Microinjected progesterone reinitiates meiotic maturation of Xenopus laevis oocytes.

abstract：:Emerging and reemerging viruses are responsible for a number of recent epidemic outbreaks. A crucial step in predicting and controlling outbreaks is the timely and accurate characterization of emerging virus strains. We present a portable microfluidic platform containing carbon nanotube arrays with differential filtra...

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

authors： Yeh YT,Gulino K,Zhang Y,Sabestien A,Chou TW,Zhou B,Lin Z,Albert I,Lu H,Swaminathan V,Ghedin E,Terrones M

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon stimulation with anti-CD3, suppressor T-cell (Ts) hybridomas and homologous transfectants of T-cell receptor a (TCRalpha) cDNA in the T-cell hybridoma formed a 55-kDa TCRalpha chain derivative that bound both the monoclonal anti-TCRalpha chain and polyclonal antibodies against glycosylation inhibiting factor (GIF...

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

authors： Ishii Y,Nakano T,Ishizaka K

更新日期：1996-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular senescence is defined by the limited proliferative capacity of normal cultured cells. Immortal cells overcome this regulation and proliferate indefinitively. One step in the immortalization process may be reactivation of telomerase activity, a ribonucleoprotein complex, which, by de novo synthesized telomeric...

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

authors： Härle-Bachor C,Boukamp P

更新日期：1996-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluid fills intracellular, extracellular, and capillary spaces within muscle. During normal physiological activity, intramuscular fluid pressures develop as muscle exerts a portion of its developed force internally. These pressures, typically ranging between 10 and 250 mmHg, are rarely considered in mechanical models ...

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

authors： Sleboda DA,Roberts TJ

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The potent transforming activity of membrane-targeted Raf-1 (Raf-CAAX) suggests that Ras transformation is triggered primarily by a Ras-mediated translocation of Raf-1 to the plasma membrane. However, whereas constitutively activated mutants of Ras [H-Ras(61L) and K-Ras4B(12V)] and Raf-1 (DeltaRaf-22W and Raf-CAAX) ca...

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

authors： Oldham SM,Clark GJ,Gangarosa LM,Coffey RJ Jr,Der CJ

更新日期：1996-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Downstream placement of a strong transcriptional termination signal has made possible the cloning of bacteriophage T5 promoters known to exhibit high signal strength. The cloning system constructed contains two easily assayable indicator functions whose expression is controlled by the integration of promoters and term...

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

authors： Gentz R,Langner A,Chang AC,Cohen SN,Bujard H

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a Kappa-on-Heavy (KoH) mouse that produces a class of highly diverse, fully human, antibody-like agents. This mouse was made by replacing the germline variable sequences of both the Ig heavy-chain (IgH) and Ig kappa (IgK) loci with the human IgK germline variable sequences, producing antibody-like molecule...

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

authors： Macdonald LE,Meagher KA,Franklin MC,Levenkova N,Hansen J,Badithe AT,Zhong M,Krueger P,Rafique A,Tu N,Shevchuk J,Wadhwa S,Ehrlich G,Bautista J,Grant C,Esau L,Poueymirou WT,Auerbach W,Morton L,Babb R,Chen G,Huang

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:AAV is unique among eukaryotic viruses in the ability of its DNA to integrate preferentially into a specific region of the human genome. Understanding AAV integration may aid in developing gene therapy systems with predictable integration sites. Using a gel mobility-shift assay, we have identified a DNA sequence withi...

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

authors： Weitzman MD,Kyöstiö SR,Kotin RM,Owens RA

更新日期：1994-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Salivary gland cells in the larvae of the dipteran Chironomus tentans offer unique possibilities to visualize the assembly and nucleocytoplasmic transport of a specific transcription product. Each nucleus harbors four giant polytene chromosomes, whose transcription sites are expanded, or puffed. On chromosome IV, ther...

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

authors： Daneholt B

更新日期：2001-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of toxic oligomers during the aggregation of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide Aβ42 into amyloid fibrils and plaques has emerged as a central feature of the onset and progression of Alzheimer's disease, but the molecular pathways that control pathological aggregation have proved challenging to identify. Here, ...

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

authors： Cohen SI,Linse S,Luheshi LM,Hellstrand E,White DA,Rajah L,Otzen DE,Vendruscolo M,Dobson CM,Knowles TP

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Several groups have attempted to develop gene therapy strategies to treat cancer via introduction of the wild-type (wt) p53 cDNA into cancer cells. Unfortunately, these approaches do not result in regulated expression of the p53 gene and do not reduce expression of the mutant p53 that is overexpressed in cancerous cel...

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

authors： Watanabe T,Sullenger BA

更新日期：2000-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver fibrosis interferes with normal liver function and facilitates hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) development, representing a major threat to human health. Here, we present a comprehensive perspective of microRNA (miRNA) function on targeting the fibrotic microenvironment. Starting from a murine HCC model, we identi...

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

authors： Winkler I,Bitter C,Winkler S,Weichenhan D,Thavamani A,Hengstler JG,Borkham-Kamphorst E,Kohlbacher O,Plass C,Geffers R,Weiskirchen R,Nordheim A

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A peptide containing 31 amino acids with inhibin-like activity has been synthesized by the solid-phase method. The synthetic product was shown to be homogeneous in high-performance liquid chromatography and paper electrophoresis. In the mouse pituitary incubation system, the follitropin-suppressing activity of the syn...

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

authors： Yamashiro D,Li CH,Ramasharma K,Sairam MR

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient 3'-end processing of cell cycle-regulated mammalian histone premessenger RNAs (pre-mRNAs) requires an upstream stem-loop and a histone downstream element (HDE) that base pairs with the U7 small ribonucleoprotein. Insertions between these elements have two effects: the site of cleavage moves in concert with t...

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

authors： Scharl EC,Steitz JA

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Total heterogeneous nuclear RNA from HeLa cells infected with adenovirus for 18-20 hr stimulates amino acid incorporation into protein in a cell-free system from Ehrlich ascites tumors. This stimulation of protein synthesis by the nuclear RNA requires intact nuclei. The role of nuclei in this system is unknown, but ev...

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

authors： Chatterjee NK,Weissbach H

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The release of urine, or micturition, serves a fundamental physiological function and, in many species, is critical for social communication. In mice, the pattern of urine release is modulated by external and internal factors and transmitted to the spinal cord via the pontine micturition center (PMC). Here, we exploit...

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

authors： Hyun M,Taranda J,Radeljic G,Miner L,Wang W,Ochandarena N,Huang KW,Osten P,Sabatini BL

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:While the general structure of immunoglobulin chains has remained relatively unchanged throughout evolution, the organization of the genes encoding these molecules differs substantially. To understand how the rearranging immunoglobulin system arose, it is necessary to examine living representatives of the most early v...

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

authors： Hohman VS,Schuchman DB,Schluter SF,Marchalonis JJ

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD) is a key regulator of membrane fluidity, turns over rapidly, and represents a model for selective degradation of short-lived proteins of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). The mechanism whereby specific ER proteins are targeted for degradation in the midst of stable proteins coexisting in th...

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

authors： Mziaut H,Korza G,Ozols J

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of progenitor cells of the human granulocytic and monocytic lineages (CFU-GM) can be distinguished by using mouse monoclonal antibodies against human hemopoietic cells. Type 1 CFU-GM contribute all of the peripheral blood CFU-GM as well as a small fraction of bone marrow CFU-GM and express surface antigens r...

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

authors： Ferrero D,Broxmeyer HE,Pagliardi GL,Venuta S,Lange B,Pessano S,Rovera G

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodic fluctuations in past biodiversity, speciation, and extinction have been proposed, with extremely long periods ranging from 26 to 62 million years, although forcing mechanisms remain speculative. In contrast, well-understood periodic Milankovitch climate forcing represents a viable driver for macroevolutionary...

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

authors： Crampton JS,Meyers SR,Cooper RA,Sadler PM,Foote M,Harte D

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Local tissue stem cells have been described in airways of the lung but their contribution to normal epithelial maintenance is currently unknown. We therefore developed aggregation chimera mice and a whole-lung imaging method to determine the relative contributions of progenitor (Clara) and bronchiolar stem cells to ep...

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

authors： Giangreco A,Arwert EN,Rosewell IR,Snyder J,Watt FM,Stripp BR

更新日期：2009-06-09 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：: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：:Previous studies have failed to detect an interaction between monomeric soluble CD4 (sCD4) and class II major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins, suggesting that oligomerization of CD4 on the cell surface may be required to form a stable class II MHC binding site. To test this possibility, we transfected the F4...

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

authors： Sakihama T,Smolyar A,Reinherz EL

更新日期：1995-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein ubiquitination plays an important role in ATP-dependent protein turnover, and it also may regulate other cellular events. Covalent attachment of ubiquitin to other proteins is catalyzed by three different enzymes, E1, E2, and E3. We have previously shown that protein ubiquitination can be regulated by phosphor...

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

authors： Kong SK,Chock PB

更新日期：1994-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen hybridomas have been identified that secrete antibodies specific to horizontal cells in the carp retina. The hybridomas have been classified into three groups based on their antibody staining patterns: group I, staining associated with all horizontal cells; group II, staining associated with the most abundant ...

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

authors： Young LH,Dowling JE

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An approximately decadal periodicity in surface air temperature is discernable in global observations from A.D. 1855 to 1900 and since A.D. 1945, but with a periodicity of only about 6 years during the intervening period. Changes in solar irradiance related to the sunspot cycle have been proposed to account for the fo...

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

authors： Keeling CD,Whorf TP

更新日期：1997-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cyanobacteria alter their phycobilisome composition in response to changes in light wavelength in a process termed complementary chromatic adaptation. Mutant strains FdR1 and FdR2 of the filamentous cyanobacterium Fremyella diplosiphon are characterized by aberrant chromatic adaptation. Instead of adjusting to di...

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

authors： Chiang GG,Schaefer MR,Grossman AR

更新日期：1992-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain is a major health concern even though numerous analgesic agents are available. Side effects and lack of wide-spectrum efficacy of current drugs justify efforts to better understand pain mechanisms. Stabilization of natural epoxy-fatty acids (EFAs) through inhibition of the soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) reduces ...

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

authors： Inceoglu B,Wagner K,Schebb NH,Morisseau C,Jinks SL,Ulu A,Hegedus C,Rose T,Brosnan R,Hammock BD

更新日期：2011-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNA clones specific for the light subunit of porcine calpain I have been isolated from a porcine kidney cDNA library. The complete primary structure of the light subunit has been revealed by nucleotide sequence analysis of the cDNA clones isolated and amino acid sequence analysis of peptides isolated from the purifie...

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

authors： Sakihama T,Kakidani H,Zenita K,Yumoto N,Kikuchi T,Sasaki T,Kannagi R,Nakanishi S,Ohmori M,Takio K

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00