A specific anti-proinsulin serum and the presence of proinsulin in calf serum.

abstract：:The proapoptotic activity of the "BH3-only" molecule BAD can be differentially regulated by survival factor signaling. Bad-deficient mice lacking both BAD long and BAD short proteins proved viable, and most cell types appeared to develop normally. BAD did not exclusively account for cell death after withdrawal of surv...

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

authors： Ranger AM,Zha J,Harada H,Datta SR,Danial NN,Gilmore AP,Kutok JL,Le Beau MM,Greenberg ME,Korsmeyer SJ

更新日期：2003-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Several inhibitors of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase in vitro [L-serine plus borate, 6-diazo-5-oxo-L-norleucine, and L- and D-gamma-glutamyl-(o-carboxy)phenylhydrazide] are active in vivo, as indicated by their effect in decreasing the conversion of administered D-gamma-glutamyl-L-alpha-amino[(14)C]butyrate to respirat...

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

authors： Griffith OW,Meister A

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:COVID-19 has emerged as one of the deadliest and most disruptive events in recent human history. Drawing from political science and psychological theories, we examine the effects of daily confirmed cases in a country on citizens' support for the political leader through the first 120 d of 2020. Using three unique data...

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

authors： Yam KC,Jackson JC,Barnes CM,Lau J,Qin X,Lee HY

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A cloned Bacillus subtilis gene (sprE) expressed only during the stationary growth phase is shown to encode the subtilisin E protease, an enzyme associated with sporulation. We have determined the DNA sequence of the sprE promoter region and the promoter-proximal half of the structural gene. The sprE gene codes for a ...

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

authors： Wong SL,Price CW,Goldfarb DS,Doi RH

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occurrence of the transversion mutation A.T to C.G is specifically enhanced in Escherichia coli mutT mutants. With the aid of the cloned mutT gene, the MutT protein, which has a molecular mass of 15 kilodaltons, was overproduced and purified to near homogeneity. The protein catalyzes hydrolysis of dGTP to dGMP. dGDP a...

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

authors： Akiyama M,Maki H,Sekiguchi M,Horiuchi T

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggression is a universal social behavior important for the acquisition of food, mates, territory, and social status. Aggression in Drosophila is context-dependent and can thus be expected to involve inputs from multiple sensory modalities. Here, we use mechanical disruption and genetic approaches in Drosophila melano...

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

authors： Versteven M,Vanden Broeck L,Geurten B,Zwarts L,Decraecker L,Beelen M,Göpfert MC,Heinrich R,Callaerts P

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor promoter phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) induces characteristic reversible changes of cell shape in certain fibroblastic lines: motile lamellas are transformed into noncontractile narrow processes; simultaneously, the actin microfilament network of lamellas is locally disorganized. This reaction to PMA...

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

authors： Bershadsky AD,Ivanova OY,Lyass LA,Pletyushkina OY,Vasiliev JM,Gelfand IM

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is a retrovirus that causes malignant and inflammatory diseases in ∼10% of infected people. A typical host has between 10(4) and 10(5) clones of HTLV-1-infected T lymphocytes, each clone distinguished by the genomic integration site of the single-copy HTLV-1 provirus. The HTL...

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

authors： Satou Y,Miyazato P,Ishihara K,Yaguchi H,Melamed A,Miura M,Fukuda A,Nosaka K,Watanabe T,Rowan AG,Nakao M,Bangham CR

更新日期：2016-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the face of antibiotics, bacterial populations avoid extinction by harboring a subpopulation of dormant cells that are largely drug insensitive. This phenomenon, termed "persistence," is a major obstacle for the treatment of a number of infectious diseases. The mechanism that generates both actively growing as well...

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

authors： Rotem E,Loinger A,Ronin I,Levin-Reisman I,Gabay C,Shoresh N,Biham O,Balaban NQ

更新日期：2010-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal lamina propria (LP) is a major effector site of the mucosal immune system where antigen-specific and antigen-nonspecific factors shape the functional responses of CD4+ T helper cells. To study the functional differentiation of LP T helper cells we utilized DO11.10 T cell receptor (TCR) transgenic (Tg) m...

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

authors： Hurst SD,Sitterding SM,Ji S,Barrett TA

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental stress often leads to an increased production of reactive oxygen species that are involved in plastid-to-nucleus retrograde signaling. Soon after the release of singlet oxygen ((1)O(2)) in chloroplasts of the flu mutant of Arabidopsis, reprogramming of nuclear gene expression reveals a rapid transfer of ...

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

authors： Simková K,Moreau F,Pawlak P,Vriet C,Baruah A,Alexandre C,Hennig L,Apel K,Laloi C

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasmid construct pSVO-CAT has been used to test adenovirus promoter activities in the unmethylated or methylated state. We have now observed that the E2A late promoter of adenovirus type 2 (Ad2) DNA also activated the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) gene upon transfection of the pAd2E2A-CAT construct into...

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

authors： Langner KD,Weyer U,Doerfler W

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloids are often associated with pathologic processes such as in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but can also underlie physiological processes such as pigmentation. Formation of pathological and functional amyloidogenic substrates can require precursor processing by proteases, as exemplified by the generation of Aβ peptid...

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

authors： Rochin L,Hurbain I,Serneels L,Fort C,Watt B,Leblanc P,Marks MS,De Strooper B,Raposo G,van Niel G

更新日期：2013-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular metabolism alters patterns of gene expression through a variety of mechanisms, including alterations in histone modifications and transcription factor activity. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD)-dependent proteins such as poly(ADP ribose) polymerases (PARPs) and sirtuin deacetylases play important roles...

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

authors： Chang J,Zhang B,Heath H,Galjart N,Wang X,Milbrandt J

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparinase I from Flavobacterium heparinum has important uses for elucidating the complex sequence heterogeneity of heparin-like glycosaminoglycans (HLGAGs). Understanding the biological function of HLGAGs has been impaired by the limited methods for analysis of pure or mixed oligosaccharide fragments. Here, we use me...

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

authors： Ernst S,Rhomberg AJ,Biemann K,Sasisekharan R

更新日期：1998-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Wnts regulate important intracellular signaling events, and dysregulation of the Wnt pathway has been linked to human disease. Here, we uncover numerous Wnt canonical effectors in human platelets where Wnts, their receptors, and downstream signaling components have not been previously described. We demonstrate that th...

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

authors： Steele BM,Harper MT,Macaulay IC,Morrell CN,Perez-Tamayo A,Foy M,Habas R,Poole AW,Fitzgerald DJ,Maguire PB

更新日期：2009-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The colligative properties of ATP and catecholamines demonstrated in vitro are thought to be responsible for the extraordinary accumulation of solutes inside chromaffin cell secretory vesicles, although this has yet to be demonstrated in living cells. Because functional cells cannot be deprived of ATP, we have knocked...

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

authors： Estévez-Herrera J,Domínguez N,Pardo MR,González-Santana A,Westhead EW,Borges R,Machado JD

更新日期：2016-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A key component of scientific communication is sufficient information for other researchers in the field to reproduce published findings. For computational and data-enabled research, this has often been interpreted to mean making available the raw data from which results were generated, the computer code that generate...

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

authors： Stodden V,Seiler J,Ma Z

更新日期：2018-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Delta 5-3-Ketosteroid isomerase (EC 5.3.3.1) promotes an allylic rearrangement involving intramolecular proton transfer via a dienolic intermediate. This enzyme enhances the catalytic rate by a factor of 10(10). Two residues, Tyr-14, the general acid that polarizes the steroid 3-carbonyl group and facilitates enolizat...

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

authors： Zhao Q,Abeygunawardana C,Talalay P,Mildvan AS

更新日期：1996-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Mature peripheral T cells respond to foreign but not to self-antigens. During development in the thymus, deletion of high-affinity self-reactive immature thymocytes contributes to tolerance of mature T cells. However, double-positive thymocytes are positively selected to survive if they respond to self-peptide-MHC com...

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

authors： Stephen TL,Wilson BS,Laufer TM

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:High-accuracy ab initio folding has remained an elusive objective despite decades of effort. To explore the folding landscape of villin headpiece subdomain HP35, we conducted two sets of replica exchange molecular dynamics for 200 ns each and three sets of conventional microsecond-long molecular dynamics simulations, ...

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

authors： Lei H,Wu C,Liu H,Duan Y

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoglobulin heavy-chain variable region (VH) locus in a phylogenetically primitive teleost (Elops saurus) has been characterized by a strategy that relied initially on cross-hybridization between genomic VH segments and a murine VH probe. Using a homologous (Elops) VH probe and DNA sequencing, this gene family ...

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

authors： Amemiya CT,Litman GW

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant cutin monomers trigger, and glucose suppresses, the expression of the cutinase gene of pathogenic fungi. To identify the cutinase promoter region responsible for induction by the unique plant components, a promoter analysis was done with transformants. Plasmids were constructed that contained (i) the 5' flanking...

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

authors： Bajar A,Podila GK,Kolattukudy PE

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:After exposure to low density lipoprotein (LDL) that had been minimally modified by oxidation (MM-LDL), human endothelial cells (EC) and smooth muscle cells (SMC) cultured separately or together produced 2- to 3-fold more monocyte chemotactic activity than did control cells or cells exposed to freshly isolated LDL. Th...

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

authors： Cushing SD,Berliner JA,Valente AJ,Territo MC,Navab M,Parhami F,Gerrity R,Schwartz CJ,Fogelman AM

更新日期：1990-07-01 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：:Aptamers recognize their targets with extraordinary affinity and specificity. The aptamer-based therapeutic, Macugen, is derived from a modified 2'fluoro pyrimidine RNA inhibitor to vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and is now being used to treat the wet form of age-related macular degeneration. This VEGF(165)...

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

authors： Lee JH,Canny MD,De Erkenez A,Krilleke D,Ng YS,Shima DT,Pardi A,Jucker F

更新日期：2005-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequences of large insert clones containing genomic DNA that is orthologous to the maize adh1 region were obtained for sorghum, rice, and the adh1-homoeologous region of maize, a remnant of the tetraploid history of the Zea lineage. By using all four genomes, it was possible to describe the nature, timing, and lin...

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

authors： Ilic K,SanMiguel PJ,Bennetzen JL

更新日期：2003-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The rpoS gene of Escherichia coli encodes a putative RNA polymerase sigma factor that is considered to be the central regulator of gene expression in stationary phase. The gene product (sigma 38) was overproduced using the cloned rpoS gene and purified to homogeneity. Reconstituted RNA polymerase holoenzyme (E sigma 3...

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

authors： Tanaka K,Takayanagi Y,Fujita N,Ishihama A,Takahashi H

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In preeclampsia (PE), cytotrophoblast (CTB) invasion of the uterus and spiral arteries is often shallow. Thus, the placenta's role has been a focus. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that decidual defects are an important determinant of the placental phenotype. We isolated human endometrial stromal cells from no...

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

authors： Garrido-Gomez T,Dominguez F,Quiñonero A,Diaz-Gimeno P,Kapidzic M,Gormley M,Ona K,Padilla-Iserte P,McMaster M,Genbacev O,Perales A,Fisher SJ,Simón C

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics investigation of the guanidinoacetate methyltransferase catalyzed reaction, which shows that proton transfer from guanidinoacetate (GAA) to Asp-134 and methyl transfer from S-adenosyl-L-methionine (AdoMet) to GAA are concerted. By self-consistent-charge density funct...

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

authors： Zhang X,Bruice TC

更新日期：2006-10-31 00:00:00