Epinephrine binding to the catecholamine receptor and activation of the adenylate cyclase in erythrocyte membranes (hormone receptor- -adrenergic receptor-cyclic AMP-turkey).

abstract：:Gene function is typically evaluated by sampling the continuum of gene expression at only a few discrete points corresponding to gene knockout or overexpression. We argue that this characterization is incomplete and present a library of engineered promoters of varying strengths obtained through mutagenesis of a consti...

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

authors： Alper H,Fischer C,Nevoigt E,Stephanopoulos G

更新日期：2005-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer stem cells (CSCs) sustain tumor growth through their ability to self-renew and to generate differentiated progeny. These functions endow CSCs with the potential to initiate secondary tumors bearing characteristics similar to those of the parent. Recently the hair follicle stem cell marker CD34 was used to purif...

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

authors： Schober M,Fuchs E

更新日期：2011-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Guamanian amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS-G) and parkinsonism dementia (PD-G) have been epidemiologically linked to an environment severely deficient in calcium (Ca2+) and magnesium (Mg2+). Transient receptor potential melastatin 7 (TRPM7) is a bifunctional protein containing both channel and kinase domains that ha...

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

authors： Hermosura MC,Nayakanti H,Dorovkov MV,Calderon FR,Ryazanov AG,Haymer DS,Garruto RM

更新日期：2005-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the in vitro long-term (20 wk) changes in cells exposed to well-characterized gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) with varying shapes and surface coatings under both chronic (exposure to Au NPs continuously over 20 wk) and nonchronic (initial acute cell exposure to Au NPs, followed by 20 wk in NP-free cell media) co...

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

authors： Falagan-Lotsch P,Grzincic EM,Murphy CJ

更新日期：2016-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Tolerance and resistance provide hosts with two distinct defense strategies against parasitism. In resistance the hosts "fight" the parasite directly, whereas in tolerance the hosts fight the disease by ameliorating the damage that infection causes. There is increasing recognition that the two mechanisms may exhibit v...

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

authors： Best A,White A,Boots M

更新日期：2008-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubc13 is a ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme responsible for noncanonical ubiquitination of TNF receptor-associated factor (TRAF)-family adapter proteins involved in Toll-like receptor and TNF-family cytokine receptor signaling, which are regulators of innate immunity. Gene ablation was used to study the function of Ubc13 ...

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

authors： Fukushima T,Matsuzawa S,Kress CL,Bruey JM,Krajewska M,Lefebvre S,Zapata JM,Ronai Z,Reed JC

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:HLA-G is the putative natural killer (NK) cell inhibitory ligand expressed on the extravillous cytotrophoblast of the human placenta. Killing of the class I negative human B cell line 721.221 by NK cells is inhibited by the expression of HLA-G. This inhibition is dependent on a high level of HLA-G expression. In the p...

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

authors： Mandelboim O,Pazmany L,Davis DM,Valés-Gómez M,Reyburn HT,Rybalov B,Strominger JL

更新日期：1997-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We report evidence for a developmental role of acetylcholine in axon pathfinding in the Drosophila visual system. Acetylcholine was detected on photoreceptor axons during their navigation to target sites in the brain, a time well before the formation of functional synapses. The pattern of photoreceptor axon projection...

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

authors： Yang H,Kunes S

更新日期：2004-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Tomato plants overexpressing a prosystemin gene that encodes the precursor of a mobile wound signal called systemin have been shown previously to constitutively synthesize extraordinarily high levels of two defensive proteinase inhibitor proteins in leaves in the absence of wounding. We herein report that leaves of th...

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

authors： Constabel CP,Bergey DR,Ryan CA

更新日期：1995-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Total chemical synthesis was used to prepare the mirror image (D-protein) form of the angiogenic protein vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF-A). Phage display against D-VEGF-A was used to screen designed libraries based on a unique small protein scaffold in order to identify a high affinity ligand. Chemically syn...

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

authors： Mandal K,Uppalapati M,Ault-Riché D,Kenney J,Lowitz J,Sidhu SS,Kent SB

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The excess proton in water, H(+)(aq), plays a fundamental role in aqueous solution chemistry. Its solution thermodynamic properties are essential to molecular descriptions of that chemistry and for validation of dynamical calculations. Within the quasichemical theory of solutions those thermodynamic properties are con...

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

authors： Asthagiri D,Pratt LR,Kress JD

更新日期：2005-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:One signature of adaptive radiation is a high level of trait change early during the diversification process and a plateau toward the end of the radiation. Although the study of the tempo of evolution has historically been the domain of paleontologists, recently developed phylogenetic tools allow for the rigorous exam...

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

authors： Agrawal AA,Fishbein M,Halitschke R,Hastings AP,Rabosky DL,Rasmann S

更新日期：2009-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we identify the specific isozymes of protein kinase C (PKC) that are involved in c-fos and c-jun mRNA accumulation in the rat basophilic leukemia cell line RBL-2H3. These cells could be largely depleted of the endogenous PKC isozymes by chronic treatment with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate followed by ...

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

authors： Razin E,Szallasi Z,Kazanietz MG,Blumberg PM,Rivera J

更新日期：1994-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of induction of an adult rabbit cytochrome P-450, prostaglandin (PG) omega-hydroxylase (P-450PG-omega), during pregnancy has been investigated. This P-450 isozyme regiospecifically hydroxylates PGE1, PGA1, and PGF2 alpha at carbon-20 (the omega position). The specific activity of this enzyme is induced f...

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

authors： Muerhoff AS,Williams DE,Leithauser MT,Jackson VE,Waterman MR,Masters BS

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasitic plants share a common anatomical feature, the haustorium. Haustoria enable both infection and nutrient transfer, which often leads to growth penalties for host plants and yield reduction in crop species. Haustoria also reciprocally transfer substances, such as RNA and proteins, from parasite to host, but the...

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

authors： Spallek T,Melnyk CW,Wakatake T,Zhang J,Sakamoto Y,Kiba T,Yoshida S,Matsunaga S,Sakakibara H,Shirasu K

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulation is an innate defense mechanism intended to limit blood loss and trap invading pathogens during infection. However, Staphylococcus aureus has the ability to hijack the coagulation cascade and generate clots via secretion of coagulases. Although many S. aureus have this characteristic, some do not. The popul...

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

authors： Trivedi U,Madsen JS,Everett J,Fell C,Russel J,Haaber J,Crosby HA,Horswill AR,Burmølle M,Rumbaugh KP,Sørensen SJ

更新日期：2018-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine the IFN-alpha/beta-independent activation of cellular transcription that constitutes an early antiviral response of cells against influenza A and B viruses, which cause widespread epidemics in humans. We show that influenza B virus induces the synthesis in human cells of several mature mRNAs encoded by gene...

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

authors： Kim MJ,Latham AG,Krug RM

更新日期：2002-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of human monocyte-macrophages to as little as 50 microliters of cultured medium from lymphocytes stimulated by concanavalin A (Con A) resulted in a dramatic decrease in the activities of the low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor pathway, the LDL-dextran sulfate pathway, and the scavenger receptor pathway. Th...

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

authors： Fogelman AM,Seager J,Haberland ME,Hokom M,Tanaka R,Edwards PA

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used DNase I as a probe to examine the chromatin structure of mouse immunoglobulin kappa light chain genes in rearranged and unrearranged chromosomes--i.e., in nuclei from myeloma cells and from brain and liver cells. Tissue-specific DNase I-hypersensitive sites are observed 0.7 and 1.7 kilobases upstream from...

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

authors： Chung SY,Folsom V,Wooley J

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoplasmic membrane vesicles prepared from Escherichia coli containing multiple copies of the lac y gene were frozen in liquid nitrogen before or after generation of a proton electrochemical gradient (interior negative and alkaline) and irradiated with a high-energy electron beam at -135 degrees C. Subsequently, the ...

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

authors： Goldkorn T,Rimon G,Kempner ES,Kaback HR

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protected areas are crucial for biodiversity conservation because they provide safe havens for species threatened by land-use change and resulting habitat loss. However, protected areas are only effective when they stop habitat loss within their boundaries, and are connected via corridors to other wild areas. The effe...

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

authors： Radeloff VC,Stewart SI,Hawbaker TJ,Gimmi U,Pidgeon AM,Flather CH,Hammer RB,Helmers DP

更新日期：2010-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Anatoxin-a, a bicyclic amine isolated from blue-green alga, binds to the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor of Torpedo electric tissue, thereby inducing conformational changes in the postsynaptic receptor--ion channel complex as evidenced by alterations in the binding of radiolabeled ligands to the complex. Anatoxin-a b...

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

authors： Aronstam RS,Witkop B

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many models of morphogenesis are forced to assume specific mechanical properties of cells, because the actual mechanical properties of living tissues are largely unknown. Here, we measure the rheology of epithelial cells in the cellularizing Drosophila embryo by injecting magnetic particles and studying their response...

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

authors： Doubrovinski K,Swan M,Polyakov O,Wieschaus EF

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian form of the protozoan parasite Leishmania mexicana contains high activity of a cysteine proteinase (LmCPb) encoded on a tandem array of 19 genes (lmcpb). Homozygous null mutants for lmcpb have been produced by targeted gene disruption. All life-cycle stages of the mutant can be cultured in vitro, demonst...

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

authors： Mottram JC,Souza AE,Hutchison JE,Carter R,Frame MJ,Coombs GH

更新日期：1996-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Terrorist attacks often fuel online hate and increase the expression of xenophobic and antiminority messages. Previous research has focused on the impact of terrorist attacks on prejudiced attitudes toward groups linked to the perpetrators as the cause of this increase. We argue that social norms can contain the expre...

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

authors： Álvarez-Benjumea A,Winter F

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:GTP-tubulin forms a cap on microtubule ends during aggregation. The bulk of the microtubule is GDP-tubulin. This complicates the usual simple kinetic theory of subunit exchange at microtubule ends to such an extent that Monte Carlo calculations are needed to handle the complications, except in special cases. The Monte...

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

authors： Chen Y,Hill TL

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenal chromaffin granules contain at least 10 peptides, ranging in size from 3 to 5 kilodaltons, that yield, upon digestion with trypsin, peptides that show specific binding to opiate receptors. All are distinctly different from beta-endorphin. Two of these peptides have been purified to homogeneity and subjected to...

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

authors： Kimura S,Lewis RV,Stern AS,Rossier J,Stein S,Udenfriend S

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilizing [3H]phorbol dibutyrate [P(Bu)2], we have developed an assay for high-affinity phorbol ester receptors in intact rat embryo fibroblasts. At 37 degrees C, binding of [3H]P(Bu)2 reached a maximum within 10 min and was rapidly reversible. The tumor promoters 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol 13-acetate, teleocidin B, a...

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

authors： Horowitz AD,Greenebaum E,Weinstein IB

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Goblet-cell hyperplasia is a critical pathological feature in hypersecretory diseases of airways. However, the underlying mechanisms are unknown, and no effective therapy exists. Here we show that stimulation of epidermal growth factor receptors (EGF-R) by its ligands, EGF and transforming growth factor alpha (TGFalph...

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

authors： Takeyama K,Dabbagh K,Lee HM,Agustí C,Lausier JA,Ueki IF,Grattan KM,Nadel JA

更新日期：1999-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinases (PI 3-kinases) have been implicated in membrane trafficking in the secretory and endocytic pathways of yeast and mammalian cells, but the molecular mechanisms by which these lipid kinases operate are not known. Here we identify a protein of 170 kDa that is rapidly released from cell memb...

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

authors： Patki V,Virbasius J,Lane WS,Toh BH,Shpetner HS,Corvera S

更新日期：1997-07-08 00:00:00