Brain size predicts problem-solving ability in mammalian carnivores.

abstract：:Clostridium kluyveri grown in the presence of 1 muM Na2(75)SeO3 produces a thiolase that copurifies with 75Se. Based on several criteria, the selenium moiety in this protein is selenomethionine. The 75Se-labeled amino acid in acid hydrolysates of the radioactive protein cochromatographed with authentic selenomethionin...

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

authors： Hartmanis MG,Stadtman TC

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although aquaporin 5 (AQP5) is the major water channel expressed in alveolar type I cells in the lung, its actual role in the lung is a matter of considerable speculation. By using immunohistochemical staining, we show that AQP5 expression in mouse lung is not restricted to type I cells, but is also detected in alveol...

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

authors： Krane CM,Fortner CN,Hand AR,McGraw DW,Lorenz JN,Wert SE,Towne JE,Paul RJ,Whitsett JA,Menon AG

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs selective for inhibition of COX-2 increase heart failure and elevate blood pressure. The COX-2 gene was floxed and crossed into merCremer mice under the alpha-myosin heavy-chain promoter. Tamoxifen induced selective deletion of COX-2 in cardiomyocytes depressed cardiac output, and ...

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

authors： Wang D,Patel VV,Ricciotti E,Zhou R,Levin MD,Gao E,Yu Z,Ferrari VA,Lu MM,Xu J,Zhang H,Hui Y,Cheng Y,Petrenko N,Yu Y,FitzGerald GA

更新日期：2009-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The prion protein (PrP) is a scrapie-associated fibril protein that accumulates in the brains of hamsters and mice infected with the scrapie agent, and also in the brains of persons affected with kuru or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. It has been previously proposed that PrP could be either the primary transmissible agent...

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

authors： Locht C,Chesebro B,Race R,Keith JM

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arachidonic acid (AA) metabolites derived from both cyclooxygenase (COX) and lipoxygenase (LOX) pathways transduce a variety of signals related to cell growth. Here, we report that the AA LOX pathway also functions as a critical regulator of cell survival and apoptosis. Rat Walker 256 (W256) carcinosarcoma cells expre...

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

authors： Tang DG,Chen YQ,Honn KV

更新日期：1996-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:By indirect immunofluorescence techniques, microtubules and mitochondria were localized in normal rat kidney cells, human WI38 fibroblasts, mouse peritoneal macrophages, and a putative smooth muscle rat cell line, in monolayer culture. The mitochondria were found to be arranged along the cytoplasmic microtubules in ea...

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

authors： Heggeness MH,Simon M,Singer SJ

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquitous gasotransmitter hydrogen sulfide (H2S) has been recognized to play a crucial role in human health. Using cystathionine γ-lyase (CSE)-deficient mice, we demonstrate an unexpected role of H2S in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) pathogenesis. We showed that Mtb-infected CSE-/- mice survive longer than WT m...

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

authors： Rahman MA,Cumming BM,Addicott KW,Pacl HT,Russell SL,Nargan K,Naidoo T,Ramdial PK,Adamson JH,Wang R,Steyn AJC

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A monomorphic anti-HLA-G monoclonal antibody (mAb) was obtained by immunization of HLA-B27/human beta 2-microglobulin double-transgenic mice with transfected murine L cells expressing both HLA-G and human beta 2-microglobulin. This mAb, designated BFL.1, specifically recognizes, by flow cytometry analysis, the immuniz...

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

authors： Bensussan A,Mansur IG,Mallet V,Rodriguez AM,Girr M,Weiss EH,Brem G,Boumsell L,Gluckman E,Dausset J

更新日期：1995-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythropoietin, the hormone that is the primary regulator of erythrocyte production, has been purified from anemic-sheep plasma, with a purification factor of more than 1 million. Gel electrophoresis shows that the major contaminant is desialated erythropoietin. ...

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

authors： Goldwasser E,Kung CK

更新日期：1971-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of the virus synthesized by each of three morphologically different cell lines originating from DBA/2J fetal liver cells transformed by the anemic strain of Friend leukemia virus in vitro were analyzed. The cells of line G-1 are malignant in syngeneic DBA/2 mice, grow in suspension, and are erythroid in...

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

authors： Tsuei D,Pogo BG,Friend C

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor suppressor activity of p53 is regulated by interactions with the ubiquitin ligase HDM2 and the general transcriptional coactivators CBP and p300. Using NMR spectroscopy and isothermal titration calorimetry, we have dissected the binding interactions between the N-terminal transactivation domain (TAD) of p53,...

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

authors： Ferreon JC,Lee CW,Arai M,Martinez-Yamout MA,Dyson HJ,Wright PE

更新日期：2009-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin binding to insulin receptors, on skin fibroblasts established in culture from an infant with insulin resistance and clinical features of leprechaunism was markedly decreased in comparison with cultures from an age-matched control. By contrast, the binding of epidermal growth factor, a polypeptide growth factor...

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

authors： Schilling EE,Rechler MM,Grunfeld C,Rosenberg AM

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of the rare initiation triplet AUU on mRNA translation was investigated by comparing the activity of two pairs of model mRNAs that differ in the length of Shine-Dalgarno and spacer sequences. Irrespective of the initiation triplet (AUG or AUU), all mRNAs had similar template activity in vitro, but transl...

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

authors： La Teana A,Pon CL,Gualerzi CO

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo expression technology (IVET) has been used to identify > 100 Salmonella typhimurium genes that are specifically expressed during infection of BALB/c mice and/or murine cultured macrophages. Induction of these genes is shown to be required for survival in the animal under conditions of the IVET selection. One c...

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

authors： Heithoff DM,Conner CP,Hanna PC,Julio SM,Hentschel U,Mahan MJ

更新日期：1997-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cycle-controlled human histone genes are coordinately expressed during S phase, and transcriptional regulation involves a series of trans-acting factors (HiNFs). The proliferation-specific factor HiNF-D interacts with multiple recognition motifs in histone H4, H3, and H1 promoters. Using gel shift immunoassays, w...

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

authors： van Wijnen AJ,Aziz F,Graña X,De Luca A,Desai RK,Jaarsveld K,Last TJ,Soprano K,Giordano A,Lian JB

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesothelin is a differentiation antigen present on the surface of ovarian cancers, mesotheliomas, and several other types of human cancers. Because among normal tissues, mesothelin is present only on mesothelial cells, it represents a good target for antibody-mediated delivery of cytotoxic agents. In the present study...

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

authors： Chowdhury PS,Viner JL,Beers R,Pastan I

更新日期：1998-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast auxiliary transcription factor GAL11, a candidate for the coactivator, was partially purified from yeast cells, and its function was characterized in a cell-free transcription system. The partially purified GAL11 protein stimulated basal transcription from the CYC1 core promoter by a factor of 4-5 at the ste...

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

authors： Sakurai H,Hiraoka Y,Fukasawa T

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen metabolism in bacteria and archaea is regulated by a ubiquitous class of proteins belonging to the P(II)family. P(II) proteins act as sensors of cellular nitrogen, carbon, and energy levels, and they control the activities of a wide range of target proteins by protein-protein interaction. The sensing mechanis...

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

authors： Rajendran C,Gerhardt EC,Bjelic S,Gasperina A,Scarduelli M,Pedrosa FO,Chubatsu LS,Merrick M,Souza EM,Winkler FK,Huergo LF,Li XD

更新日期：2011-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuits are critical for motor control and motor learning. Classically, basal ganglia nuclei are thought to regulate motor behavior by increasing or decreasing cortical firing rates, and basal ganglia diseases are assumed to reflect abnormal overall activity levels. More recent studies s...

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

authors： Kojima S,Kao MH,Doupe AJ

更新日期：2013-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA delivery of IL-12 has shown promise in reducing the toxic side effects associated with administration of recombinant human (h)IL-12 protein while maintaining the ability to inhibit tumor growth and abolish tumor metastases in animal models. We have developed a more potent version of IL-12 by using DNA shuffling an...

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

authors： Leong SR,Chang JC,Ong R,Dawes G,Stemmer WP,Punnonen J

更新日期：2003-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiotoxin VII4 from Naja mossambica mossambica crystallizes in space group P61 (a = b = 73.9 A; c = 59.0 A) with two molecules of toxin (molecular mass = 6715 Da) in the asymmetric unit. The structure was solved by using a combination of multiple isomorphous replacement and density modification methods. Model buildi...

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

authors： Rees B,Samama JP,Thierry JC,Gilibert M,Fischer J,Schweitz H,Lazdunski M,Moras D

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In binocular rivalry, a subject views two incongruent stimuli through each eye but consciously perceives only one stimulus at a time, with a switch in perceptual dominance every few seconds. To investigate the neural correlates of perceptual dominance in humans, seven subjects were recorded with a 148-channel magnetoe...

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

authors： Tononi G,Srinivasan R,Russell DP,Edelman GM

更新日期：1998-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Model organism studies have demonstrated that cell fate specification decisions play an important role in normal brain development. Their role in human neurodevelopmental disorders, however, is poorly understood, with very few examples described. The cerebellum is an excellent system to study mechanisms of cell fate s...

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

authors： Millen KJ,Steshina EY,Iskusnykh IY,Chizhikov VV

更新日期：2014-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-mRNA splicing requires the bridging of the 5' and 3' ends of the intron. In yeast, this bridging involves interactions between the WW domains in the splicing factor PRP40 and a proline-rich domain in the branchpoint binding protein, BBP. Using a proline-rich domain derived from formin (a product of the murine limb...

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

authors： Bedford MT,Reed R,Leder P

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of cultured cells with lytic animal viruses often results in the selective inhibition of host protein synthesis, whereas viral mRNA is efficiently translated under these circumstances. This phenomenon, known as "shut off," has been well described at the molecular level for some viruses, but there is not yet ...

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

authors： Toribio R,Ventoso I

更新日期：2010-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoglycoside ototoxicity has been related to a surprisingly large number of cellular structures and metabolic pathways. The finding that patients with mutations in mitochondrial rRNA are hypersusceptible to aminoglycoside-induced hearing loss has indicated a possible role for mitochondrial protein synthesis. To stud...

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

authors： Hobbie SN,Akshay S,Kalapala SK,Bruell CM,Shcherbakov D,Böttger EC

更新日期：2008-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans have altered natural patterns of fire for millennia, but the impact of human-set fires is thought to have been slight in wet closed-canopy forests. In the South Island of New Zealand, Polynesians (Māori), who arrived 700-800 calibrated years (cal y) ago, and then Europeans, who settled ∼150 cal y ago, used fire...

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

authors： McWethy DB,Whitlock C,Wilmshurst JM,McGlone MS,Fromont M,Li X,Dieffenbacher-Krall A,Hobbs WO,Fritz SC,Cook ER

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Thousands of large intergenic noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs) have been identified in the mammalian genome, many of which have important roles in regulating a variety of biological processes. Here, we used a custom microarray to identify lincRNAs associated with activation of the innate immune response. A panel of 159 lincR...

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

authors： Li Z,Chao TC,Chang KY,Lin N,Patil VS,Shimizu C,Head SR,Burns JC,Rana TM

更新日期：2014-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hyal-1 locus, which we have previously described and mapped to mouse chromosome 9, influences the serum levels and molecular weight forms of hyaluronidase. We have also shown that the growth of two transplantable tumors, the 3LL carcinoma and the B16F10 melanoma, is influenced by the alleles at Hyal-1, in that the...

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

authors： De Maeyer-Guignard J,Lauret E,Eusèbe L,De Maeyer E

更新日期：1993-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Stearic acid is toxic for T lymphocytes in vitro but has little effect on B lymphocytes. To investigate the molecular basis for this difference, purified murine T and B lymphocytes were compared for their abilities to incorporate and metabolize stearic acid. Unstimulated T and B cells incorporated identical amounts of...

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

authors： Buttke TM,Van Cleave S,Steelman L,McCubrey JA

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00