Mechanisms of Kirsten murine sarcoma virus transformation-induced changes in the collagen phenotype and synthetic rate of BALB 3T3 cells.

abstract：:T cells that have been immunized to express optimal levels of contact hypersensitivity upon adoptive transfer to normal animals can be inhibited from doing so by incubating them with an antigen-specific T suppressor factor. This factor is composed of at least two subunits which come from cells expressing different Ly ...

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

authors： Ptak W,Rosenstein RW,Gershon RK

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The infectious reovirus RNA system was used to construct a mutant with two temperature-sensitive (ts) lesions in genome segments M2 and S2, respectively. The double mutant is about 300 times more ts than either of its parents, which are about 1,500 and 170 times more ts than their wild-type parent reovirus ST3 strain ...

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

authors： Roner MR,Nepliouev I,Sherry B,Joklik WK

更新日期：1997-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Sonicated rabbit-liver chromatin is fractionated by ion-exchange chromatography on ECTHAM-cellulose, a weakly cationic adsorbent. The chromatographic procedure provides a series of fractions having a spectrum of thermal denaturation profiles. The earliest-eluting fractions melt cooperatively at a significantly higher ...

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

authors： Reeck GR,Simpson RT,Sober HA

更新日期：1972-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The environmental backdrop to the evolution and spread of early Homo sapiens in East Africa is known mainly from isolated outcrops and distant marine sediment cores. Here we present results from new scientific drill cores from Lake Malawi, the first long and continuous, high-fidelity records of tropical climate change...

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

authors： Scholz CA,Johnson TC,Cohen AS,King JW,Peck JA,Overpeck JT,Talbot MR,Brown ET,Kalindekafe L,Amoako PY,Lyons RP,Shanahan TM,Castañeda IS,Heil CW,Forman SL,McHargue LR,Beuning KR,Gomez J,Pierson J

更新日期：2007-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a computational model for color coding that provides a functional explanation of how humans perceive colors in a homogeneous color space. Beginning with known properties of human cone photoreceptors, the model estimates the locations of the reflectance spectra of Munsell color chips in perceptual c...

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

authors： Romney AK,Chiao CC

更新日期：2009-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomes are compacted hundreds of times to fit in the cell, packaged into dynamic folds whose structures are largely unknown. Here, we examine patterns in gene locations to infer large-scale features of bacterial chromosomes. Specifically, we analyzed >100 genomes and identified thousands of gene pairs that displa...

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

authors： Wright MA,Kharchenko P,Church GM,Segrè D

更新日期：2007-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a method for conjugating low density lipoproteins (LDL) with colloidal gold. Conjugation, complete after 1 min, occurs by electrostatic adsorption of the LDL to the negatively charged gold particle. Each conjugate consists of approximately eight biologically active LDL molecules clustered around a ce...

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

authors： Handley DA,Arbeeny CM,Witte LD,Chien S

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mosquitoes transmit devastating human diseases because they need vertebrate blood for egg development. Metabolism in female mosquitoes is tightly coupled with blood meal-mediated reproduction, which requires an extremely high level of energy consumption. Functional analysis has shown that major genes encoding for enzy...

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

authors： Wang X,Hou Y,Saha TT,Pei G,Raikhel AS,Zou Z

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptically released glutamate has been identified as a signal coupling excitatory neuronal activity to increased glucose utilization. The proposed mechanism of this coupling involves glutamate uptake into astrocytes resulting in increased intracellular Na+ (Nai+) and activation of the Na+/K+-ATPase. Increased metabo...

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

authors： Chatton JY,Pellerin L,Magistretti PJ

更新日期：2003-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ca(2+)-binding protein calbindin D28k (CB) is vital for the normal function of the central nervous system but its specific functional role is largely unclear. CB is typically described as a mobile Ca(2+)buffer that shapes the spatiotemporal extent of cellular Ca(2+)signals. Recent biochemical data, however, indica...

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

authors： Schmidt H,Schwaller B,Eilers J

更新日期：2005-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared folding properties of designed protein Top7 and natural protein S6 by using coarse-grained chain models with a mainly native-centric construct that accounted also for nonnative hydrophobic interactions and desolvation barriers. Top7 and S6 have similar secondary structure elements and are approximately equ...

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

authors： Zhang Z,Chan HS

更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that the BC200 RNA gene, which encodes a neural small cytoplasmic RNA, is a member of the most prodigious family of interspersed repetitive DNA and that its product represents an example of a primate tissue-specific RNA polymerase III transcript. The BC200 RNA gene is an early monomeric member and one o...

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

authors： Martignetti JA,Brosius J

更新日期：1993-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of luminescence in Escherichia coli was recently achieved by cloning genes from the marine bacterium Vibrio fischeri. One DNA fragment on a hybrid plasmid encoded regulatory functions and enzymatic activities necessary for light production. We report the results of a genetic analysis to identify the lumines...

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

authors： Engebrecht J,Silverman M

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An acid extract of pedal ganglia of the mollusc Mytilus edulis was fractionated by high-pressure liquid chromatography with a reverse-phase column. Peak fractions with retention times of those of [Met]- and [Leu]enkephalin were subjected to binding assays in both invertebrate and vertebrate tissues. The results showed...

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

authors： Leung MK,Stefano GB

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes that are unexpressed in somatic cells have been activated by injecting cultured cell nuclei of the frog Xenopus laevis into oocytes of the newt Pleurodeles waltlii. The genes that were activated are normally expressed in oocytes but not in cultured cells. Conversely, genes that are normally expressed in cultured...

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

authors： De Robertis EM,Gurdon JB

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influenza virus genes that confer efficient transmission of epidemic and pandemic strains in humans have not been identified. The rapid spread and severe disease caused by the 1918 influenza pandemic virus makes it an ideal virus to study the transmissibility of potentially pandemic influenza strains. Here, we use...

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

authors： Van Hoeven N,Pappas C,Belser JA,Maines TR,Zeng H,García-Sastre A,Sasisekharan R,Katz JM,Tumpey TM

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:LTRs of endogenous retroviruses are known to affect expression of several human genes, typically as a relatively minor alternative promoter. Here, we report that an endogenous retrovirus LTR acts as one of at least two alternative promoters for the human beta1,3-galactosyltransferase 5 gene, involved in type 1 Lewis a...

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

authors： Dunn CA,Medstrand P,Mager DL

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Stability of the long noncoding-polyadenylated nuclear (PAN) RNA from Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus is conferred by an expression and nuclear retention element (ENE). The ENE protects PAN RNA from a rapid deadenylation-dependent decay pathway via formation of a triple helix between the U-rich internal loop o...

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

authors： Brown JA,Valenstein ML,Yario TA,Tycowski KT,Steitz JA

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression, the most prevalent mental illness, is underdiagnosed and undertreated, highlighting the need to extend the scope of current screening methods. Here, we use language from Facebook posts of consenting individuals to predict depression recorded in electronic medical records. We accessed the history of Faceboo...

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

authors： Eichstaedt JC,Smith RJ,Merchant RM,Ungar LH,Crutchley P,Preoţiuc-Pietro D,Asch DA,Schwartz HA

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythropoietin (EPO) produced by the kidney and the liver (in fetuses) stimulates erythropoiesis. In the central nervous system, neurons express EPO receptor (EPOR) and astrocytes produce EPO. EPO has been shown to protect primary cultured neurons from N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor-mediated glutamate toxicity. ...

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

authors： Sakanaka M,Wen TC,Matsuda S,Masuda S,Morishita E,Nagao M,Sasaki R

更新日期：1998-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The pH gradient (delta pH) across the membrane of bovine neurohypophysial granules was estimated by using the [14C]methylamine partition technique. The granule membrane showed high permeability to sugars such as sucrose or sorbitol and to cations. Granules suspended in sucrose medium showed an acidic internal delta pH...

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

authors： Scherman D,Nordmann JJ

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Larger brains have an increasingly folded cerebral cortex whose white matter scales up faster than the gray matter. Here we analyze the cellular composition of the subcortical white matter in 11 primate species, including humans, and one Scandentia, and show that the mass of the white matter scales linearly across spe...

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

authors： Herculano-Houzel S,Mota B,Wong P,Kaas JH

更新日期：2010-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:8-L-Arginine vasopressin ([Arg8]VP) receptors are expressed transiently in the rat facial nucleus during the perinatal period. Electrophysiological studies suggest that at least part of these receptors is located on facial motoneurones. In the present study we report that, in the adult rat, unilateral section of a fac...

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

authors： Tribollet E,Arsenijevic Y,Marguerat A,Barberis C,Dreifuss JJ

更新日期：1994-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual cAMP signaling system mediates many of the events that prepare spermatozoa to meet the egg. Its components include the atypical, bicarbonate-stimulated, sperm adenylyl cyclase and a cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) with the unique catalytic subunit termed Calpha(2) or C(s). We generated mice that lack Ca...

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

authors： Nolan MA,Babcock DF,Wennemuth G,Brown W,Burton KA,McKnight GS

更新日期：2004-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The auditory and motor neural systems are closely intertwined, enabling people to carry out tasks such as playing a musical instrument whose mapping between action and sound is extremely sophisticated. While the dorsal auditory stream has been shown to mediate these audio-motor transformations, little is known about h...

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

authors： Wollman I,Penhune V,Segado M,Carpentier T,Zatorre RJ

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding biological and physical processes involving nucleic acids, such as the binding of proteins to DNA and RNA, DNA condensation, and RNA folding, requires an understanding of the ion atmosphere that surrounds nucleic acids. We have used a simple model DNA system to determine how the ion atmosphere modulates ...

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

authors： Bai Y,Das R,Millett IS,Herschlag D,Doniach S

更新日期：2005-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of dystrophin and its associated proteins in normal muscle function is now well established. Many of these proteins are expressed in nonmuscle tissues, particularly the brain. Here we describe the characterization of beta-dystrobrevin, a dystrophin-related protein that is abundantly expressed in brain a...

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

authors： Blake DJ,Nawrotzki R,Loh NY,Górecki DC,Davies KE

更新日期：1998-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, seafood mislabeling has been increasingly documented, raising public concern over the identity, safety, and sustainability of seafood. Negative outcomes from seafood mislabeling are suspected to be substantial and pervasive as seafood is the world's most highly traded food commodity. Here we prov...

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

authors： Kroetz K,Luque GM,Gephart JA,Jardine SL,Lee P,Chicojay Moore K,Cole C,Steinkruger A,Donlan CJ

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence comparisons of genomes or expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from related organisms provide insight into functional conservation and diversification. We compare the sequences of ESTs from the male accessory gland of Drosophila simulans to their orthologs in its close relative Drosophila melanogaster, and demonstr...

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

authors： Swanson WJ,Clark AG,Waldrip-Dail HM,Wolfner MF,Aquadro CF

更新日期：2001-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen is known to influence pain, but the specific roles of the two estrogen receptors (ERs) in the spinal cord are unknown. In the present study, we have examined the expression of ERalpha and ERbeta in the spinal cord and have looked for defects in pain pathways in ERbeta knockout (ERbeta(-/-)) mice. In the spina...

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

authors： Fan X,Kim HJ,Warner M,Gustafsson JA

更新日期：2007-08-21 00:00:00