CD1d-Restricted pathways in hepatocytes control local natural killer T cell homeostasis and hepatic inflammation.

abstract：:Here, we report the isolation and characterization of an endogenous peptide ligand of GPR103 from rat brains. The purified peptide was found to be the 43-residue RF-amide peptide QRFP. We also describe two mouse homologues of human GPR103, termed mouse GPR103A and GPR103B. QRFP binds and activates the human GPR103, as...

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

authors： Takayasu S,Sakurai T,Iwasaki S,Teranishi H,Yamanaka A,Williams SC,Iguchi H,Kawasawa YI,Ikeda Y,Sakakibara I,Ohno K,Ioka RX,Murakami S,Dohmae N,Xie J,Suda T,Motoike T,Ohuchi T,Yanagisawa M,Sakai J

更新日期：2006-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The integrin receptor alphavbeta5 controls two independent forms of interactions of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) with adjacent photoreceptor outer segments that are essential for vision. Alphavbeta5 localizes specifically to apical microvilli of the RPE and contributes to retinal adhesion that maintains RPE co...

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

authors： Nandrot EF,Anand M,Almeida D,Atabai K,Sheppard D,Finnemann SC

更新日期：2007-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Fertilization and certain later stages in mammalian embryonic development require fusion between membranes of individual cells. The mechanism of eukaryotic cell-cell fusion is unknown, and no surface molecules required for this process have been unequivocally identified. The role of the sperm surface protein fertilin ...

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

authors： Myles DG,Kimmel LH,Blobel CP,White JM,Primakoff P

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present work, we investigated the role of natural killer (NK) cells in combination therapy with oncolytic virus (OV) and bortezomib, a proteasome inhibitor. NK cells display rapid and potent immunity to metastatic and hematological cancers, and they overcome immunosuppressive effects of tumor microenvironment. ...

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

authors： Kim Y,Yoo JY,Lee TJ,Liu J,Yu J,Caligiuri MA,Kaur B,Friedman A

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about stem cell biology or the specialized environments or niches believed to control stem cell renewal and differentiation in self-renewing tissues of the body. Functional assays for stem cells are available only for hematopoiesis and spermatogenesis, and the microenvironment, or niche, for hematopoie...

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

authors： Shinohara T,Orwig KE,Avarbock MR,Brinster RL

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The spectra of the alpha, beta, and gamma forms of zinc monoarsanilazotyrosine-248 carboxypeptidase A are indistinguishable. At pH 8.2 their crystals are yellow, while their solutions are red, lambda(max) 510 nm. Absorption and circular dichroism-pH titrations of the modified zinc and apoenzymes demonstrate that the a...

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

authors： Johansen JT,Vallee BL

更新日期：1973-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dendritic building blocks with a focal pyrene unit self-organize into vesicles in aqueous phase. The in situ inclusion of the focal pyrene units into the cavity of beta- or gamma-cyclodextrin (CD) induces self-assembled organic nanotubes with an average outer diameter of approximately 45 nm and inner diameter of 2...

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

authors： Park C,Lee IH,Lee S,Song Y,Rhue M,Kim C

更新日期：2006-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein L-1 (APOL1), the trypanolytic factor of human serum, can lyse several African trypanosome species including Trypanosoma brucei brucei, but not the human-infective pathogens T. brucei rhodesiense and T. brucei gambiense, which are resistant to lysis by human serum. Lysis follows the uptake of APOL1 into ...

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

authors： Thomson R,Finkelstein A

更新日期：2015-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the genomic sequence of Nocardia farcinica IFM 10152, a clinical isolate, and revealed the molecular basis of its versatility. The genome consists of a single circular chromosome of 6,021,225 bp with an average G+C content of 70.8% and two plasmids of 184,027 (pNF1) and 87,093 (pNF2) bp with average G+C ...

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

authors： Ishikawa J,Yamashita A,Mikami Y,Hoshino Y,Kurita H,Hotta K,Shiba T,Hattori M

更新日期：2004-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Representational difference analysis was used to search for pathogens in multiple sclerosis brains. We detected a 341-nucleotide fragment that was 99.4% identical to the major DNA binding protein gene of human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6). Examination of 86 brain specimens by PCR demonstrated that HHV-6 was present in > 70% ...

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

authors： Challoner PB,Smith KT,Parker JD,MacLeod DL,Coulter SN,Rose TM,Schultz ER,Bennett JL,Garber RL,Chang M

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A stable free-radical polymeric derivative of prostaglandin B1 (PGBx) has been synthesized that exhibits regenerative effects on oxidative phosphorylation in aged mitochondria. The molecular weights of the most active preparations fall between 2000 and 2600. PGBx is characterized by a single-line electron spin resonan...

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

authors： Polis BD,Polis E,Kwong S

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several overlapping chromosomal deletions spanning the albino locus in the mouse cause perinatal lethality when homozygous and a block in the transcriptional induction of various unlinked hepatocyte-specific genes. Studies of such lethal albino deletion homozygotes in perinatal stages revealed a deficiency in the tran...

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

authors： Zaret KS,Milos P,Lia M,Bali D,Gluecksohn-Waelsch S

更新日期：1992-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ankyrin-G (AnkG), a highly enriched scaffold protein in the axon initial segment (AIS) of neurons, functions to maintain axonal polarity and the integrity of the AIS. At the AIS, AnkG regulates selective intracellular cargo trafficking between soma and axons via interaction with the dynein regulator protein Ndel1, but...

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

authors： Ye J,Li J,Ye F,Zhang Y,Zhang M,Wang C

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The free energy difference between complexes of the restriction nuclease EcoRI with nonspecific DNA and with the enzyme's recognition sequence is linearly dependent on the water chemical potential of the solution, set using several very different solutes, ranging from glycine and glycerol to triethylene glycol and suc...

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

authors： Sidorova NY,Rau DC

更新日期：1996-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombin contains electropositive patches at opposite poles of the molecule which represent potential exosites for the binding of macromolecular ligands. The function of anion-binding exosite I, the fibrin(ogen) recognition site, has been well described. Anion-binding exosite II, located near the carboxyl terminus of ...

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

authors： Sheehan JP,Sadler JE

更新日期：1994-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The metal complex [(tpy)(Mebim-py)Ru(II)(S)](2+) (tpy = 2,2' : 6',2''-terpyridine; Mebim-py = 3-methyl-1-pyridylbenzimidazol-2-ylidene; S = solvent) is a robust, reactive electrocatalyst toward both water oxidation to oxygen and carbon dioxide reduction to carbon monoxide. Here we describe its use as a single electroc...

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

authors： Chen Z,Concepcion JJ,Brennaman MK,Kang P,Norris MR,Hoertz PG,Meyer TJ

更新日期：2012-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracy of computer predictions of RNA secondary structure from sequence data and free energy parameters has been increased to roughly 70%. Performance is judged by comparison with structures known from phylogenetic analysis. The algorithm also generates suboptimal structures. On average, the best structure withi...

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

authors： Jaeger JA,Turner DH,Zuker M

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cleavage of the hemagglutinin (HA) in tissue culture systems has been correlated with virulence of avian influenza viruses. To examine the structural requirements for cleavage of the HA, the HA gene from a virulent H5 influenza virus was expressed in mammalian cells (CV-1), and the cleavage site of the HA was explored...

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

authors： Kawaoka Y,Webster RG

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila neuroblasts divide asymmetrically by aligning their mitotic spindle with cortical cell polarity to generate distinct sibling cell types. Neuroblasts asymmetrically localize Galphai, Pins, and Mud proteins; Pins/Galphai direct cortical polarity, whereas Mud is required for spindle orientation. It is currentl...

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

authors： Nipper RW,Siller KH,Smith NR,Doe CQ,Prehoda KE

更新日期：2007-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells that have been immunized to express optimal levels of contact hypersensitivity upon adoptive transfer to normal animals can be inhibited from doing so by incubating them with an antigen-specific T suppressor factor. This factor is composed of at least two subunits which come from cells expressing different Ly ...

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

authors： Ptak W,Rosenstein RW,Gershon RK

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Negative cooperativity has been observed in CTP synthetase, an allosteric enzyme which contains a regulatory site. Thus, the same enzyme exhibits negative cooperativity for GTP (an effector) and glutamine (a substrate) and positive cooperativity for ATP and UTP (both substrates). In the process of the delineation of t...

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

authors： Levitzki A,Koshland DE Jr

更新日期：1969-04-01 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：:Fifteen tumor-containing specimens were obtained directly from patients with small cell carcinoma of the lung and tested for their ability to grow in serum-supplemented medium and in serum-free medium supplemented with hydrocortisone, insulin, transferrin, estrogen, and selenium (HITES). The tumor cells replicated in ...

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

authors： Carney DN,Bunn PA Jr,Gazdar AF,Pagan JA,Minna JD

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How olfactory sensory neurons converge on spatially invariant glomeruli in the olfactory bulb is largely unknown. In one model, olfactory sensory neurons interact with spatially restricted guidance cues in the bulb that orient and guide them to their target. Identifying differentially expressed molecules in the olfact...

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

authors： Lin DM,Yang YH,Scolnick JA,Brunet LJ,Marsh H,Peng V,Okazaki Y,Hayashizaki Y,Speed TP,Ngai J

更新日期：2004-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of domestic cattle origins in Africa are unclear as archaeological data are relatively sparse. The earliest domesticates were humpless, or Bos taurus, in morphology and may have shared a common origin with the ancestors of European cattle in the Near East. Alternatively, local strains of the wild ox, the au...

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

authors： Bradley DG,MacHugh DE,Cunningham P,Loftus RT

更新日期：1996-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of Rauscher leukemia virus (RLV) with low levels of Nonidet P-40 yielded "immature" cores. These cores have a diameter of about 920 A, as opposed to the 1300-A diameter of RLV, possess knob-like protuberances, and contain a concentrically coiled internal strand apposed to the core shell. The two major polyp...

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

authors： Yoshinaka Y,Luftig RB

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have obtained the electron paramagnetic resonance spectrum of Cu2+ bound in a tetragonal single crystal of hen egg-white lysozyme. A part of this spectrum has been shown to originate from Cu2+ ions bound at the site designated as B by Teichberg et al. [Teichberg, V.I., Sharon, N., Moult, J., Smilansky, A. & Yonath,...

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

authors： Hutchison CA Jr,Singel DJ,Hadad MN,Kemple MD

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It recently has been shown that epithelial Na(+) channels are controlled by a receptor for intracellular Na(+), a G protein (G(o)), and a ubiquitin-protein ligase (Nedd4). Furthermore, mutations in the epithelial Na(+) channel that underlie the autosomal dominant form of hypertension known as Liddle's syndrome inhibit...

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

authors： Ishibashi H,Dinudom A,Harvey KF,Kumar S,Young JA,Cook DI

更新日期：1999-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptor-like tyrosine kinase (Ryk), a Wnt receptor, is important for cell fate determination during corticogenesis. During neuronal differentiation, the Ryk intracellular domain (ICD) is cleaved. Cleavage of Ryk and nuclear translocation of Ryk-ICD are required for neuronal differentiation. However, the mechanism...

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

authors： Chang WH,Choi SH,Moon BS,Cai M,Lyu J,Bai J,Gao F,Hajjali I,Zhao Z,Campbell DB,Weiner LP,Lu W

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine milk lipoprotein lipase was subjected to amino acid sequence analysis. The first 19 amino-terminal residues were Asp-Arg-Ile-Thr-Gly-Gly-Lys-Asp-Phe-Arg-Asp-Ile-Glu-Ser-Lys-Phe-Ala-Leu- Arg. In addition, reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography of a tryptic digest of reduced and alkylated lipase re...

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

authors： Ben-Avram CM,Ben-Zeev O,Lee TD,Haaga K,Shively JE,Goers J,Pedersen ME,Reeve JR Jr,Schotz MC

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00