Generation of fibrosarcomas in vivo by a retrovirus that expresses the normal B chain of platelet-derived growth factor and mimics the alternative splice pattern of the v-sis oncogene.

abstract：:The inhibitory neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is involved in the generation of various brain rhythmic activities that can be modulated by benzodiazepines. Here, we assessed the contribution of alpha(2)GABA type A (GABA(A)) receptors to the effects of benzodiazepines on sleep and waking oscillatory pat...

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

authors： Kopp C,Rudolph U,Löw K,Tobler I

更新日期：2004-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic interactions between dissolved oxygen and nitroxide radical spin probes lead to broadening of the ESR lines. We have used a closed-chamber method based on this property to determine the maximum rate of O2 uptake per cell (Vmax per cell) in cultured mammalian cells. A suitable spin probe and a cell suspension ...

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

authors： Lai CS,Hopwood LE,Hyde JS,Lukiewicz S

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salt and water secretion from intestinal epithelia requires enhancement of anion permeability across the apical membrane of Cl- secreting cells lining the crypt, the secretory gland of the intestine. Paneth cells located at the base of the small intestinal crypt release enteric defensins (cryptdins) apically into the ...

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

authors： Lencer WI,Cheung G,Strohmeier GR,Currie MG,Ouellette AJ,Selsted ME,Madara JL

更新日期：1997-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The MLL (mixed-lineage leukemia) gene is involved in many chromosomal translocations associated with acute myeloid and lymphoid leukemia. We previously identified a transcriptional repression domain in MLL, which contains a region with homology to DNA methyltransferase. In chromosomal translocations, the MLL repressio...

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

authors： Xia ZB,Anderson M,Diaz MO,Zeleznik-Le NJ

更新日期：2003-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix metalloprotease type 9 (MMP-9) has been functionally implicated in VEGF activation, the induction and maintenance of chronic angiogenesis, and early stage tumor growth in a number of mouse models of cancer. In this article, we have identified two inflammatory cell types that are major sources of MMP-9 in the an...

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

authors： Nozawa H,Chiu C,Hanahan D

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical modifications of RNAs have long been established as key modulators of nonprotein-coding RNA structure and function in cells. There is a growing appreciation that messenger RNA (mRNA) sequences responsible for directing protein synthesis can also be posttranscriptionally modified. The enzymatic incorporation o...

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

authors： Eyler DE,Franco MK,Batool Z,Wu MZ,Dubuke ML,Dobosz-Bartoszek M,Jones JD,Polikanov YS,Roy B,Koutmou KS

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The density of corn pollen on leaves of milkweed plants inside and outside of cornfields was measured in several studies from different localities. The purpose was to obtain a representative picture of naturally occurring pollen densities to provide a perspective for laboratory and field studies of monarch larvae feed...

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

authors： Pleasants JM,Hellmich RL,Dively GP,Sears MK,Stanley-Horn DE,Mattila HR,Foster JE,Clark P,Jones GD

更新日期：2001-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathway proteomics strategies measure protein expression changes in specific cellular processes that carry out related functions. Using targeted tandem mass tags-based sample multiplexing, hundreds of proteins can be quantified across 10 or more samples simultaneously. To facilitate these highly complex experiments, w...

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

authors： Yu Q,Xiao H,Jedrychowski MP,Schweppe DK,Navarrete-Perea J,Knott J,Rogers J,Chouchani ET,Gygi SP

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the evolution of the mammalian sex chromosomes, we have compared the gene content of the X chromosomes in the mammalian groups most distantly related to man (marsupials and monotremes). Previous work established that genes on the long arm of the human X chromosome are conserved on the X chromosomes in a...

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

authors： Watson JM,Spencer JA,Riggs AD,Graves JA

更新日期：1991-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Modification by covalent attachment of polyethylene glycol (PEG) can reduce the immunogenicity and prolong the circulating life of proteins, but the utility of this approach for any protein is restricted by the number and distribution of PEG attachment sites (e.g., epsilon-amino groups of lysine residues). We have dev...

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

authors： Hershfield MS,Chaffee S,Koro-Johnson L,Mary A,Smith AA,Short SA

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The acetylcholine receptor is a protein that contains certain critical disulfide bonds. Experiments were designed to determine the role such bonds might play in the physiological activity of the receptor. Modification of the receptor with sodium bisulfite and diamide produced an increase in the time constants of the m...

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

authors： Steinacker A,Zuazaga DC

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured the angle-resolved transverse resistivity (ARTR), a sensitive indicator of electronic anisotropy, in high-quality thin films of the unconventional superconductor Sr2RuO4 grown on various substrates. The ARTR signal, heralding the electronic nematicity or a large nematic susceptibility, is present and ...

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

authors： Wu J,Nair HP,Bollinger AT,He X,Robinson I,Schreiber NJ,Shen KM,Schlom DG,Božović I

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat-shock factor 1 (HSF1) is the master transcriptional regulator of the cellular response to heat and a wide variety of other stressors. We previously reported that HSF1 promotes the survival and proliferation of malignant cells. At this time, however, the clinical and prognostic significance of HSF1 in cancer is un...

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

authors： Santagata S,Hu R,Lin NU,Mendillo ML,Collins LC,Hankinson SE,Schnitt SJ,Whitesell L,Tamimi RM,Lindquist S,Ince TA

更新日期：2011-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The signal-transducing guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory (G) proteins are heterotrimers composed of three subunits--alpha, beta, and gamma. Although multiple distinctive forms of the alpha subunit have been described, only two forms of the beta subunits of the G proteins have been identified. To investigate furthe...

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

authors： Levine MA,Smallwood PM,Moen PT Jr,Helman LJ,Ahn TG

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila is an intracellular parasite of freshwater protozoa and human macrophages. Recent studies determined that the macrophage infectivity potentiator (Mip) surface protein, a prokaryotic homolog of the FK506-binding proteins, is required for optimal infection of macrophages. To determine whether Mip ...

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

authors： Cianciotto NP,Fields BS

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early members of the dinosaur-pterosaur clade Ornithodira are very rare in the fossil record, obscuring our understanding of the origins of this important group. Here, we describe an early ornithodiran (Kongonaphon kely gen. et sp. nov.) from the Mid-to-Upper Triassic of Madagascar that represents one of the smallest ...

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

authors： Kammerer CF,Nesbitt SJ,Flynn JJ,Ranivoharimanana L,Wyss AR

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The UV photodissociation kinetics of tryptophan amino acid, Trp, attached to the membrane of bacteria, Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis, have been studied by means of normal and synchronous fluorescence. Our experimental data suggest that the fluorescence intensity of Trp increases during the first minute of irr...

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

authors： Li R,Dhankhar D,Chen J,Cesario TC,Rentzepis PM

更新日期：2019-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the molecular mechanisms of osmolyte protection in protein stability has proved to be challenging. In particular, little is known about the role of osmolytes in the structure of the unfolding transition state of a protein, the main determinant of its dynamics. We have developed an experimental protocol t...

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

authors： Dougan L,Genchev GZ,Lu H,Fernandez JM

更新日期：2011-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Cloned DNA probes containing genes coding for the large subunit of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase (rbcA) of corn and of Chlamydomonas were used to identify, by heterologous hybridization, DNA fragments from Anabaena 7120 carrying the corresponding gene sequence. The same probes were used to isolate, from a reco...

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

authors： Curtis SE,Haselkorn R

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The E6 oncoprotein of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) that are associated with cervical cancer utilizes the cellular ubiquitin-protein ligase E6-AP to target the tumor suppressor p53 for degradation. In normal cells (i.e., in the absence of E6), p53 is also a target of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. Under these condi...

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

authors： Hengstermann A,Linares LK,Ciechanover A,Whitaker NJ,Scheffner M

更新日期：2001-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:GDP-dissociation inhibitors (GDIs) play a primary role in modulating the activation of GTPases and may also be critical for the cellular compartmentalization of GTPases. RhoGDI and GDI/D4 are two currently known GDIs for the Rho-subfamily of GTPases. Using their cDNAs to screen a human brain cDNA library under low str...

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

authors： Adra CN,Manor D,Ko JL,Zhu S,Horiuchi T,Van Aelst L,Cerione RA,Lim B

更新日期：1997-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We have inserted the sequence 5'-AAG-GAGGU-3', which is complementary to the 3' terminus of Escherichia coli 16S rRNA, in a reading frame and analyzed its effect on the accuracy and overall rate of translation in vivo. Translation over the sequence yields a 50% ribosomal frameshift if the reading phase is A-AGG-AGG-U....

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

authors： Spanjaard RA,van Duin J

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Musical training is known to modify cortical organization. Here, we show that such modifications extend to subcortical sensory structures and generalize to processing of speech. Musicians had earlier and larger brainstem responses than nonmusician controls to both speech and music stimuli presented in auditory and aud...

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

authors： Musacchia G,Sams M,Skoe E,Kraus N

更新日期：2007-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly effective vaccine would be a valuable weapon in the drive toward malaria elimination. No such vaccine currently exists, and only a handful of the hundreds of potential candidates in the parasite genome have been evaluated. In this study, we systematically evaluated 29 antigens likely to be involved in erythro...

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

authors： Bustamante LY,Powell GT,Lin YC,Macklin MD,Cross N,Kemp A,Cawkill P,Sanderson T,Crosnier C,Muller-Sienerth N,Doumbo OK,Traore B,Crompton PD,Cicuta P,Tran TM,Wright GJ,Rayner JC

更新日期：2017-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid development of genetic variability may contribute to the pathogenicity of lentiviruses as it may allow escape from immune surveillance and/or from suppression of virus replication. Although apathogenic in African green monkeys, simian immunodeficiency virus isolated from African green monkeys is shown to display...

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

authors： Baier M,Dittmar MT,Cichutek K,Kurth R

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor-related, activation-induced cytokine (TRANCE), a tumor necrosis factor family member, mediates survival of dendritic cells in the immune system and is required for osteoclast differentiation and activation in the skeleton. We report the skeletal phenotype of TRANCE-deficient mice and its rescue b...

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

authors： Kim N,Odgren PR,Kim DK,Marks SC Jr,Choi Y

更新日期：2000-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Diminished Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) signaling is associated with the most common forebrain defect in humans, holoprosencephaly (HPE), which includes cyclopia, a phenotype also seen in mice and other vertebrates with defective Shh signaling. The secreted protein Shh acts as a crucial factor that patterns the ventral forebr...

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

authors： Roessler E,Du YZ,Mullor JL,Casas E,Allen WP,Gillessen-Kaesbach G,Roeder ER,Ming JE,Ruiz i Altaba A,Muenke M

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer beta/A4 amyloid precursor protein (APP) has been suggested to play a central role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease. We have measured the content of different species of APP holoprotein and carboxyl-terminal fragments in human brains from young individuals, nondemented aged individuals, and aged indiv...

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

authors： Nordstedt C,Gandy SE,Alafuzoff I,Caporaso GL,Iverfeldt K,Grebb JA,Winblad B,Greengard P

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of how insects are actually affected by sex pheromones deployed throughout a crop so as to disrupt mating has lacked a mechanistic framework sufficient for guiding optimization of this environmentally friendly pest-control tactic. Major hypotheses are competitive attraction, desensitization, and camouflage. ...

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

authors： Miller JR,McGhee PS,Siegert PY,Adams CG,Huang J,Grieshop MJ,Gut LJ

更新日期：2010-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In the developing CNS, Notch1 and its ligand, Jagged1, regulate oligodendrocyte differentiation and myelin formation, but their role in repair of demyelinating lesions in diseases such as multiple sclerosis remains unresolved. To address this question, we generated a mouse model in which we targeted Notch1 inactivatio...

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

authors： Zhang Y,Argaw AT,Gurfein BT,Zameer A,Snyder BJ,Ge C,Lu QR,Rowitch DH,Raine CS,Brosnan CF,John GR

更新日期：2009-11-10 00:00:00