Mammalian nitrate biosynthesis: mouse macrophages produce nitrite and nitrate in response to Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide.

abstract：:Heparan sulfate regulates diverse cell-surface signaling events, and its roles in the development of the nervous system recently have been increasingly uncovered by studies using genetic models carrying mutations of genes encoding enzymes for its synthesis. On the other hand, the role of heparan sulfate in the physiol...

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

authors： Irie F,Badie-Mahdavi H,Yamaguchi Y

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The abelian sandpile is a cellular automaton which serves as the archetypical model to study self-organized criticality, a phenomenon occurring in various biological, physical, and social processes. Its recurrent configurations form an abelian group, whose identity is a fractal composed of self-similar patches. Here, ...

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

authors： Lang M,Shkolnikov M

更新日期：2019-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) and pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) are two mediators synthesized by immune cells, specially under inflammatory and antigen stimulation conditions. Reports have shown that neuropeptides attenuate the deleterious consequences of septic shock both by down-re...

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

authors： Martinez C,Abad C,Delgado M,Arranz A,Juarranz MG,Rodriguez-Henche N,Brabet P,Leceta J,Gomariz RP

更新日期：2002-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The papain-solubilized fragment of the heavy chain of HLA-B7, which is the NH2-terminal part of the whole polypeptide chain, can be divided into three regions by mild acid and cyanogen bromide cleavages. The first 100 amino acids terminating in a methionine residue contain the carbohydrate moiety; this segment is foll...

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

authors： Terhorst C,Robb R,Jones C,Strominger JL

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We find that histidine residues in proteins are major targets for reaction with the lipid peroxidation product 4-hydroxynon-2-enal (HNE). Reaction of insulin (which contains no sulfhydryl groups) with HNE leads to the generation of HNE-protein adducts, which are converted to radioactive derivatives upon subsequent tre...

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

authors： Uchida K,Stadtman ER

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Blindsight is a phenomenon in which human patients with damage to striate cortex deny any visual sensation in the resultant visual field defect but can nonetheless detect and localize stimuli when persuaded to guess. Although monkeys with striate lesions have also been shown to exhibit some residual vision, it is not ...

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

authors： Moore T,Rodman HR,Repp AB,Gross CG

更新日期：1995-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The patterns of variations in fisheries time series are known to result from a complex combination of species and fisheries dynamics all coupled with environmental forcing (including climate, trophic interactions, etc.). Disentangling the relative effects of these factors has been a major goal of fisheries science for...

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

authors： Rouyer T,Fromentin JM,Ménard F,Cazelles B,Briand K,Pianet R,Planque B,Stenseth NC

更新日期：2008-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple studies have established that microRNAs (miRNAs) are involved in the initiation and progression of cancer. Notably, miR-155 is one of the most overexpressed miRNAs in several solid and hematological malignancies. Ectopic miR-155 expression in mice B cells (Eμ-miR-155 transgenic mice) has been shown to induce ...

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

authors： Sandhu SK,Volinia S,Costinean S,Galasso M,Neinast R,Santhanam R,Parthun MR,Perrotti D,Marcucci G,Garzon R,Croce CM

更新日期：2012-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) promoter is regulated by steroid hormones through a hormone-responsive region that is organized in a positioned nucleosome. Hormone induction leads to a structural change of this nucleosome which makes its DNA more sensitive to cleavage by DNase I and enables simultaneous binding o...

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

authors： Bartsch J,Truss M,Bode J,Beato M

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the usual Darwinian case in which struggle for existence leads to density limitations on the environment's carrying capacity, R. A. Fisher's reproductive-value concept reduces to zero for every initial age group. To salvage some meaning for Fisher's notion, two variant reproductive-value concepts are defined here: ...

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

authors： Samuelson PA

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we provide evidence that neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are present on hippocampal astrocytes and their activation produces rapid currents and calcium transients. Our data indicate that these responses obtained from astrocytes are primarily mediated by an AChR subtype that is functi...

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

authors： Sharma G,Vijayaraghavan S

更新日期：2001-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The p21 RAS subfamily of small GTPases, including KRAS, HRAS, and NRAS, regulates cell proliferation, cytoskeletal organization, and other signaling networks, and is the most frequent target of activating mutations in cancer. Activating germline mutations of KRAS and HRAS cause severe developmental abnormalities leadi...

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

authors： Oliveira JB,Bidère N,Niemela JE,Zheng L,Sakai K,Nix CP,Danner RL,Barb J,Munson PJ,Puck JM,Dale J,Straus SE,Fleisher TA,Lenardo MJ

更新日期：2007-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclonic atmospheric vortices of varying intensity, collectively known as low-pressure systems (LPS), travel northwest across central India and produce more than half of the precipitation received by that fertile region and its ∼600 million inhabitants. Yet, future changes in LPS activity are poorly understood, due in...

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

authors： Sandeep S,Ajayamohan RS,Boos WR,Sabin TP,Praveen V

更新日期：2018-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used a microfluidic mass sensor to measure the density of single living cells. By weighing each cell in two fluids of different densities, our technique measures the single-cell mass, volume, and density of approximately 500 cells per hour with a density precision of 0.001 g mL(-1). We observe that the intrins...

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

authors： Grover WH,Bryan AK,Diez-Silva M,Suresh S,Higgins JM,Manalis SR

更新日期：2011-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of T7 DNA by T7 RNA polymerase in vitro gives rise to six major size classes of RNAs comprising seven major T7 RNA species. These RNAs are all read from the r-strand of T7 DNA and are not derived from the early (leftmost on the conventional genetic map) region of the molecule. When artifically shortened ...

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

authors： Golomb M,Chamberlin M

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological organisms have evolved a wide range of immune mechanisms to defend themselves against pathogens. Beyond molecular details, these mechanisms differ in how protection is acquired, processed, and passed on to subsequent generations-differences that may be essential to long-term survival. Here, we introduce a m...

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

authors： Mayer A,Mora T,Rivoire O,Walczak AM

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid antibody production in response to invading pathogens requires the dramatic expansion of pathogen-derived antigen-specific B lymphocyte populations. Whether B cell population dynamics are based on stochastic competition between competing cell fates, as in the development of competence by the bacterium Bacillus s...

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

authors： Mitchell S,Roy K,Zangle TA,Hoffmann A

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit chondrocyte cultures on plastic dishes are capable of depositing a cartilaginous matrix, although the matrix does not calcify unless high levels of phosphate are added to the medium. In the present study, we cultivated a pelleted mass of rabbit growth-plate chondrocytes in the presence of Eagle's minimum essent...

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

authors： Kato Y,Iwamoto M,Koike T,Suzuki F,Takano Y

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass cytometry enables an unprecedented number of parameters to be measured in individual cells at a high throughput, but the large dimensionality of the resulting data severely limits approaches relying on manual "gating." Clustering cells based on phenotypic similarity comes at a loss of single-cell resolution and o...

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

authors： Shekhar K,Brodin P,Davis MM,Chakraborty AK

更新日期：2014-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A common complaint among pain patients is that they lose their appetite. These accounts are anecdotal, however, and the neural mechanism underlying pain-induced loss of appetite remains unknown. In this study, we documented the occurrence of appetite loss in patients under migraine attack and investigated the neuronal...

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

authors： Malick A,Jakubowski M,Elmquist JK,Saper CB,Burstein R

更新日期：2001-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Lineage plasticity is a prominent feature of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) cells, which can occur via deregulation of lineage-specifying transcription factors. Here, we show that the zinc finger protein ZBED2 is aberrantly expressed in PDA and alters tumor cell identity in this disease. Unexpectedly, our epig...

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

authors： Somerville TDD,Xu Y,Wu XS,Maia-Silva D,Hur SK,de Almeida LMN,Preall JB,Koo PK,Vakoc CR

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic mutations can now be quantified in almost any cell type in mice carrying bacterial genes in a lambda phage shuttle vector. Mutations induced in vivo are detectable ex vivo, after packaging host-cell DNA into phage that are grown on suitable bacteria. However, the transgenic DNA differs from many host loci in s...

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

authors： Tao KS,Urlando C,Heddle JA

更新日期：1993-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Parkinson's disease (PD) substantia nigra is characterized by the presence of Lewy bodies containing fibrillar alpha-synuclein. Early-onset PD has been linked to two point mutations in the gene that encodes alpha-synuclein, suggesting that disease may arise from accelerated fibrillization. However, the identity of...

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

authors： Conway KA,Lee SJ,Rochet JC,Ding TT,Williamson RE,Lansbury PT Jr

更新日期：2000-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymic epithelial cells (TECs), the major component of the thymic microenvironment, can be modulated by pituitary hormones. We have shown previously that prolactin (PRL) can influence the endocrine activity of TECs and stimulate TEC proliferation as well as cytokeratin expression, suggesting the existence of PRL recep...

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

authors： Dardenne M,Kelly PA,Bach JF,Savino W

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is a common congenital heart disease that results when the ductus arteriosus, a muscular artery, fails to remodel and close after birth. A syndromic form of this disorder, Char syndrome, is caused by mutation in TFAP2B, the gene encoding a neural crest-derived transcription factor. Estab...

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

authors： Mani A,Radhakrishnan J,Farhi A,Carew KS,Warnes CA,Nelson-Williams C,Day RW,Pober B,State MW,Lifton RP

更新日期：2005-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We combine direct surface force measurements with thermodynamic arguments to demonstrate that pure ionic liquids are expected to behave as dilute weak electrolyte solutions, with typical effective dissociated ion concentrations of less than 0.1% at room temperature. We performed equilibrium force-distance measurements...

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

authors： Gebbie MA,Valtiner M,Banquy X,Fox ET,Henderson WA,Israelachvili JN

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary transitions in individuality (ETIs) underlie the watershed events in the history of life on Earth, including the origins of cells, eukaryotes, plants, animals, and fungi. Each of these events constitutes an increase in the level of complexity, as groups of individuals become individuals in their own right...

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

authors： Herron MD,Hackett JD,Aylward FO,Michod RE

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian rhythms in metazoan eukaryotes are controlled by an endogenous molecular clock. It functions in many locations, including subsets of brain neurons (clock neurons) within the central nervous system. Although the molecular clock relies on transcription/translation feedback loops, posttranscriptional regulation...

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

authors： Chen X,Rosbash M

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Current theory indicates that mitochondria were obtained 1.5 billion years ago from an ancient prokaryote. The mitochondria provided the capacity for aerobic respiration, the creation of the eukaryotic cell, and eventually complex multicellular organisms. Recent reports have found that mitochondria play essential role...

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

authors： Spees JL,Olson SD,Whitney MJ,Prockop DJ

更新日期：2006-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The regional chromosomal location of the human gene for plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI1) was determined by three independent methods of gene mapping. PAI1 was localized first to 7cen-q32 and then to 7q21.3-q22 by Southern blot hybridization analysis of a panel of human and mouse somatic cell hybrids with ...

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

authors： Klinger KW,Winqvist R,Riccio A,Andreasen PA,Sartorio R,Nielsen LS,Stuart N,Stanislovitis P,Watkins P,Douglas R

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00