Novel sensory adaptation mechanism in bacterial chemotaxis to oxygen and phosphotransferase substrates.

abstract：:The DC and DX subregions of the human major histocompatibility complex (MHC) have been cloned from a cosmid library made from a human B-cell line, Priess. The DC subregion, 48 kilobases, includes the DC alpha and DC beta genes. A second DC-like region, the DX subregion, 35 kilobases, contains the DX alpha gene and a n...

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

authors： Okada K,Boss JM,Prentice H,Spies T,Mengler R,Auffray C,Lillie J,Grossberger D,Strominger JL

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Never before have individuals had to adapt to social environments defined by such magnitudes of ethnic diversity and cultural differentiation. However, neurobiological evidence informing about strategies to reduce xenophobic sentiment and foster altruistic cooperation with outsiders is scarce. In a series of experimen...

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

authors： Marsh N,Scheele D,Feinstein JS,Gerhardt H,Strang S,Maier W,Hurlemann R

更新日期：2017-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The sex pheromone biosynthetic pathways of lepidopterans require the concerted actions of multiple gene products. A number of pheromone gland (PG)-specific genes have been cloned in recent years and, whereas in vitro characterizations have indicated functions consistent with roles in pheromone production, there have b...

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

authors： Ohnishi A,Hull JJ,Matsumoto S

更新日期：2006-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Lost myelin can be replaced after injury or during demyelinating diseases in a regenerative process called remyelination. In the central nervous system (CNS), the myelin sheaths, which protect axons and allow the fast propagation of electrical impulses, are produced by oligodendrocytes. The abundance and widespread di...

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

authors： Bielecki B,Mattern C,Ghoumari AM,Javaid S,Smietanka K,Abi Ghanem C,Mhaouty-Kodja S,Ghandour MS,Baulieu EE,Franklin RJ,Schumacher M,Traiffort E

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Clones of Friend erythroleukemia cells, characterized by the presence of 40-70% benzidine-positive cells synthesizing hemoglobin in the absence of inducing drugs, were treated with several phorbol diesters with a known range of tumor-promoting activity on mouse skin. Good correlation was found between the reported tum...

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

authors： Rovera G,O'Brien TG,Diamond L

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface proteins of mouse thymus and spleen cells were radioiodinated with lactoperoxidase. After solubilization, the labeled proteins were precipitated by antibodies directed against mouse immunoglobulin chains; the precipitates were analyzed by radioautography after Na dodecyl sulfate-gel electrophoresis. Radioactiv...

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

authors： Lisowska-Bernstein B,Rinuy A,Vassalli P

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wnt and Shh signaling pathways are critical for the development and maturation of many epithelial tissues. Both pathways have roles in stem cell maintenance, tissue development, and tumorigenesis. However, linkage between these pathways in mammalian systems had not been well established. Here, we report that Shh expre...

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

authors： Iwatsuki K,Liu HX,Grónder A,Singer MA,Lane TF,Grosschedl R,Mistretta CM,Margolskee RF

更新日期：2007-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Helping and sharing among humans is often motivated by empathy and accompanied by a sense of satisfaction. To determine whether similar self-rewarding mechanisms may underpin assistance among nonhuman primates, eight female brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) underwent testing in a simple choice paradigm. Paired wit...

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

authors： de Waal FB,Leimgruber K,Greenberg AR

更新日期：2008-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila, the causal agent of Legionnaires' disease, is an intracellular parasite and invades and proliferates within different eukaryotic cells, including human alveolar macrophages. After several 100-fold multiplication within host cells, the pathogens are released for new invasion by induction of apop...

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

authors： Belyi Y,Niggeweg R,Opitz B,Vogelsgesang M,Hippenstiel S,Wilm M,Aktories K

更新日期：2006-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids play a critical role in control of the cytokine response after immune challenge. Conversely, cytokines modulate glucocorticoid production by the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. To define the potency and mechanism of interleukin-6 (IL-6) for augmentation of adrenal function, we exploited mice defic...

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

authors： Bethin KE,Vogt SK,Muglia LJ

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isochorismate synthase (ICS) converts chorismate to isochorismate for the biosynthesis of phylloquinone, an essential cofactor for photosynthetic electron transport. ICS is also required for salicylic acid (SA) synthesis during Arabidopsis defense. In several other species, including Populus, SA is derived primarily f...

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

authors： Yuan Y,Chung JD,Fu X,Johnson VE,Ranjan P,Booth SL,Harding SA,Tsai CJ

更新日期：2009-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work identified the Rap1 GTPase-activating protein Sipa1 as a germ-line-encoded metastasis modifier. The bromodomain protein Brd4 physically interacts with and modulates the enzymatic activity of Sipa1. In vitro analysis of a highly metastatic mouse mammary tumor cell line ectopically expressing Brd4 demonstr...

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

authors： Crawford NP,Alsarraj J,Lukes L,Walker RC,Officewala JS,Yang HH,Lee MP,Ozato K,Hunter KW

更新日期：2008-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A human lambdaV (Mcg) and a human lambdaII (Vil) myeloma protein have identical sequences in their first hypervariable segments although they differ at 21 positions throughout the variable region. If a different structural gene is responsible for each subgroup, the findings favor insertion of information for the hyper...

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

authors： Wu TT,Kabat EA,Bilofsky H

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in the masticatory behavior of hunter-gatherer and agricultural populations is hypothesized to be one of the major forces affecting the form of the human mandible. However, this has yet to be analyzed at a global level. Here, the relationship between global mandibular shape variation and subsistence economy ...

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

authors： von Cramon-Taubadel N

更新日期：2011-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The stoichiometry of J chain in pentamer IgM has been determined by measuring the radiolabeled thiols in the constituent chains after complete reduction and alkylation of the polymer. One mole of J was found to be disulfide bonded to 1 mol of pentamer. The linkage of J chain in IgM has been determined by correlating t...

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

authors： Chapuis RM,Koshland ME

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bullvalene is a structurally unique dynamic molecule thought to interconvert among 1.2 million degenerate isomers. The incorporation of different chemical substituents onto the bullvalene core should lead to a "shape-shifting" molecule that can interconvert among thousands of discrete structural isomers. Previous NMR ...

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

authors： He M,Bode JW

更新日期：2011-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed variability in outer surface protein B (OspB) from Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), the causative agent of Lyme disease, to determine how Bb escapes immune destruction. We have shown that vaccination with OspB from Bb strain B31 protected mice from infection with Bb B31 but not against Bb N40. The present study ...

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

authors： Fikrig E,Tao H,Kantor FS,Barthold SW,Flavell RA

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The RNA world hypothesis presumes that RNA will be competent for varied essential cellular functions. One such indispensable cell function is regulation of membrane permeability. Though this was not a known RNA activity, selection-amplification yielded RNAs that bound phosphatidylcholine:cholesterol liposomes. At leas...

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

authors： Khvorova A,Kwak YG,Tamkun M,Majerfeld I,Yarus M

更新日期：1999-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports a general in situ method to grow a polymer conjugate solely from the C terminus of a recombinant protein. GFP was fused at its C terminus with an intein; cleavage of the intein provided a unique thioester moiety at the C terminus of GFP that was used to install an atom transfer radical polymerizatio...

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

authors： Gao W,Liu W,Christensen T,Zalutsky MR,Chilkoti A

更新日期：2010-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally accepted that healthy cells degrade their own mitochondria. Here, we report that retinal ganglion cell axons of WT mice shed mitochondria at the optic nerve head (ONH), and that these mitochondria are internalized and degraded by adjacent astrocytes. EM demonstrates that mitochondria are shed through f...

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

authors： Davis CH,Kim KY,Bushong EA,Mills EA,Boassa D,Shih T,Kinebuchi M,Phan S,Zhou Y,Bihlmeyer NA,Nguyen JV,Jin Y,Ellisman MH,Marsh-Armstrong N

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila causes a potentially fatal form of pneumonia by replicating within macrophages in the Legionella-containing vacuole (LCV). Bacterial survival and proliferation within the LCV rely on hundreds of secreted effector proteins comprising high functional redundancy. The vacuolar membrane-localized Mav...

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

authors： Christenson ET,Isaac DT,Yoshida K,Lipo E,Kim JS,Ghirlando R,Isberg RR,Banerjee A

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A vestigial, nonphotosynthetic plastid has been identified recently in protozoan parasites of the phylum Apicomplexa. The apicomplexan plastid, or "apicoplast," is indispensable, but the complete sequence of both the Plasmodium falciparum and Toxoplasma gondii apicoplast genomes has offered no clue as to what essentia...

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

authors： Waller RF,Keeling PJ,Donald RG,Striepen B,Handman E,Lang-Unnasch N,Cowman AF,Besra GS,Roos DS,McFadden GI

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified a subset of CD56(+)CD3(-) human natural killer (NK) cells that express CD4 and the HIV coreceptors CCR5 and CXCR4. These cells can be productively infected in vitro by both CCR5- and CXCR4-using molecular clones of HIV-1 in a CD4-dependent manner. Analysis of HIV-infected persons showed that viral D...

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

authors： Valentin A,Rosati M,Patenaude DJ,Hatzakis A,Kostrikis LG,Lazanas M,Wyvill KM,Yarchoan R,Pavlakis GN

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic selections that use proteinaceous transdominant inhibitors encoded by DNA libraries to cause mutant phenocopies may facilitate genetic analysis in traditionally nongenetic organisms. We performed a selection for random short peptides and larger protein fragments (collectively termed "perturbagens") that inhibi...

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

authors： Caponigro G,Abedi MR,Hurlburt AP,Maxfield A,Judd W,Kamb A

更新日期：1998-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Executing gene circuits by cell-free transcription-translation into cell-sized compartments, such as liposomes, is one of the major bottom-up approaches to building minimal cells. The dynamic synthesis and proper self-assembly of macromolecular structures inside liposomes, the cytoskeleton in particular, stands as a c...

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

authors： Garenne D,Libchaber A,Noireaux V

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural ecosystems contain many individuals and species interacting with each other and with their abiotic environment. Such systems can be expected to exhibit complex dynamics in which small perturbations can be amplified to cause large changes. Here, we document the reorganization of an arid ecosystem that has occur...

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

authors： Brown JH,Valone TJ,Curtin CG

更新日期：1997-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene IL-3 encodes interleukin 3, a hematopoietic colony-stimulating factor (CSF) that is capable of supporting the proliferation of a broad range of hematopoietic cell types. By using somatic cell hybrids and in situ chromosomal hybridization, we localized this gene to human chromosome 5 at bands q23-31, a chromos...

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

authors： Le Beau MM,Epstein ND,O'Brien SJ,Nienhuis AW,Yang YC,Clark SC,Rowley JD

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Mr 70,000 protein was isolated from cytotoxic human large granular lymphocytes and shown to have cytotoxic activity. The protein was demonstrated to be immunochemically related to the ninth component (C9) of complement and was therefore designated C9-related protein (C9RP). This finding suggests that C9RP and C9 sha...

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

authors： Zalman LS,Brothers MA,Chiu FJ,Müller-Eberhard HJ

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How useful can machine learning be in a quantum laboratory? Here we raise the question of the potential of intelligent machines in the context of scientific research. A major motivation for the present work is the unknown reachability of various entanglement classes in quantum experiments. We investigate this question...

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

authors： Melnikov AA,Poulsen Nautrup H,Krenn M,Dunjko V,Tiersch M,Zeilinger A,Briegel HJ

更新日期：2018-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocyte homeostasis is the result of a critical balance between cell proliferation and death. Disruption of this subtle equilibrium can lead to the onset of leukemia, an increase in the number of lymphocytes being potentially due to both of these parameters. The relative importance of cell proliferation vs. apoptos...

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

authors： Debacq C,Asquith B,Kerkhofs P,Portetelle D,Burny A,Kettmann R,Willems L

更新日期：2002-07-23 00:00:00