Desensitization of enucleated cells to hormones and role of cytoskeleton in control of normal hormonal response.

abstract：:Specific low-affinity receptors for leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), oncostatin M (OSM; gp130), and ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF; receptor alpha, CNTFR alpha) may be utilized in various combinations to generate high-affinity binding sites and signal transduction. We have tested the ability of combinations of the...

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

authors： Gearing DP,Ziegler SF,Comeau MR,Friend D,Thoma B,Cosman D,Park L,Mosley B

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of Madin-Darby bovine kidney (MDBK) cells with human interferon (IFN)-alpha 2 at 37 degrees C results in a dose-dependent inhibition of cell growth and a reduction of the subsequent binding of 125I-labeled epidermal growth factor (EGF) at 4 degrees C. Human IFN-beta and -gamma, which exhibit little antiviral...

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

authors： Zoon KC,Karasaki Y,zur Nedden DL,Hu RQ,Arnheiter H

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The zinc finger motif, exemplified by a segment of the Drosophila gap gene Krüppel, is a nucleic acid-binding domain present in many transcription factors. To investigate the gene family encoding this motif in the human genome, a placental genomic library was screened at moderate stringency with a degenerate oligodeox...

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

authors： Bray P,Lichter P,Thiesen HJ,Ward DC,Dawid IB

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A conformational isoform of the mammalian prion protein (PrP(Sc)) is the sole component of the infectious pathogen that causes the prion diseases. We have obtained X-ray fiber diffraction patterns from infectious prions that show cross-beta diffraction: meridional intensity at 4.8 A resolution, indicating the presence...

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

authors： Wille H,Bian W,McDonald M,Kendall A,Colby DW,Bloch L,Ollesch J,Borovinskiy AL,Cohen FE,Prusiner SB,Stubbs G

更新日期：2009-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiamin diphosphate, the vitamin B1 coenzyme, plays critical roles in fundamental metabolic pathways that require acyl carbanion equivalents. Studies on chemical models and enzymes had suggested that these carbanions are resonance-stabilized as enamines. A crystal structure of this intermediate in pyruvate oxidase at ...

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

authors： Meyer D,Neumann P,Koers E,Sjuts H,Lüdtke S,Sheldrick GM,Ficner R,Tittmann K

更新日期：2012-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic power of enzymes containing coenzyme B12 has been, in some respects, the "last bastion" for the strain hypothesis. Our previous study of this system established by a careful sampling that the major part of the catalytic effect is due to the electrostatic interaction between the ribose of the ado group an...

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

authors： Schopf P,Mills MJ,Warshel A

更新日期：2015-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis is a bacterial pathogen that infects the eyes and urogenital tract. Ocular infection by this organism is the leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide. The infection is also a leading cause of sexually transmitted disease in the United States. As obligate intracellular pathogens, chlamydia...

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

authors： Lad SP,Li J,da Silva Correia J,Pan Q,Gadwal S,Ulevitch RJ,Li E

更新日期：2007-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an automated laser tracking and optogenetic manipulation system (ALTOMS) for studying social memory in fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster). ALTOMS comprises an intelligent central control module for high-speed fly behavior analysis and feedback laser scanning (∼40 frames per second) for targeting two lase...

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

authors： Wu MC,Chu LA,Hsiao PY,Lin YY,Chi CC,Liu TH,Fu CC,Chiang AS

更新日期：2014-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Indirect reciprocity is a mechanism for cooperation based on shared moral systems and individual reputations. It assumes that members of a community routinely observe and assess each other and that they use this information to decide who is good or bad, and who deserves cooperation. When information is transmitted pub...

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

authors： Hilbe C,Schmid L,Tkadlec J,Chatterjee K,Nowak MA

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Free gangliosides bind fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2), thus preventing cell interaction and biological activity of the growth factor in endothelial cells. Here we investigated the role of cell-associated gangliosides in mediating the biological activity of FGF2. Treatment of endothelial cells of different origin wi...

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

authors： Rusnati M,Urbinati C,Tanghetti E,Dell'Era P,Lortat-Jacob H,Presta M

更新日期：2002-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid development of genetic variability may contribute to the pathogenicity of lentiviruses as it may allow escape from immune surveillance and/or from suppression of virus replication. Although apathogenic in African green monkeys, simian immunodeficiency virus isolated from African green monkeys is shown to display...

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

authors： Baier M,Dittmar MT,Cichutek K,Kurth R

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The lacY gene of Escherichia coli was cut into two approximately equal-size fragments with Afl II and subcloned individually or together under separate lac operator/promoters in plasmid pT7-5. Under these conditions, lac permease is expressed in two portions: (i) the N-terminal portion (the N terminus, the first six p...

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

authors： Bibi E,Kaback HR

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coral bleaching, caused by heat stress, is accompanied by the light-induced loss of photosynthetic pigments in in situ symbiotic dinoflagellate algae (Symbiodinium spp.). However, the molecular mechanisms responsible for pigment loss are poorly understood. Here, we show that moderate heat stress causes photobleaching ...

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

authors： Takahashi S,Whitney S,Itoh S,Maruyama T,Badger M

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic overexpression of Cu(+2)/Zn(+2) superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) harboring an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)-linked familial genetic mutation (SOD1(G93A)) in a Sprague-Dawley rat results in ALS-like motor neuron disease. Motor neuron disease in these rats depended on high levels of mutant SOD1 expression,...

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

authors： Howland DS,Liu J,She Y,Goad B,Maragakis NJ,Kim B,Erickson J,Kulik J,DeVito L,Psaltis G,DeGennaro LJ,Cleveland DW,Rothstein JD

更新日期：2002-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The multidimensional free energy surface for a small fast folding helical protein is explored based on first-principle calculations. The model represents the 46-residue segment from fragment B of staphylococcal protein A. The relationship between collapse and tertiary structure formation, and the order of collapse and...

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

authors： Guo Z,Brooks CL 3rd,Boczko EM

更新日期：1997-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The x-ray crystal structures of the sulfide oxidase antibody 28B4 and of antibody 28B4 complexed with hapten have been solved at 2.2-angstrom and 1.9-angstrom resolution, respectively. To our knowledge, these structures are the highest resolution catalytic antibody structures to date and provide insight into the molec...

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

authors： Hsieh-Wilson LC,Schultz PG,Stevens RC

更新日期：1996-05-28 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：:Glutamyl-tRNA (Glu-tRNA), formed by Glu-tRNA synthetase (GluRS), is a substrate for protein biosynthesis and tetrapyrrole formation by the C(5) pathway. In this route Glu-tRNA is transformed to delta-aminolevulinic acid, the universal precursor of tetrapyrroles (e.g., heme and chlorophyll) by the action of Glu-tRNA re...

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

authors： Levicán G,Katz A,de Armas M,Núñez H,Orellana O

更新日期：2007-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Because neurogenesis persists in the adult mammalian brain and can be regulated by physiological and pathological events, we investigated its possible involvement in the brain's response to focal cerebral ischemia. Ischemia was induced by occlusion of the middle cerebral artery in the rat for 90 min, and proliferating...

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

authors： Jin K,Minami M,Lan JQ,Mao XO,Batteur S,Simon RP,Greenberg DA

更新日期：2001-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Accounting for enzyme-mediated active sliding, disassembly, and sequence-dependent positioning of nucleosomes, we simulate nucleosome occupancy over cell-cycle-scale times using a stochastic kinetic model. We show that ATP-dependent active nucleosome sliding and nucleosome removal processes are essential to obtain in ...

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

authors： Padinhateeri R,Marko JF

更新日期：2011-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A segment of DNA containing cya, the gene for adenylate cyclase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1], has been isolated from Salmonella typhimurium. The phage lambda gt4 was used as a cloning vector and adenylate cyclase-positive hybrid phages were isolated that complemented adenylate cyclase-negative bac...

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

authors： Wang JY,Clegg DO,Koshland DE Jr

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several of the best-studied sex differences in the mammalian brain are ascribed to the hormonal control of cell death. This conclusion is based primarily on correlations between pyknotic cell counts in development and counts of mature neurons in adulthood; the molecular mechanisms of hormone-regulated, sexually dimorp...

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

authors： Forger NG,Rosen GJ,Waters EM,Jacob D,Simerly RB,de Vries GJ

更新日期：2004-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the ability of macrophages and B cells to function as antigen-presenting cells (APCs) for murine TH1 and TH2 cloned T helper cell lines. Antigen presented by concanavalin A-elicited peritoneal macrophages or resting splenic B cells stimulated antigen-dependent proliferation of both T helper subsets. Parafo...

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

authors： Weaver CT,Hawrylowicz CM,Unanue ER

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lymphocyte differentiation (Ly) antigen phenotype of cytotoxic effector T cells specific for H-2 mutant alloantigens was determined. Cytotoxic effectors generated in primary mixed lymphocyte culture and specific for H-2Kba and H-2Dda alloantigens are sensitive to both anti-Ly-1 and anti-Ly-2 serum plus complement....

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

authors： Wettstein PJ,Bailey DW,Mobraaten LE,Klein J,Frelinger JA

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deinococcus radiodurans is among a small number of bacterial species that are extremely resistant to ionizing radiation, UV light, toxic chemicals, and desiccation. We measured proteome oxidation (i.e., protein carbonylation, PC) in D. radiodurans as well as in standard and evolved resistant strains of Escherichia col...

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

authors： Krisko A,Radman M

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed model of the G(2) DNA damage checkpoint (G2DDC) system is presented that includes complex regulatory networks of the mitotic kinase Cdc2, phosphatase Cdc25, Wee1 kinase, and damage signal transduction pathways involving Chk1 and p53. Assumptions on the kinetic equations of the G2DDC are made, and computer s...

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

authors： Aguda BD

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Activating mutations in BRAF are found in 50% of melanomas and although treatment with BRAF inhibitors (BRAFi) is effective, resistance often develops. We now show that recently discovered NRAS isoform 2 is up-regulated in the setting of BRAF inhibitor resistance in melanoma, in both cell lines and patient tumor tissu...

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

authors： Duggan MC,Stiff AR,Bainazar M,Regan K,Olaverria Salavaggione GN,Maharry S,Blachly JS,Krischak M,Walker CJ,Latchana N,Tridandapani S,de la Chapelle A,Eisfeld AK,Carson WE 3rd

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine is believed to contribute to the degeneration of dopamine-containing neurons in the brain. However, whether dopamine affects the survival of other neuronal populations has remained unclear. Here we document that mice with persistently elevated extracellular dopamine, resulting from inactivation of the dopamin...

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

authors： Cyr M,Beaulieu JM,Laakso A,Sotnikova TD,Yao WD,Bohn LM,Gainetdinov RR,Caron MG

更新日期：2003-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The endothelins (ETs) form a group of three vasoactive peptides (ET-1, ET-2, and ET-3) for which two types of cellular receptors have been identified, types A and B ET receptors (ETA and ETB receptors, respectively). To address possible targets for ETs within the liver, we isolated the four principal liver cell popula...

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

authors： Housset C,Rockey DC,Bissell DM

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphogenesis during human development relies on the interplay between physiochemical cues that are mediated in part by cellular density and cytoskeletal tension. Here, we interrogated these factors on vascular lineage specification during human-induced pluripotent stem-cell (hiPSC) fate decision. We found that indepe...

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

authors： Smith Q,Rochman N,Carmo AM,Vig D,Chan XY,Sun S,Gerecht S

更新日期：2018-08-07 00:00:00