Mechanism of action of nerve growth factor and cyclic AMP on neurite outgrowth in embryonic chick sensory ganglia: demonstration of independent pathways of stimulation.

abstract：:HLA class II gene polymorphism was investigated in 100 patients with clinically definite multiple sclerosis (MS) by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of Taq I-digested DNA using DRB, DQA, and DQB cDNA probes. Twenty-six patients had primarily chronic progressive MS and 74 had relapsing/remitting MS. Th...

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

authors： Olerup O,Hillert J,Fredrikson S,Olsson T,Kam-Hansen S,Möller E,Carlsson B,Wallin J

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lysine-to-arginine substitution at amino acid 65 (K65R) in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) reverse transcriptase (RT) is associated with resistance to 2',3'-dideoxycytidine (ddC), 2',3'-dideoxyinosine (ddI), and the (-) enantiomer of 2',3'-dideoxy-3'-thiacytidine (3TC). To further characterize the molecu...

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

authors： Gu Z,Arts EJ,Parniak MA,Wainberg MA

更新日期：1995-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:CD4+ T cells recognize major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II-bound peptides that are primarily obtained from extracellular sources. Endogenously synthesized proteins that readily enter the MHC class I presentation pathway are generally excluded from the MHC class II presentation pathway. We show here that en...

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

authors： Sanderson S,Frauwirth K,Shastri N

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research has previously shown that, without methionine supplements, neural tube proteins of rat embryos cultured on bovine sera were hypomethylated and neural tubes failed to close. In the present study, to identify the proteins that became methylated during neurulation, rat embryos were first cultured on methionine-d...

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

authors： Moephuli SR,Klein NW,Baldwin MT,Krider HM

更新日期：1997-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme Ubc13 mediates lysine-63-specific protein ubiquitination involved in signal transduction by immune receptors; however, the in vivo physiological functions of Ubc13 remain incompletely understood. Using Ubc13 conditional knockout mice, we show that somatic deletion of the Ubc13 gene cau...

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

authors： Wu X,Yamamoto M,Akira S,Sun SC

更新日期：2009-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient and reliable classification of visual stimuli requires that their representations reside a low-dimensional and, therefore, computationally manageable feature space. We investigated the ability of the human visual system to derive such representations from the sensory input-a highly nontrivial task, given the...

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

authors： Cutzu F,Edelman S

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL) initiates intracellular triglyceride (TG) catabolism. In humans, ATGL deficiency causes neutral lipid storage disease with myopathy (NLSDM) characterized by a systemic TG accumulation. Mice with a genetic deletion of ATGL (AKO) also accumulate TG in many tissues. However, neither NLS...

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

authors： Schreiber R,Hofer P,Taschler U,Voshol PJ,Rechberger GN,Kotzbeck P,Jaeger D,Preiss-Landl K,Lord CC,Brown JM,Haemmerle G,Zimmermann R,Vidal-Puig A,Zechner R

更新日期：2015-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-7 and thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) are two major cytokines controlling murine B cell development. IL-7 has been studied extensively, but only recently has it become possible to unravel the role of TSLP in detail. We studied the biological activities of TSLP in B cell development at distinct ages in the mouse...

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

authors： Vosshenrich CA,Cumano A,Müller W,Di Santo JP,Vieira P

更新日期：2004-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA, cRKIN1, encoding a putative homologue of the yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) SNF1-encoded protein-serine/threonine kinase, has been isolated from a library prepared from rye endosperm mRNA. Northern blot analysis demonstrated the presence of cRKIN1-related transcripts in developing endosperms but not in shoot...

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

authors： Alderson A,Sabelli PA,Dickinson JR,Cole D,Richardson M,Kreis M,Shewry PR,Halford NG

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody raised against the purified human erythrocyte glucose transporter specifically precipitated four proteins from normal and Rous sarcoma virus-transformed chicken embryo cells: a major protein of Mr 41,000 and minor proteins of Mr 68,000, 73,000, and 82,000. The Mr 41,000 and 82,000 proteins were found only in ...

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

authors： Salter DW,Baldwin SA,Lienhard GE,Weber MJ

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimicrobial peptide hepcidin appears to play a central role in the regulation of iron homeostasis. In intact animals, iron overload or the injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulates transcription of HAMP, the gene that encodes hepcidin. In isolated hepatocytes, IL-6, an inflammatory cytokine the production...

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

authors： Lee P,Peng H,Gelbart T,Beutler E

更新日期：2004-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A microfluidic mixer is applied to study the kinetics of calmodulin conformational changes upon Ca2+ binding. The device facilitates rapid, uniform mixing by decoupling hydrodynamic focusing from diffusive mixing and accesses time scales of tens of microseconds. The mixer is used in conjunction with multiphoton micros...

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

authors： Park HY,Kim SA,Korlach J,Rhoades E,Kwok LW,Zipfel WR,Waxham MN,Webb WW,Pollack L

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A biological membrane is conceptualized as a system in which membrane proteins are naturally matched to the equilibrium thickness of the lipid bilayer. Cholesterol, in addition to lipid composition, has been suggested to be a major regulator of bilayer thickness in vivo because measurements in vitro have shown that ch...

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

authors： Mitra K,Ubarretxena-Belandia I,Taguchi T,Warren G,Engelman DM

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:There are many sources of genetic diversity, ranging from programmed mutagenesis in antibody genes to random mutagenesis during species evolution or development of cancer. We propose that mutations in DNA sequence-specific transcription factors that target response elements (REs) in many genes can also provide for rap...

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

authors： Resnick MA,Inga A

更新日期：2003-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A full-length cDNA clone encoding a purified augmenter of liver regeneration (ALR) factor prepared from the cytosol of weanling rat livers was isolated. The 1.2-kb cDNA included a 299-bp 5' untranslated region, a 375-bp coding region, and a 550-bp 3' untranslated region. It encoded a protein consisting of 125 amino ac...

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

authors： Hagiya M,Francavilla A,Polimeno L,Ihara I,Sakai H,Seki T,Shimonishi M,Porter KA,Starzl TE

更新日期：1994-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiangiogenic agent fumagillin (Fg) and its analog TNP-470 bind to intracellular metalloprotease methionine aminopeptidase-2 (MetAP-2) and inhibit endothelial cell growth in a p53-dependent manner. To confirm the role of MetAP-2 in endothelial cell proliferation and to validate it as a physiological target for th...

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

authors： Yeh JJ,Ju R,Brdlik CM,Zhang W,Zhang Y,Matyskiela ME,Shotwell JD,Crews CM

更新日期：2006-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Ig heavy chain (IgH) isotypes (e.g., IgM, IgG, and IgE) are generated as secreted/soluble antibodies (sIg) or as membrane-bound (mIg) B cell receptors (BCRs) through alternative RNA splicing. IgH isotype dictates soluble antibody function, but how mIg isotype influences B cell behavior is not well defined. We examined...

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

authors： Tong P,Granato A,Zuo T,Chaudhary N,Zuiani A,Han SS,Donthula R,Shrestha A,Sen D,Magee JM,Gallagher MP,van der Poel CE,Carroll MC,Wesemann DR

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin A signals play critical roles during embryonic development. In particular, heart morphogenesis depends on vitamin A signals mediated by the retinoid X receptor alpha (RXRalpha), as the systemic mutation of this receptor results in thinning of the myocardium and embryonic lethality. However, the molecular and c...

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

authors： Merki E,Zamora M,Raya A,Kawakami Y,Wang J,Zhang X,Burch J,Kubalak SW,Kaliman P,Izpisua Belmonte JC,Chien KR,Ruiz-Lozano P

更新日期：2005-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of the inhibition of initiation of DNA replication on the membrane association of the chromosomal origin of replication of Bacillus subtilis and the Staphylococcus aureus-Bacillus pumilus chimeric plasmid pSL103, using temperature-sensitive mutants of B. subtilis that have specifically affected ...

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

authors： Winston S,Sueoka N

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During tRNA biosynthesis the 5'-leader sequences in precursor tRNAs are removed by the ribonucleoprotein RNase P, an enzyme whose RNA moiety is required for activity. To clarify some aspects of the enzyme mechanism, we examined substrate binding and product formation with mutant precursor tRNAs. Mutations G-1----A or ...

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

authors： Nichols M,Söll D,Willis I

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the greatest challenges in contemporary condensed matter physics is to ascertain whether the formation of glasses from liquids is fundamentally thermodynamic or dynamic in origin. Although the thermodynamic paradigm has dominated theoretical research for decades, the purely kinetic perspective of the dynamical ...

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

authors： Mishra CK,Hima Nagamanasa K,Ganapathy R,Sood AK,Gokhale S

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:There are approximately 350 non-odorant G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) encoded by the human genome, many of which are predicted to be potential therapeutic targets, but there are only two structures available to represent the whole of the family. We hypothesized that improving the detergent stability of these rec...

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

authors： Serrano-Vega MJ,Magnani F,Shibata Y,Tate CG

更新日期：2008-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein dystrophin, normally found on the cytoplasmic surface of skeletal muscle cell membranes, is absent in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy as well as mdx (X-linked muscular dystrophy) mice. Although its primary structure has been determined, the precise functional role of dystrophin remains the subjec...

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

authors： Petrof BJ,Shrager JB,Stedman HH,Kelly AM,Sweeney HL

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM is a probiotic bacterium that has been produced commercially since 1972. The complete genome is 1,993,564 nt and devoid of plasmids. The average GC content is 34.71% with 1,864 predicted ORFs, of which 72.5% were functionally classified. Nine phage-related integrases were predicted, but ...

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

authors： Altermann E,Russell WM,Azcarate-Peril MA,Barrangou R,Buck BL,McAuliffe O,Souther N,Dobson A,Duong T,Callanan M,Lick S,Hamrick A,Cano R,Klaenhammer TR

更新日期：2005-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a unique proxy for the reconstruction of variation in precipitation over the Amazon: oxygen isotope ratios in annual rings in tropical cedar (Cedrela odorata). A century-long record from northern Bolivia shows that tree rings preserve the signal of oxygen isotopes in precipitation during the wet season, wit...

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

authors： Brienen RJ,Helle G,Pons TL,Guyot JL,Gloor M

更新日期：2012-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) regulates cytokines in arthritis and is, in turn, regulated by MAPK kinase (MKK) 3 and MKK6. To modulate p38 function but potentially minimize toxicity, we evaluated the utility of targeting MKK3 by using MKK3(-/-) mice. These studies showed that TNF-alpha increased phosphor...

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

authors： Inoue T,Boyle DL,Corr M,Hammaker D,Davis RJ,Flavell RA,Firestein GS

更新日期：2006-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel organismal structures in metazoans are often undergirded by complex gene regulatory networks; as such, understanding the emergence of new structures through evolution requires reconstructing the series of evolutionary steps leading to these underlying networks. Here, we reconstruct the step-by-step assembly of t...

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

authors： Irimia M,Denuc A,Burguera D,Somorjai I,Martín-Durán JM,Genikhovich G,Jimenez-Delgado S,Technau U,Roy SW,Marfany G,Garcia-Fernàndez J

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Many infectious viruses coevolved with the vertebrate immune system. During the assembly of enveloped viruses, lipid ordered domains of the host cell plasma membrane, called lipid rafts, frequently function as a natural meeting point for viral proteins. The role of lipid rafts in the organization of complex combinatio...

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

authors： Derdak SV,Kueng HJ,Leb VM,Neunkirchner A,Schmetterer KG,Bielek E,Majdic O,Knapp W,Seed B,Pickl WF

更新日期：2006-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibitory neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is involved in the generation of various brain rhythmic activities that can be modulated by benzodiazepines. Here, we assessed the contribution of alpha(2)GABA type A (GABA(A)) receptors to the effects of benzodiazepines on sleep and waking oscillatory pat...

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

authors： Kopp C,Rudolph U,Löw K,Tobler I

更新日期：2004-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Decomposition is a critical source of plant nutrients, and drives the largest flux of terrestrial C to the atmosphere. Decomposing soil organic matter typically contains litter from multiple plant species, yet we lack a mechanistic understanding of how species diversity influences decomposition processes. Here, we sho...

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

authors： Meier CL,Bowman WD

更新日期：2008-12-16 00:00:00