of predictivity that enables assessing variable sets for, preferably high, predictivity. We first define the prediction rate ...

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

authors： Lo A,Chernoff H,Zheng T,Lo SH

更新日期：2016-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a lethal genetic disorder caused by an absence of the dystrophin protein in bodywide muscles, including the heart. Cardiomyopathy is a leading cause of death in DMD. Exon skipping via synthetic phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomers (PMOs) represents one of the most promising ther...

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

authors： Echigoya Y,Nakamura A,Nagata T,Urasawa N,Lim KRQ,Trieu N,Panesar D,Kuraoka M,Moulton HM,Saito T,Aoki Y,Iversen P,Sazani P,Kole R,Maruyama R,Partridge T,Takeda S,Yokota T

更新日期：2017-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth or decay of population of a single species interacting with a large number of other species (or environment) according to the Volterra-Lotka model is investigated. When the environment is initially very close to its equilibrium level, the growth of a single species follows a generalized Verhulst law, contai...

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

authors： Zwanzig R

更新日期：1973-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The photopigment melanopsin supports reflexive visual functions in people, such as pupil constriction and circadian photoentrainment. What contribution melanopsin makes to conscious visual perception is less studied. We devised a stimulus that targeted melanopsin separately from the cones using pulsed (3-s) spectral m...

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

authors： Spitschan M,Bock AS,Ryan J,Frazzetta G,Brainard DH,Aguirre GK

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The CD4-8- thymocyte subset contains immature precursors for phenotypically and functionally mature CD4+8- and CD4-8+ thymocytes and peripheral T cells, as well as nonmature CD4+8+ thymocytes, most of which die in situ. The intrathymic death of most thymocytes is probably related to selective influences that ensure th...

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

authors： Guidos CJ,Weissman IL,Adkins B

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00