Ultrafast nonthermal heating of water initiated by an X-ray Free-Electron Laser.

abstract：:NY-ESO-1 is a "cancer-testis" antigen frequently expressed in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) and is among the most immunogenic tumor antigens defined to date. In an effort to understand in vivo tolerance mechanisms, we assessed the phenotype and function of NY-ESO-1-specific CD8(+) T cells derived from peripheral blo...

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

authors： Matsuzaki J,Gnjatic S,Mhawech-Fauceglia P,Beck A,Miller A,Tsuji T,Eppolito C,Qian F,Lele S,Shrikant P,Old LJ,Odunsi K

更新日期：2010-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described for monitoring the enzyme-mediated unwinding of duplex DNA spectrophotometrically. The assay employs a partially duplex oligonucleotide substrate modified at the complementary end with coumarin and fluorescein moieties. When in close proximity the fluorescein quenches the fluorescence of coumarin...

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

authors： Houston P,Kodadek T

更新日期：1994-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The potent transforming activity of membrane-targeted Raf-1 (Raf-CAAX) suggests that Ras transformation is triggered primarily by a Ras-mediated translocation of Raf-1 to the plasma membrane. However, whereas constitutively activated mutants of Ras [H-Ras(61L) and K-Ras4B(12V)] and Raf-1 (DeltaRaf-22W and Raf-CAAX) ca...

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

authors： Oldham SM,Clark GJ,Gangarosa LM,Coffey RJ Jr,Der CJ

更新日期：1996-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about how chromatin folds in its native state. Using optimized in situ hybridization and live imaging techniques have determined compaction ratios and fiber flexibility for interphase chromatin in budding yeast. Unlike previous studies, ours examines nonrepetitive chromatin at intervals short enough to...

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

authors： Bystricky K,Heun P,Gehlen L,Langowski J,Gasser SM

更新日期：2004-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Because many survivors of mass extinctions do not participate in postrecovery diversifications, and therefore fall into a pattern that can be termed "Dead Clade Walking" (DCW), the effects of mass extinctions extend beyond the losses observed during the event itself. Analyses at two taxonomic levels provide a first-or...

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

authors： Jablonski D

更新日期：2002-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Preparations of partially purified chloroplast DNA-dependent RNA polymerase from maize and some other plants transcribe cloned chloroplast genes preferentially and much more actively from appropriately negatively supercoiled templates than from relaxed templates. We have found that the polymerase in such fractions doe...

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

authors： Zaitlin D,Hu J,Bogorad L

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer is a heterogeneous disease composed of divergent molecular and histologic subtypes, including prostate adenocarcinoma (PrAd) and neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC). While PrAd is the major histology in prostate cancer, NEPC can evolve from PrAd as a mechanism of treatment resistance that involves a ...

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

authors： Lee JK,Bangayan NJ,Chai T,Smith BA,Pariva TE,Yun S,Vashisht A,Zhang Q,Park JW,Corey E,Huang J,Graeber TG,Wohlschlegel J,Witte ON

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation between North Korean and Latin American isolates in the circumsporozoite (CS) protein encoding gene of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax was studied. Polymorphic positions are confined to the central tandemly repeated sequences. Nucleotide substitutions in the tandem repeats produce variants; these...

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

authors： Arnot DE,Barnwell JW,Stewart MJ

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human chromosome 22q11.2 has been implicated in various behavioral abnormalities, including schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric/behavioral disorders. However, the specific genes within 22q11.2 that contribute to these disorders are still poorly understood. Here, we show that an approximately 200-kb segment of hum...

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

authors： Hiroi N,Zhu H,Lee M,Funke B,Arai M,Itokawa M,Kucherlapati R,Morrow B,Sawamura T,Agatsuma S

更新日期：2005-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Hendra virus (HeV) and Nipah virus (NiV) belong to the genus Henipavirus of the family Paramyxoviridae and are unique in that they exhibit a broad species tropism and cause fatal disease in both animals and humans. They infect cells through a pH-independent membrane fusion process mediated by their fusion and attachme...

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

authors： Bonaparte MI,Dimitrov AS,Bossart KN,Crameri G,Mungall BA,Bishop KA,Choudhry V,Dimitrov DS,Wang LF,Eaton BT,Broder CC

更新日期：2005-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-lived ethylene, cyclohexene, and norbornenemercurinium ions prepared in superacidic, low-nucleophilic media have been studied by (13)C and (199)Hg NMR spectroscopy. The norbornenemercurinium ion shows temperature-dependent (13)C and (199)Hg NMR spectra, consistent with equilibration via rapid hydride and Wagn...

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

authors： Olah GA,Garcia-Luna A

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviral entry into cells depends on envelope glycoproteins, whereby receptor binding to the surface-exposed subunit triggers membrane fusion by the transmembrane protein (TM) subunit. We determined the crystal structure at 2.5-A resolution of the ectodomain of gp21, the TM from human T cell leukemia virus type 1. T...

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

authors： Kobe B,Center RJ,Kemp BE,Poumbourios P

更新日期：1999-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene regulation is a process with many steps allowing for stochastic biochemical reactions, which leads to expression noise-i.e., the cell-to-cell stochastic fluctuation in protein abundance. Such expression noise can give rise to drastically diverse phenotypes, even within isogenic cell populations. Although numerous...

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

authors： Li J,Min R,Vizeacoumar FJ,Jin K,Xin X,Zhang Z

更新日期：2010-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an antiserum raised against a synthetic C-terminal peptide of porcine pancreastatin, we detected pancreastatin-like immunoreactivity (PLI) in human pancreatic islets, adrenal medulla, and endocrine tumors. From a carcinoid liver metastasis, human PLI was extracted and purified by HPLC. Two C-terminally amidated ...

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

authors： Schmidt WE,Siegel EG,Kratzin H,Creutzfeldt W

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Almost all theoretical and experimental studies of the mechanisms underlying learning and memory focus on synaptic efficacy and make the implicit assumption that changes in synaptic efficacy are both necessary and sufficient to account for learning and memory. However, network dynamics depends on the complex interacti...

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

authors： Marder E,Abbott LF,Turrigiano GG,Liu Z,Golowasch J

更新日期：1996-11-26 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：:With the goal of developing techniques for DNA insertional mutagenesis in zebrafish, we established procedures for rapidly obtaining and injecting large numbers of fertilized eggs. Using either of two plasmid constructs, we injected uncut DNA into fertilized eggs at the one- or two-cell stage. Fish hatched from inject...

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

authors： Culp P,Nüsslein-Volhard C,Hopkins N

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Delayed gastric ulcer healing is a well recognized problem associated with the use of cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitors. In contrast, NO-releasing COX inhibitors do not interfere with ulcer healing. These divergent effects may in part be due to differences in their effects on platelets, which are known to influence ulce...

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

authors： Ma L,del Soldato P,Wallace JL

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the early evolution of life, 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxyguanosine (O) may have functioned as a proto-flavin capable of repairing cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers in DNA or RNA by photoinduced electron transfer using longer wavelength UVB radiation. To investigate the ability of O to act as an excited-state electron...

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

authors： Zhang Y,Dood J,Beckstead AA,Li XB,Nguyen KV,Burrows CJ,Improta R,Kohler B

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequestration, the adherence of infected erythrocytes containing late developmental stages of the parasite (trophozoites and schizonts) to the endothelium of capillaries and venules, is characteristic of Plasmodium falciparum infections. We have studied two host factors, the spleen and antibody, that influence sequest...

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

authors： David PH,Hommel M,Miller LH,Udeinya IJ,Oligino LD

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The resonance Raman excitation profiles of a number of charge transfer transitions in electron donor/acceptor complexes with tetracyanoethylene as acceptor in solution at room temperature are reported and compared with absorption and fluorescence spectra of these complexes. All complexes show distinct anomalies which ...

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

authors： Michaelian KH,Rieckhoff KE,Voigt EM

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrulation is a fundamental process in early development that results in the formation of three primary germ layers. During avian gastrulation, presumptive mesodermal cells in the dorsal epiblast ingress through a furrow called the primitive streak (PS), and subsequently move away from the PS and form adult tissues....

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

authors： Zamir EA,Czirók A,Cui C,Little CD,Rongish BJ

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Four different human cell lines transformed by simian virus 40 (SV40) were tested for their tumorigenicity in athymic nude mice. Two of these lines, W18Va2 and GM52VA, were found to be tumorigenic when inoculated at a concentration of 1 x 10(7) cells per mouse. The other two cell lines, LN-SV and GM54VA, were found to...

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

authors： Koprowski H,Croce CM

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) is a cell cycle-regulated E3 ubiquitin ligase that controls the degradation of substrate proteins at mitotic exit and throughout the G1 phase. We have identified an APC/C substrate and cell cycle-regulated protein, KIAA0101/PAF15. PAF15 protein levels peak in the G2/M p...

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

authors： Emanuele MJ,Ciccia A,Elia AE,Elledge SJ

更新日期：2011-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine-beta-hydroxylase (EC 1.14.2.1), an enzyme localized in sympathetic synaptic vesicles, was released together with norepinephrine during in vitro stimulation of the hypogastric nerve that innervates the vas deferens of the guinea pig. Stimulation of the nerve in the presence of high concentrations of calcium (7...

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

authors： Johnson DG,Thoa NB,Weinshilboum R,Axelrod J,Kopin IJ

更新日期：1971-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast tumors lacking expression of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) and the estrogen and the progesterone receptors (triple negative; TNBC) are more aggressive than other disease subtypes, and no molecular targeted agents are currently available for their treatment. Because TNBC commonly displays EGF r...

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

authors： Ferraro DA,Gaborit N,Maron R,Cohen-Dvashi H,Porat Z,Pareja F,Lavi S,Lindzen M,Ben-Chetrit N,Sela M,Yarden Y

更新日期：2013-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocular cicatricial pemphigoid (OCP) is an autoimmune disease that affects mainly conjunctiva and other squamous epithelia. OCP is histologically characterized by a separation of the epithelium from underlying tissues within the basement membrane zone. Immunopathological studies demonstrate the deposition of anti-basem...

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

authors： Tyagi S,Bhol K,Natarajan K,Livir-Rallatos C,Foster CS,Ahmed AR

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies against the porcine 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 receptor were immobilized on Sepharose CL-4B and used to obtain a highly purified 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 receptor fraction with a 45% recovery of the 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 binding capacity. The porcine receptor was purified to homogeneity by prepa...

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

authors： Brown TA,Prahl JM,DeLuca HF

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:H-2M3 encodes HMT, the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I heavy chain of the maternally transmitted antigen (Mta). Like classical MHC class I genes, the expression of M3 can be stimulated by gamma-interferon and its message can be detected from mid-gestational embryos (day 8) through adulthood. HMTb, a non...

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

authors： Wang CR,Lindahl KF

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed ligand-receptor complexes resulting from (i) the incubation of canine hepatic plasma membranes with [125I]iodoglucagon and (ii) subsequent gentle solubilization of receptor-bound ligand with digitonin. The complexes (molecular weight approximately equal to 500,000) retain the radiolabeled ligand durin...

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

authors： Mason JC,Tager HS

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00