Basal and adenosine receptor-stimulated levels of cAMP are reduced in lymphocytes from alcoholic patients.

abstract：:Alternative ribosome subunit proteins are prevalent in the genomes of diverse bacterial species, but their functional significance is controversial. Attempts to study microbial ribosomal heterogeneity have mostly relied on comparing wild-type strains with mutants in which subunits have been deleted, but this approach ...

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

authors： Chen YX,Xu ZY,Ge X,Sanyal S,Lu ZJ,Javid B

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The pleiotropic effect of the sickle gene suggests that factors in addition to polymerization of the mutant gene product might be involved in sickle disease pathobiology. We have examined rates of heme transfer to hemopexin from hemoglobin in dilute aqueous solution (0.5 mg of Hb per ml) at 37 degrees C. HbO2 S loses ...

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

authors： Hebbel RP,Morgan WT,Eaton JW,Hedlund BE

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine which of seven library design algorithms best introduces new protein function without destroying it altogether, seven combinatorial libraries of green fluorescent protein variants were designed and synthesized. Each was evaluated by distributions of emission intensity and color compiled from measurements ...

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

authors： Treynor TP,Vizcarra CL,Nedelcu D,Mayo SL

更新日期：2007-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal electric stimulation of the auditory cortex is well suited for exploration of the function of the corticofugal (descending) system and the neural mechanism of plasticity in the central auditory system, because it evokes changes in frequency-tuning, called best frequency (BF) shifts, as does auditory fear conditi...

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

authors： Xiao Z,Suga N

更新日期：2005-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrical currents at the surface of the proximal portion of an isolated and transected lamprey spinal cord were measured with an extracellular vibrating probe. Soon after transection, currents of about 0.5 mA/cm2 enter the cut surface of the spinal cord. These currents fall to about a quarter of their initial va...

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

authors： Borgens RB,Jaffe LF,Cohen MJ

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used cryo-electron tomography in conjunction with single-particle averaging techniques to study the structures of frozen-hydrated envelope glycoprotein (Env) complexes on intact Moloney murine leukemia retrovirus particles. Cryo-electron tomography allows 3D imaging of viruses in toto at a resolution sufficient to ...

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

authors： Förster F,Medalia O,Zauberman N,Baumeister W,Fass D

更新日期：2005-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the morphological hallmarks of terminally differentiated secretory cells is highly proliferated membrane of the rough endoplasmic reticulum (ER), but the molecular basis for the high rate of protein biosynthesis in these cells remains poorly documented. An important aspect of ER translational control is the mol...

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

authors： Ueno T,Taga Y,Yoshimoto R,Mayeda A,Hattori S,Ogawa-Goto K

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Most simian-human immunodeficiency viruses (SHIVs) bearing envelope (Env) glycoproteins from primary HIV-1 strains fail to infect rhesus macaques (RMs). We hypothesized that inefficient Env binding to rhesus CD4 (rhCD4) limits virus entry and replication and could be enhanced by substituting naturally occurring simian...

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

authors： Li H,Wang S,Kong R,Ding W,Lee FH,Parker Z,Kim E,Learn GH,Hahn P,Policicchio B,Brocca-Cofano E,Deleage C,Hao X,Chuang GY,Gorman J,Gardner M,Lewis MG,Hatziioannou T,Santra S,Apetrei C,Pandrea I,Alam SM,Liao HX,

更新日期：2016-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying presynaptic mechanisms of general anesthetics is critical to understanding their effects on synaptic transmission. We show that the volatile anesthetic isoflurane inhibits synaptic vesicle (SV) exocytosis at nerve terminals in dissociated rat hippocampal neurons through inhibition of presynaptic Ca(2+) inf...

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

authors： Baumgart JP,Zhou ZY,Hara M,Cook DC,Hoppa MB,Ryan TA,Hemmings HC Jr

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:pRK212.2, a derivative of the broad host range plasmid RK2, contains two EcoRI cleavage fragments, A and B, neither of which can replicate by itself in Escherichia coli. Fragment A (41.7 kilobases), but not fragment B (14.4 kilobases), can be cloned by insertion into the unrelated plasmids mini-F and ColE1. Fragment B...

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

authors： Figurski DH,Helinski DR

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have generated mutants of Escherichia coli formylmethionine initiator tRNA in which one, two, and all three G X C base pairs in the GGGCCC sequence in the anticodon stem are changed to those found in E. coli elongator methionine tRNA. Overproduction of the mutant tRNAs using M13 recombinants as an expression vector...

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

authors： Seong BL,RajBhandary UL

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cell activation and tolerance are regulated by costimulatory molecules. Although PD-1 serves as a crucial negative regulator of T cells, the function of its ligands, PDL1 and PDL2, is still controversial. In this study, we created a PDL2-deficient mouse to characterize its function in T cell activation and tolerance...

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

authors： Zhang Y,Chung Y,Bishop C,Daugherty B,Chute H,Holst P,Kurahara C,Lott F,Sun N,Welcher AA,Dong C

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the superconducting transition temperature of (6)Li between 16 and 26 GPa, and report the lightest system to exhibit superconductivity to date. The superconducting phase diagram of (6)Li is compared with that of (7)Li through simultaneous measurement in a diamond anvil cell (DAC). Below 21 GPa, Li exhibits...

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

authors： Schaeffer AM,Temple SR,Bishop JK,Deemyad S

更新日期：2015-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The high excitation energy-transfer efficiency demanded in photosynthetic organisms relies on the optimal pigment-protein binding orientation in the individual protein complexes and also on the overall architecture of the photosystem. In green sulfur bacteria, the membrane-attached Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) antenna p...

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

authors： Wen J,Zhang H,Gross ML,Blankenship RE

更新日期：2009-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Observations on the structure and function of the ear in amphisbaenians have been extended to two new species: to Blanus cinereus of the family Amphisbaenidae and Diplometopon zarudnyi of the family Trogonophidae. Blanus, considered one of the most primitive of this group of reptiles, shows a distinctive form of sound...

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

authors： Gans C,Wever EG

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An acetone extract of chloroplast particles, when layered on an aqueous surface, exhibited light-dependent phosphorylation. Studies with the firefly-tail enzyme assay, as well as with (32)P-labeled inorganic phosphate, show an initial release of adenosine triphosphate (a step that is apparently only light-triggered), ...

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

authors： McPhee J,Brody SS

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease caused by a glutamine expansion within huntingtin protein. The exact pathological mechanisms determining disease onset and progression remain unclear. However, aggregates of insoluble mutant huntingtin (mhtt), a hallmark of HD, are readily detected w...

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

authors： Chopra V,Fox JH,Lieberman G,Dorsey K,Matson W,Waldmeier P,Housman DE,Kazantsev A,Young AB,Hersch S

更新日期：2007-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Y chromosomes are different from other chromosomes because of a lack of recombination. Until now, complete sequence information of Y chromosomes has been available only for some primates, although considerable information is available for other organisms, e.g., several species of Drosophila. Here, we report the gene o...

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

authors： Yamato KT,Ishizaki K,Fujisawa M,Okada S,Nakayama S,Fujishita M,Bando H,Yodoya K,Hayashi K,Bando T,Hasumi A,Nishio T,Sakata R,Yamamoto M,Yamaki A,Kajikawa M,Yamano T,Nishide T,Choi SH,Shimizu-Ueda Y,Hanajiri T,Sa

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Two human B-cell differentiation antigens, Bp35 and Bp50, apparently play distinct roles as signal receptors in B-cell activation. Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to either Bp35 or Bp50 deliver positive signals to B cells that stimulate their transition through the cell cycle. mAb to Bp35, like anti-immunoglobulin antibo...

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

authors： Clark EA,Ledbetter JA

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential benefits of autonomous systems are obvious. However, there are still major issues to be dealt with before developing such systems becomes a commonplace engineering practice, with accepted and trustworthy deliverables. We argue that a solid, evolving, publicly available, community-controlled foundation fo...

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

authors： Harel D,Marron A,Sifakis J

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The somatostatin receptor subtype 2 (sst2) behaves as a tumor suppressor when expressed and stimulated by its ligand somatostatin in pancreatic cancer. We reveal a mechanism underlying oncosuppressive action of sst2, whereby this inhibitory receptor upregulates the expression of the secreted angioinhibitory factor thr...

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

authors： Laklai H,Laval S,Dumartin L,Rochaix P,Hagedorn M,Bikfalvi A,Le Guellec S,Delisle MB,Schally AV,Susini C,Pyronnet S,Bousquet C

更新日期：2009-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Transformation of murine thymocytes by radiation leukemia virus is associated with reduced expression of the class I antigens encoded in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and increased methylation and altered restriction enzyme patterns of MHC DNA. These changes may play a role in host susceptibility to virus...

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

authors： Meruelo D,Kornreich R,Rossomando A,Pampeno C,Boral A,Silver JL,Buxbaum J,Weiss EH,Devlin JJ,Mellor AL

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basic theory of a newly discovered physical technique, steady-state electrophoresis, is described followed by analyses of several representative macro-ion systems with the technique. This method measures apparent moments of molar diminished charge (defined below) of solvated macro-ions from an analysis of a concen...

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

authors： Godfrey JE

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous biomolecular studies from the past 20 years have indicated that the large African monkeys Papio, Theropithecus, and Mandrillus have a diphyletic relationship with different species groups of mangabeys. According to the results of these studies, mandrills and drills (Mandrillus) are most closely related to the...

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

authors： Fleagle JG,McGraw WS

更新日期：1999-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A glycoprotein was isolated and purified to homogeneity from the serum of a patient with chronic non-A, non-B hepatitis. NaDodSO4/PAGE of the glycoprotein revealed a single major band at Mr approximately 77,000. Antibodies to this glycoprotein were shown to possess the following immunoreactivity: (i) they reacted by r...

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

authors： Seto B,Gerety RJ

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni has a general N-linked glycosylation pathway (encoded by the pgl gene cluster), which culminates in the transfer of a heptasaccharide: GalNAc-alpha1,4-GalNAc-alpha1,4-(Glcbeta1,3)-GalNAc-alpha1,4-GalNAc-alpha1,4-GalNAc-alpha1,3-Bac [where Bac is bacillosamine (2,4-diacetamido-2,4,6-trideoxyglucose...

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

authors： Glover KJ,Weerapana E,Imperiali B

更新日期：2005-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of a human breast cancer cell line (MDA-MB-435) in nude mice with a recombinant adenovirus containing the human interferon (IFN) consensus gene, IFN-con1 (ad5/IFN), resulted in tumor regression in 100% of the animals. Tumor regression occurred when virus was injected either within 24 hr of tumor cell implant...

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

authors： Zhang JF,Hu C,Geng Y,Selm J,Klein SB,Orazi A,Taylor MW

更新日期：1996-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The local field at large distances from a charged or dipolar impurity in a nonpolar polarizable fluid is related to the dielectric constant of the medium. The predicted local field agrees accurately with molecular dynamics results. In contrast, the usual continuum theory prediction is only accurate to first order in t...

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

authors： Pollock EL,Alder BJ,Pratt LR

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The modern concept of neurogenesis in the adult brain is predicated on the premise that multipotent glial cells give rise to new neurons throughout life. Although extensive evidence exists indicating that this is the case, the transition from glial to neuronal phenotype remains poorly understood. A unique monolayer ce...

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

authors： Scheffler B,Walton NM,Lin DD,Goetz AK,Enikolopov G,Roper SN,Steindler DA

更新日期：2005-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Human serum albumin (HSA) derivatized with cis-aconitic anhydride was covalently coupled to liposomes with a size of approximately 100 nm [polyaconitylated HSA (Aco-HSA) liposomes]. Within 30 min after injection into a rat, Aco-HSA liposomes were completely cleared from the blood and almost exclusively taken up by the...

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

authors： Kamps JA,Morselt HW,Swart PJ,Meijer DK,Scherphof GL

更新日期：1997-10-14 00:00:00