Structure of a phleboviral envelope glycoprotein reveals a consolidated model of membrane fusion.

abstract：:Treatment of lymphocytes with inducers of interferon alpha (IFN-alpha) results in the production of corticotropin (ACTH) and endorphin-like activities. The pro-opiomelanocortin-derived hormones ACTH and alpha-, beta-, and gamma-endorphin and the structurally related hormones [Leu]- and [Met]enkephalin were therefore t...

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

authors： Johnson HM,Smith EM,Torres BA,Blalock JE

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A role for Notch in the elaboration of existing neural processes is emerging that is distinct from the increasingly well understood function of this gene in binary cell-fate decisions. Several research groups, by using a variety of organisms, have shown that Notch is important in the development of neural ultrastructu...

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

authors： Presente A,Boyles RS,Serway CN,de Belle JS,Andres AJ

更新日期：2004-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:When long polymers such as DNA are in a highly concentrated state they may become entangled, leading to restricted self-diffusion. Here, we investigate the effect of molecular topology on diffusion in concentrated DNA solutions and find surprisingly large effects, even with molecules of modest length and concentration...

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

authors： Robertson RM,Smith DE

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We prepared a stable cell line expressing the glucagon receptor to characterize the effect of G(s)-coupled receptor stimulation on extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2) activity. Glucagon treatment of the cell line caused a dose-dependent increase in cAMP concentration, activation of cAMP-dependen...

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

authors： Jiang Y,Cypess AM,Muse ED,Wu CR,Unson CG,Merrifield RB,Sakmar TP

更新日期：2001-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change affects organisms worldwide with profound ecological and evolutionary consequences, often increasing population extinction risk. Climatic factors can increase the strength, variability, or direction of natural selection on phenotypic traits, potentially driving adaptive evolution. Phenotypic plasticity ...

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

authors： Svensson EI,Gomez-Llano M,Waller JT

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the pharmacologic and neurotoxic properties of 2,4,5-trihydroxyphenylalanine [topa; the 6-hydroxylated derivative of 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (dopa)] in central neurons. Application of solutions of topa to the chicken eyecup preparation results in glutamatergic responses mediated predominantly b...

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

authors： Rosenberg PA,Loring R,Xie Y,Zaleskas V,Aizenman E

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the contributions of the human pulvinar to goal directed selection of visual targets in 3 patients with chronic, unilateral lesions involving topographic maps in the ventral pulvinar. Observers completed 2 psychophysical tasks in which they discriminated the orientation of a lateralized target grating in t...

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

authors： Snow JC,Allen HA,Rafal RD,Humphreys GW

更新日期：2009-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Male (NZW x BXSB)F1 (W/BF1) mice develop systemic autoimmunity involving autoantibodies, thrombocytopenia, lupus nephritis, and coronary vascular disease (CVD) with myocardial infarction. To determine whether this murine lupus-associated CVD can be prevented by the reduction of dietary calories, male W/BF1 mice were s...

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

authors： Mizutani H,Engelman RW,Kinjoh K,Kurata Y,Ikehara S,Matsuzawa Y,Good RA

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have been used to treat malignancies in humans with varying degrees of success. Progress has been hindered by the lack of suitable animal models, which would ideally consist of immunocompetent animals that are tolerant to tumor-associated antigens. Suitable models would allow the study and...

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

authors： Wilkinson RW,Ross EL,Poulsom R,Ilyas M,Straub J,Snary D,Bodmer WF,Mather SJ

更新日期：2001-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Realizing the goal of the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 2 °C by the end of this century will most likely require deployment of carbon-negative technologies. It is particularly important that China, as the world's top carbon emitter, avoids being locked into carbon-intensive, coal-fired power-generation te...

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

authors： Lu X,Cao L,Wang H,Peng W,Xing J,Wang S,Cai S,Shen B,Yang Q,Nielsen CP,McElroy MB

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of leukocyte integrin avidity is a crucial aspect of inflammation and immunity. The actin cytoskeleton has an important role in the regulation of integrin function, but the cytoskeletal proteins involved are largely unknown. Because inflammatory stimuli that activate integrin-mediated adhesion in human poly...

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

authors： Jones SL,Wang J,Turck CW,Brown EJ

更新日期：1998-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The retrosplenial cortex (RSC) is part of a network of interconnected cortical, hippocampal, and thalamic structures harboring spatially modulated neurons. The RSC contains head direction cells and connects to the parahippocampal region and anterior thalamus. Manipulations of the RSC can affect spatial and contextual ...

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

authors： Czajkowski R,Jayaprakash B,Wiltgen B,Rogerson T,Guzman-Karlsson MC,Barth AL,Trachtenberg JT,Silva AJ

更新日期：2014-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequences of eight origin-defective mutants of simian virus 40 have been determined. All of the mutants have suffered deletions, which range in size from 4 to 241 nucleotides. Some of the mutants induce the synthesis of tumor (T) antigen, others do not. Viral mRNA extracted from rat cells transformed by...

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

authors： Gluzman Y,Sambrook JF,Frisque RJ

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryopreservation is widely used to maintain backups of cells as it enables the semipermanent storage of cells. During the freezing process, ice crystals that are generated inside and outside the cells can lethally damage the cells. All conventional cryopreservation methods use at least one cryoprotective agent (CPA) t...

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

authors： Akiyama Y,Shinose M,Watanabe H,Yamada S,Kanda Y

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The nodZ gene, which is present in various soil bacteria such as Bradyrhizobium japonicum, Azorhizobium caulinodans, and Rhizobium loti, is involved in the addition of a fucosyl residue to the reducing N-acetylglucosamine residue of lipochitin oligosaccharide (LCO) signal molecules. Using an Escherichia coli strain th...

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

authors： Quinto C,Wijfjes AH,Bloemberg GV,Blok-Tip L,López-Lara IM,Lugtenberg BJ,Thomas-Oates JE,Spaink HP

更新日期：1997-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) isoforms lead to mitogenic, survival, and chemotactic responses in a variety of mesenchymal cell types during development and in the adult. We have studied the importance of phosphatidylinositol-3' kinase (PI3K) signaling in these responses by mutating the PI3K-binding sites in th...

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

authors： Heuchel R,Berg A,Tallquist M,Ahlén K,Reed RK,Rubin K,Claesson-Welsh L,Heldin CH,Soriano P

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Measures of complexity derived from ergodic theory of dynamical systems were developed and applied to an exemplary data set describing locomotor movements of rats in a bounded space. A symbolic dynamical system was obtained by partitioning the event space into equally probable partition elements, using a k-dimensional...

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

authors： Paulus MP,Geyer MA,Gold LH,Mandell AJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In photosynthetic systems, the absorbed light energy is used to generate electron transport or it is lost in the form of fluorescence and thermal emission. While fluorescence can be readily measured, the detection of thermal deactivation processes can be achieved by the photoacoustic technique. In that case, the press...

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

authors： Allakhverdiev SI,Klimov VV,Carpentier R

更新日期：1994-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the function of the two nerve growth factor (NGF) receptors, p75NGFR and p140trk, chimeric molecules were constructed of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and NGF receptors. Rat PC12 pheochromocytoma cells transiently transfected with TNF-p140trk chimeras, which contain the extracellular domain of TNF receptor ...

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

authors： Rovelli G,Heller RA,Canossa M,Shooter EM

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Threats to species from commercial fishing are rarely identified until species have suffered large population declines, by which time remedial actions can have severe economic consequences, such as closure of fisheries. Many of the species most threatened by fishing are caught in multispecies fisheries, which can rema...

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

authors： Burgess MG,Polasky S,Tilman D

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One half of a group of 20 patients with human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16)-induced vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia grade 3 displayed a complete regression (CR) after therapeutic vaccination with HPV16 E6/E7 synthetic long peptides. Patients with relatively larger lesions generally did not display a CR. To investiga...

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

authors： Welters MJ,Kenter GG,de Vos van Steenwijk PJ,Löwik MJ,Berends-van der Meer DM,Essahsah F,Stynenbosch LF,Vloon AP,Ramwadhdoebe TH,Piersma SJ,van der Hulst JM,Valentijn AR,Fathers LM,Drijfhout JW,Franken KL,Oostendorp J,Fle

更新日期：2010-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacterial pathogens of plants and animals have evolved a specialized protein-secretion system termed type III to deliver bacterial proteins into host cells. These proteins stimulate or interfere with host cellular functions for the pathogen's benefit. The Salmonella typhimurium pathogenicity island 1 encodes one ...

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

authors： Kubori T,Sukhan A,Aizawa SI,Galán JE

更新日期：2000-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyamines, putrescine, spermidine, and spermine, are essential polycations, intimately involved in the regulation of cellular proliferation. Although polyamines exert dynamic effects on the conformation of nucleic acids and macromolecular synthesis in vitro, their specific functions in vivo are poorly understood....

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

authors： Mandal S,Mandal A,Johansson HE,Orjalo AV,Park MH

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Priming of the organ-specific premetastatic sites is thought to be an important yet incompletely understood step during metastasis. In this study, we show that the metastatic tumors we examined overexpress granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), which expands and mobilizes Ly6G+Ly6C+ granulocytes and facilitate...

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

authors： Kowanetz M,Wu X,Lee J,Tan M,Hagenbeek T,Qu X,Yu L,Ross J,Korsisaari N,Cao T,Bou-Reslan H,Kallop D,Weimer R,Ludlam MJ,Kaminker JS,Modrusan Z,van Bruggen N,Peale FV,Carano R,Meng YG,Ferrara N

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Color and black and white line stimulation produce qualitatively and quantitatively different 2-deoxy[14C]glucose column patterns in the striate cortex of macaque monkeys. Microdensitometry of these stimulus-dependent columns reveals interlaminar density differences that serve as a signature for the stimulus condition...

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

authors： Crawford ML,Meharg LS,Johnston DA

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light emission produced by the reversible collapse of a cavity in a dielectric medium is given an initial, simplified treatment. The agreement between planar and spherical shapes indicates the volume nature of the effect. ...

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

authors： Schwinger J

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three lines of evidence indicate that RNA-dependent RNA synthesis occurs in mouse erythroleukemia cells. The first involves labeling studies with [3H]uridine and shows a greater initial labeling rate of globin RNA in the cytoplasm than in the nucleus. Labeled globin RNA found in the cytoplasm after a very short pulse ...

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

authors： Volloch V

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo, G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) for neurotransmitters undergo complex intracellular trafficking that contribute to regulate their abundance at the cell surface. Here, we report a previously undescribed alteration in the subcellular localization of D1 dopamine receptor (D1R) that occurs in vivo in striatal ...

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

authors： Dumartin B,Jaber M,Gonon F,Caron MG,Giros B,Bloch B

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that rat glioma tumors contain a protein that crossreacts with antibody against mouse 2.5S nerve growth factor prepared in rabbit in microcomplement fixation assays and has analogous isoelectric points to all the hybrids of 2.5S nerve growth factor (a dimer). Partially purified protein preparations from ...

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

authors： Longo AM,Penhoet EE

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used in vitro motility assays to investigate the mechanism of kinetochore function in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Functional centromeric DNA plus a tripartite centromere binding protein complex, CBF3, was found to be necessary but not sufficient for in vitro kinetochore activity. A fourth requi...

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

authors： Middleton K,Carbon J

更新日期：1994-07-19 00:00:00