Repurposing a peptide toxin from wasp venom into antiinfectives with dual antimicrobial and immunomodulatory properties.

abstract：:Little is known about how genetic variation and epigenetic marks interact to shape differences in behavior. The foraging (for) gene regulates behavioral differences between the rover and sitter Drosophila melanogaster strains, but the molecular mechanisms through which it does so have remained elusive. We show that th...

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

authors： Anreiter I,Kramer JM,Sokolowski MB

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Transferrin, a nonheme iron-binding protein, is polymorphic in most vertebrate species that have been examined. In pigeons, it is controlled by an autosomal gene, with two known codominant alleles, Tf(A) and Tf(B). The two alleles are found in nearly equal frequencies and the three genotypes are at Hardy-Weinberg equi...

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

authors： Frelinger JA

更新日期：1972-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenicity of fixed rabies virus strains for adult mice depends on the presence of an antigenic determinant on the viral glycoprotein. Two virus-neutralizing monoclonal antibodies have been used to identify this determinant. All pathogenic strains of fixed rabies virus bind to these antibodies and are neutraliz...

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

authors： Dietzschold B,Wunner WH,Wiktor TJ,Lopes AD,Lafon M,Smith CL,Koprowski H

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory neurons perceive environmental cues and are important of organismal survival. Peripheral sensory neurons interact intimately with glial cells. While the function of axonal ensheathment by glia is well studied, less is known about the functional significance of glial interaction with the somatodendritic compart...

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

authors： Yadav S,Younger SH,Zhang L,Thompson-Peer KL,Li T,Jan LY,Jan YN

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The p21 region of human chromosome 9 is thought to contain a gene (MLM) involved in genetic susceptibility to melanoma and a gene or genes that influence progression of certain other tumors. Genomic clones that span a large region in 9p21 surrounding the presumptive tumor suppressor gene(s) have been isolated. A set o...

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

authors： Weaver-Feldhaus J,Gruis NA,Neuhausen S,Le Paslier D,Stockert E,Skolnick MH,Kamb A

更新日期：1994-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Although in decline after successful anti-HIV therapy, B-cell lymphomas are still elevated in HIV-1-seropositive (HIV+) persons, and the mechanisms are obscure. The HIV-1 matrix protein p17 persists in germinal centers long after HIV-1 drug suppression, and some p17 variants (vp17s) activate Akt signaling and promote ...

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

authors： Dolcetti R,Giagulli C,He W,Selleri M,Caccuri F,Eyzaguirre LM,Mazzuca P,Corbellini S,Campilongo F,Marsico S,Giombini E,Muraro E,Rozera G,De Paoli P,Carbone A,Capobianchi MR,Ippolito G,Fiorentini S,Blattner WA,Lu W,

更新日期：2015-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages (M phi) are activated by IFN gamma and are important cellular targets for infection by human and murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV), making it advantageous for CMVs to block IFN gamma-induced M phi differentiation. We found that MCMV infection inhibited IFN gamma regulation of many genes in M phi. MCMV infectio...

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

authors： Popkin DL,Watson MA,Karaskov E,Dunn GP,Bremner R,Virgin HW 4th

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Recessive Stargardt's macular degeneration is a blinding disease of children caused by mutations in the ABCA4 (ABCR) gene. Mice with a knockout mutation in abcr accumulate toxic lipofuscin pigments in ocular tissues, similar to affected humans. The major fluorophore of lipofuscin is the bis-retinoid, N-retinylidene-N-...

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

authors： Radu RA,Mata NL,Bagla A,Travis GH

更新日期：2004-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of high-titer, helper-free retroviruses by transient transfection has been achieved by using the highly transfectable 293T cell line into which are stably introduced constructs that express retroviral packaging functions. The resulting ecotropic virus packaging cell line BOSC 23 produces infectious retr...

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

authors： Pear WS,Nolan GP,Scott ML,Baltimore D

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cointegrate DNA molecules containing two copies of a transposable element appear to be intermediates in the transposition process. These structures are resolved by site-specific recombination to yield the normal end products of transposition. The transposable element gamma delta (Tn1000) synthesizes a product intercha...

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

authors： Kitts P,Symington L,Burke M,Reed R,Sherratt D

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes is preceded by the development of insulin resistance, in which the action of insulin is impaired, largely in skeletal muscles. Caveolin-3 (Cav3) is a muscle-specific subtype of caveolin, an example of a scaffolding protein found within membranes. Cav is also known as growth signal inhibitor, although i...

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

authors： Oshikawa J,Otsu K,Toya Y,Tsunematsu T,Hankins R,Kawabe J,Minamisawa S,Umemura S,Hagiwara Y,Ishikawa Y

更新日期：2004-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Forests and their soils contain the majority of the earth's terrestrial carbon stocks. Changes in patterns of tree growth can have a huge impact on atmospheric cycles, biogeochemical cycles, climate change, and biodiversity. Recent studies have shown increases in biomass across many forest types. This increase has bee...

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

authors： McMahon SM,Parker GG,Miller DR

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Aptamers recognize their targets with extraordinary affinity and specificity. The aptamer-based therapeutic, Macugen, is derived from a modified 2'fluoro pyrimidine RNA inhibitor to vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and is now being used to treat the wet form of age-related macular degeneration. This VEGF(165)...

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

authors： Lee JH,Canny MD,De Erkenez A,Krilleke D,Ng YS,Shima DT,Pardi A,Jucker F

更新日期：2005-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Bar-coded multiplexed sequencing approaches based on new-generation sequencing technologies provide capacity to sequence a mapping population in a single sequencing run. However, such approaches usually generate low-coverage and error-prone sequences for each line in a population. Thus, it is a significant challenge t...

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

authors： Xie W,Feng Q,Yu H,Huang X,Zhao Q,Xing Y,Yu S,Han B,Zhang Q

更新日期：2010-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening of a human placenta lambda gt11 library has led to the isolation of the cDNA for the human beta 1-adrenergic receptor (beta 1AR). Used as the probe was the human genomic clone termed G-21. This clone, which contains an intronless gene for a putative receptor, was previously isolated by virtue of its cross hy...

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

authors： Frielle T,Collins S,Daniel KW,Caron MG,Lefkowitz RJ,Kobilka BK

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified the mutation responsible for the autosomal recessive wasted (wst) mutation of the mouse. Wasted mice are characterized by wasting and neurological and immunological abnormalities starting at 21 days after birth; they die by 28 days. A deletion of 15.8 kb in wasted mice abolishes expression of a gene...

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

authors： Chambers DM,Peters J,Abbott CM

更新日期：1998-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli K12 2320(lambda)-15B has a mutation that results in ochre suppressor activity.(1) This mutation concomitantly causes a decreased growth rate in rich medium, an increased sensitivity to streptomycin,(1) and the production of some altered 30S ribosomes which are differentially sensitive to RNase.(2) The...

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

authors： Gartner TK,Orias E,Lannan JE,Beeson J,Reid PJ

更新日期：1969-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of vibratory patterns in the cochlea is crucial to understanding the stimulation of mechanosensory cells. Experiments to determine the motion of the cochlear partition and surrounding fluid are extremely challenging. As a result, the motion data are incomplete and often contradictory. The bending mechanism o...

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

authors： Cai H,Shoelson B,Chadwick RS

更新日期：2004-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:NRSF/REST is a protein that silences transcription of a number of genes that contain a DNA element called the neuron-restrictive silencer element (NRSE). During embryogenesis, REST is expressed ubiquitously in nonneural cells, but is down-regulated during differentiation of neural progenitors into neurons. REST is als...

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

authors： Koenigsberger C,Chicca JJ 2nd,Amoureux MC,Edelman GM,Jones FS

更新日期：2000-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigenic variation of infectious organisms is a major factor in evasion of the host immune response. However, there has been no definitive demonstration of this phenomenon in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. In this study, cloned parasites were examined serologically and biochemically for the expression of...

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

authors： Biggs BA,Goozé L,Wycherley K,Wollish W,Southwell B,Leech JH,Brown GV

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Current evidence suggests that the length of poly(A) tails of bacterial mRNAs result from a competition between poly(A) polymerase and exoribonucleases that attack the 3' ends of RNAs. Here, we show that host factor Hfq is also involved in poly(A) tail metabolism. Inactivation of the hfq gene reduces the length of pol...

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

authors： Hajnsdorf E,Régnier P

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal as well as Rous sarcoma virus-infected chicken pectoral and chicken embryo fibroblasts proliferate actively in a plasma containing medium of physiological ion concentrations (Ca2+, 1.2 mM; Mg2+, 0.7 mM). Reduction of medium calcium and magnesium concentrations is necessary to achieve selective quiescence of nor...

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

authors： Balk SD

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of protein kinase C (PKC) as a mediator of glucose-induced insulin secretion has been a subject of controversy. Glucose-induced translocation of PKC has not been reported, and the relevant PKC isoenzymes in islets have not been identified. To address these issues, we developed specific antibodies to the alpha...

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

authors： Ganesan S,Calle R,Zawalich K,Smallwood JI,Zawalich WS,Rasmussen H

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathologic extraskeletal bone formation, or heterotopic ossification (HO), occurs following mechanical trauma, burns, orthopedic operations, and in patients with hyperactivating mutations of the type I bone morphogenetic protein receptor ACVR1 (Activin type 1 receptor). Extraskeletal bone forms through an endochondral...

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

authors： Agarwal S,Loder S,Brownley C,Cholok D,Mangiavini L,Li J,Breuler C,Sung HH,Li S,Ranganathan K,Peterson J,Tompkins R,Herndon D,Xiao W,Jumlongras D,Olsen BR,Davis TA,Mishina Y,Schipani E,Levi B

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We explore the question of what are the best ligands for macromolecular targets. A survey of experimental data on a large number of the strongest-binding ligands indicates that the free energy of binding increases with the number of nonhydrogen atoms with an initial slope of approximately -1.5 kcal/mol (1 cal = 4.18 J...

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

authors： Kuntz ID,Chen K,Sharp KA,Kollman PA

更新日期：1999-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 1 (IL-1) and tumor necrosis factor alpha are thought to contribute to the inflammatory response associated with autoimmune diseases. Transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-beta 1) counteracts many effects of these cytokines and has various immunosuppressive properties. In the present study, it is shown tha...

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

authors： Kuruvilla AP,Shah R,Hochwald GM,Liggitt HD,Palladino MA,Thorbecke GJ

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug resistance in Gram-negative bacteria, to which multidrug efflux pumps such as the AcrB transporter makes a major contribution, is becoming a major public health problem. Unfortunately only a few compounds have been cocrystallized with AcrB, and thus computational approaches are essential in elucidating the i...

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

authors： Vargiu AV,Nikaido H

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper studies the cathodic corrosion of a spherical single crystal of platinum in an aqueous alkaline electrolyte, to map out the detailed facet dependence of the corrosion structures forming during this still largely unexplored electrochemical phenomenon. We find that anisotropic corrosion of the platinum electr...

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

authors： Arulmozhi N,Hersbach TJP,Koper MTM

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear factor-erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) is a key transcriptional regulator for antioxidant and anti-inflammation enzymes that binds to its endogenous inhibitor protein, Kelch-like ECH (erythroid cell-derived protein with CNC homology)-associated protein 1, in the cytoplasm under normal conditions. Various e...

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

authors： Kim SB,Pandita RK,Eskiocak U,Ly P,Kaisani A,Kumar R,Cornelius C,Wright WE,Pandita TK,Shay JW

更新日期：2012-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is strongly associated with obesity in most, but not all, ethnic groups, suggesting important ethnic differences in disease susceptibility. Although it is clear that insulin resistance plays a major role in the pathogenesis of T2DM and that insulin resistance is strongly associated with...

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

authors： Petersen KF,Dufour S,Feng J,Befroy D,Dziura J,Dalla Man C,Cobelli C,Shulman GI

更新日期：2006-11-28 00:00:00