Mast cells are critical for controlling the bacterial burden and the healing of infected wounds.

abstract：:The CuAAC reaction (click chemistry) has been used in conjunction with solid-phase synthesis to produce catalytically active hairpin ribozymes around 100 nucleotides in length. Cross-strand ligation through neighboring nucleobases was successful in covalently linking presynthesized RNA strands with high efficiency (tr...

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

authors： El-Sagheer AH,Brown T

更新日期：2010-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotifers of the asexual class Bdelloidea are unusual in possessing two or more divergent copies of every gene that has been examined. Phylogenetic analysis of the heat-shock gene hsp82 and the TATA-box-binding protein gene tbp in multiple bdelloid species suggested that for each gene, each copy belonged to one of two ...

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

authors： Mark Welch DB,Cummings MP,Hillis DM,Meselson M

更新日期：2004-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The neutrality theory predicts that the rate of neutral molecular evolution is constant over time, and thus that there is a molecular clock for timing evolutionary events. It has been observed that the variance of the rate of evolution is generally larger than expected according to the neutrality theory, which has rai...

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

authors： Rodríguez-Trelles F,Tarrío R,Ayala FJ

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the complete nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences of a mouse epidermal keratin subunit of 60,000 Da. The keratin possesses a central alpha-helical domain of four tracts (termed 1A, 1B, 2A, and 2B) that can form coiled-coils, interspersed by short linker sequences, and has non-alpha-helical terminal d...

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

authors： Steinert PM,Parry DA,Racoosin EL,Idler WW,Steven AC,Trus BL,Roop DR

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytosolic concentration of free Ca2+ in bovine neutrophils was monitored by using the intracellular Ca2+ indicator quin2, 2-[[2-bis(acetylamino)-5-methylphenoxy]methyl-6-methoxy-8- bis(acetylamino)]quinoline. Neutrophils at rest have a cytosolic Ca2+ concentration of 85 +/- 5 nM, which in 2-4 min increases to 300-...

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

authors： Gennaro R,Pozzan T,Romeo D

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the process of fertilization in mammals, sperm bind in a relatively species-specific manner to the zona pellucida (ZP) of ovulated eggs. ZP3, a glycoprotein found in the mouse egg zona pellucida, serves as receptor for sperm during gamete adhesion. We report here that a Mr 56,000 protein found on mouse sperm ha...

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

authors： Bleil JD,Wassarman PM

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-protein interactions are essential for life. Yet, our understanding of the general principles governing binding is not complete. In the present study, we show that the interface between proteins is built in a modular fashion; each module is comprised of a number of closely interacting residues, with few intera...

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

authors： Reichmann D,Rahat O,Albeck S,Meged R,Dym O,Schreiber G

更新日期：2005-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The [PSI+] prion is a self-propagating amyloid of the translation termination factor, Sup35p, of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The N-terminal 253 residues (NM) of this 685-residue protein normally function in regulating mRNA turnover but spontaneously form infectious amyloid in vitro. We converted the three Ile residues i...

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

authors： Gorkovskiy A,Thurber KR,Tycko R,Wickner RB

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Sorting objects and events into categories and concepts is a fundamental cognitive capacity that reduces the cost of learning every particular situation encountered in our daily lives. Relational concepts such as "same," "different," "better than," or "larger than"--among others--are essential in human cognition becau...

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

authors： Avarguès-Weber A,Dyer AG,Combe M,Giurfa M

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Local inhomogeneities in lipid composition play a crucial role in regulation of signal transduction and membrane traffic. Nevertheless, most evidence for microdomains in cells remains indirect, and the nature of membrane inhomogeneities has been difficult to characterize. We used lipid analogs and lipid-anchored prote...

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

authors： Hao M,Mukherjee S,Maxfield FR

更新日期：2001-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major human pathogen. In addition to its importance in human health, there is growing interest in adapting HBV and other viruses for drug delivery and other nanotechnological applications. In both contexts, precise biophysical characterization of these large macromolecular particles is fun...

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

authors： Uetrecht C,Versluis C,Watts NR,Roos WH,Wuite GJ,Wingfield PT,Steven AC,Heck AJ

更新日期：2008-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We derive more than 80 embeddings of 2D hyperbolic honeycombs in Euclidean 3 space, forming 3-periodic infinite polyhedra with cubic symmetry. All embeddings are "minimally frustrated," formed by removing just enough isometries of the (regular, but unphysical) 2D hyperbolic honeycombs [Formula: see text], [Formula: se...

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

authors： Pedersen MC,Hyde ST

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently developed the electron force field (eFF) method for practical nonadiabatic electron dynamics simulations of materials under extreme conditions and showed that it gave an excellent description of the shock thermodynamics of hydrogen from molecules to atoms to plasma, as well as the electron dynamics of the ...

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

authors： Kim H,Su JT,Goddard WA 3rd

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The E3 ubiquitin ligase X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis (XIAP) acts as a molecular rheostat for the immune deficiency (IMD) pathway of the tick Ixodes scapularis How XIAP activates the IMD pathway in response to microbial infection remains ill defined. Here, we identified the XIAP enzymatic substrate p47 as a positive...

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

authors： McClure Carroll EE,Wang X,Shaw DK,O'Neal AJ,Oliva Chávez AS,Brown LJ,Boradia VM,Hammond HL,Pedra JHF

更新日期：2019-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Social separation early in life can lead to the development of impaired interpersonal relationships and profound social disorders. However, the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms involved are largely unknown. Here, we found that isolation of neonatal rats induced glucocorticoid-dependent social dominance ove...

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

authors： Tada H,Miyazaki T,Takemoto K,Takase K,Jitsuki S,Nakajima W,Koide M,Yamamoto N,Komiya K,Suyama K,Sano A,Taguchi A,Takahashi T

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzymatic activity, having the properties expected of a B-specific host-controlled modification enzyme, has been purified from an extract of Escherichia coli strain B. This activity renders the unmodified replicative form of phage fd resistant to B-specific restriction and is only present in strains carrying intact...

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

authors： Kühnlein U,Linn S,Arber W

更新日期：1969-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the Arabidopsis TRANSPARENT TESTA 2 (TT2) MYB family transcription factor leads to massive accumulation of proanthocyanidins (PAs) in hairy roots of Medicago truncatula. Microarray analysis showed that TT2 induces genes for flavonoid/PA biosynthesis, transcription factors, and a large number of genes of ...

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

authors： Pang Y,Peel GJ,Sharma SB,Tang Y,Dixon RA

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Human diploid fibroblasts underwent lysis when resuspended in isotonic sucrose. After preparation of a granular fraction by differential centrifugation, lysosomes were almost completely purified by free-flow electrophoresis. Electron micrographs of the final fraction of fibroblast lysosomes (about 25-fold purified) sh...

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

authors： Harms E,Kern H,Schneider JA

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanocyte stimulating hormone coupled to Sepharose effects an increase in tryosinase (EC 1.14.18.1; monophenol monoxygenase) activity of cultivated mouse melanoma cells. Synchronized cells are found to respond to melanocyte stimulating hormone only in the G2 phase of the cell cycle, although their response to cyclic ...

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

authors： Varga JM,Dipasquale A,Pawelek J,McGuire JS,Lerner AB

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-specific heritable mutations in maize genes were engineered by introducing chimeric RNA/DNA oligonucleotides. Two independent targets within the endogenous maize acetohydroxyacid synthase gene sequence were modified in a site-specific fashion, thereby conferring resistance to either imidazolinone or sulfonylurea ...

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

authors： Zhu T,Peterson DJ,Tagliani L,St Clair G,Baszczynski CL,Bowen B

更新日期：1999-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), a cognate ligand for the tyrosine kinase receptor B (TrkB) receptor, mediates neuronal survival, differentiation, synaptic plasticity, and neurogenesis. However, BDNF has a poor pharmacokinetic profile that limits its therapeutic potential. Here we report the identification of...

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

authors： Jang SW,Liu X,Yepes M,Shepherd KR,Miller GW,Liu Y,Wilson WD,Xiao G,Blanchi B,Sun YE,Ye K

更新日期：2010-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:13C-labeled precorrin-6x is biosynthesized by cell-free protein preparations from Pseudomonas denitrificans in separate experiments using delta-amino[5-13C]levulinic acid and the corresponding delta-amino[4-13C]- and delta-amino[3-13C]levulinic acid-labeled forms in conjunction with S-[methyl-13C]adenosylmethionine fo...

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

authors： Thibaut D,Blanche F,Debussche L,Leeper FJ,Battersby AR

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans (CSPGs) represent a major barrier to regenerating axons in the central nervous system (CNS), but the structural diversity of their polysaccharides has hampered efforts to dissect the structure-activity relationships underlying their physiological activity. By taking advantage of our a...

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

authors： Brown JM,Xia J,Zhuang B,Cho KS,Rogers CJ,Gama CI,Rawat M,Tully SE,Uetani N,Mason DE,Tremblay ML,Peters EC,Habuchi O,Chen DF,Hsieh-Wilson LC

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant (ML 308-22) was isolated from Escherichia coli ML 308, which had lost the normal capacity to accumulate lactose analogs despite an increase in the membrane carrier activity. The exit of thiomethylgalactoside was much faster than normal, accounting for the inability of the cell to maintain high intracellular c...

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

authors： Wong PT,Kashket ER,Wilson TH

更新日期：1970-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that exposure to solar UVB (290-320 nm) gives rise to mutations in oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes that initiate the molecular cascade toward skin cancer. Although UVA (320-400 nm) has also been implicated in multistage photocarcinogenesis, its potential contribution to sunlight mutagenesis...

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

authors： Drobetsky EA,Turcotte J,Châteauneuf A

更新日期：1995-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium is ubiquitous in tropical and subtropical seas and is an important contributor to global N and C cycling. We sought to characterize metabolic uptake patterns in individual Trichodesmium IMS-101 cells by quantitatively imaging (13)C and (15)N uptake with high-resolution secondary...

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

authors： Finzi-Hart JA,Pett-Ridge J,Weber PK,Popa R,Fallon SJ,Gunderson T,Hutcheon ID,Nealson KH,Capone DG

更新日期：2009-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Are judicial rulings based solely on laws and facts? Legal formalism holds that judges apply legal reasons to the facts of a case in a rational, mechanical, and deliberative manner. In contrast, legal realists argue that the rational application of legal reasons does not sufficiently explain the decisions of judges an...

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

authors： Danziger S,Levav J,Avnaim-Pesso L

更新日期：2011-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly cancers affecting the Western world. Because the disease is highly metastatic and difficult to diagnosis until late stages, the 5-y survival rate is around 5%. The identification of molecular cancer drivers is critical for furthering our understanding of the disease and deve...

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

authors： Mann KM,Ward JM,Yew CC,Kovochich A,Dawson DW,Black MA,Brett BT,Sheetz TE,Dupuy AJ,Australian Pancreatic Cancer Genome Initiative.,Chang DK,Biankin AV,Waddell N,Kassahn KS,Grimmond SM,Rust AG,Adams DJ,Jenkins NA,Copela

更新日期：2012-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports of structural differences between the brains of men and women, heterosexual and homosexual men, and male-to-female transsexuals and other men have been offered as evidence that the behavioral differences between these groups are likely caused by differences in the early development of the brain. However, a pos...

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

authors： Cooke BM,Tabibnia G,Breedlove SM

更新日期：1999-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The 26S proteasome, a molecular machine responsible for regulated protein degradation, consists of a proteolytic core particle (20S CP) associated with 19S regulatory particles (19S RPs) subdivided into base and lid subcomplexes. The assembly of 19S RP base subcomplex is mediated by multiple dedicated chaperones. Amon...

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

authors： Barrault MB,Richet N,Godard C,Murciano B,Le Tallec B,Rousseau E,Legrand P,Charbonnier JB,Le Du MH,Guérois R,Ochsenbein F,Peyroche A

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00