Hypoxia-activated cytotoxic agent tirapazamine enhances hepatic artery ligation-induced killing of liver tumor in HBx transgenic mice.

abstract：:The nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-containing protein 2 (NOD2) agonist muramyl dipeptide (MDP), a peptidoglycan motif common to all bacteria, supports leucine-rich repeat-containing G protein-coupled receptor 5 (LGR5)+ intestinal stem cell (ISC) survival through NOD2 activation upon an otherwise lethal oxid...

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

authors： Levy A,Stedman A,Deutsch E,Donnadieu F,Virgin HW,Sansonetti PJ,Nigro G

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of RNA secondary structure on rho-independent and rho-dependent termination of transcription of T3 DNA by Escherichia coli RNA polymerase has been studied by incorporating, into nascent transcripts, base analogs that lead to altered base-pairing properties. A guanine --> hypoxanthine substitution, with atte...

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

authors： Adhya S,Sarkar P,Valenzuela D,Maitra U

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protooncogenic protein Vav has the structure of an intracellular signal transducer. It is exclusively expressed in cells of hematopoietic lineage and plays a crucial role in hematopoietic cell differentiation. Here we report that both in cell extracts and within intact mammalian cells Vav binds to Grb2 (Sem-5/ASH/...

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

authors： Ye ZS,Baltimore D

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between cells and nanostructured materials is attracting increasing interest, because of the possibility to open up novel concepts for the design of smart nanobiomaterials with active biological functionalities. In this frame we investigated the response of human neuroblastoma cell line (SH-SY5Y) to go...

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

authors： Brunetti V,Maiorano G,Rizzello L,Sorce B,Sabella S,Cingolani R,Pompa PP

更新日期：2010-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Eosinophils have been associated with fibrosis. To investigate their direct role in fibrosis, human peripheral blood eosinophil sonicate was added to human lung or dermal fibroblasts, and proliferation ([(3)H]thymidine) and collagen synthesis ([(3)H]proline) were evaluated. Proliferation was enhanced significantly in ...

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

authors： Levi-Schaffer F,Garbuzenko E,Rubin A,Reich R,Pickholz D,Gillery P,Emonard H,Nagler A,Maquart FA

更新日期：1999-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrating sulfanyl substituents into copper-bonded phenoxyls significantly alters their optical and redox properties and provides insight into the influence of cysteine modification of the tyrosine cofactor in the enzyme galactose oxidase. The model complexes [1(SR2)](+) are class II mixed-valent Cu(II)-phenoxyl-phe...

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

authors： Verma P,Pratt RC,Storr T,Wasinger EC,Stack TD

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Archaeological evidence indicates that pig domestication had begun by ∼10,500 y before the present (BP) in the Near East, and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) suggests that pigs arrived in Europe alongside farmers ∼8,500 y BP. A few thousand years after the introduction of Near Eastern pigs into Europe, however, their charac...

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

authors： Frantz LAF,Haile J,Lin AT,Scheu A,Geörg C,Benecke N,Alexander M,Linderholm A,Mullin VE,Daly KG,Battista VM,Price M,Gron KJ,Alexandri P,Arbogast RM,Arbuckle B,Bӑlӑşescu A,Barnett R,Bartosiewicz L,Baryshnikov G,Bons

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory diseases are characterized by dysregulated cytokine production. Altered functions for most risk loci, including the inflammatory bowel disease and leprosy-associated tumor necrosis factor ligand superfamily member 15 (TNFSF15) region, are unclear. Regulation of pattern-recognition-receptor (PRR)-induced s...

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

authors： Hedl M,Abraham C

更新日期：2014-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Throughout time, operational laws and concepts from complex systems have been employed to quantitatively model important aspects and interactions in nature and society. Nevertheless, it remains enigmatic and challenging, yet inspiring, to predict the actual interdependencies that comprise the structure of such systems...

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

authors： Stavroglou SK,Pantelous AA,Stanley HE,Zuev KM

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:WIN antiviral compounds bind human rhinovirus, as well as enterovirus and parechovirus, in an internal cavity located within the viral protein capsid. Access to the buried pocket necessitates deviation from the average viral protein structure identified by crystallography. We investigated the dissociation of WIN 52084...

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

authors： Li Y,Zhou Z,Post CB

更新日期：2005-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll like receptors (TLRs) use Toll-IL-1 receptor (TIR) domain-containing adapters, such as myeloid differentiation primary response gene 88 (MyD88) and TIR domain-containing adapter inducing IFN-β (TRIF), to induce activation of transcription factors, including NF-κB, MAP kinases, and IFN regulatory factors. TLR sign...

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

authors： Troutman TD,Hu W,Fulenchek S,Yamazaki T,Kurosaki T,Bazan JF,Pasare C

更新日期：2012-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells have evolved complex regulatory networks that reorganize gene expression patterns in response to changing environmental conditions. These changes often involve redundant mechanisms that affect various levels of gene expression. Here, we examine the consequences of enhanced mRNA degradation in the galactose utili...

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

authors： Baumgartner BL,Bennett MR,Ferry M,Johnson TL,Tsimring LS,Hasty J

更新日期：2011-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycomb group genes (PcGs) have been implicated in cancer based on altered levels of expression observed in certain tumors and the behavior of cultured cells containing inserted PcG transgenes. Endometrial stromal tumors provide evidence for a direct causal relationship because they contain several chromosomal transl...

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

authors： Li H,Ma X,Wang J,Koontz J,Nucci M,Sklar J

更新日期：2007-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Three distinct forms of human alkaline phosphatase, presumably isozymes, are known, each apparently associated with a specific tissue. These are placental, intestinal, and liver (kidney and bone). We have used a specific immunoassay and HPLC to show that placental alkaline phosphatase is also present in extracts of li...

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

authors： Garattini E,Margolis J,Heimer E,Felix A,Udenfriend S

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Involution of the thymus is accompanied by a decline in the number of thymic epithelial cells (TECs) and a severely restricted peripheral repertoire of T-cell specificities. TECs are essential for T-cell differentiation; they originate from a bipotent progenitor that gives rise to cells of cortical (cTEC) and medullar...

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

authors： Rode I,Boehm T

更新日期：2012-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone mRNAs are naturally intronless and accumulate efficiently in the cytoplasm. To learn whether there are cis-acting sequences within histone genes that allow efficient cytoplasmic accumulation of RNAs, we made recombinant constructs in which sequences from the mouse H2a gene were cloned into a human beta-globin ...

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

authors： Huang Y,Carmichael GG

更新日期：1997-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of cytosolic 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A synthase [3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA acetoacetyl-CoA-lyase (CoA-acylating), EC 4.1.3.5] and microsomal 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase[mevalonate:NADP+ oxidoreductase (CoA-acylating), EC 1.1.1.34], two sequential enzymes in the chole...

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

authors： Balasubramaniam S,Goldstein JL,Brown MS

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oil spills can lead to irreversible environmental degradation and are a potential hazard to human health. We study how onshore oil spills affect neonatal and infant mortality by combining spatial data from the Nigerian Oil Spill Monitor with Demographic and Health Surveys. To identify a causal effect, we compare sibli...

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

authors： Bruederle A,Hodler R

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Repeated within-day testing on a texture discrimination task leads to retinotopically specific decreases in performance. Although perceptual learning has been shown to be highly specific to the retinotopic location and characteristics of the trained stimulus, the specificity of perceptual deterioration has not been st...

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

authors： Mednick SC,Arman AC,Boynton GM

更新日期：2005-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Human Bestrophin 1 (hBest1) is a calcium-activated chloride channel that regulates neuronal excitability, synaptic activity, and retinal homeostasis. Mutations in hBest1 cause the autosomal-dominant Best macular dystrophy (BMD). Because hBest1 mutations cause BMD, but a knockout does not, we wondered if hBest1 mutants...

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

authors： Bharill S,Fu Z,Palty R,Isacoff EY

更新日期：2014-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial actin homolog, MreB, forms helical cables within the cell that are required for maintenance of a rod shape. These helical structures are thought to be involved in the spatial organization of cell wall (peptidoglycan) synthesizing complexes of penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs). Here, we examined the role...

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

authors： Divakaruni AV,Loo RR,Xie Y,Loo JA,Gober JW

更新日期：2005-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Many approaches to the origin of life focus on how the molecules found in biology might be made in the absence of biological processes, from the simplest plausible starting materials. Another approach could be to view the emergence of the chemistry of biology as process whereby the environment effectively directs "pri...

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

authors： Surman AJ,Rodriguez-Garcia M,Abul-Haija YM,Cooper GJT,Gromski PS,Turk-MacLeod R,Mullin M,Mathis C,Walker SI,Cronin L

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a water-based prebiotic model of sugar synthesis involving glycolaldehyde self-condensation, we demonstrate that homochiral L-dipeptide catalysts lead to the stereospecific syntheses of tetroses. The asymmetric effect is largest for erythrose, which may reach a D-enantiomeric excess of >80% with L-Val-L-Val cata...

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

authors： Weber AL,Pizzarello S

更新日期：2006-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:State transition in photosynthesis is a short-term balancing mechanism of energy distribution between photosystem I (PSI) and photosystem II (PSII). When PSII is preferentially excited (state 2), a pool of mobile light-harvesting complex II (LHCII) antenna proteins is thought to migrate from PSII to PSI, but biochemic...

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

authors： Takahashi H,Iwai M,Takahashi Y,Minagawa J

更新日期：2006-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer RNA (tRNA) is essential for decoding the genome sequence into proteins. In Archaea, previous studies have revealed unique multiple intron-containing tRNAs and tRNAs that are encoded on 2 separate genes, so-called split tRNAs. Here, we discovered 10 fragmented tRNA genes in the complete genome of the hyperther...

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

authors： Fujishima K,Sugahara J,Kikuta K,Hirano R,Sato A,Tomita M,Kanai A

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the human parkin gene cause autosomal recessive juvenile parkinsonism, a heritable form of Parkinson's disease (PD). To determine whether mutations in the mouse parkin gene (Park2) also result in a parkinsonian phenotype, we generated mice with a targeted deletion of parkin exon 2. Using an extensive beha...

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

authors： Perez FA,Palmiter RD

更新日期：2005-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines play a key role in inflammation. They are expressed not only in neuroinflammatory conditions, but also constitutively by different cell types, including neurons in the normal brain, suggesting that they may act as modulators of neuronal functions. Here, we investigated a possible neuroendocrine role of the ...

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

authors： Callewaere C,Banisadr G,Desarménien MG,Mechighel P,Kitabgi P,Rostène WH,Mélik Parsadaniantz S

更新日期：2006-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:GT-2 is a plant transcriptional activator that contains two separate, but similar, trihelix DNA-binding domains. GT-1 is similar to GT-2, although it contains only one of such domains. cDNAs that encode GT-2 were isolated from rice (OS-GT2) and Arabidopsis (AT-GT2). Evidence is presented for the existence of an Arabid...

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

authors： Smalle J,Kurepa J,Haegman M,Gielen J,Van Montagu M,Van Der Straeten D

更新日期：1998-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Argonaute and Piwi proteins are key players in the RNA silencing pathway, with the former interacting with micro-RNAs (miRNAs) and siRNAs, whereas the latter targets piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) that are 2'-O-methylated (2(')-OCH(3)) at their 3' ends. Germline-specific piRNAs and Piwi proteins play a critical role i...

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

authors： Tian Y,Simanshu DK,Ma JB,Patel DJ

更新日期：2011-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:PDZ domains are abundant protein interaction modules and typically recognize a short motif at the C terminus of their ligands, with a few residues in the motif endowing the binding specificity. The sequence-based rules, however, cannot fully account for the specificity between the vast number of PDZ domains and ligand...

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

authors： Pascoe HG,Gutowski S,Chen H,Brautigam CA,Chen Z,Sternweis PC,Zhang X

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00