A difference in the architecture of the surface membrane of normal and virally transformed cells.

abstract：:The BCL2 protooncogene encodes an inner mitochondrial membrane protein that blocks programmed cell death. BCL2 was isolated from the chromosomal breakpoint of follicular B-cell lymphoma. Transgenic mice that overexpress BCL2 display extended survival of resting B cells. In this study we use a monospecific anti-human B...

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

authors： Hockenbery DM,Zutter M,Hickey W,Nahm M,Korsmeyer SJ

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The influx of Ca2+ ions controls many important processes in excitable cells, including the regulation of the gating of Ca(2+)-activated K+ channels (the current IK[Ca]). Various IK[Ca] channels contribute to the regulation of the action-potential waveform, the repetitive discharge of spikes, and the secretion of neur...

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

authors： Wisgirda ME,Dryer SE

更新日期：1994-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The dnaZX gene of Escherichia coli directs the synthesis of two proteins, DnaZ and DnaX. These products are confirmed as the gamma and tau subunits of DNA polymerase III because antibody to a synthetic peptide present in both the DnaZ and DnaX proteins reacts also with the gamma and tau subunits of holoenzyme. To char...

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

authors： Lee SH,Walker JR

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial carriers are believed widely to be homodimers both in the inner membrane of the organelle and in detergents. The dimensions and molecular masses of the detergent and protein-detergent micelles were measured for yeast ADP/ATP carriers in a range of different detergents. The radius of the carrier at the mi...

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

authors： Bamber L,Harding M,Butler PJ,Kunji ER

更新日期：2006-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells expressing chimeric antigen receptors (CAR T cells) have shown impressive therapeutic efficacy against leukemias and lymphomas. However, they have not been as effective against solid tumors because they become hyporesponsive ("exhausted" or "dysfunctional") within the tumor microenvironment, with decreased cyt...

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

authors： Seo H,Chen J,González-Avalos E,Samaniego-Castruita D,Das A,Wang YH,López-Moyado IF,Georges RO,Zhang W,Onodera A,Wu CJ,Lu LF,Hogan PG,Bhandoola A,Rao A

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal locations of members of the xenotropic-related env gene family in the mouse genome have been determined. Endonuclease restriction site polymorphisms detected by molecular hybridization were used to study the inheritance of mink cell-focus inducing and xenotropic env gene-related sequences in recombinant in...

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

authors： Blatt C,Mileham K,Haas M,Nesbitt MN,Harper ME,Simon MI

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA photolyase is a pyrimidine-dimer repair enzyme that uses visible light. Photolyase generally contains two chromophore cofactors. One is a catalytic cofactor directly contributing to the repair of a pyrimidine-dimer. The other is a light-harvesting cofactor, which absorbs visible light and transfers energy to the c...

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

authors： Komori H,Masui R,Kuramitsu S,Yokoyama S,Shibata T,Inoue Y,Miki K

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) strains that have been passaged in vitro rapidly acquire mutations that impact viral growth. These laboratory-adapted strains of HCMV generally exhibit restricted tropism, produce high levels of cell-free virus, and develop susceptibility to natural killer cells. To permit experimentation ...

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

authors： Murrell I,Bedford C,Ladell K,Miners KL,Price DA,Tomasec P,Wilkinson GWG,Stanton RJ

更新日期：2017-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Daphnia pulex de Geer and Daphnia magna Straus populations cannot be maintained in defined (sensu stricto) media containing less than 0.1 part per billion (ppb) of selenium. A concentration of 1 ppb is sufficient to satisfy minimal needs in otherwise sufficient media. In the first generation with no selenium added to ...

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

authors： Keating KI,Dagbusan BC

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Figure-ground discrimination refers to the perception of an object, the figure, against a nondescript background. Neural mechanisms of figure-ground detection have been associated with feedback interactions between higher centers and primary visual cortex and have been held to index the effect of global analysis on lo...

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

authors： Jones HE,Andolina IM,Shipp SD,Adams DL,Cudeiro J,Salt TE,Sillito AM

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Engineered calmodulins (CaMs), rendered Ca2+-insensitive by mutations, function as dominant negatives in heterologous systems, and have revealed mechanisms of ion channel modulation by Ca2+/CaM. The use of these CaMs in native mammalian cells now emerges as a strategy to unmask the biology of such Ca2+ feedback. Here,...

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

authors： Alseikhan BA,DeMaria CD,Colecraft HM,Yue DT

更新日期：2002-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncolytic viruses constitute a promising therapy against malignant gliomas (MGs). However, virus-induced type I IFN greatly limits its clinical application. The kinase mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) stimulates type I IFN production via phosphorylation of its effector proteins, 4E-BPs and S6Ks. Here we show that ...

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

authors： Alain T,Lun X,Martineau Y,Sean P,Pulendran B,Petroulakis E,Zemp FJ,Lemay CG,Roy D,Bell JC,Thomas G,Kozma SC,Forsyth PA,Costa-Mattioli M,Sonenberg N

更新日期：2010-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Entamoeba histolytica is a single cell eukaryote that is the etiologic agent of amoebic colitis. Core promoter elements of E. histolytica protein encoding genes include a TATA-like sequence (GTATTTAAAG/C) at -30, a novel element designated GAAC (GAACT) that has a variable location between TATA and the site of transcri...

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

authors： Singh U,Rogers JB,Mann BJ,Petri WA Jr

更新日期：1997-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred fifty years ago glial cells were discovered as a second, non-neuronal, cell type in the central nervous system. To ascribe a function to these new, enigmatic cells, it was suggested that they either glue the neurons together (the Greek word "gammalambdaiotaalpha" means "glue") or provide a robust scaffold ...

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

authors： Lu YB,Franze K,Seifert G,Steinhäuser C,Kirchhoff F,Wolburg H,Guck J,Janmey P,Wei EQ,Käs J,Reichenbach A

更新日期：2006-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The paucity of integral membrane protein structures creates a major bioinformatics gap, whose origin is the difficulty of crystallizing these detergent-solubilized proteins. The problem is particularly formidable for hetero-oligomeric integral membrane proteins, where crystallization is impeded by the heterogeneity an...

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

authors： Zhang H,Kurisu G,Smith JL,Cramer WA

更新日期：2003-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies to elucidate the mode of action of aldosterone have been carried out in the amphibian urinary bladder. The following previously reported hypotheses were evaluated: (1) aldosterone stimulates sodium transport by increasing the amount of sodium available to the sodium pump; (2) aldosterone enhances energy produc...

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

authors： Goodman DB,Allen JE,Rasmussen H

更新日期：1969-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans routinely formulate plans in domains so complex that even the most powerful computers are taxed. To do so, they seem to avail themselves of many strategies and heuristics that efficiently simplify, approximate, and hierarchically decompose hard tasks into simpler subtasks. Theoretical and cognitive research has...

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

authors： Huys QJ,Lally N,Faulkner P,Eshel N,Seifritz E,Gershman SJ,Dayan P,Roiser JP

更新日期：2015-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Sliding at a quasi-statically loaded frictional interface can occur via macroscopic slip events, which nucleate locally before propagating as rupture fronts very similar to fracture. We introduce a microscopic model of a frictional interface that includes asperity-level disorder, elastic interaction between local slip...

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

authors： de Geus TWJ,Popović M,Ji W,Rosso A,Wyart M

更新日期：2019-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine subjects were studied by high-speed magnetic resonance imaging while performing language-based tasks. Subjects were asked either to repeat or to generate verbs associated with nouns read by an experimenter while magnetic resonance images were obtained of the left inferior frontal lobe. The echo-planar imaging seq...

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

authors： McCarthy G,Blamire AM,Rothman DL,Gruetter R,Shulman RG

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein tyrosine phosphorylation in purified synaptic vesicles from rat forebrain has been studied in the presence of Mn2+ and orthovanadate. High levels of endogenous protein tyrosine phosphorylation were observed. Four major phosphoproteins, with apparent molecular masses of 105, 94, 38, and 30 kDa, were shown to co...

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

authors： Pang DT,Wang JK,Valtorta F,Benfenati F,Greengard P

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An obstacle in the utilization of catalytic Abs for selective prodrug activation in cancer therapy has been systemic tumor targeting. Here we report the generation of catalytic Abs that effectively target tumor cells with undiminished prodrug activation capability. Ab conjugates were prepared by covalent conjugation o...

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

authors： Abraham S,Guo F,Li LS,Rader C,Liu C,Barbas CF 3rd,Lerner RA,Sinha SC

更新日期：2007-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenylate cyclase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1] activity of purified secretory vesicle membranes from the adrenal medulla is inhibited by I-isoproterenol and I-epinephrine, as well as by nerve growth factor (NGF). The effect of these agents was found to be dose-dependent and, in the case of the cat...

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

authors： Nikodijevic O,Nikodijevic B,Zinder O,Yu MY,Guroff G,Pollard HB

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human telomeres terminate with a single-stranded 3' G overhang, which can be recognized as a DNA damage site by replication protein A (RPA). The protection of telomeres (POT1)/POT1-interacting protein 1 (TPP1) heterodimer binds specifically to single-stranded telomeric DNA (ssTEL) and protects G overhangs against RPA ...

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

authors： Ray S,Bandaria JN,Qureshi MH,Yildiz A,Balci H

更新日期：2014-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of the decapeptide Boc-Aib-Glu(OBzl)-Leu-Aib-Ala-Leu-Aib-Ala-Lys(Z)-Aib-OMe (where Aib is alpha-aminoisobutyryl, Boc is t-butoxycarbonyl, OBzl is benzyl ester, and Z is benzyloxycarbonyl) illustrates a parallel zipper arrangement of interacting helical peptide columns. Head-to-tail NH...OC hydrog...

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

authors： Karle IL,Flippen-Anderson JL,Uma K,Balaram P

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pith parenchyma cells store water in various plant organs. These cells are especially important for producing sugar and ethanol from the sugar juice of grass stems. In many plants, the death of pith parenchyma cells reduces their stem water content. Previous studies proposed that a hypothetical D gene might be respons...

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

authors： Fujimoto M,Sazuka T,Oda Y,Kawahigashi H,Wu J,Takanashi H,Ohnishi T,Yoneda JI,Ishimori M,Kajiya-Kanegae H,Hibara KI,Ishizuna F,Ebine K,Ueda T,Tokunaga T,Iwata H,Matsumoto T,Kasuga S,Yonemaru JI,Tsutsumi N

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A major challenge of cancer immunotherapy is the persistence and outgrowth of subpopulations that lose expression of the target antigen. IL-15 is a potent cytokine that can promote organ-specific autoimmunity when up-regulated on tissue cells. Here we report that T cells eradicated 2-wk-old solid tumors that expressed...

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

authors： Liu RB,Engels B,Schreiber K,Ciszewski C,Schietinger A,Schreiber H,Jabri B

更新日期：2013-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:New geochemical data from the Malawi Rift (Chiwondo Beds, Karonga Basin) fill a major spatial gap in our knowledge of hominin adaptations on a continental scale. Oxygen (δ18O), carbon (δ13C), and clumped (Δ47) isotope data on paleosols, hominins, and selected fauna elucidate an unexpected diversity in the Pleistocene ...

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

authors： Lüdecke T,Kullmer O,Wacker U,Sandrock O,Fiebig J,Schrenk F,Mulch A

更新日期：2018-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary restriction has been shown to have several health benefits including increased insulin sensitivity, stress resistance, reduced morbidity, and increased life span. The mechanism remains unknown, but the need for a long-term reduction in caloric intake to achieve these benefits has been assumed. We report that w...

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

authors： Anson RM,Guo Z,de Cabo R,Iyun T,Rios M,Hagepanos A,Ingram DK,Lane MA,Mattson MP

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Several 400- to 800-kb murine chromosome domains switch from early to late replication during loss of pluripotency, accompanied by a stable form of gene silencing that is resistant to reprogramming. We found that, whereas enhanced nuclease accessibility correlated with early replication genome-wide, domains that switc...

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

authors： Takebayashi S,Dileep V,Ryba T,Dennis JH,Gilbert DM

更新日期：2012-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known from Hardin's "Tragedy of the Commons" [Hardin G (1968) Science 162:1243-1248] that, if open access is allowed, overgrazing typically results. Hardin, and most authors of the subsequent literature, adopted a static view of the underlying ecosystem. Here we extend this tragedy of the commons to conside...

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

authors： Brekke KA,Øksendal B,Stenseth NC

更新日期：2007-09-11 00:00:00