Interleukin 2 acts as an adjuvant to increase the potency of inactivated rabies virus vaccine.

abstract：:Understanding the origin, nature, and functional significance of complex patterns of neural activity, as recorded by diverse electrophysiological and neuroimaging techniques, is a central challenge in neuroscience. Such patterns include collective oscillations emerging out of neural synchronization as well as highly h...

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

authors： di Santo S,Villegas P,Burioni R,Muñoz MA

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Although potassium channels play a variety of roles in shaping the electrical properties of neurons, little is known about how these channels are constituted in neurons. To examine the assembly and physiological function of A-type K+ channels in mature differentiated neurons, we have developed a highly efficient gene ...

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

authors： Kaang BK,Pfaffinger PJ,Grant SG,Kandel ER,Furukawa Y

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Through a process called "bioturbation," burrowing macrofauna have altered the seafloor habitat and modified global carbon cycling since the Cambrian. However, the impact of macrofauna on the community structure of microorganisms is poorly understood. Here, we show that microbial communities across bioturbated, but ge...

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

authors： Deng L,Bölsterli D,Kristensen E,Meile C,Su CC,Bernasconi SM,Seidenkrantz MS,Glombitza C,Lagostina L,Han X,Jørgensen BB,Røy H,Lever MA

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the growing interest in collective phenomena such as "swarm intelligence" and "wisdom of the crowds," little is known about the mechanisms underlying decision-making in vertebrate animal groups. How do animals use the behavior of others to make more accurate decisions, especially when it is not possible to ide...

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

authors： Ward AJ,Sumpter DJ,Couzin ID,Hart PJ,Krause J

更新日期：2008-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Spantide (D-Arg1-Pro2-Lys3-Pro4-Gln5-Gln6-D-Trp7-Phe8-D-Trp9-++ +Leu10-Leu11-NH2) was introduced as a tachykinin antagonist in 1984 and has served as a starting point in the design of new antagonists that have proven to be more effective and have exhibited no neurological side effects. The most remarkable and unpredic...

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

authors： Folkers K,Feng DM,Asano N,Håkanson R,Weisenfeld-Hallin Z,Leander S

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA microarrays comprising approximately 95% of the Bacillus subtilis annotated protein coding ORFs were deployed to generate a series of snapshots of genomewide transcriptional changes that occur when cells are grown under various conditions that are expected to increase or decrease transcription of the trp operon se...

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

authors： Berka RM,Cui X,Yanofsky C

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Squalene and sterol carrier protein of liver plays a general role as a vehicle for cholesterol and its water-insoluble precursors; the carrier protein is essential for enzymic cholesterol synthesis. Liver microsomal enzymes contain a small amount of endogenous carrier protein, which is readily removed by washing or pu...

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

authors： Ritter MC,Dempsey ME

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We combine direct surface force measurements with thermodynamic arguments to demonstrate that pure ionic liquids are expected to behave as dilute weak electrolyte solutions, with typical effective dissociated ion concentrations of less than 0.1% at room temperature. We performed equilibrium force-distance measurements...

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

authors： Gebbie MA,Valtiner M,Banquy X,Fox ET,Henderson WA,Israelachvili JN

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 21 million prescriptions for warfarin are written yearly in the U.S. Despite its importance, warfarin's target, vitamin K epoxide reductase (VKOR), has resisted purification since its identification in 1972. Here, we report its purification and reconstitution. HPC4, a calcium-specific antibody that recognize...

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

authors： Chu PH,Huang TY,Williams J,Stafford DW

更新日期：2006-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Harvey and Kirsten murine sarcoma viruses each encode a structurally and functionally related 21-kilodalton protein (p21), which is the transforming protein of each virus. Using probes from the 0.9-kilobase (kb) p21-coding region of each virus (called v-Ha-ras and v-Ki-ras, respectively), we have molecularly cloned fr...

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

authors： Chang EH,Gonda MA,Ellis RW,Scolnick EM,Lowy DR

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BACE1 is the rate-limiting enzyme for amyloid-β peptides (Aβ) generation, a key event in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). By an unknown mechanism, levels of BACE1 and a BACE1 mRNA-stabilizing antisense RNA (BACE1-AS) are elevated in the brains of AD patients, implicating that dysregulation of BACE1 expres...

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

authors： Bahn G,Park JS,Yun UJ,Lee YJ,Choi Y,Park JS,Baek SH,Choi BY,Cho YS,Kim HK,Han J,Sul JH,Baik SH,Lim J,Wakabayashi N,Bae SH,Han JW,Arumugam TV,Mattson MP,Jo DG

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor (IP3R) associated with plasma membranes of lymphocytes differs in terminal sugar content and binding specificity from the cerebellar receptor, which is localized to endoplasmic reticulum. Lectin column chromatography reveals that 30% of IP3R in the thymus contains sialic acid,...

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

authors： Khan AA,Steiner JP,Snyder SH

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiplex assays, involving the simultaneous use of multiple circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) markers, can improve the performance of liquid biopsies so that they are highly predictive of cancer recurrence. We have developed a single-tube methylation-specific quantitative PCR assay (mqMSP) that uses 10 different methylat...

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

authors： Jin S,Zhu D,Shao F,Chen S,Guo Y,Li K,Wang Y,Ding R,Gao L,Ma W,Lu T,Li D,Zhang Z,Cai S,Liang X,Song H,Ji L,Li J,Zheng Z,Jiang F,Wu X,Luan J,Zhang H,Yang Z,Cantor CR,Xu C,Ding C

更新日期：2021-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Although peroxynitrite is harmful to the host, the beneficial effects of peroxynitrite are less well understood. We explored the role of peroxynitrite in the host immune response to Coxsackievirus infection. Peroxynitrite inhibits viral replication in vitro, in part by inhibiting viral RNA entry into the host cell. Ni...

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

authors： Padalko E,Ohnishi T,Matsushita K,Sun H,Fox-Talbot K,Bao C,Baldwin WM 3rd,Lowenstein CJ

更新日期：2004-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete coding region of maize transposable element Ac and truncated but active derivatives of it were placed under the control of promoters of different strength and tested for the ability to excise transposable element Ds from a beta-glucuronidase reporter gene in a cotransfection assay in Petunia protoplasts. ...

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

authors： Becker D,Lütticke R,Li M,Starlinger P

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a cell-free system to study bacteriophage lambda DNA replication. Maximal DNA synthesis in vitro requires the four deoxynucleoside triphosphates, ATP, and exogenous lambda DNA. DNA synthesis requires the products of the phage O and P genes but is not inhibited by lambda repressor. The kinetics of syn...

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

authors： Shizuya H,Richardson CC

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty years after their discovery, knots in proteins are now quite well understood. They are believed to be functionally advantageous and provide extra stability to protein chains. In this work, we go one step further and search for links-entangled structures, more complex than knots, which consist of several compone...

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

authors： Dabrowski-Tumanski P,Sulkowska JI

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A computer code to investigate the equilibrium and stability of a diffuse plasma in three dimensions is described that generalizes earlier work on a sharp free boundary model. Toroidal equilibria of a plasma are determined by considering paths of steepest descent associated with a new version of the variational princi...

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

authors： Betancourt O,Garabedian P

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired regulatory T-cell function results in a severe chronic autoimmune disease affecting multiple organs in Scurfy mice and humans with the immune dysregulation, polyendocrinopathy, enteropathy, X-linked (IPEX) syndrome. Previous studies have shown that T helper cells but not cytotoxic T cells are critical for the...

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

authors： Aschermann S,Lehmann CH,Mihai S,Schett G,Dudziak D,Nimmerjahn F

更新日期：2013-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The influx of Ca2+ ions controls many important processes in excitable cells, including the regulation of the gating of Ca(2+)-activated K+ channels (the current IK[Ca]). Various IK[Ca] channels contribute to the regulation of the action-potential waveform, the repetitive discharge of spikes, and the secretion of neur...

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

authors： Wisgirda ME,Dryer SE

更新日期：1994-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids play a critical role in control of the cytokine response after immune challenge. Conversely, cytokines modulate glucocorticoid production by the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. To define the potency and mechanism of interleukin-6 (IL-6) for augmentation of adrenal function, we exploited mice defic...

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

authors： Bethin KE,Vogt SK,Muglia LJ

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work has demonstrated that Web search volume can "predict the present," meaning that it can be used to accurately track outcomes such as unemployment levels, auto and home sales, and disease prevalence in near real time. Here we show that what consumers are searching for online can also predict their collective...

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

authors： Goel S,Hofman JM,Lahaie S,Pennock DM,Watts DJ

更新日期：2010-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbes whose genomes are encoded by DNA and for which adequate information is available display similar genomic mutation rates (average 0.0034 mutations per chromosome replication, range 0.0025 to 0.0046). However, this value currently is based on only a few well characterized microbes reproducing within a narrow ra...

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

authors： Grogan DW,Carver GT,Drake JW

更新日期：2001-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A well-known indication that a nucleotide has bound to myosin is the enhancement of the fluorescence of a specific tryptophan in the "subfragment 1" segment of the protein. Empirically the effect has been enormously useful in myosin enzymology. But beyond an early suggestion that it arises from a purine-tryptophan cha...

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

authors： Bivin DB,Kubota S,Pearlstein R,Morales MF

更新日期：1993-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Deleting an important active-site residue of diphtheria toxin, glutamic acid-148, reduces the toxin's ADP-ribosyltransferase activity by a factor of greater than 10(4). We considered using this mutation to construct a recombinant toxoid for expression by live attenuated vaccines and explored second-site mutations that...

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

authors： Killeen KP,Escuyer V,Mekalanos JJ,Collier RJ

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The x-ray sensitive hamster cell line xrs-6 is deficient in DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair and exhibits impaired V(D)J recombination. The molecular defect in this line is in the 80-kDa subunit of the Ku autoantigen, a protein that binds to DNA ends and recruits the DNA-dependent protein kinase to DNA. Using an I...

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

authors： Liang F,Romanienko PJ,Weaver DT,Jeggo PA,Jasin M

更新日期：1996-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary transitions in individuality (ETIs) underlie the watershed events in the history of life on Earth, including the origins of cells, eukaryotes, plants, animals, and fungi. Each of these events constitutes an increase in the level of complexity, as groups of individuals become individuals in their own right...

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

authors： Herron MD,Hackett JD,Aylward FO,Michod RE

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitin is a highly conserved protein that is encoded by a multigene family. It is generally believed that this gene family is subject to concerted evolution, which homogenizes the member genes of the family. However, protein homogeneity can be attained also by strong purifying selection. We therefore studied the pr...

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

authors： Nei M,Rogozin IB,Piontkivska H

更新日期：2000-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of interferons to distinct cell surface receptors leads to the induction of synthesis of several unique polypeptides and their corresponding mRNAs (1-6). We have isolated two cDNAs that are complementary to nuclear RNA whose synthesis is induced from undetectable levels to maximal rates of transcription wi...

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

authors： Larner AC,Jonak G,Cheng YS,Korant B,Knight E,Darnell JE Jr

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of human languages is driven both by primitive biases present in the human sensorimotor systems and by cultural transmission among speakers. However, whether the design of the language faculty is further shaped by linguistic biological biases remains controversial. To address this question, we used near-...

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

authors： Gómez DM,Berent I,Benavides-Varela S,Bion RA,Cattarossi L,Nespor M,Mehler J

更新日期：2014-04-22 00:00:00