Specific heterologous enhancement of immune responses.

abstract：:The rate of leucine incorporation into a specific estrogen-induced protein of immature rat isolated by gel electrophoresis declines rapidly between 2-4 hr after estrogen stimulation in vivo followed by incubation in vitro. Actinomycin D present during the in vitro phase prevents this decline, and elicits a "superinduc...

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

authors： DeAngelo AB,Fujimoto GI

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase [EC 1.13.11.11; L-tryptophan:oxygen 2,3-oxidoreductase (decyclizing)] first appears in the livers of young rats around the 15th postnatal day, and increases to the adult level by the 22nd day. Studies have shown that the appearance and subsequent development of the enzyme activity...

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

authors： Killewich LA,Feigelson P

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical activity increases energy metabolism in exercising muscle. Whether acute exercise elicits metabolic changes in nonexercising muscles remains unclear. We show that one of the few genes that is more highly induced in nonexercising muscle than in exercising human muscle during acute exercise encodes angiopoietin...

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

authors： Catoire M,Alex S,Paraskevopulos N,Mattijssen F,Evers-van Gogh I,Schaart G,Jeppesen J,Kneppers A,Mensink M,Voshol PJ,Olivecrona G,Tan NS,Hesselink MK,Berbée JF,Rensen PC,Kalkhoven E,Schrauwen P,Kersten S

更新日期：2014-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Metaphase checkpoint controls sense abnormalities of chromosome alignment during mitosis and prevent progression to anaphase until proper alignment has been attained. A number of proteins, including mad2, bub1, and bubR1, have been implicated in the metaphase checkpoint control in mammalian cells. Metaphase checkpoint...

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

authors： Skoufias DA,Andreassen PR,Lacroix FB,Wilson L,Margolis RL

更新日期：2001-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We have employed a combination of temperature-dependent UV absorption spectroscopy, circular dichroism, and batch calorimetry to characterize the binding of actinomycin D to a series of oligomeric DNA duplexes. We find the duplex [d(CGTCGACG)]2 to be unique in its ability to bind actinomycin D strongly despite the abs...

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

authors： Snyder JG,Hartman NG,D'Estantoit BL,Kennard O,Remeta DP,Breslauer KJ

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type specimen for Australopithecus africanus (Taung) includes a natural endocast that reproduces most of the external morphology of the right cerebral hemisphere and a fragment of fossilized face that articulates with the endocast. Despite the fact that Taung died between 3 and 4 y of age, the endocast reproduces ...

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

authors： Falk D,Zollikofer CP,Morimoto N,Ponce de León MS

更新日期：2012-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied ten phenotypically similar patients with complete androgen insensitivity. All of the patients tested had significantly elevated serum luteinizing hormone and plasma androgens within or above the normal adult male range. On the basis of specific dihydrotestosterone binding by skin fibroblasts, we identi...

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

authors： Amrhein JA,Meyer WJ 3rd,Jones HW Jr,Migeon CJ

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It had long been thought, but never demonstrated, that imino acids are formed in the reactions catalyzed by D- and L-amino acid oxidases (EC 1.4.3.3 and 1.4.3.2). The formation of imino acids is now shown directly by allowing the amino acid oxidase reaction to proceed in the presence of NaBH(4), when the imino acid is...

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

authors： Hafner EW,Wellner D

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To process plant-based renewable biofuels, pretreatment of plant feedstock with ionic liquids has significant advantages over current methods for deconstruction of lignocellulosic feedstocks. However, ionic liquids are often toxic to the microorganisms used subsequently for biomass saccharification and fermentation. W...

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

authors： Khudyakov JI,D'haeseleer P,Borglin SE,Deangelis KM,Woo H,Lindquist EA,Hazen TC,Simmons BA,Thelen MP

更新日期：2012-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical imaging of the functional architecture of cortex, based on intrinsic signals, is a useful tool for the study of the development, organization, and function of the living mammalian brain. This relatively noninvasive technique is based on small activity-dependent changes of the optical properties of cortex. Thus...

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

authors： Grinvald A,Frostig RD,Siegel RM,Bartfeld E

更新日期：1991-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood leukocytes, obtained from volunteers after vaccination or natural illness with influenza, were assayed for cytotoxicity against influenza virus-infected cells. Approximately 7 days after vaccination or the onset of respiratory illness, peak cytotoxicity was demonstrated in a chromium-release assay. Se...

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

authors： Greenberg SB,Six HR,Drake S,Couch RB

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All immunoglobulins and T-cell receptors throughout phylogeny share regions of highly conserved amino acid sequence. To identify possible primitive immunoglobulins and immunoglobulin-like molecules, we utilized 3' RACE (rapid amplification of cDNA ends) and a highly conserved constant region consensus amino acid seque...

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

authors： Berstein RM,Schluter SF,Shen S,Marchalonis JJ

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:With the collapse of fisheries in many parts of the world causing widespread economic harm, attention is focused on a possible cause and remedy of fishery collapse. Economic theory for managing a renewable resource, such as a fishery, leads to an ecologically unstable equilibrium as difficult to maintain as balancing ...

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

authors： Roughgarden J,Smith F

更新日期：1996-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Clones of Friend erythroleukemia cells, characterized by the presence of 40-70% benzidine-positive cells synthesizing hemoglobin in the absence of inducing drugs, were treated with several phorbol diesters with a known range of tumor-promoting activity on mouse skin. Good correlation was found between the reported tum...

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

authors： Rovera G,O'Brien TG,Diamond L

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the endoplasmic reticulum stress-regulated kinase, PERK, in mammary gland function was assessed through generation of a targeted deletion in mammary epithelium. Characterization revealed that PERK is required for functional maturation of milk-secreting mammary epithelial cells. PERK-dependent signaling con...

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

authors： Bobrovnikova-Marjon E,Hatzivassiliou G,Grigoriadou C,Romero M,Cavener DR,Thompson CB,Diehl JA

更新日期：2008-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Insects, as a group, have been remarkably successful in adapting to a great range of physical and biological environments, in large part because of their ability to fly. The evolution of flight in small insects was accompanied by striking adaptations of the thoracic musculature that enabled very high wing beat frequen...

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

authors： Swank DM,Vishnudas VK,Maughan DW

更新日期：2006-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteolytic cleavage of sterol regulatory element-binding proteins (SREBPs) is regulated by SREBP cleavage-activating protein (SCAP), which forms complexes with SREBPs in membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). In sterol-depleted cells, SCAP facilitates cleavage of SREBPs by Site-1 protease, thereby initiatin...

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

authors： Nohturfft A,DeBose-Boyd RA,Scheek S,Goldstein JL,Brown MS

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:An artificial charge pair buried in the hydrophobic core of staphylococcal nuclease was engineered by making the V23E and L36K substitutions. Buried individually, Glu-23 and Lys-36 both titrate with pKa values near 7. When buried together their pKa values appear to be normal. The ionizable moieties of the buried Glu-L...

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

authors： Robinson AC,Castañeda CA,Schlessman JL,García-Moreno EB

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The hereditary hearing-vision loss disease Usher syndrome (USH) is caused by defects in several proteins, most of which form an integrated protein network called Usher interactome. Harmonin/Ush1C is a master scaffold in the assembly of the Usher protein complexes, because harmonin is known to bind to every protein in ...

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

authors： Pan L,Yan J,Wu L,Zhang M

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine ecosystems are in decline. New transformational changes in governance are urgently required to cope with overfishing, pollution, global changes, and other drivers of degradation. Here we explore social, political, and ecological aspects of a transformation in governance of Chile's coastal marine resources, from...

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

authors： Gelcich S,Hughes TP,Olsson P,Folke C,Defeo O,Fernández M,Foale S,Gunderson LH,Rodríguez-Sickert C,Scheffer M,Steneck RS,Castilla JC

更新日期：2010-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants require metals for essential functions ranging from respiration to photosynthesis. These metals also contribute to the nutritional value of plants for both humans and livestock. Additionally, plants have the ability to accumulate nonessential metals such as cadmium and lead, and this ability could be harnessed ...

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

authors： Rogers EE,Eide DJ,Guerinot ML

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The INK4a-ARF locus encodes two proteins, p16(INK4a) and p19(ARF), that restrain cell growth by affecting the functions of the retinoblastoma protein and p53, respectively. Disruption of this locus by deletions or point mutations is a common event in human cancer, perhaps second only to the loss of p53. Using insect c...

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

authors： Kamijo T,Weber JD,Zambetti G,Zindy F,Roussel MF,Sherr CJ

更新日期：1998-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The density of corn pollen on leaves of milkweed plants inside and outside of cornfields was measured in several studies from different localities. The purpose was to obtain a representative picture of naturally occurring pollen densities to provide a perspective for laboratory and field studies of monarch larvae feed...

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

authors： Pleasants JM,Hellmich RL,Dively GP,Sears MK,Stanley-Horn DE,Mattila HR,Foster JE,Clark P,Jones GD

更新日期：2001-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:25-Hydroxycholesterol is produced in mammalian tissues. The function of this oxysterol is unknown. Here we describe a central role for 25-hydroxycholesterol in regulating the immune system. In initial experiments, we found that stimulation of macrophage Toll-like receptors (TLR) induced expression of cholesterol 25-hy...

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

authors： Bauman DR,Bitmansour AD,McDonald JG,Thompson BM,Liang G,Russell DW

更新日期：2009-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:This study demonstrates that significantly shortened telomeres are a hallmark of cardiomyocytes (CMs) from individuals with end-stage hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) or dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) as a result of heritable defects in cardiac proteins critical to contractile function. Positioned at the ends of chromo...

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

authors： Chang ACY,Chang ACH,Kirillova A,Sasagawa K,Su W,Weber G,Lin J,Termglinchan V,Karakikes I,Seeger T,Dainis AM,Hinson JT,Seidman J,Seidman CE,Day JW,Ashley E,Wu JC,Blau HM

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional topological insulators (3D TIs) represent states of quantum matters in which surface states are protected by time-reversal symmetry and an inversion occurs between bulk conduction and valence bands. However, the bulk-band inversion, which is intimately tied to the topologically nontrivial nature of 3...

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

authors： Chen ZG,Chen RY,Zhong RD,Schneeloch J,Zhang C,Huang Y,Qu F,Yu R,Li Q,Gu GD,Wang NL

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change is expected to alter the distribution and abundance of many species. Predictions of climate-induced population extinctions are supported by geographic range shifts that correspond to climatic warming, but few extinctions have been linked mechanistically to climate change. Here we show that extinctions o...

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

authors： McLaughlin JF,Hellmann JJ,Boggs CL,Ehrlich PR

更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Food is a powerful entrainment cue for circadian clocks in peripheral tissues, and changes in the composition of nutrients have been demonstrated to metabolically reprogram peripheral clocks. However, how food challenges may influence circadian metabolism of the master clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) or in ...

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

authors： Tognini P,Samad M,Kinouchi K,Liu Y,Helbling JC,Moisan MP,Eckel-Mahan KL,Baldi P,Sassone-Corsi P

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The adenosine deaminases that act on RNA (ADARs) catalyze the site-specific conversion of adenosine to inosine (A to I) in primary mRNA transcripts, thereby affecting the splicing pattern or coding potential of mature mRNAs. Although the subnuclear localization of A-to-I editing has not been precisely defined, ADARs h...

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

authors： Sansam CL,Wells KS,Emeson RB

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants adapt to alterations in light conditions by controlling their gene expression profiles. Expression of light-inducible genes is transcriptionally induced by transcription factors such as HY5. However, few detailed analyses have been carried out on the control of transcription start sites (TSSs). Of the various w...

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

authors： Kurihara Y,Makita Y,Kawashima M,Fujita T,Iwasaki S,Matsui M

更新日期：2018-07-24 00:00:00