Structure of canine pulmonary surfactant apoprotein: cDNA and complete amino acid sequence.

abstract：:The CD8 dimer interacts with the alpha 3 domain of major histocompatibility complex class I molecules through two immunoglobulin variable-like domains. In this study a crystal structure-informed mutational analysis has been performed to identify amino acids in the CD8 alpha/alpha homodimer that are likely to be involv...

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

authors： Giblin PA,Leahy DJ,Mennone J,Kavathas PB

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hox5 genes (Hoxa5, Hoxb5, Hoxc5) are exclusively expressed in the lung mesenchyme during embryogenesis, and the most severe phenotypes result from constitutive loss of function of all three genes. Because Hox5 triple null mutants exhibit perinatal lethality, the contribution of this paralogous group to postembryonic l...

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

authors： Hrycaj SM,Marty-Santos L,Cebrian C,Rasky AJ,Ptaschinski C,Lukacs NW,Wellik DM

更新日期：2018-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Choroideremia is an X-linked hereditary retinal degeneration resulting from mutations in the Rab escort protein-1 (REP1). The Rep1 protein facilitates posttranslational modification of Rab proteins, which regulate intracellular trafficking in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and photoreceptors and are likely invol...

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

authors： Krock BL,Bilotta J,Perkins BD

更新日期：2007-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Chicken erythrocyte nuclei have been labeled in the active regions of the chromosome by using the nick translation reaction. In this procedure, accessible areas of the genome are preferentially nicked by the action of pancreatic DNase I and subsequently labeled by using DNA polymerase I from Escherichia coli. These nu...

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

authors： Gazit B,Panet A,Cedar H

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-cycle progression is mediated by a co-ordinated interaction between cyclin-dependent kinases and their target proteins including the pRB and E2F/DP-1 complexes. Immunoneutralization and antisense experiments have established that the abundance of cyclin D1, a regulatory subunit of the cyclin-dependent kinases, ma...

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

authors： Watanabe G,Howe A,Lee RJ,Albanese C,Shu IW,Karnezis AN,Zon L,Kyriakis J,Rundell K,Pestell RG

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:For several decades, the iron-based Fenton-like catalysis has been believed to be mediated by hydroxyl radicals or high-valent iron-oxo species, while only sporadic evidence supported the generation of singlet oxygen (1O2) in the Haber-Weiss cycle. Herein, we report an unprecedented singlet oxygen mediated Fenton-like...

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

authors： Yang Z,Qian J,Yu A,Pan B

更新日期：2019-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The motion and mixing of granular media are observed in several contexts in nature, often displaying striking similarities to liquids. Granular dynamics occur in geological phenomena and also enable technologies ranging from pharmaceuticals production to carbon capture. Here, we report the discovery of a family of gra...

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

authors： McLaren CP,Kovar TM,Penn A,Müller CR,Boyce CM

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae is both an inhabitant of estuarine environments and the etiologic agent of the diarrheal disease cholera. Previous work has demonstrated that V. cholerae forms both an exopolysaccharide-dependent biofilm and a Ca2+-dependent biofilm. In this work, we demonstrate a role for the O-antigen polysaccharide ...

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

authors： Kierek K,Watnick PI

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe in this study punchless, a nonpathogenic mutant from the rice blast fungus M. grisea, obtained by plasmid-mediated insertional mutagenesis. As do most fungal plant pathogens, M. grisea differentiates an infection structure specialized for host penetration called the appressorium. We show that punchless dif...

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

authors： Clergeot PH,Gourgues M,Cots J,Laurans F,Latorse MP,Pepin R,Tharreau D,Notteghem JL,Lebrun MH

更新日期：2001-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Elastogenesis is a hierarchical process by which cells form functional elastic fibers, providing elasticity and the ability to regulate growth factor bioavailability in tissues, including blood vessels, lung, and skin. This process requires accessory proteins, including fibulin-4 and -5, and latent TGF binding protein...

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

authors： Kumra H,Nelea V,Hakami H,Pagliuzza A,Djokic J,Xu J,Yanagisawa H,Reinhardt DP

更新日期：2019-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome c oxidase (COX) is a 13-subunit protein complex that catalyzes the last step in mitochondrial electron transfer in mammals. Of the 10 subunits encoded by nuclear DNA (three are mtDNA products), some are expressed as tissue- and/or development-specific isoforms. For COX subunit VIII, previous work showed tha...

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

authors： Goldberg A,Wildman DE,Schmidt TR,Huttemann M,Goodman M,Weiss ML,Grossman LI

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:For a series of different proteins, including a structural protein, enzyme, inhibitor, protein marker, and a charge-transfer system, we have quantified the higher affinity of Na+ over K+ to the protein surface by means of molecular dynamics simulations and conductivity measurements. Both approaches show that sodium bi...

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

authors： Vrbka L,Vondrásek J,Jagoda-Cwiklik B,Vácha R,Jungwirth P

更新日期：2006-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the gene encoding the transcription factor autoimmune regulator (AIRE) are responsible for autoimmune polyendocrinopathy candidiasis ectodermal dystrophy syndrome. AIRE directs expression of tissue-restricted antigens in the thymic medulla and in lymph node stromal cells and thereby substantially contribu...

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

authors： Pomié C,Vicente R,Vuddamalay Y,Lundgren BA,van der Hoek M,Enault G,Kagan J,Fazilleau N,Scott HS,Romagnoli P,van Meerwijk JP

更新日期：2011-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons in macaque primary visual cortex are spatially arranged by their global topographic position and in at least three overlapping local modular systems: ocular dominance columns, orientation pinwheels, and cytochrome oxidase (CO) blobs. Individual neurons in the blobs are not tuned to orientation, and populations...

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

authors： Polimeni JR,Granquist-Fraser D,Wood RJ,Schwartz EL

更新日期：2005-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The robustness of eight common food web properties is examined with respect to web size. We show that the current controversy concerning the scale dependence or scale invariance of these properties can be resolved by accounting for scaling constraints introduced by webs of very small size. We demonstrate statistically...

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

authors： Bersier LF,Sugihara G

更新日期：1997-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of 125I-labeled wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) to parental and three distinct WGA-resistant Chinese hamster ovary cell lines possessing modified cell surface carbohydrate structures has been examined over a 10(6)-fold range of WGA concentrations. The Scatchard plot for WGA binding to parental cells was comple...

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

authors： Stanley P,Carver JP

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of reflex splanchnic nerve stimulation on proenkephalin A biosynthesis was investigated in the rat adrenal medulla. Tissue levels of native [Met5]enkephalin-like immunoreactivity (IR) (measured by direct RIA of tissue extracts), cryptic [Met5]enkephalin-like IR (calculated as the increase in [Met5]enkephali...

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

authors： Kanamatsu T,Unsworth CD,Diliberto EJ Jr,Viveros OH,Hong JS

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in the masticatory behavior of hunter-gatherer and agricultural populations is hypothesized to be one of the major forces affecting the form of the human mandible. However, this has yet to be analyzed at a global level. Here, the relationship between global mandibular shape variation and subsistence economy ...

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

authors： von Cramon-Taubadel N

更新日期：2011-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The three deleted in liver cancer genes (DLC1-3) encode Rho-GTPase-activating proteins (RhoGAPs) whose expression is frequently down-regulated or silenced in a variety of human malignancies. The RhoGAP activity is required for full DLC-dependent tumor suppressor activity. Here we report that DLC1 and DLC3 bind to huma...

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

authors： Qian X,Li G,Asmussen HK,Asnaghi L,Vass WC,Braverman R,Yamada KM,Popescu NC,Papageorge AG,Lowy DR

更新日期：2007-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathologic ocular angiogenesis is a leading cause of blindness, influenced by both dysregulated lipid metabolism and inflammation. Retinoic-acid-receptor-related orphan receptor alpha (RORα) is a lipid-sensing nuclear receptor with diverse biologic function including regulation of lipid metabolism and inflammation; ho...

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

authors： Sun Y,Liu CH,SanGiovanni JP,Evans LP,Tian KT,Zhang B,Stahl A,Pu WT,Kamenecka TM,Solt LA,Chen J

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Three distinct endosomal fractions were isolated in high purity from livers of estradiol-treated rats. Each fraction had characteristic physical and ultrastructural properties, but the lipid composition and major proteins of their membranes were similar and differed from those derived from the Golgi apparatus. Injecte...

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

authors： Belcher JD,Hamilton RL,Brady SE,Hornick CA,Jaeckle S,Schneider WJ,Havel RJ

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because synaptic vesicle exocytosis is a nano-mechanical process, it should be influenced by the mechanical properties of the cell membrane to which the vesicle fuses. By dissolving surfactants at various concentrations in the neuronal membrane, we have perturbed mechanical properties of the membrane and have found th...

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

authors： Zhu Y,Stevens CF

更新日期：2008-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The reversible phosphorylation of tyrosine residues is an important mechanism for modulating biological processes such as cellular signaling, differentiation, and growth, and if deregulated, can result in various types of cancer. Therefore, an understanding of these dynamic cellular processes at the molecular level re...

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

authors： Salomon AR,Ficarro SB,Brill LM,Brinker A,Phung QT,Ericson C,Sauer K,Brock A,Horn DM,Schultz PG,Peters EC

更新日期：2003-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mpemba effect occurs when a hot system cools faster than an initially colder one, when both are refrigerated in the same thermal reservoir. Using the custom-built supercomputer Janus II, we study the Mpemba effect in spin glasses and show that it is a nonequilibrium process, governed by the coherence length ξ of t...

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

authors： Baity-Jesi M,Calore E,Cruz A,Fernandez LA,Gil-Narvión JM,Gordillo-Guerrero A,Iñiguez D,Lasanta A,Maiorano A,Marinari E,Martin-Mayor V,Moreno-Gordo J,Muñoz Sudupe A,Navarro D,Parisi G,Perez-Gaviro S,Ricci-Tersenghi F,Rui

更新日期：2019-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple in vitro system that supports chromatin assembly was developed for Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The assembly reaction is ATP-dependent, uses soluble histones and assembly factors, and generates physiologically spaced nucleosomes. We analyze the pathway of histone recruitment into nucleosomes, using this system i...

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

authors： Schultz MC,Hockman DJ,Harkness TA,Garinther WI,Altheim BA

更新日期：1997-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Seasonal variations in the properties of rabbit-liver fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase have now been linked to corresponding changes in the levels of proteolytic activity in the liver extracts. Incubation of native fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase with purified liver lysosomes causes a 3-fold increase in catalytic activity at p...

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

authors： Pontremoli S,Melloni E,Balestrero F,Franzi AT,De Flora A,Horecker BL

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species competing exclusively for renewing resources are shown to obey simultaneous differential equations equivalent to the conditions for minimizing a certain quadratic form. In this sense competition acts to select species abundances giving the best least-squares fit in an expression [Formula: see text] Thus the nu...

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

authors： Arthur RM

更新日期：1969-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone morphogenetic protein 4 (BMP-4) induces ventral mesoderm but represses dorsal mesoderm formation in Xenopus embryos. We show that BMP-4 inhibits two signaling pathways regulating dorsal mesoderm formation, the induction of dorsal mesoderm (Spemann organizer) and the dorsalization of ventral mesoderm. Ectopic expr...

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

authors： Re'em-Kalma Y,Lamb T,Frank D

更新日期：1995-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP)σ (PTPRS) was shown previously to be associated with susceptibility to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). PTPσ(-/-) mice exhibit an IBD-like phenotype in the intestine and show increased susceptibility to acute models of murine colitis. However, the function of PTPσ in the intestine is...

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

authors： Murchie R,Guo CH,Persaud A,Muise A,Rotin D

更新日期：2014-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Injection of antisense oligonucleotides was used to investigate the function of c-mos in murine oocytes. Oocytes injected with antisense c-mos oligonucleotides completed the first meiotic division but failed to initiate meiosis II. Instead, loss of c-mos function led to chromosome decondensation, reformation of a nucl...

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

authors： O'Keefe SJ,Wolfes H,Kiessling AA,Cooper GM

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00