DC-SIGN activation mediates the differential effects of SAP and CRP on the innate immune system and inhibits fibrosis in mice.

abstract：:T-cell tumors are characterized by inversions or translocations of chromosome 14. The breakpoints of these karyotypic abnormalities occur in chromosome bands 14q11 and 14q32--the same bands in which the T-cell receptor (TCR) alpha-chain and immunoglobulin heavy chain genes have been mapped, respectively. Patients with...

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

authors： Baer R,Heppell A,Taylor AM,Rabbitts PH,Boullier B,Rabbitts TH

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An automatic protein design procedure is used to select amino acid sequences that optimize the folding free energy function for a given protein. The only information used in designing the sequences is a set of known backbone structures for each protein, a rotamer library, and a well established classical empirical for...

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

authors： Jaramillo A,Wernisch L,Héry S,Wodak SJ

更新日期：2002-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Through the agr quorum-sensing system, staphylococci secrete unique autoinducing peptides (AIPs) and detect their concentration via the AgrC transmembrane receptor, coordinating local bacterial population density with global changes in gene expression. Unique AIP and AgrC variants exist within and between species, and...

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

authors： Geisinger E,Muir TW,Novick RP

更新日期：2009-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Several nonclassical major histocompatibilty antigens (class Ib molecules) have emerged as key players in the early immune response to pathogens or stress. Class Ib molecules activate subsets of T cells that mount effector responses before the adaptive immune system, and thus are called innate T cells. MR1 is a novel ...

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

authors： Huang S,Martin E,Kim S,Yu L,Soudais C,Fremont DH,Lantz O,Hansen TH

更新日期：2009-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The Arabidopsis DEMETER (DME) DNA glycosylase demethylates the maternal genome in the central cell prior to fertilization and is essential for seed viability. DME preferentially targets small transposons that flank coding genes, influencing their expression and initiating plant gene imprinting. DME also targets interg...

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

authors： Zhang C,Hung YH,Rim HJ,Zhang D,Frost JM,Shin H,Jang H,Liu F,Xiao W,Iyer LM,Aravind L,Zhang XQ,Fischer RL,Huh JH,Hsieh TF

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:von Willebrand factor (VWF), a protein present in our circulatory system, is necessary to stop bleeding under high shear-stress conditions as found in small blood vessels. The results presented here help unravel how an increase in hydrodynamic shear stress activates VWF's adhesion potential, leading to the counterintu...

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

authors： Schneider SW,Nuschele S,Wixforth A,Gorzelanny C,Alexander-Katz A,Netz RR,Schneider MF

更新日期：2007-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A light form of DNA ligase (EC 6.5.1.2), the only form present in oocytes of the axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum), has been shown to be replaced by a heavy form of the enzyme when the egg enters cleavage. This early biochemical event has been assumed to rely on direct nuclear input. Sucrose gradient analysis permits disc...

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

authors： Signoret J,David JC,Lefresne J,Houillon C

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most macroscale robotic systems, propulsion and controls are enabled through a physical tether or complex onboard electronics and batteries. A tether simplifies the design process but limits the range of motion of the robot, while onboard controls and power supplies are heavy and complicate the design process. Here...

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

authors： Chen T,Bilal OR,Shea K,Daraio C

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki produces a proteinaceous crystalline inclusion that is toxic for lepidopteran larvae. There are several size classes of plasmids in this organism and the presence of one or more has been correlated with production of this protein, defined as a protoxin. DNA fragments of B. thurin...

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

authors： Held GA,Bulla LA Jr,Ferrari E,Hoch J,Aronson AI,Minnich SA

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All science has uncertainty. Unless that uncertainty is communicated effectively, decision makers may put too much or too little faith in it. The information that needs to be communicated depends on the decisions that people face. Are they (i) looking for a signal (e.g., whether to evacuate before a hurricane), (ii) c...

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

authors： Fischhoff B,Davis AL

更新日期：2014-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporal patterning of biological variables, in the form of oscillations and rhythms on many time scales, is ubiquitous. Altering the temporal pattern of an input variable greatly affects the output of many biological processes. We develop here a conceptual framework for a quantitative understanding of such pattern de...

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

authors： Brezina V,Orekhova IV,Weiss KR

更新日期：1997-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a color complementation assay that allows rapid screening of specific genomic DNA sequences. It is based on the simultaneous amplification of two or more DNA segments with fluorescent oligonucleotide primers such that the generation of a color, or combination of colors, can be visualized and used for...

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

authors： Chehab FF,Kan YW

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clone the gene for the human Na+/H+ antiporter, we first constructed a stable mouse LTK- cell line (LAP1) lacking Na+/H+ antiport activity. Second, we devised a selective technique based on acid killing that specifically sorts out cells expressing low levels of Na+/H+ antiport activity from a population of antiport...

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

authors： Franchi A,Perucca-Lostanlen D,Pouyssegur J

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluoride activation of adenylate cyclase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1] is significantly enhanced (2 to 5 times) by a protein factor isolated from rat brain. The fluoride-dependent adenylate cyclase stimulator (FCS) is nondialyzable, trypsin-labile, and stable at 90 degrees C for 10 min. FCS stimula...

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

authors： Rasenick MM,Bitensky MW

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thesis is developed that a low oxygen level Precambrian atmosphere presented early-evolving metazoan organisms with physiological connective tissue priorities resulting from the important molecular oxygen requirements in the biosynthesis of collagen hydroxyproline. Shells, cuticles, and carapaces which are not man...

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

authors： Towe KM

更新日期：1970-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence indicates that epigenetic alterations contribute to exacerbated activation or deregulation of the mechanisms that maintain tolerance to self-antigens in patients with lupus, a systemic autoimmune disease that can be triggered by medications taken to treat a variety of conditions. Here, we tested ...

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

authors： Mazari L,Ouarzane M,Zouali M

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylation of ADP to ATP was induced in nonrespiring submitochondrial particles (SMP) from rat liver by the application of electric pulses with field strengths of 10-35 kV/cm and a decay time of 60 mus. In all cases respiration was inhibited completely by using cyanide or rotenone. Newly formed ATP was measured b...

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

authors： Teissie J,Knox BE,Tsong TY,Wehrle J

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Existing moral psychology research commonly explains certain phenomena in terms of a motivation to blame. However, this motivation is not measured directly, but rather is inferred from other measures, such as participants' judgments of an agent's blameworthiness. The present paper introduces new methods for assessing ...

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

authors： Ames DL,Fiske ST

更新日期：2015-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We predict by first principles a phase transition in alumina at approximately 3.7 Mbar and room temperature from the CaIrO(3)-type polymorph to another with the U(2)S(3)-type structure. Because alumina is used as window material in shock-wave experiments, this transformation should be important for the analysis of sho...

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

authors： Umemoto K,Wentzcovitch RM

更新日期：2008-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:India's northward flight and collision with Asia was a major driver of global tectonics in the Cenozoic and, we argue, of atmospheric CO(2) concentration (pCO(2)) and thus global climate. Subduction of Tethyan oceanic crust with a carpet of carbonate-rich pelagic sediments deposited during transit beneath the high-pro...

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

authors： Kent DV,Muttoni G

更新日期：2008-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:By using single-molecule multiparameter fluorescence detection, fluorescence resonance energy transfer experiments, and newly developed data analysis methods, this study demonstrates directly the existence of three structurally distinct forms of reverse transcriptase (RT):nucleic acid complexes in solution. Single-mol...

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

authors： Rothwell PJ,Berger S,Kensch O,Felekyan S,Antonik M,Wöhrl BM,Restle T,Goody RS,Seidel CA

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Enveloped viruses exploit the endomembrane system to enter host cells. Through a cascade of membrane-trafficking events, virus-bearing vesicles fuse with acidic endosomes and/or lysosomes mediated by SNAREs triggering viral fusion. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying this process remain elusive. Here, we foun...

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

authors： Pirooz SD,He S,Zhang T,Zhang X,Zhao Z,Oh S,O'Connell D,Khalilzadeh P,Amini-Bavil-Olyaee S,Farzan M,Liang C

更新日期：2014-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In the mammalian testis, the blood-testis barrier (BTB), unlike the blood-brain and blood-retina barriers, is composed of coexisting tight junctions (TJs) and adherens junctions (AJs). Yet these junctions must open (or disassemble) to accommodate the migration of preleptotene and leptotene spermatocytes across the BTB...

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

authors： Yan HH,Cheng CY

更新日期：2005-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variants underlying life-threatening diseases, being unlikely to be transmitted to the next generation, are gradually and selectively eliminated from the population through negative selection. We study the determinants of this evolutionary process in human genes underlying monogenic diseases by comparing vario...

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

authors： Rapaport F,Boisson B,Gregor A,Béziat V,Boisson-Dupuis S,Bustamante J,Jouanguy E,Puel A,Rosain J,Zhang Q,Zhang SY,Gleeson JG,Quintana-Murci L,Casanova JL,Abel L,Patin E

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A microfluidic mixer is applied to study the kinetics of calmodulin conformational changes upon Ca2+ binding. The device facilitates rapid, uniform mixing by decoupling hydrodynamic focusing from diffusive mixing and accesses time scales of tens of microseconds. The mixer is used in conjunction with multiphoton micros...

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

authors： Park HY,Kim SA,Korlach J,Rhoades E,Kwok LW,Zipfel WR,Waxham MN,Webb WW,Pollack L

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial RsgA, a circularly permutated GTPase, whose GTPase activity is dependent on the 30S ribosomal subunit, is a late-stage ribosome biogenesis factor involved in the 30S subunit maturation. The role of RsgA is to release another 30S biogenesis factor, RbfA, from the mature 30S subunit in a GTP-dependent mann...

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

authors： Guo Q,Yuan Y,Xu Y,Feng B,Liu L,Chen K,Sun M,Yang Z,Lei J,Gao N

更新日期：2011-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine testicular beta-galactosidase (beta-D-galactoside galactohydrolase, EC 3.2.1.23) is rapidly and selectively assimilated by human skin fibroblasts. The assimilation of the enzyme is strongly inhibited by mannose 6-phosphate and by a glycoprotein fraction isolated from bovine testes (glycoprotein inhibitors). The...

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

authors： Distler J,Hieber V,Sahagian G,Schmickel R,Jourdian GW

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA from noninfectious virions produced by two established clonal lines of sarcoma positive-leukemia negative (S+L-)-transformed 3T3 cells has been characterized. RNA from virions or nucleoids of S+L--(C243) cells consisted of three to four sizes: +/-44 S (6%), 28 S (17%), 18 S (38%), and <18 S (39%). 28S virion RNA c...

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

authors： Phillips LA,Hollis VW Jr,Bassin RH,Fischinger PJ

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We find that histidine residues in proteins are major targets for reaction with the lipid peroxidation product 4-hydroxynon-2-enal (HNE). Reaction of insulin (which contains no sulfhydryl groups) with HNE leads to the generation of HNE-protein adducts, which are converted to radioactive derivatives upon subsequent tre...

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

authors： Uchida K,Stadtman ER

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have expressed the recombinant squid kinesin head domain in Escherichia coli and studied its interaction with microtubules. The head is active as a microtubule-stimulated ATPase and binds to microtubules, but it does not support microtubule gliding by itself. The head binds to both microtubules and depolymerized tu...

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

authors： Song YH,Mandelkow E

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00