Regulation of collagen synthesis by ascorbic acid.

abstract：:We have shown recently that the temporal order of antioxidant consumption in human blood plasma exposed to a constant flux of aqueous peroxyl radicals is ascorbate = protein thiols greater than bilirubin greater than urate greater than alpha-tocopherol and that detectable lipid peroxidation starts only after ascorbate...

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

authors： Frei B,England L,Ames BN

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Historical collapse of ancient states or civilizations has raised new awareness about its possible relevance to current issues of sustainability, in the context of global change. This Special Feature examines 12 case studies of societies under stress, of which seven suffered severe transformation. Outcomes were comple...

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

authors： Butzer KW,Endfield GH

更新日期：2012-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Small solutes affect protein and nucleic acid processes because of favorable or unfavorable chemical interactions of the solute with the biopolymer surface exposed or buried in the process. Large solutes also exclude volume and affect processes where biopolymer molecularity and/or shape changes. Here, we develop an an...

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

authors： Knowles DB,LaCroix AS,Deines NF,Shkel I,Record MT Jr

更新日期：2011-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma iron turnover was measured in 19 normal subjects. A correlation was found between plasma iron concentration and plasma iron turnover. In addition to the turnover of 55Fe at normal plasma iron concentration (predominantly monoferric transferrin), a second turnover in which the labeled plasma was saturated wi...

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

authors： Skarberg K,Eng M,Huebers H,Marsaglia G,Finch C

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seed plants vary tremendously in size and morphology; however, variation and covariation in plant traits may be governed, at least in part, by universal biophysical laws and biological constants. Metabolic scaling theory (MST) posits that whole-organismal metabolism and growth rate are under stabilizing selection that...

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

authors： Vasseur F,Exposito-Alonso M,Ayala-Garay OJ,Wang G,Enquist BJ,Vile D,Violle C,Weigel D

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural circuits are generated by precisely ordered synaptic connections among neurons, and this process is thought to rely on the ability of neurons to recognize specific partners. However, it is also known that neurons promiscuously form synapses with nonspecific partners, in particular when cultured in vitro, causin...

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

authors： Ito S,Takeichi M

更新日期：2009-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The two nitrile groups at the wings of the nonnucleoside HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitor TMC278 are both identified in high-sensitivity 2D IR spectroscopy experiments of the HIV-1 RT/TMC278 complex. The vibrational spectra indicate that the two arms of the inhibitor sense quite different environments within...

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

authors： Fang C,Bauman JD,Das K,Remorino A,Arnold E,Hochstrasser RM

更新日期：2008-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A molecular model of poorly understood hydrophobic effects is heuristically developed using the methods of information theory. Because primitive hydrophobic effects can be tied to the probability of observing a molecular-sized cavity in the solvent, the probability distribution of the number of solvent centers in a ca...

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

authors： Hummer G,Garde S,García AE,Pohorille A,Pratt LR

更新日期：1996-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In organisms from insects to vertebrates, Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are primary pathogen detectors that activate downstream pathways, specifically those that direct expression of innate immune effector genes. TLRs also have roles in development in many species. The sea anemone Nematostella vectensis is a useful cnida...

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

authors： Brennan JJ,Messerschmidt JL,Williams LM,Matthews BJ,Reynoso M,Gilmore TD

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The current model to explain the organization of the mammalian nervous system is based on studies of anatomy, embryology, and evolution. To further investigate the molecular organization of the adult mammalian brain, we have built a gene expression-based brain map. We measured gene expression patterns for 24 neural ti...

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

authors： Zapala MA,Hovatta I,Ellison JA,Wodicka L,Del Rio JA,Tennant R,Tynan W,Broide RS,Helton R,Stoveken BS,Winrow C,Lockhart DJ,Reilly JF,Young WG,Bloom FE,Lockhart DJ,Barlow C

更新日期：2005-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell surface receptor membrane localization is strongly dependent on protein-protein interactions often involving regulation by phosphorylation/dephosphorylation of the intracellular domains of membrane proteins. The present study was carried out to identify metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) 3 regulatory binding...

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

authors： Flajolet M,Rakhilin S,Wang H,Starkova N,Nuangchamnong N,Nairn AC,Greengard P

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Symbiotic microbes impact the severity of a variety of diseases through regulation of T-cell development. However, little is known regarding the molecular mechanisms by which this is accomplished. Here we report that a secreted factor, Erdr1, is regulated by the microbiota to control T-cell apoptosis. Erdr1 expression...

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

authors： Soto R,Petersen C,Novis CL,Kubinak JL,Bell R,Stephens WZ,Lane TE,Fujinami RS,Bosque A,O'Connell RM,Round JL

更新日期：2017-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The template for transcription and replication of negative-stranded RNA viruses is a ribonucleoprotein structure, the nucleocapsid. We have developed a system that supports assembly of the negative-stranded RNA genome of a defective interfering (DI) particle of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) into a nucleocapsid in v...

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

authors： Mirakhur B,Peluso RW

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Signaling in the nervous system requires matching of neurotransmitter receptors with cognate neurotransmitters at synapses. The vertebrate neuromuscular junction is the best studied cholinergic synapse, but the mechanisms by which acetylcholine is matched with acetylcholine receptors are not fully understood. Because ...

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

authors： Borodinsky LN,Spitzer NC

更新日期：2007-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus infection in vitro immortalizes primary B cells. EBNA2 is an Epstein-Barr virus-encoded transcriptional transactivator that mimics the effects of activated Notch signaling and is essential for this proliferative response. An assay using Sindbis virus (SV) as a cell death inducer revealed that, like ...

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

authors： Lee JM,Lee KH,Weidner M,Osborne BA,Hayward SD

更新日期：2002-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In a subtropical gyre, the convergent Ekman layer forces water downward into the geostrophic flow below. The properties and depth of the mixed layer vary considerably during the course of the year, but this variability does not penetrate into the geostrophic region. Evidently there is some process at work that selects...

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

authors： Stommel H

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulation factor V is a high molecular weight plasma glycoprotein that participates as a cofactor in the conversion of prothrombin to thrombin by factor Xa. A phage lambda gt11 Hep G2 cell cDNA expression library was screened by using an affinity-purified antibody to human factor V, and 11 positive clones were isola...

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

authors： Kane WH,Davie EW

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether Golgi enzymes remain localized within the Golgi or constitutively cycle through the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is unclear, yet is important for understanding Golgi dependence on the ER. Here, we demonstrate that the previously reported inefficient ER trapping of Golgi enzymes in a rapamycin-based assay results...

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

authors： Sengupta P,Satpute-Krishnan P,Seo AY,Burnette DT,Patterson GH,Lippincott-Schwartz J

更新日期：2015-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Motifs of neural circuitry seem surprisingly conserved over different areas of neocortex or of paleocortex, while performing quite different sensory processing tasks. This apparent paradox may be resolved by the fact that seemingly different problems in sensory information processing are related by transformations (ch...

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

authors： Hopfield JJ

更新日期：1996-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant transcription of the pericentromeric human satellite II (HSATII) repeat is present in a wide variety of epithelial cancers. In deriving experimental systems to study its deregulation, we observed that HSATII expression is induced in colon cancer cells cultured as xenografts or under nonadherent conditions in ...

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

authors： Bersani F,Lee E,Kharchenko PV,Xu AW,Liu M,Xega K,MacKenzie OC,Brannigan BW,Wittner BS,Jung H,Ramaswamy S,Park PJ,Maheswaran S,Ting DT,Haber DA

更新日期：2015-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how changes in antibiotic consumption affect the prevalence of antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens is important for public health. In a number of bacterial species, including Streptococcus pneumoniae, the prevalence of resistance has remained relatively stable despite prolonged selection pressur...

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

authors： Lehtinen S,Blanquart F,Croucher NJ,Turner P,Lipsitch M,Fraser C

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Delta5 and Delta6 fatty acid desaturases are critical enzymes in the pathways for the biosynthesis of the polyunsaturated fatty acids arachidonic, eicosapentaenoic, and docosahexaenoic acids. They are encoded by distinct genes in mammals and Caenorhabditis elegans. This paper describes a cDNA isolated from zebrafish (...

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

authors： Hastings N,Agaba M,Tocher DR,Leaver MJ,Dick JR,Sargent JR,Teale AJ

更新日期：2001-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A typical homing endonuclease initiates mobility of its group I intron by recognizing DNA both upstream and downstream of the intron insertion site of intronless alleles, preventing the endonuclease from binding and cleaving its own intron-containing allele. Here, we describe a GIY-YIG family homing endonuclease, I-Bm...

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

authors： Edgell DR,Shub DA

更新日期：2001-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Three types of protein kinase C were purified from rabbit brain cytosol. Each type has a molecular mass of approximately 80 kDa and serves as a receptor for phorbol esters. Polyclonal antibodies produced to two protein kinase C types were relatively type-specific, indicating that these proteins have unique antigenic d...

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

authors： Jaken S,Kiley SC

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pro-Leu-Gly-NH2 (MIF) and several structural analogues, all injected in 50-microgram doses daily in mice receiving morphine chronically, were found to prevent development of physical dependence as measured by changes in body temperature associated with naloxone-induced withdrawal. Dose-response studies, using again a ...

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

authors： Walter R,Ritzmann RF,Bhargava HN,Flexner LB

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work argues that, in a polarized environment, scientists can minimize the likelihood that the audience's biased processing will lead to rejection of their message if they not only eschew advocacy but also, convey that they are sharers of knowledge faithful to science's way of knowing and respectful of the audienc...

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

authors： Jamieson KH,Hardy BW

更新日期：2014-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori VacA, a pore-forming toxin secreted by an autotransporter pathway, causes multiple alterations in human cells, contributes to the pathogenesis of peptic ulcer disease and gastric cancer, and is a candidate antigen for inclusion in an H. pylori vaccine. Here, we present a 2.4-A crystal structure of ...

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

authors： Gangwer KA,Mushrush DJ,Stauff DL,Spiller B,McClain MS,Cover TL,Lacy DB

更新日期：2007-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:For most intracellular structures with larger than molecular dimensions, little is known about the connection between underlying molecular activities and higher order organization such as size and shape. Here, we show that both the size and shape of the amphibian oocyte nucleolus ultimately arise because nucleoli beha...

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

authors： Brangwynne CP,Mitchison TJ,Hyman AA

更新日期：2011-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Design and synthesis of 3D metallic carbon that is stable under ambient conditions has been a long-standing dream. We predict the existence of such phases, T6- and T14-carbon, consisting of interlocking hexagons. Their dynamic, mechanical, and thermal stabilities are confirmed by carrying out a variety of state-of-the...

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

authors： Zhang S,Wang Q,Chen X,Jena P

更新日期：2013-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:T-box riboswitches control transcription of downstream genes through the tRNA-binding formation of terminator or antiterminator structures. Previously reported T-boxes were described as single-specificity riboswitches that can bind specific tRNA anticodons through codon-anticodon interactions with the nucleotide tripl...

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

authors： Saad NY,Stamatopoulou V,Brayé M,Drainas D,Stathopoulos C,Becker HD

更新日期：2013-07-30 00:00:00