Heparanase-neutralizing antibodies attenuate lymphoma tumor growth and metastasis.

abstract：:Endangered species recovery programs seek to restore populations to self-sustaining levels. Nonetheless, many recovering species require continuing management to compensate for persistent threats in their environment. Judging true recovery in the face of this management is often difficult, impeding thorough analysis o...

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

authors： Finkelstein ME,Doak DF,George D,Burnett J,Brandt J,Church M,Grantham J,Smith DR

更新日期：2012-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of large intramembrane particles associated with sites of synaptic vesicle release at the squid giant synapse was determined and compared to the average maximal presynaptic calcium current in order to derive an estimate of the conductance each particle would have if it were a calcium channel. This value, 0....

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

authors： Pumplin DW,Reese TS,Llinás R

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmunity often involves the abnormal targeting of self-antigens by antibodies, leading to tissue destruction and other pathologies. This process could potentially be disrupted by small ligands that bind specifically to autoantibodies and inhibit their interaction with the target antigen. Here we report the identif...

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

authors： Doudna JA,Cech TR,Sullenger BA

更新日期：1995-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The supposition that agricultural intensification results in land sparing for conservation has become central to policy formulations across the tropics. However, underlying assumptions remain uncertain and have been little explored in the context of conservation incentive schemes such as policies for Reducing Emission...

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

authors： Phelps J,Carrasco LR,Webb EL,Koh LP,Pascual U

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:When human genome was fractionated by thermal elution chromatography, repetitious DNA was found in every arbitrary temperature segment. When these repetitious DNA families were used for in situ hybridization, the following conclusions were evident: (a) Unlike the case of mouse, where essentially all centromeric hetero...

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

authors： Hsu TC,Arrighi FE,Saunders GF

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many pathogenic bacteria produce extracellular DNase, but the benefit of this enzymatic activity is not understood. For example, all strains of the human bacterial pathogen group A Streptococcus (GAS) produce at least one extracellular DNase, and most strains make several distinct enzymes. Despite six decades of study...

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

authors： Sumby P,Barbian KD,Gardner DJ,Whitney AR,Welty DM,Long RD,Bailey JR,Parnell MJ,Hoe NP,Adams GG,Deleo FR,Musser JM

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane-associated and periplasmic proteins of Agrobacterium tumefaciens C-58 were compared with those from avirulent (nontumrigenic) derivative strains by slab and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Two proteins (Per-I and Per-2), with a molecular weight of 37,500 and 37,300, respectively, were detected in the sup...

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

authors： Sonoki S,Kado CI

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic islets regulate glucose homeostasis through coordinated actions of hormone-secreting cells. What underlies the function of the islet as a unit is the close approximation and communication among heterogeneous cell populations, but the structural mediators of islet cellular cross talk remain incompletely char...

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

authors： Hughes JW,Cho JH,Conway HE,DiGruccio MR,Ng XW,Roseman HF,Abreu D,Urano F,Piston DW

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how changes in antibiotic consumption affect the prevalence of antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens is important for public health. In a number of bacterial species, including Streptococcus pneumoniae, the prevalence of resistance has remained relatively stable despite prolonged selection pressur...

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

authors： Lehtinen S,Blanquart F,Croucher NJ,Turner P,Lipsitch M,Fraser C

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the nucleotide sequence of the dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthetase (DHFR-TS) gene of the protozoan parasite Leishmania major (dihydrofolate reductase, EC 1.5.1.3 and thymidylate synthase, EC 2.1.1.45). The DHFR-TS protein is encoded by a single 1560-base-pair open reading frame within gen...

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

authors： Beverley SM,Ellenberger TE,Cordingley JS

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the greatest challenges in contemporary condensed matter physics is to ascertain whether the formation of glasses from liquids is fundamentally thermodynamic or dynamic in origin. Although the thermodynamic paradigm has dominated theoretical research for decades, the purely kinetic perspective of the dynamical ...

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

authors： Mishra CK,Hima Nagamanasa K,Ganapathy R,Sood AK,Gokhale S

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA triple helices offer new perspectives toward oligonucleotide-directed gene regulation. However, the poor stability of some of these structures might limit their use under physiological conditions. Specific ligands can intercalate into DNA triple helices and stabilize them. Molecular modeling and thermal denaturati...

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

authors： Escudé C,Nguyen CH,Kukreti S,Janin Y,Sun JS,Bisagni E,Garestier T,Hélène C

更新日期：1998-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of differentiation and apoptosis in cancer cells through ligands of nuclear hormone receptors (NHRs) is a novel and promising approach to cancer therapy. All-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA), an RA receptor-specific NHR ligand, is now used for selective cancers. The NHR, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor ...

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

authors： Elstner E,Müller C,Koshizuka K,Williamson EA,Park D,Asou H,Shintaku P,Said JW,Heber D,Koeffler HP

更新日期：1998-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells transferred into severe lymphopenic hosts undergo rapid proliferation known as "endogenous proliferation" that are distinct from conventional homeostatic proliferation. Unlike homeostatic proliferation, cytokines, such as IL-7 are dispensable, yet TCR:MHC interaction is essential for this process to occur. How...

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

authors： Do JS,Min B

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermodynamics and kinetics of the interaction between T cell receptor specific for cytomegalovirus peptide (TCR(CMV)) and its specific ligand, pp65-HLA-A*0201 complex, were studied by surface plasmon resonance and stopped-flow methods. In the latter measurements, fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) between ...

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

authors： Gakamsky DM,Lewitzki E,Grell E,Saulquin X,Malissen B,Montero-Julian F,Bonneville M,Pecht I

更新日期：2007-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A varying oxygen environment is known to affect cellular function in disease as well as activity of various therapeutics. For transient structures, whether they are unconstrained therapeutic transplants, migrating cells during tumor metastasis, or cell populations induced by an immunological response, the role of oxyg...

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

authors： Spanoudaki V,Doloff JC,Huang W,Norcross SR,Farah S,Langer R,Anderson DG

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular levels of many proteins are regulated by ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis. One of the best-characterized enzymes that catalyzes the attachment of ubiquitin to proteins is a ubiquitin ligase complex, Skp1-Cullin-F box complex containing Hrt1 (SCF). We sought to artificially target a protein to the SCF ...

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

authors： Sakamoto KM,Kim KB,Kumagai A,Mercurio F,Crews CM,Deshaies RJ

更新日期：2001-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A model for protein synthesis is proposed in which the donor for the peptide elongation reaction is peptidyl-5S RNA. Space-filling models show that peptide bond formation between peptidyl-5S RNA and aminoacyl-tRNA is eminently feasible from a stereochemical point of view. The peptide is transferred to 5S RNA, while at...

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

authors： Raacke ID

更新日期：1971-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation is a hallmark of many diseases, such as atherosclerosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, arthritis, infectious diseases, and cancer. Although steroids and cyclooxygenase inhibitors are effective antiinflammatory therapeutical agents, they may cause serious side effects. Therefore, developing unique...

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

authors： Jeon KI,Xu X,Aizawa T,Lim JH,Jono H,Kwon DS,Abe J,Berk BC,Li JD,Yan C

更新日期：2010-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter hepaticus-infected Rag2(-/-) mice emulate many aspects of human inflammatory bowel disease, including the development of colitis and colon cancer. To elucidate mechanisms of inflammation-induced carcinogenesis, we undertook a comprehensive analysis of histopathology, molecular damage, and gene expression ...

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

authors： Mangerich A,Knutson CG,Parry NM,Muthupalani S,Ye W,Prestwich E,Cui L,McFaline JL,Mobley M,Ge Z,Taghizadeh K,Wishnok JS,Wogan GN,Fox JG,Tannenbaum SR,Dedon PC

更新日期：2012-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We document male-biased sex ratios among U.S.-born children of Chinese, Korean, and Asian Indian parents in the 2000 U.S. Census. This male bias is particularly evident for third children: If there was no previous son, sons outnumbered daughters by 50%. By contrast, the sex ratios of eldest and younger children with a...

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

authors： Almond D,Edlund L

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We provide a framework for structural multiscale geometric organization of graphs and subsets of R(n). We use diffusion semigroups to generate multiscale geometries in order to organize and represent complex structures. We show that appropriately selected eigenfunctions or scaling functions of Markov matrices, which d...

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

authors： Coifman RR,Lafon S,Lee AB,Maggioni M,Nadler B,Warner F,Zucker SW

更新日期：2005-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:CD83 is commonly known as a specific marker for mature dendritic cells. It has been shown to be important for CD4(+) T-cell development in the thymus. However, its function in the peripheral immune system remains enigmatic. Here, we show that CD83 inhibits proliferation and production of IL-2 and IFN-γ by T cells, and...

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

authors： Chen L,Zhu Y,Zhang G,Gao C,Zhong W,Zhang X

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of antimicrobials is critical in this time of increasing antibiotic resistance of most clinically relevant bacteria. To date, all current antibiotics focus on inhibiting crucial enzymatic activities of their protein targets (i.e., trimethoprim for dihydrofolate reductase), thus disrupting in vitro esse...

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

authors： Shakhnovich EA,Hung DT,Pierson E,Lee K,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：2007-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Gliogenesis in animal development is spatiotemporally regulated so that correct numbers of glia are present to support various neuronal functions. During Drosophila embryonic development, the glial regulatory gene, glial cell missing/glial cell deficient (gcm/glide), promotes glial cell fate and differentiation. Here ...

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

authors： Ho MS,Chen H,Chen M,Jacques C,Giangrande A,Chien CT

更新日期：2009-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a neurodegenerative syndrome associated with 114 mutations in the gene encoding the cytosolic homodimeric enzyme Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD). In this article, we report that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-associated SOD mutations with distinctly different disease progression can be...

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

authors： Lindberg MJ,Byström R,Boknäs N,Andersen PM,Oliveberg M

更新日期：2005-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Many methods have been developed to search for homologous members of a protein family in databases, and the reliability of results and conclusions may be compromised if only one method is used, neglecting the others. Here we introduce a general scheme for combining such methods. Based on this scheme, we implemented a ...

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

authors： Alam I,Dress A,Rehmsmeier M,Fuellen G

更新日期：2004-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal lamina propria (LP) is a major effector site of the mucosal immune system where antigen-specific and antigen-nonspecific factors shape the functional responses of CD4+ T helper cells. To study the functional differentiation of LP T helper cells we utilized DO11.10 T cell receptor (TCR) transgenic (Tg) m...

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

authors： Hurst SD,Sitterding SM,Ji S,Barrett TA

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two series of peptides that specifically bind to the extracellular domain of the alpha chain of the human interleukin-5 receptor (IL-5Ralpha), but share no primary sequence homology to IL-5, were identified from libraries of random recombinant peptides. Affinity maturation procedures generated a 19-aa peptide that bin...

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

authors： England BP,Balasubramanian P,Uings I,Bethell S,Chen MJ,Schatz PJ,Yin Q,Chen YF,Whitehorn EA,Tsavaler A,Martens CL,Barrett RW,McKinnon M

更新日期：2000-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Losses are a possibility in many risky decisions, and organisms have evolved mechanisms to evaluate and avoid them. Laboratory and field evidence suggests that people often avoid risks with losses even when they might earn a substantially larger gain, a behavioral preference termed "loss aversion." The cautionary brak...

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

authors： De Martino B,Camerer CF,Adolphs R

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00