On the role of sidechain size and charge in the aggregation of Aβ42 with familial mutations.

abstract：:Normal mammary epithelial cells from BALB/cfC3H midpregnant mice were freed from stromal cell types by Percoll density gradient centrifugation after collagenase digestion and were then embedded within collagen gels. Sustained growth leading to an increase in cell number was accomplished in response to cholera toxin an...

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

authors： Yang J,Richards J,Guzman R,Imagawa W,Nandi S

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyketides represent an extremely diverse class of secondary metabolites often explored for their bioactive traits. These molecules are also attractive building blocks for chemical catalysis and polymerization. However, the use of polyketides in larger scale chemistry applications is stymied by limited titers and yie...

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

authors： Markham KA,Palmer CM,Chwatko M,Wagner JM,Murray C,Vazquez S,Swaminathan A,Chakravarty I,Lynd NA,Alper HS

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective blockade of gene expression by designed small molecules is a fundamental challenge at the interface of chemistry, biology, and medicine. Transcription factors have been among the most elusive targets in genetics and drug discovery, but the fields of chemical biology and genetics have evolved to a point where...

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

authors： Kushal S,Lao BB,Henchey LK,Dubey R,Mesallati H,Traaseth NJ,Olenyuk BZ,Arora PS

更新日期：2013-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In the troposphere, methanol (CH3OH) is present ubiquitously and second in abundance among organic gases after methane. In the surface ocean, methanol represents a supply of energy and carbon for marine microbes. Here we report direct measurements of air-sea methanol transfer along a ∼10,000-km north-south transect of...

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

authors： Yang M,Nightingale PD,Beale R,Liss PS,Blomquist B,Fairall C

更新日期：2013-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Organ graft rejection is a T-cell-dependent process. The activation of alloreactive T cells requires stimulation of the T-cell receptor/CD3 complex by foreign major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-encoded gene products. However, accumulating evidence suggests that, in addition to T-cell receptor occupancy, other cost...

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

authors： Turka LA,Linsley PS,Lin H,Brady W,Leiden JM,Wei RQ,Gibson ML,Zheng XG,Myrdal S,Gordon D

更新日期：1992-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants can sense the direction of gravity and change the growth orientation of their organs. The molecular mechanisms of gravity sensing and signal transduction during gravitropism are not well known. We have isolated several shoot gravitropism (sgr) mutants of Arabidopsis. The sgr3-1 mutant exhibits a reduced gravitr...

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

authors： Yano D,Sato M,Saito C,Sato MH,Morita MT,Tasaka M

更新日期：2003-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional reconstitution of membrane proteins within lipid bilayers is crucial for understanding their biological function in living cells. While this strategy has been extensively used with liposomes, reconstitution of membrane proteins in lipidic cubic mesophases presents significant challenges related to the struc...

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

authors： Speziale C,Salvati Manni L,Manatschal C,Landau EM,Mezzenga R

更新日期：2016-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The reconstruction of phylogenetic trees from DNA and protein sequences is confounded by unequal rate effects. These effects can group rapidly evolving taxa with other rapidly evolving taxa, whether or not they are genealogically related. All algorithms are sensitive to these effects whenever the assumptions on which ...

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

authors： Lake JA

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been recently shown that malignant activation of the c-has/bas proto-oncogene in T24 human bladder carcinoma cells was mediated by a single point mutation. A deoxyguanosine located at position 35 of the first exon of this proto-oncogene was substituted by thymidine. These findings predicted that the resulting o...

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

authors： Santos E,Reddy EP,Pulciani S,Feldmann RJ,Barbacid M

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychostimulant use is an ever-increasing socioeconomic burden, including a dramatic rise during pregnancy. Nevertheless, brain-wide effects of psychostimulant exposure are incompletely understood. Here, we performed Fos-CreERT2-based activity mapping, correlated for pregnant mouse dams and their fetuses with amphetam...

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

authors： Fuzik J,Rehman S,Girach F,Miklosi AG,Korchynska S,Arque G,Romanov RA,Hanics J,Wagner L,Meletis K,Yanagawa Y,Kovacs GG,Alpár A,Hökfelt TGM,Harkany T

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:I discuss two exotic objects that must be experimentally identified in chiral superfluids and superconductors. These are (i) the vortex with a fractional quantum number (N = 1/2 in chiral superfluids, and N = 1/2 and N = 1/4 in chiral superconductors), which plays the part of the Alice string in relativistic theories ...

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

authors： Volovik GE

更新日期：2000-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea pigs were immunized with liposomal model membranes containing phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) or glycerophosphorylethanolamine (GPE) derivatives in which the amino function was substituted with either dinitrophenylaminocaproyl (Dnp-Cap) or mono(p-azobenzenearsonic acid)tyrosyl (ABA-Tyr) residues. Previous studies...

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

authors： Kochibe N,Nicolotti RA,Davie JM,Kinsky SC

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:α-SNAP [soluble NSF (N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor) attachment protein] and NSF proteins are conserved across eukaryotes and sustain cellular vesicle trafficking by mediating disassembly and reuse of SNARE protein complexes, which facilitate fusion of vesicles to target membranes. However, certain haplotypes of th...

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

authors： Bayless AM,Smith JM,Song J,McMinn PH,Teillet A,August BK,Bent AF

更新日期：2016-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation of naive CD4(+) T cells into IFN-gamma-producing T helper 1 (T(H)1) cells is pivotal for protective immune responses against intracellular pathogens. T-bet, a recently discovered member of the T-box transcription factor family, has been reported to play a critical role in this process, promoting IFN-ga...

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

authors： Lighvani AA,Frucht DM,Jankovic D,Yamane H,Aliberti J,Hissong BD,Nguyen BV,Gadina M,Sher A,Paul WE,O'Shea JJ

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of chicken embryo fibroblasts with mitogenic concentrations of insulin for 24 hr or with the tumor promoter phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate for 6 hr stimulated lactate release and 3-O-methylglucose uptake. Insulin also increased the Vmax of 6-phosphofructo-1-kinase (ATP:D-fructose-6-phosphate 1-phosphotrans...

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

authors： Bosca L,Rousseau GG,Hue L

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypothesis that the pubertal increase in luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) release is withheld by a dominant inhibitory neuronal system, the role of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), a known inhibitory neurotransmitter, in the control of LHRH release was examined in conscious female monkeys at the...

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

authors： Mitsushima D,Hei DL,Terasawa E

更新日期：1994-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:All classes of antidepressants increase hippocampal cell proliferation and neurogenesis, which contributes, in part, to the behavioral actions of these treatments. Among antidepressant treatments, electroconvulsive seizure (ECS) is the most robust stimulator of hippocampal cell proliferation and the most efficacious t...

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

authors： Segi-Nishida E,Warner-Schmidt JL,Duman RS

更新日期：2008-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The heroin analogue 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium, MPP(+), both in vitro and in vivo, produces death of dopaminergic substantia nigral cells by inhibiting the mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase multienzyme complex, producing a syndrome indistinguishable from Parkinson's disease. Similarly, a fragment of amyloid protein, A...

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

authors： Kashiwaya Y,Takeshima T,Mori N,Nakashima K,Clarke K,Veech RL

更新日期：2000-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:McKay et al. [(1996) Science 273, 924-930] suggested that carbonate globules in the meteorite ALH84001 contained the fossil remains of Martian microbes. We have characterized a subpopulation of magnetite (Fe(3)O(4)) crystals present in abundance within the Fe-rich rims of these carbonate globules. We find these Martia...

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

authors： Thomas-Keprta KL,Clemett SJ,Bazylinski DA,Kirschvink JL,McKay DS,Wentworth SJ,Vali H,Gibson EK Jr,McKay MF,Romanek CS

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The dramatic increase in healthcare cost has become a significant burden to the world. Many patients are denied the accessibility of medication because of the high price of drugs. Total biosynthesis of chiral drug intermediates is an environmentally friendly approach that helps provide more affordable pharmaceuticals....

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

authors： Zhang K,Li H,Cho KM,Liao JC

更新日期：2010-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutant I1A cells, lacking IL-1 receptor-associated kinase (IRAK) mRNA and protein, have been used to study the involvement of IRAK in NFkappaB and c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) activation. A series of IRAK deletion constructs were expressed in I1A cells, which were then tested for their ability to respond to IL-1. Bot...

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

authors： Li X,Commane M,Jiang Z,Stark GR

更新日期：2001-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of red blood cells is normally tightly regulated by a classic homeostatic mechanism based on oxygen sensing in the kidney. Decreased oxygen delivery resulting from anemia induces the production of erythropoietin, which increases red cell production and hence oxygen delivery. Investigations of erythropoietin...

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

authors： Percy MJ,Zhao Q,Flores A,Harrison C,Lappin TR,Maxwell PH,McMullin MF,Lee FS

更新日期：2006-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The MAK16 gene was first defined as a gene whose mutation resulted in loss of M1 double-stranded RNA virus-like particles. The mak16-1 mutation also produces temperature-sensitive cell growth. We report here that mak16-1 cells arrest at the nonpermissive temperature in G1 phase, such that they are mating competent. We...

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

authors： Wickner RB

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:O(6)-methylguanine (O(6)meG) and related modifications of guanine in double-stranded DNA are functionally severe lesions that can be produced by many alkylating agents, including N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG), a potent carcinogen. O(6)meG is repaired through its demethylation by the O(6)-alkylguanine-DNA...

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

authors： Hwang CS,Shemorry A,Varshavsky A

更新日期：2009-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Branching morphogenesis in the mammary gland is achieved by the migration of epithelial cells through a microenvironment consisting of stromal cells and extracellular matrix (ECM). Here we show that galectin-1 (Gal-1), an endogenous lectin that recognizes glycans bearing N-acetyllactosamine (LacNAc) epitopes, induces ...

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

authors： Bhat R,Belardi B,Mori H,Kuo P,Tam A,Hines WC,Le QT,Bertozzi CR,Bissell MJ

更新日期：2016-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Glaucoma is a common cause of vision loss or blindness and reduction of intraocular pressure (IOP) has been proven beneficial in a large fraction of glaucoma patients. The IOP is maintained by the trabecular meshwork (TM) and the elevation of IOP in open-angle glaucoma is associated with dysfunction and loss of the po...

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

authors： Zhu W,Gramlich OW,Laboissonniere L,Jain A,Sheffield VC,Trimarchi JM,Tucker BA,Kuehn MH

更新日期：2016-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional crystal structure of variant-3 toxin from the scorpion Centruroides sculpturatus Ewing has been determined at 3 A resolution. Phases were obtained by use of K2PtCl4 and K2IrCl6 derivatives. The most prominent secondary structural features are two and a half turns of alpha-helix and a three-strand...

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

authors： Fontecilla-Camps JC,Almassy RJ,Suddath FL,Watt DD,Bugg CE

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequence of the light chain of bovine protein C was determined by sequenator analysis of the carboxymethylated light chain and fragments obtained by cyanogen bromide treatment, tryptic digestion after blocking of lysine residues, and cleavage with 2-(2-nitrophenylsulfenyl)-3-methyl-3-bromoindolenine (BN...

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

authors： Fernlund P,Stenflo J,Tufvesson A

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans, septal defects are among the most prevalent congenital heart diseases, but their cellular and molecular origins are not fully understood. We report that transcription factor Tbx5 is present in a subpopulation of endocardial cells and that its deletion therein results in fully penetrant, dose-dependent atria...

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

authors： Nadeau M,Georges RO,Laforest B,Yamak A,Lefebvre C,Beauregard J,Paradis P,Bruneau BG,Andelfinger G,Nemer M

更新日期：2010-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisense oligodeoxyribonucleotides targeted to the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor were encapsulated into liposomes linked to folate via a polyethylene glycol spacer (folate-PEG-liposomes) and efficiently delivered into cultured KB cells via folate receptor-mediated endocytosis. The oligonucleotides were a pho...

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

authors： Wang S,Lee RJ,Cauchon G,Gorenstein DG,Low PS

更新日期：1995-04-11 00:00:00