Honeybee gut microbiota promotes host weight gain via bacterial metabolism and hormonal signaling.

abstract：:Reaction networks displaying bistability provide a chemical mechanism for long-term memory storage in cells, as exemplified by many epigenetic switches. These biological systems are not only bistable but switchable, in the sense that they can be flipped from one state to the other by application of specific molecular ...

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

authors： Padirac A,Fujii T,Rondelez Y

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptors (TLRs) have been shown to participate in the recognition of pathogens by the innate immune system, but it is not clear how a restricted family of receptors has the capacity to recognize the wide spectrum of TLR stimuli known to exist. We report here that two members of the TLR family, TLR2 and TLR6...

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

authors： Ozinsky A,Underhill DM,Fontenot JD,Hajjar AM,Smith KD,Wilson CB,Schroeder L,Aderem A

更新日期：2000-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A general and efficient method has been developed to generate large numbers of single-base substitution mutations simply and rapidly. A unique f1 phage recombinant DNA cloning vector is described, which contains the phi X174 origin of viral strand DNA synthesis and allows one to direct mutagenesis to any specific segm...

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

authors： Abarzúa P,Marians KJ

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three fluorescein-labeled lectins have been shown to exhibit specificity for the surface of cells in different layers of the epidermis in the newborn rat. An isolectin from seeds of Bandeiraea simplicifolia with specificity for alpha-D-galactosyl end groups labeled the basal and lower spinous cells; a lectin from Ulex...

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

authors： Brabec RK,Peters BP,Bernstein IA,Gray RH,Goldstein IJ

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spectrin is an important structural component of the plasma membrane skeleton. Heretofore-unidentified isoforms of spectrin also associate with Golgi and other organelles. We have discovered another member of the beta-spectrin gene family by homology searches of the GenBank databases and by 5' rapid amplification of c...

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

authors： Stankewich MC,Tse WT,Peters LL,Ch'ng Y,John KM,Stabach PR,Devarajan P,Morrow JS,Lux SE

更新日期：1998-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that DNA methyltransferase (Dnmt) 1 is required for maintenance of bulk DNA methylation and is essential for mouse development. However, somatic disruption of DNMT1 in the human cancer cell line HCT116 was not lethal and caused only minor decreases in methylation. Here, we report the identi...

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

authors： Egger G,Jeong S,Escobar SG,Cortez CC,Li TW,Saito Y,Yoo CB,Jones PA,Liang G

更新日期：2006-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet-derived growth factors (PDGFs) and their receptors (PDGFRs) are prototypic growth factors and receptor tyrosine kinases which have critical functions in development. We show that PDGFs share a conserved region in their prodomain sequences which can remain noncovalently associated with the mature cystine-knot ...

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

authors： Shim AH,Liu H,Focia PJ,Chen X,Lin PC,He X

更新日期：2010-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Reconnections of coherent filamentary structures play a key role in the dynamics of fluids, redistributing energy and helicity among the length scales, triggering dissipative effects, and inducing fine-scale mixing. Unlike ordinary (classical) fluids where vorticity is a continuous field, in superfluid helium and in a...

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

authors： Galantucci L,Baggaley AW,Parker NG,Barenghi CF

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Scaling down the size of computing circuits is about to reach the limitations imposed by the discrete atomic structure of matter. Reducing the power requirements and thereby dissipation of integrated circuits is also essential. New paradigms are needed to sustain the rate of progress that society has become used to. S...

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

authors： Mol JA,Verduijn J,Levine RD,Remacle F,Rogge S

更新日期：2011-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Radioimmunoassays specific for the N and C termini of human prothymosin alpha and the N terminus of human parathymosin alpha were employed for the measurement of the levels of alpha-thymosins in human thymus, spleen, and liver during normal growth and intestine and breast in malignant growth. A differential expression...

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

authors： Tsitsiloni OE,Stiakakis J,Koutselinis A,Gogas J,Markopoulos C,Yialouris P,Bekris S,Panoussopoulos D,Kiortsis V,Voelter W

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The reported isolation of nanobacteria from human kidney stones raises the intriguing possibility that these microorganisms are etiological agents of pathological extraskeletal calcification [Kajander, E. O. & Ciftçioglu, N. (1998) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 8274-8279]. Nanobacteria were previously isolated from F...

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

authors： Cisar JO,Xu DQ,Thompson J,Swaim W,Hu L,Kopecko DJ

更新日期：2000-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Seismic magnitudes determined from surface and body waves for the Soviet underground nuclear explosion of September 14, 1988, are used to calculate the yield of that event from previously derived calibration curves. The yield obtained by combining the two seismic estimates is 113 kilotons, which is very close to those...

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

authors： Sykes LR,Ekström G

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The supernatant fluid (conditioned medium) of cultured human vascular endothelial cells inhibits activation of Hageman factor (factor XII), whether by ellagic acid, bovine brain sulfatides, or bismuth subgallate; inhibition appears to be a property of one or more proteins in the culture supernates. This phenomenon may...

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

authors： Ratnoff OD,Everson B,Embury P,Ziats NP,Anderson JM,Emanuelson MM,Malemud CJ

更新日期：1991-12-01 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：:An examination of life expectancy in 1963 reveals twin peaks in the empirical distribution across countries: one group of countries clustered around a life expectancy of 40 years and a second group clustered around a life expectancy of 65 years. By 2003, the mode of each cluster had moved up by approximately 10 years....

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

authors： Bloom DE,Canning D

更新日期：2007-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Under fasting conditions, increases in circulating glucagon maintain glucose balance by promoting hepatic gluconeogenesis. Triggering of the cAMP pathway stimulates gluconeogenic gene expression through the PKA-mediated phosphorylation of the cAMP response element binding (CREB) protein and via the dephosphorylation o...

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

authors： Tsai WW,Niessen S,Goebel N,Yates JR 3rd,Guccione E,Montminy M

更新日期：2013-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The topology of the tight junction is probed by introducing dipicrylamine (dpa-), a lipid-soluble anion, into the membranes of hepatocyte pairs in culture. Once partitioned into the membrane, dpa- ions are free to move in the hydrophobic core of the membrane, where their mobile charges greatly increase membrane capaci...

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

authors： Turin L,Béhé P,Plonsky I,Dunina-Barkovskaya A

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent discovery of small molecules targeting the cytochrome bc 1 :aa 3 in Mycobacterium tuberculosis triggered interest in the terminal respiratory oxidases for antituberculosis drug development. The mycobacterial cytochrome...

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

authors： Kalia NP,Hasenoehrl EJ,Ab Rahman NB,Koh VH,Ang MLT,Sajorda DR,Hards K,Grüber G,Alonso S,Cook GM,Berney M,Pethe K

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Measured by ultra-slow scanning calorimetry and isothermal circular dichroism, human lung collagen monomers denature at 37 degrees C within a couple of days. Their unfolding rate decreases exponentially at lower temperature, but complete unfolding is observed even below 36 degrees C. Refolding of full-length, native c...

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

authors： Leikina E,Mertts MV,Kuznetsova N,Leikin S

更新日期：2002-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of probes to genes (IG and TCRB) encoding immunoglobulins (IG) and the beta chain of the T-cell antigen receptor (TCRB), respectively, have become a sensitive means to assess clonality and lineage in lymphoid malignancies. It has become apparent that some individual cases show rearrangements of both IG and TCR...

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

authors： Davey MP,Bongiovanni KF,Kaulfersch W,Quertermous T,Seidman JG,Hershfield MS,Kurtzberg J,Haynes BF,Davis MM,Waldmann TA

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major goal of tumor immunotherapy is the effective eradication of established metastases associated with the induction of a T cell-mediated protective immunity. We achieved this in a poorly immunogenic murine neuroblastoma model by gene therapy with a single chain interleukin 12 (scIL-12) fusion protein that assures...

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

authors： Lode HN,Dreier T,Xiang R,Varki NM,Kang AS,Reisfeld RA

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNA array technology has proven to be a powerful way to monitor global changes in gene expression patterns. Here, we present an approach that extends the current utility of cDNA arrays to allow the evaluation of the relative roles of transcription and mRNA turnover in governing gene expression on a global basis, comp...

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

authors： Fan J,Yang X,Wang W,Wood WH 3rd,Becker KG,Gorospe M

更新日期：2002-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA chip technology enables simultaneous examination of how approximately 6,200 Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene transcript levels, representing the entire genome, respond to environmental change. By using chips bearing oligonucleotide arrays, we show that, after exposure to the alkylating agent methyl methanesulfonate, ...

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

authors： Jelinsky SA,Samson LD

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed conformational analysis of the known crystal structures of vitamin A, carotenoid, and xanthenoid derivatives has been made. These studies suggest that the visual chromophore 11-cis retinal and its isomers may each occur in several different conformational states, which would be expected to have different li...

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

authors： Sundaralingam M,Beddell C

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 72-kDa spleen tyrosine kinase (Syk) and Src-family kinase p53/56Lyn (Lyn) contribute to signaling via the B-cell antigen receptor complex. Here we show that Syk and Lyn from human B lymphocytes can interact directly. Syk and Lyn coimmunoprecipitated from mature and activated B-cell lines, and gel-purified Syk and ...

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

authors： Sidorenko SP,Law CL,Chandran KA,Clark EA

更新日期：1995-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Persisting (P) cells (murine cells that resemble mast cells and grow continuously in vitro for prolonged periods in the presence of a specific growth factor) did not express detectable levels of Ia antigens (murine class II major histocompatibility antigens) when their growth was supported by partially purified P cell...

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

authors： Wong GH,Clark-Lewis I,McKimm-Breschkin JL,Schrader JW

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose that protein translocation across membranes is driven by biased random thermal motion. This "Brownian ratchet" mechanism depends on chemical asymmetries between the cis and trans sides of the membrane. Several mechanisms could contribute to rectifying the thermal motion of the protein, such as binding and d...

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

authors： Simon SM,Peskin CS,Oster GF

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:E2F is a heterodimeric transcription factor that regulates the expression of genes at the G1/S boundary and is composed of two related but distinct families of proteins, E2F and DP. E2F/DP heterodimers form complexes with the retinoblastoma (Rb) protein, the Rb-related proteins p107 and p130, and cyclins/cdks in a cel...

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

authors： Rogers KT,Higgins PD,Milla MM,Phillips RS,Horowitz JM

更新日期：1996-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicks within one strand of the bacteriophage T5 DNA molecule act as " weak points" for a novel kind mechanical breakage that can be utilized for "dissecting" the genome. The products from sheared T5(+) DNA include five unique double-stranded segments of the molecule and various combinations of adjacent segments. These...

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

authors： Hayward GS

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintenance of genome stability is carried out by a suite of DNA repair pathways that ensure the repair of damaged DNA and faithful replication of the genome. Of particular importance are the repair pathways, which respond to DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), and how the efficiency of repair is influenced by sequence h...

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

authors： Meyer D,Fu BX,Heyer WD

更新日期：2015-12-15 00:00:00