Membrane-wrapped nanoparticles probe divergent roles of GM3 and phosphatidylserine in lipid-mediated viral entry pathways.

abstract：:Imaging reporter gene expression in living subjects is a rapidly evolving area of molecular imaging research. Studies have validated the use of reporter genes with positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), MRI, fluorescence with wild-type and mutants of green fluorescent p...

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

authors： Bhaumik S,Gambhir SS

更新日期：2002-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Williams-Beuren syndrome (also known as Williams syndrome) is caused by a deletion of a 1.55- to 1.84-megabase region from chromosome band 7q11.23. GTF2IRD1 and GTF2I, located within this critical region, encode proteins of the TFII-I family with multiple helix-loop-helix domains known as I repeats. In the present wor...

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

authors： Makeyev AV,Erdenechimeg L,Mungunsukh O,Roth JJ,Enkhmandakh B,Ruddle FH,Bayarsaihan D

更新日期：2004-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence of a nucleotide region of f1 bacteriophage was determined on a bonded ultrathin acrylamide gel with a discontinuous buffer system by using the dideoxy-DNA sequencing method. This sequence and one other were analyzed for maximal base pairing with tRNAs. The results allow a prediction of the direction and p...

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

authors： Pieczenik G

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of temperature and of the action of a purified phospholipase C enzyme preparation on human red blood cell membranes has been investigated by chemical analyses, circular dichroism, and proton magnetic resonance measurements. The results indicate that a substantial fraction of the phospholipids and the prote...

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

authors： Glaser M,Simpkins H,Singer SJ,Sheetz M,Chan SI

更新日期：1970-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Is there a sense of chance shared by all individuals, regardless of their schooling or culture? To test whether the ability to make correct probabilistic evaluations depends on educational and cultural guidance, we investigated probabilistic cognition in preliterate and prenumerate Kaqchikel and K'iche', two indigenou...

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

authors： Fontanari L,Gonzalez M,Vallortigara G,Girotto V

更新日期：2014-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment strategies for severe cases of pandemic influenza have focused on antiviral therapies. In contrast, passive immunotherapy with convalescent blood products has received limited attention. We consider the hypothesis that a passive-immunotherapy program that collects plasma from a small percentage of recovered ...

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

authors： Wu JT,Lee CK,Cowling BJ,Yuen KY

更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Incorporation experiments with labeled sirohydrochlorin and trimethylisobacteriochlorin demonstrate that ring contraction in vivo to the corrin macrocycle of vitamin B12 liberates acetic acid. The C-20 atom of the precursors becomes the acetate carboxyl carbon. ...

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

authors： Battersby AR,Bushell MJ,Jones C,Lewis NG,Pfenninger A

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

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：:Perilipin coats the lipid droplets of adipocytes and is thought to have a role in regulating triacylglycerol hydrolysis. To study the role of perilipin in vivo, we have created a perilipin knockout mouse. Perilipin null (peri(-/-)) and wild-type (peri(+/+)) mice consume equal amounts of food, but the adipose tissue ma...

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

authors： Tansey JT,Sztalryd C,Gruia-Gray J,Roush DL,Zee JV,Gavrilova O,Reitman ML,Deng CX,Li C,Kimmel AR,Londos C

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL) initiates intracellular triglyceride (TG) catabolism. In humans, ATGL deficiency causes neutral lipid storage disease with myopathy (NLSDM) characterized by a systemic TG accumulation. Mice with a genetic deletion of ATGL (AKO) also accumulate TG in many tissues. However, neither NLS...

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

authors： Schreiber R,Hofer P,Taschler U,Voshol PJ,Rechberger GN,Kotzbeck P,Jaeger D,Preiss-Landl K,Lord CC,Brown JM,Haemmerle G,Zimmermann R,Vidal-Puig A,Zechner R

更新日期：2015-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multigenic autoimmune disease, and the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II polymorphism serves as a key genetic element. In SLE-prone (NZB x NZW)F(1) mice, the MHC H-2(d/z) heterozygosity (H-2(d) of NZB and H-2(z) of NZW) has a strong impact on disease; thus, congeni...

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

authors： Zhang D,Fujio K,Jiang Y,Zhao J,Tada N,Sudo K,Tsurui H,Nakamura K,Yamamoto K,Nishimura H,Shira T,Hirose S

更新日期：2004-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 2 (IL-2) receptors on activated T cells exist in high- and low-affinity configurations, both of which share a ligand-binding component known as the Tac protein. Although almost all binding of IL-2 to such cells was inhibited by an antibody to Tac, the predominant component of binding on the natural killer ...

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

authors： Robb RJ,Rusk CM,Yodoi J,Greene WC

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the myriad complications involved in the current food crisis, the relationship between agriculture and the rest of nature is one of the most important yet remains only incompletely analyzed. Particularly in tropical areas, agriculture is frequently seen as the antithesis of the natural world, where the problem i...

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

authors： Perfecto I,Vandermeer J

更新日期：2010-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-TRAP (AT) is a small zinc-binding protein that regulates tryptophan biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilis by binding to tryptophan-bound trp RNA-binding attenuation protein (TRAP), thereby preventing it from binding RNA, and allowing transcription and translation of the trpEDCFBA operon. Crystallographic and sediment...

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

authors： Sachleben JR,McElroy CA,Gollnick P,Foster MP

更新日期：2010-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATP-sensitive potassium channel (K-ATP channel) plays a key role in insulin secretion from pancreatic beta-cells. It is closed by glucose metabolism, which stimulates secretion, and opened by the drug diazoxide, which inhibits insulin release. Metabolic regulation is mediated by changes in ATP and MgADP concentrat...

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

authors： Trapp S,Tucker SJ,Ashcroft FM

更新日期：1997-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Germinal centers (GCs) are specialized microenvironments in secondary lymphoid organs where high-affinity antibody-producing B cells are selected based on B-cell antigen receptor (BCR) signal strength. BCR signaling required for normal GC selection is uncertain. We have found that protein kinase N1 (PKN1, also known a...

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

authors： Yasui T,Sakakibara-Yada K,Nishimura T,Morita K,Tada S,Mosialos G,Kieff E,Kikutani H

更新日期：2012-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Reducible compounds that participate in crosslinking were analyzed in hydroxylysine-deficient collagens of patients with a heritable disorder of connective tissue. After treatment with [(3)H]sodium borohydride, new compounds, as well as a totally different pattern of tritiated compounds, were found in hydroxylysine-de...

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

authors： Eyre DR,Glimcher MJ

更新日期：1972-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SapB is a morphogenetic peptide that is important for aerial mycelium formation by the filamentous bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor. Production of SapB commences during aerial mycelium formation and depends on most of the genes known to be required for the morphogenesis of aerial hyphae. Furthermore, the application ...

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

authors： Kodani S,Hudson ME,Durrant MC,Buttner MJ,Nodwell JR,Willey JM

更新日期：2004-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In oxygenic photosynthetic eukaryotes, the hydroxylated carotenoid zeaxanthin is produced from preexisting violaxanthin upon exposure to excess light conditions. Zeaxanthin binding to components of the photosystem II (PSII) antenna system has been investigated thoroughly and shown to help in the dissipation of excess ...

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

authors： Ballottari M,Alcocer MJ,D'Andrea C,Viola D,Ahn TK,Petrozza A,Polli D,Fleming GR,Cerullo G,Bassi R

更新日期：2014-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Using isotopic tracer methods, we have shown that dihydrolipoic acid (2,3-thioctic acid) acylates the distal oxygen of ferrous oxygenated Pseudomonas cytochrome P-450, forming a transient acyl peroxide intermediate that facilitates oxygen-oxygen bond cleavage. Single-turnover studies with 18O2 indicate one oxygen-18 a...

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

authors： Sligar SG,Kennedy KA,Pearson DC

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asian rice, Oryza sativa, is one of world's oldest and most important crop species. Rice is believed to have been domesticated ∼9,000 y ago, although debate on its origin remains contentious. A single-origin model suggests that two main subspecies of Asian rice, indica and japonica, were domesticated from the wild ric...

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

authors： Molina J,Sikora M,Garud N,Flowers JM,Rubinstein S,Reynolds A,Huang P,Jackson S,Schaal BA,Bustamante CD,Boyko AR,Purugganan MD

更新日期：2011-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila clock genes period (per) and timeless (tim) have been studied behaviorally and biochemically, but to date there has been no viable culture system for studying the cell biology of the Drosophila clock. We have cultured pupal ring glands attached to the central nervous system and observed rhythms of perio...

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

authors： Emery IF,Noveral JM,Jamison CF,Siwicki KK

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing interest in the role of the frontal lobe in relation to psychiatric and neurologic disorders has popularized tests of frontal function. One of these is the antisaccade task, in which both frontal lobe patients and schizophrenics are impaired despite normal performance on (pro)saccadic tasks. We used positio...

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

authors： O'Driscoll GA,Alpert NM,Matthysse SW,Levy DL,Rauch SL,Holzman PS

更新日期：1995-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A clone for the iron-responsive element (IRE)-binding protein (IRE-BP) has been transfected and expressed in mouse fibroblasts. The IRE-BP gene product binds IREs with high affinity and specificity. Amino acid alignments reveal that the IRE-BP is 30% identical to mitochondrial aconitase. The 18 active site residues of...

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

authors： Kaptain S,Downey WE,Tang C,Philpott C,Haile D,Orloff DG,Harford JB,Rouault TA,Klausner RD

更新日期：1991-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tripeptidyl peptidase II (TPPII) is a eukaryotic protease acting downstream of the 26S proteasome; it removes tripeptides from the degradation products released by the proteasome. Structural studies in vitro have revealed the basic architecture of TPPII, a two-stranded linear polymer that assembles to form a spindle-s...

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

authors： Fukuda Y,Beck F,Plitzko JM,Baumeister W

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane contact sites (MCSs) in eukaryotic cells are hotspots for lipid exchange, which is essential for many biological functions, including regulation of membrane properties and protein trafficking. Lipid transfer proteins anchored at membrane contact sites (LAMs) contain sterol-specific lipid transfer domains [StA...

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

authors： Tong J,Manik MK,Im YJ

更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetherin/BST2 is a type-II membrane protein that inhibits the release of a range of enveloped viruses, including HIV-1. Here we report three crystal structures of human tetherin, including the full-length ectodomain, a triple cysteine mutant and an ectodomain truncation. These structures show that tetherin forms a con...

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

authors： Yang H,Wang J,Jia X,McNatt MW,Zang T,Pan B,Meng W,Wang HW,Bieniasz PD,Xiong Y

更新日期：2010-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The regional structure of fibrinogen was considered in reference to the terminal plasmin-cleavage fragments, D and E. By two independent approaches, a yield of two D and two E fragments was determined and this established the presence of two D and two E regions in each fibrinogen molecule. Immunochemically, it was sho...

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

authors： Plow EF,Edgington TS

更新日期：1974-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete amino acid sequence of Xenopus laevis nonmuscle myosin heavy chain B (MHC-B) has been deduced from overlapping cDNA clones isolated from an XTC cell library. RNA blots of various developmental stages, adult tissues, and XTC cells detect a single transcript of 7.5 kb which is expressed at similar levels th...

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

authors： Bhatia-Dey N,Adelstein RS,Dawid IB

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the prostate gland of adult mammals, most epithelial cells are in a state of proliferative quiescence. Androgens regulate this effect by inducing cell cycle arrest in the G(0)/G(1) phase. Potential mediators of this androgen-induced proliferative shutoff were identified by means of subtracted cDNA libraries. The ex...

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

authors： Geck P,Maffini MV,Szelei J,Sonnenschein C,Soto AM

更新日期：2000-08-29 00:00:00