Inhibition of human natural killer cell activity by (14R,15S)-14,15-dihydroxy-5Z,8Z,10E,12E- icosatetraenoic acid.

abstract：:Endothelial heterogeneity has important implications in health and disease. Molecular markers selectively expressed in the vasculature of different organs and tissues are currently being explored in targeted therapies with promising results in preclinical and clinical studies. Noteworthy is the role that combinatorial...

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

authors： Tang FHF,Staquicini FI,Teixeira AAR,Michaloski JS,Namiyama GM,Taniwaki NN,Setubal JC,da Silva AM,Sidman RL,Pasqualini R,Arap W,Giordano RJ

更新日期：2019-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Many neurotransmitters are known to regulate neuronal cell function by means of activation of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) and phosphorylation of neuronal substrate proteins, including transcription factors and ion channels. Here, we have characterized the gene expression of two isoforms of a protein kinase inh...

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

authors： Seasholtz AF,Gamm DM,Ballestero RP,Scarpetta MA,Uhler MD

更新日期：1995-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure is described for selection of temperature-sensitive mutants affecting fatty-acid synthesis based upon radiation suicide of wild-type organisms by tritiated acetate selectively incorporated into fatty acids. At 37 degrees , two of the mutants extensively incorporate fatty-acid supplements provided in the me...

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

authors： Harder ME,Beacham IR,Cronan JE Jr,Beacham K,Honegger JL,Silbert DF

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have established a large panel of T-cell clones (TCCs) specific for Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus and Lolium perenne group I grass pollen allergens (total, 61) and for tetanus toxoid and protein purified derivative bacterial antigens (total, 38) from the peripheral blood of two atopic individuals and then analyzed...

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

authors： Parronchi P,Macchia D,Piccinni MP,Biswas P,Simonelli C,Maggi E,Ricci M,Ansari AA,Romagnani S

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Incommensurate charge order in hole-doped oxides is intertwined with exotic phenomena such as colossal magnetoresistance, high-temperature superconductivity, and electronic nematicity. Here, we map, at atomic resolution, the nature of incommensurate charge-lattice order in a manganite using scanning transmission elect...

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

authors： El Baggari I,Savitzky BH,Admasu AS,Kim J,Cheong SW,Hovden R,Kourkoutis LF

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The Late Quaternary glacial-interglacial transitions represent the highest amplitude climate changes over the last million years. Unraveling the sequence of events and feedbacks at Termination III (T-III), including potential abrupt climate reversals similar to those of the last Termination, has been particularly chal...

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

authors： Pérez-Mejías C,Moreno A,Sancho C,Bartolomé M,Stoll H,Cacho I,Cheng H,Edwards RL

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the ubiquitous use of phosphoramidite chemistry in the synthesis of biophosphates, catalytic asymmetric phosphoramidite transfer remains largely unexplored for phosphate ester synthesis. We have discovered that a tetrazole-functionalized peptide, in the presence of 10-Å molecular sieves, functions as an enanti...

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

authors： Jordan PA,Kayser-Bricker KJ,Miller SJ

更新日期：2010-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a human gastrin gene from a genomic library by employing a human gastrin cDNA clone as a hybridization probe. The total length of the gene is approximately 4.0 kilobase pairs, and the gene is separated into three exons and two introns. A 130-base-pair intron interrupts the coding region and a 3.0-kilo...

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

authors： Ito R,Sato K,Helmer T,Jay G,Agarwal K

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Hydroxyanthranilic acid (HAA), a compound generated during tryptophan metabolism initiated by indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase, is known to induce T cell death, but its molecular target is not known. Here we report that HAA inhibits NF-kappaB activation upon T cell antigen receptor engagement by specifically targeting PD...

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

authors： Hayashi T,Mo JH,Gong X,Rossetto C,Jang A,Beck L,Elliott GI,Kufareva I,Abagyan R,Broide DH,Lee J,Raz E

更新日期：2007-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme oxygenase (HO) catalyzes the opening of the heme ring with the release of iron in both plants and animals. In cyanobacteria, red algae, and cryptophyceae, HO is a key enzyme in the synthesis of the chromophoric part of the photosynthetic antennae. In an attempt to study the regulation of this key metabolic step, ...

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

authors： Richaud C,Zabulon G

更新日期：1997-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The nicotinic acetylcholine (ACh) receptor (nAChR) plays a crucial role in excitatory neurotransmission and is an important target for drugs and insecticides. Diverse nAChR subtypes with various subunit combinations confer differential selectivity for nicotinic drugs. We investigated the subtype selectivity of nAChR a...

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

authors： Tomizawa M,Maltby D,Talley TT,Durkin KA,Medzihradszky KF,Burlingame AL,Taylor P,Casida JE

更新日期：2008-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA restriction fragments of the genes encoding HLA class II-beta antigens were compared in 34 patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and 34 HLA-DR-matched healthy individuals. Ninety-three fragments, determined by six restriction enzymes (EcoRI, EcoRV, HindIII, BamHI, Pvu II, and Taq I), were analyzed: (i)...

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

authors： Cohen-Haguenauer O,Robbins E,Massart C,Busson M,Deschamps I,Hors J,Lalouel JM,Dausset J,Cohen D

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The environments we humans encounter daily are sources of exposure to diverse microbial communities, some of potential concern to human health. In this study, we used culture-independent technology to investigate the microbial composition of biofilms inside showerheads as ecological assemblages in the human indoor env...

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

authors： Feazel LM,Baumgartner LK,Peterson KL,Frank DN,Harris JK,Pace NR

更新日期：2009-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The sense of hearing is remarkable for its auditory dynamic range, which spans more than 10(12) in acoustic intensity. The mechanisms that enable the cochlea to transduce high sound levels without damage are of key interest, particularly with regard to the broad impact of industrial, military, and recreational auditor...

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

authors： Housley GD,Morton-Jones R,Vlajkovic SM,Telang RS,Paramananthasivam V,Tadros SF,Wong AC,Froud KE,Cederholm JM,Sivakumaran Y,Snguanwongchai P,Khakh BS,Cockayne DA,Thorne PR,Ryan AF

更新日期：2013-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of matching variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) profiles to link suspects with crimes is potentially very powerful, but it has been quite controversial. Initial debate over laboratory procedures has largely given way to debate over the statistical and population genetic issues involved in calculating the f...

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

authors： Weir BS

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonhomologous integration vectors have been used to demonstrate the feasibility of insertional mutagenesis in haploid tachyzoites of the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Mutant clones resistant to 5-fluorouracil were identified at a frequency of approximately 10(-6) (approximately 2 x 10(-5) of the stable transfo...

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

authors： Donald RG,Roos DS

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Fish stocks experiencing high fishing mortality show a tendency to mature earlier and at a smaller size, which may have a genetic component and therefore long-lasting economic and biological effects. To date, the economic effects of such ecoevolutionary dynamics have not been empirically investigated. Using 70 y of da...

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

authors： Eikeset AM,Richter A,Dunlop ES,Dieckmann U,Stenseth NC

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNA-34a (miR-34a) is the most highly elevated hepatic miR in obese mice and is also substantially elevated in patients who have steatosis, but its role in obesity and metabolic dysfunction remains unclear. After a meal, FGF19 is secreted from the ileum; binds to a hepatic membrane receptor complex, FGF19 receptor...

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

authors： Fu T,Choi SE,Kim DH,Seok S,Suino-Powell KM,Xu HE,Kemper JK

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand non-trivial biological functions, it is crucial to develop minimal synthetic models that capture their basic features. Here, we demonstrate a sequence-independent, reversible control of transcription and gene expression using a photosensitive nucleic acid binder (pNAB). By introducing a pNAB whose affini...

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

authors： Estévez-Torres A,Crozatier C,Diguet A,Hara T,Saito H,Yoshikawa K,Baigl D

更新日期：2009-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In neurotransmission synaptotagmin-1 tethers synaptic vesicles to the presynaptic plasma membrane by binding to acidic membrane lipids and SNAREs and promotes rapid SNARE-mediated fusion upon Ca(2+) triggering. However, recent studies suggested that upon membrane contact synaptotagmin may not only bind in trans to the...

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

authors： Vennekate W,Schröder S,Lin CC,van den Bogaart G,Grunwald M,Jahn R,Walla PJ

更新日期：2012-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerization of individual RecA-DNA filaments, containing either single-stranded or double-stranded DNA, was followed in real time, and their mechanical properties were characterized with force-measuring laser tweezers. It was found that the stretch modulus of a filament is dominated by its (central) DNA compone...

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

authors： Hegner M,Smith SB,Bustamante C

更新日期：1999-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Bicistronic cassettes under control of a single promoter have recently been suggested as useful tools for coordinate expression of two different foreign proteins in mammalian cells. Using the long 5' untranslated region of encephalomyocarditis virus as translational enhancer of the second gene, a bicistronic unit comp...

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

authors： Aran JM,Gottesman MM,Pastan I

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity-regulated cytoskeleton-associated protein (Arc) gene is a neural immediate early gene that is involved in synaptic downscaling and is robustly induced by prolonged wakefulness in rodent brains. Converging evidence has led to the hypothesis that wakefulness potentiates, and sleep reduces, synaptic strength...

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

authors： Suzuki A,Yanagisawa M,Greene RW

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine milk lipoprotein lipase was subjected to amino acid sequence analysis. The first 19 amino-terminal residues were Asp-Arg-Ile-Thr-Gly-Gly-Lys-Asp-Phe-Arg-Asp-Ile-Glu-Ser-Lys-Phe-Ala-Leu- Arg. In addition, reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography of a tryptic digest of reduced and alkylated lipase re...

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

authors： Ben-Avram CM,Ben-Zeev O,Lee TD,Haaga K,Shively JE,Goers J,Pedersen ME,Reeve JR Jr,Schotz MC

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1950, Barbara McClintock published a Classic PNAS article, "The origin and behavior of mutable loci in maize," which summarized the evidence leading to her discovery of transposition. The article described a number of genome alterations revealed through her studies of the Dissociation locus, the first mobile geneti...

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

authors： Fedoroff NV

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrastructural cytochemistry of natural killer cells enriched by Percoll gradient centrifugation showed them to possess arylsulfatase (aryl-sulfate sulfohydrolase, EC 3.1.6.1). The enzyme was located in vesicles, granules, and the parallel tubular arrays, organelles characteristic for cytotoxic lymphocytes. Biochemic...

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

authors： Zucker-Franklin D,Grusky G,Yang JS

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quorum sensing signal autoinducer-2 (AI-2) regulates important bacterial behaviors, including biofilm formation and the production of virulence factors. Some bacteria, such as Escherichia coli, can quench the AI-2 signal produced by a variety of species present in the environment, and thus can influence AI-2-depen...

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

authors： Marques JC,Oh IK,Ly DC,Lamosa P,Ventura MR,Miller ST,Xavier KB

更新日期：2014-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The Arabidopsis thaliana SOS1 protein is a putative Na+/H+ antiporter that functions in Na+ extrusion and is essential for the NaCl tolerance of plants. sos1 mutant plants share phenotypic similarities with mutants lacking the protein kinase SOS2 and the Ca2+ sensor SOS3. To investigate whether the three SOS proteins ...

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

authors： Quintero FJ,Ohta M,Shi H,Zhu JK,Pardo JM

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Urbanization and rural-urban migration are two factors driving global patterns of disease and mortality. There is significant concern about their potential impact on disease burden and the effectiveness of current control approaches. Few attempts have been made to increase our understanding of the relationship between...

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

authors： Tian H,Hu S,Cazelles B,Chowell G,Gao L,Laine M,Li Y,Yang H,Li Y,Yang Q,Tong X,Huang R,Bjornstad ON,Xiao H,Stenseth NC

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a motility mechanism that may result in the displacement of objects within the cell. The mechanism, which we call polymer-guided diffusion, involves a microscopic cycle of polymer association and dissociation from a lateral binding site. Reassociation occurs at the polymer subunit adjacent to that which has...

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

authors： Garel JR,Job D,Margolis RL

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00